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Rick "Tornado" Ferguson

PostPosted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:08 pm
by Rick Ferguson
Name: Rick Ferguson
Codename: Tornado
Age: 20
Country of Origin: Canada

Power: Rick has the ability to spin himself at a superhumanly fast rate by using a telekinetic field that surrounds his body. This creates a tornado-like effect around him. He can use this tornado for offensive purposes (i.e. crashing into someone while the tornado is active), as well as defensive ones, as the winds and telekinetic field created around his body both work to partially shield him from harm. It takes a couple of seconds or so to reach average rotational speed, which allows his tornado to remain active for several minutes. Repeated strikes against a massive target easily wear him down, however, and proportionally will lower the amount of time his tornado will continue spinning.

Since his time at the Xavier Institute in New York, Rick has learned how to stabilize himself within his tornado, allowing him to see while it is active -- something he was incapable of doing for several years after his power first appeared. This does come with a drawback, however; his tornado loses strength more easily when he's telekinetically stabilized inside of it rather than continuing to spin himself. He will then be forced to spin more in order to strengthen the tornado, but this, of course, also means that he will be unable to see anything clearly as a trade-off.

He has also learned how to use downward force created by his tornado as a drill, allowing him to bore quickly through solid obstructions.

Personality: Overall, Rick is a friendly, reasonable person. All he wants is for those he interacts with to also be reasonable and share a mutual degree of respect with him. This strains his patience with people who have anti-mutant sentiments, and thanks to ridicule he faced early on from his high school and within his own family, Rick doesn’t tend to think much of many baseline humans. Even so, he’s willing to give everyone the benefit of the doubt at first.

Physical description: Rick is 6', with blond hair and grey eyes. Training at XI, as well as a couple of years or so spent as an X-Man, have made him a bit more muscular on top of his solid, more average build that he had before. His clothing can sometimes have a bit of skater flavor to it, though it's not really intentional on Rick's part.

Background: Rick was born and raised in the Greater Calgary area in Alberta. This is a region that he became attached to for its natural beauty, and he took up photography to capture the scenery of the Canadian Rockies at a fairly young age. However, as a teen, his father accepted a job in the oil industry, which had him move along with his family several times to other towns throughout the province. This wasn't easy for Rick or his sister, but they still got by well enough, and the family had a very comfortable, middle class lifestyle.

Around the time his family began moving around, Rick discovered his power quite by accident, with its manifestation being a confirmation of his parents' fears -- that Rick, like his father's brother, was a mutant. They told him to hide it and not tell anyone else about it. In 2017, anti-mutant sentiment in Alberta grew much stronger than it had been before after a disaster involving a mutant occurred within that province. Unfortunately, Rick's powers activated in public, and this, combined with the fact that recently came out as being gay, caused him to become scorned by the small town community his family lived in at the time. While his parents were not terribly thrilled with how their son turned out, Rick decided it would be best to attend the Xavier Institute, where he could at least feel safe and, possibly, find a place to belong. Having graduated from the Westchester Institute, Rick has decided to take the opportunity to attend the new mutant university.

Re: Rick "Tornado" Ferguson

PostPosted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:52 pm
by Drascus
Cha ching! Legacy Power!