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Shinobi Shaw; Earth 815 - Mutant Camps
Topic Started: May 17 2012, 07:36 PM (64 Views)
Shinobi Shaw
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Real name: Shinobi Shaw
Codename/Other Aliases: None

Personal

Preferred OOC Username: John
Email Address: ghynard@gmail.com
IM/AIM/YIM/MSN Username: ghynard@hotmail.com (MSN)

Physical

Age: 25
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 165 lbs.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown

General Appearance: Shinobi is a little over average height and somewhat pale, with dark eyes that are cold and secretive more often than not, but can be quite expressive in certain instances. His hair is the color of polished onyx, and he invariably wears it long (a little more than shoulder-length) in a sort of "artfully mussed” style. It generally conveys the impression that he has only recently crawled out of bed, though it’s actually quite carefully groomed in order to achieve this effect. He is lean, almost slender, with a swimmer’s build that he maintains almost in spite of himself through moderate regular exercise.

In dress, he favors a conservative, almost archaic style (even outside the opulent accommodations of the Hellfire Club, where such attire is mandatory), but in colors, patterns, and fabrics that are distinctively, even ostentatiously, modern. Morning suits, waistcoats, French cuffs, ascots, and patent leather shoes are generally the order of the day. He can occasionally be caught in shirtsleeves--but only if he wants to be. His lifestyle is notoriously dissolute; nonetheless, the inevitable consequences of this decadence have yet to leave any marked imprint on his features or
bearing.

Personal

Known relatives: Sebastian Shaw (deceased)
Group affiliation: Containment Camp (815)
Mutant Powers :He possesses a high degree of control over his personal molecular density. The effects of this mutation allow him to increase his body’s solidity to near-diamond-hardness or become intangible at will. At his greatest possible density, Shinobi is virtually immune to conventional (and a good many forms of unconventional) injuries.

At the lowest, he is capable of phasing through both organic and inorganic matter. While primarily used as a handy means of escaping from potentially unpleasant situations, Shinobi can also disrupt the functioning of both electrical and biological systems in this state--although this is a result of voluntary action rather than a passive quality. As he can selectively alter specific parts of his body, a favorite trick of his is to phase his hand through the chests of particularly tiresome people and vary its phase, inducing catastrophic heart failure.

AU Strengths and Weaknesses: He’s never been able to duplicate the “air-walking” of another mutant famous for her phasing, and this irritates Shinobi more than a little. The best he can manage is a controlled fall--which is still very useful on those occasions when he accidentally manages to pass himself through a wall several stories above ground level.

By far his most glaring flaw is a definite tendency to think himself a great deal smarter than he actually is, and to overestimate his ability to control events and people around him.

History: The tragic death of Sebastian Shaw’s wife, Lourdes Chantel, raised more than one concerned eyebrow among the established members of New York’s infamously exclusive Hellfire Club. Not so much because her untimely passing was almost immediately veiled beneath an impenetrable cloak of secrecy--such minor omissions of full and forthright disclosure were and remain a matter of course in the Club’s daily business, and are considered hardly worthy of note. Far more alarming was the newly-minted Black King’s lack of a designated heir. In the staunchly aristocratic world of the Hellfire Club, dynasties are esteemed every bit as much as individual talent, if not more so, and the idea that the organization’s most prestigious member had yet to establish a proper line of descent came very close to developing into a full-blown scandal. After all, Shaw’s fellow initiates--Warren Worthington, Jr., Howard Stark, and Sir James Braddock--were already well on their way to providing for the future of the Club through their own offspring.

The Black King, for his part, appeared to give very little thought to this breach of tradition. He continued very much in accordance with his own whims, taking lovers and then dropping them again as he pleased. Remarkably, only one of these numerous affairs ever resulted in the birth of a child. One of his replaceable mistresses bore him a son whom she named--for reasons known only to herself--Shinobi. Seeing at last an opportunity to put the grumblings of the Hellfire Club’s old guard to rest, the Black King allowed the boy to take the Shaw name despite his illegitimate status. Beyond this more or less wholly self-interested gesture, Sebastian Shaw would take only a passing interest in the life of his successor.

Nevertheless, a few years after Shinobi’s birth he and his mother took up residence in Manhattan full time, possibly so that the younger Shaw could better serve in his designated role as a visible affirmation of the Black King’s commitment to establishing a dynasty of his own. It was a lavish, if lonely, existence, and for the most part Shinobi’s only human contact was with his mother and the various employees of the estate in which Sebastian Shaw housed the two. Soon after he started school, Shinobi was occasionally allowed to mingle with children of like status, mostly the sons and daughters of other high-ranking members of the Hellfire Club. Notable among these was one Warren Worthington III, to whom Shinobi developed a strong attachment despite the other boy’s imperious and sometimes prickly attitude. Though the two have not seen or spoken to each other since grammar school, Shaw still considers Warren his oldest and dearest friend.

Shinobi had always had a close relationship with his mother, and that intimacy only deepened as he matured. She was a woman keenly interested in the pursuit of her own pleasure, yet she doted on her son and spared no opportunity to spoil him outrageously. This had a predictable effect on the scion of the Black King, and he plunged into his mother’s profligate lifestyle with a reckless abandon that soon became a source of no small pride to the notoriously self-indulgent social butterfly who had birthed him. Their shared hedonism disgusted the elder Shaw, who was never reserved in making his contempt for the pair plain. At first, Shinobi was pleased with even this small acknowledgement of his existence from his father; bitter disapproval was, after all, far preferable to total indifference. The novelty soon wore off, however, and he came to view the Black King as boorish and endlessly tedious.

When Shinobi’s mutant powers manifested a shortly after puberty, he was fairly quick to notice that they far more closely resembled those of his “uncle,” Harry Leland, than Shaw’s. This led him to the belief that he was, in fact, the son of the Black Bishop, and any residual filial loyalty he might have felt for the leader of the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle evaporated. From that time forward, he devoted himself to amassing his own personal fortune—while still keeping himself entertained—a feat which he accomplished over the span of a little less than a decade, thanks in no small part to his supposed pedigree. The Shaw name proved to be an invaluable asset in Shinobi’s rise to independent wealth, and he exploited it shamelessly, with only amusement for his “father’s” inevitable chagrin.

Shinobi Shaw once owned controlling interest in a half-dozen fairly substantial manufacturing and technologies development companies in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Viewed largely as a figurehead in these enterprises, he was actually a great deal more involved in the workings of his businesses than most would believe possible, given his apparent devotion to his own personal entertainment. He once tried to assassinate the elder Shaw and take control of the Hellfire Club, but that entire affair devolved into an absolute debacle in virtually no time at all. When he discovered that his father was still alive, Shinobi quickly went into hiding to escape reprisal. Sebastian would not be deterred, however, and his agents were able to locate the wayward heir and drag him back to New York—if not without considerable difficulty.

Suitably chastised, Shinobi spent most of his time keeping out of his father's way, until the Sentinels developed by Shaw industries began decimating the mutant population and he was shuffled off to one of the infamous containment camps to wallow in squalor with the other remnants of the mutant population.

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