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Name: Cat
Age: 30s
AIM SN: LadyFoxstone
email: catrood -at- gmail (dot) com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yep
Currrently Played Characters: thelittlestbub, vw_coyote, soul_scatter
Conditional: Activity Check Link: here
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Marvel 616
Canon Format: Comics
Character's Name: Kevin “Wither” Ford
Character's Age: 15
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A
What form will your character's NV take? Just a regular Blackberry.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Death Touch: Kevin’s skin, with a touch, will break down the bonds between organic molecules. If he holds on long enough, eventually, the material is reduced to ashes. The power is completely involuntary and forces Kevin to wear inorganic materials at all times.
This power covers the entirety of his skin, making it difficult to eat, or even sleep without carefully learned movements or inorganic material. He is constantly covered, even in the hottest of weather, unless he’s alone.
There is a psychological backlash due to this ability. His power is addictive. Kevin describes it as a whispering voice that begs him to do as any other person and reach out and touch. He becomes distracted and easily angered. The problem is if he gives in to it someone can and will die.
The drive to use his powers can be mitigated. Usually by plant matter, or by isolating himself away from others. The second isn’t always feasible, but he tries.
The addiction to use his powers manifests in another way. He will see things as skeletal and decayed, depending on how heavy the press of the addiction is. However, he knows that it’s his powers and will not react, except to withdraw and refuse to socialize until such time as he can regain his equilibrium.
X-Men Training: This includes mechanical training (basic car/small engine repairs) and some hand to hand. While he can hold himself in a few situations, Kevin is, by no means, a martial artist. He depends on his powers, since they are so dangerous.
Education: Kevin has a basic sophomore high school education. He speaks high school Spanish, but he generally forgets that he can.
Artistic/Welding Ability: In Georgia, Kevin was taught how to weld and used that ability to create art. He even spent time living in a couple of junkyards, where he used the scrap metal to create art. He cannot arc weld, but instead uses oxyacetylene techniques to create.
He does know how to use the welding to work on cars and pipes, but isn’t an expert by any stretch of the imagination. Kevin enjoys the welding and the creating of art far more than he likes human interaction.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? It’s not necessarily a dormant ability, but I would like to give the addiction to his power an actual ‘voice’ that only he can hear. When it is ‘active’ it makes his mind much more difficult to penetrate psychically. As well, I’d like to give him a personality shift when he loses to that ‘voice’. His voice will become deeper and he won’t really be ‘himself’, instead the personality of the voice will have full control over him.
Also, eventually, he’ll learn to control his powers and the ‘voice’.N/A
Weapons: His only weapon is his skin. And that means all of it.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Kevin Ford was born to a middle-class family in Atlanta Georgia. He had a pretty typical young life, and discovered welding while in junior high.
When he was fourteen, Kevin’s power manifested in a pretty horrible way. While talking to his father, his clothes began decaying off of his body. His father, seeing his son panicked, attempted to comfort him and hugged him. Kevin held on long enough and at the end, there was nothing left of his father, save a pile of ashes.
Kevin, scared to death, ran, wrapped in a plastic table cloth. He ended up in a junkyard, where he accidentally killed the guard dog with his touch. Eventually, Dani Moonstar found him and convinced him to come to the Xavier Institute.
There, despite the fact that they knew how to deal with his powers, Kevin always felt left out and alone. He considered himself a freak, and though he found some companionship within the squads, still didn’t get too close. Despite this, he developed a crush on a fellow student Laurie Collins.
While out in New York with several fellow students, they ran afoul of the Friends of Humanity. One of them shot and almost killed Laurie. Enraged, Kevin grabbed the leader (cyborg Donald Pierce) and decayed the flesh off the man’s skull. Dani Moonstar had to use her ability to show him his worst fear (hurting Laurie) and make him stop. It was then that Kevin had to admit to himself that using his powers felt right and, terrified of himself and what he might do, he ran from the Institute.
For several months, Kevin managed to at least stay alive and not hurt anyone. He lived in yet another junkyard and made art out of the scraps of metal. The owner of the junkyard sold the sculptures and kept Kevin in food, and a few bits of clothing at least. However, eventually, Emma Frost and Dani Moonstar came to look for him. They wanted him to take a spot on the newly formed squads - namely the one mentored by Dani, the New Mutants.
Kevin joined under the codename Wither. He immediately began clashing with one of his team mates: Josh Foley, codenamed Elixir. Elixir had become the object of Laurie’s affections and the last time Kevin had seen him had been as one of Pierce’s lackeys. Kevin didn’t like it in the least, and often needled and argued with Foley.
Then, the death of his father caught up with him. Dani Moonstar turned Kevin over to the FBI on murder charges. Kevin was put in handcuffs and walked out of the institute in front of everyone.
He languished in FBI custody for a time, until another squad of students, the Hellions, decided to take matters into their own hands and rescue him. Cessily Kincaid, another student, had developed feelings for him, and, using her abilities, came in through the window to let him know that he wasn't going to be sitting there any longer.
However, the New Mutants and eventually the X-Men stopped the Hellions from rescuing him. This did nothing to endear either the squad or the institute to Kevin at all.
After his father’s death was determined accidental by a court, Kevin returned to the institute, but refused to stay on the New Mutant squad. He switched with Icarus and became a Hellion under Emma Frost. They, after all, had come for him no matter the odds.
During training one day, he accidentally touched Emma Frost’s diamond form and found out that she is impervious to his powers. This doubly endeared her to him.
Kevin flourished under Miss Frost’s tutelage. She put him in contact with a psychologist who tried to counsel Kevin through the anger and pain he still felt because of his father’s death and everything that had happened since. The doctor’s advice was to work toward his own happiness. Because of him still harboring feelings for Laurie, and her continuing to date Josh, Kevin attempted to blackmail Josh into breaking up with her.
Josh refused, and so, Kevin told the headmasters that the semester before Josh and a teacher had had a romantic relationship. The end result was chaos in the school and Laurie breaking up with Josh, but she still didn’t start dating Kevin. This further added to his bitterness and loneliness.
The emotional strife was devastating, but then was put aside so that the students could repel an attack by the Blob.
After Blob’s defeat, the Hellions were awarded the outstanding squad trophy. Kevin finally really felt like a part of the team.
With the end of the semester, Kevin joined his teammates in vacationing in a house owned by a team mate’s parents (Julian Keller/Hellion). There, they met a man named the Kingmaker. He offered to begin granting their deepest wishes - including a power negating drug to control Kevin’s withering ability. They all signed contracts and agreed to help until he asked the teens to steal a biological weapon. They rebelled against him and even though he now had a means to control his power… Kevin helped destroy the weapon. When the cure wore off, his power returned stronger and more pressing than before. He and the Hellions then left California for the Institute again.
Shortly after this, he awakes in the Port.
Wiki link
Point in Canon: After New Hellions #4
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: A lot of his personality is wrapped up in his power. Before he manifested, Kevin had a few close friends, and was well liked by his teachers. With the manifestation of his powers, even his faith in God - something he got from his parents (Southern Baptist) - left.
Kevin is a bitter, destroyed young man who is barely keeping sane. His power is utterly devastating and he’s constantly aware of it and what it can do. If he forgets for even a moment, someone could die. But he tries. He wants nothing more than to be normal. Not normal in the sense of other teenagers, but normal in the sense of even mutant teenagers. To himself, he's a bigger freak among mutants than any physical mutant is.
He tries to be a good man, just like his parents taught him to be. He became known as a gentleman because he treats all women like ladies, can be trusted to never push personal boundaries. He truly, truly respects physical space.
Kevin's powers push him into reclusion. He shies away from people, lest they get hurt. He doesn’t trust easily, because he has done that before and it’s blown up in his face. He trusts other kids with powers marginally more than he does adults, but that’s not saying much. Always, though, there's an undertone of jealousy, especially if they can control their power. Even if they can't, he's jealous because they won't kill with a touch.
Even after he’s seemingly befriended someone, one wrong word or action and Kevin will run. He runs so as not to have to face the hurt that they caused, even if it was unintentional. He also almost never trusts them again, having learned some harsh lessons from those that claimed to want to care for him.
He’s a very private person, especially when in new situations. He doesn’t immediately open up to people about, well, anything. He much prefers people not knowing who or what he is and will take pains to hide it.
When it comes to his powers, he is gullible. Offer him a chance to control them and he’ll jump at it, and jump through hoops to get it. Unless it pushes at the base moral core he has, which he clings to ever so desperately, he’ll do just about anything to control his powers. Just about anything.
Except kill. Because killing is giving in to his power, and that... is wrong. No matter what his power wants him to do.
Also, Kevin is rather defeatist and can be angry to the point of cruelty. He believes he’ll never gain control of his powers, and will push people away - if they don’t take the hint, he will be cruel about it, not only in calling people names, but also threatening to use his powers (even if he’d never truly do it).
However, offer him pity and he will hate the person. He doesn’t deserve pity in his mind and will lash out at the person who offers it.
He hates his power. He thinks it a curse.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Kevin is going to skulk around for quite a while. I’m really looking forward to maybe hooking him up with the Rogues in the game, or anyone else who has Bad Intentions. He’s not stable, so someone willing to play off of that would be lovely.
I’m going to be exploring his addiction a lot as well. The Darkness will be able to feed it, but that’s going to put Kevin in some serious danger that he won’t quite understand.
Appearance/PB: Icon set
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
Voice:
Hey… Keller…? Keller? Cess? Soo? What the heck…?
[The sound of confused scrabbling for a moment and the rustling of a lot of fabric. Somewhere in the background there comes the liquid bark of the ropefaced dogs.]
Shit!
[The dog starts to howl in pain. Panting, Kevin scoops up the NV and runs. The feed cuts off briefly.
Then comes back on in video mode, to a composed looking Kevin.]
Beggin’ y’all’s pardon, I didn’t mean to scare anyone. Since I got the welcomin’ speech from the greeter fella, I was wonderin’ if’n anyone could tell me where a welder might be able to find work?
Third Person Sample
His head pounded with need. Pounded with the desperate need to reach out, touch and destroy. Sitting in his apartment, he dug his gloved fingers into his hair, hoping the pain would abate some of the wanting.
Despite the Darkness outside, Kevin pushed himself up and took off into the dark. It wasn’t killing if it was monsters in the dark right? He’d used his power for good before. Maybe he could do it here too. Saving lives with his power was better than fighting it.
Kevin walked along the streets wondering where all these monsters supposedly were. He’d run into a dog his first night here, but that had been it. Then, he saw it. Another one of those dog things. It was backing someone into a corner. Kevin shoved his gloves into his pockets and pushed up his sleeves.
The first one’s head withered into nothing while he held onto the tentacle of another. “Run.” He ordered the person, another tentacle grabbing onto his arm, and beginning to decay.
Second Third Person Sample:
Kevin sat on a bench and watched the people pass him by. He was just a teenager playing hookey from school and even though he was sitting there in gloves and a turtleneck, no one seemed to think anything of it.
He blinked, trying to clear his vision. The teachers had called it aversion therapy: sitting out among people and refusing to touch, no matter how much his powers wanted him to. Today was worse than most. He didn’t see flesh and blood. Instead to him, the people looked like walking skeletons, completely decomposed. His addiction was pressing down on him, smothering him under the need.
But he had a purpose. Beating his addiction was important, but today he needed to do something far more important. He needed to find work. He wasn’t really qualified for much, but his experience with welding had to be useful for something. Sitting in the industrial sector, he had been trying to bolster his courage so that he could apply for the job he could see advertised on the side of the building. The ad didn’t look too old, or he wouldn’t bother.
Pushing himself up, Kevin pulled down his sleeves, not wanting to risk anyone’s life.
He stepped off the curb and bumped into a woman he hadn’t seen. He turned and immediately bent down, lowering his eyes. Her cadaverous face had been disturbing to look at. “Beggin’ ya pardon, ma’am. I didn’t mean ta bump inta ya.”
His gloved hands continued gathering her things. Carefully, he handed her what he’d gathered and didn’t look her in the eyes. It was hard to, when all he saw were empty sockets. “Here ya go ma’am. I’m sorry.” He apologized again, shrinking away when she went to pat his shoulder in thanks. He couldn’t let her touch him, he might do something stupid. “If’n ya will excuse me.” He muttered, ducking his head and heading home.
Applying for the job would have to wait. It was just a few hours until sirens. He could wait that long and then go out and feed his need, feed his addiction. He hated it, but he just wanted the desperate pressing need to stop and the things he killed after dark weren’t human, they weren’t pets. That had to mean something, right?
Getting back to the apartments, Kevin opened the door and bumped straight into the person coming out. It was human nature to reach out and steady the person. His gloved fingers wrapped around arms, holding them steady. “Are ya alrigh’? I’m sorry, didn’t see ya there.” The need pressed on him. They were so close and all he’d have to do is take off his gloves. But he wouldn’t. He couldn’t. His ears heated, realizing that he was still holding on while he struggled with the internal need. Almost violently, he dropped his hands and stuffed them into his pockets.
“Are ya alrigh’?” He asked again, forcing himself to look into the empty sockets that his powers made him see. He blinked rapidly, trying to see the person who was really there.
Clarification:
In canon, Jubilee and Kevin never met. She lived in the mansion with the fully fledged XMen, while Kevin lived in the school with the students - two completely separate buildings, though they are on the same property.
She has no idea who he is. He only knows her by name (as a senior). While they are both mutants, Jubilee can ignore his presence, allowing Magneto to deal with him.
Also, I have no plans to allow Kevin to live in the HoA. It would be against his personality, and against his feelings about fellow mutants (whom, I stated, he does not trust after being betrayed several times).
The Marvel universe is large, and at the canon point they come from, the Xavier Institute is not small, by any means. There’s several hundred students who usually only interact with the teachers and their advisors.
Name: Cat
Age: 30s
AIM SN: LadyFoxstone
email: catrood -at- gmail (dot) com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yep
Currrently Played Characters: thelittlestbub, vw_coyote, soul_scatter
Conditional: Activity Check Link: here
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Marvel 616
Canon Format: Comics
Character's Name: Kevin “Wither” Ford
Character's Age: 15
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A
What form will your character's NV take? Just a regular Blackberry.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Death Touch: Kevin’s skin, with a touch, will break down the bonds between organic molecules. If he holds on long enough, eventually, the material is reduced to ashes. The power is completely involuntary and forces Kevin to wear inorganic materials at all times.
This power covers the entirety of his skin, making it difficult to eat, or even sleep without carefully learned movements or inorganic material. He is constantly covered, even in the hottest of weather, unless he’s alone.
There is a psychological backlash due to this ability. His power is addictive. Kevin describes it as a whispering voice that begs him to do as any other person and reach out and touch. He becomes distracted and easily angered. The problem is if he gives in to it someone can and will die.
The drive to use his powers can be mitigated. Usually by plant matter, or by isolating himself away from others. The second isn’t always feasible, but he tries.
The addiction to use his powers manifests in another way. He will see things as skeletal and decayed, depending on how heavy the press of the addiction is. However, he knows that it’s his powers and will not react, except to withdraw and refuse to socialize until such time as he can regain his equilibrium.
X-Men Training: This includes mechanical training (basic car/small engine repairs) and some hand to hand. While he can hold himself in a few situations, Kevin is, by no means, a martial artist. He depends on his powers, since they are so dangerous.
Education: Kevin has a basic sophomore high school education. He speaks high school Spanish, but he generally forgets that he can.
Artistic/Welding Ability: In Georgia, Kevin was taught how to weld and used that ability to create art. He even spent time living in a couple of junkyards, where he used the scrap metal to create art. He cannot arc weld, but instead uses oxyacetylene techniques to create.
He does know how to use the welding to work on cars and pipes, but isn’t an expert by any stretch of the imagination. Kevin enjoys the welding and the creating of art far more than he likes human interaction.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? It’s not necessarily a dormant ability, but I would like to give the addiction to his power an actual ‘voice’ that only he can hear. When it is ‘active’ it makes his mind much more difficult to penetrate psychically. As well, I’d like to give him a personality shift when he loses to that ‘voice’. His voice will become deeper and he won’t really be ‘himself’, instead the personality of the voice will have full control over him.
Also, eventually, he’ll learn to control his powers and the ‘voice’.N/A
Weapons: His only weapon is his skin. And that means all of it.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Kevin Ford was born to a middle-class family in Atlanta Georgia. He had a pretty typical young life, and discovered welding while in junior high.
When he was fourteen, Kevin’s power manifested in a pretty horrible way. While talking to his father, his clothes began decaying off of his body. His father, seeing his son panicked, attempted to comfort him and hugged him. Kevin held on long enough and at the end, there was nothing left of his father, save a pile of ashes.
Kevin, scared to death, ran, wrapped in a plastic table cloth. He ended up in a junkyard, where he accidentally killed the guard dog with his touch. Eventually, Dani Moonstar found him and convinced him to come to the Xavier Institute.
There, despite the fact that they knew how to deal with his powers, Kevin always felt left out and alone. He considered himself a freak, and though he found some companionship within the squads, still didn’t get too close. Despite this, he developed a crush on a fellow student Laurie Collins.
While out in New York with several fellow students, they ran afoul of the Friends of Humanity. One of them shot and almost killed Laurie. Enraged, Kevin grabbed the leader (cyborg Donald Pierce) and decayed the flesh off the man’s skull. Dani Moonstar had to use her ability to show him his worst fear (hurting Laurie) and make him stop. It was then that Kevin had to admit to himself that using his powers felt right and, terrified of himself and what he might do, he ran from the Institute.
For several months, Kevin managed to at least stay alive and not hurt anyone. He lived in yet another junkyard and made art out of the scraps of metal. The owner of the junkyard sold the sculptures and kept Kevin in food, and a few bits of clothing at least. However, eventually, Emma Frost and Dani Moonstar came to look for him. They wanted him to take a spot on the newly formed squads - namely the one mentored by Dani, the New Mutants.
Kevin joined under the codename Wither. He immediately began clashing with one of his team mates: Josh Foley, codenamed Elixir. Elixir had become the object of Laurie’s affections and the last time Kevin had seen him had been as one of Pierce’s lackeys. Kevin didn’t like it in the least, and often needled and argued with Foley.
Then, the death of his father caught up with him. Dani Moonstar turned Kevin over to the FBI on murder charges. Kevin was put in handcuffs and walked out of the institute in front of everyone.
He languished in FBI custody for a time, until another squad of students, the Hellions, decided to take matters into their own hands and rescue him. Cessily Kincaid, another student, had developed feelings for him, and, using her abilities, came in through the window to let him know that he wasn't going to be sitting there any longer.
However, the New Mutants and eventually the X-Men stopped the Hellions from rescuing him. This did nothing to endear either the squad or the institute to Kevin at all.
After his father’s death was determined accidental by a court, Kevin returned to the institute, but refused to stay on the New Mutant squad. He switched with Icarus and became a Hellion under Emma Frost. They, after all, had come for him no matter the odds.
During training one day, he accidentally touched Emma Frost’s diamond form and found out that she is impervious to his powers. This doubly endeared her to him.
Kevin flourished under Miss Frost’s tutelage. She put him in contact with a psychologist who tried to counsel Kevin through the anger and pain he still felt because of his father’s death and everything that had happened since. The doctor’s advice was to work toward his own happiness. Because of him still harboring feelings for Laurie, and her continuing to date Josh, Kevin attempted to blackmail Josh into breaking up with her.
Josh refused, and so, Kevin told the headmasters that the semester before Josh and a teacher had had a romantic relationship. The end result was chaos in the school and Laurie breaking up with Josh, but she still didn’t start dating Kevin. This further added to his bitterness and loneliness.
The emotional strife was devastating, but then was put aside so that the students could repel an attack by the Blob.
After Blob’s defeat, the Hellions were awarded the outstanding squad trophy. Kevin finally really felt like a part of the team.
With the end of the semester, Kevin joined his teammates in vacationing in a house owned by a team mate’s parents (Julian Keller/Hellion). There, they met a man named the Kingmaker. He offered to begin granting their deepest wishes - including a power negating drug to control Kevin’s withering ability. They all signed contracts and agreed to help until he asked the teens to steal a biological weapon. They rebelled against him and even though he now had a means to control his power… Kevin helped destroy the weapon. When the cure wore off, his power returned stronger and more pressing than before. He and the Hellions then left California for the Institute again.
Shortly after this, he awakes in the Port.
Wiki link
Point in Canon: After New Hellions #4
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: A lot of his personality is wrapped up in his power. Before he manifested, Kevin had a few close friends, and was well liked by his teachers. With the manifestation of his powers, even his faith in God - something he got from his parents (Southern Baptist) - left.
Kevin is a bitter, destroyed young man who is barely keeping sane. His power is utterly devastating and he’s constantly aware of it and what it can do. If he forgets for even a moment, someone could die. But he tries. He wants nothing more than to be normal. Not normal in the sense of other teenagers, but normal in the sense of even mutant teenagers. To himself, he's a bigger freak among mutants than any physical mutant is.
He tries to be a good man, just like his parents taught him to be. He became known as a gentleman because he treats all women like ladies, can be trusted to never push personal boundaries. He truly, truly respects physical space.
Kevin's powers push him into reclusion. He shies away from people, lest they get hurt. He doesn’t trust easily, because he has done that before and it’s blown up in his face. He trusts other kids with powers marginally more than he does adults, but that’s not saying much. Always, though, there's an undertone of jealousy, especially if they can control their power. Even if they can't, he's jealous because they won't kill with a touch.
Even after he’s seemingly befriended someone, one wrong word or action and Kevin will run. He runs so as not to have to face the hurt that they caused, even if it was unintentional. He also almost never trusts them again, having learned some harsh lessons from those that claimed to want to care for him.
He’s a very private person, especially when in new situations. He doesn’t immediately open up to people about, well, anything. He much prefers people not knowing who or what he is and will take pains to hide it.
When it comes to his powers, he is gullible. Offer him a chance to control them and he’ll jump at it, and jump through hoops to get it. Unless it pushes at the base moral core he has, which he clings to ever so desperately, he’ll do just about anything to control his powers. Just about anything.
Except kill. Because killing is giving in to his power, and that... is wrong. No matter what his power wants him to do.
Also, Kevin is rather defeatist and can be angry to the point of cruelty. He believes he’ll never gain control of his powers, and will push people away - if they don’t take the hint, he will be cruel about it, not only in calling people names, but also threatening to use his powers (even if he’d never truly do it).
However, offer him pity and he will hate the person. He doesn’t deserve pity in his mind and will lash out at the person who offers it.
He hates his power. He thinks it a curse.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Kevin is going to skulk around for quite a while. I’m really looking forward to maybe hooking him up with the Rogues in the game, or anyone else who has Bad Intentions. He’s not stable, so someone willing to play off of that would be lovely.
I’m going to be exploring his addiction a lot as well. The Darkness will be able to feed it, but that’s going to put Kevin in some serious danger that he won’t quite understand.
Appearance/PB: Icon set
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
Voice:
Hey… Keller…? Keller? Cess? Soo? What the heck…?
[The sound of confused scrabbling for a moment and the rustling of a lot of fabric. Somewhere in the background there comes the liquid bark of the ropefaced dogs.]
Shit!
[The dog starts to howl in pain. Panting, Kevin scoops up the NV and runs. The feed cuts off briefly.
Then comes back on in video mode, to a composed looking Kevin.]
Beggin’ y’all’s pardon, I didn’t mean to scare anyone. Since I got the welcomin’ speech from the greeter fella, I was wonderin’ if’n anyone could tell me where a welder might be able to find work?
Third Person Sample
His head pounded with need. Pounded with the desperate need to reach out, touch and destroy. Sitting in his apartment, he dug his gloved fingers into his hair, hoping the pain would abate some of the wanting.
Despite the Darkness outside, Kevin pushed himself up and took off into the dark. It wasn’t killing if it was monsters in the dark right? He’d used his power for good before. Maybe he could do it here too. Saving lives with his power was better than fighting it.
Kevin walked along the streets wondering where all these monsters supposedly were. He’d run into a dog his first night here, but that had been it. Then, he saw it. Another one of those dog things. It was backing someone into a corner. Kevin shoved his gloves into his pockets and pushed up his sleeves.
The first one’s head withered into nothing while he held onto the tentacle of another. “Run.” He ordered the person, another tentacle grabbing onto his arm, and beginning to decay.
Second Third Person Sample:
Kevin sat on a bench and watched the people pass him by. He was just a teenager playing hookey from school and even though he was sitting there in gloves and a turtleneck, no one seemed to think anything of it.
He blinked, trying to clear his vision. The teachers had called it aversion therapy: sitting out among people and refusing to touch, no matter how much his powers wanted him to. Today was worse than most. He didn’t see flesh and blood. Instead to him, the people looked like walking skeletons, completely decomposed. His addiction was pressing down on him, smothering him under the need.
But he had a purpose. Beating his addiction was important, but today he needed to do something far more important. He needed to find work. He wasn’t really qualified for much, but his experience with welding had to be useful for something. Sitting in the industrial sector, he had been trying to bolster his courage so that he could apply for the job he could see advertised on the side of the building. The ad didn’t look too old, or he wouldn’t bother.
Pushing himself up, Kevin pulled down his sleeves, not wanting to risk anyone’s life.
He stepped off the curb and bumped into a woman he hadn’t seen. He turned and immediately bent down, lowering his eyes. Her cadaverous face had been disturbing to look at. “Beggin’ ya pardon, ma’am. I didn’t mean ta bump inta ya.”
His gloved hands continued gathering her things. Carefully, he handed her what he’d gathered and didn’t look her in the eyes. It was hard to, when all he saw were empty sockets. “Here ya go ma’am. I’m sorry.” He apologized again, shrinking away when she went to pat his shoulder in thanks. He couldn’t let her touch him, he might do something stupid. “If’n ya will excuse me.” He muttered, ducking his head and heading home.
Applying for the job would have to wait. It was just a few hours until sirens. He could wait that long and then go out and feed his need, feed his addiction. He hated it, but he just wanted the desperate pressing need to stop and the things he killed after dark weren’t human, they weren’t pets. That had to mean something, right?
Getting back to the apartments, Kevin opened the door and bumped straight into the person coming out. It was human nature to reach out and steady the person. His gloved fingers wrapped around arms, holding them steady. “Are ya alrigh’? I’m sorry, didn’t see ya there.” The need pressed on him. They were so close and all he’d have to do is take off his gloves. But he wouldn’t. He couldn’t. His ears heated, realizing that he was still holding on while he struggled with the internal need. Almost violently, he dropped his hands and stuffed them into his pockets.
“Are ya alrigh’?” He asked again, forcing himself to look into the empty sockets that his powers made him see. He blinked rapidly, trying to see the person who was really there.
Clarification:
In canon, Jubilee and Kevin never met. She lived in the mansion with the fully fledged XMen, while Kevin lived in the school with the students - two completely separate buildings, though they are on the same property.
She has no idea who he is. He only knows her by name (as a senior). While they are both mutants, Jubilee can ignore his presence, allowing Magneto to deal with him.
Also, I have no plans to allow Kevin to live in the HoA. It would be against his personality, and against his feelings about fellow mutants (whom, I stated, he does not trust after being betrayed several times).
The Marvel universe is large, and at the canon point they come from, the Xavier Institute is not small, by any means. There’s several hundred students who usually only interact with the teachers and their advisors.