FULL NAME: Nathaniel Jacob Ellis ALIASES: Nate CURRENT AGE: 31 DATE OF BIRTH: October 28, 1982 GENDER: Male BIRTHPLACE: Northampton, Northamptonshire, England HOUSING: TBD FORMER LOCATION: Philedelphia, PA MARITAL STATUS: Single CURRENT OCCUPATION: Agent & Medical Assistant at Crestwood FORMER OCCUPATION: American Military.
APPEARANCE INFORMATION
HAIR COLOR: Brown EYE COLOR(S): Blue/Green HEIGHT: 5'11" WEIGHT: 160lbs DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Various scars from his time in the military and at war. For quite some time - a missing left leg, that has since regrown. This limb is not currently fully grown and still causes him some trouble, but is almost completely back to normal (aside from scarring and some discoloration) PERSONAL STYLE: While he does like to wear suits and look rather spruced up, he also enjoys to be relaxed. Sweaters, silly bow ties, suspenders and the like - comfort and cool. He also enjoys wearing, sometimes, jeans and t-shirts, but that's a much more rare outfit for him than something a little more dashing. He likes to look dashing. PLAYED-BY: Matt Smith
MUTATION INFORMATION
TRIGGER: Regret CLASS: Class 2 ABILITIES:Omnilingualism First and foremost, Nate is a master of language. He can understand and speak any and all languages he has heard at least once before. His brain can decode most forms of language with ease, and he has an impeccable ability to hear a language once and understand its forms. He lives off of Rosetta Stone tapes, Youtube videos, and all that sort of stuff. At his age, and with how many languages he has learned over the years, you would be hard pressed to find one he doesn't understand. Sign Language was the only language that was slightly more difficult for him to learn, though he Signs perfectly now. Languages like Binary, or other computer/technologically related languages also proved to be a more interesting challenge, though he knows them perfectly well, too.
Biological Manipulation; In a way, the body has its own kind of language. It is a complex, and not particularly capable of being spoken or fully understood sort of language, though Nate can read into a person's organic structures and heal them. Smaller wounds are quick and easy to heal - anything grevious or possibly fatal takes much longer to heal fully, though usually can stop someone from succumbing to their wounds and allow them to heal over time.
Superhuman Intelligence ; To a much lesser extent, his ability to retain language information seeps over into other forms of information as well. He does not have an innate understanding of deep, complex kinds of sciences and whatnot, but the information he learns he is capable of remembering for many, many years with slightly accelerated recall time and the capability of putting two-and-two together a bit faster than most people.
SPECIAL SKILLS:
STRENGTHS: Nate is extremely intelligent, and this allows him to gain a deeper understanding of many things, like plans of attack, organizing great defense, organizing in general, and decoding anything encrypted, etc. He is able to understand someone's strengths and weaknesses over time spent watching them in certain situations - the military greatly helped him hone this. He has a decently high tolerance for pain.
WEAKNESSES: An incredibly empathetic and caring person, Nate has the capability of getting caught up in saving someone else and losing sight of things. Though he would never, in any way, jeopardize Crestwood, he would, unsurprisingly, risk his own life to save another if they were deemed just as, if not more important to the cause than he is. This is not only an ability flaw, but a character flaw as well. Being intelligent and capable of feeling and healing others does not add up to someone who could purposefully neglect the pain of another human being.
SPECIAL SKILLS: Medicine is obviously something Nate is skilled in. Not only because of his biological manipulation, he has spent extensive amounts of time studying certain types of medical treatment (particularly those used by Military personel). He also knows a decent amount about your general sicknesses and medicinal treatments.
Technologically, Nate is also very savvy. He can crack almost any encryption, code, or password he comes across. He can write amazing codes for all sorts of programs, and often tinkers with mechanical/technologically built things to make them do things they were not necessarily intended for. You do not want to see what he did to a Furby. Its a bit more frightening than they were even before.
He's also a great dancer. That's not really a special skill, nor is he actually very good at it, but he loves to dance and make people laugh, even if it's at his own expense.
IN-DEPTH PERSONALITY
Nate has always been a people person. If he hadn't joined the Military, you could imagine him probably being a therapist or some other kind of doctor already. He is acutely aware of other peoples' pain, and hates to see it. He would gladly take someone's pain away and put it on to himself if it's possible. It's much more difficult with emotional pain, which is something he deeply regrets not being able to do anything about, but he would still give anything to fix it if he could.
He is also a nice guy to the core. He is incapable of being particularly brutish or mean. He has his moments of seriousness and, in all honestly, can be frightening when the right buttons are pushed, but that's all people, isn't it? Aside from that, Nathaniel is a good friend. He's loyal, though not to a fault, and finds it difficult to see people as bad. Mostly, he just sees 'bad' people as people who have problems, at the very worst.
Aside from his overly nice personality, Nate is a bit excessively flirtatious. He's charming in a way one would not expect, it's not very traditional but it's there. Even though he is straight, he does not discriminate when being flirtatious. Complimenting someone or showing interest in them is one of the best ways to get someone in a good mood, or to make them feel at least a little happy. It's one of the reasons he does it so frequently and with such ease. Knowing he made someone smile is always a highlight of his day.
He also acts a little flamboyantly. He's silly, strange, and energetic. Nate doesn't like to sit still very often, and frequently speaks too quickly for people to really understand.
IN-DEPTH HISTORY
PARENTS: Richard (deceased) and Melinda Ellis SIBLINGS: Natalie Ellis (adopted sister, younger) OTHER RELATIVES: A slew of aunts, auncles, and cousins.
Nathaniel was born in England, but as a pre-teen his father's job as a financial analyst took them to America when they started having financial troubles. He was world renowned for his skill in predicting economic changes and reinvigorating things. He was called by the higher ups in the Government to help, and at such a young age, Nathaniel became enthralled with the government and by extension eventually, the military.
He got good grades in school - though his abilities weren't shock-and-awe type of mutations, it was obvious their son had something special about him. Languages came easy to him, he was incredibly intelligent and nothing seemed to go beyond his comprehension. He graduated top of his class and was accepted into the Military with top marks on his entrance exams. Basic Training found him well and he went into college for interpreting, planning to use his special talents to help America out in the Middle East.
He graduated before long and when situations in the Afghanistan and Iraq became dangerous and the war officially started, Nathaniel was one of the first to be sent out. He spent years in the Middle East, both on a basic military level and for peace talks and attempts to stabilize American presence in their country. It was here that Nathaniel discovered his talents were not normal or indicative of just a higher intelligence - he was something else entirely. Mutant had been a term around for just a short period of time, but he couldn't explain it any other way. Small injuries on him healed more quickly than others, and in many situations he was able to heal the injuries of his colleagues.
Very few people knew about this, but the few who did urged him to keep it quiet. Nathaniel did, and did not attempt to use his healing prowess on purpose. Instead, he focused on peace talks and did his best to stay out of the fighting. Just before the war ended, and after having gone back and forth between America and the Middle East for many years, Nathaniel was on his last peace mission when his transportation was blown up by an IED.
He lost his leg in this battle, and though the injury might have killed him and the others, his ability to heal saved many of them from bleeding out before help arrived. It was deemed a miracle, though Nathaniel lost his left leg in the process and was given a Purple Heart and an Honorable Discharge from the Military shortly after. He went back to Washington, DC to his parents to heal for a bit, before a specialized clinic in Phillie had a spot open for him. He moved there and spent the next few months getting fit for prosthetics and learning how to walk with one leg.
It was during this time that something peculiar started to happen. Nate noticed that - the amputation point for his leg no longer had scarring. It was fully healed, and even - he couldn't begin to fathom it, but it was longer than it had been before. His limb was, in essence, re-growing itself. Bewildered and somewhat terrified, Nate withdrew from the program and spent the majority of his time in his apartment, attempting to figure out what to do.
Selfishly, Nathaniel didn't want to stop the process. He wanted his leg back, and he wanted to help the others who had lost limbs to regain theirs as well. He contacted one of his best friends in the military, one of the only people who knew about his abilities and had been with him when he was injured, and told him what happened. Charles begged him to do the same for him - and they met several times in random locations around the city (usually bathrooms, alleyways, anywhere they wouldn't be seen or be caught on camera), and Nate attempted to heal him.
It didn't work all that well, though. The more he regretted not being able to help him, however, the better it went. Though he was unable to completely regrow his friend's limb, he managed to stop his friend's constant pain and complications from the injury - which allowed him to fit for a prosthetic much more easily. Nate's own limb was still growing at a slow rate, and he knew he'd have to leave soon. Go into hiding, or something.
Shortly after his last visit with Charles, Nate noticed a strange cat following him around an awful lot. He paid it no mind for a while, until it turned into a girl who introduced herself and the two discussed their abilities together. Despite how careful Nate had thought he had been, obviously the girl (Winnie, as she liked to go by) had seen him. His leg was almost fully regrown and he knew the two - for their safety, and the increase in people disappearing all over the place, they would need to find somewhere to live safely. He forged a friendship with her, adn eventually convinced her to go to Crestwood with him - a place for mutants he managed to find out about through his military contacts.
A few weeks and Nate has found he likes Crestwood quite a bit. The anonymity staying in the Lodge gave him the freedom to not only explore his abilities, but no longer worry about being found out. Dedicating himself to the cause of mutant freedoms and keeping their ranks safe, Nathaniel joined the Agents and medical staff at Crestwood.
OOC INFORMATION
PLAYER NAME: Jordan PLAYER CONTACT: eiectroshocking (aim) / geokinetically@gmail.com (email) TIMEZONE: PST