Post by cyclops on Apr 8, 2013 23:31:11 GMT -5
Scott Summers
Nickname:Slim, Cyke
Codename:Cyclops
Preferred name:Cyclops
Canon or Non-canon:Canon
Gender:Male
Sexual Orientation:Heterosexual
Marital Status:Widower
Birthplace:Anchorage, Alaska
Current Residence: Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
DOB: January 9
Age:34
Occupation:Co-headmaster of Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, adventurer, former student, former radio announcer
Species:Mutant
Affiliation:X-Men
Shown in the Light of Day
Height:6'3
Weight: 200 lbs.
Hair color:Brown
Eye color:Red (when powers are active) Brown (naturally)
Identifying features:Scott always has a form of ruby quartz lenses equipped on his face. Whether it be a traditional pair of sun glasses or his famous battle visor he must wear Ruby quartz lenses over his eyes to control his mutant ability.
Appearance: Scott Summers stands at 6 feet and 3 inches. He weighs a well toned 200 lbs. with an athletic build. His clothing style fits his personality. Since he is very straight forward and plays by the book he has a clean cut look in casual clothing usually including a pair of ruby quartz lensed sun glasses. While on the other side of the spectrum when readying for a mission his X-Men uniform is a single one piece suit with an attached hooded face mask which includes his trademark Battle visor with a single oval stretched ruby lense.His Brown hair is also kept to a clean cut, keeping the sides trimmed closely and the top only slightly longer.
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Power Corrupts Absolutely
Power Origin: Mutant (Due to a head injury, Cyclops is unable to shut off his optic blasts at will and must therefore wear ruby quartz lenses to block the beams.)
Powers: Cyclops possesses the mutant ability to project a beam of heatless ruby-colored concussive force from his eyes, which act as inter-dimensional apertures between this universe and another. Cyclops' body constantly absorbs ambient energy, such as sunlight, from his environment into his body's cells that allows him to open the apertures. Cyclops' mind generates a psionic field that is attuned to the forces that maintain the apertures. Because this field envelops his body, it automatically shunts the other-dimensional particles back into their point of origin when they collide with his body. Thus, his body is protected from the effects of the particles, and even the thin membranes of his eyelids are sufficient to block the emission of energy. The synthetic ruby quartz crystal used to fashion the lenses of Cyclops' eyewear is resonant to his minds' psionic field and is similarly protected.
The width of Cyclops' optic blast is focused by his mind's psionic field with the same autonomic function that regulated his original eyes' ability to focus. As Cyclops focuses, the size of the apertures change and thus act as a valve to control the flow of particles and the beam's relative power. The height of Cyclops's eye-blast is controlled by his visor's adjustable slit. The beam's effective range is approximately 2,000 feet.
Weaknesses:
Cyclops over the years has become very jaded due to the death of his late wife Jean Grey. Although time has healed his wounds there is still a dark side to the man and even his closest teammates question his ethics at times. His leaderships skills are tested at times and due to his attitude he rarely explains his plans making his final orders questioned by teammates.
Cyclops is rendered both without sight and control of his powers when his ruby quartz eye protection is removed from his face. Although he will be able to use his beam when opening his eyes he is still blind and unable to shut off the flow of his power unless closing his eyes again.
Getting to the Root of the Problem
Personality:
Cyclops is the no-nonsense field leader of the X-Men. Where Charles has provided the vision, Scott has been trained to execute that vision in the most effective way possible. Almost nothing else matters to him.
Though largely humorless, those who know him very well are able to break through some of his walls. While Summers is as emotional and reliant as the next person, he has an almost fanatical desire to compartmentalise his inner thoughts and feelings. It is rare that he allows one aspect of his inner self to collide or interact with another, but it can and does happen. To the outside world, that largely makes him appear stoic or even callous.
Family:
Background:
Scott Summers was the first of two sons born to Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force, and his wife Katherine. Christopher was flying his family home from vacation when their plane was attacked by a spacecraft from the interstellar Shi'ar Empire. To save their lives, Katherine pushed Scott and his brother Alex out of the plane with the only available parachute. Scott suffered a head injury upon landing, thus forever preventing him from controlling his mutant power by himself.
With their parents presumed dead, the authorities separated the two boys. Alex was adopted, but Scott remained comatose in a hospital for a year. On recovering, he was placed in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska that was secretly controlled by his future enemy, the evil geneticist Mister Sinister.
As a teenager, Scott came into the foster care of Jack Winters, a mutant criminal known as the Jack O'Diamonds. After Scott began to suffer from severe headaches he was sent to a specialist who discovered that lenses made of ruby quartz corrected the problem. Soon after, Scott's mutant power first erupted from his eyes as an uncontrollable blast of optic force. The blast demolished a crane, causing it to drop its payload toward a terrified crowd. Scott saved lives by obliterating the object with another blast, but the bystanders believed that he had tried to kill them and rallied into an angry mob. Scott fled, escaping on a freight train.
Winters sought to use Scott's newfound talent in his crimes, and physically abused the young boy when he initially refused. However, Scott's display of power had attracted the attention of the mutant telepath Professor Charles Xavier, who teamed up with F.B.I. agent Fred Duncan in their mutual attempt to find Scott. Scott was rescued from Winters' clutches and was enlisted by Xavier as the first member of the X-Men, a team of young mutants who trained to use their powers in the fight for human/mutant equality.
As Cyclops, Scott became deputy leader of the X-Men. While he was a skilled tactician, his social skills were lacking. Scott had fallen in love with his teammate Jean Grey, but his reserved demeanor prevented him from expressing his feelings for her for years. When Xavier's other original recruits left the fold following an encounter with the sentient island-being Krakoa, Cyclops stayed on as deputy leader of the new team.
Shortly thereafter, the cosmic entity known as the Phoenix Force took Jean's place. When it committed suicide, Scott believed the love of his life had died and he left the X-Men. During his time away from the team, Scott met fishing boat captain Lee Forrester who helped him work through his grief. Scott eventually returned to the X-Men whereupon he met Madelyne Pryor, a woman who bore an uncanny resemblance to Jean. Unaware that Madelyne was a clone of Jean created by Sinister, Scott fell in love with Madelyne and they were soon married. Madelyne fell pregnant and bore Scott a son named Nathan Christopher.
When the real Jean emerged from suspended animation, Scott abandoned his wife and son and rejoined the other original X-Men in establishing a new team, X-Factor. During a demonic invasion of New York City, X-Factor and the X-Men fought against a super-powered and insane Madelyne. The invasion was thwarted after Madelyne perished in combat with Jean.
Later, the mutant warlord named Apocalypse infected baby Nathan with a techno-organic virus. To save his son's life, Scott had to allow a member of the Clan Askani to transport Nathan two millennia into the future, where it had been foreseen that he would deliver the world from Apocalypse’s clutches. X-Factor disbanded soon after, and its members returned to the ranks of the X-Men. Scott and his long-time love Jean were married, and whilst on their honeymoon their spirits were taken into the timestream by the Clan Askani’s matriarch. Arriving in the future, they inhabited new bodies and raised Nathan for twelve years. When they returned to their own time and bodies, Nathan remained in the future and ultimately matured into his time's greatest hero: Cable.
Following Professor X's arrest for crimes committed as the evil psionic entity Onslaught, Scott assumed the role of leadership of the X-Men once more. Soon after, the government sponsored mutant-hunting operation known as "Zero Tolerance" took effect, and the villainous Bastion captured the X-Men. In his attempt to destroy mutantkind, Bastion placed a nanotech bomb inside Scott's body. The X-Men escaped, and the mutant doctor named Cecilia Reyes saved Scott's life. Scott and his wife soon took a leave of absence from the X-Men for a period of recuperation.
Not long after returning to the team, Scott and Jean soon found themselves embroiled in Apocalypse's bid for cosmic power by assembling "The Twelve" - a group of mutants who would determine the fate of their kind that included Scott, Jean, and Cable. They were wired to a machine that would channel their awesome energies into Apocalypse, allowing him to absorb the body of the time-tossed powerful mutant teenager known as X-Man. As his teammates fell around him, a powerless Scott saved X-Man and merged with the would-be conqueror to create a new evil entity. Jean detected Scott's psyche inside Apocalypse and prevented the X-Men from destroying him, however he was presumed dead by most of his teammates. Only Jean and Cable refused to believe Scott had perished.
Investigating rumors he was alive, the pair found him in the birthplace of Apocalypse in Akkaba, Egypt, struggling to reassert his mind over the villain's psyche. Ultimately, Jean was able to physically rip Apocalypse's essence from Scott's body using her mental powers, and Cable destroyed it with his own powers.
Scott left for a small period of recuperation, during which he met and reconciled with his father. Afterwards, Scott returned to the X-Men, but his association with Apocalypse had given him a grimmer, more serious personality than ever before. As a result, many of his relationships became strained, including his marriage to Jean. Scott sought the counsel of his teammate Emma Frost and the pair began a psychic affair. When Jean discovered Scott's betrayal, he left the X-Men in order to sort out the mess his life had become.
Following the outing of Professor X as a mutant to the world, his school was rechristened the Xavier Institute of Higher Learning and opened its doors to the mutant population at large, training and educating dozens of young new students to help them cope with their burgeoning abilities. After the death of his wife, Scott assumed the position of co-headmaster of the School alongside his new love, Emma.
Cyclops's world was further upset when a mysterious mutant attacked and brought him and Marvel Girl to a secret abandoned facility. Cyclops eventually discovered that the mutant was none other than his brother Gabriel, who had been a student of Moira's that Professor X had sent to rescue Scott from Krakoa.
Shaken, he has returned to the Institute to weight these, and the even heavier matters that face them.
No One Likes a Show-Off
Skills: Scott is an expert mechanic. When not helping to train the next generation of mutants, he can often be found in the garage working on one car part or another. Summers is an expert pilot and can use his love of mechanics and engineering to familiarize himself with all manner of vehicles and devices. Cyclops has also mastered the mathematical discipline of trigonometry. He uses his knowledge to help pinpoint exactly where he can aim his optic blasts in order to maximize their efficiency.
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Equipment:
The mask Cyclops wears to prevent random discharge is lined with powdered ruby quartz crystal. It incorporates two longitudinally mounted flat lenses that can lever inward providing a constantly variable exit slot. The inverted clamshell mechanism is operated by a twin system of miniature electrical motors. As a safety factor there is a constant positive closing pressure provided by springs. The mask itself is made of high-impact cycolac plastic. There is an overriding finger-operated control mechanism on either side of the mask, and normal operation is through a flat micro-switch installed in the thumb of either glove.
To Meet Expectations
RP sample:
Scott sprang up from bed seeing a blank room through his crimson ruby lenses. His breathing along with his heart paced as cold sweat dripped from his hairline to the side of his pale face. He looked over for a moment and could see Emma still at rest on the opposite side of the large bed. Seeing the large alarm clock on the nightstand his sat up from under the covers trying his best to not disturb his partners rest.
The clock read 3:27 AM and this had been the fourth night in a row in which Scott's dream of a resurrecting phoenix force had woken him. Although he knew it was just a dream everything felt so real that he often would be afraid to even share his bed room with Emma. When it came to subject of the Phoenix force and Jean Grey she was always the hardest one to speak to. Scott did a good job of keeping that part of his mind to himself but that didn't make him feel any better. This was more than a dream there was a connection almost as if his late wife had been trying to warn him of something.
Scott stepped out onto the balcony wearing casual pajama pants and his signature Visor. He could see the night sky and although he only saw in red the bright white stars shined a brighter crimson than anything else. He took in a deep breath allowing his thoughts to come at ease and as the wind cooled his bare upper body he mumbled to himself. "what are you trying to tell me? Just give me a sign..." and with that he looked back into the night sky almost feeling foolish. Jean was long gone and even after all these years he avoided accepting the fact.
In what lasted all of 5 minutes Scott nodded his head accepting that once again it had just been a nightmare and just like before time would prove to bring a brand new day with a clear mind. Turning back from the balcony and heading back into the Room he grinned slightly seeing Emma still resting in what seemed to be complete peace. This was his new life and he could no longer let his past haunt him.
As he walked back in heading closer to bed a single star faded into a fiery red and yellow creating a large phoenix shape. He turned once again just missing the phenomenon take shape, and although to him it appeared that all was at peace. Reality proved that it would be otherwise. He returned to bed putting himself back under the covers and knew tomorrow would be another day to lead, another day to teach, and another chance to bring the dream of Professor Xavier to life.
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My Name: Scott
