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Character Name: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers (he most often goes by Cable, though)
Character Series: Cable & Deadpool (Marvel comics)
Character Age: This is a very good question- one I have no idea how to answer. Definitely an adult, though.
Background: Plenty of his history is explained here. Then, and I really do beg your pardon for the overlapping history bits that linking two articles provides (one happened to be more focused on his actual backstory and the other focuses on the rest of the series I'm playing from), this is also useful. I'll be taking Cable from his very last appearance in the series, as Providence takes a turn for being more... blown up than anything else.
Personality: This...is a complex guy. I'm just gonna start where I can first think to start and go from there.
Cable is a manipulator, and not the type of guy to deny the fact if someone calls him on it. Just about the entirety of his presence in Cable & Deadpool is operating in the background, on a higher tier. He gets what he needs no matter what he needs, and he can manage it straightforwardly or by orchestrating an incredibly elaborate series of events. When he wants to be, he's very charismatic and convincing- and I can't say I've seen him operate out of less than good intentions in this particular line of canon.
His biggest mission in this series is making the world a better place, to ridiculous levels. When his natural mutant powers were at their peak, he spent his time using those powers to flood controlled parts of the Sahara, remove loggers from the Amazon rainforest, and to alleviate the suffering of pretty much everybody in the world who happened to be dying at the time. He raised his old ship parts from the sea to provide a refuge for people looking to live a life without borders and prejudice, and did whatever he could to keep the peace in that place. Cable built himself up as the epitome of good, practically a 'messiah,' and sacrificed himself/his powers for the sake of others several times throughout it all. He wants the world to be at peace, not like the future he came from, and he wants to help it however he can.
It becomes fairly clear through the issues, too, that he genuinely cares about people- a few in a select group in particular who are his closest friends and allies. Even pulling strings with them, arguing, splitting paths and meeting back up, the man isn't afraid to put his faith in someone once he thinks that he can, and it's just on impossible to shake that faith once he has. Sometimes his methods are shady or too extreme (I mean, planting a trigger in Wade's mind that would cause him to hallucinate the people he'd killed? Dude.), but they always seem to come out of a real urge to help them become better people, or to keep them safe (sending Wade out to collect a statue that would just so happen to teleport him away from Providence while Nate stayed behind during the self-destruct, for example). Annnnd sometimes just to try to get them to see things his way- because he's used to getting his way.
While we're on that unshakeable faith matter, to make a quick detour, it would also be prudent to mention that Cable consistently, very doggedly, refuses to give up hope in his cause (you know, the future not ruled by Apocalypse and all). As far as he's concerned, giving up means that anything or anyone wanting him to do just that has won, and all the sacrifices that have been made for that cause would be diminished to pointless wastes of life and blood. It doesn't matter what's said to him, and it doesn't matter what he has to do working to keep the faith alive; he is going to make a better world. It has to happen, because he won't let it not. As you may be able to tell (or not, in which case, good thing I'm putting it in), Cable is very confident in his abilities, possibly even bordering arrogance. He knows that he's capable of a hell of a lot, and even a few things beyond what he should be capable of- quite a few things get treated with an almost-casual attitude, an air of knowing for sure what the outcome of things is going to be, despite all odds. If he knows someone, he knows someone. If he calls a bet, he's positive that that bet is gonna come through for him. Of course, there are always those rare cases where he bets wrong; he didn't expect Deadpool to turn on the X-Men and actually believe in his cause at all, and look at what happened there.
Not to say he's without flaws in character, or that these traits can't qualify as flaws, even. When Nate has his mind set on accomplishing something, like I just said, he'll get there. He gets extremely focused on the tasks that he sets for himself and refuses an alternative in his own particular ways. Handling the people around him just so, heading off for days at a time without a lot of forewarning, not letting people in on the plans he has laid... not to mention he consistently has a problem in priority-balancing. Cable often gets so caught up trying to accomplish what he thinks has to be done to improve the world centuries down the line that he completely disregards the wants/needs of getting things done on a day-to-day basis. Deadpool was always a really good foil for him in that regard.
And while all that serious humanity work did come from a genuine desire to better the world, it was actually a self-serving course of action as well. After combining DNA with Deadpool and inheriting a little bit of that healing factor, there wasn't a need to use his telepathy to keep a certain deadly virus at bay- and his powers started increasing exponentially from there on out. He knew that they'd get to be too much eventually, and actually wanted to be taken out before things got too far out of control, and he himself too far gone. Rising to power so quickly was bound to draw attention and opposition from some: someone needed to figure out how to eliminate the threat he'd pose, and he set the dominos up to be knocked over for that very purpose. Nobody would hire Deadpool for mercenary work after he helped to essentially lobotomize the man, and so he started anonymously hiring him for jobs that would help things come around the way he needed them to be. People can be friends and pawns all at once, sometimes. He'll give up a relationship now for an improved planet hundreds, even thousands of years from now, if he has to.
His willingness to give up his life where other people are involved, while noble, can also be linked back to all that time just being a soldier for a cause most people considered lost. For anyone else to sacrifice themselves for something he's struggling to achieve is almost unacceptable. But in a position where it's a viable option for him, he'll jump in the line of fire or blow his ass up without a second thought, for the greater good. He understands very well what it means to make quick decisions in strenuous circumstances, from matters of whether or not to fire on someone to staying behind to make sure none of the data stored on Providence would fall into the wrong hands, he's a man of war who's learned time and time again that sacrifices are sometimes necessary. He's also apparently come to the decision that he should be the one taking the big risks as often as possible.
So to summarize? Complex as all hell and kind of contradictory. Ruthless but compassionate, detached but always involved, manipulative but caring, very experienced but sometimes as stubborn and immature as a child; he can go from being serious and stoic to terrifyingly angry to being very placid and even willing to toss around the banter and light joking, all depending on the situation and who he's surrounded by. Some things that he takes in stride are issues that would throw others completely off-guard. He'll do whatever he feels he has to for the greater good, or just to keep his loved ones alive and well, for all that he's not going to openly express 99% of his softer emotions. He is pretty much kung-fu-action-jesus, but with a side of a self-serving, knows-everything attitude and genuine vulnerability. It...should be interesting to see how he takes to Mayfield, given the last thing he did before turning up.
Abilities: From this canonpoint, Cable's very powerful telepathy and telekinesis have actually flown the coop- it was through a connection to the infonet and advanced technology that he was able to more or less duplicate them at all. The basic summary of the infonet connection-enabled ability is being able to access any information that people traded (through phone, radio, television, e-mail, internet, etc.). For the record, this is not mind-reading. It's not being able to hear what a person is saying across town to someone standing in their living room without something to broadcast it first. It's more akin to tapping into all the phones and only knowing what you get off of those, if that makes sense. The telepathy substitute remained more or less the same in function, but weaker in practice, and more limited.
Both of these abilities aren't really accessible to Cable without a) his cybernetic implants and b) his friendly neighborhood futuristic alien parasite of sorts, of course. And in all honesty, I wouldn't be likely to ask for those particular abilities in regain form for a long while, if ever. They can... kind of feel like a godmod.
Cable also has serious hand-to-hand fighting abilities, strength, and skill with a lot of weapons to boot. He's a really good marksman and an excellent strategist. Plus not too shabby when it comes to politics- not to mention leading soldiers in a combat zone. Also, considering all the various future tech he's spent his life utilizing and having grafted to his body, I'd say he's a good mechanic.
Sample Entry:
Seems like the other members of the household aren't making for very stimulating company just yet. I'm not surprised to see it, but it feels like something of a loss- I found a chess set I've been wanting to experiment with. I really can't remember... having the time to sit down and play a game. And something tells me my wife [ Said with an emphasis that clearly indicates his less-than-pleased feelings on the matter ] would be about as challenging to play against as she's been to speak with. I might be able to teach the children, of course...
[ And this is where his voice takes on a hint of amiability, because he's stated his case and has a point to get to. ] If anyone interested in a match happens to find themselves in the public library this afternoon, I'll be the one with the board set and waiting- there should be plenty of time for more than one match, too, if I'm already playing when you arrive.
... and Wade. [ Oh, the pausing, how it stretches on. ] I'll stop by, later. Try to be home when I do.
[ As though he won't use his gift for being a creeper to try to make it so anyway. ]
((just. kind of handwaved a drone family for the sake of the sample- I'm fully aware there are all chances of being matched with other player-characters.))
Personal LJ: fantasyfan17
Contact Info: [AIM] tfantasyfan17, [e-mail] t_fantasyfan@hotmail.com
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Housing: N/A
Character Name: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers (he most often goes by Cable, though)
Character Series: Cable & Deadpool (Marvel comics)
Character Age: This is a very good question- one I have no idea how to answer. Definitely an adult, though.
Background: Plenty of his history is explained here. Then, and I really do beg your pardon for the overlapping history bits that linking two articles provides (one happened to be more focused on his actual backstory and the other focuses on the rest of the series I'm playing from), this is also useful. I'll be taking Cable from his very last appearance in the series, as Providence takes a turn for being more... blown up than anything else.
Personality: This...is a complex guy. I'm just gonna start where I can first think to start and go from there.
Cable is a manipulator, and not the type of guy to deny the fact if someone calls him on it. Just about the entirety of his presence in Cable & Deadpool is operating in the background, on a higher tier. He gets what he needs no matter what he needs, and he can manage it straightforwardly or by orchestrating an incredibly elaborate series of events. When he wants to be, he's very charismatic and convincing- and I can't say I've seen him operate out of less than good intentions in this particular line of canon.
His biggest mission in this series is making the world a better place, to ridiculous levels. When his natural mutant powers were at their peak, he spent his time using those powers to flood controlled parts of the Sahara, remove loggers from the Amazon rainforest, and to alleviate the suffering of pretty much everybody in the world who happened to be dying at the time. He raised his old ship parts from the sea to provide a refuge for people looking to live a life without borders and prejudice, and did whatever he could to keep the peace in that place. Cable built himself up as the epitome of good, practically a 'messiah,' and sacrificed himself/his powers for the sake of others several times throughout it all. He wants the world to be at peace, not like the future he came from, and he wants to help it however he can.
It becomes fairly clear through the issues, too, that he genuinely cares about people- a few in a select group in particular who are his closest friends and allies. Even pulling strings with them, arguing, splitting paths and meeting back up, the man isn't afraid to put his faith in someone once he thinks that he can, and it's just on impossible to shake that faith once he has. Sometimes his methods are shady or too extreme (I mean, planting a trigger in Wade's mind that would cause him to hallucinate the people he'd killed? Dude.), but they always seem to come out of a real urge to help them become better people, or to keep them safe (sending Wade out to collect a statue that would just so happen to teleport him away from Providence while Nate stayed behind during the self-destruct, for example). Annnnd sometimes just to try to get them to see things his way- because he's used to getting his way.
While we're on that unshakeable faith matter, to make a quick detour, it would also be prudent to mention that Cable consistently, very doggedly, refuses to give up hope in his cause (you know, the future not ruled by Apocalypse and all). As far as he's concerned, giving up means that anything or anyone wanting him to do just that has won, and all the sacrifices that have been made for that cause would be diminished to pointless wastes of life and blood. It doesn't matter what's said to him, and it doesn't matter what he has to do working to keep the faith alive; he is going to make a better world. It has to happen, because he won't let it not. As you may be able to tell (or not, in which case, good thing I'm putting it in), Cable is very confident in his abilities, possibly even bordering arrogance. He knows that he's capable of a hell of a lot, and even a few things beyond what he should be capable of- quite a few things get treated with an almost-casual attitude, an air of knowing for sure what the outcome of things is going to be, despite all odds. If he knows someone, he knows someone. If he calls a bet, he's positive that that bet is gonna come through for him. Of course, there are always those rare cases where he bets wrong; he didn't expect Deadpool to turn on the X-Men and actually believe in his cause at all, and look at what happened there.
Not to say he's without flaws in character, or that these traits can't qualify as flaws, even. When Nate has his mind set on accomplishing something, like I just said, he'll get there. He gets extremely focused on the tasks that he sets for himself and refuses an alternative in his own particular ways. Handling the people around him just so, heading off for days at a time without a lot of forewarning, not letting people in on the plans he has laid... not to mention he consistently has a problem in priority-balancing. Cable often gets so caught up trying to accomplish what he thinks has to be done to improve the world centuries down the line that he completely disregards the wants/needs of getting things done on a day-to-day basis. Deadpool was always a really good foil for him in that regard.
And while all that serious humanity work did come from a genuine desire to better the world, it was actually a self-serving course of action as well. After combining DNA with Deadpool and inheriting a little bit of that healing factor, there wasn't a need to use his telepathy to keep a certain deadly virus at bay- and his powers started increasing exponentially from there on out. He knew that they'd get to be too much eventually, and actually wanted to be taken out before things got too far out of control, and he himself too far gone. Rising to power so quickly was bound to draw attention and opposition from some: someone needed to figure out how to eliminate the threat he'd pose, and he set the dominos up to be knocked over for that very purpose. Nobody would hire Deadpool for mercenary work after he helped to essentially lobotomize the man, and so he started anonymously hiring him for jobs that would help things come around the way he needed them to be. People can be friends and pawns all at once, sometimes. He'll give up a relationship now for an improved planet hundreds, even thousands of years from now, if he has to.
His willingness to give up his life where other people are involved, while noble, can also be linked back to all that time just being a soldier for a cause most people considered lost. For anyone else to sacrifice themselves for something he's struggling to achieve is almost unacceptable. But in a position where it's a viable option for him, he'll jump in the line of fire or blow his ass up without a second thought, for the greater good. He understands very well what it means to make quick decisions in strenuous circumstances, from matters of whether or not to fire on someone to staying behind to make sure none of the data stored on Providence would fall into the wrong hands, he's a man of war who's learned time and time again that sacrifices are sometimes necessary. He's also apparently come to the decision that he should be the one taking the big risks as often as possible.
So to summarize? Complex as all hell and kind of contradictory. Ruthless but compassionate, detached but always involved, manipulative but caring, very experienced but sometimes as stubborn and immature as a child; he can go from being serious and stoic to terrifyingly angry to being very placid and even willing to toss around the banter and light joking, all depending on the situation and who he's surrounded by. Some things that he takes in stride are issues that would throw others completely off-guard. He'll do whatever he feels he has to for the greater good, or just to keep his loved ones alive and well, for all that he's not going to openly express 99% of his softer emotions. He is pretty much kung-fu-action-jesus, but with a side of a self-serving, knows-everything attitude and genuine vulnerability. It...should be interesting to see how he takes to Mayfield, given the last thing he did before turning up.
Abilities: From this canonpoint, Cable's very powerful telepathy and telekinesis have actually flown the coop- it was through a connection to the infonet and advanced technology that he was able to more or less duplicate them at all. The basic summary of the infonet connection-enabled ability is being able to access any information that people traded (through phone, radio, television, e-mail, internet, etc.). For the record, this is not mind-reading. It's not being able to hear what a person is saying across town to someone standing in their living room without something to broadcast it first. It's more akin to tapping into all the phones and only knowing what you get off of those, if that makes sense. The telepathy substitute remained more or less the same in function, but weaker in practice, and more limited.
Both of these abilities aren't really accessible to Cable without a) his cybernetic implants and b) his friendly neighborhood futuristic alien parasite of sorts, of course. And in all honesty, I wouldn't be likely to ask for those particular abilities in regain form for a long while, if ever. They can... kind of feel like a godmod.
Cable also has serious hand-to-hand fighting abilities, strength, and skill with a lot of weapons to boot. He's a really good marksman and an excellent strategist. Plus not too shabby when it comes to politics- not to mention leading soldiers in a combat zone. Also, considering all the various future tech he's spent his life utilizing and having grafted to his body, I'd say he's a good mechanic.
Sample Entry:
Seems like the other members of the household aren't making for very stimulating company just yet. I'm not surprised to see it, but it feels like something of a loss- I found a chess set I've been wanting to experiment with. I really can't remember... having the time to sit down and play a game. And something tells me my wife [ Said with an emphasis that clearly indicates his less-than-pleased feelings on the matter ] would be about as challenging to play against as she's been to speak with. I might be able to teach the children, of course...
[ And this is where his voice takes on a hint of amiability, because he's stated his case and has a point to get to. ] If anyone interested in a match happens to find themselves in the public library this afternoon, I'll be the one with the board set and waiting- there should be plenty of time for more than one match, too, if I'm already playing when you arrive.
... and Wade. [ Oh, the pausing, how it stretches on. ] I'll stop by, later. Try to be home when I do.
[ As though he won't use his gift for being a creeper to try to make it so anyway. ]
((just. kind of handwaved a drone family for the sake of the sample- I'm fully aware there are all chances of being matched with other player-characters.))