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Amara 'Magma' Aquilla is twenty years old and a graduate of [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]]. Rescued from Nova Roma, a city set up by [[Selene]] and maintained by her cult, Amara came to the school to learn how to use her powers - the manifestation and manipulation of molten rock and tectonic plates. Quiet, hardworking and friendly to others, she is focussing on learning not only powers control, but about a world from which she was cut off for all her remembered life. There is much for her to discover, both about the world and about herself.
  
Amara's story begins (as far as she knows) in [[Nova Roma]], a small town hidden in the rain forest of Brazil. Contrary to comic canon, the citizens didn't believe they were from the Roman Republic, and they lived fairly modern lives: running water, electricity, Levi's, etc.; they did not have access to television, radio, or internet, although they were allowed books. The secret city was created by [[Selene]] as an experiment to determine what would happen when you mind-wiped hundreds of people and replaced their real memories with false ones. This is the environment in which Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla, the only daughter of Senator Lucius Antonius Aquilla, grew up.
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Amara's powers are threefold:
  
With the mysterious disappearance of Selene, her cult disintegrated into a confused mass of deranged fanatics, desperate to find a way to get her back. This eventually culminated in the planned sacrifice of all the city's young females, in the hopes that their goddess would return. Amara was abducted, brought to the pit of molten lava and ceremoniously thrown in. However, the incident triggered the girl's mutant powers, and she rose from the pit in her molten form. She destroyed the caves, killing the worst of the cultists and injuring several dozen other cultists and innocent girls. As personal survival instincts kicked in, she created a crack in the earth and pushed herself to safety using a spout of molten lava.
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'''Physical manifestation:''' Magma's powers allow her to assume an energized form in which she radiates intense light and heat. In this form, her entire body becomes molten, and her hair seems to catch fire. She is immune to her own light and heat, and heat from external sources. Taking this form is the only way she can manipulate magma.
  
Fortunately for Amara, members of [[X-Force]] had infiltrated Nova Roma, acting on information provided by [[Dr. Stephen Strange]] regarding the Selene cult. Upon realising what was planned for the city's young girls and aware the job was too big for them, [[Remy LeBeau]] called in [[Storm]], who arrived with several other members of the [[X-Men]] in time to rescue Amara and many of the girls. Some, however, were killed in the volcanic eruption caused by Amara's powers, and it was with this knowledge that Amara decided to accept the offer to go to [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters| Xavier's School]].  
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'''Geokinesis/terrakinesis:''' She can psionically control tectonic plate movement in a limited area, creating small, but strong earthquakes. Additionally, she can widen fault lines in the earth's crust to bring up molten rock, or create miniature volcanic mounds.
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'''Pyrokinesis/magma manipulation:''' Magma can ignite and project high temperature flames (which contain no rock), as well as superheat rock or stone (canon indicates she can reach at least 850 degrees Fahrenheit). She can then mentally blast this superheated, molten material at a target. She can also bring up magma from the earth's mantle and fire that at a target.
  
Despite the strangeness of her new environment, Amara adapted quickly to the school, being keen to learn and expand her experiences of the world outside Nova Roma. Together with Amanda Sefton, another victim of Selene, she achieved a measure of closure upon visiting the site where the witch was sunk at the bottom of the bay. She has since thrown herself into the long hard job of catching up on an entire world.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 12:53, 26 June 2008

Magma

Amara 'Magma' Aquilla is twenty years old and a graduate of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Rescued from Nova Roma, a city set up by Selene and maintained by her cult, Amara came to the school to learn how to use her powers - the manifestation and manipulation of molten rock and tectonic plates. Quiet, hardworking and friendly to others, she is focussing on learning not only powers control, but about a world from which she was cut off for all her remembered life. There is much for her to discover, both about the world and about herself.

Amara's powers are threefold:

Physical manifestation: Magma's powers allow her to assume an energized form in which she radiates intense light and heat. In this form, her entire body becomes molten, and her hair seems to catch fire. She is immune to her own light and heat, and heat from external sources. Taking this form is the only way she can manipulate magma.

Geokinesis/terrakinesis: She can psionically control tectonic plate movement in a limited area, creating small, but strong earthquakes. Additionally, she can widen fault lines in the earth's crust to bring up molten rock, or create miniature volcanic mounds.

Pyrokinesis/magma manipulation: Magma can ignite and project high temperature flames (which contain no rock), as well as superheat rock or stone (canon indicates she can reach at least 850 degrees Fahrenheit). She can then mentally blast this superheated, molten material at a target. She can also bring up magma from the earth's mantle and fire that at a target.


This character is currently unplayed, but is open for applications. If you are interested in applying for this character, you can contact the mods at x_moderators @ googlegroups . com and you can find the application form here.