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| Samuel (Sam) Guthrie - Cannonball; Earth 617 | |
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| DoubleL27 | May 2 2012, 08:02 PM Post #1 |
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Real name: Samuel (Sam) Zachery Guthrie Codename/Other Aliases: Cannonball Personal Preferred OOC Username: Doublel27 Email Address: Doublel27@gmail.com IM/AIM/YIM/MSN Username: AIM: catwoman1567 MSN: doublel27 Physical Age: 23 Height: 6" Weight: 150 lbs Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue General Appearance: Sam is a tall, lanky young man who nearly always has a bit of hair falling into his eyes which makes him look a little younger than he is. He dresses casually, usually a tee shirt and jeans, sometimes with a flannel button down thrown over it. Boots are his footwear of choice. Sam is attractive in the boy next door type of way, but he still sees himself as a gangly, awkward teenager who barely has control over his body and powers. Personal Known relatives: Thomas Guthrie (Deceased), Lucinda Guthrie, Paige Guthrie (Husk), Joshua (Jay) Guthrie, Melody Guthrie and six other siblings whose names do not need to be explicitly mentioned here. Group affiliation: 617 - X-Force (leader) Mutant Powers: release thermochemical energy as an impenetrable blast field, using it as a personal shield or extending it to encompass others, focus it into rocket thrust or bio-kinetic blasts from his hands, shape the field around another person to imprison them, or absorb outside kinetic impact into his own energy supply, then re-channel it to increase the bludgeoning power of his blows or create explosive shock waves upon impact AU Strengths and Weaknesses:Sam is an exceptionally powerful mutant. His ability to take thermochemical energy and wield it in a variety of ways allows for impressive strength. Sam is also nearly invulnerable when he is using his powers. However, the strength of his powers makes them difficult to have precision control. Sam has been working for the past six years to get his powers under control and to fine tune his abilities. History: Sam Guthrie grew up the oldest of ten children in the Appalachian Mountain region of Kentucky. His father was a coal miner and his mother runs a small farm with chicken and some produce. The Guthries were poor by all standards but Sam never felt like he went without most of the time. Sam grew up a huge nerd, loves learning and is a giant fan of science fiction. His parents pushed him to be an excellent student. Sam was even awarded a full academic scholarship at 16 to go to University of Kentucky in Lexington. Sam's academic goals were cut short when his father succumbed to a disease known as "black lung" due to his many years working in the mines. Being the new male lead in the household, Sam dropped out of school and took up his father's place in the mines to help support his younger siblings. While working in the mines, Sam was caught in a collapsing tunnel with a fellow miner. Sam's latent mutant powers activated and Sam blasted himself and his companion out of the mine with nary a scratch on them. After this, Sam was initially picked up by the Hellfire club, but refused to follow through with Pierce's plans and was taken in by Charles Xavier to be a member of the New Mutant class at Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning. While a member of the New Mutants, Sam took on a co-leader position with Dani Moonstar. Sam took up a similar position to the one he had at home, serving as an older brother and problem solving with many of his younger teammates. He has a deep respect for authority, but Sam's sense of morality and occasionally pride are often a stronger guides. As a New Mutant, Sam worked under Xavier, Magneto, Emma Frost and eventually Cable. Sam has handled many of these transitions with grace and giving leaders a fair shake when put under their command. When Dani left the group, Sam took on full leadership of the New Mutants and grew into a better leader. Eventually, Sam and the remaining New Mutants followed Cable and became X-Force. X-Force frequently operated outside of Xavier's code of appropriate behavior, being led by two assassins. Sometimes this gives Sam pause, but other times he fully believes in the mission of X-Force and its ability to make a difference. Sam enjoys leading the group that focuses a great deal on immediate results and change. He is unafraid of making unilateral decisions based on his instincts and defends his choices to anyone who questions him. Similarly, Sam's relationship with Cable is often like a father/son relationship but he questions Cable's decisions and is very curious to get under the surface of Cable's mysterious past. [Romantic entanglements omitted to be fleshed out at a later date] Sample RP Has RPed Sam Guthrie at XA and PB. |
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