Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 1:34:06 GMT -6
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[attr="class","appname"]Leon Gaius Maximillion
[attr="class","appnameb"]aka ash
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| TWENTY-NINE 6'2"/240lbs | MALE PROFESSOR - KINESES & ESP |
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[attr="class","appbold"]PERSONALITY:
- Leon is a very attentive individual, with varying strengths and weaknesses that have stemmed from the growth he's had to undergo to cope with his ability. Overall, he is a patient soul, always willing to wait a situation out as long as he can to see the extent of a situation before becoming personally involved. Other than that, he is slow to anger, but quick to emotion, often taking himself out of his comfort zone to achieve personal goals, and always ready to solve any problem.
curious but patient
Leon can be quite the eccentric individual. Due to his ability, he is often able to gauge what has occurred in a person or object, and often seeks to solve many of the issues in his mind. However, he has developed an innate sense of patience that keeps him from acting on every curiosity and mentally "dissecting" people based on his discoveries in an effort to be a bit more "normal".
knowledgeable but overburdened
Being what he is has taken quite the toll on Leon. He is able to hold an immense amount of knowledge due to the excess exercising that he has had to endure in his brain. This has led to him being a self-made expert on many things. However, over time, Leon's curiosity became his bane, and he is often overburdened with the knowledge he possesses. Many people have sought to use him, and in his youth, he was more than willing to assist. In his age, however, Leon has become a person less willing to accept tasks or jobs that require excess effort, and has become more interested in instructing the knowledge he already has.
strategic but careless
A person of his stature and background often develops an affinity for pre-empting courses of action. He has taken it upon himself to learn many tactics of various items. This has led to him becoming a very good strategist, however, his curiosity can lead him to careless actions. This occurs most often when he is out of his norm and in a situation or state of being/feeling that he is unaccustomed to.
competitive but fun
Leon enjoys a challenge most like anyone else. He can be very direct and competitive as most of his gender has a tendency to be. Leon enjoys having fun with things though, and has learned over the years that positive reinforcement and games are the best way to adapt and learn a thing which one is uncomfortable with learning initially. As a casual smoker and drinker, Leon can be very relatable and sociable. It just depends on his company.
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[attr="class","appbold"]HISTORY:
- Leon was born in the slums of Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in a household with a father that was an extraordinary detective. His father possessed the ability of Retrocognition, and fell in love with his mother, who was a clairvoyant held in high regard. Though his father utilized his ability often in his line of work, his mother tended to keep her ability to herself, and often helped her husband rather than utilize her ability outside of a private setting. Growing up in a gifted household had its advantages in that Leon was very much able to have education and understanding amongst family and friends. The atmosphere would seem beautiful to those that have never experienced that among family, and as the grass is always greener, it began to suffocate Leon. Finishing his college education by 19 (almost 20) utilizing the opportunities granted by modern education, he picked up a recommendation for a company called Reaver Industries. In a short amount of time, Leon discovered that this company was actually a front for a much larger and deeper purpose of studying humans with innate special abilities. They took just about any contract for work, sending their operatives through training that even the highest echelons of military training at the time never got to see. Typically, recruits and operatives both would break in the environments they were put through to ensure that they would be able to bring down someone with superhuman abilities, but they had never found a recruit such as Leon, whose ability was more passive and harder to detect. Through his ability, every weapon was a blueprint to him, with the originating owner's ideas passed directly to his mind through a single touch. That combined with his ability to manipulate the ash and smoke from the cigarettes that he became addicted to made him above the caliber of most, and thus, Ash was born.
Leon's ability allowed him to progress through training quickly, and as the youngest member of his graduating class, he was picked to see the head of the hunting department, who sent him on many high-level missions against superhumans who had more advanced knowledge and usage of their abilities. During these missions, he relied heavily on the experience of other operatives to see things through while gaining knowledge of how to deal with many situations on his own. These operatives trained him in combat and survival skills beyond what a classroom or even a training environment ever could as realistic life-or-death situations are bound to do. After so many successful captures, the director's less than honest intentions with these captives started to become very clear to Ash, and he began to have a serious moral dilemma. The director, who had been in contact with operatives that were less than superhuman that worked with Ash, learned of his skills, and deduced that there was no way for him to be, in fact, a normal human being. Thus, the company offered him the option of going public with his abilities, and becoming a posterboy for the company's honest research, or being taken down to the lab to be dissected and studied for further human advancement. Needless to say, Ash was less than pleased with this development, and had little choice but to enact a plan. During his press conference, Ash broke the arm of the director and proceeded to walk off stage after making sure that everyone heard what he was capable of and what he was. Little action was taken on the part of Reaver Industries, and Ash was forced to salvage his image with the general public. Signing on with Raythcorps, a company dedicated to the protection and advancement of those with superhuman traits, he had the opportunity to use his powers in high stakes issues with dirty corporations, solving murders and disappearances that could have led to the risk of many lives, fixing and deactivating nuclear reactors and warheads bought out by private industries that were 50 years old or more by learning the device's manual through touch, and even so high as identifying dirty corporations by shadowing new employees that were being brought in under similar circumstances as he. Through his actions, Raythcorps was able to bring these corporations to justice to ensure that no further superhuman experimentation was going to occur. Small deeds did not go unnoticed, and Ash was eventually brought on as a private investigator into larger schemes involving human and drug trafficking.
Under his final occupation, he met the love of his life, Ashelia. Hardened by his work and battle-scarred from many missions gone wrong, Leon was hardly the type of individual he thought an angel would be attracted to. She was emotionally sensitive, a health nut, and truly a good person whereas he was a caffeine and nicotine addict, a recovering insomniac, and had more mental and physical scars than the passionate hero Ash ever cared to admit to the public. The intensive amount of labor and traveling everywhere was burning him out, and he was fast approaching 30. His body didn't look it, and his mind suffered little functionality, but he knew it wouldn't last, and that it was time to settle down. He continued to see her whenever his jobs took him that direction, and it wasn't long until their romance bloomed. They became engaged beneath the inverted pyramid at the Louvre in Paris, France last year, and they have decided it's time for a new type of adventure. One that doesn't take them anywhere.
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[attr="class","appbold"]POWERS:
- PRIMARY POWER: PSYCHOMETRY :Passed down from both his father and his mother, Leon has an intense, innate sense for the psychic auras exuded by people and objects. Similar to the retrocognition his father possessed, he is able to pick up traces of these psychic auras (known as imprints) when he walks into an area, allowing him to infer what has happened (imagine, for example, a glowing set of footprints that depicts where a person has been, the intensity of the glow representing how recent the footprints are; or, imagine an outline of a vase on a bookshelf, indicating a missing object). The stronger the user, the fainter an imprint they can detect, but most imprints last only a month at maximum, typically no more than two weeks. Stronger imprints are also generated by more intense psychic or emotional events occurring alongside the action. Because people are living things, they have stronger, and thus longer lasting, imprints than objects. However, both objects and people have equally long-lasting psychic auras that always emanate from their being. This aura is as unique and individual as a fingerprint for any object or person. By touching an object or individual (say, a corpse, to determine how a murder occurred), Leon can “read” the psychic aura exuded by them and see where they have been, and who they have been with. For objects, because so many people touch them, he is only capable of knowing who has originally owned it and who the last three people(extent of his mental ability, with one being casual, two being concentrated, and three being headache-inducing) to touch it was, as well as how it was used when the object was used (ONLY most recently and originally) (consider this a sort of “mind reading” for objects [and in certain case persons] that do not have a current and viable mental signal). In order to read a psychic imprint, Leon must be physically touching the object.
- AFTER BURN: A variation on pyrokinesis, Leon is able to generate and manipulate the after effects and subcomponents of fire, namely smoke and ash. Speaking to the generation component of this ability, either substance is capable of being breathed out of the mouth and nose, or expelled from the pores. While smoke is limited to a vapor/gaseous form by definition, the ash Leon creates and manipulates may be formed as either a cooled solid (pure burnt-ash matter), a hot solid (cinders), a liquid (wet burnt ashes), or a gas (slight variation on a solid in the form of a dust cloud).
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[attr="class","appbold"]OOC:
- OOC NAME: Ash
- HOW DID YOU FIND US? siilph
- FACE CLAIM: [b]k, mikoto suoh[/b] - [i]leon maximillion[/i]
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