Name: Nathaniel Caldwell

Nicknames/Aliases: Prefers Nathan

X-Men Code Name: Caedis

Gender: Male (He/Him)

Age: 18

Physical Description: 6’5”, 180lbs. He is tall and lanky, but is deceptively athletically sculpted.

Mutations: Haemokinesis (Blood Manipulation). He doesn’t have a lot of control over the full scope of his powers. However, he does have decent control over manipulating his own blood. He can change its consistency, density, levels of acidity, the speed of flow, and can use these abilities to shift his own blood into things like weapons and armor of sorts to help defend himself. With enough concentration he can use his abilities to stop an enemy in their tracks, can have limited control over their bodies movements, and under the right narrative circumstance could even outright kill them in a variety of ways by using their own blood against them.

Personality: Nathan is a whole mess with a big heart and an even bigger sense of self-doubt. He prefers to escape from reality whenever he gets the chance. He’s not very confident in himself or in social situations and even among his small friend groups over the years he’s never really felt like he “fit in”. It has always felt as though he was adjacent from everyone else…add in the fact that he’s now afraid of himself, his abilities, and of losing control again…naturally his self-doubt has been turned up to 11. Mostly though...he’s just a guy with the best of intentions that seems to fuck everything up despite that.

Background: Nathan was raised in a very…”interesting”…family environment. It was toxic and very much not okay. He has a certain amount of psychological damage that can be kept under control only with the right combination of meds and therapy. Without those things he’s an absolute mess. He was brought to the Institute as someone to keep an on. As a potential risk. Just as much to be babysat as taught. Dr. Ashford felt that integration with others like him and the proper supervision could help him keep from going down a darker path. Thus far that has proved correct. He has attended the Institute for some time now and has made both friends and enemies along the way.

Not long ago Nathan took a temporary leave of absence from the school after being informed about some kind of family tragedy. He didn’t have time to give a proper explanation to his friends or say any goodbyes. Upon his return things are a bit different. Some students have left, others have joined, and things have progressed without him involved. It may take him some time to properly reintegrate, and anyone who has had contact with him since his return can tell that he’s clearly working through something.

Name: Akela Talbot
Nicknames/Aliases: Ak, Kel, Fuzzball
X-Men Code Name: (The "Hero Name" that you would like you character to eventually have.)
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Physical Description:
WT: 105 lbs/47.6~ kg (170 lbs/77~ kg when using gift)
HT: 5'3"/ 6'3"
Ey: Usually brown, gold and canine-like when using gift.
Sk: brown, sometimes grey mottled fur when using gift to extremes.
BLT: Small and thin but gains significant height, muscle mass and animal-like features from mutation.

Mutations: Lycanthropy

Enhanced Senses -Ordinarily, Akela's mutation just manifests itself as heightened, animal-like senses and this is what he'll usually imply his ability is if asked. His sense of smell is equal to or maybe even better than a bloodhound's and he can identify and track individual scents in crowded difficult areas and across long distances and times. It also affects his sense of taste to a lesser degree. His hearing is similarly sensitive and he is able to hear very even very faint, far away or high pitched sounds. His eyesight and sense of touch are relatively normal, except for his night vision which is superior to an ordinary human's and lets him see clearly in the dark.

Transformed State- The truth about his powers is that his senses are only a secondary effect. His real mutation transforms him into a savage, physically powerful form with wolf-like features similar to a werewolf whenever he becomes extremely frightened, angry or otherwise overwhelmed.

Akela's body gains around a foot of height and a full 70 pounds of mass when his full mutation is active, along with an appearance more like a humanoid wolf. As a result in addition to his super senses he has a limited degree of superhuman strength, agility. reflexes and speed along with powerful jaws and sharp claws and teeth.

Regeneration - When he transforms from human to werewolf form or back again, any injury to either form disappears provided he's still conscious enough to make the shift. He will often instinctively transform in response to injuries. Burns are harder for this process to heal however and he has yet to be pushed to his limits even with his biological family's abuse.

Limitations:

Overstimulation - Because of his enhanced senses, sudden or prolonged exposure to things like bright lights, intense or high frequency sounds and overpowering scents or tastes can cause Akela pain or even incapacitate him. With time and exposure he might be able to overcome some of these, but stronger stimuli will likely always hurt him.

Uncontrolled Transformation - As previously mentioned Akela has almost no control over his mutation's wolf hybrid transformation ability. So far he's only ever accessed it instinctively in response to pain, anger, fear and other very primal flight-or-fight type emotions. It may also trigger in response to a severe injury. He can fight it back now that he knows what it is but the stronger the trigger, the harder it is to stop. When transformed, Akela also has very little control over himself. Usually, he'll attack the source of the transformation if angered or threatened and run away to heal if hurt or in pain, but overall he doesn't act too much differently from a very intelligent wild animal. He can stop himself from hurting those he really cares about with effort, but that's about as far as his control goes.

Weakness to Fire - His regeneration is slowed by burns and his animal-like form is naturally afraid of fire and burning due to subconscious memories of abuse by his mutant hating biological father. His human form shares his pyrophobia but is better at hiding and working past it.

Personality:
Living with his mutation, his mostly unfortunate childhood and the things he's done and seen because of both has left him withdrawn and afraid of interacting with other people. He's intensely loyal and caring to those few people he currently trusts and is much gentler and sweeter than his irritable, perpetually melancholy loner act lets on. He has some anger issues if someone he doesn't know really well provokes him but he mostly tries to back off and withdraw than confront anyone in any situation given how dangerous he feels he is. He's also a committed vegetarian in human form because of his traumas, in spite of the fact that his mutation means that his body would function much better and stronger if he ate meat.

Background: Son of Raksha and Larry Talbot, childhood friends with Veronica 'Ronnie' Malcolm and godson of her father, Christopher Malcolm.

At the age of 13, was involved in a car accident that killed his mother. He only has vague, suppressed memories of the event, but survived by using his mutation to heal his injuries. His father started resenting him for surviving when his mother didn't, especially when demonstrations of heightened senses made his mutant powers obvious. His dad became abusive, verbally and emotionally at first, but eventually physically abusive too. One of these incidents caused the full extent of his mutant powers to awaken for the first time.

After that incident, he got fostered by and lived with the Malcolms for around three months. Chris Malcolm was much closer to a father figure for Ak than his own dad was, at least or at least better than his dad had been for the past year. He was kind to Ak and tolerant of some of his more eccentric behavior, trying to ease him out of the hurt, defensive shell he'd put up around himself along with doing normal nice dad stuff like taking him and Ronnie out to eat or to movies and similar things. Even so, he always held back some closeness from Ak and never bothered standing up for him against Paige when she'd neglect their alleged 'foster child' or shove him away from the family as an 'embarrassment'.

Paige Malcolm basically ignored Ak's existence from the second he came to live with them. Her focus was always on her own reputation and Ronnie, and making sure Ronnie was painfully perfect. The only time she really bothered to notice Akela was on the rare occasion he did something to affect her public image. Around others she acted sweet and kind to him, almost motherly in an empty way. After all, he was such a close friend of the family and isn't it tragic how much the poor thing's been through? But if he ever stepped out of line or embarrassed Paige or Ronnie, she'd do her best to make him feel worthless and unwanted before going right back to ignoring him. At best, she saw him as a way to show off and a side project to keep Christopher and Ronnie busy. At worst he was an embarrassment and a distraction for her daughter from her life's goals.

Ronnie and Ak's relationship was surprisingly good both in spite of and because of all these difficulties. Pretty quickly, the two recognized a mutual past of different kinds of abuse in each other and Ronnie decided to protect Ak from the worst of her family's dynamics. Ak similarly decided to trust Ronnie with the truth about his mutation, and the two worked to protect each other from the hardest part of their lives even though in public Paige encouraged Ronnie to be cold to Ak. They'd been friends as young children and in spite of some difficulties at first have developed a close relationship, with Ak considering her the main or maybe only person he trusts. When she was taken away after her own mutation awakening, he was heartbroken, especially because he knew exactly how it felt to lose control and attack someone who might deserve it. When Mrs. Malcolm finally turned him in and brought him to the school, he was almost relieved to be reunited with her again, though he misses Chris Malcolm too. Even with all the emotional hardships, his time there was still his happiest since losing his mother and he's unsure about what the school will really be like.

Recap of your mutations awakening: The very last time Akela's abusive father went too far around three months ago, it awakened the boy's full mutation for the first time he could remember. To make a long and gruesome story short, Larry Talbot had figured out some time ago that burns were what his son healed the slowest. Midway through being tormented Ak snapped and went full werewolf, badly mauling his father before escaping the house. He ran into the forest nearby at first, then returned to town the next morning and stole his cellphone back from the house to call the Malcolms, who took him in.

Charles was two years old when unknown mutants were involved in a gang war and both his parents died in that battle. The situation received some media coverage. He has no memory of his parents and no one has ever had the opportunity to tell him. He was put up for adoption by the state and quickly adopted by what turned out to be a private scientific brain trust. Their goal was to raise several people on purely scientific principles and studies to come up with a “Super Science”. There were 10 kids in his group each renamed after Science Fiction writers. Although his group were highly learned in scientific skills the project yielded no new science and the kids were sent to different private schools. Charles however, showed promise in another way, his powers had manifested five years earlier when he was 12 and they deemed him too dangerous to let out into the general public. Word got out about the project however, and (insert random group here, probably Hydra but Charles does not know) attacked the compound. Charles was ferreted out of the compound before the attack, shoved in a car, given a suitcase, and told to find his way to the Ashford Institute. Then turning to the driver Dr. Gourley said “The attack should be any minute; let nothing stop you.” Dr. Gourley had been the scientist assigned to him. Charles supposed the Dr. was the closest thing to a father he had.
Charles reached out to sense the only place he ever knew as home. It had been an old missile Silo; converted for the brain trusts purposes. He felt what had been the familiar molecules that made up the compound. Abruptly sounds permeated from; what seemed like, all directions. Popping sounds mixed with screams seemingly cut short and louder booms. The area Charles was sensing filled with excited molecules and metals. It got harder to sense the area as the driver had been driving this whole time and the distance was quickly too great. Charles strained, trying desperately to understand the myriad of molecules filling and mixing with the air back there until the strain became too much and he passed out. When Charles finally came too they were in another car apparently leaving Benson, AZ according to the road signs.
The driver looked back, "You ok back there? You had me worried for a minute. They shouldn't be able to trace this car and I should have you at Ashford sometime tomorrow morning. Get some rest."
Charles was tired still so sleep wasn't hard to find. He had so many questions for which he didn't have the answers, but he couldn't find the words. He decided a nap was best as he couldn't figure out where to start.
It was bright outside when the the driver shook him. "You hungry?"
Charles blinked at the sun coming in the window. "Yes sir, where are we?"
"A truck stop just outside L.A. I figured you might want something to eat and your probably confused enough as it is." The driver said in a dry matter of fact way.
Charles got out of the car grabbing the briefcase. "How much farther to this place? And why am I going there anyway my powers make it restrictive for me?"
The driver stopped and bent down close to Charles' ear and in a not so friendly voice, "Listen, out here we don't talk about your powers. Hell I don't even know what they are or care to. Dr. Gourley intel just said this place is relatively knew and caters to kids with "special needs" such as yours." Standing up and heading to the truck stop he looked over his shoulder, "This place has some of the best waffles."
It was obvious the Charles that was all this guy was going to tell him. The breakfast was good and afterwards it was only a half hour before he being dropped off at the gates of the Ashford Institute.

He has the ability of Molecular Manipulation. This is facilitated with an ability to sense and identify molecules without the need of equipment. He can move molecules as well as increase or decrease density in objects.


Molecular Manipulation:
⇌ Density control: By adding or subtracting molecules to an object he can its density ie: with gases he can add more hydrogen to an area making it more volatile or nitrogen to make the area more conductive or adjust oxygen levels to pressurize or depressurize an area. With objects he can make them stronger, weaker, heavier, lighter, brittle, or supple.

Alter shape and/or purpose: By rearranging molecules he can physically alter the form of almost any material and in some cases can merge two or more ores to create new compounds.

Molecular Sense:
⇌ Identify: By focusing on an object he can determine its molecular makeup and design without the need of equipment.

⇌ Sense: He can sense in general for the presence of molecules and determine where they are from him.
All abilities:

Name: Victor Lehrez

Nickname/Aliases: Big Guy

X-Men Code Name: Onyx

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Physical Description: Victor weighs around 230 pounds, most of it is muscle. He has blue eyes and is around 6'3 in height. Has no hair simply because he prefers to shave it off when it grows. Normally wears a black T-shirt with a blue and red Yin yang symbol in the center with blue jeans and white shoes.

Mutations: Geokinesis((Earth Control))
Limited ability to shoot spikes of earth at a target
Limited ability to create walls of earth as a shield
Limited ability to move the ground around him.

Personality: The best word to describe Victor is Friendly. The guy is always friendly right off the bat no matter what your first impression of him is. He'll always be nice to you if your nice to him. If you are rude to him for an extended period of time after meeting him it's a bit of a different story. He'll tolerate you but won't go out of his way to do nice things for you. If you decide you want to change your attitude about him and start being nice, he'll smile and say it's all under the bridge but he'll be careful around for you a while to make sure he isn't being screwed over. If he decides he likes you and you end up being nice to him, you've pretty much got a guy that will give you the shirt off his back if he thinks it will help you. The guy is just an overall nice human being due to the way he was raised and the way his brother treated him after his mutation started showing.

Background: Victor was born to a family that had no prior history of mutations and his didn't show until a few days after he graduated from High School. He had a relatively normal childhood and grew up with a loving family and an older brother who was a year old than him who taught him the benefits of working out at a relatively young age and did his best to keep his younger brother away from some of the more shady characters while he was in school. That was hardly necessary though. Victor was a good student who did his best to simply be friendly towards other students and teachers. Despite being a smart student he found himself more interested in sports then academics. He did do his best to keep them both a high priority though. He managed to graduate on the B honor roll but what he truly excelled at was sports. He was responsible for catching with winning touchdown in three football games in his freshman year and continued to improve over the years. He also dabbled slightly in track and tried wrestling once but didn't really care for it. He was responsible for helping bring his team to the state championship two years in a row and was noted as the guy that people could come to when they were having any kind of problem. His teammates loved him, the coaches loved him and one or two of the cheerleaders had a slight crush on him.

Around three days after graduating, Victor and his brother were out at a restaurant enjoying a late lunch after Victor's brother had finished work. As the two were leaving when they witnessed a homeless gentleman being harassed by a drunk individual. Victor and his brother, never ones to let someone bully someone else decided to step in and politely told the drunk individual he should leave. The drunk, taking offense to that statement pulled out a large knife from his jacket and attempted to stab Victor's brother. It was at this moment that Victor's powers seemed to awaken as a large chunk of earth shot up from the ground and hit the drunk in the stomach, knocking him to the ground. Both the drunk and the homeless gentleman took off, frightened by the display of power. Victor and his brother could only look at each other in shock. At first they weren't sure which one of them had done it.

After both of them spent a few moments concentrating, Victor found that he had been the one who had done it after he ended up moving a chunk of the ground once again. Victor's brother took charge of the situation and immediately drove Victor home and explained what had happened to their parents. Victor, who was still in shock fully expected to be thrown out of the house or shipped off to a government facility or something. After all, he was a mutant wasn't he? That's what happened to mutants.

Although Victor wasn't exactly expecting them to welcome him with open arms after the incident he was still somewhat surprised by the reaction. His normally welcoming and loving parents had become very cold and distant towards him. They weren't furious with him or going out of their way and threatening him or ordering him to leave the house and never return. They simply had become very cold and distant towards him. Victor's brother, always one to defend his younger brother immediately confronted them on their behavior. Unfortunately, the confrontation between Victor's brother and his parents began to escalate until eventually the screaming and yelling began to get to him. Victor was at his breaking point when his father grabbed Victor's brother by the front of the shirt and began to shake him.

This proved to be a mistake as Victor's abilities activated once again and Victor's father was pinned against the kitchen wall as a mass of earth emerged from the ground and slammed him into the wall. It was at this point that Victor's mother began to scream at the two of them to get out of the house and that she was calling the authorities. While she did her best to try and break Victor's father out of the mass of earth, Victor and his brother grabbed what little they could and bolted out the door and took off in Victor's brother's car as quick as they could.

After five hours of simply driving away from the family home and not saying much, Victor's brother started talking. He didn't start off by talking about Victor's mutation. He asked if Victor's drivers license was still up to date, he asked if Victor wanted him to take care of anything and how much money Victor had on him at the moment. Victor, still in a state of shock over what had happened answered as best he could. The two of them stopped off on the side of an empty stretch of highway and Victor closed his eyes and prepared for his brother to turn on him as his parents did.

Instead, Victor's brother handed him around $400 in twenties and asked him if he knew anything about a place called "The Ashford Institute for the Gifted." Victor, obviously did not and Victor's brother explained that a few minutes after they had confirmed that Victor had been the one with the powers, his brother had already began looking for places of refuge for people with mutant abilities. He had suspected their parents would react the way they had and had found references to a place known as the Ashford Institute. As the two began to talk about what the immediate plan for the future was, Victor began to ask more about the Institute. He didn't know much about it but at this point it seemed like his only place of refuge. The two talked for a good two hours before they began driving again. It took nearly half a day of driving before they arrived outside a large, three story manor with a large courtyard. The two sat outside the manor for twenty minutes as Victor and his brother said their good-byes to each other. Victor's brother told him that he would do his best to keep in touch and would be doing his best to try and get a life set up away from his parents.

Victor eventually grabbed what few possessions he had managed to take from the house and stood outside the gates and hesitantly knocked on the gates.