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[u][b]Name:[/b][/u] James Harris

[u][b]Superhero name:[/b][/u] Medic

[u][b]Gender:[/b][/u] Male

[u][b]Race:[/b][/u] Human

[u][b]Age:[/b][/u] 28

[u][b]Appearance:[/b] [/u]
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Standing tall at 6’2, James has dark hair and eyes. He has an athletic build and prefers practicality over style when it comes to his clothes, often wearing sweaters, hoodies or just plain t-shirts along with a pair of jeans and comfortable boots. He is also partial to vintage leather jackets whenever he rides his Harley. His only outstanding feature is the faded burn scars on his chest, neck and bottom left side of his face from where the majority of the chemical landed on him.


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-Not yet acquired
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[u][b]Personality:[/b][/u] Above all else James is a nice guy who wants to do the right thing. He helps out where he can, works hard, takes care of his family and he doesn’t get into fights if he can help it. He’s the kind of guy who tries to negotiate a peaceful solution first and foremost and only ever resorts to violence if there is no other choice available. James is also insanely loyal to those he considers his family and friends and would do almost anything to protect them. He is also a bit of a glass-half-full kind of person, who tries to see the best in everything.

[u][b]Power: [/b][/u]
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[*] [b]Regeneration:[/b] His cells regenerate at an accelerated pace, meaning that as long as his heart continues to beat, he’ll be able to recover from nearly any injury given enough time. The length of time it takes for his injuries to heal tends to vary depending on the severity of the wound. A cut on his hand will be gone within a minute where if he breaks every bone in his body, was caught up in an explosion, or was ran over and dragged by a bus, it could take up to three days before he’s completely healed. Another effect of his regeneration that he hasn’t discovered yet, is that it slowed down his aging. He is not immortal, this just means that his life-expectancy increased by around 20-50 years. 
[*] [b]Wound transferal:[/b] He can manipulate the cells in living organisms – himself included – by transferring his own injuries to another living creature as well as the reverse where he transfers their injuries to himself.
[*] [b]Transferal of hormones:[/b] He can also manipulate individual hormones – like adrenaline – transferring some of it from one person to another. He can also sap – or give – energie from another in this manner.
[*] [b]Pain manipulation:[/b] He can also transfer pain, either absorbing the pain from someone else onto himself, or transferring his own pain to another.
[*] James is now also immune to becoming ill and, in a few years, I’m planning on him being able to cure serious diseases using his abilities.
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[u][b]Limitations:[/b][/u] 
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[*] His powers take both time and energy – with his energy levels directly affecting the time. As such he can only do so much before he needs to take a rest, otherwise he’ll start risking himself. (I figured that the amount that he can use his powers without becoming to tired can increase over the course of the rp? Like how exercising slowly increases your stamina?)
[*] He’s still learning how his powers work and thus far has only really explored his regeneration and wound transferal.
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[u][b]Flaws/weaknesses: [/b][/u]
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[*] His regeneration can’t fix death. He can recover from almost everything but a killing blow. Example: A bullet to the brain, having his heart ripped out or being decapitated are but a few things he should try to avoid.
[*] He is not a starfish, so he won’t be able to regrow limbs.
[*] His powers only work through skin contact.
[*] The closer a person is to death when he transfers their wounds to himself, the more dangerous it becomes for himself, depending on the severity of their condition, there is a chance that he could die.
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[u][b]Skills/Talents:[/b][/u] 
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[*] He is trained as an EMT and is a certified paramedic
[*] He’s pretty athletic, making a point of it to exercise regularly
[*] He’s a good cook
[*] He’s good with managing his finances and regularly helps his family out with their books.
[*] He’s ambidextrous – proficient with using both his hands
[*] Knows all the best ways to extinguish different kind of fires.
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[u][b]Background/Bio:[/b][/u] James Harris had an ordinary life – or as close to ordinary as one can get living in Grailham city. He had two average middle-class parents and two younger siblings. The only remotely interesting thing about his upbringing was when he skipped the fourth grade as well as the pranks he and his siblings would pull on each-other. Other than that, he kept his head down and his nose clean and worked hard – both for school as well as various part time jobs. When he was 17 he graduated Highschool with high marks, continuing that streak at university where along with his other studies, he got certified as a EMT. After college he spent a few years working as an EMT before he became a paramedic at 26. 

It was when he had been working as a paramedic for a year that the accident happened. The team he was working with had responded to a massive fire at a private science-facility. A man with severe burn wounds had been wheeled into the ambulance – a canister clutched in a death grip in his hands. Unfortunately, he died before they reached the hospital, but not before pushing the canister into James’s hands and whispering, “Don’t let him get this…”

After dropping the man’s body off, they were on route to their next call. While sitting in the back, James took a moment to inspect the canister. Curiosity got the better of him, and since there weren’t any warning labels on it, he cautiously unscrewed the top in order to peer inside. As fate would have it though, it was at that moment that the ambulance collided with another vehicle and was sent careening off the road. The impact causing James to jerk and the contents of the canister to spill on him. 

The following events were a blur. James can only recall blinking up at the night sky and the ambulance going up in flames next to him all while a burning pain spreading across his body like a fire. 

When he later woke up in the hospital, he discovered that there wasn’t a single mark on him – not even any childhood scars – just an already fading scar from where the unknown chemical hit him. He didn’t fully realise the implications of what happened until a few days later when he accidentally cut himself while cooking and the wound closed right before his eyes. A few weeks later, he was visiting his younger sister when his niece had an accident resulting in a long bleeding gash in her arm that he knew would require several stitches.

While his sister was panicking and looking for the car keys, he took his sobbing niece into the bathroom to clean the wound and to staunch the bleeding. While tending her, he noticed that the cut on her arm was disappearing until only a long thin scratch remained and even that would have vanished had he not pulled his hands back in shock. At the same time he noticed a pain in his own arm along with a wetness on the inside of his sleeve. Keeping his composure, he finished tending to his niece’s injury before sending her off once she calmed down and then closed the bathroom door behind her. Frantically pulling off his jacket and rolling up his sleeves, he noticed that there was a deep cut on his arm – albeit an already healing one – on exactly the same place as on his niece’s.

From there the floodgates had been opened and while he might have been content to pretend that the cut on his hand was a figment of his imagination, there was no denying this. He started actively experimenting as much as he could, tentatively testing his own limits. His abilities have become an unbelievable advantage for his job, allowing him to better stabilise people and to allow many to actually arrive at the hospital alive when they previously wouldn’t have survived that long.

Sometimes he passes a comic book store, or hears about a hero’s exploits on the news, and he wonders whether he could be doing more with his abilities as well, but up until now nothing more has come from those thoughts than a few moments of idle pondering. Will that change?

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[*] [url=https://youtu.be/SL8VCJsHI4A]Theme song[/url] (I might change this later if I find something more fitting)
[*] Face claim is Nico Panagio
[*] Before gained his powers, he was allergic to strawberries, peanuts and citrus – now he’s making up for lost time by sampling them and experimenting as much as he could.
[*] He’s not a good singer, but he enjoys singing to himself if he thinks he’s alone.
[*] He loves reading, fantasy books in particular.
[*] His favorite colour is blue.
[*] He HATES broccoli and cauliflower with a passion.
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