Cordelia was born the youngest of the Frost family, but was not treated any differently because of it. Home life from the start was a contest of trying to out shine her sisters and brother for the favor of her father.
Cordelia got A grades from school without cheating, grew up around body guards and house staff that catered to her whims around the house. It was not until around thirteen that she began to rebel against her parents, acting up at events to try get back at her father.
The event that triggered her powers were unknown to her, but the event that allowed her to notice she had them began when she was returning home, after sneaking out to a concert. Cordelia got to the gate of the house without trouble and headed towards her window. She was below her bedroom window when one of the house staff saw her, about to tell her parents that Cordie had snuck out. Cordelia only thought she stared at the staff member, but she influenced his emotions to the point he felt too depressive to even think about telling her parents.
Cordelia experimented with her abilities while she was at home, eventually she grew tired of her fathers influence over her and left home. She used her fledgling powers to play on the emotions of others, finding her way to New York from Boston. This use of powers didn't go unnoticed.
Cordelia Frost was caught by the MRD once for assisting a mutant, they did not know for certain what her abilities were at the time. She escaped during the chaos of a break out from the holding cells by other better known mutants, manipulating minds to get out. Cordelia has since evaded recapture in New York, backed out of going to Genosha at the last moment in favor of staying in New York.
Currently residing in New York under a different name, looking for certain people from her past life, namely her sisters.
Confident: Cordelia Frost is highly self confident and comfortable with where she is in her life, who and what she is. It takes several catastrophic events to make her doubt herself, that strong will needed daily to be able to stand up when her surrounding look bad. Cordelia is confident to a fault, some times getting in over her abilities.
Selfish Tendancies: Cordelia was raised to look out for herself first, those who got trampled in the process did not matter at all. She will choose her own self preservation or interests the majority of times over helping others. Dispite this attittude, there are times where she helps others for seemingly no reason that benifits her. Part of this is her rebelious nature towards her parents, the other reason because under her selfish exterior, she feels for the well being of those she becomes attached to.
Rebelious: Authority figures are not the kind of people Cordelia respects, more then once telling such people where to stick that power in unkind words. She hates the government, law enforcement and people with political power, sometimes breaking petty laws to get her point across.
Empathy: Cordelia's power forces her to feel the emotions of the people around her, making her more understanding of the emotions of others then some people will ever be in several life times. While she could comfort a friend in need and help others if she wanted to, she has no qualms about intentionally upsetting others for her own amusement.
Father: If there is one non powered being in the world that she hates more then existance itself, it's her father. This man was cruel in his methods to instill lessons into his children and Cordelia intentionally broke his rules just to stick it to him. SHe is glad to get out from under the mans influence, almost content with the trade offs.
Relationships: Cordelia Frost has some trouble making honest friends dispite being charming and likeable, namely because she has to strive hard to not indulge her selfish tendancies in the name of friendship, and not use her empathy to mold the person to her liking. True friends to her are far and few to Cordie, those that know her abilities might think she is intentionally molding them to her liking.
EMPATHY: Cordelia Frost's strongest portion of her powers is Empathy, the ability to affect and sense the emotional states that exist in living beings. What makes her stand out from other empaths is the range and volume this girl can handle dispite her lack of training, surviving living in a major city. If Cordelia was to be trained and learn to use her full potential, she could become a dominant force of empathic power when she comes of age.
EMPATHY - HYSTERIA: A power stunt of Cordelia forcing random emotions into the minds of people vunerable to her power, making them act emotionally unstable. This power changes what emotions the person is experiencing at random intervals while active, running the gambit between euphoric joy, seething rage to manic depressive. This ability is strongest when Cordelia has line of sight of the area is being effected, becoming weaker the further away and larger the area she is attempting to effect.
EMPATHY - PSI BOLT: While not having full control of how strong the psi bolt she throws under stress becomes, Cordelia can make psi bolts that can inflict painful headaches or render a weak minded person unconscious. She can also choose to throw bolts that inflict emotional states on her victim when they hit, but a strong or shielded mind could easily overcome these effect.
EMPATHY - MIND CONTROL: Cordelia is new to this part of her power and thus it doesn't always work, but rarely does it leave the target harmed if it fails. This power requires that her target be unconscious before she can use it effectively, an awake mind requiring her to concentrate on the target and to touch the person. She attempts to replicate a form of mind control of her target by creating different personalities within the psyche of her target, making them act and feel differently in situations. An example is making a personality that is more docile or passive towards Cordelia. This ability with time could benifit a person removing fears and habits once Cordelia has expereince with this power. At the moment the power lasts a week at most in a weak mind, Cordie needing to renew it when it begins to faulter before the original mental state of her target returns.
EMPATHY - ILLUSION: Cordelia can alter what a single target senses by forcing her influence over anothers mind. If successful, she psionically tells the mind of the other person what they are sensing is different from what is real. Her strongest uses of this power to date is creating hysterical blindness and deafness in her target that lasted an hour after she left. Cordelia also uses this trick to fool her target into thinking they are talking to somebody else.
TELEPATHY: While Empathy is her strongest part of her powers, Cordelia has some telepathic ability that could be trained. She is no where near as strong with telepathy as she is with empathy, only capable of passive uses of the power at the moment.
MENTAL DEFENCE: When it comes to fending off telepathic attacks, Cordie is sorely lacking the experience and training to fend off a properly trained telepath. She has a decent chance of fending off a weak telepath and can keep out passive probing of her mind. A strong enough aggressive probe could break into her mind and do some damage to her mind. However if she is attacked by a empathic abilities, Cordelia's defences are stronger. With raw talent and suffient will, it takes a strong empathic attack to effect
ACADEMIC: Cordelia Frost was schooled and tutored by the finest the Frosts could afford and was smart enough to earn her grades without cheating. Her academic skills put her on par with a high school graduate in certain sujects, college level chemistry she knew before she ran off. If she was to apply herself, she could broaden her knowledge base beyond high school subjects.
PERSUASION: Cordelia has a gift when if comes to persuading people to see her point of view, charm and intimidation both tools she learnt to use well. She used her charm to get to New York when all she had was the clothes on her back, a scary person for a five foot two teenager when she wants to be. This persuasion works best when she knows her intended target better then a stranger, what they like and dislike, how they react to certain situations and personality. If not for her run away status, Cordie could have a future in business or politics.
SELF_DEFENSE: Cordelia knows enough about fighting to fend off a mugger and can throw a mean right hook when she needs to. Most of her skill is breaking her attackers hold on her, some basic throws, punches and kicks. She isn't a martial artist by any means, somebody with more skill then self defense could easily over power her.
ATHLETICS: Cordie is strong enough to lift her own weight, agile on her feet, swim several laps of a full sized pool, climb and run while supporting a hiking pack. She is in good physical shape for a female her age, weight and size. She requires more training before she would be calssed as being in prime physical shape.
LANGUAGE: Cordelia can speak, read and write one language other then English. She can also speak, read and write French fluently enough that some people assume she was born a native of France because of the accent she has while speaking French.
BUSINESS: While Cordelia has the natural skills to sell a business or idea, her father insisted she learnt how to run a business in case she was his chosen successor. All her knowledge in this area is theory at this time, having never owned or operated a business in her life. She could start a small business and with experience, build it into something greater.
FROST: Dispite walking out on her family to make her own path, she still is a bearer of the Frost name, the youngest daughter of Winston Frost. If she chose to resurface to her old life and show herself in high society, Cordelia could get into places that other people are barred from.
MONEY: Cordelia doesn't have access to the large amount of money that the life she ran away from could have given her, but she earns it from part time jobs or persuades enough from people to get by comfortably. She has enough to keep up with trends of fashion and technology amoungst teenagers, with plenty to spare for other reasons.
EVERYDAY STUFF: Cordelia has her own stuff she keeps in a small apartment in New York Ciy. She owns a cell phone, television, computer with internet connection, a license to drive a car, clothes and enough furniture to furnish the average sized room. She even has text books for high school and entry level college education.
DRUG CONNECTIONS: Cordelia knows dealers of substances that don't have licenses within New York City and Boston city limits, able to get her hands on presciption or other contraband substances given the time, money and effort to procure them. So far she hasn't run into any NARC agents because of her powers able to tip her off if the dealer is a law man or under stress.
EMPATHY: Cordelia lacks the formal training and experience to totally control her full power, only using the fraction that is within her controlable levels the majority of the time. Cordelia using more power then she can control is dangerous to both herself and those around her. There is a heavy price to be paid physically the longer she keeps using her powers, and mentally if she tries to over step her current power limits. AFter five minutes of agressive use, her nose begins to bleed lightly, becoming heavier as time goes on. She can't use her powers aggressively for more then four hours a day. After that time, she passes out and will unwakeable for the next twenty four hours without telepathic intervention.
Also Cordelia has trouble using her powers on 'strong' mutants, her lack of training making it difficult for her to influence other mutants as easily as she can influence non-mutants.
SIBLING: Cordelia found an interesting thing about her powers against her siblings, they can't effect any of them. Cordelia can't effect her sisters with her powers in the same vain they can't effect her with thier powers. Cordelia can hear what her telepathic sister is trying to project into her head, but is not effected more then a easily banished thought. Similiar to how the telepathic sister can feel what Cordelia is projecting, but never effected by it. Similiar applies to the eldest sister, she can't read objects that Cordelia is touching until Cordie lets go, in the same vain Cordelia can't effect her eldest sisters emotions at all.
RELATIONSHIPS: Cordelia Frost has some trouble making honest friends dispite being charming and likeable, namely because she has to strive hard to not indulge her selfish tendancies in the name of friendship, and not use her empathy to mold or glimpse the emotional state of other people to her liking. True friends to her are far and few to Cordie, those that know her abilities might think she is intentionally molding them to her liking unless they have mental shielding or a strong will.
DRUG CONNECTION: Cordelia knows several dealers in New York and can get her hands on drugs. This isn't lawful activity and she could be arrested for buying drugs if her luck doesn't hold out, or even be implicated if one of her dealers gives up her name.
