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OOC Information:
Name: Nekky
Age: 21
AIM: xnecronomical
MSN: NA
Y!M: NA
E-MAIL: x_violetprison@yahoo.com
IC Information:
Name: Tommy Shepherd, codename Speed
Fandom: Marvel Comics / Young Avengers
Timeline: From during issue 3 of Avengers: The Children's Crusade.
Age: 16
Appearance: Tommy stands about 5'8" and weighs about 155lbs. His body is mostly lean muscle, though the muscles in his legs are more defined. He has stark white hair, usually windblown and messy, and bright green eyes. Tommy bears striking resemblance both to Billy Kaplan, his sort of twin, and to Pietro Maximoff, Quicksilver, his possible uncle. Generally, he's rarely seen wearing casual clothing, but when he does, it's probably t-shirts and jeans, something casual. His costume as Speed consists of a green spandex bodysuit with metallic silver accents and a pair of orange goggles.
Abilities: Tommy, as his codename suggests, is a speedster, and when he's running, he can exceed the speed of sound and run across water, though his top speed is unknown. He claims to be Quicksilver fast (meaning he probably claims top speeds of up to Mach 5, though this could be a lie). In addition, he can accelerate and destabilize atomic matter, essentially vibrating the atoms of an object so fast that the object then explodes. He's shown a fair amount of control with these abilities, and can even accelerate his own matter enough to phase through solid walls.
Personality: Tommy is a bit of a mystery, and he likes to keep it that way. Outwardly, he's brash and confident, almost cocky and very obnoxious, and he's easily the most arrogant Young Avenger on the team. Nothing really seems to phase him like it does his teammates; he's got a much less strict moral code. Though he abides by the Young Avengers' cardinal rule ('We don't kill. Except Kang. That one time.'), he isn't adverse to causing mass amounts of property damage, and violence doesn't disturb him (He even managed to impress Wolverine by blowing up Skrulls, since 'they come back'.) Billy once referred to him as the 'team sociopath', and that descriptor seems to fit him to a T.
His time in super-juvie effected his personality quite a bit - the months of torture and 'training' and being molded into a living weapon buried whoever Tommy Shepherd might have been before his powers manifested. No one will ever know who Tommy used to be - he doesn't talk about his past, or his divorced parents, or what they did to him in super-juvie. Showing pain is a sign of weakness, and it's possibly been drilled into him to act strong, to be tough, to be fierce so no one will mess with him.
Underneath, though, he's more than just an amoral speedster with a penchant for blowing things up. It's a reasonable assumption to make that he feels a bit like the proverbial third wheel of the Young Avengers, being the latest-comer, perhaps he truly wants to be a hero, that he truly wants to help people, that he wants to save lives. He wants to prove himself, maybe - show the world that he isn't just a living weapon. And deep down, there's a part of Tommy that just wants to belong somewhere.
History:
He was born Thomas Shepherd, only son of Frank and Mary Shepherd in Springfield, New Jersey. Not much is known about his childhood, because he just doesn't talk about it, at all. His parents are currently divorced, though no one is sure how long they've been separated or when they first divorced. In his early teens, approximately, (likely when his mutant powers first emerged at puberty) Tommy blew up the school he attended with these newfound abilities, though his lawyer said it was entirely on accident. Whether it was or not, his motivations, his reason for doing such a thing, only Tommy knows that and he isn't telling. He was sentenced to a juvenile detention facility in New Jersey - another period of his life that he doesn't talk about.
In this facility, known to some as 'super juvie', Tommy was experimented on and likely tortured, all while being kept in high-security solitary confinement, in hopes of turning him into a living weapon. Well, they got a living weapon. After several long months of confinement, Tommy was broken out of juvie by the Young Avengers; the Vision's Avengers Failsafe program had identified him as a young speedster with unknown ties to the original Avengers, and they broke him out to have him join their ranks to have extra manpower to take on the Skrulls, who had kidnapped original Young Avenger member, Teddy Altman.
The Vision overrode the security on Tommy's cell, and he exploded out of it, quite literally, to come face to face with the android, Cassie Lang, and Billy Kaplan. Almost immediately, it became apparent why the Avengers Failsafe program had chosen Tommy - he looked exactly like Billy, except for his coloring (white hair and green eyes versus black hair and brown eyes). From there, after meeting up with the rest of the team, Tommy sadistically tried to vaporize a group of the doctors who had tormented him for months - he was stopped only when Kate Bishop tackled him out of nowhere and distracted him from his goal of revenge. Eli Bradley gave him a choice, saying they were here to rescue a Young Avenger, not free a Young Master of Evil, and Tommy chose to go with them and retrieve Teddy, letting self preservation win out over his baser desires to kill.
He helped the young heroes break into a Skrull ship, blowing down the door and taking on the Super Skrull himself in a brave, but stupid, display of confidence. After the Kree attacked, the Young Avengers, Tommy, and the Super Skrull escaped into a Kree ship, where they ended up heading back to Earth. A battle between the two alien races took place, all over the right to claim Teddy, and Tommy fought with the team and the New Avengers, where he impressed Wolverine by blowing up Skrulls because 'they come back'. After the alien mess was over, Kate Bishop offered him a costume and the codename of Speed, though he left right after that, presumably, and didn't show himself again until later, when he showed up in costume, calling himself Speed, calling the team into action because of an emergency at the United Nations building (which he had accidentally blown up in a fight with the Zodiac). From there, he became a permanent member of the team.
Despite his skepticism of Billy's constant claims that they're the long lost twins of the Scarlet Witch, he referred to Billy as his brother all the time, and went with him on a journey to find their 'mother', Wanda Maximoff. They searched Wundagore, Genosha, and New Jersey at superspeed (and with magic) to try and find her, but they only found Master Pandemonium in Wanda and Vision 1.0's old home; Pandemonium just encouraged them to give up their search, which they did, temporarily. Soon after, he asked Kate Bishop on a date just after she lost her bow in a bet to Clint Barton, and on an impulse, they ended up sneaking into the Avengers' secret headquarters to retrieve it. It was on this date that he shared his first, and so far last, kiss with her, in an elevator.
When the Superhero Registration Act brought on a superhero Civil War, between Iron Man's pro-registration side and Captain America's anti-registration side, the Young Avengers, minus Cassie, sided with Captain America, fiercely loyal to him through it all - and Tommy was no exception. When they witnessed the Runaways under attack by a group of cape-killers, Tommy and Kate were the first ones to suggest they go help them, making Eli, whom Tommy has always had a sort of rivalry with, angry, though he couldn't keep them in the base where Cap had told them to stay. They flew to LA to help, where they had an altercation with the Runaways, because the other teens believed the Young Avengers were just like the adults and out to force them into the war. Tommy showed quite a bit of overconfidence, urging the Runaways to just give up now because their team was superior and 'Really, me's all you need.' After things cooled down, he ended up bonding with the youngest member of the other team, Molly Hayes, proving he's good with children, and he fought with the rest of them to break Billy, Teddy, Xavin and Karolina out of the Cube.
During the Skrull invasion of Earth, Tommy and the Young Avengers were one of the first teams on the scene to help in the battle in New York City. They witnessed the Baxter Building being sucked into the Negative Zone (and Tommy took video with his cell phone), and joined in the fight against the alien invaders. Tommy was at his brother's side during the first part of the battle, and the twins saved Xavin and Teddy from attackers, leading to a team up with the Runaways against crusaders wanting their alien members dead.
The Skrull Invasion led to the rise in power of Norman Osborn, the former Green Goblin. During this time, another group calling themselves the Young Avengers emerged, angering the real Young Avengers. Tommy met up with a girl he had apparently met in juvie, now Coat of Arms, and had a brief romantic interlude with her; he tried to get her to join his team, and she tried to get him to join hers, but they ended up going their separate ways. During an altercation with the new Young Masters and Osborn's Dark Avengers, Tommy beat them back with his team, causing Osborn to state that it had never happened, it was such an embarrassment.
When Osborn led a siege on Asgard, relocated to Broxton, Oklahoma, Tommy and the Young Avengers were there to fight with Steve Rogers and the Asgardians - Speed spent most of the battle ferrying people to safety so quickly they didn't know what had happened, though he also acted as messenger, taking the Iron Man armor to Tony Stark.
From there, after everything had calmed down somewhat, Tommy broke his brother and Teddy out of Avengers' custody (by vibrating them straight through a wall to freedom) after an altercation with the Sons of the Serpent earlier that day, where Billy had rendered all the bad guys comatose with a single thought. Magneto showed up, calling Tommy and Billy his grandsons, a fact that Tommy seemed more willing to believe when he heard it from someone else, and after a fight with the Avengers, Billy ported them all to Wundagore, where he, Tommy, and Magneto tried to find the Scarlet Witch. Billy was briefly kidnapped by Quicksilver, a fact that Tommy was offended by ("I'm a little offended you didn't kidnap us both.") When they found Wanda in the nearby village, she turned out to be a Doom-bot - a worrying fact. That night, the ragtag group all checked into an inn on Wundagore Mountain, trying to decide what to do next.
Roleplay Sample - Log:
It had been a long day. It was one in the morning, and Tommy should have been exhausted, but he wasn't.
He couldn't sleep.
He felt restless and irritated in general, at nothing in particular, tapping his fingers and fidgeting even as he sprawled back on the bed in the tiny room of the inn their ragtag little group was staying at. Hours ago, he was in New York, and now he was all the way across the world on Wundagore Mountain- Well, actually, that wasn't too strange. Tommy could circle the world in minutes at a run, moving so fast he would merely glide over oceans, and be right where he started in no time at all. It was the reason they were in Transia that he had mixed feelings about.
Anger was one of them. Anger at a lot of people. Billy's words rang in his head - 'This is MY fight. I'm the one the Avengers want to lock up. I'm the one who wants to find the Scarlet Witch.' - over and over again, taunting him. It wasn't just Billy's fight. If he was what he said, if they were who Magneto thought they were, then this was his fight, too, wasn't it? If they were the Scarlet Witch's children, then that made this as much Tommy's business as it was Billy's, and it pissed him off, that his neurotic maybe-twin would have just sent him back to New York the moment Eli started to complain about what they were doing.
He was angry that Uncle Pete, Quicksilver, had wanted to take Billy away and find Wanda without him. He was more than a little offended that he hadn't kidnapped both of them, really. No one seemed to care what he thought about this whole mess. No one seemed to care that this meant a lot to him, too.
And it pissed him off that he knew, somehow, that Billy wasn't going to stick around here and play by the rules, as flimsy as rules were when you were a fugitive on the run from the Avengers, looking for the Scarlet Witch, and working with Magneto and Quicksilver. He'd almost left with Uncle Pete earlier, and neither of them had bothered to ask Tommy if he'd like to go save his mother - which... it hurt. Tommy thought he and Pietro would have had so much in common, but Pietro needed Billy's abilities...
On top of the anger, there was a sort of... uncomfortable, hopeful feeling roiling in the pit of his stomach - an internal battle, because Tommy didn't want to get his hopes up, didn't want to be disappointed in the end. When you let yourself care, that was when people let you down. If you were guarded, casual, you could protect yourself from devastation, but it was growing harder and harder to stay detached, not when he had a man out there calling himself Tommy's (and Billy's) grandfather, not when he might have a really cool speedster uncle who was just like him, not when he might have a mother out there who wouldn't care that he was a mutant, who might actually be able to love him.
Tommy threw one of his pillows across the room, and it exploded into a torrent of pale, musty feathers.
It was getting harder and harder not to have feelings, no matter what he said. How could he be aloof when he had made the disturbing realization that he wanted a family, and when he was starting to realize just what the Young Avengers meant to him? Kate, especially. The way she would still stand by them through all this Maximoff family drama... It was kind of amazing. And that thought just brought him back to the Maximoff Family Drama all over again, and the cycle of anger and frustration and desperate hope started anew.
It was one in the morning, and he couldn't sleep.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
[When the video starts, a young man with stark white hair and narrowed green eyes becomes visible, looking around agitatedly. The device rattles a bit in his hands, giving it an accidental shaky cam effect. All he can see around him is white, white, white - and he's starting to feel panic rising up in him. He's spent the last few minutes messing around with the only other thing in the room with him, a communicator device of some sort, and his swift fingers have managed to... Well, he wasn't sure what he managed to start up. The white walls are making his heart race uncomfortably, and his fingers are shaking as he starts to mumble to himself rapidly.]
Whatthehellisallthis? WherethehellamI?
[He takes a deep breath, tries to calm his racing mind, but the white walls feel as if they're closing in on him and the strange collar around his neck almost feels like it's choking him, and his thoughts always rush back to super-juvie - how similar this feels, and yet how different. He kind of expects a white coated man with a syringe or some neural device or something to inject him with or attach to him. The thought of being experimented on again makes his heart jump in his throat. When he starts talking to himself again, it's slower than before, though still his words come fairly quickly.]
Okay, Tommy, calm down and think before you give yourself a superspeed ulcer or something. Thinkthinkthink. One minute you're with Magneto and Quicksilver and the team in a ratty inn in Wundagore, and now you might be in super-juvie again, and if you are, where the hell is everyone else? Something bad happened, obviously. I just need to... find out what.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here.
Uhm... I think that's about it.
Name: Nekky
Age: 21
AIM: xnecronomical
MSN: NA
Y!M: NA
E-MAIL: x_violetprison@yahoo.com
IC Information:
Name: Tommy Shepherd, codename Speed
Fandom: Marvel Comics / Young Avengers
Timeline: From during issue 3 of Avengers: The Children's Crusade.
Age: 16
Appearance: Tommy stands about 5'8" and weighs about 155lbs. His body is mostly lean muscle, though the muscles in his legs are more defined. He has stark white hair, usually windblown and messy, and bright green eyes. Tommy bears striking resemblance both to Billy Kaplan, his sort of twin, and to Pietro Maximoff, Quicksilver, his possible uncle. Generally, he's rarely seen wearing casual clothing, but when he does, it's probably t-shirts and jeans, something casual. His costume as Speed consists of a green spandex bodysuit with metallic silver accents and a pair of orange goggles.
Abilities: Tommy, as his codename suggests, is a speedster, and when he's running, he can exceed the speed of sound and run across water, though his top speed is unknown. He claims to be Quicksilver fast (meaning he probably claims top speeds of up to Mach 5, though this could be a lie). In addition, he can accelerate and destabilize atomic matter, essentially vibrating the atoms of an object so fast that the object then explodes. He's shown a fair amount of control with these abilities, and can even accelerate his own matter enough to phase through solid walls.
Personality: Tommy is a bit of a mystery, and he likes to keep it that way. Outwardly, he's brash and confident, almost cocky and very obnoxious, and he's easily the most arrogant Young Avenger on the team. Nothing really seems to phase him like it does his teammates; he's got a much less strict moral code. Though he abides by the Young Avengers' cardinal rule ('We don't kill. Except Kang. That one time.'), he isn't adverse to causing mass amounts of property damage, and violence doesn't disturb him (He even managed to impress Wolverine by blowing up Skrulls, since 'they come back'.) Billy once referred to him as the 'team sociopath', and that descriptor seems to fit him to a T.
His time in super-juvie effected his personality quite a bit - the months of torture and 'training' and being molded into a living weapon buried whoever Tommy Shepherd might have been before his powers manifested. No one will ever know who Tommy used to be - he doesn't talk about his past, or his divorced parents, or what they did to him in super-juvie. Showing pain is a sign of weakness, and it's possibly been drilled into him to act strong, to be tough, to be fierce so no one will mess with him.
Underneath, though, he's more than just an amoral speedster with a penchant for blowing things up. It's a reasonable assumption to make that he feels a bit like the proverbial third wheel of the Young Avengers, being the latest-comer, perhaps he truly wants to be a hero, that he truly wants to help people, that he wants to save lives. He wants to prove himself, maybe - show the world that he isn't just a living weapon. And deep down, there's a part of Tommy that just wants to belong somewhere.
History:
He was born Thomas Shepherd, only son of Frank and Mary Shepherd in Springfield, New Jersey. Not much is known about his childhood, because he just doesn't talk about it, at all. His parents are currently divorced, though no one is sure how long they've been separated or when they first divorced. In his early teens, approximately, (likely when his mutant powers first emerged at puberty) Tommy blew up the school he attended with these newfound abilities, though his lawyer said it was entirely on accident. Whether it was or not, his motivations, his reason for doing such a thing, only Tommy knows that and he isn't telling. He was sentenced to a juvenile detention facility in New Jersey - another period of his life that he doesn't talk about.
In this facility, known to some as 'super juvie', Tommy was experimented on and likely tortured, all while being kept in high-security solitary confinement, in hopes of turning him into a living weapon. Well, they got a living weapon. After several long months of confinement, Tommy was broken out of juvie by the Young Avengers; the Vision's Avengers Failsafe program had identified him as a young speedster with unknown ties to the original Avengers, and they broke him out to have him join their ranks to have extra manpower to take on the Skrulls, who had kidnapped original Young Avenger member, Teddy Altman.
The Vision overrode the security on Tommy's cell, and he exploded out of it, quite literally, to come face to face with the android, Cassie Lang, and Billy Kaplan. Almost immediately, it became apparent why the Avengers Failsafe program had chosen Tommy - he looked exactly like Billy, except for his coloring (white hair and green eyes versus black hair and brown eyes). From there, after meeting up with the rest of the team, Tommy sadistically tried to vaporize a group of the doctors who had tormented him for months - he was stopped only when Kate Bishop tackled him out of nowhere and distracted him from his goal of revenge. Eli Bradley gave him a choice, saying they were here to rescue a Young Avenger, not free a Young Master of Evil, and Tommy chose to go with them and retrieve Teddy, letting self preservation win out over his baser desires to kill.
He helped the young heroes break into a Skrull ship, blowing down the door and taking on the Super Skrull himself in a brave, but stupid, display of confidence. After the Kree attacked, the Young Avengers, Tommy, and the Super Skrull escaped into a Kree ship, where they ended up heading back to Earth. A battle between the two alien races took place, all over the right to claim Teddy, and Tommy fought with the team and the New Avengers, where he impressed Wolverine by blowing up Skrulls because 'they come back'. After the alien mess was over, Kate Bishop offered him a costume and the codename of Speed, though he left right after that, presumably, and didn't show himself again until later, when he showed up in costume, calling himself Speed, calling the team into action because of an emergency at the United Nations building (which he had accidentally blown up in a fight with the Zodiac). From there, he became a permanent member of the team.
Despite his skepticism of Billy's constant claims that they're the long lost twins of the Scarlet Witch, he referred to Billy as his brother all the time, and went with him on a journey to find their 'mother', Wanda Maximoff. They searched Wundagore, Genosha, and New Jersey at superspeed (and with magic) to try and find her, but they only found Master Pandemonium in Wanda and Vision 1.0's old home; Pandemonium just encouraged them to give up their search, which they did, temporarily. Soon after, he asked Kate Bishop on a date just after she lost her bow in a bet to Clint Barton, and on an impulse, they ended up sneaking into the Avengers' secret headquarters to retrieve it. It was on this date that he shared his first, and so far last, kiss with her, in an elevator.
When the Superhero Registration Act brought on a superhero Civil War, between Iron Man's pro-registration side and Captain America's anti-registration side, the Young Avengers, minus Cassie, sided with Captain America, fiercely loyal to him through it all - and Tommy was no exception. When they witnessed the Runaways under attack by a group of cape-killers, Tommy and Kate were the first ones to suggest they go help them, making Eli, whom Tommy has always had a sort of rivalry with, angry, though he couldn't keep them in the base where Cap had told them to stay. They flew to LA to help, where they had an altercation with the Runaways, because the other teens believed the Young Avengers were just like the adults and out to force them into the war. Tommy showed quite a bit of overconfidence, urging the Runaways to just give up now because their team was superior and 'Really, me's all you need.' After things cooled down, he ended up bonding with the youngest member of the other team, Molly Hayes, proving he's good with children, and he fought with the rest of them to break Billy, Teddy, Xavin and Karolina out of the Cube.
During the Skrull invasion of Earth, Tommy and the Young Avengers were one of the first teams on the scene to help in the battle in New York City. They witnessed the Baxter Building being sucked into the Negative Zone (and Tommy took video with his cell phone), and joined in the fight against the alien invaders. Tommy was at his brother's side during the first part of the battle, and the twins saved Xavin and Teddy from attackers, leading to a team up with the Runaways against crusaders wanting their alien members dead.
The Skrull Invasion led to the rise in power of Norman Osborn, the former Green Goblin. During this time, another group calling themselves the Young Avengers emerged, angering the real Young Avengers. Tommy met up with a girl he had apparently met in juvie, now Coat of Arms, and had a brief romantic interlude with her; he tried to get her to join his team, and she tried to get him to join hers, but they ended up going their separate ways. During an altercation with the new Young Masters and Osborn's Dark Avengers, Tommy beat them back with his team, causing Osborn to state that it had never happened, it was such an embarrassment.
When Osborn led a siege on Asgard, relocated to Broxton, Oklahoma, Tommy and the Young Avengers were there to fight with Steve Rogers and the Asgardians - Speed spent most of the battle ferrying people to safety so quickly they didn't know what had happened, though he also acted as messenger, taking the Iron Man armor to Tony Stark.
From there, after everything had calmed down somewhat, Tommy broke his brother and Teddy out of Avengers' custody (by vibrating them straight through a wall to freedom) after an altercation with the Sons of the Serpent earlier that day, where Billy had rendered all the bad guys comatose with a single thought. Magneto showed up, calling Tommy and Billy his grandsons, a fact that Tommy seemed more willing to believe when he heard it from someone else, and after a fight with the Avengers, Billy ported them all to Wundagore, where he, Tommy, and Magneto tried to find the Scarlet Witch. Billy was briefly kidnapped by Quicksilver, a fact that Tommy was offended by ("I'm a little offended you didn't kidnap us both.") When they found Wanda in the nearby village, she turned out to be a Doom-bot - a worrying fact. That night, the ragtag group all checked into an inn on Wundagore Mountain, trying to decide what to do next.
Roleplay Sample - Log:
It had been a long day. It was one in the morning, and Tommy should have been exhausted, but he wasn't.
He couldn't sleep.
He felt restless and irritated in general, at nothing in particular, tapping his fingers and fidgeting even as he sprawled back on the bed in the tiny room of the inn their ragtag little group was staying at. Hours ago, he was in New York, and now he was all the way across the world on Wundagore Mountain- Well, actually, that wasn't too strange. Tommy could circle the world in minutes at a run, moving so fast he would merely glide over oceans, and be right where he started in no time at all. It was the reason they were in Transia that he had mixed feelings about.
Anger was one of them. Anger at a lot of people. Billy's words rang in his head - 'This is MY fight. I'm the one the Avengers want to lock up. I'm the one who wants to find the Scarlet Witch.' - over and over again, taunting him. It wasn't just Billy's fight. If he was what he said, if they were who Magneto thought they were, then this was his fight, too, wasn't it? If they were the Scarlet Witch's children, then that made this as much Tommy's business as it was Billy's, and it pissed him off, that his neurotic maybe-twin would have just sent him back to New York the moment Eli started to complain about what they were doing.
He was angry that Uncle Pete, Quicksilver, had wanted to take Billy away and find Wanda without him. He was more than a little offended that he hadn't kidnapped both of them, really. No one seemed to care what he thought about this whole mess. No one seemed to care that this meant a lot to him, too.
And it pissed him off that he knew, somehow, that Billy wasn't going to stick around here and play by the rules, as flimsy as rules were when you were a fugitive on the run from the Avengers, looking for the Scarlet Witch, and working with Magneto and Quicksilver. He'd almost left with Uncle Pete earlier, and neither of them had bothered to ask Tommy if he'd like to go save his mother - which... it hurt. Tommy thought he and Pietro would have had so much in common, but Pietro needed Billy's abilities...
On top of the anger, there was a sort of... uncomfortable, hopeful feeling roiling in the pit of his stomach - an internal battle, because Tommy didn't want to get his hopes up, didn't want to be disappointed in the end. When you let yourself care, that was when people let you down. If you were guarded, casual, you could protect yourself from devastation, but it was growing harder and harder to stay detached, not when he had a man out there calling himself Tommy's (and Billy's) grandfather, not when he might have a really cool speedster uncle who was just like him, not when he might have a mother out there who wouldn't care that he was a mutant, who might actually be able to love him.
Tommy threw one of his pillows across the room, and it exploded into a torrent of pale, musty feathers.
It was getting harder and harder not to have feelings, no matter what he said. How could he be aloof when he had made the disturbing realization that he wanted a family, and when he was starting to realize just what the Young Avengers meant to him? Kate, especially. The way she would still stand by them through all this Maximoff family drama... It was kind of amazing. And that thought just brought him back to the Maximoff Family Drama all over again, and the cycle of anger and frustration and desperate hope started anew.
It was one in the morning, and he couldn't sleep.
Roleplay Sample - Journal:
[When the video starts, a young man with stark white hair and narrowed green eyes becomes visible, looking around agitatedly. The device rattles a bit in his hands, giving it an accidental shaky cam effect. All he can see around him is white, white, white - and he's starting to feel panic rising up in him. He's spent the last few minutes messing around with the only other thing in the room with him, a communicator device of some sort, and his swift fingers have managed to... Well, he wasn't sure what he managed to start up. The white walls are making his heart race uncomfortably, and his fingers are shaking as he starts to mumble to himself rapidly.]
Whatthehellisallthis? WherethehellamI?
[He takes a deep breath, tries to calm his racing mind, but the white walls feel as if they're closing in on him and the strange collar around his neck almost feels like it's choking him, and his thoughts always rush back to super-juvie - how similar this feels, and yet how different. He kind of expects a white coated man with a syringe or some neural device or something to inject him with or attach to him. The thought of being experimented on again makes his heart jump in his throat. When he starts talking to himself again, it's slower than before, though still his words come fairly quickly.]
Okay, Tommy, calm down and think before you give yourself a superspeed ulcer or something. Thinkthinkthink. One minute you're with Magneto and Quicksilver and the team in a ratty inn in Wundagore, and now you might be in super-juvie again, and if you are, where the hell is everyone else? Something bad happened, obviously. I just need to... find out what.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here.
Uhm... I think that's about it.