Heather Harpy | AoX

➧  ●●●●○○○  |  Gifted

➧  ●●●○○○○  |  Gotta go Fast

➧  ●●○○○○○  |  Normal

➧  ●●●●○○○  |  Medium Range 

➧  ●●●○○○○  |  Some Training

 Harpy Physiology

➧  The user can alter their arms into bird wings, however some side effects are growth of feathers on various places throughout the body.
➧  The user can alter their entire body to resemble a harpy. Winged arms, bird legs. 
➧  The user can shoot off any and all protruding feathers from their body like throwing knives. The feathers harden/sharpen themselves enough to cut or pierce the average person.

➧  Even though Heather is proficient in cheer leading, keeping her arms in a fully winged status is very tiring for her.  Heather normally cant stay in partial harpy form for too long without getting tired, or eventually passing out.
➧  While her Mutation can allow her to fully transform, Heathers stamina wont allow her to go father than altering her arms.
➧  Using her feathers as throwing knives actually hurts Heather, since they're being forcibly plucked out of her. That being said she doesn't often use this part of her mutation. However with extreme emotions, such as anger for example, she will start shooting off feathers uncontrollably. 

➧  Heather utilizes a more evasive style of combat, using her wings to assist her with leaping and dodging. As for actual attacks, Heather resorts to her legs for lots of kicking.
➧  When Heather isn't trying to dodge her opponent, she will keep her distance and throw feathers. Heather prefers to keep her distance in fights. 

➧  Born and Raised in the city of Dublin, Heather an average life with her parents and her brother. They lived a normal life so far, Her father constantly in and out due to work and  her mother staying at home. Everything seemed to be fine and dandy, that is well...Until Heathers mother got into a car accident on her way home from store. 

Unfortunately Heathers mother didn't survive the accident, and of course to young 6 year old heather, this was the end of the world to her. Although Heather and her brother didn't have much time to grieve over the loss of their mother, since after a few months of her mothers burial, Heathers family had to move to the Americas due to her fathers work.

Growing up in a small town within Oklahoma, Heather soon resumed to her normal routine. As the years passed, Heathers father remarried, Her older brother was sent off to boarding school, and Heather was alone. Of course she wasn't technically alone since she lived with her father and her new step mother, but without her older brother she felt lonesome while at home. 

However Heather was much different at school than she was at home, being the leader of her schools cheer squad often kept Heather happy. Whether it was because she was busy with what she enjoyed doing, bossing her fellow cheerleaders around, or the praise from fellow classmates.  Of course Heather was your average small town queen bitch cheerleader out of home, and within her home she was quiet obedient child.

While to many of the students of her high school thought she was either the perfect queen or the faultless bitch, it was far from true, especially since her powers awoke...

It was a nice spring weekend, Heather and her cheer squad was participating in their annual cheer competition. Heather and her squad where up next and Heather felt...weird. It wasn't the stage jitters, or anxiety of any sort, but never the less Heather decieded to just shake it off. What was the worst that could happen? Probably vomiting on stage...

Never the less, Once they called Heathers group, they quickly got on stage in front of the crowd. Everything was going according to plan, everyone was on their A game today, just what Heather hoped. This was going to be the year that her squad got out of third place and jump into second! That was all Heather could think about.

This was it, the final moment! Her squad's routine was almost done, all that was left was for them to toss Heather up and catch her. They've done this multiple times in practice, however them catching her was a 50/50 chance. But never the less Heather trusted them to catch her today! This is the kind of finisher they needed anyway!

One...Two...Three!

There she went! They tossed her up with ease, however unlike the multiple times they practiced this, Heather felt different this time. As they tossed her up, it felt as if everything was in slow motion. Then suddenly as Heather came to, she heard a scream! She was still in the air...How? Heather looked around, and then she saw it. Her arms! They where...wings..?! Heather began to panic, what was wrong with her?! Why did she have wings?! As she went into panic, her wings reverted back into arms and she dropped to the ground. 

Her squad standing back from her, staring at her as she hit the floor. Heather got up and tried to shake off what just happened,

"Why didn't you idiots catch me?? Now we're going to lose!" Heather hissed at her team,

A few of the girls just pointed at Heather without saying a word. Already annoyed at her team, Heather looked at where the girls where pointing. Feathers??! Heather saw feathers coming out of her wrists and her legs! Heather didn't understand what was wrong with her. Horrified, Heather quickly bolted off stage to go hide.

Many days after Heather and the cheer squad came back from the competition, Heather refused to go to school for a week. She was afraid to go back...What will her friends think?? What will the school think?! Heather didn't want to find out. 

Although Heathers step mother offered that maybe Heather should pluck out her feathers if she was afraid of other kids seeing it. However whenever Heather even attempted to pluck out even one feather, it hurt like hell. It was nothing like plucking out an eyebrow hair.

Eventually Heather just said 'Fuck it' and went back to school, If she was going to live the rest of her life with feathers coming out of her, she might as well try to make it look good!

So Heather went back to school in confidence, there was nothing that was going to stop her from getting back to being a cheerleader, However...

The moment Heather stepped back into the hallway of her high school, all the students stopped and stared at her. Heather raised a brow as she stood there, unaware of what was about to unfold. That's when it happened, all the kids busted out in laughter. Shouting out 'Heathers Feathers!' at her, along with throwing crumpled up paper balls and pencils at her.

She didn't understand--She was still the same, so what if she had a few feathers?? But never the less Heather darted out of the hall way and went straight to Gym in hopes to find her fellow cheerleaders.

Upon arriving at the Gym, Heather was greeted with her squad telling her that she wasn't allowed to be apart of the cheer squad any more. That they couldn't have some 'feathered freak' as their leader.

Distraught, Heather ditched school. Tears in her eyes as she ran back home. Once she reached her house, Heather rushed up to her room and flopped onto her bed to cry.

Heather locked herself in her room for weeks, refusing to talk to no one aside from her older brother on the phone. However Heathers father eventually got her to open the door to let him in. 

Heather and her father began to discuss about other schooling options, to go to another school where she was with other kids like her. After long convincing, Heather agreed to attend Jean Grey's School for Higher Learning.


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➧  Earth - 2016 

➧  Dublin, Ireland 

➧  Ireland 

➧  Irish 

➧  Susan Fletcher-Briggs (Mutant)  |  Mother  |  Deceased    

➧  Rebecca Wright-Briggs  |  Step Mother    ➧  Jackson Briggs  |  Father  |  Alive

➧  Pam Ann Briggs  |  Younger Half-Sister  |  Alive    ➧  Jackson Briggs Jr.  |  Older Brother  |  Alive

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