Post by Adam Young on Aug 16, 2012 13:32:39 GMT -5
Super Identity and Secret Identity: Adam Young. 'The Messiah' to his supporters, 'The Antichrist' to his detractors. But really, he'd prefer you to just call him Adam.
Alliance: Unaligned
Gender Preference: Male
Age: 19
Birthday: June 6th
Personality: Above all his other traits, Adam Young is incredibly loyal and incredibly stubborn. Once he has his mind set on something, he will do absolutely anything to make it come to fruition - and this can be a problem, sometimes. He makes friends with both hero and villain aligned people, and because he refuses to 'give in and pick a side', he desperately tries to remain neutral out of his belief that 'mutants are just plain cool and everyone needs to grow a pair and stop fighting about it' - much to the chagrin of both sides - and also desperately tries to stay loyal to both friends in the process.
This doesn't usually turn out so well for him.
Adam is easily excited and a very creative guy. He enjoys seeing films, and often takes their messages to heart when he leaves - especially ones about rebellion or individuality, which he prides himself in having a lot of. Adam feels that people should see him for who he is and not what he is. He's bright and asks a lot of questions, so some see him as a bit frustrating to be around. He also has quite a mischevious streak and isn't above using his abilities to do a bit of trickery.
Appearance: Adam is of average height and build for his age, though he tended to be on the small side before his growth spurts kicked in. He's got golden-blond hair that tends to curl up when it's wet and green eyes. He's also prone to keep the same skin color no matter how long he stays out in the sun, and he's got a bit of a gap in between his two front teeth (he never did end up getting braces to fix that).
Adam does not really have much of a fashion sense, much to his mother's chagrin. His idea of dressing himself properly involves grabbing the least-dirty pair of jeans and a shirt he can find and running out the door. He wears a lot of hoodies and has a fake bomber jacket his dad bought him a few years ago that he still wears because he thinks it makes him look 'cool'. Most of his clothes also tend to have a few stray dog hairs on them, and quite a few of his pairs of pants have holes in the knees. (Adam says they're more comfortable that way.)
As he doesn't do much in the way of of going out and actually finding fights and refuses to take on a 'secret identity', Adam doesn't have a costume or anything like that.
History:
Adam Young grew up having a fairly normal life in Townsville with his mother, father, and sister Sarah. He was not of type O negative blood, and so both he and his parents were not expecting any atypical mutations to come in the future.
Everything changed when
As the group turned the corner, Adam was tapped on the shoulder by a man in dark glasses and a suit. He couldn't really make out who he was because his eyes were covered. The man put his finger to his lips and said 'shh', and beckoned towards him, and Adam followed. He wanted to see what the surprise was there.
Adam was led to a laboratory in the Morningstar building that was specifically built for the Warlock Project, which was currently under wraps. The public didn't know this, but Morningstar formed in the fallout of Incredibrand and put up a front, making vegetarian option food instead. Covertly, though, Morningstar planned to finish the experiments Incredibrand had started and planned to create the world's first perfectly engineered human. Now all they needed was a test subject - which happened to be Adam.
After the injection of the new strain of FML, Adam felt a little dazed. He stumbled out of his chair and walked out of the room while the scientists went to go talk, and hadn't gone to Morningstar since. Another small blond boy in his class was found, and Morningstar brainwashed that child to believe that he was the perfectly engineered human that they had been working on the whole time. Morningstar told the child that his abilities would activate in 8 years, once the chemical was sure the host had finished puberty.
Unfortunately for Morningstar, the child did not show any signs of special abilities at age 19. Adam, however, found he could manipulate real objects around him at will and affect his environment, and wasn't sure what to make of everything.
After extensive testing in the school systems, Morningstar found Adam again and declared him, right on the evening news, to be the first test subject in their new experiment - completely without Adam's knowledge or consent. Many supervillains began to look up to him and considered him 'the Messiah', the new 'master mutation'. The heroes, on the other hand, did not like him. A very religious hero figure deemed him as the fabled 'Antichrist', and the name stuck.
Now, Adam would really just like it if everyone would leave him the hell alone.
Secret Identity: Adam's in his first year at the local university, majoring in environmental studies - he's hoping to become an environmental activist or lawyer eventually. When he's not in class, he enjoys spending time with his three best friends, Pepper, Brian, and Jeremy (known as Wensleydale to the three of them).
During the week, Adam lives in an apartment style dorm with his friends. It's close to the university, about a fifteen-minute walk. On the weekends, he lives at home with his parents, mostly because he gets to see his dog, which he creatively named Dog.
Power: Adam has the ability to manifest and manipulate objects around him. He can also perform 'Jedi Mind Tricks' as he likes to call them, manipulating people's subconscious, and can manipulate the environment around him. Unfortunately, this is all incredibly new to Adam, and so he doesn't always have control over his ability and more often than not, uses his powers subconsciously without his own conscious consent.
RP Sample:
Adam sat outside in the quad with his friends. It was a pretty average lunch time for them - they were playing Egyptian Rat Screw, Pepper was slapping entirely too hard, and Brian was getting crisp grease all over the cards.
"I just don't understand why they want me t'be their leader or whatever they wanna call it this time," said Adam, who spotted a sandwich and stole the cards for himself.
Pepper glared at Adam, angry that she missed a sandwich, and told him it was because he was a god-damn pretty boy who they could market easily - that was just what the patriarchy needed, another pretty boy to post all over - that was sexist, was what it is.
Adam got lost and stopped paying attention by the time she said 'market' and realized he had marketing homework to do before tomorrow. He wondered why he had to take a marketing class. Stupid general education courses. Adam hated general education courses. They wasted his time when he could be learning about things that were really interesting and really important to his degree, like classes about deforestation and why it was a bad thing, or classes about animal anatomy. (He hoped those ones didn't include lab time. Adam hated lab time.)
He spotted a double and flicked a few crumbs off it, slapping it and smirking. "You all are really, really slow at this game. Y'gotta have faster reflexes, like me."
Wensleydale remarked from his computer that this was exactly the reason why he refused to play cards with Adam, and Adam just laughed.
He laughed, and missed two doubles in a row due to his distraction.
Dammit, Pepper.
Other: Let me know if I'm going overboard with Adam's powers. I have a severe tendency to worry I'm not playing him well or keeping his abilities in check.
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