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n o l a n b a s i c s name: Nolan John McKenna Everley age / dob: June 27, 1991; age 29 ethnicity: Caucasian occupation: Witch doctor - though he is neither a witch nor a doctor, and doesn't claim to be either one. It's complicated. Basically he performs procedures that are either impossible - at least when you're limited by the boundaries of human medicine - or illegal, for ridiculously high prices. After all, people would pay a lot for a risk-free abortion, or plastic surgery with no scars, or to be rid of a malignant tumor forever. classification: Known mutant sexual orientation: Heterosexual status: Single best friends: Gage Everley a p p e a r a n c e height: 6'2" weight: 175 lbs. eye color: Blue hair color: Brown demeanor: Curt, meticulous, and no-nonsense. And if he's just meeting you, he probably looks like he's suspicious of you as well, which makes sense, because he is. After spending some time around him, you'll notice he's not as confident as he'd like to come across. In fact, he's perpetually kind of anxious. If he likes you, he'll be moderately surly. If he doesn't, you'll know it, and you might want to call up your doctor and schedule a full body checkup. manner of speech: Normally off-handed and aloof, unless one succeeds in agitating him. He's still got the remnants of a British accent, but has managed to selectively pick up bits of American slang over the past decade and a half in New York. distinguishing features: Not a scratch on him. wardrobe: Button-up shirts with jeans and tennis shoes, unless he needs to look more professional and wear a suit. played-by: Matthew Goode p e r s o n a l i t y Nolan isn't exactly stone cold stoic all the time, but he's not a very demonstrative person. The emotions he does display tend to be on the negative end of the spectrum, and usually encompass annoyance and frustration. He doesn't smile or laugh a lot, which isn't to say that he doesn't have a sense of humor - it's just the dark and ironic kind. He communicates mostly in sarcasm and sneers, unless he has a really good reason to turn on the charm. "Really good reasons" would include putting a "patient" with a particularly large bankroll at ease, and...there might be more, but he'll get back to you when he figures them out. His moral code could be described as "loose", at best. Nolan has no qualms with doing whatever he has to in order to survive - and he's had to do some pretty bad things. He doesn't feel bad about having to lie or kill or steal to keep himself alive. But he's not totally without a conscience. Deep down, he's always blamed himself just a little bit for his mother's death; he feels that he should've been able to save her. Nowadays, the people he cares about are precious few in number, but he is, at least, mostly loyal to them. He also won't betray a fellow mutant to a human. He's kind of jumpy, having been a wanted man for so long, and if you're ever in need of a good government conspiracy theory, he'll happily whip out several for your perusal. Nolan's paranoia isn't completely unfounded, but it's had a while to fester. He's not exactly a loner, but he does feel safer holed away in his apartment with a stack of books than around people. When he does go out for a good time, he's been known to loosen up after a few drinks. It takes him a long time to warm up to people, but Overall, he's the studious type, and thinks entirely too much on certain subjects, almost to the point of obsession. He likes his women either extremely hot or extremely intelligent. Nolan doesn't do mediocrity in any form, and he doesn't do trust very well either. None of these things lead to many successful relationships. b i o g r a p h y Beth Ann McKenna was a cocktail waitress at a London lounge in the early nineties, on her own for the first time in the big city and just trying to make ends meet, at the tender young age of nineteen. She was a pretty girl, and had plenty of customers that would've liked to date her, but the one she fell for was an American businessman a good twenty years her senior. Beth Ann began a torrid affair with Travis Everley, a real charming New Yorker who travelled to London frequently for his company. They saw each other whenever he was in town, which was sporadically, but he told Beth Ann he loved her, and she did in return. She wasn't worried, when she turned up pregnant a few months later. Travis promised to ask to be based out of London at work, and they would get married and be a family. Beth Ann gave birth to baby Nolan...alone. She couldn't get ahold of Travis to tell him that she was in labor, but that was okay; things were still peachy. Travis seemed like he would make a good father, knew just how to act with the baby. But the years started to fly by and Beth Ann was still waiting tables and waiting on Travis. He still came by when he could, but there was always an excuse for why they weren't married yet. He had his eye on a promotion at work, one that would give them an easy life with their son, and he needed to be in New York for that. Beth Ann put up with it, raising Nolan alone for the most part...until her boy started displaying some unusual talents. A human herself, she confronted his father about it, and it finally came out that Travis was a mutant. A teleporting mutant. That raised all kinds of questions in Beth Ann's mind. If the distance wasn't keeping him away, then what was? What other secrets was Travis keeping? A bit of sneaky investigative work uncovered her worst fear - Travis was unfaithful to her. Well, technically...Beth Ann herself was the "other woman". He was married, with another child - another boy, almost exactly Nolan's age. Well, she wasn't putting up with that shit. He was to be gone, out of her life and her son's...but she'd be getting a nice healthy sum of money on a strict and regular schedule, or Beth Ann would spill the beans on herself and Nolan to Travis's wife. Nolan was six. After that dramatic episode, it was just mother and son for real this time - in a much nicer house in the suburbs, and with a car and a very good education for Nolan, and they got by very well, thank you. Nolan did exceptionally well in most subjects at school, with a particular interest in biology as he explored his powers. And things were good, until Nolan was fifteen years old, and his whole life was turned around. He and his mum were in a car accident, both sustaining critical injuries. Nolan healed himself right up, walking away without a scratch on him. Beth Ann didn't make it. And so, motherless and with none of her relatives in a position to take in a teenage boy, Nolan had no choice but to go live with the father he could barely remember, but who was a "right arse" according to his late mother's recollection of how Nolan came to be. So Nolan packed up and moved to New York, with Travis as his guardian. This meant that Travis's jig was up, the whole charade and his marriage crumbling when Nolan's existence was revealed to his wife. She didn't stick around to meet her husband's other son, leaving her own to live with Travis and Nolan. Gage was only a few weeks younger than Nolan, and the teenagers viewed each other as rivals at first, pulling pranks on each other with their respective powers - pranks that were really less like pranks and more like outright torment, becoming increasingly vicious. So vicious, in fact, that Nolan and Gage had to call a ceasefire before they killed each other. This was the first step toward their current partnership. They found that tormenting other people together was even more fun than tormenting each other, and did so often. Living with Gage cured Nolan temporarily of the caution his mother had instilled in him when it came to the use of his powers. But back then, it was okay to be a mutant. It wasn't until college that things changed, and it became necessary to hide superhuman abilities. Nolan fell back on his old, careful ways, and made it through college and through a good chunk of med school before anybody put together that Nolan Everley had been present for a few too many miraculous patient recoveries. He barely escaped arrest and capture, but in doing so killed the three agents that tried to apprehend him. Nolan didn't feel particularly bad about it - after all, he didn't want to go wherever they were taking him, and they were just humans. After that, he lay low for a while. ...okay, maybe not, but he needed to drop off the government's radar, now officially on record as a murderer, and where better to do that than among other mutants? Well, the kind of "other mutants" Nolan knew weren't the nicest sort. He had some friends among the Reds, and during his time with them considered joining up... It didn't last long. While they shared the same ideology, Nolan preferred to go about things with considerably more subtlety. He still does them favors now and then, but moved back in with his brother as soon as it was safe for him to do so. Nolan now lives with Gage, still flying below the radar as far as the government is concerned, as there's still a warrant out for his arrest, several years old though it may be. However, a bloke's got to make a living, and so he started charging very high prices for his supernatural services. There isn't a lot within his realm of capabilities he won't do, for the right size check. His "practice" funds for himself and Gage a very nice apartment and lifestyle, though it's a pretty closely-guarded secret. Nolan gets most of his patients by word of mouth advertising only and is extremely expensive, so his client base is a small one. This is fine by him, as it also soothes his paranoia. When he's not with a "patient," he is likely continuing his studies on his own, in an effort to expand his understanding of what he does. That is, if Arsenal isn't playing. p o w e r s Biokinesis. The ability to control the biological structure of his own and others' bodies. In theory, it can be as specific as rewriting someone's genetic code. In its day-to-day application, Nolan typically uses it for healing. However, he can also give people ailments, alter their appearances, and control all biological functions. It's a very involved power; big things take a lot of energy out of him, and if he tries to attempt too much at once, he may pass out. Localized tasks are easier to perform than altering an entire system - for example, it would be easier for him to give or take away a tumor than it would be to cure or cause a blood disease, just as it would be easier for him to give or remove a freckle than change someone's skin color. He requires physical touch to intuitively diagnose a problem, and to perform larger feats of manipulation. m i s c e l l a n e o u s birthplace: London, England family: Elizabeth Ann McKenna (mother, d. 2006 at age 37) - Nolan was...well, you couldn't really call him a mama's boy growing up, but he was very fond of his mother. It was just the two of them for a long time, and Nolan was protective of her, as he grew up. She was a clever woman, and taught her son a lot about getting what you want and being smart about it. He took her death pretty hard, and doesn't like to talk about her. Travis Everley (father, age 67) - Travis is an indisputable asshole, and Nolan had this drummed into his brain before he even really knew the man, by his mother. When he actually met him and moved in with him when his mum died...well, Nolan couldn't say he disagreed with her assessment of him. Travis was the kind of father who left a twenty on the breakfast table and let the kids fend for themselves, while going off to do whatever he did all day. He makes a random appearance in his sons' lives now and then, but Nolan doesn't know or particularly care where he goes off to - it could be anywhere, as he's a teleporter. Gage Everley (half-brother, age 29) - It's safe to say that Nolan and Gage detested each other in the beginning, but when they figured out that they were more or less an even match, the boys found in each other an excellent partner-in-crime. Gage is the only sibling Nolan knows about (which isn't to say there aren't probably more, but this has never been verified), so close to him in age that they're practically twins (Nolan is a little over a month older) and has been his most steady companion over the years. Of course, they're frequently at odds, even now, but as often as they clash, they also mesh well enough to work and live together. relatives: Nolan's got grandparents, an aunt and uncle, and two cousins around his own age. They're his mother's family and still live in England, and he hasn't seen any of them since he moved to New York with his dad. His grandparents sent him a check in the mail for birthdays and graduations, but he's had no contact with them for about seven years now. l i n k s JOURNAL | TAG | GAME