Post by anaphonic on Jun 1, 2012 18:05:28 GMT -5
Basics: Barker, Leo
Full Name: Leonard Barker Junior
Codename: (Not Got One Yet)
Nicknames: Leo (Prefers to be called this over Leonard)
Type: Original
Gender: Male
Species: Homo Superior
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 23 / 01
Hometown: New York City, New York
Current Residence: New York City
Loyalty: Neutral (Future X-Student)
Occupation: High School Student / Shop Assistant
Hair Colour: Blonde
Eye Colour: Light Blue
Height: 5ft 8”
Weight: 139lbs
Body Type: For a young lad he is quite toned, sporting an athletic build, this to do with his lifestyle.
Typical Style: His normal style, like his appearance is not one to stand out. His upper body is covered in t-shirts, usually sporting some sort of skating reffernce from band names to designs based around skateboarding. Along with that he wears a hoodie which is usually unzipped at the front with the hood down. His lower half is covered in a pair of skater shoes, usually vans, and a pair of baggy skater bottoms with a chain at the back pocket. To finish it off he wears a pendant with a skateboard on it, and a ring on his index finger, it is plain, silver, but it was a present from his mother, and, except to clean it and shower, he never takes it off.
Distinguishing Features: The only thing that could be called distinguishing about his appearance is the ruddy great big black bird that is sometimes perched on his right shoulder.
Physical Mutations: He has only one physical mutation, and that is his vocal chords. Where a normal human just has one pair of twin folding membranes stretched across the larynx, Leo has in fact got two. However, the additional vocal chords have been produced in such a way the not only can he speak like a normal human, but reproduce sounds that no normal human, and most mutants could never produce. This ability has helped him in his powers.
Uniform: (Does Not Have One Yet)
Personality: First and foremost he is a sweet kid, wanting to do right by people, but even though some people think so, he’s not a push over, he may want to help a person out when he can, but he’s smart, and will not be used. He’s excitable, quite a handful, and for heaven’s sakes, keep him away from sugar, not even the most harden warrior can keep up with him when he’s had one too many sweets.
He’s quite talkative, a very inquisitive lad, always asking questions, wanting to know more, and this shows that he is funny, with some of the stuff he can come out with. Despite being talkative and excitable, usually he is quite laid back, it’s almost like a volcano, calm, but when he erupts in a blast of sugar and words heaven help anyone he’s near.
Family: Leonard Barker Senior (Father), Melody Barker (Mother) Jessica Barker (Step Mother) Margret Jones (Step Sister) Kelly Barker (Half Sister)
History: To understand Leo first his family background has to be understood, his mother, she’s an interesting one during term time she owns and runs an extreme sports shop, and during the holidays goes around the world, snowboarding in Sweden, Climbing in the Rockies, scuba diving at the great barrier reef and so on and so forth. His father, a junior high geography teacher. The mix had worked well, for a time, but before Leo was even one they divorced, and he stayed with his mother in New York City where his father moved to Texas, where his father had grown up.
He spent his school time with his mother and his holidays with his father, until he was about seven and asked his mother if he could start going on trips with her, he wanted to do what she did. This made his mother happy, and told him, he can come with her every other holiday. It was at that time he started to learn how to do the things he could do in extreme sports, and by the time he was ten he had already climbed two small mountains, not that much bigger than a large hill, but still an achievement for someone so young.
During his time with his father he spent his time learning what his father taught, geography, and, even though he found most of it borning he found understanding maps a usful thing to have when he went on his trips with his mother. Getting a little older he began to find the subject interesting, and continued to study it even when he was not with his father. When he was thirteen his father remarried and not only did he find that he gained a new mother but a new sister. Soon after his step mum became pregnant.
His school life was fine, he was not exectly popular, but he was far from the kid everyone picked on. At a young age he met his three best friends, Harry Chloe and Robert. They actually became fast friends because not only did they hang out at school, but at his mother’s sports shop, because all four of them found they had a fondness for skateboarding, they actually bought their first boards together at his mother’s shop, and when they were not at school, or at his mother’s shop they were down the skate park.
At the age of fourteen he was on a trip with his mother in Astralia, surfing, when a tide hit him and knocked him off his surf board. When he awoke he found himself on a strange island and was freaked. He did not know what he was going to do, when, something even strange happened, a raven, an animal that was not supposed to be in that part of the world appeared. At first they just stared at each other, the raven cawing. However, the next, and probably strangest, thing happened, the cawing, it slowly changed, into words. Soon they started to talk to each other, and, after a time he managed to convince the raven to find his mother, giving it a picture.
Three days later, when he has almost give up hope a boat appeared, with his mother on it, and, the raven in front of it. Soon after, right after he was checked out and given the all clear, Leo and his mother went back to New York, however, someone followed him. Over the two years the raven and himself became friends and, along with Robert, Harry and Chloe, went everywhere. However, one day, the raven appeared and told him about this strange school he found, and, Leo being the curious sort, followed him, little did he known what he was about to get himself into.
How he reacted to the MRA was simple, he was outrage, and it was one of the few times Leo got angry. He asked his mother is there was anything they could do, and it was not right to label them simply because they were different, they should not need a licence to live. After his mother said there was nothing they could do he grumbled and did not eat for the rest of the night, which is saying something since Leo eats like a horse.
Classification: Delta
Powers: To put it simply he can speak to animals. Like any language it would normally take him time to learn a new tongue. The language a crow and a wolf speak are different, it would be like English is your native language and trying to learn French and German, it might take a while, but it can be spoken fluently.
There are some animal languages that could never be reproduced by any normal human, however, due to his physical mutation in the form of an additional vocal chord, he can reproduce those sounds. So, whilst the animal communicates with sound he can reproduce it, no matter how intricate or challenging the sound may be.
However, his second power backs this up, it is a variation of omnilingualism, but it only works when it comes to animal languages. In other words, he can almost instantly learn a new animal language. Before that it would like any human listening to an animal, it would seem like sounds. Like with human languages, it takes years for someone to speak it fluently, but, where it takes most people years, it takes him only weeks. Some are easier to master than others, say, dog, which would take one maybe two weeks before it is mastered, which would be really simple compared to something like snake which might take up to an entire month maybe even more to master.
When talking to an animal to Leo it seems like they are, the animal and himself, are speak English. To an outside spectator however it looks like Leo is making strange sounds. It would sound like he was mimicking the sounds that animal makes, like growls and barks when talking to a creature of the Lupine or Canine families. So far the only animal language he can speak is raven.
When other humans see him speaking to animals, he may see himself speaking human, as well as the animals, but, the observers hear him trying to imitate the animal. To put it in other words, when he is communicating with animals humans will hear him speaking like the animal.
Limitations: Talking to multiple people who speak different languages is not possible. To speak both languages at the same time, it just can’t happen. The same is applicable with talking to different animals. Where he can speak to multiple animals, of the same species, at the same time, he cannot speak wolf and raven at the same time.
When learning a new animal language he needs to have needed amount of words come from the animal before he can master it, if he does not get the right amount of words he will not be able to speak it, or at the most seem like a simpleton when talking to that animal.
Since he is new to his powers, even with his power of anamorphic omnilingualism it might take him a couple of tries to master a language, so, even if he can the needed amount of words, if he is not using this power he can only learn a language at the same rate as someone Englishman learning Spanish.
Currently he can only communicate via sound, so, if an animal, such as a ant which deals in touch and smell, he would not be able to communicate with them. So, to state what I have said, he may be able to reproduce any animals sound imaginable to such a degree he can speak to them, he will, for the time being, only be able to communicate with sound based animals.
(Note on Powers: As time progresses his ability to speak to animals will progress, where, currently he can only speak to animals to use sound to communicate he will develop the ability to use a telepathic ability to communicate, as well as produce various forms of pheromones when communicating with other animals such as ants and other animals along the line.)
Skills: Growing up the way he has he has learnt a thing or two about the wilderness. For one thing he is skilled in Cartography, the ability to draw and interpret maps. He is not a master at it, but he has a far above average ability in it. He has also, due to his upbringing, a good climber, this goes from climbing a tree, to a mountain and, even though young has climbed a number of medium sized mountains already.
Also, even though it got him picked on at school, is skilled in gymnastics, and thanks to this is quite agile and is good at things like falling from high places and not getting hurt and, as he had a lot experience in this, dodging unfriendly advances such as punches. Another one of his interests, well use to be, was magic, well, magic tricks, and has found he is good when it comes to things involving sleight of hand, and, even though he usually never does it, is quite good at pickpocketing because of it. He may not be into magic tricks anymore he still keeps up his training in sleight of hand, because he never knows when it will be useful.
The following skills are a blend of his upbringing and his personal interests, he is skilled in snowboarding, skateboarding, free running and surfing, he is nowhere near professional when it comes to these things, but, compared to other armatures shows real talent. It is in fact these things that he wants to follow because of his dreams.
Weaponry: Craven the Raven
Role Play Sample: It was a glorious day. On this particular Saturday there were hardly any clouds in the sky and the sun was shining brightly on the school that Xavier built. Within the tree and the skies there were birds singing their sweet songs and insects buzzing loudly as they went by their business of collecting pollen or other things insects do in their short lifespans. Due to the fact it was such a lovely day it seemed like most of the older students at the school were out and the younger ones, and the ones who could not go out for obvious reasons were playing on the grounds, smiling and laughing as they played their various games. All in all it seemed like everything was going well, like someone took a brush and painted happiness.
However, through all of this happiness and cheer there was one bird was sitting on the wall and for some strange reason he did not seem pleased at all. If a bird could ever look shifty and suspicious this bird was pulling it off, looking around at the school, and the children. The way he stood there watching, it seemed like he was almost observing the school, watching, waiting for something to happen and for someone to do it. He continued to stand there for a while before cawing loudly and taking off. However, he seemed to only hover off the wall slightly before he dove behind the wall. A few seconds later there was loud cawing come from behind the wall. It was strange because there were two voices. Was that raven that had been sitting on the wall having a conversation with another crow?
Soon after the cawing had stopped a young, feminine looking boy, with shaggy blonde hair and beautiful ice blue eyes peeked over the wall quickly before ducking down again. After what seemed like a few seconds the boy ducked down again and the cawing sounded off once more, before, about a minute later, the crow appeared again and sat down on the wall, in the exact same spot that it had before.
Your Name: Cam
Other Characters: Camaxtli, Archon.
Full Name: Leonard Barker Junior
Codename: (Not Got One Yet)
Nicknames: Leo (Prefers to be called this over Leonard)
Type: Original
Gender: Male
Species: Homo Superior
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 23 / 01
Hometown: New York City, New York
Current Residence: New York City
Loyalty: Neutral (Future X-Student)
Occupation: High School Student / Shop Assistant
Hair Colour: Blonde
Eye Colour: Light Blue
Height: 5ft 8”
Weight: 139lbs
Body Type: For a young lad he is quite toned, sporting an athletic build, this to do with his lifestyle.
Typical Style: His normal style, like his appearance is not one to stand out. His upper body is covered in t-shirts, usually sporting some sort of skating reffernce from band names to designs based around skateboarding. Along with that he wears a hoodie which is usually unzipped at the front with the hood down. His lower half is covered in a pair of skater shoes, usually vans, and a pair of baggy skater bottoms with a chain at the back pocket. To finish it off he wears a pendant with a skateboard on it, and a ring on his index finger, it is plain, silver, but it was a present from his mother, and, except to clean it and shower, he never takes it off.
Distinguishing Features: The only thing that could be called distinguishing about his appearance is the ruddy great big black bird that is sometimes perched on his right shoulder.
Physical Mutations: He has only one physical mutation, and that is his vocal chords. Where a normal human just has one pair of twin folding membranes stretched across the larynx, Leo has in fact got two. However, the additional vocal chords have been produced in such a way the not only can he speak like a normal human, but reproduce sounds that no normal human, and most mutants could never produce. This ability has helped him in his powers.
Uniform: (Does Not Have One Yet)
Personality: First and foremost he is a sweet kid, wanting to do right by people, but even though some people think so, he’s not a push over, he may want to help a person out when he can, but he’s smart, and will not be used. He’s excitable, quite a handful, and for heaven’s sakes, keep him away from sugar, not even the most harden warrior can keep up with him when he’s had one too many sweets.
He’s quite talkative, a very inquisitive lad, always asking questions, wanting to know more, and this shows that he is funny, with some of the stuff he can come out with. Despite being talkative and excitable, usually he is quite laid back, it’s almost like a volcano, calm, but when he erupts in a blast of sugar and words heaven help anyone he’s near.
Family: Leonard Barker Senior (Father), Melody Barker (Mother) Jessica Barker (Step Mother) Margret Jones (Step Sister) Kelly Barker (Half Sister)
History: To understand Leo first his family background has to be understood, his mother, she’s an interesting one during term time she owns and runs an extreme sports shop, and during the holidays goes around the world, snowboarding in Sweden, Climbing in the Rockies, scuba diving at the great barrier reef and so on and so forth. His father, a junior high geography teacher. The mix had worked well, for a time, but before Leo was even one they divorced, and he stayed with his mother in New York City where his father moved to Texas, where his father had grown up.
He spent his school time with his mother and his holidays with his father, until he was about seven and asked his mother if he could start going on trips with her, he wanted to do what she did. This made his mother happy, and told him, he can come with her every other holiday. It was at that time he started to learn how to do the things he could do in extreme sports, and by the time he was ten he had already climbed two small mountains, not that much bigger than a large hill, but still an achievement for someone so young.
During his time with his father he spent his time learning what his father taught, geography, and, even though he found most of it borning he found understanding maps a usful thing to have when he went on his trips with his mother. Getting a little older he began to find the subject interesting, and continued to study it even when he was not with his father. When he was thirteen his father remarried and not only did he find that he gained a new mother but a new sister. Soon after his step mum became pregnant.
His school life was fine, he was not exectly popular, but he was far from the kid everyone picked on. At a young age he met his three best friends, Harry Chloe and Robert. They actually became fast friends because not only did they hang out at school, but at his mother’s sports shop, because all four of them found they had a fondness for skateboarding, they actually bought their first boards together at his mother’s shop, and when they were not at school, or at his mother’s shop they were down the skate park.
At the age of fourteen he was on a trip with his mother in Astralia, surfing, when a tide hit him and knocked him off his surf board. When he awoke he found himself on a strange island and was freaked. He did not know what he was going to do, when, something even strange happened, a raven, an animal that was not supposed to be in that part of the world appeared. At first they just stared at each other, the raven cawing. However, the next, and probably strangest, thing happened, the cawing, it slowly changed, into words. Soon they started to talk to each other, and, after a time he managed to convince the raven to find his mother, giving it a picture.
Three days later, when he has almost give up hope a boat appeared, with his mother on it, and, the raven in front of it. Soon after, right after he was checked out and given the all clear, Leo and his mother went back to New York, however, someone followed him. Over the two years the raven and himself became friends and, along with Robert, Harry and Chloe, went everywhere. However, one day, the raven appeared and told him about this strange school he found, and, Leo being the curious sort, followed him, little did he known what he was about to get himself into.
How he reacted to the MRA was simple, he was outrage, and it was one of the few times Leo got angry. He asked his mother is there was anything they could do, and it was not right to label them simply because they were different, they should not need a licence to live. After his mother said there was nothing they could do he grumbled and did not eat for the rest of the night, which is saying something since Leo eats like a horse.
Classification: Delta
Powers: To put it simply he can speak to animals. Like any language it would normally take him time to learn a new tongue. The language a crow and a wolf speak are different, it would be like English is your native language and trying to learn French and German, it might take a while, but it can be spoken fluently.
There are some animal languages that could never be reproduced by any normal human, however, due to his physical mutation in the form of an additional vocal chord, he can reproduce those sounds. So, whilst the animal communicates with sound he can reproduce it, no matter how intricate or challenging the sound may be.
However, his second power backs this up, it is a variation of omnilingualism, but it only works when it comes to animal languages. In other words, he can almost instantly learn a new animal language. Before that it would like any human listening to an animal, it would seem like sounds. Like with human languages, it takes years for someone to speak it fluently, but, where it takes most people years, it takes him only weeks. Some are easier to master than others, say, dog, which would take one maybe two weeks before it is mastered, which would be really simple compared to something like snake which might take up to an entire month maybe even more to master.
When talking to an animal to Leo it seems like they are, the animal and himself, are speak English. To an outside spectator however it looks like Leo is making strange sounds. It would sound like he was mimicking the sounds that animal makes, like growls and barks when talking to a creature of the Lupine or Canine families. So far the only animal language he can speak is raven.
When other humans see him speaking to animals, he may see himself speaking human, as well as the animals, but, the observers hear him trying to imitate the animal. To put it in other words, when he is communicating with animals humans will hear him speaking like the animal.
Limitations: Talking to multiple people who speak different languages is not possible. To speak both languages at the same time, it just can’t happen. The same is applicable with talking to different animals. Where he can speak to multiple animals, of the same species, at the same time, he cannot speak wolf and raven at the same time.
When learning a new animal language he needs to have needed amount of words come from the animal before he can master it, if he does not get the right amount of words he will not be able to speak it, or at the most seem like a simpleton when talking to that animal.
Since he is new to his powers, even with his power of anamorphic omnilingualism it might take him a couple of tries to master a language, so, even if he can the needed amount of words, if he is not using this power he can only learn a language at the same rate as someone Englishman learning Spanish.
Currently he can only communicate via sound, so, if an animal, such as a ant which deals in touch and smell, he would not be able to communicate with them. So, to state what I have said, he may be able to reproduce any animals sound imaginable to such a degree he can speak to them, he will, for the time being, only be able to communicate with sound based animals.
(Note on Powers: As time progresses his ability to speak to animals will progress, where, currently he can only speak to animals to use sound to communicate he will develop the ability to use a telepathic ability to communicate, as well as produce various forms of pheromones when communicating with other animals such as ants and other animals along the line.)
Skills: Growing up the way he has he has learnt a thing or two about the wilderness. For one thing he is skilled in Cartography, the ability to draw and interpret maps. He is not a master at it, but he has a far above average ability in it. He has also, due to his upbringing, a good climber, this goes from climbing a tree, to a mountain and, even though young has climbed a number of medium sized mountains already.
Also, even though it got him picked on at school, is skilled in gymnastics, and thanks to this is quite agile and is good at things like falling from high places and not getting hurt and, as he had a lot experience in this, dodging unfriendly advances such as punches. Another one of his interests, well use to be, was magic, well, magic tricks, and has found he is good when it comes to things involving sleight of hand, and, even though he usually never does it, is quite good at pickpocketing because of it. He may not be into magic tricks anymore he still keeps up his training in sleight of hand, because he never knows when it will be useful.
The following skills are a blend of his upbringing and his personal interests, he is skilled in snowboarding, skateboarding, free running and surfing, he is nowhere near professional when it comes to these things, but, compared to other armatures shows real talent. It is in fact these things that he wants to follow because of his dreams.
Weaponry: Craven the Raven
Role Play Sample: It was a glorious day. On this particular Saturday there were hardly any clouds in the sky and the sun was shining brightly on the school that Xavier built. Within the tree and the skies there were birds singing their sweet songs and insects buzzing loudly as they went by their business of collecting pollen or other things insects do in their short lifespans. Due to the fact it was such a lovely day it seemed like most of the older students at the school were out and the younger ones, and the ones who could not go out for obvious reasons were playing on the grounds, smiling and laughing as they played their various games. All in all it seemed like everything was going well, like someone took a brush and painted happiness.
However, through all of this happiness and cheer there was one bird was sitting on the wall and for some strange reason he did not seem pleased at all. If a bird could ever look shifty and suspicious this bird was pulling it off, looking around at the school, and the children. The way he stood there watching, it seemed like he was almost observing the school, watching, waiting for something to happen and for someone to do it. He continued to stand there for a while before cawing loudly and taking off. However, he seemed to only hover off the wall slightly before he dove behind the wall. A few seconds later there was loud cawing come from behind the wall. It was strange because there were two voices. Was that raven that had been sitting on the wall having a conversation with another crow?
Soon after the cawing had stopped a young, feminine looking boy, with shaggy blonde hair and beautiful ice blue eyes peeked over the wall quickly before ducking down again. After what seemed like a few seconds the boy ducked down again and the cawing sounded off once more, before, about a minute later, the crow appeared again and sat down on the wall, in the exact same spot that it had before.
Your Name: Cam
Other Characters: Camaxtli, Archon.