ALIAS:  Filigree
NAME:  Kole` Bruener
AFFILIATIONS:  Student
SEX:  Female
AGE: 15
HEIGHT:  4’ 10”
WEIGHT:  85 lbs
HAIR:  Black/ White
EYES:  Black
RELATIVES:  Mathew Bruener, Father; Cealie Bruener, Mother; Chad Bruener, Older Brother, Deceased; Brian Bruener, Younger Brother;

APPEARANCE:  Kole` is a strikingly beautiful black young woman with very dark skin at least in those areas where it is not pure white.  She has a narrow oval face, high cheek bones and large wide set eyes.  Her hair is trimmed into a skull cap of short cork screw curls.  Due to her petite size Kole` is often mistaken for someone much younger.

Starting at around the age of 6 Kole` began to develop a skin condition known as Vitiligo.  This condition, while rare, is not a genetic mutation or inheritable.  The effect of it is that the melanin in her skin is not distributed evenly, meaning that she has patches of almost albino white and the rest is almost a pure black it is so dark.  This does not affect her eye color but it does her hair.  The pattern on her face is remarkably symmetrical like an opera mask over her eyes and nose and a an almost butterfly wing pattern under her chin and down her throat.  There is also a rough circle over her right ear that turns the hair there a pure white.  Over the rest of her body it manifests as irregular patches, some quite small but others several inches across.

Due to her Family's lack of money she was unable to get medical treatment for this condition. Now she has accepted it as part of who she is and as it does not create any health issues she sees no reason to treat it.

When Kole` was 11 years old she was in a car accident that left her quadriplegic (in truth she has very limited use of her upper arms on the left and right and a slight amount of mobility in her lower left .

POWERS:  Filigree is Ferro-Kinetic and can manipulate and control any metal that has iron as its base element.  This ability is not related to magnetism but is a result of the direct mental manipulation of the metal at an atomic level.  Filigree is capable of making ferrous  metals flow like water, reshape them into any desired shape or even levitate them and have them float in the air.

Kole’ can also ‘feel’ the metal and what it is doing as if it were an extension of her body.  The amount of metal that Kole’ can control is unknown at this time but it is upwards of several hundred pounds.

Kole` is still learning the extent of her powers but is improving quickly and with training the full extent of her abilities could be truly incredible.  It is possible that as her power and understanding grows that she may learn to control other types of metal.

The mental field that allows Kole` to manipulate the metal also produces a force field around the metal that reinforces the material. This field does not extend far, maybe around a half an inch around each piece but it makes the metal much harder to damage and while she is inside her cage it is as if she was inside a hardened steel armor suit.  Must street level weapons will just bounce off.

LIMITATIONS:  As noted earlier Kole` can currently only control iron based metals.  Further, Filigree must currently be in physical contact with the metal she is manipulating in order to control it.  However this contact can be as fine as thin wire between her and what she is trying to control. The biggest limitation on her ability currently is how much metal she has ready access to. She can only carry so much on her chair at any given time and tmost places don't leave large stacks of steel laying around for convenient mutant usage.

If she is not wearing her filigree cage Kole is unable to move on her own or feel anything below her neck.  While wearing her cage she can feel anything that touches the metal but that will not tell her if her body is being injured.  Controlling the cage is tiring and doing so for more than about three hours currently will leave her exhausted.  She also must be very careful to not bend her body in places or directions it was not meant to bend as she can easily break her own limbs and joints.

WEAKNESSES:  While Filigree’s abilities are not related to magnetics for some unknown reason strong magnetic fields can cause her severe pain. Just don’t expect a fridge magnet to hurt her.

Unless she is using her filigree cage to move Kole is restricted to only places a wheelchair can go.  While using her cage increases her mobility her movements do not look natural at this time as she has to concentrate on each individual part of the motion.

UNUSUAL ABILITIES: Whether it is a secondary mutation, just an oddity in the way she thinks, or something she has just trained herself to do in order to stay organized and efficient Kole' is capable of multi problem multi tasking with no loss of mental efficiency. She often uses this talent to solve complex computations in short amounts of time or when she is designing clockwork or kinetic systems. She can also accuratly visualize complex 3D shapes and how they will move. Once she has assigned part of her attention to a problem she can shift her attention elsewhere. To date the most 'sub systems' she has had going at once has been 12 and she could still have a casual conversation with no loss of attention.

Kole` is also terrified of water and anything larger than a bathtub full can trigger a panic attack if forced to enter.

SKILLS:  Kole` is good at all forms of math, calculus, geometry, and trig.  She is also a rather skilled amateur sculptor and enjoys making kinetic sculptures and is working on learning to do small clockwork objects.  (GO STEAMPUNK!)

PREVIOUS HISTORY:  Kole` and her family grew up on what many would consider to be the wrong side of the tracks.  They were poor, they were black, and they were rather low in the social order for their community.  Her Father was a delivery driver for a local warehouse and her Mother was an elementary school teacher.

When she was young Kole` was unaware of the fact they were poor, as it was the only life she knew and most of the people who lived around them were in the same situation.

When the first signs of Vitiligo began to appear the insurance companies determined it was a cosmetic affliction and there for not covered by their policies.  Over the following years the segregation between her two skin tones became more and more pronounced until the dark areas were almost solid black while the light  areas were an almost colorless white.

It was at the age of 11 that the first great tragedy occurred in her life.  While on her way home from school the car she was in was struck by a truck.  The driver, the Mother of her best friend, and her older Brother, Chad, were both killed instantly, her friend lost her left leg and Kole` suffered a broken neck that rendered her a quadriplegic.  She spent the next 2 years in and out of hospitals and training centers trying to repair some of the damage and learning to cope with her new limitations.

It was shortly after her thirteenth birthday that Kole`s mutant abilities began to manifest.  Unsurprisingly the first manifestations effected her wheelchair

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT:  Kole' has a custom Motochair to get around in.  She can control it with a mouth control device.  the batteries are good for about 6 hours of continuous output and it has a top speed of ten mph.