Calum Wixx
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| Name: | Calum Wixx | ||
| Superalias: | Portal | ||
| Gender: | Male | ||
| Species: | Mutant | ||
| Occupation: | Student | ||
| Citizenship: | U.S. Citizen | ||
| Residence: | In flux | ||
| Education: | High School | ||
| Theme: | Original (OC) | ||
| Groups: | Street Level | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 17 | Actual Age: | 17 |
| Date of Birth | 03 Jan 2006 | Played By | Curran Walters |
| Height: | 5'10" | Weight: | 156 lb |
| Hair Color: | Brown | Eye Color: | Green |
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| Theme Song: | "Teleport 2 Me" ~ Kid Cudi | ||
Contents
Character Info
Profile
Calum Wixx, aka Portal, is a kid who grew up on the streets of Hell's Kitchen hanging around with other troublemakers. He never got involved with anything serious, but generally has been in trouble for vandalism or petty theft or disorderly conduct. He began to manifest an ability to teleport himself and others as his latent mutant powers emerged in adolescence.
Timeline
Timeline:
* 2006: Born in Hell's Kitchen to single mother Tanya. From the start, Calum was a difficult kid and a handful to raise.
* 2012: Calum was playing unsupervised on the 4th-story balcony of his apartment. His mother, who was inside, looked over just time to see him fall. She screamed and ran to the balcony only to find Calum sitting in the grass below unharmed. No one witnessed what happened and no explanation was ever found. This was a one-time triggering of Calum's mutation, which did not manifest itself again until 2021.
*2018: At the young age of 12, Calum start hanging with older kids in the neighborhood. He was constantly in trouble for making a public nuisance, trespassing, vandalism, and other similar petty crimes.
* 2021: This was the first true evolution of Calum's mutation. Calum and his best friend, Rashim, were climbing an old, abandoned railroad bridge. Rusted rivets gave out and the girder that the boys were standing on gave way. They started falling toward the rocks below. Calum grabbed Rashim and teleported them both to safety.
*2021-2023: Terrified of what was happening to him, Calum kept his burgeoning powers a jealously guarded secret, until...(OOC: Calum's 'outing' will happen on the grid ICly).
IC Journal
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Personality
Idealistic:
Our young mutant, despite having been kicked around a bit by life, is a romantic. He views the world through emotional lenses and in his heart, if you get past the youthful anger, he still believes that the good guys win in the end.
Intractable:
In the dictionary next to stubborn is a picture of Calum. Tell him to go left, he goes right. He is a prime candidate to cut of his nose to spite his face. Calum resists authority as naturally as he breathes.
Resolute:
Born in part from a life lived with nothing to lose, Calum moves through the world with the will to act. He thinks nothing of leaping before he looks mostly because he doesn't think about it at all. He acts on instinct.
Uninviting:
Calum is very slow to trust, so his default mode is Unapproachable. If someone can get past that, they will find a chipper, loyal, affectionate friend for life.
Character Sheet
Powers
Minor Precognition:
Calum receives visions of up to 15 seconds into the future. The scope of the visions is limited to the immediate vicinity of Calum's person. The precognitive flashes almost always come unbidden and during times of stress or danger, though on very rare occasion Calum can focus and trigger a flash. The flashes can be unreliable. Most of the time they happen, but sometimes the power fails for unknown reasons. The general order of things is: Calum is in danger, he receives a precog flash, and then has the option of teleporting away or engaging the danger directly in some way (armed with up to 15 seconds of future information).
The way his precognition interacts with his teleportation is a special synergy case. If Calum is teleporting into an area he can't see and is unfamiliar with, his precognition combines with his teleportation to deposit him somewhere safe. The precognition itself never triggers a teleportation. It merely gives Calum a reason to teleport away.
Precognitive overload: 15 seconds may not sound like long, but in times of stress and danger it's practically forever. Calum can sometimes have difficulty keeping track of what's happening right now and what will happen in 15 seconds. It can create a precognitive overload that does more harm than good. Perhaps with the right mentor and training, he can learn to separate the two.
Teleportation:
Calum can instantly teleport himself and up to three willing people or creatures a distance of up to approximately 50 yards or so. His teleportation power operates in synergy with his precognition, allowing him to teleport inside structures or behind barriers that he can't see and is not familiar with.
When Calum teleports to a location he can't see, ideally his precognition flashes and he ends up somewhere safe. Because his precognition is mostly (but not fully) reliable, this is usually not a problem. But sometimes he ends up somewhere bizarre or dangerous or embarrassing. Thus far in the short time that Calum has been manifesting his mutation, his precognition rarely fails him during teleportation.
Skills
Computers:
The stuff a poor kid in the Kitchen can learn to do with public library computers! Calum knows his way around computers and can even do some minor hacking.
Mma Fighting:
Calum practices MMA combat at a gym in Hell's Kitchen. He has been doing it for several years, and has earned a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. At the end of the day, he's a skinny high school kid so he can hold his own against untrained attackers but is no match for highly trained warriors.
The only thing that gives Calum an edge that can sometimes overcome his size is his precognition power. It's difficult to fight an opponent who literally knows what you're going to do before you do it. But even that will rarely help him against trained, expert combatants.
Skateboarding:
It might not be inaccurate to say that Calum has spent as much time on a skateboard as he has spent walking. He can maneuver through a crowded cityscape with ease. Combined with his precognition, he appears to weave through hazards like quicksilver.
Street Smarts:
Raised as much by the streets of the Kitchen as by his mother, Calum knows how things work out there. He can get things done out on the streets in general, and in the Kitchen he is known and loved by many street-level citizens.
Resources
Hell's Kitchen:
Calum has been walking and skating the streets of Hell's Kitchen since he was a small kid. He knows every inch of the place like the back of his hand, and his natural charm has earned him many street-level friends from shopkeepers to shylocks, from beat cops to bookies.
Weaknesses
Affected:
Despite his hard exterior, Calum is an emotional kid with a conscience that doesn't want to see people harmed. He will put himself (and possibly his mission) at risk to save an innocent. And if that innocent happens to be someone he knows and feels bonded to, then there is nothing he wouldn't risk to save them.
Precognitive Overload:
15 seconds may not sound like long, but in times of stress and danger it's practically forever. Calum can sometimes have difficulty keeping track of what's happening right now and what will happen in 15 seconds. It can create a precognitive overload that does more harm than good. Perhaps with the right mentor and training, he can learn to separate the two.
Unreliable Precognition:
Calum's precognition will sometimes fail him in the worst possible time. Because he has become conditioned to rely on it so heavily for so many things, when it fail it can be catastrophic.
Role-Play
Logs
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| A day in Hell's kitchen. | May 22nd, 2023 | Sam and Berto meet Calum and give the kid a chance at help. |
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