| Introduction
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xxxxxSunshiney-bright, flagrantly colourful, radical-left-leaning but devoutly Catholic, Jax might not fit in many places. But this is New York.
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| History
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xxxxxBorn the only child to farming parents in a tiny town nestled in at the base of Appalachia, Jax's early life was a pleasant enough one. Sheltered, for sure, a combination of living in a tiny backwater Georgia town and growing up with very conservative parents who were rather overprotective of their only child. Devout Catholics, they passed their faith on to him from early on. His life was simple, but full. Church, school, learning how to take care of the farm, these were foundations; on top of which there was swim team, dance lessons, and above all art, for which he showed a great aptitude from an early age.
xxxxxThough in classes he tended to do reasonably well, out of classes things were harder; being a somewhat flamboyant boy in a highly conservative town did not go over well, and even less so once his mutation manifested. It was a blessing the day that a Xavier's representative found him and brought him to New York to be able to continue his schooling normally. In the new environment he thrived, once he got over homesickness, learning to control his powers and applying himself to practice with the same diligence he gave the rest of his schoolwork.
xxxxxThough always politically bent and heavily involved in activism (focused around environmental justice and animal rights, largely) it was his abduction by Prometheus that focused this activism in more aggressive ways. In the wake of his rescue from there, he and some of the other rescuees have attempted hunting down other similar facilities and liberating their occupants.
xxxxxOutside of being a vigilante he keeps. He's studying art at the Cooper Union after being expelled from his first college when outed as a mutant, and between this and working -- part-time as a tattoo artist and body piercer, part-time as a guard for the Mendel Clinic part time as a teacher at Xavier's; between life as an X-Man and helping out at church and the various activist groups he's involved in, he doesn't find much time for sleep. Having three kids doesn't help with that either; twin teenagers and an eight-year-old rescued from Prometheus and adopted together with his husband.
xxxxxIn recent time he's been making a name for himself -- rather inadvertently. A couple of newsworthy events -- stopping the mayor's assassination, protecting Norman Osborn at a rather high-profile gala -- first brought him to public notice; subsequently, his efforts in both helping find the cure and combat the zombies during the zombie plague made him famous.
xxxxxAnd then infamous, when a video by the head of HAMMER accused him of murder and terrorism. Following a brief stint in jail these accusations were cleared; the media coverage on him largely went from terrorist to hero after many other ex-Prometheans came forward publicly with their stories.
xxxxxSince getting out of jail he's tried to return to a Normal Life. It works some days better than others.
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| Powers
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xxxxxAt its base, Jackson is a photokinetic. His mutation controls the light around him, bending it in accordance with his moods and thoughts. With training and practice he's learned to leash it so that for the most part it doesn't visibly happen when he doesn't want it to, and so that it /does/ respond when he /does/ want it to.
This power makes him effectively an illusionist, and in this he is most adept, bending and reorganizing light waves to change their appearance. He creates vivid holographic images that are substanceless, soundless, but quite visually convincing. Unlike psionically-based illusions, his are "real" in that he is actually moving the light waves themselves and therefore the resulting imagery would show up on camera. He's less adept with some newer-emerged facets of his power that he can use offensively and defensively; offensively, in bursts of focused energy, or defensively, in solar-powered force-shields.
His mutation -- and him -- powers itself largely on solar power. Without a good enough charge, he can't shield at all and his beams will be weak. His illusions require the least energy expenditure, but still take a lot out of him if he does too much too long.
He stores solar power like a battery; he can't produce light innately, but can store energy for later. Too much sun is dangerous, too; he has a point past which he can't store anything more and if he doesn't expend the energy he's taking in continually, it will built up and is prone to exploding. He can't turn off the storing, but he's gotten pretty good at finding ways to let it out in small doses all day long so as to not burst.
He's gotten pretty used to fueling himself on solar power, too. More sun means more energy, for him, and can leave him even more hyperactive and prone to cheer. It helps that fueling himself this way brings down his need for sleep, although relying on it isn't the healthiest path.
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| Body Mods
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xxxxxJackson has become much more colourful over the years; in addition to the vividly coloured hair he sports three seasons out of the year, he has a WEALTH of piercings and tattoos. The current complete list:
Piercings -- Ears (earlobes 0g, 8 up the side of the left ear, 9 on the right; industrials, tragus, daith, rook), eyebrows (3 right, 4 left), teardrop (right). Lip (5Snakebites in his lower lip). Labret. Both nipples (twice), tongue (twice), left nostril (twice, one stud, one ring), right nostril (stud), septum, bridge. Genital (frenum, PA, hafada, frenum ladder (13 rings)).
Ink:
Back:
- Giant black-and-red feathered angel wings, spanning the entirety of his back, shoulders down to waist.
- Two stars, the right one a little bigger and brighter, at the base of his neck/between the wings.
Front:
- Most of the rest of his chest+the majority of his right side: A large peach tree climbs up his right side, the branches taking up most of the leftover room on his chest; it has both fruit and flowers at once, and there's a small fairy (an elfin humanoid male, with blue hair and large red-and-black butterfly wings) perched on one of the lower limbs.
- Left shoulder: A dragonfly, bright-bright blue with veined very slightly multicoloured wings.
- Right shoulder: The Neverending Story's AURYN.
- Skull: A chimera. Dragonfly wings, Black panther body, heads of a goat, a dragon, an eagle, a segmented scorpion's tail. Obviously, can only be seen if his head is shaved.
- Arms:
- Right elbow: Two bicoloured stars, red/black (front) and purple/black (back)
- Left elbow: Two bicoloured stars, green/black (front) and pink/black (back) on the left
- Left elbow: Just above the star on the front there is a simple black line segment, one inch long.
- Right inner wrist: A rainbow-colored cross with a circled-A superimposed over it, the letter circled with a crown of thorns
- Left inner wrist: A raised fist in a circle, clutching a carrot.
- Forearms: Paintbrushes on the right side and charcoal drawing pencils on the left, drawn to look like they are worming their way in and out of the skin.
- Right half-sleeve (shoulder to elbow): A lot of medicinal herbs.
- Left half-sleeve (shoulder to elbow): Fruits and veggies! Lots of them.
Legs:
- Right half-sleeve (knee to ankle): Illustrations from The Lorax
Left half-sleeve (knee to ankle): CARE BEARS. But only the original characters. Also a large rainbow. For the Care Bears to slide on. And puffy clouds.
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| Connections
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Sunshine
- Aloke - One more ray of sunshine.
- Anole - *_*
- Ducky - Learning to fly.
- Dusk - Has a standing invitation into my home.
- Hive - One Of Us.
- Iolaus - Mutielover.
- Ion - Bright spark.
- Ivan - XS Advisee. Quiet but bright? COVERED IN BEES?? *_*
- Lia - Dollface.
- Lucien - Has more humanity than he seems to think.
- Melinda - Dreamer.
- Micah - Perfect. <3
- Nox - So much warmth, but so much darkness.
- Peter - Probably going to be a superhero one day.
- Rasheed - Doctored mutants before it was cool.
- Ryan - Would sell a kidney for. ... hopefully never have to.
- Shane - Sharp wit. All heart.
- Shelby - I'm not opposed to a little bit of chaos.
- Sebastian - Sharp mind. Sharp claws.
- Spencer - Should implant with a GPS tracker.
- Tag - Understands about wanting to make the world more colourful.
Stormclouds
- Malthus - The stuff of nightmares.
- Masque - D:!
- Norman - I'm still holding out for that dance, though.
- Trib - Anyone can be warm on a sunny day.
Partly Hazy
- Anima - Need to reincorporate hir.
- Cage - Well meaning.
- Chokechain - We all want to change the world.
- Dan - My kids, man.
- Doug - Sometimes so nice, sometimes so teenage.
- Eric - *facescrubs*
- Jane - Trust her enough to lead her in battle. Enough to follow her in one, though?
- Jim - Probably going to marry Hive some day.
- Parley - Catlike, in all the most dangerous ways.
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| Gallery
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| Jackson Connor Holland-Zedner
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| Codename
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Sunshine
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| Birthdate
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Summer Solstice
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| Species
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Mutant
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| Affiliation
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Citizens
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| Alignment
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Effervescent
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| Powers
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Photokinetic
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| Occupation
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Anarchist
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| Registration Status
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Unregistered
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| RP Hooks
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| Sugarfairy - Tends to bake and bake and BAKE. When class is in session, his desserts can be found almost daily in the XS rec room and Teachers' Lounge. His neighbors are frequently plied with desserts, too.
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| Needlepoint - Will prick you with so many needles. Inks people and does body piercing at Inkline, a studio in the Lower East Side.
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| Artsy - Art student at Cooper Union. Looks like an art student, too.
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| Freestyle - Loves to swim, even if he's not so good as his KIDS. They set a high bar, though.
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| Radical - Anarchist, activist, he can be found circling the leftist scene in various capacities, largely focused around queer rights and environmentalist vegan hippieism. Also mutant rights.
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| X-Man - The COLOURFULLEST X-Man. His uniform's bedazzled with a smiling sun.
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| THAT teacher - Teaches at XS -- art, baking, and also one of the mandatory Sex Ed classes.
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| Prometheus Bound - Once a labrat himself, now he spends a good deal of energy trying to find others and free them. On very public record in the news as an ex-labrat and rescuer of other labrats. Or terrorist.
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| Out and Proud - For better or for worse, one of the country's most famous mutants. Hero or terrorist depends on who you ask.
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