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[h1]Alan Carpenter[/h1]

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[b]Name:[/b] Alan Carpenter

[b]Age:[/b] 18

[b]Alias:[/b] Horus

[b]Appearance:[/b]

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[b]Costume[/b]

Currently None
Will eventually have some [url=http://blogs-images.forbes.com/aarontilley/files/2015/04/P90178907_highRes-e1429463702354-1940x1093.jpg]specs[/url] fashioned for him to help with his headaches
Eventual costume
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[hider=Black and GOLD variant][img]http://img02.deviantart.net/41be/i/2011/278/c/0/commission__matthaus_williams_by_johnbecaro-d4bybtu.jpg[/img][/hider]
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[b]Abilities:[/b]

[u][i]Falcon Vision[/i][/u]

Alan has the ability to instinctively sense how people and objects relate to him, manifesting as a colored glow much like an aura that makes it easy for him to see. Red indicates someone he deems as a threat, or if blood has been spilled. Blue indicates someone Alan sees as an ally; someone he can trust. White indicates sources where Alan can get information he is currently seeking or a good place for him to hide for a few moments if the need should ever arise. Though Alan has only just started "seeing" the world this way, he still has yet to understand what any of the colors mean and is unable to concentrate on them long enough to even know if what he is seeing is actually there or some sort of hallucination, leaving him with a migrane-level headache. Though as he exercises his abilities, Alan will be able to turn this ability on and off, understand their meaning and be able to use them to their full potential.

These colors are prone to change, however, as situations and Alan's personal bias towards what is going on also changes, therefore someone he sees as an ally could potentially turn to someone he sees as a threat, and so on.

Eventually, this power will "evolve" into a more advanced outlook for Alan to understand, making each of his senses more sensitive. This will allow Alan to be able to detect the heartbeat of a concentrated individual in a specific perimeter to him and even be able to forsee a gold path that the person he is concentrating on will be taking up to fifty yards at a time. With this, Alan will also be able to inversely "see" where they have been. This is particularly helpful when tailing someone or detecting the path an enemy would take in order to set up a trap or lay an ambush, or to check out an area they have been to search for items or information needed. At his full potential Alan will be able to pick up cold trails or locate disguised enemies (including shape shifters) which appear red to him, however with this more heightened ability, it causes Alan to concentrate harder and scrutinize people individually rather than in a crowd, once more leaving him with a blinding headache that can last for hours at a time.

In a more bizarre turn of events, this ability will also grant Alan the unwanted ability to peer into the memories of a person dying should he be touching them during their time of death, even if it is by his own hand.

[u][i]Flight[/i][/u]

Though not developed yet, Alan will eventually have the ability to fly, once his wings break through. This will allow him to soar the skies at the height most birds can and maneuver through the air with the greatest of ease. The wings will allow him to gain elevation, dive-bomb, glide, descend and so on. The wings themselves are very fragile and susceptible to damage if ever in close-range combat. It is because of this that Alan will have to learn how to retract the wings back into his body, if not just for the sake of looking normal again.

[b]Skills[/b]

Alan's bones are a lot less dense than normal bones. They are extremely porous and the larger, thicker bones even have a sort of hollowness to them. This makes Alan much lighter than how he looks, allowing him to jump higher and further than the average human, making vaulting over objects and climbing a cinch for the youth. His years as an acrobatic performer helped to fine-tune these skills so that he is able to use them to precision - able to jump from one object to another with varying size and stability.

His acrobatic skills also gave him the art of timing, able to calculate jumps and honed his reflexes into something superior to avoid injury. Tightrope walking and the trapeze being his two main events, he learned these very quickly and has only gotten better and more fluid in his movements as a performer.

[b]Personality Traits[/b]

Alan has a very positive outlook on life and is generally a very easy-going kind of guy. Having been subjected to a rather poor lifestyle, constantly surrounded by the smell of shit and sweaty bodies, Alan has always taken the little things in life for full value. The smell of a flower, the feeling of a gentle breeze rolling over his skin, the soft touch of a woman...

Most of his (male) companions in the circus poke a bit of fun at him for being overly sensitive, but Alan's thick skin and playful personality doesn't take their teasing negatively, though in the more quiet times in his life, he does wonder if perhaps they might be right.

He's got a very adventurous spirit about him, always wanting to make each show he does different and more exciting and while it can be dangerous, Alan finds that he practically craves the adrenaline rush he gets at the very idea that injury could very much be a thing. This makes him a bit reckless at times though at face-value, Alan tends to be more calm and calculated on the outside.

[b]Position in School:[/b]

Student

[b]Backstory:[/b] 

Alan was born and raised into a family deep into the traveling circus business, and was raised in the carny lifestyle. As a kid, Alan was tasked with caring and cleaning up after the animals though eventually worked his way up to aerial acrobatics. His parents were amazed at just how natural Alan acted when it came to heights. Even when the trapeze artists tried to discourage the young boy from the dangerous act by having him join them in practice, including jumps (with a safety net), twists, grabs and so on, Alan only grew to love the sport even more. So in the air he stayed and as he grew older, became one of the most famous aerial acrobats.

The nickname "Horus" was given to him by his fellow trapeze group, joking about how he was a "God" of aerial acrobatics, and eventually fashioned him a skin-tight jumpsuit with the emblem of a falcon in the middle. Alan went with the jest, finding the humor in it himself and found himself rather liking the nickname.

As he grew from a youth into a man, strange things began to happen. So strange, in fact, during the middle of a show, Alan's vision blurred for a few moments as he was jumping from one trapeze to another, and then suddenly there were flashes of colors he didn't quite understand. His partner that was supposed to catch him turned blue, there was a glint of gold in his peripheral vision, the crowd became a muddied mess of blue. He could hear heartbeats, hundreds at a time. It all happened in a split second, but it was enough to throw him off balance in his jump and ended up missing his partners hands, falling into the safety net below. That in itself had been humiliating, and after trying to explain what had happened to his friends and parents, they shrugged it off as some sort of "you need more sleep." 

But the colors kept coming after that. It was only every once in a while, mostly in the most inconvenient of times. Though, having grown up with contortionists, the bearded lady, men who stab themselves with needles and swords without shedding blood, fire-eaters and clowns, Alan then just decided that what he was going through was normal for the circus life, no longer wanting to make a big deal about it. Unfortunately, it was hindering his work as an acrobat. 

He was about ready to ask his parents if he could take a break from his duties for a while when a man approached him, claiming to know how he was feeling. The man introduced himself as Charles Xavier and after a bit of convincing to hear the man out, Charles explained to Alan that though he was already different by living with circus people, he was even [i]more[/i] different, classifying him as a mutant. Charles then further demonstrated his own mutant powers by speaking into Alan's head through telepathy - something he had never encountered before even in the circus. It was impossible to pin it as some sort of street-show that he had been accustomed to. After getting his attention, Charles then explained to him a school that he and two other mutants were building up for people like him; to not only provide education but knowledge and understanding of the powers they had been gifted with. Figuring it was the only way he was going to get answers, Alan decided to leave his family and friends behind to embark on a new journey - a life outside the circus tent and smelly, crowded trailers.

[b]Other:[/b]

When his abilities start up randomly, or he tries to use them, Alan is almost always overcome by a searing headache that forces his body to shut down. This most often leaves him breathless and in agony, but is able to sleep it off after a few hours or take some pain medication (though this method rarely works) but there have been instances where the pain has reduced him to sudden blackouts that can last up to thirty minutes.

Alan also has random spurts of pain that shoot through his back. Believing it to be some injury related to his career as an acrobat, he doesn't give it much thought though plans on seeing a physician about it in the near future if it persists.

He also smokes occasionally. The carny life has exposed him to tobacco products quite early and took up the habit when he was only sixteen years old. He's far from a pack a day kind of guy, but after a good, long, hard day, he likes to wind down with a good smoke and simply relax both his mind and body.

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