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[h3][sup][sub][color=LightBlue]William "Bill" McCreary   [color=f9ad81]♦[/color]   Male   [color=f9ad81]♦[/color]   18   [color=f9ad81]♦[/color]   Indianapolis, IN[/color][/sub][/sup][/h3][img]https://i.ibb.co/2dfrBjB/4816c6f047b8b.jpg[/img]
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[CENTER][sup][color=ADD8E6]"Witty quote, haha."[/color][/sup][/CENTER]
[INDENT][INDENT]Bill is a fish-out-of-water, having moved across the country to go to University of Washington on scholarship for industrial engineering. A Midwestern boy through-and-through, he's still getting used to rain and rent. After an amicable breakup with his short-term girlfriend from back home, he is taking a bit of time to explore himself as a person. That meant new friends, some one-night-stands, weed...the usual suspects. This was all going quite well until he woke up in a boxcar in Montana. After that, he popped out of a car's gearbox while taking a flight over Minnesota.

After many, many irritating calls to his parents and friends, Bill has succeeded in getting his ability under more control, to disastrous effect. Disastrous to everyone else, naturally. Takeout just doesn't taste the same when a six foot teenager materializes inside the box.

Of course, Bill's professors have yet to understand the incredible gift he's been given, and he still has homework and a social life to maintain. He balances an early college career with experimenting with his newfound powers, as they don't seem to make any sense at all. Why boxes? Why him? There was also that time he was in a cardboard box that was dropped into a fire, and the area around him exploded, extinguished the fire, and left a five foot crater in the pavement. That was weird, too.[/indent][/indent]
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Bill's ability is specifically the ability to teleport (or 'jump') into any object that is generally agreed to be a box of some variety. The box must be closed to be jumped into, and he will be forcefully ejected to the nearest space which he can fit in if the box is opened. He requires either visual contact with the box, or knowledge of the box's presence to perform the jump. Once he has seen a box or been informed of the box, Bill can sense the box's location for up to twenty feet. This is separate to line-of-sight jumping, which seems to have no limit to range.  

Bill's body contorts to perfectly fill the space which he teleports to. He is able to exert force on the box from the inside to open it, but if something like a safe is locked, he will remain trapped in the box. While in the box, Bill feels no pain, maintains a five-sense awareness of the area around him, and imparts a field of invulnerability to the box while it remains in box form (that is, unopened). He can impart force on the box, but not as a telekinetic would, but rather in the way that a hamster rolls its ball. The contents of the box are unharmed by his presence. Small items and clothing will enter the box with him, but any object that can't fit in his pockets normally will be dropped on the floor where he originally started.

There are many facets of this ability that aren't understood. In a life threatening situation, Bill will automatically warp to the nearest box within twenty feet. If a box is dropped into something which would destroy it when the invulnerability ends, the box emits a [i]frightful[/i] amount of shockwave energy in a five foot radius until the threat is cleared. If it can't be cleared, Bill is ejected to a safe area within fifty feet of the box. These, and other, facets have left Bill scratching his head as to what the hell his power is, what its limits are, and why the hell it is so obsessed with storage containers.

He's working on an ingredient-structure alignment chart as to what constitutes a box, because a circular plastic tupper-ware container seems to count, but a backpack does not. Does the material count? Does the shape count? Bill doesn't know, but he will find out or get high trying.[/indent][/indent]

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[INDENT][INDENT]Bill's most obvious goal is to maintain his scholarship. It's not a particularly difficult task, but eighty percent of his friends are wannabe stoners, and he has a hundred more interesting things to do with his time now. 

He's as good a person as anyone, and now with his oddly specific abilities, he figures he might be able to do some good with it. Maybe he can't fight crime directly, but he can sit inside the boombox of someone's room and change the channel to distract those inside from the police about to break down the door. Or maybe he breaks into the personal penthouse of a rich guy and redistributes some of the wealth. He's still figuring out how teleporting between boxes is a useful skill for a superhero.

Of particular interest to Bill is his ability's self-defense trigger. If it was just jumping between boxes, he would chalk it up to being just a weird space-manipulation ability. But the drastic countermeasures to physical danger leave him wondering a little bit more about the limits of his abilities. Okay, a lotta bit more. He's not obsessed or anything, but he definitely has thrown himself into a nonzero number of suicidal situations to see what the outcome would be. In that sense, he is a thrill-seeker.

The most obvious role for Bill is espionage. If a box-like object exists in an area within his range, he is the perfect spy. His other role is tactical micronuke. Step 1: put him in a small, weak box. Step 2: throw him at something which is sure to destroy the box upon his leaving it. Step 3: enjoy the invisible eradication of a small chunk of reality. This is somewhat of a problem if one is trying to be nonlethal.[/indent][/indent]

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Technically a small, hollow cube would be considered his 'equipment', since it gives him latitude in movement. One very strong one and one very weak one covers his bases.[/indent][/indent]
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