Individual
Character's full name: Emre Kevin Michel, Em for short.
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Decoy
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Date of Birth: May 1st, 1992
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Saint-Fargeau, France
Nationality: French
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: French
Appearance
Hair color and style: Brown, average length. Sometimes he dyes it lighter colors.
Skin Tone: Fair
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 6 foot on the money
Build: Lean, muscular.
Visible mutation: His right arm has a changing tattoo that represents what power he has on his mutation 'clipboard'. This changes when he picks up a new power, and glows purple when he 'pastes' the mutation onto something. (see powers) Example of markings: Em loads a necromancer power, his tattoo shifts to be a skeleton. He shifts to carry animal empathy, and it transforms into a wolf. The tattoo takes up a 5" band of skin on his upper arm that he can hide with a somewhat longer shirt if he doesn't care for the tattoo for that day.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: Changing tattoo on right arm.
Other features: None.
Everyday clothing style: Emre likes to dress nicely, but has found it harder to do since he came to New York. Name brands, collared shirts and custom jeans. He still has some of this he packed with him.
Uniform: None
Sleepwear: Just boxers
Miscellaneous clothing: N/A
Character
Personality: Em is spoiled. He came from a well off family in France, and had tutors and staff to clean up his messes. When he would use his powers on random animals, it was always up to another person to stop the house from being destroyed. That being said, he isn't generally mean spirited. He is smart, and while he has little concept of proper money management, he does realize not everyone had life given to them on a silver platter. He liked to think he was a good person who always paid staff well, and admitted when he got too carried away with fun.
Em spent some time with the wrong crowd, but generally decided he wasn't interested in that life. Maybe it's because he spends so much time around animals, but there is always a bit of a soft spot in him he tries not to let people see.
Hobbies/ Interests: Gaming/Computers
Job or part time job and description: Em was being pressured to pick a career path, so he chose to run away to America instead. Why not? He wouldn't need a job there, right?
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Emre hates being useless. While he can be downright lazy from time to time, he hates the idea of not being good at anything. He is smart enough to learn fluent English and get good grades, but has no career ambitions or dreams. Em often uses his powers as a sense of empowerment. He can let a creature weaker than him suddenly have the chance to defend themselves. He doesn't want to just be forgotten or alone.
Special talents: (not related to mutation)
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Neutral, he bounces between good and bad. Today he might let loose a mob of fireball wielding cats, tomorrow he might help someone track down their dog. Hard to say what he will do next.
Mutations
Mutation description:
Em has the power to copy and paste mutations onto animals. The powers are scaled to the size of the animal, but whatever receives the powers retains a similar level of control and use of the powers. Strengths and weaknesses are both transferred as this is a temporary x-gene "paste" that transforms the chosen subject.
Example: Em can copy and paste a fire mutants power to a cat. The cat can light things on fire if it chooses, and would be immune to it's own fire just like the mutant was.
Strengths:
Animals with powers! It's a great distraction, and a good way to get out of a bad situation. Emre has unleashed a whole box of fireball spitting mice from a science lab, and given an old bird the ability to heal itself. In this way, his powers can be both selfish and selfless.
Weaknesses and Limitations:
Clock strikes midnight, not a minute sooner!
After 24 hours the animal reverts to it's normal self. He cannot manually end the paste. If he regrets it, tough luck buttercup.
Make Your Choices Count
Em can copy and paste once per hour. A group 'paste' counts as 1. There are no partial or half-pastes, he must be fully recharged before he can use his power again.
It's All About Mass
Em can paste onto a single animal, or a group, depending on the size of the animals. In total one "paste" can only reach the mass equivalent of an elephant. For example, small animals (rodents and birds), could have 100s of subjects (if he gathered them all in one place. See Everyone in The Photo). Large animals like dogs or cats would be much more limited. An elephant is the largest and would be the only subject.
Everyone in The Photo
Em has to have all subjects within a 10 foot radius to include them in the paste. This makes small animals trickier as he needs to include the most on one attempt. That phrase herding cats becomes much more literal.
Only Hold One
Em can only hold one mutant power on "copy". He can use the same copy on each "paste", but has to let go of the previous power to copy a new one. The mutant he copies must also be within the 10 foot range initially, however, they do not need to be present for the "paste". Think of Em as storing that code on his clipboard to carry for awhile. The clipboard being his arm, and his tattoo, that is.
Not My Problem
Em has no control over the animals and what they do with the powers he gives them. He was once followed by a teleporting dog for the whole day because it would reappear in any room he tried to go into. Blink dog for the win.
Physical Abilities
General Physical Capabilities: Em is into strength training, and is fairly fit. He had private trainers from time to time at home, but has to sort it out now that he's in the states.
Fighting Style: "Oh Look, a Distraction!" Em generally tries to make a scene and get away. If it looks like things could get messy, he has found it easier to just get away.
Fighting Style Pros/Cons: Running away is so much easier than fighting.
History Of Your Character
Emre grew up in France with a very wealthy family. Someone helped found a company, the rest invested, one of those big money sort of situations. He had a rather golden childhood with private tutors who helped him learn English, and when his mutation developed at 15, he was more than delighted to cause trouble.
Emre got scooped up by the wrong crowd for several years in his teens. Some guys talked him into using his powers to help them rob people or places, cause vandalism and the likes. But Em quickly decided he wasn't a fan of that life, mostly because how he felt he 'used' the animals he actually really liked.
In the end Emre decided he wanted a change of scenery, and heard rumor he had a cousin who lived in New York. Emre decided to use his parents money to fly himself (and a lot of his belongings) to New York and rain on his cousin's parade.
Little did he know, once he got there, his parents may not be too keen to keep paying for his rebellious escape...
Roleplay
What’s your OOC alias?: Mati
Where did you learn about this site?: Once upon a time, I googled, and I stayed.
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: Evelyn, Tses, Mae, Cora, Malcolm, Blue, Zaid.
Sample RP:
"This is the last time I give a cat telepathy...."
Emre rubbed his forehead, trying to drown out the droning of meows in his head. The idea had seemed fun at first: Give a cat telepathy, it can share it's thoughts! New flash: giving an animal the ability to share their thoughts does not, in fact, give you the ability to understand their thoughts. The meows started as the cats away of convincing him it needed food. Then it became this sort of conversation the cat continued to have with him, following him down the street and trying to understand what he had done. Maybe the cat understood Emre's thoughts, because it bumped his leg and meowed once, almost like an apology. It figured. Cats were smart enough to understand him, but it didn't work the other way around.
The tattoo on his forearm was a sort of new school looking brain. It wasn't the worst tattoo he had on his arm, but it wasn't his favorite, so he kept it covered with his jacket, feeling around for a new power to swipe. Maybe he could try ice powers? Pigeons with ice powers, what could go wrong with that?
Meow!
Right...everything could go wrong with that...
