Character Information:

Real Name: James Monroe Platt
Code Name: N/A
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Height: 5'7''
Weight:166lbs
Orientation: Straight
Affiliation: X-Men Faculty
Age: 22
Play By:
Original or Canon: Original

Basic Physical Description: James is five foot seven, a hundred and seventy seven pound white guy with shaggy black hair. He is tall and lanky. His lankiness is undefined. He doesn't have a six pack or is particularly tone, but looks healthy. He has a thin, youthful face with narrow eyes. He has a thin nose and soft small lips. His face meets at a point, consistent of straight but soft lines and a light brow. His eyes are a dark chestnut color hidden under black, horn-rimmed glasses.

James prefer to dress down. His style is comfortable casual and he generally doesn't give to much thoughts to his appearance outside of comfort. This occasionally clashes with more formal circumstances where a suit is required. Though James would comply, he has a habit of " spicing up " the drabness of the only suit he owns with a colorful tie of some sort. Regularly, James can be found dressed down in the follow: Jeans or shorts, funny t-shirt of a caliber, chuck taylor of sort, a flannel over-shirt and a pocket watch.

Personality: Perhaps James most notable trait is his intelligence. He possess an learned and academic manner of thought, but also a warm personality and is extremely personable. James has an " emotional intelligence " that allows him to get a good read on people. Laid back, James keeps a cool head in tight situation and ignores small slights for bigger slights. Not one to lose his temper, James is not the type of person to allow himself to be pushed around or see a wrong go uncorrected. His biggest flaw seems to be his self-reliance, which occasionally causes more problems than it solved.

James is a fiery political activist. His views on social, political and ethnical issues are all his own, a weird blend of humanism, optimism, realism and post-humanistic futurism. James believes that mutation itself isn't the tell-tale signs of a new species, but instead a natural prologue to a wider natural evolution. James promotes the idea of human/mutant assimilation, putting him at odds with, and critical of, the Xavier Institute " mutant only " policies. Regardless, James has applied to the Xavier Institute at a teaching position, hoping to change some minds with his off-center teaching style and hopefully influence some students to think outside of their world.

Mutant Powers: Limited control of human motor functions via auditory commands

Weaknesses:[/b

[b]Other Abilities/ talents: James holds an MBA in Political Science from Empire State University at age 20. He is an accomplished writer and political pundit.

Basic History: James Platt was born to Maria Manquiez and Anderson Platt on March 9th in Long Island, New York. James, the youngest of two, was raised in a radically liberal household. Taken by his activist parents to social rallies an an early age, James was influenced to take a stand for what believed in, and as the young child began to exhibit prodigal tendencies, James did. Graduating at sixteen from Theodore Roosevelt High School, James jumped into his scholastics, maintain a maturity and wit that were beyond his years, throughout his four year tenure eventually receiving his MBA in Political Science from Empire State University. He then began teaching for the first time, first at an elementary school and later at a school for disability in Missouri. It was around this time where he first learned of his ability, where he accidently caused a car accident after demanding a bus driver to " stop ".

Though no one was seriously hurt, this was a startling wake up call for james. For nearly a year after he quietly studied the mutant phenomena, concentrating mostly on it's scientific basis and social effects. What interested and frightened him was the idea of mutation as a parallel species from humanity, and in the early summer he published a series of intellectual essays " The Pages " online thorough the alternative press blog " Rising Tied ", suggesting the human/mutant divide as an artificial one. This caught fire with national press and James became a pro-mutant wunderkind within the press, landing editorial spots on the Washington Post, New York Times and the Chicago Tribute, among others. In late September, James took the opportunity presented to him by his notoriety and applied for a teaching position at the the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, one of the fellow pro-mutant organizations he was specifically critical of, in hopes to challenge the idea of " mutanity " once and for all.


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Sample RP: " Name "

" James Platt " he says and looks around. The room is dark, the light that shine sits in a small lamp above his head which is hung from the ceiling. Another light explodes in his face. He throws his hand in front of his face and shields his eyes the best he can. He sees reds thorough his lids and blinks hard toward it. He doesn't looking completely at the center. " Whoa. With the light ", he says but is cut off before he can finish. " How old are you, Mr. Platt? "

He feel compelled to answer. " 24 ".

" How long have you been associated with Al Quida? "

There is stunned pause. " What? "

" How long have you been associated with the Al Quida Islamic Fundementalist Organization? "

" What? Never. I've never been associated with Al Quida. "

He begins to turn and a hand slams on the desk in front of him. " Eyes forward! " they yell and his head snaps forward. James grips the arms of his chair and tenses. His heart begin to pound. Oh boy flashes thorough his mind and as quickly as he thought it he substituted ' boy ' for another word that itself was a substitute for excrement. !@#$ was exactly what he finds himself in this time and he couldn't help the overwhelming panic that filled his chest. The certain impending doom that welled in his chest like black phlegm and then....there is nothing but darkness as the light shuts off

This sudden cough erupts from his stifling mouth. He sniffs and peels his eyes open. The shift from working world from dreamland is disturbing and terrifying and for a moment he lays bewildered, tangled in his bed sheets as if he had been embraced by the tentacle arms of Cthulu the Great Old One, until the telling breath spewed airy and hot. He smacks his lips and yawns before pulling back the covers, unloading sunshine onto his face like bright bird-shot from the open window.

" Another Gitmo dream ", he whispers to himself and rolled over.

Player Information
Name: Benel Germosen
Contact Information: Sociaifish@aim.com
Desired Member Title: Benel
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Hello and welcome! A few things..

1.) You have him listed at 5'7 and 170 lbs but also as tall "lanky." 5'7 is not particularly tall for an American male, in fact it is exactly average I believe. Additionally, at 170 he would be muscular or chubby, but not thin.
2.)You have his weaknesses and history as the same thing... I'm not sure if that was accidental but it will need to be fixed.
3.)Finally, expansion is needed. The mutant powers section needs to be substantially longer and I'd prefer some additions to the history section.

Great start and I look forward to having you with us at MM.

-Lane