Individual

Character's full name: James Ellen
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Jay Jay.
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Date of Birth: (09/14/1996)
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Nottingham (England)

Nationality: English
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: Caucasian

Appearance

  James is an average looking guy; his hair is dark brown and of average length, it is shaggy and usually unkempt as he never brushes it. His eyes are pale blue and his skin tone is a healthy tanned colour, as you would expect someone who spends all his time in the suns to have. James stands at an average height of 5’8”. Basically James is your normal average Joe teenager.

  James has a jolly Happy-go-lucky demeanour and is always positive in everything he does, even if he is in the worst situation. He comes across as likeable, however his social awkwardness sometimes makes first impressions a bit dodgy.

Hair color and style: Dark brown, shaggy unkempt hair.
Skin Tone: Tanned
Eye Color: Pale blue
Height: 5’8”
Build: Athletic
Visible mutation: None, however when he uses his mutation he is very visible.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: None
Other features: None

Everyday clothing style:
  James usually wears casual clothes unless the occasion calls for smart dress. Shorts and T-shirts are what James feels most comfortable in, mainly in bright colours like yellow and white.

Uniform: None.

Sleepwear:
 James is always knackered before he goes to bed. Because of this he can never be bothered with sleep ware. He normally just sleeps in his boxers.

Miscellaneous clothing:
  James always wears his silver watch on his left wrist. It is made of steel which helps with his mutation. He knows that with the watch he can transform half of his arm (up to the elbow) in emergencies.

Character

 Personality:
  James is quite boyish, he doesn’t really like sport but he has always kept himself fit with daily exercise. He is quite socially awkward, mainly around girls but even then he’s generally quite easy to get along with. Mainly because of his jolly Happy-go-lucky Personality and his undying positive outlook on life. Despite his behaviour and seemingly impervious positivity James is really quite insecure and always worries about what others think about him. He has always found it hard to make friends and spends most of his time alone reading, exercising or playing Computer games. Because of his difficulty making friends he feels extremely endeared to people who openly express him as such, he feels a strong loyalty and desire to protect people he cares for and in situations where they need his help he will be there, without a seconds thought.

  James is intelligent; He could easily do well in school and get A’s in his subjects however there is always something more interesting and he finds it excruciatingly difficult to concentrate.

Hobbies/ Interests:
  James has a couple of hobbies which are again, believe it or not, pretty normal. He mainly reads exercises or plays computer games.

Job or part time job and description: High school

Fears/ phobias/ concerns: James hasn’t got any particular fears, however he always fears losing someone close to him, this is most likely caused by this father’s death.

Special talents: James doesn’t have any particular talents apart from his fast reaction time, gained from hours of Horror games, and his seemingly insane level of positivity.

Morality

Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: James is good, he sticks to the usual human moral guidelines, however in situations which may risk his or his friend’s lives he can quite easily drop all of his moral guidelines and result to drastic measures if required. He thinks killing is wrong and it can never be forgiven, however if it is to save his or a friends life, so be it. He can live with the guilt as long as he and his friends can go on living.

Mutations
 
Mutation description:
  James has the power to change his body to iron or steel as long as he is currently touching it, this could allow him to have the physical durability of steel when under heavy pounding or increased weight / strength needed for some tasks like lifting heavy loads or breaking things. His mutation does not actually increase his strength but due to the fact that he is made from a tougher material lifting something would put less strain on his body, say for example he was trying lift a heavy box, a normal human back would have a lot of strain on it due to the fact it is made from flesh and bone however James would find it easier because his body is made from a stronger material when changed. The difference is nothing incredible; in fact it’s not really an increase in strength but rather a side effect of increased constitution offered by iron and steel. His strength when applying force is not necessarily changed but the harder material and increased weight makes it more destructive.
  The change takes time and a small amount of the material must be available. So a single lump will not be enough to change the whole body just an arm, also there is a risk that once changed he will not be able to change back to normal skin. If he wants to revert he must make physical skin to skin contact with someone to copy the structure of human skin.

  To change an arm or a leg he would need about 1lb of iron and steel. For his upper body (chest, arms, and neck) he would need about 5lb of iron and steel. To change his entire body he would need 15lb of iron and steel.
 
  This does not “use up” the material but as the mutation is used with the hands it needs a larger amount to “climb” further up his body with his hands as a starting point.  This means he can have 1lb of steel, grip it in his right hand which would transform it up to the shoulder and then pass it to the left for the same effect but it will only reach his shoulder on that arm as well. For it to go any further he would need a greater amount of the material.
 
 Strengths:

•    It can help him in many ways like offer protection which normal flesh would not. When he is made of iron or steel, His body would be able to withstand everything normal iron or steel could. Things like knives or punches wouldn’t hurt him, although they might sting a little. Also low calibre bullets wouldn’t do much to him, they would sting an awful lot and bruise him later, abut apart from that they would be ineffective.


•    When he is changed iron or steel his weight would allow him to perform certain brute force tasks easier, say for example breaking down a door.

  Weaknesses and Limitations:

•    The task of changing his body can be draining; he may only be able to change about 4 times a day before becoming fatigued; however this limit will increase with practise.

•    After changing his skin to another material, he will need to touch another person’s skin allow him to change back to his regular epidermis. But if he did not go through a full body change, say for example he only changed his arms. He could put his palms on his chest and change back his arms that way.


•    The mutation is largely tied in with his emotions, if he is in danger and is also touching an iron or steel surface he will subconsciously make the connection and change as much of his body as possible. For example the watch he wears on his right arm is usually making contact with his skin, if he is threatened his arm would change instinctively.
                                   
•    A full body change would take about 20 seconds and during this time he is vulnerable to any form of assault. It would take about 4 seconds for his arms and legs or 10 seconds for his entire upper body.

•    When his body is transformed into iron or steel he is too heavy to float so he cannot swim or jump any higher than half his average jumping height (40cm).


Physical Abilities
 
General Physical Capabilities: Considering his athletic build and high level of fitness James can run for a long period of time and is used to putting in large amounts of physical effort. He is reasonably strong, maybe slightly more so than the average teenager. His reaction time is higher than average however he has the disadvantage of being inexperienced in dangerous situations. James also has a pretty normal pain tolerance; however he finds it easy to push through pain, considering all the effort he’s put into painfully long runs.

Fighting Style: James has no particular fighting style and he has no reason to have one either. He has never really been in any dangerous fights or battle royals. He’s had the odd scrap or two, sure. But nothing major. When James does fight however, he uses swift fast punches and kicks which aim for soft spots like the stomach and nose to end fights quickly.  

Fighting Style Pros/Cons: James’s inexperience in combat shows in the fact that his footing is clumsy and his punches are often misjudged. He doesn’t feel comfortable fighting hand to hand. He has however in the past tried Kobudo which he showed a short affinity for before deciding it wasn’t for him.

History Of Your Character

  James grew up in Nottingham, West Bridgford with his mother Lilly. His father had died when he was young and his mother had had many boyfriends but never re-married.  James and his mother lived in reasonable comfort and his mother, who was an interior designer, was reasonably well off.

  He went to a normal, boring secondary school and lived out his uneventful and boring life. He only made his first friend at 13, but even then, they weren’t real friends. James spent most days going to school, going to the gym, playing computer games and sleeping.

  When James was at the age of fourteen his mother had a particularly stormy break up with one of her boyfriends. She got so upset that she decided they needed to leave and go to another country. James was fine with that, he had no strong connections to his hometown and he was feeling, as ever, positive about the possibilities moving to a new country would bring.

  Naturally his mother chose America, New York where on the 10th of May 2011 they got on a plane and moved there. At first it was fine; his mother got another job as an interior designer and they lived in a two bedroomed house which was considerably smaller that their last one.

  The worst thing about this new house were the lights, the lights in the house would always go out every week. James spent more nights than he could remember, clutching onto hurting limbs and stubbed toes. The lack of light in the house meant he was always tripping and hurting himself.
  James’s uneventful life was so unbelievably uneventful that, he has come to believe, all the little events that could have happened but didn’t all moulded together to make one big event which would change his life forever.

 On James’s 16th birthday or birth night the light bulb in his room had blown, shrouding him in the darkness that always brought promises of sprained ankles and stubbed toes.

  He had climbed out of his bed, in nothing but boxers, to go to the toilet. For some reason he thought he was back in his old house. Because of this he ended up taking a wrong turn and stumbling onto the staircase. He only just realised in time to catch the iron banister to stay upright but his legs had already fallen under him.

  James felt a strange sensation in his arm as he lost his grip and tumbled, head over heels down the stairs. He knew that falling down stairs could cause serious injury and was surprised to find he felt little pain as his back, neck and head took a thrashing.

  He also noted in the back of his head that there was an odd metallic clanking noise as he fell. When he finally reached the bottom he got up, abashed as he looked down at his skin, which was an odd metallic grey colour.

  Worried, James moved towards the light switch and realised as he moved that his body felt heavier than usual, not uncomfortably so but there was a definite difference.

  When the light was on, all was revealed. His skin was a dull shiny grey, the same colour as the bannister. James had no Idea how to react. What had happened? How was this possible?

  His heart began to beat loudly and quickly as fear crawled up his spine. The fear overwhelmed him and he blacked out unceremoniously in a large metallic heap with a comedic “clunk”.

  James must have woken up his mum, because he came round an hour or so later sitting in the corner of the living room. With his mum on the other side, staring at him. The stare she had for him was not one that a mother should ever use on her son; it was vacant, unrecognising and hostile.

  What happened next was a blur, it seemed unreal and the memory is still hazy, maybe from the after effects of blacking out. He remembered the police coming, asking questions, not in a harsh way, more in a sympathetic way.

  But they could not reach him; his mind was replaying that one moment of realisation. James was no fool and even in his shaken state he knew there was only one kind of person who could do that; a mutant.

  James knew plenty about mutants; they were on the news all the time, sometimes for good things, sometimes for bad things. He had formulated his own opinion on mutants pretty much straight away and didn’t believe that being a mutant made you inherently evil. After all some humans were evil and some were good, why should mutants be any different?

  James also put together the pieces; he had no future with his mother now. He was sure of that, she openly expressed a hatred for the “un-natural mutants” and how they should all be “put in some special camp where they can do no harm to good, law abiding normal people” like her.

  He had seen the look his mother had given him, he knew. No matter how much he wanted to believe otherwise that his mother would kick him out and have nothing to do with him again. It surprised James, really, he was thinking pessimistically. It seemed that his positivity could be broken but then again, there was no good in this situation.

  James had been right of course, in the months that followed his mother was distant and she didn’t talk to him. During these months James still managed to keep a positive outlook on what life he had and he had even gained a decent level of control over his mutation.

  On the month of March 2013, while he was reading on his bed sitting in the full glow of the sun, his mother knocked at his door. He had let her in and she had sat on the edge of the bed, distant as ever. She still wouldn’t look at him or give him decent answers to his questions but he knew she had an agenda in this visit. She hadn’t come into his room since that night and now that she had, she seemed to soften up a bit.

  She spoke to him for a while, slowly at first but with one word answers but after about ten minutes she was speaking properly. The reason she had come in was to tell him some news, she had found a place, a new school for “people like you” and James would be sent there. Sometime in the future.

  It was not quite what he has expected; James knew she was going to disown him at some point but this was better than he could have hoped for, naturally he had been optimistic about being kicked out. The way he saw it, she could do worse than kick him out but she obviously still felt something for her son, a mutant.

  She left James’s bedroom pretty much straight after telling him. That was fine with him. He could lie down in the sun, practise his mutation and daydream about going to a school full of people like him. He might even make some friends, which would be nice.

Roleplay

Where did you learn about this site?: From one of my friends (Serena)

Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: No

Sample RP:
  James lay on his bed, looking up at the ceiling. His arm was out in front of him and he studied it.
  It felt warm and didn’t look any different to the average person’s arm, which was the part he didn’t understand. It was normal, completely normal and yet he could turn it into something inhuman, in every sense of the word.

  He sat up and walked over the window, pulled it open and put his arm through to lay his hand on the metal light fixture under his bedroom window. Willing his mutation to take effect he watched in fascination as the metal seemed almost to climb up his arm and gobble it up. When it reached his shoulder after about two seconds he pulled his hand away and studied it. It was still the same shape and size, only it felt heavier. If he rubbed his fingers together it would make the horrible noise of coins grinding together. It was completely smooth and still had all the lumps and bumps one would expect on normal skin.

  He had also tried out its strength; it could withstand a light strike from a nail hammer without the slightest change; He also felt little to no pain from it either.

  After studying it some more he closed the window and brought it to his bare chest, hand splayed he wished it to turn back to skin. Again he waited for a couple of seconds as it retreated backwards, being pushed away by the skin which now had his favour. As the metal retreated he could feel his arms sense of touch returning back to normal.
 
  James returned to his bed and snuggled under the covers to think about what life with other mutants would be like. Would he fit in? He doubted it. But at least there would be some common ground to use for making friends and starting conversation.

  The main worry of James’s was the rioters. He was pretty sure they would leave him alone.

  Nothing to worry about, he thought to himself. What would they want with me?

  After a couple of hours he started to nod off. His last thought as he drifted off, was that maybe, if he tried his best. This could be the best thing that has ever happened to him.

Welcome James! I love the character, can't wait to RP with you! (You may wanna fix the stay code and the spacing)

Welcome to MRO!

Welcome to MRO! This is usually the point where I'd say something punny like "He's not your average Tin-Man".

Wait, there I did it.

Welcome! Love the powers, all puns aside ;D

Welcome to MRO! You sound like fun! Maybe we could play sometime.

welcome to MRO, hope to rp with you soon

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Welcome to MRO! <3