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Rosie McGowan (Scenesys ID: 9868)
Quote
"Ah ain't big enough to be uh runt but ah do bite!"
Profile
Full Name:	Rosemary Caitlin McGowan
Gender:	Female
Species:	Mutant
Theme:	Original (OC)
Occupation:	Student
Citizenship:	American
Residence:	New York
Education:	High school
Status:	Shelved
Groups:
Other Information
Apparent Age:	16	Actual Age:	16
Date of Birth	01 March 2013	Actor:
Height:	155 cm (5'1")	Weight:	46.2 kg (102 lb)
Hair Color:	Blonde	Eye Color:	Hazel
Theme Song:	"Poor Wayfaring Stranger"

Profile

Rosemary was just another statistic, a self-destructive kid born into desperation on an old family farm in the deep South when the employers in the area started to move their business elsewhere. Attending school while her mother worked shifts at the truck stop diner, Rosemary (who goes by Rosie) was mostly reared by her grandma, who was the old-school Fear of God type, who kept her grandchild in a strict household, with punishments for infractions both real and perceived and never missed church on Sunday. Bullied relentlessly, Rosie discovered her powers when she was wrecking things in the barn, and ended up flipping a tractor with one hand. Anxious after finding out she was some sort of super powered kid, she became even more withdrawn and quiet. When in her element, Rosie is brash, reckless and can be described as a hurricane in a teacup.

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Description

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Description:

A slightly gangly and awkward teenage girl with straw-blonde hair and hazel eyes, and the kind of freckles that look like dirt from a distance. She's got a certain energy about her and can't keep still, always fighting with something. She's a short 5'1" and will explain that she is built low to the ground for speed and nut shots.

She's typically wearing either a tee and jeans, a tee, flannel shirt and jeans, or a tee, sweatshirt and jeans. She'll generally wear boots.

History

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History:

Rosemary "Rosie" McGowan was born to be a statistic. Father left home before she was born, raised by her mother Sal and her grandmother, also Rosemary McGowan in a two-bedroom trailer planted in a former working hog farm in Alabama. She was called by turns gifted, special, and disturbed through her history in schooling. She was lonely child, while her mother worked at a truck stop, she tended to the few hogs they'd keep on the farm to send to processing, the harder chores around the house, and mind her grandmother.

Her grandmother took her to church on every Sunday, inspiring a 'Fear of God' in the child with a fire and brimstone preacher who controlled his congregation through fear. She cut her teeth on reading hymnals, and matching the words to what was sung, and was able to read easily by the time she was entering first grade.

Elementary school was the most hopeful time she had. She would be on a bus, and away from the farm. They had computers in the classroom. She already knew letters. She was good at math. She picked up new concepts quickly, and had such a passion for music, and a fascination with the elementary music teacher's guitar.

Home life was a little more difficult; as she grew, so did her responsibilities to the household. At twelve, she got a job dishwashing at the same diner her mother worked in -- under the table, of course. School would let out, she'd go to Tommy's and wash dishes, then go back to the farm and do chores, and once chores were done it was homework, and then bed in a room she shared with her mother just to get up and feed the hogs in the morning, then wake her mother up for work. Saturdays she would work all day in the diner. Sundays was Church -- and in the afternoon she could read, or ride her bike through the fields.

Poverty charges interest, though. First, her mom had to take a break from work after getting hurt. Though she was working under the table at fourteen, Rosie picked up extra shifts to keep the house afloat. She started missing a lot of school, her grades dropped.

There was a flea bloom. She was coming to school with bites on her arms and legs -- when she was in school, anyway. Bullying took its toll, and she became further withdrawn and resolute.

One day she couldn't take it anymore -- she went into the barn, the one actual structure that wasn't crumbling around them, and she took her frustrations out on a tractor, punching at the big wheels until her knuckles bled. And when she punched the last time, she knocked the tractor over. And was able to set it upright again. And then she made it float up.

Terrified of this new development, Rosie kept it to herself, and found that with concentration she could even make herself lift into the air, unsteadily.

There was finally something about her that was special -- just was that pesky preacher saying that Mutants were going to Hell.

Rosie had discovered her powers, and where as some stories might go 'that was the change', she was terrified of what her mother, still injured and laid off work, and her religious and mutant-fearing grandmother might think of her. She kept it under wraps. She practiced at night, in the dark, in the barn, where no one -- especially not her God-fearing grandmother -- could see her.

Sal recovered from her injury that had kept her out of work, and made Rosie have to pick up the slack -- a broken arm that didn't heal quite right, draining what little finances the little family unit had. Rosie was able to go back to school, continuing to work part-time at Tommy's to make up for the loans they had to take out to get her mother back on her feet, and at the age of 15 she scraped enough money together to buy a decent, if old, dirtbike from another family that their boy had out-grown. This was her normal means of transportation from home to school to work, to wherever. No matter what weather it was.

Her return to schooling was a reprieve from work, and a welcome sort of comfort as she caught up with classes, but even loving education can't change society. The bullying got worse. She wore old clothes that were patched up. She had flea bites and smelled of grease. There weren't enough sources in school to go around. She was shoved into lockers. She was beat up. And one day it built up that she turned, and punched the bully back. A little five-foot-one girl hitting a six food tall jock -- and she crushed him against the lockers, leaving a dent in the steel -- with the lockers partially crushing around him.

She dropped out of school. She worked full time-and-a-half under the table at Tommy's. She went to church, and kept to herself.

... but it's only a matter of time until someone comes around, isn't it?

Personality

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Personality:

A little on the dour and serious side, Rosie is a young woman who is worldly without having seen the world. She doesn't trust easily, she doesn't make friends easily, and she keeps to herself, making her seem shy or aloof. She has a curiosity about people and would rather watch from a distance how they interact before deciding how she's going to approach an interpersonal situation -- unless someone brings the situation to her.

When it comes to fight or flight, she's almost always fight -- even if she's outgunned and outmanned. She's aggressive and reckless, and has no fear of breaking bones when it comes to being in a scuffle -- mostly breaking on the giving side of things. There is nothing that she does by halves -- she throws her whole heart into anything, regardless of studying, fighting, or in the intensity of her loneliness, withdrawing. She's got zero patience for people who waffle around on their beliefs (which negates any hope of being a politician).

Once you have her loyalty, her friendship or her love, she is in the Ride-or-Die category. You don't get a piece of her -- she is whole or nothing.

She does have a soft side; she doesn't care for people much, but she does like animals, and will defend them (and kids) from danger with equal impunity.

Abilities

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Exceptionally Bright:
In spite of her poor upbringing, Rosie is exceptionally bright, and understands new concepts and takes on new knowledge readily when she's not stuck on survival mode. She was able to catch back up with her schooling after weeks of being away, and constantly needed challenges in school to keep her interested.

Flight:
Rosie is capable, through her gravity control, of taking flight and moving in flight with perfect precision, She can remain airborne for about thirty minutes without wearing out, and travels at a rate of 75 miles per hour.

Gravity Control:
Rosie has the ability to manipulate the gravity between objects in such a way that they ignore the Earth's gravity. She can cause things to float, to sharply and swiftly move away, or move towards something else, or seem to float in the air by balancing gravitational pull between objects, gravity being the attraction between objects of mass. With enough alteration in gravity, she can cause items to descend through other materials (in combination with mass alteration, she can send a full soda can through the floor of a building, into a basement and smash it against bedrock). She has a maximum limit of affecting 3500 kg (or about the mass of a Ford 250). She must touch the object first to affect its personal gravity, and the gravity change remains within thirty meters (or around a hundred feet) of her in any direction.

She can also alter the gravity of an object to collapse it to itself, crumbling cans, cars, and other 'hollow' objects. This does not work on solid items (for instance, she could collapse a hollow tin statue, but cannot collapse a concrete pillar that has no hollow inside of it).

Mass Confusion:

Rosie is capable of manipulating the mass of an object, either temporarily making it more massive (increasing the mass and making it heavier or lighter relative to Earth's gravity). This ability works best on non-organic materials; using mass altering on living creatures results in feeling of intense nausea and vertigo on the behalf of the victim with the change in gravitational pull confusing their bodies and additional wear on Rosie. She must touch the person or object first to affect its mass, and the change in mass reverts after thirty seconds or outside of a distance of thirty meters (or around a hundred feet) of her in any direction. She cannot alter the mass of an object to pass through or phase the object through a barrier; only make it more massive so that the barrier is no longer an issue!

Skills

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Acoustic Guitar:
A gift from a previous music teacher. The guitar is pretty much the most expensive object that Rosie owns. She plays mostly country and western and Southern Acoustic music, and with some polishing might even be good enough to join a band -- but it's mostly for pleasure for her.

Farm Girl:
Rosie was raised on a hog farm. She has a variety of rural skills including animal husbandry, gardening, canning, preserving, smoking, and light butchery.

Motorbike Skills:
Rosie used a light-duty motorcycle to get around on the farm as well as get to work and sometimes to school. She has a fine command of her vehicle and can do trick riding, like wheelies, reverse-wheelies, and the ever-popular Akira slide.

Scrappin':

Rosie's fighting style can be described as 'anything goes'. It's not honorable, but it's effective. She can throw punches, kick in shins, stomp feet and launch elbows, isn't afraid of biting when required or pulling hair or launching an object - or person - with her powers.

Resources

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Xavier's School:

As a student of Xavier's school, Rosemary McGowan is receiving training and support for her growing mutant powers along with a fine education.

Weaknesses

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Battery Life:
Only able to use her powers for about thirty minutes at a time, Rosie needs a significant amount of time to recharge after heavy use of her powers (knocking over several cars, flying for a long period of time, sending heavy objects for long distances by affecting gravity). After exhausting herself, she will need a whole day to recover.

Emotional Wrecking Ball:
Doing nothing by halves, the more agitated Rosie gets, the stronger but more unpredictable and less controlled her powers get to be. While fine things (like crushing a soda can) require finesse and concentration, when frustrated there's a good chance that soda can will either be a one centimeter ball of tightly condensed aluminum, or slammed into the wall at terminal velocity.

Touch-Range:
In order to affect something's personal gravity or mass, Rosie has to have physical contact with the object. Great when throwing a car, not so great when trying to catch it.

Vertigo Inducing:

While Rosie is able to make other people float by affecting their gravity and mass, doing so induces moderate-to-severe vertigo in others, resulting in bad cases of nausea and the need for in-flight 'comfort containers' (aka barf bags).

Logs

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
Xavier School Prom	May 25th, 2021	The prom for Xavier's School. Big wins, little wins, new friends, and old ones; a night to celebrate those that matter and the memories made. And dancing. Lots of that. Hank still remembers the Macarena.
Establishing the Baseline	May 23rd, 2021	Jeremy journeys to Rosie's room to find out what went on during her missing hours. Rosie admits, slightly, that she's having a bit of a personal crisis with existence. Prom is on Tuesday, and they still don't have a dress.
A morning check-in	May 18th, 2021	Rogue catches up with Rosie to talk some things out further and give the student some reassurance
Missing: One Rosie	May 17th, 2021	Rosie is found and returned to the Xavier Institute.
Bazzar Aftermath	May 15th, 2021	Gray follows Rosie. Rosie is beginning to go into Crisis mode, insists Gray is not evil.
A Sinister Gravity	May 15th, 2021	Having run from Xavier's after the Little Pigs incident, Rosie McGowan's trail of destruction leads to More Sinister instruction for the young mutant.
The Little Pigs	May 14th, 2021	Ororo takes the students to the Salem Center for trinkets; and they all leave either angry or traumatized.
Generation NeXt	May 11th, 2021	Jeremy and Rosie vists Lucas to welcome the new kid.
PANIC! At the Garage	May 5th, 2021	Rosie McGowan adopts a dirtbike. Shannon attempts to be friendly with the prickly Rosie. There is progress on both fronts.
The Universal Language	May 3rd, 2021	Rosie and Indi talk a bit of Faith. Jeremy comes in as a discussion gets heated with Sam Guthrie's help, and things calm down after a fair bit. Ted has the worst timing.
The Gravitas of the situation	May 2nd, 2021	It started out with attempting to assess Rosie's talents and ended up with a Shower cubicle o' dewm and discussions on mutations. That is until Deadpool. Car surgery concludes.
A Garden of Rosie	May 2nd, 2021	Rosie and Jeremy have some deep discussion about their blossoming relationship and Rosie's faith and identity as a mutant.
Dress to Impress...	April 28th, 2021	Rosie and Jeremy discuss Prom.
Almost drowned, but mostly dry	April 24th, 2021	Rosie checks on Jeremy to find out if he's okay. She finds out he's not only okay, but he's put a lot of thought into his friendship with her and Gray. Why be conventional?
Gravity and Chaos	April 22nd, 2021	After a mess is made in a science classroom, the noise attracts a variety of the grown ups. Science is had, because everything was written down. Deadpool was there. It got squirrelly with trying to hug Logan.
Pillow Forts and Space Wizards	April 16th, 2021	Grey and Indira find they have a historical connection, then plans are made to educate Rosie in the finest pop culture revolution mankind has invented. They will all be late to classes in the morning.
Foyer Forays	April 11th, 2021	Jeremy and Rosie talk about life for a bit, then meets up with Shannon a bit later.
Always bet on black.. unless it is red.	April 5th, 2021	Cleaned up the crime scene!
For Whom the Belles Toll	April 3rd, 2021	Southerners in the Dining Room. Three different southern accents. That iced sweet tea never stood a chance.
Dootin' down the Club	March 27th, 2021	Jeremy brings Rosie on her first outing since coming to the school -- Club Evolution. They talk, they listen to music, they make a connection and then Jeremy dances while Rosie questions existence after being Baptized in the club.
Danger Room Session	March 27th, 2021	Scott gives the team and students a Danger Room session of hide and seek with Logan and a mystery bad guy from the hairy Canadian's past.
Gargoylin' the Foyer	March 24th, 2021	Rosie is settling in, got a flying lesson, and will someday, maybe stop addressing Shannon as Miss Shannon. No one bangs a u-ie in this case.
Sunday Tunes	March 21st, 2021	It starts off with some pretty Sunday music, Remy's wallet is stolen, there's musing on the nature of good and evil and DNA, and then Remy's wallet is stolen again. Jack is a cuddly pooch.
Rec the Rep Already	March 21st, 2021	When Rosie McGowan hides from feeling crisises regarding the second time she's launched a Xavier's instructor into a natural feature in a week, she poorly chooses the RecRoom. Shannon and Jeremy try to help, and Sam has to come in to clean up a broken glass and a broken Rosie.
New Student: Rosie McGowan	March 16th, 2021	Rosie's second day at Xavier's.
Gravity Blues	March 15th, 2021	Sam is dispatched to find a mutant in the Deep South who may be in a world of danger. And then gets knocked into a tree being the good guy.
The Gravity of the Situation	March 15th, 2021	Ororo Munroe (Storm) and Sam Guthrie (Cannonball) show up to get a young mutant out of a bad situation; there's flears, hogs and dogs. It's not good.

Cutscenes

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
Rosie in a Room	May 18th, 2021	Summary needed

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