Laurie Collins

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Laurie Collins is currently a senior (Year 12) in high school; she lives at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and shares a room with Yvette Petrovic.

Details

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Real Name: Lauren Olivia Collins

Codename: "Discharge" (trainee name)

Aliases: none

First Appearance: April 25, 2006

Date of Birth: 9-13-1990

Place of Birth: Salem Center, New York

Citizenship: American

Relatives: Gail Collins (mother), Zachariah "Zach" Garrison (father)

Education: Senior at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

Relationship Status: single

Occupation: Student

Team Affiliation: X-Men Trainee (Provisional)

Biography

Childhood

Laurie had an interesting childhood, mostly looked after by her grandparents during the day, she and her mother would spend a lot of time together during the evenings. When Laurie was old enough to travel, Laurie's mother would take her on road trips to various locations around the US, and sometimes overseas to places Gail had a connection with from her modelling days. Laurie's grandparents died while she was still young, having had Gail late in life and passing peacefully in their sleep. Laurie and Gail still visit their gravestones in the local cemetery once a year.

Laurie manifested her mutant powers in her 15th year, during a summer camp where she suddenly became aware of people's changing attitude while in her presence. Upon confiding this weird occurrence to her mother, Gail cautioned Laurie to keep her new found powers under wraps considering the mood of the town.

Laurie continued with her life and schooling, only telling a few close friends of her powers until one of those friends betrayed her to the authorities after a riot at her high school. Laurie was put on trial and defended by Nathan Dayspring, who eventually cleared her name.

Living At The X-Mansion

Laurie came to the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters after an altercation, verily a positive afray at her previous school both outed her as a mutant and caused her significant problems with the local constabulary. (As seen in the plot Law and Order: Westchester )

After she was released from gaol and let off any charges due to the help of one Nathan Dayspring at that stage going by the moniker Nathan Morrow, she decided to check out Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters with the hope of controlling her powers and one day being able to lead a fairly normal life.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5'5"

Weight: 115 lbs

Eyes: hazel

Hair: brownish-blonde

Powers

Laurie's mutant power is that of pheromone control. She can affect the physical state of a person through the release of these pheromones. They do not effect a person's emotional state, although if someone did not know what was going on, they might develop an emotional reaction such as fear simply from the strangeness.

An example: when Laurie is in a state of stress, people around her will start to sweat, their heart rate will increase and they will have tightness in their abdomen but they will not have the corresponding emotion for this set of reactions. It would be very disorientating to someone who didn't know what was going on.

One of the side effects of her power makes her a clear communicator with animals, although she is not able to understand them at all.

Laurie has recently been showing more firm control of her powers - now able to control when they are turned on and when they're off, although stress will still cause her to 'leak'. She's also shown the ability to create pheramones for things such as blood clotting, making someone hungry, sobering someone up, and drowsiness.

Equipment

Air scrubber Forge made for her. Looks vaguely like an iPod and makes a small humming noise when turned on.

Trivia

Laurie used to be on the track team at her old school and still keeps up her training in the mornings, usually getting up quite early to do so.

Best places to find Laurie when outside the classroom is on the jogging track or around the hallways of the mansion.

Due to recent history Laurie finds it increasingly difficult to remain idle during crisis situations and will usually ask for things to do or volunteer. Her behaviour in tense situations has also turned decidely bossy of late and she'll always attempt to protect those she considers important to her whether or not they're capable of taking care of themselves.

She has been seeking help from Dr Sampson to deal with the aftermath of several traumatic events but these traits aren't something she actively recognises unless called on. Depending on the way this is approached, she may be slightly hostile as having to remain idle in any way gives her way too much time to fret about everything that could go wrong.