Individual
Character's full name: Benjamin (Last Name Unknown)
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Brian Benjamin Queens / Portal
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Date of Birth: June 10th 1989
Nationality/ Ethnicity: American
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: New York City, New York
AppearanceHair color and style: Dark Brown | Messy
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’ 9”
Build: Athletic
Visible mutation: None
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: None
Other features: None
Everyday clothing style: Anything from street casual to high-style fashion
Uniform: none
Sleepwear: boxers
Miscellaneous clothing: wears a thin chained
necklace with a “companion cube” from the game Portal on it.
CharacterPersonality: Selfish: Brian looks out for numero uno first and foremost. He’s a thief, a con man, a killer, and a wannabe. He isn’t about to die for someone or something because it’s his plan to live forever or at least as long as he can while still having “fun.”
Goofball: Brian hasn’t quite grown up entirely, and has a wicked sense of humor. Even while running from the cops or in another equivalently “serious” environment, Brian is likely to double-back via his portal, make people collide into things or each other, trapping them places, or if he’s feeling especially sinister, slicing people/things in half when the try to follow him through the portal.
Killer: Like mentioned above, Brian kills people on occasion. However, he rarely if ever willingly kills “bystanders” and just people “who have it coming.”
Swashbuckling: Adventure runs in Brian’s very veins. He is always looking for the next thing to do, the next event, the next part, so on and so forth. He regularly calls himself an “extreme thief” relating his robberies to an extreme sport. He is also very enthusiastic in nature, as explained below.
Hyper: Brian is known to be talkative, full of energy, speaking very quickly which sudden and random topic changes. He walks fast and is impulsive as well, a trait not always too keen to have when you have power like Brian’s.
Hobbies/ Interests: Crime, free running, working out, watching sitcoms with a bowl of popcorn, pulling pranks, not wearing shoes, and never really going up!
Job or part time job and description: None
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: “Being trapped,” pain, responsibility.
Special talents: Athletic runner, good dancer, drawing (specifically architecture-like drawing).
MoralityGood/ bad/ neutral/ other: Bad. Brian is a thief who won’t hesitate to kill if he really has to. He isn’t an absolute horrible guy, but he isn’t your everyday Mr. Rogers either. If he wants something, he’ll stop at nothing to get it.
MutationsMutation description: Portal Creation. Brian can create a wormhole between two points, using it to teleport between locations. These portals are two-way and can be used by anything and anyone. All movement through the portals is conserved; if you run into the portal at 5 mph, you will exit the portal on the other side in the same position, speed, trajectory, everything. When created, they phase through the surface they open on; when they are closed, all non-living matter is simply returned back to its original space with no ill-effects. Upon creation, all living matter is pushed aside by the rim of the portal. All matter, including living matter, is affected by the closing of the portals, including Brian, as long as it is foreign to the original surface upon which the portal was created.
Strengths: Brian can create a portal instantly, and the travel through the portal is instantaneous. These portals are see-through, albeit warped (like seeing through water). Sound is also transmitted through the portal as well, and sounds as if the listener is underwater hearing the other side through the water itself. The diameter of these portals can be up to 10 feet. A portal can stay open as long as Brian wants as long as he’s conscious and within range. If anything follows Brian through the portal, with proper timing Brian can “splinch” them/it in half by closing the portal on them/it. This splinching only occurs if the matter is “foreign” to the original surface on which the portal was formed.
Weaknesses: Only one portal can be exist at any one moment in time (keep in mind each portal is really a pair of portals, one entrance and one exit. They are two-way however). Portals can only be created upon relatively flat, non-living surfaces. Brian must both be able to see the spawning point of a portal and be within range (300 feet). Although he usually creates portals that have “possible line of sight (he isn’t looking at the destination, but theoretically could see it if he turned his head), Brian is able to create the exit portal without seeing the final destination, but must know what the exit point looks like and be in range. Even this is still difficult, and runs the risk of being thrown into an unforeseen situation. This is rarely done, and is drains Brian of energy (out of breath, weak limbs, ect ect). Finally, the longer the range of the portal, the more taxing upon Brian’s body the portal becomes.
Fighting StyleExplanation: Running away. Using his portals, Brian is very good at confusing, tricking, and out maneuvering his adversaries.
Pros for fighting style: Hard to capture
Cons for fighting style: Not really “fighting.”
Faction AllegianceNeutral, planning on joining the Order
History Of Your CharacterBrian was born in New York City on June 10th, 1989, and was orphaned at a very young age. He was left in the care of the Queens City Orphanage, and only knew his first name. Benjamin.
Growing up at the Orphanage was rough. Being a rowdy, loud, and troublesome child, Benjamin was never adopted. He was always pulling pranks on the other orphans; whoopee cushions, wedgies, water balloons. He also had a nasty habit of stealing things.
Some mutants have their powers manifest earlier than most, while others are the opposite. Brian was the latter, and was 16 when he created his first portal. Now a teenager and with raging hormones, the younger Benjamin attempted his first real robbery, breaking and entering into a jewelry store for a watch he fancied. The rank amateur had bitten off way more than he could chew, and found himself running from the police. Brian was in a very tight spot. Having gone into a dead end alley, Brian’s adrenaline was surging through his veins when out of nowhere, a blue portal opened on the brick wall. Another familiar alley, the once next to the orphanage, was on the other side. Confused but panicking, the mutant stepped through it. As the police closed in on the alley, the portal shut. Benjamin had escaped.
Realizing what he could do, Brian never returned to the orphanage that day. Instead, he began living on his own, stealing enough money using his portal technique in order to buy an apartment, a new identity, a new life of crime. Naming himself Brian Benjamin Queens (after a name he liked, his old name, and the name of the orphanage he grew up on), the portal creator started out committing smaller crimes, not willing to risk exposing himself immediately. As the years past, “Brian” upped his game more and more and more. By the time he was 21, he’d gone from petty theft to full out bank robbery
*. Now, the 22 year old is making a big-name reputation for himself, out to prove everything he has to the world that nothing is out of his reach.
RoleplayWhere did you learn about this site?: Google Searching
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: None yet
Sample RP: *“YOU WANT ME, COME AND GET ME!” Most bank robbers didn’t enjoy the chase. If they had their way, the money would be given to them as they simply snuck out the back quietly. Not Brian though, oh no. He could actually care less about the money; he had plenty of the green printed bills to last awhile. For a man that (in his mind) could steal anything, the action of paying for something seemed redundant, an unnecessary step. No, the mutant thief was here for a different reason than greed: fun. Pure and simple: fun. The excitement of the chase, with the adrenaline coursing through his veins like sweet nectar being pour down his throat. It was bliss, a sensation unrivaled by almost any other. Plus, there was something to prove here. Ego played a giant part in this matter of cops and robbers. Would the robber be caught or killed? Would he make a complete fool of the NYPD, laughing as he got away? Brian already knew the answer to that question. He was one cocky son of a bitch.
As the SWAT team prepared to move in, Brian dragged the duffle bags full of cash into the back room. He’d left the bank tellers behind their desks as hostages, tied up and rigged to fake explosives. The thought of the SWAT team coming in and finding they’d been duped by hot dogs, duct tape, string, and broken pre-paid phones made the thief laugh out loud. Shaking his head happily, Brian kicked back the door that lead to the back room where a glowing blue portal waited, swirling upon the wall like a whirlpool. On the other side was a van, its side door already open. Brian threw the duffle bags through the portal and into the waiting van. The portal blinked with white light every time something passed though it. The sounds of the cops and media and bystanders outside the bank were muffled through the portal, as if Brian was listening underwater. Boy, were they all in for a surprise.
BOOM! The crash from the SWAT team breaking into the main lobby echoed through the bank. It was a typical procedure: take the robbers by surprise, shock and awe them into a slow reaction, take them down, save the day. Not this time. Today, the rule book was about to be shredded and re-written in neon blue crayon. The poor men never stood a chance.
Tires screeched as the van roared out from the alleyway, and the crowd of onlookers turning their heads in mass towards the sudden change in activity. There was no change in course, nor any swerves or maneuvers to avoid capture; the van simply charged straight ahead into the blockade of police cars. It smashed into the wall of vehicles, metal crumpling and tearing as the van was brought to a halt. Steam issued from under the hood. Slowly, cops moved in on the derelict van, but when they tore open the sliding door they couldn’t believe their eyes. The van was empty, the steering wheel and accelerator locked in place.
Brian snickered from the adjacent rooftop, reveling in the fact he’d made a fool of New York’s Finest. As the police below swarmed into the alleyway like ants, Brian portaled away to safety, carrying the money with him; Mutant – 1, Humans – 0.
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