Name:
Dr. Charles Francis Xavier

Age:
30, born December 19th, 1916

Alias:
Professor X

Position in School:
Headmaster / Mutation 101 Teacher

Appearance:


Height:
5'7"

Costume (if any):


Abilities:

Telepathy:
Considered by many to be the strongest, most powerful telepath in the world, Professor Xavier can perceive the thoughts of others or project his own within a range of approximately 150 miles. His vast psionic powers enable him to manipulate the minds of others, warp perceptions to make himself and others appear invisible, project mental illusions, cause loss of particular memories or total amnesia, and induce pain or temporary mental and/or physical paralysis in others; though he is loath to use the latter three abilities unless absolutely necessary, given the moral and ethical dilemmas they pose.

Within close range, he can manipulate almost any number of minds for such simple feats. However, he can only take full possession of one other mind at a time, and must strictly be within that person's physical presence to do so. He is one of the few telepaths skilled enough to communicate with animals. He can also telepathically take away or control people's natural bodily functions and senses, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch. However, he cannot permanently "reprogram" human minds to believe what he might want them to believe even if he wanted to do so, believing that the mind is an organism that would always recall the steps necessary for it to reach the present and thus 'rewrite' itself to its original setting if he tried to change it; though such rewrites could theoretically take years, if not decades.

He can learn foreign languages by reading the language centers of the brain of someone adept, and alternately "teach" languages to others in the same manner, transmitting information between minds at an execrated speed.

Xavier can perceive the distinct mental presence/brain waves of other superhuman mutants within a small radius of himself (e.g. New York City.) To detect mutants in a wider area beyond this radius, he must amplify his powers through artificial augmentation to expand his psychic perception.

Should the need for offensive action occur, Charles can project concentrated bolts of psychic energy from his mind that can cause effects ranging from significant pain and discomfort, to loss of consciousness, or even permanent mental trauma and death; though Charles ensures that every potential alternate route is taken before resorting to outright violence.

Skills:
A natural genius, Charles is a renowned mind on the subjects of genetics, mutation, and psionics. He possesses considerable expertise in other life sciences such as biology, psychiatry, psychology, and anthropology. He is highly talented in devising equipment and techniques for utilizing and enhancing psionic powers, and is in the process of developing blueprints towards an "amplifier" capable of enhancing his telepathic range.

He is a gifted tactician and strategist, effectively evaluating situations and devising swift responses using both his intelligence and telepathic capability to his advantage. He constantly plays chess as a recreational activity in order to hone his strategic abilities.

Charles possesses a talent and passion for oratory and teaching, capable of holding a crowd to his attention despite his humble, unassuming appearance. His love of knowledge easily carries towards a love of sharing that knowledge, finding lessons woven into everyday occurrences to serve as a teaching opportunity for his students.

Surprisingly perceptive, Charles is capable of gauging a person's character, strengths, and weaknesses in a short amount of time, tailoring his teaching technique to best suit that student by complimenting on their strengths and compensating for their weaknesses.

Incredibly charismatic and even charming, Charles radiates a comforting and approachable aura that not only draws people to him, but calms them in his presence. He is quite capable of swaying others towards his point of view, and possesses a mixture of idealism, self-confidence, and intelligence that puts weight to his promises.

Personality Traits:
"Just because someone stumbles, loses their way, it doesn't mean they're lost forever."
-Charles Xavier

Philanthropist, scientist, humanitarian, and teacher, Charles Xavier has devoted the better part of his life to the betterment of both man and mutantkind, wishing to create a co-existing society where the human need not fear the mutant, and the mutant need not resent the human. Called a genius by many, a father figure and leader by his students, and a lunatic by his opponents, Charles presents himself as a moral, selfless, and benevolent teacher; possessing immense discipline and strength of character. Viewed as a pillar of strength and morality by many of his students and even co-teachers, Charles often puts his own needs and concerns aside to ensure the safety and well-being of those under his care comes first.

A fully-fledged genius, Charles spends much of his spare time in the pursuit of knowledge and learning, frequently finding new topics and histories to explore. His office is known to be packed to the brim with books and encyclopedias; while his desk is more-often-than-not crowded by some new map or tome from ancient times.

Though born into wealth and raised rather lavishly, Charles never received much in the way of attention or love from his mother, and was often left inside his family's spacious mansion alone; developing closer relationships with the house's servants than with his own family. As a result, Charles is empathetic and compassionate almost to a fault, carrying all the world's concerns on his shoulders in hope of a better future.

However, in spite of all his compassion, Charles can be arrogant, callous, and over-controlling at times, his strong desire to help others often causing him to unintentionally control those around him. This paternalistic attitude stems from being born in the early 1900s as a privileged male and as a highly skilled telepath, he thinks he can understand a person better than they can know themselves, and therefore believes that he knows best in terms of what it is they truly "need."

Despite this arrogance, Charles is aware of his extremes and faults, and will repent should he discover that he has gone too far.

In the end Charles' greatest strength is his moral compass and indomitable will that would never waver, no matter what obstacles he faces.

Backstory:
"Fratrem tuum adjuva." - Help your brother.
-Xavier family motto

Born in the town of Salem in Washington County, New York late December, 1916, the young Charles Xavier lived a life of luxury since infancy.

His father, Brian Xavier was a well-known and respected nuclear scientist, known for his philanthropy and strength of character that he sought to instill in his young son.

Charles showed signs of his mutant abilities from a very early age onward, randomly speaking aloud, as though in conversation, even if he was the only person in the room, or spending hours upon hours playing against himself in chess, or even simply staring at a wall, totally lost in thought. Though unnerved, Charles' parents equated his strength behavior towards simple developmental phases he would outgrow.

Upon reaching the age of eight years old, Charles' father was killed in a fatal lab accident that caused minor unrest, though all investigation declared the incident an accident. Now left without a major source of income, Charles' mother, Sharon; a wealthy British socialite, soon married Brian's lab assistant Kurt Marko, barely a year after her husband's death.

Charles' withdrawn behavior continued, and his new stepfather attempted to teach him how to play sports, to run, or climb trees; such lessons ending after a particularly nasty fall during an ill-fated lesson broke Charles' leg, leaving him with a permanent, pronounced limp on his right side.

Left to his own devices once again and unable to experience the full potential of athletics, Charles devoted himself to study, using his family's vast resources to read hundreds of books and encyclopedias, using this newfound passion towards learning to excel in his studies.

By the age of eighteen, Charles had graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in genetics, ranking amongst the academy's most prestigious alumni.

Having grown tired of being stuck in the family mansion, Charles, overcome with wanderlust decided to spend the next few years of his life traveling; absorbing different cultures with a ravenous hunger for knowledge.

His travels led him to Asia, Europe, and Africa, where he amassed a vast repertoire of knowledge and experiences that shaped his life from his sheltered upbringing.

Eventually settling in Britain, the homeland of his mother, Charles decided to settle down and pursue a career in education; pooling his resources together and applying for a job as a lecturer at Oxford University.

Though astounded by his young age and lack of experience, Charles' record and accomplishments spoke for themselves and he was soon offered a position as the new lecturer of biology at Oxford.

Young enough to be a student, himself and possessing the look of a vagabond, Charles was nonetheless an excellent teacher, his sheer knowledge and method of instruction quickly making him a favorite among students.

It was during this time that Charles, still curious about his own relatively unexplored telepathic abilities began to use the university's resources to do research into Homo sapiens superior: mutants, humans born with a rare genetic trait called an X-gene that granted them superhuman powers and abilities.

Research turned into borrowing books from the library; borrowing books from the library turned into writing thesis papers on the subject, containing remarkable theories regarding the existence and genetic makeup of mutants.

Word was spread of Charles' work, and he quickly turned from being a marvel of the university to a mentally deranged lunatic, "swaying his students away from science with talks of fictitious magic."

Charles knew it wouldn't be long before the school board eventually stripped him of his degree and reputation before promptly terminating his employment. Deciding to try and preserve as much of his dignity as he could, Charles quickly turned in his resignation, leaving him jobless on the streets of Britain while now the laughingstock of Oxford.

However, the passing glares and snickers from bystanders did little to dissuade Charles, only reinforcing his desire to learn more about his condition -- and find if anyone else like him existed. He began searching for connections anywhere he could find them, relying on a few old colleagues from the university who did not totally shun him.

One of these colleagues spoke of an acquaintance he knew who was also rumored to be studying the mutant condition. Given the man's name of Erik Lehnsherr and that he was last heard from in New York, Charles quickly sought out once more to return to his homeland.

Using his telepathic abilities, Charles eventually managed to locate Erik, and introduced himself as a scientist seeking to research the mutant condition.

Though put off at first by this stranger's apparent clairvoyance, Erik soon discovered that Charles was a mutant as well; and the two decided to form a partnership that shared one goal: to unite mutants together in a haven they could live without worry, without fear of prejudice. Erik, having seen firsthand how even regular humans were treated by each other, accepted Charles' offer to join him, the two of them spending the next few years of their lives recruiting young mutants around the world, occupying a refurbished bar and military bunker as their home and school, Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters: The X-Men.

Other:

• Charles still suffers apparent pain in his right leg, caused by arthritis that settles itself in his knee due to odd posture. Though quite manageable, Charles finds it nearly impossible to walk without the aid of a personal cane.
• Charles possesses exceptional talent at playing the piano, keeping his own personal keyboard inside his office. Charles emphasizes that students are more than welcome to observe him play, so long as they abide by the rule to keep quiet and non-disruptive.
• As a notable side-effect of his telepathy, Charles possesses a powerful photographic memory that allows him to recall most experiences and images with incredible accuracy.

Name: Logan Howlette

Age: 66, looks much younger

Alias: Wolverine

Appearance:


Costume


Abilities:
His primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process, typically referred to as his mutant healing factor, that regenerates damaged or destroyed tissues of his body far beyond the capabilities of an ordinary human. In addition to accelerated healing of physical traumas, Logan's healing factor makes him extraordinarily resistant to diseases, drugs, and toxins. However, he can still suffer the immediate effects of such substances in massive quantities; he has been shown to become intoxicated after significant amounts of alcohol, and has been incapacitated on several occasions with large amounts of powerful drugs and poisons.

While the adamantium in his body stops or reduces many injuries, his healing factor must also work constantly to prevent metal poisoning from killing him, though it is effectively getting worse.

His healing factor also dramatically affects his aging process, allowing him to live far beyond the normal lifespan of a human. Despite being born in the late 19th century, he has the appearance, conditioning, health, and vitality of a man in his physical prime. While seemingly ageless, it is unknown exactly how greatly his healing factor extends his life expectancy.

Although his body heals, the healing factor does not suppress the pain he endures while injured. Logan also admits to feeling phantom pains for weeks or months after healing from his injuries. He does not enjoy being hurt and sometimes has to work himself up for situations where extreme pain is certain. Logan, on occasion, has deliberately injured himself or allowed himself to be injured for varying reasons, including freeing himself from capture, intimidation, strategy or simply indulging his feral nature. His healing abilities can provide increased recovery from psychological trauma by suppressing memories in which he experiences profound distress. Scratches heal within seconds, burns and cuts a few seconds more. Even bullet holes only take a matter of minutes to heal up completely, and all without a single scar to show for the pain he had been put through on a number of occasions.

Logan's mutation also consists of animal-like adaptations of his body, including pronounced, and sharp fang-like canines and three retractable claws housed within each forearm. These claws are a natural part of his body and are not made of keratin, as claws tend to be in the animal kingdom, but extremely dense bone. Logan's hands do not have openings for the claws to move through: they cut through his flesh every time he extrudes them, feeling a brief moment of slight pain in his hands whenever he unsheathes them.

Logan's senses of sight, smell, and hearing are all superhumanly acute. He can see with perfect clarity at greater distances than an ordinary human, even in near-total darkness. His hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing him to both hear sounds ordinary humans cannot and also hear to greater distances. Logan is able to use his sense of smell to track targets by scent, even if the scent has been eroded somewhat over time by natural factors. This sense also allows him to identify shapeshifting mutants despite other forms they may take. He is also able to use his senses of smell and hearing, through concentration, as a type of natural lie detector, such as detecting a faint change in a person's heartbeat and scent due to perspiration when a lie is told.

Due to his skeletal coating, his claws can cut almost any known solid material, including most metals, wood, and some varieties of stone. The only known exceptions are adamantium itself and Captain America's shield, which is made out of an proto-adamantium-vibranium alloy. Wolverine's ability to slice completely through a substance depends upon both the amount of force he can exert and the thickness of the substance. His claws can also be used to block attacks or projectiles, as well as dig into surfaces allowing Wolverine to climb structures. The adamantium also weights his blows, increasing the effectiveness of his offensive capabilities. Unfortunately, his adamantium skeleton makes him highly susceptible to magnetic-based attacks.

Logan's healing factor also affects a number of his physical attributes by increasing them to superhuman levels. His stamina is sufficiently heightened to the point he can exert himself for numerous hours, even after exposure to powerful tranquilizers. Logan's agility and reflexes are also enhanced to levels that are beyond the physical limits of the finest human athlete. Due to his healing factor's constant regenerative qualities, he can push his muscles beyond the limits of the human body without injury. This, coupled by the constant demand placed on his muscles by over one hundred pounds of adamantium, grants him some degree of superhuman strength. Since the presence of the adamantium negates the natural structural limits of his bones, he can lift or move weight that would otherwise damage a human skeleton. He has been known to break steel chains, lift several men above his head with one arm and throw them through a wall and hauling a concert grand piano, which can weigh as much as 1,300 pounds, and the platform it rests on, via a harness, while climbing a sheer cliff.

Skills
During his time in Japan and other countries, Wolverine becomes a master of virtually all forms of martial arts and is experienced in virtually every fighting style on Earth. He is proficient with most weaponry, including firearms, though he is partial to bladed weapons. He has demonstrated sufficient skills to defeat the likes of Shang-Chi and Captain America in single combat. He also has a wide knowledge of the body and pressure points. He is also an accomplished pilot and highly skilled in the field of espionage and covert operations.

He is fluent in English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Cheyenne, Spanish, Arabic, and Lakota; he also has some knowledge of French, Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Hindi, and Persian. When Forge monitors Wolverine's vitals during a Danger Room training session, he calls Logan's physical and mental state "equivalent of an Olympic-level gymnast performing a gold medal routine while simultaneously beating four chess computers in his head."

Personality Traits
Logan will sometimes lapse into a "berserker rage" while in close combat. In this state he lashes out with the intensity and aggression of an enraged animal and is even more resistant to psionic attack. Though he loathes it, he acknowledges that it has saved his life many times, it being most notably useful when he faces those with telepathic abilities, liking to keep his own thoughts to himself. Despite his apparent ease at taking lives, he does not enjoy killing or giving in to his berserker rages. Logan adheres to a firm code of personal honor and morality.

In contrast to his brutish nature, Wolverine is extremely knowledgeable. Due to his increased lifespan, he has traveled around the world and amassed extensive knowledge of foreign languages and cultures. Much to Professor Xavier's disapproval, Wolverine is also a heavy drinker and smoker; his healing powers negate the long-term effects of alcohol and tobacco and allow him to indulge in prolonged binges.

Logan is frequently depicted as a gruff loner, often taking leave from the X-Men to deal with personal issues or problems. He is often irreverent and rebellious towards authority figures, though he is a reliable ally and capable leader. He has been a mentor and father figure to several younger women, especially Yukiko, and has had romantic relationships with numerous women, though somehow always seeming to be 'in between girlfriends.'

Position in School:
Protector and Simulation Classes Instructor

Backstory:
Born in 1880 in a small town in Canada as James Howlette to rich farmers, Logan led a very comfortable life for the majority of his childhood. Then, one day, out of anger from being fired, Thomas Logan the previous groundskeeper, came to the farm and killed James' father. Furious, bone claws emerged from James' hands for the first time in his life and with an uncontrollable rage, killed Thomas by plunging his claws into Thomas' chest who upon dying, told James the truth that he was his real father. With the secret now brought to the front, James was cast out by his mother who James' learned a few years later when he came back, killed herself out of grief. He ran away with his childhood friend, Rose, and steadily grew into a man by taking up a job in a mining colony in the Yukon Territory, taking the name 'Logan' in honor of his real father.

After a slight incident that involved killing Rose with his claws, Logan once again was forced into running and for a couple of years lived with the wolves until returning to civilization, taking up residency with the Blackfoot Indians. It was here that he fell in love with an Indian woman, Silver Fox who died at the hands of Sabretooth who Logan then found out to be his older brother, Victor, whom he had never known. To escape his inner pain, Logan enlisted himself for World War 1, proving to be quite the combatant for reasons unknown, and unquestioned by his country. After the war, Logan spent some time in Japan where he became somewhat of an idol for the Yakuza, though working under-cover to help those who had been imprisoned by them. It was here that Logan met a good number of families forced into the Yakuza's bidding, namely the Masuyo family whom he lived with for a number of years and became a sort of brother figure to the youngest and only female, Yukiko.

However, after a handful of years World War 2 came around, and silently as though not to alarm the Yakuza, Logan left to help out where he could, serving no side but his own in what he felt was right in his heart. When it was over he resided in the United States where he was later approached by some men who pho promised to help him become a better mutant. Trusting these men, not having any reason not to, Logan went with them only to have his entire bone-structure remade out of adamantium, a metal that is virtually indestructible.

After learning that these men only wanted to use him as a weapon and to wipe his memory, Logan escaped, though not without massive bloodshed on his part. Once more alone, it was then that Charles Xavier found him, implying that he had a job for him and after a good amount of work done on him by Xavier, Logan grew to trust him and agreed to help with his cause. Logan hasn't been back to Japan since, but has kept secret ties with a couple of families, hoping to bring them over to the United States where they could be free of the Yakuza.

Other:
Logan has been involved in a couple handfuls of different wars over the years. Starting with World War I, Logan has since been involved in the Russian Civil War and World War II.

After returning from World War II, Logan went out and bought himself a 1932 DKW Block 350 Motorcycle to make it easier to travel between Charles and Erik's bar and his own log cabin that he built himself in an isolated part of the woods while Erik and Logan restored the bar. He didn't care much for the idea of room mates.

Although it rarely happens, sometimes Logan's body will completely shut down on him after a pulse of excruciating pain that will eventually render him unconscious. Unknown to everyone including Logan, this is because of the metal poisoning within his system that his body is slowly starting to reject.

Name:
Yukiko (Meaning 'a thousand generations') Masuyo (Meaning 'Benefit the world')

Age:
17

Alias:
Shakita or Kita

Appearance:



costume:



Abilities:

Matter Manipulation
Yukiko, having just stumbled upon her power as she traveled to the United States from Japan, can manipulate matter. Currently she has only used this power once with turning a glass of water into nothing but an empty cup of air, as the hydrogen and one of the oxygen molecules were removed (scientifically speaking), but as she comes to understand her powers more (learning more about chemistry could definitely help), anything in the universe that has substance and mass/physical form can be manipulated into whatever it is she can understand and imagine. Of course, these abilities are limited by her knowledge, amount of concentration and mental strength.

Skills:
Yukiko was trained ever since she was able to walk in the art of stealth as well as how to wield blades of all types. As she got older, her more prominent skills were discovered and her training focused mainly on her acrobatics, small blade use, throwing ability (like throwing stars and other small, sharp objects) and stealth (along with that, flexibility from being forced to learn to navigate small areas). Amongst these, Yukiko has been trained in hand-to-hand combat and though not as skilled with it as she is with her other skills, she is able to hold her own against any normal fighter though her small stature almost forces her to keep unnoticed and ranged.

On top of that, Yukiko is fluent in three different languages: Japanese, as is her native tongue, as well as Mandarin and Russian. Her knowledge of other languages is very small, and English, perhaps, is her worst one.

Personality Traits:
Yukiko hardly speaks to anyone save for Logan. This doesn't just have to do with the fact that she doesn't understand a word of English, but she has always been quiet by nature, raised into knowing where her place is and will only speak up when she feels compelled to speak her mind.

Once you get to know her, however, Yukiko's other traits come out in her, revealing her to be firm in opinion, stubborn in her ways and prefers to do things on her own rather than in groups, having a hard time following anyone she does not deem worthy as a leader. She's a very independent spirit and exceptionally respectful towards those who have earned it as well as loyal to her culture and country. On the rare occasion when she feels completely relaxed and able to be herself, Yukiko is known to be a bit on the sassy side, but does indeed have a sense of humor hidden somewhere deep down.

Backstory:
From the very day that Yukiko was conceived, her fate was already written in stone. Youngest and only girl of six in the Masuyo family, Yukiko was brought up and raised in a family controlled by the Yakuza, a group of transnational organized crime syndicates in Japan. From the moment Yukiko started walking, training had begun, honing the small girl into a lethal weapon for the Yukuza’s own personal use. At first her missions consisted of small group missions with her older brothers as ‘debt collectors’, a little intimidation here and there; maybe someone lost a finger or two or a couple broken bones; but as the years went on her missions became more physical, daunting and brutal.

Strange enough as things were (though now considered normal to Yukiko) an American had moved in with Yukiko and her family. He was a friend of her father's, as she learned, and over the time that Logan spent with them, Yukiko and he formed a very close bond, perhaps a bond closer than she had with any of her family.

Yukiko first started questioning her family’s line of work when she was just thirteen years old and two of her brother’s had nearly exposed themselves in a mission they were working on together, and as penance they each had to remove the tip of their left little finger as was a customary ritual known as Yubitsume. As Yukiko sat there and watched her brothers disfigure themselves, her doubts began to climb and she made an effort to tread more carefully from then on. She always knew that failure would result in severe punishment, she just wasn't sure if she was able to accept just how the Yakuza went about it.

Three years later when Yukiko was sixteen, she had lost three out of the five of her brothers to the Yakuza whether it be by their own personal hand as punishment, or by getting killed serving them. Logan had also mysteriously vanished from their home, and Yukiko could only assume that he too was dead. It was during this time that Yukiko thought about wanting to escape the clutches of the Yakuza forever. The last act Yukiko ever did in Japan for the Yakuza happened on a cold November night. Suspicion of Yukiko's loyalty began to spread around the organization, and she was brought before one of the leaders of the Yakuza, Zurui. The room in which she was pulled into had about twenty or so other Yakuza members standing by for protection reasons, and in the center of the room was what looked like an ordinary man tied up to a wooden chair with a bag over his head.

Zurui assured Yukiko that the man hidden under the bag deserved his punishment, as he was found trying to profit for what it was that they did. Zurui handed Yukiko the sacrificial katana and she knew immediately that if she didn't do what she was told, she would surely die; but she had never taken a life before and was unsure if she could do so now. Her harsh upbringing however led Yukiko to take the katana from Zurui and the man was quickly untied from the chair and pushed before the sacrificial block. She had seen these sacrifices before, she grew up her whole life watching heads roll on the floor from the clean swipe of the katana. It was considered an honor to be the one to wield the blade, however Yukiko wanted no part in it. Despite being desensitized to blood and gore, the thought of taking one's life, despite what he may have done, did not set well with her.

Forcefully, Yukiko raised the katana, and with one clean swipe had beheaded the criminal; her first kill. But what surprised her even more then the rush of taking the life of another was when the bag hit the floor, the head of her very own father rolled out… the Yakuza had tricked her into killing her own father. Somehow managing to keep a brave face, Zurui informed the sixteen year old that Yukiko’s father had been suspected of working for some unknown organizations in America who aimed to take down the Yakuza and of course, must be stopped. Zurui then praised Yukiko for her lack of emotion during the 'test' and was promoted to a Yakuza assassin. As she left the room that day, she was warned that if she ever disobeyed, then what was left of her family would surely die in the most unpleasant way possible. She continued to do the bidding of the Yakuza for another year before Yukiko finally spotted her chance of getting out. An air raid.

People were being evacuated left and right; women and children being the first priority. Being mistaken as a 'normal' child, Yukiko was rounded up with some others her age and was immediately shipped off to one of their allied countries for safety. But Yukiko didn’t stop there. If her father had connections in America that aimed to stop the Yakuza, she knew then that it was America that she needed to be.

Name: Alan Carpenter

Age: 18

Alias: Horus

Appearance:



Costume

Currently None
Will eventually have some specs fashioned for him to help with his headaches
Eventual costume




Abilities:

Falcon Vision

Alan has the ability to instinctively sense how people and objects relate to him, manifesting as a colored glow much like an aura that makes it easy for him to see. Red indicates someone he deems as a threat, or if blood has been spilled. Blue indicates someone Alan sees as an ally; someone he can trust. White indicates sources where Alan can get information he is currently seeking or a good place for him to hide for a few moments if the need should ever arise. Though Alan has only just started "seeing" the world this way, he still has yet to understand what any of the colors mean and is unable to concentrate on them long enough to even know if what he is seeing is actually there or some sort of hallucination, leaving him with a migrane-level headache. Though as he exercises his abilities, Alan will be able to turn this ability on and off, understand their meaning and be able to use them to their full potential.

These colors are prone to change, however, as situations and Alan's personal bias towards what is going on also changes, therefore someone he sees as an ally could potentially turn to someone he sees as a threat, and so on.

Eventually, this power will "evolve" into a more advanced outlook for Alan to understand, making each of his senses more sensitive. This will allow Alan to be able to detect the heartbeat of a concentrated individual in a specific perimeter to him and even be able to forsee a gold path that the person he is concentrating on will be taking up to fifty yards at a time. With this, Alan will also be able to inversely "see" where they have been. This is particularly helpful when tailing someone or detecting the path an enemy would take in order to set up a trap or lay an ambush, or to check out an area they have been to search for items or information needed. At his full potential Alan will be able to pick up cold trails or locate disguised enemies (including shape shifters) which appear red to him, however with this more heightened ability, it causes Alan to concentrate harder and scrutinize people individually rather than in a crowd, once more leaving him with a blinding headache that can last for hours at a time.

In a more bizarre turn of events, this ability will also grant Alan the unwanted ability to peer into the memories of a person dying should he be touching them during their time of death, even if it is by his own hand.

Flight

Though not developed yet, Alan will eventually have the ability to fly, once his wings break through. This will allow him to soar the skies at the height most birds can and maneuver through the air with the greatest of ease. The wings will allow him to gain elevation, dive-bomb, glide, descend and so on. The wings themselves are very fragile and susceptible to damage if ever in close-range combat. It is because of this that Alan will have to learn how to retract the wings back into his body, if not just for the sake of looking normal again.

Skills

Alan's bones are a lot less dense than normal bones. They are extremely porous and the larger, thicker bones even have a sort of hollowness to them. This makes Alan much lighter than how he looks, allowing him to jump higher and further than the average human, making vaulting over objects and climbing a cinch for the youth. His years as an acrobatic performer helped to fine-tune these skills so that he is able to use them to precision - able to jump from one object to another with varying size and stability.

His acrobatic skills also gave him the art of timing, able to calculate jumps and honed his reflexes into something superior to avoid injury. Tightrope walking and the trapeze being his two main events, he learned these very quickly and has only gotten better and more fluid in his movements as a performer.

Personality Traits

Alan has a very positive outlook on life and is generally a very easy-going kind of guy. Having been subjected to a rather poor lifestyle, constantly surrounded by the smell of shit and sweaty bodies, Alan has always taken the little things in life for full value. The smell of a flower, the feeling of a gentle breeze rolling over his skin, the soft touch of a woman...

Most of his (male) companions in the circus poke a bit of fun at him for being overly sensitive, but Alan's thick skin and playful personality doesn't take their teasing negatively, though in the more quiet times in his life, he does wonder if perhaps they might be right.

He's got a very adventurous spirit about him, always wanting to make each show he does different and more exciting and while it can be dangerous, Alan finds that he practically craves the adrenaline rush he gets at the very idea that injury could very much be a thing. This makes him a bit reckless at times though at face-value, Alan tends to be more calm and calculated on the outside.

Position in School:

Student

Backstory:

Alan was born and raised into a family deep into the traveling circus business, and was raised in the carny lifestyle. As a kid, Alan was tasked with caring and cleaning up after the animals though eventually worked his way up to aerial acrobatics. His parents were amazed at just how natural Alan acted when it came to heights. Even when the trapeze artists tried to discourage the young boy from the dangerous act by having him join them in practice, including jumps (with a safety net), twists, grabs and so on, Alan only grew to love the sport even more. So in the air he stayed and as he grew older, became one of the most famous aerial acrobats.

The nickname "Horus" was given to him by his fellow trapeze group, joking about how he was a "God" of aerial acrobatics, and eventually fashioned him a skin-tight jumpsuit with the emblem of a falcon in the middle. Alan went with the jest, finding the humor in it himself and found himself rather liking the nickname.

As he grew from a youth into a man, strange things began to happen. So strange, in fact, during the middle of a show, Alan's vision blurred for a few moments as he was jumping from one trapeze to another, and then suddenly there were flashes of colors he didn't quite understand. His partner that was supposed to catch him turned blue, there was a glint of gold in his peripheral vision, the crowd became a muddied mess of blue. He could hear heartbeats, hundreds at a time. It all happened in a split second, but it was enough to throw him off balance in his jump and ended up missing his partners hands, falling into the safety net below. That in itself had been humiliating, and after trying to explain what had happened to his friends and parents, they shrugged it off as some sort of "you need more sleep."

But the colors kept coming after that. It was only every once in a while, mostly in the most inconvenient of times. Though, having grown up with contortionists, the bearded lady, men who stab themselves with needles and swords without shedding blood, fire-eaters and clowns, Alan then just decided that what he was going through was normal for the circus life, no longer wanting to make a big deal about it. Unfortunately, it was hindering his work as an acrobat.

He was about ready to ask his parents if he could take a break from his duties for a while when a man approached him, claiming to know how he was feeling. The man introduced himself as Charles Xavier and after a bit of convincing to hear the man out, Charles explained to Alan that though he was already different by living with circus people, he was even more different, classifying him as a mutant. Charles then further demonstrated his own mutant powers by speaking into Alan's head through telepathy - something he had never encountered before even in the circus. It was impossible to pin it as some sort of street-show that he had been accustomed to. After getting his attention, Charles then explained to him a school that he and two other mutants were building up for people like him; to not only provide education but knowledge and understanding of the powers they had been gifted with. Figuring it was the only way he was going to get answers, Alan decided to leave his family and friends behind to embark on a new journey - a life outside the circus tent and smelly, crowded trailers.

Other:

When his abilities start up randomly, or he tries to use them, Alan is almost always overcome by a searing headache that forces his body to shut down. This most often leaves him breathless and in agony, but is able to sleep it off after a few hours or take some pain medication (though this method rarely works) but there have been instances where the pain has reduced him to sudden blackouts that can last up to thirty minutes.

Alan also has random spurts of pain that shoot through his back. Believing it to be some injury related to his career as an acrobat, he doesn't give it much thought though plans on seeing a physician about it in the near future if it persists.

He also smokes occasionally. The carny life has exposed him to tobacco products quite early and took up the habit when he was only sixteen years old. He's far from a pack a day kind of guy, but after a good, long, hard day, he likes to wind down with a good smoke and simply relax both his mind and body.

_{{ “If there is anything I've learned about life, it's that it goes on with or without you. Your relevance is meaningless unless you get into the picture." }}

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Name:
Talia Deborah Ramos

Age:
17, born December 24th, 1929

Alias:
Warp
(Doesn't have her alias as of yet)

Position in School:
Student

Appearance:


Height:
5'7"

Costume (if any):
(None as of yet)


Abilities:
♦ Teleportation Manipulation ♦

Teleportation:
Talia has the ability to teleport herself, the clothes she is wearing, and within limits a certain amount of additional mass which is in contact with her. She also demonstrates a subconscious spatial awareness, which prevents her feet from appearing underneath the solid ground or from teleporting into solid objects that would otherwise kill her instantly.
Its still currently a mystery the distance she is able to travel and what is the maximum mass that can travel with her. Although under stressful situations she has been known to be able to travel the span of several miles. With constant training and use of her ability, Talia can progressively expand the distance she is able to travel. If she were to reach her full potential, she could theoretically travel to the moon in one jump, categorizing her as a class 4 mutant.

Talia is only just discovering her abilities and as such there is still a great amount that is unknown to her. However, given the proper training and time to reach her full potential Talia will be able to perform the following sub-set abilities:

Empathic Teleportation:
Talia is able to teleport to those she has a strong bond with. Able to sense them through some subconscious awareness she can teleport to their side if within her range, even if she physically doesn't know their location.

Remote Teleportation:
The ability to teleport other people and objects away without transporting herself along with them or requiring physical contact. She can use this ability both defensively and offensively.

Partial Teleportation:
The ability to teleport parts of a target away. She can use this ability both defensively and offensively.

Portal Creation:
By concentrating all of her will power, Talia is able to expand the spatial opening that allows her to teleport into a fully-fledged portal that remains open for as long as she wills it or is able to stay conscious, given it takes a tremendous amount of energy and concentration. The portal can be utilized by anyone to teleport to the other side by simply walking through. It is ideal for when large amount of people or objects need to be transported from one location to another. It should be noted that when performing this particular ability, Talia is unable to do anything else as she is fully invested in keeping the portal open.


Skills:
An adept gymnast, swimmer, and athlete, Talia has spent the better half of her short life in gymnastic classes as well as participating in female track, boasting that she is able to run a mile in under eight minutes flat.

Being born and raised in Puerto Rico, she is fluently bilingual in Spanish and English and is currently trying her best to learn French as her third language. Talia is also quite talented at singing, given that she was forced into acting and singing lessons since the age of three by her mother.
Because of her acting background, Talia is quite adaptable and can mold herself into any situation. She has a keen sense of people around her and their distinct personalities and as such is able to tailor her own to, for the most part, fit in with just about anyone.

Although, she isn't the brightest in the school, she is able to hold her own when it comes to studies and has shown a great affinity for History, although, unfortunately the same cannot be said for mathematics - her worst and most hated subject.

Personality Traits:
"I am whatever you need me to be."
-Talia Deborah-Ramos

The entirety of Talia's character is hard to distinguish based on how often she tends to lie. At first glance, she may be seen as shallow, superficial, and fake but it is only because of the way she was raised. She is capable of convincingly portraying friendly and flirtatious, timid, vulnerable and scared when the appropriate situation arises. But for the most part she is a level-headed, strong-willed and independent young woman.

Her default personality is that of an innocent young girl, and is quite convincing in her role. But at a closer look, particularly for those of the telepathic nature, one can see through her ruse as nothing more than a facade. Most times Talia is even able to fool herself, as it is something that she has grown up doing her entirely life out of necessity and must constantly remind herself that she no longer lives in that lifestyle.

Talia has a sarcastic sense of humor, which mostly surfaces when she is around those she trust and feels comfortable being her true self with. She is very much street-smart rather than book-smart and can be quite loyal to a fault with those she call friends.

In stressful situation, she can be quite tough on herself and those around her and has been known to have a quick and short temper and tends to lash out in Spanish. Talia, however, is a good person and can be quite heroic in her own way.

Backstory:
Born to crime and drug lord, Virgilio Gonzales-Ramos, and small time stage actress, Maria Deborah, on Christmas Eve of 1929 in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. It wasn't known at the time but Talia would be the first and only child that Maria would be able to sire.

Two years after Talia's birth, a gang warfare left Maria wheelchair bound and announced the end of her short career. It was this tragic event that propelled Maria to force her dreams onto Talia and push her into the lime-light from the tender age of three. She enrolled the young infant into acting and singing classes and at the age of five she was pushed into gymnastics and dance also.

Even as a babe, Talia was lavished with the best dirty money could buy. Her father treated her as a princess and as such she lived. But all the best toys and all you can eat ice cream came at a heavy price. Virgilio was well known through Puerto Rico and Veiques for his hot temper and itchy trigger. If you didn't fit into his vision, you quickly found yourself at the butt-end of his anger. Talia learned that the hard way and quickly understood that acting wasn't just for fun anymore, but it was the very means of her survival. She was cast to play the role of her life: Daddy's Princess. It was best for her sake she didn't step off script.

By the time she was fourteen, Talia had an in-depth understanding of her father's shady business and from where their wealth came from. She had witness murder at the dinner table. She knew of the shady drug deals that happened in the back alley of the church on Sundays when she was on stage singing choir. She was aware that she always got the best deserts at every restaurant that they visited because the owners were scared shit-less of her father, and she couldn't help but notice that the police never even as much as glanced their way. But it was her job to act oblivious to it all...and so she did.

At the age of sixteen, Talia's role finally came to an end. While having dinner with her family at one of their favorite restaurants a rival gang, who had decided enough was enough, came in guns blazing as they mowed down the entire restaurant clientele. Panic gripped the young female's heart and before she knew what was happening she was sitting back in her bedroom screaming and running for cover. It wasn't until she was shaking under her bed that she realized she was no longer at the restaurant.

The next few weeks had the entire island in an uproar with the restaurant massacre. No one had an explanation as to how Talia survived but everyone simply tried to explain that she must have just blocked the traumatic event and had walked back to the house in a stupor, despite her continuous recounting of the event. After the funeral, Talia's grandmother thought it best to send the girl up to New York with her aunt and uncle for the time being, at least until things settled down in Puerto Rico and her life was no longer in immediate danger.

Talia had just lost both of her parents in the most tragic way, was being sent to live with people she hardly even knew, and to make matters worse no one would believe her when she tried to tell her side of the story. It was safe to say she felt alone and isolated, and not quite sure how to even feel. To make matter worse even though she was considered a U.S. Citizen, her Hispanic heritage didn't make her stay in New York any easier, luckily it wasn't anything compared to being an African-American.

It was during this time that she was approached by a man, Erik Lehnsherr, who claimed to believe her story, even as far fetch as it sounded. He explained that along side Charles and Logan, two other mutants, they had started a school, a sort of safe haven for people like themselves. Talia wasn't sure what to believe, but if they could help her understand why she kept appearing in her bathtub randomly throughout the day, then she was willing to give it a shot.

Other:

• As a side-effect of her teleportation, Talia is immune to telepaths while in mid-jumps given that her mind is quite literally shifting briefly out of what is perceived as reality.

||Name:|| Jae Won Choi

||Age:|| 18

||Alias:|| Sonic

||Appearance:||


||Abilities:||
Audiokinesis
Jae's powers are unusual and many would consider them useless in battle, as he has yet to learn how to use them correctly. Any form of sound, as in the vibrations that flow through the air, unable to be seen by the eye and sometimes the ear, Jae is able to see, hear and manipulate. Sounds show up in clouds of color for him, so they are easy to spot and easy to manipulate as well. He can make a sound louder as he wished by making the cloud bigger or can make a sound disappear completely by shrinking the cloud down to a manageable size. His screams or yells can be supersonic and he can project any form of sound that he creates himself toward someone else as a physical attack, as he makes the vibrations of the sound he projects so hard that they become physical tremors. With this, he has the ability to speed up sound as well as slow it down. Lowering and upping the frequencies of certain sounds can be deadly to humans, especially if it goes too low. If he fires off sounds quickly enough, he has also found out that he can create a barrier of sound, protecting himself, but sounds do not last very long.

Mimicry
Jae has the ability to mimic any form of sound he can hear, whether it is an animal, human, bug, anything that makes a noise. However, in order for him to mimic it, he has to have heard it beforehand. Once he hears a sound, he is able to store it in his memory and mimic it again at a later point. When he hasn't heard something for a long time, he is unable to copy the sound right off the bat unless he hears the sound again. The easy item to mimic for him are other humans, as it takes him one try to copy someone's voice. Animals and others take two to three tries before he can truly copy it perfectly.

||Skills:||
Because of his powers, Jae has a heightened sense of hearing, which allows him to figure out when someone is nearby. His footsteps have become quieter and this allows him to sneak around a lot easier than most humans. He is in good shape, giving him good endurance with anything physical. Speed is key when it comes to thieving, so he is fairly fast on his feet. With his background, he has developed quick reflexes and a decent athletic ability. Having to live alone and raise his sister has made him intelligent and a swift learner. He is able to immediately come up with solutions for certain situations whenever they arise, whether someone is ill, something bad has happened or otherwise.

||Personality Traits:||
Athletic, Clever, Casual, Tough, Dishonest, Rigid
Being the oldest in his family and having to take care of his younger sister since they moved to the US, Jae is a leader, which gives him a stubborn personality. He believes that was he does is what he should do, and rarely takes advice from anyone else on what he should be doing. Growing up with barely anything and becoming a thief to be able to survive turned lying into a habit for him. Even when he doesn't need to lie, he tends to lie anyways. His sister hardly trusts him anymore because of it as well. He tends to be on the more dishonest side when it comes to things, especially if it gets himself or his sister into any danger or trouble. He is very protective of his sister and growing up without anyone guiding him turned him into a tough person.

Underneath all of this tough, lying exterior, he is actually quiet intelligent in clever. He has a quick wit and doesn't take crap from anyone. He may give out his own lies, but when he knows someone is lying to him, he doesn't take it. Once a person gets to know him, it is easy to tell that he is very casual and laid back. He is very distrusting when it comes to meeting people for the first time.

||Backstory:||
Jae was born in South Korea in 1928 to a pear farmer who worked on the outskirts of Seoul. He was the oldest of three children, one of his younger sisters being born two years later and the other four years later, and considered to be a "miracle child", as his parents had been told that they would not be able to have any children. His father had been in the first World War and had been lucky enough to come back with only losing two of his fingers. Growing up, Jae had heard horror stories of the war and he put his father on a pedestal, believing him to be a war hero because he was able to come back alive. He was proud of his father, not knowing that his father had hid when his unit had charged into battle, getting slaughtered.

In his childhood, Jae was working in the fields from age five. He was a quick worker and was able to climb to the highest parts of the trees to shake down pears for his father. He was athletic from a very young age, but he was also ignorant of the brewing war that was going on around them. His parents, however, were not ignorant. Having seen the lead up to World War 1, his parents were noticing the signs of another oncoming war. By the time Jae was eight years old, his parents were already figuring out a way to get them out of the country and to America, where they believed they would be safe.

Within the next year, when Jae was nine years old and a year before World War 2 officially began, Jae's parents put Jae and his younger two sisters on a trade ship heading for the United States. They used almost all of their money to bribe the captain to take the stowaways to a safer place. The captain was moved more by pity than by money, so he took the children anyways. Reaching the United States was easy, as they just had to remain hidden on the boat, but actually getting onto land was a little more difficult. The captain devised a plan to hide each of the children in a cargo box and sneak them onto land that way, allowing them to come out when they got on land. Finally reaching the US, they continued as planned and Jae and his siblings were able to sneak into New York City, to be safe as their parents had hoped.

What their parents seemed to have forgotten was they were only children. They had no way to make money, no place to stay, no way to survive without their parents there. Their parents had given them food for only a month, if they used it sparingly. The children had to resort to staying in an alleyway between a lawyer firm and a clothing store. A box was used for cover when it rained and ripped clothing from the clothing store that was thrown away was used for blankets and warmth. Within a month, Jae's youngest sister fell ill, due to malnutrition mainly, but being cold all the time and not having proper clothing didn't help. She died within two months, leaving Jae alone with his younger sister. This was when Jae realized there was not much that he could do for his sister without breaking the law. He wasn't going to let this sister die, as the younger one had.

Jae started thieving small things, an apple from a fruit stand, an umbrella from a tourist shop, those sort of items. He gave his sister most of his food, only taking little bits for himself. This kept up for about a year until World War 2 began and all of the men left for the war. Women became shopkeepers and Jae found it easier to steal items without anyone noticing, especially when he brought his sister along to distract the female shopkeepers. He began picking up English from listening to conversations that were had near the alleyway and began speaking to the shopkeepers to distract them away from what he was doing.

His first big thieving was when he was fifteen years old. Before then, he had been mainly stealing food, but he finally figured out that he was quick handed. He began learning how to pickpocket and managed the steal an expensive pocket watch, which he sold for enough money to buy more food for his sister and buy both of them new clothing. The rush of thieving such items and getting money for them filled him and he began going bigger, stealing rings or watches as he shook hands with people, and soon, he wasn't stealing for money or food. He was stealing just for the fun of it. His sister began getting worried and tried to get him to stop, but he wouldn't. He went too far when he was sixteen and stole the expensive ivory cane of an important official. He was chased back to the alleyway and he and his sister hid. This was where he saw his first sound cloud, which happened to be his sister crying silently, though it was still loud enough for people to hear. He told her to be quiet, but she couldn't. The cloud still floating there, and he willed that she would be quiet. The cloud disappeared suddenly. Though she still moved as if she was crying, no noise came from her. He had figured out his powers.

From then on, wherever he went, he saw sounds floating in the air as different colored clouds. The louder the sound, the bigger the cloud. The different colors he couldn't figure out. He knew that there was something different about him, but he never used his powers again. Purposely. Sometimes, he would get so frustrated with his younger sister that he unintentionally shot off a sound wave, but he never injured her.

He got caught by a mysterious man when he was out pick pocketing. He had no idea who the man was, only that he knew a lot about Jae that he definitely should not have. The man knew about his powers and wanted to help him. He gave him an address that he needed to go to, telling him specifically to bring his sister as well and they would be given a room and good food. Though distrusting, Jae went along with it, doing what he thought was best for both himself and his sister, taking help from a stranger for the first time in over nine years.

Other:
Jae never purposely used his powers to harm anyone. Every unintentional firing of a sound knocked some rock loose, but he had never actually tried it on another human being.

Jae always walks in front of his sister, making sure that he is protecting her as much as he can.

Jae can hear almost every sound, no matter how low or high. The higher the frequencies, the more irritating it is to him as well. He has never gotten into much pain because of his powers though. This is also a warning to never talk behind his back, because he will most likely hear you.