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» HANDLE: Chris
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» AGE: 29
» CHARACTER(S) IN-GAME: Haruto Saitou

CHARACTER
» NAME: Hank McCoy
» CANON: X-Men Cinematic Universe
» CANON POINT: mid-Days of Future Past (Rogue Cut), just after the scene between Hank and Raven. Hank goes back to his room in the mansion and reapplies his serum.
» AGE: late 20s/early 30s

» SETTING: First Class wiki; Days of Future Past wiki; Rogue Cut wiki; character wiki

» SHORT DESCRIPTION: loyal, repressed, intelligent, dependable, responsible, inventive
» INFLUENTIAL EVENTS:

Early accomplishments — Hank was a child prodigy, graduating Harvard at fifteen, and going on to work for the CIA. While at Langley, he researched supersonic flight and built a prototype of Cerebro, a high powered computer which was designed to amplify brain waves and would be used by Charles Xavier to find other mutants.
Meeting Xavier — When the Man in Black took Charles, Moira, Erik, and Raven to Langley, initially he wanted to introduce Hank as his tech expert who could help them find more mutants to take on Shaw. What he didn't know, what Hank had been hiding from him, until Charles unexpectedly outed him, was that Hank was a mutant himself. Hank had always known he was different, not only due to his mutated feet, but due to his heightened strength and agility. He had always hidden his mutation, with the excuse that no one had ever asked, so he never told. But Charles reassured him that he was among friends, so, for the first time, he showed the group what he could do.

Along with meeting Charles, he met the group of other mutants. He instantly became smitten with Raven, connecting with her based on their shared history of having to hide their mutations. He confided in her that he was working on a serum which would suppress physical mutations, and she volunteered a sample of her blood to further his research. He didn't get along with Alex as well, their relationship initially strained in the typical nerd/jock standoff. However, after Shaw attacked the facility, and the remaining mutants moved to Charles' mansion for training, they began to develop a more friendly bond. Hank began to feel like he had people he belonged with, who understood him. While he still wanted to complete work on his serum to cure his physical mutation, he felt comfortable in knowing that he didn't have to pretend to be "normal" anymore.
Cuba — The good time developing and training with Charles and the other mutants couldn't last forever. Eventually they would have to face off against Shaw and his Hellfire Club. Hank designed flight suits for all the mutants which would help them not only use their powers, but help them withstand the supersonic flight speeds of the jet he designed. The night before leaving for Cuba, Hank announced to Raven that he had made a breakthrough with his serum, and presented her with two vials: one for her, one for himself. When he tried to administer the serum to himself, she stopped him, saying that they shouldn't be ashamed of their appearance. He disagreed, arguing that even if society becomes accepting of mutants' existence, his feet and her blue form will never be considered beautiful. He left her then, and retreated to his lab to take the serum.

At first, it appeared to have worked. Hank's mutated feet shifted and rearranged into a more normal appearance. Soon, however, they not only returned to their mutated state, but grew larger, and covered in blue fur. The effect spread over his whole body, not suppressing his physical mutation, but enhancing it until he no longer looked passably human at all.

Ashamed of his mistake, Hank arranged for the team to all have their custom flight suits and to meet him in the airbase hangar to depart for Cuba, where he revealed himself in full blue form, admitting that the serum didn't work the way he had hoped. Raven reassured him that this was the way he was always meant to look, which assuaged his shame a bit-- until Erik let out a pithy comment that Hank has "never looked better," at which point Hank turned on Erik with a bestial snarl and choked him. He didn't let go until Charles talked him down, showing that he still was loyal to Charles above all else.

That matter settled, the mutants flew off to Cuba to avert potential nuclear war between the US and the Russians, defeating Shaw and working together as a team for the first time. In the aftermath, after all was said and done, Erik tried to get the mutants to form a new Brotherhood. Of Hank's team, only Raven went with him and the remaining members of the Hellfire Club. It was a pivotal moment for Hank, as it fully cemented the fact that, no matter what kinship he and Raven shared, no matter his feelings for her, ultimately they had irreconcilable differences of opinion on how mutants and humans should interact. Raven, and Erik, believed that mutants were superior to humans, and they shouldn't have to hide. Hank, and Charles, believed that mutants and humans should live side by side in harmony, and that their mutations don't make them superior.
Vietnam War — After Cuba, Charles' group of mutants returned to the mansion and opened a school for mutants, using Cerebro to recruit new students. However, with the onset of the Vietnam War, most of the students and teachers got drafted to fight, and Hank and Charles were unable to keep the doors open. Hank perfected his serum to be able to suppress his fully mutated state, and he was even able to use it to return to Charles the use of his legs (at the cost of his telepathy). However, whereas Hank took only enough of the serum to retain a human form, Charles abused it, preferring to go without any use of his mutant ability if it meant he had full use of his legs. He also took to abusing alcohol, living out his days in a drunken stupor. This left Hank to become caretaker not only to the mansion, but to Charles as well. He never dreamed of leaving his friend's side, however, knowing that if he did Charles would have no one left.
Meeting Logan — Hank and Charles were minding their own business, Charles drinking himself into a haze and shooting himself full of Hank's serum, Hank taking care of Charles and the mansion, when suddenly one day a strange man claiming to be from the future showed up at their doorstep. He claimed that, in his time, mutants were nearly wiped out by robots called Sentinels, invented by a man named Bolivar Trask. Logan said that Charles' older self, along with Erik's older self, had sent Logan back in time to get Charles' and Erik's younger selves to stop Raven from killing Trask, thereby preventing the rise of the Sentinels.

It was an uphill battle, convincing Charles to help, but as soon as Charles agreed, Hank was in. Once again, he would do anything Charles asked of him. They arranged to free Erik from prison, and flew to Paris to try to intercept Raven before she could kill Trask. Unfortunately, things didn't go according to plan, and while Trask wasn't killed, he still got a sample of Raven's blood. Furthermore, Erik, deciding that the best way to secure the mutant race's future would be to ensure that Trask never got his hands on Raven, tried to kill Raven. Hank knocked him aside at the last minute, allowing Raven to escape with just a gunshot wound to the leg. Erik disappeared into the crowds, but not before he and Hank had a very public fight on live television, leaving Hank stranded in full view of the cameras in his fully mutated form. Defeated, Hank, Charles, and Logan returned to the mansion.

(The following is from the "Rogue cut" of Days of Future Past, which deviates from the theatrical release slightly.)

In the middle of the night, Raven came back to the mansion, claiming that she had nowhere else to go. (In reality, she came back so that she could sabotage Cerebro and prevent Charles from being able to follow her.) She and Hank shared a conversation where she remarked that Hank was still hiding his true appearance. They began to kiss, Raven reverting to her natural blue form, and Hank reverting to his. She harkened back to their conversation before Cuba, asking Hank if he still felt that way. He commented that he found her beautiful, in her natural form, but could not bring himself to accept his own appearance. While Raven is living her life "mutant and proud," Hank still is ashamed of his mutated form, preferring to hide in his more "normal" appearance. Part of that comes from his belief that humans and mutants should coexist peacefully, and part of that comes from the fact that he views his mutant appearance as a constant reminder of his failed first attempt at curing his physical mutation.

» FIT: There are certain types of people who seem to do well on Reverie Terminal: the brawny types, for the forcing of doors and removing of debris; and the brainy types, for hacking systems and analyzing clues. Hank is the best of both worlds, brain and brawn. While mainly he would be interested in exploring their situation from a cognitive standpoint, coming up with theories and testing hypotheses about why and how they all came to be there, when push comes to shove he would be able to help out in a fight or a test of strength as well. There will certainly be challenges, such as the serum wearing off and him being forced to interact with humans without being able to hide his mutated appearance, but he's a perseverant guy who can overcome them. I'm interested in playing out his journey of coming to accept who he is once he can't hide it anymore, as well as putting his scientific mind and superhuman body to good use benefiting those around him.

» POWERS: Hank possesses superhuman strength, speed, agility, and endurance due to his mutant gene. Most of the time, he uses a chemical serum he devised to control (i.e. suppress) his mutation. When he is triggered via physical stress, however, he can unleash his secondary mutated state, becoming larger and covered in blue fur, with dark yellow eyes, animalistic features, pointed teeth, and claws. He also has a genius-level IQ, and is an expert in genetics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and various other scientific fields.
» NOTES: Hank will be coming into game with his suppression serum still in his system, so he will be human in appearance. However, over time as the serum wears off, he will return to his "Beast" form, until such a time as he's able to obtain more of the serum (through AC rewards).

» SAMPLES: TFLN meme (network); TDM thread (log & network);