Post by Wolverine on Jun 22, 2009 23:39:49 GMT
++Application for Enrolment++
The Person
Name: James "Logan" Howlett
Age: 26
Place of Birth: Alberta, Canada
Applying too: Massachusetts
In what capacity: Student
Family: Thomas Logan (Real Father), Elizabeth Howlett (Mother), John Howlett (Grew up believing him to be his Dad), Laura Howlett (Sister)
Height: 5"8
Weight: 168 lbs
Appearance:
Skills: Logan has clocked up more hours in the Hellions training facilities then anyone else, combined with his adamantium skeleton & claws, healing factor, enhanced physical ability and senses, he has become arguable one of the most dangerous people alive. To be precise, he has become very proficient at various forms of martial art, from western combats such as boxing and US military trainings, to Eastern arts such as Aikido, the Samurai Arts & all aspects of Ninjutsu, from combat to espionage and areas of unconventional warfare. His trainings in the Academy have been honed of many battlefields both large and small against the forces of Apocalypse and the Friends of Humanty. Due to high level psionic shields implanted by Emma Frost, Logan's mind is highly resistant to telepathic assault and probing.
In contrast to his brutish nature, Logan is actually extremely intelligent. While his vitals were being monitered during training, his physical and mental state has been described as being "equivalent of an Olympic-level gymnast performing a gold medal routine while simultaneously beating four chess computers in his head."
Personality: Logan is something of a loner by personality, he dislikes people getting too close into his personal space, especially strangers. He's not overly hostile, even if he does sometimes struggle with some of the more feral aspects of his mutation.
Whilst mentally and physically capable of murder, Logan has a great understanding of right and wrong, and dislikes killing as much as anyone, yet he understands that sometimes people have to do bad things, to protect others, or save others from having to do the bad things.
Likes:
- Solitude
- The Countryside
- A morning run
- William Blake
- The Way of the Samurai
Dislikes:
- People being too nosey
- People making assumptions
- People Violating his personal Space
- People who won't help themselves
- Bully/Thug types
The Mutant
Codename: Wolverine
Mutant Abilities: His primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process, typically referred to as his mutant healing factor, that regenerates damaged or destroyed areas of his body far beyond the capabilities of an ordinary human.
Wolverine's healing factor also affects a number of his physical attributes by increasing them to superhuman levels. His stamina is sufficiently heightened to the point he can exert himself for numerous hours, even after exposure to powerful tranquillizers. Wolverine's agility and reflexes are also enhanced to levels that are beyond the physical limits of the finest human athlete. Due to his healing factor's constant regenerative qualities, he can push his muscles beyond the limits of the human body without injury.
Wolverine's senses of sight, smell, and hearing are all superhumanly acute. He can see with perfect clarity at greater distances than an ordinary human, even in near-total darkness. His hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing him to both hear sounds ordinary humans can't and also hear to greater distances. Wolverine is able to use his sense of smell to track targets by scent, even if the scent has been eroded somewhat over time by natural factors. This sense also allows him to identify shapeshifting mutants despite other forms they may take.
Wolverine's mutation also consists of animal-like adaptations of his body, including pronounced canines and three retractable claws housed within each forearm.
The claws are not made of keratin, as claws tend to be in the animal kingdom, but extremely dense bone, and can cut substances as durable as most metals, wood, and of stone.
Wolverine will sometimes lapse into a "berserker rage" while in close combat. In this state he lashes out with the intensity and aggression of an enraged animal and is even more resistant to psionic attack.
Weaknesses: As predominately a healer, Wolverine's weaknesses are few and far between, but he does have temper issues, combined with his healing factor, which he knows will heal damage, he can be reckless which is the best point to out think him. In terms of killing him, he would need to be decapitated or blown up entirely.
History: Born in Alberta, Canada, James grew up in a wealthy family and had a happy early life, with Logan playing as a child with his sister, an Irish girl named Rose and the son of the Howlett families grounds keeper, Dog Logan, whom James bore a strong resemblance to upon the two reaching their teens. As a result of beatings and alcohol, Dog, over the next few years, became increasingly like his father, and his misdeeds, including an attempted assault on Rose and the killing of James' dog, become so violent that he and his father are expelled from the manor.
The two returned shortly afterword with the purpose of robbing the Howlett estate, Thomas tried to convince Elizabeth to leave with him. When John arrived, an argument broke out among the three, James, overhearing the argument from his bedroom, told his younger sister to stay in her room and went to investigate. When he found the three, he only caught the end of the argument, before Logan pulled out a gun and shot the man James taught was his father. It was at this point, that James's mutation first manifested, when his claws exploded from his hands and he jumped down to avenge his father, brutally stabbing Thomas. The former Groundskeepers finaly words were that James was in fact his son, a piece of information he didn't take too well.
James mother could only scream at the sight of her son, and the claws that he had used to kill Thomas, no matter what James tried to beg for his mothers love, she rejected him, violently, sending him fleeing his family home, only to return the next night to leave his sister a letter, and a kiss on the forehead as she slept, before fleeing the family home again, this time never to return.
Being only fifteen, and with no money, it was not surprising that James, now going by Logan when he had to interact with people, found things hard. When his other abilities started to manifest, like his animalistic senses, he found himself able to hunt and over time developed a keen knowledge of where and when to be to find rabbit and other animals he could eat for fresh meat.
Eventually "Logan" managed to get a job with a logging group, who took him on at sixteen. This provided money, but still it was hard to explain why a sixteen year old boy was just wandering about, from day to day. But their is always someone slightly less scrupulous about willing to ask no questions, and Logan was able to settle into a small bedsit. It was small, but it was his home for sometime. Soon however, he decided to move on, and strapping a bag over his shoulder Logan left, travelling south towards America, where he eventually snuck into, again his mutant abilities being the difference between success and defeat.
Over the next three years he saw and did a lot of things, met many people, some of the things he did he was proud of, some not so much. But eventually, he was approached by a woman named Emma Frost, who told him she knew exactly who he was, and what he was, and offered him a place where he would be safe and at home. At first he refused, but when others seemed to be following him with less noble intentions, he accepted the invitation.
Since then Logan has been living in the Massachusetts Academy, where he has been catching up on his education and training in the group known as the Hellions.
Over the last five years, Logan has gone from one reason to fight to another, from Weapon X hunting him and his sister to the Friends of Humanity and finally Apocalypse. He has very much come into himself as a mutant, putting his skills and moral capability to end life if needs be to become a dangerous tracker and warrior for the Hellions.
RP Sample: Logan was sitting in class, there was something wrong with it, his scruffy, wild, thick black hair, his red and green lumberjack shirt he didn't seem to fit in. He was the oldest person in the class, bar the teacher. He didn't know why he was learning math, but he had nothing against it. Well he didn't know why he was learning certain aspects of math, he served no real purpose in the average persons day to day life. It was no matter. So long as the teacher kept out of his hair Logan would just do his work.
It was after class that things got interesting, Logan was making his way back to his room when one of the....larger...made of stone...people in the Academy made the effort to bump into Logan. When the Canadian turned to face the individual, he made some reference to his buddies about a Canadian being too pleasant to do anything about it. He hadn't ever met Logan before. He raised a hand, his claws popping out, he couldn't help but grunt at that, it hurt everytime. "Read between the lines Bub."
++OOC Info++
Player: Mags
Any plans in mind for the character? None at this time
Do you agree to the rules: ......................
