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Jan. 6th, 2020 11:53 pm〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Thirteen
AGE: 34
JOURNAL: N/A
IM / EMAIL: rp.capedcrusader@gmail.com
PLURK:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
BATGUY
RETURNING: Yes
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Scott Summers
CHARACTER AGE: 32
SERIES: X-Men
CHRONOLOGY: HoX/PoX #6
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Random
BACKGROUND: Marvel Wiki
PERSONALITY: Scott Summers, on the surface, is a charismatic, confident leader. One of the first of the X-Men, Scott was a symbol of control that was hard learned through tragedy and experience. In reality, the image he built was one tied directly to trauma, perfectionism, and internalized bigotry. The first X-Man viewed his own powers as menacing; not something to be embraced, but contained. From his childhood as an orphan, Scott was pushed to compartmentalize and overcompensate. To not be perfect at all times would only invite disaster, prepared at any given time with ten plans for any situation, where preparedness was the only thing standing between death and survival-- like a Boy Scout. Scott rides a firm line of this constant vigilance from his introduction in 1963 up until 2001, when circumstances conspire to change Scott into the modern day revolutionary we know today.
In his origins, Scott, his brother Alex, and his parents are involve in a plane crash. With only a single parachute, Scott is told to save his brother, and while the two boys survive, Scott incurs brain damage that leaves the memories of his childhood shattered, left with amnesia and the inability to control his optic blasts. For years, Scott didn't know how to engage with himself or other people, which started with years of manipulation and abuse at the hands of Mr. Sinister.
All of the adults in his life previous to meeting Charles Xavier were a part of Mr. Sinister's plan to weaken him mentally. From the orphanage where he was sent after his parent's apparent deaths, the specialist who provided him with his Ruby-Quartz glasses, and the childhood bully who pushed Scott around and kept him away from other Children. ALl of them were Mr. Sinister. His life before the X-Men was one of abandonment, beguilement, and child abuse at the hands of the mutant geneticist.
Even after running away and enrolling in Xavier's School for Gifted Children, Scott was the odd man out, chastizing his friends for playing around and pulling away from social gatherings they would have as teenagers. Not only was this because Scott was afraid of his inability to control his powers, but the constant vigilance of perfectionism left him feeling lacking, especially when it came to Jean Grey. The quintessential leader, Scott learned to resolve conflict through words instead of violence, and that the pain he had suffered had given him the tools necessary to make others more empathetic towards mutants. In Scott's mind, he could never lose his temper at even the slightest of provocations, where even the merest glance from him could lead to disaster and destruction.
In 2001, however, Scott would be captured by Apocalypse, and is one of the dozen mutants to have their life force taken by Apocalypse to ascend to godhood. In the final hour, however, Scott intercepts the merging of Nate Grey and Apocalypse, becoming one with En Sabah Nur himself. Having his thoughts invaded by Apocalypse led to an identity crisis as well as PTSD for Scott. He would still be an X-Man, but his perspectives on life, love, and heroism would be colored by his internal trauma. It leaves him searching the darkness within him for years to come that would lead to the dissolution of his marriage with Jean, the weaponizing of the Legacy Virus against the Skrulls, and arguably, the embracing of the Phoenix Force during Avengers vs X-Men. This darkness always existed beneath the thin veneer of perfectionism as you approached the self-conscious boy deep down, leading him to reveal a more calculating and cold side of his personality that was only exacerbated as mutants would come closer and closer to extinction over the years.
Scott, at his core, is a good man who didn't always do the right things, but often meant well. And as we come further down the line, we learn very quickly that Scott Summers is a better tactician than he is a political leader vying for the safety of the remaining members of his kind. As he admits to Namor during Uncanny X-Men, he's pretty much making it up as he goes along, but he continues to lead, because the dwindling population of mutants across the globe well into his turn into mutant terrorist require that he move moment-to-moment making the best choices he can and coping with compromises that sometimes left friends dead and morals undermined.
POWER: Optic Blasts: Scott has the mutant ability to project ambient energy beams from his eyes, metabolised by his body into concussive blasts. Similar to a water jet cutter, the width of his beams seem to be focused by his mind's psionic field regulated by his eyes' ability to focus. As he focuses, the size of the aperture changes and acts as a valve to control the flow of particles and the beam's relative power.
His narrowest beam, about the size of a pencil, has a force of about two pounds per square inch. His broadest beam, about 90 feet across, has a force of about 10 pounds per square inch. His most powerful eye-blast is a beam four feet across which has a force of 500 pounds per square inch. As the energy from his eyes comes from an extra dimension entirely, the supply of Cyclops' eye-blasts are practically infinite, though are limited by his exhaustion with a limit of about 15 minutes of pure concentration.
While the maximum force of Scott's optic blasts are unknown, he has, in the past, ruptured a half-inch thick carbon steel plate, and has overpowered the energy-absorbing mutant Bishop within seconds, though the latter was while he was controlled by another mutant who utilized his powers at their full magnitude. Iron Man once measured Cyclops' powers to be over 2 gigawatts, larger than a large nuclear reactor. Scott does not use his powers at this level though, due to the preoccupation he has regarding his control (or lack thereof) of his abilities. Within the context of the game, his wider beams would be powerful enough to punch through a skyscraper.
NAME: Thirteen
AGE: 34
JOURNAL: N/A
IM / EMAIL: rp.capedcrusader@gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: Yes
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Scott Summers
CHARACTER AGE: 32
SERIES: X-Men
CHRONOLOGY: HoX/PoX #6
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Random
BACKGROUND: Marvel Wiki
PERSONALITY: Scott Summers, on the surface, is a charismatic, confident leader. One of the first of the X-Men, Scott was a symbol of control that was hard learned through tragedy and experience. In reality, the image he built was one tied directly to trauma, perfectionism, and internalized bigotry. The first X-Man viewed his own powers as menacing; not something to be embraced, but contained. From his childhood as an orphan, Scott was pushed to compartmentalize and overcompensate. To not be perfect at all times would only invite disaster, prepared at any given time with ten plans for any situation, where preparedness was the only thing standing between death and survival-- like a Boy Scout. Scott rides a firm line of this constant vigilance from his introduction in 1963 up until 2001, when circumstances conspire to change Scott into the modern day revolutionary we know today.
In his origins, Scott, his brother Alex, and his parents are involve in a plane crash. With only a single parachute, Scott is told to save his brother, and while the two boys survive, Scott incurs brain damage that leaves the memories of his childhood shattered, left with amnesia and the inability to control his optic blasts. For years, Scott didn't know how to engage with himself or other people, which started with years of manipulation and abuse at the hands of Mr. Sinister.
All of the adults in his life previous to meeting Charles Xavier were a part of Mr. Sinister's plan to weaken him mentally. From the orphanage where he was sent after his parent's apparent deaths, the specialist who provided him with his Ruby-Quartz glasses, and the childhood bully who pushed Scott around and kept him away from other Children. ALl of them were Mr. Sinister. His life before the X-Men was one of abandonment, beguilement, and child abuse at the hands of the mutant geneticist.
Even after running away and enrolling in Xavier's School for Gifted Children, Scott was the odd man out, chastizing his friends for playing around and pulling away from social gatherings they would have as teenagers. Not only was this because Scott was afraid of his inability to control his powers, but the constant vigilance of perfectionism left him feeling lacking, especially when it came to Jean Grey. The quintessential leader, Scott learned to resolve conflict through words instead of violence, and that the pain he had suffered had given him the tools necessary to make others more empathetic towards mutants. In Scott's mind, he could never lose his temper at even the slightest of provocations, where even the merest glance from him could lead to disaster and destruction.
In 2001, however, Scott would be captured by Apocalypse, and is one of the dozen mutants to have their life force taken by Apocalypse to ascend to godhood. In the final hour, however, Scott intercepts the merging of Nate Grey and Apocalypse, becoming one with En Sabah Nur himself. Having his thoughts invaded by Apocalypse led to an identity crisis as well as PTSD for Scott. He would still be an X-Man, but his perspectives on life, love, and heroism would be colored by his internal trauma. It leaves him searching the darkness within him for years to come that would lead to the dissolution of his marriage with Jean, the weaponizing of the Legacy Virus against the Skrulls, and arguably, the embracing of the Phoenix Force during Avengers vs X-Men. This darkness always existed beneath the thin veneer of perfectionism as you approached the self-conscious boy deep down, leading him to reveal a more calculating and cold side of his personality that was only exacerbated as mutants would come closer and closer to extinction over the years.
Scott, at his core, is a good man who didn't always do the right things, but often meant well. And as we come further down the line, we learn very quickly that Scott Summers is a better tactician than he is a political leader vying for the safety of the remaining members of his kind. As he admits to Namor during Uncanny X-Men, he's pretty much making it up as he goes along, but he continues to lead, because the dwindling population of mutants across the globe well into his turn into mutant terrorist require that he move moment-to-moment making the best choices he can and coping with compromises that sometimes left friends dead and morals undermined.
POWER: Optic Blasts: Scott has the mutant ability to project ambient energy beams from his eyes, metabolised by his body into concussive blasts. Similar to a water jet cutter, the width of his beams seem to be focused by his mind's psionic field regulated by his eyes' ability to focus. As he focuses, the size of the aperture changes and acts as a valve to control the flow of particles and the beam's relative power.
His narrowest beam, about the size of a pencil, has a force of about two pounds per square inch. His broadest beam, about 90 feet across, has a force of about 10 pounds per square inch. His most powerful eye-blast is a beam four feet across which has a force of 500 pounds per square inch. As the energy from his eyes comes from an extra dimension entirely, the supply of Cyclops' eye-blasts are practically infinite, though are limited by his exhaustion with a limit of about 15 minutes of pure concentration.
While the maximum force of Scott's optic blasts are unknown, he has, in the past, ruptured a half-inch thick carbon steel plate, and has overpowered the energy-absorbing mutant Bishop within seconds, though the latter was while he was controlled by another mutant who utilized his powers at their full magnitude. Iron Man once measured Cyclops' powers to be over 2 gigawatts, larger than a large nuclear reactor. Scott does not use his powers at this level though, due to the preoccupation he has regarding his control (or lack thereof) of his abilities. Within the context of the game, his wider beams would be powerful enough to punch through a skyscraper.
