Post by Pietro Maximoff on Aug 22, 2007 18:07:35 GMT -5
Full Name: Pietro Maximoff
Alias: Quicksilver
Ethnicity: Caucasian (Sinti)
Date of Birth: September 10
Birthplace: Ostrov, Czechoslovakia
Citizenship: Dual Czechoslovakian/American citizenship
Approximate Age: 29 (Pending timeline)
Gender: Male
Height: 6’ 0”
Weight: 175 lbs
Build: Trim build, arms and legs are well-muscled.
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Silver
Dress Sense: Blue shirts and trousers, as well as sturdy black boots. For formal occasions, he will wear a navy blue suit. He never wears a watch. He has not worn metal since returning to America.
Powers:
• Superhuman Speed: ability to move and travel on foot at speeds exceeding the speed of sound. In addition, he possesses enhanced reflexes, balance, agility, and stamina, which go hand-in-hand with his superhuman speed. With his speed, he can:
- “fly” for short distances by flapping his arms or “vibrating” his legs
- Create cyclones
- Dodge machine gun and laser fire
-Run up walls
-Run across water
- Achieve stealth
• Speed Physiology: Quicksilver’s entire body is made for speed. His metabolism functions on a level befitting his moving speeds, processing 95% of his caloric intake from food and thus he never gains weight. His heart beats 25 times per second, his eyes secrete a fluid that is more viscous than tears to grant him sight when moving at high speeds, and his lungs work at a rate equal to that of his cardiovascular system. His joints are better lubricated than those of normal humans, allowing him to execute hairpin turns. His tendons have the strength of high-tensile spring steel, and his bones are comprised of a mineral that is not calcium, which allows him to survive great impacts. His body does not produce fatigue poisons, and instead he sweats out waste, which gives him high energy reserves and great endurance and stamina. His metabolism grants him certain physiological gifts, which include retarded aging (as his body has to compensate with the toll the speeds would otherwise take on his physical age), somewhat accelerated healing (but not a healing factor. Rather, his blood clots quicker, bones can mend faster, but if not tended to properly, will heal incompletely or improperly.), and immunity to alcohol and most drugs (as his body metabolizes them too quickly to take effect).
• Enhanced Strength: ability to lift 1,000 pounds with his upper body and 2,000 pounds with his lower body. He has an acute awareness of each muscle in his body and their relative strength levels, which allows him to modify his workouts accordingly.
• Mental Acceleration: ability to mentally process information faster than a computer and to acquire new skills in very little time at all. His mind operates at the same level of his body, making him prone to racing thoughts and, when excited, rapid speech. He perceives the world in slow motion, allowing him to outthink several opponents at once, and to side-step a number of attacks, in battle, his vision is akin to that of a fly, seeing what will happen before it does. He also uses this ability for extreme speed-reading.
• Twin Sense: a special bond with his twin sister Wanda, which allows him to know when she is distressed or in danger and vice versa.
• Precognitive Immunity: an immunity to precognitive powers that makes him “off the radar screen,” his movements too unpredictable.
Other Abilities: Trained in hand-to-hand combat techniques, as well as with certain weapons.
Languages Spoken: English, German, Romanes Sintenghero Tschib(en), Italian
Family: Erik Lehnsherr (Father, estranged); Magda Lehnsherr (Mother, deceased); Django Maximoff (Adoptive father); Marya Maximoff (Adoptive mother); Wanda Maximoff (Twin sister)
Personality: Coupled with his speed is a matching temper: quick to rise and quick to dissolve. Because his thoughts tend to race, and his speech would follow, he compensates by choosing his words carefully, forcing himself to slow down. It is rare for him to speak more than a sentence or two at a time, unless impassioned. If too impassioned, his words will blend together.
He is fiercely loyal to those he trusts and will lay down his life to protect his family, particularly for his sister Wanda, whom he is closer to than anyone. He values honor, truth, and family above all else, and in another life, he could have lived a happy life as a constable in a small town. He does not trust easily, but when he lets a person in, he will watch over her forever.
He has been described as “uptight and rigid, like he can’t relax,” and this is mostly true. He closes himself off to those around him, viewing himself as the ever-serious Watchman. He is stern, never laughs or cries, and rarely smiles. He speaks with a slight German accent, and when angry or upset, his accent grows thicker. He has a long memory, making it difficult for him to forgive past trespasses.
He avoids physical contact with most individuals as respect for their personal space as well as his own. However, if a situation warrants it, he will grab a person to carry them away, without a second thought.
He is easily irritated with the world around him, because it is so much slower. This irritation only adds to his tense demeanor. He comes off as haughty, but inside there exists the small, wounded child he once was. Ashamed of that person, he allows himself vulnerability only in his sister’s presence.
Psychological Diagnoses:
-Borderline Personality Disorder
-Schizophrenia
-Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
-Intermittent Explosive Disorder
-Separation Anxiety Disorder
-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Partial Diagnosis)
-Dysthemia
Prescribed to take Fluoxetine and Paliperidone, which he has steadfastly refused to do.
Actor: Ryan Phillippe
Personal History:
Pietro and Wanda were conceived by Magda and Erik Lehnsherr during the rockiest point in their marriage, immediately preceding a divorce. Unable to cope with her husband’s politics, the company he kept, and his temper, Magda divorced her husband and returned to her native Czechoslovakia.
In Czechoslovakia, she learned of her pregnancy. In need of a place to stay, Magda found her cousin Marya and moved in with her and her husband, Django Maximoff. Magda gave birth to her twins; Pietro older by four minutes. Magda died days later, of complications from childbirth.
The twins were adopted by the Maximoffs, and raised for their first several years as their own. Django, a Sinti doll-maker, found it increasingly difficult to earn enough money to feed his family, because the general population refused to interact with the Sinti, regarding them with distrust. With no other options, Django began to steal food to feed his family. Pietro, wanting nothing more than to help, began stealing food as well. Even as a child, he was faster than normal, which made it almost impossible to catch him. Django did, not in the act, but when Pietro brought home the bread and milk he had stolen from a house up the road.
Django and Marya loved the twins dearly, but realized that a home where they had to steal was no home at all. Dooming the children to a life of persecution and poverty, or worse, the life of criminals, was not something they could do to those children they loved. Not realizing to what Hell they were to damn their children, and with no better solutions, they called on Magda’s ex-husband.
Upon learning that he was a father, Erik Lehnsherr flew out with his partner Charles Xavier, intent on taking the children back with them to America. Pietro and Wanda were already citizens, as their father and mother had been naturalized years before. With a tearful goodbye to Django and Marya, the twins where taken back to New York and their new life.
For a couple of years, they were raised by their father, and Charles Xavier, whom they came to love as an Uncle. They were taught at the mansion and kept separate from other children, only adding to their bond.
When the men decided to open the School for Gifted Youngsters, Pietro and Wanda found themselves for the first time with others their age, other mutant children. After growing close to the other students, they came to regard them as family, other siblings or close cousins.
However, all was not well with Pietro and Wanda’s relationship with their father. He was demanding of them, stemming from his high expectations of mutants, particularly his progeny. This combined with emotional distance from them caused a rocky relationship. If he was not overbearing, he was neglectful; emotionally abusive more often than not.
Still, Pietro craved his father’s love and did everything he could to try to earn his approval. He was rebuked at every turn, and as he grew older, he began to suspect that his father only valued his mutation in so far as it allowed for manual labor. He lacked the raw potential of his sister; her ability to control probability was like magnetism: limitless potential. She was also the wordier, higher-achieving of the two. Left to himself, Pietro could barely string together two sentences coherently. He was prone to racing thoughts, and his speech would match its speed. He was as sharp as his father, but had no way of communicating it to him. This did not help matters, as his mutation gave all outward signs of ADHD coupled with a learning disability. Magneto’s disappointment was palpable.
Pietro had always been close to his sister. It was the nature of twins to be close, and with the move, he felt as though she was his only constant in life. This was enhanced with the development of his mutation, and he found himself moving all too fast in an ever-slowing world. She helped him to learn to slow down when it was necessary. As a result, he began to speak very little, choosing his words carefully to match the agonizing pace around him.
Things took a turn for the worst, after the accident which permanently crippled Charles Xavier. While their Uncle was in the hospital and then later recovering at home, Magneto was in charge of the school. Everything became more difficult, and tensions rose. Magneto became particularly hard on his children, demanding more of them than the others. They were going through puberty at the time, their rebellious phase, and Pietro had trouble calming himself with everything around him. He had inherited his father’s temper. After a particularly bad argument, Magneto struck his son, and that was the moment he changed in Pietro’s eyes. The abuse did not end there.
The arguments that had begun before the accident, and been placed on hold because of it, resumed as soon as Xavier was well enough. Mutant superiority vs. the fight for equality. Eventually, Magneto left the Institute and he expected his children to join him. They refused, and the last remnants of their connection were severed. Both twins had their names legally changed, removing the “Lehnsherr” that had been added after coming to America. They also made a pact to not have biological children, so that Magneto’s blood ended with them.
Realizing the threat that Magneto would pose to them, Xavier began training the students, twins included, in self-defense, powers and hand-to-hand combat. The Danger Room which had been constructed years before played a crucial role in this. While the other students began to spread their wings and go off to University for further education, Pietro and Wanda found themselves trying unsuccessfully to cope with the emotional scars Magneto had left them. They needed to leave, and with some financial and telepathic assistance from Uncle Charles, they left for Europe.
Some memories were fuzzy, as those had been psychically lessened to ease their pain. Pietro and Wanda traveled Europe together for several years, Western, Central, and Eastern, occasionally venturing into Asia. They earned money because Wanda would convince people to pay them for the job, rather than the hour, and Pietro could do any job in a manner of seconds, minutes at the most. They were happy together, although lonely and isolated as always, and blissfully unaware of Magneto’s trials and tribulations with the X-Men in America.
After the attack on Alcatraz, anti-mutant bias began to spread through Europe, when before there had been tolerance. Not acceptance, but tolerance all the same. Now the twins found themselves unable to find room and board, as their reputations in many small villages preceded them. What hurt them more was Pietro’s strong resemblance to his father, whose pictures were all over the news for terrorist activities.
Cursing the man for not giving them peace, they learned that he was teaching at a school, and traveled to America to find him. Intent on stopping him once and for all, and repaying him for their childhoods at the same time.
Alias: Quicksilver
Ethnicity: Caucasian (Sinti)
Date of Birth: September 10
Birthplace: Ostrov, Czechoslovakia
Citizenship: Dual Czechoslovakian/American citizenship
Approximate Age: 29 (Pending timeline)
Gender: Male
Height: 6’ 0”
Weight: 175 lbs
Build: Trim build, arms and legs are well-muscled.
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Silver
Dress Sense: Blue shirts and trousers, as well as sturdy black boots. For formal occasions, he will wear a navy blue suit. He never wears a watch. He has not worn metal since returning to America.
Powers:
• Superhuman Speed: ability to move and travel on foot at speeds exceeding the speed of sound. In addition, he possesses enhanced reflexes, balance, agility, and stamina, which go hand-in-hand with his superhuman speed. With his speed, he can:
- “fly” for short distances by flapping his arms or “vibrating” his legs
- Create cyclones
- Dodge machine gun and laser fire
-Run up walls
-Run across water
- Achieve stealth
• Speed Physiology: Quicksilver’s entire body is made for speed. His metabolism functions on a level befitting his moving speeds, processing 95% of his caloric intake from food and thus he never gains weight. His heart beats 25 times per second, his eyes secrete a fluid that is more viscous than tears to grant him sight when moving at high speeds, and his lungs work at a rate equal to that of his cardiovascular system. His joints are better lubricated than those of normal humans, allowing him to execute hairpin turns. His tendons have the strength of high-tensile spring steel, and his bones are comprised of a mineral that is not calcium, which allows him to survive great impacts. His body does not produce fatigue poisons, and instead he sweats out waste, which gives him high energy reserves and great endurance and stamina. His metabolism grants him certain physiological gifts, which include retarded aging (as his body has to compensate with the toll the speeds would otherwise take on his physical age), somewhat accelerated healing (but not a healing factor. Rather, his blood clots quicker, bones can mend faster, but if not tended to properly, will heal incompletely or improperly.), and immunity to alcohol and most drugs (as his body metabolizes them too quickly to take effect).
• Enhanced Strength: ability to lift 1,000 pounds with his upper body and 2,000 pounds with his lower body. He has an acute awareness of each muscle in his body and their relative strength levels, which allows him to modify his workouts accordingly.
• Mental Acceleration: ability to mentally process information faster than a computer and to acquire new skills in very little time at all. His mind operates at the same level of his body, making him prone to racing thoughts and, when excited, rapid speech. He perceives the world in slow motion, allowing him to outthink several opponents at once, and to side-step a number of attacks, in battle, his vision is akin to that of a fly, seeing what will happen before it does. He also uses this ability for extreme speed-reading.
• Twin Sense: a special bond with his twin sister Wanda, which allows him to know when she is distressed or in danger and vice versa.
• Precognitive Immunity: an immunity to precognitive powers that makes him “off the radar screen,” his movements too unpredictable.
Other Abilities: Trained in hand-to-hand combat techniques, as well as with certain weapons.
Languages Spoken: English, German, Romanes Sintenghero Tschib(en), Italian
Family: Erik Lehnsherr (Father, estranged); Magda Lehnsherr (Mother, deceased); Django Maximoff (Adoptive father); Marya Maximoff (Adoptive mother); Wanda Maximoff (Twin sister)
Personality: Coupled with his speed is a matching temper: quick to rise and quick to dissolve. Because his thoughts tend to race, and his speech would follow, he compensates by choosing his words carefully, forcing himself to slow down. It is rare for him to speak more than a sentence or two at a time, unless impassioned. If too impassioned, his words will blend together.
He is fiercely loyal to those he trusts and will lay down his life to protect his family, particularly for his sister Wanda, whom he is closer to than anyone. He values honor, truth, and family above all else, and in another life, he could have lived a happy life as a constable in a small town. He does not trust easily, but when he lets a person in, he will watch over her forever.
He has been described as “uptight and rigid, like he can’t relax,” and this is mostly true. He closes himself off to those around him, viewing himself as the ever-serious Watchman. He is stern, never laughs or cries, and rarely smiles. He speaks with a slight German accent, and when angry or upset, his accent grows thicker. He has a long memory, making it difficult for him to forgive past trespasses.
He avoids physical contact with most individuals as respect for their personal space as well as his own. However, if a situation warrants it, he will grab a person to carry them away, without a second thought.
He is easily irritated with the world around him, because it is so much slower. This irritation only adds to his tense demeanor. He comes off as haughty, but inside there exists the small, wounded child he once was. Ashamed of that person, he allows himself vulnerability only in his sister’s presence.
Psychological Diagnoses:
-Borderline Personality Disorder
-Schizophrenia
-Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
-Intermittent Explosive Disorder
-Separation Anxiety Disorder
-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Partial Diagnosis)
-Dysthemia
Prescribed to take Fluoxetine and Paliperidone, which he has steadfastly refused to do.
Actor: Ryan Phillippe
Personal History:
Pietro and Wanda were conceived by Magda and Erik Lehnsherr during the rockiest point in their marriage, immediately preceding a divorce. Unable to cope with her husband’s politics, the company he kept, and his temper, Magda divorced her husband and returned to her native Czechoslovakia.
In Czechoslovakia, she learned of her pregnancy. In need of a place to stay, Magda found her cousin Marya and moved in with her and her husband, Django Maximoff. Magda gave birth to her twins; Pietro older by four minutes. Magda died days later, of complications from childbirth.
The twins were adopted by the Maximoffs, and raised for their first several years as their own. Django, a Sinti doll-maker, found it increasingly difficult to earn enough money to feed his family, because the general population refused to interact with the Sinti, regarding them with distrust. With no other options, Django began to steal food to feed his family. Pietro, wanting nothing more than to help, began stealing food as well. Even as a child, he was faster than normal, which made it almost impossible to catch him. Django did, not in the act, but when Pietro brought home the bread and milk he had stolen from a house up the road.
Django and Marya loved the twins dearly, but realized that a home where they had to steal was no home at all. Dooming the children to a life of persecution and poverty, or worse, the life of criminals, was not something they could do to those children they loved. Not realizing to what Hell they were to damn their children, and with no better solutions, they called on Magda’s ex-husband.
Upon learning that he was a father, Erik Lehnsherr flew out with his partner Charles Xavier, intent on taking the children back with them to America. Pietro and Wanda were already citizens, as their father and mother had been naturalized years before. With a tearful goodbye to Django and Marya, the twins where taken back to New York and their new life.
For a couple of years, they were raised by their father, and Charles Xavier, whom they came to love as an Uncle. They were taught at the mansion and kept separate from other children, only adding to their bond.
When the men decided to open the School for Gifted Youngsters, Pietro and Wanda found themselves for the first time with others their age, other mutant children. After growing close to the other students, they came to regard them as family, other siblings or close cousins.
However, all was not well with Pietro and Wanda’s relationship with their father. He was demanding of them, stemming from his high expectations of mutants, particularly his progeny. This combined with emotional distance from them caused a rocky relationship. If he was not overbearing, he was neglectful; emotionally abusive more often than not.
Still, Pietro craved his father’s love and did everything he could to try to earn his approval. He was rebuked at every turn, and as he grew older, he began to suspect that his father only valued his mutation in so far as it allowed for manual labor. He lacked the raw potential of his sister; her ability to control probability was like magnetism: limitless potential. She was also the wordier, higher-achieving of the two. Left to himself, Pietro could barely string together two sentences coherently. He was prone to racing thoughts, and his speech would match its speed. He was as sharp as his father, but had no way of communicating it to him. This did not help matters, as his mutation gave all outward signs of ADHD coupled with a learning disability. Magneto’s disappointment was palpable.
Pietro had always been close to his sister. It was the nature of twins to be close, and with the move, he felt as though she was his only constant in life. This was enhanced with the development of his mutation, and he found himself moving all too fast in an ever-slowing world. She helped him to learn to slow down when it was necessary. As a result, he began to speak very little, choosing his words carefully to match the agonizing pace around him.
Things took a turn for the worst, after the accident which permanently crippled Charles Xavier. While their Uncle was in the hospital and then later recovering at home, Magneto was in charge of the school. Everything became more difficult, and tensions rose. Magneto became particularly hard on his children, demanding more of them than the others. They were going through puberty at the time, their rebellious phase, and Pietro had trouble calming himself with everything around him. He had inherited his father’s temper. After a particularly bad argument, Magneto struck his son, and that was the moment he changed in Pietro’s eyes. The abuse did not end there.
The arguments that had begun before the accident, and been placed on hold because of it, resumed as soon as Xavier was well enough. Mutant superiority vs. the fight for equality. Eventually, Magneto left the Institute and he expected his children to join him. They refused, and the last remnants of their connection were severed. Both twins had their names legally changed, removing the “Lehnsherr” that had been added after coming to America. They also made a pact to not have biological children, so that Magneto’s blood ended with them.
Realizing the threat that Magneto would pose to them, Xavier began training the students, twins included, in self-defense, powers and hand-to-hand combat. The Danger Room which had been constructed years before played a crucial role in this. While the other students began to spread their wings and go off to University for further education, Pietro and Wanda found themselves trying unsuccessfully to cope with the emotional scars Magneto had left them. They needed to leave, and with some financial and telepathic assistance from Uncle Charles, they left for Europe.
Some memories were fuzzy, as those had been psychically lessened to ease their pain. Pietro and Wanda traveled Europe together for several years, Western, Central, and Eastern, occasionally venturing into Asia. They earned money because Wanda would convince people to pay them for the job, rather than the hour, and Pietro could do any job in a manner of seconds, minutes at the most. They were happy together, although lonely and isolated as always, and blissfully unaware of Magneto’s trials and tribulations with the X-Men in America.
After the attack on Alcatraz, anti-mutant bias began to spread through Europe, when before there had been tolerance. Not acceptance, but tolerance all the same. Now the twins found themselves unable to find room and board, as their reputations in many small villages preceded them. What hurt them more was Pietro’s strong resemblance to his father, whose pictures were all over the news for terrorist activities.
Cursing the man for not giving them peace, they learned that he was teaching at a school, and traveled to America to find him. Intent on stopping him once and for all, and repaying him for their childhoods at the same time.
