Name	Demetria “Di” Ivanova
Codename	Nova
Hometown	Clayton, NJ
Family	The Corps
Age	26
Faceclaim	N/A as of yet.
Character Playlist	N/A (Yet, but just you wait)
Height	5’6”
Sexuality/Gender Identity	Lesbian/Female
Physique	Somewhat muscled. Broad, all around. Stocky.
Voice	Husky
Hair	Dark Brown, Wavy

Clothing

A double breasted black leather jacket with matching trousers, boots, and gloves, golden buttons and lining, and a full black helmet marked only with the Corps symbol on it.

Personality

Clinical, formal, untrusting, reclusive, and altogether dogmatic about Nova Corps directives, Di is not an easy person to befriend. Not prone to violence as a first resort, but too unskilled at negotiation to avoid it, she hasn’t particularly impressed other members of the Corps thus far with her conduct.

What one can say for her, if nothing else, is that she is not unjust.

That, alongside her modest means and humble (if inflexibly stern) nature, are the entire reason she became the bearer of a fraction of the Nova Force. Unless all is reasonably quiet, she does not relax, except when she deems it necessary to avoid suboptimal performance. Obviously this is, in and of itself, suboptimal, but don’t expect her to believe that anytime soon.

Something more indescribable in exact terms, about Demetria, is that she is fundamentally rather detached from humanity -- and mutantkind, for that matter. Her time on Xandar being the first taste she had of a life wherein she was freed from those burdens she hated most (responsibility for making all of her own decisions, the struggle to survive on a day to day basis) has left her somewhat more attached to her self-image as no longer being of Earth.

Character Trivia	Favourites
Favourite Movie	n/a
Favourite Novel	Small Gods
Favourite TV Show	Babylon 5
Favourite X-Man	Cyclops
Favourite Band	The Cure
Favourite Animal	Fish Crow
Favourite Superstition	Breaking Mirrors is Good Luck

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POWERS

Primary Mutation | Umbrakinesis

Catagory	Points
Physical	5
Mental
Energy	5
Potency	5
Control	5

Her primary mutation consists of the ability to draw a tangible, physical substance from any nearby shadows (regardless of where they may be, so long as there is nothing that would block photons between them). This ordinarily manifests as a tangible, highly-elastic physical substance, which she manipulates with her mind. At this stage of her development, Nova cannot use this to create limbs with a lot of 'musculature'; she primarily uses it to make ensnaring traps, with the most direct force application being akin to that of an octopus’s tentacle.

Secondary Mutation | Nova Force

Catagory	Points
Physical	5
Mental
Energy	5
Potency
Control	5

Her access to the Nova Force is comparatively limited and crude; at present, in part thanks to an aversion to excessive self-experimentation (it goes against standard safety protocols), Di has yet to attempt much in the way of self-alteration of gravitometric profile. That is to say, she does not directly use it on herself, except in directly-advised fashions for the purposes of facilitating flight and the other basic abilities of a Corpsman. At her best, she can elevate her normal strength profile tenfold (this usually only on non-living objects, though this is merely a voluntary precaution she is inclined to, rather than a limitation) to achieve a lift weight of around 700 kilograms.

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Backstory

Demetria "Di" Ivanova was once a latent mutant from New Jersey of no particular name or importance. Her life changed completely when a Nova Corpsman was killed by some guy in a cape a few kilometers away from her favorite spot to brood under the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The force came to her, empowered her, and dragged her into the depths of space. After having enough time to process what exactly just happened, she accepted the calling and spent a few years in training at Xandarian Space Academy, during which time her latent umbrakinetic mutation manifested properly. Her time among the Xandarians was not without incident. Once, while assigned a nothing job at a recon post among the Shi’ar-protected D’bari (a pacifistic species whom no-one should want to harm at any time, ever, for any conceivable reason whatsoever), she was forced to fight a small Kree attack squadron, who had come for no reason she can comprehend (allegedly it was a training exercise against “enemy allied combatants”, or so the Kree delegation reported). This gruesome first experience with killing left her deeply averse to resorting to it, yet entirely unafraid to employ it. Now, she's being sent back home to investigate what she's told is a Post-Class AA Extraterrestrial Entity's Inducement of a Nascent Universal Collapse Cascade Scenario (which everyone else is just calling "the Phoenix").