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Written by Vale, March 2003
Updated, December 2006.

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Code Name: Jaybird
Real Name: FInola Valentine
Nicknames: Fin, Jazz
Occupations: Finola currently works in one of London's top night clubs, *The Night Spot* for her room and board as an odd job employee, but she usually spends most of her time tending bar, cleaning glasses and wiping tables.
Legal Status: Unrevealed.
Identity: Secret.
Aliases: None known.
Place of birth: Cameron, North Carolina.
Age: 19.
Marital Status: Single.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Known Relatives: None known.
Group Affiliation: Formerly with The Extremists. Jaybird is currently affiliated with a French hero named Dove, also with bird-like powers.
Base of Operations: Marseille, France.
First Appearance: The Extremists #1 "Captured".
Origin: Jaybird is a mutant and was born with her powers allthough they did not manifest themselves until puberty.
Height: 5foot
Weight: 108lbs (7 stone and 10 lbs)
Eyes: Red.
Hair: Dark Red, short. Formally black with various coloured streaks.
Distinguishing Marks: Aside from her red eyes, when she's not using her mutant morphing abilities she looks like a normal human.
Strength Level: Jaybird possesses the normal strength of a human her age who engages in regular exercise.
Known Superhuman Powers: Jaybird is an avian partial metamorph. She can change the shapes of her hands to form bird like razor sharp talons and very gnarled looking long boney fingers that are not in the least bit attractive no matter how much nail polish she puts on her claws. That is the limit of her morphing abilities.
She can also fly like a bird so this, coupled with her bird-like claws make her rather fierce when she's swooping down at you and plucking you from the ground like a Kestrel might to a small field mouse.
She is quite capable of brutally ripping apart any living thing with her claws but she has yet to display any such homicidal tendencies.
Abilities/Special Skills: Finola has the ability to play the saxophone, allthough she isn't by any stretch of the imagination at a professional level. She did earn her nickname of Jazz through this though. Other than that, she has yet to display any other real talents.

Personality: Finola, an individual most commonly noted for her niavity, lack of intelligence and happy go lucky attitude has recently shown a darker side of her personality and seems to have grown up quite a bit in a very short period of time. Ever since her recent trauma [see history], she has become more independant and seems more ready to face the world.
Personal Interests: Like most eighteen year old girls, Fin is interested in make-up, hair dye, listening to crap "popular" music and reading gossip magazines on her favourite film and pop stars. She also likes to practise on her saxophone, play computer games and watch new movies like they're going out of fashion.
History: Jaybird is a runaway and was born in North Carolina. How she got from there to London, England has not yet been revealed, nor has the majority of her past.
She has most recently been the victim of a plot by the mutant shape shifter, Mystique where in she was beaten and almost killed by the avian serial killer, Shrike. Having been flown all the way to France and tormented by said lunatic, she was rescued by French super hero, Dove [also with bird-like origins]. Jaybird feels she has found her calling with her and after returning to the Extremists to inform them that the person they thought was Jaybird was really an imposter [Mystique], she made arrangements to return to Marsielle to join Dove in her cause.