Jubal Robson

[King]

IRC Nickname: King


Name: Jubal Robson
Alias:
Age: 23
Date of Birth: 02/17
Hometown:

Height: 5'9"
Weight: 145 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black/Brown(pupils are nearly always dialated)
Nationality/Race: Japanese-American

Occupation: Entreprenuer

Personality Profile: Jubal is quiet. He's not an outgoing sort, the sort of guyt hat likes to stay under the radar, so to speak. He's not anti-social, just doesn't like to draw attention to himself. He can be quite rough to people, although it isn't a way to keep them at arm's length, just an oddly sarcastic sense of humor.

Physical Description: Jubal's an average guy. Average height, average weight. He resembles more of his Japanese heritage than American. His hair is kept short enough that it doesn't get in his eyes when it's messy. He is usually wearing biker gear. Leather pants or chaps, a padded leather jacket. He wears biker boots that have flames dancing fromt he toes to the calf almost all the time.

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Mutation/Powers:

Primary : Shadow Manipulation: Jubal has the ability to manipulate shadows. He can form shadows where there are none, expand the distance they cover, shrink them, make them lighter or darker. Over the years his contol of this power has grown in leaps and bounds. He can have shadows take on many forms, grow them to great lengths, make them to the point that no light passes through them at all. He can use the power to control what a shadow does, making it move and dance away from what was originally causing the shadow in the first place.
His ability to create shadows are limited. He could drench an entire room, or a length of hallway, in shadows to hide his location. He oculdn't, however, cover an entire city block, or even a building.

Secondary : Night Vision: This isn't just normal nightvision. Jubal's eyes are accustomed to dark situations, and he's able to see almost perfectly with just the barest hints of light. This also extends to other things. His power has grown and expanded over the years, so that even when he can't see at all he seems to know where things are. He can't explain this beyond the fact that he just seems to know. Perhaps it's enhanced other senses, or some sort of advanced sight, but it has come to the point that even when there is no light or soemthing is causing him to be bilnd, he can function almost as well as if he could see perfectly.

Tertiary : Disappearance: Somewhat of an extension of his shadow manipulation, Jubal has found the ability to make things seem to disappear. This doesn't always involve shadows, but it wors best when used with them. They don't actually disappear, the physical objects are still there, but they just can't be seen. This is a fairly new power for him, and he hasn't much mastered it. He could make something the size of a car vanish if it's staying still, or when moving he can't really cover more than him and and motorcycle.

Plot Mutation: Claws: Due to a disease from a mutated building, and the recovery of it, the ends of all of Jubal's fingers are now glass-like claws. They are strong, and sharp. They can easily be used in the place of knives, and can have multiple uses, but they don't give him the ability to do much more than a knife would. He wouldn't be able to cut through metal, or even somewhat thick wood.

Drawbacks/Weaknesses/Side Effects : The most obvious is light sensitivity. Any sudden light causes his eyes to hurt, and they don't adaapt to light as much as others do. Brighter lights tend to cause him pain and headaches, and really bright lights tend to almost paralyze him.
Of course, his powers aren't meant for combat. They've got almost no use in head-to-head combat, and as such, aside from his claws, he's about as useful as a human in situations like that.
He's got an addictive personality. He's not found himself addicted to drugs, but mostly because he stays away from the things for that reason. He is a rather bad alcoholic, keeping a flask on him at all times, filled with some sort of bourbon or scotch. He is a terrible smoker, regularing on two packs a day, sometimes jumping to three. He can't live properly without drinking coffee throughout the day, although this is partially because of his nocturnal nature.

How do you believe this character's powers will further develop in the future? His shadow manipulation could always become a greater, covering a greater range. His ability to make things vanish could get stronger, or perhaps he could develope it to actually start making things disappear.

Background: It was a classic case, a story heard time and time again. The marriage of a couple that thought they would live happily ever after. Rather well-to-do, an up-and-coming business man and his trophy wife. The birth of their first child, and not long after, the second. Jubal was the first, his younger sister the second.
Perhaps they spoiled him too much. Perhaps they didn't pay him enough attention. Whatever the reason, in his early teens, Jubal was running with the "wrong crowds." He'd not come home for days at a time, he'd be out be in bad neighborhoods with the wrong sorts of people. Grades in school dropped, his interaction with family was almost nothing.
Without him being around, it wasn't weird that they had no idea he had budding powers. He'd always been more comfortable in the dark. But in his early teenage years, he'd found he could control shadows. It wasn't anything major at first, but it grew with use to the point that he was able to cloak himself away from prying eyes. This, coupled with the friends he kept, led to an ability to break the law and get away with it.
Robberies were done. Not for the money for Jubal, just for the hell of it. His "friends" were content with small things. Houses, local stores. But Jubal was wanting to do it for the intensity of the feeling. He started breaking into guarded buildings, started sneaking onto some of the boats. It wasn't long before he was doing some time in juvenile detention centers.
When he got out of his first stint in, his younger sister started hanging around him more. He did his best to keep her out of trouble, but his parents didn't trust it. They had had their wits end with the boy, who was quickly becoming a man. They looked over their options, and rather quickly sent him away, trying to save their daughter, and perhaps his father's budding political career, from the corruption they thought of Jubal. So they sent him to Cobalt.
His time there wasn't long. He made some friends, and he done some insane things. Having the f*c*s of an entire building that was somehow turned into a mutant was one thing Jubal would never forget. Nor the week that followed after.
He soon found himself moving on from the school, to other things. It wasn't long before someone took notice of his powers, and hire him out to . . . collect things. Information. Items. Sometimes even make some people not make it to do aomething stupid. During the time working for this man, who he never met, Jubal's skills in rather . . . unreputable areas increased, and he found the use of another power while in tight situations.
Jubal never really paid attention to the things he was getting. Information, items, people he was sent after. He never tried to link them together. But the man that employed him through phone calls with a recorded voice, and left money in rented boxes, had an odd request for him. The man simply wanted information. Not even an overly covert job. Information on a school. Anything that could be found.
So, with a growing sense of apprehesion fro the nature of his employer, the halfanese made arrangements to return to the school. Not sure exactly what the man was wanting, he started collecting information on his employer, too. Anything he could get. Just to be sure to know which side to come down on if anything ever came of his information gathering.

Quirks, Extras, Random Character Facts: Due to a life spent on the, ah, wrong side of the law, Jubal has gained interesting skills. He's able to sneak better than most people, He's able to find ways through almost any kind of mundane lock, and several sorts of electronic alarm systems.
He's not a stranger to a gun, ahving found a few situations in which he's needed to use them before, and he keeps one. Usually some sort of revolver in his jacket somewhere.
He has a BMW motorcycle, gotten as a Christmas gift a few years ago. It's a few years old now, and it's got some dents and scratches, but it still runs fine, able to do pretty much anything Jubal wants to with it.
Somewhere along the lines, Jubal picked up a cat. It's got a reverse tiger-striped pattern, and a growth deformity that keeps it rather small, not getting much larger than it was as a kitten. The cat, named Aries for all the trouble it seems to like to get into, usually rides with Jubal by getting slid into the inside pocket of his jacket.