Art and colours by Mel

Written by Mel, August 2002.

Updated, December 2006.

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Code Name: The Oracle
Real Name: Matrice Manchakah.
Nicknames: Chakah.
Occupations: Student
Legal Status: Chakah has no criminal record.
Identity: Chakah's identity is known only to the British Childcare System.
Aliases: None
Place of birth: Manchester, England.
Age: 10
Marital Status: Single, and entirely not interested. She's ten. Boys are gross.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual....not that she much cares at the moment. She's ten. Boys are icky.
Known Relatives: The names, identities and nature of Matrice's rightful biological parents are entirely unknown. Found as an infant near death from malnutrition and severely sick from the winter time frost in an abandoned Squatter's house just outside of Manchester, The Oracle was thrust into the possession of the British Childcare system. Judging from the location and condition she was found in, it is safe to assume that her parents- mother, father, or, less likely, both, were Runaways or homeless squatters, and were likely prone to abandon the child at birth, as it seems Chakah was born with the stark physical mutations she exhibits today.
Group Affiliation: Nexus
Base of Operations: The WolfsBaren Tavern- New York City and Xavier's School for Higher Learning- Westchester New York. (Temporary).
First Appearance: Nexus: #17 - "The Wrath of Kayn" part 1, "Rantings of a Nutter".
Origin: As chronicled in Nexus #17.
Height: 4 foot 3 inches
Weight: 82lbs. (5 stones and 12 pounds)
Eyes: White
Hair: White with red tendrils. Long and straight.
Distinguishing Marks: Chakah is physically stunning at first sight. Her appearance is exotic, almost frightening, and yet..... impeccably cute. She has a starling red skin tone that is littered with black tattooine marks on her arms, legs, back and over her right eye. Her eyes themselves are a bright, glowing white, and are lined with long black lashes, while her thick mass of long, wild white hair is tipped with even longer red tendrils.
Strength Level: The Oracle possesses the normal strength of a human her age who engages in moderate regular exercise.
Known Superhuman Powers: Due to her age, Oracle's mutant powers are highly underdeveloped, and potentially very dangerous. First, she has the acute ability to Glimpse future events. Though not necessarily able to "see" what will happen within her own mind, she gains short, powerfully overwhelming, graphically detailed and accurate premonitions of occurrences that will take place in the future. As of yet, she is barely able to control when the Glimpses occur. A power Oracle is much more able to control is her unique form of mind control. She can physically manifest crystalline shards, which, upon contact with her intended target (actual contact with the shards is completely painless because her targets body would absorb them) serves as a mental link between the target and herself. Once the link is established, she is able to completely control a person’s physical being, though her target will know exactly what is occurring and what is going on around them. The links are only temporary, however, lasting at a maximum of five minutes.
Abilities/Special Skills: Beyond her knack for sassy comebacks and remarks, Chakah has a skill developed beyond her young age for throwing not only her mentally manifested crystalline shards, but also small knives, throwing stars and other projectiles to an exact target and degree. However, she usually utilizes only the crystalline shards, as Nexus won't let her within ten feel of metallic blades... more so for their own safety then anyone else's.
Weapons Used: Chakah's mentally manifested crystalline shards are usually her only utilized weapon, besides her smart-allecky mouth, of course.
Personality: Matrice is just as much of a fireball as her wild appearance would lead you to believe, if not more so. She's forever curious, adventurous, and extremely hyperactive, as well as a very out going, and often times very smart-allecky little kid. Simply put? She acts her age and at the level of discipline that has been instilled in her over the years- plenty, but for all of the wrong reasons. She takes no grief about her appearance, has little respect for authority that doesn't show her respect back, and has the sweet tooth from hell. (Which can be comparably dangerous. Sugar rush + Hyperactive squirt = BIG TROUBLE.) Despite being a bit of a brat, Chakah *loves* people of all kinds, finding them incredibly interesting- as long at they're not mean. In those cases she enjoys a good game of "make the bad guy flog himself unconscious with hi own shoe".
Personal Interests: OChakah is a Saturday morning cartoon-a-holic, as well as an avid comic book and Spiderman fanatic. She loves collecting action figures, playing video games, roller blading, causing any sort of trouble, and absolutely hates both school and having to sit still in any one place for an extended amount of time. She loves the color purple, any food with massive amounts of sugar and is petrified of snakes and her inability to control herself during her attacks of premonition.
History:
(Up to the beginning of the Nexus: Wrath of Kayn story arc.) Matrice Manchakah spent her entire childhood living in, running away from, and being drug right back to the Witworth Orphanage in Manchester England. Upon her arrival at the orphanage as an infant it soon became apparent that Chakah had little chance of being adopted due to her stark mutant appearance. Chakah was a bitter, sassy child growing up. She despised the nuns that took care of she and the other children, accept for Sister Dorothy, the Nun with the gimp leg, a source of many of the orphan children's mockery, and one of the few of the adults of the children's home who had taken kindly to The Oracle. The rest of the nuns, and especially the Headmaster, Sister Superior, saw the child as little more then a freakish little gnome, and a perfect example to utilize to the other children in the institution by way of discipline. Chakah was beaten regularly.
Upon the manifestation of her powers, Chakah was thrust completely out of any social ranking amongst her peers, and into an even worse standing with her Catholic caretakers. Her random attacks of Premonition frightened her peers, and they shunned her because of it, and she, in turn, often used her mind control abilities to make the lives of those who bullied her a living hell, which, of course, kept her shut up in the Dean's office on a regular basis.
Another unfortunate side effect of her powers was put into play upon the very second her first Glimpse of time erupted. She ruptured the continuum, jolted and snagged the attention of the madman Father of the Atom- Nathan McCreigh, the wicked wackjob mutant known by few as Kayn, who has every intention of manipulating her abilities to his own twisted benefit, and soon.