Posting in hopes of being accepted late...
Name: Samuel Garcia
Age: 23
Personality: Sam is brash and headstrong, rarely bothering to stop and consider the possible consequences of his actions. He's quick with a wisecrack or a joke, appreciates people who can give as good as they get, and easily irritated by people who won't stand up for themselves. He doesn't make real friends easily, but he's loyal to them to a fault once they're made. A lot of this is an act, though. Deep down, if you dig hard enough, you'll find a soft heart and a soft touch for people in need. But he grew up hard, and you have to dig
really deep to find that.
X-Gene Mutation
- Enhanced Physical Abilities: Sam is stronger and tougher than he has any right to be. He can deadlift a couple of tons (he's never found a way to measure just how many, but he knows he can't lift a tank), sprint at over sixty miles an hour, and has reasonable odds of dodging a bullet if he sees it fired. His skin is tough enough to turn a knife, his bones are as hard as tempered steel, and he heals nearly ten times faster than an ordinary human.
- No Fatigue: A side effect of Sam's enhanced physical abilities is that he simply does not get physically tired. He will grow mentally exhausted and require sleep, of course, but he does not experience muscle aches or physical fatigue as long as he eats regularly.
- Absorption: Sam's most potent mutation is his ability to absorb kinetic and radiant energy, using it fo fuel his metabolism and heighten his physical abilities. Quite literally, that which does not kill him only makes him stronger (and faster and tougher as well). He has no idea what, if any, his upper limit is for his capabilities. But, once after surviving an artillery barrage, he was able to hammer throw a M-1 Abrams more than a hundred meters and watch rifle fire drift towards him. The effects wear off quickly, however.
Occupation: US Army Infantry, AWOL.
Other/Bio: Sam's a clever kid from a bad part of town, and started running with a gang at a fairly young age. After getting caught up in a drug deal that went bad, and doing six months in a juvenile detention center, he decided to try and go straight. So, with the support of his parents, he enlisted in the Army at the age of 17. After boot, he was sent to Afghanistan.
He doesn't talk much about what happened there. But he's got a few interesting scars, and that's where he went AWOL. The last couple of years he's been drifting, working odd jobs and trying to avoid the attention of the government.