FULL NAME: (both) Dr. TERESA KINKAID
AGE: (original) 35 (clone) 2
ALIASES: (both) Special K, Princess Premenstrual, TKO, etc.
AFFILIATIONS: (original) Former representative for Kelloggs
BACKGROUND: I'm a genius.  No, really, I am!  I graduated from Harvard with my first degree at age twelve.  I am a an expert at Chess, President of the Michigan chapter of MENSA, etc.  Things were looking up, until I was diagnosed with NS.
    Nevison's Syndrome is a debilitating nerve disorder that gets progressively worse the older you get.  First your motor functions go, then you become a paraplegic, then your autonomic system shuts down and you suffocate.  Once you are diagnosed you are lucky if you live ten years.  I was diagnosed when I was ten, so you could see why I was in such a rush to get my degree.  I was going to beat the disease, find a cure.  Even if it killed me.
    By the time I was fifteen I thought I had found a cure, a drug treatment program using some stuff I had whipped up.  The problem was it would take the FDA four years to approve it.  By then the disease would have been too far gone.  And I'll admit it, by the time I whipped up this concoction I had to use a walker to get around.  I started taking the drugs secretly, and I saw almost instant results.  In a month's time I seemed fully cured.
    But I wasn't.
    My strength, stamina, speed, and reflexes were all increasing beyond normal levels.  I was also getting tougher and my eyesight had improved.  I had to confide in a specialist, she told me that my latent gene had somehow activated.  I had not found a cure, I had simply made myself a paranormal.  Then I discovered my NS was still there, only it was held in check by my new power's healing factor.  Then came the final kicker; I wasn't getting any older.  I was stuck at age fifteen, a perpetual teenager.
    I've had seventeen years to cope.  During that time I've starred in an all girl band (Broad Minded, we had a sort've alternative retro fuzion type sound.  I played rhythm guitar and backing vocals), did the chess circuit, got the Kelloggs endorsement, lost the Kelloggs endorsement.
    Then I joined Maximum Justice.
    Then they died.
     I survived and became a prisoner of war, while a clone of myself, identical in every way to myself down to even it's memory took my place in the midst of the heroes who replaced High Justice; The Vindicators.  During the EDI I and Lazarus, the only other Max. Justice survivor, managed to escape. I returned to Earth to confront my clone.  Only I discovered as much as I wanted to hate and resent her for taking over my life I couldn't.  For the first time I found someone who understood me completely, and in hating her I would be hating a part of myself.
    Besides, she's so cool. :)

    Aw, that's so sweet! ;)
    The clone here, or Kinkaid ver. 2.0.  I had no idea I was a clone 'til the EDI (Extra Dimensional Invasion).  I fought a force of nature named Maul and he broke my spine, making me helpless.  It was a good thing, in the end, 'cause when the Tandians wanted to take over my body and use me as a remot-control assassin.  I also think that when the original showed up full of piss and vinegar, spoiling for a fight, seeing me helpless in bed made her feel sorry for me.  So we sat down, talked and even to this day I suppose I get bummed that I'm a copy, and TKI gets a little put out that she's no longer unique.
    But we're sisters for good and ill.

PERSONALITY: For all her hardships, the Kinkaids happy, well-balanced individuals who takes life as it comes.  Even though they look like a teenager they are very much adults when it comes to responsibility; they are still doctors as well as heroes (and in the clone's case, a movie star).
    Both are highly annoyed with their condition, one problem she is having is on a romantic/sexual level.  They cannot date fifteen year old boys without being charged with statutory rape (and losing their medical licenses in the process), and the only adult men they usually attract are perverts.
    Teresa's surviving the Maximum Justice slaughter had made her more withdrawn, but she has come to accept that there was nothing she could have done to prevent the deaths of her friends.  Now she is eagerly looking for new adventures that she may both partake on her own and share with her kick-ass clone!
POWERS/SKILLS: The Teresas have the ability to quickly heal from any injury save one that would kill them outright.  The original has regenerated fingers, fully recovered from concussions and even survived exposure to a class IV virus.  The clone has also survived exposure to a lethal venom delivered via the mail by Heavy Metal.  This power is what holds their Nevison's Syndrome in check; it still sits in their cells, waiting for release.  During those rare times when they suffer broken bones their bodies quickly resets them, no matter how much it hurts.
    The Kinkaids are very strong and have been classified a "brick" by Pure Power Plant scale (albeit at the lower end of that scale), and they are resistant to damage; they are able to withstand small arms fire without serious injury and can handle temperature extremes from the artic to Death Valley.  This gives them a higher immunity to heat and cold attacks, but not much.  Their reflexes and agility both are abnormally high and they have been able to incorporate their advantages into an eclectic and very effective fighting style that makes the most of their speed and small size.  They are able to leap great heights and distances, over a hundred yards straight up and up to a half a mile in distance.  They are able to run up to thirty miles per hour and swim at almost ten knots.  They Kinkaids still need to breath, but are able to hold their breath for up to ten minutes provided they do not have to exert themselves.
    The Kinkaids have excellent motor control and are able to use their strength to create hand holds in most conventional building materials.  This is not something they can use in combat, however.
    The Kinkaids are highly intelligent and have a Doctorate in Genetics (the clone was given an honorary one from Harvard.  They are also talented chess players, decent singers and can play a mean axe.  They are also pretty good dancers and love to go to teen clubs to let loose.
EQUIPMENT: Both Kinkaids carry an equipment belt complete with a compact first aid kit with a portable medical scanner, a tool knife, mini-binoculars, a gas mask and a small flashlight.  They also use other equipment when necessary. Most of this equipment is commonly available.
    The clone has come into acquisition of a pair of mystic gauntlets (see picture right).  The gauntlets are incredibly resistant to damage and allow the clone to deliver more powerful blows.  The gauntlets remain in the posession of whomever they are given to and cannot be returned.  Also, the gauntlets change form, reflecting the personality of the bearer (the owner before Kinkaid, Ponyboy, used them as a giant warhammer).
APPEARANCE: Teresa appears to be an attractive fifteen-year old girl with a wiry build and stringy black hair with large black eyes.  She stands five foot one inches tall and is sensitive about her height.  Her costume consists of heavy black leather boots that incorporate knee guards, sleeveless black leather jump suit, fingerless leather gloves and a black leather duster with gray lining.  When in civilian clothes she tries to dress like an adult, but often comes off looking even more cute for her troubles.  She does not need glasses (her vision is now 20/10) but she wears them in a vain attempt to look more dignified.