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Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Chi Mai

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Phan Le Chi Mai

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Character Summary

Name: Phan Le Chi Mai
Superhero Name: Blossom
Age: 16
Birthday: June 8th, 2022
Birth Place: Portland, Oregon, United States
Pronouns: She/Her
Gender: Female
Species: Inhuman
Recommender: Audition
Languages: English, Vietnamese

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Appearance

Height: 5’0”
Weight: 88lbs
Build: Petite
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Skin Tone: Warm
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: Both lobes pierced. Tends to wear studs or low profile hoops.
Personal Style:
Mai tends to opt for more of a Tomboy or Grunge aesthetic. She has a couple of flannels and oversized hoodies/sweaters that she tends to rotate through in fall or winter, with spring and summer typically dominated by band shirts and print tees. She tends toward darker and muted colors, favoring earth tones. She likes her denim - straight or bootcut usually - often sporting a pair of Doc Martens. Aside from her glasses and a couple beanies/ball caps, she doesn’t tend to accessorize much.

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Psychology

Observant * Impulsive * Playful * Blunt * Curious * Defiant

Sexuality: Gay
Relationship Status: Single
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Personality:
Quick on her feet and always eager to pull the trigger on whatever quip’s loaded in the chamber, Chi Mai operates on a filter-less ‘thoughts in - words out’ system. She’s quick to laugh, freely indulging her playful side in her liberal use of humor when interacting with people. To her, nothing is serious, everything is funny.

She’s not blind to the effects her words have on people though, and will freely admit when she’s gone too far. Though she may feel bad at the time, the girl simply cannot resist sticking her foot in her mouth and will likely repeat her mistakes.

She’s got a bit of a mischievous streak to her - enjoying pushing people’s buttons to get a rise or doing things that she’s been told she shouldn’t do - though she’s more of a nuisance than a menace. At the end of the day, she simply values fun incredibly highly. That more often than not leads to her being a bit unreliable, constantly pushing things to the last minute if not outright forgetting about them. She’s a free spirit that absolutely detests being shackled.

A textbook extrovert who loves to be around people, Mai actively listens when people speak and will freely share details about herself when asked, though she’s not one to offer anything of substance too willingly. Her interactions tend to be more surface level. She would rather be acquaintances with fifty people than be intimate with five. When people probe, she dodges, deflects, or defuses.

Habits:

• Nail Biting - she cannot stand her nails catching on things and will clip them with whatever she has on her when she notices.
• Excessive Daydreaming - when forced to remain still and focus in a quiet environment, Mai is quick to escape to her imagination.

Hobbies:

• Guitar
• People Watching
• Gaming

Fears:

• Drowning
• Quicksand
• Becoming Mute

Likes:

• Comedy movies & stand-up
• Music - mainly Rock and Pop
• Cats
• Spicy
• Cities
• Rainy Days

Dislikes:

• Silence
• Horses
• Waking up early
• Hypocrisy
• Negativity
• Condescension

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Cards On The Table

Powers:

• Biological Manipulation

General World Skills:

• Observation
• Perception
• Deception
• Musical Knowledge - Guitar

Combat Skills:

• Healing
• Biokinetic Combat

Coursework:

• Traditional -
  • 1 - Biology
  • 2 - Chemistry
  • 3 - Art History
  • 4 - Classic Literature
• Superheroics -
  • 1 - Search and Rescue
  • 2 - Practical Emergency Medicine
  • 3 - Crisis and Disaster Management
  • 4 - Combat 301

Medical Issues/Injuries:

• Near-sighted - wears corrective lens

Possessions:

• Backpack - Notebooks, Loose Paper, Loose Pens, Crumpled Paper, Lost and Forgotten Bottle of Orange Juice, Glasses Case, Ear Buds
• Cell Phone
• Wallet - IDs, Debit Card, Credit Card, Assorted Business Cards
• *Laptop*
• *Potted Plant named Debbie*
• *Potted Plant named Rock*
• *Potted Plant named Bud*
• *Taylor GS Mini Acoustic Guitar*
• *Various Band Posters*

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History

Family:

• Phan Binh Minh (Father) - Alive
• Le Chi Kim (Mother) - Alive
• Phan Le Truong Son (Elder Brother) - Alive

How did you discover your powers:
At some point in her childhood, Mai was unknowingly exposed to Terrigen Mist and underwent Terrigenesis. She doesn’t even recall that it had happened, let alone why or how, but at that time her latent Inhuman gene was activated and she developed her power. Yet it wasn’t until about the onset of puberty that Mai became aware that something was off. On her walk home from school one day, she discovered the family cat, Bac Meo, lying in an alley - stiff and motionless. He didn’t respond to her calls, and when she approached him, he was unresponsive. As the girl got more and more upset, she wanted nothing more than for her cat to wake up. And then he did.

The girl was just absolutely overjoyed that Bac Meo was alright, so she didn’t think much of the event. But later she would go over that day and come to the chilling realization that Bac Meo was very much dead or dying when she found him.

When later that year she tripped and fell down the stairwell in the apartment complex her family resided in, she broke her arm in two spots, and lost a tooth. Yet no one ever knew about that little incident, because in the girl’s panic, the bones in her arm mended and another tooth formed in place of the old one. By this point, she was fully aware of mutants and superheroes. So she incorrectly believed this to be her mutant awakening.

General History:

Late on a Wednesday night in early June of 2022, a beautiful screaming baby girl was born to exhausted parents Phan Binh Minh and Le Chi Kim after twenty stressful hours of labor. The birth was difficult, the delivery room was chaos, and at some point, the child was taken from the room. Hopefully, off to a bright and happy life, but that’s a story for another day. Instead, we’ll be following the baby that was brought back into the room.

Be it by accident or nefarious means, none present noticed that the baby placed into Kim’s arms was not the one that the mother had spent nine months carrying. The babies looked enough alike and the bands on their wrists had somehow gotten exchanged. Thus after a week in the hospital, the family returned to their household, one larger than they had been when they left.

Mai had a pleasant childhood. While the family was by no means rich, both Kim and Binh Minh were successful enough in their careers to live comfortably. The girl never wanted for anything. She was surrounded by family that loved her and once she started school, she made friends easily.

Upon discovering her powers, Mai kept it a tightly held secret from everyone. She never doubted her parents’ love, but she was well aware of mutants. Some people supported them. Many people didn’t. Either way, it was attention and stress that the girl didn’t want to put on her folks. She considered telling her brother, but Truong Son couldn’t keep a secret to save his life. So she kept it to herself. She experimented in secret. She scoured the internet for information on people like herself. She even got involved in some online communities of other mutants, but quickly left once she started getting paranoid.

Mai’s parents were well accustomed to their eccentric daughter’s odd whims, so when the topic of applying for admission to the Avengers Academy in Los Angeles, their reaction was one not so much of suspicion but confusion. Yet after weeks of begging, pleading, and bargaining, her parents relented and agreed to let her at least try, as they were apt to do. After all, where was the harm in letting her put in an application and doing an interview?

She was accepted.

The interrogation truly began then, as Mai’s family began to barrage her with questions. How did she pull it off? Luckily for her, she only had to endure a couple months questioning. And she did what she does best - dodge, deflect, defuse, and deny.

Eventually, her parents came to see it as an incredible opportunity for their daughter, so they agreed to let her go, none the wiser to their mutant (Inhuman) daughter's little secret.

Proposed Arc:

• For a personal character arc, Mai will need to learn to let people in and form actual non-superficial bonds with people. And while she was able to get into the academy, it was more of a ‘can she get in?’ than a ‘should she get in?’ She needs to discover what it means to be a hero and if she has what it takes to be one.
• Mai does not have a flawless grasp of her powers. They are strong, but they require refinement. For all the good she can do with them, there is an equal room for her to harm. It may be fun to explore the fallout from healing being unreliable and the consequences that may arise from that.
• Mai was switched at birth and sometime later exposed to Terrigen Mist. Why? Are they connected? Mai may need to learn about either of those events at some point, and when she does, she’ll want to find answers.

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Extras

Character Quote: “Laugh, and the world laughs with you” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Favorite Song: Legend Has It - Run The Jewels
Anything Else: So, old posts, right? Here: cringe at my first actual IC post on the Guild.

Favorite Marvel teen hero: ezpz - Kate Bishop out, Invincible in. Check pls.
_{*By submitting this CS in its completion I am stating I have read all the rules for this Rp and am agreeing to follow them to the fullest with respect and courtesy. I acknowledge that I can and will be removed from the RP without warning if I break a rule or cause problems with my fellow Rpers or the GM.}

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Relations

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Phan Le Chi Mai

"Wanna go do crime?"

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⟢ 🎆Respects ⟡ 🌓Neutral ⟡ 👋Acquaintance ⟡ 🙇It's Complicated ⟣
⟢ 💛Friend ⟡ 💙Good Friends ⟡ 💜Best Friends ⟡ ❣️Ex-Friends ⟡ 😈Frienemy ⟣ ✨Roommate
⟢ 💘Crush⟡ 💓Loves ⟡ 💗Couple ⟡ 💕Basically Family ⟡ 💞Family ⟡ 💔Ex-Lovers ⟣
⟢ ♨️Tense ⟡ 💀Dislikes ⟡ 😡Hates ⟡ 👿Enemy ⟡ 👹Absolutely Loathes ⟣

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💛 April Flynn 💛
"actual queen. holder of the good shit. love her."

• She’s listed as 🚬👑 in Mai’s contact list.

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🌓 Percy Novikov 🌓
"freshy freshy freshy. prissy lookin ass gay boy, calling it now"

• Mai is nosy enough to actively seek out the Freshmen day one to see what they’re all about.

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💛 Diana Novikova 💛
"wifey<3<3<3"

• Mutual flirting between them
• She’s listed as 👩‍❤️‍👩🥵 in Mai’s contact list.

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💛 Madalyne Crane 💛
"y they make nerds so fukkin hot now wtf???"

She’s listed as 🤓🍑 in Mai’s contact list.

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💛 Dorian Gray 💛
"the carry gay"

• He’s listed as 🎮👑🍆 in Mai’s contact list.

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💛 Danny Kingston 💛
"my bottom bitch <3"

• He’s listed as 💅👑🍆 in Mai’s contact list.

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💛 Rory Serrano-Moore 💛
"enabler asshat - new raid sooooooo gooooooood"

• They're listed as 🎮🍑🧑 in Mai’s contact list.

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💛 Sabine Bassard 💛
"wtf a bitch gotta do to get a bitch to step on her?"

• She’s listed as 🦶👩 in Mai’s contact list.

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💛 Victoria van Dyne 💛
"bruh y tf ur goofy ass so fukkin funny???"

• She’s listed as 🤪🍑😂 in Mai’s contact list.

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🌓 Zelda Flynn 🌓
"issa quiet baby"

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🌓 Zarina Raynordattir 🌓
"Y THEY MAKE NERDS SO FUKKIN HOT NOW WTF??? BITCH CHILL"

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💛 Teddy Thompson 💛
"the trash gay like bruh wtf how r u this fukkin bad"

• He’s listed as 🗑️🐻🎮 in Mai’s contact list.

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💛 Leah Jordan 💛
"how to get mommy to crush me w/ her biceps?"

• She’s listed as 💪🥵 in Mai’s contact list.

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🌓 Ardere Terrene 🌓
"issa scary baby"

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✨ | 🌓 Andy Gallio-Lensherr 🌓 | ✨
"new roomie! new bestie??????"

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🌓 Mary Sue Sullivan 🌓
"issa shy chihuahua!!! adorb. im adopting."

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Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Oh sure, that's no trouble. Blossom will do. Making the edit and moving her now~

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

And done with the second sheet!

Chi Mai

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Phan Le Chi Mai

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Character Summary

Name: Phan Le Chi Mai
Superhero Name: Bloom
Age: 16
Birthday: June 8th, 2022
Birth Place: Portland, Oregon, United States
Pronouns: She/Her
Gender: Female
Species: Inhuman
Recommender: Audition
Languages: English, Vietnamese

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Appearance

Height: 5’0”
Weight: 88lbs
Build: Petite
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Skin Tone: Warm
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: Both lobes pierced. Tends to wear studs or low profile hoops.
Personal Style:
Mai tends to opt for more of a Tomboy or Grunge aesthetic. She has a couple of flannels and oversized hoodies/sweaters that she tends to rotate through in fall or winter, with spring and summer typically dominated by band shirts and print tees. She tends toward darker and muted colors, favoring earth tones. She likes her denim - straight or bootcut usually - often sporting a pair of Doc Martens. Aside from her glasses and a couple beanies/ball caps, she doesn’t tend to accessorize much.

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Psychology

Observant * Impulsive * Playful * Blunt * Curious * Defiant

Sexuality: Gay
Relationship Status: Single
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Personality:
Quick on her feet and always eager to pull the trigger on whatever quip’s loaded in the chamber, Chi Mai operates on a filter-less ‘thoughts in - words out’ system. She’s quick to laugh, freely indulging her playful side in her liberal use of humor when interacting with people. To her, nothing is serious, everything is funny.

She’s not blind to the effects her words have on people though, and will freely admit when she’s gone too far. Though she may feel bad at the time, the girl simply cannot resist sticking her foot in her mouth and will likely repeat her mistakes.

She’s got a bit of a mischievous streak to her - enjoying pushing people’s buttons to get a rise or doing things that she’s been told she shouldn’t do - though she’s more of a nuisance than a menace. At the end of the day, she simply values fun incredibly highly. That more often than not leads to her being a bit unreliable, constantly pushing things to the last minute if not outright forgetting about them. She’s a free spirit that absolutely detests being shackled.

A textbook extrovert who loves to be around people, Mai actively listens when people speak and will freely share details about herself when asked, though she’s not one to offer anything of substance too willingly. Her interactions tend to be more surface level. She would rather be acquaintances with fifty people than be intimate with five. When people probe, she dodges, deflects, or defuses.

Habits:

• Nail Biting - she cannot stand her nails catching on things and will clip them with whatever she has on her when she notices.
• Excessive Daydreaming - when forced to remain still and focus in a quiet environment, Mai is quick to escape to her imagination.

Hobbies:

• Guitar
• People Watching
• Gaming

Fears:

• Drowning
• Quicksand
• Becoming Mute

Likes:

• Comedy movies & stand-up
• Music - mainly Rock and Pop
• Cats
• Spicy
• Cities
• Rainy Days

Dislikes:

• Silence
• Horses
• Waking up early
• Hypocrisy
• Negativity
• Condescension

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Cards On The Table

Powers:

• Biological Manipulation

General World Skills:

• Observation
• Perception
• Deception
• Musical Knowledge - Guitar

Combat Skills:

• Healing
• Biokinetic Combat

Coursework:

• Traditional - put down 4 class suggestions
  • 1 - Biology
  • 2 - Chemistry
  • 3 - Art History
  • 4 - Classic Literature
• Superheroics - put down 4 class suggestions
  • 1 - Search and Rescue
  • 2 - Triage and First Aid
  • 3 - Crisis and Disaster Management
  • 4 - Hand to Hand Combat

Medical Issues/Injuries:

• Near-sighted - wears corrective lens

Possessions:

• Backpack - Notebooks, Loose Paper, Loose Pens, Crumpled Paper, Lost and Forgotten Bottle of Orange Juice, Glasses Case, Ear Buds
• Cell Phone
• Wallet - IDs, Debit Card, Credit Card, Assorted Business Cards
• *Laptop*
• *Potted Plant named Debbie*
• *Potted Plant named Rock*
• *Potted Plant named Bud*
• *Taylor GS Mini Acoustic Guitar*
• *Various Band Posters*

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History

Family:

• Phan Binh Minh (Father) - Alive
• Le Chi Kim (Mother) - Alive
• Phan Le Truong Son (Elder Brother) - Alive

How did you discover your powers:
At some point in her childhood, Mai was unknowingly exposed to Terrigen Mist and underwent Terrigenesis. She doesn’t even recall that it had happened, let alone why or how, but at that time her latent Inhuman gene was activated and she developed her power. Yet it wasn’t until about the onset of puberty that Mai became aware that something was off. On her walk home from school one day, she discovered the family cat, Bac Meo, lying in an alley - stiff and motionless. He didn’t respond to her calls, and when she approached him, he was unresponsive. As the girl got more and more upset, she wanted nothing more than for her cat to wake up. And then he did.

The girl was just absolutely overjoyed that Bac Meo was alright, so she didn’t think much of the event. But later she would go over that day and come to the chilling realization that Bac Meo was very much dead or dying when she found him.

When later that year she tripped and fell down the stairwell in the apartment complex her family resided in, she broke her arm in two spots, and lost a tooth. Yet no one ever knew about that little incident, because in the girl’s panic, the bones in her arm mended and another tooth formed in place of the old one. By this point, she was fully aware of mutants and superheroes. So she incorrectly believed this to be her mutant awakening.

General History:

Late on a Wednesday night in early June of 2022, a beautiful screaming baby girl was born to exhausted parents Phan Binh Minh and Le Chi Kim after twenty stressful hours of labor. The birth was difficult, the delivery room was chaos, and at some point, the child was taken from the room. Hopefully, off to a bright and happy life, but that’s a story for another day. Instead, we’ll be following the baby that was brought back into the room.

Be it by accident or nefarious means, none present noticed that the baby placed into Kim’s arms was not the one that the mother had spent nine months carrying. The babies looked enough alike and the bands on their wrists had somehow gotten exchanged. Thus after a week in the hospital, the family returned to their household, one larger than they had been when they left.

Mai had a pleasant childhood. While the family was by no means rich, both Kim and Binh Minh were successful enough in their careers to live comfortably. The girl never wanted for anything. She was surrounded by family that loved her and once she started school, she made friends easily.

Upon discovering her powers, Mai kept it a tightly held secret from everyone. She never doubted her parents’ love, but she was well aware of mutants. Some people supported them. Many people didn’t. Either way, it was attention and stress that the girl didn’t want to put on her folks. She considered telling her brother, but Truong Son couldn’t keep a secret to save his life. So she kept it to herself. She experimented in secret. She scoured the internet for information on people like herself. She even got involved in some online communities of other mutants, but quickly left once she started getting paranoid.

Mai’s parents were well accustomed to their eccentric daughter’s odd whims, so when the topic of applying for admission to the Avengers Academy in Los Angeles, their reaction was one not so much of suspicion but confusion. Yet after weeks of begging, pleading, and bargaining, her parents relented and agreed to let her at least try, as they were apt to do. After all, where was the harm in letting her put in an application and doing an interview?

She was accepted.

The interrogation truly began then, as Mai’s family began to barrage her with questions. How did she pull it off? Luckily for her, she only had to endure a couple months questioning. And she did what she does best - dodge, deflect, defuse, and deny.

Eventually, her parents came to see it as an incredible opportunity for their daughter, so they agreed to let her go, none the wiser to their mutant (Inhuman) daughter's little secret.

Proposed Arc:

• For a personal character arc, Mai will need to learn to let people in and form actual non-superficial bonds with people. And while she was able to get into the academy, it was more of a ‘can she get in?’ than a ‘should she get in?’ She needs to discover what it means to be a hero and if she has what it takes to be one.
• Mai does not have a flawless grasp of her powers. They are strong, but they require refinement. For all the good she can do with them, there is an equal room for her to harm. It may be fun to explore the fallout from healing being unreliable and the consequences that may arise from that.
• Mai was switched at birth and sometime later exposed to Terrigen Mist. Why? Are they connected? Mai may need to learn about either of those events at some point, and when she does, she’ll want to find answers.

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Extras

Character Quote: “Laugh, and the world laughs with you” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Favorite Song: Legend Has It - Run The Jewels
Anything Else: So, old posts, right? Here: cringe at my first actual IC post on the Guild.

Favorite Marvel teen hero: ezpz - Kate Bishop out, Invincible in. Check pls.
_{*By submitting this CS in its completion I am stating I have read all the rules for this Rp and am agreeing to follow them to the fullest with respect and courtesy. I acknowledge that I can and will be removed from the RP without warning if I break a rule or cause problems with my fellow Rpers or the GM.}

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Does Teddy play Skyrim

@Blizz

In 2038? Who doesn't? It just released on smart towels.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Theodore "Teddy" Thompson

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Theodore “Teddy” Thompson

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Character Summary

Name: Theodore Michael Thompson
Superhero Name: Kodiak
Age: 18
Birthday: August 28, 2020
Birth Place: Fairbanks, Alaska
Pronouns: He/Him
Gender: Male
Species: Mutant
Recommender: Audition
Languages: Native English, Limited Working French

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Appearance

Height:6’7” / 7’10”
Weight: 738lbs
Build: Burly
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Skin Tone: Light with a ruddy complexion
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: Numerous wide scars cover Teddy’s body, with the worst concentrated around his hands and fingers. He has a number of tattoos incorporating and covering up the more noticeable scars. As for piercings, his tragus and nostril on either side are pierced, but he doesn’t often wear jewelry in them.
Personal Style: Teddy is a firm believer of the holy trinity of broke and/or large blue collar men across the country - Hanes, Gildan, Wrangler. Given his…condition, the guy goes through clothes pretty quickly. As such, cheap is king. On any given day, it’s a safe bet that Teddy will probably be in a plain colored tee and a pair of jeans. If it’s a bit chilly or if he’s trying to dress to impress he might even break out the good flannel. For footwear, he tends to prefer sneakers and you better believe those bad boys are white New Balances.

He’s essentially got the fashion-sense of a middle-aged Dad - all he’s missing is the lawnmower and beer. But he’s content. A walking, talking Shakespearean tragedy unto fashion, sure, but content nonetheless.

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Psychology

Gentle * Shy * Loyal * Perfectionist * Altruistic * Stubborn

Sexuality: Gay
Relationship Status: Single
Alignment: Neutral Good
Personality: Quiet, reserved, calm, Theodore checks all the boxes for your friendly neighborhood gentle giant. He’s the kind of guy to give someone the shirt right off his back, then apologize for it being too big. He likes to be seen as somebody reliable and useful, but perhaps weighs that approval more heavily than healthy when determining his self-worth. When things go wrong, he only blames himself, rationalizing it by thinking that he just wasn’t good enough or didn’t do enough. And when things go well? Well they could have been better if he had just worked a little harder.

In some ways, he channels it well - using those negative thoughts as fuel to motivate him to work on constant self-improvement, but the constant loop of self-flagellation into overworking himself towards unrealistic or unattainable goals leaves him feeling perpetually dissatisfied. Beyond the pessimistic feedback loop, however, there is an earnest, kindhearted guy. Sure, it may take him a bit to warm up to new people, but once you're in, he’ll move mountains to see a smile.

Habits:

• Stays up far too late
• Knee bouncing
• Apologizing

Hobbies:

• Baking
• Reading
• Writing
• Gaming
• Hiking
• Formerly Hockey
• Working on old vehicles

Fears:

• Being buried alive
• Heights
• Losing his mother

Likes:

• Rom-Coms
• Sweets
• Nature
• Horror films / books
• Animals
• Sports
• Lifting Weights

Dislikes:

• Cardio
• Spicy Food
• Public Speaking
• Fish
• Christmas
• Being alone

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Cards On The Table

Powers:

• Ursine Physiology
  • Claws
  • Enhanced Strength
  • Enhanced Durability
  • Enhanced Endurance
  • Enhanced Speed

Teddy’s mutation manifested very visibly, leading to the growth of long, coarse, thick hair across his body, rapid growth in height and weight, misshapen hands with long, sharp claws, and a more ursine-like head with thick hair growth and a snout. His muscles became incredibly dense, his skeleton hardened. He is able to shift back into his mostly human form, but that requires concentrated effort and willpower to maintain for any length of time, and while it resembles a humanoid shape, his proportions are still a bit off. He takes a large number of pills daily to assist in maintaining the shifted form, but his default, natural state is his mutated form as seen above.

General World Skills:

• Baking
• Mechanical Knowledge
• Wilderness Survival

Combat Skills:

• Claw-to-Claw Combat
• Tracking
• Search and Rescue

Coursework:

• Traditional
  • 1 - Biology
  • 2 - Chemistry
  • 3 - Classic Literature
  • 4 - TA for Combat 101
• Superheroics
  • 1 - Search and Rescue
  • 2 - Combat 401
  • 3 - Advanced Battle Strategy
  • 4 - Practical Emergency Medicine

Medical Issues/Injuries:

• N/A

Possessions:

• Backpack - Notebooks / Pencil Case / Paperback copy of Carrie by Stephen King
• Cell Phone
• Wallet - ID, Bank Card, Pictures of family and friends
• *Busted Electric Razor*
• *Medication Cocktail for suppressing his shifting*
• *Laptop*
• *Biography of Dr. Henry McCoy*
• *Unnamed Pet Guppy*
• *Set of free weights*

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History

Family: List out their family members, immediate family is required, extended family is optional

• Mother: Hannah Schultz (alive)
• Father: Michael Thompson (alive, no contact)
• Aunt: Amanda Greene (alive)
• Uncle: Richard Greene (deceased)
• Cousin: Micah Green (alive)

How did you discover your powers: Teddy’s mutation manifested around the onset of puberty. It was a gradual change at first - he just seemed to be growing earlier than the other kids, yet by the time he was twelve, he was already growing a full beard, sparking some concern. His skull began shifting by thirteen, partial snout forming by fourteen, and by fifteen he seemed to be moving past the awkward in-between stage and landing about where he is now. By sixteen his appearance seemed to have reached maturity, with only his height and overall size really changing. Even at eighteen, his growth hasn’t really slowed all that much.

While his appearance was rather off-putting to his community, obviously outting him as a mutant, the full extent of his powers wasn’t apparent until a schoolyard brawl ended with Theodore mauling a classmate - scarring the kid and leaving him with a pair of broken ribs. The resulting backlash, combined with Hannah’s failing health, led the two to leaving Fairbanks, Alaska to stay with Hannah’s sister Amanda, a widow struggling to make ends meet in California.

General History: Theodore Thompson was born to Hannah Schultz and Michael Thompson out of wedlock, the result of a one-night stand and an ensuing whirlwind romance that ended when Michael walked out on the new mother only months after their son was born. Despite that, little Teddy was raised in a loving household, in a fairly nice community in Fairbanks. He played youth hockey, made friends, and had a rather average childhood. He didn’t have a Dad, but Hannah was a Supermom, so it all worked out.

On Teddy’s street, was another boy Teddy’s age, Tommy. They played on the same youth team. They were in the same class. Their names were similar. They were best friends. So naturally, Teddy spent most of his time at Tommy’s house. And it was there that Teddy would meet the person who taught him how to be a man - Tommy’s father, Dante. The boys were close, anyone could see that, and Dante’s father treated Teddy as one of his own. He would always be working on some old hunk of junk, entertaining the boys’ pathetic attempts at ‘helping’ him until they actually started learning some things. So it became routine - the boys would come home from school/practice, then help Dante with the junkers while they all listened to the radio.
But then the changes began.

The hair. The nails. The mocking. The bullying. People were looking at him differently, treating him differently. Even Tommy began to find excuses as to why he couldn’t hang out with Teddy anymore. Teddy’s mother still loved him, he knew that, but he would hear her crying at night, when she had thought he had fallen asleep. In the end, it was only Dante that never stopped treating Teddy like who he was: just a kid going through some changes. Teddy would continue heading over to work on the junkers with Dante every day. Tommy, having long since outgrown both the cars and Teddy, would find places to go or things to do - for a while, before he simply stopped making excuses and just outright ignored him.

So it just became the two of them, working on the cars to the sound of the radio. Sometimes Teddy would talk to Dante. Sometimes they’d work in silence. Despite everything, those were some of the happiest times of Teddy’s life.

Teddy was fourteen when the incident happened. The wrong kid just simply happened to say the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time. Teddy lashed out. He had gotten to experience firsthand just how fragile people could be. It terrified him. He was expelled, with the bully’s parents looking to press charges. It more or less bankrupted Hannah. Her health took a bad turn - cancer. And, unceremoniously, one eight hour flight later, Teddy was uprooted to California, living with an aunt and cousin he had never met.

Auditioning for the Margaret Carter Institute was his cousin Micah’s suggestion. It was seen as more or less an opportunity of which Teddy would be insane to not at least attempt to take advantage. No one actually expected him to be accepted.

Now starting his fourth and final year at the Academy, Teddy prepares for the next chapter of his life. It would be his final chance at the Contest of Champions. Between the prize money and the potential to be recruited into a team, victory would mean finally being able to pay for his mother’s medical bills and potentially help rebuild the life that he had ruined for her.

Failure…failure wasn’t an option.

Proposed Arc:

• Teddy at this point sort of operates in a headspace where everything he’s doing is in spite of being a mutant. He places himself at a distance to others. He heavily medicates himself in an attempt to ‘hide’ it. It’s a point of shame for him. I think, ideally, he would arrive at a place where he accepts himself for who and what he is, as well as becoming kinder to himself, letting go of the guilt he puts on himself for things he really couldn’t help.
• While the first point suggests him finding a way to live in his sort of in-between state, I’m open to an alternative path where he maybe completely rejects one side of himself or the other. He either finds a way to permanently shift to his human form at the cost of the Ursine, or he says ‘fuck society’ and goes full primal bear mode. Man or bear. Or shucks, we could even throw a pig in there somewhere just to spice it up, yeehaw.
• I think that even if he ends up not having what it takes to become a hero, Teddy would want to continue on to something that still helps people. So, his plan B is to try to leverage the academy into a potential med school acceptance after undergrad. And if he’s not cut out for that, fuck it, he’ll move out to the boonies and start a garage.

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Extras

Character Quote: “Son, you can’t make ‘em all like you. But you put your head down, you work your ass off, and you make it damn hard for ‘em to not respect you.” - Dante
Favorite Song: Jolene - Dolly Parton
Anything Else: Just a lil graverobbing
So I actually don’t know a whole lot about comics? So for Marvel Teen, I guess, I dunno, the Blue Beetle? Unless that’s DC. I think he might be DC. So…uh…Kate Bishop?
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Teddy’s Journal

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Theodore Michael Thompson

"God, I haven’t written in one of these in forever. Is it weird to keep a list of strangers? It feels kind of weird. No one can ever know about this."

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⟢ 🎆Respects ⟡ 🌓Neutral ⟡ 👋Acquaintance ⟡ 🙇It's Complicated ⟣
⟢ 💛Friend ⟡ 💙Good Friends ⟡ 💜Best Friends ⟡ ❣️Ex-Friends ⟡ 😈Frienemy ⟣ ✨Roommate
⟢ 💘Crush⟡ 💓Loves ⟡ 💗Couple ⟡ 💕Basically Family ⟡ 💞Family ⟡ 💔Ex-Lovers ⟣
⟢ ♨️Tense ⟡ 💀Dislikes ⟡ 😡Hates ⟡ 👿Enemy ⟡ 👹Absolutely Loathes ⟣

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🌓 April Flynn 🌓
"I don’t know her all that well, but she seems very warm. Maybe I’ll say hello if I see her around? "

• Teddy has a short bulleted list of things to ask her about penciled in next to the entry: beach? ocean? surfing?

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✨|🌓 Percy Novikov 🌓|✨
”I’m going to be rooming with Diana’s lil bro this year. It feels kind of weird, y’know, actually meeting somebody you’ve heard so much about. He sounds very…let’s say particular? Well, I hope he really enjoys his time here."

• Lowkey nervous from the stories he’s heard, so he’s deep cleaning the room despite being fairly tidy.
• Yet another bulleted list, but the bullets have yet to be filled in. List is titled “Topics To Avoid”

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🎆|💙 Diana Novikova 💙|🎆
"I’m very grateful that I met Diana. I guess I was pretty lonely before, but she really made last year, well, fun. Couldn’t ask for a better gym bro either - girl’s got some hustle in her, you gotta respect that. Really good music taste too."

• Another list: Birthday Gift Ideas - targets? arrows (what kind?) tickets?

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👋|🌓Madalyne Crane 🌓|👋
"I haven’t really had a chance to really talk to Madalyne, but she seems super nice. I should make an effort to say ‘hi’ sometime."

• ’Art?’ is scribbled in next to her entry.

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🌓 Dorian Gray 🌓
"He’s around Danny a lot. They always seem to be having a good time, so he’s probably a good guy."

• scribbled down next to the entry is ‘ghost - mojovision’ followed by a couple games that Dorian had streamed around the time that Teddy had checked.

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💘|👋 Danny Kingston👋|💘
"He’s really cute sweet funny. He sort of reminds me of a puppy. Like, you just wanna pick him and nuzzle him, y’know. No one can know about this. "

• Teddy got nervous and went back to scratch out much of this entry.

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🌓 Sabine Bassard 🌓
"I think I remember her? God, that sounds awful - I really need to try to be more social. I don’t think I’ve had a chance to speak with her. But hell, I feel like I can’t even afford to LOOK at her outfit on Fridays, so I’m not sure what we would even talk about. Ah, that’s not really fair of me, I’m sure she’s fine."

• ’Fashion???’ is scribbled to the side of her entry, along with ‘French?’

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🎆|🌓 Victoria van Dyne 🌓|🎆
"She seems super smart. It’s kind of intimidating, really. I should study more."

• Scribbled by her entry in tiny print ‘I’m not smart enough to understand what she’s talking about (:’

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🌓 Rory Serrano-Moore 🌓
"I haven't really had a good chance to talk with them, honestly."

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🌓 Zelda Flynn 🌓
"Freshman. Maybe related to April?"

• Lots of space is left for her entry, but it’s all currently empty.

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🌓 Zarina Raynordattir 🌓
"Transfer?”

• Most of the entry is left blank with plenty of space, but in pencil he has lightly written ‘where from?’ ‘interests?’

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🎆|💛 Leah Jordan 💛|🎆
"Helluva hook on her. I don’t think anyone has slugged me more in the nose than her."

• Near her entry is another ‘Birthday Gift Ideas’ list though it’s just a list of Leah’s favorite authors.

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🌓 Ardere Terrene 🌓
"I thought this was a typo on the class register, but it's apparently correct. A found a couple examples of how to pronounce it, but none of them sound the same. I feel kind of bad, but I'll just have to ask."

• Another mostly blank entry.

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💛 Phan Le Chi Mai 💛
"She’s very persistent, but it’s kind of nice, really. Pretty funny."

• Her entry has yet another birthday list - a bunch of games judging by the titles, but one of the titles has been circled a few times. Scribbled next to it is ‘she liked it!’

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🌓 Andy Gallio-Lensherr 🌓
"I think she's supposed to be Mai's new roommate, but I haven't met her yet."

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🌓 Mary Sue Sullivan 🌓
"I believe I saw that name on the class register for Combat 101, so probably a freshman. Guess we'll see."

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😈|🎆 Teddy Altman 🎆|😈
""Back to back world champs." Disgusting. He can't keep getting away with it. Gotta make him work for it this year."

• scribbled next to the entry is another birthday list. Circled is A Knight of the Seven Kingdom - George R.R. Martin

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Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

@Morose Oh hahaha, well thank you! He was super fun to write up. I'll move him over.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

@Morose
Hehe, I couldn't help myself. But no rush, take your time~

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Hiya! Been a hot minute since I've been around here, but this looked super nifty! And I've recently come into uhm...a lot of free time. So, I thought I'd try my hand at writing up a sheet or two. I maaay be a bit rusty, so please just bear with me haha.

Theodore "Teddy" Thompson

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Theodore “Teddy” Thompson

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Character Summary

Name: Theodore Michael Thompson
Superhero Name: Kodiak
Age: 18
Birthday: August 28, 2020
Birth Place: Fairbanks, Alaska
Pronouns: He/Him
Gender: Male
Species: Mutant
Recommender: Audition
Languages: Native English, Limited Working French

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Appearance

Height:6’7” / 7’10”
Weight: 738lbs
Build: Burly
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Skin Tone: Light with a ruddy complexion
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: Numerous wide scars cover Teddy’s body, with the worst concentrated around his hands and fingers. He has a number of tattoos incorporating and covering up the more noticeable scars. As for piercings, his tragus and nostril on either side are pierced, but he doesn’t often wear jewelry in them.
Personal Style: Teddy is a firm believer of the holy trinity of broke and/or large blue collar men across the country - Hanes, Gildan, Wrangler. Given his…condition, the guy goes through clothes pretty quickly. As such, cheap is king. On any given day, it’s a safe bet that Teddy will probably be in a plain colored tee and a pair of jeans. If it’s a bit chilly or if he’s trying to dress to impress he might even break out the good flannel. For footwear, he tends to prefer sneakers and you better believe those bad boys are white New Balances.

He’s essentially got the fashion-sense of a middle-aged Dad - all he’s missing is the lawnmower and beer. But he’s content. A walking, talking Shakespearean tragedy unto fashion, sure, but content nonetheless.

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Psychology

Gentle * Shy * Loyal * Perfectionist * Altruistic * Stubborn

Sexuality: Gay
Relationship Status: Single
Alignment: Neutral Good
Personality: Quiet, reserved, calm, Theodore checks all the boxes for your friendly neighborhood gentle giant. He’s the kind of guy to give someone the shirt right off his back, then apologize for it being too big. He likes to be seen as somebody reliable and useful, but perhaps weighs that approval more heavily than healthy when determining his self-worth. When things go wrong, he only blames himself, rationalizing it by thinking that he just wasn’t good enough or didn’t do enough. And when things go well? Well they could have been better if he had just worked a little harder.

In some ways, he channels it well - using those negative thoughts as fuel to motivate him to work on constant self-improvement, but the constant loop of self-flagellation into overworking himself towards unrealistic or unattainable goals leaves him feeling perpetually dissatisfied. Beyond the pessimistic feedback loop, however, there is an earnest, kindhearted guy. Sure, it may take him a bit to warm up to new people, but once you're in, he’ll move mountains to see a smile.

Habits:

• Stays up far too late
• Knee bouncing
• Apologizing

Hobbies:

• Baking
• Reading
• Writing
• Gaming
• Hiking
• Formerly Hockey
• Working on old vehicles

Fears:

• Being buried alive
• Heights
• Losing his mother

Likes:

• Rom-Coms
• Sweets
• Nature
• Horror films / books
• Animals
• Sports
• Lifting Weights

Dislikes:

• Cardio
• Spicy Food
• Public Speaking
• Fish
• Christmas
• Being alone

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Cards On The Table

Powers:

• Ursine Physiology
  • Claws
  • Enhanced Strength
  • Enhanced Durability
  • Enhanced Endurance
  • Enhanced Speed

Teddy’s mutation manifested very visibly, leading to the growth of long, coarse, thick hair across his body, rapid growth in height and weight, misshapen hands with long, sharp claws, and a more ursine-like head with thick hair growth and a snout. His muscles became incredibly dense, his skeleton hardened. He is able to shift back into his mostly human form, but that requires concentrated effort and willpower to maintain for any length of time, and while it resembles a humanoid shape, his proportions are still a bit off. He takes a large number of pills daily to assist in maintaining the shifted form, but his default, natural state is his mutated form as seen above.

General World Skills:

• Baking
• Mechanical Knowledge
• Wilderness Survival

Combat Skills:

• Claw-to-Claw Combat
• Tracking
• Search and Rescue

Coursework:

• Traditional
  • 1 -Biology
  • 2 -Chemistry
  • 3-Literature
  • 4 - Gym
• Superheroics
  • 1-Search and Rescue
  • 2-Combat
  • 3-Field Tactics
  • 4-First Aid

Medical Issues/Injuries:

• N/A

Possessions:

• Backpack - Notebooks / Pencil Case / Paperback copy of Carrie by Stephen King
• Cell Phone
• Wallet - ID, Bank Card, Pictures of family and friends
• *Busted Electric Razor*
• *Medication Cocktail for suppressing his shifting*
• *Laptop*
• *Biography of Dr. Henry McCoy*
• *Unnamed Pet Guppy*
• *Set of free weights*

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History

Family: List out their family members, immediate family is required, extended family is optional

• Mother: Hannah Schultz (alive)
• Father: Michael Thompson (alive, no contact)
• Aunt: Amanda Greene (alive)
• Uncle: Richard Greene (deceased)
• Cousin: Micah Green (alive)

How did you discover your powers: Teddy’s mutation manifested around the onset of puberty. It was a gradual change at first - he just seemed to be growing earlier than the other kids, yet by the time he was twelve, he was already growing a full beard, sparking some concern. His skull began shifting by thirteen, partial snout forming by fourteen, and by fifteen he seemed to be moving past the awkward in-between stage and landing about where he is now. By sixteen his appearance seemed to have reached maturity, with only his height and overall size really changing. Even at eighteen, his growth hasn’t really slowed all that much.

While his appearance was rather off-putting to his community, obviously outting him as a mutant, the full extent of his powers wasn’t apparent until a schoolyard brawl ended with Theodore mauling a classmate - scarring the kid and leaving him with a pair of broken ribs. The resulting backlash, combined with Hannah’s failing health, led the two to leaving Fairbanks, Alaska to stay with Hannah’s sister Amanda, a widow struggling to make ends meet in California.

General History: Theodore Thompson was born to Hannah Schultz and Michael Thompson out of wedlock, the result of a one-night stand and an ensuing whirlwind romance that ended when Michael walked out on the new mother only months after their son was born. Despite that, little Teddy was raised in a loving household, in a fairly nice community in Fairbanks. He played youth hockey, made friends, and had a rather average childhood. He didn’t have a Dad, but Hannah was a Supermom, so it all worked out.

On Teddy’s street, was another boy Teddy’s age, Tommy. They played on the same youth team. They were in the same class. Their names were similar. They were best friends. So naturally, Teddy spent most of his time at Tommy’s house. And it was there that Teddy would meet the person who taught him how to be a man - Tommy’s father, Dante. The boys were close, anyone could see that, and Dante’s father treated Teddy as one of his own. He would always be working on some old hunk of junk, entertaining the boys’ pathetic attempts at ‘helping’ him until they actually started learning some things. So it became routine - the boys would come home from school/practice, then help Dante with the junkers while they all listened to the radio.
But then the changes began.

The hair. The nails. The mocking. The bullying. People were looking at him differently, treating him differently. Even Tommy began to find excuses as to why he couldn’t hang out with Teddy anymore. Teddy’s mother still loved him, he knew that, but he would hear her crying at night, when she had thought he had fallen asleep. In the end, it was only Dante that never stopped treating Teddy like who he was: just a kid going through some changes. Teddy would continue heading over to work on the junkers with Dante every day. Tommy, having long since outgrown both the cars and Teddy, would find places to go or things to do - for a while, before he simply stopped making excuses and just outright ignored him.

So it just became the two of them, working on the cars to the sound of the radio. Sometimes Teddy would talk to Dante. Sometimes they’d work in silence. Despite everything, those were some of the happiest times of Teddy’s life.

Teddy was fourteen when the incident happened. The wrong kid just simply happened to say the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time. Teddy lashed out. He had gotten to experience firsthand just how fragile people could be. It terrified him. He was expelled, with the bully’s parents looking to press charges. It more or less bankrupted Hannah. Her health took a bad turn - cancer. And, unceremoniously, one eight hour flight later, Teddy was uprooted to California, living with an aunt and cousin he had never met.

Auditioning for the Margaret Carter Institute was his cousin Micah’s suggestion. It was seen as more or less an opportunity of which Teddy would be insane to not at least attempt to take advantage. No one actually expected him to be accepted.

Now starting his fourth and final year at the Academy, Teddy prepares for the next chapter of his life. It would be his final chance at the Contest of Champions. Between the prize money and the potential to be recruited into a team, victory would mean finally being able to pay for his mother’s medical bills and potentially help rebuild the life that he had ruined for her.

Failure…failure wasn’t an option.

Proposed Arc:

• Teddy at this point sort of operates in a headspace where everything he’s doing is in spite of being a mutant. He places himself at a distance to others. He heavily medicates himself in an attempt to ‘hide’ it. It’s a point of shame for him. I think, ideally, he would arrive at a place where he accepts himself for who and what he is, as well as becoming kinder to himself, letting go of the guilt he puts on himself for things he really couldn’t help.
• While the first point suggests him finding a way to live in his sort of in-between state, I’m open to an alternative path where he maybe completely rejects one side of himself or the other. He either finds a way to permanently shift to his human form at the cost of the Ursine, or he says ‘fuck society’ and goes full primal bear mode. Man or bear. Or shucks, we could even throw a pig in there somewhere just to spice it up, yeehaw.
• I think that even if he ends up not having what it takes to become a hero, Teddy would want to continue on to something that still helps people. So, his plan B is to try to leverage the academy into a potential med school acceptance after undergrad. And if he’s not cut out for that, fuck it, he’ll move out to the boonies and start a garage.

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Extras

Character Quote: “Son, you can’t make ‘em all like you. But you put your head down, you work your ass off, and you make it damn hard for ‘em to not respect you.” - Dante
Favorite Song: Jolene - Dolly Parton
Anything Else: Just a lil graverobbing
So I actually don’t know a whole lot about comics? So for Marvel Teen, I guess, I dunno, the Blue Beetle? Unless that’s DC. I think he might be DC. So…uh…Kate Bishop?
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Scorched Earth

Oof. Nah, dude - migraines are a special kind of hell. No need to apologize lol

Scorched Earth

|| Duncan Mallard||

|| 002: The Fight and Flight ||

"Yes, they are good people."

It only took five little words to break the storm raging in Duncan’s mind. Calmness took him. He closed his eyes, inhaled deeply, held it, then slowly exhaled. All of his doubts and trepidation were swept away with that breath.

Good people…

Five little words and suddenly everything made sense. The Knights and Mages were good people. But there are some things that Good People can’t do, so that’s why he and his brothers were there. They were the Bad People that could help the Good People take down the Very Bad People. Just like in the shows that he would sometimes get to watch with Ms. A…

Miss…who?

He shook away the thoughts. Calm. He was calm. And filled with new found resolve.

Ducky returned the Holy Man’s kind smile with one of his own, reflecting Kai’s gentleness. Mimicking it. He then gave a nod before he pulled his attention to the drag bag he clutched close to his chest. As he did so, a face began to form in his mind.

A face he had been learning for days now.

The face of a Very Bad Person. A Very Bad Person who did very bad things.

He was strong. Too strong. He made the game unfair, so he had to be removed. That was Duncan’s primary objective:

The assassination of Vincent Ryder.

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As the shuttle touched down and the ramp began to lower, it was the Holy Man who was front and center. Duncan watched as projectiles cut through the air in their direction, only to harmlessly fall to the ground once they made contact with Kai’s barrier. The lead Spectre then turned to his brothers and gave a rally.

"Let's get to work now and take care of each other out there. Light be with you all."

Ducky nodded, but only sat back as the others began to spill out of the vessel. He pulled his sidearm out and checked the magazine count. When he was satisfied with that, he leaned forward and closed his eyes in concentration.

Along the boy’s spine, a long metal plate was affixed. Of the five partially sunken orbs, one began to twitch. A dull light emitted from the grooves in the steel sphere before it popped free, twisting and folding until it took a new shape altogether. It hovered in the air for a moment, as manic and frantic in its movements as a hummingbird, before darting out of the shuttle and climbing higher and high into the sky. Through its lens, Ducky scanned over the chaos from upon high, the warriors no more than ants beneath him. It was…staggering, just how many people there truly were. He was no stranger to battle, but the nature of his speciality rarely took him to the frontlines. But this mission would be different. His mark was likely to appear close to the action.

The problem was the sheer amount of action happening. Finding his mark in this mess would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Or perhaps a needle in a needlestack would be a more fitting scenario. In any case, just marveling over the scale of the work would do him little service. It was time to get to it.

The drone’s lens shifted, zooming in on an engagement on a far side of the battlefield. A group of Belisian soldiers were pushing into the enemy line. From his place in the shuttle, Ducky pushed forward with his mind, first traveling high to his drone…and then falling down onto the group he had been observing. As he fell, Ducky reached out, trying to grab hold of anything…

He lightly grazed something. Something warm. Excitement? He pushed into that feeling, immersing himself until…

Ducky’s sight became filled with dirt and blood. Suddenly it shifted. A face he didn’t recognize lay below him, twisted in a horrible grimace of pain. A knife is pulled from the neck, with a flood of dark red behind it. A groan escapes the mouth it spits and stutters. Already the eyes go from piercing into him to searching for something past him. The sky? Ducky’s vision shifts, scanning over what appears to be a number of Belisians engaged in melee with Vaimese troops. A loud bang cuts through the air as a geyser of sand spits skyward. Shooter. A second bang fires out, but Ducky is aware of it before he hears it. Intense pain shoots through his leg before crawling across the rest of his body. His sight shifts again, and Ducky can just barely make out a pair of eyes in the distance.

So he pushes forward. In the next moment, he is surrounded by rubble. Makeshift defenses. In his sight, he sees a boy lying in the dirt, a lake of blood growing around him. He can feel the cold metal of the rifle in his hands, even if he can’t see it. His hands move to the action but his sight never changes. He’s a passenger to a shooter. A good one at that. Ducky can tell by the shooter’s steady sight that he’s found his next target. The boy tries to push into the shooter’s thoughts…but there’s nothing. The man is focused. So Ducky focuses as well. Underneath the chaos of the battle around them…Ducky hears something. Unsteady. Heavy. There’s somebody else. Out of sight but…

Ducky pushes his mind towards the sound. Blind to it, he flails wildly…until he grazes something. Again, he latches onto it, trying to pry his way inside.

A dark sky fills his sight. Unsteady breathing is making him shaky. A loud bang cuts through the air and Ducky’s sight comes across the shooter from behind. She curses and goes to load another round, but a distant clapping sound is heard, and dark crimson sprays over Ducky’s vision. It goes dark for a moment, as the body wipes the viscera from its face, but when the sight returns, Ducky observes the shooter slumped onto her side, the rifle still gripped in her hands. She’s unmoving. It was a good shot.

Duncan feels something cold. It’s fear. He begins to push deeper into his hosts’ thoughts. A string of curses. Despair over his comrades’ deaths. Anger. Resentment. A question. An angry, repeated question: where is Diamond Company?

…what is Diamond Company?

The boy released his grip on the fearful Vaimese’s mind. The tension snaps his consciousness back to his body in the shuttle. His breath unsteady, Ducky looks around for a moment, touching the seat of the shuttle, his drag bag, then finally his face. He’s back. He’s him. He settles himself, before pushing back to the eye in the sky. From above, he searches the battlefield, looking for any sort of transport heading for where he was.

Nothing. Although…

Something had caught his attention. The wreckage of a downed enemy shuttle. It would be difficult to know where it was heading, but it did at least seem to be roughly facing the appropriate area. Interestingly enough, there appeared to be another downed shuttle not too far away. An allied shuttle.

Back in the shuttle, the boy twitched as another orb sprang to life. It too shot out before taking to the skies, this time making a beeline towards the pair of downed dropships as it passed over a contingent of Knights heading in the same direction. It arrived at the allied ship as survivors of the crash began fighting off attackers. A pair of allied mages arrived shortly after one another at the scene to offer reinforcement, but it was of little concern to the boy as he soared overhead towards the other shuttle.

It didn’t have to go too far before the little Duckling found what it was looking for. A group of non-standard highly-equipped enemy soldiers were marching from their downed ship to the other downed ship. They seemed a little banged up, but more than that, they seemed pissed. Ducky began to push his mind toward them for a little probing when he laid his eyes on the mark.

Vincent Ryder.

How fortunate. He could just take a little peek inside Ryder’s head and figure out where he would be go-

A shot rang out and Duncan’s vision began to spin. He was falling. He was tumbling. He tried to steady the orb, but another shot rang out and it was no use. His vision cut out. It was dark. Blinded, Duncan tried his best to flail his mind, grab onto something, but it was no use. He found no purchase and quickly snapped back to his shuttle, where he let out a pained squawk.

Those…

Those MONSTERS

They shot his baby. His little duckling. THE AUDACITY OF THESE FUCKS!

Shaken, Ducky pulled his sidearm out again and his hand tightened around it in a death grip. His face felt warm. He rose to his feet, pulling his drag bag’s strap over his shoulder and made his way to the shuttle’s ramp. A number of Spectres were still around, but if he noticed, he made no sign of it. In this moment, he was blinded and deafened by rage.

It may have been his mission to kill Vincent Ryder, but that was just work. It was his job, nothing more. There was nothing personal about the whole thing.

But then his goons shot Ducky’s baby. His sweet, innocent little Duckling, who had never hurt anyone. _yet

That was going too far. Way over the line.

Muttering to himself, he stomped off toward the downed shuttles, his eye in the sky trained solely on the fuckers. The remaining three drones had all deployed and circled above Duncan like a halo, mindlessly firing at any poor Vaimese that got within their sights.

He was a man on a mission.

Mama off to avenge his baby.