Metapheroes Application

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Player —

Player Name: Churby
Pronouns: She/Her
Are you over 18? Yes
Contact: churbooseanon or Discord: Churby#4290
Current Characters: None
Who Invited You?: Shikki

Character —

Character Name: David "Prodigy" Alleyne
Character Canon: Marvel Comics (Earth 616)
Character Age: ~24
Canon Point: Post Trial Of Magneto Issue #5, Mask or Menace CRAU as well
Link to History: Canon History, MoM CRAU History
Inventory:

-Datapad computer
-AR Computing glasses-Power Suppression Bracelet (no longer functional, could possibly be rendered so with time and programming effort)
-Charger cables for all of these.

Powers: From his time in Mask or Menace David gained an altered set of powers from his canon state, described below.

Tactile Knowledge - Genetic and Telepathic

-When touching certain things with his bare skin David can choose to psychically learn about the thing he is touching. With objects this is known as Psychometry, and with people it manifests as Psychomimetry.

-If David has had his telepathic barriers torn down by any external force, he cannot stop himself from using these powers. Therefore he can actually be effectively tortured through mental overload if he's had his defenses ripped down and people merely start touching him or touching things to his skin.

Psychometry - Telepathic (Gained in MoM)

-Allows David to psychically read the history of an object. This manifests in his mind as experiencing the 'life' of an object, and he knows the object's history from the moment of its 'completion'.

-Objects may develop a degree of personality over time that read over to him some such as stones feeling slow and patient or a stop sign that has existed for a while being insistent and loud about their desire that people stop moving. This power can also let him see major events around objects or the emotions of the event, such as touching a knife and coming to know it's a murder weapon and possibly even some details around the murder. These knowledges fade to merely impressions when the object is put down, and while he can relay this knowledge, it is by no means complete.
-This works on all solid, non-computer objects that are not magically or psychically warded. Powerful spells and psychic defenses on items, items that are truly self aware or powerful artifacts, can actually hurt David, and if the item has too much 'experience' tied to it without a more calm personality, it can be stressful or painful for him to be bombarded with everything at once.

Psychomimetry - Genetic (Altered Canon Power)

-The telepathic 'copying' of knowledge and/or skills from another living being. In touching a person David can use his power to become aware of anything they know through education, practice, memorization, or rote. This can easily be abused because things that people learn through rote can include things like signatures, so he has to live by a tight moral code not to abuse this. It's also true that if someone knows something but it's wrong, he doesn't necessarily know it's wrong.

-Touching someone and gaining their physical skills doesn't mean his body will be properly trained and fit to perform the skill. These touches cannot give David access to powers.

-Knowledge and skills gained through psychometry are retained for a time related to the length of contact. One second of touch equates to one minute of retained skill and knowledge. The longest retention is two hours for two minutes. Once the period has faded the knowledge and skills fade as well though David does have an idea remaining of what he would get from the person if he touched them again.

-This power is easily blocked by magic and psychic or telepathic shielding, though David hates to use it on people who do not consent, as he feels this is cheating for knowledge and benefits. As the touch creates a psychic connection between him and the person he's touching it does create a telepathic link between minds through which David can be mentally harmed by anyone with appropriate training and powers, and those who have psychic powers/telepathy/magic would immediately know what he's doing the second he touches them.

Technopathy - Genetic (Gained in MoM)

-When physically in contact with a computer or computer run technology, David can directly interact with and manipulate that item. This lets him 'talk to' systems mentally, giving instructions, altering code and functions, and even watching through cameras or listening through microphones as if they were his eyes and ears. While he can't manipulate things he's not in contact with, systems that are connected to each other through wiring and programmed interfaces can be manipulated by him, up to the range of a city block. Beyond that, attempting to muster enough power to push his control further could lead to a stroke.

-David can, when in chat rooms, create a feeling that he is directly in a physical room interacting with avatars. If psychically or magically tied to someone he can bring them with him into the experience.

-David's technopathy is absolutely tied to physical contact. Anything that blocks him from touching an item, even so thin as a piece of plastic wrap, will completely render him unable to interface with the systems.

-This cannot work on synthetic lifeforms, save to render David aware that they are synthetic. He also cannot mess with systems currently supported or inhabited by other awarenesses, whether they be AIs, robots interfacing with a system, or other technopaths.

Psychic Energy Projection - Genetic/Telepathic (Gained in MoM)

-David can project psychic/mental energy into physical form. The constructs he makes seem like objects in the form of yellow-gold light. They are directly tied to his mental strength and focus, and limited in form by creativity and size alone. He could make weapons, armor, and even images of animals or landscapes. The energy projections cannot take up more volume than David himself. Therefore if he wants it to be larger in size, the projection must be less dense and thus more vulnerable to damage (a bit like hammering metal thinner and thinner).

-All projections are created at the speed of thought and thus can appear and disappear quickly. With this David can maintain three separate projections at a time that can be no more than three feet from him. Dropped items still exist if he is focusing on them, meaning others can take and use them. All bladed items are razor sharp and could cut through steel. All barriers are as hard as bullet-resistant glass or Kevlar, meaning they can be broken or he can be harmed through them, but this requires either high amounts of force or piercing when he's at full strength. When David's tired or weak, even a less than sharp knife could penetrate his walls. Projections do not, though, bend under blunt attacks.

-The amount of light the projections give off directly relates to how much mental strength David is giving to their creation, and fading light indicates something that might soon disappear or break.

-As this is a manifestation of psychic energy and David is not a proper telepath or telekinetic, the power can easily be shut off by anything that would lock David in his own mind. Also as this falls under energy projection, anyone who can manipulate energy at all can take control of any and all of David's psychic constructs. David may be able to end the projection, but this is not guaranteed.

-Given this power is tied to David's mental energy, all projections are weaker when he's tired, mentally strained, or his attention is seriously divided.

-Projections cannot act on their own, so David cannot make something like a minion to serve him without him actively controlling it.

Powers can be opted into/out of either individually or as a whole here because they can be inherently invasive/violate privacy. As such as a player I maintain a policy of specifically asking before instances of using them on others (IC and/or OOC) if I haven't been given previous opt-in/out preference by a player/character.

Personality —

What were your character's most formative experiences?:

01. When David first discovered he was a mutant he knew he was able to pass for human and worked very hard to do so. All he wanted to do was go about his life and live it without remark while working hard. Unfortuantely he was discovered by an anti-mutant organization who threatened him and his family's home, outing him to his family and forcing the decision to join the Charles Xavier's School, where he went through quite a bit of trauma.

02. Where he made many friends. Before losing the powers that made him a mutant and thus gave him identity and acceptance in a community. Plus a good number of his friends lost their powers and/or died. Oh, and he died too. But he got better. They didn't. Talk about traumatizing.

03. Did I mention his girlfriend left him because he died and came back? David started after that to isolate himself from others, looking for approval from superiors rather than support of compatriots, which didn't help his mental health a lot. Which was bad when said superior sort of betrayed their ideals and he was left hating himself for joining them.

04. He found acceptance (and eventually love) while working with the Young Avengers and saving a coworker named Tommy. This led to him finding friendship and acceptance and a willingness to reevaluate himself and his life.

05. And then the ImPort world and all its messes happened. David learned how to trust himself and accept that people don't have to be perfect angels to be loved. It also, though, stripped him from his privacy quite a bit, and left him vulnerable to seeing the darkness in his heart even more among versions of himself from the different dimensions. Granted he died more there. But also started to wonder if his motivations were always pure or possibly even good like he wants to be.

What values, morals, and/or philosophies does your character live by, and how are those beliefs demonstrated? What happens when they have to compromise what they believe in?

David believes in the idea that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. This comes largely from the fact that he's a mutant, and their species has often been driven to the edge of extinction. It also means that he's willing to serve causes that come before him if he believes he's helping someone. It's even possible to lead him aside from something he cares deeply about if he's told that some other cause will help more people, as happens when he's with the Young Avengers (all he wanted was to save Tommy, instead had to save the world without hope of saving Tommy). Sacrificing his own desires for the greater good does leave David a bit bitter though, and he internalizes that bitterness either as anger at the system he's a part of, or dislike of himself, which hampers his confidence. In addition David lives with the belief that nothing that comes easily is necessarily good. While this is a belief that is in transition for him, it relates very deeply to his own powers which allows him to gain knowledge for nothing.

What is your character afraid of? How does avoiding or preventing these fears influence their actions and decisions?

Going evil is a rather lingering concern of David's. His own mind has created realities where he's done horrible things, he's seen a multitude of other universes where he takes the dark path, and sometimes the more immoral choice seems the most efficacious to him. So David is really scared that he'll cross the line. In an attempt to avoid it sometimes he goes too hard on the 'you must do the right thing' for fear that even stepping a touch darker into gray morals will lead to him falling.

What goals does your character have right now? What do they want, and how do they go about getting it?

David's primary goal is to get home. While nothing is ever certain and little is predictable back home, people he loves and trusts are back there (and here) and he wants to find his way to them. As a corollary of this, he desperately wants to find a way to bring Josh and Laurie with them, as is, to HIS present rather than their times from his past. Beyond this, he wants to get back what he lost to the Fates in the ImPort World.

Gameplay —

Areas of Interest / Brainstorming: David is entering this world down certain areas of memory/skill (memories of his sister and his skill as a figure skater). He is aware of these gaps and will be working toward a means of restoring them in some method or another. He would also be working to restore the missing items for any friends or other arriving ImPorts who had lost things to the Fates.

Secondary to this David's looking for a means to return the people he loves, whether they are from his world or not, to their own homes. As part of this David will be looking to join the Alliance to access what tools they might have to help him in this end. If he cannot find a means or finds it is impossible, his work will instead be on making the best life he can and protecting those he loves as the first and foremost focus. Whenever possible David will be doing this while hiding his identity because he's learned what a lack of privacy is like and he doesn't want to deal with that again.

His goal will most likely be to join the tech industry to gain all the resources he might need to facilitate these plans.

Samples: TDM