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''This page is about the [[:Category: Phase 2|Phase 2]] incarnation of the character. For other uses, see [[Domino (disambiguation)]].''
| name    = Nadia Sidorova
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| image  = Domino.jpg
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| pb = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000170/ Milla Jovovich]
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{{CharacterBox
| alias = Domino
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| name    = Nina Thurman
| teams = [[Elpis]]
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| image  = Dom.png
| socker = Socker Required
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| pb = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1137209/ Tatiana Maslany]
| plot = [http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/398156.html April 17th, 2004]
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| codename = Domino
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| teams = [[X-Force]]
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| birthdate = December 8, 1986
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| journal = [https://xp-domino.dreamwidth.org/profile xp_domino]
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| player = [[Erin]]
 
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A former member of [[The Pack]] and one of [[Nathan]]'s first proteges, Domino now works as a researcher for [[Elpis]].
 
  
  
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''She cast a sideways glance at the rest of the group, who looked surprisingly composed. But then, they dealt with this stuff on a regular basis, didn't they?''
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'''''Wait. Who's the crazy ones here?'''''
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Partnered with Kevin Sydney at the behest of Christian Kane, Domino is currently working mission to mission, trying to piece things together.
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== '''Details''' ==
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'''Character Journal:''' [https://xp-domino.dreamwidth.org/profile xp_domino]
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'''Real Name''': Nina Thurman
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'''Codename''': Domino
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'''Aliases''': Beatrice Thurman, Samantha Wu, Tamara Winter, Elena Vladescu, Jessica Marie Costello, Luisa Mendoza, Christina Elizabeth Alioso, Priscilla Sutherland, Hope Eldridge
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'''First Appearance''': [https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/3633680.html February 6, 2015]
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'''Date of Birth''': December 8, 1986
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'''Place of Birth''': Chhicago, Illinois
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'''Citizenship''':  American
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'''Relatives''': n/a
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'''Education''': B.Sc. Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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'''Relationship Status''': Single
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'''Occupation''': Freelance Operative, partnered with Kevin Sydney (Changeling)
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'''Team Affiliation''': [[X-Force]]
  
===Details===
 
  
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== '''Biography''' ==
  
'''Name:''' Nadia Eleanor Sidorova
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=== '''Childhood''' ===
  
'''Aliases:''' Domino
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Nina (who hates her name, and prefers to go by her codename, Domino, whenever possible) was born to a single mother during one of the coldest winters in Chicago on record. She's not quite sure what happened to her mom, only that she ended up in the Sacred Heart Orphanage before she was four years old, and there she stayed. Perhaps too mouthy or too smart for her own good, Domino was never able to find a 'forever home', though she bounced in and out of various foster homes throughout her young life. She doesn't talk much about this period but it's pretty obvious from her defensive responses when she's queried that it wasn't the best experience for her, and it's a testament to her natural smarts and talent that she was able to graduate high school at all, let alone with a place towards the top of her class.
  
'''Occupation:''' Researcher for [[Elpis]], former mercenary.
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Her academics were enough to earn her a place at U of I, and she cashed in the 'orphan card' to get a scholarship that paid for most of her tuition and books. After a few semesters of undecided waffling she finally buckled down to get a computer science degree, figuring it would be useful if nothing else. To her surprise she ended up enjoying the courses and proved to have a flair for hacking and security measures - a fact which she may have used to help bolster her scholarship, which didn't do much to cover living expenses. She continued with this after she left school, sometimes carrying out white hat testing for companies but just as often passing on the wrong side of the law in her endeavours.
  
'''First appearance:''' [http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/398156.html April 17th, 2004]
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=== '''After School''' ===
  
'''Family:''' Alexey Sidorov (father, deceased), Isabel Wellesley (mother, deceased).
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Such creative use of her training may well have gotten her in trouble with the authorities, and indeed when she received a letter from them requesting an interview she was convinced at first that it was some kind of trap, one of those ones where they promise you a boat and then throw you in jail. Much to her surprise (because she couldn't help but go along anyway, just to see) it was a legitimate interview, one that resulted in a job offer from the Agency, who clearly employed a 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' attitude when it came to recruitment.  
  
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She only spent a few short years with the Agency, but what years they were. While there she was trained up in the latest technologies and given access to databases so secret even the conspiracy theorists hadn't dreamed them up yet. And, even better, she was getting paid to do it all. It was discovered that in addition to her tech skills she was also a decent field operative, able to think quickly on her feet and use force when necessary, so her early twenties found her travelling the world, dealing with bad guys (of some definition) and hacking people's stuff.
  
===Biography===
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It's hard to say exactly when the relationship soured; maybe when she realised some of the 'bad guys' were no worse than the Agency itself, or maybe when they left her for dead after an op gone bad. Either way she decided she'd be better off as a freelancer, and through a series of contacts and jobs she eventually got in good with Christian Kane, who seemed to know just about everybody and have all his fingers in a dozen different pies. Through Kane she partnered up with Sydney and the rest, as they say, is history.
  
Nadia Eleanor Sidorova was born in Moscow to a British journalist, Isabel Wellesley, and a Russian politician, Alexey Sidorov. Sidorov was a passionate reformer, and when his enemies couldn't dissuade him through other means, they had him killed. They sent his wife and daughter to business associates in Hong Kong, where Isabel was killed and Nadia, then eight years old, was sold to the owner of an underground fighting arena.
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==='''Career Change'''===
  
It was in that arena that [[Nathan Dayspring|Nathan]] saw her, six years later, and refused to leave that night without her. Purchasing her contract, he brought her back to Europe and attempted to leave her at a convent school. Domino refused to stay, following him and Bridge back to their safehouse.
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== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
  
When she was of age, she joined the [[The Pack|Pack]] and served as a very effective member of the unit for years. She also started to take on solo jobs, her skill and her unnatural luck earning her a solid reputation in the mercenary world. Another mercenary group, [[Mág Ealga]] provided competition to the Pack and on a personal level for Dom, a rivalry with the young shapeshifter [[Vanessa Carlysle]].  At least three times a year they would run into each other somewhere in the world and it usually ended in black eyes and knife wounds.  Both being the only girls in the crews and being the youngest they developed something of an unspoken rivalry to prove who was better.  Their mutations gave them different advantages, but it was hard to compete with Domino's powers.  That didn't mean she necessarily always came out the victor, however.
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'''Other Features''': Domino is of average height and build - despite her reasonable athleticism and heightened reflexes she isn't particularly toned or fit, a fact which annoys the hell out of her, though she would never admit it. She keeps her brown hair in a below-the-shoulder cut, all the better for pulling back out of her face in a ponytail or tucking up beneath any number of wigs. She eschews most makeup, though she had a weakness for over-applied eyeliner when she's going 'out'. While she dresses sensibly on the job - whatever's most appropriate to the setting - in her downtime she's mostly garbed in skinny trousers and leather jackets, complete with 'big stompy boots' that do a little to boost her height.
  
Taking advantage of Vanessa's ability and rivalry, Mág Ealga sought out the youngest of the Pack as their way into the group. Domino saw one coming, but the group of them she wasn't prepared for all alone.  She didn't go down without a fight, but ultimately she was knocked unconscious.  After finding out where the Pack was holed up for the moment Vanessa went in as Domino. The charade lasted for nearly four weeks until Nathan found the actual Domino unconscious where Mág Ealga were keeping her while the rest of Mág Ealga was out on business.  Aleister, the leader of Mág Ealga, came back to find Domino missing and called Vanessa in time so that when Nathan came through the door with Domino she was slipping out the window and making a run for it.  She just barely got away from the Pack in time to drop the mimic and pick up one from the nearest homeless man, managing to escape then only because of Nathan's lack of telepathy use at that point in his life and her ability to mimic psi-patterns as well anyway.
 
  
Left at loose ends after Nathan settled at the mansion, she drifted in and out of various situations (and sometimes predicaments), some related to him and the X-Men, some not. Deeply in love with Pete Wisdom, she was badly disillusioned by his apparent [[Hellfire and Damnation|defection]] to the Hellfire Club and tried to find a productive outlet for her skills, eventually becoming involved in rescuing mutant children in Africa from military training camps. Her [[Skeleton Coast|kidnapping]] by Gideon, though traumatic, reunited her with Pete and the two have been involved since.
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== '''Powers''' ==
  
When Nathan founded Elpis, Domino was one of the first of his friends to accept his job offer. She has found a great deal of personal validation on her new career path, but wishes that people would stop sending her to Central Asia.
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While 'luck' doesn't sound like something that can be affected by mutant ability, it turns out it is - and it's very handy. Domino's abilities went undetected for many years, well into the time she joined the NSA. Her ability to psionically influence events in her favour is so subconscious, and activated only in times of stress or danger, that it really did look like she was extremely fortunate in avoiding catastrophe whenever it struck. It was only after much study that experts determined her particular abilities, though even after being informed of them she has no conscious control over where and when they trigger. All she knows is that she has to act for them to tilt the odds in her favour, so the discovery has perhaps made her even *more* impulsive and decisive than before.  
  
When the Elpis office in Tel Aviv was [[Kaiten|bombed]] by the [[The Preservers|Preservers]], Domino's powers allowed her to give her friends and fellow staff at least a couple of minutes of warning, which most likely saved a number of lives. During the explosion itself, she pushed [[Angelo Espinosa]] into a stairwell which was mysteriously untouched by the blast wave. Angelo would later suspect that she had somewhat protected him with her powers. Domino herself was buried in the debris and critically injured. Though the doctors at Ichilov Hospital saved her life, her injuries were severe and involved months of therapy and recovery time.
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The off-shoot of her abilities means that her reflexes and reactions are highly-tuned and instinctively driven, giving her superhuman abilities to dodge, twist, and otherwise manoeuvre herself out of harm's way.  
  
She returned to her job at Elpis as soon as she was able, becoming deeply involved in the organization's new initiative to assist mutant child soldiers. During a business trip to New York to help Nathan at the UN with some potentially difficult meetings, she was [[Karma Police|kidnapped]] by a strange sect targeting probability-altering mutants. Though she escaped, along with [[Wanda Maximoff]] and [[Jennie Stavros]], she was considerably disgruntled by adding another kidnapping to the list.
 
  
She continued her work with Elpis in the following year, helping set up the DDR program. In [[June 2008]], she accompanied Nathan and several of the staff from the Westchester office to [[Creations Beautiful and Wondrous|Kyrgyzstan]], where a simple investigative mission turned complicated when Nathan and Angelo encountered a young man who could trap people in a vision of their own personal heaven.
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== '''Equipment''' ==
  
When Pete wound up missing, presumed dead after an [[Mechanisms of Revenge|attack]] by [[Sabretooth]] and parties unknown, Domino returned to Westchester and stayed in the boathouse for a time. She accompanied Nathan and an X-Men team to [[Wakanda]] when an [[The Magnificent Seven|assassination attempt]] against [[T'Challa]] was uncovered. She and [[Marius Laverne]] managed to successfully protect the Wakandan king, although Domino was injured in the process. Though she returned to the mansion with the others, she soon departed for [[Muir Island Research Facility|Muir]], wanting some time away.
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===Powers/Abilities===
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== '''Trivia''' ==
  
Domino is a [[Probability manipulation|probability manipulator]], an ability that [[Dr. Moira MacTaggart|Moira]] has identified as a combination of low-level reality warping and unconscious precognition. After Gideon manipulated her ability while he held her prisoner, her powers have undergone a significant increase in strength, although they are still entirely unconscious.
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===Plots===
 
  
'''2004'''
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=='''External Links'''==
  
[[Collateral Damage]]
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+nina+thurman xp_communication posts by tag]
  
[[Trojan Horse]]
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+nina+thurman xp_journal posts by tag]
  
'''2005'''
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+nina+thurman xp_logs posts by tag]
  
[[X-Men Mission: A Mirror Darkly]]
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== '''Plots''' ==
  
[[Hellfire and Damnation]]
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===2015===
  
[[X-Men Mission: Air Xavier]]
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[[Operation: Big Trouble in Little Lowtown]]
  
[[Skeleton Coast]]
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[[The Zodiac: Leo]]
  
'''2007'''
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[[Little Paper Dolls]]
  
[[Kaiten]]
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[[Operation: Mutant of the Seas]]
  
[[Karma Police]]
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===2016===
  
'''2008'''
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[[Operation: Mutant Massacre]]
  
[[Creations Beautiful and Wondrous]]
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== Meta ==
  
[[The Magnificent Seven]]
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'''Player''': [[Erin]]
  
===Meta===
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'''E-mail''': ehardee@gmail.com
  
'''PB''': [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000170/ Milla Jovovich]
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'''Player Icon Base''': [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1137209/ Tatiana Maslany]
  
Socked by:
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'''Meta Trivia'''
  
Formerly socked by [[Alicia]]
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Domino was an NPC in Phase 1, and apped as a character by Erin for the relaunch in [[January 2015]]
  
[[Category: NPCs]]
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[[Category: 2015]]
[[Category: Allies]]
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[[Category: X-Force]]

Revision as of 19:44, 11 June 2017

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This page is about the Phase 2 incarnation of the character. For other uses, see Domino (disambiguation).

PHASE 2
Nina Thurman
Dom.png
Portrayed by Tatiana Maslany
Codename: Domino
Affiliations: X-Force
Birthdate: December 8, 1986
Journal: xp_domino
Player: Erin


She cast a sideways glance at the rest of the group, who looked surprisingly composed. But then, they dealt with this stuff on a regular basis, didn't they?

Wait. Who's the crazy ones here?

Partnered with Kevin Sydney at the behest of Christian Kane, Domino is currently working mission to mission, trying to piece things together.



Details

Character Journal: xp_domino


Real Name: Nina Thurman

Codename: Domino

Aliases: Beatrice Thurman, Samantha Wu, Tamara Winter, Elena Vladescu, Jessica Marie Costello, Luisa Mendoza, Christina Elizabeth Alioso, Priscilla Sutherland, Hope Eldridge

First Appearance: February 6, 2015

Date of Birth: December 8, 1986

Place of Birth: Chhicago, Illinois

Citizenship: American

Relatives: n/a

Education: B.Sc. Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Relationship Status: Single

Occupation: Freelance Operative, partnered with Kevin Sydney (Changeling)

Team Affiliation: X-Force


Biography

Childhood

Nina (who hates her name, and prefers to go by her codename, Domino, whenever possible) was born to a single mother during one of the coldest winters in Chicago on record. She's not quite sure what happened to her mom, only that she ended up in the Sacred Heart Orphanage before she was four years old, and there she stayed. Perhaps too mouthy or too smart for her own good, Domino was never able to find a 'forever home', though she bounced in and out of various foster homes throughout her young life. She doesn't talk much about this period but it's pretty obvious from her defensive responses when she's queried that it wasn't the best experience for her, and it's a testament to her natural smarts and talent that she was able to graduate high school at all, let alone with a place towards the top of her class.

Her academics were enough to earn her a place at U of I, and she cashed in the 'orphan card' to get a scholarship that paid for most of her tuition and books. After a few semesters of undecided waffling she finally buckled down to get a computer science degree, figuring it would be useful if nothing else. To her surprise she ended up enjoying the courses and proved to have a flair for hacking and security measures - a fact which she may have used to help bolster her scholarship, which didn't do much to cover living expenses. She continued with this after she left school, sometimes carrying out white hat testing for companies but just as often passing on the wrong side of the law in her endeavours.

After School

Such creative use of her training may well have gotten her in trouble with the authorities, and indeed when she received a letter from them requesting an interview she was convinced at first that it was some kind of trap, one of those ones where they promise you a boat and then throw you in jail. Much to her surprise (because she couldn't help but go along anyway, just to see) it was a legitimate interview, one that resulted in a job offer from the Agency, who clearly employed a 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' attitude when it came to recruitment.

She only spent a few short years with the Agency, but what years they were. While there she was trained up in the latest technologies and given access to databases so secret even the conspiracy theorists hadn't dreamed them up yet. And, even better, she was getting paid to do it all. It was discovered that in addition to her tech skills she was also a decent field operative, able to think quickly on her feet and use force when necessary, so her early twenties found her travelling the world, dealing with bad guys (of some definition) and hacking people's stuff.

It's hard to say exactly when the relationship soured; maybe when she realised some of the 'bad guys' were no worse than the Agency itself, or maybe when they left her for dead after an op gone bad. Either way she decided she'd be better off as a freelancer, and through a series of contacts and jobs she eventually got in good with Christian Kane, who seemed to know just about everybody and have all his fingers in a dozen different pies. Through Kane she partnered up with Sydney and the rest, as they say, is history.

Career Change

Physical Characteristics

Other Features: Domino is of average height and build - despite her reasonable athleticism and heightened reflexes she isn't particularly toned or fit, a fact which annoys the hell out of her, though she would never admit it. She keeps her brown hair in a below-the-shoulder cut, all the better for pulling back out of her face in a ponytail or tucking up beneath any number of wigs. She eschews most makeup, though she had a weakness for over-applied eyeliner when she's going 'out'. While she dresses sensibly on the job - whatever's most appropriate to the setting - in her downtime she's mostly garbed in skinny trousers and leather jackets, complete with 'big stompy boots' that do a little to boost her height.


Powers

While 'luck' doesn't sound like something that can be affected by mutant ability, it turns out it is - and it's very handy. Domino's abilities went undetected for many years, well into the time she joined the NSA. Her ability to psionically influence events in her favour is so subconscious, and activated only in times of stress or danger, that it really did look like she was extremely fortunate in avoiding catastrophe whenever it struck. It was only after much study that experts determined her particular abilities, though even after being informed of them she has no conscious control over where and when they trigger. All she knows is that she has to act for them to tilt the odds in her favour, so the discovery has perhaps made her even *more* impulsive and decisive than before.

The off-shoot of her abilities means that her reflexes and reactions are highly-tuned and instinctively driven, giving her superhuman abilities to dodge, twist, and otherwise manoeuvre herself out of harm's way.


Equipment

None

Trivia

None


External Links

xp_communication posts by tag

xp_journal posts by tag

xp_logs posts by tag

Plots

2015

Operation: Big Trouble in Little Lowtown

The Zodiac: Leo

Little Paper Dolls

Operation: Mutant of the Seas

2016

Operation: Mutant Massacre

Meta

Player: Erin

E-mail: ehardee@gmail.com

Player Icon Base: Tatiana Maslany

Meta Trivia

Domino was an NPC in Phase 1, and apped as a character by Erin for the relaunch in January 2015