Post by Less Than Beta East Tundra on Jun 18, 2010 1:35:54 GMT -5
Name: Manuel "Mannie" Alvarez
Age: 13
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Brown
Height: 5' 2"
Appearance: Mouse-like. He comes across as being small and twitchy, but aside from that is fairly nondescript until you get close enough to see that grin. He typically wears tight clothes and keeps his sleeves taped down, but not tightly enough that he can't very quickly disrobe if, say, he's on fire. These are usually a light solid color, generally white or light grey.
Biography: Mannie was born to a family in Central America, and spent his life perfectly normally. He went to school, made friends, was teased by his older brother mercilessly, and generally had a good life. However, one day he contracted mad science from a teacher at his school. No one realized it at the time, and since it broke in two years later at the age of twelve they still don't realize exactly how it happened. In any case, Mannie drove his family absolutely nuts within a few days, and within a few weeks he had brought them to the point of poverty with his relentless tinkering and general destructiveness.
Since ordinary schools refused to keep him there or even accept him at all, his parents (and extended family) decided to send him to St. Dymphna's Academy in the hopes that it would teach him to control his new abilities. Unfortunately they were unable to make the first semester, and Mannie spent the most destructive phase of his breaking in being shuttled between houses. They decided to try to transfer him into the spring semester instead of waiting for the next year; they're running out of willing family members!
Personality: Mannie is a cheerful boy. He doesn't mean any harm, really! He just wants to make things into their constituent components so he can make them better, is that so hard to understand? He generally keeps to himself, pondering what to work on next. Unless someone talks to him. Then he goes off on wild rambles about whatever he's doing or some theory or other he wants to use, often with random switches in topic and occasionally ending with, "So you really don't need that [item], right?" He will frequently hole up somewhere and just start tinkering away, often with the assistance of a number of dangerous and foul-smelling (or worse, dangerous and odorless) chemicals.
Skills: Not dying, taking things apart, not dying, putting said things back together oddly, not dying, accidentally setting things on fire, and not dying.
Sue/Stu Traits:
Brilliant at not accidentally killing himself (-6)
Multilingual (English and Spanish) (-6)
Owns numerous vials of chemicals (-6)
Genius (-10)
Magical (mad science) (-10)
Gay (closeted) (+4)
Cannot control special power (+5)
Minority (Mestizo, told to say 'Hispanic' if asked) (+8)
Total points left: 9
Age: 13
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Brown
Height: 5' 2"
Appearance: Mouse-like. He comes across as being small and twitchy, but aside from that is fairly nondescript until you get close enough to see that grin. He typically wears tight clothes and keeps his sleeves taped down, but not tightly enough that he can't very quickly disrobe if, say, he's on fire. These are usually a light solid color, generally white or light grey.
Biography: Mannie was born to a family in Central America, and spent his life perfectly normally. He went to school, made friends, was teased by his older brother mercilessly, and generally had a good life. However, one day he contracted mad science from a teacher at his school. No one realized it at the time, and since it broke in two years later at the age of twelve they still don't realize exactly how it happened. In any case, Mannie drove his family absolutely nuts within a few days, and within a few weeks he had brought them to the point of poverty with his relentless tinkering and general destructiveness.
Since ordinary schools refused to keep him there or even accept him at all, his parents (and extended family) decided to send him to St. Dymphna's Academy in the hopes that it would teach him to control his new abilities. Unfortunately they were unable to make the first semester, and Mannie spent the most destructive phase of his breaking in being shuttled between houses. They decided to try to transfer him into the spring semester instead of waiting for the next year; they're running out of willing family members!
Personality: Mannie is a cheerful boy. He doesn't mean any harm, really! He just wants to make things into their constituent components so he can make them better, is that so hard to understand? He generally keeps to himself, pondering what to work on next. Unless someone talks to him. Then he goes off on wild rambles about whatever he's doing or some theory or other he wants to use, often with random switches in topic and occasionally ending with, "So you really don't need that [item], right?" He will frequently hole up somewhere and just start tinkering away, often with the assistance of a number of dangerous and foul-smelling (or worse, dangerous and odorless) chemicals.
Skills: Not dying, taking things apart, not dying, putting said things back together oddly, not dying, accidentally setting things on fire, and not dying.
Sue/Stu Traits:
Brilliant at not accidentally killing himself (-6)
Multilingual (English and Spanish) (-6)
Owns numerous vials of chemicals (-6)
Genius (-10)
Magical (mad science) (-10)
Gay (closeted) (+4)
Cannot control special power (+5)
Minority (Mestizo, told to say 'Hispanic' if asked) (+8)
Total points left: 9