Name: 
Mortimer Tolansky (polish)
Age: 
16
Alias:
Toad
Appearance:
[img]http://static.wetpaint.me/tv-nostalgia/ROOT/photos/rorycochranethen-1386885521.jpg[/img]
Abilities:
*Secretes psychoactive venom from his pores that causes psychedelic reactions with the consistency of tacky resin similar to gymnast chalk, Eventually he can use this to cling to solid objects.
*His legs muscle are twice as dense as everyone else's as are his bones from the pelvis down resulting in strength three times a normal person or equal to one professional athlete, all without working out. In the last year Xavier has put him on a killer workout session to make up for lost time so now his leg strength is equal to ten men.
*Superhuman flexibility and spine capable if contortionist movements.
 His lungs can expand and compress large quantities of air that can be expelled with enough force to knock a fully grown human off their feet or hold enough air for him to stay underwater for a half hour.
*Superhuman taste, perhaps more of a negative trait than he would hope for, but it means he could easily track someone by licking where they might have touched. 

Skills:
*He was a highly skilled crane style Kung Fu student for eight years but barely practiced at all for three years until Xavier insisted he learn again, Toad has now taken up Karate in the last year as a way to hone his superhuman kicking.
*After three years of football, he is a skilled athlete even though he barely puts any work into it at all but is already a capable team player
*He has become overly familiar with multiple narcotics and paraphernalia over the last three years. 
*A six inch purple prehensile 'Gene Simmons' tongue may not seem like a skill, but it is worth noting beforehand if he has to grab something or manipulate a small object with his mouth.
Personality Traits:
List a small number of traits that would describe your character. No more than 7.
Low self confident, looks to others to lead.
Long history of substance abuse
Team player
Hates the usual blond hair blue eyed women

Backstory:
He's a fucked up pup, that is for sure. He was the bastard son of a one night stand with a high school girl and a college guy. Pregnant at 16, she fell into depression and tried to drink herself into a miscarriage or accidentally fall down the stairs. It didn't take but it did cause certain birth defects such as his appearance and body growth. She blamed him for everything wrong in her life after that including the fact that her parents refused to let her give him up for adoption until she was 18. On her birthday she took her year old son to the orphanage to give him up as his first and only birthday present to his own mother. It was there that she met a man Named Erik, a Crane teacher from San Francisco who was looking to adopt a boy of his own since he was unable to have children after blow to his groin. What should have been a simple transfer became dating and eventually marriage. 

 She still resented her son for ruining her life and further fell into alcoholism. Her binge drinking along with general abusive treatment of Mortimer, 'an ugly name for an ugly baby', left him seemingly developmentally challenged. For all of her fury, his dad was his safety, he stuck with the failing marriage while devoting the attention to Mort and constant therapy or marriage counsellings attempts for his wife. While he was always a quiet child, his dad would take him everyday to class to keep him away from his mom where he learned and developed physically, able to do some of the more advanced techniques with no effort at all. 

 Sadly, when he was 12, a crane fell from a building and killed over a dozen people, his dad was one of them. Again Mortimer was somehow to blame in his twisted mothers mind that all she had left was a massive law suit. It was then that he fell into recreational drug use instead of gymnastics and martial arts like his dad had always hoped while his mother tried to drink away the thousands of dollars. 

 She couldn't wait to emancipate him at 16 so she could cut him off and lets him do whatever he wants in hopes he'll kill himself as long as he left her alone. Miraculously when it was time for teacher conferences, she always managed to pull her act together and play the part of a Stepford mom for a few hours in public before she took the mask back off once she is in the door.

***possible recruitment
 During his first year in highschool, when Mort was under the bleachers getting stoned, the coach found him after he kicked a twenty pound rock across the parking lot into the principals car. In exchange for turning a blind eye to his recreational drugs, Mort joined the team where he would make the coach famous no mater what college he went to. Once Mort was out at a party when one of the other kids thought he could make a name for himself by taking out a football player, Toad killed the boy with a kick to the crotch that broke every bone in the spinal column from pelvis to atlas. Before the police arrived, Xavier got to him first and offered him a place in their ranks. Xavier has spent the last year forcing him through his paces, trying to make up for the years Toad spent squandering his life.