Mike Muse Name: Mike Muse Age: 34 Occupation: Doctor Parents & Other Family: Irma Cuckoo (mother), Phoebe and Celeste Cuckoo (aunts), Emma Frost (grandmother) To The Profile
Lines & Plots You'd Like This Character To Have: Ongoing Sexual Orientation Crisis:
Race for the Cure: This is more of an actual plot that I'd love interest in. I had an idea that there could be a new disease going around - maybe similar to the Legacy virus, maybe more mundane, IDK. But the plot would be that Mike gets abducted by someone/a group who wants to experiment on him to find a cure for it. Mike's never really been much of a solo act when it comes to the big drama - he's a support character for obvious reasons. It'll be a little traumatic for him, but I'd also like it to turn out that he actually stays to help in the end (not permanently, obviously, but he is a healer and he won't completely turn his back on curing a disease just because his abductors are total shit heads). Obviously it would be great if his Avengers buddies were involved, but it's also an excellent chance for him to make some new friends - probably the Sentries will be the most obvious choice for a rescue party?
General: Kait and Jo already know this, but I've kept Mike's healing powers intentionally vague. If you want to get your character almost killed and have them recover fairly easily, Mike can do that. If you want a major injury that can't just be magicked away, Mike can do that, too. The bad logic explanation is that his ability to heal draws on some injury from the patient, and is also limited because the more he heals, the more of his body turns to diamond. Once he's all diamond, he can't heal anymore until he recovers. So he's here as a magic healing potion, but don't let that dissuade you from injury plots. I want him to be involved in people's plots, even if he doesn't always save the day. And he's still a traditional doctor for when his powers crap out on him. (Also for clarity, there's theoretically nothing he can't make go away - he's better than chemotherapy if you want to have cancer. We can just nerf it as needed - he can't cure Marvel's HIV because that would be really unfair to Jo, so we decided that Marvel can't survive the healing process since he has no immune system.)
Significant NPCs: The Machinist and the Tinkerer both figure in Mike's backstory. The Tinkerer killed Mike's dad, and the Machinist followed in his footsteps and killed 2 Avengers and hurt Owen, so Mike has a major hate-on for him.
Mike has spent a ton of time in Europe, so he's got ex-flings and drinking buddies by the bucketful. I'd be more than willing to flesh out some of these if someone's interested.
Potential DR counterpart could be someone who brings sickness/pain/infirmity, like the Apocalypse horseman Pestilence.
Anything else? Mike needs both friends and enemies. I'd really like someone interested in butting heads with him on a regular basis. He's an ass and he's wrong more often than he's right about little things. So far he's mostly just been crabby, but his anger sometimes comes out in really ugly ways and I'd like to play that out with someone who understands why. XD I don't have a lot of experience writing antagonistic characters, and less with writing good guys with terrible, terrible attitudes.