Ahem. So, yeah. I'm a lifeless loser. I know, I know. So here, have a firebug that no one asked for you've been missing! My newest pup is Mr. St. John Allerdyce, Pyro to most (or so he'd like to think), John to a select few, Johnny to one or two people who know who they are.
Some basics: He's 21 (turning 22 on November 20, game time), born in Australia but transplanted to New York as a toddler. His mother died of a drug overdose when he was five, and from then until age sixteen he was bounced around various foster homes before his last family pawned him off on introduced him to Xavier. So he's been at the school for about six years now, making him something of an "old timer" in a lot of students' eyes. Don't look to him for mentoring, though, because he's very likely to laugh in your face. Since it's a pre-movie game (or pre-X2 at this point, anyway), he's probably slightly more approachable than he might be otherwise. If you're snarky and can give as good as you get, he'll probably be okay with you. If you're cute and bubbly and irritatingly chipper he's likely going to go out of his way to avoid you and, possibly, burn your favorite belongings. He's very fond of writing and is actually pretty decent at it, but you'll never see anything he's written. Deal. He can be found scribbling in his notebooks in his room in his down time, hogging the video games, watching horror movies with the other anti-social fire(y) freak Chamber, or in the Danger Room burning things. If it's nice out, he might move the burning part outside.
As usual, I'm lazy and still haven't updated my wanted scenes post, but a few quick ideas: -- FIRE. firefirefirefirefirefire...yeah. If anyone needs anything burned beyond recognition, whatever it is, give him a shout. -- Training against someone he can unleash his powers on without getting in trouble for incinerating them. Since we have no Iceman as of right now, Storm, maybe? -- Orphan bondage. Er, bonding. That sounds slightly better. So Murphy brothers and anyone else who'd like to swap sob stories and/or have a pissing contest over whose childhood sucked more, inquire within. -- Snarking at someone who really, really hates being a mutant/their powers/whatever. Jono's the obvious choice but I don't wanna game with myself, so any takers? -- Difference of opinions with an authority figure. Maybe he disobeys orders, pulls a stupid stunt during training or on an actual mission (whether it works or not is up for debate), and gets called on the carpet for it. I'm thinking Cyclops or Storm again would be the most likely targets. -- He really, really doesn't like telepaths. There's a lot about his life that he's repressed forgotten about and he's quite happy to leave well enough alone, and he resents that they can just take what they want and he might never even know, so an angry confrontation with a nosy 'path would be welcome. I'm looking at you, Emma. -_^
Also, it occurs to me that I never actually introduced my last character (not that I've done anything with him), so while I'm here allow me to introduce you to Shinobi Shaw (black_prince), son of Sebastian Shaw and a ruthless, smooth-talking little brat with major daddy issues. As in, his life's goal is to take over the "family" business and turn his father into a pauper, if he doesn't kill him in the process. He's getting there, slowly but surely, and as a talented businessman in his own right has amassed a small fortune despite being just a whelp at twenty.
Aaand that brings me to my last point. Because I don't want all my characters at exactly the same age (and because Sam's young'n status was kind of irksome to me), I've done a little bit of rearranging. The only thing that's changed is that Sam has been bumped up to 24, so not that much of a difference. I don't think it really matters in the greater scheme of things, but just so we're clear. :)