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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keia" data-source="post: 1427542" data-attributes="member: 98">Phoenix [Brandon Laine] Secret IdentityAge: 21Gender: MaleHeight: 6'2"Weight: 200 lbsEyes: Amber, Burning FlamesHair: Curly Blonde, to shouldersSkin: TannedNationality: American, Mixed descentCurrent Residence: Current Work: Former College Football Player, Out of work Attributes: [Cost 28 pts.] STR: 12 +1DEX: 20 +5CON: 14 +2INT: 16 +3WIS: 10 +0CHA: 16 +3Defense: 28 [10 + 5 Dex + 6 Power (Super Dex) + 1 Dodge (Feat) + 6 Purchased] [cost 12 pts.] Initiative: +11 [+5 Dex +6 Power]BAB: +3 [cost 9 pts.] Melee: +4Ranged: +8Speed: 30’ / 40’ FlightDamage: +11 [Same as Reflex (Evasion)]Fort: +2 [+2 Con]Reflex: +11 [+5 Dex +6 Power]Will: +0 [+0 Wis]Hero Points:4Superpowers:Super-Dexterity: 6 Ranks, Source: 2 Trained, 4 Mutation [Cost 24 pts.]Regeneration: 2 Ranks, Source: Mutation, [Cost 4 pts.]Energy Control: 8 Ranks, Stunts: Drain Energy, Energy Blast (free), Extras: Absorption (Boost to Healing, Flaw: Fire only), Flight [Cost 34 pts.]Weakness: Disturbing (Flaming eyes, Occasional licks of Flame on his exposed skin, occasional uncontrolled burning of items) [-5 Bluff, -5 Diplomacy] [Cost -10 pts.]FEATS: Darkvision (Heat Sight), Dodge, Evasion, Heroic Surge, Immunity – Starvation (Drinking, only if powered),  [Cost 10 pts.]Skills: [Cost 9 pts.]Acrobatics +12 [1 rank]Balance +14 [3 ranks]Bluff +1 [3 Ranks, -5 Disturbing]Computers +6 [3 rank]Drive +11 [1 rank]Knowledge- Culture +4 [1 rank]Open Lock +12 [1 rank]Science- Chemistry +5 [2 ranks]- Nuclear Physics +4 [1 rank]Sleight of Hand +12 [1 rank]Spot +1 [1 ranks]Possessions (worn): Light undercover shirt [actually thin protective armor to protect and hold in living fire], wallet, casual clothes.Possessions:  Brandon has an off-campus apartment near the college and has the typical furniture.  Probably the best piece is his television.  The frig is empty except for last night's carry-out, some beer, ketchup, and something he's not really certain what it was - now its just furry, and green.Description:  21 year old human male, standing 6’2” and weighing about 200, with amber colored eyes and curly blonde hair that catches the light.   Brandon is deeply tanned, but not just from being outside.  His powers seem to keep his skin at the same tanned level year round.  Brandon dresses in casual clothes while off-duty or in his secret identity (always wearing sunglasses when in public).Personality: Brandon has learned to control the fiery temper that seemed to come with the powers.  He is friendly, helpful, very competitive, and very outgoing.  Deep inside, Brandon harbors a resentment for becoming what he is now and fear that there still may be people after him.History and origin:  Brandon Laine worked hard for everything he got in life, including a scholarship to college for both athletics and scholastics.  The athletic scholarship was for football, a sport he excelled at in high school as a wide receiver.  He earned a starting position on the team after red-shirting his freshman year.  Brandon enjoyed the freedom and exhilaration of flying down the field, evaded would-be tacklers, and making the big play.Unfortunately, the scholastics scholarship required on campus work.  But Brandon attacked it with his usual zeal, he earned the position of lab assistant / TA to Professor Albert Vernister, a noted chemical engineer and theoretical scientist.  The professor's current work, a more economical, self-sustaining and powerful energy source, had received numerous grants from outside interests.  The professor worked off of campus property (the college insurance couldn't handle the risk) developing the energy source known as living fire.  As an assistant, Brandon didn't know how it worked or why, he just did as he was told.On a fateful spring night, Brandon was told to work late at the lab with Professor Vernister when several shady men entered the lab - bypassing the security.  Men in dark suits and sunglasses comforted Brandon and the Professor and insisted that they turn over the secret of the living fire.  Shouting denials, the professor tried to attack the men and the gun-fight ensured.  A stray bullet hit something volatile and the resulting explosion knocked Brandon into the containment rods holding the living fire, breaking the rods and releasing the fire onto Brandon.  The burning pain was intense and Brandon blacked out briefly. . . and then the pain went away.  Brandon got up and looked around - seeing a destroyed lab and several dead bodies - and seeing his hand on fire!  But it didn't burn.  He saw a man in a dark suit at the doorway and charged him."YOU! You did this to me!" Brandon exclaimed as he pointed at the man - and fire shot forth incinerating the man.  More than a little frightened, Brandon fled the lab with all of his well-honed speed . . . and tripped on the steps heading outside.  He didn't fall though  - he floated on the air.  Fear turned to wonder, wonder to excitement as Brandon flew through the air - actually flew.  By the time he came to his senses, there was no sign of the men in dark suits and the police and fire had responded to the blazing building.The next day, Brandon was approached by someone who seemed to know everything that had happened.  The hero helped him control his powers, with the aid of containment armor.  His old life nothing but ashes, Brandon earned his new life - as Phoenix .Through rigorous testing and examination, Brandon learned that he was also a mutant . . . which was the only way he survived the experience.  He had the mutant powers of heightened agility and regeneration . . . as well as some ability to control fire.  The ‘living fire’ either was living because of Brandon’s powers or was drawn to Brandon because of those self-same powers.  The testing yielded no indication of sentience of the fires that burned within Brandon.Through training, Brandon has discovered that by absorbing sufficient amounts of fire that he can heal with his touch . . . making his choice of codename even more prophetic.</blockquote>

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