Post by Samuel Bishop on Jul 9, 2011 9:03:15 GMT 1
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[/i][/center]The Person
Name: Samuel Bishop
Age: 20
Place of Birth: Aboard a private ship, outer space/ time (he won't tell)
Current Place of Residence: Titan's Tower
Affiliation: Young Titans
Family:
Lucas Bishop, Father
Deathbird (Cal'syee Neramani), Mother
Aliyah Bishop, Sister
Shard, (paternal)Aunt
Lilandra, (maternal)Aunt
D'Ken, (maternal)Uncle
Gateway, Great great-grandfather
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 155lbs
Appearance: African American/ Aborigine/ Shi'ar Eyes: Brown, Light red when using powers Shi'ar eye markings glow as well
Civilian Attire:
Along with jeans, Sam also has been known to wear tight fitting polos or t-shirts under jackets.
Personality:Generally: Samuel can be very courageous to a fault because he can't summon enough of it to use his gateway abilities. This is due to his fear of losing another teammate(see History).
With eyes like a hawk, and part of his Shi'ar heritage, he has taken to security forces and hall monitoring well, both in his father's XSE time period and now with the Young Titans. Yet in 2040 he feels the need to continue to wear his specialized sunglasses to appear more ominous than he really is, which instictively leads some to labeled him a "bad egg".
At first glance Samuel appears as soldier, someone who is ready to go to war and has seen many battles. For someone as young as he is, this would throw one of his seniors for a loop, but Sam has been training and fighting for survival since he could walk. He had no silver spoon lifestyle growing up and feels slightly distant from his father because of the conditions he was raised in.
This plays into how he interacts with others, especially teammates and members of the opposite sex. He tries harder to hold onto those that he is or has been involved with because he is afraid of losing those close to him. He also sees himself as a type of big brother to the younger members and looks out for them.
Bishop's shadow: He is often called by his surname which he has gone to great lengths to separate himself from that of his father and his historic feats. He has devoted himself to his work in security measures and has won the favor of many young recruits in the XSE in his time period.
He decided to leave that time period though to "make his own mark" by going back and "succeeding" in areas where his father did not (namely protecting Xavier or whomever has taken up directorship). While he may not be an X-man yet, Sam sees the protection of the new head of its Mansion as unnecessary for the time being, since he is able to handle himself, but believes that once the Summer's child steps into more political arenas and he has gained more confidence in his Gateway abilities, he will make a request to join the X-Men and eventually form a Security Division so as to keep Mutant rights suspicions low while continuing to fight for them and coexsistence.
For this reason he works doubly hard to emphasize his abilities in security and detective work.
He stays away from some of the battles his father tried to or once initiated (going after Gambit or this periods Claude), he feels it was his father's personal undoing and failure. He is determined not to repeat the mistakes of his father or remedy them, but leave them as reminders of how he is or ought to be better than his old man... yet unrecognized by him, he is like Bishop in his later years with the X-Men in that he doesn't always pursue after hunches. Samuel tends to take more time studying a suspect, perp, suspicious person before initiating any action. He also has his father's "warrior's heart" which woo/ attracted his mom those many years ago.
Samuel is conflicted within because he wants the recognition, respect, and admiration of his father, but also wants to be seen as different from him and a hero in his own right. Something he has yet to realize though is that he will achieve both of these if he just does his best, aides the cause/beliefs of Professor X instilled in him from his father, and gains full control of his powers.
Likes:
- pizza
- seafood
- guns
- Reading History & Mythology
- The feeling of time travel
- exploding Sentinels
- exposing criminals
- defending/ complimenting women
- women
- protecting clients
- justice
Dislikes:
- Sentinels
- crime
- drama (especially those of his father's concern regarding the identity of Witness)
- time meddling villians
- inability to fully control gateway powers
The Hero
Codename: Shockback, Known in father's "future" as Surveilance
Hero Attire:
Sam wears a slightly modified version of one of his father's old uniforms while a member of the Young Titans, yet also some from his Shi'ar heritage. The armored portion was given to him by his sister, and is modeled after the Imperial soldiers of the Shi'ar race. He also wears his father's old cloak, to which he has added a hood.
Powers:
Energy Absorbtion/Manipulation: Samuel also has the power to absorb energy, either ambient energy or that directed towards him, and to redirect that energy from his body as concussive blasts. He can also store absorbed energy within his personal reserves, whereupon the energy increases his strength (without powerboost: can deadlift about 1 ton; with powerboost: can deadlift 2.5 tons) and recuperative abilities (given at least 15 min downtime), as well as affording him a measure of temporary (so far about 45 mins worth) invulnerability. Sadly, he must decide quickly in battle in which of the 3 manners he wishes to expend energy. He can go from drained to fully charged in an hour.
Gateway: creates warp tunnels, which can span either time or space. The gateways can be used for both observation and/or transport. The exact limits of how much mass Sam can transport, a busload of students is max at his level of experience, is yet to be revealed since he merely uses it for scouting or re-con purposes. Sam's open/ close window for a transport gateway is 10 mins.
Skills and abilities:
Enhanced endurance & Strength: Due to his partial Shi'ar heritage, Samuel is naturally endowed with enhanced endurance slightly beyond human capacity, yet not of that from a full blooded Shi'arian and is therefore able to last longer in most activities and battles.
Ever Studious: Wide ranging book knowledge of history, specifically Asian, African, and some Ancient History
He can usually be found with either a book or data pad doing research on either history or energy power studies.
Sam is currently studying History & Criminal Justice at the Mansion.
Security systems Specialist: Having spent time working in security forces and working alongside his father, Samuel has developed a vast knowledge of security systems via training by Domino and Bishop. He also has some light security coding and hacking experience which was developed via trial and error outside of some XSE classes which his father attributes to his Shi'ar heritage.
Samuel also has some Shi'ar Tech training by Bishop as well.
Tactical police and Hand-to-hand combat including intermediate weapons training: Having been raised by a former police officer/ soldier Samuel has extensive knowledge on the protocols, safety procedures, and security measures necessary for even performing bodyguard duties. Long/short ranged weapons training with Domino and Bishop was also included.
Special Equipment:
- Shi'ar body armor grants slightly enhanced strength
- dual CZ P07 Duty 9MM pistols given to him after completing weapons training with Bishop these were later modded after Sam's XSE graduation
- His Aunt Shard's old XSE blaster
- Sunglasses with built a in communicator, HUD optics, and targeting for long range firing
- Reserve Energy cannisters
Weaknesses: Samuel is only currently able to view different times via his gateways and limited "current" time travel. His Energy Absorbtion and manipulation abilities also are still developing. For example, When absorbing ambient energy he can sometimes get drawn into a trance like state if not totally focused, when this happens one of three things can occur:
As stated though, he has managed to temporarily overcome potential overloads by having the modified pistols and carrying energy cannisters which he can fill and store in pouches in his belt.
As he is also half Shi'ar, he has a slightly denser bone structure than that of a typical human. This allows him to maneuver at quicker speeds and respond a bit faster in tight situations. However, this also can place him in considerably more danger should bones break, fracture, etc.
Samuel can also be found either studying in the mansions library or watching old reruns of shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and The Mentalist. This leads him to be skeptical sometimes of others or closed off.
He also enjoys fighting (as long as he looks good) and in retelling of battles he often gets side tracked making others think he is conceited.
His gateway abilities seem to be his greatest fear as he has not used them for anything other than one long and a few short time traveling stints, preferring to use it for recon and sting ops.
His first time actually traveling in a self formed gateway with a team member lead to the teammates death which he has a hard time dealing with. It is for this reason he prefers to gate travel alone until he can control it better.
His father often told him that he would most likely be killed by his own energy absorption powers if he didn't learn to master/ develop greater control of them soon. He fears this is highly likely as well, which is another reason for his time spent in his room accessing the library of the X mansion, studying every mutant that has honed & recorded their ability sessions there and in the Danger Room.
Still part mutant with no healing factor.... and a denser bone structure, so unless he gets control of his gateway powers overnight, which is doubtful, he easily can be taken out if advantage is gained over him.
Most Heroic Achievements: While on punishment for sneaking deep into a Sentinel databank Samuel did not have access to any weapons that his father gave him. Having been discovered and surrounded by 6 Sentinels, Sam used what was at hand... he charged up from the datapad he was holding and let it fly at his opponents. He then took them out, two at a time.
History: While time traveling with Deathbird, Bishop, was supposedly in stasis. Of course, while the two shared a mutual interest in the other Bishop was fine with nothing ever coming of their time together. Yet fate proved otherwise....twice it seems. Samuel Lazarus Bishop, the younger of the two Bishop kids, grew up with his father once the two time crossed lovers returned to their respective times. Deathbird felt that their son was "unfit" for Shi'ar royalty as he did not bear the markings his sister did, the high feathered tri-point hair, tufts of feathers at the joints, or wings. He grew to love the city life, smells, and sounds... just the rush of it, or rather what was left of it. Growing up in the future was really rough. Had to scrounge for survival y'kno? Anyway, his dad didn't give him any slack. He had him trained by some of the best, and worst, methods available at that time. Samuel soon learned the meaning of "fighting to survive" first hand. Namely by Sentinels...there were other methods, but none quite as ubiquitous! At a young age Samuel showed a love of technology, namely cameras. His father, having spent time as a police officer and detective, spent what time he could training him to properly study footage and "read" people. Bishop's duties as the head of XSE however, required a lot of his time. So Sam grew a little distant from his father as time passed and determined that he would work his hardest to regain the attention and approval he sought.
Often his struggles to gain attention got him in trouble. He would sneak off away from the camp that XSE had set up to search the databanks of an old Sentinel factory. It was here he learned about the heroes of old...and his father. Their stories inspired him and at night, he would often dream of the day HE would become one. He then earnestly began throwing himself into his training and quickly rose through the ranks. By 16 he had a small four man squad which would mainly run security checks on the base. He had a pretty strong affinity with Shi'ar technology from what little gifts he recieved from his sister, one of his greatest gifts from her is the body armor he wears which grants him slightly enhanced strength. His growing expertise in video surveillance caught the eye of his father, and Bishop rewarded him with the two 9MM pistols he always carries with him and his own little security hub from which he could keep an eye on the base. He had got his father's attention, or so he thought, but they still rarely spent time together other than briefings on security and his training exercises. Then his powers started developing.
While on punishment for sneaking deep into a Sentinel databank Samuel did not have access to the weapons that his father gave him. Having been discovered and surrounded by 6 Sentinels, Sam used what was at hand... the data pad he held had been flickering while reading it and he couldn't figure out why. This was because his was charging up from it. He took the pad he was holding and let it fly at his opponents. He then took them out, two at a time.
He was a bit of a late bloomer (16) when the rest of his powers started kicking in. At first it had started out as seeing things swirling back when he was 13... images from out of what few history logs he had then seen and old training sessions he had run or places he had been. Usually though they were of the X-Men, S.H.I.E.L.D., and The Avengers. By the time he was 17 and a half he was able to redirect pent up energy to either amplify his strength or make himself temporarily invulnerable outside of shooting energy blasts. His dad and Domino trained him in the use of his powers and munitions respectively. Although he had told Bishop of his gateway abilities, Bishop recognized this as an issue; he knew of his familial ties to the Aborigine named 'Gateway', but he was unable to truly get his son training with that as he did not know how to contact him. Therefore those abilities Sam is attempting to learn on his own and has only used them twice as they expend a lot of energy, he's not like Nightcrawler or Blink.
He had to take the final exam for the completion of his X.S.E training at 19 twice. During this exam, he and his squad were to infiltrate this known hive of Emplates that had been previously undetected... This would be the first time and last time he used my gateway powers with anyone other than himself because he lost a close friend and partner which leads to his hesitancy in using them now for anything more than recon or Sting missions. Upon returning he changed his original codename Surveilance, dropping an "L" signifying the mistake or irredeemable error he made.
Upon returning from the exam, which he passed the second time around, Bishop offered him the option of traveling to where Domino was working with Wolverine in a covert group he was forming or stay and help oversee the training of new recruits. Of course Samuel chose the first option thinking it would be a great learning experience and allow him his own stories to tell of great heroes. He also saw this as an opportunity to remove himself from his father's shadow, as he constantly felt he was being compared to him. Before he left Bishop passed the blaster used by his sister, Shard, to his son. They bypassed the branding of his eye as that was something done to mark his dad and a few other XSE members at the mutant camp which they had been liberated from. Somewhere along the timestream Samuel was traveling he got shot this way to 2040...
After relaying this information to his father, Bishop made Sam promise three things: that he would stay in contact with someone his father knew that was teaching or training X-Men, that he would eventually join them, and that he would gain control of his powers. Upon agreeing to these terms he was welcome to remain. With that Samuel has decided to stay here to learn, work, and train alongside these heroes. They may not be the same as some of their parents, but he believes they are good people and has taken the new codename of Shockback.
RP Sample: Strolling out of the gateway with the last vestiges of time force whipping at his back from the gateway he opened straight from San Francisco, he smiles and takes the stairs up to the historic mansion's front doors.
He'd always dreamed of this place as a kid and virtually witnessed the formation and de-formation of each team that walked these "hallowed" grounds.
"I'm home..." he thinks to himself and gladly prepares himself for his greatest trial. Proving himself to this team.
++OOC Info++
Player: A name or nickname we can refer you to by: Bishop or Shockback
Other characters played: 0
Any plans in mind for the character? Personal Plot perhaps? Would like to see how he fares with Claude... or Leo
Do you agree to the rules: Yes, shumagorathmonitor.
