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Name :

Wren McKenna

Age :

16

Gender :

Female

Power :

Phoenix Mimicry

Power Description :

Wren is able to produce abilities similar to those of the mythical phoenix. Specifically, Wren ultimately has the abilities of flight, fire production, healing tears, and regeneration from her ashes. In other words, she is technically immortal, but not indestructible. When fatally injured, Wren bursts into flames, and burns to nothing more than ash, and must do this in order to regenerate. The powers Wren has aren’t at full potential from the beginning, they require honing and training, and lots of practice to reach full potential, so at this age, she can really only produce fire, heal minor injuries, and regenerate, the other abilities will come later. When Wren has to regenerate her powers take three days to recover, so she is without power for some time after regeneration, and therefor at her most vulnerable. Beyond that, Wren’s biggest physical weakness is cold, as the temperature around her drops, so does her ability to use her powers.

Apperance :

Wren has golden hair that falls in gentle waves and frames her narrow porcelain face. She has moss green eyes, accented with flecks of brown and blue and surrounded by long, thick eyelashes that brush her cheeks when her eyes close. She has well-defined cheek bones, with a natural roses-in-clover pink to the apples of her cheeks most of the time and pale pink lips in a constant gentle smile. She stands at an average 5’6” and has modest curves. Style wise, Wren likes to stick with the timeless and assert her individuality through how she dresses, borrowing staples from multiple decades specifically the 30s to the 60s. She keeps things casual and classic, believing that what the world deems as beautiful hasn’t really changed as much as people think.

Personality :

Wren is imaginative, creative, and sweet natured. Every morning she wakes up, Wren tries to embody peace and harmony in all she does. She believes the most harmony comes when people remain loyal and fair with each other. Wren is always loyal to the people she loves, to the point of it being a bad habit, and its often come back to bite her. Wren is also big on commitment. When she promises her time or effort to something, she does it. Without her things fall apart, or at least that’s what she feels happens when someone breaks a commitment. She’s a hard worker, who is always reliable and centered in her thinking. There’s always a logical reasoning behind everything and Wren is always determined to find it. She isn’t one to let herself get off track, focus is the most important, so needless to say, she’s one who manages to do fairly well at work and school. She’s been described as predictable, and she can get kind of tense. She’s overly-practical and is prone to severe mood-swings when she’s rubbed the wrong way, not the best when one of your powers is to produce fire. She can get pretty angry, fairly easily and isn’t easily trusting. But she can always come back to her normal warm self just as quickly, and once she does trust someone she’s their ally for life.

History :

Wren was born in the small town of Ellington, Connecticut, to a pair of people who probably should win an academy award for Best Image of A Happy Family. When she was little, it was easy for Wren to think her family was normal, everything seemed dandy when she was around. But she couldn’t know that the horrors that she’d discover when she got older were going on all along. She figured things out fairly quickly when she reached the age of ten. Not one week before Christmas, Wren’s mother was in the kitchen making breakfast, struggling to see around the enormous black eye she had. Wren asked her where it had come from, but the woman avoided the question completely. By the next morning, Wren’s mother was gone and by Christmas, Wren knew exactly why she’d had the black-eye and why she’d left. Somehow she withstood living with her father and the things he did to her for six years. Around thirteen the realized when she cried, it healed most of the bruises, eventually figuring out it was her tears themselves that did it, and there were plenty of those in these years. It took one horrible night for Wren to realize the rest of her powers and to develop the strength to leave. So at sixteen, she ran away from her father, and knew she’d be better off for it. After that her life centered around figuring out her abilities, and making them better, though she hasn’t been able to hone them very much yet. Being alone isn’t so bad, its how Wren prefers it now, and she knows no matter what happens she’ll be just fine.