Character's real name: Micheal Johantin Hodgins Esq. (Of those Hodgins!)
Codename/Alias: Putto
Gender: Male
Ag
e: 12
Nationality/Ethnicity: American
Birthplace: New Haven, Conneticut
Personality: Micheal is a shy and contemplative person. He is flamboyant beyound his years, though it doesn't hinder his inherent charisma, though because of his shyness very few ever see his charismatic side.
Notes (Hobbies, Phobias, Worries, ect.): Micheal is a chorister and is very fond of his voice. Though because of his shyness he avoids public avoidance like the plague, which is also his worry, he worries and is even phopic of that the things that he is most proud of about himself will be disliked or downright dispised by others around him.
Allegiance (Good, Bad, or Neutral): He is an inherently good and morale person, as such he would be Good given these choices.
Everyday clothing: He will often where suits with a different coloured sweater vest that changes according to the Liturgical Calender.
Uniform (Optional. Required if eventually becoming part of the X-Men): He has no interest at the moment of becoming a member of the X-Men as such has not thought about his uniform.
Pajamas: Micheal wears a two piece silk Pajama set, he has it in silver, blue and red.
Hair color and style: He has dark blond hair that he keeps spiked most of the time.
Eye color: His eyes are a deep and engaging Blue/Grey
Height: 5'1"
Build: Soccer is what he likes to call it or swimmer. He is defnied but not bulky, skinny but not lengty.
Scars: He has had his apendix removed when he was 8, as well he cut his right leg just above the knee on the inner thigh when he was 11 he fell out of a tree and hit a barbed wire fence.
Tattoos: None
Piercings: None
Description of ability(ies): Micheal has shown an amazing ability at leadership, as well as Charisma. He may not have many friends, but he also has no enemys, in fact the friends he has would die for him. As well his voice not not only pure and perfect in pitch, if he were to sing a Sad song all around him would cry, and if he were to sing a Happy song all would feel joy and euphoria. Another side effect of his powers is that he is truely Beautiful, not handsome or cute but truely Beautiful. Alsmost as if he were an angel fallen from heaven.
Singing: His singing is a mix of both Projective Empathy and invasive (though subconsience) Telepathy. That forces you to recall the strongest memory you have that matches the emothion of hte Music and forces you to recall it's emotional impact on you.
Leadership/Charisma: this is a rather interseting one as this is a mix of sugestive telepathy and modulation of voice (Think Dune Bene Gesserit). He is able to guide his friends by helping them see their own worth, muc the same way that he can convince people of what he wants by making them think it is there own idea and saying it in suc h away that it makes them,wnat it.
Unearthly Beauty: this wone is a simply a side effect of his mutation, he has always developed an Angeleic Beauty. A Beauty that ahs had him mistake nfor a girl, and that every one likes. But it does cause jelousy in some.
Cons (weaknesses) of ability(ies): The weaknesses of these abilites are that because of his Beauty he is picked on almost unsecingly for it, and his flamboyancy makes it hard for him to get along well with some of the more muscluar of his peers. The culminationf othese downsides has led to an over developed sense of shyness and selfpreservation to the point that he avoids most people, and doesn't get to excersise his powers. He could make a great Political Leader or a true Virtuoso of music if only he could get past himself. Who incidently is the only person he can not sway. Well himself and his own father, who has all but disowned Micheal.
Fighting style (if any): Micheal style of fighting is more of a means of negotiation and pleading that leads to his attackers leaving him alone. Since he is only 12 he hasn't had the need to truely learn to fight, and due to the nature of his powers he has become rather pacificstic in nature.
History of your character: Micheal was born the first son of a Wealthy Businessman and a retired Opera Diva. His father was an acomplished businessman who owns a multinational corporation that deals with various fields including Technology, Medicine, Realestate and Investments. The company does very well, and is one of the leading companies on the Fortune 500. His mother was an Austrian Opera Diva, she was both celebrated and loved throughout all of Europe and most of the world as a whole, that was until she got sick with pneumonia after a show in Saint Petersburg, the pneumonia was quite agressive and nearly took her life from her. She praied to God that she would live, and that he would send her an angel to help her. For despite all her fame she didn't have anyone at her side, atleast not anyone that truely loved her. Micheal's father had loved the Diva's voice and when he heard she might die he dropped everything and flew to his Saint Petersburg field office and dedicated all of his companies medical resources to save her. While they were in the hospital they grew to truely love eachother, and once his men had saved her she married the man. It wasn't until the next spring, 2 months into her pregnancy that she discovered she could no longer sing. For a long time she secloistered herself in one of the many houses around the world and cried day and night. Until one night she felt her baby kick while she praied and cried. Then she remembered what she had praied for in the hospital and that God had kept his word, he had sent her an angel in the form of her Husband and he had saved her life. From that point on she lived a good life, attending parites and going out. When Micheal was born her husband incisted that he be named Jonathin after his own name, but she pleaded and eventually won out and he was named Micheal Jonahtin, the Micheal was after the great Archangel himself. She raised her son herself for the first 5 years, refusing the help of wetnurses and nannys. Micheal was her son and she would raise him as she saw fit.
When micheal turned 6 he was sent to a private boarding school in Conneticut, the same one that his own father and grandfather had attended as boys. He showed exemplary intelligence and skill in academic and musical subjects, but his physical abilites were not up to the level of his peers. He was infact afraid of most forms of sports, which meant that he could not compete in the local Soccer and Football leagues at the school. When his father found out there was much yelling and even hitting, for he had been star player of both, and his son was proving to be a pansy. It was unaceptable to him, he blamed his wife, but most of all he blamed God. As the boy grew older he discovered that he had the ability to sway the opinions of others when he was threatened, and that his voice was gifted beyound the skills of others. He could evoke emotion out of his audiences even from the most simple of his pieces. When he would do an aria of true sadness or joy he could evoke even stronger emontions, but despite all of his atempts to impress his father they all resulted in more anger from the man. As time past at the school he found that he had few friends but those he had were greater friends then he had ever hoped for, protecting him and shielding him, even inspite of themselves. But in equal numbers he was picked on by others, but he was never abused by the those who picked on him callign him names and gouding him, for whenever he would be confronted by them he always found away to talk himself out. Though all of his emerging powers did nothing but anger his father, and make their confrontations worse. Then a fateful day came he was 11 at the end of his 5th year of school, he was picked by his teacher to perform as lead in the school Choral Production. His father wasn't present, but his mother was as was a number of important dignitaries and visiting headmasters from other schools. He was shy and always found it hard to sing infront of so many, but his teacher insisted, and eventualy with trepidation and many butterflies Micheal broke from the mass of boys and had his solo. It rang pure and clear over the auditorium, the best he had ever proformed. As the music rose and fell the audience was on the edge of it's seat. The music ran the full gambit of emotion starting strong and happy as the character in the Aria met an fell in love with her soulmate, then it broke into a sad lamentation as she was lost to the sea, leaving the man alone. The emotions rang true with all present and the folowed it with intent consentartion crying and smiling at approrprate points. It just so happened that Charles Xavier had been in the crowd for that performace, having heard about the boy through his many channels, and even he found it hard not to be swayed by the emotions of the piece. So thus is the history of Micheal.
Sample RP: Micheal sat behind the curtain of the stage in the auditorium of his school, his mother had just left him with the encouragement she always had for him. She had kised him and he could still feel the warmth of her lips on his cheek, a comforting reminder that he was loved, at least by his mother. His father had found some excuse not to be present again, which didn't surprise him but a part of him was happy as this meant that there would be no beatings tonight, no yelling. Then the butterflies started to flap in his stomach, as they always did before he would preform, though tonight they were worse then ever, as he was chossen to be lead soprano, and despite his attempts to get out of it, his Choralmaster was quite insistant. He had said there was someone special in the crowd tonight and that Micheal had to sing. So Micheal conceeded to his favorite teacher and he would have to sing. The time came and all the boys began to assemble in their rows, Micheal was center of the second row. His friends Rapheal and Gabriel on each side, they were his most steadfast and true friends and they always supported him no matter what. Though Micheal had never met their parents or for that matter heard the speak of them. The two boys reached over and held Micheal's hands in support, as the curtain rose. Their were some announcements then the Chiormaster acended to his place and began to conduct the boys, they wen't through the school anthem and then a couple more group songs. Then the moment came and Micheal was nervous the song started as a group then after a few moments he was expected to break from the crowd and sing the First Soprano part. When the time had almost approached his two best friends leaned over and gave him a hug, with the encouragement of his friends he broke from the crowd from the first time in his shortlife to truely shine. He sang pure and strong, the best he had ever done. And as the music ebbed and flowed the crowed followed and couldn't help but be engaged.
Charles Xavier was invited by one of his old friends a chior teacher from an elite boys school in Conneticut, who insisted that he had a boy Charles had to see. So here he was front row listening to the choir sing. They were good he admited to himself, but they weren't great. Then after a few sons there came another he knew it, it was from one of his favorite operas an Austiran piece about truelove both gained and lost. He watched a little confused as two boys turned and hugged another and that boy broke from the crowd, and truely began to sing. His voice was beyound description, for it was truely perfect. Then it happened Xavier felt happy, almost in love, as the boy sang about he two meeting. Then as the song shifted he felt tears in his eyes, and not a little either he was truely sad and he felt the loss of the women in the song. It was almost as if the boys words broke open the old memories that he had sealed about Amelia. He looked around and saw that there was not a dry eye in the house. This was truely worthy of his notice. He would speak to the boy after this and hopefully the boys parents.
On stage with the support of his friends and his mother Micheal sang like he had never sung before. He noticed that while everyone else watched the stage intently, there was one bald man in a wheelchair in the front row that watched only him following his every move. So as he ended the song he extended his hand toward him and and the final line as if it was meant only for him. Charles couldn't contain his emotion at this point and felt again as if it were fresh the loss of Amelia. This boy was a mutant, there was no doubt now in Charles' mind. He devised that the boys gift was a sort of projective empathy and invasive telepathy, drawing on a memory of a smilialar even to fuel the emotion behind the projective empathy. The crowd stood and applauded enthusiasticly, Charles simply looked at the boy an smiled, clapping slightly and saying in telepathy "I know what you are. And you are quite good." Micheal having spent so much o on the performance began to faulter on his feet, but as he feel Rapheal and Gabriel were already their to catch him.The curtain fell and the boys began cheering at the performance. Meanwhile Micheal and the two boys moved to the side and sat together, reveling in the performance. Then Micheal's mother came in and picked the boy up and hugged him close and held him kissing him again on the cheek.
"You have done so well my beautiful Putto." Micheal squirmed in his mothers embraced embaraced that she would not only kiss him but to call him Putto infront of his friends. His mother let him go as he said,
"Mother!" In a long drawn out fashion, like any child would do in a similar situation. Charles had made his way through the crowd around to behind the stage where he was greeted by the Choirmaster.
"Charles! I am glad you could come." The Choirmaster said,
"As am I Lucian as am I. Now where is this marvelous Virtuoso you wanted me to meet. You were right about him by the way. He is a very special young boy." Chalres rolled his weelchair beside his friends, and as they approached he saw the rather normal looking boy, who was perhaps a bit to Pretty to be a boy squirm in his mothers arms as she kissed him. They made their way closer as Lucian spoke up.
"Misses Hodgins, this is Proffessor Charles Xavier a friend of mine that runs a school for highly gifted children, like your son." The man extended his hand toward Charles. Who stopped and smiled at the women, he remembered her from when she could sing. He reached out and took the womens hand and kissed it saying,
"Prima Donna, it is an honour to meet you. I was one of your fans, and I was saddened by your leaving the musical world. But you are not why I am here. Your son's ability with his music is simply astounding, and I would like to offer him full scholarship to my school. Assuming you and your husband don't have a problem with this." Charles smiled up from his wheelchair at the prospect of having the boy in the school, not to mention have the chance to meet one of his favorite singers.
"I would have to speak to my Husband, but if my little Putto wants it, then I am sure we can come to some kind of arrangement." She was surprise that he man would address her as Prima Donna since it had been many years since she had held that title, but it was good to see that someone still remembered her. The small cadre spoke somemore on the subject and Charles gave them a pamphlet and some information on the school, hoping that they would join him.
Where did you learn about this site?: I found a link at "The Jeffersonian Institute" a Bones RPG on which I am a member.
