Riot. (Villain)

[lllithid]

RC Nickname: Lukas`


Name: Marcel Delormier.
Alias: Riot
Age: 26
Date of Birth: October 19th
Hometown:. Montreal

Height: 6’2”
Weight: 184 lbs
Hair Colour: Variable
Eye Colour: Variable
Nationality/Race: Caucasian; sharp European features.
Classification: Mutant
Status: Villain
Occupation: Villain! Mutant Rabble Raiser. Servant to the cause.

Personality Profile: Intense. Riot is a pro-mutant rights activist/mutant supremacist. He is a mutant, he is proud of that; but like many mutants before him does not seem to enshrine the idea that humans and mutants are able to coexist side by side peaceably. He tends to deride normal humans, being almost casually callous towards them, while showing blatant favouritism towards known mutants. He tends to act on whims; being flighty and a little spastic at times; with an obvious love for showmanship and flair. Oftentimes he seems to act for the sole purpose of generating reaction; driven to be the centre of attention.

Physical Description: A tall, athletic young man. While not grotesquely muscular, he is very fit with a look best described as "Lean and Hungry". His complexion is smooth and clean, though a tad on the pale side; though not sickly, he could use a weekend on a beach someplace to darken up just a bit. He dressed in a style that can really only be referred to as “Punk Goth” favouring garish colours and deep blacks, entirely to draw attention. His eyes and his hair are by far his most striking feature, as they are both a brilliant snow-white colour, looking almost luminous; but shift to many faceted hues depending on his emotional state, or the states of those around him (think of it as him having “Mood Hair” and “Mood Eyes”).

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Mutation/Powers:
Primary : Empathic Absorption. Riot is able to perceive and absorb the ambient emotional/psychic energy around him; drawing it in like some other mutants might absorb heat or light. This gives him a grab bag of tricks, drawn from this basic ability. Firstly be possesses a sense of the ambient psychic colour of a place; as well as individuals. He perceives the energy both in terms of an unspoken ‘sense’, as well as seeing coloured auras around people and in the air. Currently, the aura extends to ‘line of sight’ in all directions. He does not have to see a person, but if he could conceivably see them; they can theoretically be tapped for energy. It is important to note, that he specifically absorbs ambient energy and thus being used as a fuel source will have no negative impacts upon people being tapped for power. A neat trick is that this sense seems to work regardless of invisibility or stealth; the auras outlining people regardless.

Secondary : Physical Augmentation. Riot is able to use this psychic energy to empower his own physical self. Using it thus, he can augment his strength/speed/stamina; whatever aspect of his physical functioning he should so choose. He has to concentrate briefly to channel energy into these aspects, meaning he cannot easily adjust them on the fly and must usually devote a small measure of concentration to maintaining the augmented levels. The upper limit of exactly how much juice he can use is currently unknown. Witnesses have claimed to have seen him shrug off bullets, throw cars and buses around almost casually and healing fast enough to recover from being hit by a truck before the truck came to a full stop. When channelling this energy in this way; he is surrounded by an aura of light and energy with colours appropriate to the emotion(s) being used to fuel him.
Tertiary : Broad Energy Usage. Instead of channelling the energy into his own body, can focus it and wield it directly. In this way, he has been seen to fly, to throw blasts of multicoloured energy, to create shimmering force fields and constructs, and many other common tricks used my most “energy controlling” mutants. Again, the real upper limit of this energy is limited both by his concentration and by the amount of energy he is able to feed upon. Witnesses have observed him being able to throw blasts capable of rending steel I-beams; flying fast enough to just outpace commercial aircraft and creating force fields of enough strength to stop a careening semi-truck. The energy is coloured exactly in the same manner as the aura he produces when augmenting himself; even down to being colour coded for your convenience.

Quaternary: Empathic Feedback. By holding in the absorbed ambient energy and focusing; Riot is capable of re-colouring it (changing the emotion) and feeding it back into the very same people he fed from. In this way, and only in this way, he can readjust the ambient emotional energy of a situation. This is not a ‘burst’ power, he cannot use it in the short term to cause intense bouts of emotion. It takes time to absorb energy, re-colour it and then to feed it back. It’s like filtering a water tank, it can’t happen all at once but as long as he is left to his own devices; it is a constant process. In fact, since it deals with only ambient energies; most psychics are unable to detect the influence; it being an indirect, unfocused ‘haze’ of emotion, a pall of feeling and not an attempt to influence people’s emotions directly. A trained empath would notice it certainly, but it would seem inexplicable, but entirely natural for anyone not well insufficiently trained.

Drawbacks/Weaknesses : Riots weakness, is his fuel. It only exists in finite amounts and all of his powers require it to function. In a heated situation, he can easily begin to exhaust his reserves, leading to his powers getting progressively weaker and weaker as an engagement wears on. When surrounded by few people, he has little to draw on and cannot keep a good fight up for long. In the middle of a city, during a long and protracted combat with many witnesses and gawkers; he would have ample energy to draw from and would therefore become horrifically more dangerous. His second, and best kept secret weakness is that his powers will feed off his own psychic energy if no other sources are around, this effecting as fatigue and exhaustion. He is quite literally, able to drain himself into a coma.

Skills: Riot is a semi-professional criminal and while not skilled in the actual mechanics of crime; knows people and can recognize enough to not embarrass himself in the underworld. Marcel has a natural talent for 'Artistic' things; and is a talented musician, actor and artist; he could have made a career of any of them had his life gone differently, for now he only dabbles in them as a hobby.

Background: Life has been tough for Riot. Born to poor parents; ignorant folk of low status. School bullying, begging in the streets, on occasion staying at shelters. Some mutants are lucky to have understanding parents, others are not. Riot was in the latter category; parents chasing him out of house and home with threats of violence if he should show his ‘freak ass’ anywhere near them ever again.

Life on the streets is hard, doubly so for a young mutant. He grew, became bitter and resentful of the normals, the frails that rejected and reviled him. He could crush them like ants, tear their homes apart brick by brick and feed on their hate and fear but that would make him into a monster; and he wouldn’t let the world beat him down like that. He was strong enough to get through it, he had to be or his parents would be right and that was unacceptable to his pride.

He saw it on the news one night. Mutant radicals; fighting for rights, protesting and being good people. He admired them; but it didn’t seem like enough; it would never be enough if they only protested. He heard rumours of other groups of mutants, darker ones, tales of cabals and brotherhoods and like minded people. He has found several and joined many; but has found each of them wanting. Most seemed to be in it to just hurt people and to use it all as an excuse for evil. Marcel had his standards though, and would show the world just what mutants were capable of.

Criminal Record: A long list, but with remarkably few outright violent acts. Riot seems content to start trouble and to make a big show of some things; but seems to go out of his way to avoid causing undue, excessive harm to innocent people.
Quirks/Extras (Random fun facts about your character!): Marcel is bilingual, being fluent both in English and French.