The Stepford Cuckoos

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 * image1=cuckoos.jpg
 * image2=5in1_TM.jpg
 * caption=They are the Five-in-One
 * fullname=Sophie, Phoebe, Irma, Celeste, Esme Frost
 * aka=The Stepford Cuckoos
 * codename=The Five-in-One
 * position=Psychic Gestalt
 * age=18
 * race=Mutant
 * role=Neutral
 * type=Marvel FC


 * quote=

"I am a Stepford Cuckoo. We are the Five-in-One.  I am never alone."


 * overview=

The Stepford Cuckoos are a mysterious set of quintuplets that virtually appeared on the doorsteps of the Academy of Tomorrow. They seem to have little memory of where they came from or who they are except for their names and their skill of their powers.

OOC Information
Actor: Taylor Momsen

Legal Guardian: Emma Frost

School: Academy of Tomorrow

Year: Senior High School

GPA: 4.0

Weapon Plus Designation: Weapon XIV


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Character Sheet

Abilities: Power

Diamond Transformation: 7, Psychic Gestalt: 8, Telepathy: 5/9

Abilities: Skill

Brilliant: 4, Mind For Language

Advantages: Teacher's Pets

Flaws: Discordance, Little Morality, Nanotech-Infected Bones, Separation Anxiety, Uncanny Valley

Languages: Ancient-Norse, English, Italian, Japanese, Kree, Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish

Abilities

Power: Diamond Transformation (7)

The Stepford Cuckoos have recently gained to the ability to turn their bodies into an organic compound similar to a diamond. While still able to move as normal, the durability of their bodies become as hard as diamond and just as translucent. This transformation does not have to be their entire bodies and they can choose specific parts of their bodies to transform.

If they do change their heads or brains or entire bodies into diamond they loose their telepathic powers, but due to their unique connection they remained linked in their Psychic Gestalt. They are just unable to think "out" of their linked minds.

Power: Psychic Gestalt (8)

The Cuckoos's unique genetics and brain architecture allow them to merge their minds into a single psychic entity that vastly increases the power and complexity of their minds. While connected in such a way their minds become almost impossible to read or detected by other telepaths. They can still allow others to read or sense them but it becomes their choice.

When the Stepford Cuckoos are joined together in their psychic gestalt their thoughts are totally shared allowing for instantaneous communication with each other. Due to the nature of their gestalt mind this communication is usually undetectable.

The Cuckoos's are capable of keeping this gestalt together indefinitely, though powers or equipment that disrupt mental abilities would still be capable of breaking this link.

Power: Telepathy (5/9)

The true mutant power of the Five-In-One, is their ability to read and alter minds through Telepathy. They are remarkably skilled with this ability despite their young age. This is most likely due to the fact that they have been sensing and reading their own thoughts since birth. They have since developed the following tricks to use with their telepathy: * Psychic Illusions - By controlling the brains impulses to the eyes, the Cuckoos can cause others to see what they wish them to see. * Mind Blast - Using their telepathic powers they are able to "blast" a targets mind with overloading stimuli causing pain and distraction. * Astral Projection - The Five-in-One have learned how to send their psychic consciousness to the Astral Plane, the dimension of pure thought. * Telepathic Tracking - By seeking out a specific set of brain-wave patterns the Cuckoos can find and keep track of the person who possesses it. * Borrowing Knowledge - The Cucckoos can reach out and borrow the mental skills from the mind of another allowing them to use them as their own while nearby.

(The first number of this power represents each of the Cuckoos power individually. When their powers are used together it increases by 1 for each of them involved in the Psychic Gestalt)

Skill: Brilliant (4)

The Cuckoos are for lack of a better word are brilliant. They are very intelligent and can sort out situations quicker and learn faster than the average person.

Skill: Mind For Language

Due to their telepathic abilities the Five-in-One have passively learned many of the languages they have been exposed to, allowing them to be conversationally fluent and literate in several languages.

Advantages

Advantage: Teacher's Pets

The Stepford Cuckoos are the prize pupils of the Academy of Tomorrow. The Headmistress of the Academy, Emma Frost has taken the quintuplets under her wing and have given them access to many of her resources, such as money and use of her private drivers.

Flaws

Flaw: Discordance

Despite the shared hive mind that the Cuckoos share, they also have recently begun developing individual personalities that cause them to come into conflict even while connected together. This conflict can disrupt the strength of their gestalt and allow the wishes of one of the five to take priority.

*Sophie - Independent and Noble. She is the voice for the other five and usually makes the decisions when there is a stalemate. *Phoebe - Aggressive and outgoing. She pushes for her way and the most likely to act differently than the other Five-in-One. *Irma - Artistic and kind. She is the most creative of the Five-in-One and helps drive the group to artistic achievement. *Celeste - Timid and passive. While she has the least influence inside the collective, the Cuckoos's secretive nature has much to do with her. *Esme - Cunning and manipulative. She is the most dissatisfied with the lot in life they have and pushes them to more.

Flaw: Little Morality

The Five-in-One don't have the context in order to really have any sort of human morality. As a result they seem very cold and distant to the plight of others and don't really understand the problem with using their telepathy in selfish ways to improve their own lot in life.

Flaw: Nanotech-Infected Bones

The Five-in-One are part of the Weapon Plus program, designed as a living weapon to use against the enemies of humanity. When they were cloned they were infected with nanites that allowed the program to be able to control them.

Through those nanites the Weapon Plus program can send them discrete orders or even recall them back to "The World" (the time flow changing research facility where they were born) to achieve their true goal of the Thousand-in-One.

The nanites in their bones are still technology: an EMP, a phase disruption, or the like can disrupt this connection, but not completely destroy it.

Even if disrupted, the Weapon Plus program stays within them, and can never be escaped. Though the orders given to them can be resisted, especially as the Cuckoos develop their individuality further as the strength of the orders from Weapon Plus is dependent on the Five-in-One's connection increasing the strength of the order five fold.

Flaw: Separation Anxiety

When the Cuckoos are unable to connect to each other they feel isolated and alone, sometimes even confused. They have become so accustomed to having the voices of their sisters in their heads that they find it disconcerting when they are forced to not share their thoughts together.

Flaw: Uncanny Valley

There is something off about the Cuckoos that nearly everyone who sees can feel. Firstly they are a set of teenage quintuplets who still dress the same and make no attempt to differentiate themselves from their sisters. Secondly, they often speak in perfect unison when they do choose to speak. And their speaking is a rarity in and of itself as they seem to stay near perfectly silence the majority of the time.


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 * history=

Unknown to the girls, they are a secret project to make super soldiers to use to protect humanity, specifically the United States. They are prototypes that either escaped or were released. It's not for certain because the Cuckoos themselves don't even know.

The Stepford Cuckoos don't know much about themselves or who they are. They know their names, they know they are mutants, they know they are sisters. Beyond that their past is just as much of a mystery to themselves as it is to others.

There first memories were of being on the Staten Island ferry heading to Metropolis. They didn't know how they got on the ferry and don't recall boarding it. All they knew was that they had to reach the Academy of Tomorrow which was just about to open. They arrived on the doorstep and the headmistress of the school so the potential in them and took them in.

Since then they have become model students at the school, though a bit isolated from their peers. But, the are never alone for they are the Five-in-One.

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