[b]Name:[/b] Henry Joseph Warwick

[b]Age:[/b] 19

[b]Alias:[/b] Leech

[b]Appearance:[/b]
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[b]Abilities:[/b]

'Leeching': While it may appear that Henry simply has a healing factor, his body actually steals from those around him, under his control if he remains conscious, but otherwise acting instinctively (there is some precedent of his subconscious 'going for' threats over allies, but it's sporadic at best). If standing in a crowd of people, this can be so unnoticeable as to make those around him slightly more tired, but individually it can be much worse, eventually simply passing the injury onto the other, if only one other person is within a certain distance of him (fluctuating, like most untrained mutants).

[b]Skills:[/b]

Wartime Skills: Like most young men, Henry has fought and near enough died in the Second World War. While there wasn't much in the way of formal training for the early conscripts, experience and later drills turned Henry into a true soldier and survivalist, to the point that civilian life seems rather...easy. The lack of challenge in his life, beyond hiding his mutation, has actually become a big of a grinding psychological issue for the young man. Despite being a rifleman, and thus now being a fair shot, the main skills that have transitioned to civilian combat is close quarters combat, be that with fists or whatever weapon he has to have, if you couldn't fight dirty, you didn't survive.

Into the Breach Men!: Despite his youth, on multiple occasions throughout the war, Henry found himself in a position with no surviving immediate officers, and the only man present with enough spine to actually start making calls, thus he's fairly accomplished at motivating people, then making sure they all get it done.

Ironsights: There isn't much that shakes Henry anymore, be it done to himself or to others, his eyes, heart and stomach have seen to much to flip at gruesome sights and experiences.

Codebreaking: When he was later promoted, having shown signs of being fairly capable with technology, to a platoon radio officer, Henry taught himself (with communication to people more skilled in the area) to break various in-battlefield German codes. On that note, he also speaks German, although refused to learn French, properly.

[b]Personality Traits:[/b]
Sarcastic, outwardly arrogant, gentleman, traumatized, survivor, warrior.

[b]Backstory:[/b]

Born to middle-class land owners in Devon (although with some connection to the Southern Midlands upper class family of Warwick) Henry was privately educated, and thus 'escaped' the South-Western accent, instead picking up the more widely renown 'British' accent, much lauded across the Atlantic. Despite most high achieving private schools, and later universities, still very much being the haunting grounds of the upper class, Henry made enough friends among said group to have a comfortable time, and a possibility of convincing a university to take him on despite his 'disadvantages of character.' During his time at school, his mutation remained a mystery to both him and others, although he always seemed to 'bounce back' surprisingly fast from hits and injuries on the rugby field (at a slight loss of energy to the other team, but that was never noticed).

Any hopes for further education were dashed by the war. While in the first years of conflict Henry was too young for feasibly pass as 18, even to the very lenient eyes of the recruitment officers, at the age of 15, Henry enlisted, just in time for the last year of strategic defeats for the British Army. Being one of the few reinforcements sent to the East African campaign at the time, Henry found himself in an army group outnumbered in the hundreds of thousands by the Italian East African Empire. The fighting was as harsh, if not harsher, than anywhere else in the world. Despite a generally textbook withdrawal, during the Italian capture of British Somaliland, Henry was taken prisoner by the Italians, before they attempted to interrogate him, within a local village. Henry was eventually discovered by members of the Ethiopian Nationalist forces, fighting alongside the British, among a horrific scene. Despite being bound and gagged, Henry was discovered wide eyed, surrounded by the bloody mess of six Italians. In the moment of extreme stress and pain, Henry's mutation had finally revealed itself in full, as the enemy had attempted to torture him slowly to death, they had unknowingly killed themselves, when it came to just two remaining, one had put a bullet in Henry's skull, only to find it signing a death warrant for himself and his companion. Despite how mad the situation had sounded to Henry himself, the militias who found him seemed to nod, speaking of tribal shamans in broken English. Henry was set free and allowed to regroup with the remaining British forces, the Ethiopians never revealing the circumstance of his rescue.

Throughout the remainder of the war, Henry fought with distinction and courage, never truly advancing high in ranking, but showing great heroism in the face of the war. The young man 'survived' many missions that were deemed suicidal, often being one of few survivors, usually helping injured or near-dead companions back to friendly lines. For that he eventually earned himself the Victoria Cross, after a brief stint in a hospital due to post-traumatic stress disorder (although, not really called such), Henry took part in the D-Day landings, having returned home for the medical obligation. Fighting alongside Americans somewhat endeared Henry to them, although he was always quick to deal out withering banter along the lines of comparison between the two Anglo-nations. By the time the war came to its bloodshot end in Europe, Henry was willing to be among those British soldiers that were to be moved in support of the American campaign in the Pacific. When that to came to a close in Nuclear fire, Henry never returned to England, instead being convinced by an American officer who had been 'watching' him, and expressed that the young man should contact a 'friend' of his, one Charles Xavier. In the process of moving to the States to join said group, Henry has very much enjoyed a popular time for 'Brits' in the US, especially one with war stories and the medals to prove it.