[B]| BIRTHNAME: |[/B]
[INDENT]Darren Grey[/INDENT]
[B]| NICKNAME(S): |[/B]
[INDENT]Puffy (The nickname people who don't like him typically call him, since it bugs him), Biggie D (The nickname he gives himself, he started using it long before it could take a literal meaning though)[/INDENT]
[B]| ALIAS(ES): |[/B]
[INDENT]Orbital[/INDENT]
[B]| SEX: |[/B]
[INDENT]Male[/INDENT]
[B]| AGE: |[/B]
[INDENT]17[/INDENT]
[B]| APPEARANCE: |[/B]
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Stands at 6‘0, and has a lean fit body from a healthy regimen and diet.[/INDENT]
[B]| ABILITIES: |[/B]
[INDENT]Darren's skin is super durable, able to withstand up to armor piercing rounds.  But most notably is though is Darren's body being able to expand with air.  Which can turn him into a ball.  At first he could only go about 6 feet around but has been able to reach 8 feet.  While in the ball form his hands, feet, and head normally stick out but with training he can have them suck them into his orb of a body.  Additionally he can move while in his inflated state, but his teachers are trying to help him improve his speed.[/INDENT]
[B]| BIOGRAPHY: |[/B]
[INDENT]Born and raised off the Gold Coast of Australia, Darren was a sun kissed surfer kid who had charm and good looks for days.  He was popular at school, and seemingly could do no wrong in the eyes of his peers.  His parents though were very protective of him, coddling him and seemingly letting him get away with a lot.  As such Darren was fairly spoiled and naturally it led him to being a bully at school.  

Karma though came back to bite Darren hard, as during school, his powers kicked in.  During a school assembly, Darren's body began to inflate uncontrollably while sitting in the bleachers.  Darren quickly became a massive (metaphoically and in some ways, literally) joke, he lost all his respect, and his parents quickly shunned him.  Bobby Drake came out to recruit Darren, and at first Darren didn't want to be associated with ‘freaks' as he put it.  However Bobby not to politely reminded him that because of his powers, he can't call anyone a ‘freak' anymore.  Darren's parents quickly signed Darren over to the school and never spoke to him since.

At first Darren continued to be insufferable to the others.  Until one day when Ryan LeBeau got fed up with Darren's crap, especially after Darren made some choice words about Ryan's parents.  Basically knocking Darren the hell out with a single punch.  The incident left the young Aussie needing serious perspective on his life.  After talking to some of the teachers, and spending a day out in New York City to try and clear his head.  Darren came back with a fresh new perspective on life.  He still has people who still don’t like him, and Darren isn't really comfortable in his skin.  But Darren has made serious efforts to improve his attitude and mind set.[/INDENT]
[B]| MISC. NOTES: |[/B]
[INDENT]- Still a big fan of surfing, Darren has wanted to teach others in the school about the art for quite some time.  However his not sure how the others would take to him teaching them to surf on the Ellis Island shore.  On top of that Darren usually skateboards, having a normal board and a long cruising board with him.  His spearheaded an effort to build a small skatepark on campus grounds, but generally considers surfing his first and biggest passion.

- Darren’s musical tastes mainly hover in the alt. rock and hip hop scene.  He has a pretty sizeable collection of music CDs from his thrift store runs.  When pressed Darren will cite Less Than Jake, Imagine Dragons, Eric B and Rakim, and Kool Keith as his favorite artists.

- Most of the clothes Darren has and wears he usually gets from thrift stores.  There is a group of about five or six thrift stores within an hour of the Mansion that he will frequent in a bi-weekly shopping trip.  He even has a laptop computer he bought from a thrift store and worked on fixing and improving.  Which he still uses and usually takes with him to the occasional classes.

- Darren is a big football fan, both Australian rules football, and football/soccer.  However his been developing a love for basketball after seeing a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden.  One notable moment in Darren’s time at the school came during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.  Darren, cocky as he was, made a bet with a fellow student from Spain over who’s respective country’s team would win during the group stages.  If Australia won, Darren would of have the Spaniard do all of his homework for a week.  However because Spain won 3 - 0, Darren had the entire school play a game of soccer, with Darren as the soccer ball.  Darren still shudders at the memory of that.

- Darren’s powers comes with its share of headaches, if he starts to doze off or just start daydreaming he’ll start to inflate.  Having ruined more than a shirt or two from this, the X-Men have already made him a uniform to wear under his normal clothes and for training.  Long sleeved down to the fingers, with slits down the front, back, and sides which open up as he inflates.  Revealing darker material that gives comfortable room as he grows bigger.  He also has a pair of yellow tinted goggles that go over the head covering piece that cover his eyes.

- My current beverage of choice is either Coke Zero for sober time, and Samuel Adams Cream Stout for drunky time.[/INDENT]

[center][SUB][B][I]// [color=0072bc]Friend[/color] // [color=00a99d]Acquaintance[/color] // [color=f26522]Frenemy[/color] // [color=fff200]Rival[/color] // [color=ed1c24]Enemy[/color] // [color=ed145b]Crush[/color] //[/I][/B][/SUB][/CENTER]
[INDENT][LIST]
[*][B][color=00a99d]Lucas Pilgrim:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]The guy has an feeling of being a natural born leader to him I'll admit.  I don't know him that much to be honest, but I do know his not exactly my biggest fan these days.  I mean I can't blame him for it or anything.  Still I feel like if I'm going to be here me and him need to get on the same page quick.[/I][/INDENT]
[*][B][color=f26522]Ryan LeBeau:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]My jaw still feels sore because of him.  I mean I haven't spoken to him much at all since the whole incident.  I do hate what I said though and while I apologized to his mom and dad for what I said I'm kind of scared to talk to him.  Still he was the one who finally made me realize a lot.  Made me realize how much of an asshole I was and just... I have a lot of respect for him now because of it.  I just don't know how he feels about me.[/I][/INDENT]
[*][B][color=0072bc]Allison Andrews:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]Allison is such a sweetheart man.  She was one of the first to stay by me when I had to go through my hard times and I'll always love her for it.  I mean not like in a romantic way, she really has more of a sibling feeling to her and that would just makes things weird.  Still her powers are neat, and funny enough she even likes my powers.  I mean if the chance comes up she can have them as far as I'm concerned!  *Laughs*[/I][/INDENT]
[*][B][color=00a99d]William Irving:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]Well with Will, I mean a lot of people are uncomfortable around him.  He just... I mean his one of the guys I see while being kind of bummed out about my stupid powers.  Then I look at him and... suddenly it gives me that moment of remembering how much worse it could be you know?  The guy has it rough and I just feel bad for him.  I've tried to be nice to him and I mean he hasn't really returned it.  So I don't know what to do about him.[/I][/INDENT]
[*][B][color=f26522]Hollie Hollens:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]Well not a lot of her stuff aired in Australia, I mean it might of but I don't know, I don't watch much TV.  Still she's pretty sexy, and I remember how once she mentioned how I remind her of this other actor guy from something or another that she did.  I got curious and looked it up and yeah I can see it.  Still that's pretty much where all the nice stuff ends with me and her.  First off she makes fun of my powers constantly which is [b]so[/b] frustrating.  Then there is... I feel like I can see myself in her.  No I mean not like [b]that[/b], but how I used to just have such a shitty view of things and that better than everyone attitude.  She doesn't project it like I did, but its still there and everyone sees it.  I mean I don't know how to talk to her because I don't want her to end up having to realize things the way I had too, or in an even worse way.[/I][/INDENT]
[*][B][color=f26522]Nathaniel Nicholas Anderson IV:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]Nathan just straight up hates me... I totally get it though.  I used to really get onto him because I saw him as this perfect little momma's boy.  Once everything changed I really tried to make amends with the guy.  Apologizing, trying to be friendly with him, even buying him a pizza.  He still won't get over what I did.  So I just try to avoid it all now.  Now he's like a nagging reminder of what an asshole I used to be.  That said, I know offhandedly one of his biggest beefs with me is how I'm not happy with my mutant powers.  Oh excuse me if inflating like a fucking balloon is TOTALLY the same as being able to make cool armor and weapons with your MIND![/I][/INDENT]
[*][B][color=00a99d]Llavi Arutro De La Rosa:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]Who?  Oh yeah that guy... I mean I guess that kind of says what I know about him.  Seems alright I guess, though we're not usually in the same classes and I've barely ever done any training with him.  Still he is a lot like William Irving, his powers remind me how bad I could of had things instead of inflating like a fucking balloon.  Actually speaking of, once while me and Will were in the gym and he was trying to roll me around using his air powers.  Llavi left a glob of his black goo stuff on one of the walls and I got stuck on it.  Took like 30 minutes to get unstuck.  So that was a pain in the ass.[/I][/INDENT]
[*][B][color=0072bc]William Alexander:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]At first I thought the guy was kind of annoying to be honest.  Just that happiness all the time felt like it was fake or something.  I mean his no Casanova or anything, but I have to admit I've grown on the guy quite a bit lately.  He's good people to be around, plus I'll admit I think we make a solid duo.  As stupid as my powers are, if I have to have them and deal with them.  Having someone who can control air like Will is good.  I mean he can use the air to move me around faster which lets me not have to exert energy which is nice.  Plus once the teachers had Will throw a bunch of air down my gullet to see if I inflate faster which I do. When we do that it always gives me killer gas though.[/I][/INDENT]
[*][B][color=00a99d]Heidi Keller:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]She never really says much to me and I don't really say a lot to her honestly.  She seems alright but eh....[/I][/INDENT]
[*][B][color=0072bc]Daniel Green:[/color][/B]
[INDENT][I]So... why are you asking me about these people in particular?  Well with Daniel the first thing I think is how my stuff with him used to really be the worst when I was being a dick.  Daniel was giving me shit for something, I can't remember what.  Well I ended up using some pretty colorful language with him and his gay status.  God I still kick myself for that.  When I got my act together the first thing I did was apologize to him for it.  I'm still amazed he forgave me for it.  The two of us do share caring about the environment together.  He's pretty hardcore about it though, but with his powers it makes sense.  I mean really growing up I saw some nasty shit shore up onto the beach.  I don't want to imagine my kids and their kids having to deal with worse.[/I][/INDENT][/LIST][/INDENT]