Charlotte 'Kira' Katherine Ashcroft

Code Name: Chenoa

Race: Human Mutant/Alien (Torelan)

Sex: Female

Age: Appears to be 21-22 years

Hair: Cinnamon Brown

Eyes: Amber

Height: 5'6"

Weight: 120

Skin color: Pale Ivory

Powers: Strong telepathic abilities with limited telekinetics. Because of her preference for hand to hand fighting, her powers are not as developed as they could be.

Learned Skills: Charlotte is an Immortal-trained sword fighter - her teacher is Matthew Brouwer, her adopted son. She learned to use knives and weaponless fighting techniques from her shaman bondmate.

Born December 1695 in the Virginia Colony to the second son of an English earl and his Torelan (alien) wife, Charlotte was raised in a loving, affluent home with parents who adored her. Her every wish was granted and she never knew what it was to want for love and attention. This upbringing has influenced her entire life and the way she views the world and those around her. In 1717, the family returned to England after receiving word the earl and his eldest son were killed. Thomas Ashcroft became the fourth earl of Masters. In 1723, Thomas and Lael Ashcroft were killed in a carriage accident, leaving twenty-eight year old Charlotte alone.

Charlotte inherited her father's unentailed estate, most of which was in land holdings both in the Old and New Worlds, along with her mother's legacy of Torelan technology.

With her father's fortunes behind her, Charlotte became the target of would-be suitors, some of whom used unscrupulous means to reach their goals. Her uncle Edgar Ashcroft, the fifth Earl of Masters, was pressured to arrange a marriage between his niece and a neighboring lord.

Charlotte forced her uncle to release and assist her in escaping the situation, the first notable time she used her telepathy to manipulate those around her for personal reasons, returning to the New World with a several servants and her second cousin, Robert Ashcroft.

The cousins divided their time between New York and the Virginia plantation, and later Boston, where Robert felt most at home. They posed as husband and wife when necessary, father and daughter in Robert's later years. Robert finally passed away almost on the eve of what would be known as the Revolutionary War.

Their life was one of leisure and travel. They visited many different countries, much like her mother had, and over the course of their travels met many of her mother's fellow travelers. Some of whom are still alive in the present time, including Jadwin, her mother's closest friend and Charlotte's compater, or godfather.

After Robert's death, Charlotte made plans to travel west only to be disrupted when the war for independence broke out. She changed her plans and offered her homes as hospitals for the colonists' army. She briefly served as a courier for the rebel army during this time, setting herself on a path that she was to follow in the centuries to come.

After the war was over, and the American army victorious, she settled in New York City. Her appearance changed very little over these years, and Robert's demise forced her to hire 'chaperones' to avoid public speculation. It was at this time she formed a business partnership with a young lawyer, Gerald Addison. The law firm he founded continues to this day to represent her interests; William Addison, Gerald's 6 times great grandson, has been her attorney for the last 30 years. He 'inherited' her from his father, as his father before him. It has been a successful and profitable relationship.

In 1796 Charlotte completed her plans to travel West.

An odd streak of luck brought her to the Pacific Northwest, where she met and bonded to a shaman of the Quapoa tribe in the late 1798. The tribe practiced magic, and she learned quite a bit from her shaman husband before his death in 1852. They had one son, Thomas Ashcroft, aka Raven. Thomas is a member of the Legacy, working under the guise of the Luna Foundation in San Francisco.

In 1855, she traveled east again, only to become involved with the suffrage movement in New York briefly until the war between the states began in 1860. At that time, she once again served as a courier between North and South, operating a station on the Underground Railroad.

In the late 1890s, Charlotte and Thomas met Matthew Brouwer in Paris, and with the help of an unruly crowd, he became a member of their little family, as dear to Charlotte as her own son.

In 1942, as a member of an small infiltration unit based in England, she met and bonded to John Logan (Wolverine) when she went after the killers who massacred her team, giving him the bonding medallion her shaman husband wore during his lifetime. Logan disappeared soon afterwards and she assumed he was dead.

The years after W.W.II were spent in study and solitude, catching up on the technologies that came about, refining her techniques with both sword and knives.

Through Thomas, she made the acquaintance of Dr. Henry McCoy, forming a fast correspondence friendship that would become very important to her.

In May of 1998, Hank finally persuaded her to visit him in New York City, at which time she encountered Logan again. His experiences and the experiments he was forced to undergo had taken any memory he had of her. He still wore the medallion, not understanding why he continued to be attached to it. After receving those memories from her, they decided to see where this relationship would take them.

To be continued.