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Your Name/Alias: Scott/Scootermcgaffin
Age: 24
Character: Victor Borkowski, aka "Anole"
Series: Young X-Men
Character Age: 16-17
Canon: The X-Men. A team of mutants--genetically superior humans with special abilities. The X-Men fight for acceptance for all of mutant kind and run the famous Xavier Academy, a school where young mutants can learn to control their abilities and receive an education in a safe environment (of course, as the X-Men are superheroes, the 'safe' part is occasionally optional). It is every young mutant's dream to one day be invited to the Xavier Academy, and, if they're lucky, join the X-Men themselves and fight super villains like Magneto who, as his name implies, has the ability to control metal and magnetic forces. Eventually, a group of young mutants are chosen to become the "Young X-Men," the next generation of the X-Men.
Victor Borkowski, codename "Anole" is one of those young mutants. As his name suggests, Anole's mutation has partially turned him into a lizard. He has green skin, a carapace instead of hair, and a long, sticky, prehensile tongue. Additionally, his ability to blend into the background like a chameleon and walk on walls makes him ideal for stealth missions and infiltration. Although he initially is just as excited as all other young mutants to be given the chance to be an X-Man, he is quickly jaded by the experience, thinking it cruel that the adult X-Men take teenagers in, teach them to fight, get them killed, and when they're no longer of use release them back into the world and expect them to live a normal life. Despite these feelings, Anole is a hero at heart and genuinely wants to help others. Beyond that, Victor is a fairly normal teenage boy. He's sarcastic, and likes to poke fun at himself and his friends. A big fan of movies and the theater, he is often the only one to realize or point out just how strange the things that happen to him and the rest of the X-Men are.
Sample Post: 'Gather as much information as you can and then report back. It'll be a breeze for you.' Right. Completely by the books, except for the giant, impenetrable barrier. I climbed all over it, and there's definitely no way out of this place. You know, I'd say sending someone to do recon at a place where contact with the outside world is impossible is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard, but actually, for the X-Men it's pretty much normal. I mean, these are the guys that keep sending the guy with a metal skeleton after Magneto. And yet, I keep coming back when they ask, so who's the bigger idiot here?
And, by the way? Now that I have your attention, can I just say that this place is crazy. I know you'd think with all the time I've spent as an X-Man I'd be used to seeing weird stuff, but I'm telling you this place is crazy. I mean that literally. How does one place have so many insane things happening inside it? In just five minutes I've already had the craziest day of my life, and I fought the actual devil in actual Hell once. It all started with the toucans. I never even knew birds could be psychic, but I guess these ones are. They kept singing bad 80s pop inside my head when I was checking out the barrier. I know it was them because every time I'd glare at them, they'd look away and start to laugh. And, listen, I know I'm green and kind of scaly, but I'm actually not a cold-hearted snake. Or any kind of snake, for that matter.
Of course, shouting that at them? Not the brightest move I ever made. The zombies heard me, and decided it was dinner time. I have no idea where they all came from, honestly. One minute there were two or three wandering aimlessly, and the next thing I know, there were about forty of them. They actually started moaning 'braiiiiiins' as they shuffled toward me, too. It was all very Night Of The Living Dead. It would have been cool except they were, you know, trying to eat my brain. Anyway, I wasn't sure if I could take all of them out on my own, so I decided to...well, hide, I guess. Fortunately there was a pretty big tree near where I was, so I just jumped up into the branches and made to camouflage myself. Turns out that the boxer shorts someone threw up into the branches? Are actually growing there. Broke out with tiny little polka dots all over. It got rid of the zombies at least. I was just about to drop down out of the tree when a gorilla showed up and apparently thought I was a pair of underwear and tried to pick me. Those guys are strong, too. It had me by my arms, so I couldn't fight my way free, so I decided it was time for some intimidation. I looked it right in the eyes and said, 'keep that up and I'll show you exactly what this tongue can do' and...
...wow, okay. That's why it was laughing so hard when it let me go. I swear that didn't sound so wrong in my head.
Voting was here 54/0 100% you guys are all crazy bastards and I love you.
Age: 24
Character: Victor Borkowski, aka "Anole"
Series: Young X-Men
Character Age: 16-17
Canon: The X-Men. A team of mutants--genetically superior humans with special abilities. The X-Men fight for acceptance for all of mutant kind and run the famous Xavier Academy, a school where young mutants can learn to control their abilities and receive an education in a safe environment (of course, as the X-Men are superheroes, the 'safe' part is occasionally optional). It is every young mutant's dream to one day be invited to the Xavier Academy, and, if they're lucky, join the X-Men themselves and fight super villains like Magneto who, as his name implies, has the ability to control metal and magnetic forces. Eventually, a group of young mutants are chosen to become the "Young X-Men," the next generation of the X-Men.
Victor Borkowski, codename "Anole" is one of those young mutants. As his name suggests, Anole's mutation has partially turned him into a lizard. He has green skin, a carapace instead of hair, and a long, sticky, prehensile tongue. Additionally, his ability to blend into the background like a chameleon and walk on walls makes him ideal for stealth missions and infiltration. Although he initially is just as excited as all other young mutants to be given the chance to be an X-Man, he is quickly jaded by the experience, thinking it cruel that the adult X-Men take teenagers in, teach them to fight, get them killed, and when they're no longer of use release them back into the world and expect them to live a normal life. Despite these feelings, Anole is a hero at heart and genuinely wants to help others. Beyond that, Victor is a fairly normal teenage boy. He's sarcastic, and likes to poke fun at himself and his friends. A big fan of movies and the theater, he is often the only one to realize or point out just how strange the things that happen to him and the rest of the X-Men are.
Sample Post: 'Gather as much information as you can and then report back. It'll be a breeze for you.' Right. Completely by the books, except for the giant, impenetrable barrier. I climbed all over it, and there's definitely no way out of this place. You know, I'd say sending someone to do recon at a place where contact with the outside world is impossible is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard, but actually, for the X-Men it's pretty much normal. I mean, these are the guys that keep sending the guy with a metal skeleton after Magneto. And yet, I keep coming back when they ask, so who's the bigger idiot here?
And, by the way? Now that I have your attention, can I just say that this place is crazy. I know you'd think with all the time I've spent as an X-Man I'd be used to seeing weird stuff, but I'm telling you this place is crazy. I mean that literally. How does one place have so many insane things happening inside it? In just five minutes I've already had the craziest day of my life, and I fought the actual devil in actual Hell once. It all started with the toucans. I never even knew birds could be psychic, but I guess these ones are. They kept singing bad 80s pop inside my head when I was checking out the barrier. I know it was them because every time I'd glare at them, they'd look away and start to laugh. And, listen, I know I'm green and kind of scaly, but I'm actually not a cold-hearted snake. Or any kind of snake, for that matter.
Of course, shouting that at them? Not the brightest move I ever made. The zombies heard me, and decided it was dinner time. I have no idea where they all came from, honestly. One minute there were two or three wandering aimlessly, and the next thing I know, there were about forty of them. They actually started moaning 'braiiiiiins' as they shuffled toward me, too. It was all very Night Of The Living Dead. It would have been cool except they were, you know, trying to eat my brain. Anyway, I wasn't sure if I could take all of them out on my own, so I decided to...well, hide, I guess. Fortunately there was a pretty big tree near where I was, so I just jumped up into the branches and made to camouflage myself. Turns out that the boxer shorts someone threw up into the branches? Are actually growing there. Broke out with tiny little polka dots all over. It got rid of the zombies at least. I was just about to drop down out of the tree when a gorilla showed up and apparently thought I was a pair of underwear and tried to pick me. Those guys are strong, too. It had me by my arms, so I couldn't fight my way free, so I decided it was time for some intimidation. I looked it right in the eyes and said, 'keep that up and I'll show you exactly what this tongue can do' and...
...wow, okay. That's why it was laughing so hard when it let me go. I swear that didn't sound so wrong in my head.
Voting was here 54/0 100% you guys are all crazy bastards and I love you.