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[b]Name:[/b] Samuel Jarvelainen

[b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b] Sam, Sammy

[b]X-Men Code Name:[/b] Platina

[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Age:[/b] 19

[b]Physical Description:[/b] Samuel is an athletic and well built individual, weighing 178 lbs and standing 6 feet tall. He has blonde, shoulder long hair, a beard and bright green eyes. He likes to wear street clothes, always avoiding suits or other types of formal wear, often saying that he hates them. His most common attire is composed of blue jeans, black t-shirt (sometimes replaced by a striped black and grey hoodie), black leather jacket and black canvas shoes(sometimes replaced by sneakers or even boots depending on the weather). 

[b]Mutations:[/b] Platinum Mimicry - Samuel has the ability to transform his entire body into some form of organic platinum, an extremely rare, precious and gray-white colored metal found only in a handful of places in the world: South Africa, Russia, Zimbabwe and south-eastern Canada. The transformation drastically improves Samuel's strength and endurance also making him immune to diseases. Every time he transforms, Samuel also takes on the properties of platinum like excellent corosion resistance, high resistance to chemicals and high temperatures and unaffected by the actions of air or water. Unfortunately, since platinum is one of the heaviest of metals, it also affects his mobility making him very heavy. It also makes him weak to magnetism. 

[b]Personality:[/b] Samuel is by all means a rebellious individual. He's not an authority friendly person which got him in trouble numerous times in high school. He has his own set of rules which he follows to the letter and dosen't really like to talk about. He's a huge rock and metal fan and his smartphone is full to the brim with songs from these two musical styles. He also plays the guitar and is a good mechanic, loving to work with cars. When he's not doing either of these two things he likes to waste time playing video games. He's also a hard person to become friends with as he is highly distrustful of strangers, but those who do succeed breaking that hard shell of his will find that on the inside he's quite a nice and loyal individual. He likes to say exactly whats on his mind and dosen't like to hide the truth or lie just because he might hurt someone's feelings. 

[b]Background:[/b] Samuel was born in Tampere, Finland. He lost his father at the age of 2, after a hunting accident in which one of the men he was with confused him with an animal and shot him. One year later Samuel's mother took him and moved to the United States where she attempted to start her life over eventually finding herself another man. This din't go well with Samuel who didn't like the guy at all and developed a rebellious and disgruntled attitude. He also started having low grades at school and often getting in trouble. There were even reports of bullying coming from him. 
[i](More background will be revealed in the RP. This is just a taste.)[/i]

[b]Recap of your mutations awakening:[/b] One day, when he was 15, he heard his parents arguing. He got out of his room and climbed down the stairs as they were arguing and saw his mother beying treated like a punching bag by his very drunk and fired up stepfather. Samuel attempted to stop him but there wasn't much he could do against a pretty big guy like his stepfather. Angry, the man pushed Samuel away, into the table making him hit his head. An upset Samuel quickly saw that his arms were beginning change into some kind of metal. Then from the arms, it continued to the whole body. Initially he thought it was silver, because of the color. He rised up on his feet and started beating up his stepfather with an unimaginable strength. Samuel beat him all the way into a coma, stopped only by his mother. As he became normal again, Samuel looked at his hands with shock and ran to his room, packing some stuff in a backpack and running away from home. He settled in an abandoned building and as the days past he resorted to stealing to survive. Before that particular event there weren't any signs that might have shown Samuel that he's different then everybody else.