Ok, here's my character. Give it a look over and let me know what you think. I didn't give him a huge background but I figure I can fill that in as the story evolves. Just like most of the X-man backgrounds...
SHADOW
Concept/Archetype: Alternate form - shadow
Real Name: Brian Mathews
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 186
Hair: black hair (dyed various colours)
Eyes: Black eyes, red rimmed (no pupils)
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Birthplace: L.A. Californa
ABILITIES
STR 15 +2
DEX 18 +4
CON 11 0
INT 12 +1
WIS 16 +3
CHA 10 0
SAVES
DMG 0
FORT 0
REF +4
WILL +3
MOVEMENT
INIT +4
BASE SPD 30/60/120
COMBAT
BASE DEF 3
DEF 18
FLAT 13
MENTAL 16
BASE ATT 3
MELEE +7
RANGED +7
MENTAL +6
SKILLS
Acrobatics* [6/2]
Balance [6/2]
Climb [3/1]
Computers* [2/1]
Concentration [3]
Drive* [5/1]
Escape Artist [6/2]
Forgery [1]
Gather Info [2/2]
Hide [6/2]
Intimidate [3/1]
Jump [2]
Knowledge: [1]
Listen [3]
Move Silent [6/2]
Read Lips* [2/1]
Search [2/1]
Sense Motive [4/1]
Sleight/Hand* [5/1]
Spot [4/1]
Survival [3]
Swim [2]
Taunt [2/2]
FEATS
Attack Finesse (use dex mod. for melee attacks)
Darkvision (Super) (can see in total darkness)
See Invisible (Super) (can see invisible targets)
Dodge (+1 def, or +2 def to one opponent)
Evasion (use ref save instead of dmg save)
POWERS
alternate form - Shadow [+8]
Extra: Ghost Touch
Animate [+8]
Extra: animate shadows
Flaw: shadows only (shadow tendrils)
Flaw: Only in shadow form
Extra: fatigue [+8]
flaw: (linked to tendrils)
Posession [+8]
flaw: touch
flaw: Only in shadow form
WEAKNESS
Disturbing ( -5 bluff / diplomacy)
COST
abilities [22]
base att [9]
base def [6]
skills [11]
feats [10]
powers [72]
weakness [-10]
total [120]
unspent [0]
Appearance
Brian is average height and weight for someone in his late teens. He is caucasion but due to his mutant ability, Brian's skin seems to shift and move as a dark substance moves and flows across his body in a random pattern, this dark substance doesn't seem to affect, nor obsure anything but this and his totally black eyes tends to make people uncomfortable and distrusting of his motives.
History
When I was kid I always knew that I was different, I never liked being out in the light and I tended to stay in the shadows as much at possible. I don't know why but it seemed safer some how, I guess it had something to do with my skin, you see my skin was dark, really dark, and considering my parents were from Irish decent it tended to get me into fights when I was in school. But you deal with the hand that life gives you and move on.
As I grew older I got into more and more fights, the funny looking kid hiding in the shadows always seemed to be someone to pick on, of course everyone thinks that, so I was getting pretty good at fighting and I won more than I lost, I wasn't very strong but man I was fast, you don't get hurt if you don't get hit ya know.
By the end of Jr. high I was working a different angle, I still stayed in the shadows (bright light hurt my eyes) but I was working the punk rebel without a cause deal. Yea, I know, not very original but hey when you got the multi-coloured hair, dog collar, leather jacket, shades and various other trinkets on it tends to cut back on the fighting. My parents weren't to thrilled with my attire change but once the phone calls from school dropped off I think they saw it as the lesser of two evils at least they stopped nagging me so much about it.
Thanks to my new threads and to the fact that I could beat up at least half of the guys in my school, high school went pretty well, I got into the occasional fight but kept a B- average, made a couple of what you could call friends or at least a couple of other students that I hung out with and I even went on a couple of dates. Regardless I thought that maybe my life was starting to become normal, of course you know what was coming...
His name was John Malone, he transfered to our school at the beginning of our 11th grade. It was rumored that the reason he came to our school was because he got kicked out of every other one around and he had a very bad rep. For once the rumors didn't do him justice, he was bad to the bone and I was his prime whipping boy, he made my life hell. he made a lot of student's life hell but he seemed to delight in really giving it to me.
As fate would have it, we were in the same gym class and that's when he really loved to taunt me, one day I just couldn't take it any more and I flipped him the bird and told him where to go and gave him explict instructions on how to get there. Wow, was that was the wrong thing to do. After school was done John and his pals gave me a pretty nasty beating, guess they were making an example of me, I was bleeding and barely awake, they had backed me into a darkened corner and I honestly believed that they were going to kill me.
That's when it happened, it felt a wave of warmth flow throw me and I literally melded with the darkness and then a black tenticle thing shot out of the shadow and hit John and dropped him like a sack of hammers, a couple others followed and chased off his friends and I just stood there watching, I couldn't believe that this was happening, with his friends gone the tenticle things picked up John and started crushing the life from him. It was at this time something yelled at me to stop but I heard it in my mind it blanked out all other thoughts and feelings, I must of blacked out for a second because the next thing I knew I was lying on the ground (solid again) with a man in a wheel chair next to me. His name was Charles Xavier and he explained that I was a mutant and that I had extraordinary powers and he could help me control these powers if I wanted. I figured that anything had to be better then the way my life was going now so I took him up on his offer.
All I can say is I am glad I did.
Powers:
Brian's mutant ability somehow taps into a dark matter dimension, he can use this to turn himself into a two dimensional shadow, he also has some limited control of the dark matter, this is evident with the shadow tendrils he can create while he is in shadow form. These tendrils appear from what ever shadow that he chooses and while immobile they can reach up to 80 feet to attack or grapple an opponent. The tendrils tends weaken anyone who comes into contact with them, why this happens is unknown to Brian, he tends to believe its because of the nature of them.
He can also take control of someone by merging his body into the other although at this time he has to touch the person he wants to take control off.
Personality:
Brian is a typical teenager, he dyes his hair and wears various punk and leather items for a defense mechanism more then any other reason. He stays in the background but will speak up and share his thoughts if he thinks he is right or at least if asked.
Depends if you can fit that into rules.
