Proteus
David Xavier
F) Ty6
A) Ty6
S) Ty6
E) Un100
R) Rm30
I) Mn75
P) Un100
Health: 118 Karma: 205
Resources: 0 Pop: -30
Known Powers:
Psychic-Based Powers: Proteus' powers were psychic-based, fueled by "feeding" off the life energy of his host body. The more victims he drained, the more powerful he became, although the full range of his psychic abilities was never revealed. He has been known to use the following power stunts:
-Possession: Mn ability to possess someone's body and drain their life force in the process. Proteus' Psyche was so powerful that it quickly burned up any body it contained and therefore he constantly shifted from body to body. The would-be victim had to make a better Psyche FEAT than Proteus or die. However, if the would-be victim has Mn or higher Psyche, they cannot be possessed.
-Telepathy: Am ability to read a person's innermost thoughts. He is then able to use these secrets against them by projecting their worst nightmares in their mind or alter reality to create a living nightmare.
Reality Warping: Un, limited to his own line of sight, he had to maintain concentration or the effects of the power reverted to normal. He used this to alter the direction of gravitational pull in an area, turn the air into ground, etc. He could attack a person's reality and threaten his sanity or cause the ground to swallow a person up and suffocate them, but Proteus' reality-warp couldn't make someone simply cease to exist. Has the following power stunts:
-Fear: Anyone whose body or environment was altered by Proteus has to make a Psyche FEAT or suffer -1cs penalty to any future attempts to do Proteus harm due to fear.
-Animate Objects: Proteus can cause brick buildings to unravel, launch walls at people as a weapon,etc. He has to make an Agility FEAT to hit someone with one of these attacks. If successful, the amount of damage done was equal to the material of the object making the attack. For example, a brick wall has material of Gd
Equipment:
None
Talents: None
Contacts: None
The child of mutant telepath Charles Xavier and geneticist Moira MacTaggert, David Xavier grew up believing his father didn't love him. Certainly the intellectual Charles found it difficult to relate to his son, who loved soccer, video games, and wrestling. When Charles left his family to found the Brotherhood of Mutants with Magneto, he firmly believed they wouldn't miss him; yet David did, and the very next day his own mutant powers disastrously emerged. Their slightest use ravaged David's body, so Moira was forced to keep him sedated; he spent several years in his mother's care in the Muir Island hospital. Somehow sensing his father's return to Britain, David suffered a fatal convulsion but survived by transferring his consciousness into nurse Isobel MacLinden. He fled to the mainland, swapping bodies as each host wore out and slaying anyone who got in his way. Confronted by his parents and the X-Men in Aberdeen, he usurped Wolverine's form and fought them with a combination of reality manipulation, telepathic psychological warfare, and his host's natural skills. Since Wolverine's regenerative powers countered the internal damage David's powers caused, David intended to retain his new host permanently; but while attempting to flee, he carelessly leapt in front of an oncoming lorry. David jumped from Wolverine in to the driver seconds before his former host was run over. After the vehicle crashed, David secretly possessed telepathic S.T.R.I.K.E. agent Betsy Braddock. Having finally figured out how to slow down his degeneration, he hid within Betsy and lured the X-Men to Berlin, where the Xaviers had held their last family holiday prior to Charles leaving.
As Betsy, he quizzed his father to learn Charles' true feelings for David, unaware that Charles knew his true identity. When Charles revealed this, David abducted him. With his powers growing, David restructured Betsy's body to resemble his original one, overpowered the X-Men and critically injured Iceman,), then teleported Charles and himself around the world, blowing up landmarks and murdering innocent people.He taunted his father, claiming Charles didn't care about him,, and sarcastically suggesting he might join the X-Men as Proteus. As he prepared to kill Charles, Betsy's mind resurfaced, blocking David's powers. She urged Charles to kill them before David could resume control or escape, but Charles found himself unable to kill his own son. The X-Man Colossus had no such problem, and swiftly crushed Betsy/David beneath a car, apparently killing them both. However, Betsy was reborn in a new body, so David's final fate remains in doubt.
