𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱 “𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙠” 𝘔𝘤𝘊𝘰𝘺

🦋 OOC Information

Name: Chris
Contact: millennialfalcon or objectpermanence @ discord
Age: 21+
Other Characters: N/A
Invitation: here
Permissions: here

🦋 IC Information

Character Name: Hank McCoy (aka Beast)
Age: 28
Canon: XMCU
Canon Point: Days of Future Past (Rogue Cut), specifically the morning after Raven comes back to the mansion.
Character History: wiki
Canon Abilities: 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 or emotional 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, physics, chemistry, aerodynamics, engineering, and various other scientific fields. With the serum in his system, Hank can lift approximately one ton. In his secondary mutated form, he can lift about ten tons.
Inventory: these snazzy pajamas, and one extra dose of his serum. (He will work on obtaining a Fey-equivalent of his serum once he is in game.)

🦋 Personality

Option 1: Answer the following questions. Elaborate on the answer, especially your characters thoughts and feelings surrounding the answer. For Canon Characters, you can choose four questions. For Original Characters, you will need to choose six questions. Keep the word count to 150-400 per question.

1. What mythological creature would your character most like to be? Which do they identify with? Which would they dread being? Feel free to use our Bestiary for reference.

At the risk of being cliché, the mythological creature Hank is most like is the werewolf. He is also a person who transforms from a "normal" human appearance into a large, angry, furry monster form. While he doesn't kill in the wanton way that werewolves do, he does have more of a tendency to give into his violent, bestial urges in his mutated form, growling, baring his teeth, and running on all fours. I wouldn't go so far as to say that he would dread being a werewolf, but he would certainly have conflicted feelings about it, the same way he has conflicted feelings about his mutated form. He admires Raven for being "mutant and proud," happy to walk around as her blue, beautiful, true self. But he feels ashamed of his own form, partly because he does not see himself as an angry, violent person, but also because in his mind, he only unlocked his secondary mutated form because his initial prototype of the serum didn't work as he intended it to. The mutated form then represents, to him, a physical manifestation and reminder of his scientific failure. He only tried to develop the serum in the first place because he was ashamed of his mutated feet, which he tried to hide as much as he could in order to "pass" as human. As much as he wants to accept himself in this new body and think of it as "his" the way Raven feels about her own body, it is hard for him to set aside the feelings of regret and shame that his appearance brings to the surface.



2. What song would a siren sing to your character to lure them closer? Why?

The easy answer is that a siren wouldn't even have to sing any song, it would just have to speak to him in Raven's voice. Hank has been enamored with Raven ever since he first met her, and he loves her as much as he feels that he doesn't deserve to be with her. After Charles tried to use Cerebro to track Raven after the Paris Peace Accords, she came to the mansion in the middle of the night. Hank let himself be lulled into a false hope that she had come there because she wanted to be with him, with Charles again as family, when in reality she was only there to destroy Cerebro so that Charles couldn't track her anymore. Raven is Hank's siren, and always has been. He thinks she is the most beautiful person he's ever seen, whether she is blonde and tan or blue and spiky. The one sure way to get Hank to walk willingly into a trap is for Raven to lead him there.



3. If there's one person your character would follow to another realm, who would it be and why? If there's no one, state that and explain why.

If Hank was going to follow anyone to another realm, it would be Charles. Charles walked into Hank's lab at the CIA one day in 1962, and Hank has followed him like a puppy ever since. Even when everyone else left Charles behind, either because they disagreed with his intention for mutants to live alongside humans in peace, or because they were drafted into the Vietnam War, Hank stayed behind, not only to be caretaker to the abandoned mansion grounds, but also to be Charles' personal keeper. While Charles fell into a deep pit of depression and addiction, Hank was there both to make sure he was fed, was cared for, and wasn't alone... and he also was there to keep Charles supplied with the drug that suppressed his telepathy and returned the use of his legs. Even though he knew Charles' use of the serum veered into the unhealthy dependence of an addict, he could never say no to Charles. And then, after Logan arrived from the future to enlist Charles' help to prevent a mutant genocide, Hank would follow Charles (and Logan) to Washington DC, to Paris, anywhere Charles needed to go.

So, if Charles were to tell Hank he was going to go into another realm? Hank would be there with both of their suitcases packed.



4. Your character gets to return home, but when they do they learn that they've been gone for hundreds of years. How do they react?

Having already become accustomed to the notion of time travel thanks to meeting Logan, Hank's mind wouldn't be completely blown if he were to return home and find himself hundreds of years in the future. That said, he would be listless and depressed for quite some time, especially if he had returned by himself to find everyone he's ever known long dead. As previously stated, Hank has barely left Charles' side for the past eleven years. At this point, he would hardly know what to do with himself if he was on his own.

Once he gets over his initial loneliness and mourning, his next goal would be to seek out whatever mutants he can find in this new time period, and to do everything he can to protect and guide them, the way Charles inspired him to do. Hank never set out to be an educator, but he actually enjoyed the idea of working at a school to foster the minds of young mutants, to help them learn to control their abilities, and to find their place in a human-centric society. The school was shut down by the onset of the Vietnam War draft, but Hank longs to return to those days, and find his purpose again.

🦋 Fae Court

List your top three choices for your characters adoptive court. The mods will choose the one out of those three options that seems the most fitting based on your app.

• Autumn
  
• Winter
  
• Dawn

Ability: Do you want your character to gain the ability of their court?
3) Yes, but they either have no ability of their own, or they refuse to trade theirs away; they will buy their court's ability on credit.

🦋 RP Samples

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