Angelica Jones
| Angelica Jones | |
|---|---|
| File:Angelica.jpg Portrayed by Danielle Panabaker | |
| Codename: | None |
| Affiliations: | Red X, New Mutants, X-Men, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters - Student |
| Birthdate: | December 15, 1991 |
| Journal: | x_firestar |
| Player: | Indiana J |
A literal firestarter, Angel - as she's known as - is a willing and enthusiastic student of Xavier's. Her zest for life and sunny personality help her weather the school's many crises.
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Details
Character Journal: x_firestar
Real Name: Angelica Nicole Veronica Jones
Codename: None
Aliases: Known as "Angel" (not to be confused with the X-Man).
First Appearance: August 13, 2006
Date of Birth: December 15, 1991
Place of Birth: Seattle, WA
Citizenship: US
Relatives: Jones Family: Bart Jones (father), Elizabeth Cross (mother)
Education: Sophomore at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Student
Team Affiliation: New Mutants, X-Men (trainee)
Biography
Childhood
Angel grew up in two homes in Seattle…with her dad and her mom, who have been divorced from each other since before she could walk. The two parents are actually on fairly good terms with one another despite the failed marriage and both have done as best they could for their daughter. Her mother, Elizabeth, was a successful lawyer who had custody of Angelica for her early years. However, due to Beth's job requiring travel, Angel ended up living full-time with her father, a news photographer in Seattle. Until her manifestation, Angel's life was relatively normal. Both her parents were supportive of her hobbies and her schoolwork. With both parents coming from large extended families, Angel grew up among a hoarde of cousins, mostly boys, and became something of a tomboy as a result.
In August of 2006, while visiting her mother, Angel's powers emerged while driving home from church, igniting her clothing and nearly setting their car ablaze. After ensuring that their daughter was not in any danger, Bart and Elizabeth decided to enroll her at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, having heard about it from the CNN Special. Shortly thereafter, her father relocated to New York for work and to be closer to his daughter.
Living At The X-Mansion
Angel quickly adapted to the school, making many friends, especially the quieter Yvette Petrovic and her roommate, Sooraya Qadir. She become known as a prankster, indulging in prank wars with Kyle, Forge and Julio, who treated her as 'one of the guys', something she was perfectly comfortable with. This changed when Angel began Noticing boys and an incident under the mistletoe her first Christmas at the mansion resulted in her and Julio dating. She also proved a quick learner with her powers, learning to fly after an accident on the roof.
The school's tendency towards disasters didn't really phase Angel. She bounced back readily from such incidents as the shared dreamworld and the bus hijacking. She embraced the Red X program enthusiastically, glad to help with her powers and after rescuing three people from a fire, she began volunteering at a local fire station, with the intention to become an intern at sixteen. It was the disappearance and presumed deaths of Forge and fellow student Crystal which hit her hard and her welcome upon their return three months later was typically boisterous.
The relationship with Julio ended amicably during Parent's Day, both of them happy to continue as friends. Angel's father became involved in the school's drama during Thirteen Days, offering the school his home as a place for students to stay and from there he became used to Angel's friends and teachers, working with the staff to organise a surprise sixteenth birthday party at the fire station. One thing that did prove hard for her to deal with, aside from the potential death or injury of her friends, was psionics, especially following the chaos of the Shadow King incident. She screwed up her courage to talk to the mansion's psis about her issues, which helped to a degree.
With the departure of Sooraya back home over the summer, Angel acquired a new roommate for the school year in the shape of Yvette, who had become a firm friend over the past year. The two were confidantes, with Angel often helping Yvette with the vagaries of English slang, sometimes to her embarrassment. They also worked together often with Red X, such as going to San Diego to help with rebuilding. Angel was also an unashamed flirt, at one point inadvertently causing trouble between Jay and Kevin when she got herself a kiss on the cheek from Kevin and the information later came out during the outbreak of poetic truthtelling.
Growing Up
Things began to change for Angel in May 2008. Kidnapped by The Enchantress as part of Baron Zemo's plot to hold the world hostage with his Thermal Gigantinator, Angel experienced her full fire for for the first time and subsequently developed control problems - and a degree of fear of her own powers and what they could do. Two difficult Red X missions - in particular, the one in Sri Lanka, during which she had to stand by and watch people being taken away to be killed as well as facing down Gladiator of the Imperial Guard - further eroded her confidence. A bizarre rncounter wiht a man from another dimension claiming to be her husband only confused her further. It was in this frame of mind that she joined Yvette in the Albanian girl's attempt to take revenge on the man who had kidnapped and sold her, resulting in both girls needing rescue, a grounding, and a police operation ruined.
Both girls had a chance to redeem thmeselves during Day Zero, when the newly-formed New Mutants were seperated from their chaperone and had to rely on each other to survive the chaos. Angel's fire brigade connections proved valuable as she lef them to a fire station to shelter in and obtained radios for communication. In the meantime, her father turned up at the school looking for her; he later wound up talking to Kyle about the X-Men and their role in the incident as well as Angel's performance.
With the disappearances and presumed deaths of Jay, Dani, Garrison and Pete Wisdom, Angel set about a personal project, creating an album of photographs of the missing. The task consumed her and she took several days of time out to recover. When she resurfaced, it was to flirt with handsome new arrival, Julian Keller, who she would eventually end up dating after a New Year's kiss, much to fellow student and rival for Julian's affections, Inez's disgruntlement. The two even fought over Julian, but quickly made up, realising they had more important things to worry about, like surviving Arcade's Murderworld.
Trainee X-Man
In [[<ay 2009]], Angel's long-term ambition of joining the team became a reality, with her securing the trainee codename of "Pants On Fire". Her relationship with Julian came to a violent end, when she caught him caught him kissing Esme Stepford (admittedly under psionic suggestion) and the two remained at odds for some time due to various miscommunications. Further stress was add when Yvette was injured by a land mine and Angel took on the task of caring for her roommate upon her return to the school. Gradually things returned to normal over the summer, although in the case of Julian, it took being locked together in Angel's darkroom to manage it. Summer was a busy time for her, with three X-Men missions - manning comms for the Budapest incident, accompanying Jean's team to [Fiddler's Green| Brazil]] to speak to Mariana Machado and interviewing the boy at the root of the powers swap incident - and a Red X disaster in their 'backyard', with two trains colliding and evacuation and toxic clean up required.
Physical Characteristics
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 105 lbs
Eyes: green
Hair: red
Other Features:
Powers
Angelica can emit microwaves from her body, and use them for a number of effects. The primary effect of her power ignites the oxygen in the air to create a blue flame. Angel herself is immune to the heat and flame her power generates, as well as other sources of regular fire.
Angel can direct this energy to heat objects or, if she tries, set them on fire. She has also discovered how to use her power to create thermal updrafts which enable her to fly and her strength in lifting heavy objects goes up while using her powers.
As a side effect of her powers, Angel can regulate her own body temperature, and is able to comfortably endure environmental temperature changes.
Due to being kidnapped by Zemo, Angel has discovered a second stage to her powers. Instead of a simple fire shield, her body is completely engulfed in blue flames. She can see thermal hot spots, she exudes more heat and flame, the weight she can lift has gone up and her speed in flight has shot up as well. She has only been able to call this form up two more times since and is still struggling to relearn this aspect of her powers.
Equipment
Before gaining control of her powers, Angel habitually kept a small fire extinguisher nearby in case of powers accidents.
Angel's clothes and bedding are largely made of fireproof cloth developed by Forge.
Trivia
Angel has described the feeling of her power as "a small dragon in her belly".
Trying to help her former roommate, Sooraya, feel more at home, Angel convinced Doug to tutor her in Dari.
Angel will - and has - tasted almost every kind of food there is and is enthusiastic about experimenting. She will even eat live things, provided she's allowed to spit them out if they wriggle.
Plots
2006
Living Pele (as part of Red X)
2007
2008
Red X Mission: Shake Hands With The Devil
2009
Meta
Player: Indiana J
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AIM: KatzMT
Player Icon Base: Danielle Panabaker
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