Franklin Quinn Bishop

[Franklin Bishop]

NAME: Franklin Quinn Bishop
NICKNAME: Frankie
AGE: 19
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
POSITION: College Student/Teacher Assistant -> Music/Dance
FACE CLAIM: Selena Gomez

POWER: Disjointed Flexibility
Frankie's ability allows her to bend and twist her body in ways that normal people wouldn't be capable of doing. Her mutation has manifested in such a way that it has changed her physiology, which means that her tendons, muscles and ligaments are able to taking several amounts of strain and being stretched in abnormal ways. 

In order for Frankie's ability to work, she needs to focus or concentrate on the body part she wants to disjoint, and in some cases, she even has to move her body parts to help the process and this can be achieved by pushing or pulling, like for example, pushing her shoulder back or down until it pops out of its joint.

LIMITATIONS:
- She can only bend her body from the joints and spine, but long bones stay as rigid as everyone else's.

- She can under some circumstances experience that the bones she disjoints/twists will not immediately fall back into the joints on command, which means that she can get stuck in different positions, or have certain body parts "hang loose".

- Needs to take a lot of vitamins to keep her bones strong and healthy, since the power takes a large amount of strain on both her body and the bones/joints. The same goes for her muscles.

- She does and has under several occasions disjointed her body parts on accident by stretching or pulling her muscles/body parts. This happens 1 out of 3 times, at least.

SIDE-EFFECTS:
- She experiences stiffness and pain of her muscles and joints after using her ability, almost as if she's been through a heavy workout without stretching afterwards. This is something she struggles with all the time, and can be located wherever she "uses" her ability.

- Arthritis and tendinitis, or other inflammations in the joints as a result of overextending her abilities. This can cause a lot of pain and can be quite the bother, but it doesn't happen as frequent or often as the other side-effects Frankie experiences.

- The focus that is needed for her power can leave both some mental and physical strain. The physical strain is listed above, but the mental one tends to leave headaches that can develop into migraines, and thus further develop into nosebleeds and nausea.

"Franklin. That's quite the unusual name for a girl, no?"

What can I say? My parents were true historians. One's a librarian and the other is a history teacher. I guess you can say that there was love on the first page. Truth be told, part of me think that maybe they were expecting a boy and when my surrogate mother popped out someone without a third leg, they kind of stuck with the name. If I'm going to be honest... I don't really mind. A lot of people ask me this question, and... I like it. It's unique and I think that makes it a little bit more special.

"Home is where the heart is. Where was your home?"

I grew up in a small town outside of Illinois. I don't really feel like the name of the town is as important, because the town itself has nothing to do with who I am or who I became. That's all because of my family and friends. They are my home, regardless of where I am or where I will be, those are the people who own my heart. Those are the people that will always stay with me and be a huge part of me. They are my home and they are my heart. Everything I am, is all thanks to them. It's all because of them. They are my everything, and there's nothing I wouldn't do to make sure that they are okay and that they have everything they need.

"Wait, you have two dads? How does that even work?"

...Are you serious? Come on, son. It's a new era; Gay couples are a thing now. No, you see, my parents met during high school, yeah? They were the only 'open' homosexual guys at the school and they started working on this... Group, to help other gay people come out of the closet, yeah? They fell in love and invited each other to prom, and that was it. Because it was illegal at the time, they never got married. At least, not publicly. Some years after high school, after graduating from college, they both decided it was time to add a third member to the family and they talked to a few people and arranged a surrogate mother. And nine months later, I was born.

"What was it like? Growing up with two dads, I mean..."

It was great. They were great. They made sure I had everything I needed and Jonathan, one of my dads, had a sister, Auntie Quinn who made sure I got all the motherly advices I needed. What is it like growing up with two parents, one of each sex? I mean, it was normal for me. I don't think it's much different from having one mother and one father, or two mother's. Parents are parents and they love you unconditionally regardless of their gender, or lack there-of. I was happy. My childhood didn't lack anything and looking back... It's filled with happy memories.

"Was it only you, all alone, or did you have any siblings?"

I had siblings. But not the kind of siblings people normally have. No, my siblings weren't siblings by blood or even shared parents. My friends, the kids around the block? They were my siblings. We stuck together, we took care of each other and most importantly, we loved each other. They were my safety network, even after I left home. They were my everything, and they still are. Friends are important, and family is important too. They're the people that stick by your side through all the bullshit. They're the ones who were there from the start and never left your side. That's important. That matters. Those are the people that makes the difference and makes it all worth it.

"How did you end up being so passionate about music?"

How does anyone end up being passionate about anything? I've always liked it. I've always loved to dance, and singing too. It always came natural to me, and as I grew older - and better at it, I started taking it more seriously. I joined clubs, both off and on school and it became a huge part of my life. It still is, and I hope that it always will be. That's why I decided to sign up as a teacher assistant once I graduated and continued my college classes at Bellefonte. I love it. I want to share that love with other people, ya know? I want to share it with the world and bring out the same passion within others too.

"How did you end up here? In the middle of nowhere."

Nowhere? Oh, you mean Kalispell, Montana? Well, that's actually a funny story... When I was fourteen, during a dance lesson, I felt this sudden ache in the joint of my shoulder, right? I shrugged it off and continued with my lesson and then I heard this... Strange pop. When I turned to look at my shoulder, it just kind of... Hung there, and then when I tried lifting it, I could like, bend it in a very unnatural way. Of course, I completely freaked out and my teacher rushed me to the doctor. They called my dads too. The doctor took a few blood samples and told us to wait while he made a phone call. He didn't really say much else when he came back, other than to take it easy and put my arm back in place. It took maybe a few days for the recruiters to arrive, like... 5 days or something. They told us all what had really happened to me and that they had gotten a call from the doctor, telling them about the mutation in my blood, or DNA, or whatever, and they had come here to take me to this mutant school. And I didn't really have a choice either.

"What was it like, the school of frea- mutants? Scary?"

Of course it was scary. For the first time in my life, at the age of fourteen I was taken away from my parents by some men I had never ever seen before and brought to some school I'd never even heard about. I was terrified! Scared out of my mind! But... As everything else, you get used to it. It took me a few months to settle and find my place and after weeks of phone calls, crying, telling my dads that I wanted to come home, it got easier. I started understanding that this wasn't some bad dream and that I truly was where I belonged. It was safer this way and it was better that I learned to control my abilities with professionals than scaring my dads to hell and back whenever my ability makes my joins go haywire. I started liking it there and I got a lot of friends too. It became my second home.

"There was this one guy... He broke your heart, didn't he?"

...Yeah, he did. We met during my first few months of arriving at Bellefonte. I was fourteen, he was sixteen. He was amazing, and he took my breath away. I saw him out in the courtyard after class. I looked at him and he smiled, the most beautiful smile I have ever seen. I'm pretty sure it was love at first sight, too. He walked over, carrying his guitar and then he started singing. It was so embarrassing, but the good kind. I was so sure my heart was going to jump out of my chest. We started talking, texting and hanging out and after a few weeks, I gave him my first kiss. We started dating, in secret at first, and as the months passed, it became public knowledge too. We had this amazing chemistry, especially on stage. And then one day, I caught him kissing this girl, at the back of the auditorium. We broke up. It was horrible. He broke my heart. But... He was my soulmate, and I really thought he was the love of my life. I still do.

"You still love him, despite everything he did to you. Why?"

He is and will always be my 'once upon a time'. He's my first love, and you always remember your first. People can lie to themselves all they want, but no one ever forget their first love. They stay with you and become a part of you, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. I love him. It's kind of scary, actually, because this kind of love? It's consuming. It has filled my entire being and turned me into this jealous, petty and crazy teenage girl. I never thought- actually, I always said I would never become this person. I laughed at all the girls who acted this way, but now? Now I understand. Being jealous doesn't mean you don't trust someone and it doesn't have to be a bad thing. Being jealous just means you love someone enough to be afraid of losing them, regardless of why.

"You haven't given up hope, have you? You're still fighting."

He might have been my 'once upon a time', but out there, somewhere, my 'happily ever after' still waits for me. It might be him or someone else, who knows? It doesn't matter. Why? Because it hasn't happened yet. It will, some day, when I'm ready. Or maybe when I least expect it. It's okay, too, because everyone deserves a happily ever after and I'm one hundred percent certain that out there, somewhere, there's a fairy tale just waiting to happen. My own Wonderland. My own story. My own little piece of heaven. It might not happen now or even soon, but one day. I'm not going to give up hope, because without hope, what are we left with?

"Your look, bae. Your name isn't the only unique thing."

My look? Oh jesus. Well, I'm 5'4 feet tall and weight 114 lbs. I got to use that for my advantage, yeah? I mean, with my olive skin, deep brown eyes and dark brown hair, I had to make a look that mixed well with those, as well as a style I felt comfortable in. That's what matters in the end, because you got to be yourself and treat your body the way it deserves. I don't like dresses or anything girly. That's not me, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Just like every other girl, I too like to dress up. But there's nothing else that says ME as much as sweats, hoodies and loose tank tops. And of course, my sneakers. That's what I wear when I dance, and that's what makes me feel like me. Dancing and singing is a part of me, and so is my style. The two of them collide and become... Well, me.

"My darling, where do you see yourself in ten years?"

I don't... I don't know. I hope I will work with music and dance and stuff, because that's what I love. But I'm only nineteen; You can't ask a nineteen year old that, because we can't predict the future. Whatever happens, happens. And I'm sure it happens for a reason too, so instead of stressing it, I'm going to embrace whatever comes with a smile. I'm positive that regardless of where I am or what I do, I'm going to be doing something I love. My taste and interest might change, but I know that no matter what, I will never back down from what I believe in, even if it won't be the same as it is now. Things change, and that's okay. I'm looking forward to it.

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