| Introduction
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xxxxxIgnore the claws and mouthful of sharp teeth. Just remember, they are more scared of you than you are of them.
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| Description
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xxxxxIt is impossible to mistake this individual for anything but a mutant. There's a rather amphibious look to this teenager, from webbed fingers to the slitted gills that line the sides of the neck and ripple down the sides of the throat. The teen sports skin a deep blue, with a tendency to gleam and prone to shifting lighter or darker in shade at times.
Small and sleekly compact, diminutive height -- standing an inch or two shy of five feet -- and slender build lends a frail overall appearance. Pixieish features only add to that impression -- face drawn in androgynous lines of elfin delicacy, narrow features dominated by overlarge solid-black eyes that are set far too deep above high cheekbones; between lack of eyebrows or lashes, though, and the black eyes and slightly flattened nose and the outlined ridges that take the place of normal ears on his head, there's an uncanny-valley kind of surreality to the youth's facial compositon. The enormous black eyes bear a second clear set of lids that close sideways beneath the regular pair. In lieu of regular hair a spiky mess of black, harder and pokier than normal human hair, crowns the top of the odd water-demon head.
In build otherwise, the teenager is streamlined-sleek, whipcord-lean limbs that end in flat webbed hands and feet. In telling contrast to the delicacy of build, webbed fingers and webbed toes both end in dagger-sharp claws, black and pointed and small -- at least when fully retracted. The teen's smile proves just as telling, rows of razor-sharp shark-teeth gleaming white behind the curve of blue lips. Despite the fragility of appearance, there is a strength belied in movement, sure and powerful with an animal sort of grace.
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| Reputation
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xxxxxAt Xavier's, was known to be helpful, very friendly, and extremely studious. Often got flak when people mistook hir for Shane. Which was often. In the world outside Xavier's, has a very small amount of fame from inventing hoverboards; owns hir own ROBOTICS toy company (Mako Inc). Can be found in YouTube videos very shyly demonstrating the hoverboards with Tony Hawk. Is clearly a giant fankid.
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| History
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xxxxxBorn in rural Montana, the younger child (by a whopping four minutes!) of a couple recently immigrated from Vietnam. A human couple, who were not expecting their eagerly-awaited firstborn twins to be quite so -- well, blue. It wasn't a particularly cheerful home life, parents never really viewing their sharpclawed sharkteeth twins as anything but monsters; they leapt on the first opportunity to rid themselves of the pair.
Things aren't always terrible, though. After a long stint spent largely in cages, the twins were adopted by a young couple in New York, together with an also-adopted younger brother. The family has been through kind of a lot of ups and downs but for all the twists and turns of mutant lift, it's a loving happy home. Went to Xavier's, took as many classes as the school would let hir cram in in between a job at Stark Industries. Graduated as the valedictorian of hir class and upset the teachers greatly when, after being their model student the whole time ze was at school, hir graduation speech all but encouraged hir classmates to give the middle finger to respectability politics and join the Brotherhood instead.
Following Xavier's B went off to MIT, aided by a glowing recommendation from Tony Stark himself that maybe helped the admissions board look past the blue skin and claws. That didn't make hir time at school easy, though; hir classmates and teachers alike were uncomfortable to hostile with the small sharky trans girl. Though she excelled academically, emotionally it's been another question entirely, and after three grueling years she made the tough decision to drop out and focus on work.
Now returned to New York, ze is working as a researcher at Stark Industries, leading an AI and Robotics team, and have recently started their own tiny startup company on the side -- Mako Inc, a small robotics company. At the moment its flagship product, launched at the very end of 2014 (just in time to fulfill Back to the Future's predictions!) is a hoverboard, marketed as a toy and quite popular with the skater crowd.
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| Powers
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xxxxxBlue. That is likely the first thing anyone notices about B. Their mutation leaves them very noticeably mutanty, adapting their physiology for life in the water. Their fingers and toes are webbed (and rather sharp-clawed), they sport a small pair of gills on the sides of their neck and a larger pair down their sides, their clear inner eyelids are helpful for protecting their eyes while swimming. Their smile is somewhat disconcertingly toothy.
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| Connections
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- Anole - Cutest lizard.
- Dusk - Best cuddles ever.
- Hive - Borg!
- Ion - Lightning god.
- Isra - Brains AND claws.
- Jax - Goes from cuddles to badass in nothing flat.
- Kay - Fire and heart.
- Peter - Geek squad.
- Rasa - Sweet, shy, kind of dysmorphic? MAYBE SECRETLY /ACTUALLY/ HIS OTHER HALF?
- Ryan - Roots rock rebel.
- Shane - Better half.
- Spencer - Junior GeekSquad.
- TonyStark - TOTALLY bros now.
:)
- Eric - Makes Shane happy. :/
- Iolaus - Like a really smart... goldfish.
- Jim - Adult?? In theory??
- Kisha - Girl Genius!
- Kurt - Swashes all the buckles!
- Melinda - Heart in the right place.
- Regan - Fight club is GO.
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| XS Schedule
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Spring Term, 2011
- Health & Human Development
- Mathematics: Remedial
- English: Remedial
- Psionic Self-Defense
Summer Term, 2011
- Mathematics: Algebra
- English: Expository Writing
- Science: Anatomy & Physiology
- Ethics: The Ethics of Power
- History: Classical Greece
- Phys. Ed: Self-Defense
Fall Term, 2011
- Ethics: Power and Social Responsibility
- Science: Animal Behavior
- English: Creative Nonfiction
- History: Classical Rome
- Science: AP Chemistry
- Mathematics: Algebra
- Sport: Fencing
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club (Founded)
- Extracurricular: Student Council (Freshman class VP)
Winter Term, 2012
- Ethics: Bioethics: Humanity in the Post-Genomic Era
- Mathematics: Algebra
- English: Asian-American Literature
- Science: AP Chemistry
- Language: Spanish I
- Phys. Ed: Self-Defense
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Yearbook
Spring Term, 2012
- Mathematics: Geometry
- English: Gender Roles in Modern World Fiction
- Science: AP Chemistry
- Language: Spanish II
- History: War and Peace in Modern Times
- Comp. Sci: Algorithms and Data Structures
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Debate Team
- Extracurricular: Yearbook
Summer Term, 2012
- Comp.Sci: Fundamentals of Computer Science
- Mathematics: Geometry
- Science: Marine Biology
- Language: Spanish III
- Comp. Sci: Algorithms and Data Structures
- English: Shakespeare
Fall Term, 2012
- Science: AP Biology
- Language: Spanish IV
- Mathematics: Trig/Precalc
- History: U.S., Colonialism - 1861
- Comp.Sci: Fundamentals of Computer Science
- Science: Introductory Astronomy
- Sport: Fencing
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: GSA
- Extracurricular: Yearbook
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Student Council (Sophomore class President)
Winter Term, 2013
- Science: AP Biology
- Language: Spanish V
- Mathematics: Trig/Precalc
- History: U.S., 1861-1941
- English: Narratives of Native Peoples
- Phys. Ed: Self-Defense
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: GSA
- Extracurricular: Yearbook
- Extracurricular: Astronomy Club
Spring Term, 2013
- Mathematics: Trig/Precalc
- Language: Spanish VI
- Science: AP Biology
- History: U.S., 1941-Present
- English: Creative Writing: Poetry
- Phys. Ed: Self-Defense
- Extracurricular: Rock Climbing Society
- Extracurricular: Archery Club
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Tabletop Society
Summer Term, 2013
- Mathematics: AP Calculus AB
- Language: Spanish VI
- Science: Molecular Genetics
- Arts (Music): Improvisational Music
- English: Journalism
- Extracurricular: Rock Climbing Society
- Extracurricular: Archery Club
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Tabletop Society
Fall Term, 2013
- Mathematics: AP Calculus AB
- Language: Spanish VII
- Health: Human Sexuality
- Ethics: The Environment
- Arts (Theatre): Public Speaking
- English: AP Literature & Composition
- Sport: Fencing
- Extracurricular: Archery Club
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Astronomy Club
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Tabletop Society
Winter Term, 2014
- Arts (Visual): Introductory Architecture
- English: AP Literature & Composition
- English: The Art of Protest: Revolutionary Writings
- Language: Spanish VIII
- Religion: Christianities
- Philosophy: Existentialism
- Sport: Swimming & Diving (non-competitive)
- Extracurricular: Archery Club
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Tabletop Society
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Astronomy Club
Spring Term, 2014
- Arts: Color and Light
- Health & Human Development: The Pursuit of Euphoria
- Science: Molecular Gastronomy: The Science of Food
- Science: Disease and Medicine in the United States
- Social Sciences: Women, Gender, and Society
- Vocational: Horticulture (Decorative)
- Sport: Gymnastics (non-competitive)
- Extracurricular: Archery Club
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Tabletop Society
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Astronomy Club
- Extracurricular: Cryptology Club
- Extracurricular: Rock Climbing Society
Fall Term, 2014-15
- Vocational: Beekeeping
- Vocational: Automotive Mechanics
- Science: Intermediate Astronomy
- Science: Fluid Mechanics
- Mathematics: Linear Algebra
- Arts: Intermediate Architecture
- Sport: Fencing
- Extracurricular: Archery Club
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Tabletop Society
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Astronomy Club
- Extracurricular: Cryptology Club
- Extracurricular: Rock Climbing Society
Winter Term, 2014-15
- Vocational: Carpentry
- Social Sciences: Cultural Anthropology
- Science: Advanced Astronomy
- Social Sciences: American Popular Culture
- Science: Geology
- Mathematics: Linear Algebra
- Sport: Swimming & Diving (Non-competitive)
- Extracurricular: Archery Club
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Tabletop Society
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Astronomy Club
- Extracurricular: Cryptology Club
- Extracurricular: Rock Climbing Society
Spring Term, 2015
- Art (Visual): Ceramics
- History: Modern Latin America
- Mathematics: Basic Finance 2: Small Business Finance
- Mathematics: Linear Algebra
- Science: The Brain and You
- Science: Botany
- Sport: Gymnastics (Non-competitive)
- Extracurricular: Archery Club
- Extracurricular: Robotics Club
- Extracurricular: Tabletop Society
- Extracurricular: Peer Tutoring
- Extracurricular: Astronomy Club
- Extracurricular: Cryptology Club
- Extracurricular: Rock Climbing Society
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| B Minh Holland-Zedner
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| Codename
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None
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| Birthdate
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March 21, 1998
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| Species
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Mutant
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| Affiliation
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Brotherhood of Mutants
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| Alignment
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Dawn
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| Powers
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Physical water adaptation
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| Occupation
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Stark Industries Researcher
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| RP Hooks
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| Bookworm - Library, bookstore, tucked up under a tree in a park; if they won't kick them out for their appearance, you might find them curled up away with a good book.
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| Under the Sea - Or next to it! Or the river. Or the reservoir. B loves the water, and is often found in the vicinity of places he can swim, whether they are supposed to be swimming in them or not.
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| Geek Squad - KIND OF A NERD. Heavily into robotics and programming. Will enthusiastically geek-out given the slightest provocation.
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| Natural 20s - See above re: KIND OF A NERD. Will also happily dive into tabletop games, be they board or card or RPGs.
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| Stark-in-Training - See above re: KIND OF A NERD. Employed as a senior researcher at Stark Industries; is the lead architect for a small A.I./robotics development team.
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| The First Rule... - Organizes and participates in a mutant-only Fight Club, Friday nights in the Lower East Side. Sometimes enjoys a good throwdown.
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| Babybiker - One of the newest inductees of the Mutant Mongrels MC.
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