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“I like to make faces. I can also fly and do windy things.”

[b]Real Name:[/b]
Alan “Al” Peregrine

[b]Codename:[/b]
Drifter

[b]Birthday/Age:[/b]
December 1/27

[b]Place of Birth:[/b]
Devil’s Lake, North Carolina

[b]Occupation:[/b]
Professional flier and social worker.
Xavier’s Institute Teacher of Alternative Power Use, Flying Instructor, and Counselor

[b]Family:[/b]
Garfield and Logan Peregrine - Adopted fathers, alive, well
Alliana Strange - birth mother, unkown status and location

[b]Relationship Status:[/b] Single and not looking, but ready to be found.

[b]Mutant Ability:[/b]
Alan is a flyer, but his mutant ability is to control the air. He is an Aerokinetic allowing him control over the millions of gas-based particles and compounds surrounding the earth, and the movement of the invisible force wind. With his abilities he can create gusts of winds that blow people and structures away, move objects, send and receive the small vibrations in the air that carry sounds allowing him to hear conversations from faraway people and places, and a whole lot more limited only by his creativity, but Alan doesn’t care for this because he doesn’t think of himself as an Aerokinetic, but a flyer. Alan loves flying and through the use of his Aerokinesis he can. By manipulating the air around him he can create an environment around himself that allows him to propel himself to the skies, float high above others, and most of all drift through the sky like a peaceful and in his own opinion an omnipotent cloud. Alan is blessed because his abilities are strong, always growing, and they don’t come with any other mutation like being made out of air. He loves his abilities, but he is also scared of it because he understands how destructive he can be. His dangerous ability is not helped by the fact that his abilities are affected by his emotions, luckily enough he has had a lot of experience with his abilities that he can control his powers even when he is feeling a strong emotion most of the time. On occasions that he can’t control his Intense feelings affect the air around him. For example, anger makes the surrounding air hot, sadness makes it cold, and love makes the air fresh and clean.

Alan doesn’t like to fight using his powers because he knows how dangerous he could get and how much emotions go into them, but he knows that as a mutant fighting for his life and for his friends is something that he has to do. In his years of being alive he has learned how to defend himself and he’s learned quite well. In a typical fight he would start using his powers immediately creating gale force winds that would knock his enemies away from him. He would fly to gain the height and vantage point advantage. His defense involves blowing projectiles away or creating a shield of fast moving wind that would protect him from all directions. Alan knows that his Aerokinetic powers lack deadly abilities in most occasions, but when he really wants to he can easily create a large tornado with him in the center that destroys everything around him, but he refuses to use his powers in this way because the one time he did he still can’t forgive himself.

His name comes about because of his constant use of his powers to fly high above everyone else and let the winds carry him to faraway places like a leaf in the wind drifting from place to place.

[b]Personality:[/b]
There’s a reason he chose the name Drifter. Like a leaf in the wind and like the clouds above the sky Alan is an easygoing, peaceful, and tranquil person who likes being those things. He is joyful, optimistic, and enlightened. He is comfortable with having lots of people with him, and is often well liked by those people, but he is also comfortable in his own skin and enjoys quiet alone time for flying meditation. He always has a smile on his face and never falters even when in a crisis because he always hopes for the best. On the job he remains the same, and this is true when he is on the battlefield. As Drifter, he is serious in a fight, fast and strong, never holding back in power, but always limiting himself to make sure he doesn’t hurt anyone too badly. He doesn’t like to fight. He is a lover not a fighter, but he understands it must be done so he does it anyway, but rest assured he’d rather do something else. He knows that he is powerful and it is for this very reason that he makes sure to limit himself because he doesn’t like to hurt people. On any given day he'd rather fly rather than fight, which he is fine with.

[b]History:[/b]
Alan was born in a hospital in Devil’s Lake North Carolina where his birth mother, Alliana, gave him up for adoption, she was only sixteen at the time and she could not take the responsibility. Two people adopted him, two gay men. His two fathers loved him dearly and his birth mother who they thanked after naming him from her, hence Alan from Alliiana. As a child Alan was tease for having two men as parents, but living in the big city made for less discrimination against them in general, but not by much. His peaceful childhood was helped by the fact that one of his fathers was a cop and the other one was a lawyer and they also happened to somewhat rich, upper middle class really.

Alan’s childhood was normal. He was a bright and happy child, friendly, kind and well liked. He was an optimist that thought the best of people and things. He saw the best in people and hoped he was right, and even though he would be wrong sometimes, he didn’t think much of it. His two father’s made sure to give him everything a child could ever have, and his friends that never cared for how he came to be. He questions about himself and world, always curious of the world unknown to him. He wondered about his birth mother. His fathers told him that they would tell him more when he was an adult. He wondered about mutants. His fascination for them led to his desire to fly, envious of those that flew above others, and it is for this reason that he was happy when his powers manifested.

It happened on a windy day. He was looking from their apartment complex’s balcony, supposedly doing his homework, but his mind was drifting to places elsewhere. While he was dreaming of flying places in far own world his body started to fly. After realizing what he was doing he was quickly filled with joy, but it was just as quickly replaced with fear as he realized that he did not know how to stop drifting away or how to land. In a matter of minutes, his body was floating high above the building where he was at the mercy of the wind. On the ground, an audience who made sure to get his face and name out into the world was watching him, and up above them in the sky he began to fear his powers. Heroes got him down, but a part him realized that it could have been better if he just flew away. His then friends left him alone no matter how much he tried to get them back. He wasn’t met with hate or anger, no, it was worse. He was met with apathy, fear and isolation. His two father’s tried, they tried hard, but they didn’t know how to deal with him. They understood what it was like, but they had no experience with mutants. Alan knew they were scared and they didn’t know what to do with him, but Alan did. He sought out the X-Men and Professor Xavier to enroll him to the one place where he wouldn’t be feared and where he could learn how to make sure he couldn’t hurt anyone.

His years at the school was nothing if not extraordinary and fun. Unlike those who enrolled in the school to become X-Men or heroes he just wanted a place where he could feel at home, and he did. He found a place where people didn’t fear him and made him feel normal. Outside he was feared, but in the school he was Drifter an Aerokinetic who knew how to fly better than any other flier did. His school years in the world of mutants were magnificent. He learned what it meant to live a life un restrained by the real world and understood what it meant to be a person outside of what people called him. The school also taught him to defend himself and use his powers beyond flying. Alan didn’t like to fight, he didn’t like the loss he experienced and the bitter hate he felt, but he understood why it happened and fought to protect what Charles Xavier wanted for the world. He didn’t like the hurt he had to deal with and the people that he fought, but sometimes he had to.

After graduating and getting his education, he quit the fighting since it was never what he got into the school for. He left to go get an education and he became a social worker. It is a fulfilling job that allowed him to take care of the people. He became a person who could protect, fight and care for people like him, mutants, outsiders, underdogs and helpless . His father’s remain fearful of him, but they accepted what he is and learned how to deal with, as normal as they could. Once Alan turned eighteen his father’s finally told him what they know of his birth mother other than her name, but he couldn’t find her and to this day he still hasn’t, but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped trying. He still uses his powers of course because he could never get rid of the thing that made him truly feel alive. He wasn’t ashamed of his powers, but he made sure to not cause trouble, make sure he would never hurt someone, and on some occasions he would stop nearby crimes by blowing a little wind here and there, anonymously of course.

He wasn’t there for the big fight with Apocalypse since he was busy with dealing with helping other people and he hated himself because he wasn’t there to fight with the man he idolized, but he was there for the funeral. When Kitty Pryde went to reestablish the school he wanted to help immediately, but there was work to be done. After the big fight with Apocalypse he had to help the mutants who were, more so than ever, being hurt by the people around them. He immediately wanted to be a part of the school that made him feel at home, but he had to finish his client list first.

[b]Extra:[/b]
Alan likes to fly really high and free fall into large bodies of water.
Al also sometimes sleeps with the clouds.
He wears corrective lenses most of the time, and goggles when flying. 
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