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Profile:Student

Name:
Galen Ryker

Age:
18

Gender:
Male

Basic Information

Appearance:
Galen has white hair and brilliant blue eyes, but his features are otherwise plain. His jawline is undefined, his nose slightly larger than average, and his eyebrows bushy and prominent. Galen cares very little for his appearance, and as such is usually in a state of disarray.
His hair is kept short so he generally doesn't have to bother with it, but when it grows out a bit it is constantly messy. Galen is fit,
 but not body-builder fit... more strength than show. He dislikes form-fitting clothing, but isn't terribly concerned with covering his upper body either. When given the choice, he usually wears a loose-fitting tank top and jeans or cargo pants. The only downside to this is that it allows people to see the scars that cover his arms (and the rest of his body) from various wounds he has healed.

Personality:
-Active
-Playful
-Caring
-Reckless
-Friendly
-Easily Distracted
-Naive

Galen doesn't care much about himself. Even though there is no proof of where superpowers come from, he firmly believes that his was given to him for a purpose-to help others. Of course, since helping others means hurting himself, his ideology couldn't survive if he considered his own life above others. So he doesn't. As far as he is concerned, he was made to serve and to help. Galen believes in the best in people, and is therefore somewhat naive. He is trusting to a fault- one of his biggest flaws. Another is that his disregard for himself leaves little room for self-reflection, and he often doesn't realize the recklessness of his actions or the emotional or physical toll he will have to deal with based on his decisions.

Backstory:
Galen Ryker was the first in his family to have superpowers. Actually, he was the first in his entire town. Not that that was all that impressive, considering the town consisted of only a couple hundred people. After discovering his healing ability at age 7, his parents were thrilled. That is, until they saw him heal another person. The self-harming aspect of his powers scared them, and they forbade him from using it.
But Galen had other plans. As he approached his teenage years, he began to rebel against his parents' ruling, claiming they "just didn't understand." He had these abilities for a reason, and he intended to use them. His idealism drove him to desire life as a hero. He started sneaking out and visiting local hospitals, clinics... even animal shelters. Unused to the pain at first, these visits would leave him incapacitated. Yet he kept going.
At first his parents tried to stop him, but that only made him more determined. When he healed a fatal wound and nearly died (the only time he's managed to control the extent of his power) he was put into a coma for nearly 3 years. He wanted to start working instead of going to school, since he would now be so much older than any of the the first-year students at a normal school. A few months after he awoke, a nurse from the hospital he was in showed up at his door, claiming to be from an organization for superpowered people. She said she had seen him sneaking in to heal the patients (much to his embarrassment), and offered him a place at a school for people with special abilities, provided his parents allowed it. His parents decided to send him to Palladium Academy in hopes that they would teach him not to be so reckless with his abilities.

Other Skills:
-Athletics
-Singing (although getting him to do it in front of other people is near impossible)
-Baloon Animals

Power Set

Name:
Recovery

Abilities:

-Sacrifice: Galen can transfer physical pain from another person to himself. Wounds have the same effect on him after the power is used that they would have had on their original recipient. He can control the extent of this power (allowing him to share and reduce pain but not entirely eliminate it while maintaining more of his own strength), but has not yet learned to do this reliably. At this point in his development, his power is still largely in the "all or nothing" stage, so healing a lethal wound is highly likely to kill him. Because of this ability, Galen's pain tolerance and self-repairing abilities are far above that of the average person. While he is by no means invulnerable,  wounds obtain both physically and by transference through his Sacrifice ability heal about ten times as fast as they would on the average person. (ex.- A minor leg fracture usually results in around 8 weeks of recovery time. After breaking his leg or healing someone else's, Galen would be mobile again in 5-6 days)

Weaknesses:

-All or Nothing: At his current stage of development, Galen cannot reliably control the amount of damage he takes from the person he is healing. Therefore, it is common for him to incapacitate himself by taking on more than he can handle. This is especially dangerous with wounds that do not appear to be as bad as they are, as he doesn't fully know how painful the transference will be until it happens, and the shock can have an effect on him.
-High Metabolism: Galen's regeneration may allow him to heal faster, but the accelerated healing still consumes the some amount of energy as the regular healing process would. This results in extreme fatigue and hunger if not properly tended to. In order to maintain a normal state of being, he must consume about twice the amount of food as a normal man.

Other:

Galen loves puppies.

<Snipped quote by Pirouette>

I don't think she's a bad character (well, I think she's a little edgy, but hey), I just don't think being a teacher would be natural for her. I see her as a student brought here to control her bloodlust or weird ghoul powers (which I think are cool, but some of the others have concerns).

<Snipped quote by Kiyran>

Personally, you could just merge both abilities together, and that'd work better in my eyes. Up Sacrifice a bit so that he transfers wounds to himself, and then regenerates them. You can also keep the regeneration that way. He'd fill a better role power-wise in my opinion that way.@Surtr

They were meant to be different facets of the same ability anyway, so that works fine ^_^

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