The boy sighed and put the pencil to work.
“Well, my name is Bryan Baxter, I’m 15 years old. I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with my Mom and Dad. My dad works as a foreman in a steel mill and my mom stayed at home taking care of my brother and I. My brother John is 19 and is in college studying Communications. He’s a football player and he’s banking on playing pro football after school. All in all a pretty normal family, I guess.
Me though, I’ve never been much into sports. I’ve always like reading better. Comics especially, my favorites were always ‘The Gloomy Specter’ and ‘The Amazing X-perts’; both are great books with cool characters. It’s so cool that I’m going to be able to do that stuff for real. Oh yeah, I picked my codename already. “Gravwarp”, I thought it sounded pretty cool and I think it will look cool on a t-shirt someday. It fits my powers too.
Oh yeah, about my powers. The doctors at GIFT said I ‘appear to be able to control the gravitational forces of people and objects near me’. Those are what the scientist guys said. All I know is if I think about it hard enough I can crush a person or throw them into the air. Plus, I discovered I can make personal shields around myself. Just like Blockade in the ‘Ultimate Aliens’ comic. Pretty cool huh?
Anyway, they decided to enroll me here a Saint Joseph’s because I have powers that could make me dangerous to the other kids. Good. I hated public school anyway. I never got along with the people there anyway. I got picked on a lot for being nerdy and cause I’m pretty scrawny. In fact, that’s how I got my powers. I was getting picked on in Gym class during dodge ball. I got mad and suddenly the balls they were throwing at me dropped to the ground, some flew off in crazy directions, and some even got squashed to the floor and popped. I keep one of those popped balls as a sort of trophy.
So, I’m pretty excited to be coming to Saint Joe’s. I can’t wait ‘til I graduate and I get to become a real super hero. ‘Look in the sky! It’s Gravwarp!’ Yeah, that’s gonna be great.”
Bryan is a kid looking to be accepted. He’s eager to greet people and tries hard to make friends. Sometimes too hard, his eagerness can sour people to him at times. Overall though, he is a good kid looking to make friends.
In public school, he was labeled a “brown nose” and a “suck up” by others. Bryan often used this to get attention but after his powers developed. This habit has almost completely died; Bryan definitely knows what life can hold for him now. He knows that once he dons a costume and takes to the sky that he’s going to have all the attention he’s ever desired.
OOC: I'm pretty excited to join up here at St. Joe's. I've been running about CoX for over 2 years now (kinda weird when you think about it). This isn't my first rp group, I was heavily involved with the SDF for quite a long time. Anyway, thanks for having me.
"Caveat Emptor"
