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| Jagular | Jan 29 2008, 05:17 AM Post #1 |
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[Name] - Edgar Lewis Neruda [Alias/Code Name] - Pi [Age] - 28 [Affiliation/Occupation] - None that don't involve coffee beans. [Ethnicity/Nationality] - American-Portuguese [Criminal Record] - Aside from a few drunken dealings, nothing major. [Height] - 5'9" [Weight] - 148 lbs. [Appearance] - Not very tall, or muscular, Edgar doesn't quite know what attracts people to him. His hair is nice, probably, very black, thick and cropped close to his head. He has facial hair too, nothing too show-offy, but it varies with his moods. Clothing is a largely unimportant thing for him, but given the opportunity he'll wear tweed. It's a fun fabric, tweed. [Personality] - As a person, Edgar is singularly magnanimous, albeit in the way people buy folk art off of smelly cajuns to hang in their rec rooms. If that makes sense. He's an old soul, with new age intentions. While he's grounded in the present, he doesn't really take care to come to personal terms with the present. Sure, he's a part of something he doesn't understand but from that fertile territory come the greatest of minds- the confused are the future shepherds. So, as for now, he'll settle with the meager existence of a coffee shop attendant. Perhaps he will take ahold of those Cervantes fueled word plays and go on for something bigger. [Mutant Class] - Epsilon Numeropath [Power Level] - 7 [Powers] - Edgar can psychically process and manipulate numbers at astronomical rates, processing information at about three petraFLOPS. Effectively, he can solve any mathematical equation he is confronted with instantaneously, nearly before he is confronted with it. He can commit to memory any numerical quantity, formula or strain so long as it has a defined ending and he has chosen to remember it. He can also pinpoint someone's weight, height, strength, heartbeat, and breaths per minute all with the most cursory of glances. Were he to expand on this, he could be an incredibly lethal fighter; alas lacking in the violence dealing department. His photographic memory is stored in a series of numbers and sums, remembering the effect of all the variables before him rather than the actual scene. Glyphs and puzzles, so long as they are numerically based, prove impossibly easy for him to decipher. [Weaknesses/Limitations] - For all the good it does, Edgar is not a fan of math. At all. In fact, he will avoid it when possible. Seeing, however, as he is a walking super computer it is very impossible for him to avoid math. Still, he finds no joy in his gifts, other than the occasional party trick. He can only process materials that are line of sight or heard audibly. Loud noises make it difficult to think, making concentrating difficult at times. As with all telepaths, he cannot affect machines or islands (I'm looking at you, Krakoa.) And a with any psion, a blunt object or anything innately physical will put him right out of commission. [Skills] - Neruda is secondly a spoken word poet, and firstly a very awful spoken word poet. Perhaps because of his mutation, he has never had any successes when dealing with the English language. Which is a shame because he does love to read, though whether it's the secret pleasure of adding the letters and creating as many words out of the given number of letters is left to be said. He is very easy to like, if that stands for something. Incidentally, he is a very badass pianist- though as a composer there aren't enough hands on earth to support his ambitions. As a singer he's somewhere between Jeff Buckley and Jack Terricloth. Edgar is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, and apparently good at losing people in crowds (judging from the somewhat jaded accounts of former lovers.) [Possessions] - A small (and I mean small) apartment in New York city, an upright piano, a recording/mixing system, and a thankless job at a thankfully local coffee shop. [History] - Nothing too terribly much to be said here. Edgar was a poet's son, and poet's children always are made of two thing; really awful alcohol and bad dreams. It was both these traits that Edgar took with him through life. Awful alcohol didn't come until later on, but bad dreams were the stuff of his existence. It was to be said that in all the learners to attend Richmond Preparatory, none had ever been so inexcusably sappy than Edgar. His powers developed like that, and they weren't anything too hard to control. Okay, so the world was one giant math equation now- big deal? Sure he'd freak out on occasion when he'd know a girl's breast size before even saying hello, or how many times a teacher had had sex in the past week, but mostly it was decent stuff. The parents never really knew, only noticing the spike in his math score which was welcome enough, they supposed. He went on from there. Nothing too interesting followed, save for some awful poems and some worse drinking. All save the former have mostly abated with age, and now he is wedged in the sort of place where one isn't sure what future had been wronged, and given them this shitty timeline. He did find the time, on occasion, to further his gifts. Gift-like as they were ... giftish. He'd practice on scores, modifying them to his taste, tooling with operas and the occasional suite. They were past times, ones that he benefited from without knowledge. Edited by Jagular, Jan 29 2008, 08:04 PM.
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| PhilosophersVoice | Jan 29 2008, 07:02 AM Post #2 |
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I like the overall concept, and love the dislike of Math by Mr. Supercomputer. All in all its an interesting design. But not all things go without question now...Here I ask about this 'mind bolt'. From the sounds of it we are dealing with 2 different powers. One is his ability to analyze mathamatical data in a mere instant, and another is a fully capable broadcasting telepath. So I'm assuming with this all comes feed back, mind reading, and all those goodies WITH the ability to analyze and such? Then I'm assuming that the offencsive capabilites revolve around tapping right into the mind the attempting to overload it with information (I say attempt because there will be telepaths that fight bath, and probably some super smarty pants [real term, I swear!] that will be able to handle it), am I right? All in all I'm all for it if I can get some clarifications on this 'mind bolt' since it seems almost out of place, as if added simply to add an offencsive ability. Anyway, a clarification on this ability would be much appreciated. Personally, I feel this character has a very strong support aspect to him, and does not need such a vicious mental attack. Not all Mutants need to be able to fight! But even with that stipulation, I'll say yes because the rest of the profile is great. Makes me wish I had a flare for writing them up. Edited by PhilosophersVoice, Jan 29 2008, 07:06 AM.
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| Marco | Jan 29 2008, 07:09 AM Post #3 |
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As pointed out, the mental blast does seem to be an attempt to get on a battle front. Your character is unique with the 'numeropathy' i like it...innovative. A character like this should be more the brains rather the brute...the vicious assult of the mind seems...uncharacteristic. You have a yes, but give valid explination of the second ability Edited by Marco, Jan 29 2008, 07:11 AM.
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| Evita | Jan 29 2008, 08:16 AM Post #4 |
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Tentatively a yes. I am skeptical of the mind bolt more because of the 'instantly' thing than it being a little out of place. Marvel is full of out of place powers. Every single secondary mutation in the universe for example. |
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| Jagular | Jan 29 2008, 07:50 PM Post #5 |
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Truth be told- his original concept for mutation was just the ability to loop the numbers for Pi in people's heads, hence the name. But with the general appreciation for his other aspects, I think I'll omit it from his character. The reasoning behind it was only so he wasn't completely defenseless if on the battlefield, so if cornered he could at least run away. If you're pro, I'll give a better explanation. That being said, it's really up to what you lot feel best for the game. Just so long as he doesn't pan out to be the next Cypher, I'm cool with any decision.
Edited by Jagular, Jan 29 2008, 07:56 PM.
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| PhilosophersVoice | Jan 29 2008, 08:03 PM Post #6 |
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For now, we can omit it, and at least try it out. If he get harassed and such, then I'm sure he can just 'mutate' further on and get something along those lines. And it seem's you have three yes's, so I now welcome you to the game! |
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| Jagular | Jan 29 2008, 08:05 PM Post #7 |
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Thank you very much! |
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