Rem Zethernety

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OCCUPATION: student, mechanic

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NAME: Rem Czehtakhe Zethernety

ALIAS: Ram

MUTATION (POWERS): Shortly: telepathic communication; mind reading, altering and illusions; transforming to electricity; controlling electricity (electric strikes); seeing electricity, ultraviolet and infrared; flying. (Read the über-long explanation for all of them below if you dare.)

Telepathy:
--- Telepathic communication.
--- Reading people's minds without Rem or them wanting to (but just the most top-most and obvious thoughts). If the person is trained to block telepathy, Rem doesn't necessarily sense anything else but the presence of the person.
--- Reading people's minds by concentrating (depending on the person's training and overall sensitivity to telepathy, it might be easier or harder).
--- Performing a deep-mindscan (i.e. wander through the person's mind, drag out memories (even blocked ones), find out hidden information that the person was trained to hide from telepaths). Deep-scanning takes a lot of energy, especially if the person is trained to reject telepaths and is conscious.
--- Modifying, creating or erasing memories (it's hard to make them realistic or acceptable, and that is why it might fail (the real memories might come back, the created ones get destroyed, or then the thing doesn't work at all, etc.), but Rem can always try it again). Simple procedures (like erasing the events of last couple of seconds/minutes) are relatively easy, and it can be done it to many people at a time, though it takes more energy the more people there are. Creating the events of a one whole day then again is relatively much more difficult.
--- Creating illusions, making something seem real (pain, visions, other sensories) by tricking the short term memory of people. This is also quite simple when performed on one single person with a simple delusion, but depending on the detail of the illusion etc. and the amount of people being tricked, it can become very difficult and energy-consuming.

Electricity:
--- Transforming: Rem can transform completely into bioelectrical energy. In practice, it means that the molecules and atoms in his whole body lose all neutrons and protons and he will consist of highly biokinetically organized electrons. All the protons and neutrons that are lost fuse with extra electrons in the air, or are left as they are etc., and thus, every time Rem transforms into electricity, small lightning strikes can be seen where he transforms and for example hydrogen forms. Rem can do this in 0,5-1 seconds. When Rem transforms back into human form, the organized electrons grab neutrons and protons from air, and then the air is filled with extra electrons. Transforming back to human form takes 3-5 seconds, and during that and a few seconds after it, millions of little lightning strikes tend to gather around Rem.
-- Rem can only change his own body, so every time he transforms into electrical energy, his clothes will be left behind.
-- Things inside his body will be transformed into electricity, but when Rem materializes, the things that were inside him will not be materialized back (they are left behind where they were, as electrons, where Rem transformed). This means that for example the food he has eaten will disappear, or if he's been shot, the bullet will disappear.
-- Rem can also transform halfway, that is, he is partly physical and partly electricity. This way his clothes will stay on.
-- In electric form Rem weighs a lot less than in human form due to losing the neutrons and protons, but he still has some little weight. Also while transformed halfway, he will weigh less.
-- The thing that keeps Rem's electric form organized, together and from discharging is biokinetic energy.
--- Actual powers: In addition to actually transforming into electrical energy, Rem can control electricity, that is, create different charges in his surroundings etc., and thus create lighting strikes. He can also absorb charge from electrical machines and wall sockets and keep the charge within his body so that it will not discharge without him wanting to.
-- In human form Rem can lift and move himself a little on the magnetic field, but as more charge that would allow him to actually fly would cause discharging, Rem cannot do this properly in human form.
When Rem is for example shot or stabbed, he can transform into electricity in order to get the bullet out of his body and heal his body quicker. Otherwise, any weapon has the same effect it would have on anybody else. Electrical weapons distract and harm him more (unless Rem manages to drain them before they hurt him) than they would if he was a normal person; they can even make him bleed like his skin was ripped.
Rem can fasten or strengthen his own functions by controlling himself electrically and thus also has a faster and more accurate observation (works mostly with sight, hearing and reaction times).
Rem can also sense electricity, though he cannot actually see it.
-- Halfway transformed: In addition to what he can do when in human form, he can also fly (usually under the speed of sound) on the magnetic field of the planet, transform only parts of his body completely into electricity (or back to human form) and heal his wounds quicker. When he is damaged physically in this form (shot or stabbed), he transforms the part of his body in which the attack is directed in order to minimize damages. Electric things (like magnets and electrical weapons) don't hurt him as much in this form as they would if he was completely transformed into electricity, but they will do much worse damage than they would if Rem was in human form.
In this form, Rem can not only see normal visible light, but also electricity and the shorter end of the infrared wavelengths as well as the longer end of ultraviolet wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum.
-- Electric form: In addition to what Rem can do while halfway transformed, he is able to travel via metal wires as well as air (depending on the material in which he is traveling, he can travel even almost at the speed of light) etc., and reorganize his electrons (heal) (but only so that they will be how they were before they got disorganized, and thus Rem can't change his physical appearance). Also, when someone tries to harm him with a non-metallic object, the object will just slip past the electrons. When for example someone hits him with some organic object that has electric signals going through it (like just an arm), the owner of the arm will experience an electric shock, and Rem's electrons are slightly disorganized (i.e. it hurts a bit), but the force ejected by the hit will not have an effect.
In this form Rem can see electricity much more accurately than halfway transformed, and he can also see the far end wavelengths of infrared and ultraviolet (but he can't see the electromagnetic spectrum nearly as clearly as in human form or halfway transformed).
Magnets are as harmful to Rem's electric form as sharp objects are to normal human body, as magnets can reorganize his electrons quite drastically. Rem's electrical form is very similar to the makeup of his physical body, so the electrical part that forms his skin is easier to get disorganized (hurt) than the part that makes up the bones. Metals and other objects possessing electric properties in general can also be harmful, as they attract electrons, i.e. if a metal knife is thrown through Rem's body, all the electrons that the knife touches will become a little disorganized, but the consequences aren't as bad as if it had been his physical body through which the knife was thrown. If Rem manages to arrange his electrons properly before a metallic object hits him, the object can go through him without having an effect, or he can transform his electrons on the piece of metal, in which case it also would not hurt him.
--- Applications (other than lightning strikes): because moving etc. is mostly electric signals (and chemical reactions), Rem can control and see them to some extent. (Even without the help of telepathy, but it's difficult to distinguish between the two.) Rem can make people's bodies twitch or dysfunction and cause mental blackouts with simple discharging of electricity. He can also electrically see the charges through people's bodies and thus might have a guess at what they are going to do a hundredth of a second later (and Rem, due to his speed, can react before it).
By concentrating hard on a single piece of tissue though, he can do a bit more accurate manipulation (only if the owner of the piece of tissue allows him to), but not much.

AGE: 18

DESCRIPTION OF BODY (BUILD, HEIGHT, UNIQUE FEATURES, ETC.): 178 cm, 59 kg, slim build, heart-shaped face

HAIR COLOR AND STYLE: black, long bangs and back hair, otherwise short

EYE COLOR: glowing blue

RELATIVES: mother and father, deceased

ETHNICITY: Japanese / American Indian

HISTORY: Rem grew up in Canada as an only child of an American Indian mother and a Japanese father. When his telepathy and electrity powers manifested at the age of fourteen, his parents got worried first, but then accepted it and helped Rem to control his powers.
When Rem was fifteen, they found Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and decided together that Rem should attend that school. Rem and his parents traveled to New York and planned to move there. However, they were taken hostages in a bank robbery. As Rem wasn't very good at using his powers then, he couldn't do much but save himself when the robber lost his temper and shot many of the hostages, including his parents.
Rem fled with the help of his powers and left for Xavier's School.

ANY SERIOUS PHYSICAL OR MENTAL CONDITIONS: none

HOBBIES: computers, cars, other technical things and vehicles

PERSONALITY: Very curious and interested in new things. He has never had any real friends, so he can feel uncomfortable around other people sometimes, but enjoys the company of patient people. He likes being himself, not playing someone he isn't.

ANY PETS: none

OTHER: none

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