Laura Howlett

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* Adamantium Claws
* Sunglasses

***Laura**: "You are dying. You want to die. Charles told me."*

***Wolverine**: "What else did he tell you?"*

***Laura**: "To not let you."*

*―Laura and Wolverine*

**Laura Darkholme-Howlett** (designated as **X23-23**) And Otherwise Known Just As Laura Darkholme Or Laura Howlett is a mutant, artificially created by Alkali-Transigen to use as a soldier. She is also the biological daughter of Wolverine, with similar powers, including regeneration and adamantium claws.

## Personality

Under the Facility, Laura was raised to be a living weapon and treated as a tool, which caused her to become quite heartless and violent with only her brother that showed her kindness and calmed her down.

Laura has no knowledge of the outside world, or how it works. This is because she was isolated by Transigen for her whole life. As a result of this, Laura doesn't know much about how the world works and how to act around people she doesn't know.

She seems to have many of the behavioral traits that her father does. She's easily angered, and resorts to violence whenever she doesn't get her way. Though it isn't her fault, since she was engineered and taught to fight and be a soldier.

Even though she does have some anger issues, Laura can be kind when she wants to be. She is also very mature for her age, as she was forced to grow up too quickly by Transigen, in order to be a soldier in their army of mutants. She seems to understand that Logan wanted to die, and that he is being slowly poisoned by the adamantium on his bones.

In the end, even though Laura and Logan don't always get along, She has come to see him as her father, as someone who knows what it's like to be experimented on and used. She even called him "Daddy" for the first time.

## History

Laura was one of several children created by Transigen as part of their X-23 project in the first quarter of the 21st century. Her mother is Raven Darkholme who was abducted and impregnated in Transigen's lab, using genetic material salvaged from the Weapon X Project in the 1980s by the Alkali Corporation after the escape of Wolverine. Much like her progenitor, she developed an advanced healing factor and bone claws, with two in each hand and one in each foot. These claws were laced with adamantium when she was still very young, and she was extensively trained in martial arts.

Her primary caretaker during her captivity was a nurse named Gabriela, and she, like the other nurses, soon grew disillusioned with Transigen's treatment of the children under Dr. Zander Rice. When Rice deemed the X-23 project a failure, the children were all earmarked to be destroyed while he focused his attention on X-24. Gabriela and the other nurses rallied to help them escape, planning to take them first to a haven named Eden in North Dakota, and from there slip them across the border into Canada. Gabriela personally assumed responsibility for Laura And Raze, and set out in search of the Wolverine for help reaching the others after they were separated.

## Physical Appearance

Laura Is A Young Girl Of A Slightly Slim Build With Dark Brown Hair And Matching Dark Brown Eyes.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Mutant Physiology:** Laura is very powerful mutant who possesses superhuman strength, durability, endurance, speed, agility, reflexes, flexibility, dexterity, stamina, senses, an accelerated healing factor, immunity, retractable razor-sharp claws, etc.; all of her powers were inherited from her father, Wolverine.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Laura is far stronger than normal humans; for example, despite her age and size, she is able to easily take down and overpower several full grown adults, who were also trained soldiers.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Laura is far more durable than normal humans; for example, due to her healing factor, she is able to move during Xavier's seizures and could survive multiple gunshots without any hinder.
	+ **Superhuman Endurance:** Laura's endurance is far more greatly developed than normal humans; for example, she is able to take a harpoon through her chest with little trouble.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Laura is much faster than normal humans.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Laura is far more agile than normal humans; for example, she is able to perform flips and acrobatic moves on an Olympic level scale, allowing her to quickly and effectively take down her opponents.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes:** Laura's reflexes are much faster than normal humans.
	+ **Superhuman Flexibility:** Laura is far more flexible than normal humans.
	+ **Superhuman Dexterity:** Laura's dexterity is far more greatly developed than normal humans.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Laura possesses far more stamina than normal humans; allowing her to remain physically active for long periods of time.
	+ **Superhuman Senses:** Laura's senses are far more greatly developed than normal normal humans.
	+ **Accelerated Healing Factor:** Laura's metabolism allows her to heal much faster, more extensively, and efficiently than normal humans and other mutants. She is able to quickly recover from being shot with a harpoon through the chest and could continue to function without any hinderances. Laura's accelerated healing factor is also powerful enough to affect her aging.
	+ **Superhuman Immunity:** Due to Laura's accelerated healing factor; she is completely immune to all types of diseases, illnesses, sickness, drugs, poisons, toxins, radiation, disorders, disabilities, etc.
	+ **Immortality:** Due to Laura's accelerated healing factor; she is immortal, as she cannot be killed by natural means or supernatural means.
	+ **Superhuman Longevity:** Due to Laura's accelerated healing factor; she does not visibly age. However, because X-23 is still a child; her aging will not completely stop; until she grows into adulthood.
	+ **Retractable Bone Claws:** Unlike Wolverine, Laura only possesses two retractable razor-sharp adamantium claws in each of her hands and one in each foot, that are capable of cutting through almost any substance known to humans; Charles Xavier believes this is due to her gender.

#### Abilities

* **Skilled Combatant**: Laura is proficient in hand-to-hand combat, fully capable of taking on grown men almost twice her size. She is even able to dominate in hand-to-hand combat, and was only thrown off when she gets caught with a lucky blow.
* **Skilled Gymnast**: Laura demonstrates considerable gymnastics and acrobatic abilities, and frequently employs flips and cartwheels in combat. She primarily utilizes these skills to avoid incoming blows and bring her foot claws into play, while enabling her to compensate for her height disadvantage by scaling her opponents.
* **Driver**: Despite her youth, she is fully capable of operating a vehicle.
* **Multilingualism**: Despite her normally silent demeanor, Laura is fluent in both English and Spanish As Well As Japanese.

##### Weaknesses

* **Age**: Despite her extensive training and martial abilities, Laura is nonetheless a child. She is vulnerable if pinned down in such a way that she is unable to utilize speed, agility, or the element of surprise, or is simply weighed down by sheer numbers.
* **Human Skeleton**: Although her claws are laced with adamantium, her skeleton is not, making her more prone to being disabled by broken bones and severed limbs, although neither of these methods have ever slowed her down.
* **Poor Social & Emotional Skills**: Laura has poor social skills, and demonstrates a limited understanding of the world outside Transigen. At times, it makes her nearly feral, and she reflexively attacked a store clerk when he relieved her of food she was eating without paying for it. She also shows signs of stunted emotional development, displaying behaviors more appropriate for a much younger child (such as punching all the buttons on an elevator, or eating mashed potatoes with her hands).

## Equipment

* **Adamantium Claws**: At some point during her training under Transigen Project, she was put through a similar adamantium infusion as her father had to his entire skeleton. Unlike him however, she received this infusion only to her claws, refining them into sleek blades.

## Relationships

### Family

**Raven Darkholme (Mother)**

**James Howlett (Father/Genetic Template)**

**Raze Darkholme (Older Brother)**

**Kurt Wagner (Older Maternal Half-Brother)**

**Tybalt Xavier (Older Maternal Half-Brother)**

**Graydon Creed (Older Maternal Half-Brother)**

**Daken Akanysa (Older Paternal Half-Brother)**

**Gabby Darkholme (Younger Sister)**

**Elizabeth Howlett (Paternal Grandmother)**

**Thomas Logan (Paternal Grandfather)**

**John Howlett, Sr (Step-Grandfather)**

**Victor Creed (Paternal Uncle)**

**Dog Logan (Paternal Uncle)**

**John Howlett, Jr. (Paternal Uncle)**

**Charles Xavier (Grandfather- Cover Up)**

##### Friends

**Rictor Richter (Best Friend)**

**Xandra Neramani (Best Friend)**

**Delilah Drake (Close Friend)**

**Bobby Bradley (Close Friend)**

**Charlotte Cassidy (Close Friend)**

**Joey (Friend)**

**Jonah (Close Friend)**

**Rebecca (Friend)**

**Julie (Friend)**

**April Cassidy (Close Friend)**

**Jackson (Close Friend)**

**Jamaica Cassidy (Close Friend)**

**Tamara Marko (Close Friend)**

**Erica Cassidy (Friend)**

**Tomás Allerdyce (Close Friend)**

**Mira (Close Friend)**

**Gideon Borkowski (Friend)**

**Stephen (Friend)**

**Professor X (Close Friend)**

**Nate Munson (Friend)**

##### Allies

**Caliban (Formerly)**

**Gabriela Lopez (Nurse, Guardian, and Savior)**

**Kathryn Munson**

**Will Munson**

###### Enemies

**Wren Pierce**

**Donald Pierce**

**Reavers**

**Zander Rice**

## Trivia

* Laura Is Portrayed By **Dafne Keen**

* Laura has an attachment to the X-Men Comics, and apparently considered them fact, as it's suggested she envisioned Logan as he was portrayed in those said comics, and Eden a real place.
* As Laura is still young, her healing isn't as efficient as Logan's.
* Laura's Transigen records also give her blood type as O-, likely a result of her healing factor.
* Although not directly referred to as X-23, the designation is instead used for the entire project which produced her, and numerous other mutant children via harvested DNA. All of the children are identified with a serial number in the format X23-##, with Laura herself receiving X23-23.
* Laura is interested in horses. Among the items she apparently shoplifts from the convenience store is a toy horse, and she's fascinated by the Munson family's animals when they run into them on the highway.
* Laura's Transigen file indicates an Emotional IQ between 70-78 months, suggesting stunted emotional development. This coincides with some of her behaviour, which is more appropriate for a much younger child than her age would suggest (such as playing with the buttons in the elevator, or the power locks in Logan's truck).

## Gallery

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