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Character's full name: Jalen Alexander Kingston
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Tough
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Date of Birth: 07/20/1993
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin:
Born: Long Island, New York;
Current Residence: Greenwich Village- New York, New York;
Nationality: American
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: Biracial (African-American/White)

Appearance

Hair color and style: Dark Brown, natural with faded sides & back
Skin Tone: Light-Skinned Brown
Eye Color: Grayish Brown
Height: 6’0”
Build: Average-Slightly muscular
Visible mutation: N/A
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: No scars, Nose ring (left nostril), No piercings
Other features: N/A

Everyday clothing style: Relaxed vibe. Jalen is fond of wearing a pair of dark jeans with a fitted t-shirt. He may add a cardigan, vest, jewelry, or a blazer to make his wardrobe more professional when he’s working. Very simple chic.

Uniform: A sleek long sleeved black jumpsuit with red trims and embellishments. The jumpsuit has a sewn in red hood with black trims and embellishments. He’ll wear black fingerless gloves (with good grips) and shoes. He may put on heavy smokey eye make-up in an attempt to conceal his public identity.

Sleepwear: Soft and loose boxers with matching socks.

Miscellaneous clothing: N/A

Character

Personality: (How your character behaves, social tendencies, quirks, etc.)
Jalen has a hard time taking off his therapist hat. Often times, he defaults to listening intently and providing helpful life suggestions all the time. For people who love deep conversations all the time, he fits right in. For those who are fun, in-the-moment type personalities, Jalen can be viewed as a stiff. He struggles with breaking down his professional face with strangers. He is great with names and conversations but terrible with faces. His greatest fear is being seen as unprofessional in front of one of his patients. He feels like it would discredit his professional opinion.

He strives to make the right decisions all the time because his conscience is heavy. Often times, he’ll replay situations in his mind days after it has happened. Attempting to decipher, how a specific situation should have been resolved. He’s constantly apologizing for perceived micro-aggressions to maintain peace. Jalen is genuinely a nice and very considerate guy, but far from oblivious to jerk-offs. He has no issue with standing up for himself and others, but he is slow to take offense. He is very big on giving people the respect they give him. If you violate his boundaries of respect, he’s very quick to address his concerns in a very direct approach. Picking on his friends is the fastest way to piss him off. He’s very protective of those he loves.

On occasion, Jalen will be spontaneous, but prefers to lead a familiar lifestyle. He’s very cautious for a man who possesses invulnerability. Constantly, he chooses to use his words before violence. Maybe that’s why he makes for a crummy mission mate. He used to be so much better when he was young and reckless. Now, he’s very thoughtful and intentional with what he says, how he says it, and his non-verbal communication gestures. He’s constantly surveying auras in the room.

Jalen possesses strong desires for physical contact with people. Honestly, it’s his love language. He’s a very affectionate person by nature. It never fails that he’ll always ask for a hug instead of handshake. Jalen’s an open book. If you want to know more about him, you HAVE to aggressively ask questions because, as mentioned above, he’ll default to being a listener.

Hobbies/ Interests:
Jalen enjoys reading books and graphic novels in his spare time, if possible. In his younger days, he loved to play all kinds of sports especially football. Now, he settles for watching sports on TV recreationally. He’s obsessed with Drag Culture and, secretly, would love to do Drag one day. Obviously, Jalen, the psychotherapist, loves to talk. He is a great listener and loves to hear about other’s life journeys.

Job or part time job and description:
Full-Time Psychotherapist. Jalen works for Crisis Connections, a private practice in the Greenwich Village area. Their target audience are the people of the LGBTQIA+ community. They have programs for low-income patients who can not afford therapy to get the help they need. Jalen is very passionate about his work.

Fears/ phobias/ concerns:
He fears being recognized by his patients as unprofessional outside of work. He has a phobia for law enforcement. His biggest concern is not having financial security in his old age (60’s, 70’s, 80’s).

Special talents:
His secret talent is that he is a really good dancer. He will watch YouTube dance tutorials and perform them perfectly. He will never admit that out loud.

Morality

Good/other:
Jalen has a heavy conscience. He doesn’t see himself as one to seek out his own form of justice. Yes, he gets upset about injustices to the mutant race and himself, but he is not going to take out a city block because of it. He does what he can to enrich his community and support mutant issues.

Mutations

Mutation description:
Tactile Telekinesis (Active). Jalen possesses the gift of active tactile telekinesis. Jalen is able to actively surround himself in a field of telekinetic (TK) energy. The field provides a variety of physical feats that mimic superhuman abilities. He is able to form partial coverings of his TK shield, if he wanted. The TK field forms almost instantaneously at will. It is not immediately visible to the naked eye but reflections of it can be seen when objects strike against it. It appears almost like a multi-colored sparks flying when something strikes against his TK field. It’s not visible when he is manipulating an object (defined as hitting, twisting, crushing, and bending)

Super Strength (Active): He is able to lift and push/pulling objects up to 20 tons (40,000 pounds). If Jalen were to try and lift or catch anything above 20 tons, it would be a swift downhill battle with a mixture mental fatigue and physical exhaustion. He may not suffer as much with pushing/pulling an object over his lifting threshold. The object just won’t be going anywhere. He can try and fake possessing quick reflexes by flinging his body within his TK field, but it’s hardly accurate or helpful.

Invulnerability (Active): Though his TK field is flexible, it is also super-dense, granting him much greater resistances to physical injury. He can withstand conventional handgun fire of 4 feet and cannot be cut by the sharpest of blades. It’s assumed that he can withstand the force of up to 8 to 10 tons of impact or blast of 20,000 pounds of TNT without serious physical injury.

He is mildly-impervious to temperature extremes and low-level electrical shocks. His current level of durability enables him to withstand gun fire at point-blank range and falls from 10 stories.

Object Manipulation/Repulsion/Sensation (Active):

Object manipulation- Jalen is able to manipulate (defined as hit, twist, crush, and bend) objects within his grasp if it requires less than 35,000 pounds of force to manipulate, which is the equivalent to a mild steel bar. It is a very difficult task because he is spreading his strength across an object and not in one place. He is unable to exert his max physical force (40,000 pounds) to manipulate an object.

Repulsion- Jalen is able to repel objects from his body as soon as they make contact with his field. It could be from physically deflecting or actively choosing to repel certain object from his field with his mind. He can also repel his own body from the ground restraints of gravity to levitate or hop from high surface to high surface. He rarely makes of his ability to levitate. If anything, he’ll float or hop from one platform to another or lighten his fall from high places. It takes way less energy to do that as opposed to outright levitate.

Sensation/Insulation- Jalen is able to stop air flow from outside his field and/or maintain his desired body heat before entering a new biome. That’s the reason why he’s able to withstand temperature extremes and low-level electrical shocks.

Strengths:
He is fairly athletic with decent reaction time; however, his abilities don’t amplify his stamina, reflexes, and speed. He depends completely upon his average human limitations.

Weaknesses and Limitations:
(Active) Tactile Telekinesis. His abilities require a mild-degree of concentration. He must actively form his TK field to use his superhuman abilities. Otherwise, he has the normal strength and durability of normal human male who exercises regularly. His mutant powers are limited by the force of his will and the strength of his body.

Once, he fought for an two or three hours straight. He ended up sleeping for an entire day the next day. It took two days after resting for Jalen to be able to maintain a full body TK field. In those two days, he was able to form partially TK fields, which means no invulnerability.

Super Strength (active): Jalen posses normal human strength when not actively forming his TK fields.

Invulnerability (active):
Jalen posses normal human durability when not actively forming his TK fields. He can sniped and killed if he’s unaware of the bullet. It is extremely difficult to treat Jalen’s wounds because his TK field can be reactive to incoming dangers that he can see. Doctors have a hard time performing outpatient surgical procedures, shots, immunizations, dental appointments, etc. Any activity that requires him to endure physical pain, his abilities unfortunately will naturally react. When he is unconscious and his nerves are reacting/responding, his TK fields will not form.

His TK field doesn’t grant him immunity from sound and light. An enemy expelling a large amount of sound would permanently deafen him. A large degree of light would permanently blind him. He is to avoid explosives at all cost. Though his TK field can withstand large amounts of impact, his physical body can not. Because the TK field is close to his body, he feels the impact of extraordinarily heavy blows against his TK field. Bullets and High Caliber rounds don’t bother him as much anymore, but a few direct hits from a torrent gun or tank would have heavy consequences. He wouldn’t be physically harmed (open wounds, specifically) but the impact could give him a concussion. When blocking out electric attacks and temperature-specific attacks, Jalen is forced to cut off his air supply from the outside. He can sustain and reuse his current air supply for about 30 minutes before having to loosen the pores of his TK field to let in oxygen.

When flying, he is not immune to disadvantages of flying at high altitudes without protection and the sound of deafening wind resistance. He would need appropriate gear to fly over long distances. This is another reason he prefers levitation and/or floating over flight. His body is not really equipped to deal with the technics of flight.

Object Manipulation/Repulsion/Sensation:
-Object Manipultion (defined as hit, twist, crush, and bend) can only happen when he’s actively using his TK field. Otherwise, he possesses normal human strength.

-Repulsion is his primary goal when withstanding pressure from incoming attacks. He can repel from multiples angles as long as his field is active. When it is not active or he receives an attack than can not be repel or reflected (like a sustained concussive, temperature-specific blast, etc.), Jalen will be placed in a bad situation. As mentioned previously, Jalen must wear appropriate gear for flight.

-Sensation is not really a weakness unless he is unaware of how hot an object is and isn’t locking out temperature. As mentioned previously, he does feel the impact of heavily impact blows against his TK field. He’s able to mitigate it by deflecting as opposed to absorbing the blows.

Physical Abilities

General Physical Capabilities: (Strength/Speed/Reflexes/Stamina/Flexibility)
He played football a lot when he was in school. He’s maintained a nice physique over the years and very strong legs. He never misses leg days at the gym. He usually doesn’t stretch before his works out, so he is lacking in flexibility. He possess normal human speed, reflexes, and stamina in and out of his TK field.

Fighting Style: He has received formal training while enrolled at the Xavier Institute. He has retained a lot of what he has been taught. He’s not an martial artist by any means, but he can stand his ground in a physical altercation.

Fighting Style Pros/Cons: His fighting style is not dedicated to one style. Literally, it’s just random self defense techniques that he’s learned over the years. He relies on instinct when involved in fist fights.

Jalen is good at counters, defense throws, and restraint holds. Those are his natural go-to’s in a fight. He also relies heavily on throwing heavy objects and overwhelming enemies that are weaker than him as opposed to hand-to-hand combat.

History Of Your Character
Jalen was born in Long Island, New York to his White father, Eugene Kingston and African-American mother, Yovanna Kingston. His father was a lawyer and his mother is a therapist. His mother was mutant telepath, which is bad news for his dad but great for her patients.

Jalen grew up in intersectionality as a gay, bi-racial kid growing up in a upper middle class neighborhood. Jalen has known since he was in 3rd grade that he was gay, so did his parents. He never really had to come out. They kind of knew and supported his love of other men. As Lady Gaga says, he was born that way.

He loved to play sports in elementary school. He was looking forward to joining his middle school football team. Unfortunately, that did not happen. During his physical and middle school immunizations visit, the doctor could not get a single needle through his skin. His mother knew immediately that her son had manifested his mutant ability while resisting his immunizations shots.

Jalen can remember how pissed his mother was because she enrolled him into a great middle school program in Long Island. She understood that it wasn’t his fault. Jalen, in his later years of life, has come to process his mutation as a inconvenience and not a disappointment to his mother. When he was younger, he was so upset and flustered. It didn’t really matter what words his mother used. He would feel like he messed his parents perfect life that they built in the suburbs of Long Island. He ruined their plans for his life. He felt responsible and guilty.

His parents consoled Jalen as much as they could. Ultimately, they were forced to find a new school for Jalen. Without his new immunizations, he was unable to enroll in any public or private school in the area. His mother suggested a school for mutants and Jalen agreed it would be for his benefit. He’s always been such an emotionally and socially aware kid.

Starting in the 6th grade, Jalen was enrolled at the Xaviers Institute for gifted youngsters. Initially, he was freaked out about not living at home with his parents and the various physical mutations of other students. Over time, he’d come to love living in a school full mutants like him. It was place where he didn’t have to worry about all of the intersections that he possessed. Everyone was so accepting of all of his identities.

First year, he’d spend every weekend with his parents. Second year, he’d just spend the summers and holidays with his family. He forged his parents signature and joined the X-Kids program. At an early age, Jalen formed a passion for community work. He knew his parents would be too overprotective to allow it, so he hid that from his mother as long as he could. “Damn! Do all moms have telepathy?! Sure feels like it.”

They came to understand that he had the intelligence for academic excellence and the heart of a public servant. He went out for the X-Trainee program when became of age. Who needs sports when you could hours in the danger room and on the field? Jalen wasn’t a particularly good X-Trainee. He always felt like he was a middle-of-the-road-ish kinda guy. He never really sought out affirmation. He just enjoyed helping people.

Jalen finished his high school requirements two years early. He immediately began his college prep work at NYU’s online head start program. At the age of 18, he left the Xaviers school and moved in to NYU’s dormitory. There, he really explored his sexuality and blossomed socially. He always felt like his classmates at the institute were like his brothers and sisters. If anybody had crushes on him, he was completely unaware. College is he where he swiped his virginity card and collect his hoe card.

He was delving into a new aspect of himself that he’d never explored. Thank God for Sex Ed classes at mutant school. Jalen was over prepared to protect himself sexually. Anyways, too much sex! On to other things!

Jalen was the youngest in his class to graduate medical school and continued on to complete his residency in the next 4 years. He is now the youngest practicing psychiatrist in New York. His age is what attracted Patricia, the owner of Crisis Connections, to Jalen. She wanted diversity and she wanted to hire the youngest psychiatrist in town to boost her practice’s image. He deals with a lot of older peers looking down on his opinions, but the patients and Patricia value his young insight. They feel like he understands the pressures of young people in their 20’s intimately and is able to help older patrons at Crisis Connections.

Crisis Connections is a private practice that specializes in providing help and resources to the people in the Greenwich village community. Crisis Connections are known for their high-caliber of therapist in their practice and pledge to help the LGBTQIA+ community. They offer programs that could provide free counseling to people who can’t afford counseling. They also do a lot for the young, homeless mutant children in the area.

Community development is very important to Jalen. It also allows him to live well and contribute to a 401K plan. Sure! He’d loved to become an X-man, but he didn’t see how he’d fit into being an X-man at 85 years old. He is always a phone call away for assistance on the frontlines for the mutant cause. But right now, his passion is for his work at Crisis Connections in Greenwich Village.

Roleplay
What’s your OOC alias?: Outlawlta
Where did you learn about this site?: Google
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: No, this is my first character.
Sample RP:
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Shit... it’s 6 am.... Maybe if I go back to sleep, it’ll be 5 am when I wake up.

Jalen, without moving his body, stretched his arm to press the snooze button on his alarm. It was Monday morning and Jalen had been out all night Sunday consulting with some of the young mutants in the neighborhood.

—Rewind to Sunday night
Jalen had heard that a few of the homeless mutant youth were planning on rolling up on a new Friends of Humanity (FOH) house. The kids were pissed to find out that FOH established a headquarters in Greenwich. They wanted to forcibly escort them out of their neighborhood and send them back to whence they came.

Jalen had received a private message on social media from a well-known friend of the Greenwich community at around 8:45 pm. Almost immediately, Jalen grabbed his keys and ran to the shelter where the kids sleep at night. The shelter was about 10 blocks away from his apartment. If he hurried, he may be able to convince the kids to change their minds before the 9 pm shelter curfew.

Initially, Jalen thought If I flew, I’d be faster, but I don’t want to draw that kind of attention to myself.

It’s funny how people can trade one closet for another. Patricia is well aware of Jalen’s mutant physiology. It was the main topic in his first interview with HR. It wasn’t like he could lie and not say he attended the Gifted Youngsters school. He got his official high school diploma from the institute. There was no hiding his mutant heritage, but Patricia thought of him as an even greater asset to her practice.

Patricia, the owner of The Crisis Connection private practice, momentarily weighed the thought of hiring a young, openly gay, bi-racial mutant man to manage her youth outreach programs. She questioned whether he could stand that kind of pressure at such a young age. That was, until she heard him speak and saw his heart. Jalen would lay his life down for anyone in this community and he was so passionate about investing into the futures of our youth. She’d have been a fool not to hire him.

These thoughts crashed against his adrenaline as he drew closer to the shelter. He couldn’t be reckless with his mutant abilities or draw focus away from what needs to happen in this community. Heaven forbid! His mutant abilities brought trouble into this precious community. He couldn’t use personal gain to get to the shelter faster, but he could run like hell in his, now fairly sticky, dark jeans and pink t-shirt.

9:00 pm, Jalen rings the shelter bell. The response to the bell being, “Nope! You’re too late. Find you somewhere else to sleep tonight.”

Jalen responded in kindness with, “Hey Julie! It’s me, Jalen Kingston.”

Immediately, the door squalls out a long buzzzzzz and the lock could be heard shifting open. Jalen opens the door and shuts it behind himself. He possesses a lot of respect for the workers who host, feed, and shelter the homeless mutant youth.

“I’m so sorry, Mr. Kingston. We usually have so many kids causin’ trouble after curfew. After they raise hell in these streets, they’ll bring they asses in here trying to escape karma. You know we don’t allow that kinda mess up in here,” Julia said to Jalen apologizing for her rather direct response to his late night visit.

“No, no. You’re cool. You know I understand. And please call me Jalen. You know I’m not that old,” he laughed while rubbing the back of his neck with one hand. “Speaking of trouble. I’m looking for Jacob, Michael, and Mary-Beth. Have they check-in for the night?” asked Jalen. He knew Julia wasn’t fooling with those hoodlums. They did nothing but bring trouble to this shelter yet Jalen vouched for them time and time again. He could see their potential and he’s really been pushing for them to go learn of the Institute. Until then, he’s just trying to keep them out of day-to-day trouble.

Julia frowned up and pursed her lips. “They just left. Talkin’ about kicking some friends outta the area. I told them, if they leave, they ain’t coming back in here. They can go stay in the hospital for all I care. You know I don’t put up with all that fighting in here.” She folded her arms and started to tapped her foot.

Jalen was very aware of how frustrating it can be trying to parent children whose been thrown away by their parents, society, and themselves. “I know, I know. I promise, we’re starting make some progress with them. I really need to find them before they do something really stupid. You know which way they went?,” Jalen said shifting his focus to the priority at hand.

“I saw’em runnnin’ up north toward 151st street. They can’t have gone too far. They ain’t seem like they were in any hurry. I hope you find them, but please don’t bring them back here tonight. It’s bed time for the little ones and they need their rest in here,” Julia plead.

“I get it. I’ll take care of them tonight. I’m sorry for coming in after curfew. I’ll see you later,” Jalen took off up 151st.

Julia can be seen shaking her head with a smile. She knew Jalen cared for the kids. She had hope that Jalen will do great things for the kids in this area.

9:30 pm, Jalen had walked several blocks past 151st street and no kids were to be found. Surely, they would have to be nearby. He’d been walking for almost 30 minutes.

“GET OUTTA HERE YOU ****** FREAKS!” could be heard a block or two behind Jalen.

Oh no! I’m too late. Jalen allowed himself to despair for a split second.

A gun gets cocked.

No, no, no!

To be continued......