Name: Scott Summers (Scotty)

Age: 23

Alias: Cyclops

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Abilities: Cyclops can emit powerful beams of energy from his eyes. He cannot control the beams without the aid of special eyewear which he must wear at all times.

Skills: He has only a few skills, mainly stealing and other things that make him the perfectly moulded criminal. He's nearly silent on his feet, can pick a lock to pretty much anything and is comfortable with using guns and things like that. He has some good close combat fighting skills but rarely uses them.

Personality Traits: Scott is an emotionally unstabe and fragile spirited man. Though his tough look suggests otherwise, he is very kind and likes to avoid conflit as much as possible. He fears a lot of things and trusts no one. Any physical contact with others draws out panic as he is so used to being beated or emotionally/sexually abused. Scarred is an understatement to how messed up he is. Though he keeps a lock on how much pain he really feels, the years of horror he faced can be easily read on his face. Even when smiling, he looks sad. Though this causes him to be soft and distant from many people, there is a small piece of him inside that still keeps him fighting through it all.

When he is around people he keeps himself closed off, only showing a cold shell of his inner self or whatever he wants others to see him as.

Backstory: Scott Summers is the oldest son of Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot in the U.S. Air Force and his wife Katherine Ann. His younger brother is Alex, now age 13 (later known as Havok) who has some undiscovered powers that are much like Scott's. At a younge age, Scott lost both of his parents during a freak accident while the family was travelling on a long trip in a train. The Summers' were moving off of an Air Force base where they had been permitted to live most of their lives. His father having been restationed in a base near New York City caused the family to uproot everything and take a hours long trip to plant roots somewhere else.

Though it is unknown to Scott how the accident happened, as the train travelled over a bridge that passed a few hundred feet above a large expanse of water, the bridge failed, crumbling under the weight of the train, collapsing and taking the train and everyone inside along with it. In a desperate attempt to save her children, Scott's mother literally broke through a window and shoved the two of them out of it. As Scott and Alex fell into the water seperate from those in the train, Scott would get hit in the head by a piece of bridge debris, causing damage to the part of his brain that would have later allowed him to controll his optical blasts. Scott and Alex both would be the only survivors of the wreck as the other passengers would drown as the train sank to the bottom of the water.

The two were both found and treated soon after, the bridge being only a mile or so from a nearby suburb of the city with a few families living there. Scott and Alex both suffered trauma induced amnesia from the accident, Alex getting the worst of it, being so young (about age 5) having forgotten most of his memories of Scott or their parents. Scott (around age 15) having only forgotten about the accident himself and not knowing why when he awoke that his parents were gone, when told about the accident and how his parents were likely killed in the disaster, Scott was thrown into a panic where he, for the first time, would unleash the power of his optical blasts, destroying a good part of the small town hospital that him and his brother were admitted to.

Shortly after he would lose consciousness and awake one year later in a different hospital, having been the subject to various tests in an orphanage located in Nebraska. He spent a few years there, being harassed and bullied and prevented from having anyone adopt him. At one point he was suffering severe headaches, a sign that his power was going to soon flare up again and was sent to a specialist. He was given a pair of ruby-quartz glasses that were meant to prevent his power from getting out of hand. The problem was when he would be beaten up by bullies or his glasses would get taken, he had to struggle and keep his eyes closed in fear of unleasing the deadly blast that came from his eyes.

Scott lived the rest of his years in fear of his ability and of people finding out. When he was finally old enough to be released from the orphanage, Scott, now 18, travelled around, hoping to find his way back to New York where he thought his brother may be. Eventually he caught the attention of a mutant criminal who used and abused the already weak spirited and emotionally drained teen. Whenever Scott wanted to be free of his clutches, he was beated into submission, the poor mutant eventually not trying to escape.

For the past 5 years, Scott still has his emotional fragility, but has grown stronger. Strong enough to stand up for himself and take control of his powers to a certain extent. Though he had finally reached the point he could easily take down the mutant criminal who he worked for, the man had Scott wrapped around his finger, keeping the fear in Scott too pronounced to ever dare try to escape.

Recently, Charles Xavier along with the help of some federal officials helped to take down the criminal, but Scott was also subject to punishment for being his accomplice. In an effort to get Scott out of some terrible trouble, Charles would offer him solace at the school he was now forming in New York. This brought a new found hope for Scott as he wanted to still find his younger brother, wondering if he had the same powers as he did. Encouraged by this, he would agree to go with Charles and finally give up the life of fear and pain he had been subject to all this time.

Other: He always needs to wear his special pair of sunglasses, even in his sleep. The lenses are made of a material called ruby-quartz, that for some reason, keeps his powers in check. For this reason, no one usually sees the true ocean blue color of his eyes. Though it no longer bothers him, he sees the world with a subtle red tint to it, not because of his glasses, but his eyes themselves.