Joseph Ericson

[Joseph Ericson]

Name:Joseph Ericson

Age: 20

Power: Joseph's power comes in the form of decently(but not extremely) enhanced strength, speed, perception, and reflexes, culminating in a mutation-enhanced form of free-running/parkour. His power is not the most powerful of its kind as far as magnitude of the increased ability, but the way he applies it is somewhat unique. On an open field, he might easily be bested in a race by a flyer or a speed-enhanced mutant. However, in cluttered urban areas, he excels, as his knowledge of free-running and parkour combined with his enhanced ability allow him to easily seek out the best path available to him, going with the flow of the environment around him to increase his movement efficiency. He also has the relatively minor benefit of more efficient digestive and metabolic processes, resulting in a modest stamina increase.

Personality:Joseph was raised in a Texan family amidst various philosophies in an urban environment, each trying to draw him in, and each expecting something out of him. After a while, Joseph became sick of so many groups vying for influence, for power, for this goal or that, and decided that he would live life, not for some higher cause, or for some group's ulterior motives, but for himself, and he takes everything in context of how it will affect him. This is not to say that he is utterly selfish, and regards friendship as worthless, but that he's not likely to go out of his way to be philanthropic, and that none of his friends are leeches or hangers-on. He expects nothing for free, and he gives nothing for free. His loyalty toward those he considers friends is strong because of his philosophy that long-term friendships with useful and self-sufficient people are infinitely more valuable than the short-term rewards of a betrayal. He has no problem working for what he wants, and he hates being in debt and having others in his debt. He is also easily bored.

Description:Joseph is white and moderately tanned. He is about 5 feet and 8 inches tall, with dark brown hair that goes about to his collar. He is slim and toned from a lifetime of freerunning, and prefers to wear jeans, a solid-color or striped t-shirt, and occasionally a hoodie, when it is cold outside, along with some sneakers, and there is nothing expensive in his wardrobe. He has bright green eyes that occasionally will shift to brown(randomly). On his left arm he has an elaborate tattoo of a jackal.

Background: Joseph was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. At about age 8, a cousin of his introduced him to parkour, something which Joseph found to be a good form of exercise, and a way to clear his mind. Shortly afterward, his mutant powers surfaced. His parents never really were bothered by the mutation, and the saw it as simply another thing that they had to teach their son to deal with, but Joseph felt somewhat isolated from his parents because of it. During high-school, he became involved in a few criminal activities, mostly involving the transport of small, illegal packages between people. He was never caught, and his parents were too distant to notice that he had the extra cash now. As he grew older, he became more distant from his parents, and arguments began to erupt frequently. After one particularly heated argument, it was suggested by his mother to send him to a school for mutants in London that she had read about for more education, and a positive environment for his powers to develop in, although it remained unspoken but mutually known that this was really an attempt to let tempers cool. Thus, Joseph has arrived to the Xavier's Institute campus.

[Barbara Chronopolis]

Runner's Vision ftw.

Approval 1/2

[Domanic Taylor]

Mirror's Edge: The Mutant huh? Works for me.

Approval 2/2