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I've decided to create a thread like this to always have a place to keep my characters

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This is my character in Andrew's Age of Awesomness Age of Apocalypse. I chose a character who didn't really have much spotlight in the mainstream universe, but who could be interesting, if he was written better and wasn't killed off quickly. I tried to make Joseph so much more than just a de-aged and brainwashed Magneto's copy. Hopefully I succeeded at it. I remember being unsure whether or not to give my character Unlimited manipulation/creation, because most GMs I played with didn't really take it into consideration, giving it almost exactly the same possibilites as normal Manipulate/create option. But I don't regret it at all. Joseph was able to pull off some incredible stunts and while I truly love Mastery of Magnetism's 'barrier' (mobile force field with defense = 2x stones put; 1 stone per panel to maintain!!), the thing I love most about this Action is that I can let my creativity run wildly! Lodestone managed to overload a Madri priest's energy weapon (which seemed to be capable of energy absorption, so he detonated all of it and shaped it like a small bomb)... Also, I gave him Energy Absorption (limited to electromagnetic spectrum cold and heat), because I saw Magneto and Polaris both absorb energies thrown at them and use them to infuse themselves with them. And there's an added benefit of being able to replenish his Energy pool by absorbing enemies' attacks. All of his superpowered actions have the 'Power is dependant on physical condition' disadvantage, because Magneto's powers while psionic, they are physical condition-dependant. I chose to show that by Joseph suffering a negative sitmod if he's hurt. The more serious his injuries, the lesser power he can direct.
Joseph started out as a Hellion student in the Frost's Academy and because of unleashing a very powerful magnetic wave at the attacking Omega Prime, his brainwashing was kind of 'destroyed', so he was taken to the Providence Temple to 'repair his mind'. And so just recently Joseph changed a bit, back to his fully 'evil' persona (which is NOT 'stupid evil', but 'clever evil' - he knows values of his team - Hellions and while he believes himself to be one of the most powerful, he knows that a team of mutants is far more powerful than a single unit... if you know how to direct them). Now that both Jetstream - the older Hellions' leader and Scion/Hellion - the younger Hellions' leader are both gone, he has stepped into this position... and boy, I'm having so much fun with designing strategy! Never thought I would be enjoying being a leader actually. Teamwork, teamwork, teamwork!

So, yeah, Joseph is one of my favourite characters



Name: Joseph Lean
Codename: Lodestone
Species: Mutant
Gender: Male
Hair: White, short (unlike the Mainstream version of Joseph, he's got short white hair... more like in the second picture)
Eyes: Blue

Abilities:
Intelligence: 6
Strength: 2
Agility: 2
Speed: 2
Durability: 4

Health: 4
Energy: 12
Regeneration: 4

Actions:

Close Combat 3
- Strength bonus or Weapon modifier
- Wrestling
- Hellions training
- Using powers in combat

Ranged Combat 1
- Weapon modifiers
- Handguns

Social Skills 2
- Intimidation
- Persuasion

Leadership 3

Technology 2
- Intelligence bonus

Mastery of Electromagnetic Spectrum 4
- Unlimited manipulation and creation of electromagnetic forces
- Force blasts
- Accumulate energy
- Mastery is of extraordinary range and scope
- Power is dependant on physical condition (he takes penalty of one red stone per white stone of Health lost)

Energy Absorption 4
- When reflecting, he can put up to AN of his own Energy stones to add to the reflected stones
- Limited to electromagnetic spectrum, heat and cold
- Power is dependant on physical condition (he takes penalty of one red stone per white stone of Health lost)

Flight 6
- Bought with Mastery
- Speed is 2 when carrying others
- Power is dependant on physical condition (he takes penalty of one red stone per white stone of Health lost)

Modifiers:
Wealth: -1
Mental defence: (+4)
Magneto’s potential: (+6)
- works like Psycho-Centric Power Template, but it applies only to Mastery; using this modifier requires a special device created by Mrs. Frost for Joseph to be able to control his abilities
Magnetic sense: 4
- as Sonar Senses, but limited to metallic objects
Enhanced vision: 6
- electromagnetic spectrum

Equipment:
Vibranium gauntlets
- needed to control his vast abilities (mechanically, without it he can’t use Magneto’s potential without risking his powers flaring out of his control)
- Kinetic Absorption:
-- Vibranium is known for its powerful absorption abilities, especially kinetic energy absorption. These Vibranium-made gauntlets give Joseph additional defence due to their hardness.
-- Armour modifier: (+3)

Challenges:
Mutant
Amnesia
Joseph cannot remember any of the events that led him to the Apocalypse’s services… maybe that statement isn’t entirely correct, because he does remember that his life began ‘normally’, but because the treacherous rebels killed his family, he had to live all by himself. That is when he was found by Mrs. Frost and her Hellions… Of course, all of this is just a one, big telepathic lie, projected into his thoughts.
Considered ‘extremely precious’
- Joseph is a center of attention, really. Not in a good meaning though. Because of being a Magneto’s genetic copy, he is one of few ultimate weapons at Apocalypse’s disposal and so the High Lord wouldn’t like to loose his anti-Magneto, because even in the metallic heart of the immortal mutant there is a miniscule spark of anxiety that the leader of X-Men could overthrow him. That is why he handed him over to Adrienne Frost, whose goal was to make him into a truly ultimate weapon.
Hunted past
Living in the Age of Apocalypse alone makes it very likely to have a terrible past, but Joseph had more than that – he was artificially created using Magneto’s blood by the Horseman of Death’s servant, Astra and then quickly aged into teenager years, so his mutant genes would activate. This led to him ending up being a part of the younger team of Hellions.
Power dangerous to self and others
Not only he is very young, but also an extremely capable psionic. He inherited all of his genetic template’s mutant abilities – the complete control over electromagnetic spectrum, but unlike the original, he has not had time to learn how to make use of it or how to contain it within himself without burning him out. His abilities are both very powerful and dangerous, to him because they require a lot of energy (that is why he prefers to first absorb energy from other sources), and to others, because without his special gloves (made from vibranium) he wouldn’t be able to manipulate energies precisely and ‘safely’.
Deadly enemy (Astra)
Astra may not be his nemesis per se, but it doesn’t make her less dangerous… the worst is that Joseph has no idea what his enemy is up to. Even more, he doesn’t realize that she even exists or even more that she is plotting against him. He was brainwashed and though that process any of his memories containing her were erased from his mind.
Deadly enemies (X-Men)
Having crossed their way and being a clone of their leader, doesn’t help his cause. However, they are more likely to forgive him… if he regains his memories, of course. Because, as it is right now, he wouldn’t be really into joining the bunch of rebels.

Biography:
The man called Joseph is a clone of Magneto – the leader of the rebels known as the X-Men. He was created in secret by Astra, the Horseman of Death’s servant, using blood of the master of magnetism, but not to serve the High Lord… He was to become an Astra’s wildcard, the one on whom she could rely in dire situations… and her ultimate weapon against her one and true enemy – Magneto. She vowed an oath of vengeance and would do anything to accomplish that… and who was better to do the dirty work than the Magneto himself? Her creation, later named Joseph, was her way of making sure her dreams come true.

She copied all of Magneto’s genetic traits – his appearance, his X-Gen and through some experiments she also included a genius-level intellect and the master of magnetism’s memories and knowledge in the boy for him to be able to make better use of his powers. Due to the fact that she didn’t want to wait a few years for her clone to grow up, she artificially aged him into adolescence, because it was the age when mutants manifest their abilities. She patiently waited for the boy – of course, while training him – for his magnetic powers to erupt. They did. She was content about her creation and quickly send to fight off the X-Men… or rather Magneto.

At first, X-Men were shocked by seeing a 15-year old version of their leader, but as it seemed he wasn’t on their side. He was against them and he did best to show them that. Especially his genetic template. Without self-made limits that Magneto put on his own abilities, he was able to manipulate full electromagnetic spectrum without any restraint, overcoming the powerful mutant. Fortunately for Erik, his wife, Rogue came to his help and by combining magnetic abilities of the two of them, they managed to injure the white-haired boy with a huge metal pillar… It became clear that wounds and injuries were increasing the strain on his body to the point where his body screamed in agony. Without any chance to stand against the X-Men, he was defeated, but he couldn’t be taken with them… or rescued by his creator, because he was found by a group of Infinites who informed Holocaust and through him also Apocalypse of the boy generating such a huge amount of electromagnetic energy.

It was then that Apocalypse made his decision about the boy. He was to be brainwashed by the High Lords’ priests called Madris and taken to Mrs. Frost for a special tutoring in her Hellions. He needed the boy if a threat of Magneto’s rebels’ revolution ever arises. He would be his ultimate weapon.

During his time as a Hellion, he was named Joseph Lean and indoctrinated in Apocalypse’s beliefs. He received a great dose of training that made him discover his abilities… but without Magneto’s self-put blocks, he was straining himself too quickly and also he generated much more energy than he needed. Sometimes, he used too much concentration and caused a havoc by loosing control over electromagnetic fields. That was why Mrs. Frost ordered him to wear special gloves made for him. They were strengthened with Vibranium – in hopes of absorbing various energies generated by him to let him use his full potential whenever he wanted.

His mutation didn’t stop growing, but thanks to his Vibranium gauntlets he is able to control it… the worst for Apocalypse is that Joseph started to slowly ‘brush off’ the brainwashing thanks to his increased abilities. The more he absorbs electromagnetic energy (especially electricity), the weaker the resident psychic influence becomes… That means that he began to have flashbacks of his life as an agent of Astra, but also of a man known as Magneto (he does not realize that these are Magneto’s memories yet)…

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This character was born out of affection, I guess, or rather, in honor of my favourite Marvel couple - Scott Summers and Jean Grey. Even though I like Scott's current relationship with Emma Frost, nothing will ever replace the chemistry between the optic-blasting leader and the beautiful redhead. Anyway, Scott Jr. was born after Jean Grey's death... oh yeah, she is the Phoenix, right? What I had in mind when I created him was a psionic who would hate Emma (evil stepmothers, huh?) and her children (in this reality, a diamond-changing Christian and two psychic twins Cordelia and Katherine), always being rejected and trying to prove himself worthy of his father's affection. His personality is really all about him thinking he is just a looser. In truth, he is the offspring of the Phoenix Force, so through that he is destined to greatness.



Name: Scott ‘Scotty’ Summers Jr.
Codename: Marvel Boy
Species: Mutant
Gender: Male
Hair: Red
Eyes: Green
Age: 15
Height: 5'6''
Weight: 140 lbs.
Place of birth: Presumably Manhattan, NYC.
Advisers: Emma Frost-Summers and Scott Summers

Abilities:
Intelligence: 5 (Intelligence-based Energy)
Strength: 1
Agility: 2
Speed: 2
Health: 2
Energy Reserve: 5
Stamina: 3

Health: 2
Energy: 21
Regeneration: 5

Actions:
Close Combat 2
(Agility bonus or Weapon modifier; Hand-to-hand; Trained by Cyclops)

General Knowledge 1
(Intelligence bonus; Mathematics emphasis)

Leadership 1

Phoenix Force 1
(Cosmic Power; Action specialties: Force Blast [Armor Penetration])

Psionics 2
(Intelligence bonus; Telepathy, Empathy, Telepathic communication, Shatter thoughts [as Fear], Telekinesis, Vulnerability to emotional assaults)

Social Skills 3
(Diplomacy, Mutant culture, Socialize)

Modifiers:
Wealth: 0
Mental Defense: (+1)
Precognitive flashes

Challenges:
Mutant, human appearance
Compulsion to stick up for underdog
Disliked by Emma Frost
High expectations
Host to the Phoenix

Jean Grey – the heroine, the X-Man, the Phoenix – was all gone. She was truly the Phoenix, she embraced her destiny as the White Phoenix of the Crown. She transcended above human realm, became part of the cosmic world… leaving her friends, her family, her shattered husband behind. Even though their marriage was all but perfect, they loved each other and cared for each other, more than anyone could imagine. As the time passed by however, some things began complicating themselves. Jean becoming the Dark Phoenix, then dying, then being cloned, then being found alive, then again manifesting the Phoenix Force, then meeting a now good Emma Frost (who was one of main reasons why their marriage was falling apart…), then sacrificing herself for her … That was a lot to endure, but in the end she realized where her place was. In the White Hot Room. She was almost gone, but her bonds to the material world were too strong, her love still blooming to just simply leave her Scotty and his beautiful eyes alone…

It was what lead to the Phoenix appearing in her husband’s dream. But – was it a dream or reality? For the cosmic entity it didn’t really matter. With but a thought she was able to shape the reality, so what would be the difference between the real and the dream? She could do anything in either. She called out for him, when he was having nightmares. She saved him from skeletons from his past. One smile, the same smile, that look of those big green eyes, that touch of those soft red lips and that eerie aura of incredible force emanating from her. There was nothing that could make him happier.

It was absolutely a beautiful dream. What Scott didn’t know was that the Phoenix Force truly visited him that night, what in turn led to a very… unusual event nine months later. An impossible phenomenon – in one moment, every satellite on Earth shorted out and rebooted, lights in every city on Earth went down and up, every telepath felt – at best – uncomfortable, when a powerful psychic force invaded their minds. Cerebro went off the charts… only to locate a mutant manifestation signal few seconds later. X-Men were sent to discover what caused that chaos. They found a redheaded mutant baby boy, who bore a striking resemblance to Scott. Adopted by the Headmaster of the Institute, he was given the same name as his adopted father’s, Scott (later called ‘Scotty’ by everyone though).

Being the son of the X-Men’s leader hasn’t been easy. Not only everybody has expected more of him, to be perfect in pretty much everything, but also… there has been Emma. Emma Frost and her own children. Always cold, always sarcastic, always critical, the same old Emma. Of course, Scott Jr. at first didn’t understand that his stepmother was just herself, when she criticized him. He thought that he had done something bad and for that he was terribly sorry. Realizing that she cared for his father, he decided that he would win some of her love for himself too, if he only were more like Scott… Unfortunately, it couldn’t be further from the truth. He tried to be as much like his father as it was possible. He had had his name already and as it quickly became obvious his geometrical awareness too – he was showing an innate talent in Mathematics, especially in geometry. Not long after, it was discovered that Scotty ‘inherited’ Cyclops’ optic blasts too! They looked similar, fired from his eyes, but instead of being composed of pure energy, they were all fiery and hot enough to burn a hole in metal in few seconds. Unlike his father, however, Scotty had always had a complete control of his powers.

When he hit puberty, there was one thing that he began to understand. He realized that Emma was always favoring her own son, Christian and as it seemed, so did Scott (or was it just Scotty’s flawed logic?), what caused even more pain and stress on the redhead teen’s side. Not only Emma’s boy was older (and ‘firstborn’), but more so he got his mother’s striking appearance (cold blue eyes, brown hair) influenced by some similarity to Scott in facial features (what makes him look very much like Scott with hair and eyes of different color). What is more, he is an arrogant jerk, hubris personified.

Seeing that no matter what he did, his parents liked Christian more, he became obsessed with pushing himself to his limits and sometimes far beyond them. It was a desperate, silent call to be noticed… Fate is not without a sense of irony though, because after manifestation of other Scotty’s abilities, not only his dad didn’t spend more of his time, but he suggested Emma should look after him. She was a telepath, after all, and a good one at that, while Scotty, as it seemed, had a great psionic potential, unfortunately, not fully under his own control. His mind began projecting unusual, but familiar psionic waves, often subconsciously reading minds, sensing emotions or picking up objects telekinetically. It didn’t help him establish a close relationship to his step-mother. It only made matters worse. All the time she was spending with her, he was being criticized and shunned. Even during their Psionics control sessions, she always said that he wasn’t trying hard enough. He was mad at her, at Christian, at her other psychic babies and at everyone who idolized her. And his codename makes it clear.