Name: shikki DW Journal: circusafro Contact: zaiphon @ plurk Current Characters: last one.
Character Name: Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd. Canon: Young Avengers. Age: 16 Gender: Male
Canon Point: Post Children's Crusade History:here. Personality:"This is going to be fun."
Tommy Shepherd enters the scene as a volatile, unstable young man eager to get some revenge on the people who've wronged him. Seconds after being let out from his cell, he's off on a rampage caring nothing for the people he may hurt. The few words he says are snarky, blunt, and pitch dangerously towards supervillain territory.
"One last test, Doctor... To find out how much I can accelerate your atomic structure before it explodes!"
It takes a physical blow to knock him out of what easily could be a murderous rampage. Tommy is still clearly furious with a lot of pent up anger and hurt he needs to let out and no idea how fix it, but Eli poses him a question - does he want to be a superhero, or a supervillain?
These are words Tommy takes to heart. It's easy to see that he's incredibly reluctant to open up to the other members and give over his trust. It's even easier to see that up until the Young Avengers take him in, he's been drifting aimlessly trying to figure out where he fits into the world. He does not resist the Avengers motto. The moment he's told that killing is not an option, be abstains from it entirely (though he does certainly circumvent it on occasion, because Skrulls grow back) and instead embraces life as a superhero.
"You're pretty hot, you know that? We should hook up."
Tommy is by no means a sensitive soul. His primary modes of interaction are: asshole, caustic asshole, and sarcastic bastard. Though he certainly makes his interest in women known via a nigh uncontrollable flirtatious streak, he's rarely (if ever) successful due to his rather abrasive personality. Like a small child letting his interest in a girl he likes be known through yanking on her pigtails, Tommy's interactions with his teammates are all obnoxious for the sake of being obnoxious. He has feelings (though he denies it) but it's rare that he shows them. His tender side is reserved for special occasions and even then he tries to remain light and sarcastic when it comes up. Occasionally, if someone listens close, they may be privvy to a nugget of wisdom. Blunt and to the point, he's a badboy with a heart of gold.
"C'mon. Let's do some crime."
However, this doesn't mean that he is in any way a paragon of good. Tommy has lived a life bouncing in and out of juvvie. If there is a less than legal way to get things done, he won't be the one objecting to it. In fact, chances are he's the one who brought it up - if you're a mutant able to run faster than cameras can follow, you're going to take advantage of that. His life of crime means that he's not nearly as naive to the way the world works as his companions often are.
"I mean, I know my guys can be pretty judgmental -- internet taliban judgmental. But that's just 'cause they're a little naive. I kind of like that about them."
Reluctant at first to open up to the team that doesn't seem to trust him or want him around, he focuses instead on the heroics. On being good. Though it takes time, he finds himself a family in the team (literally a family) and a place to belong in the world. Earning Tommy's trust is a rather long and arduous process, but once given it's impossible to break. He'll do anything for the people he cares about. Even then, he tends to keep people at a distance to avoid getting hurt.
"That's it. I don't have it. I don't have what it takes. I failed. I'm a failure..."
Deep down. Deep, deep, deep down he's not sure if he's good enough. His teammates excel at what they do and he's not certain that he's got what it takes to stand beside them. These moments of weakness are few and fleeting, done in private and resolved in private. It doesn't take much for him to pick himself back up and come back at it with a renewed vigour.
"What does that even mean? Are you going to put her in mutant jail? Or have your girlfriend give her a psychic lobotomy? Are you gonna torture her? Kill her? Torture and then kill her? Would that be enough justice for you?"
Despite his affiliation heroism, Tommy and justice do not get along. To him, justice is a word thrown around to give meaning to pointless actions of cruelty. He is a hero and he maintains the safety of the people, not his idea of personal justice.
"This is a war we're fighting. And, yes, people get hurt. People die. But you don't stop fighting or the bad guys win."
By the end of it all, Tommy is far more invested in the Young Avengers family than any of the original members. Even after facing the greatest of tragedies, he tries to keep everyone together and continue fighting the good fight. When his fellow members draw away and bail from their mission, Tommy resigns himself to retirement because he simply doesn't want to do it alone. The Young Avengers gave him more purpose and more joy than anything else before it and without them, he's lost.
Strengths: Despite looking like your average teenage boy, Tommy is a mutant.
Tommy's mutant abilities all have to do with speed. His top speed is thought to breach the speed of sound (though this is not a speed he can maintain indefinitely). He can maintain a speed of roughly 175 miles per hour for a period of four hours without need to rest.
Along with that, Tommy can generate hyper-kinetic vibrations capable of destabalizing his molecules which allow him to move through solid objects. He can also use this ability to accelerate molecules in matter, causing it to explode.
His body is also considerably more durable than most. It's adapted to his superhuman speed, resulting in strong bones and a modified metabolic rate.
Tommy processes information much faster than the average human being. This doesn't make him any more intelligent. It just means that he's able to percieve situations and react to them much faster than anyone else would be able to.
Emotionally, not a whole lot phases the guy. Tommy can take pretty much anything with a wise-crack and a cheeky grin and doesn't let the things he's not able to handle keep him down for long. While his time in Juvie is not explored or expanded upon, it's made clear that Tommy has been through his fair share of horrors and has managed to come out of it relatively okay.
Weaknesses: Tommy would not be someone's first choice as a superhero. Though he's come away from his darker life experiences mostly intact, it hasn't made him particularly stable.
While Tommy is incredibly loyal to the Young Avengers and upholds their ideals, he doesn't have nearly the same problem with killing the villains that his friends do. When given the opportunity
What he wants most is to belong. Though he postures and makes an effort not to seem overly invested in anything, the Young Avengers and the possibility of being the Scarlet Witch's son are two things that he values more than anything else. Tommy is not forthcoming with any personal information and plays all his cards close to his chest. He keeps a lot of his feelings inside and deliberately avoids talking about anything that could hit too close to home unless he has a healthy dosage of sarcasm to keep his walls up.
Tommy's accelerated perception and speed makes him rather impatient. He can't stand going slow or waiting for people to catch up to him. Powers: What are your character's abilities? How will these abilities be tuned down to suit the game? Tommy possesses superhuman speed! This will be toned down to being a little faster than average, with sharper reflexes, but not much else. He can no longer vibrate things into exploding.
tommy shephard
DW Journal: circusafro
Contact: zaiphon @ plurk
Current Characters: last one.
Character Name: Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd.
Canon: Young Avengers.
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Post Children's Crusade
History: here.
Personality: "This is going to be fun."
Tommy Shepherd enters the scene as a volatile, unstable young man eager to get some revenge on the people who've wronged him. Seconds after being let out from his cell, he's off on a rampage caring nothing for the people he may hurt. The few words he says are snarky, blunt, and pitch dangerously towards supervillain territory.
"One last test, Doctor... To find out how much I can accelerate your atomic structure before it explodes!"
It takes a physical blow to knock him out of what easily could be a murderous rampage. Tommy is still clearly furious with a lot of pent up anger and hurt he needs to let out and no idea how fix it, but Eli poses him a question - does he want to be a superhero, or a supervillain?
These are words Tommy takes to heart. It's easy to see that he's incredibly reluctant to open up to the other members and give over his trust. It's even easier to see that up until the Young Avengers take him in, he's been drifting aimlessly trying to figure out where he fits into the world. He does not resist the Avengers motto. The moment he's told that killing is not an option, be abstains from it entirely (though he does certainly circumvent it on occasion, because Skrulls grow back) and instead embraces life as a superhero.
"You're pretty hot, you know that? We should hook up."
Tommy is by no means a sensitive soul. His primary modes of interaction are: asshole, caustic asshole, and sarcastic bastard. Though he certainly makes his interest in women known via a nigh uncontrollable flirtatious streak, he's rarely (if ever) successful due to his rather abrasive personality. Like a small child letting his interest in a girl he likes be known through yanking on her pigtails, Tommy's interactions with his teammates are all obnoxious for the sake of being obnoxious. He has feelings (though he denies it) but it's rare that he shows them. His tender side is reserved for special occasions and even then he tries to remain light and sarcastic when it comes up. Occasionally, if someone listens close, they may be privvy to a nugget of wisdom. Blunt and to the point, he's a badboy with a heart of gold.
"C'mon. Let's do some crime."
However, this doesn't mean that he is in any way a paragon of good. Tommy has lived a life bouncing in and out of juvvie. If there is a less than legal way to get things done, he won't be the one objecting to it. In fact, chances are he's the one who brought it up - if you're a mutant able to run faster than cameras can follow, you're going to take advantage of that. His life of crime means that he's not nearly as naive to the way the world works as his companions often are.
"I mean, I know my guys can be pretty judgmental -- internet taliban judgmental. But that's just 'cause they're a little naive. I kind of like that about them."
Reluctant at first to open up to the team that doesn't seem to trust him or want him around, he focuses instead on the heroics. On being good. Though it takes time, he finds himself a family in the team (literally a family) and a place to belong in the world. Earning Tommy's trust is a rather long and arduous process, but once given it's impossible to break. He'll do anything for the people he cares about. Even then, he tends to keep people at a distance to avoid getting hurt.
"That's it. I don't have it. I don't have what it takes. I failed. I'm a failure..."
Deep down. Deep, deep, deep down he's not sure if he's good enough. His teammates excel at what they do and he's not certain that he's got what it takes to stand beside them. These moments of weakness are few and fleeting, done in private and resolved in private. It doesn't take much for him to pick himself back up and come back at it with a renewed vigour.
"What does that even mean? Are you going to put her in mutant jail? Or have your girlfriend give her a psychic lobotomy? Are you gonna torture her? Kill her? Torture and then kill her? Would that be enough justice for you?"
Despite his affiliation heroism, Tommy and justice do not get along. To him, justice is a word thrown around to give meaning to pointless actions of cruelty. He is a hero and he maintains the safety of the people, not his idea of personal justice.
"This is a war we're fighting. And, yes, people get hurt. People die. But you don't stop fighting or the bad guys win."
By the end of it all, Tommy is far more invested in the Young Avengers family than any of the original members. Even after facing the greatest of tragedies, he tries to keep everyone together and continue fighting the good fight. When his fellow members draw away and bail from their mission, Tommy resigns himself to retirement because he simply doesn't want to do it alone. The Young Avengers gave him more purpose and more joy than anything else before it and without them, he's lost.
Strengths: Despite looking like your average teenage boy, Tommy is a mutant.
Tommy's mutant abilities all have to do with speed. His top speed is thought to breach the speed of sound (though this is not a speed he can maintain indefinitely). He can maintain a speed of roughly 175 miles per hour for a period of four hours without need to rest.
Along with that, Tommy can generate hyper-kinetic vibrations capable of destabalizing his molecules which allow him to move through solid objects. He can also use this ability to accelerate molecules in matter, causing it to explode.
His body is also considerably more durable than most. It's adapted to his superhuman speed, resulting in strong bones and a modified metabolic rate.
Tommy processes information much faster than the average human being. This doesn't make him any more intelligent. It just means that he's able to percieve situations and react to them much faster than anyone else would be able to.
Emotionally, not a whole lot phases the guy. Tommy can take pretty much anything with a wise-crack and a cheeky grin and doesn't let the things he's not able to handle keep him down for long. While his time in Juvie is not explored or expanded upon, it's made clear that Tommy has been through his fair share of horrors and has managed to come out of it relatively okay.
Weaknesses: Tommy would not be someone's first choice as a superhero. Though he's come away from his darker life experiences mostly intact, it hasn't made him particularly stable.
While Tommy is incredibly loyal to the Young Avengers and upholds their ideals, he doesn't have nearly the same problem with killing the villains that his friends do. When given the opportunity
What he wants most is to belong. Though he postures and makes an effort not to seem overly invested in anything, the Young Avengers and the possibility of being the Scarlet Witch's son are two things that he values more than anything else. Tommy is not forthcoming with any personal information and plays all his cards close to his chest. He keeps a lot of his feelings inside and deliberately avoids talking about anything that could hit too close to home unless he has a healthy dosage of sarcasm to keep his walls up.
Tommy's accelerated perception and speed makes him rather impatient. He can't stand going slow or waiting for people to catch up to him.
Powers: What are your character's abilities? How will these abilities be tuned down to suit the game? Tommy possesses superhuman speed! This will be toned down to being a little faster than average, with sharper reflexes, but not much else. He can no longer vibrate things into exploding.