Name: Nailah Weaver
Age: 31
Powers:
Nailah's most obvious mutation are the light-brown/cream coloured bird wings sprouting from her back. A stripe of short fur of similar colour runs down from between the wings down her back, ending in a lion's tail. Her lower legs and feet turned into those of a lion as well.
The wings enable her to fly, although not very fast or agile. (Basically this
The less obvious effect of her mutation is an innate ability to understand and speak any language and have a knack for judging when someone speaks the truth as long as she can hear them talk since it's based on speech and not on reading body language.
The last part of her powers is of questionable usefulness. Every once in a while she falls into a trance and sees glimpses and hazy images of the future. Due to the fragmented and disjointed nature of the visions it doesn't give much of an exact picture or even a good guess as to how far into the future the events still lie.
A side-effect of the 'more powerful' manifestation of her precognition ability is what mostly appears to the outside world as heightened reflexes. She doesn't really react particularly fast though, she just sees the fraction of a second into the future and can start to react before something actually happens.
All of those are internalized rituals and manifestations of her magical capabilities that may or may not be granted by Sekhmet, her mutation, her heritage or a mixture of the above.
Personality:
Nailah is
Description:
See above for her physical mutation.
In addition to that she usually prefers flowing dresses to pants, her choice of clothes sometimes bordering on the unusual. Her hair is
Background:
Born in the US to parents of Egyptian descend. When her mutation surfaced her parents turned to home-schooling her. Despite objections she finished college the regular way, earning degrees in Literature and various languages. After some differences with teaching in a 'normal' college environment she took the chance to apply for a teaching position at Xavier's.