Post by Sean on Oct 15, 2007 19:10:05 GMT -5
.:Your Information:.
Name/Nickname: Sean
Age: I'm over 17, I swear really I am. I just act like a 2 year old.
IM/Email: This you know.
RP Experience: A whole oil tanker full of it.
.:Character Information:.
Name: Roberto DaCosta
Alias (if any): Bobby, Superman
Code Name: Sunspot
Affiliation: X-men
Age: 16
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 170 pounds
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Brown
General Appearance:
Roberto is a little on the short and lightweight side, standing only five feet eight inches tall and weighing just one-hundred seventy pounds. He has curly black hair and brown eyes that typically sparkle with mirth. Despite his smaller build, his body is well toned and his body-fat percentage is below ten percent. Most often he can be found lounging around the Mansion in either sweat pants or a pair of soccer shorts and a loose fitting t-shirt.
When on missions with the X-Men or New Mutants Roberto typically wears the uniform that is made of the traditional unstable molecules. It's blue on the sides and orange across his back, chest, stomach, and the inside of his legs. Roberto also chooses to often times wear an orange mask to complete his costume.
Personality:
While typically a rather laid back individual Roberto loves a good practical joke, at anyone's expense. However, when he feels threatened Roberto has the bad habit of making rash decisions without thinking of the best way to approach a problem. He tends to be one to simply charge straight in and start wailing on things with his super-human strength. This hot-headedness also makes him a little less likely to follow orders in battle that he does not agree with and expend his stores of solar energy leaving him powerless at critical moments.
X-Factor: Roberto absorbs solar energy and stores it inside his body to be used for a remarkable number of mutant gifts.
Power Explanations:
Solar Energy Absorbtion: Sunspot has the ability to absorb solar energy and convert it into physical strength. When he is using super strength his physical resistance to impact is also increased somewhat. Sunspot also has the ability to absorb energy from other stars and reflected solar energy from the moon, however, this does not add to his abilities in an appreciable way.
Flight: Recently, Sunspot developed the ability to use the solar energy he can abosorb for flight. From a mutation standpoint, Sunspot can fly indefinitely as long as he is in sunlight. However, from a purely physical standpoint this is an impossibility, since he would physically get tired.
Energy Blast: Along with the discovery of his ability to fly came the discovery of his ability to project concussive blasts from his hands. These blasts consist of a light and heat projection.
Super Strength: Depending on the amount of sunlight stored up and available Sunspot is capable of lifting anywhere between 15 and 35 tons. When empoying his super strength, sometimes part, or all, of Sunspot's body and clothing will turn completely black.
Super Heated Body: Sunspot is able to glow brightly and hotly enough to melt thick snow and ice in his immediate vicinity. His super-heated body is supposed to be able to approach the heat level of the Human Torch, though not surpass him. Additionally, he is able to melt certainly threats, like bullets, before they touch him. (Author John Francis Moore's Comics)
When not in sunlight, Sunspot can exhaust his powers by using up the sunlight energy his body stores. He then has to recharge in sunlight before he can use his powers again. At the current time, Sunspot can only fill his solar energy stores from the sun, he is not yet capable of using lunar light or other forms of UV radiation to refill his solar batteries. Once Sunspot is out of solar energy he becomes as weak and regular as a normal human. The rate at which Roberto burns through his stores of solar energy depends greatly on a number of factors including how many of his powers he is using and at what strength, not to mention how angry he might be at the time.
General Skills:
Roberto is a terrific soccer player and keeps himself in excellent physical shape. In addition to this he is the only child of Emmanuel and Nina Da Costa, wealthy Brazilian millionaires. Finally, Roberto is a good pilot in his own right. Roberto also has a special gift with languages being fluent in several, an insistance on the part of his father. As such, Roberto is passably fluent in English, Portugese, Spanish, French, Italian, and to a lesser extent Mandarin, though when not conversing in Portugese or English the speaker must talk slower and enunciate more clearly. Roberto also enjoys many of the finer things in life and is a fair chef in his own right. In addition to soccer he enjoys baseball, snowboarding, and rock climbing.
Brief History:
Roberto Da Costa is the son of a deceased Brazilian millionaire and his American wife Nina, an archaeologist. Roberto first manifested his superhuman mutant powers two years ago, at the age of fourteen. He was playing in a championship soccer match for his school team in Rio de Janiero. Motivated by racial hatred, a boy named Keller and another member of the opposing team knocked Da Costa to the ground. The hot-tempered Da Costa retaliated by tackling Keller, and Keller began brutally beating him. It was then that, without being aware of what was happening to him, Da Costa first became able to use his superhuman strength, his body and clothing temporarily turning black in the process. Da Costa used his newfound strength to hurl Keller from him. Bewildered, Da Costa sought help, but both the other players and most of the spectators panicked and fled. However, his girlfriend at the time, Juliana Sandoval, who had been watching the game along with Emmanuel Da Costa (his father), stood by Roberto in his time of need.
Roberto's powers came to the attention of a renegade group within the Brazilian Mafia. The Mafia, having a strong hatred of mutants, sought to murder any superhuman mutants they found. Their mercenaries failed to abduct Roberto, and instead they kidnapped Juliana. The mutant telepath Professor Charles Xavier had learned of the plan to kill Roberto and sent his colleague Moira MacTaggert and the young superhuman mutant Colossus to help Da Costa. Roberto agreed to meet with the Mafia's men in order to obtain Sandoval's release, but the mercenaries refused to free her and intended to keep Da Costa prisoner as well. One of the mercenaries was apparently about to shoot Da Costa when he again became superhumanly strong and fought them, but the young mutant exhausted his power too soon, and a mercenary was about to kill him when Colossus intervened. The Russian pounded the mercenary, and used her powers to terrified the others. But Da Costa, regaining his superhuman strength, tried to knock Colossus unconscious, thinking him one of his assailants. That mercenary fired at Da Costa, who had returned to normalcy again, but Sandoval leapt in front of Da Costa, taking the fatal bullet herself. Colossus defeated Sandoval's killer. Anguished with guilt that Sandoval had died because he was a mutant and thus had become the target of these killers, Da Costa vowed to take vengeance on people everywhere that would oppress mutants. He joined Colossus and Xavier and moved to New York to attend the Institute.
Roberto decided to stay on at the Xavier Institute for a time in order to learn to better control his powers so he could hopefully ensure that never again would someone have to die so that he could be saved. During his time at the Xavier Institute Roberto developed a deep seated feeling of gratitude towards Professor Xavier and the staff that he was privilaged to work with during his stay. Roberto was taught not only how to control and channel his powers, but also valuable lessons about life that he might not have been able to learn otherwise as a privilaged rich boy in Brazil. He stayed at the Xavier Institute learning from Xavier, and occaisionally participating in missions, until the death of his father, Emmanuel Da Costa. When his father died, Roberto moved back to Brazil for a few months to put the estate in order and make sure his mother had enough to be well cared for before returning to Xavier's in New York.
Sample Post:
Roberto walked quietly and peacefully through the memorial garden to the fallen team members that had been added to the estate grounds since the time when the Brazilian was a student at the Institute. So many friends and comrades had fallen over the years. To Roberto's way of thinking at the moment, however, even one loss was too many.
Some had been taken by the Sentinels, created by regular people who hated, feared, and despised mutants simply because they were different. Some had fallen in battle against other mutants. Omega Red, Mr. Sinister, Magneto, and Apocalypse, just to name a few, had taken more than their share of mutants over the years. Regardless of how they had fallen, all had died makign a sacrifice that none should have been required to make. Of all those that had fallen, Doug Ramsey was one that should have still been living... programming the Danger Room computer at lightning speed or deciphering Syaoran's language in a matter of hours if not minutes.
"You always were a better person than me, Cypher," Roberto said quietly, walking up to the small statue of Ramsey that he was standing in front of and laying his hand on its hard stone surface. "Always were more level-headed than me, that's for sure," the Brazilian continued to no one, chuckling slightly. In a move that some might have viewed as disrespectful, Sunspot moved and sat on the ground at the base of Doug's statue and leaned his back up against it.
"It's my fault you're gone, you know. If Warlock and me had been at the Mansion when Bird Brain showed up instead of out gallavanting around we could have saved you. I know you'd forgive me, say that it's not my fault, that it was your choice to take that bullet aimed at Rahne... but it is my fault because I should have been there and I wasn't," Roberto continued, growing steadily more quiet as he talked before finally lapsing into silence and leaning back against the statue with his eyes closed, though he was nowhere near sleep.
Name/Nickname: Sean
Age: I'm over 17, I swear really I am. I just act like a 2 year old.
IM/Email: This you know.
RP Experience: A whole oil tanker full of it.
.:Character Information:.
Name: Roberto DaCosta
Alias (if any): Bobby, Superman
Code Name: Sunspot
Affiliation: X-men
Age: 16
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 170 pounds
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Brown
General Appearance:
Roberto is a little on the short and lightweight side, standing only five feet eight inches tall and weighing just one-hundred seventy pounds. He has curly black hair and brown eyes that typically sparkle with mirth. Despite his smaller build, his body is well toned and his body-fat percentage is below ten percent. Most often he can be found lounging around the Mansion in either sweat pants or a pair of soccer shorts and a loose fitting t-shirt.
When on missions with the X-Men or New Mutants Roberto typically wears the uniform that is made of the traditional unstable molecules. It's blue on the sides and orange across his back, chest, stomach, and the inside of his legs. Roberto also chooses to often times wear an orange mask to complete his costume.
Personality:
While typically a rather laid back individual Roberto loves a good practical joke, at anyone's expense. However, when he feels threatened Roberto has the bad habit of making rash decisions without thinking of the best way to approach a problem. He tends to be one to simply charge straight in and start wailing on things with his super-human strength. This hot-headedness also makes him a little less likely to follow orders in battle that he does not agree with and expend his stores of solar energy leaving him powerless at critical moments.
X-Factor: Roberto absorbs solar energy and stores it inside his body to be used for a remarkable number of mutant gifts.
Power Explanations:
Solar Energy Absorbtion: Sunspot has the ability to absorb solar energy and convert it into physical strength. When he is using super strength his physical resistance to impact is also increased somewhat. Sunspot also has the ability to absorb energy from other stars and reflected solar energy from the moon, however, this does not add to his abilities in an appreciable way.
Flight: Recently, Sunspot developed the ability to use the solar energy he can abosorb for flight. From a mutation standpoint, Sunspot can fly indefinitely as long as he is in sunlight. However, from a purely physical standpoint this is an impossibility, since he would physically get tired.
Energy Blast: Along with the discovery of his ability to fly came the discovery of his ability to project concussive blasts from his hands. These blasts consist of a light and heat projection.
Super Strength: Depending on the amount of sunlight stored up and available Sunspot is capable of lifting anywhere between 15 and 35 tons. When empoying his super strength, sometimes part, or all, of Sunspot's body and clothing will turn completely black.
Super Heated Body: Sunspot is able to glow brightly and hotly enough to melt thick snow and ice in his immediate vicinity. His super-heated body is supposed to be able to approach the heat level of the Human Torch, though not surpass him. Additionally, he is able to melt certainly threats, like bullets, before they touch him. (Author John Francis Moore's Comics)
When not in sunlight, Sunspot can exhaust his powers by using up the sunlight energy his body stores. He then has to recharge in sunlight before he can use his powers again. At the current time, Sunspot can only fill his solar energy stores from the sun, he is not yet capable of using lunar light or other forms of UV radiation to refill his solar batteries. Once Sunspot is out of solar energy he becomes as weak and regular as a normal human. The rate at which Roberto burns through his stores of solar energy depends greatly on a number of factors including how many of his powers he is using and at what strength, not to mention how angry he might be at the time.
General Skills:
Roberto is a terrific soccer player and keeps himself in excellent physical shape. In addition to this he is the only child of Emmanuel and Nina Da Costa, wealthy Brazilian millionaires. Finally, Roberto is a good pilot in his own right. Roberto also has a special gift with languages being fluent in several, an insistance on the part of his father. As such, Roberto is passably fluent in English, Portugese, Spanish, French, Italian, and to a lesser extent Mandarin, though when not conversing in Portugese or English the speaker must talk slower and enunciate more clearly. Roberto also enjoys many of the finer things in life and is a fair chef in his own right. In addition to soccer he enjoys baseball, snowboarding, and rock climbing.
Brief History:
Roberto Da Costa is the son of a deceased Brazilian millionaire and his American wife Nina, an archaeologist. Roberto first manifested his superhuman mutant powers two years ago, at the age of fourteen. He was playing in a championship soccer match for his school team in Rio de Janiero. Motivated by racial hatred, a boy named Keller and another member of the opposing team knocked Da Costa to the ground. The hot-tempered Da Costa retaliated by tackling Keller, and Keller began brutally beating him. It was then that, without being aware of what was happening to him, Da Costa first became able to use his superhuman strength, his body and clothing temporarily turning black in the process. Da Costa used his newfound strength to hurl Keller from him. Bewildered, Da Costa sought help, but both the other players and most of the spectators panicked and fled. However, his girlfriend at the time, Juliana Sandoval, who had been watching the game along with Emmanuel Da Costa (his father), stood by Roberto in his time of need.
Roberto's powers came to the attention of a renegade group within the Brazilian Mafia. The Mafia, having a strong hatred of mutants, sought to murder any superhuman mutants they found. Their mercenaries failed to abduct Roberto, and instead they kidnapped Juliana. The mutant telepath Professor Charles Xavier had learned of the plan to kill Roberto and sent his colleague Moira MacTaggert and the young superhuman mutant Colossus to help Da Costa. Roberto agreed to meet with the Mafia's men in order to obtain Sandoval's release, but the mercenaries refused to free her and intended to keep Da Costa prisoner as well. One of the mercenaries was apparently about to shoot Da Costa when he again became superhumanly strong and fought them, but the young mutant exhausted his power too soon, and a mercenary was about to kill him when Colossus intervened. The Russian pounded the mercenary, and used her powers to terrified the others. But Da Costa, regaining his superhuman strength, tried to knock Colossus unconscious, thinking him one of his assailants. That mercenary fired at Da Costa, who had returned to normalcy again, but Sandoval leapt in front of Da Costa, taking the fatal bullet herself. Colossus defeated Sandoval's killer. Anguished with guilt that Sandoval had died because he was a mutant and thus had become the target of these killers, Da Costa vowed to take vengeance on people everywhere that would oppress mutants. He joined Colossus and Xavier and moved to New York to attend the Institute.
Roberto decided to stay on at the Xavier Institute for a time in order to learn to better control his powers so he could hopefully ensure that never again would someone have to die so that he could be saved. During his time at the Xavier Institute Roberto developed a deep seated feeling of gratitude towards Professor Xavier and the staff that he was privilaged to work with during his stay. Roberto was taught not only how to control and channel his powers, but also valuable lessons about life that he might not have been able to learn otherwise as a privilaged rich boy in Brazil. He stayed at the Xavier Institute learning from Xavier, and occaisionally participating in missions, until the death of his father, Emmanuel Da Costa. When his father died, Roberto moved back to Brazil for a few months to put the estate in order and make sure his mother had enough to be well cared for before returning to Xavier's in New York.
Sample Post:
Roberto walked quietly and peacefully through the memorial garden to the fallen team members that had been added to the estate grounds since the time when the Brazilian was a student at the Institute. So many friends and comrades had fallen over the years. To Roberto's way of thinking at the moment, however, even one loss was too many.
Some had been taken by the Sentinels, created by regular people who hated, feared, and despised mutants simply because they were different. Some had fallen in battle against other mutants. Omega Red, Mr. Sinister, Magneto, and Apocalypse, just to name a few, had taken more than their share of mutants over the years. Regardless of how they had fallen, all had died makign a sacrifice that none should have been required to make. Of all those that had fallen, Doug Ramsey was one that should have still been living... programming the Danger Room computer at lightning speed or deciphering Syaoran's language in a matter of hours if not minutes.
"You always were a better person than me, Cypher," Roberto said quietly, walking up to the small statue of Ramsey that he was standing in front of and laying his hand on its hard stone surface. "Always were more level-headed than me, that's for sure," the Brazilian continued to no one, chuckling slightly. In a move that some might have viewed as disrespectful, Sunspot moved and sat on the ground at the base of Doug's statue and leaned his back up against it.
"It's my fault you're gone, you know. If Warlock and me had been at the Mansion when Bird Brain showed up instead of out gallavanting around we could have saved you. I know you'd forgive me, say that it's not my fault, that it was your choice to take that bullet aimed at Rahne... but it is my fault because I should have been there and I wasn't," Roberto continued, growing steadily more quiet as he talked before finally lapsing into silence and leaning back against the statue with his eyes closed, though he was nowhere near sleep.