Rachel Diane Simmons

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This character is one of the originals. She is a friend, a leader and a tortured soul who wishes the best for others. She is a medical student even though she is responsible for putting several people in hospitals... And in morgues.
She doesn't want to be a hero or a villain but yet keeps having to save others from crises or harming those who violate morality whether it be mental or global or universal or reality as a whole. She is a close friend of Bruce and several other characters.

Blaze.
Project Arson/ Arson
The Human Inferno
Patient Xi-21
Rach
Sparky
Red.

Female

None.

Normal: Ambery-orange
Using to 1st degree - glow amber
Using to 2nd degree - glow red
Using 3rd degree - flaming white.

Canadian

Tanned White (naturally tanned skin)

Her body type is of a very athletic tone. Her arms and legs are muscular from competing in sports and training. She's tall but not lanky and is quite curvy. A good body type to compare her to would be either volleyball or swimmer athletes.

She has these red, almost tribal looking, pigment patterns on her limbs. They look like tattoos but were actually the result of several experiments. They glow when fire mutation is in use.

158 lb

(kinda estimating here) 5'11 - 6'1

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/Morosis_15/character-outfits/rachel/
She is quite fashionable and trendy in her clothes but only in public. When by herself or with friends, she wears very casual items. She likes punkish - preppy styles.

A natural ombre of deep red to amber blonde due to fire mutation.
Was originally Auburn but bright.

Loose and wild, though when working, it is tied up in messy ponytails or buns. Sometimes her hair is on fire when using fire mutation. Her natural hair type is wild and wavy. For better visualisation, here is her Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/Morosis_15/character-inspiration/rachel/

Is Judgemental towards abusive characters, discrimination within society, has judged people based upon past sins (is always calling herself a hypocrite).
Is pretty casual on world problems.
Stubbornness and aggression.

Scars (mentally and physically)
slight claustrophobia
Fire mutations prior to and after experiments

Caring, Smart, Funny, Stubborn, Can be serious when needed, Leadership, Lack of Confidence, Can be gentle or harsh, Protective, Judgemental, mostly in control, can have fits of depression, Can have short-temper on family or personal matters. However, Rachel can be brutal and merciless when it comes to certain people and topics along with being aggressive; this is rare though

She enjoys a bit of fashion here and there but isn't obsessive, reading, eating (especially chips), skiing, netball, traveling

Medical training, leadership, Fire manipulation (neat party trick), martial art training, high agility, flight, can partially speak Canadian French, experience in deception, psychological and realism awareness.

She is a Facility patient
Is mentally unstable (depression, hallucinations, night terrors, personality upsets)
Skin pigmentation
Hair ignition and unnatural looking.
Cannot forget her past
Cannot fully move on from her past.
Can have trust issues
She is a murderer and criminal
Killed her father accidentally
Disowned her mother
Abuse scars and Facility scars
Is sometimes in denial about the truth.

Wants to help others due to lack of love in childhood.
Wants no one else to suffer as she did.
The pursuit of education and degree
University
Friends and Colleagues
Putting others in front of her needs.
To maintain humanity

Is Stubborn when setting on a goal, has a habit of fiddling when stressed or nervous, cares deeply about her colleagues and allies. Short-tempered on personal subjects and has flashbacks frequently, can focus well, enjoys letting off steam physically.

Red

She does not have a religion but wonders whether the () is real or just a figment of the imagination. Only believes in the gods she sees.

Is wary about politics... Especially what kind. Doesn't trust the majority of politics or governments alongside being questionable towards the justice system

Medical student/training paramedic

Chips with chicken or steak

Her rabbit

Her fire mutation/ wit and skill

Viscacha

Junior Doctor/Paramedic (MICA)
(Is still debating which course to take. Either stay in the hospital and work in intensive care/Emergency ward or become a MICA/EMT paramedic who has specialized training. Usually most medically advanced on-scene and are doctors which travel alongside paramedics to treat on sight.

Rachel was born in Hinton (a town located in Alberta) Canada on the 17th December 1986 to an Owen and Lilith Simmons. Owen works as a lorry driver for a lumber company known as Lintwood industries whilst her mother is a housemaid. They were certainly not a wealthy family and barely had any income and struggled to pay their rent.
Rachel is believed to be an accident and her birth was certainly not wanted or planned. Her parents were keen on cigarettes and alcohol but not children.
From a very young age, Rachel was both physically, verbally and emotionally abused by her parents and was treated awfully. She slept under the stairs with no bed, had to cook and sew for herself alongside almost acting as a slave to her own parents. This, however, does not mean she wasn't intelligent and actually taught herself how to read and write to a respectable degree. She was never allowed outside to play with other children, was never given education or went to school.
From 12 onwards, Rachel's mother was sacked from her job as it was discovered she sole from properties she was hired to clean. This caused a bigger rift between her parents and decided to use their daughter as a conductor for their rage and malice. Their treatment of Rachel declined and became far more violent to the point where her father would put out his cigarettes on her arm or hit her. On one occasion, Rachel vividly remembers the time her mother broke her Ulna in a doorway after she dropped coffee on a carpet. That was the first time she went to the hospital and was treated for her injuries.
Due to her level of stress and suppressed aggression, not only did Rachel's mental state decline but caused her metahuman mutation to evolve. This lead to Rachel developing her pyrokinesis ultimately resulting in her hair to slowly change colour plus her skin to gain their iconic tribal-like pattern.
This only frightened Rachel more as her parents were anti-mutant supporters and would possibly kill Rachel if they discovered she was the very thing they despised.
On March 17th 1997, Rachel's father lost his temper with her and tried to burn her with his cigarette but failed as Rachel had become immune to burns and fire injuries due to her mutations. After her parents discovered her abilities, Rachel fled her home into the neighbouring woods where she wrote her pleas of help in her journal. She didn' make it far as her father gradually caught her and dragged her back home.
Both her parents now were furious and in a barbaric rage, grabbing knives and trying to seriously hurt their daughter. In a sudden surge of fear, hate, defence and determination, Rachel's abilities took over and she released a hellish blaze upon her home.
March 17th, Owen Simmons was discovered inside his flaming home burnt alive whilst Lilith lived with severe burns (unknown to Rachel).
Rachel was now fleeing through the woods away from her home on fire but was abducted by the Facility (They'd heard about the fire and had been reported to by the doctor which treated Rachel)
On March 18th, Rachel was taken the Facility to endure 15 years of human experimentation and torture from the Facility whom which taught her the life skills she was neglected form in her childhood, discovering, in fact, she was incredibly smart and learnt quickly.
Rachel was 26 when Insurgents run took place and after that spent 4 months accidentally causing forest fires and arson with everything she touched. After starting a fire at a warehouse on the outskirts of New Jersey, Bruce found her from a news report on the TV and they both were the first people to go to Abditory and start the Divergent programme, making her the deputy leader/leader of the group.
She continues to be a vital character in the series and become a qualified doctor after being her childhood dream.

December 17th, 1986 (in the terms of 2015)

Had no education as a child, taught herself to read, write and speak. Never went to school/was not homeschooled.
Was found to be highly intelligent in her Facility reports and was trained in education exercises to fulfill her full mental potential.
Is now working for medical degree.

Smokey the rabbit
Was bought as a birthday present from... Herself.
Smokey is cared for by the majority of the divergent.

Blaze was the first divergent member i made at the age of 11 and has dwelled within my mind for years.
Her original backstory and appearance has changed hugely yet still has factors of her previous creation.

• Mega Pyrokinesis


• Inferna-Pyrokinesis


• Azur-Pyrokinesis


• Sancti-Pyrokinesis


• Calokinesis


• Geo-Thermokinesis


• Léizerkinesis


• Inferna-Umbrakinesis


• Typhokinesis


• Tephrakinesis


• Fragokinesis


• Flight


• Fire Incarnate

Anything to do with Fire, Heat, Smoke, Ash, that kinda shit, she can do.

• Enhanced Strength


• Enhanced Durability


• Enhanced Agility


• Enhanced Senses


• Enhanced Speed


• Enhanced Intelligence


• Pretty much the Facility Enhances everything as a basic starting point