Modern Day Medusa

Family

Mother: Morgan Jeffries

Father: Charles Francis Xavier

Siblings: Too many to list

Mutation

Roz has the ability to break down non-living matter, always reducing it to ash. She can also turn living matter to stone.

Ash (breaking down matter): Roz has to physically touch the object she wants to break down. She can break something down after turning it to stone.

Stone: Roz can turn (living) things to stone with her eyes. Her irises gray out when she's using this power. With flora, all it takes is a look (and concentration). With fauna and people (or other humanoid entities), Roz has to make eye contact. Things she has turned to stone can be reverted to their natural state as long as they haven't withstood fatal damage.

Weaknesses: Roz's biggest weakness is her lack of control. She has a tendency to stonify things when she's experiencing a negative emotion (anxiety, anger, etc.). Her powers are also conditional in that she either has to be touching something or making eye contact. Reverting something (or someone) from their stone form is hit or miss.

Biography

Roz was born in a small town in Seattle, Washington. The product of what her mother, Morgan, liked to call a "fun mistake", Roz never knew much about her father. Her mother had already had three kids at the time, and with the help of her (Morgan's) grandparents, she was trying to put herself through school. Morgan graduated when Roz was a little over a year old, but the death of her grandparents caused her to stagnate. While Morgan loved all of her kids, she had never really been much of a caregiver. Roz's older siblings were basically the ones who raised her.

Morgan went on to have another two children after Roz, and the family lived meagerly. Roz's eldest brother dropped out of high school to help their mom with bills despite being quite an academic. Roz herself, despite being the middle child, sort of faded into the background. She was an average girl, there was nothing overly special about her, and she was content enough even if she felt lonely at times.

However, she was anything but average. Roz's mutation manifested when she was sixteen, in her sleep. Instead of waking up in the bottom bunk of her shared bunked bed, she woke up on the floor, her and the sibling that slept above her both covered in ash and stunned beyond belief. Strapped for cash (as usual), her mother and eldest brother demanded to know what had happened, and when Roz couldn't explain, she was met with disappointment. She was made to sleep on the couch, and the same thing happened again; the couch had been reduced to ash by morning. Connecting the dots, Roz's mother was less than thrilled to conclude that her daughter must be a mutant. She told Roz what she knew about Charles, which wasn't much, but she hoped that perhaps Roz would want to find and live with him. Roz instead elected to stay home, used to the familiarity of her family and their cramped apartment.

Unfortunately, just shy of her eighteenth birthday, Roz's secondary mutation presented itself. She and some of her younger siblings were walking home from school when they began being taunted by a few other neighborhood kids. While this wasn't an uncommon occurrence, Roz was already feeling particularly overwhelmed, and their jeering did nothing to help the situation. Roz did try to walk away but was shoved back by one of the bullies, tripping over her own feet and falling to the ground. And then it happened: one second, the kid was looming over her and hurling insults, and the next it was quiet, the kid's body completely solidifying before her eyes. Her siblings ran home as did the other bullies, but Roz was frozen, horrified by what she knew she had done. Her mother found her like that, followed by police officers who had been called by the kid's parents.

Roz spent three weeks in a holding cell trying to process the many emotions she was feeling and dealing with officers who wanted her to do nothing but confess to being guilty. While she did feel guilty, she wasn't unaware of what happened to mutants while imprisoned. So she kept her mouth shut and waited. Her mother (with the help of Charles) was able to afford a fancy lawyer, and she was found not guilty.

Roz was happy to be able to go back home to her family, hoping to just forget everything that happened. However, a day before her eighteenth birthday, her mother asked her to leave home and not come back.

So, Roz wandered. She bounced from state to state, working odd jobs and often getting into trouble, all while trying to get a handle on her growing power. When she was twenty-two, she finally made her way to Weschester, New York, hoping to find her father and maybe get a fresh start at life.

Fun Facts

She can fall asleep just about anywhere, but her favorite place is underneath the stars. She's also a light sleeper.

She has a scar on her left forearm from cutting it on a piece of glass while running from the police.

She got a tattoo on the inside of her lip to complete a dare.

She smokes when she's anxious.

An ex-friend tried to frame her for murder.

She always has a bag packed in case she needs to leave quickly.

She's not a breakfast person.