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ooc information
Name: Sara
AIM: dark sky blew
Email: sara.wise@gmail.com
Timezone: Eastern US
ic information
Name: Henry Phillip McCoy
Nickname: Hank
File Codename: Beast
Age/Birthday: 26, 1 June 1980 (Gemini)
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 280 lbs
Hair: Dark brown
Eyes: Blue-grey
Identifying Features: Massively enlarged hands and feet, small scar on his left cheekbone he acquired playing football, poor eyesight typically repaired with contacts.
Sexuality: 1 on the Kinsey Scale.
Religion: Lapsed Catholic
Mutation: Hank possesses superhuman strength, speed, endurance, reflexes, dexterity and agility along with enlarged hands and feet, all of which are capable of being used as superdextrous hands. His strength and speed are fueled by an enhanced metabolism, powered by a mutant musculature that makes him heavier than most men his size and supported by extra-strong bones which can also sustain the impact resulting from the maneuvers of which he is capable. Hank can run up to forty miles an hour over long distances, can press better than half a ton and withstand a three-story fall with no injuries. His reflexes are cat-like and he has the agility of an Olympic acrobat.
Power Classification: ENH-B.
Other Skills: Hank has a genius-level intellect and he's not afraid to use it. He speaks nearly a dozen languages fluently (ooc note: his mun speaks not nearly so many and loves her some babelfish when necessary) and is a competent electrical engineer and chemist, but where he truly shines is in medicine. He was already in medical school when Xavier recruited him to X-Camp and completed his MD shortly thereafter. He is a skilled trauma surgeon, having received a lot of experience in the field with X-Camp in their various combat engagements in both wars as well as some civilian experience during the brief respite between. He is a passable cook and received some firearms training during the X-Camp's times of alliance with the Resistance, though he is by nature a peaceful person.
note added 1/22/06: Languages: French, Spanish, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Swahili, Arabic, Latin.
Weaknesses: Hank can be extremely impulsive at times, leaping into action before he knows all of the necessary details, though he usually waits until he has at least 80% of what he needs to know. The other 20%, he figures, can be handled on the fly as it unfolds. He also prefers peaceful or diplomatic solutions to problems, which in most worlds would be simply a personality trait but, in a world at war, his desire to seek peaceful resolutions at almost any cost has frequently put him in harm's way.
He likes to show off whenever possible and is particularly fond of engaging in physical demonstrations. They have become a normal part of his daily routine in a lot of ways--if the floor appears too cluttered to be easily navigated, Hank will simply leap over it or bound off the furniture to cover the necessary distance--but even in wartime he thought little of performing feats like this if they seemed necessary.
While he is not typically stubborn, he can become extremely single-minded, particularly where his research or work is concerned. At present, a great deal of his focus is on somehow recovering what results he'd achieved, though he is fairly certain they've already fallen into what he perceives as the wrong hands.
History:
Summer 1979: An accident occurs at a nuclear power plant near Dunfee, IL. Several workers are injured or affected by the radiation; among them is one Norton McCoy, who then leaves his job at the power plant to pursue a less lucrative but safer career as a farmer.
June 1980: Henry Phillip McCoy is born to Norton and Edna McCoy and the results of Norton's exposure to radiation in the previous year are revealed. Their son is visibly different from other babies but while the reactions of the doctors, the neighbors and the rest of their community is overall fairly negative, the McCoys love their son and are determined to raise him safely and give him the most normal life possible. It will later be revealed that Hank is a member of a newly emerging race of highly evolved humans known as mutants. His father's accident led to Hank possessing something that would be identified later on as the X-Gene.
March 1981: Hank McCoy says his first words. They are, in order, "dada," "mama," and "nuclear reactor." His parents begin to believe there may be more mutated about their son than simply his body but tests done in the following months reveal that while their son's muscles and appendages are most definitely of a genetic origin, his mental abilities appear to be completely natural.
September 1985: The McCoys enroll their son in kindergarten. Hank is immediately recognized as the brightest student in the class but is shunned during recess for his bookishness and odd physical characteristics. He is reluctant to fight back against the bullies; Norton and Edna, once they understood their son's abilities, spent a great deal of time ingraining in him the idea of fairness in their uses. Instead he retreats into himself, advancing his education as much as he is able to on his own away from school, including beginning to teach himself several languages and beginning to study the animals and plants on his parents' farm. These fledgling investigations will eventually lead him into more indepth studies of biology, anatomy, genetics and chemistry.
Hank's mind often works too quickly for the school to be satisfied in class as he moves through elementary and middle school and, while he is advanced through grades as rapidly as the administration can make possible, he is also frequently considered to be out of line in his inclass behavior, speaking out of turn and finding other ways to engage his mind, including taking apart the school bus and its audiovisual equipment. His father agrees to allow Hank to practice these skills on the farm equipment at home, thus nurturing his interest in working with his hands and in certain aspects of engineering. From his mother he receives a collection of Shakespeare's plays and other literature, sparking a lifelong love of reading that would turn the great works into first a challenge to be conquered and, later, a refuge from the necessary perfection and precision of medical studies. Hank will come to find he can relax in words and their art.
August 1993: Thirteen-year-old Hank begins high school and is, at first, very socially awkward due to his reputation, his obvious mutation and his age difference from the other students. With the help of a young woman he's tutoring, Jennifer Nyles, he comes out of his shell and begins to make friends. He also begins to fall in love with Jennifer but she never reciprocates his affections. This is the first of several primarily one-sided "relationships" that will characterize Hank's love life up until and throughout his time in X-Camp.
June 1996: Hank McCoy, now a nationally recognized all-star high school football player and highly desirable college recruit for not only that but also his perfect SAT score and impeccable academic record and ambition, graduates from high school two years early. He has already decided he wants to dedicate his life to helping others like him, other mutants, and with that goal in mind sets off for Columbia University to pursue first his undergraduate degree and then enrolling in their MD/Ph.D. program with a concentration in Genetics and Development. He remains athletic but no longer participates actively in organized sports, dedicating the majority of his free time to personal research interests.
1999: Now in the early years of his medical studies, Hank McCoy is identified by Charles Xavier as a mutant who may be beneficial to the cause of his newly formed mutant rights group, X-Camp. Eager to advance this cause and to be able to work on his studies in the company of other mutants, Hank accepts the offer. He is one of the first members of X-Camp. With Xavier's help he is able to transfer from Columbia to Georgetown, there pursuing an MD/Ph.D. program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. His transfer results in the end of his (overall unsatisfactory) relationship with journalism student Trish Tilby. He conducts a trauma residency at Georgetown Medical Center while working with X-Camp and, upon its completion, begins working full time for X-Camp, eventually travelling with the rest of its members to Portugal and leading the medical corps that attended to soldiers on both sides of the conflict there.
2003: After the first war is officially ended Hank returns with the rest of the X-Camp primaries to Washington to continue their fight for mutant rights. He also continues his own research into the evolutionary processes that led to the emergence of the X-gene and, in particular, isolating that gene. His hope is that he will be able to use this in the new peaceful and mutant-friendly millennium to help parents identify their mutant children sooner so they may be enrolled in appropriate educational programs and spared the ostracism he faced growing up.
2005: The Resistance is attacked and Hank follows the remains of X-Camp to join the Resistance's numbers as war is declared once again. He manages to escape the attack on the hideout and flees with other members of the mutant army but is soon separated from them.
Personality: Hank is a jovial, outgoing guy with a penchant for advanced vocabulary and sentence structure. He is highly cerebral but still deeply enjoy the simple things in life, particularly those that involve science fiction, refined sugars, prime time police investigation or criminology dramas, or any of those in combination. He is caring, attentive and almost unfailingly optimistic, both in his medical career and in his personal life. The only place he has developed something of an inferiority complex is in his approach to all things romantic. He only considers it a minor loss in the overall scheme of things, though, and has little trouble keeping himself otherwise occupied.
He has never let his obvious physical mutations bother him. While he would never claim to have enjoyed the isolation he experienced in his hometown until others became accustomed to his appearance and abilities, he preferred to seek out other ways of making himself happy rather than wallow in their rejection. After all, if they chose not to be his friend, he simply figured that would have to be their loss. He himself enjoys being a mutant and relishes his abilities.
He is not a soldier. This likely bears repeating: he is not a soldier. He is as passionate about the cause as he is about everything else in his life but he joined the X-Camp under the understanding that it would be largely a diplomatic or political activist organization and was adamant about remaining at a distance from the front lines when X-Camp joined the actual conflict, preferring to remain in the medical facilities. As a doctor he believes his responsibility is to save lives, not take them. He will fight if he absolutely has to but even then he prefers to use his body to stun or disable the opposition. His firearm training was minimal and he found it abhorrent.
Relationships:
red_eyed_cyke: Hank's very best friend. If he were ever to have a brother, he would want it to be Scott. Not someone just like Scott, but Scott.
psionicgirl: Hank's very best female friend. See the above, only substitute sister, which is what he really considers her. As such, any sort of romantic or sexual attraction to her is out of the question, and this is probably one of the reasons he gets along with her as well as he does.
_grounded: Another of Hank's very oldest friends. The two of them ran in very different circles when they worked for X-Camp but, as some of the earliest recruits, he feels a deep bond with Wings. Err. Warren.
bbraddock: Hank's roommate. For some reason he brings out Hank's otherwise well-repressed geek-jock side, hence Hank jokingly naming their room the Beta Epsilon Beta house--it's a combination of both of their classifications.
cannonballx: One of Hank's pet projects right now is pulling Sam out of the funk he appears to be in, because he knows Sam is capable of being a force of real hope in this place. He envies the other man's faith sometimes but since the death of Sam's mother he worries about him more and more.
cryinghavok: As Alex is actually Scott's brother, Hank is vaguely jealous of him even when the Summers brothers are at war. He likes Alex a great deal, though. He just thinks he could be better to Scott. Hank isn't feeling especially fond of Alex right now but it's not his fault, bless his heart.
catscratchfever: Another of Hank's current projects is helping Sharon learn to type, though on some level he finds her errors terribly endearing.
druggedup: He has no idea what's going on with Stacy but he's enjoying it while he can. Despite his occasionally painful naivete, he's not fooling himself into thinking this is true love, though there is a part of him holding out hope.
Treatment/Medication: Ex. 43 (200 mgs), Trazonyl (270 mgs), Zyrasax (100 mgs), Ex. 45 (190 mgs)
Songs: "Acrobat," U2 (general)
"Smile," Nat King Cole/Tony Bennett/Aretha Franklin/it's one of those songs people just cover (repression)
"All These Things that I Have Done," The Killers (post-list)
PB: T.R. Knight
Log: #155295
Name: Sara
AIM: dark sky blew
Email: sara.wise@gmail.com
Timezone: Eastern US
ic information
Name: Henry Phillip McCoy
Nickname: Hank
File Codename: Beast
Age/Birthday: 26, 1 June 1980 (Gemini)
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 280 lbs
Hair: Dark brown
Eyes: Blue-grey
Identifying Features: Massively enlarged hands and feet, small scar on his left cheekbone he acquired playing football, poor eyesight typically repaired with contacts.
Sexuality: 1 on the Kinsey Scale.
Religion: Lapsed Catholic
Mutation: Hank possesses superhuman strength, speed, endurance, reflexes, dexterity and agility along with enlarged hands and feet, all of which are capable of being used as superdextrous hands. His strength and speed are fueled by an enhanced metabolism, powered by a mutant musculature that makes him heavier than most men his size and supported by extra-strong bones which can also sustain the impact resulting from the maneuvers of which he is capable. Hank can run up to forty miles an hour over long distances, can press better than half a ton and withstand a three-story fall with no injuries. His reflexes are cat-like and he has the agility of an Olympic acrobat.
Power Classification: ENH-B.
Other Skills: Hank has a genius-level intellect and he's not afraid to use it. He speaks nearly a dozen languages fluently (ooc note: his mun speaks not nearly so many and loves her some babelfish when necessary) and is a competent electrical engineer and chemist, but where he truly shines is in medicine. He was already in medical school when Xavier recruited him to X-Camp and completed his MD shortly thereafter. He is a skilled trauma surgeon, having received a lot of experience in the field with X-Camp in their various combat engagements in both wars as well as some civilian experience during the brief respite between. He is a passable cook and received some firearms training during the X-Camp's times of alliance with the Resistance, though he is by nature a peaceful person.
note added 1/22/06: Languages: French, Spanish, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Swahili, Arabic, Latin.
Weaknesses: Hank can be extremely impulsive at times, leaping into action before he knows all of the necessary details, though he usually waits until he has at least 80% of what he needs to know. The other 20%, he figures, can be handled on the fly as it unfolds. He also prefers peaceful or diplomatic solutions to problems, which in most worlds would be simply a personality trait but, in a world at war, his desire to seek peaceful resolutions at almost any cost has frequently put him in harm's way.
He likes to show off whenever possible and is particularly fond of engaging in physical demonstrations. They have become a normal part of his daily routine in a lot of ways--if the floor appears too cluttered to be easily navigated, Hank will simply leap over it or bound off the furniture to cover the necessary distance--but even in wartime he thought little of performing feats like this if they seemed necessary.
While he is not typically stubborn, he can become extremely single-minded, particularly where his research or work is concerned. At present, a great deal of his focus is on somehow recovering what results he'd achieved, though he is fairly certain they've already fallen into what he perceives as the wrong hands.
History:
Summer 1979: An accident occurs at a nuclear power plant near Dunfee, IL. Several workers are injured or affected by the radiation; among them is one Norton McCoy, who then leaves his job at the power plant to pursue a less lucrative but safer career as a farmer.
June 1980: Henry Phillip McCoy is born to Norton and Edna McCoy and the results of Norton's exposure to radiation in the previous year are revealed. Their son is visibly different from other babies but while the reactions of the doctors, the neighbors and the rest of their community is overall fairly negative, the McCoys love their son and are determined to raise him safely and give him the most normal life possible. It will later be revealed that Hank is a member of a newly emerging race of highly evolved humans known as mutants. His father's accident led to Hank possessing something that would be identified later on as the X-Gene.
March 1981: Hank McCoy says his first words. They are, in order, "dada," "mama," and "nuclear reactor." His parents begin to believe there may be more mutated about their son than simply his body but tests done in the following months reveal that while their son's muscles and appendages are most definitely of a genetic origin, his mental abilities appear to be completely natural.
September 1985: The McCoys enroll their son in kindergarten. Hank is immediately recognized as the brightest student in the class but is shunned during recess for his bookishness and odd physical characteristics. He is reluctant to fight back against the bullies; Norton and Edna, once they understood their son's abilities, spent a great deal of time ingraining in him the idea of fairness in their uses. Instead he retreats into himself, advancing his education as much as he is able to on his own away from school, including beginning to teach himself several languages and beginning to study the animals and plants on his parents' farm. These fledgling investigations will eventually lead him into more indepth studies of biology, anatomy, genetics and chemistry.
Hank's mind often works too quickly for the school to be satisfied in class as he moves through elementary and middle school and, while he is advanced through grades as rapidly as the administration can make possible, he is also frequently considered to be out of line in his inclass behavior, speaking out of turn and finding other ways to engage his mind, including taking apart the school bus and its audiovisual equipment. His father agrees to allow Hank to practice these skills on the farm equipment at home, thus nurturing his interest in working with his hands and in certain aspects of engineering. From his mother he receives a collection of Shakespeare's plays and other literature, sparking a lifelong love of reading that would turn the great works into first a challenge to be conquered and, later, a refuge from the necessary perfection and precision of medical studies. Hank will come to find he can relax in words and their art.
August 1993: Thirteen-year-old Hank begins high school and is, at first, very socially awkward due to his reputation, his obvious mutation and his age difference from the other students. With the help of a young woman he's tutoring, Jennifer Nyles, he comes out of his shell and begins to make friends. He also begins to fall in love with Jennifer but she never reciprocates his affections. This is the first of several primarily one-sided "relationships" that will characterize Hank's love life up until and throughout his time in X-Camp.
June 1996: Hank McCoy, now a nationally recognized all-star high school football player and highly desirable college recruit for not only that but also his perfect SAT score and impeccable academic record and ambition, graduates from high school two years early. He has already decided he wants to dedicate his life to helping others like him, other mutants, and with that goal in mind sets off for Columbia University to pursue first his undergraduate degree and then enrolling in their MD/Ph.D. program with a concentration in Genetics and Development. He remains athletic but no longer participates actively in organized sports, dedicating the majority of his free time to personal research interests.
1999: Now in the early years of his medical studies, Hank McCoy is identified by Charles Xavier as a mutant who may be beneficial to the cause of his newly formed mutant rights group, X-Camp. Eager to advance this cause and to be able to work on his studies in the company of other mutants, Hank accepts the offer. He is one of the first members of X-Camp. With Xavier's help he is able to transfer from Columbia to Georgetown, there pursuing an MD/Ph.D. program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. His transfer results in the end of his (overall unsatisfactory) relationship with journalism student Trish Tilby. He conducts a trauma residency at Georgetown Medical Center while working with X-Camp and, upon its completion, begins working full time for X-Camp, eventually travelling with the rest of its members to Portugal and leading the medical corps that attended to soldiers on both sides of the conflict there.
2003: After the first war is officially ended Hank returns with the rest of the X-Camp primaries to Washington to continue their fight for mutant rights. He also continues his own research into the evolutionary processes that led to the emergence of the X-gene and, in particular, isolating that gene. His hope is that he will be able to use this in the new peaceful and mutant-friendly millennium to help parents identify their mutant children sooner so they may be enrolled in appropriate educational programs and spared the ostracism he faced growing up.
2005: The Resistance is attacked and Hank follows the remains of X-Camp to join the Resistance's numbers as war is declared once again. He manages to escape the attack on the hideout and flees with other members of the mutant army but is soon separated from them.
Personality: Hank is a jovial, outgoing guy with a penchant for advanced vocabulary and sentence structure. He is highly cerebral but still deeply enjoy the simple things in life, particularly those that involve science fiction, refined sugars, prime time police investigation or criminology dramas, or any of those in combination. He is caring, attentive and almost unfailingly optimistic, both in his medical career and in his personal life. The only place he has developed something of an inferiority complex is in his approach to all things romantic. He only considers it a minor loss in the overall scheme of things, though, and has little trouble keeping himself otherwise occupied.
He has never let his obvious physical mutations bother him. While he would never claim to have enjoyed the isolation he experienced in his hometown until others became accustomed to his appearance and abilities, he preferred to seek out other ways of making himself happy rather than wallow in their rejection. After all, if they chose not to be his friend, he simply figured that would have to be their loss. He himself enjoys being a mutant and relishes his abilities.
He is not a soldier. This likely bears repeating: he is not a soldier. He is as passionate about the cause as he is about everything else in his life but he joined the X-Camp under the understanding that it would be largely a diplomatic or political activist organization and was adamant about remaining at a distance from the front lines when X-Camp joined the actual conflict, preferring to remain in the medical facilities. As a doctor he believes his responsibility is to save lives, not take them. He will fight if he absolutely has to but even then he prefers to use his body to stun or disable the opposition. His firearm training was minimal and he found it abhorrent.
Relationships:
red_eyed_cyke: Hank's very best friend. If he were ever to have a brother, he would want it to be Scott. Not someone just like Scott, but Scott.
psionicgirl: Hank's very best female friend. See the above, only substitute sister, which is what he really considers her. As such, any sort of romantic or sexual attraction to her is out of the question, and this is probably one of the reasons he gets along with her as well as he does.
_grounded: Another of Hank's very oldest friends. The two of them ran in very different circles when they worked for X-Camp but, as some of the earliest recruits, he feels a deep bond with Wings. Err. Warren.
bbraddock: Hank's roommate. For some reason he brings out Hank's otherwise well-repressed geek-jock side, hence Hank jokingly naming their room the Beta Epsilon Beta house--it's a combination of both of their classifications.
cannonballx: One of Hank's pet projects right now is pulling Sam out of the funk he appears to be in, because he knows Sam is capable of being a force of real hope in this place. He envies the other man's faith sometimes but since the death of Sam's mother he worries about him more and more.
cryinghavok: As Alex is actually Scott's brother, Hank is vaguely jealous of him even when the Summers brothers are at war. He likes Alex a great deal, though. He just thinks he could be better to Scott. Hank isn't feeling especially fond of Alex right now but it's not his fault, bless his heart.
catscratchfever: Another of Hank's current projects is helping Sharon learn to type, though on some level he finds her errors terribly endearing.
druggedup: He has no idea what's going on with Stacy but he's enjoying it while he can. Despite his occasionally painful naivete, he's not fooling himself into thinking this is true love, though there is a part of him holding out hope.
Treatment/Medication: Ex. 43 (200 mgs), Trazonyl (270 mgs), Zyrasax (100 mgs), Ex. 45 (190 mgs)
Songs: "Acrobat," U2 (general)
"Smile," Nat King Cole/Tony Bennett/Aretha Franklin/it's one of those songs people just cover (repression)
"All These Things that I Have Done," The Killers (post-list)
PB: T.R. Knight
Log: #155295