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| Jack Kaiser
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xxxxxJack is a junior at Xavier's School and is something of a class clown. He's very outgoing, has a foul mouth and in general tends to try to liven things up. He does work to keep up with his studies, as he knows if he flunks out he is going to have some serious problems, but he doesn't apply himself to his school work as much as he does to understanding and expanding his powers.
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| History
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xxxxx Jack was born the only child of Thomas and Linda Kaiser. Thomas is currently a stock broker while Linda is a dentist. His parents were never particularly affectionate or attentive to Jack. The reason for this is that they married solely because Linda conceived him, otherwise it is very likely that the two would have broken up at some point. As a result, deep down, both of them have a bit of resentment for Jack.
xxxxx Thomas is a strict Catholic and forbade Linda from having an abortion, despite her lack of interest in religion. She, however, is against abortion and the two of them decided to wed if only to save face with their families. Shortly after Jack's birth, Linda had her tubes tied to make sure she wouldn't have any other children, as she hadn't really wanted any to begin with.
xxxxx As a young child, Jack was often a loner. He didn't mind playing by himself, but his parents encouraged him to and other children would make fun of him and call him weird. He enjoys reading, video games and going on the internet and ignored it at first, until around when he hit puberty.
xxxxx On the verge of entering high school, Jack had had enough of being bullied around for being introverted and for having 'nerdy' hobbies. Unfortunately, despite the fact that he had grown from going through puberty, he still wasn't bigger than most of the kids who messed with him. How did he cope? He started being a wise ass, talking to everyone, doing his best to be everyone's friend if he could, but always ready to poke fun. He generally feels better about himself after he's made a particularly witty insult and loved to verbally lash bullies until they either backed down or, sadly, went into a frenzy and beat him up.
xxxxx That all changed one day when during a particularly violent fight at his school, Jack discovered he had abilities. He was a freshman and a couple of seniors were harassing him. He'd made friends with their girlfriends and they didn't like it. While one of the seniors held him by his arms from behind, the other was punching at his body and face. Jack almost passed out from the pain when, at last, the senior pulled back for a hard straight punch and Jack's face simply split in half. The senior struck the senior who had been holding Jack's arms right in the face and he dropped. Jack's head came back together, no gore or blood there and the still conscious senior ran.
xxxxx Jack literally pissed himself and for a while had a minor mental break. He sat on the ground by the unconscious boy until someone found him. Everyone was really skeptical about the story and Jack wasn't talking. The older boy who had been knocked out thought that the other had simply missed Jack but the senior who had done the beating was convinced and very vocal about it. Jack ultimately left his school and was eventually approached by a member of the Xavier School once word got back to them about the incident.
xxxxx Jack was not, initially, pleased with this. His parents had no idea about what Jack was, even though Jack had been experimenting with his abilities ever since the incident. The both of them eagerly sent Jack to X.S., both of them were all smiles and pleasantries with the person who retrieved him, but his father pulled Jack aside when they were alone and made it very clear that once Jack was done with X.S., he wasn't welcome in their home. He wasn't going to have a 'freak' for a son. His mother was present during this and while she seemed more conflicted, she ultimately agreed with Thomas, which broke Jack's heart. Of the two, Jack had cared for his mother most.
xxxxx When he first arrived at X.S. Jack, in the wake of his father's words, was looking for a cure. He wanted to stop being a freak. He hated what he was. But, over the year or two since then (he's now a junior) he has learned to use his abilities in ways he never could have dreamed of and has decided that his abilities are good. They make him different and as far as he's concerned, his parents can go to hell.
xxxxx While at X.S. Jack has been a fair to good student. His biggest problem is being too vocal in class and showing off. He also would rather experiment with his abilities and push them to their limits rather than focus on school work. Every single day Jack will do something to work on his powers, be it changing his eye-color for just that day, making himself a foot taller or shorter and so on and so forth. Graduation is next year for him and he knows he's on his own at that point. He can't imagine having a normal job and has decided he wants to become a teacher at the School and/or an X-Man, though he hasn't figured out what he would teach, nor has he spoken of this to any of the faculty.
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| Powers
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xxxxx Jack has the ability to completely control the tissue in his body, altering their density, pigment, form, granting him more or less complete control over the tissues, hair, nails and organs of his body.
xxxxxTissue Manipulation:
Jack is able to manipulate his tissue so that his hand could have the ability to smell, his neck could have the ability to see and so on. He can alter his tissues into other forms, skin to bone, bone to skin and everything in between. Further, this allows him to grow or lose hair and allows him to alter the pigmentation in his tissues. His body serves as an appendage, so portions of him that he manipulates are prehensile, but limited by their strength, density and elasticity.
xxxxxDensity and Elasticity Manipulation:
Jack can alter the density of his tissue as well, making it more dense and thus stronger or less dense and more flexible and stretchy. At its least dense, his tissue takes on a puddy like texture that borders on liquid. Currently, he's only able to make his tissue as dense as bone, specifically as dense as a femur.
xxxxxBody Weaponry/Attire:
A combination of his ability to reshape himself and densify his tissue, Jack is able to turn his fingers 'claws', melt his fingers into his hand to form a blade and form his arm into a shield. He often adjusts the pigment accordingly to replicate metal but does not have to. Further, he can change his 'skin' to be more loose and textured, adjusting the pigment to look like he's wearing clothes even when he isn't. He doesn't like to do this though, as the clothing tends to ripple and react to sensation, it pulls away a portion of his mass and concentration, and he just plain still -feels- naked while doing this.
xxxxxShifter: Shifter: Due to his ability to change, he can alter himself to look different. Eye color, hair color, skin tone, height, weight, etc. He can even mimic things, but has trouble with anything smaller than a golden retriever or larger than a horse, as he is limited by his mass. His ability at shifting is not perfect, he can't mimic fingerprints, voice prints, retinal scans and in general can't mimic a specific person, this is in general just to give him a disguise. He can use it to 'smooth' his fingers, though, to prevent him from leaving fingerprints.
xxxxxHealing Factor/Enhanced Strength/Enhanced Stamina: Due to his ability to control his body, he can willfully make his body fight off infections faster and knit together quicker. It's a far cry from regeneration, but he heals more quickly than the average human. Further, because he can adjust his tissue, he can increase his muscle strength and is more efficient at processing lactic acid. These abilities are still pretty new to him and he can only really go just a bit above peak human performance in these areas.
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| Limitations/Constraints
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xxxxxMass Over Mind: Jack weighs/has a mass of 350 lbs. He is completely limited by this. If a portion of him is shot or cut off, he can't (currently) reattach it and that mass is gone. If it didn't contain a vital organ, then he can recover, but that mass is reduced until he can add more. He eats -alot- as a result in an effort to increase his mass or just to maintain it when he's using his abilities a lot. He generally tries to bulk up when he can, but since he is still learning about his abilities, he doesn't usually go over 400 lbs because he likes to retain the form he had before he had his powers.
xxxxxNeeds His Heart/Brain/Lungs/Organs:
While he can change form, his blood still has to pump, he still needs oxygen and he still always has to have his brain, though he is able to reshape it. If he's shot in the lungs, he instantly reverts to his normal form, while a shot to his heart or brain would kill him just like any other human.
xxxxxConcentration:
While holding his arm into the shape of a sword or keeping just his eyes another color doesn't require much concentration, full body changes to disguise himself, changes to his body that completely change his shape or make him non-humanoid require almost all of his concentration. It's something he is still working on learning to control and as he becomes more used to using his abilities in unnatural ways he'll be able to do it with less direct focus and concentration, but at the moment it would be all but impossible for him to concentrate on other things when doing his most strenuous applications of his abilities.
xxxxxEnergy/Calories/Dipping into his Mass:
His abilities require a lot of energy/calories/whatever you want to call it. The act of changing his tissue's composition very taxing, the most taxing of his abilities. Next is changing his tissues' shape, followed by changing his body to give himself enhanced strength and stamina, while swinging or moving prehensile limbs that have already been changed takes about as much energy as it would to swing his arm or walk and is the least taxing.
xxxxx After a change, the energy cost to his body reduces dramatically, but the act of changing himself requires dipping into his reserves. If he overtaxes himself, he has to dip into his actual mass. The less mass he has, the less matter in his body he has to work with and ways he can apply his ability become less powerful and/or diverse.
xxxxx Since his changing requires such a large amount of energy, it's very difficult for him to put on additional mass while he's having to use his abilities often, so were he to lose a large portion of his mass to injury or due to massive energy expenditure, it would require some time and quite a lot of food for him to 'bulk up' his mass again.
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| Connections
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| Gallery
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| Jack Anthony Kaiser
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| Codename
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None
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| Birthdate
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04/11/1996
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| Species
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Mutant
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| Affiliation
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Xavier School
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| Alignment
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Chaotic Neutral with a strong leaning toward Good
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| Powers
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Body Manipulation
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| Occupation
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Student
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| RP Hooks
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| Anything for a Laugh - He's a jokester, he likes to get laughs and in general be the center of attention when he can.
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| Tactless/Foul Mouth - He's not at all above using off-color humor and foul language.
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| Insecure - Despite his outgoing appearances and desire to make people laugh, he's really pretty shy deep down and is insecure about himself and his abilities, though he tries not to let it show.
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| Nerd - He really enjoys the nerdy side of life and it's not uncommon for him to watch movies, T.V., play table top or video games, etc.
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