Cessily Kincaid

## Background

### 1994 - 2007: Cessily Kincaid

Cessily was born to her Irish-American parents, Ellis & Jill Kincaid. She was their only child, thus the apple of their eye. She lived a seemingly normal life as she had just made become captain for the cheerleading squad & was just starting her last year of middle school.

One day before school, her fair skin began turning silver before Cessily's whole body turned into a polymorphic puddle in front of her parents. She realized her entire physiology had changed into a malleable metal substance & she was able to resume a human form, though still covered in metal. While her parents did not reject her out right, they did not know how to deal with this change.

For the next year, Cessily remained in hiding with her parents tell their family & friends that she was being home-schooled due to a serious illness that prevented her from socializing. Tired of being alone & a burden of her family, Cessily reached out to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, a school specifically catering to mutants. Her parents remained unaware until Professor Xavier arrived at their house to meet Cessily. Though confused, they quickly agreed for Cessily to go with him as they knew they could never accept her.

### 2007 - 2010: Mercury

Cessily eventually made her first friend at Xavier's in resident bad boy Julian Keller, who has been like a brother to her ever since. She was also places on the Advocates, the same student training squad as him, further strengthening their relationship. When she met Elixir, who was an outcast at the school due to his former anti-mutant sentiments, she formed a crush on him. This forged a connection between them & stood up for Wither when Julian would bully him.

She also made good friends with Laura Kinney, another outcast because she was Wolverine's clone & seen as a killer. Cessily was essentially her only friend, with the two frequently hanging out together on & off school grounds. While out for coffee one day, the shop exploded. Facility agents led by Laura's former handler, Kimura, shot Cessily with an electric bullet & captured her before Laura could recuperate from a grenade blast. They were looking to crate a living weapon, a huge beast called the "Predator X" & Mercury's metal skin was needed to give it more durability & powers. Gruesome experiments partly stripped the girl of the needed bio-metal, granting the beast her powers & leaving her in extreme pain. She was eventually saved by Laura & Julian, who were then saved by the X-Men when they became outnumbered. She went into recovery at the institute upon her rescue as the experiments had left her physically & mentally traumatized.

## Romantic Relationships

* Roxanne Washington: Girlfriend (2009 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutant Physiology:** Cessily is composed of a non-toxic liquid mercury, categorizing her body a malleable bio-mercury form. Her form allows her to alter her shape by collapsing into a featureless mass, extending blades from her skin, moulding herself into various forms, etc.
	+ ***Self-Sustenance*:** She is no longer a carbon-based life form & does not have to eat or breathe like normal humans. However, she still consumed food out of habit.
	+ ***Telepathic Resistance*:** She is very hard to telepathically detect or influence while in her mercury form.
	+ ***Molecular Adhesion***: She can cling to solid surfaces & move her body at will even without overt locomotive features.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability*:** Her skin, bone & muscle transformed into liquid mercury to make it stronger & harder than human.
	+ ***Magical Resistance*:** Due to her transient body, she is harder to magically detect, influence, or harm her than other humans & mutants. However, she can still be overwhelmed by more skilled magicians.

### Weaknesses

* **Electricity:** if struck, it can make her lose control of her form & cause her pain.

### Ratings

* **Acumen:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Might:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Quickness:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Mysticism:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Gadgets:** 2 - Impaired / Below Average
* **Projection:** 4 - High / Trained
* **Tactics:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Battle:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **TOTAL:** 63 - Power Level 2 / Low Threat

## Trivia

* The use of her powers can sometimes be embarrassing for Cessily. With her ability to re-shape any part of her body, she is able to "melt" herself & turn into a living puddle of mercury. When she does this, however, she is unable to keep her clothes on. Therefore, when she shapes herself back into her humanoid form, she will be nude.
* She doesn't enjoy being a mutant as she cannot hide her true self due to her skin being silver & her eyes are bright red.
* She is Irish-American.
* She used to have a crush on Joshua Foley.
* Her liquid mercury form is non-organic.
* She has shown a great deal of loyalty to her teammates & fellow mutants.
* She is a member of the Hellions Squad, mentored by Emma Frost.
* Her best friends are Julian Keller & Laura Kinney.
* After taking some time to warm up to Julian's personality, the two have come to consider each other as siblings with Cessily always there to keep him in check.
* Upon their first meeting, she pitied Laura for being a social outcast. Because of this, she went out her way to become close friends with her & reassure her that she had a home at the Institute. She's one fo the few people Laura genuinely cares about.

## Notes

* The original character of Cessily Kincaid belongs to the Marvel Universe.