Reina has regeneration (flesh wounds seal before the eyes, limbs and
digits grow back slowly, over the course of a month or more). Her
regeneration heals the superficial wounds swiftly; the deeper wounds
take longer, and require rest. For instance, if she breaks a leg and
this causes a large bruise on her skin, the bruise will heal swiftly,
yet the broken bone would need to be set and take a few days to heal.
Her regeneration makes poisons and illnesses less effective on her, as
well as alcohol and drugs. Because of her strong regeneration, she
ages more slowly than other humans, she still ages, but for every 10
years that pass, she only ages one, and even though she still ages,
she doesn’t appear to age. She will look as she did when she matured
fully at 21 for the rest of her life.
A
side effect of her regeneration is, she can heal humans and animals by
touch through sharing her regeneration with them. If she loses contact
with the one she heals; she cannot share her regeneration for another
twenty four hours with that person. Her healing cannot protect others
from sickness or poison. And like her, the superficial wounds seal
swiftly, while underlying wounds take longer. It would require her to
stay in contact with the person for possibly days. Not only would it
be tedious, but it would also be draining, hampering the ability to
heal her while she heals the other. There is a warm pleasant sensation
that accompanies her touch, regardless if she is healing or not. The
warmth is more abundant when she is healing, just a faint hint when
she is not.
A drawback to her healing ties a tether from the person healed to
herself. The more often or longer she heals a person for, the more
likely that person would be swayed by her wants and desires. Being the
good person she is, this makes it difficult for her to heal people,
not wanting for them to have a weakened will to her. The tether
dissipates after twenty four hours.
Reina was born on a farm near Portree Harbor on the
Isle of Skye in Scotland in the beginning of the year 1853. She is an
anomaly as far as mutations go. Her given name was Reina McClaine. She
was raised with the good of her family and charity in her heart. Her
family was a wealthier family in the area, and she and her mother often
tended to sick children, made meals for others in the area that had less
than they, and they often volunteered in their local church. Reina was
raised with a good honest heart and a belief that people should always be
helped when possible.
When the area became more poverty stricken, her
parents decided that their wealth may do better in the new world,
and they moved to America. They came to New York when Reina was only 12
years old, in 1865. She was given the best schooling money could buy and
she learned proper English, Latin, and French. She was taught many
things; how to ride a horse properly, etiquette, and customs of other
countries and cultures.
Wealth
afforded Reina many things, such as the education and choice of going
into the medical field. Even though she was a rich woman and she could
not become a doctor until the 1970’s, and even then it was difficult.
Until then, she was nothing more than a glorified nurse. During her
early studies, during one particularly horrible surgery she was
assisting, she got splattered with blood for the first time, and nearly
panicked. Putting her hand over the wound, she discovered that she could
heal people by sharing her regeneration with them. After doing so for a
few people, she also discovered that it somewhat drew people to her,
made them more willing to do as she wished.
That first man she healed happened to be a man by
the name of Geoffrey Hawthorne. He was a duke come from London. They
began to court soon after he was released from the hospital he had been
in. She married Geoffrey in May of 1873, just after Reina’s 20th
birthday. She gave birth to Drake, their only son, two years later.
She became aware of her slow aging process, as Geoffrey became older and
older and she did not seem to age. She seemed to stop aging altogether
after she matured at 21. She was forced to watch Geoffrey get old and
pass away. A titled Lady now, with a good sized wealth amassed from both
her family and from marriage, Lady Reina Hawthorne went into seclusion,
once her son became old enough to tend to his own affairs, though as she
did she keep an eye on him. Over the years she watched Drake grow and
marry. Sadly Drake was not able to have children and the bloodline
ceased to grow.
Over the years, Reina assumed different identities
and “inherited” the Hawthorne wealth. Some of the aliases she’s gone by
are: Danielle, Catherine, Andrea, Angel, and Abigail all with the last
name of Hawthorne. Over the years she’s studied and kept up to date with
the knowledge of medicine and the technology used there in. Not only did
she keep up with technology used in medicine, but technology as a whole
fascinated her, so she tried to learn as much as she could through
tutors. She’s hired many tutors and trainers to teach her many different
styles of fighting including oriental styles. She is a finely trained
fighter, sleek and fast, knowing many different forms of karate, tae
kuan do, kick boxing, and American boxing. She, of course, uses this
knowledge only to defend, never to seek out and do harm. The reason for
this was because of boredom, plain and simple. She wanted to push
herself and her body over the years, so she learned to use her body as a
finely tuned weapon. Not only this, she wanted to challenge herself over
the years so the long existence didn’t wear on her. She became a very
skilled cat-burglar. She never kept what she stole, she did it more to
challenge herself and keep herself occupied. She’d always make sure the
items she took were returned to their owners. Through learning this, she
became good with lock-picking, balancing, stealth, and even security
systems. Why does she know all these things? Well, why do old men collect stamps? Why do boys collect baseball
cards? They're hobbies. These just became Reina’s hobbies, a bit eccentric, but
most rich ladies are.
During
both World Wars, she posed as a nurse and healed soldiers of grievous
wounds, keeping some from losing limbs and their lives. She was brought
in as a nurse on a project called Operation: Rebirth. Though she was a
nurse during this project, she knew nothing about the project itself.
During this operation she was brought in to see to the soldiers going
through the change. One soldier was Private Steve Rogers. During the
process it seemed as if he was in extreme pain, her heart nearly broke
at what almost looked like torture to her, so she covertly healed him to
ease his pain despite the consequences. During his recuperation, she
checked in on him, he remembered her and then realized who she was. She
told him that she wasn’t sure what she was, but that she healed people.
He said he’d remember her, and she told him her name, Hawthorne.
She also volunteered for other wars, such as
Vietnam and the first Golf War. Since then she’s mainly stayed in New
York.
Two years ago she’d come out as a mutant. She’d
claimed to be the original Reina McClaine-Hawthorne. There was some
doubt, but with all the rest of the mutants that have been popping up,
it was believable. There was also testing done on her bones, and though
she seemed to regenerate completely on the outside, her bones did tell
the doctors that she was indeed far older than she appeared. She is an
actual doctor now, doing mostly ER work for it keeps her on the edge,
and is far more exciting than a clinical doctor or surgeon. Since the
death of Geoffrey, she’s not sought romantic ties, and keeps mostly to
herself, not dating.
