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Auz🤨I think it's as done as it's going to be (barring any fixes that might be needed i.e. places I reference already established details/characters).
For your consideration:H A V O K
H A V O K
"Scott's not the only one who knows how to blast it."
C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T
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C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y
Havok | Alexander Summers
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American | Mutant | Current prisoner of The Raft
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Westchester | New York | USA_________________________________________________________C H A R A C T E R N O T E S
C H A R A C T E R N O T E S-M I S C E L L A N E O U S
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â–şPersonal Timeline
â—ĽLate 2000s-Early 2010s
*Alex Summers' X-gene first activates.
*Andrew Blanding (Alex Summers' foster dad) abuses Alex's powers.
*Alex is forced to raze a house (contents/occupants unknown).
*Alex runs away from the Blandings; reuniting sometime afterward with his brother, Scott Summers.
POWERS CONSIST OF
â–şAmbient Energy Conversion into Plasma Generation:
Havok constantly absorbs cosmic energies from his environment (such as starlight, x-rays, and gamma radiation) and stores them within his body's cells, metabolizing the energy in order to generate plasma wave discharges that super-heat and disintegrate objects or create concussion bursts by violently displacing air molecules in his path. This absorption is generally a passive process. Upon the total expenditure of all his available energy, it takes Havok's body about 16 ½ hours to recharge to its peak level unless he absorbs a large amount of energy at once. The act of concentration involved in releasing his energy in anything other than an omni-directional wave is physically exhausting for Havok if he continues it over an extended period of time.
(Potential) Flight: using stored energy for flight by directing it as a downward thrust. Easier to manage propulsion when starting at full energy capacity.
â–şHeat Immunity:
Havok is virtually immune to the effects of most forms of heat.
â–şRadiation Immunity:
Havok is virtually immune to the effects of most forms of radiation.
â–şHavok is also immune to Cyclops' optic blasts, as Cyclops is immune to his plasma blasts.
Powers rundown shamelessly sampled from marvel.fandom.com
NPCS = potentially various mutant youth here and there; recurring and one-offs.
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K E Y E V E N T S-K E Y E V E N T S
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â—Ľ2017: November. Havok defects, becoming one of Magneto's acolytes;
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C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P TIn this iteration, Alex's foster father was a cop. During what was supposed to be a brief, nothing-exciting-to-report ride along, they found themselves in the middle of a turf war. Alex watched as his foster father's partner went down. Bullets shattering the windows, Alex ran from the car, hearing what he thought was his foster father going down next. This event is what prompted the first manifestation of his powers -- and his foster father to use him as a tool from that day forward; placing Alex in dangerous situations because even criminals might hesitate when a kid is in their face, right? And if they don't, word gets around pretty fast of how they're gonna' get burned.
Alex couldn't control his blasts at this point in his life, but they would reliably come out when he felt intense fear or pressure. A fact his foster father heavily exploited after confirming suspicions of such by placing Alex in another traumatic situation some time after the first. Neighborhoods were secured -and his foster father's career soared (nobody who could've spoke out, and the full details of his "busts" were kept from the papers)- while Alex's sense of security crashed.
Alex has not shared the extent of these experiences with his brother, though Scott did learn not long after they reunited that Alex was abused in this way.
From this and his subsequent time at Xavier's, Alex acutely feels the difference between being used for your powers, and using your powers for something; Alex is trying to figure out what he wants that "something" to be.
Alex's path here will lead him back to young mutants or powered youth in general, looking out for those who are otherwise overlooked. Looking out for them like he wishes someone had for him when he was a new mutant.
While he doesn't know exactly what he wants to do yet, Alex knows that he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life playing "follow the leader".________________________________________________________________________________________P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )
P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )Alex is motivated by a desire to make something out of his life, not have it dictated by one thing or somebody. Many will compare him against his brother. What satisfaction he might get from one-upping Scott, though, wouldn't be so good as that of proving himself against himself. Not the better Summers, but the better Alex Summers. I'd like to bring Alex into his own spotlight. Doesn't have to be the brightest, just his; a legacy beyond his last name.
I envision this as Alex perhaps starting as a counselor of sorts at Xavier's, eventually moving on to establishing his own outreach centre for powered youth, and/or maybe heading up his own X-Men team specifically looking out for the wellbeing of "voiceless" young people, powered or not. A sort of "youth guardians" team, if you will.
Maybe in bringing security to other "gifted youngsters", Alex can move past the vulnerability he still carries from his childhood.
Given his life so far, Alex also has multiple perspectives from which to view the world (even if he doesn't know quite what he's looing at) -he's been powered-yet-powerless as a kid, empowered as an adult, known false family and real, authority figures both harmful and helpful, been on the side of the "good guys" and most recently the side of the "bad guys"- I'd like to mine that as well.
This feels like a rather engaging, immersive and thought-out RP, and I just vibe with the Summers (and their sense of humour), so...enter Havok.________________________________________________________________________________________S A M P L E P O S T
S A M P L E P O S T'You ever wonder how Xavier picks his students? It's not as simple as the young mutants whose X-genes have just activated or who need extra help coping with that, for their sake or mankind's or whoever's. We've fought with a good share of other mutants, we've seen others in and around and underneath the city, for God's sake. What about them? Other mutants who, you know, look like maybe they could benefit from having a mansion-sized roof over their heads. Did Xavier just miss them? Did he decide they're just fine where they are? Or is it they don't fit into some grand plan of his? You ever wonder about that? That I didn't fit --but that's just fine, because now you're the one who's the pawn! You ever think about any of that? Would you allow yourself to?'
Alex Summers A.K.A. Havok was passing some of his incarceration time on The Raft playing conversations out in his head he would like to have in person.
They varied in sense (jail will do that to ya').
This one was a conversation he felt he'd like to have with his brother. But he knew he couldn't. It wouldn't be a conversation. For all Cyclops' flexible thinking on the battlefield, in Havok's opinion he suited his name when it came to other matters: having a rather myopic view of things. Plus...Alex was grasping with that whole "pawn" bit... 'Why had it only been him?'
Some place in the back of his mind, he'd kind of thought of himself and his brother as a packaged deal. Of course that fell apart fairly soon after life-as-they'd-first-known-it had fallen apart....But that had been wrong, hadn't it? It wasn't meant to be "one and done with the other".
'Maybe I'm what's wrong....Why had it only not been me? -Huh, Professor X? You never gave me a clear answer before. Didn't think I could manage that either?'
Alex sighed. Much of these conversations were ones he doubted he'd actually have. Though maybe if he shouted, he could have one with a certain other individual kickin' around in his mind. He wasn't sure exactly where Magneto's cell was in this place, only that it wasn't right by his.
There were further things he entertained with Magneto, but that would definitely not be happening now, what with these power dampening collars on.
"Heh," Alex grinned. Magneto was locked up because of him. It wasn't the X-Men who did that.
But his smile was short lived.
He was in here because of himself, too.
It seemed to Alex like pretty much his whole life was a series of things either just happening to him or being forced on him. The accident....the foster care situation....Xavier's....his relationship with Polaris.
Here, Alex had to pause. It didn't feel right to think of his relationship in the same breath as the other stuff. Still, it fit the category of things just happening. Like one day he and Polaris were there, and the next day they were there together.
And then.....he supposed whatever they were now was his doing..
..accidentally.
What'd felt like the first choice he'd made in his life -not like running away from his foster home, which felt like something he had to do; no actual choice- the first real choice he'd made for himself -joining Magneto's acolytes, had been the wrong one. He'd failed at taking the reins of his own life the first time he tried.
That was why he wasn't about to let Scott, or Lorna, steer him off the second -I guess third- course he'd corrected to; dealing with the consequences of his actions.
Maybe atoning here could be his start on the path to...."right".
Love it! The competition timer had now started for Havok - see y'all in 48 hours time!
