Post by Asgard on Sept 22, 2019 20:49:18 GMT
Name: Ukume
Alias: None
Age: 39, but looks mid 20's.
Gender: female
Race: Half human/half Asgardian
Alignment: Good
Pre-existing or Original: OC
Date of Birth: August 29
Place of Birth: Wakanda, Africa
Physical Appearance:
Ukume stands 6 feet 2 inches tall, and weighs around 440 pounds (her weight is due to her Asgardian durability and unique appearance). She has short brown hair, just reaching her shoulders, but she usually keeps it even shorter. She has brown eyes, and a very pretty face, that can also be fairly intimidating when she is angry. She also has an unusually long tongue that is 6 inches long. She was born with 2 pairs of arms (that are right under each other, that allow total and normal mobility), and two fully functional black-furred cat tails, that stem from the single tailbone. While born as a female, Ukume was born with a fully functional male se organ. (something that would add to her embarresment and humiliation in the Outside World).
Her usual attire is mostly traditional Wakandan colorful clothing, but wares standard business attire when doing business. Her warrior gear is a mix of Wakandan and Asgardian and includes, body armor and helmet (Asgardian), a round Vibranium shield (Wakandan), a (Wakandan) spear or (Asgardian) sword, or Basher (an enhanced war hammer of Asgardian make).
Pic Base: Letitia Wright
Special Abilities:
-Superhuman durability and strenght.
-Enhanced speed, endurance, agility.
-Peak human speed and reaction time.
-Enhanced hearing, scent, sight and taste.
-Accelerated healing (Somewhat faster then Captain America but still considerably slower then Wolverine)
-Weather manipulation: wind (Ukume is able to create wind from mere nothing, ranging from a slight breeze to stronger gusts of wind that can knock over a person. The wind that she creates stays the same until she wills it differently), rain (she can create humidity ranging anywhere from list mist to intense rain from mere nothing), heat (like wind, Ukume can control the temperature of a smaller area, and the temperature will stay the same until she wills it differently).
-Superhuman lung capacity: (her sneezes uncontrollably unleash her full lung capacity, with her sneezes causing larger gusts of wind. These gusts are capable of gently shoving a person, who is standing at around 10-12 feet away. While covering her face, these gusts are fairly less powerful.
-Electricity creation: (Do to her Asgardian mature, her body can emmit large amounts of electricity, and can call on the electric atoms in the air, gathering even more electricity, storing it within her body.)
Strengths: Her powers and abilities and combat experience make her a great asset, she is strong willed and a good leader.
Weaknesses:
-Not the most skilled in combat, not the best leader in a fight, she is still human somewhere and an be killed with enught damage.
-Weather manipulation: Ukume is not too skilled, and is unable to produce very large scale and powerful effects. Rain (Ukume is only able to create rain within a 1,6 km radius at any given time, unable to expand the size of the area at the moment). Wind (Making and sustaining very strong gusts of wind (that can knock a person down) causes her to have to greatly strain and also to tire very easily to the point of literally passing out after even a short time (30 seconds).
-Senses: Ukume dose not have control to select and focus on specific scents and sounds. As a resort, she smells and hears everything within a specific distance. This causes her hearing and scent to be fairly easily overloaded by loud noises or very strong scents.
-Sneezing: while usually only using a part of her her full lung capacity, her sneezes uncontrollably use her full lung capacity, sometimes casing annoyance or even slight accidents.
-Healing: her healing is not as effective as wolverine, and if suffering severe injuries, she would need medical attention, despite her healing. Also, if her injury is severe enught, she can die from the injury.
-Electricity and Wind: While she can emmit large amounts of electricity, and having a great resistance to electric attack, she can clearly be effected by other more powerful or skilled uses. Likewise, she can be bested by more powerful or skilled wind users.
Weapons:
-Light body armor and helmet (Asgardian), a round Vibranium shield (Wakandan), a (Wakandan) spear or (Asgardian) sword, or Basher (an enhanced war hammer of Asgardian make).
-Enchanted hammer: Forged from Uru, a very durable metal, her hammer has also been fused with a very powerful enchantment. Ukume is capable to willing the hammer to her, wherever the weapons may be. Only those who are worthy can wield Basher, for everybody else, it is unable to be lifted. Ukume is able to fly using the hammer.
-Tech Gauntlets: Ukume also uses two gauntlet-like devices that are energy blasters, and are part of her combat gear on most occasions. these are of Wakandan design/built and are powered by small Vibranium crystals to produce the energy for the blasts. The blasts are single busts of energy like a gun firing off rounds.
Skills:
-Cooking: (Taken an interest in cooking at a young age, she has learned in a great culinary school, under great chefs, and in a number of the most prestigious restaurants)
-Multilingual: Fluent in Wakandan, Asgardian English, French, Italian, Japanese.
-Seasoned fighter (Has being trained to a fair extent in Wakandan martial arts, improvised weapons, wrestling, and is very well trained with the use of shields, spears, warhammer)
-Singing: attending 200 concerts, from age 5, and singing along to all of them, Ukume is pretty good at singing, only on her own without a band or musicians.
-Driving/piloting: Ukume has learned to pilot several Wakandan and Asgardian air crafts.
-Business skills: Ukume is fairly good negotiation skills, that she learned from simple experience over time, witch comes in very handy when she is doing business While not that good, she took up finances as a hobby and knows the basics of effectively making a profit.
Personality:
Ukume is somewhat complicated, she is an honorable warrior, who would willingly sacrifice herself to save her family and friends. As she grew up in a 2 very different cultures than what is usual, she still has trouble fitting in and learning the ways of the Outside World. She despises dishonorable people greatly. Ukume is very demanding and a perfectionist within the kitchen, but is clearly not as intense in reality as on screen, but still wants the very best of food in the least amount of time and outstanding performance of her kitchen staff. During episodes of Doom Kitchen, her outbursts, insults and yelling is to actually cause to competitors to push themselves harder. (think a female Gordon Ramsay.). Off screen, Ukume is actually a pretty friendly, kind and fun person.
She loves to go to concerts, and staying in luxury hotels, and being with friends and family, and really likes traveling. She however also wants to learn much more about the world and travel much more around Earth. Ukume however, is very grateful for the acceptance into the X-Men and is both eager to prove her worth to the much more experienced X-Men main team and will try hard not to disappoint the X-Men, even if it means compromising her own happiness or her wishes. She greatly respects others who are much more skilled, but in return also expects to be respected and is not afraid to voice her opinion and does what she believes is the right thing.
Despite being of two warrior cultures that greatly different from what others would be used to, she is not a savage brute, but rather fairly wise, and is generally known for being calm and focused in combat situations, sometimes making sarcastic comments to lighten the mood.
Ukume also is used to several Wakandan and Asgardian body language and cultural ways, that may be weird to outsiders, Likewise, she finds certain body languages, actions or non derogatory gestures to be offensive and rude.
While not seen, she talks with a fair Wakandan accent, and also has some Asgardian speech mannerism. She is also a deeply religious person, of the Panther Cult, and meditates/prays daily.
Due to being a mutant with such visible traits, she had to fight a little harder for her to be accepted in the general public, but still gets negative comments.
History:
Ukume was born in Wakanda in 1980, to a Wakandan father (who was a small time real estate investor in Europe and the US and small business owner (security) in Wakanda, the US and Europe) and an Asgardian warrior mother (who was a business owner (former minor investments in banking and oil companies. Now a small time real estate investor and the owner of a fairly large and very popular artist booking agency, called Central Artist Team co. ) ). Astrid invested in banking families and companies from the mid 1200's onward, Including the Medici family banking business (Banco dei Medici), banking businesses in Germany and France, Citibank, Lloyds Bank, Credit Suisse, and invested in Chevron from 1880, but sold off her earlier investments over time.
Her mother, being 1500 years old, visited Earth on a number of occasions, but only stayed for a few months or years on Earth on these occasions. She was visiting Midgard just to witness the happenings and general situation of earth in terms of technology. She also visited, to get an update on her investments. From 1964 however, Astrid actively took interest in music, and would frequent her visits to every few years or a decade.
In 1966, Astrid started up an artist and talent agency, called Central Artist Team co. that would have dozens of the most famous singers and musicians on the roster and would become one of the most popular artist booking agencies.
Her father, apart from a security business and real estate investments, was also and agent of the Wakandan War Dogs. Over time, he was stationed in NYC, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Paris, but had a fair number of missions around Europe and also the US and Japan. He used his business as a cover for his intelligence gathering and protecting Wakanda.
Ukume was born as a princess due to the heroic deeds that her mother, Astrid has done in Asgard. In gratitude for her deeds, she, and Ukume has got the title of princess. Ukume was born with 2 sets of arms and 2 cat tails, as a result of her mutation. She was also born with a fully functional male se organ, something that would cause embarresment and humiliation in the Outside world.
Her parents taught her English (Asgardian English) and Wakandan from the moment that she could speak. Her first visit to the strange Outside World was a visit to London in 1985 to the Live Aid concert. Due to her mother she was able to meet several of the artist performing at the concert (including her future friends, Celine Ryder and Catie). being greatly inspired, Ukume started being taken to other concerts too. Visiting concerts and some travelling where her only contact with the outside world, until she was 20 years old.
A few days after the Live Aid concert in 1985, she and her parents were still in London, when Ukume experience the first bullying, due to her mutant nature. Ukume was waiting for her parents at a local playground, when a somewhat older boy, kicked her and shoved her, causing her to hit her head, and called her a few bad names.
This incident caused her parents to start to train and teach her how to fight and protect herself against other such attacks. She would be trained by her parents and also a former member of the Dora Milaje for some time, gaining a fair amount of combat skills and experience in the form of sparring sessions. The bullying also taught her a very important lesson for life, to always be aware of her imminent surroundings and not instantly trust ordinary humans.
Going back to Wakanda a few days later, she would also start to be taken to other concerts as well. Ukume soon had several favorite live music venues and would start to attend concerts on her own at the age of 8.
Ukume started being interested in cooking and agriculture at the age of 10, learning about the different herbs, flowers, and plants and started learning different languages at the age of 12 (Italian, French, Japanese). Due to the difference in Wakandan culture, she started working at the earliest legal age to work, age 14. Despite being a princess, Ukume wanted to work to prove that she is not a lazy person and wanted to help out in something that she was good at. She worked part time in the kitchens of the Wakandan Royal Palace and sometimes as a direct servant to King T'Chaka himself, who regularly hosted private dinners and cocktail parties, and on rare occasions, public dinners and feast to invited guests. The King also often visited concerts, where he had a private VIP suite to watch the events in privacy. The suite had a private kitchen, where Ukume also worked part time. This kept both of the kitchens busy, and helped Ukume learn and gain experience earlier and faster then cooks of the Outside World.
She would meet the young prince T’Chala in 1998, and would go on to being both a friend to him and continue to serve both king and prince, when she was staying in Wakanda.
At the age of 15, she borrowed money from her parents and had a small brewery be built. Ukume then hired a single sales person in Wakanda, and 2 large vans for transport and 2 drivers, she also had a manager be hired to actually run the small business, while she was working. Her beer company soon started to become known in Wakanda, only doing business in the country for a few years but, laying a strong foundation for a future thriving business in the Outside World. The company advertised in Wakanda at first and once, the company had enough money, sponsored a few concerts of popular and very popular local singers and bands. This move got her beer company much more known and demand greatly rose. She would go on to supply several of the largest stadiums, indoor arenas, outdoor venues, hotels and clubs in the country. The King approved of her business in Wakanda, and was the person who encouraged Ukume to expand into the Outside World when she was old enough.
It was at the age of 16, when she was taken to Asgard, for a few weeks, to complete her training, where she was tested to see if she was truly ready to finish her training and find out if she was worthy to gain a powerful weapon. Ukume was tested in her combat and mental skills. Ukume had to solve a few riddles while being in a very intense sparring session, lasting for 12 hours by several seasoned warriors. While solving only 3 out of 5 riddles, she did pass the combat trial (although suffering several injuries and a dozen bruises in the process, and also getting floored several times). After passing the test, gained the right, and worthiness of wielding Basher, the mystical and enhanced warhammer. She then returned to Wakanda, while her mother continued to work in the Outside World. She would however continued to visit concerts both in and outside of Wakanda. On return to Wakanda, she also gained a unique silver colored round Vibranium shield.
Ukume however still worked at the Wakandan Royal Palace part time, and spend the rest of her time often going to concerts, on more rare occasions traveling around the US and Europe.
Ukume left left the kitchens of the Wakandan Royal Palace in 2000, and left Wakanda for some time, semi-settled down in Paris, and used the The Ritz-Escoffier School of French Gastronomy of Hotel Ritz Paris, where she was trained by Japanese, Chinese, French, English, Italian, American, Indian and other very skilled chefs to perfect her skills, and in return also taught others African and Wakandan cuisine. She was trained there for a few months.
During that time, she spends most of her money and bought a small brewery in London, setting it up as a separate business from the Wakandan brewery. She also hired a small sales team in Europe and the US and did a fair bit of advertising in the US and around Europe. Ukume would start to supply her beer in a number of large and busy arenas and stadiums in both continents. Her beer would slowly get to be somewhat popular in both the US and Europe, naturally taking a few years until the company was more known.
After a few weeks of setting up the London location, she continued to be in the Ritz-Escoffier School, but very soon, Ukume was offered a part time position in the kitchen of the Hotel Ritz Paris, where she worked a few months in all.
After a few months of working at the Ritz, Ukume applied to another Paris hotel, Hotel Le Bristol and after another few months, Four Seasons Hotel George V. As she was working there part time, she also had the time to visit concerts on much of her time and travel on rarer occasions. After almost a year that she spent working in Paris, she was offered short term and part time Sous-Chef position in the Ritz Hotel in London, after her contract ended, she applied and was accepted for a another short term and part time Sous-Chef position in The Dorchester, in London, but staying for only 3 months before her contract was over.
In 2002, Ukume got a job as a Sous-Chef back in Paris, in hotel Le Bristol, and also as a part time Sous-Chef in Four Seasons Hotel George V. In the same year she bough her first restaurant in Paris.
In 2003, at the age of 23, at Ukume was offered a job as the (part time) Head Chef in Geneva, in the InterContinental Geneva, greatly boosting her prestige, with a contract of 6 months.
After her contract was over, in the same year, Ukume started a TV show, called Doom Kitchen, using The Ritz-Escoffier School of Hotel Ritz, as the home of the TV show. She was the executive chef of the reality TV show.
The show became pretty popular in the US, UK, France and Italy, and to some extent Japan and a few other countries in Europe, and showcased her outstanding culinary skills as well as the skills that her selected team of cooks where showing, with each season Ukume assembling a different team, what narrowed down to 2 finalist and a single winner, who got to be head chefs in her restaurants. The show got Ukume fairly well known within the general population of the world. Even though the show only had 3 seasons (2003, 2004, 2005) before it was cancelled, it made Ukume the most popular and known female chef. After the first season production was finished Ukume was offered a position as Head chef at the Savoy Grill operated by Gordon Ramsay. She was working there part time, for half a year.
Wanting some time away from the kitchens, she also realized that she has achieved pretty much everything in terms of cooking that others could only dream of and decided to step back from active cooking, turning into more of a guide.
In 2005, not actively working as a chef anymore, she would continue to visit concerts, travel on occasion, and also visit Asgard and Wakanda for weeks at a time.
It was in 2005, when she appeared as a guest in season 2 of Hell's Kitchen in the US. She however, continued to attend concerts and, spend time in both Wakanda and Asgard with her parents. And occasionally bought ownership and operation or just management of a number of fine dining restaurants.
In 2011, she thought of building an integrated casino resort in NYC, and after spending much of her money on the design, permits, land buying and construction, furnishing, and staffing of the medium sized casino resort, Ukume uses a tiny weather generator that was a Wakandan design, that changed the weather around her resort to permanently reflect the warm weather of Las Vegas. She opened the hotel in early 2012 at the age of 32. The resort became an instant hit, and actually turned a slight profit in the first full year of operation. While she did not have a branded restaurant in the resort, Uume owned and operated everything within the resort.
She was not keen on owning anything as big, but would either buy or build and open a number of other restaurants.
Apart from being in Wakanda, and travels to the Outside world for business trips, to visit concerts and to occasionally travel, she spent weeks at a time in Asgard as well, spending time with her mother and traveling around.
In Wakanda the coronation of King T’Chala, and following feast was partially managed by Ukume. And after spending a few months in Wakanda, she continued to attent concerts and lean about the world.
Also recently, while in NYC, Ukume was offered a place in a special school for gifted youngsters. Accepting, she now is ready to join and finally learn more about the Outside World.
Assets: From age 20, 2000:
- Owns and operates, or just operates, branded fine dining restaurants, steakhouses, bars/lounges: her 47 restaurants and bars/lounges are found in a number of cities. Paris, London, Geneva, Prague, Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Tokyo, New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Chicago. Her restaurants/bars/lounges can be found in the most prestigious and famous hotels, casino resorts. Also, 3 of her Vegas locations also include 3 small microbreweries. (these locations also include transportation units for distribution).
EUROPE:
2002 (Paris: Hotel Ritz, including microbrewery)
2003 (Cologne: Dom-Hotel, including microbrewery)
2006 (London: Savoy Hotel, including microbrewery)
2006 (Geneva: InterContinental Geneva)
2006 (Berlin: Hotel Adlon Kempinski)
2007 (Paris: Hotel Le Bristol)
2007 (Munich: Bayerischer Hof)
2008 (Paris: Four Seasons Hotel George V.)
2010 (London: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park)
2013 (Vienna: Grand Hotel Wien)
2014 (Prague: Four Seasons Hotel)
2017 (Munich: Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski)
2018 (London: JW Marriott Grosvenor House London)
US: (OOC: All Vegas and Macau locations are steakhouse/restaurant, bar and lounge, to attract the most guests possible.
2003 (Vegas: Caesars Palace, including microbrewery)
2003 (NYC: Madison Square Garden, included microbrewery from 2003-2012)
2004 (Vegas: MGM Grand, including microbrewery)
2004 (Vegas: Mandalay Bay, including microbrewery)
2005 (Vegas: Circus Circus)
2005 (Vegas: Harrahs Las Vegas)
2006 (Vegas: Venetian)
2007 (NYC: Four Seasons Hotel New York)
2007 (Vegas: Planet Hollywood Las Vegas)
2008 (NYC: The Peninsula New York)
2009 (Los Angeles: Sunset Marquis Hotel)
2009 (Chicago: The Drake)
2009 (Philadelphia: The Warwich)
2009 (Vegas: Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino)
2009 (Vegas: Wynn Las Vegas)
2010 (Vegas: Paris Las Vegas)
2010 (San Francisco: The Westin St. Francis)
2010 (Vegas: Palazzo)
2011 (Los Angeles: The Peninsula Beverly Hills)
2011 (San Francisco: Fairmont San Francisco)
2011 (Vegas: Luxor)
2011 (Vegas: Aria Resort and Casino)
2014 (Vegas: Bellagio)
2016 (San Francisco: The Palace Hotel)
2016 (Vegas: New York-New York)
2017 (NYC: Waldorf Astoria New York)
2017 (Chicago: The Peninsula Chicago)
2018 (San Francisco: InterContinental Mark Hopkins)
2019 (Vegas: Ballys Las Vegas)
OTHER PLACES:
2009 (Tokyo: Mandarin Oriental,Tokyo)
2013 (Tokyo: The Peninsula Tokyo)
2014 (Macau: Venetian Macau)
2016 (Macau: Wynn Palace)
2017 (Tokyo: Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo)
Age 32, 2012: NYC resort.: Ukume got the money to fund the NYC resorts from profits of her 2 breweries, the income from the episodes of her own TV show and guest appearance of Hell’s kitchen, the profits of her restaurants, and a smaller loan from a bank. The hotel general manager runs the day to day activities of the resort.
- 5-star hotel with units ranging in price from $350 to $10,000 per night (420 rooms, 80 suites)
- Steakhouse, international restaurant and bar/lounge, cafe/international restaurant (in a hotel)
- 7500 cap music venue (VIP restaurant and bar, bistro, 4 fast food outlets)
- 500 m2 meeting space
- 2 story casino, (6000 m2 gaming space: 112 table games, more than 2150 slot machines) with VIP restaurant and bar/lounge, restaurant, bar/lounge.
- hotel vehicle fleet: 4 Rolls-Royce cars, 4 Mercedes cars, 2 limos, 2 minivans. 2 private jets.
- 100 car underground parking for hotel, 300 car and 6 bus parking for arena, 20 car and 2 bus VIP area.
- 50,000 HL beer/year capacity brewery (right next to and part of the resort), with a 4 truck/trailer transportation fleet.
Alias: None
Age: 39, but looks mid 20's.
Gender: female
Race: Half human/half Asgardian
Alignment: Good
Pre-existing or Original: OC
Date of Birth: August 29
Place of Birth: Wakanda, Africa
Physical Appearance:
Ukume stands 6 feet 2 inches tall, and weighs around 440 pounds (her weight is due to her Asgardian durability and unique appearance). She has short brown hair, just reaching her shoulders, but she usually keeps it even shorter. She has brown eyes, and a very pretty face, that can also be fairly intimidating when she is angry. She also has an unusually long tongue that is 6 inches long. She was born with 2 pairs of arms (that are right under each other, that allow total and normal mobility), and two fully functional black-furred cat tails, that stem from the single tailbone. While born as a female, Ukume was born with a fully functional male se organ. (something that would add to her embarresment and humiliation in the Outside World).
Her usual attire is mostly traditional Wakandan colorful clothing, but wares standard business attire when doing business. Her warrior gear is a mix of Wakandan and Asgardian and includes, body armor and helmet (Asgardian), a round Vibranium shield (Wakandan), a (Wakandan) spear or (Asgardian) sword, or Basher (an enhanced war hammer of Asgardian make).
Pic Base: Letitia Wright
Special Abilities:
-Superhuman durability and strenght.
-Enhanced speed, endurance, agility.
-Peak human speed and reaction time.
-Enhanced hearing, scent, sight and taste.
-Accelerated healing (Somewhat faster then Captain America but still considerably slower then Wolverine)
-Weather manipulation: wind (Ukume is able to create wind from mere nothing, ranging from a slight breeze to stronger gusts of wind that can knock over a person. The wind that she creates stays the same until she wills it differently), rain (she can create humidity ranging anywhere from list mist to intense rain from mere nothing), heat (like wind, Ukume can control the temperature of a smaller area, and the temperature will stay the same until she wills it differently).
-Superhuman lung capacity: (her sneezes uncontrollably unleash her full lung capacity, with her sneezes causing larger gusts of wind. These gusts are capable of gently shoving a person, who is standing at around 10-12 feet away. While covering her face, these gusts are fairly less powerful.
-Electricity creation: (Do to her Asgardian mature, her body can emmit large amounts of electricity, and can call on the electric atoms in the air, gathering even more electricity, storing it within her body.)
Strengths: Her powers and abilities and combat experience make her a great asset, she is strong willed and a good leader.
Weaknesses:
-Not the most skilled in combat, not the best leader in a fight, she is still human somewhere and an be killed with enught damage.
-Weather manipulation: Ukume is not too skilled, and is unable to produce very large scale and powerful effects. Rain (Ukume is only able to create rain within a 1,6 km radius at any given time, unable to expand the size of the area at the moment). Wind (Making and sustaining very strong gusts of wind (that can knock a person down) causes her to have to greatly strain and also to tire very easily to the point of literally passing out after even a short time (30 seconds).
-Senses: Ukume dose not have control to select and focus on specific scents and sounds. As a resort, she smells and hears everything within a specific distance. This causes her hearing and scent to be fairly easily overloaded by loud noises or very strong scents.
-Sneezing: while usually only using a part of her her full lung capacity, her sneezes uncontrollably use her full lung capacity, sometimes casing annoyance or even slight accidents.
-Healing: her healing is not as effective as wolverine, and if suffering severe injuries, she would need medical attention, despite her healing. Also, if her injury is severe enught, she can die from the injury.
-Electricity and Wind: While she can emmit large amounts of electricity, and having a great resistance to electric attack, she can clearly be effected by other more powerful or skilled uses. Likewise, she can be bested by more powerful or skilled wind users.
Weapons:
-Light body armor and helmet (Asgardian), a round Vibranium shield (Wakandan), a (Wakandan) spear or (Asgardian) sword, or Basher (an enhanced war hammer of Asgardian make).
-Enchanted hammer: Forged from Uru, a very durable metal, her hammer has also been fused with a very powerful enchantment. Ukume is capable to willing the hammer to her, wherever the weapons may be. Only those who are worthy can wield Basher, for everybody else, it is unable to be lifted. Ukume is able to fly using the hammer.
-Tech Gauntlets: Ukume also uses two gauntlet-like devices that are energy blasters, and are part of her combat gear on most occasions. these are of Wakandan design/built and are powered by small Vibranium crystals to produce the energy for the blasts. The blasts are single busts of energy like a gun firing off rounds.
Skills:
-Cooking: (Taken an interest in cooking at a young age, she has learned in a great culinary school, under great chefs, and in a number of the most prestigious restaurants)
-Multilingual: Fluent in Wakandan, Asgardian English, French, Italian, Japanese.
-Seasoned fighter (Has being trained to a fair extent in Wakandan martial arts, improvised weapons, wrestling, and is very well trained with the use of shields, spears, warhammer)
-Singing: attending 200 concerts, from age 5, and singing along to all of them, Ukume is pretty good at singing, only on her own without a band or musicians.
-Driving/piloting: Ukume has learned to pilot several Wakandan and Asgardian air crafts.
-Business skills: Ukume is fairly good negotiation skills, that she learned from simple experience over time, witch comes in very handy when she is doing business While not that good, she took up finances as a hobby and knows the basics of effectively making a profit.
Personality:
Ukume is somewhat complicated, she is an honorable warrior, who would willingly sacrifice herself to save her family and friends. As she grew up in a 2 very different cultures than what is usual, she still has trouble fitting in and learning the ways of the Outside World. She despises dishonorable people greatly. Ukume is very demanding and a perfectionist within the kitchen, but is clearly not as intense in reality as on screen, but still wants the very best of food in the least amount of time and outstanding performance of her kitchen staff. During episodes of Doom Kitchen, her outbursts, insults and yelling is to actually cause to competitors to push themselves harder. (think a female Gordon Ramsay.). Off screen, Ukume is actually a pretty friendly, kind and fun person.
She loves to go to concerts, and staying in luxury hotels, and being with friends and family, and really likes traveling. She however also wants to learn much more about the world and travel much more around Earth. Ukume however, is very grateful for the acceptance into the X-Men and is both eager to prove her worth to the much more experienced X-Men main team and will try hard not to disappoint the X-Men, even if it means compromising her own happiness or her wishes. She greatly respects others who are much more skilled, but in return also expects to be respected and is not afraid to voice her opinion and does what she believes is the right thing.
Despite being of two warrior cultures that greatly different from what others would be used to, she is not a savage brute, but rather fairly wise, and is generally known for being calm and focused in combat situations, sometimes making sarcastic comments to lighten the mood.
Ukume also is used to several Wakandan and Asgardian body language and cultural ways, that may be weird to outsiders, Likewise, she finds certain body languages, actions or non derogatory gestures to be offensive and rude.
While not seen, she talks with a fair Wakandan accent, and also has some Asgardian speech mannerism. She is also a deeply religious person, of the Panther Cult, and meditates/prays daily.
Due to being a mutant with such visible traits, she had to fight a little harder for her to be accepted in the general public, but still gets negative comments.
History:
Ukume was born in Wakanda in 1980, to a Wakandan father (who was a small time real estate investor in Europe and the US and small business owner (security) in Wakanda, the US and Europe) and an Asgardian warrior mother (who was a business owner (former minor investments in banking and oil companies. Now a small time real estate investor and the owner of a fairly large and very popular artist booking agency, called Central Artist Team co. ) ). Astrid invested in banking families and companies from the mid 1200's onward, Including the Medici family banking business (Banco dei Medici), banking businesses in Germany and France, Citibank, Lloyds Bank, Credit Suisse, and invested in Chevron from 1880, but sold off her earlier investments over time.
Her mother, being 1500 years old, visited Earth on a number of occasions, but only stayed for a few months or years on Earth on these occasions. She was visiting Midgard just to witness the happenings and general situation of earth in terms of technology. She also visited, to get an update on her investments. From 1964 however, Astrid actively took interest in music, and would frequent her visits to every few years or a decade.
In 1966, Astrid started up an artist and talent agency, called Central Artist Team co. that would have dozens of the most famous singers and musicians on the roster and would become one of the most popular artist booking agencies.
Her father, apart from a security business and real estate investments, was also and agent of the Wakandan War Dogs. Over time, he was stationed in NYC, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Paris, but had a fair number of missions around Europe and also the US and Japan. He used his business as a cover for his intelligence gathering and protecting Wakanda.
Ukume was born as a princess due to the heroic deeds that her mother, Astrid has done in Asgard. In gratitude for her deeds, she, and Ukume has got the title of princess. Ukume was born with 2 sets of arms and 2 cat tails, as a result of her mutation. She was also born with a fully functional male se organ, something that would cause embarresment and humiliation in the Outside world.
Her parents taught her English (Asgardian English) and Wakandan from the moment that she could speak. Her first visit to the strange Outside World was a visit to London in 1985 to the Live Aid concert. Due to her mother she was able to meet several of the artist performing at the concert (including her future friends, Celine Ryder and Catie). being greatly inspired, Ukume started being taken to other concerts too. Visiting concerts and some travelling where her only contact with the outside world, until she was 20 years old.
A few days after the Live Aid concert in 1985, she and her parents were still in London, when Ukume experience the first bullying, due to her mutant nature. Ukume was waiting for her parents at a local playground, when a somewhat older boy, kicked her and shoved her, causing her to hit her head, and called her a few bad names.
This incident caused her parents to start to train and teach her how to fight and protect herself against other such attacks. She would be trained by her parents and also a former member of the Dora Milaje for some time, gaining a fair amount of combat skills and experience in the form of sparring sessions. The bullying also taught her a very important lesson for life, to always be aware of her imminent surroundings and not instantly trust ordinary humans.
Going back to Wakanda a few days later, she would also start to be taken to other concerts as well. Ukume soon had several favorite live music venues and would start to attend concerts on her own at the age of 8.
Ukume started being interested in cooking and agriculture at the age of 10, learning about the different herbs, flowers, and plants and started learning different languages at the age of 12 (Italian, French, Japanese). Due to the difference in Wakandan culture, she started working at the earliest legal age to work, age 14. Despite being a princess, Ukume wanted to work to prove that she is not a lazy person and wanted to help out in something that she was good at. She worked part time in the kitchens of the Wakandan Royal Palace and sometimes as a direct servant to King T'Chaka himself, who regularly hosted private dinners and cocktail parties, and on rare occasions, public dinners and feast to invited guests. The King also often visited concerts, where he had a private VIP suite to watch the events in privacy. The suite had a private kitchen, where Ukume also worked part time. This kept both of the kitchens busy, and helped Ukume learn and gain experience earlier and faster then cooks of the Outside World.
She would meet the young prince T’Chala in 1998, and would go on to being both a friend to him and continue to serve both king and prince, when she was staying in Wakanda.
At the age of 15, she borrowed money from her parents and had a small brewery be built. Ukume then hired a single sales person in Wakanda, and 2 large vans for transport and 2 drivers, she also had a manager be hired to actually run the small business, while she was working. Her beer company soon started to become known in Wakanda, only doing business in the country for a few years but, laying a strong foundation for a future thriving business in the Outside World. The company advertised in Wakanda at first and once, the company had enough money, sponsored a few concerts of popular and very popular local singers and bands. This move got her beer company much more known and demand greatly rose. She would go on to supply several of the largest stadiums, indoor arenas, outdoor venues, hotels and clubs in the country. The King approved of her business in Wakanda, and was the person who encouraged Ukume to expand into the Outside World when she was old enough.
It was at the age of 16, when she was taken to Asgard, for a few weeks, to complete her training, where she was tested to see if she was truly ready to finish her training and find out if she was worthy to gain a powerful weapon. Ukume was tested in her combat and mental skills. Ukume had to solve a few riddles while being in a very intense sparring session, lasting for 12 hours by several seasoned warriors. While solving only 3 out of 5 riddles, she did pass the combat trial (although suffering several injuries and a dozen bruises in the process, and also getting floored several times). After passing the test, gained the right, and worthiness of wielding Basher, the mystical and enhanced warhammer. She then returned to Wakanda, while her mother continued to work in the Outside World. She would however continued to visit concerts both in and outside of Wakanda. On return to Wakanda, she also gained a unique silver colored round Vibranium shield.
Ukume however still worked at the Wakandan Royal Palace part time, and spend the rest of her time often going to concerts, on more rare occasions traveling around the US and Europe.
Ukume left left the kitchens of the Wakandan Royal Palace in 2000, and left Wakanda for some time, semi-settled down in Paris, and used the The Ritz-Escoffier School of French Gastronomy of Hotel Ritz Paris, where she was trained by Japanese, Chinese, French, English, Italian, American, Indian and other very skilled chefs to perfect her skills, and in return also taught others African and Wakandan cuisine. She was trained there for a few months.
During that time, she spends most of her money and bought a small brewery in London, setting it up as a separate business from the Wakandan brewery. She also hired a small sales team in Europe and the US and did a fair bit of advertising in the US and around Europe. Ukume would start to supply her beer in a number of large and busy arenas and stadiums in both continents. Her beer would slowly get to be somewhat popular in both the US and Europe, naturally taking a few years until the company was more known.
After a few weeks of setting up the London location, she continued to be in the Ritz-Escoffier School, but very soon, Ukume was offered a part time position in the kitchen of the Hotel Ritz Paris, where she worked a few months in all.
After a few months of working at the Ritz, Ukume applied to another Paris hotel, Hotel Le Bristol and after another few months, Four Seasons Hotel George V. As she was working there part time, she also had the time to visit concerts on much of her time and travel on rarer occasions. After almost a year that she spent working in Paris, she was offered short term and part time Sous-Chef position in the Ritz Hotel in London, after her contract ended, she applied and was accepted for a another short term and part time Sous-Chef position in The Dorchester, in London, but staying for only 3 months before her contract was over.
In 2002, Ukume got a job as a Sous-Chef back in Paris, in hotel Le Bristol, and also as a part time Sous-Chef in Four Seasons Hotel George V. In the same year she bough her first restaurant in Paris.
In 2003, at the age of 23, at Ukume was offered a job as the (part time) Head Chef in Geneva, in the InterContinental Geneva, greatly boosting her prestige, with a contract of 6 months.
After her contract was over, in the same year, Ukume started a TV show, called Doom Kitchen, using The Ritz-Escoffier School of Hotel Ritz, as the home of the TV show. She was the executive chef of the reality TV show.
The show became pretty popular in the US, UK, France and Italy, and to some extent Japan and a few other countries in Europe, and showcased her outstanding culinary skills as well as the skills that her selected team of cooks where showing, with each season Ukume assembling a different team, what narrowed down to 2 finalist and a single winner, who got to be head chefs in her restaurants. The show got Ukume fairly well known within the general population of the world. Even though the show only had 3 seasons (2003, 2004, 2005) before it was cancelled, it made Ukume the most popular and known female chef. After the first season production was finished Ukume was offered a position as Head chef at the Savoy Grill operated by Gordon Ramsay. She was working there part time, for half a year.
Wanting some time away from the kitchens, she also realized that she has achieved pretty much everything in terms of cooking that others could only dream of and decided to step back from active cooking, turning into more of a guide.
In 2005, not actively working as a chef anymore, she would continue to visit concerts, travel on occasion, and also visit Asgard and Wakanda for weeks at a time.
It was in 2005, when she appeared as a guest in season 2 of Hell's Kitchen in the US. She however, continued to attend concerts and, spend time in both Wakanda and Asgard with her parents. And occasionally bought ownership and operation or just management of a number of fine dining restaurants.
In 2011, she thought of building an integrated casino resort in NYC, and after spending much of her money on the design, permits, land buying and construction, furnishing, and staffing of the medium sized casino resort, Ukume uses a tiny weather generator that was a Wakandan design, that changed the weather around her resort to permanently reflect the warm weather of Las Vegas. She opened the hotel in early 2012 at the age of 32. The resort became an instant hit, and actually turned a slight profit in the first full year of operation. While she did not have a branded restaurant in the resort, Uume owned and operated everything within the resort.
She was not keen on owning anything as big, but would either buy or build and open a number of other restaurants.
Apart from being in Wakanda, and travels to the Outside world for business trips, to visit concerts and to occasionally travel, she spent weeks at a time in Asgard as well, spending time with her mother and traveling around.
In Wakanda the coronation of King T’Chala, and following feast was partially managed by Ukume. And after spending a few months in Wakanda, she continued to attent concerts and lean about the world.
Also recently, while in NYC, Ukume was offered a place in a special school for gifted youngsters. Accepting, she now is ready to join and finally learn more about the Outside World.
Assets: From age 20, 2000:
- Owns and operates, or just operates, branded fine dining restaurants, steakhouses, bars/lounges: her 47 restaurants and bars/lounges are found in a number of cities. Paris, London, Geneva, Prague, Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Tokyo, New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Chicago. Her restaurants/bars/lounges can be found in the most prestigious and famous hotels, casino resorts. Also, 3 of her Vegas locations also include 3 small microbreweries. (these locations also include transportation units for distribution).
EUROPE:
2002 (Paris: Hotel Ritz, including microbrewery)
2003 (Cologne: Dom-Hotel, including microbrewery)
2006 (London: Savoy Hotel, including microbrewery)
2006 (Geneva: InterContinental Geneva)
2006 (Berlin: Hotel Adlon Kempinski)
2007 (Paris: Hotel Le Bristol)
2007 (Munich: Bayerischer Hof)
2008 (Paris: Four Seasons Hotel George V.)
2010 (London: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park)
2013 (Vienna: Grand Hotel Wien)
2014 (Prague: Four Seasons Hotel)
2017 (Munich: Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski)
2018 (London: JW Marriott Grosvenor House London)
US: (OOC: All Vegas and Macau locations are steakhouse/restaurant, bar and lounge, to attract the most guests possible.
2003 (Vegas: Caesars Palace, including microbrewery)
2003 (NYC: Madison Square Garden, included microbrewery from 2003-2012)
2004 (Vegas: MGM Grand, including microbrewery)
2004 (Vegas: Mandalay Bay, including microbrewery)
2005 (Vegas: Circus Circus)
2005 (Vegas: Harrahs Las Vegas)
2006 (Vegas: Venetian)
2007 (NYC: Four Seasons Hotel New York)
2007 (Vegas: Planet Hollywood Las Vegas)
2008 (NYC: The Peninsula New York)
2009 (Los Angeles: Sunset Marquis Hotel)
2009 (Chicago: The Drake)
2009 (Philadelphia: The Warwich)
2009 (Vegas: Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino)
2009 (Vegas: Wynn Las Vegas)
2010 (Vegas: Paris Las Vegas)
2010 (San Francisco: The Westin St. Francis)
2010 (Vegas: Palazzo)
2011 (Los Angeles: The Peninsula Beverly Hills)
2011 (San Francisco: Fairmont San Francisco)
2011 (Vegas: Luxor)
2011 (Vegas: Aria Resort and Casino)
2014 (Vegas: Bellagio)
2016 (San Francisco: The Palace Hotel)
2016 (Vegas: New York-New York)
2017 (NYC: Waldorf Astoria New York)
2017 (Chicago: The Peninsula Chicago)
2018 (San Francisco: InterContinental Mark Hopkins)
2019 (Vegas: Ballys Las Vegas)
OTHER PLACES:
2009 (Tokyo: Mandarin Oriental,Tokyo)
2013 (Tokyo: The Peninsula Tokyo)
2014 (Macau: Venetian Macau)
2016 (Macau: Wynn Palace)
2017 (Tokyo: Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo)
Age 32, 2012: NYC resort.: Ukume got the money to fund the NYC resorts from profits of her 2 breweries, the income from the episodes of her own TV show and guest appearance of Hell’s kitchen, the profits of her restaurants, and a smaller loan from a bank. The hotel general manager runs the day to day activities of the resort.
- 5-star hotel with units ranging in price from $350 to $10,000 per night (420 rooms, 80 suites)
- Steakhouse, international restaurant and bar/lounge, cafe/international restaurant (in a hotel)
- 7500 cap music venue (VIP restaurant and bar, bistro, 4 fast food outlets)
- 500 m2 meeting space
- 2 story casino, (6000 m2 gaming space: 112 table games, more than 2150 slot machines) with VIP restaurant and bar/lounge, restaurant, bar/lounge.
- hotel vehicle fleet: 4 Rolls-Royce cars, 4 Mercedes cars, 2 limos, 2 minivans. 2 private jets.
- 100 car underground parking for hotel, 300 car and 6 bus parking for arena, 20 car and 2 bus VIP area.
- 50,000 HL beer/year capacity brewery (right next to and part of the resort), with a 4 truck/trailer transportation fleet.
