Sarah Vale
| Sarah Vale | |
|---|---|
| File:Networkid.png Portrayed by Lucy Hale | |
| Codename: | Network |
| Affiliations: | New Mutants |
| Birthdate: | June 7, 1994 |
| Journal: | x_network |
| Player: | Jeff |
Sarah is a technopath who attended Xavier's for powers training once her abilities manifested. She left in September 2009 after having spent barely a month on her first stay at Xavier's, but later returned in February 2011.
Contents
Details
Character Journal: 01101101011010010110111001100101
Real Name: Sarah Vale
Codename: Network
Aliases: None
First Appearance: June 9, 2009
Date of Birth: June 7, 1994
Place of Birth: Washington, DC
Citizenship: American
Relatives: Mariska Kardos (mother), Thomas J. Vale (father), Jessica (sister, twin)
Education: Junior
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Student
Team Affiliation: New Mutants
Biography
Childhood
Sarah was born eleven minutes before her sister Jessica to Mariska and Thomas Vale, college sweethearts, in early June of 1994. The small family made their home in Washington, DC close to both sets of grandparents: The Vales, an influential family with political connections and the Kardoses, first generation immigrants from Hungary via Canada. A quiet, normal existence highlighting the American Dream but one not without its problems.
Thomas, an up-and-coming lobbyist on the Hill, and Mariska, a consultant, spent little time at home due to their careers and thus, even less time with their daughters or each other. When the family did happen to be together, the time was usually short and full of awkwardness and tension. Neither parent made an effort to hide their frustrations from their children: Thomas wishing his wife would stay home with their daughters, Mariska resenting him for it along with his efforts to pass various legislation she did not support. This unhappiness eventually lead to the demise of their marriage and when they divorced, both Sarah and Jessie, aged ten, moved with their mother to a smaller home on the other side of town, closer to Mariska's consulting firm and parents.
Bouncing back and forth between homes was difficult but manageable for the twins. Sarah remained a good student; best in her Math and Science courses and she while continually had difficulty in her foreign language classes, she mastered Binary, often times rattling off curses under her breath in a series of 1s and 0s instead of the words she'd so often heard from her maternal grandfather's mouth. Shy, Sarah's social circle barely extended past her sister and included no after school activities.
Otherwise, Sarah lived a normal teenager's life until one day while working on an English project, her computer "answered" a question she'd muttered out loud to herself by pulling up a needed webpage. Convincing herself it was a glitch, Sarah told no one of the incident until a week later while arguing with Mariska about spending time with Thomas, she accidentally used her powers to influence her mother's car, nearly sending them off the road when she voiced a desire to 'go home.' A short time after, Sarah was pulled from their traditional high school and made to finish her freshman year at home with a tutor for fear of rising anti-mutant bullying and protests. During Spring Break, Mariska and Thomas put their differences aside long enough to decide that she needed more help than they could provide and through Thomas' connections on the Hill, discovered Xavier's.
Living At The X-Mansion
Sarah's initial time at Xavier's was brief. Unhappy about being seperated from her twin sister, who had not shown any indication of manifesting, Sarah found the strangeness of living in a school full of mutants unsettling. Her discovery that the friendly purple cat that she had befriended was in fact one of her classmates was an unwelcome shock, and while the two girls resolved things, Sarah was rarely comfortable with those with obvious mutations. She enjoyed working with Forge, however, who had adopted her as his protegee and made a few friends.
It was not enough, however, to combat her homesickness and after a month her parents decided to curtail the experiment. Sarah returned home, with the potential of returning at another time, possibly if - or when - her sister manifests.
Returning To The X-Mansion
After realizing the responsibility having powers meant, and after having a good heart-to-heart conversation with her nana, Sarah decided to return to Xavier's, arriving at the end of February, 2011. This time she was determined to stay and overcome both her inabilities to properly use/control her powers and her uncomfortableness around those with physical mutations.
Upon her return, she moved into a bedroom by herself in her own suite. It was hard to find out that both Forge and Catseye were no longer there, since she had grown close to them both in different ways. She formed new friendships, however, and resumed old ones, including hanging out with Matt and Yvette, to name a few people.
Trial By Fire
Since her return, Sarah has been involved in several incidents in and around the Mansion. Her and several of her classmates had to deal with several annoying ghosts that they had accidentally summoned, and they successfully accomplished the spirits' several tasks in order to put them to rest. Sarah was also one of several young mutants ferreted off to the Morlock tunnels by Artie's mother, Annalee, who were temporarily deceived into thinking that was their proper home, until the spell was broken and they were freed. Not too long after that, Jean and the remaining people inside the Mansion were attacked over the July 4th long weekend, where several of them were exposed to their worst nightmares. It was an extremely traumatic experience for Sarah, as she was captured and had her face seemingly permanently scarred and carved up by none other than Hank, who tortured her mercilessly. It was all a nightmare, however, but the psychic pain lasted for several days afterward and the memories of the event will never, ever be forgotten.
I Get A Kick Out Of You
For Yvette's 19th birthday party, the VIP lounge at Silver was rented for an all ages party, and Sarah was one of the guests. Unbeknownst to the party goers, Toad and Mister M were testing out an aerosol delivered form of Kick at the club that evening, which caused both Laurie and Pixie's powers to go into overdrive. Pixie dust and pheromones are rampant, creating a vague love-in, with everyone grooving to the music and loving everybody else. For Sarah, it lead to her awkwardly asking Callie to hang out and see some movies, feeling very open and outgoing thanks to all of the chemicals. Upon later reflection, she wondered if she'd asked Callie out on a date or not, and was a little conflicted about her attractions.
Physical Characteristics
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 128lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Other Features: Two piercings in each ear. Taste in accessories runs towards steam/cyber punk.
Powers
Sarah is a technopath; she can communicate with and control machines of all types, including computers. However, her powers are limited by several factors as they are still relatively untrained and underdeveloped. In order to communicate with a machine it must be connected to a power source (plug, remote, battery) and must be turned on. Also, currently, Sarah must make physical contact with the machine as well as speak her commands out loud in order to control it. At this time, the simpler the machines, the easier it is for her to connect with.
There is no one type of machine across the board she is most comfortable with but rather her 'relationship' grows with each individual machine as she becomes more familiar with it; her laptop being what she has 'connected' the best with so far.
Equipment
Laptop, iPod, and cellphone.
Trivia
None, yet.
Plots
2011
Mortimer Toynbee's Electric Funkedelic Boogaloo
Meta
Player: Jeff
E-mail: 
AIM: i052z
Player Icon Base: Lucy Hale
Meta Trivia
Sarah's journal title, '01101101011010010110111001100101' is 'mine' in binary representation of the ascii hex codes for the letters m-i-n-e.
Created and played by Cate until September 2009 and picked up by Jeff in February 2011
