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Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters

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Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters

• Alan Peregrine

Flying has never felt better. Alan loved to fly more than anything in the world. The freedom to fly high in the sky was a feeling he would always love. The air above the city was okay. They were mostly clean, but the air in the countryside was something else. The air wasn’t just clean, they were also fresh, moist, green, and smelled like home. The air of Westchester wasn’t just special because it was familiar. It was an air fillied with his memories of an irreplaceable youth.

Alan was flying above the skies of New York, the state not the city. He got to New York city a few minutes ago there by train, but not by choice of course. If it was truly up to him he’d rather fly all the way, but flying from Baltimore where his old life was to New York was tiring even for him. It wasn’t impossible of course seeing as he’s flown from coast to coast before. To be honest he just wanted to get there quickly. He was fast flyer he knew that much, but it's been long time since he's gone mach levels of flying. He was rusty and he was not ashamed to say it.

Alan was speeding on the blue skies above everyone else with the bright yellow sun as his observer. Every time he flew there was a certain level of weightlessness that only flying allowed him. The weightlessness was helped by the fact that he was only carrying a shoulder bag; everything else he owned had already been shipped off at the institute days ago. He hoped they were there already and not lost. Although if anything he wished that Kitty replied to his email saying he was coming back todayabout him coming back today, and he knew from experience that that was long shot given how chaotic the school could be.

In the four short years that felt like a hundred lifetimes he’s spent in the school he knew just how bad they could get. He also knew how good it could get. The two went hand in hand, the good and the bad. He could always count on something happening at the school. If it wasn’t being attacked, raided, destroyed, rebuild, destroyed again and rebuilt again then that means something was going on. Nothing stayed the same. One week they could get going off to an unknown dimension, the next week they would be facing a galactic overlord. The best and worst part was that he was never a full X-Men. He was just a student most of the time that liked to help around and even still, he experienced the full blunt of things. If he was sure of something it was that he’ll never be sure when it came to things involving that school. One of the hardest lessons he learned was that things change, for better or worse. The world would be in a constant state of flux that was the status quo.

Al had just flown past the Salem town center when he finally started recognizing the familiar scenery; heck, all of it was still familiar to his senses. His heart was pounding already, but the closer he got it felt as if his chest would explode and his heart would leap. When he finally saw the mansion hi smile beamed. His landing was soft and perfect. “Just like always.” He told himself as his feet made contact with the brick pathway. It was like he was a teenage boy again walking on the same steps as before, but he knew it was different. He was sure they were different because once a year the school would get destroyed and nearly everything had to be remade. It was an annual event that anyone from his generation expected. He felt like running, but he wanted to stroll and take it all in slowly because the all too familiar feeling of walking in this place would bring him to tears, and he really wanted to cry.

• Daniel Keel

Daniel was still new to school. Everything in this place was weird. They were exciting, but it was something he was not used to. The first time he came here the Headmistress personally greeted him. She was a nice looking woman and was pleasant company, but the way she introduced herself half of her body was still coming out of the floor. It was surreal, that much was true, but surreal immediately turned weird, then creepy, then surreal again, and then weird once more. Overall it was such an uncanny experience that he could not believe he was signed p for it.

The whole tour he could not pay attention. Danny tried to pay attention but he was more interested in the students that the actual tour. There were people that didn’t look like people, people that were more than just people, people that could lift other people, and people that shoot things at other people. There were also people that flew. That was something he wanted to try out, but the people that did flew often had wings or were glowing.

After the glowing incident happened, he officials told him that he had gravity powers. Danny didn’t really understand the specific, but he understood the basics. The blue colored energy was for making things light and the red one ‘s for making things heavy. He did experiments on his stuff. His dresser floated all the way to the ceiling, and the quarter he put on the floor made dents. It was a fascinating experiences that he shared with his brother. They were freaked out. It sucked. After the whole experience he made sure to do his thing in private.

He was proud of his powers and he really wanted to show them, but his family was none too happy at his new abilities. The Institute was different though. Everyone was so proud at showing off their powers that everyone was literally flying or made other fly. Right there and then he knew he would like this place.

It’s only been a few days. Two days really and he’s already feeling like it’s been a whole month. His first visit comprised mostly of his own tour, and wandering around by himself, getting to know the campus and meeting up with other students. It was fun. It was the most fun he’s had in years.

Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters

I posted my two character's on the cast list. Two guys.

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“Here comes the smolder. It's a Tangled reference.”

Real Name:
Daniel “Danny” Keel

Codename:
Vault

Birthday/Age:
November 8/17

Place of Birth:
Baltimore, Maryland

Occupation:
Student, Track and Field Star

Family:
Julius and Sarah Keel – parents, alive
Ronald “Ronny” and Benjamin “Benny” Keel – brothers, 15 and 14 respectively

Relationship Status:
Recently single, hurt and open to anything.

Mutant Ability:
Danny is a gravity manipulator. His power takes shape in the form of differently colored energies that he can release through his body. The red colored energy can create and increase gravity and the blue colored energy can nullify and decrease gravity. The shade of the energy’s color indicates their level of gravitational strength, and it’s transparency to opaqueness indicates its impenetrability. For example an opaque dark red energy means that the gravitational increase is at full power and possesses a level of impenetrability, while a transparent light blue energy is only decreasing gravity slightly and can be affected by outside forces. Danny can coat his own body in the field allowing him to change his gravity to make him leap high into the air and float, or stand in his ground unmovable by outside forces or sink into the ground. The biggest different that separates him from other energy projectors is that they can shoot out energy Danny can’t, he must touch objects to release his powers. Once an object has been completely affected by Danny only he can take it away again, and without him, it will continue affecting them for a period of time.

Danny is dangerous, but he doesn’t know just how dangerous he can really get. He understands how to use his abilities somewhat and can protect himself by increasing an opponent’s gravity to pin them down to the ground or to make them float in the air, but he doesn’t understand that he can be more dangerous and powerful. If he was to use red energy someone completely he could bury them underground, but if he only covers a part of someone then that part is the only thing that will get buried and everything attached will be collateral damage. He can also use blue energy making them fly continuously until they die from the lack of air or have a part fly at super speeds leaving everything else behind. He can also use two energies on one thing at the same time from two ends and tear it apart from the middle. Alternatively, Danny can also use his powers at the same, which turns the energy purple and opens up a whole new set of possibilities. For example, he may be able to fly and walk on walls, have an impenetrable shield around himself, lift normally heavy objects and have it crash down on someone, and lock people up in an air tight unmovable impenetrable filed that only he can remove.

Personality:
Danny is a teenage and like most teenage boys there are a lot of things that distract him. He’s not very smart, but he can be cunning and quick witted. He doesn’t think outside of the box very much, but his box was large to begin with. Growing up as the oldest of three sibling Danny has grown into a leader type of role, but the environment he grew up in was full of rough, rowdy, and likeminded boys that could have easily turned him into the archetypical mean dumb jock that bullies the weak. Thankfully enough Danny isn’t dumb nor is he a bully, but he is a jock that isn’t so smart and likes to pick fights for sport. Danny is confident, but not so much so that he comes off as arrogant or prideful. He can be very loud when he wants to and can be quite hurtful as well, but he does care for people and values his friends a lot. He can be rough, bitter and spiteful sometimes, but he doesn’t do it because he wants to be he’s just wired that way. Danny’s not a “jerk with a heart of gold” he’s a guy with a golden heart that comes off like a jerk.

History:
Danny was born into your typical rich white family that involves a huge house, two white-collar parents, and two younger brothers. Ever since he could remember, Dann’y always had a good childhood. One could say it’s the type of childhood that can be a textbook case. His name could be filed right under “rich white kid” and it would be correct. He has a lot of friends and some enemies, but he was popular and rich so there was not really a lot of hate, plus he’s well mannered and decent enough that most people don’t think too badly upon meeting him.

If not for his mutant ability Danny’s life would be just like everyone else’s. His teenage years would be full of having parties, drinking, maybe smoking, going to prom with a hot girl, graduating from his mostly rich kid high school and go off to a pretty good university where he would get a business degree, but he turned out to be a mutant. Things change when people find out that you’re different.

Danny was seventeen when the glowing energy powers started appearing, which is a bit late really for most mutations, but the glowing was a secondary mutation. The gravity powers were already there for some time while he just didn’t know he had powers or that he was a mutant. Up until the glowing started he thought he was just a normal teenage boy, but his mutation was there. Unlike other mutants that had flashy powers his powers were subtle, weak and didn’t change anything. His power to change gravity was there as early as twelve years old, but back then he could only slightly change his gravity so slightly and weak that he never noticed. For his early teenage years, Danny just leaped higher than others and had a hard time swimming because the gravity around him could be lighter and heavier without his own control, but nothing that really bothered him so much that it made people think mutant. People just thought he was good athlete and a bad swimmer.

The glowing changed everything and in the worst way possible because it happened in public. They appeared in his junior prom. There were balloons, a live band, and a chandelier that he would destroy. He had just lost the crown for prom king to his best friend when his hands started glowing blue. Naturally he was scared and his first action was touching his date. She floated and screamed away. He tried to run but his short little skips made him leap into the air. He landed beside the buffet table, his hands touched the whole thing floated crashing into the chandelier and making food spill into the prom goers. Danny’s hand then turned red causing the whole floor to shake and tilt. He tried to run again, but his own gravity was too heavy to move around People ran away screaming leaving him alone his body to heavy to even stand up ,while his date was still floating on the ceiling scared for her life. Officials arrived and took care of things. It was easy to figure out that he was a mutant.

Things never stayed the same after then. Danny didn’t even get to return to school to apologize because the school kicked him out for causing public disturbance, but really it was because he was a mutant. The friend he once thought were his bests never bothered to reply to his texts and calls. They never even visited him in the hospital the times he was there. He didn’t care much for it all because he was a rock, he tried to be a rock. It didn’t work because deep inside Danny cared about people and what they think. His family was as supportive as any family could be. At the very least, they tried and they were quiet, but they couldn’t help. Danny had to help himself. He found the school, they didn’t find him, and he had no idea what kind of life was waiting for him there. He was thrilled either way because eating at home all alone was seriously killing his mood.

Extra:
The name vault comes from the fact that his favorite track and field event was pole vaulting.

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“I like to make faces. I can also fly and do windy things.”

Real Name:
Alan “Al” Peregrine

Codename:
Drifter

Birthday/Age:
December 1/27

Place of Birth:
Devil’s Lake, North Carolina

Occupation:
Professional flier and social worker.
Xavier’s Institute Teacher of Alternative Power Use, Flying Instructor, and Counselor

Family:
Garfield and Logan Peregrine - Adopted fathers, alive, well
Alliana Strange - birth mother, unkown status and location

Relationship Status: Single and not looking, but ready to be found.

Mutant Ability:
Alan is a flyer, but his mutant ability is to control the air. He is an Aerokinetic allowing him control over the millions of gas-based particles and compounds surrounding the earth, and the movement of the invisible force wind. With his abilities he can create gusts of winds that blow people and structures away, move objects, send and receive the small vibrations in the air that carry sounds allowing him to hear conversations from faraway people and places, and a whole lot more limited only by his creativity, but Alan doesn’t care for this because he doesn’t think of himself as an Aerokinetic, but a flyer. Alan loves flying and through the use of his Aerokinesis he can. By manipulating the air around him he can create an environment around himself that allows him to propel himself to the skies, float high above others, and most of all drift through the sky like a peaceful and in his own opinion an omnipotent cloud. Alan is blessed because his abilities are strong, always growing, and they don’t come with any other mutation like being made out of air. He loves his abilities, but he is also scared of it because he understands how destructive he can be. His dangerous ability is not helped by the fact that his abilities are affected by his emotions, luckily enough he has had a lot of experience with his abilities that he can control his powers even when he is feeling a strong emotion most of the time. On occasions that he can’t control his Intense feelings affect the air around him. For example, anger makes the surrounding air hot, sadness makes it cold, and love makes the air fresh and clean.

Alan doesn’t like to fight using his powers because he knows how dangerous he could get and how much emotions go into them, but he knows that as a mutant fighting for his life and for his friends is something that he has to do. In his years of being alive he has learned how to defend himself and he’s learned quite well. In a typical fight he would start using his powers immediately creating gale force winds that would knock his enemies away from him. He would fly to gain the height and vantage point advantage. His defense involves blowing projectiles away or creating a shield of fast moving wind that would protect him from all directions. Alan knows that his Aerokinetic powers lack deadly abilities in most occasions, but when he really wants to he can easily create a large tornado with him in the center that destroys everything around him, but he refuses to use his powers in this way because the one time he did he still can’t forgive himself.

His name comes about because of his constant use of his powers to fly high above everyone else and let the winds carry him to faraway places like a leaf in the wind drifting from place to place.

Personality:
There’s a reason he chose the name Drifter. Like a leaf in the wind and like the clouds above the sky Alan is an easygoing, peaceful, and tranquil person who likes being those things. He is joyful, optimistic, and enlightened. He is comfortable with having lots of people with him, and is often well liked by those people, but he is also comfortable in his own skin and enjoys quiet alone time for flying meditation. He always has a smile on his face and never falters even when in a crisis because he always hopes for the best. On the job he remains the same, and this is true when he is on the battlefield. As Drifter, he is serious in a fight, fast and strong, never holding back in power, but always limiting himself to make sure he doesn’t hurt anyone too badly. He doesn’t like to fight. He is a lover not a fighter, but he understands it must be done so he does it anyway, but rest assured he’d rather do something else. He knows that he is powerful and it is for this very reason that he makes sure to limit himself because he doesn’t like to hurt people. On any given day he'd rather fly rather than fight, which he is fine with.

History:
Alan was born in a hospital in Devil’s Lake North Carolina where his birth mother, Alliana, gave him up for adoption, she was only sixteen at the time and she could not take the responsibility. Two people adopted him, two gay men. His two fathers loved him dearly and his birth mother who they thanked after naming him from her, hence Alan from Alliiana. As a child Alan was tease for having two men as parents, but living in the big city made for less discrimination against them in general, but not by much. His peaceful childhood was helped by the fact that one of his fathers was a cop and the other one was a lawyer and they also happened to somewhat rich, upper middle class really.

Alan’s childhood was normal. He was a bright and happy child, friendly, kind and well liked. He was an optimist that thought the best of people and things. He saw the best in people and hoped he was right, and even though he would be wrong sometimes, he didn’t think much of it. His two father’s made sure to give him everything a child could ever have, and his friends that never cared for how he came to be. He questions about himself and world, always curious of the world unknown to him. He wondered about his birth mother. His fathers told him that they would tell him more when he was an adult. He wondered about mutants. His fascination for them led to his desire to fly, envious of those that flew above others, and it is for this reason that he was happy when his powers manifested.

It happened on a windy day. He was looking from their apartment complex’s balcony, supposedly doing his homework, but his mind was drifting to places elsewhere. While he was dreaming of flying places in far own world his body started to fly. After realizing what he was doing he was quickly filled with joy, but it was just as quickly replaced with fear as he realized that he did not know how to stop drifting away or how to land. In a matter of minutes, his body was floating high above the building where he was at the mercy of the wind. On the ground, an audience who made sure to get his face and name out into the world was watching him, and up above them in the sky he began to fear his powers. Heroes got him down, but a part him realized that it could have been better if he just flew away. His then friends left him alone no matter how much he tried to get them back. He wasn’t met with hate or anger, no, it was worse. He was met with apathy, fear and isolation. His two father’s tried, they tried hard, but they didn’t know how to deal with him. They understood what it was like, but they had no experience with mutants. Alan knew they were scared and they didn’t know what to do with him, but Alan did. He sought out the X-Men and Professor Xavier to enroll him to the one place where he wouldn’t be feared and where he could learn how to make sure he couldn’t hurt anyone.

His years at the school was nothing if not extraordinary and fun. Unlike those who enrolled in the school to become X-Men or heroes he just wanted a place where he could feel at home, and he did. He found a place where people didn’t fear him and made him feel normal. Outside he was feared, but in the school he was Drifter an Aerokinetic who knew how to fly better than any other flier did. His school years in the world of mutants were magnificent. He learned what it meant to live a life un restrained by the real world and understood what it meant to be a person outside of what people called him. The school also taught him to defend himself and use his powers beyond flying. Alan didn’t like to fight, he didn’t like the loss he experienced and the bitter hate he felt, but he understood why it happened and fought to protect what Charles Xavier wanted for the world. He didn’t like the hurt he had to deal with and the people that he fought, but sometimes he had to.

After graduating and getting his education, he quit the fighting since it was never what he got into the school for. He left to go get an education and he became a social worker. It is a fulfilling job that allowed him to take care of the people. He became a person who could protect, fight and care for people like him, mutants, outsiders, underdogs and helpless . His father’s remain fearful of him, but they accepted what he is and learned how to deal with, as normal as they could. Once Alan turned eighteen his father’s finally told him what they know of his birth mother other than her name, but he couldn’t find her and to this day he still hasn’t, but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped trying. He still uses his powers of course because he could never get rid of the thing that made him truly feel alive. He wasn’t ashamed of his powers, but he made sure to not cause trouble, make sure he would never hurt someone, and on some occasions he would stop nearby crimes by blowing a little wind here and there, anonymously of course.

He wasn’t there for the big fight with Apocalypse since he was busy with dealing with helping other people and he hated himself because he wasn’t there to fight with the man he idolized, but he was there for the funeral. When Kitty Pryde went to reestablish the school he wanted to help immediately, but there was work to be done. After the big fight with Apocalypse he had to help the mutants who were, more so than ever, being hurt by the people around them. He immediately wanted to be a part of the school that made him feel at home, but he had to finish his client list first.

Extra:
Alan likes to fly really high and free fall into large bodies of water.
Al also sometimes sleeps with the clouds.
He wears corrective lenses most of the time, and goggles when flying.

Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters

I have sent my two character's and they have come back positive. I still need the relationship posts though so there's that.

Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters

I'm cleaning my room, end of spring cleaning kind of thing complete with rearranging furniture, waxing the wooden floors, and throwing out old trash. I'll be making my character tonight. I may do two people if that's currently allowed, but if not then I'll be making one if you'll still have me of course.

Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters

Understood. With regards to the characters how many are still actually present because you mentioned writers dropping like flies and I'd like to know who I should actually get to know. There's also the matter of how I'll enter the story, what info can you give me on that.

Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters

Sounds great. If I'm to participate is there anything important that I should know before making a character with regards to the preestablished plot in the RP? or anything i should avoid doing?

Also who should I send the C.S. to?

Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters

Is this still open/active? I saw the interest check so i thought to ask here.