Name: Rasplavleniye [Goes by Rasputin or Ras for simplicity sake, will also answer to 'Rassy'] Codename: Meltdown Age: 5~ Gender: Identifies as Male Place of Birth: Chernobyl NPP Zone of Alienation, Ukraine Affiliations: The League It's possible that he was once affiliated with the Russian government, but he doesn't remember it. Occupation: Local Radiation Sink! not officially 'occupied', but he does have a lot of engineering knowledge, a strange imagination, and in depth knowledge about radiation of many types, including solar... He's probably the one to call if your Reactor is about to meltdown. Appearance: [Hider=Image] On standard he's about 8 feet tall, though with his 'fluid' body he can vary roughly 50% up or down to vary his density. [IMG]http://oi61.tinypic.com/10ndb9l.jpg[/IMG] [/Hider] Powers: [Hider=Powers] Core Body - Ras's 'actual' body is technically a core, roughly 6 inches in diameter normally and made of some unknown, durable, and sentient, material Capable of absorbing, and indeed subsisting, on Radiation of many kinds, including fire, solar rays, and of course nuclear. His core is durable enough to take a beating, more likely to be ejected from his protective Fluids than to be broken, can also repair from lesser damage at the expendature of some stored energy, but is far from indestructible and he's not interested in finding out what his limit is if he can help it. Psycho-Magnetic Field/Psycho Magnetic Anti-Radiation Fluids [P.M.A.R.F.] - His Core excretes a large ammount of anti radiation fluids that keep his radioactive core safely contained while he's concious, but it's also Magnetically active. This, along with a psychically controlled and precisely molded magnetic field allows him to shape this 'goop' into a vaguely humanoid shape, or any other manner of shapes, as well as condensing or relaxing it, and so on, as well as allowing him to manipulate most other objects without having to submerge them in goop. It is of course a 'minor' magnetic field, not strong enough to fully control anything not highly reactive to magnetic forces, like his fluids. Though through manipulation of his fluids with the field he can simulate moderate levels of super strength, though not speed or durability, but it does allow him to retrieve his goop at moderate distances to avoid leaving mess behind, or losing it. EM Radiation manipulation - The ability to both absorb and project Radiation of various types, including basic heat, solar energy, electricity, and the common nuclear radiation as well. The ability to re-absorb what he puts out is a vital effect for keeping himself from being a danger to innocents. This is also his main method of survival, as he 'lives' off of these energies, though like anything he can 'over-eat'... however, instead of a stomach ache, his core grows, or shrinks when expending enough energy, thus producing more fluids to keep itself contained and making him appear to shift size over-all. He tends to manipulate his fluids to expose his core in some small way to let off offense levels of energy in certain ways before absorbing it back. Currently he is known to be able to release stored energy as Heat, solar energy, and Nuclear Radiation. Lesser Telepathy - Being 'just a core', he naturally developed a method of communication that did not require a mouth, though he 'can' manipulate his goop to simulate sounds, it sounds... well... goopy, but he's getting better at it. Though his 'core' voice has a clearly russian accent, sounding surprisingly young for a 'dangerous radiation monster', though it also has that strange mental echo effect, and allows him to psychically communicate with anyone, or creature, that isn't resistant, blocking, or hostile, though he is limited to simply communicating... most of the time. when he gets drunk however, strangely enough, it amplifies somehow, allowing him to read emotions and surface thoughts in a very short range... it's not very helpful though since so far he has to be drunk to do it. [/Hider] Skills: Liquid stealth - That is to say, the ability to go unnoticed by virtue of most of his body being a liquid and being able to hide in places few would think anything could hide, or even right under their feet. Past skills? - He has Engineering and scientific knowledge from... somewhere, he doesn't really know where it came from but he has theories. He's not a super genius or anything but he can hold his own. He has minor knowledge of hand to hand combat training, and basic information on various weapons, mostly of russian design, but not enough to be considered properly 'trained'. He also has extensive knowledge related to Radioation, nuclear science, and other forms of energy, which has only expanded further since he awoke 'living' off of those energies. Equipment/Resources : A Special Suit created by Doctor Henry Nguyen - It helps him to refine his energy processing, allowing him to produce more focused and powerful Radioactive projections, as well as re-absorb the expelled energy at a superior rate, minimizing risk of collateral irradiation. It also compounds the protective nature of the fluids around his core by further containing his radioactive energies, minimizing loss and ensuring against any unwanted leakage making him dangerous in the long-term. The Suit is durable enough to shrug off small arms, general debris, and some explosives, Though it also 'contains' his P.M.A.R. Fluids, thus restricting the use of such in combat unless the suit gets damaged. Musical Device - A Small, water-proofed, solar powered, digital recorder/player that he keeps full of a rediculous variety of songs... He has a powerful liking for music, and seems to be affected by it in unusual ways depends on the type of song, and when one says variety, they mean it... He listens to everything from classical to dub-step, as long as it manages to excite him. Weaknesses: As the antithisis of Heat, and likewise 'energy', Cold reduces the heat stored in his body or his fluids, causing him to need to expend extra energy to keep up with his usual out-put. He 'can' be frozen, but it's very hard to do so, and it is not fatal so much as forcing his core into a hybernative state that conserves what energy it still contains for later. His Psycho magnetic field can easily be over-powered by stronger magnetic fields, with effects from greatly disrupting his ability to control the fluids around his core to out-right stripping it, causing a blast from stored energy releasing before his core goes into hybernation to avoid unleashing all hell around him, which coincidentally causes it to stop producing the protective fluids and greatly hardens it's outer shell. Psychic attacks are a point of uncertainty, he doesn't have any out-standing psychic defenses, but his 'mind' is of a completely different structure from humans... It's not impossible to affect him, but one may have to find the right 'way' to affect him. His fluid body is, just that, fluids, he is quite limited in how solid he can make it so far, a rubber like consistency is the best he's managed, and while this is good for physical interaction, it provides little defense in a fight against super powers. Bullets and the like may not harm him, but many things can easily 'remove' some of the fluids beyond his range of Psycho magnetism and force him to chase it or produce more, thus expending vital energy to regenerate, and the more energy he expends the smaller and weaker he gets. His main defense is being tricky with his Vital core, if it is removed, while it is quite dangerous to do so, it also causes him to go into a defensive hybernative state that hardens the core while containing the energy remaining within to prevent a meltdown, but renders him virtually useless outside of psychic communication. Psychological Profile: Ras shows extensive examples of ignorance and inexperience, though this is understandable being that he'd only been 'alive' for a few years, yet despite this he has already developed a strong Moral compass, or seems to have at least, has a habit of approaching many, new, non hostile things with a child like curiousity. Occasionally he shows a unique sort of wisdom, and tends to interpret things in unexpected ways, he learns quickly, but it's also possible that he could be manipulated unwittingly if he's not careful, for which reason he often 'is' careful about new people he meets, Though he seems slow to 'trust' fully, he doesn't hesitate to give a new person plenty of chance to earn it. Biography: Excerpt from Interview with Jennifer Chen after first encounter in America. "I was discovered in the remains of one of Chernobyl's Reactors, shortly after the Event I heard was called 'The Awakening', an Oddly fitting since It seems that it gave me life. I don't remember what, if anything, took place before the awakening, Though I do have unusual pieces of 'experience' with things that still surfaces from time to time, mostly related to Maintenance and consequences of nuclear power technology... moving on... when they found me they thought... I don't know, perhaps that I was some strange artifact created by the awakening, That may not entirely inaccurate ultimately, But it seemed that I had been in hibernation until they touched my core, which seems to have been responsible for waking me up. Unfortunately the results of waking up a living nuclear core were...not pretty. It took a while to first start producing this Protective fluid to hold back the excess Off-put, I have since worked a lot on more quickly switching between hibernation and production to minimize exposure time if it ever happens again. Of course, I had no memories at the time, I didn't know what I was doing, or what I was It was only later I realized how remarkably lucky I was to have encountered a Hermit couple living 'near' the zone instead of soldiers... They were remarkably understanding of the state I was in and didn't seem to fear once they realized I was just 'there' and not attacking, and I actually learned how to speak there, verbally I mean, I could already 'think' at other people, but They helped wake up the rest of 'me', morals, preferences, emotions, gave life to instinctual memories I had... I managed to hide out there for almost a year before someone less local found out about me and, well, I'm sure you know what happens in some countries when words reaches a less than benevolent government official that some potentially exploitable creature has been found I spent the years since wandering the world, appearing occasionally, but mostly avoiding people... I was kindof unhealthy to be around while I was less experienced in keeping myself 'contained' so I tried my best to simply stay out of the way, to watch and learn about or from people... Until I heard about the League, A group of... people and 'creatures' of different kinds working together? It seemed too good to be true, but it was worth the uncertainty to chance not having to live with quite so much Solitude It was a bit... troublesome, to get over-seas without causing an incident... I had to 'abort' several attempts to sneak aboard planes, a boat worked better eventually and it wasn't hard for me to get 'noticed' by the League once I was here... And now Here I am, I know it's not much detail, but I really don't have much memory to apply to it outside of theories, and I'd rather keep those quiet until I know more."