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X-MEN: Equilibrium (closed)

@Ace of flames01 Well, my character also has a hell of a lot of city miles on him. Two of the most stressful jobs in the world are acting and soldiering.

X-MEN: Equilibrium (closed)

@Ace of flames01 That was a headshot picture of him when he did The Young Ones, aged 24. So, I thought it was ok.

X-MEN: Equilibrium (closed)

James Callihan

James Callihan

"Hey, my super power may be that I have a gun... But I am REALLY good with it."

Codename:

Agent Callihan

Age:

25

Gender:

Male

Sexuality:

None of your business

Relationship Status:

Classified

Species:

Human

Skills:

Trained to use most forms of firearm at an advanced level.
Trained in multiple forms of hand-to-hand combat, including Greko-roman wrestling, Boxing.
Under 15's Greater London regional Fencing champion at the age of 12 and again at 14
Pilot trained in a beginners course in Personal Helicopter piloting (Is only licensed to fly civilian helicopters and with no more than 3 passengers).

History:

James was born and raised in London, England. It was a typical upbringing for someone like him. He grew up in the era of hero-worship, his hero was Captain Britain. He collected newspaper clippings of any hero. His proudest picture he collected when he was 8 years old. When he was on a bus with his parents, the bus was attacked by mutants. They were rescued by the original X-Men, he was personally saved by Hank Mccoy, A.K.A. Beast. After the danger had passed, he managed to get a picture of himself with Beast. He passed out of Secondary school with the bare minimum qualifications under his belt to get him access to the Military. His father had been a Naval officer until he was crippled when somebody accidentally set off the magazine on the ship he had been serving on. He had rushed in to help a fellow crew member out when one of the shells exploded and the shock killed the nerves in his legs.

Ever since his father had returned, he wanted to join the military. His eldest brother had was flying Gunships in Germany and his next older brother was in the Army, so he opted to join the Royal Navy, like his father. By the age of 23, he had done 3 tours abroad and put in for the application process to join the Royal Marine Commando's. After a year of training, he managed to make it through the secretive, yet grueling process. He and his squad performed several raids on terrorist cells in the middle-east. However, 6 months after he was initiated, he went on what would be his final mission. Raiding a Mosque that was supposedly the base of operations for terrorists, they instead found that it was a refuge for Mutants in the area. After finding that the people inside were innocent civilians, they were given orders to escort them back to base. The Locals had a notorious hatred of mutants. During the escort, where he was in a large truck full of them, the convoy was ambushed by super-powered individuals. The U-Men.

Captured and put into containment with the rest of the mutants, he was kept alive, only as they needed a living being to test their new powers on. For 2 grueling months, he was subject to their every whim. He was beaten, immolated, electrocuted, poisoned, shot, stabbed, impaled. They even destroyed his right eye, but they refused to let him die until he outlived his usefulness. During this time, he met a mutant by the name of Makalah. The official report of his escape is classified, but what is known is that Makalah died during the escape.

After his escape, he was sent home to blighty for debriefing. When they heard his story, he was transfered to NATO's "Supernaturally Gifted Terror Response Force" or SGTRF. Since this has gone into force, they have worked diligently all over the world to bring Mutants that work with terrorists and other forces to undermine the worlds governments, under control. Those that are young enough are transfered to Muir Island and given an audience with the heads of the Xavier Institute to see if they can assist them become productive members of society, whereas those who are too old and set in their ways are transfered to "The Petri Dish" a super-max prison, designed to hold the most dangerous mutants. He has now been assigned as a liaison with the X-Men in order to try and help prepare their new team. As much good and well trained as the SGTRF are, they are, unfortunately, unable to adequately respond to the threat of mutants that have fully mastered their powers. Beings like The U-Men and Mr Sinister have proven far too powerful for them to combat effectively.

Appearance:

James is 6'3 with short brown hair with a rather large, stocky build, typical to those in the Military. He wears an eye-patch over his right eye. Under the patch his eye is a milky white with deep tissue scarring around it. He has a tattoo on his upper arm of the Royal Marine Commando's, with his lower arms having a list of numbers, 101 through to 121. Several of them have hearts around them. He also has the name "Makalah" tattooed onto his wrist at his right forearm, with a pair of wings coming out of each end of the name, touching wingtips around the back of his wrist. He also wears a gold ring on his left hand

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"Who Dares, Wins."
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Personality:

A rather complex man, he doesn't really have any specific speaking patterns, with the exception of his excessive use of british slang. As a soldier, he likes to spend a lot of his time either in his room or in the training room, usually listening to classical music being played rather loudly... Maybe with a bit of Bowie and Queen thrown into the mix. He is also very family oriented. Every day at 3, he will slip away from whatever it is he is doing to make a quick phone-call to his parents and will take any chance to get home to see them or his brothers.

One of his natural talents that he just seems to have developed is a natural empathy. Nothing supernatural about it, but he considers himself to be a good judge of character and will figure out rather quickly if he is being lied to or if someone isn't being honest with him. Ever since his incarceration at the hands of the U-Men, he has harboured a deep hatred of them and all anti-mutant bigots. He has seen where the extreme leads to and is determined to wipe out that way of thinking. He also doesn't like bullies, so also harbours a deep hatred of mutants that use their powers to push others around and is quick to make this known.

Likes:

Classical Music (Especially when played on Vinyl. If you let him play his mix tape, it is a Vinyl filled to the brim with Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Holst and Bach.)
Haggis (It's ground pig gut and corn, boiled in a sheeps bladder. What's not to love?)
BAE Systems (They make such lovely guns. Guarenteed to never fall apart and give you many years of trouble-free maiming.)
Tattoo's (He adorns his body with momento's of the most important parts of his life.)
Classic Video Games (Gimme an Amstrad or a ZX Spectrum or a Commadore 64 over any of these newfangled Xbox's anyday.)
Classic vehicles (From the sleek British sports saloons like the Aston Martin DB5 and Jaguar E-type to big American muscle cars like the Dodge Charger and Ford Mustang, or even as far back as the Ford Model-T and Crossley 18/50, he is a fan of almost every kind of car from before 1990. He has a special place in his heart for the Lamborghini Countach. But, he also has a love of steam trains and would easily say that Sir Nigel Gresley is one of his heroes.)

Dislikes:

U-Men (Bastards made me spend 2 months as a living punching bag, before killing my best friend)
Sourkraut (Tastes like ass)
American Football (Why do you call it Football, when you play the game primarily with your hands? It's like Rugby, only you sissy's need armour to play.)
War Video games (Way too samey. You shoot a guy, you move on, you shoot another guy, you move on. Gimme something like Bubble-Bobble any day.)
Dubstep (It sounds like 56k modem, violently throwing up.)

1812 Overature
_{"The sound of Cannonfire"}
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W.I.P.

X-MEN: Equilibrium (closed)

@Ace of flames01Alright, I'll cut his age back down. And don't worry, I do have a plan for mutant relations with him, but he, himself, I have no plans to develop powers. The U-Men wouldn't turn others into people like them. They see themselves as the ultimate beings and everything else is unworthy to share the same planet as they.

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@Ace of flames01 It was that I wanted to play a Human, but I wasn't sure if that would relegate my character to being superfluous. You convinced me that it wouldn't so I ran with it. Then you suggested the military character and I got the idea for a military character that has had great dealings with mutants, but it hadn't soured him.

Essentially, the character, as I have him thusfar, is a former S.A.S. soldier who was captured by the U-Men (If you're not familiar with them, they are a group of X-Men villains. They are humans that capture mutants and harvest their organs to implant into themselves in order to get super-powers) when they were hunting mutants in the middle-east. They pretty much used him as a guinea-pig to test the strength of the powers that they developed. A living punching bag, if you will. After a while, he managed to escape captivity with the aid of a mutant that they were going to harvest. Afterwards, the U.N. transfered him to an Anti-Supervillain team that they were making.

So, now he is transfered to the Xavier institute to serve as liaison from the U.N. Is this alright? Or would you rather I made a student?

X-MEN: Equilibrium (closed)

@Ace of flames01 I didn't want to be a mutant. I did want to play a human. It's just that you suggested the military character and I kinda liked it so I ran with it.

X-MEN: Equilibrium (closed)

@Ace of flames01 Oh. No, that's fine, it's just that before you said that you were looking for a human character to be teaching the other X-Men in gun usage

I don't think that having a human as a character would prevent character development at all. You can choose to make your character a member/former member of the military or FBI, thus being skilled in combat and firearms or explosives. He or she would also not be the only human character as there maybe be 2 other humans joining you. They could assist in training the other students in combat and firearms.

@Ace of flames01

So, I've been making an older, military character that can teach them gun usage and, as you said, work with them in the field. It kinda feels a little weird to play a character that has already passed all of the qualifications necessary to be in the FBI and still having to go to school.

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@Ace of flames01 Shit, I am so sorry if I pushed you to blowing a gasket. My only other question is if I am allowed to have a slightly older character. I mean, if he is supposed to be a teacher, as well as someone training them in combat, I would feel a lot more comfortable playing someone in their mid-late 30's than someone in their mid 20's.

X-MEN: Equilibrium (closed)

@Ace of flames01 I am really sorry if this feels like me badgering you. I'm not trying to be difficult, I am trying to find what the parameters are for character creation? Because, I really don't want to have to write out 12 different CS' because the character that I want has parts of his story that you would rather keep out of your RP?

Ultimately, you are the GM and your word is law. If you don't want me making a character with certain aspects, then just say so and I won't push it. But at the same time, you can appreciate that people like me love the entirety of the Marvel mythos. Speaking for myself, one of my avenues has been cut off, so I'd like to add some diversity and bring in other parts of the marvel mythos.

If you want me to stick completely with the X-Men Mythos, would you accept my character being a Soldier from a military outfit specially trained to track down some of the bigger X-Men villains such as the U-Men and Mr Sinister (Sort of like a more on the level version of Weapon X) and has been assigned to the mansion as their liaison with the X-Men.

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As I am creating my character, now. How the hell is he able to get involved with the institute, if i'm not allowed to use the non X-men parts of the Marvel universe? I mean, it's hard to come up with something that isn't just generic as all hell. I mean, if the larger universe is off the table, then I assume S.H.I.E.L.D. But, what about her surrogates like S.W.O.R.D. (Who's agents include a good number of X-Men, such as Beast and Shadowcat) and A.R.M.O.R. are also out of bounds? Also, is Magic also off the table?

Plus, the more I think about it the "X-Men only" thing is a very broad term? Because, how do you define "X-Men related" I mean if you go by "Started their life as X-men characters" then Wolverine is off the table, because he started his life as a Hulk villain. If you go with "Integral to the X-Men mythos" then You have to OK Rom The Spaceknight, because without him, Rogue would never have turned good and joined the X-men and gone on to save the world a couple of times. It was her absorbing his pure heart that made her see the error of her ways and want something better than just being one of Mystique's henchwomen. or even Captain Britain, since 95% of his supporting cast (Including his sister, Psylocke) are X-Men. It's also one of the reasons that we aren't getting a Captain Britain movie anytime soon. Marvel owns him, Fox owns everything surrounding him.

I am not trying to be awkward, it's just that with this "nothing not X-Men related" it is really difficult to say what is and is not. Can you give me a rough description as to what you classify to be X-Men or not?