Post by Spider-Man on Jun 15, 2010 15:44:23 GMT
++Application for Enrollment++
The Person
Name: Peter Benjamin Parker
Age: 20
Place of Birth: New York
Applying too: Xavier's
In what capacity: Student
Family: Richard Parker (father),Mary Parker (mother),Benjamin Parker (uncle, deceased), May Parker (aunt)
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 167 lbs
Appearance:
Not the typical looking hero, Peter is thin and gangly. With unkempt hair and outdated clothes, he has always been regarded as somewhat of a geek. While he does look after himself, and keeps himself at a good level of fitness, he tends to hide his body shape behind too-large clothes.
When in Spiderman form, he wears his easily recognisable suit, of red and blue with the spider emblem on his chest.
Skills: Gifted at science, Peter shows a great aptitude for it, even studying it as a hobby outside of school hours.
He is also a skilled photographer and a bit of an inventor, building his own web-shooters from scratch.
Personality: Peter is a self confessed geek. Despite everything else about him that is amazing and fantastic, Peter is still that same lab rat who half expects to be face planted into a locker when he walks down the hall at school. He's vastly intelligent with a great interest in science, most notably biophysics and biochemistry. However, despite his intelligence and his vast potential as a hero, Peter is still a human and he makes mistakes, just like anyone else.
He's a little shy, though over time his growing confidence has worked hard to overcome that part of himself. Becoming Spider Man has played a huge part in that for him. He has become a bit of a daredevil when in costume. He actually loves being Spider Man, even if being a hero has its drawbacks. When he's web slinging, he sort of goes into a zone of if not complete, but near euphoria. He also gets a kick out of the moments when he accomplishes some new feat of daring or heroics. He likes saving people and he likes being the hero. Its a thrill for him. When he fails to live up to his own high expectations or fails to be that hero, Peter takes it really hard.
At his core, Peter is a good person, charming in a dorky way that seems to put others at ease. People seem to accept that he is a very straightforward and uncomplicated person. If anything, he's just as confused by the complications that arise in his life because of his dual identity as anyone else.
He is a horrible liar, though he does sometimes lie to protect those he cares about. He doesn't enjoy it, however and he always feels guilty about it afterward. He just feels its easier to make up something like 'I got sidetracked with an experiment' versus saying that he missed dinner because he was pinned beneath a car by Doctor Octopus again. He pushes himself a great deal, having learned his lesson time and again that if he isn't doing what he can then innocent people get hurt or even die. As a result, he does eventually hit the wall, the end of his stamina, forcing him to crash and sleep for several hours to regain his mental clarity and physical strength. More often than not these sleeping binges come at the worst times and he spends a lot of his time as Peter Parker scrambling to make up for some absence or missed appearance.
Likes:
- Girls
- Photography
- The warm fuzzy feeling after doing a good deed
- His pet tarantula, Fluffy
- Milkshakes
Dislikes:
- Bullies
- Know it alls
- Being woken up early from a good sleep
- Slushies (too many bad memories)
- That sinking feeling when you realise you’ve forgotten something important
The Mutant
Codename: Spiderman
Mutant Abilities:
Strength: Spider-Man possesses superhuman strength enabling him to press lift approximately 10 tons. His physical strength is sufficient to lift and throw objects as heavy as a semi truck with ease. He must also pull his punches and kicks unless fighting someone of similar or greater physical durability; otherwise, his blows would prove fatal to a normal human being. Spider-Man's physical strength also extends into his legs, enabling him to be able to jump to a height of several stories in a single bound. As he is still fairly new to his powers, he has not tested them to their full potential.
Agility: Spider-Man's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Spider-Man is extraordinarily limber and his tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's, despite their enhanced strength. He has the combined agility and acrobatic prowess of the most accomplished circus aerialists and acrobats. He can also perform any complicated sequence of gymnastic stunts such as flips, rolls, and springs.
Spider Sense: Spider-Man possesses an extrasensory "danger" or "spider" sense which warns him of potential immediate danger by the manifestation of a tingling sensation in the back of his skull, and links with his superhuman kinaesthetic, enabling him to evade most any injuries, unless he cognitively overrides his automatic reflexes. Sudden and extreme threats can cause his spider-sense to react with painful intensity.
Wall-Crawling: His body seems to have the ability to grip just about any surface no matter how tiny the cracks are. He is able to climb vertically as well as upside down.
Superhuman Speed: Spider-Man is capable of running and moving at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Spider-Man has showed to be fast enough to catch up to an accelerating car while on foot, but prefers to travel by webs.
Superhuman Reflexes: Spider-Man's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are currently about 40 times greater than those of an ordinary human. In combination with his spider-sense, the speed of his reflexes allows him to dodge almost any attack, or even gunfire, if he is far enough away.
Web-slingers: While not part of his “mutant ability”, Peter has developed web-shooters, which allow him to shoot a thin strand of a special “web fluid” at high speeds out of a device fitted to his wrist. With this he can create webs and lines which tensile strength is estimated to be 120 pounds per square millimetre of cross section.
Weaknesses: The substance that makes up Peter's webs is strong but after about two hours it begins to break down and will eventually turn to dust after the web lines snap and dissolve. He has amazing gifts due to his powers but he's only human and as a result his cognitive thoughts can override his instincts. When this happens he's no different than any young man in a situation over his head, although his body does remain more resilient. Peter is a driven person and tries to do everything he can to be the hero he thinks his uncle Ben would want him to be. As a result he can over do it physically and take his systems to the point of exhaustion. At that point all he can do is rest, for good or bad. There is only so much he can take.
Emotionally, Parker is more sensitive than many. He's endured the loss of his parents and his Uncle and has a tendency to internalize this emotion. He feels guilt for his Uncle's death and for any of the mistakes he feels he has made as Spider Man or as Peter Parker. He feels like he should be held to some higher, if not impossible standard because of his abilities and in many ways he feels like he sometimes falls short. He's not a combative soul by nature and holds it all in, allowing stress to affect him in some profound ways.
History:
Growing up with his Aunt and Uncle while his mother and father were fighting to clear their names from a case of treason he grew up pretty normal. Besides for visiting his parents on the weekends at a prison. When he was nine his parents were able to prove their freedom and he moved in with them, but he had already started to go by the name of his late Uncle Ben, who died of a heart attack changing a light bulb at work.
His Aunt May moved in with his family and things seemed to get back down to normal. At least until he entered high school. Freshman year is rarely a good time for anyone, until something odd happens. At the University near by he was enjoying a science seminar, okay he was really there getting tips from his best friend Flash Thompson. Not tips on science the jock wouldn't know the difference between Hydrogen and Oxygen, but no there was Gwen Stacy a girl that young Ben had been crushing on for weeks. Flash was finally tired of seeing his bud pine over a girl that didn't know whether or not he existed. Then at a exhibit about mutation a radioactive spider took a chunk out of his wrist. Feeling ill he returned home early and kept to himself for a few hours.
When he woke up he was able to do things that he couldn't before hand and was really freaked out about the way things worked out. Telling his Aunt May about what happened and what he could do now she quickly fixed him a suit out of an odd rubber like material. Almost similar to the stuff that they use for wet suits, and she even dubbed him the Spectacular Spider-Man.
Worried about the changes in his body he went to the local university trying to find out more about him. After a few weeks trying to secretly run tests and coming up empty handed he was at a dead end. Banging his head he thought that maybe he should get some fresh air. Walking the streets of New York he watched some kid snatch a ladies purse while she was sitting at a café. Well, if he couldn’t figure out about his new powers, he might as well use them right? Slipping into an alley he switched from nerdy Ben Parker, into Forest Hill’s secret resident crime fighter Spider-Man. Webbing after the crook he caught him slipping through an alley, and when he got the purse back and had the guy strung up for the cops he turned around to find the woman standing there.
Okay Spidey was used to some weird things, but how this chick kept up with the guy for six blocks, and not breaking a sweat seemed to really get him. Now when she used his real name that really about sent him over the roof, but after returning her purse and spending a couple hours as Ben Parker with the cyberpath Sage, he agreed to try a blood test at the school she worked for.
When he found out that he was a mutant with a fairly odd X-Gene he wasn’t surprised that even his mutations couldn’t get it done right the first time. It seemed his mutation wasn’t finished, and had never continued to develop so when the spider decided to take a bite out of him, the X-gene took the spider’s DNA and combined it with his own, giving him the powers that he had today.
Now that everything was figured out and the mystery was ended for him, he was about ready to head back to Forest Hill’s to continue his solitary fight for justice in a city that didn’t seem to know what the word meant, yet Sage once again got involved. Peeking the curiosity of the nerdy Ben Parker she was able to convince him to transfer to Xavier’s never once mentioning that it was where he belonged, but it was where he could push his mind the most. So that night Spider-Man walked into the Institute, and his uniform had a belt with a new emblem, X.
Peter has been living at the Institute ever since, still fighting crime now and then, but mostly trying to prove himself to the X-Men.
RP Sample:
Web-slinging was the only way to travel, Peter decided as he clung to the roof of the truck, his hands sticking to the metal so he wouldn’t fall off. He felt sorry for the poor saps stuck in their metal boxes, getting over heated and stressed out in the New York rush hour.
As a particularly low traffic light came up ahead, Peter shot one of his webs at the side of a building, taking off from the roof just as the overhanging metal lights were about to knock him off.
“Close call,” he commented to himself, pushing off from the wall as he shot another web line at an opposite building.
“Left, right, left, right…” he muttered to himself, as he shot his web from the corresponding arm. He liked to talk to himself as he swung through the city, it kept him in the zone, his mind was less likely to wander if he was telling himself which hand to shoot from. Far too many falls into garbage bins had taught him that lesson the hard way.
He was a red and blue blur to the people below, but he was sure Spider-Man’s presence had been around long enough for the novelty of a masked crusaders’ appearance to wear off. Never the less, as he dropped down on top of a bus, he noticed people on the sidewalks were pointing and staring, some even getting out their phones to take pictures. He waved to them briefly, before setting off again, some days it was good to be the good guy.
++OOC Info++
Player: Helen
Other characters played: none
Any plans in mind for the character? Flesh out his social skills >_<
Do you agree to the rules: Yes Nihil fieri non potest nobiscum
Credit: Marvel Wikia
