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| Statistics |
| Full Name |
Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla |
| Age |
23 |
| Height |
5'6" |
| Build |
Athletic |
| Eyes |
Blue |
| Hair |
Blonde |
| Skin |
Caucasian |
| Factions |
X-Men |
Quoted!
Reputation
In Nova Roma, Amara Aquilla is the First Senator's daughter, blessed with powers by the Gods themselves, the one chosen to journey beyond the city and to teach the people of the world outside. In short, she's something of a celebrity.
Outside Nova Roma she has a much lower profile. She's known to the X-Men and their allies as Magma. The Hellfire Club know her as they once had designs on her homeland and one of their Inner Circle killed Amara's mother - a slight that she once tried very hard to avenge.
Beyond those groups she's largely an unknown, although that may change as Nova Roma opens up to the outside world.
Biography
Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla was born in Nova Roma, an hidden city deep in the Amazon rainforest created by Roman colonists who came to South America shortly after the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. She is the only child of Lucius Antonius Aquilla, First Senator of Nova Roma and leader of the Republican party in the Nova Roman Senate.
Amara's mother was killed by the Black Priestess when Amara was still young, as part of a power struggle between the Republican and Imperial factions in the Senate. Her father smuggled her out of the city to protect her from suffering a similar fate, and she lived with an indigenous tribe in the Amazon for a time.
Nova Roma's vast mineral wealth was discovered and coveted by outside forces allied to the Hellfire Club, and their agents aided the Imperial faction in attempting to sieze control of the city and institute Imperial rule. Amara's mutant powers manifested during this time and she barely escaped death at the hands of the Black Priestess - Selene.
The coup was defeated, but Lucius Aquilla recognised that Nova Roma would not remain hidden forever. Amara was sent to the outside world to learn, and later to return and teach the Nova Roman people to prepare them for the 21st century. Amara travelled to the Xavier School in the United States and, in addition to her studies, she was active for a time as the X-Man Magma.
Amara later returned to Nova Roma to share her knowledge, and the Senate has now decided that it is time for Nova Roma to emerge from its seclusion and seek alliances in the outside world. Accordingly, Amara has returned to the United States as their envoy, and to the X-Men.
Character Details
Amara is a product of two worlds, first century Rome and modern day America, and as a result she doesn't quite fit into either of them. On the surface she can seem calm and controlled, more or less at home in any company, but her passions run deep.
In Nova Roma she's the daughter of the First Senator of Nova Roma, a person of high social status who wanted for nothing the city could provide, but she was still the only child of a single parent who was often absent. She learned self reliance and took the duties of the household that should have been her mother's upon herself.
Amara is proud of her culture and city and that she is heir to the power and glory of ancient Rome. She strives to be worthy of it, holding strongly to the tenets of honour and duty and to her rights as a free-born citizen of the Republic. She is passionate in defence of her freedom and refuses to be dominated, she does not accept slights to her honour and she has little compunction in seeking vengeance for wrongs done to her.
The modern world has tempered Amara's perspective. Not every misunderstanding is a slight upon her honour, and not every slight needs to be avenged. She has learned that her city - with its inequality, slavery, and frequently lethal politics - isn't quite the perfect society she imagined it to be in her youth. But she cannot help feeling the modern world has lost something, too, in discarding as obsolete the concepts of honour and duty that mean so much to her.
Caught between these two worlds, Amara is a woman of strong passions that are usually well controlled, but is quick to anger when provoked. She is unwaveringly loyal to those she considers her friends, and considers wrongs done to them as wrongs done to her. She is slow to forgive those who set themselves against her and has an old fashioned view of how enemies should be treated that can border on bloodthirsty according to modern sensibilities.
| Geokinesis |
| Amara is capable of controlling the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates to create earthquakes. Her control is such that she can cause the ground to rise, fall, split open or come together as she wills it, allowing her to perform such feats as opening chasms beneath her enemies or raising herself up on pillars of rock. She can also cause indiscriminate wide scale devastation over an impressive area should she so wish. She is also capable of stopping, or at least reducing the severity of natural earthquakes, although this takes a significant amount of concentration and must be her sole focus. |
| Geological Awareness |
| Amara can feel the movement of the Earth beneath her. She can feel the slow grinding of the tectonic plates, as well as the flow of underground rivers, whether of water or magma. She can even feel man made intrusions into the Earth, such as underground tunnels, pipes or buried machinery. This helps to orient her when she's navigating underground. |
| Pyrokinesis |
| Amara is capable of generating blasts of intense heat and flame that are a match for the best military flamethrowers. Her flame can reach temperatures around 1,000 degrees centigrade and she can strike accurately out to 100 feet or more. |
| Magma Control |
| As suggested by her chosen codename, Amara is capable of controlling magma. She can either bring molten rock from deep underground to the surface, or she can cause rock closer to the surface to become superheated and liquefy. In either case she can project the molten rock in streams of magma to strike at opponents. These magma blasts can reach temperatures anywhere from around 600 degrees centigrade to well over 1,500 degrees centigrade and also strike with the kinetic force of the molten rock itself. In addition to direct attacks, Amara can use her control of magma to tunnel underground or encase an opponent in rock. She is also able to cause magma to cool with astonishing rapidity, allowing others to use her tunnels and preventing contact with her magma from being instantly lethal when she wishes to restrain an opponent. |
| Magma Form |
| Amara is capable of using some of her powers while in her basic human form, such as causing small earthquakes, generating blasts of flame, or channelling heat through a part of her body. However any large scale use of her power involves shifting into a glowing, fiery form that looks almost as if she is composed of magma itself. In this form she can emit light bright enough to dazzle and disorient opponents who aren't expecting it, and her skin can reach temperatures approaching that of the Earth's core. This intense heat makes it difficult for baseline opponents to approach, let alone fight her, and she is largely immune to conventional small arms fire and other small projectiles which tend to melt rather than penetrate. In this form she is immune to flame and heat based attacks, as well as toxic gases. |
| Healing And Regeneration |
| Amara can heal some injuries by shifting to her Magma form, which will seal wounds and stop further bleeding at least, but this falls a long way short of a true healing factor. She can also draw strength from the Earth itself as long as she is in contact with it, which might just keep her alive long enough to receive medical attention. If all else fails and there's a lava flow nearby, throwing her in can often restore her to vitality. |
| Swordswoman |
| Amara is skilled with the Roman Gladius, a short, double edged sword with a sharp, stabbing point. Not really the weapon for a Senator's daughter, Amara's father indulged her and she approached her lessons with deadly seriousness. Amara is a dangerous opponent with a sword in her hand. |
| Archery |
| Amara lived with an indigenous tribe in the Amazon for a time in her youth. She proved adept with the bow, but has not honed her skills with this weapon as she has with the sword. |
| Unarmed Combat |
| Amara has received training in basic unarmed combat and self defence skills. She is competent but far from expert. |
| Survival Skills |
| While living in the Amazon rainforest Amara learned many of the skills necessary to survive outside civilisation. She knows how to make fire and shelter, how to track and hunt and how to clean and cook her kills. Her expertise primarily relates to the rainforest, but many of the basic skills are useful in other environments. |
| Multi-lingual |
| Amara speaks a number of languages, such as Latin, as well as the language of the descendants of the Incas who also made their home in Nova Roma. She also speaks the language of at least one indigenous tribe in the Amazon and also English with complete fluency. |
| The X-men |
| As a former student of the Xavier school and a returning member of the team, Amara has access to the support and resources of the X-Men. |
| Nova Roma |
| Amara's home is a remote Roman city-state in the depths of the Amazon that is only now beginning to emerge from seclusion and isolation. Populated by the descendants of Rome and the Incas, Nova Roma is a treasure trove of culture and knowledge lost to the modern world, and boasts extensive mineral wealth on top of that. She is highly unlikely to ever be homeless or penniless. However, the city still exists on basically a first century technological level. |
| Senator's Daughter |
| Amara is the daughter of Lucius Aquilla, First Senator of Nova Roma, and as such is near the zenith of Nova Roman society. In addition, as her mother is no longer alive and she is her father's only child, she holds an unusually responsible position as the female head of the household and her father's heir. Her mutant powers are also known in Nova Roma, where they are considered gifts of the Gods. All of this taken together gives her unusual latitude for a young woman in Nova Roman society. She is familiar with the ways of the rich and powerful and knows how to navigate such company, and has often hosted gatherings of her father's senatorial colleagues. |
| Nova Roman Envoy |
| In a shameless display of nepotism, Lucius Aquilla made Amara Nova Roma's envoy to the outside world. The position comes with serious responsibilities but also a generous stipend. |
| Emotional Connection |
| Amara's powers are tied to her emotional state. When she was young and first discovering her powers, they would often be triggered if she became angry. Given the potentially lethal nature of her powers this is something she has worked hard to address and her control is usually exemplary. However, particularly strong emotions can still trigger her powers, and Amara does have a temper. |
| Earth Connection |
| Amara is at her most powerful when her feet are on the ground, and that ground is the surface of planet Earth. This allows her to draw strength from the planet itself, extending the length of time she can exert her powers dramatically. If she is separated from the Earth her powers still function, although she cannot summon magma if there is no magma to summon, or if there is no rock to transmute. In addition, she is limited to her body's stored reserves of energy. When these are expended she will be left powerless until they can be replenished. |
| Nationality |
| Amara is a citizen of the independent city state of Nova Roma, a previously unknown state that is only beginning to forge ties with the outside world. She has a passport and documentation but foreign travel by commercial means could be awkward, as would establishing other rights, such as the right to work. |
| Pop Culture Blindness |
| Amara has adapted to the 21st century with remarkable ease. She is completely at home with electricity, aeroplanes and the internet, and of course she has a smartphone. But there are still times when she's left baffled by references to things that have been in the popular consciousness for years if not decades. |
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Relationships
RP Logs & Journals
October 23, 2018: Fall of the Last Legion
An incomplete log, taking place during the Inferno plot. Magma, trying to hold the line against the demons, meets an old friend. It's a shame the Darkchilde isn't feeling very friendly.
(permalink: log:8244 | tags: inferno magik magma nyc | posted: 15 Nov 2018 20:18)
October 22, 2018: Like A Mad Max Extra
Nate returns to Xavier after weeks in New York, demon-fighting. Meets Amara, who doesn't remembers him, but is happy to get information out of him in exchange of lunch.
(permalink: log:8177 | tags: inferno magma x-man x-men | posted: 23 Oct 2018 22:08)
October 20, 2018: Unopened Mail
Magma finally makes contact with the X-Men. Cyclops briefly mistakes her for a fire demon. Someone at the Xavier Institute really needs to open the mail.
(permalink: log:8162 | tags: cyclops inferno magma | posted: 21 Oct 2018 21:29)
October 16, 2018: Hell-Bound
What is worse than demons or super-criminals? Super-criminals that make deals with demons for more power, of course. Fortunately a few heroes were around to stop them from destroying Brooklyn. And also Juggernaut, because he can't resist the chance to getting in a good brawl. (Emits by Strange)
(permalink: log:8133 | tags: doctor_strange donna_troy inferno juggernaut magma moon_knight nyc siryn | posted: 16 Oct 2018 22:12)
October 02, 2018: It's Her Specialty
Amara chooses to return to the USA in the middle of a demon invasion. The kind of demon invasion that puts her in mind of an old friend. Fortunately Siryn is in the area to help her out.
(NOTE: This scene takes place shortly before the airports in New York were closed down)
(permalink: log:8070 | tags: inferno magma siryn | posted: 02 Oct 2018 23:02)
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