Hero Name: Sarah Given Name: Marrow () Fighting: Remarkable (30) Agility: Excellent (20) Strength: Good (10) Endurance: Remarkable (30) Reason: Typical (6) Intuition: Good (10) Psyche: Good (10) Health: 90 Karma: 26 Resources: Typical (6) Popularity: Feeble (0) Age: Gender: Height: Weight: Skin Color: Hair Color: Eye Color: POWERS: P9: Regeneration* (Remarkable) Endurace Recovery: 1 rank every 48 hours (Remarkable) Bone Growth- may rapidly re-grow bones (IN40 strength) (Incredible) Bone structure- she has knive like bones that grow out of her back and joints which she may remove and use as edged or throwing weapons (RM damage, IN strength) (Incredible) Bone Missles- may fire from her body (RM edged damage) (Remarkable) TALENTS: Weapons Specialist* Bone knives Leadership* CONTACTS: Hero Group- X-Men Hero Group- Morlocks
DESCRIPTION: As explained above, Marrow is a very angry girl. She's lived a life of disappointments, which is to blame for her violent behavior. When something bad happens to her, Marrow takes her anger out on others -- she seems to feel that if she's hurt, the rest of the world should be as well. Rather than assessing a problem and learning from it, she tends to blame the problem on others. As intimidating and tough as she may act, Sarah's proven that it's all just an act to hide her insecurities about herself, and mask the pain she's going through. As part of that "act", Marrow behaves with arrogance and lack of respect for her peers.HISTORY: Marrow is perhaps one of the angriest X-Men to date, and she has just reasons to be so. Living most of her childhood underground, in the sewers of Manhattan, Marrow, then called Sarah, was part of the mutant community who called themselves the Morlocks, after the subterranean race in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. The Morlocks were deformed, rejected mutants who were feared, hunted and hated simply because of the looks which were caused by their mutations. (The Dark Beast credits himself for the Morlocks' creation, conducting various experiments on the mutants.) During the event now referred to as the "Mutant Massacre", Mr. Sinister had hired Gambit to lead the mutant mercenary group, the Marauders, to the Morlock tunnels, and slaughter each and every mutant there. It was first thought that Sinister wanted the Morlocks dead because he deemed their lives "scientifically useless", but it has been revealed that he did so because he heard that someone had been doing genetic experiments down in the tunnels, similar to his own (Dark Beast). Gambit, not realizing this was Sinister's intent, tried to stop the Marauders once in the Morlocks' "impenetrable community", but it was too late. All Gambit could do was save one little girl, with bones sticking out of her body -- Sarah -- from being killed. The combined forces of the X-Men, X-Factor, New Mutants, and Power Pack was not enough, and by the end of the massacre, only a number of Morlocks managed to escape death. It was years later that the insane brother of the X-Men's Colossus, Mikhail Rasputin, had decided to seemingly commit suicide, to redeem himself for his past crimes, and end the surviving Morlocks' suffering by killing them as well. Mikhail telekinetically flooded the Morlock tunnels, and he and the Morlocks were thought to be dead. However, rather than committing mass suicide, Mikhail instead teleported the Morlocks, including the young Sarah, to another dimension, which was referred to as "The Hill". In that dimension, time passed at an extremely accelerated rate, years and years passed there, while on Earth, only several months did. All in all, Sarah was literally forced to grow up much too quickly. During that time spent in the other dimension, Sarah and a handful of the "next generation of Morlocks", which included Ever (then called Reverb), Sack, Vessel and Hemmingway, were trained by Mikhail to become the terrorist mutant group known as Gene Nation. By that time, Marrow's hatred for humans escalated, and she became the leader of Gene Nation, the second generation of Morlocks. Using mystical means, Gene Nation, led by Marrow, managed to escape that dimension, and return to Earth. Their first act was slaughtering innocent humans in a disco. When asked by Emma Frost as to why Gene Nation killed them, Marrow's response was, "Because they were human. Because they got to live and laugh and party Upworld -- while my "ancestors", the Morlocks, were always sentenced to muck and mire and mud. All that, aaand... we felt like it." That, however, was not Gene Nation's only intent for coming back on Earth. Kidnapping a subway car on the anniversary of the Mutant Massacre, Gene Nation planned to kill one human for every Morlock that died on the same day. Attaching a bomb to her heart, Marrow challenged Storm to a duel to the death. Taunting the leader of both the X-Men and the Morlocks, Marrow made it a point to tell Storm how disappointed she was in her. Marrow felt that as leader of the Morlocks, Storm should have lived up to her responsibility and taken care of them. Seconds before the bomb would explode, Storm was forced to rip out Marrow's heart, apparently killing the girl. It was eventually discovered that Marrow had survived her battle against Storm. It appeared that her unique physiology gave her two hearts. Apparently freed of her demons, Marrow allied herself with Callisto. It was only after Callisto was seriously wounded, at the hands of a Prime Sentinel, and near death, did Marrow reluctantly go to the X-Men. Finding Iceman and Dr. Cecilia Reyes, who were all that was left of the X-Men, Marrow helped defeat Bastion and his Prime Sentinels, and put an end to Operation: Zero Tolerance. Spending a brief time with the X-Men, Marrow had already gotten her fair share of trouble, which includes an all-out fight with Wolverine, almost killing the both of them. With Callisto's mysterious recovery, Marrow was prepared to leave the X-Men, and once again join with her mentor and fellow Morlock. Callisto, however, told her that she is better off with the X-Men. Refusing to stay with the X-Men, Marrow ran away, but was eventually found by Cannonball, whom she developed a crush on. It is due to the talk she had with Cannonball that Marrow decided to help others, rather than become a "monster". To this day, Marrow remains an X-Man, though still a very reluctant one.
