Keksalot

Marvel's Tomorrow Academy

Bad Boy

"I am a bad, bad boy. Don't let me ever forget it."

Height: 5'1''
Weight: 88 lbs
Eye color: Brown
Hair color: Ginger-ish

Name: Ferrer Nethaniah Amanda Böhm
Alias: Bad Boy/Mind-Four-Asterisks
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Classification: Homo Superior

Equipment: A loaded gun, if the academy allows it and trusts him with it. If not, a a kid-sized dress cane with a built-in and very high-powered taser. Additionaly, a slingbag with lots of easily portable, technically legal and incredibly useful tools and devices for breaking and entering, administering first aid, conducting minor repairs and such things.

Skills&Powers: Ferrer's skills and powers are reliant on one another and as such, i united two sections into one.
His abilities consist of a supernaturally powerful brain, short-ranged clairvoyance, passive empath ability and exactly zero shame, which, combined together, form a false image of the typical Midwich Cuckoos-style psychic child.

Mentat Mind: Bad Boy's primary power is, well, a still-developing hypermind. He is not yet a great genius and master schemer like Doctor Doom or Tony Stark - and might not ever become one due to his disregard for long-term consequences of his actions - but he is very great at absorbing new knowledge, multitasking, finding connections between seemingly unrelated things and events, solving logical problems and such.
Combined with his other two powers, it allows him to sometimes come off as a psychic, noticing people sneaking up on him, finishing their phrases for them, knowing exactly what they want to hear or need from him. The greatest and most-developed facet of his hypermind is the ability to VERY precisely and profoundly extrapolate from very little starting knowledge. You know how Sherlock Holmes might cast a passing glance at a person's working space and then determine how many kids he has, how often he gets the cramps in his left leg, what kind of thin cigars does he smoke and what things in life he holds dearest? Bad Boy can do that too, only better, further and with almost no possibility of mistake - oh, and he won't ever feel bad about it, no matter how personal or vital is the information that he discerns. After having a look at the person's clothing, maner of movement, their stance, the way they talk and such, Ferrer can safely determine very, very much about their personality, understand what makes them tick, what are their breaking points and what words he should say in order to quickly convince that person to, for example, drop the gun - not before carefully unloading it, of course - apologize before the shop they tried to hold up and go and voluntarily give themselves up to police. Truly, if used in the name of evil, this power could wreak lots and lots of havoc - especially considering that emotional manipulation is not the only thing that it allows for. Through exactly same rotes of mental concentration, Bad Boy can determine the vulnerable points in the structure of a building, weakest joints of a killer robot that he fights and the caveats in their battle programming or do many other most wonderful things.

Short-Ranged Clairvoyance: Nothing unusual or strange - when he concentrates, or in moments of mental calmness and serenity, Ferrer can extend his physical senses about a dozen feet around him in all directions - this allows him, for example, to sense and see the layout of the room in darkness or understand the inner workings of a complex mechanism. The senses get weaker as they extend further from the body and as such Ferrer hardly suffers a sensory overload.

Passive Empathy: This ability allows Ferrer to quite precisely understand emotions and intents that people in his immediate vicinity experience and radiate, which synergises quite well with the main use of his hypermind. The weakness of this power lies in its very nature - if Bad Boy doesn't actively fetter this ability, he might be overwhelmed by the strongest emotions around him and even begin to actually feel them.

Thanks to the Hypermind, Bad Boy rapidly becomes quite well-versed in almost any science and practice that he makes himself pick up, from hand-to-hand combat to tantric spiritual excercises to philosophy to even a bit of actual no-nonsense rocket science - as a short-term hobby for which he quickly lost interest due to the excessivee amount of numbers - though, of course, lacks quite a bit in the physical appilcations of his skills, due to the absolutely normal, non-superhuman physique of a sparingly-excercising thirteen year old and, well, lack of practice.

History: I'm not quite familiar with all of the marvel lore so i am just freeballing it, tell me if something sounds retarded please.
Basically, i wanted him to be a pretty okay boy from an old and rich family who was born a mutant but was not noticed for quite a long time due to how well, passive and hardly noticeable his powers are. After some time growing, say, at the age of five or six he was abducted by some superhuman-supremacist cult or organisation because he was noticed by one of it's clairvoyant members and considered an extremely valuable long-term addition to the organisation's power. What happened afterwards was grimdark torture and brainwashing in order to turn my guy into a psychopath who earnestly believes in the supremacy of mutants and supers, kills without conscience and works without question for the greater good. At some point the good guys found out about the cult and fucked it up, but what was done remained done and they ended up with several mindfucked kid mutants at their hands and had to do something with them. So after thoroughly explaining what's right and what's wrong and what happened to them in the hands of villains and that now there's nothing to worry about my guy was sent off to the academy to be hopefully reeducated into not being a miserable sociopath. Ferrer himself is aware of that his mindset is not exactly normal and that he has done many bad, bad things and understands that the people around are helping him to not be so fucked in the head and consciously, unemotionally works very hard in order to change himself whilst still being a creepy psychopathic child of the corn about it - using excessive force against the bad people because logically speaking they deserve it, choosing to save a thousand in the long run than the single person that is dying right now, etc-etc.

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@Nevis
Refer to the Gutmadder a couple dozen messages back. "Time and resources" isn't a very good weakness because it'll be rare to come up in the scope of the game.

@TheWizardLizard
No, no. My english is broken so i'm bad at explaining.
I meant like, the major weakness of the guy is that after speeding up he can't just STOP like for example Flash does. When he goes up to high speeds, he must slow down really carefully and gradually in order to not smear himself on the pavement and such - so when he is in a super high-speed chase and the guy he is chasing suddenly stops, he will have to run for additional half a mile before being able to stop and change direction to the opposite one.

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@TheWizardLizard
Is the conservation of momentum already a part of his power, or can your guy go from 100 to 0 whenever he wants without any ill effects? If the former is correct than it is a great weakness in and of itself.

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@Nosuchthing
NPC's powers and their weaknesses would be really helpful for me to come up with a sensible weakness for a character of lower power. I am not arguing with the fact that characters might and should be outclassed - there is always a bigger fish and the PC's are not gods after all - but it'd make sense for the NPC's to work by the same rules as PC's even if they are on a whole different level, no?

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>They're only mediocre if you're applying DC/Marvel power levels instead of thinking about how they'd be in the real world.
It's more "thinking about how characters of DC/Marvel power level would be in real world", really.

>about the characters themselves rather than their powers
Not to say that it's a bad thing but i've always imagined that with superhumans, their powers often define and shape their characters and personalities to a great degree.

>The NPCs are just going to be side characters/villains to help advance the PCs.
In that case could you perhaps help me understand this whole thing better by explaining (if it's not a spoiler) the weaknesses of Jade West, Mannequin, Bison, Toro and Phoenix, the guys who, at least from my point of view, seem to posess powers on a level quite different from the PC's? I think i can guess that Jade's primary weakness is that she refuses to use most of her powers, but that does not really relate to the power itself.

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add something like what me and Tsukune suggested in other posts.

@Mr Allen J

Yes, i am just pondering on what exactly the weakness should be.

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I will think about it, then, and write when i think up a good weakness that'll make sense for his power. I guess i'm not quite used to low-powered games, but i will try my best. It's just whatever i have at hand rn seems like unfitting for how i envision my guy or maybe farfetched, i guess? It might be not the best word, but still.

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My problem is that I don't understand what you're getting at. I'm asking that you give him some meaningful/exploitable weaknesses.

@Mr Allen J

The weakness is what i was getting at in the previous post - when he draws too much energy from the enviroment, his power automatically enters the over-the-limit overdrive state and he is indeed at the risk of ashing out.

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@Mr Allen J @tsukune
Actually, how about this variant:

He syphons heat the same way as before, but instead of being stored within him as-is, it is indeed turned into metahuman energy that, in turn, is expended towards giving him the typical "brick-man" powerset of mediocre regeneration and one of superstrength, superspeed or superdurability which he has to switch around. Trick is that if he draws in too much heat to be converted, his power automatically kicks into the ashing-inducing and exhausting "overdrive" and if he draws in too little, gets strongly cooled or remains too long (but much less than a normal person needs to freeze to death) in a very cold enviroment where it is hard for him to syphon any meaningful amount of energy, his own temperature will begin to fall and his body will begin to fail because due to the damage that brought him into coma his brain is unable to regulate his body heat automatically, as it happens with healthy humans. That, and without drawing outside energy in order to convert it, he does not produce enough metahuman energy for anything except syphoning heat.
Oh, and also due to his power always being on, even if on a very low level, he might be unable to spend a lot of time inactive, sleeping or otherwise resting, because in that case the slowly accumulated metahuman energy will make him ash sooner or later - so the guy has to constantly move, run, lift weights, train or expend his energy on something else to somewhat even out the income and expenditure of energy lest he wants bad things to happen.
Also i'll change his alias to "Redliner"

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Sure, the whole absolute zero thing sounds cool

@tsukune

He specifically can't reach the absolute zero as of now due to not being able to sustain his power for so long.

a cap of how much heat he can absorb before he literally burns himself to ash

@tsukune

I thought there would be no cap at all? This is a part of his power, gradually absorbing all of the heat into himself, all of it. And then, letting out no energy before he uses it to fuel his buffing powers. This particular type of heat just doesn't hurt him due to [metahuman energy shenanigans], like some firebenders can spew fire from their mouth or create intense and most horrible heat in very close proximity to themselves without getting burned. Either that, or all of heat that he siphons is simply converted into the metahuman energy at a VERY uneven exchange rate.

there's no way he won't get burned by a pyrokinetic spamming him with a barrage of lava-hot fireballs

@tsukune

He will be burned indeed, though the heat WILL be reduced to some degree and the damage will be further mitigated if he expends some of his energy towards the activation of a burst of super-durability.