Luciana Gutierrez (Gemini)

Played By: Eiza Gonzalez

Quote: "Two is better than one. Trust me!"

Position: Trainer/Heroine

Affiliations: X-Men

Inspiration: Marvel

Rating: NC-17

Note: A talented nurse and Sports Science professional, Lucy is also secretly a member of the mutant superteam the X-Men, together with her twin Izzy they are the heroine Gemini.

Identities

Public: Luciana Maria Gutierrez does not have any significant fame to the public, although a simple background check would turn up that she is one of a pair of twin girls born to a hispanic family in Arizona. It is mentioned in news accounts from over a decade ago that she was one of the survivors of a cavern collapse during a school field trip. She graduated from a private prep school in upstate New York, and has since graduated with a degree in Nursing and Sports Medicine from NYU. As an interesting point, there is no record of her twin (Isabella Camille) following the accident, and no death certificate on file.

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Private: Gemini is a little-known identity for one of the X-Men, known for demonstrating profound physical capabilities and athleticism, combined with liquid metal armor, weapons and tools. It has been noted by some that she sometimes answers to the callsign Silver.

Background: An Overview

Isabella and Luciana were born as beloved twins to loving parents Andrea and Ernesto Gutierrez. The girls were exceptionally close, as most twins manage to be, throughout their young lives. All of that changed rather dramatically when the girls were caught in the collapse of a section of a cavern complex during a school field trip. Pushed into a crisis, the girls acted by instinct, as their mutant powers manifested quite early.

The eldest, Isabella, acted to protect her sister, covering her as everything collapsed around them. Only afterwards would they discover she had transformed into a biometallic form, bonding with Luciana to shield her from harm. Meanwhile, Luciana's bio-empathic emulation ability transformed her into a match for the strongest, healthiest woman she had ever met in an effort to survive the trauma.

When the students were rescued from the event, the twins, now a biometallic cocoon, could not be identified, save that both twins were missing, and this form was the only thing not identified by the authorities. Their parents pleaded with one of the greatest minds in metahuman biology and genetics for help.

The girls would soon be transfered to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, and their education and counseling there would eventually enable them to adapt to their new, even closer bond and much-changed circumstances. Isabella, known as Silver, exists almost entirely as the biometallic entity merged with Luciana, their minds in constant rapport. Luciana has become the dominant twin due largely with being the one to still possess a legal identity. They have finished their excellent educations, while also training to become the heroine Gemini, helping the other X-Men to save lives and help those in need.

Background: The Details

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Canon Differences & Notes

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Powers

Bioempathy
Lucy's mutant power of bioempathy allows her to read someone's biology upon physical contact. This can work through thin layers of clothing or such, but it delays the reading and obscures the results a bit; it is always best and most accurate with skin to skin contact, usually with Lucy pressing her hand to someone else. It is believed that her ability functions in part through the knitting of her own bioelectric field with that of her subject, so any barrier that would interfere with that kind of low-level EM field would likely completely flummox Lucy's ability to read the other's biology.

Without concentrating, only a second or two is generally enough to give Lucy an idea of how generally healthy someone is, and whether there are any significant problems - injuries, disease, conditions, cancers, toxins, etc. Five to fifteen seconds will give her a reasonably accurate read on the basics of everything going on with someone's biology, including at least hints of the biological basis for any innate powers they might possess. The longer she maintains contact and concentration, the more information and accuracy she can obtain, with ultimate levels of detail just a bit better than a modern medical laboratory and days of detailed tests, analysis, X-Rays, MRIs, etc.

Limitation: It is up to Lucy's studies and her own mind to try to draw conclusions based on the input her powers provide; her powers won't say 'cancer', they will simply reveal cells acting in untoward non-normal ways and the effects they are having on the subject.

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Biometal
Izzy's mutant power is that her body transformed entirely into a biological metal. She can still think, and she can even feel, though her senses are a tad obscured in certain ways - touch is dulled, heat variations are less noticeable until they reach relative extremes, etc. Her metallic form is largely liquid, which enables her to maintain maneuverability and flexibility, and even exceed the usual parameters of human flexibility and shape.

The metal is stronger than most normal terrestrial metals at any given thickness, and its flexibility is a bonus in most such situations, including the fact that she can determine whatever shape she desires, often forming hands and feet into implements - tools - that assist what she wants to accomplish. These tools benefit from her flexibility and strength, and can be shaped in moments to tolerances taht would normally require extreme manufacturing efforts, including monomolecular-edged blades or adaptive tendrils that shape themselves to perfectly fit the inside of a tumbler lock with but a thought.

It should be noted that Izzy is this biometal; she cannot make herself look normal in any way. She also has a somewhat limited ability to operate on her own for any extended period of time, as her biology has adapted over a prolonged timeframe to be very dependent upon her close connection with her twin. As such, she finds it difficult to extract nutrients from food, etc.

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Biometal Enhanced Strength
Lucy's body is infiltrated at every level by the presence of her twin's biometal form, everywhere a normal human body would have fat cells, including the sheaths around muscle fibers, bones and ligaments. This gives Gemini a tremendous boost in physical strength and capability. She is capable of lifting two dozen tons, and with a chance to brace herself in place she can hold up much greater weights, approaching a hundred tons or so as long as she does not have to move. She can deliver blows on the order of twenty tons of force per square inch, easily sufficient to punch through armor plating and the like.

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Biometal Enhanced Speed
Lucy's body is infiltrated at every level by the presence of her twin's biometal form, everywhere a normal human body would have fat cells, including the sheathing around nerves and muscle fibers. The hyperconductive nature of the biometal allows transmission of neural impulses at increased rates, which greatly augments Lucy's reflexes and speed, enabling her to react quickly enough to dodge bullets and other slower than light attacks if she can perceive them and is free to move in response, and the ability to run at speeds nearing 150 mph in short bursts, or maintain a long-going 'cruise speed' of about 75 mph for hours if necessary.

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Biometal Enhanced Senses
The enhancement of Lucy's musculature and nerves, as well as physical adaptability, greatly augments her senses. She can hear in ranges well above and below that normally perceptible by humans, and at ranges of discretion closer to that of dogs. Her sight is equally exceptional and acute, including the ability to see reasonably well - usually monochromatically - in very low light conditions not unlike starlight scope optics, and adjust like telescopes or microscopes to perceive details too small or too far away for normal human vision, roughly equalling the ability of a high-end rifle scope, or a standard optical microscope.

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Biometal Enhanced Resilience
Lucy's body is infiltrated at every level by the presence of her twin's biometal form, everywhere a normal human body would have fat cells. This makes her exceedingly resistant to most physical harm, as she can withstand blows of dozens of tons of force with minimal effect, and bounce conventional projectiles relatively harmlessly. Most energy effects can be similarly resisted to a greater or lesser degree, with the exception of electricity and magnetics (see cons).

Of course, harm can happen, and does, just to much lesser degrees. But the intelligent actions of the biometal inside Lucy mean that her body can adjust and adapt to shore itself up from injury, and even work to make repairs. This process of healing is not quite so rapid as some of the more well known healing factors, but it is sufficient to completely repair injuries in one tenth the time they might normally take. And with the shoring up of injuries, normal function can resume usually in seconds.

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Biometal Enhanced Mind
Lucy's mind is constantly in direct contact with that of her twin, Izzy, so long as Izzy's biometal form is merged with her own physiology. This has a tendency to make Lucy's apparent thought processes much faster, and noticeably more creative, as she is constantly getting the critiques and feedback of another mind.

This effect also tends to make Lucy's mind difficult if not impossible to influence telepathically, as one mind will usually feel the changes coming into effect on the other and issue warning and assist in rectifying the situation. Communication connections also tend to be fuzzy and problematic. Only those with exceptional skill and power for connecting to and influencing multiple minds at the same time would usually be able to work on Lucy's mind without significant difficulty.

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Metamorphosis
Lucy's body has the ability to adapt itself in times of crisis. She can call upon her body to change, adapting to take on the biological template of another which she has had time to examine in detail with her bio-empathy power. Gaining such an imprint record takes at least a minute of contact.

Such a metamorphosis takes at least a minute of concentration for Lucy, as she expands the imprint's changes to her own body, applying in turn whatever quirks, abilities and powers that other biology may have held. The transformation is physical and visible, with Lucy's body taking on the aspect and appearance of the body in question, though most often as a reflected merge of that other appearance and her own. It should also be noted that along with any powers or abilities this other biology may confer, Lucy is also subject to whatever weaknesses or flaws that may also be inherent to the biology in question.

The conferral of a biology lasts for at most half an hour, though usually not nearly so long; the longer she attempts to hold into a metamorphosis, the more difficult it becomes and the greater levels of concentration she must expend.

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Mental Link
Lucy and Izzy have been in prolonged nearly constant mental interconnection for over a decade, and this has left a strong mental link in place. Even at times when Izzy might leave Lucy's body - which is an issue (see cons) - their minds remain entangled at a quantum level, remaining linked and able to communicate with one another, including images and complex ideas. In fact, it is difficult for the two of them to manage not to share their thoughts back and forth, to maintain any reasonable level of privacy.

Skills

Medicine
Lucy is a trained nurse and certified EMT, with years of experience in treating a wide array of illnesses and medical complaints, up to and including field trauma treatment. She has an extensive medical education, nearly sufficient to actually become a medical resident, but thus far has remained a nurse in practice, except for her EMT efforts.

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Athletics
Lucy is a trained and experienced health and sports science professional, skilled with nutrition, workout planning, athletic preparation and training, and athletic medical treatments including preparations and recoveries for athletic strains and injuries.

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Martial Arts
Lucy has trained intensively for over a decade in martial arts as a means of achieving physical, emotional and psychological balance, and as a means to benefit her ability to defend herself and others. After all, she has been in training to become a superheroine, and one does not go fighting evil mutants without knowing what to do in said fight. Lucy is very skilled at this point, a multiple black belt quite well experienced in combat against a wide array of single and multiple targets.

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Sculpture
Izzy has made a point of studying and perfecting the art of sculpture. Her preferred medium is her own biometallic form, of course, but she has taken the time with Lucy's help to work on all sorts of mediums, including wood, clay, various stones, paper and more. She is a very gifted sculptor, both in the realistic and the impressionistic modes, in positive and negative styles.

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Meditation
As part of the key to their psychological stability - such as it is - both Lucy and Izzy have had to work very hard at mastering the skills of meditation and metal focus; it has been one of the only ways to help them, given that they must constantly deal with such a profound and ongoing mental connection with one another, never truly being alone.

Resources

Xavier Alumni
Lucy has been a student at the Xavier Institute since before it bore that name; while she may not have been one of the very first students, she was one of the earlier crops, starting after the Professor was called in to assist on her medical case. Eventually Lucy was recruited to the school as a means of helping she and her sister to learn to live with their new circumstances. She has remained at the school as an opportunity for a far better education than she ever could have achieved through her parents' resources and connections. But she has also found her own desire to help others, and has embraced becoming a part of the X-Men. She has access to the school, its facilities and resources, and has become a junior member of the faculty and staff as school nurse.

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Family
Lucy and Izzy's parents are still alive. It has taken a great deal for them to come to terms with their daughters' situations, but they have done the best they could. They are not actively involved in daughters' lives on a daily basis, but they keep in touch, and would prove an available resource if the girls had to call upon them for help, whether that be a place to stay, emotional support, or more. They are not rich, but they have made the best lives for themselves they can.

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Certifications
Lucy has an active license as a nurse in the State of New York, as well as EMT certification and a teaching certification. Most of these she has only used while working at the Institute, but they are valid throughout the State and offer her professional opportunities and memberships.

Pros

Never Alone
It can be a great benefit, never being alone. The sisters always have each other for support, for guidance. They are never alone against any threat. They always have backup. It's a great confidence booster in the face of often overwhelming odds.

Cons

Never Alone
There is a flipside to the benefits of always having ones' twin and sister there for support, constantly bonded to one another, forever connected. There's no privacy. No way to just be oneself. Now ay for alone time. It has been and remains quite a challenge for both Lucy and Izzy. And resentments can and do build up as a result, with sometimes disastrous consequences.

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Medical Challenges
There are a plethora of challenges with attempting any kind of conventional medical treatment for Lucy and Izzy. Izzy's biology is so alien to human standard that it is categorically impossible; drugs either have no effect or have radically different effects; there are no internal organs to be found, and surgery is nigh impossible with her liquid biometallic flesh. And then there's the fact that with Izzy infiltrated throughout Lucy's body, surgery upon her is impossible, most fat-soluble drugs won't work and may overdose her, and so forth. It should be noted that Lucy weighs almost five hundred pounds, despite being of completely normal height and appearance, due to the metal within her body.

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Electricity
Izzy's biometal is hyperconductive. This means that electricity - even minor charges - will often be redirected towards Lucy regardless of where in her vicinity it may have been directed. In addition, electricity courses through her very powerfully, burning away Lucy's flesh while paralyzing Izzy and Lucy's own body, and torturing both of them with incredible agony.

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Magnetics
Izzy's biometal is magnetic, which makes Lucy - and Izzy - vulnerable to magnetic powers and effects, much akin to the concerns of certain adamantium-skeletoned heroes and villains.

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Dependent
Neither Lucy nor Izzy can survive for long without the other. At this point both of them have adapted physiologically to depend upon one another. Izzy cannot take in the nutrients and energy she requires to function, which means within a few hours of being separated from Lucy, she would become lethargic, then lapse into unconsciousness, and if not returned to Lucy within forty-eight to seventy-two hours, she would die of starvation. By comparison, Lucy's body no longer has fat cells; without at least some of Izzy inside of her, Lucy would first begin with pain, as every bodily movement would do damage to her muscles and nerves. Within a couple of hours at most she would begin having neurological symptoms, and within twelve hours would lapse into a coma, dying within thirty-six to forty-eight hours.

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Logs

Title	OOC Date	Rating	Who's Involved	Summary
Laura's Older Sister	2017-12-17	PG	Logyn and Luciana Gutierrez (Gemini)	An unknown but eerily familiar woman arrives at the Xavier school and asks to be let in. Luci ends up greeting her.
Not-So-Light Investigation	Thu Dec 28 20:40:08 2017	PG-13	Wanda Maximoff Laura Kinney Luciana Gutierrez Lexi Nemo Kitty Pryde Jean Grey	A group of X-Men infiltrate the headquarters of a psych research company in search of a motive for one of their own setting a clinic on fire.
Resurrection News	12/26/17	G	Storm Shadowcat Iceman Gemini	Ororo reveals to some of her fellow X-Men that Phoenix is reborn.
Shock and Awwww	February 5th, 2018 (IC: January 28th, 2018)	PG-13 (Language)	Jean Grey Luciana Gutierrez	The Gutierrez twins find one of their former teachers hiding in plain sight, giving Luciana an opportunity to confront them honestly and demonstrate how much she and her sister have grown.
Home Is a Safe Place	2018-03-02	PG	Rachel, Luciana	Luciana reaches out to Rachel, who has been staying at the Mansion for a while.

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