| Introduction
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xxxxxSunshiney-bright, flagrantly colourful, radical-left-leaning but devoutly Catholic, Jax might not fit in many places. But this is New York.
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| History
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xxxxxBorn the only child to farming parents in a tiny town nestled in at the base of Appalachia, Jax's early life was a pleasant enough one. Sheltered, for sure, a combination of living in a tiny backwater Georgia town and growing up with very conservative parents who were rather overprotective of their only child. Devout Catholics, they passed their faith on to him from early on. His life was simple, but full. Church, school, learning how to take care of the farm, these were foundations; on top of which there was swim team, dance lessons, and above all art, for which he showed a great aptitude from an early age.
xxxxxThough in classes he tended to do reasonably well, out of classes things were harder; being a somewhat flamboyant boy in a highly conservative town did not go over well, and even less so once his mutation manifested. It was a blessing the day that a Xavier's representative found him and brought him to New York to be able to continue his schooling normally. In the new environment he thrived, once he got over homesickness, learning to control his powers and applying himself to practice with the same diligence he gave the rest of his schoolwork.
xxxxxThough always politically bent and heavily involved in activism (focused around environmental justice and animal rights, largely) it was his abduction by Prometheus that focused this activism in more aggressive ways. In the wake of his rescue from there, he and some of the other rescuees have attempted hunting down other similar facilities and liberating their occupants.
xxxxxOutside of being a vigilante he keeps busy. Between work -- part-time as a tattoo artist and body piercer, part-time as a teacher at Xavier's; between life as an X-Man and helping out at church and the various activist groups he's involved in, he doesn't find much time for sleep. Single fatherhood doesn't help with that either; he has twin teenagers and a ten-year-old rescued from Prometheus and subsequently adopted.
xxxxxIn recent time he's been making a name for himself -- rather inadvertently. A string of newsworthy events -- stopping the mayor's assassination, protecting Norman Osborn at a rather high-profile gala -- first brought him to public notice; subsequently, his efforts in both helping find the cure and combat the zombies during the zombie plague made him famous.
xxxxxAnd then infamous, when a video by the head of HAMMER accused him of murder and terrorism. Following a brief stint in jail these accusations were cleared; the media coverage on him largely went from terrorist to hero after many other ex-Prometheans came forward publicly with their stories.
xxxxxSince getting out of jail he's tried to return to a Normal Life. It works some days better than others.
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| Powers
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xxxxxAt its base, Jackson is a photokinetic. His mutation controls the light around him, bending it in accordance with his moods and thoughts. With training and practice he's learned to leash it so that for the most part it doesn't visibly happen when he doesn't want it to, and so that it /does/ respond when he /does/ want it to.
This power makes him effectively an illusionist, and in this he is most adept, bending and reorganizing light waves to change their appearance. He creates vivid holographic images that are substanceless, soundless, but quite visually convincing. Unlike psionically-based illusions, his are "real" in that he is actually moving the light waves themselves and therefore the resulting imagery would show up on camera. He's less adept with some newer-emerged facets of his power that he can use offensively and defensively; offensively, in bursts of focused energy, or defensively, in solar-powered force-shields.
His mutation -- and him -- powers itself largely on solar power. Without a good enough charge, he can't shield at all and his beams will be weak. His illusions require the least energy expenditure, but still take a lot out of him if he does too much too long.
He stores solar power like a battery; he can't produce light innately, but can store energy for later. Too much sun is dangerous, too; he has a point past which he can't store anything more and if he doesn't expend the energy he's taking in continually, it will built up and is prone to exploding. He can't turn off the storing, but he's gotten pretty good at finding ways to let it out in small doses all day long so as to not burst.
He's gotten pretty used to fueling himself on solar power, too. More sun means more energy, for him, and can leave him even more hyperactive and prone to cheer. It helps that fueling himself this way brings down his need for sleep, although relying on it isn't the healthiest path.
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| Body Mods
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xxxxxJackson has become much more colourful over the years; in addition to the vividly coloured hair he sports three seasons out of the year, he has a WEALTH of piercings and tattoos. The current complete list:
Piercings -- Ears (earlobes 0g, 8 up the side of the left ear, 9 on the right; industrials, tragus, daith, rook), eyebrows (3 right, 4 left), teardrop (right). Lip (5 in his lower lip). Labret. Both nipples (twice), tongue (twice), left nostril (twice, one stud, one ring), right nostril (stud), septum, bridge. Genital (frenum, PA, hafada, magic cross, frenum ladder (13 rings)).
Ink:
- Back:
- Giant black-and-red feathered angel wings, spanning the entirety of his back, shoulders down to waist. (linework only)
- Two stars, the right one a little bigger and brighter, at the base of his neck/between the wings.
- Front:
- Over his heart: A dove in flight, olive branch in its beak, ringed by an excerpt of the words to the prayer of St. Francis in a spiral of small black print ("Make me an instrument of Your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Master, grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love with all my soul.")
- Most of the rest of his chest+the majority of his right side: A large peach tree climbs up his right side, the branches taking up most of the leftover room on his chest; it has both fruit and flowers at once, and there's a small fairy (an elfin humanoid male, with blue hair and large red-and-black butterfly wings) perched on one of the lower limbs.
- Left shoulder: A dragonfly, bright-bright blue with veined very slightly multicoloured wings.
- Right shoulder: The Neverending Story's AURYN.
- Skull: A chimaera. Large bat-wings, black panther body, heads of a goat, a dragon, a raven, a segmented scorpion's tail. Obviously, can only be seen if his head is shaved.
- Arms:
- Right elbow: Two bicoloured stars, red/black (front) and purple/black (back)
- Left elbow: Two bicoloured stars, green/black (front) and pink/black (back) on the left
- Left elbow: Just above the star on the front there is a simple black line segment, one inch long.
- Right inner wrist: A rainbow-colored cross with a circled-A superimposed over it, the letter circled with a crown of thorns
- Left inner wrist: A raised fist in a circle, clutching a carrot.
- Forearms: Paintbrushes on the right side and charcoal drawing pencils on the left, drawn to look like they are worming their way in and out of the skin.
- Right half-sleeve (shoulder to elbow): A lot of medicinal herbs.
- Left half-sleeve (shoulder to elbow): Fruits and veggies! Lots of them.
- Legs:
- Right half-sleeve (knee to ankle): Illustrations from The Lorax
- Left half-sleeve (knee to ankle): CARE BEARS. But only the original characters. Also a large rainbow. For the Care Bears to slide on. And puffy clouds.
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| Connections
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Sunshine
- Aloke - One more ray of sunshine.
- Anole - *_*
- B - Sharp mind. Sharp claws.
- Daiki - I will read all your dreams to the stars.
- Derek - Light a candle and hope that it glows.
- Ducky - Learning to fly.
- Dusk - Love is a dangerous angel.
- Flicker - Strong (in the real way.)
- Hive - I have been many things since last we met. I have been trees and rivers and hills and stones. I have spoken to stars and earth and wind.
- Horus - Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.
- Ion - Passion flows through him like a river of blood.
- Isra - You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.
- Ivan - COVERED IN BEES?? *_*
- Joshua - When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
- Kyinha - So intense!
- Lia - Dollface.
- Lucien - Magic belongs as much to the heart as to the head,
- Matt - and everything which is done should be done from love or joy or righteous anger.
- Melinda - Dreamer.
- Micah - Still miss you, every day.
- Nox - Lost in the darkness.
- Ororo - A word in season.
- Peter - Probably going to be a superhero one day.
- Ryan - Would sell a kidney for. ... hopefully never have to.
- Shane - Sharp wit. All heart.
- Shelby - I'm not opposed to a little bit of chaos.
- Steve - There's so much strength behind that shield.
- Spencer - Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- Tag - Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them.
- Taylor - Young, scrappy and hungry.
- Tian-shin - Bold, where it matters.
Stormclouds
- Iolaus - No less a sham than all the rest.
- Malthus - The stuff of nightmares.
- Masque - D:!
- Norman - I'm still holding out for that dance, though.
- Rasheed - I'm not going to stop what's coming to him.
- Trib - Anyone can be warm on a sunny day.
Partly Hazy
- Anima - Need to reincorporate hir.
- Cage - Well meaning.
- Chokechain - We all want to change the world.
- Dan - My kids, man.
- Doug - Sometimes so nice, sometimes so teenage.
- Eric - *facescrubs*
- Jane - The company she keeps... not so sound.
- Marrow - Interesting ideas about helping.
- Jim - Probably going to marry Hive some day.
- Parley - Catlike, in all the most dangerous ways.
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| Trivia
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- Maintains several blogs with varying levels of activity; one focused on sex & relationship education, one focused on teaching & parenting from a non-authoritarian perspective; one focused on mutant-related issues, and one more personal art blog. Used to have an animal rights one but that hasn't been updated regularly in years.
- Also totally keeps a tumblr though this, like many tumblrs, is unfocused and just full of Whatever On Earth He Feels Like. Pretty pictures. Cute puppies. Religious musings. Random banter with his friends. Cooking tips. Whatever is on his mind. Totally also a sprinkling of things found in all four of the above, but in a far less organized fashion.
- Much like half of his friends, his one-eyed beagle was also an ex-labrat; some of his animal lib friends nabbed Obie in a raid on an animal testing lab back in his college days. He had been fostering all the beagles that came out of the raid but for perhaps obvious reasons got extra attached to that one and never rehomed him.
- His advisor in high school was Scott Summers which led to no end of Cyclops jokes when he returned from Prometheus.
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| Gallery
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| Jackson Connor Holland-Zedner
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| Codename
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Sunshine
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| Birthdate
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Summer Solstice
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| Species
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Mutant
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| Affiliation
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Xavier's
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| Alignment
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Effervescent
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| Powers
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Photokinetic
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| Occupation
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Anarchist
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| Registration Status
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Unregistered
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| RP Hooks
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| Sugarfairy - Tends to bake and bake and BAKE. When class is in session, his desserts can be found almost daily in the XS rec room and Teachers' Lounge. His neighbors are frequently plied with desserts, too.
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| Needlepoint - Will prick you with so many needles. Inks people and does body piercing at Inkline, a studio in the Lower East Side.
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| Artsy - Paints, draws, graffitis, starting an art collective in the . Looks like an artist, too.
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| Freestyle - Loves to swim, even if he's not so good as his KIDS. They set a high bar, though.
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| Radical - Anarchist, activist, he can be found circling the leftist scene in various capacities, largely focused around queer rights and environmentalist vegan hippieism. Also mutant rights.
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| X-Man - The COLOURFULLEST X-Man. His uniform's bedazzled with a smiling sun.
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| THAT teacher - Teaches at XS -- art, baking, and also one of the mandatory Sex Ed classes.
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| Prometheus Bound - Once a labrat himself, now he spends a good deal of energy trying to find others and free them. On very public record in the news as an ex-labrat and rescuer of other labrats. Or terrorist.
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| Out and Proud - For better or for worse, one of the country's most famous mutants. Hero or terrorist depends on who you ask.
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