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Mutant Activists Mutant Activists >Name: Abbott, Carson ​ >Aliases: Vengeance (preferred), Porcupine (disliked, now ​ uncommon) >Birthplace/Origin: New Orleans, Louisiana ​ >Age: 17 ​ >Powers: Strength (not super, he's just jacked), has metal blade ​ like structures beneath his skin that he can stick out and retract at will. Pain depends on his training and the extent to which he's extending them. >Occupation: Student, Senior ​ >Cliques: Mutant Activists, Bodybuilders ​ >Short Bio: For most of his life, Carson could not control his ​ spikes. Most of the time, they were out. (That's where the old nickname comes from.) Growing up, some people made fun of him, others were afraid of him, but most were somewhat disgusted by him. His spikes pierce through the skin, and while they are well-developed and look more "heroic" now, so to speak, they were certainly very strange back then. He has long been filled with rage and while in his time at the school, he has become so much stronger, both in muscles and superpower, that rage hasn't simply disappeared. He actively works on all paths he can for mutant activism, legal and not, peaceful and not. >Motivations: Acceptance, not just for him, but for all of the kids like him. >Secret or Hidden ​ ​ Info: By all means, he should have been arrested by now for some of the shit he's done. ​ >Name: Bryant, Chancey ​ >Aliases: Anthocorid ​ >Birthplace/Origin: Southern England ​ >Age: 16 ​ >Powers: High-level durability, 1 to 100 scale shrinking, painful ​ short-term paralysis bite, super taste/smell >Occupation: Student ​ >Cliques: Mutant Activist ​ >Short Bio: A child born of high conservative society but ​ defective, emerging from the womb without a real face but an obscene rictus maw where there should be one. The entire cause wrapped in mystery, a coincidental birth defect? A pikey curse? All that is known is that despite this mutation she bears other abilities, most crude and intriguing. A bubbly girl with a very high but croaky voice >Motivations: Putting a happy face on an otherwise awful situation for any ​ child, wishes to show the world she's more than just a monster. 84 >Secret or Hidden Info: Was taken into social services at the age of 1 following the attempt of ​ ritual burning of the heinous child, successfully set a flame but coming through unscathed. Government has kept her family's name and location secret from all public records, including that of the school. Bitch a trap. >Name: Gates, Jurgen ​ >Aliases: Purple Rain ​ >Birthplace/Origin: Konstanz, Germany ​ >Age: 16 ​ >Powers: Able to create and control small purple particles, fusing them into objects like ​ shields and platforms, or launching them as projectiles >Occupation: High School Student, Mutant Activist, ​ >Cliques: Head of the "Mutants are people" club, activists, exchange student >Short Bio: ​ ​ Gates is a mutant born from a four generations strong family of powered people. He's a rather hard-headed and uncompromising individual who likes to bring up the notions of super-people superiority and the nature of noblese oblige. He also has a bit of a victim complex, believing that he is hated for his powers as opposed to his haughty nature >Motivations: To show the world his incredible powers And to actually make friends ​ >Secret or Hidden Info: Jurgen is formerly a member of the Junior German branch of ​ ​ 'The Burned hand' a Pro-Mutant group in Europe and Britain that often turns to domestic terrorism. He is trying to start or at the least contact a similar group in the America while he's attending School. He wants to badly because he feels so ostracized from the regular school-body for his beliefs, because they are counter to the super-heroism he is being taught. >Name: Kessler, Ethan ​ >Aliases: Red Fang, Joker's Blood (secretly) ​ ​ >Birthplace/Origin: Chicago, Illinois ​ >Age: 16 ​ >Powers: Unstable mutation. ​ >Occupation: Student, terrorist ​ >Cliques: Mutant Activists Mutant Supremacists, Loner ​ >Short Bio: Ethan's mutations were much more unstable when ​ he was younger. He was a cowardly kid who never fought back out of fear of being hated, so he was only ever kicked down and bullied by others. An older kid attending the same Mutants Anonymous group as him took him aside after a meeting and asked if he was tired of spending his whole life in shame before shoving a package into his hands along with an address and a deadline. By the time the bomb went off, Ethan was on the other side of town from the drop-site, being given his next assignment. Ethan is much stronger and more in control of his powers now than he was before; his training at the school and with the Mutant Liberation Army saw to that. He knows it's inevitable that he'll be caught, especially while attending the school, but he tells himself that he just needs to survive one more attack, one last trial, and he'll finally understand why he's alive. 85 The only consistent mutations he presents with are fangs, red eyes, blackened, diamond-hard nails, a freakishly-dense musculature for his frame (giving him near-super strength) and a constant lingering hunger. His mutations are kicked into gear by intense emotion, and result in partial or complete transformation into a huge, powerful, razor-toothed, bipedal abomination. In combat, he typically leaves one arm constantly transformed and transforms other parts of his body for long enough to initiate attacks or maneuvers. He can initiate a healing factor by consuming blood. >Motivations: To find out what he wants to do with his life, he must first remove everything in ​ his way. He can never achieve freedom until everything holding him back has been destroyed. >Secret or Hidden Info: He isn't a true believer in the ideology of mutant supremacy. He ​ doesn't really know what he wants. He's been told that this is because, as a mutant, he was never allowed to dream, but he isn't entirely convinced. He fights and kills out of a belief that he'll someday find the path he wants to walk. He's at a critical stage; just one push away from going over the edge of radicalization. >Name: Lane, Johnny ​ >Aliases: None Picked/Lobsterhands among the students ​ >Birthplace/Origin: Rockland, Maine ​ >Powers: Lobster Hands mutation, superhuman accuracy with a ​ gun, slight precognitive reactions. >Occupation: Student ​ >Cliques: Pro-Mutants ​ >Short Bio: Johnny Lobsterhands used to be a normal human, until ​ he woke up with lobster claws for hands. His life steadily went downhill from there. He can't even use his proper ability due to his deformity. >Motivations: Stop being bullied. Stop deserving being bullied. ​ >Secret or Hidden Info: It's hardly a surprise somebody like ​ Johnny might join a pro-mutant terrorist group. However, Johnny is actually fairly anti mutant, and blames himself and mutation itself for what he's gone through, rather than a group of people. Quadruple agent with an anti-mutant hate group. 86 >Name: Stroud, Rachel ​ >Aliases: Adrenal ​ >Birthplace/Origin: El Paso, Texas ​ >Powers: Enhanced physical ability, healing factor, ​ "overclocking" for increased performance at the cost of self damage and calories. Enhanced senses, instinct, reactions. >Occupation: Student ​ >Cliques: Gamers, Metahuman Rights Foundation ​ >Short Bio: A brash, loudmouthed mutant. A funny asshole, ​ but an asshole. Bullies some students, mostly other mutants. Resting confused face. Terrifyingly wide smiles. >Motivations: Become a hero while having some "harmless" ​ fun along the way. >Secret or Hidden Info: Used to be a human supremacist. Got splashed with mutagenic chems ​ as a result of a revenge prank, activating deeply buried mutant genes. Very confused about the whole thing, didn't learn anything and might join a pro-mutant terrorist group. Most of her abilities are pure mutant ability, power cancelling would only affect the healing factor. >Name: Yanovich, Chesnokov Ilya (Ilik) ​ >Aliases: Cherenkov ​ >Birthplace/Origin: Somewhere in Russia ​ >Powers: Minor physical improvements, ​ connection with an unnamed exotic energy source stemming from Another Dimension (used for future sight, telekinetic waves, "karmic vision", slow explosive "bubbles", density decreasing, and more odd functions). Also, is a bird. >Occupation: Student ​ >Cliques: Metahuman Rights Foundation, Libertarian ​ Club, Orchestra >Short Bio: The youngest son of a branch of birds ​ mutated by exposure to radiation during the Cold War as part of Stalin's Super soldier program. Had to leave due to growing resentment in the population to non human individuals, ended up liking America far more. Weapons nut, outspoken for individual freedoms and limiting the power of the state, enjoys classical music. >Motivations: Protect the rights of all people, uphold Freedom and Justice, figure out life as a ​ teenage birdman in a world with a severe lack of other bird people. >Secret or Hidden Info: Tends to be too violent for a successful hero, doesn't really care about ​ those he hurts if they're "bad guys". Prefers to physically beat down his foes, doesn't trust his confusing and esoteric abilities, since they've failed him before. 87 Nerds >Name: Angel, Chris ​ >Aliases: Paladin ​ >Birthplace/Origin: Born Jerusalem, Israel. Raised Washington, DC. ​ >Age: 16 ​ >Powers: Summonable Holy Golden Armor, granting Super strength, durability, protection, and ​ the ability to generate holy energy and, holy weaponry. with unique properties. >Occupation: ​ Student, Freshman >Cliques: Nerds ​ >Short Bio: An American boy, born to a couple of business officials, who was just minding his ​ own business until he jumped in to protect a kid from a speeding car, summoning the armor spontaneously. The holy nature of his powers has made him the little darling of DC’s Christian community, which expects him to become a great hero and defender of the faith..
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