NAME: Tobias Pell

ALIAS: Raptor

MUTATION (POWERS): Tobias is an Avian-class mutant. He is a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a bird, a red-tailed hawk to be more precise. He presently does not have the ability to shift his forms, and is stuck in a midshift. He has heightened senses that would accompany most feral abilities, though they are dulled by the midshift problem. He has a special type of sensory vision that he prefers to call Raptor vision. it allows him to see body heat, as well as have an incredibly long range of sight. He also has a small degree of a healing factor, it tends to focus more on healing his broken bones than any other injury, though he does heal faster from other wounds than a normal person would.

AGE: 16

DESCRIPTION OF BODY (BUILD, HEIGHT, UNIQUE FEATURES, ETC.): He stands at a hunched over 4'8" if he were not so hunched over due to his midshift, he would be standing at 5'9". His entire body is covered with light fluffy looking feathers, atop his head and sprouting from his upper chest and shoulders are more coarse, stiffer feathers that would be used for flight if he were capable. His legs are dwarfed and bent backwards are the knee, like a bird's are. There are thick scaley patches of skin along them from the knee down. The last two fingers on his hands(ring and pinky) are non-existent in appearance. the bones themselves are elongated in order to create the bones for his wings. His middle finger is longer than the others, but it is fused to the other elongated ones. His only working fingers are his pointer finger and his thumb, making his hands pretty much useless, though he can pull the trigger on a gun. Much of his face has hardened in order to make the beak of the hawk, though it too is frozen in a terrible midshift. He has talons upon his feet as razor sharp as any bird of prey's.

HAIR COLOR AND STYLE: non-existent

EYE COLOR: His eyes are a piercing gold in shade, much like the eyes in most raptors.

RELATIVES: Tobias is a child of a split family. His father lives in Cairo, Egypt; while his mother lives here in the States. He was an only child, though his Father has recently remarried and had children with his new wife.

ETHNICITY: White(Caucasian)

HISTORY: Tobias was born with what the doctors had assumed was a rare disease that left his bones hollow, just like a bird's. They didn't know at the time that he was a mutant and the hollow bones, a result of that mutation. His father was a rather wealthy businessman and his mother a nice stay at home-type. The hollow bone disorder that he grew up with caused him alot of pain and sickness as a child, alot of extra grief on his parents. Medical bills, on top of work related stress, caused his parents to divorce and his father got transferred overseas with the company. Tobias spent most of his childhood travelling across the Atlantic for visitations. As he grew, his mutation began to surface slowly. His hair began falling out first as the stubbly disgusting beginnings of feathers began to protrude. His eyes grew larger, as his legs shrivelled. His arms grew thicker and his chest cavity grew as well as his body began to incorporate more and more avian organs and structures. When he was 13, about to turn 14 at the end of the month, he was flying overseas to spend Christmas with his father. He hid his appearance as well as any hoodie and baggie jeans would allow. It didn't make him very popular with airport security, but they understood. As his luck would have it, he was seated at the emergency exit of the airplane, go figure. There was sudden turbulence and as his rotten luck would hold out, before he could get his seat belt back on, after a trip to the little restroom, the door blew off and he was sucked out. Whether it was a bolt of lightning, bird, or act of God that wrenched the door the from plane, he'll never know, nor care to. The extreme stress of being sucked from an airplane in flight, caused his latent mutation to finally break through the surface. However, as if his luck weren't bad enough, he was freefalling and his mutation wasn't surfacing quickly enough to save him. To make matters even worse, he was falling for the Mutant Hating Nation of Genosha. Their sensors targetted a mutant 'flying' above them and sent a squad of retrievers after it. He was captured and clamped with a mutant control collar before he completed his transformation, trapping him in a midshift. He spent the next two years in a mutant containment camp, hauling rocks from the quarry for god knows what reason.

ANY SERIOUS PHYSICAL OR MENTAL CONDITIONS: Tobias suffers from a hollow-bone disorder that he has had since birth and the doctors had simply chalked off to being a rare disease rather than being a part of his mutation. His bones are easily broken due to this piece of his mutation, though his mutation allows him to heal quickly.

HOBBIES: He enjoys reading SciFi novels because the people within are usually much more accepting than the people in the real world. He was also a bit of a bird watcher before his mutation surfaced entirely.

PERSONALITY: Tobias has a rather bland sense of humor and tends to be quite a pessimist when it comes to anything. He has always gotten the short end of the stick and tends to see that part alot more than most people do.

ANY PETS: none presently

OTHER:

WEAKNESSES: Being stuck in an unfortunate midshift causes a continuous pain that he has learned to deal with over time. Due to the fall from the plane which landed him in the horrible condition he is in, he has developed a bit of a fear of heights.

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