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Roleplay: Operation: X-Men
Level: High Casual
Appearance:

Jack is athletically fit with a moderately toned body. His height comes to about sixty-eight inches and he averages about one-hundred and fifty-five pounds. His hair is almost shoulder-length. It’s color is messy blonde and the style of it would be classified as messy. The color of his eyes can depend on the lighting of the room he is in, but mainly are bluish-green. His skin is white. The style of clothing he wears is often casual unless there is an event that calls for more formal wear. He usually wears jeans and a shirt with a good pair of walking shoes.

Name:Jack Taylor Smith
Age: 17
Mutation:
Ice Manipulation:
Based on past events, Jack’s mutation is undoubtedly Ice Manipulation. He has shown great potential for it as, when he was just ten-years-old, he was able to freeze the ground, including water, that was a forty meter range. However, that’s when he was pushed past his emotional limits. On command, the most he was able to do was produce a couple of literal Ice Clones of himself, shoot ice projectiles at targets. These projectiles range from spikes to medium-sized daggers. He’s been trying to reach the point of ground-freezing that he achieved that long ago, but he has yet to reach it.

Personality:
Jack is exactly how he looks on the surface. He is nice, respectful, and at the very most, humble. There will be times where a slight arrogance and/or cockiness will surface, but that’s only after he accomplishes something that makes him so proud of himself. It could range from personal or academic achievements.

However, he wasn’t always like this. In his youth, he was rather mean. He had problems communicating with people and when they would poke fun at it, he would get angry and that would cause Jack to act out in a physical way. Due to something that happened around the time he was just 10 years old, Jack’s mental state changed drastically. He was reduced to a shell and only around the age of fifteen did he start to come out and he came out of the shell as he is now: respectful, humble, and nice to others.

History:
His name is Jack Taylor Smith and he grew up in the wonderful city of Vancouver, Canada. He had a fairy simple and normal life. He had two parents, a sister, and a brother, both younger than him. None of his parents or his siblings had any kind of special powers with in them, so it wasn’t like he was going to be set up for this horrible life later on. Before we indulge into that part of his life, let’s take a walk through what his every day routine was like right up until “that” day.

Jack would wake up for school at 6 O’Clock. Of course, this would be in the morning. He would take a shower at soon as he got out of the shower, and that usually took him ten minutes, depending on how soon the hot water was available for him. As soon as he would get out of the shower, Jack would eat some breakfast while watching some cartoons. Around seven, he would get dressed, and gat all ready to go before the bus arrived at 7:15am. Now, that seems like it would be a pretty normal routine for a seven year old, right? Well it is. In school, Jack was pretty much the kid who was picked on early in his school life, but decided to change that about in forth grade where he became the one who picks on the other kids and not the other way around.

Now, skip forward one year. Jack hs been keeping up the routine he was on, well for the most part. He’s become a little distant, and he’s eased up on the bullying cause he was starting to feel bad about it. It even got to the point where he stopped and was picked on again. The cycle never ends. However, one day, how he got bullied went extreme. Like, this wasn’t even near the level of what it has been. He was tricked by his crush at the time, his best friend, any friend he made, and all the kids in the school. It was an elaborate time to just embarrass the fuck out of him. Well, one thing that can be said about the entire ordeal is that it worked. However, the end result was not something that the kids had in mind.

What they probably thought was going to happen was for Jack to cry and eventually break down. This was the first time that Jack’s mutation came to light. As he was crying and feeling so bad for falling for such a horrible prank, he lost it. It started with his tears. As they were dripping down his face, they froze. They were like little tears of ice starting to fall down from his face. That kept up, but another thing happened. The chilling aura of ice started to surround the sad kid that was Jack. The other kids started to scramble, and for some it was just in time, but for the rest, it was too late. It only took ten seconds for Jack to freeze a forty meter radius of ground and water solid. The kids that were within this range also were frozen solid for a mere five seconds. Sadly, that’s all it took for not only Jack to see what he had become, but the other kids as well as the adults who were watching the entire thing.

After that whole ordeal, the news spread throughout the school, and to Jack’s parents, as well as the parents of every kid that almost died of hypothermia. The majority of the parents were livid at Jack. Even his parents couldn’t understand what he had became. From that point up until middle school, Jack was exiled from all kids, his parents gave what love to him they could in fear that he would freeze them too. It was all within understandable reason, Jack tried to disconnect himself from any emotion that would connect with anger, embarrassment, or anything of the sort. He soon just became a shell of his former self. He felt as cold as the ice he seemed to wield, yet he was not able to bring forth that power.

It had to be about at the age of fourteen where Jack’s parents suggested that he would be transferred to one of the mutant schools that would help him, but Jack wasn’t stupid. He knew exactly what those schools are. He remembers watching the news almost ten years ago with Spider-Man and Iron Man talking about those schools. Not only did he refuse to go there, but he flat out threatened violence if they forced him. His parents feared that he would act this way, so they had to call the cops. Jack couldn’t believe this. His own parents were turning on him. Even though they don’t see it that way, Jack knows that they’re pretty much giving up on him. So, what is a fourteen-year-old to do in a situation like this? Yup, that’s right. He stole some money from his mom and dad, and went on the run. All he could scrunge up form them was one hundred bucks. Even though he felt bad about leaving, nothing was left for him. His siblings were with his parents, so it’s not like they would stop him. He wished that they would have, but he can’t change what he is. He can only prevent to become worse.

About a year on the run, Jack did what he could just to survive. If he had to steal, he would steal. If he had to work for various crime lords and bosses, he would do that as well. Life on the street for a kid is hard, so they have to do what they can just to survive the night and live to see the sunlight the next morning. Within the year, Jack was slowly starting to learn how to reach his powers. Only little-by-little has he been able to tap into his powers. With the help of his powers, Jack found himself in South Dakota. He doesn’t know how, but he did.

About halfway into his fifteenth year of living, Jack found himself at a diner where he was just trying to get something to eat. In that diner, he encountered a strange lady. When he asked for her name, she just told him “X”. Surely a strange name, but Jack isn’t one that should judge others, considering what he is and what he could do. As the two of them talked, she began to talk about a world in which there others like Jack. Like, there are other people with powers that they know nothing of how they got them. When she told him this, she also made a mention of a school(of sorts) for kids like Jack and how she and this guy rob are searching for kids to help through the process of controlling their powers. Jack knew he wouldn’t get anywhere on the run. So, maybe going with this chick and Rob would be best. So, that’s what he did. He didn’t have any better offers, so what’s the worse that can happen?

OOC/Misc:
Hobbies include:
-writing lyrics
-listening to music when he can
-reading the books in the library
-Playing video games when he can.

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