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{{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}}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 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}}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 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). | {{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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'''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]] - You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch! | ||
* [[Hive]] - That's the effect of living backwards, it always makes one a little giddy at first — but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways. | * [[Hive]] - That's the effect of living backwards, it always makes one a little giddy at first — but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways. | ||
* [[Isra]] - I always thought they were fabulous monsters! | * [[Isra]] - I always thought they were fabulous monsters! | ||
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* [[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. | ||
* [[Steve]] - | * [[Steve]] - | ||
'''Foes? Does he even have those? What nonsense''' | '''Foes? Does he even have those? What nonsense''' | ||
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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 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's team and, like quite a few ex-Prometheans, joined in subsequent raids.' | |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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