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X-Men Noire: A Nation Reborn

Alright everyone, we have reached our 10 characters point! The OOC is now OPEN. Please move any new comments over there. Those who are still working on your CS's here, please continue or save your CS's somewhere else for you to work on (there are still 2 spots open before we are full). But from this point forward, this thread is now...

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@Shadowcatcher great! This looks really great! I'm going to go ahead and approve it however there are 2 small things I was wondering if you could work on in the meantime of me opening up the OOC. Firstly, his abilities need to be expounded on, what he can and what he will be able to do.

Secondly, Erik offering a safe way to remove the metal in Logan's body in favor for lessons isn't something that can really be done, it is literally his skeleton, so that deal won't exactly work out however I'm more than willing to help you think up something that we can use for the deal instead (off the top off my head, "I won't make you dance like a puppet if you teach me how to fight" type thing). PM me since there are a few other things we need to discuss as well.

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I still haven't heard from @Darling Cyanide, @Avanhelsing and @Shadowcatcher, please send me a PM at your earliest convenience.

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Idk about all the other stuff but we kind of have our quota for 'immortals' between Logan and Damien...

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Wonderful! Still 2 spots open and after that a first-come-first-served waiting list, should any of the other players be dropped or leave for any reason.

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Syleste Nioré

Name: Syleste Nioré.
Age: 18.
Alias: Morpheus (after the Greek God of dreams and sleep).
Position in School: Student.

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Costume:

Syleste's Disability - Blindness

The Adaptable Brain
At birth, the portion of the brain that deal with vision, hearing, and all other senses are connected. As a sighted child continues to grow up, these connections begin to separate themselves from one another, until eventually independent centers in the brain control each of the different senses that a person can use. In a blind infant however, these connections might remain intact, and the job of processing sound might be shared by both the visual cortex, as well as the auditory processing centers. If a person loses his/ her sight during childhood or adulthood, the connections might have already been separated because myelin (the fatty sheath surrounding affected nerves) develops rapidly in the very young.

Neuro-Imaging
Research into blindness has found that while regions in the brain that deal with vision are smaller in blind individuals than in that of those who still have their sight, other non-visual areas are increasingly larger. Looking into the brain's potential to adapt after blindness, researchers have found that blindness causes structural changes in the brain, indicating that the brain may reorganize itself functionally in order to adapt to a loss in sensory input; the area's in the brain dealing with memory, hearing, and other senses becoming enlarged in an attempt to compensate for the fact that the person can no longer see.

Echolocation
A blind person can become quite adept at using echolocation (identifying an object by the sound or echo that it makes) while moving through the world around him/ her. Children or babies that are born blind use extra hand movements as they crawl, slapping the floor around them to create a kind of auditory and sensory feedback. The use of reflected sound by blind children helps them to explore and manipulate aspects of the sound world, other visually impaired individuals may make clicking noises to note the changes in sound as the distance between them and different obstacles shift; this can also be seen in animals such as dolphins and bats.

Using Touch To Explore The World
The largest area of the brain's surface is devoted to the hand and the sense of touch, the skin being the largest organ of the body allows us to use this sense to the fullest, and the blind child is a "sensation" of information. Many blind individuals can feel changes in temperature as they near a window, wall, and other objects, relying on their enhanced sense of touch to help them explore the world around them.

A Deeper Vision
Before the invention of non-invasive neuro-imaging, people could only speculate and look on in awe at the increased abilities that those who were blind seemed to posses. The well-known painter, Pablo Picasso explored the nature of blindness during his "Blue Period", some claiming that he was able to find an intensity of other senses in his depiction of the blind. Researchers state that what you lose in one place, you gain elsewhere, reinforcing the idea that other senses are not only affected but also enhanced by blindness.

Personality Traits: Sweet and charming, Syleste is an extremely loving and kind-hearted young woman who does her best to care for all those who are lucky enough to find themselves her friends, the dreamy-eyed girl showing her love and affection to all those close to her. Overly curious and full of life she tends to find herself, more often than not, walking into some sort of danger or trouble, the bubbly teenager never showing any signs that she's willing to let her disability get in the way of her living the life she wants to. Though coming off sometimes as shy at first when a situation seems to overwhelm her (large crowds of people surrounding her, loads of information being given to her, ect.), once she has had time to adjust Syleste has no issues putting herself out there for others to see, the girl never truly having an issue whenever it came to making friends.

Although a kind and graceful soul, Syleste is also known for being stubborn when it comes to something that she truly believes in, choosing to stand up for it rather than backing down once she has already made up her mind, usually making it near impossible to convince her otherwise. Quite mature and oddly grown-up for her age thanks to living her whole life with her disability, Syleste often does all she can not to be, or to be considered a "burden" to all those who are around her, the young woman doing everything she can and more to help out (cleaning, cooking, ect.), even sometimes choosing to put her own needs aside in favor of others, no matter how difficult the task may seem for her; the girl trying her best at everything and anything that she seems to set her mind to.

Coming across at times as being quietly confident and extremely calm, she sometimes tends to pull away from the company of others becoming very reserved and thoughtful, choosing instead to lose herself within her own mind and in her own little world. Unnaturally bright and unique in her own way, Syleste has the aptitude for thinking outside of the box on general occasion, always coming up with strange ideas that would normally otherwise be considered near impossible to pull off, though with the young woman's odd way of using her intelligence she is known for being able to twist them to the point of making it all work out.

Skills: Thanks to her disability, Syleste's other senses (hearing, smell, taste and touch) have become slightly more enhanced than that of a normal person, adding to her skills and talents when it comes to music, such as singing and playing piano. Syleste is also quite skilled when it comes to reading anything in braille, whether it be music sheets, books, or class notes.

Abilities:
Dream walking/ manipulation - Syleste has the unique ability to enter a world she knows as "The Dream World", allowing her to slip in and out of the dreams of others, as well as allowing her to summon others into her own dreams. Along with this form of power, Syleste has also been able to master the ability to manipulate the dreams she see's around her, allowing her to bring both the sweetest of dreams to a person, as well as the most terrible of nightmares. Although with her gift also comes a terrible danger. While moving about the Dream World should a person, including herself get hurt, their injuries would transfer through the dreams before transferring to that persons physical body making this a dangerous form of magic that she very rarely chooses to use.

*This particular ability (mostly) only happens to work if the person contacting/ or being contacted by Syleste, is in the same country as she is in, it does not work across oceans; the only exception to this being if she has a strong bond with the person being contacted/ contacting her.

Sleep Manipulation - Along with her ability to manipulate and walk through the dream realm, Syleste also has the power to manipulate sleep within both herself and others around her, allowing her to not only induce and extract sleep from a person but to also manipulate and enhance all aspects of sleep itself.

*Though unaware of this particular ability, once Syleste is able access and use her sleep manipulation powers to their fullest extent, she will be able to use:

• Sleep Manipulation - Once unlocked with the rest of her potential, Syleste will be able to manipulate the sleep patterns of a person, as well as be able to choose how long they are able to sleep for and how deep a sleep the person is having.
• Inducing Sleep - Once unlocked with the rest of her potential, Syleste's abilities are strong enough to induce instantaneous sleep on biotic subjects, even to the extent that she could potentially be able to induce perpetual insomnia or push a person into a coma.
• Extracting Sleep - Once unlocked with the rest of her potential, Syleste will be able to reduce and or remove a person's need for sleep all together, causing them to become dreadfully tired at all times, she will also have the power to awaken any sleeping person regardless of the circumstances.

Biography:
Blind from birth and constantly being moved around from place to place due to her fathers position in the army, Syleste was always a curious and outgoing young child, her mother (mostly having to raise her on her own) always did her best to keep her close by her side, however it never seemed to stop her from always managing to find her way into trouble. Growing into a beautiful young teenager and quickly coming to the realization that she didn't want to rely or be a burden on her mother, she tried her best, taking on more of the responsibilities at home and allowing her mother a break from stressing over her daughters care and well-being. Receiving the news early about his deployment, Syleste sat back, doing all she could to help around the home as her father said goodbye, kissing her on the forehead before the General left to be shipped out to where the war effort needed him most.

Closing off slightly to those who had accepted her for who she was, she began to spend more time within her family home, the young woman spending most of her time either working on the music her father had loved to hear her play or spending her time reading alone in her room. Feeling sick from missing her father for as long as she had, Syleste separated herself from her mother choosing instead to retire early rather than staying up in her company, slipping into a slumber unlike any other that she had experienced before, she found herself standing conscious in a world she had never seen before, the very confused and slightly fearful figure of her father standing with her. Realizing what his daughter had managed to do, her father quickly sent word back home informing her mother as to just how special their daughter truly was, and how she would have to take extra care with her from now on, being sure to take her special needs into consideration.

Slowly opening back up over time after getting to see her father throughout the night in her dreams, Syleste began to become the confident and sweet young lady her parents had always wanted her to become, however her mother's fear of others bullying her daughter for her disability, mixed with her fear of those finding out just how different she was soon became a reality as the young girl continued to bloom. Trying to get through each and every day without too much trouble, the bubbly young teenager could often be found sitting on her own reading or studying, though with her curiosity for life playing on her mind she never ceased to find a way to try and satisfy the need to explore much to her overly-cautious mother's disgust.

Receiving a phone call from a man saying that he could help out, Syleste's mother quickly realized that it wasn't going to be easy to keep their daughter safe, and for her to stay within the family home, her mother quickly jumping at the chance of being able to supply her with the hope of a safe and semi-normal life. Packing up all her possessions, the two of them worked together with the help of the man who had given them the offer, the two of them saying goodbye at the train station, the young girl set on her way to a place where she thought she would have a better chance at life with people who would finally accept her for who she was.

Other: Though she may seem confident and semi-competent when it comes to things she sets her mind to, Syleste has a fear of swimming and is terrified at the very thought of deep water, along with this fear she is also scared of being left alone, and being treated differently due to her disability.

While quite talented in both singing and playing the piano, Syleste has found that she is more confident with her skills when she is on her own or with someone she is extremely close to, the young girl too shy and embarrassed to show her musical talents to others.

Understanding that people can become quite uncomfortable with her disability, Syleste keeps a bit of light blue and black material with her which she uses to hide her eyes from view, not wanting others to have to deal with the strange look of her eyes.

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Sophia Bessette

Name: Sophia Bessette

Age: 16

Alias: Electra

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Costume: N/A

Abilities:
Electrokinesis
Sophia can create, shape and manipulate electricity, a form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles such as electrons or protons which give the user control over electric fields, electric charges, electric currents. Though she currently does not have full control over her mutant abilities, Sophia's powers tend to go out of control with her emotions causing nearby electronics to either short circuit anything near her or even shock a person.

Skills:
Living in the streets Sophia is a very athletic person and very flexible as well, Sophia is also very street smart and can get into places rather easily. Learning to also be able to pick into locks another skill she had picked up while living in the streets of New York, though untrained Sophia is able to fight hand to hand as well if need be and also can fight dirty if she has to in order to survive. Sophia also knows a little bit of first aid. Her native tongue is French but she can easily and fluently speak English.

Personality Traits:
Sophia tends to be shy around people she does not know very well, and takes quiet awhile before she will eventually open up to anyone, Sophia also tends to take her time to know someone before becoming friends with the person. However once she is close to someone Sophia can be a very loyal friend and be the one to listen and help out a person if they ever needed she would be the friend to lend a shoulder to cry on.

Backstory:
Originally born in France her father was from Britain while her mother was from France, the two of them met while her father was on a business trip. Her mother worked as a waitress and the two of them hit it off rather quickly the two eventually got married and her father moved to Paris France and a few years later they had Sophia. As the Second World War started Sophia's father was recruited to join the French military, watching her father leave at the age of seven which was the last she would ever see or ever hear from him ever again her mother assumed he had fallen in battle.

On May 10th, 1940 Germany invaded France Sophia and her mother tried to escape their home as the bombs fell when German troops entered Paris Sophia along with her mother and a few people trying to escape were captured. Scared and terrified as the German started to kill the prisoners Sophia witnessed them killing her mother that was when her powers manifested causing her to kill one of the soldiers. Using the time when they were distracted Sophia made a run for it, though not before one of the soldiers firing a single shot wounding her left shoulder Sophia continued to run and hide. Sophia spent the next four years stealing, scavenging anything she could get her hands on.

On August, 25th 1944 when the Allied Forces started to retake Paris Sophia managed to get rescued by American soldiers she was eventually put on a ship to America where she was put into an orphanage. Though she hated living there Sophia would always find ways to escape her mutant ability started to resurface again one night when she had snuck out Sophia was cornered by some other kids, she ended up causing a small power outage making the lights either shatter this made them all to flee. Sometime after that was when Charles Xavier approached her, with an offer to be with people who were just like her and to learn how to control her abilities.

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o.o nice X3

I don't want you guys to have to wait for me. I'll try my best to finish him up. I've just had little time today cuz I've been with family. Sorryyy. I'll definitely have more time after this birthday weekend X3

@Shadowcatcher

Its fine lol its just that... Erik is kind of important :3
Also, happy birthday!

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Jean Grey

Name: Jean Grey.
Age: 19.
Alias: Phoenix.
Position in School: Student.

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Personality Traits:
Once seen to be a sweet and gentle young lady, Jean tends to close herself off to others doing her best to hide the kind and caring girl she once was deep inside of her, the now young woman strongly believing that she is long past the ways of saving; though on the rare occasion her old good intentions and nature slip through the cracks causing her to unintentionally show affection and even genuine helpfulness towards others. A very multi-talented person, Jean can be quite persuasive leading her to be very influential to those around her. Though loyal to only a few, Jean has issues when it comes to trusting others, both causing her see this as both a weakness and a strength.

Also brave, selfless, extremely resourceful and highly intelligent, Jean Grey has a very strong and independent survivalist instinct fueled by her difficult past causing her to be quite good at thinking outside the box. Very strong, often stubborn and unwittingly determined, Jean will most times act first before asking questions later, the woman learning from her past that she needs to do whatever she can to survive though she has a base instinct to protect those who are weak and have no skills or methods in which to protect themselves. Usually a very logical person, Jean sometimes has trouble controlling her emotions when things become quite stressful around her.

Unlike most who are forced into surviving on their own, Jean is not a natural born healer, becoming quite squeamish and reluctant when it comes to tending her own and the wounds of others around her, instead choosing to focus on things that she deems more important such as expanding her knowledge base by reading. Nevertheless, she knows the basics of first aid, including how to clean and dress a wound to keep it from getting infected and in turn the person getting worse over time.

A fiercely determined and resourceful fighter, Jean is easily underestimated by those who stand against her and almost always finds herself in some sort of disagreement with those in positions of authority, using her own resources when it comes to getting through life, showing that she has the true instincts of a survivor. Though seeming confident and calm in most situations she is forced into, Jean has a nasty habit of biting her nails whenever she gets nervous or anxious, sometimes having to force and consciously stop herself from doing so when she is in the company of others.

Skills: An extremely intelligent young woman, Jean has a knack for researching, able to recall almost every piece of information that she has ever read. A great strategist, she uses her talents well and when called upon, catching any flaws in the plans that others tend to more times than none, run by her. Mentally stronger than most and with a peak of durability, it shows that disease and illness rarely affect her in any way, allowing her to keep her keen senses sharp and ready to use at a moments notice.

Abilities:
Telekinisis - An extremely powerful telekinetic, Jean has the strong mental capacity to not only influence matter, but to also manipulate and move it with just the sheer force of her mind; the woman, once able to put her full powers to use, is able to "evolve" them to the point where she could control anything at a subatomic level, opening up to her the chance to manipulate an objects physical properties.

*Once Jean is able to access and use her telekinetic powers to their fullest extent, she will also have the ability to use:

• Telekinetic Flight - Once unlocked with the rest of her potential, Jean will be able to use her telekinetic abilities to help her fly over vast distances.
• Disintegration - Once unlocked with the rest of her potential, Jean's telekinetic abilities are strong enough to allow her to disintegrate her opponents.

Telepathy - Along with her telekinetic powers, Jean also has the strong ability to harness telepathy, allowing her to not only read and sense another person's thoughts, but to also communicate with them mentally by projecting her own thoughts into their mind; if willing to put in the hard work and dedication into working on progressing her powers, Jean also has the ability to imprint on another's mind, creating a permanent bond between the pair.

*Once Jean is able to access and use her telepathic powers to their fullest extent, she will also have the ability to use:

• Mind Possession - Once unlocked with the rest of her potential, Jean will be able to use her telepathic abilities to possess and take control of another person's mind, giving her the power to use that being's body as well as her own against an opponent.
• Mind Control - Once unlocked with the rest of her potential, Jean's telepathic abilities are strong enough to allow her to manipulate the mind of another; allowing her to alter memories, induce sleep, cause paralysis, ect.
• Psionic Blasts - Once unlocked with the rest of her potential, Jean will be able to use her telepathic abilities to create psionic blasts which can induce unimaginable pain, knock out, or even kill the person in which it is directed towards.
• Psionic Shield - Once unlocked with the rest of her potential, Jean's telepathic abilities are strong enough to allow her to create a telepathic shield to prevent her mind from being read, attacked, or even detected by those who would be able to sense her.

Biography:
Born as the youngest child to a well-off and quite wealthy family, Jean was always lavished in the best that money could buy, the child rarely hearing the word "no" being uttered from her parents lips when it came to something that she wanted. Although raised to be nothing more than a proper young lady by her parents, growing up under the watch and care of her older brother Jean learned from a young age that she would need to learn how to look after and defend herself, both teachings helping her to grow into both a beautiful and confident young woman. Wanting to do her best in what she knew and make her family proud of the woman in which she was slowly becoming, Jean threw herself into her studies, pushing herself and working hard to pick up the many lessons that her mother believed would help her to lead a full and happy life in the future.

With news of the ongoing war looming ever closer to American soil, Jean watched as the men she had grown up around were one by one called to take arms and fight for the freedom of their country; the inevitable arrival of two letters to their family home, one for her brother and the other for her father caused the family to part ways with grief, a heaviness in their hearts with all knowing the potential outcome, but none wishing to speak it out loud. This was goodbye. Going with them to the train station, the young girl and her mother waved both the father and son farewell, wishing them a safe return while they themselves reluctantly boarded a train bound for the country fulfilling their promise of remain safe and sound in the company of her aunt and away from any potential threats that could harm them at their family home in the city.

Moving into her aunt's home in the countryside, Jean tried her best to take on more of the responsibilities at home, allowing her mother a well-deserved break from having to worry about her daughters care and well-being while still feeling the stress and worry for the son and husband that had been torn out of their lives. Growing into a beautiful young teenager, Jean did all she could to keep her head down and to stay out of trouble, the sweet and charming young woman always seeming to be found in a nice quiet corner of the house with her nose in a book when there was nothing else that could be done; the only true thing able to excite her or giving her any sense of joy being the letters that managed to come for her from her brother on the battlefield.

As the years began to wear on and the war becoming more and more dangerous with each moment that passed by, the thought of her usual monthly correspondence from her brother and father had Jean rushing home, the anticipation and excitement of once more being able to hear from them keeping the young woman sane with the knowledge that they were safe. Arriving with the hopes of receiving yet another letter from her brother to add to her collection, Jean instead found her heart breaking apart, her grief weighing down over her shoulders as instead the letter contained a brief condolence and explanation to the passing of her brother who had fallen in battle. Feeling a sharp and excruciating pain shooting through her very being at the thought of never being able to see him again, Jean quickly began to break down, her mental stability failing long enough for what seemed to be a small switch somewhere in the back of her mind to flick over, her emotions tipping her over the edge causing objects of all sizes around the room to shake violently before eventually shattering leaving shards and remnants of different materials littering the room around them.

Both surprised and fearful of what they had both witnessed the young woman do before their very eyes, Jean's aunt quickly set to work in taking over the child's life when her mother instead turned to the bottle to cope with the abnormality of her daughter, keeping Jean locked away in the confines of the family home so that she could further the girls education, while keeping her out of the sight and company of those that would tarnish the family name should they ever find out. Through the months of trying to come to terms with the death of her brother and the strange things she was able to do as well as the constant pushing and stressful torment of both her aunt and mother, Jean began to pull away from those that were still in her life, a hatred growing within her heart as she began resenting the hand in which she had been dealt.

Suffering in silence for the most part while at other times lashing out and causing her powers to once again flair out of control, Jean took the abuse and slight violent battery that her aunt continued to provided to her, the girl over time not caring as to anyone saw the abuse that she had gone through due to her strange and unexplainable tendencies. The constant brutality along with her now slightly hardened personality causing her to pull herself further and further away from them, their actions causing her to lash out more and more until they chose to lock her away in the isolation that was her room, the two of them not knowing what else to do with her... Until he showed up.

Introducing himself as Charles Xavier, a man with the power to help her control her abilities as well as give her a place in which she could live among others who were also special like her, Jean quickly jumped at the opportunity to leave the home which had over the years become her prison. Now existing contently among those who share the mutant gene with her, Jean had found a happy medium between who she used to be and who she is now, the bright young woman only doing what she is asked and which she is required to do in order to keep herself out of trouble.

Other: Jean owns a beautiful heart-shaped locket which she is rarely ever seen without, this locket was given to her by her brother the day before he was drafted into the war; inside she keeps a picture of him so that she will never forget him and that she can hold him close to her heart. Jean also has a stack of old letters which she keeps locked away in the desk in her room, the letters written and sent to her by her brother while he was serving in the war.

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Logan Howlette

Name: Logan Howlette

Age: 66, looks 25

Alias: Wolverine

Appearance:


Costume


Abilities:
His primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process, typically referred to as his mutant healing factor, that regenerates damaged or destroyed tissues of his body far beyond the capabilities of an ordinary human. In addition to accelerated healing of physical traumas, Logan's healing factor makes him extraordinarily resistant to diseases, drugs, and toxins. However, he can still suffer the immediate effects of such substances in massive quantities; he has been shown to become intoxicated after significant amounts of alcohol, and has been incapacitated on several occasions with large amounts of powerful drugs and poisons.

While the adamantium in his body stops or reduces many injuries, his healing factor must also work constantly to prevent metal poisoning from killing him, though it is effectively getting worse.

His healing factor also dramatically affects his aging process, allowing him to live far beyond the normal lifespan of a human. Despite being born in the late 19th century, he has the appearance, conditioning, health, and vitality of a man in his physical prime. While seemingly ageless, it is unknown exactly how greatly his healing factor extends his life expectancy.

Although his body heals, the healing factor does not suppress the pain he endures while injured. Logan also admits to feeling phantom pains for weeks or months after healing from his injuries. He does not enjoy being hurt and sometimes has to work himself up for situations where extreme pain is certain. Logan, on occasion, has deliberately injured himself or allowed himself to be injured for varying reasons, including freeing himself from capture, intimidation, strategy or simply indulging his feral nature. His healing abilities can provide increased recovery from psychological trauma by suppressing memories in which he experiences profound distress. Scratches heal within seconds, burns and cuts a few seconds more. Even bullet holes only take a matter of minutes to heal up completely, and all without a single scar to show for the pain he had been put through on a number of occasions.

Logan's mutation also consists of animal-like adaptations of his body, including pronounced, and sharp fang-like canines and three retractable claws housed within each forearm. These claws are a natural part of his body and are not made of keratin, as claws tend to be in the animal kingdom, but extremely dense bone. Logan's hands do not have openings for the claws to move through: they cut through his flesh every time he extrudes them, feeling a brief moment of slight pain in his hands whenever he unsheathes them.

Logan's senses of sight, smell, and hearing are all superhumanly acute. He can see with perfect clarity at greater distances than an ordinary human, even in near-total darkness. His hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing him to both hear sounds ordinary humans cannot and also hear to greater distances. Logan is able to use his sense of smell to track targets by scent, even if the scent has been eroded somewhat over time by natural factors. This sense also allows him to identify shapeshifting mutants despite other forms they may take. He is also able to use his senses of smell and hearing, through concentration, as a type of natural lie detector, such as detecting a faint change in a person's heartbeat and scent due to perspiration when a lie is told.

Due to his skeletal coating, his claws can cut almost any known solid material, including most metals, wood, and some varieties of stone. The only known exceptions are adamantium itself and Captain America's shield, which is made out of an proto-adamantium-vibranium alloy. Wolverine's ability to slice completely through a substance depends upon both the amount of force he can exert and the thickness of the substance. His claws can also be used to block attacks or projectiles, as well as dig into surfaces allowing Wolverine to climb structures. The adamantium also weights his blows, increasing the effectiveness of his offensive capabilities. Unfortunately, his adamantium skeleton makes him highly susceptible to magnetic-based attacks.

Logan's healing factor also affects a number of his physical attributes by increasing them to superhuman levels. His stamina is sufficiently heightened to the point he can exert himself for numerous hours, even after exposure to powerful tranquilizers. Logan's agility and reflexes are also enhanced to levels that are beyond the physical limits of the finest human athlete. Due to his healing factor's constant regenerative qualities, he can push his muscles beyond the limits of the human body without injury. This, coupled by the constant demand placed on his muscles by over one hundred pounds of adamantium, grants him some degree of superhuman strength. Since the presence of the adamantium negates the natural structural limits of his bones, he can lift or move weight that would otherwise damage a human skeleton. He has been known to break steel chains, lift several men above his head with one arm and throw them through a wall and hauling a concert grand piano, which can weigh as much as 1,300 pounds, and the platform it rests on, via a harness, while climbing a sheer cliff.

Skills
During his time in Japan and other countries, Wolverine becomes a master of virtually all forms of martial arts and is experienced in virtually every fighting style on Earth. He is proficient with most weaponry, including firearms, though he is partial to bladed weapons. He has demonstrated sufficient skills to defeat the likes of Shang-Chi and Captain America in single combat. He also has a wide knowledge of the body and pressure points. He is also an accomplished pilot and highly skilled in the field of espionage and covert operations.

He is fluent in English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Cheyenne, Spanish, Arabic, and Lakota; he also has some knowledge of French, Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Hindi, and Persian. When Forge monitors Wolverine's vitals during a Danger Room training session, he calls Logan's physical and mental state "equivalent of an Olympic-level gymnast performing a gold medal routine while simultaneously beating four chess computers in his head."

Personality Traits
Logan will sometimes lapse into a "berserker rage" while in close combat. In this state he lashes out with the intensity and aggression of an enraged animal and is even more resistant to psionic attack. Though he loathes it, he acknowledges that it has saved his life many times, it being most notably useful when he faces those with telepathic abilities, liking to keep his own thoughts to himself. Despite his apparent ease at taking lives, he does not enjoy killing or giving in to his berserker rages. Logan adheres to a firm code of personal honor and morality.

In contrast to his brutish nature, Wolverine is extremely knowledgeable. Due to his increased lifespan, he has traveled around the world and amassed extensive knowledge of foreign languages and cultures. Much to Professor Xavier's disapproval, Wolverine is also a heavy drinker and smoker; his healing powers negate the long-term effects of alcohol and tobacco and allow him to indulge in prolonged binges.

Logan is frequently depicted as a gruff loner, often taking leave from the X-Men to deal with personal issues or problems. He is often irreverent and rebellious towards authority figures, though he is a reliable ally and capable leader. He has been a mentor and father figure to several younger women, especially Yukiko, and has had romantic relationships with numerous women, though somehow always seeming to be 'in between girlfriends.'

Position in School:
Protector and Simulation Classes Instructor

Backstory:
Born in 1880 in a small town in Canada as James Howlette to rich farmers, Logan led a very comfortable life for the majority of his childhood. Then, one day, out of anger from being fired, Thomas Logan the previous groundskeeper, came to the farm and killed James' father. Furious, bone claws emerged from James' hands for the first time in his life and with an uncontrollable rage, killed Thomas by plunging his claws into Thomas' chest who upon dying, told James the truth that he was his real father. With the secret now brought to the front, James was cast out by his mother who James' learned a few years later when he came back, killed herself out of grief. He ran away with his childhood friend, Rose, and steadily grew into a man by taking up a job in a mining colony in the Yukon Territory, taking the name 'Logan' in honor of his real father.

After a slight incident that involved killing Rose with his claws, Logan once again was forced into running and for a couple of years lived with the wolves until returning to civilization, taking up residency with the Blackfoot Indians. It was here that he fell in love with an Indian woman, Silver Fox who died at the hands of Sabretooth who Logan then found out to be his older brother, Victor, whom he had never known. To escape his inner pain, Logan enlisted himself for World War 1, proving to be quite the combatant for reasons unknown, and unquestioned by his country. After the war, Logan spent some time in Japan where he became somewhat of an idol for the Yakuza, though working under-cover to help those who had been imprisoned by them. It was here that Logan met a good number of families forced into the Yakuza's bidding, namely the Masuyo family whom he lived with for a number of years and became a sort of brother figure to the youngest and only female, Yukiko.

However, after a handful of years World War 2 came around, and silently as though not to alarm the Yakuza, Logan left to help out where he could, serving no side but his own in what he felt was right in his heart. When it was over he resided in the United States where he was later approached by some men who pho promised to help him become a better mutant. Trusting these men, not having any reason not to, Logan went with them only to have his entire bone-structure remade out of adamantium, a metal that is virtually indestructible.

After learning that these men only wanted to use him as a weapon and to wipe his memory, Logan escaped, though not without massive bloodshed on his part. Once more alone, it was then that Charles Xavier found him, implying that he had a job for him and after a good amount of work done on him by Xavier, Logan grew to trust him and agreed to help with his cause. Logan hasn't been back to Japan since, but has kept secret ties with a couple of families, hoping to bring them over to the United States where they could be free of the Yakuza.

Other:
Logan has been involved in a couple handfuls of different wars over the years. Starting with World War I, Logan has since been involved in the Russian Civil War and World War II.

After returning from World War II, Logan went out and bought himself a 1932 DKW Block 350 Motorcycle to make it easier to travel between Charles and Erik's bar and his own log cabin that he built himself in an isolated part of the woods while Erik and Logan restored the bar. He didn't care much for the idea of room mates.

Although it rarely happens, sometimes Logan's body will completely shut down on him after a pulse of excruciating pain that will eventually render him unconscious. Unknown to everyone including Logan, this is because of the metal poisoning within his system that his body is slowly starting to reject.