About InstinctAbilities 34pts:
Strength +2 (4) Stamina +2 (4) Agility +2 (4) Dexterity +0 Fighting +2 (4) Intellect +5 (10) Awareness +4 (8) Presence +0 Skills 13 pts:
Acrobatics +4(7)[8] (2) Athletics +4(8)[10] (2) Expertise Science +9(5)[1] (4) Insight +6(7)[8] (2) Investigation +7(3)[-1] (2) Perception +10(11)[12] (6) Stealth +4(6)[8] (2) Tech +8(4)[0] (3) Treatment +8(4)[0] (3) Advantage 8pts:
Power Attack All out Attack Uncanny Dodge Imp Crit Claw (2) Imp Initiative Move By Action Takedown 1 Powers 67:
Human Form (18) -Ultrahearing (1) -Tracking (Scent) 1 (1) -Lowlight (1) -Accurate Auditory (2) -Accurate Olfactory (2) -Acute Olfactory (1) -Danger Sense (Olfactory) (1) -Extended Sight (1) (-1 per 100) -Extended Auditory (1) (-1 per 100) -Extended Olfactory (3) (-1 per 1000) -Speed 1 (1) -Leaping 1 (1) -Regeneration 2 (2) Hybrid Form Alt to Beast (1)
Beast Form (50)
Basically, he is a were creature. He has two forms. The normal, human form and the beast form. In human form, he has increased senses, speed, jumping ability ad regeneration. His abilities are higher than they would be as a human, particularly his awareness. He also does have some beastial features, like yellow eyes, hairiness, and slightly tapered ears. All of which he has acquired with repeated use of his beast form. In the beast form he has increased strength,stamina, fighting power and agility, increased regeneration, claws and fangs. Muscles grow rapidly, as well as his bones, changing his shape into something more wolf like. However, he loses his intelligence and becomes a force of nature, largely controlled by instincts over rational thought. A predator. A very effective one. There seems to be some gradation with his form, corresponding to adrenaline levels. He becomes more beast like, becoming stronger and faster, the more scared or angry he is, and there is a threshold in which he loses complete control, the sentient part of Michael blacking out. His hybrid form has claws and fangs, and increased abilities, but is not as fast, large, powerful, etc.
Backstory:
Werewolf (Aka Michael Jager) was a pretty normal kid. Grew up in Ohio to John and Marlene Jager, owner of the local car shop and a housewife. Kind of a nerd, he excelled in school, rather than sports. Wore glasses and was pretty weak physically. As such, he was bullied a lot. Especially by a kid named Jared Plont. He would target him near everyday, from elementary school, all the way up to their final year in highschool. Swirlies, knocking him over for his lunch money, beatings afterschool, the works. But when he was 14, things started to change. At first it seemed like normal puberty. He grew hungrier. Grew a little hairier. But then weird things started to happen. He started to be able to randomly smell things, things that were to far away to be smelled. Hear conversation from across the quad. Outstrip the track team by a lap. He got stronger with out really trying. And then the hunger really started to get to him. It seems that he had to eat all of the time. And it was often for meat. And then were the blackouts. He'd wake up in strange places, naked, covered in dirt (and sometimes blood), his mind filled with strange images of running and hunting. Scared, he hid it from his parents, and being a nerd, he started to do some research. He started with the library at school. Finding nothing, he started looking through the library at the University. He looked at any book about this he could find. He would write extensive notes about the progression of what was happening and what he could find. At first, being of an active imagination, he honestly thought he was a werewolf. He performed experiments on himself as such, tracking lunar cycles and seeing if they had a relations to when the turns happened, trying to harm himself with silver, even video taping himself. Nothing came of it really. It seemed that he simply got up and left, running around like an animal. Michael thought that he must have been going insane! He did some research on other ways this lost time could occur. It was then he found a book, on human mutation. With the developments around the country, he realized that that was a more logical explanation, and that he was one of them. And with the backlash against mutants, he also realized he had to hide. Over time, he managed to start to control the urges to a degree, reducing the frequency of these blackouts, by intense exercise and constant eating. It took a while, but he even managed to learn how to turn himself. He learned that when he turned, he wasn't really dangerous normally. He didn't harm people. He hunted mostly rabbits and and deer. He kept away from people in the forest. It seemed that even with his intelligence lost, replaced with animal instinct, he was still basically good. Michael even started to enjoy his time turned. He was stronger and faster. Things seemed simpler, easier. His brain wasn't getting in the way. For years, he went on like this, keeping himself off of people's radar, until one night. While biking home after spending hours at the library, he was stopped, by none other than Jared Plont and his gang. They knocked him off his bike, taunting him. Jared started pushing him around the group, asking him about the bag, and upon the discovery that it was books, pushing him around some more. But when he started to rip his note book, Michael started to push back. Which promptly caused the gang to start seriously beating him. Angry and scared, Michael felt the adrenaline pumping. He started to change. His teeth grew longer, claws erupted from his fingers. Muscles broadened. Legs and arms lengthened. He saw nothing but red, then blacked out. When he came to, he was in bed, covered in blood and back to normal. Well almost normal. This was the first full transformation he had, and his body was changed. His eyes now were gold and his ears were tapered, like they had been as a beast. He was freaking out. He didn't remember what happened. And then the police came knocking. They found his things with the bodies of Jared Plont and his gang. It seems that they were ripped apart by wild dogs or wolves. They didn't suspect poor Michael, but they asked him questions, trying to see if they saw anything that could help. Michael couldn't shake this off though. He knew that he did it. Afraid that he would hurt more people, he did the only sensible thing he could. He ran. Or tried to at least. The event was enough to attract the attention of Professor Xavier. The day after, in the middle of him planning to leave, he came knocking at the door, telling him of a place he could learn to control the beast inside him. Thinking that training and analysis of his abilities was a better plan than running for the rest of his life, he took the offer. Personality, Appearance, and Interests:
Personality: Mike himself is a good natured guy. He is kind and humble, but quiet and a bit shy. Very smart and inquisitive. However, underneath the surface is the beast, struggling to come out. Michael fights every day to keep it under wraps, but he gets constantly has beastial urges which are at times difficult to control. Urges to run, fight, feed and... other things. He does manage to though, mainly through food and exercise. Michael does refer to the beast as a separate entity, but in reality, he doesn't really think of it that way. There is no big split in personality. The beast itself is a manifestation of survival instinct, driven by Michael's anger and fear, and his Id Appearance: You wouldn't really notice him in a crowd, with his brown hair, glasses, and thick coating of nerd. But if you look close enough, you'll notice his eyes are yellow and his ears are a bit tapered. Other than that, he is rather average looking. In his beast form, his fingerrbones extend into fearsome claws. His teeth extend into fangs and his jaw extends. His arms lengthen and his feet and legs adopt a digitigrade (toe walking) morphology. His muscles and bones grow, his cells rapidly dividing, increasing his size hugely. In this form, he goes on all fours to run but is capable of walking on two legs. The form is recognizably human, but is twisted like a beast. In between, he has fangs and claws, as those seem to be retractable, but hair doesn't grow, his jaw doesn't extend and his feet are not digitigrade. It seems that over time, his base form is becoming more beastlike. It's possible that it is linked to the use of his powers, or it could be the maturing of them. Michael fears the day that there is no difference between him and the beast. Interests: He is very interested in genetics and biology in general. He hopes that through his studies, he can learn about what forms his mutation and possibly turn it off or curtail it. He also has interests in environmental protection and field ecology, but who knows what he will settle in the future. He spends his free time running in the woods, at the lab, or reading.
Complications:
Motivation: Acceptance. As a mutant, all he really wants is to be able to live his life. Relationships: Parents, 2 younger sisters(15 and 10). Left on good terms, but his parents have no idea that Michael is a mutant, nor the nature of Professor Xavier's school. They think Michael was head hunted for a private school for geniuses, so they were thrilled when the Professor came. They thought he was a little odd and withdrawn, but they thought that was just because he was a teenager. Accident: In his first full transformation, he killed 5 other teens who were beating him up, but the police thought that it was a pack of wild dogs or wolves. Though he has no memory of the killing it self, The event cause Michael to fear losing control again, so he uses anger management techniques to make sure he doesn't lash out, keeping the calm facade up for others. And if anyone does figure out it was Michael, they'll be after him. Temper: The beast is just below the surface, and when Michael gets furious or panicked, the beast runs free. In his base form, Michael uses anger management techniques to avoid day to day incidents from causing him to wolf out. He also tries to satiate his bestial urges with exercise and eating copiously. |
