Gracelyn Brielle Burke

[Gracelyn Burke]

NAME: Gracelyn Brielle Burke
NICKNAME: Gracie, Bri, Brielle
AGE: seventeen
GENDER: female
ORIENTATION: bisexual
POSITION: student
FACE CLAIM: vanessa marano

POWER:
Cryokinesis - Cold and Ice Manipulation
Gracelyn has the ability to reduce the kinetic energy of atoms and thus reduce temperature. She can control, generate, or absorb ice. She can 'feel' moisture around her that she can use to generate ice. It's hard for her to explain in detail, but she can tell when there's moisture in the air for her to use.

Limitations
She cannot make ice without moisture, if she's in a dry climate, it's nearly impossible. She also doesn't react well to pyrokinetics being around her and her power doesn't work well either. It takes her a while to freeze something, meaning it happens gradually, and depending on the amount, it can take up to a few minutes. She doesn't have to be incredibly close for her power to work, but she does need to be within a reasonable distance (across the room). 

Side-Effects
Contributes to her already interesting personality, making her cold and/or distant at times, seems to always be cold, headaches.


APPEARANCE SECTION: Gracelyn has thick dark brown hair that falls in kinky curls to her mid back and a pair of brown eyes to match. She's 5'5", but her attitude makes up for what she lacks in height, trust her on that one. She's pale-skinned, even often described as 'porcelain' by some, which annoys her, mostly because porcelain dolls are creepy.

She's curvy and kind of busty, but she's gotten used to it and even uses it to her advantage when dressing. She doesn't wear much make-up, usually just some dark eyeliner and mascara rimming her eyes.

MUST HAVE APPAREL: She usually wears dark colors, or outfits that would seem like they clash, but somehow she makes them work. She loves wearing lace anything and her leather jacket is something she clings to. Really, she just embraces her body and how it is, because who else will?

PERSONALITY SECTION: In a nutshell, Gracelyn is nice. Radically nice, the kind of kind that makes you question if she's actually kind. She prides herself on being a good person and doing what's right, but she has a very unique idea of right and wrong, good and corrupt. She's not much for government, strictly libertarian, finding that there shouldn't be a big group of government in charge of everyone, collecting your money. Politics, in general, grind her gears. It's just another way people sort themselves into categories, like they don't do that enough.
The thing about Gracelyn is, she'll do anything to do what's right and sometimes that means doing what is typically seen as wrong by everyone else. She's very radical in her thinking. She prides herself on being intelligent, but finds school and exams to instead be a way of seeing how good you are at spewing information back towards the teacher that you learned sitting in their classroom at the same desk everyday, facing the same direction. It's too structured and it does nothing to measure how smart you are. She'll cheat to prove this point as she believes tests are pointless. 
Basically, not many people agree with her views. She won't try to persuade you to join the dark side, but she will inform you. 
She's prideful in her beliefs and who she is and what she looks like, but she is not conceited. She knows that not everybody can stray from being conditioned to act like a zombie walking through life. She's unconventional and she likes it that way.
Gracelyn will do anything to help those out who truly need it, but again, her ways of doing so could be unconventional and maybe immoral.
Despite all of this, she actually gets attached to people who make their way into her life, and she tends to cling onto them for dear life when shit hits the fan, as if often does in her life, even if it's her own fault. 

EXTRA QUIRK: She only likes vanilla ice cream, and she's anything but plain.


FATHER: Robert Burke
MOTHER: Laura Burke
SIBLINGS: none
PET: n/a
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: n/a
WORTHY MENTIONS: n/a


CHILDHOOD: Gracelyn grew up in the blistering heat of Texas, and somehow she still ended up pale and with the power to manipulate ice. Funny how you go from being extremely hot all the time to the complete opposite. She went to a private elementary school that was very pushy on academics and test scores. It was always a competition and eventually she got burnt out from it after trying to push herself to her limits all the time. She found it was actually making her stupider, at least in her opinion. That pressure was so much at a young age and it probably contributed to her attitudes now as a teenager.

While her parents wanted the best education for her, she really just didn't thrive in it, the competition made her bitter. She understood that her parents were just trying to do the best for her because they always did try, but this just wasn't working for her. As an only child, they wanted to shape her into the best person she could be.

ADOLESCENCE: While her parents didn't really approve of her new way of thinking and of Grace constantly getting in trouble when she hit high school, again going to a private school. She understood everything that she was being taught and was interested in it, but didn't want to conform to the tests and so for a while she handed in blank ones until that started to grind her parents' gears...and so she put in the least amount of effort to get her through. When her parents asked her why she was acting in such a way, she just told them that she didn't like how the education system was run. And that was all.
She spent her time after school playing street hockey on the humid streets of Texas with neighborhood boys. 
At age fourteen, she was taking a shower and suddenly the water coming from the showerhead froze and fell to the floor in shards of ice. It scared her at first, but after being recruited and sent to the academy, she learned to like it. Even if she still doesn't like Montana, or school in general. She's been there for three years now and she keeps in touch with her parents...although they feel as if her developing mutant powers has put a fork in her future, along with her 'attitude problem' which she doesn't see as a problem. She just wants them to understand, even though she knows it's practically impossible. She has fairly good control of her power now, although if she could she'd get rid of it and everyone else's because why should anybody be allowed to have a mutant power?

ADULTHOOD: n/a


SAMPLE: AJ didn't doubt that he wanted to remember what they used to have, but how did someone just get over that? They said that time healed all wounds, but how could they forgive themselves, how could they go back to their easy, comfortable friendship when her power had managed to rip apart what they had? Not to mention, she was starting to think about how things would have been had she not manifested. Was Oliver trying to tell her that he felt something for her that night? Would they have dated? Would they be now? One of the greatest people in her life had been taken away from her by her curse of a power and now suddenly he was there and she wondered how the universe worked that way, how he'd ended up at Hammel as well. It was pure torture, seeing him and seeing her old friend, but knowing that she could never have that again.

She didn't know what to tell him. After all, she'd blamed her self for a very long time, but how could she have known that was going to manifest and worked to stop it? She was just a high school student who thought she was relatively normal, at least normal enough to not have a inhuman power. But neither of them were to blame and yet they both blamed themselves for it happening.

"I'm so sorry I had to leave you there to deal with it on your own. The aftermath... I can't imagine. High school kids are brutal. Still are," she told him, wanting him to know that she'd thought about him a lot after she was sent to Hammel, even if it was painful. "Did therapy help? I mean, how did you talk about what happened? You can't really tell someone that some girl had a power over your pheromones..." She laughed, a forced giggle that came out kind of sad and bitter.

USERNAME: Sydnee, Syd

AGE GROUP: twenty-one.

EXPERIENCE: eight-ish years.

WHERE DID YOU FIND US? Kindrex

[Mel *]

HEYA SYD! Welcome to BA
I can't wait to see how Grace interacts with the rest of the characters ^^
Here's a link to the CLAIMS!