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Deadeye; Slade Johnson
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Topic Started: Apr 10 2009, 12:53 AM (45 Views)
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Apr 10 2009, 12:53 AM
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David
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DATABASE FILE FOR
CODENAME: Deadeye
PERSONAL DETAILS
REAL NAME: Slade Johnson
AGE: 19
DATE OF BIRTH: May 16, 1990
GENDER: Male
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Blue
HEIGHT: 5’10”
WEIGHT: 190 pounds
ETHNICITY: Caucasian
CITIZENSHIP: US Citizen
HOMETOWN: Camden, New Jersey
APPEARANCE: Slade is an attractive young man, and he knows it…or thought he did, though now he is forced to wonder if part of the reason girls were attracted to him was due to his success in sports, which was due to his mutant powers. Nonetheless, weather permitting, Slade still likes to dress in shorts and tank tops, the better to show off his muscles. Slade tends to be a bit uncomfortable in social situations now, and can sometimes stutter, particularly when speaking to an attractive girl or in front of a group.
ABILITIES
COMBAT: A measure of the character’s ability to attack and defend effectively in a fight.
- 3 - Average: Normal untrained human ability.
DURABILITY: The character’s ability to take damage, recover from injury, and resist disease.
- 4 - Robust: Conditioned metabolism and efficient healing.
STRENGTH: The character’s physical might and lifting capacity.
- 4 - Athlete: Able to lift up to double own body weight (less than 400 lbs)
INTELLECT: The character’s ability to reason, invent, and comprehend new ideas.
- 3 - Average: Person of normal intelligence, able to function normally in society.
WILLPOWER: The character’s mental focus, resolve, and ability to resist mental invasion.
- 4 - Willful: Non-addictive personality, capable of extraordinary concentration.
PERCEPTION: The character’s awareness of their surroundings, memory, and capacity to learn.
- 4 - Alert: Fine attention to detail.
DEXTERITY: A character’s ability to perform precise manual tasks such as slight-of-hand, play video games, and aim a weapon. Dexterity measures fine muscle-control as well as hand / eye coordination.
- 12 - Artemis: Cannot miss.
AGILITY: The measure of a character’s balance, coordination, flexibility, and reflexes. Agility is used in gymnastics, sports, and for avoiding injury.
- 5 - Sprightly: Some gymnastic training.
SPEED: Speed is the character’s rate of travel over physical distance. Simply put, it’s how fast you are at top speed, whether running, flying, jumping, swimming, or teleporting.
- 4 - Quick: Speed of a human in excellent physical condition. (less than 20 MPH)
RESOURCES: The character’s material assets, money, and access to credit or services.
- 2 - Credit-Risk: Unemployed or on a fixed income.
SKILLS
Sports (Basketball, Soccer, Baseball): 5
Driving (car): 4
Cooking: 3
Sewing: 2
Street Smarts: 4
Guitar: 2
Comics: 5
Camping: 3
Politics: 5
Carpentry: 2
Auto Repair: 4
Video Games: 5
Physics: 8
Swimming: 4
Welding: 2
Skiing: 3
Snowboarding: 4
Electronics: 2
Roller Skating: 3
Skateboarding: 4
LANGUAGE
English: 3
Spanish: 1
MUTATION
PHYSICAL POWERS
Slade posses the uncanny aim to hit precisely what he is aiming for…provided he can actually see it, can predict it’s movements, and possesses something capable of traversing the distance. For example, if Slade were to use a paper airplane, it could be thrown off by an unexpected gust of wind. And a feather would be to light to travel very far. Slade is capable of hitting a moving target, even one that is attempting to dodge him, however, if he thinks the object will remain stationary and it suddenly moves, he will miss, and the target taking evasive action will be harder to hit the farther away it is.
MENTAL POWERS
Slade possesses an uncanny grasp of physics, which was quite unexpected given his usual dislike of school subjects, until his mutation came to light, and it was clear that was simply one aspect of them.
DRAWBACKS
Slade’s power has no use unless he has something to throw. It does not translate to an ability to hit with his hands and feet.
MUTATION LEVEL
Leave blank - to be filled in by admin.
CHARACTER
CHARACTER CONCEPT
A normal guy…who suddenly finds out he isn’t.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Straight
PERSONALITY
Slade inherited a great deal of his father’s love of the lime light, and his success in the arena of sports caused him to become the center of a lot of attention, which he loved. However, when his family shunned him for being a mutant, and it came to light that a great deal of his success could be attributed to his mutant power, he suffered a crisis of confidence, so while he still has a desire to be popular, deep down, he wonders if he really deserves it, and this can lead to a bit of awkwardness and nervousness when he gets the attention he craves. Slade has always seemed to have his life laid out for him, and never really had to make any hard decisions, but that all went out the window when his status as a mutant was discovered, and since then, he has been forced to make some extremely difficult decisions, not all of which have turned out well, which only furthered the self-doubt he has been feeling.
GOALS
Slade’s original goal was to become a famous basketball player, and achieve money, popularity, and wealth that way. He still wants those things, but he hasn’t figured out how to achieve that goal yet.
PSYCHOLOGICAL WEAKNESSES
Slade can sometimes be too eager to be accepted, which can result in him going along with the ‘wrong’ crowd. Slade also has self-esteem issues where he wonders if everything he accomplished in his life was due to who he was, or simply some genetic quirk. His parents turning their backs on him also caused some abandonment issues.
PHYSICAL WEAKNESSES
Slade’s mutiny offers him no special physical abilities, and he can be hurt or killed just like a normal human. Slade is allergic to penicillin.
LEGAL
Fugitive.
BELONGINGS (List all notable belongings in the appropriate section.)
TRANSPORTATION: None
RESIDENTIAL: None
BUSINESS: None
PERSONAL EFFECTS: None
WEAPONS: Slade carries a slingshot and some ball bearings.
OTHER EQUIPMENT Pocketknife.
CONTACTS AND CONNECTIONS
RELATIVES Clarence Johnson (Father), Geraldine Johnson (Mother)
PERSONAL Jim Taylor (Former Coach), Julie Duncan (former girlfriend)
BUSINESS None
ENEMIES None
MISSION-CENTRIC
For Earth-Based X-Men:
TEAM: To be filled in by admin
ROLE: To be filled in by admin
NOTES: I thought the character could have been forced to go to Avalon to escape persecution, but while he was there, realized Magneto’s goals and methods didn’t seem quite right to him.
For Space-Based X-Men:
Role on ship:
HISTORY
Slade is the only child of Clarence and Geraldine Johnson. His father decided to pursue a political career, so Slade’s childhood was marked by several moves as the family was relocated to wherever his father’s ambitions took them. Slade adapted well, however, and his skill at sports always managed top make him part of the ‘in’ crowd at his new school. His home life was happy as well, even though he rarely saw his father, the man always made sure he had the ‘perfect’ family to parade in front of the voters, and Slade wasn’t shy about capitalizing in on his famous father to make friends. His mother wasn’t absent from his home life either, and in between attending functions with his father, she made sure to spend time with Slade, bonding with the boy and teaching him what some might consider ‘girl’ skills like sewing and cooking, but that she considered part of learning how to survive on your own.
In school, Slade favored the more hands on classes, and acquired rudimentary skills in electronics, welding, carpentry and auto repair in addition to learning how to play the guitar. Slade‘s hobbies included outdoor activities such as camping, skiing, and swimming as well as indoor activities such as collecting (and reading) comic books and playing video games. Slade’s real passion and gifts was in the arena of sports, and he was quickly the star player on his school’s basketball team, and he was a serious contender for a shot at the pros just out of high school.
Everything changed rapidly for Slade, however, as shortly after his sixteenth birthday, during a routine physical, he was diagnosed as a mutant who’s power was determined to be perfect aim…which, of course, gave him an advantage on the basketball court, and the outcry about the unfair advantage was enough to get him kicked off the team and destroy his hopes of a professional career. This wasn’t helped by the fact that his father was a proponent of anti-mutant agendas…not because he really believed in them, at least at first, but because that was what most of the voters seemed to want. But before Clarence could make a public statement (and to this day Slade isn’t sure if his father would have spoken out in support of him, or condemned him) Magneto’s attack on Manhattan changed the face of America…and politics.
Slade’s father had slowly worked his way up the ladder of politics, moving from a member of the city council to mayor to lieutenant governor until at the time of Magneto’s attack he was governor of the state of New Jersey. Perhaps it was the proximity to Magneto’s attack, but public opinion was overwhelmingly against it, and thus anti-mutant feelings were at an all time high. Perhaps if Clarence hadn’t been involved in a tight run for the Senate, things might have been different, but as it was, Clarence threw his own son to the proverbial wolves, and it was this willingness to put the ‘good of the people’ ahead of even his own family that propelled him into the Senate.
His father was on the campaign trail so Slade and his mother weren’t with him at the time of his father’s speech accusing his son of being not only a mutant, but a criminal…and Slade only realized in retrospect how fortunate that was. Because while he was at first devastated when his mother kicked him out of the house with only the clothes on his back, it wasn’t until later, when he discovered not only the money she had placed in his wallet, but the fact he was now an accused criminal, that she must have ejected him from the house only shortly before the authorities came to arrest him.
At the time, however, Slade hadn’t known what to do. His girlfriend had dumped him, his team mates had abandoned him, his mother had kicked him out of his home, and his own father had accused him on national television of being part of some subversive mutant underground and made him a fugitive from the law. With no one else to turn to, Slade was forced to make his way as best he could towards Avalon, the only place he could think of that would offer him sanctuary. It took him a couple months, during which he learned a whole different set of survival skills then he had learned on his camping trips, but he eventually made it to the border of Avalon and was accepted inside.
PHOTO GALLERY
Model Used: Tom Welling, http://www.biggeststars.com/t/tom-welling-home.html
WRITING SAMPLE
“Slade! This is the LIFE!” Collins laughed as he settled into the hot tub, and Slade had to agree…this was the life, the life he’d always wanted. He was accepted, had his arm around a beautiful (and scantily clad) female who would probably agree to be his girlfriend if he forced the issue, he was living in a penthouse suite on Manhattan Island drinking champagne, so yes, Collins was right, this was the life, except…
Why did it feel so wrong?
Slade knew the answer to that, or at least he did if he allowed himself to think about it. Yes, he was accepted…because he was a mutant. If it turned out some mistake had been made and he wasn’t truly a mutant after all, his current group of ‘friends’ would dump him just as quickly as his last. And yes, he was living well, in an apartment his own father probably couldn’t have afforded…if he was actually paying rent, which he wasn’t. No, he’d just moved in after Magneto had forced out the previous tenants, so in effect, he was at best, a squatter, and at worst, a thief. And that didn’t even address the issues of the philosophy of the people he had joined up with. Yes, Magneto was officially a terrorist, and as one of his father’s favorite targets, Slade was well aware of his supposed track record…though much as it pained him to admit it, his father was a politician who’s word was not to be taken at face value. But Magento’s current actions…there was no denying the truth of what he had done, or what the consequences to the country had been.
So on the surface, yes, this was the life. Even the life Slade had wanted. But the way he had gotten it spoiled the whole package, except…what could he do about it? He had, quite simply, nowhere else to go. And so Slade did what he had always done lately, when those thoughts began to plague him…nothing. Nothing except give a high five to Collins, smile widely and agree that this was the life, turn and plant a kiss on Sarah’s lips, and pretend. Pretend that the plans they were making to go meet up with the rest of the gang later and take in a movie at the theatre didn’t leave him with a sick feeling in his stomach because he didn’t feel like going out, but was more afraid of NOT going out, and causing some doubt in the minds of his so-called friends. Pretend that he didn’t live in fear that a telepath would pick up on his thoughts and tell Magneto he didn’t really belong there, and he would be cast out of this home as well. Pretend that the thought of what was going on outside the shield Magneto had constructed didn’t cause him to lose sleep at night. It didn’t seem to bother anyone else…so he couldn’t let it bother him either.
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