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[b]Name:[/b]
[indent]Alistaire 'Alex' Vael[/indent]

[b]Alias:[/b]
[indent]Maelstrom[/indent]

[b]Side:[/b]
[indent]Hero[/indent]

[b]Age:[/b]
[indent]17[/indent]

[b]Gender:[/b]
[indent]Male[/indent]

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[b]Height:[/b]
[indent]5'11"[/indent]

[b]Weight:[/b]
[indent]156lbs[/indent]

[b]Costume:[/b]
[indent]N/A, yet.[/indent]

[b]General Appearance:[/b]
[indent]A young man of average height and a lean, yet fit musculature, Alex comes off as a practical, intelligent student. His skin is a fair color, if not a bit on the paler side of the spectrum, and it goes relatively well with the dirty blonde/brown shade of his hair, which is naturally flipped back in messy, yet neat locks. Something you may notice with Alex is his eyes - a deep, intense golden-hazel, flecked with an electric blue circulating around the iris. Despite the fact that Alex's facial expressions are usually tamed and very seldomly violent or angry, his gaze can cause feelings of fear or uneasiness, just from the intensity. The eyes are the mirrors to the soul, as some might say. It's relatively hard to discern his true nationality. His fair skin may call for French or American heritage, but he has a slight accent that's hardly noticeable, but completely different from these two places, making those two choices moot. He generally wears very casual clothing that doesn't leave much skin to bare. Jeans, sneakers, and long-sleeved shirts with sweaters or hoodies over them. His body doesn't seem to overheat.[/indent]

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[b]Powers/Weaknesses:[/b]
[indent]Alex's powers are powerful, yes, but they also require intense training to control, and even more intent and focus to completely master. When you think of thunderstorms, tornados, and natural disasters, you think of power, destruction, and death, correct? Well...Alex isn't a natural disaster, but he is certainly as close as you can come to one, in a human form. He possesses limited Atmokinesis, otherwise known as weather manipulation. His specific set of powers gives him control over the air/wind, along with thunder/lightning, allowing him to control and manipulate these two forces of nature with extreme prejudice. The abilities are pretty straightforward, even though Alex has not even come close to unlocking the full potential/versatility his powers gives him. Causing powerful gusts of wind, shifting the air around his form to allow levitation and flight, channeling the power of lightning/electricity through his body or summoning it from the sky, and even causing a storm by shifting massive amounts of warm, moist air through the clouds. Extended of his powers causes his eyes to glow a bright white, due to the power within his body churning at a constant rate. 

As for weaknesses, these are quite simple, yet very major and dangerous. To keep it basic, Alex has a power-reserve that will grow with experience and training. Over-utilizing these reserves, IE using his powers too much at a time, will have varying results, depending on the amount of energy he uses. Smaller punishments includes nausea, sudden loss of energy, headaches, and dizziness. Larger punishments includes passing out, major nose bleeds, intense pain, temporary paralysis, and even comatose states. In addition to this, his powers are incredibly unpredictable and wild, which means that he needs to have control over his emotional/mental state very often, if he doesn't want to lose control. [/indent]

[b]Skills:[/b]
[indent]A naturally intelligent young man, Alex possesses genius-level intellect, and a naturally photographic memory, allowing him to memorize complex texts and works of literature, and it makes learning things a bit easier than normal. This also makes him a very good strategist/tactician, combined with his quick-thinking and reflexes.[/indent]

[b]Equipment:[/b]
[indent]N/A[/indent]

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[b]Brief Backstory:[/b]
[indent]Alex's backstory is fairly straightforward, much like the boy himself. The adopted son of a pair of mutant-hating parents, the mutant spent most of his first ten years of life trying to hide his mutations from his family, all the while keeping up with school, extracurricular activities, and life in general. An accident in middle-school, featuring a bully attempting to stomp on his arm on the playground, ended with a sudden lightning bolt striking the teen down...ending his life. To put it bluntly, Alex was not ostracized for it. He knew that he had done it, but it had already been drizzling, and people put it off as a freak accident. The funeral was held shortly after, and as it was in progress, Alex made a decision that his young mind found smart. He ran away from home, to work on controlling his powers himself, without hurting anyone. It helped, somewhat. He learned things on the road, his naturally intelligent brain allowing him to retain large amounts of information. He hitched rides on trains, and when he learned to have even a small amount of control over his powers, he began to travel through the usage of flight and gliding - even though, being young, he could only do this in bursts. Years passed, and at the age of seventeen, while he was resting on the top of a sky-scraper in New York City, a burger to his side, he received an invitation by bird.[/indent]
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