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THE CHARACTER FULL NAME: Scott Summers SERIES/FANDOM: X-men AGE: 32 GENDER: male SPECIES: human mutant SEXUALITY: straight ALIGNMENT: lawful good JOB ASSIGNMENT: golf cart mechanic TIME FOR OC TO BE AT RESORT:
PERSONALITY: Scott is incredibly anal-retentive. He can't really help it, since his powers change how his brain works, as well as giving him unstoppable ocular force blasts. His powers have only made it worse, really. Giving a control freak a power he cannot control is a sure-fire way to make him insane.
To Scott's credit, he has loosened up in time. He has blossomed into a leader worth following, and his position as the protector and leader of the remaining mutants is one he has trained for all his life.
Despite his position of authority, Scott is a fairly sensible man. He may risk everything for something he believes in, but this risk is rarely a complete gamble. His team is everything to him, and he mourns the loss of every member deeply, so he uses them judiciously. He does, however, think that big rewards are worthy of large risks.
His relationship with Emma has changed Scott a bit. It has humanized him, so that he can now show his emotions, to a limited extent, without feeling as though he's failed as a leader. While he remains extremely stoic, he can now smile and show frustration the way normal people can.
Since he is the one who plans all the missions for the X-men, there is a tendency to hide things, even from people he loves and respects. Part of him is concerned about security, but part of him would rather save those around him from knowing the horrors that are being committed to keep them safe. He feels guilt over these secrets, but knows it would be worse if his friends saw what he was willing to do to keep mutant kind safe.
HISTORY: Scott Summers was born as the first of two sons to Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force, and his wife Katherine. When the plane Christopher was flying on a family trip was attacked by strange lights(a Shi'Ar ship), Scott's mother, Katherine pushed him and his brother Alex out of the plane with the only available parachute, which partially failed on the way down, leaving Scott with a head injury as a result, and forever robbing him of true control of his powers. The plane exploded as they fell and the two believed their parents dead. Alex was placed in foster care and adopted quickly, while Scott languished in a coma for a year, and when he woke up, he was relegated to an orphanage, one that was secretly run by Mister Sinister.
Scott came into foster care eventually, and ended up in the possession of Jack Winters, a mutant criminal who was sometimes known as Jack O'Diamonds. When Scott started having migraine headaches, Jack unwillingly sent him to a specialist who discovered that corrective lenses made of a synthetic ruby quartz made him pain free. Soon after, Scott's mutant power came alive as an uncontrollable blast of optic force from his eyes.
The blast demolished a crane, endangering a crowd. Though Scott saved them with his powers, they sought to kill him, and he fled. Winters then attempted to use Scott's powers for crimes, physically abusing Scott to enforce his will. Eventually Charles Xavier and F.B.I. agent Fred Duncan teamed up to save Scottand became the first member of the X-Men, a team of young mutants who trained to use their powers in the fight for human/mutant equality. As Cyclops, Scott became the deputy field leader of the X-Men.
He had many adventures over the years, falling in love not once, but several times, and having a child, and even leaving the team. But he always returned for his skills and powers were suited to little else.
Not long after returning to the team the most recent time, Scott found himself embroiled in Apocalypse's insane plan for "The Twelve". In an effort to save his teammates, a powerless Scott threw himself into the fray, and merged with the would-be conqueror to create a new evil entity. Jean detected Scott's psyche inside Apocalypse and prevented the X-Men from destroying him, however he was presumed dead by most of his teammates. Only Jean and Cable refused to believe Scott had perished.
Eventually, He was recovered by them, and returned to the fold, changed. There was tension between him and Jean, to the point where he asked her to attend couple's therapy. Jean refused, so Scott went to get counseling on his own. Emma Frost was the team psychologist at the time, so he went to her, hoping to get his head on straight.
Emma did that and much more. In the course of Scott's therapy, Emma came to fall in love with Scott. The feeling was somewhat mutual, because Scott was growing tired of being ignored b Jean, and he found Emma to be interesting and open where Jean was simply too stressed out to be much of anything.
Emma attempted to seduce him during a mission in China, and it became clear that Scott hadn't been with Jean since his return to the mansion. He also made it clear that he wouldn't be sleeping with anyone but his wife.
Until a month later when he was caught in the beginning of a psychic affair with Emma. While they had done nothing scandalous in real life, they were intending (though unsuccessful in the attempt), to have some sort of sexual connection through Emma's telepathy.
Jean found them out, and ripped through Emma's mind, to see what had happened. Scott defied Jean to look into his mind if she wanted the truth, and she did so, realizing that Scott had never touched Emma, even under temptation.
Scott, by this point, was done with both of them, and left the mansion, with no intention of returning until he had his head on straight. He wound up in the Hellfire Club, attempting to get drunk. Wolverine confronted him and dragged him along on a mission (despite Scott's partial inebriation). The mission is almost a disaster several times, but seems to be enough to pick him up enough to go back.
Once he returns, he sees that all Hell has broken loose. An ally, Xorn, has revealed himself to be Magneto, and during a confrontation between him and Jean, he induces a heart attack in her, and she dies in Scott's arms, as he apologizes for hurting her. The only response she gives him is that he must 'live on'.
Scott, though, is ready to call the whole thing off, at this point. It's only because of a psychic nudge from Jean (who is the phoenix, so death is a moot thing to her). He opens the Xavier Institute again, and reforms the X-men, while creating a relationship with Emma. This goes over like a lead balloon to the other X-men, who believe it's a disservice to Jean's memory, though they slowly come around in time.
During his relationship with Emma, they continue to prod at his mind. Emma realizes, after some time, that it isn't brain damage that prevents Scott from using his powers, but his own willful choice to have them be out of control. When Emma was possessed by Cassandra Nova, she 'fixed' Scott, so that he had no powers at all. This was only a temporary thing, but it set his work to control his powers back to where it had been before his sessions with Emma.
After the House of M, the revelation that Xavier had erased the memory of his youngest brother Gabriel, the Civil War, and the birth of Hope; Scott took complete control of the X-men, eventually moving them to San Francisco (because why not).
Moving to San Francisco was only a stop-gap measure. When Norman Osbourne dissolved SHIELD and replaced it with HAMMER, things got very bad for the mutants. Osbourne even created his own team of X-men, in order to subdue the mutant population. Emma was in charge of this team, and had seduced Namor to side with her by pretending to kill Sebastian Shaw. When Osbourne's X-men dissolved and defected to join the main mutant population (for the most part), they moved from their bunker in San Francisco to the remains of Asteroid M, set adrift in international waters, close to the bay.
When the Purifiers became a bother, Scott secretly put together a task force of mutants who would kill (a huge departure from the X-men's usual MO). They were called X-Force, and it tore Scott apart with guilt and uncertainty. Though nobody knew what was going on precisely, there was some dissension, mostly from Henry. In the end, Beast quit the X-men because he feared what Scott was doing in secret, which only made Scott more guilty.
It only got worse when Hope and Cable returned from the future. Everyone in the world seemed to be after her, and Scott visibly lost his cool for the first time as a result. He sent his X-men after her, and while they were successful in retrieving her, Kurt died in the process, and Cable died shortly after, saving the lives of every member of X-Force on their last official mission.
Steve Rogers gained control of SHIELD shortly before Hope's return, and talked Scott into taking a Congressional Medal of Honor, to make amends for how the mutants had been treated. He agreed, though later realized his mistake. just before he arrives, Hope has asked to go to Alaska to look for her family, and Scott has agreed to let her go, tossing his medal in the bay as he does so, showing that he feels his work isn't done, and that he feels he has been less than honorable in his recent dealings.
ABILITIES: Powers: Scott absorbs solar energy, which his body metabolizes and turns into a concussive force that shoots constantly from his eyes. It causes him large headaches, and he has little control over it. If isolated from solar energy he will, in time, run out of power. His lack of control comes from two sources. Childhood trauma that has led him to chose not to be in control, and actual physical injury. With Emma's help, he's been working on the trauma, and so has a small amount of control. He can completely shut out his powers, but if he does so he cannot access them again without immense effort.
In addition to his more obvious mutation, Scott's mind is wired to be the ultimate tactical computer. He is an expert at angles and seeing how an object would ricochet. He knows, to a limited extent, what is likely to happen as a result of certain actions. This makes him an excellent planner, and his ability to understand angles and ricochets make him an an outstanding shot with his eye beams, as well as an excellent billiards player.
Additional Abilities: Scott is skilled with a variety of weapons, especially firearms. His ability to aim is impeccable, so he's an excellent shot. He is also a skilled hand to hand fighter, having learned long ago that he cannot always rely on his powers. He is also a fairly good businessman, having learned it from Xavier and Emma. Most of all, though, Scott is an excellent leader. Whether you love him or hate him, in the end you will probably be relying on him. He holds himself to an inhumanly perfect standard, so he is fairly reliable. He can also do most everyday tasks without his eyes open, if he's in a somewhat familiar situation.
He's also a master martial artist, pilot, teacher firefighter, princess, and skilled at escaping most bonds.
WEAKNESSES: Scott holds himself to an inhumanely perfect standard. Failure is hard on him, and often pushes him to work harder. This makes him prone to sleeplessness, and irritability. It also makes him somewhat stiff, personality-wise. He needs someone close to him to help him unwind and become human, otherwise it becomes too easy to slip into the role of Fearless Leader and lose all sight of what he's even fighting for.
His optic blasts are wild and destructive, if he ever loses his glasses he must keep his eyes closed to avoid letting loose a blast that can punch through mountains. This effectively blinds him. He also has a close mental and psychic link with Emma Frost, which has been used to manipulate him by Madelyn Pryor in the past, and could theoretically be made worse by being apart from Emma.