Character Details Character's real name:[/u] Darius Spears
Codename:[/u] Talon
Gender: [/u]Male
Age:[/u] 21
Nationality/Ethnicity: [/u]Caucasian
Birthplace: [/u]Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand
Personality[/u]
Easy going guy, usually gets along with people quite easily once he has gotten to know them a bit. He is seen as always trying to compliment people even when they have done a little thing. One thing that can really get on peoples nerves is that he can take his sarcastic style of humor too far sometimes. All of these bright aspects of his personality stand out to anyone the first time they would meet Darius which is a good thing as he still to this day trying to battle what he could have become and has the potential of becoming. Darius has a dark past like many a mutant and he tries his best to keep it hidden from all but the best of his friends. Over all Darius can be seen as being bright, cheerful, a joker, and a charmer to boot.
Notes [/u]
One thing Darius never likes to admit is that he fears tight spaces more than anything. Darius being the free-spirited flyer he is would avoid his claustraphobia at all costs. On a brighter note he loves flying bet you didn't see that coming. He longs to live outside amongst nature away from the fast pase of the city and enjoys retreat and taking part in such activities as tramps, camping and many other outdoor activities. Another passion of his is music and enjoys just sitting around a campfire with friends jamming on his guitar. One of Darius's biggest fears is losing the people he cares about and that's why he at times can find it hard to allow himself to get attached to another.
Side [/u]
Despite his past Darius has always and still believes protecting others as he sees the duty of the strong is to protect the defenceless. For a long time he has dreamed to find sanctuary and he hopes that he will finally find it in the arms of the Xavier Institute.
Appearance[/u]
This picture here takes place not too long from now the tattoo on Darius's arm appeared after a run in with an old friend that also changed his eyes from there orignal green to haunting yellow bird like eyes. Darius has never been able to make any kind of marking on his skin due to his healing ability but the tattoo he gained from this encounter was different, it was always there under the skin. This event doesn't take place for awhile though but will seriously effect Talon and his grip on what he thought was real in his past.
Everyday clothing: [/u]
Uniform: [/u]
His uniform showen here was used when he was back in his homeland fighting for mutant independance. Back then he was knowen as the Avenger and was one of only a few surviving mutants, he orignally used guns as his powers had not developed far. Soon he will be travelling back after he has a vist from a strange vistor to the Mansion that he now calls home so once again he will don the name and the costume to bring his country to freedom.
Talon has no scars due to his healing ability. Although an unusual feature of his is that on his back are two slits in the skin and muscle right down to the bone, this is were his wings grow from you can hardly call it growing though at speed they come out.
Darius's hair varies from very long, as can be seen from his past pictures to short which he has presently
{I made these images with Dollwizard}Abilities[/u]
Talons entire anatomy is naturally adapted to flying. His bones are hollow like a birds, making him weigh far less than usual for a male of his build.Its not entirely hollow its more like a Pumiss stone if you know what I mean. Just because its light it doesn't mean its not strong , he can take falls from his flights limit and hit the ground at maximum vilocity and survive which would mean his bones absorb the force well, they can also bend more than a normal human which would enable him to take the force better as also homo-sapians bone would break under much less pressure as they aren't very flexible as we all know but with Darius his bones can bend slightly which means it would take more pressure to break, don't be thinking of a rubber bird man here his bones do bend that much. This doesn't how ever mean that you can't break his, its just a little harder than usual.
His body is virtually devoid of fat and possesses greater proportionate muscle mass than an ordinary human does. His eyes are specially adapted to withstand high-speed winds which would hurt the average eye. He possesses a special membrane in his respiratory system enabling him to extract oxygen from the air at high velocities or altitudes. Talon's physical adaptations give him incredible protection against damage from falling. Talon can fly by means of his natural wings. Fully feathered like a birds unlike other mutants Talons wings disintegrate at will and burst back out when need this is due to the high speed of his regenerative system. Talon flies by flapping his wings, as a bird. It can be assumed like other flying mutants Talon can reach a height of 10,000 ft with little effort. With severe strain he can reach the highest recorded altitude of a bird in flight, but he can only remain that high for several minutes. He can fly nonstop under his own power for a maximum of approximately 12 hours. Talons regeneration is complicated his wings can heal almost instantly but the rest of his body isn't as good. It still has an increased healing ability meaning he can survive some fatal blows but it lacks the healing talent that his wings have.
Talons final power which has not been discovered by him yet but has been pasted down by his father and that is to take the energy from the sun and blast it out through his eyes and eventually his whole body, the energy itself cause terrible wide spread heat damage but with control could become a useful weapon. At current if Talon attempted to use this the power it would be out of control, this would be an incredible dangerous move as many could be hurt. Talon has only had this happen to him once which he has no memory of, it is an ability that would take him a lot of time and effort to learn to control even the slightest bit. His ability to absorb the energy from the sun can be quite an annoyance now as he has to vent the energy by releasing it or else the pessure build up to make it uncontrolable. With enough training and experience Darius will be able to control the amount of energy he takes in by increasing and decreasing the size of the pores in his skin with take in the energy to begin with.
Weakness[/u]
The first con that would be easy to point out is Talons ability to use the suns energy as a weapon, obviously if he can't reach the rays of the sun then this would never work this emans inside and at night, however he can retian the energy for a extented period of time meaning he can still use his abilitys in the times the sun is devoid but after using them won't be able to until he can recharge again. Another downer of this power is that when Talon doesn't release the energy though out the day he loses all control and has no way of turning it off. The beam of light he exudes would continue for any amount of time until the energy is used up and when in this state of mind he can't protect anyone. Also it cause a lot of discomfort for him to grow his wings back after they has disintegrated, and it leaves heaps of feathers around to boot.
Fighting style[/u]
Talon uses his aerial combat when ever he can swooping down on enemies. He has studied a number of martial arts but his choice is Judo. This comes in handy when picking up enemies and throwing as Judo is primarily a grapple sport. Talon fights well on the ground but nowhere near as good as when hes up in the air.
The History of Talon[/u]
Darius was a normal boy, he grew up in Queenstown the main tourist spot of New Zealand. He lead a relatively normal life up until he was about sixteen. He was sneaking out with a few friends to a concert, all was going good until him and his friends where confronted by large group of thugs. Darius's friends tried to put up a fight but Darius hid. All of a sudden one of the thugs pulled out a gun and all Darius heard was a loud bang.
With that Darius ran from his spot to see one his best friends slowly fall to the ground. Then the gunman turned his weapon on Darius. Again he heard a loud bang but this time he felt a huge gust of wind burst past him. He slowly opened his eyes and in front of him stood his mother. But to his amazement she had giant angelic like wings coming from her back. She leap forward and in a second all of the thugs were throwing up against a wall and knock out cold. Elaine, Darius's mother grabbed his hand "Quickly we need to get to your friend". She and Darius rush over to his friends lifeless body. Elaine knelt down beside him and put her hand on his head, she open his mouth and lowered herself as if she was going to give CPR but instead a bright golden mist flowed from her into Darius's friend. Trent open his eyes and took in a huge gulp of breath and looked around him to find a squad of policemen hauling off the thugs and that his friends were gone.
They softly landed in their back yard Darius shaking his head thinking it all had to be a dream. Elaine sat Darius down "Just breath, its all ok. You have to believe me both me and your father wanted to tell you but we just couldn't" she said slowly "Tell me what" Darius quickly replied. Elaine sighed "I think your ready, Both me and your father are....are mutants" she whispered "So that explains the wings you have, Mum this is soooooo awesome why didn't you tell me earlier" Darius said excitedly "Darius you don't understand" "Whats not to understand both you and Dad have kick as powers, Ohh whats his." "Darius your not listening, people don't accept us...our kind, especially the government it would damage our countrys pristine image if the world thought we have mutants running around" she was sounding sadder now. "Flying in your case Mum" "Darius..your still not listening there are people that would try to hurt us if they knew what we were" Darius was slowly getting what his Mother was talking about "Okay Mum you know its safe with me but you shouldn't have to be ashamed of who you are" he said as he glided his hands through her feathers. "Look I think we have had just enough for one night now get some sleep" and with that Darius took off to his room but got no sleep all he could think about was mutants and spent all night awake thinking about his Mother and Father as some kind of crime fighting duo.
Daybreak and Darius is already up and getting dress wanting to question his parents further he quickly ran a comb with some product on it through his long red hair when he heard glass smashing he quickly open his door to see three men in his living room they immediately saw him and raised their weapons and shot at him. Darius slammed shut his door and the darts from the guns pierced through to his side of the door. Darius pulled his dresser in front of it. So many thoughts were running through his head, were these the people his mother was warning him about and where was his Mother, not only that but he never heard his Father come in last night. He slowly started to move over towards the door when there was and explosion, his dresser was blown away from his door streams of clothing were everywhere.
With his ears ringing he tried to lift what was left of his door off himself when one of the men jumped through the doorway and crushed Darius's hand beneath his foot. "Where is he" the man yelled "Who are you talking about and where are my parents" Darius shouted back at him "Men this is him prep the team, your coming with me boy!" the soldier said. "I ain't going with anyone now where are my parents" he replied. Slam the solider kicked Darius right across the face "Get the hell up boy your coming with me I said" he yelled at him again. When Darius didn't respond the solider pulled back his fist and threw it forward right towards his face. Remarkably Darius caught the mans hand and from his back shot out two giant brown wings. Darius grabbed him round the neck and threw the man straight through his bedroom window and rushed into the living room. There were six men in there now and all of them shot at Darius. All of there projectiles hit, Darius looked down they were tranquilizer darts but they didn't hurt him at all and with a smirk on his face he dove fowards throwing them aside with his wings. It was over in a matter of seconds, all of the soldiers were out cold and Darius cleared the doorway of the living room and rushed outside.
It was a clear day and suns gentle rays hit his skin, he instantly felt energised and stronger than ever. He saw the first man that was in his room struggle to his feet. Darius ran over and picked him up by the neck again and slammed him up against the wall. "Where are they, where did you take my parents" he shouted "I....I.don't know...I can't tell you they would....kill me" the solider stuttered out, Darius tighten the grip around the soldiers neck "Alright..alright its not far from here maybe an hours flight, its on Stewart Island they have a facility there where they..they hold people like you" Darius tensed his fist but let the man down. He rushed over towards his parents car but when got there he saw his reflection on the garage door. He had completely forgotten about his wings. Darius looked from side to side at both of them then took off running as fast as he could to the end of there property. The cliff was approaching fast and Darius closed his eyes and leaped off with all his might. He felt the soothing touch of the air wash over his body and as he open his eyes realised he had done it, he was flying just like his Mother. He dove, climbed, twisted and turned then began to fly directly south for his destination. To his surprise he had reached the bottom of the South Island in only half an hour and his destination was rapidly approaching. He circled the Island a few times until saw what looked like the facility the solider described. Darius dove down towards but was descending far to quickly and slammed into the ground.
To his surprised it hurt a whole lot less that he imagined but as looked to see how his wings were the feathers slowly fell off and the bone turned to dust. Darius was panicking that he had lost his wings but cleared his mind to focus on rescuing his parents. The place wasn't as big as he expected and security was really lacking on the outside. He walked up to the fence which had barbed wire along the top nothing that climbing a nearby tree won't fix he thought to himself. He slowly approached the building using shrubs as cover, he would be very easy to spot out in the day like this. He slid up against the wall and looked through a window. To surprise he couldn't see anything only a steadily growing light source, it was getting so bright Darius had to squint and look away. Suddenly a nearby glass window smashed and out flew Darius Mother "Darius get down!!" she yelled. Darius hit the deck as all of the windows smashed and the building flew apart in a out of control explosion. The light subsided and Darius looked over the crater that the facility now was. To his surprise all that was left was his Father kneeling in the middle of the crater steam rising from his body. "Quick you need to leave now, they will come back Elaine" he yelled. Elaine could hear a jet engine off in the distance "Darius come with me now" she said as she took of the ground "But what about Dad" he shouted as the noise got louder "There is no time go" his Father shouting. Darius saw the black dot in the distance getting bigger and bigger. "I love you dad" he shouted as he ran toward his mother and to his surprise his wings shot out his back again and lifted him up to her. Elaine flew as fast as she could towards the main land Darius following in her slip stream. The jet flew straight past them towards the island and when it past over Darius saw another flash of light but this time it wasn't from his father this one was different much much bigger. Darius flew up towards his mother there were tears running from her eyes.
For the next few years Darius fought the very government organisation that killed his Father. His mother Elaine went into hiding. The years were full of pain and blood eventually after much death Darius came to see that his abilities were a gift and when he saw an item on the news about mutants in America he knew it was the place were he could find his place and could help others so he took off towards the states hiding as a human. In his home country the mutant population were being kept under control by the government so he was use to mixing in .He has hopes that while in America if he can join the X-Men that one day he would be able to liberate his country from the suppressive anti-mutant government that has taken it.
The History of Talon - The next chapterThis talk happened between Darius and Layla aka. Deathstar and reviels a bit about his past that was skipped in the orignial history it takes place not long after the last chapter finished.....
The ordeal, I hoped nobody would noticed the way I reacted, I guess it was inevertable though he thought as he sat down next to Deathstar. "I....I just happened to notice the way that you and Raph fought but you more notably, and don't worry I know it was only training and not real but...to take a life..Star I thought I knew you better,Me you and Raph had this talk in the dining room, I know you haven't killed but I'll let you in on a little secret, I have Star!" he said sounding flusted "It...it never helps anyone, I see there faces at night Layla...sure they were evil men but taking there life playing god....I had my abilites over them, with great power comes great responsiblity, our lives our choices our daily actions influence the course of the entire world.......
"I was fighting for mutant freedom but all I got for mutant kind in my country was pain...more suffering" he said louder than before clenching his fist "I thought I was doing the right thing but please trust me killing gets you nowhere...I was so lost back then, I had just lost my Father and my Mother went into hiding..our kind was hunted down like vermin...exterminated" Darius paused he was oviously upset "I thought I could end it...I..me Darius Spears assasinated the Primeminister with the help of a rouge mutant terriost group called Avalanche...I thought it would finally end there but no...a tyrant more evil and vindictive than the first took his place...all immigration into my country came to a sudden halt all exporting and import stopped aswell, we where isolated from the rest of the world this was when propostion numer 38 was taken into affect, it was voted for by the people aswell, my action to take the orginal Primeministers life was used as a catalyist to fuel the nation into anger and fear..."
"Number 38... the eradication of all mutants inside the country" he paused again to wait for Layla to take it all in "I kept questioning how could the world let this happen, this atrosity but it wasn't the first time the holocost in world war two happened unnoticed for so long. And if there where no mutants left then the story couldn't be told....even birth was controlled, the second a child was born unaware to the parents it would undigo tests to determan wether or not the child had the mutant X gene in them, the parents would then be lead to believe that the child had not survived...died of "Natural causes" and they believed it all of them did, the government fed it to them and they took it all...#38 worked all mutants were eradicated through numerous plans, viriuses, camps etc all of them gone save one last group."
"Avalanche, we survived by taking no chances with humans, if one stood in the way then we would take care of them just like they had done to us with no remorse "blood must hath blood" as our leader used to say, so do you see just one death can leave to the deaths of millions, , Layla this is alot for you to handle I know but I trust you with this secret it was my fault all of it that one death being used to justify the death of almost an entire race....and and that has always stuck with me, I must live with that, everyday of my life!, You are the only one who knows outside the nation, and it must be kept that way for now, if it wasn't for a "Divine Intervention" I would still be there now..believe me blood can be washed of your hands but the stain remains...and that Layla is my secret...thats why I can't stand killing and I know you haven't in real life yet or so you told me..and I want to keep it that way for you as long as I can..I care for you Layla and I know your better than this." Darius finished as he rested his hand on hers as a tear trickled down his face as the thought of his one action being the cause of death for a million innocent mutants.
