Individual 

Character's Full Name: William Julius Christensen

Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: N/A

Gender: Male

Age: 27

Date of Birth: 07-23-1997

Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: Canadian-American

Appearance

Hair Colour and Style: Light brown, usually short, normally uncombed and messy, but occasionally styled to be -intentionally- messy. 

Skin Tone: Fair

Eye Color: Hazel

Height: 5’6” (170cm)

Build: Toned, but skinny.

General Physical Capabilities: Largely human average. He’s a bit scrawny, so his strength is nothing impressive, but can run for quite a while without getting winded. 

Other features: Faint freckles across the bridge of his nose and cheeks, more prominent when he gets more sun. A roughly 3-inch scar on his left shin, just below the knee. 

Everyday Clothing Style: Casual, jeans and graphic tees with a leaning towards some punk/alt styles. Wears round, wireframed glasses when needed. 

Uniform: N/A

Character

Personality:
A bit guarded and detached. Basically wearing a customer service personality at all times, seems friendly and jovial, but someone good at reading people can tell it all rings a bit hollow. An introvert pretending to be an extrovert. Uses that mask to keep people at arms length.

Beneath it, he’s a bit fussy and particular, and can be somewhat immature due to largely shutting himself off from making many real connections. Falls hard and fast for folks that do crack through his shell, be it platonically or romantically.

A bit of a neat freak, which comes from his senses occasionally being way too sensitive. You tend to want to keep everything spotless when you can smell like a bloodhound and can’t turn it off. 

Has an anti-establishment streak, fueled by both his status as a mutant and the media he prefers (counter-culture / punk), but largely lacks the courage and determination to act on it, though frequents protests and actively follows social justice movements.

Morality: Neutral-bitter. With a mutation that feels like it’s nothing but a hassle and the stigma against mutants, he feels he’s been dealt a poor hand. While he’s not the type to blame any individual person, he enjoys “karmic justice” more than he should, and has more sympathy for the radical elements that support mutantkind than the average person. That said, he’s not about to turn his back on someone in trouble, but would likely fall victim to the bystander effect if there was a group. 

Hobbies/ Interests: Tokusatsu media, retro video games and punk music. Has a guilty pleasure of binging cleaning and restoration videos on Clikclak and Viewtube

Job or part time job and description: Barista, full-time. Small, independent cafe instead of a quick service chain. Makes the coffee that keeps you going in the mornings. 

Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Being outed as a mutant. Loss of control of his powers - fears getting ‘trapped’ in his body without any senses.

Special talents: Brews a mean cup of coffee, has ‘life hacks’ to clean just about anything, and can tell you which deodorants actually work. 

Mutations

Mutation description: 

Sensory Manipulation - By touching someone, Will has the the ability to enhance, degrade, completely disable or chaotic overwhelm another person’s senses. While this doesn’t require skin-to-skin contact, anything thicker than a sweater can inhibit the effects, either blunting debilitating effects or making beneficial effects less pronounced or more difficult to apply.

Enhanced Senses (Self): Will's own sensory powers affect him subconsciously. Will is incapable of actively manipulating his own senses using his powers, and his senses are instead intrinsically linked to his current energy levels. At peak energy levels, Will's senses are beyond human, overall being as sharp as an animal's. However, as his energy wanes, so do his senses. That is to say, using his abilities affects his own senses detrimentally.

Sensory Enhancement/Debilitation: Will can enhance or debilitate another person’s senses. Currently, this takes him about a minute, per sense affected, to enhance someone’s senses to peak human performance -- safely, at least. This ability -can- enhance senses to superhuman levels, but the recipient is liable to be overwhelmed by the sensory input. Likewise, Will can reduce someone’s senses to about 10% of what they would normally experience, and often causes colour blindness when one’s vision is affected. While manipulating someone’s senses, Will gets a subtle level of ‘feedback’ from the target’s senses, tapping into them to a small degree - this doesn't allow him to use the other person's senses, but does create a link between himself and the target. While linked, powerful enough sensory stimuli affecting the target can be faintly sensed by Will, (I.E. A bad wound may mirror onto Will as a dull ache, he may feel the need to squint if the other is hit with blinding light, etc). Once the manipulation has been done, this link allows Will's power to continue to affect the target even without physical contact with Will. Will can end the effect at any time but does need to focus a small amount to maintain the enhancement or debilitation. As such, while he can maintain the effect for as long as he has energy, a loss of consciousness will abruptly end the sensory change, and if can be forcibly ended if Will experiences a suitably massive shock. Remaining linked with 1 person is not taxing on him, and could be held for upwards of 8 hours without strain. However, maintaining multiple enhancements or debilitations becomes exponentially exhausting, giving him a practical limit of 3 people affected at once, and only for roughly an hour before suffering side-effects. 

Sensory Inundation: The most base, direct way Will has of using his powers and affecting others. With this, Will simply releases as much energy as he can in a single burst, affecting anyone that he’s touching, and anyone touching him. People affected are hit with a cacophonous, chaotic blast of sensory input, the mental equivalent of a flashbang for all 5 senses. This is extremely disorienting, and can cause unconsciousness in those affected. The primary effects fade quickly, within a few seconds, but lingering side effects such as the feeling of pins-and-needles in limbs or phantom sounds can persist for a few hours. Due to the energy expended, Will can only use this 4 or 5 times before he’s risking serious side effects.

Sensory Negation: Will can temporarily cause a person’s senses to go completely dead for a short period of time, though this ability can only affect one sense at a time. Usually, it takes roughly 3-5 seconds of contact with another person to ‘find’ the path to the sense he’s targeting before he can affect his target, overwhelming the sense with a surge of energy to shut it down. Once negated, a person’s sense comes back in roughly 5-10 minutes. Unlike his ability to more granularly enhance or dull a person’s senses, this ability doesn’t seem to be something his can consciously extend. From peak condition, he can use this ability about a dozen times before suffering ill effects. 

Weaknesses and Limitations:

All of Will’s abilities require him to touch his target to affect them. Even something as simple as a thick jacket can significantly blunt the effects of his abilities.

Non-human creatures are not affected as much by his abilities, about half as effective. And non-organic creatures would not be affected at all. 

Other than his most taxing ability, he needs at least a few seconds of focus in order to use his mutant powers, which is a tall order if you also have to hold onto the target.

Will has no control over his power's effect on himself, and at peak energy levels, he’s in fact quite uncomfortable as he has no way of turning off his amped up senses, leading to overstimulation and headaches.

Conversely, as his energy levels wane, his senses begin to degrade as well, first dropping to human standard and progressively becoming worse. I.E. - slowly losing his sense of smell and taste, noises becoming less distinct, becoming near-sighted, more and more colour blind, and losing any sense of touch. These effects happen gradually, worsening overall as his energy levels dip. If completely drained, he could become totally insensate, effectively trapped in his body with no way of sensing the world, at least for a time. Going from a completely 'empty' tank to full would take him about 4 days, assuming proper meals and bedrest, with human normal senses coming back between 2-3 days. 

While Will can bring senses a person's senses to peak human with little drawbacks, his ceiling for enhancing someone with human standard senses caps out at roughly animal level. (I.E. Eagle sight, blood hound scent, etc). 
If someone were to already have senses on par with animals, he could amplify their heightened senses by about half again, or a 50% increase. For anyone with senses beyond that, his powers would only have a negligible effect. Additionally, he's unable to affect senses beyond the 5 human standard senses that he is familiar with. 

History Of Your Character

Will was born to a Canadian mother and American father in Toronto, Ontario and had a fairly unremarkable upbringing. Went to a public school, played hockey, got decent grades and some less than decent ones. At 15, he and his family moved to New York, his father getting a new job in some telecommunication company which landed them solidly in the upper-middle class, but uprooted him from his hometown. It was around that time that Will started to feel that everything around was too loud, too bright, everything tasted and smelled wrong, even the air felt odd on his skin. The awakening of his mutant powers was brushed off as being stressed and overwhelmed at the move, as, at that point, they were only affecting him.

His new discomfort with what seemed to be like the whole world made him a bit unapproachable, and he had troubles with his studies and making friends in the new school. Not so much making enemies. Within the first few weeks he was cornered by someone who’d decided they weren’t going to be friends. There was an altercation. Will won, knocking the bully senseless with a burst of sensory energy. With luck, no one else saw the fight, and Will’s aggressor just thought they’d been sucker punched. 

Armed with new knowledge, Will started learning how to navigate the world as a mutant. He graduated high school with little fanfare, and a year of searching for schooling turned into two, and then three. On his parents' urging (and with significant financial help from them) he moved out, found a job he could stand and… more or less just continues to live, grumbling behind a mask of customer service cheeriness as he pours coffees for the early risers of New York City. 

Roleplay

What’s your OOC/Discord alias you’ll be using?: Drew

Where did you learn about this site?: Google search while attempting to find another old proboard forum RP. 

Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: N/A

Sample RP:

It’s amazing how easy it is to forget things. 

Will couldn’t remember exactly how he’d gotten into such a heated argument with the person who was now screaming obscenities at him, the older man standing a good 6 inches taller than Will, as spittle flew from his lips. Nor could Will remember how in the next few seconds he’d wound up flat on his back, the cold, rough cement of the sidewalk pressing into his back while his head exploded in pain. Will wasn’t quite sure why his face was suddenly wet, why he could smell and taste blood, or why the other student was sitting on his chest with a meaty fist raised to throw another punch. Will though, did remember, wanting to take all the noise and cacophony of the world around him, the throbbing in his head and the coppery stink of blood in his nose, to take all that overwhelming stimuli and chaos and throw it back at his aggressor.

And so he did. Jabbing a flat palm into the man’s chest, Will held nothing back, lighting up his assaulter’s senses like a Christmas tree, a chaotic wave of sensory noise slamming into and through them like a tidal wave of static and light.

A few, blurry, adrenaline hazed seconds later and Will staggered to his feet, his ears no longer ringing with every noise that echoed through the late night streets around him. Looking down at the larger man sprawled haphazardly on the sidewalk, Will realized that the flickering street lights were no longer burning his eyes. He let out a shaky breath that he had been holding without knowing, noticing that his clothing had stopped feeling like sandpaper against his skin anymore. It was like he’d stepped out from a concert into the quiet, all of his senses ringing with the relative ‘silence’ he was suddenly gifted.

“Damn…” Will swore under his breath, giving the man a nudge with his foot, eliciting a quiet groan from them. Will dragged the back of his hand across his face, wiping away the blood streaming from his nose and cut lip. He thought to run, but the sound of hard soled shoes coming down the street made it clear that the noise of the scuffle had already been heard by someone, and so he resigned himself to trying to think up the best story he could in the short time he had, turning to face whoever, or whatever was coming his way.

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