Post by Cyclops on Oct 3, 2010 8:19:36 GMT -5
Real Name: Scott Summers
Nickname/Mutant Name: Cyclops
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Character's Occupation: Teacher at Xaviers / Leader of the Xmen
Human or Mutant?: Mutant
Affiliation: Xneb
Powers/Abilities/Skills:
Cyclops possesses the mutant ability to project a beam of concussive, ruby-colored force from his eyes. Cyclops's eyes are no longer the complex organic jelly that utilizes the visible spectrum of light to see the world around it. Instead, they are inter-dimensional apertures between this universe and another, non-Einsteinium universe, where physical laws as we know them do not pertain. This non-Einsteinium universe is filled with particles that resemble photons, yet they interact with this universe's particles by transferring kinetic energy in the form of gravitons (the particle of gravitation). These particles generate great, directional concussive force when they interact with the objects of this universe.
Cyclops's mind has a particular psionic field that is attuned to the forces that maintain the apertures that have taken the place of his eyes. Because his mind's psionic field envelops his body, it automatically shunts the other-dimensional particles back into their point of origin when they collide with his body. Thus, his body is protected from the effects of the particles, and even the thin membrane of his eyelids is sufficient to block the emission of energy. The synthetic ruby quartz crystal used to fashion the lenses of Cyclops's eyeglasses and visor is resonant to his minds' psionic field and is similarly protected.
The width of Cyclops's eye-blast seems to be focused by his mind's psionic field with the same autonomic function that regulated his oriinal eyes' ability to focus. As Cyclops focuses, the size of the aperture changes and thus act as a valve to control the flow of particles and beam's relative power. The height of Cyclops's eye-blast is controlled by his visor's adjustable slit. His narrowest beam, about the diameter of a pencil at a distance of 4 feet has a force of about 2 pounds per square inch. His broadest beam, about 90 feet across at a distance of 50 feet, has a force of about 10 pounds per square inch. His most powerful eye-blast is a beam 4 feet across which, at a distance of 50 feet, has a force of 500 pounds per square inch. The maximum angular measurement of Cyclops's eye-blast is equivalent to a wide-angle 35mm camera lens field of view (90 degree measured diagonally, or the angle subtended by holding this magazine's pages spread open, upright at 9.5 inches from your eyes). The minimum angular measurement is equivalent to the angle that the thickness of a pencil would subtend at 4 feet (3.5 degree, about a quarter of an inch viewed at 4 feet). The beam's effective range is about 2,000 feet, at which point a 1-inch beam has spread out to 10 feet square, and then has a pressure of .38 pounds per square inch. Cyclops's maximum force is sufficient to tip over a filled 5,000 gallon tank at a distance of 20 feet, or puncture a 1-inch carbon-steel plate at a distance of 2 feet.
The extra dimensional supply of energy for Cyclops's eye-blast is practically infinite. Thus, so long as Cyclops's psionic field is active (which is constantly), there is the potential to emit energy. The only limit to the eye-blast is the mental fatigue of focusing constantly. After about 15 minute of constant usage, the psionic field subsides and allows only a slight leakage of energy to pass through the aperture. Cyclops's metabolism will recover sufficiently for him to continue in about an additional 15 minutes.
Weaknesses:
While Scott is packing some serious punch behind his eyelids, he is still mortal, and thus human. He can still be injured, shot, drowned, killed, and so on. While there is the benefit that he and his younger brother, Havok, cannot hurt one another with their powers, there is still the fact that his youngest sibling can still injure him. That and there is also the disadvantage of a stalemate. Scott is highly competitive and sometimes will do whatever it takes to achieve his objective. He has learned the value of playing by the rules, but if there’s a chance someone could beat him, he has the tendency to become a bit more rash in his actions. He also can be a colossal dick when someone is questioning his authority. He was put in charge for a reason and he will remind his team of that if he has to. Because of this, he can be a bit difficult to relate to at times.
There is also, a huge weakness in regards to his control. He cannot shut off the constant stream of concussive force shooting from his eyes and has to, thus, wear ruby quarts glasses to keep the energy from leveling everything he looks at. In the field he wears a visor, designed by Xavier. There are theories in regards to the reason as to why he is unable to stop his eye beams. One of which is because of a head injury he suffered as a child. In all actuality, it is a mental block that he has placed on himself. Because of the force he is capable of wielding, Scott is terrified of using his powers to their true potential; a somewhat hypocritical quality considering part of his job is to push his comrades to be their best.
Skills:
Tactician— As one of Charles Xavier’s top students, Scott Summers has received a great deal of nurturing in the field of becoming an effective leader. Thanks to this special treatment (or as some would call what Scott calls hard work “ass kissing”) Scott has earned his slot as the X-men’s leader.
Athlete— Part of Scott’s training with the Institute has allowed him to excel in physical activities. He prefers competitive sports, particularly soccer and baseball.
Educated— Well, as one of the X-men, Scott has received an education from the Xavier Institute. He has a degree in Education as well as Communications.
Combat— like most of the X-men, Scott has been trained in self-defense and field combat. He is apt enough to hold his own in a serious scuffle and near apt enough to have a course in it at the Institute, but there are obviously others far more experienced and qualified.
Pilot— In Scott’s time with the X-men, he has become a trained pilot. He can operate almost any of the Institute’s vehicles be it land or flight. He also has a mild knowledge of their mechanics, making him able to fix a good chunk of the damage done to them, but he cannot yet handle more complicated damage.
History:
Scott Summers was the older of the two sons of Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot in the U.S. Air Force. When Scott was a child, Major Christopher Summers flew himself, his wife Katherine, and his sons Scott and Alex back from a vacation in his vintage private plane called the 'DeHaviland Mosquito'. The plane was attacked and set ablaze by an unknown attacker. Katherine pushed Scott and Alex out the plane door with the only available parachute. The parachute was unable to slow their fall adequately and Scott suffered a head injury on landing. (The injury damaged the part of Scott's brain that would have enabled him to control his powerful optic blasts).
When Scott recovered, he was placed in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska where he lived for three years, miserable, lonely. While fifteen year old Scott was working in the city as a delivery boy, his developing mutant power to project optic force beams finally erupted, bursting forth in an uncontrollable and energetic blast that demolished a crane, causing it to drop a huge object towards a terrified crowd. Scott saved the crowd by obliterating the object with another blast, but they turned into an angry mob, thinking he had tried to kill them. Scott was cornered and beaten until he was rescued by a policeman and sent to the hospital, where he spent two months with his eyes bandaged, lids clamped shut beneath.
The boy was taken from the hospital and put in the care of Charles Xavier, who discovered that ruby red quartz was the only thing to contain Scott's optic blasts. For months, he and the boy worked to develop the lower levels of the mansion into a state of the art training facility, Scott even demonstrating enough technological genius to redesign a rejected blueprint for an S-71 Blackbird. He was also relearning how to interact with people, as Xavier began to bring in other students. Scott at the age of 18 was then offered a chance by the professor to do a degree in education and communications as Charles was planning on Scott being the team leader. Scott then took weeks off at a time to go Berkeley college in New York.
Scott however still returned to the mansion when he could to lead danger room sessions. After completing the college course Scott returned to the mansion to take over as leader of the X men for field missions and danger room practices from Charles. Scott currently works in the danger room with the younger students whilst teaching them some forms of history such as wars and battles in the class room.
Personality:
Scott's goals are simple, to do whatever is in his power to make Professor Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants a reality and to protect those he cares about with his life. Scott carries the world on his shoulders and while he is not humorless, he doles out warmth very sparingly. His childhood had been a nightmare after his parents' deaths and because of that, it takes him some time to warm up to people...well, that and the fact that he could kill you by merely looking at you. He is devoted entirely to Xavier and his dream. He is a leader through and through, and would rather die himself than lose a team mate. He has a fondness for flying planes and telepathic women...especially red haired ones.
Scott is not known to be fun, or charitable. His by-the-book attitude is daunting and inflexible, until you realize that he wrote the book. Doing what is necessary to save his people and prevent the mutant-human tensions from escalating into a war, Scott is the first one to say that his methods are taxing, and demanding, but if you follow his orders, if you do exactly what he says when he says it, things will go well, because before he issues an order he's thought of seven tactics and chosen this one as the quickest, safest, most effective solution. He doesn't expect blind obedience, but he expects you to understand he isn't issuing blind orders either. Scott respects those who work hard, who attempt to improve themselves, and who will do what's right even when it's hard. And, if you think he's hard on you, it's nothing compared to how hard he is on himself.
