Individual
Character's full name:William Cole(unknown)
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Saphirus/ The Masochist
Gender:Male
Age:31
Birthday:August 8th
Nationality/ Ethnicity:Caucasian
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin:New York city
Appearance
Hair colour and style:black, short and messy
Eyes:Blue
Height:5'9
Build:slim, fit
Visible mutation:None
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings:No visible tattoos or piercings, though he has
many scars in the area from his shoulders to his lower abdomen
Other features:
Everyday clothing style:He can usually be found in a black t-shirt and
blue jeans
Uniform: That of an X-Man, he uses the black and blue design with an X across his chest. He has a holster for his crowbar on his right hip, and added armor in several places.
Sleepwear: Nothing special-boxers
Miscellaneous clothing: he sometimes wears a heavy Grey trench coat,
when the weather permits it.
Character
Personality: Saphirus has a very quirky personality... he openly
displays a rather messed up sense of humor that can be a bit troubling
at times. While he can be a bit alarming, he is generally a good person
at heart. He is easily led astray, and may be a bit too trusting-
somewhat like a lost puppy. He isn't book smart in the least, but he can
be quite clever
Update: 9/5/16 - In a word, Grumpy. He's largely closed off to the world, but dammit, he's trying, okay? Still, his grin finds it's way out in the company of old friends, and his thirst for revenge is all but blunted. Underneath it all, he's really just the same ol' Saph, with a few more scratches and dents.
Hobbies/ Interests: Fighting... he has always had a knack for getting
into trouble, and has always fought his way out of them- sometimes
coming to great harm in the process
Job or part time job and description: X-Man and Honorary NYPD Police officer.
Fears/ phobias/ concerns:Dying stupid, dying, garden gnomes.
Special talents: He is very talented when it comes to using his
mutation in battle... he isn't really good at anything productive... He knows how to hot wire cars, steal things, and break into houses without getting caught...what? guys gotta make a living!
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: Neutral- he is good at heart, but isn't out
there to make the world a better place for anyone other than himself,
really.
Mutations
Mutation description:Due to the nature of his ability, Saphirus's body is divided into two hemispheres, the left and the right. There is no visible difference between the two halves of his body, and he looks like a normal human being as well; the two halves of his body are, however, very different when compared to both each other, and normal human beings. The whole right side of his body acts as a receiver for kinetic energies. Any incoming force is greatly reduced on impact(Ex: A car hits him at full speed, he is knocked to the side, but gets up with only a few scrapes and bruises.). The energy from these impacts is then sent to his left side, which is just as fragile as that of a normal human being, but is able to then amplify, and transfer the kinetic energy from itself into other objects in a very violent way(EX: he gets hit in the right side of his face with a sledge hammer, and then throws a left hook afterward, sending his attacker flying across the room) The transfer can happen on demand, or by instinct/split second reaction, so if he should happen to get hit head on by a car, not on any specific side... the right would absorb the impact, and the left would transfer it into the car immediately, saving him from too much harm, and totally destroying the car.
Strengths:The applications are endless... he can use previously stored energy to leap great distances with his left leg, he is nearly bullet proof on his right side(bullets dig in, but only stick into the flesh, and will only damage internal organs if he is hit at point blank), and his ability to dish out damage can be greatly enhanced if he works through an object, such as the crow bar he often carries around with him. He has learned to contain and collect smaller increments of force, and store them for the extent of eight hours, but large measures of force, such as being hit by a car, must be transferred within minutes. A limitation for how much force he can take in all together has not been found, and theoretically could be endless, but the greater the force, the sooner he has to get rid of it, or it feels like he is going to literally explode, which isn't a bad theory.
Weaknesses:He can only use his powers if he has kinetic energy stored.. In other words, if his right side hasn't been impacted in some way, he can't do damage to anything... This means that should he be bound properly, he is pretty much useless in a fight. His right side is also slower to heal than normal, by about half as much; the reason for this is unknown. His left side is just as vulnerable to damage as a normal human beings unless he can manage to channel force into whatever is hitting him in time to prevent heavy damage. If he takes in too much force at one time, or holds it in for too long, he risks exploding. Also, before he goes to bed, and when he wakes up in the morning, he has to release the stored up energy he has in some way... this usually means breaking something.
Secondary mutation description:none
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
First Power Growth:
Saphirus's power growth will spawn from a reaction he has to Garret inducing a seizure on him in the Bank Robbery thread. The jolt to the nerves will activate a part of Saph's brain that was not yet meant to be activated.
Proposed Growth Situation: As a result of the premature activation(heh.) of his abilities, He will experience Visual anomalies and sudden losses of balance over the course of a month, starting frequently, and slowly getting more infrequent. As the disorientation grows less frequent, he will begin to feel as if he is being touched when he is not, particularly when something heavily impacts something else around him, and in the direction of that thing.
He will begin to get paranoid, jumpy for a period of about a month, after which he will start to get used to the feelings, and then learn to explore them.
Full fledged power growth: Saphirus will develop the ability to have an awareness of the amount of force that anything around him is exerting. He will feel it in comparison to the amount he can take in at once, and the total amount he can store altogether. He will also gain a catlike reflex to turn the right side of his body towards such objects faster than a normal human might be able to. At the greatest level this reflex will turn into a pull, as his right half soaks up all of the force from an 18 inch radius and directs the force of the object towards his left side. Another reflex it will enact is the ability to channel force through his body rather than store it(Ex: He gets hit by a force too great for him to normally stand without his body breaking. It instead goes right through him and out his foot, cracking the ground beneath his feet)
Strengths: He will gain a new awareness of his surroundings, he will know when something is expelling a great level of force behind or around him, he will know roughly how much force is being expelled, and he will be able to react to it accordingly.
His reflex and area absorption both have the potential to save him from some particularly nasty situations.
The force transfer will save him from being overloaded, but has its limitations.
Limitations: His awareness only pertains to an acceptable amount of force; he cannot sense a person sneaking, or even walking, but if they are running, or striking he can. This makes being in or around cars or fast moving things very unsettling, though with time he will get over this.
The reflexes will work without his command, and only make him react to the greatest stimuli the moment presents. Should two forces be coming at him, he will turn his absorbing side towards the greater one, and will risk being hit by the other against his will. The area absorption only works once a day at max, and seems to have to recharge before he is able to use it again. This means that should he go a few days without rest, he will not regain the ability.
The force transfer totally passes up his inner 'battery' and thus he cannot soak up force from the blows used for it. It works only when both hemispheres of his body are in contact with a solid object, one with the overpowering force, and one with something to transfer it into. It also strains his body, considering there is a good deal of force flowing right through him; the feeling is similar to a moderate jolt of electricity, and is unpleasant, unsettling, painful, and if experienced many times in a row, totally disabling. It also doesn't save him from an overload cause by multiple attacks; he will still explode if someone hits him twice with half of his full capacity and he doesn't expend it in time.
Second Power Growth(10/19/13)
Growth summary: Saph will gain the ability to "lock on" to and object within 50 yards, and apply it's own kinetic energy to it. This allows him to steer the object around, altering it's course of flight. At it's very max, he will be able to apply this ability to his own body, effectively allowing him to "fall with style".
Time frame and lead up summary: Starting after his encounter with Muse's ability, Saphirus will have trouble with that whole walking thing. By that, I mean for a month straight he will randomly be swept from his feet for no reason. Other strange things will happen to him, such as things tossed to him might never arrive, and things not tossed to him may just choose to land in his hands. He will instantly recognize this is connected to his power, but not be able to do anything about it... That is, until the wedding ring he plans to present to Andrea finds a way to be catapulted through the air. This will be the first successful application of this power. After which he will have to practice over the course of two more months, turning it to a haphazard throw, to it's full potential, which will allow him to alter the course of an object within the sight of his sixth sense. Some time later, he will learn that whole "falling with style" trick, though that will depend on how brave he's feeling.
Growth description:Advanced information: This ability stems off of Saph's sixth sense, and can only work on objects within it. He is limited to one object at a time, because of the tunnel vision he will experience when manipulating an object. He will not need to point at himself to "fly." Because of the nature of his ability, he will be able to cancel out the effects of gravity, but go no further; this means he will not be able to make things move up. He wil also only be able to use this ability on objects that are already moving. Things that are moving because earth is constantly moving do not count, that would be silly.
Strengths: Saph will be able to change the course of a moving object that currently has no active forces acting upon it other than natural forces such as gravity, wind effect, ect. In short, if someone else isn't making it move, he can make it move the way he wants, provided it is already in flight.
This will allow Saph to fly without going up, in short, he will be able to jump, and not fall down as long as he remains concentrated.
Saph's new ability is limited to 30 seconds on any external object, with 10 uses before an hour of rest is required. On himself, he can do it 3 times a day, for 5 minutes maximum each "not falling" session.
There is no limit on how heavy the object he can move can be, but it must be in range, and cannot be in contact with the ground. in short, if a car is being flung at him, he can make it miss, but if it's driving at him, this power does not apply.
He can make things stop falling, or fly right around and hit attackers. At max level, this applies to bullets, though he will never be skilled enough to handle an automatic weapon's rapid shots. This situation would have to involve Saphirus seeing the gun as it was about to fire, and being prepared to act immediately.
Weaknesses: Tunnel vision. When Saph selects an object, most of his focus is on that object, and where it plans to go; everything else is foggy. This extends to his sixths sense. The one exception to this rule is when he selects himself, but even then he can only see in the direction he is going. This makes mid-air collissions with unexpected obstacles a very real possibility.
He can only move one object at a time, including himself.
Although this ability combats gravity, it does not manipulate it; Saphirus will never be able to control gravity in any way.
Saph's normal energy amplification does not apply to this ability in any way.
Anything in contact with the ground cannot be targeted.
Anything being effectively moved by another power cannot be targeted.
He cannot speed an object up, if it's flying at a certain speed when he grabs it, it keeps going that speed, or slower.
He cannot make an object move upward unless it was heading up to begin with, and even then, it can only go as high as it would have in the first place.
Usage effectively muddles his senses of smell, taste, and hearing. You could yell at him all you wanted while he flew, and he wouldn't be able to tell you what you said, or what the gum in his mouth tastes like.
Fighting Style
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Faction Allegiance
Currently unaffiliated.
History Of Your Character:
Saphirus was born to a lower middle class family that lived in the suburbs of new York. Due to complications at birth his mother passed away. His father, being a closet mutant, blamed the child for it, believing it was the kid's mutation that caused his mother to die. It was. It wasn't long before his father put him up for adoption, as he couldn't bear to look at him, much less raise him. From then on, the young Saphirus was thrown from foster home to foster home, no one would hold onto him for too long as odd 'accidents' always happened around him, like when he was told to do the laundry, the dryer would explode, and he would sit there saying it was an 'accident'. when he was finally old enough to fend for himself, he tried getting a job and an apartment, but that fell through due to some stupid decisions on his part. He ended up homeless, and enjoyed the life of a brawling gutter punk for a long time. Now that he is older, though, he feels somewhat empty and unfulfilled. He had decided that it is time to get all educated and stuff, so that he can succeed in the real world.
Update: 9/5/2016
What happens to a man after his marriage falls apart before it can even start, he adopts a kid when he has no clue how to be a parent, and his job is to fight crime? Well, he drinks away that first part, struggles with the second, and loses himself in the last. Saphirus has been fighting the good fight all day, watching security cameras in the afternoon, and raising a teen in the gaps in between!
The present finds him tired, grumpy, but emotionally on the mend.
Roleplay
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Sample RP:
*awww crap, it was a stick! he scanned the area once again in a slight panic; peeking through the windows of the cold sub-compact he had broken into. He hated driving stick! He mumbled lowly as he reached under down under the steering wheel to work his magic... The shelter closed for the night in fifteen minutes, and he wasn't looking to sleep out on the streets again... this state got wayyy too cold in the winter. Chuga-chuga.... VROOOOM! "Hah hah!" he exclaimed as the engine jerked to life, and he put it in first, pulling away from the curve. He looked about in a slight panic as he drove away from the scene of the crime... this kinda stuff always got his heart pumpin fast! It was stressful, but god was it fun! he smiled widely, but that joy was short lived when he heard a sound in the back seat, "what the?" he looked back quickly, just in time to hear the cries of an infant... "you've gotta be f@#kin kiddin me!" Who the hell leaves their baby in the back seat when they go to the store?! "ohmanoman, You're in deep now, Saph!" he said aloud to himself "this can't get any worse!" As if on cue, sirens went off in the distance, closing in quickly. "awww man!" He didn't know what to do! stop, and run like hell? put the petal to the metal to escape the fuzz, sort the baby out later?! the baby must not have liked that idea, because he immediately started wailing in tune with the closing sirens. "oh god, kill me now!"
Within minutes he was running for his life... the good thing was that one of the cops had stopped to check on the baby to make sure it was fine(it was.) The bad thing was that the one that had run after him looked like a freaking bodybuilder! He gasped for breath as he took a hard right into an alley way, the hulking cop right on his tail... alright... they were out of view of the cop car... he skid to a stop, turning quickly to find that the big guy was closer than he had thought. BAM! The man ran into him, falling on top of him and screaming for him not to resist... The slightly dazed Saphirus tried to shake off the stars as the man pressed down hard on him... Just a little be more, he thought to himself... all of the impacts of his right foot hitting the ground when he was running had given him a good amount of power to dish out, but he wanted to be sure... The cop was trying to grasp at his arms to hold him down... he responded by reaching out with his right hand to hit the larger guy in the face with all of his might... and nothing happened as a result
"Damn... You hit like a girl! I didn't even feel that!"
The very ineffective hit had caused the officer to pause for a second... He even laughed a bit... Saph smiled and swung again with his right arm from below, hitting like a feather again, but wiping the smile from the police man's face, "Listen, if you don't stop struggling, I'm going to have to MAKE you stop" -pat- again in the face to no effect... the officer smiled and lifted his big arm, preparing to bring it down on Saphirus's head, "good night buddy." Now!
-WHACK- Saphirus swung a mighty hook with his left at the man's jaw, applying all of the force he had collected from both the chase, and the punches he had hit the man with...and knocked him so far into next week that he might as well have been time traveling. The large man flew right off of him, into the wall, and then to the ground.
... Saphirus got to his feet in a flash, smiling widely..."Good night to you... Buddy." His smile dropped off his face as he heard footsteps quickly approaching. No time to lolly-gag! he had to get out of here!
The second cop sprinted around the corner, and came to a dead stop... "Al, you alright?" he only got a ,"no mommy... I don't wanna go to school." in reply... Saphirus stood around the next bend, sighing to himself "I gotta get a real freaking job..." *
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