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{{Tab}}Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. | {{Tab}}Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. | ||
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{{Tab}}A very light-skinned white man with dark brown hair and unusually vivid green eyes, Matt stands 5'10" and tends not to look particularly bulky even when he is healthy and fit. He is, however, often not terribly healthy or fit. At present he is recovering from chemotherapy for recurrent non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, which has left him frightfully thin and often tired and pale, not to mention mostly bald. He does have a fantastic collection of wigs, however. | |||
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{{Tab}}In general, most in his social circles know him as a warm, friendly, outgoing nerd with a penchant for tea, books, chess, puns, and cancer. To Xavier's student body, he is known as that gay witch teacher (he is not in fact gay but is a queer witch) who's been dying of cancer for a while, grades laxly, and is very easily to steer toward entertaining tangents in class. Also he's the sponsor for the school's championship chess team, but who cares about that? Nerds, probably. Also, it is common knowledge that he is Xavier's student [[Gaétan]]'s older brother--often to Gaétan's considerable embarrassment. To Xavier's staff he's known as one of the go-to troubleshooters when trying to help students with difficult or dangerous powers, and otherwise as a generally friendly coworker. Among the X-Men he's known to be immensely useful in the skill with which he wields his metamutant ability to augment and manage the powers of his teammates, a similar role to that which he fills on [[Jax]] and [[Ryan]]'s Prometheus raid team. | |||
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{{Tab}}The eldest of the five Tessier siblings, Matt had a fairly unstable childhood, varying from unpleasant to truly awful depending on their mother's partner of the moment. Transplanted to New York during his teens, he did not find his circumstances much improved by the change. When [[Lucien]]'s abilities manifested, the brothers fled from home and supported each other. | {{Tab}}The eldest of the five Tessier siblings, Matt had a fairly unstable childhood, varying from unpleasant to truly awful depending on their mother's partner of the moment. Transplanted to New York during his teens, he did not find his circumstances much improved by the change. When [[Lucien]]'s abilities manifested, the brothers fled from home and supported each other--and as much as they could as homeless runaway teens, their younger siblings. | ||
{{Tab}}Though they both graduated high school and entered college, academic and professional aspirations were put on hold when Matt was diagnosed with lymphoma. Years of grueling chemotherapy did not cure him, but Prometheus did, after kidnapping him from his hospital bed and falsifying his death. During his stay, the researchers used his CSF to develop a mutant power suppression serum. He was eventually rescued in a raid led by [[Jax]], | {{Tab}}Though they both graduated high school and entered college, academic and professional aspirations were put on hold when Matt was diagnosed with lymphoma, a recurrence of a childhood illness that has only grown more difficult to treat each time it returns. Years of grueling chemotherapy on and off did not cure him, but Prometheus did, after kidnapping him from his hospital bed and falsifying his death. During his stay, the researchers used his CSF to develop a mutant power suppression serum. He was eventually rescued in a raid led by [[Jax]] and [[Ryan]], but his experiences in Prometheus left him with deep scars and a fierce determination to help free others from a similar fate. | ||
{{Tab}}Returned to his siblings with a new lease on life, Matt | {{Tab}}Returned to his siblings with a new lease on life, Matt became an instructor at [[Xavier%27s_School|Xavier's School for Gifted Youngers]], and in time an X-Man, as well. The death of their mother Elie Tessier had left the custody of the younger siblings to Lucien and Matt, something they had been fighting her over for years. Things seemed to finally be looking up for the Tessiers, except that the early-manifested power of their youngest sister Sera was causing progressively more damage to her health, eventually relying on Matt and Lucien's powers to keep her alive. When another recurrence of Matt's cancer diminished his ability to maintain Sera's treatment, her health deteriorated until she died, shortly before her 10th birthday. | ||
{{Tab}}Still grappling with that tragedy through yet another bout of cancer, Matt was devastated anew by the loss of [[Dawson]], one of his closest friends, to police violence. It may not have been the *beginning* of his long spiral down, but in 2021 that spiral landed him in a relapse not of lymphoma this time but of an addiction to heroin that he thought he had overcome a decade ago. His new/old chaotic drug use and attendant neglect of his family--which, admittedly, had been ongoing if subtler--brought the rest of his troubles crashing down around him. Now, juggling grief, sobriety, work, and raids, he is also struggling to repair the relationships he has damaged and address the harmful effects of his long-hidden neurodivergence. | |||
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{{Tab}}Natively bilingual in French and English, Matt is also | {{Tab}}Despite his disrupted higher education, he is knowledgeable about history (mainly western, especially classical and early European) and keen to the ways that history is told askew. Though still not, perhaps, the most competent of teachers, he has in his years on the job at XS learned how to counsel young people in academic matters as well as the management of their powers. Natively bilingual in French and English, Matt is also versed in a number of dead languages. He is proficient in knitting, socializing, and swing dancing. He loves tabletop games and has formidable skill in several, most notably chess and Scrabble (even if he tries to sneak in words that aren't in the dictionary). He has in recent years learned how to fight even without his powers (or, more to the point, those of others around him that he can hijack), and though a fairly good shot he is still not exceptionally adept at close-quarters combat. Not has huge a disadvantage in New York as it might be elsewhere in the vastness of the US, though nevertheless sometimes inconvenient, he does not know how to drive. | ||
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'''Family''' | '''Family''' | ||
* [[Lucien]] - The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things. | * [[Lucien]] - The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things. | ||
* [[ | * [[Desi]] - We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near. | ||
* [[ | * [[Gaétan]] - If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. | ||
* [[NPC-Sera|Sera]] - In a Wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by, dreaming as the summers die. | * [[NPC-Sera|Sera]] - In a Wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by, dreaming as the summers die. | ||
'''Friends''' | '''Friends''' | ||
* [[Dusk]] - Twinkle twinkle little bat! How I wonder what you're at! | * [[Dusk]] - Twinkle twinkle little bat! How I wonder what you're at! | ||
* [[ | * [[Dawson]] - Finding meaning, like losing meaning, involves pleasure as well as pain. | ||
* [[Hive]] - | * [[Hive]] - But then losing meaning, like finding it, does too, as the best nonsense reminds us. | ||
* [[Isra]] - I always thought they were fabulous monsters! | * [[Isra]] - I always thought they were fabulous monsters! | ||
* [[Ion]] - | |||
* [[Jax]] - "If I wasn't real," Alice said — half-laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous — "I shouldn't be able to cry." | * [[Jax]] - "If I wasn't real," Alice said — half-laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous — "I shouldn't be able to cry." | ||
* [[ | * [[Rasheed]] - | ||
* [[Ryan]] - Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. | |||
* [[B]] - Consider what a great girl you are. | * [[B]] - Consider what a great girl you are. | ||
* [[Shane]] - Consider what a long way you've come to-day. | * [[Shane]] - Consider what a long way you've come to-day. | ||
* [[Spencer]] - | |||
* [[Steve]] - Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. | |||
'''Foes? Does he even have those?''' | '''Foes? Does he even have those? What nonsense''' | ||
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'''And everything in between''' | '''And everything in between''' | ||
* | * [[DJ]] - Begin at the beginning. | ||
* [[Sera|...Sera]] - The dream-child moving through the land of wonders wild and new. | |||
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* He's a witch! He probably won't turn you into a newt. Probably. | * He's a witch! He probably won't turn you into a newt. Probably. | ||
* The only obvious jewelry he wears is a plain black titanium ring. | * The only obvious jewelry he wears is a plain black titanium ring. | ||
* | * He has a succession of (tongue-in-cheek) secondary "superpowers" ranging from infinite cancer to knowing what people want to eat. | ||
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Codename''' | | style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Codename''' | ||
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Alignment''' | | style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px" class="left" | '''Alignment''' | ||
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| Warm-hearted | | style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| Warm-hearted/cold-blooded | ||
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|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''Big Brother''' - ''The eldest of the Tessier siblings, Matt cares deeply about his family and can often be found in their company.'' | |style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''Big Brother''' - ''The eldest of the Tessier siblings, Matt cares deeply about his family and can often be found in their company.'' | ||
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|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''Rumors of | |style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''Rumors of my Death''' - ''Prometheus kidnapped him and faked his death to cover it, cured him of terminal cancer (though at the cost of another subject's life), and performed a lot of experiments on him. He was rescued by Jax and Ryan's team and, like quite a few ex-Prometheans, joined in subsequent raids.' | ||
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|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''Tea Aficionado''' - ''He will talk tea with anyone who seems remotely interested, though he would still rather drink it.'' | |style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''Tea Aficionado''' - ''He will talk tea with anyone who seems remotely interested, though he would still rather drink it.'' | ||
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|style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| '''I'm Guided by the Beauty of our Weapons''' - ''He makes no secret of his powers and regularly assists other mutants--not only Xavier's students--in exploring, controlling, and honing their own abilities. He also applies his formidable augmentation and suppression to supporting others in the X-Men and the Prometheus raid team.'' | |||
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