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Toad
April 2006
Subject: Toad - FC
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CHARACTER'S FULL NAME: Mortimer Toynbee
CODENAME: Toad
ALIASES/NICKNAMES: Warts, Froglegs, or any other ‘clever' pun-names on his powers.
SPECIES: Homo sapiens superior
GENDER: Male
AGE: 24
ORIGIN: York, England
ORGANIZATION: Brotherhood of Mutants
POWERS:
Toads powers are mostly physical in nature. He processes slight superhuman strength, though his legs are significantly stronger than his arms. He has keen agility that includes the ability to jump long distances and maneuver up steep surfaces such as walls. His tongue is the most relating to his name, as it can expand up to twenty feet and it covered in sticky buds which allow him to grip onto things. He can easily support his own body weight for short amounts of time by hanging from his tongue. Toad can also spit balls of adhesive slime short distances, though with great force. His skin and hair are tinted green naturally, as well as a few unsightly warts that dot his face. These, however, seem more physical unfortunates more so than powers.
HISTORY:
Mortimer Toynbee never learned the names of his real parents. He was born to a poor family in York, England. The already financially strained parents suddenly found that a child was on its way with great shock. Still, with a maternal heart, the mother bore him nine months giving birth to what she thought would bring some light into the lives of her and her husband, despite the money issues. That light was never turned on. Due to Toad's physical mutations being evident at birth, he was quickly abandoned by his parents and wound up at an orphanage. Toad was the typical basket and note baby at the doorstep… only without the note or the basket. From there things hardly improved for the disfigured little boy.
His ugly appearance was the point of many jokes, pranks, and cruelty on Toad's behalf by the other children. Even the caretakers of the orphanage would often look away as Toad was bullied and made fun of. To his memory he can remember having one friend, a small girl that was a burn victim from a fire in which her parents had perished in. With both of their unattractive appearances, the two were fast friends. She was the first of his infatuations. Their friendship, however, abruptly ended when the girl was adopted by a rich family in search of a good bit of charity work to add to their lives. Despite the previous promises they had made to each other about not leaving one another behind, Toad's friend jumped at the chance of a family and left Mortimer at the orphanage. He was crushed and delved even deeper into an anti-social state.
With his already disfigured appearance, doubled with the pain and hate of losing his friend, Toad fell into a inferiority complex early on. His title as a social outcast led his schooling Professors to consider him as having a learning disability. Though in reality Toad is rather intelligent, if mislead. Without the proper care of his education, Toad never got past his inability to work through his self-loathing and excel in school. He ran away from the school and orphanage, and no one really ever made an attempt to find him.
He fended for himself in England for much of his life, developing his own intelligence in pure determination to prove his old caretakers wrong. Though there was no changing his physical appearance, so this quest to prove himself never quite made head. Up until his late teens Toad made side cash working with his quickly developing technology and mechanic skills to anyone that would have him. Side jobs such as working dangerous jobs in mechanic shops and chop shops were always underpaid and Toad was never really treated fairly. He remained homeless throughout this time, occasionally making (or stealing) enough cash to check into a hotel as a special treat for himself.
During one of his hotel stays, Toad ran into two people that were soon to change his life. Still in the early stages of starting up the Brotherhood, Erik and Mystique checked into a shady little hotel in England the same day as Toad. Immediately labeling the two as tourists, Toad thought he was in for an easy pickpocket. Caught red handed, Toad was confronted by the soon to be mutant leader and his partner in crime. With Toad being an fairly recognizable physical mutant, Magneto quickly put up an offer of shelter, clothes, food, and training to Toad if he would carry their bags. As one of the first members of the Brotherhood, Toad found himself in a fairly comfortable place where he could be looked after.
Currently Toad is still playing lackey for Magneto, living on the Brotherhood island. He is the resident tech man, most often getting work repairing the facilities on the island. Toad seems content with staying in the only placed where he as felt at least somewhat noticed.
PERSONALITY:
Toad is a tragic character, though an almost annoying one. His past has made him into a very introverted sort. What would normally be a stock solid personality is flowed inwardly as he concentrates more on his thoughts and ideas than social aspects of his life. (Thus his sharp mind and increased intelligence.)
Toad does not hold all the key characteristics of a true introvert, however. He does get attached to a few figures, and thus dribbles over them much like an obsessed lap dog. Usually these obsessions with others spawn from a wayward throw of attention at Toad, or any sort of affection expressed to him. He'll stick up for those he holds close, usually giving much more into the ‘friendship' than he ever gets out of it. He is, however, socially inept in most occasions, including a severe dislike of crowds and strangers. Toad finds deep rewards in working alone by himself, often tinkering with the motherboard of a computer or whatever other piece of technology he can get his sticky hands on.
Toad is a snitch, a thief, and more often than not a liar. Anything that can be done to prove himself in front of those above him will be done, and those below him (though they're hard to find) are regarded with a severe distrust. Potential for others to take his place are always noted, paranoia setting in long before rationality can take affect. But that is just what Toad is; paranoid.
MISCELLANEOUS:
As mentioned before, Toad is a techy. He knows the workings of most major computer systems, cars, home entertainment mediums, and some of the more advanced equipment on the island. If there is something he has never encountered before, you can bet that Toad is going to take it apart in hopes of understanding it. Nothing too much to worry about, since the Toad can put it right back together nine out of ten times. He's an experiences fighter, a talent developed from his early stages of street fighting when he was on his own. With the help of Magneto‘s training, Toad has become an impressive opponent for most any enemy.
Pietro
June 2006
Subject: Pietro - FC
To: apps@xmenmovieverse.com
CHARACTER'S FULL NAME: Pietro Django Maximoff
CODENAME: Quicksilver
ALIASES/NICKNAMES:
SPECIES: Homo sapiens superior
GENDER: Male
AGE: 58
ORIGIN: Romania/Yugoslavia mountains
ORGANIZATION: Citizen, eventually Brotherhood
POWERS:
Pietro is a speedster. His mutation is primarily physical in nature, with two major effects: the ability to think and move at extreme speeds and a delayed rate of aging, much like his father.
His metabolism is the first step, far more efficient than baseline and metabolizing approximately 95% of the available energy rather than 25%; his cardiovascular and respiratory system are likewise enhanced, capable of supplying oxygen to muscles and brain at a ridiculously fast rate as his body burns through energy to generate speed. His muscles do not produce fatigue poisons, but instead waste products are expelled during respiration. Joints are lubricated much more efficiently -- no arthritis here! -- and his tendons and bones have adapted to withstand the strains of high speed running.
His reaction speed is approximately one fifth of baseline, and he is able to process information at a similarly enhanced speed. This is good. Otherwise, he would run into trees a lot. He defaults to a quickened state, although nothing near his maximum speed. He has to make an effort to slow down.
He can run up to several hundred miles per hour, although to go much faster than 180 drains him exponentially. At 180, well-rested and well-fed, he can run at this speed for approximately four hours.
HISTORY:
Pietro's history is that of himself and his twin sister, Wanda. Their story starts before their birth, with a young married couple, Erik and Magda. Erik and Magda had a child, Anya, and all was fine. Ish.
Then Anya was killed in a fire in 1948, during which her father, Erik (MAGNETO), revealed his mutation as he attempted to save her. The girl died, regardless, and Magda left her husband. Pregnant with the twins, she fled from Russia to join her family clan.
Magda died soon after giving birth to twins, Pietro and Wanda. They were raised by another Rom, Django Maximoff. They knew only that their mother had died giving birth to them, the angst of their origin kept from them. The Roma traveled through the Balkan region, a step ahead of the Communist pressures sweeping the region.
It was not a very carefree time, but it was a happy one. The government in power was distinctly unfriendly to the Roma, and even more unfriendly to mutants. Although Pietro and Wanda seemed perfectly normal, there were rumors within the clan of the events that forced her to flee. Django did his best for the children, raising them as his own. Despite being forced to move time and again (and /again/), little of the adult fear and angst trickled down to the children.
The other children were not especially friendly to the twins, sealed as they were in their relationship with each other, outsiders that they had been. They were not /un/friendly -- but Pietro and Wanda grew closer together in the face of that, with no real family of their own.
Their mutations awoke late in adolescence. Pietro's mutation triggered first, although Wanda's soon followed. Pietro had been experimenting with his mutation for a bare two weeks when Wanda's powers were triggered in a series of massively unfortunate accidents -- small hexes, gone awry, luck turned bad. In light of the rumors surrounding their birth, attitudes soured toward them. When two wagons broke and a car was totaled and the animals ran off all in the space of one night (Wanda was PMSing at the time, and not at her best.), the twins decided perhaps it was best if they removed themselves before they become too great a burden.
There was genuine affection on both sides when they left the clan, but also the feeling that things would be /better/ if the troublesome pair left. Their parting with Django was tearful, as he was as a father to them.
They left the family and moved to Russia, trying to find their father. They were never able to do so. Their education had been spotty in their youth, and Pietro never bothered to remedy it with formal education. He read a great deal then, and continues to do so today, but formal learning requires that he slows down to accommodate another's pace. He does not like doing that.
They left Russia during a period of intense persecution of both Roma and mutant, moving to the United States where they have since resided.
Pietro held odd jobs in Russia, never able to maintain the focus to learn a full vocation. In the United States, he published a few scattered short stories that received a certain amount of critical acclaim during the 80s, largely based on the events of his youth. He did not receive a great deal of money from his endeavors, and due to terrible investing (he held on too long during the technology bubble) he has little of it left. In the mid 90s he took up a teaching position at a private college in New York: Emerson. The position was awarded on the strength of his published work, and he conducted several of the school's writing workshops. His reviews and critiques are excellent. During class, he rarely seems to pay attention.
Pietro was involved with a woman named Crystal, their relationship intense in its highs and lows. They were briefly married during the height of his brief writing career, although they later separated as her expectations were rather too high. He is not the next anything: he is just a guy who published a few stories.
They have not talked in years. In contrast, Pietro keeps in very close contact with his sister, Wanda.
PERSONALITY:
Two words: impatient and arrogant.
The world moves slow relative to the pace of his thoughts; he has trouble slowing down to match those around him. It is not that he has trouble focusing on a particular task. He can sit for a whole /hour/ and read War and Peace. But when he is forced to match the speed of the normals, he becomes frustrated. He cannot sit down and watch television without something else to do and he hates going to movies in the theatre because there is nothing else to do but /sit there/.
He tends to be somewhat detached from others because of this vast gulf. It only feeds into his arrogance. He is faster; he can do more; he is better. The dogma of mutant superiority is second-nature to him. It is in his blood.
His temper has gentled as he has aged, and he is no longer the impetuous and demanding young man he once was. He still knows how to hold grudge, though, and his tongue remains as sharply bladed as ever.
He feels quite strongly about family -- about his sister -- and he was willing to devote himself to Crystal and raise a family with her. He regrets not having children. Something of this manifests itself in his work, and he makes a point of mentoring the most promising of his students.
MISCELLANEOUS:
He speaks Romani and Russian in addition to English with a smattering of German. He is a published short story author of some small success, although the only way you would know the name is if you had a class where you studied Eastern European writers of the 80s. /Small/ success, then.