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d'Avanzo, Chaim; Beat
Topic Started: Dec 14 2013, 10:20 PM (629 Views)
Chaim d'Avanzo
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BASIC INFORMATION

CANON OR ORIGINAL: Original
AFFILIATION: Student, Jr Training Level

FULL NAME: Chaim Josiah d'Avanzo
CODENAME: Beat
NICKNAMES: None.

CURRENT AGE: Eighteen
DATE OF BIRTH: June 27th, 1995
MARITAL STATUS: Single
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Chaim identifies as omnisexual, holding a stance that whatever happens, happens.
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Xavier's.
TIME AT INSTITUTE: Three months; since the start of the school year.
REGISTERED WITH SHIELD? No.
HOMETOWN: Ellicott City, Maryland
KNOWN RELATIVES:
Michelle d'Avanzo - Mother
Raphael d'Avanzo - Father
Luna d'Avanzo - Paternal Half-Sister
Jaspers - Maternal Half-Sister

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: Six Feet Two Inches.
BUILD: Chaim is tall, standing at six-foot-two, though he isn't lanky. Chaim is toned, though not overly muscular, and has the build that is typically associated with swimmers or runners.
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Chaim's hair is brown and more often than not, his bangs are gelled up out of his. On the chance that they aren't, though, it falls over his forehead and typically appears wind-swept.
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Nothing of note.
CLOTHING STYLE: Since he was a boy, Chaim has been lead to dress in clothing that is considered in fashion due to the exposure he receives from public appearances for his father's sake. He has a tendency to lean towards graphic tees, blazers, and skinny jeans though he isn't limited to this. Also frequently wears button up shirts on the the occasion that he has to dress formally, he has about one or two suits.
UNIFORM: Upon coming to the school, Chaim was supplied with the basic black and yellow training uniform. His own has short sleeves, and on his right shoulder includes a pocket where he keeps an MP3 player, allowing him to have a battery for his powers on him at all times.

POWERS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Chaim has the ability to take sound and convert it into energy, which he manifests in the form of concussive energy blasts. His blasts typically come from his hands, though aren't exactly limited to them. He has the potential to be able to shoot them from whatever part of his body that he wishes, though of that fact Chaim is in the dark as to how. He runs the risk of drying out rather quickly depending on the strength of his blasts, so he requires a constant source of sound, normally presented in the form of music or white noise.

Having only recently manifested his abilities, Chaim is quite untrained in the use of them. When he uses his blasts they come out normally raw and powerful, unfocused and potentially dangerous. His blasts are only concussive, and don't supply enough force - at least yet - to dent steel or crush something to dust, but he does have enough power to break someone's jaw with a well placed blast. Due to the fact that he's untrained, his blasts normally take a lot of energy from him. As such, he can normally only fire about five blasts in a row without taking the time to recharge.

His blasts manifest themselves as a relatively solid golden beam of light, they leave a trail behind them that fades after a few moments. His powers don't require a specific target, so if someone were to get in the way of one of his blasts, it would connect with them as opposed to whomever or whatever Chaim intended for them to hit. They're limited to both Chaim's line of sight and to being generated by his person.

Chaim typically uses music as a constant battery for the energy that he channels into his blasts, and a subconscious quirk of his abilities causes the light of his beams to strobe depending on the beat of the what he's listening to, hence the codename that he chose upon entering the school.

Chaim's powers are, as a whole, untapped in his potential due to the freshness of them from him. He has the potential of his concussive blasts to become about as strong as those exhibited by the leader of the X-Men, Cyclops, though only with years and years of training his abilities.
WEAKNESS: Chaim's powers rely on a constant source of sound or white noise, so if the energy that he's already previously absorbed is tapped out, Chaim will deplete his reserves and instantly need to recharge. The power of his blasts is quite uncontrollable, and while they typically only have one "setting" as of now, it can only really be explained as being the default-- his blasts could easily come out as weaker or stronger than he intends them to be. This happens rather infrequently, though it still worries him that this might happen. When his energy is depleted, it exhausts Chaim to the point of fatigue, and if he overexerts them (which isn't as infrequent as he might like), he is likely to pass out.

PERSONALITY
A social chameleon, Chaim d'Avanzo has always been the type of person to blend into the crowd. It's a personal skill of his to blend into most, if not all, social situations without very much effort at all. Whether it's something jovial or something somber, he's able to blend in near flawlessly. As such, he has a tendency to be quiet and perhaps at times distant from the situation, appearances not really meaning much of anything when boiled down to the core of things.

Being the youngest of his family, Chaim was often overlooked in favor of his older half-sisters by both parents. Shuffled off from one caretaker to another, Chaim was only ever able to connect with one member of his family; his older sister, Luna. Because of this Chaim doesn't quite understand what it's like to have any sort of familial relationship, and as a result can at times be a tad overtly blunt and can come off as uncaring when it comes to family situations-- one might say that, at the core of it all, there's a bit of bitterness underneath the surface in regards to his parents.

Since developing his mutant powers and being shipped off to Xavier's, the typically quiet and unnoticeable Chaim has started to come into his own. He views his mutant abilities as his own person in to the individualism that he was never awarded, Chaim has made it a point to stop blending into the background or agreeing with others' assessments or ideals, making his presence openly known more and more often. Chaim d'Avanzo, to himself, had always been something of an enigma; in truth, it's only since coming to the school that he's started to get to know himself.

Chivalrous, perhaps to a fault, Chaim isn't the type to stand around and just let something happen if there's... anyone, really, in trouble. Chaim has adopted what is known in history as a knight's code as one that he can call his own-- part of it might be the influence of the X-Men, but he would never admit it; he would claim taht it was his choice, and that it wasn't influenced by anyone. But any telepath would be able tell instantly that it was a lie. Because of this, Chaim is often foolhardy and reckless, rushing into the thick of things head first.

Goofy and perhaps socially awkward, Chaim isn't the smooth and suave guy that he would have had most people believing just four or so months ago. He isn't calm and he isn't collected, and he certainly isn't what media would have people believing is "school." He's just Chaim, and he's slowly coming to be okay with what that means for him and for his future. Starry-eyed and optimistic, Chaim is an unrepentant idealist who stives to make the future a better place for himself and those around him. Despite this, he is firmly rooted in the present; he actively chooses not to pine for the days that have past or fearing for the future, and instead deals with what's happening in the here, and the now.

Quick with a joke and the first to crack a smile, Chaim has made it a personal goal to make people happier than the majority of people at Xavier's seems to be. Some might consider him a class clown because of this, but that doesn't quite mean that he isn't ever serious. For Chaim, he's about serious half of the time and joking the other half-- he doesn't intend to be completely seen as a joke, but he also doesn't want to be taken as the type of guy that never even cracks the slightest smirk.

Raised between his mother's Judaism and his father's Catholicism, Chaim himself takes a stance of Agnosticism. He holds the belief that there's probably something out there, dictating all the good and the bad that's happened, and he think that that's probably God. What Chaim remains unsure of is whether or not said God had a son, which is a point of contention between his religious parents and him. Overall, he isn't really the religious type of person, avoiding the subject as best that he can.
HISTORY: PRE-APOCALYPSE Born as the youngest of three children to Michelle and Raphael d'Avanzo, Chaim d'Avanzo was always a bit sheltered when he was younger. The son of a successful businessman, Chaim was normally shuffled between caretakers for the first few years of his life. To the point that he started regularly attending school, Chaim had bonded more with the women that would be hired on as his nannies than he would his mother or his father; all throughout his childhood, the boy always felt as if he was an accident. Something that didn't belong. But he never questioned it.

Upon entering school, Chaim started to meld into the backdrop of the society that he had been placed into. Elementary school was a rather boring time for the d'Avanzo boy, being shuffled into the limited limelight that his father achieved for his business, attending parties to make sure that the family image stayed true. Throughout school he only ever actually had one person that he could call a close friend, someone who had known just who "Chaim d'Avanzo" was before even he did himself, a girl named Serena James.

Because of this girl Chaim had a tendency for sneaking off unnoticed by his caretakers or his parents-- often times allowed to escape by the only member of his family that seemed to realize he existed, his sister, Luna. There was a number of days where he would spend more of his time away from his family's homestead than in it, especially as he started hitting double digit ages. Around the time that he was ten, he started noticing bruises under the girls' sleeves, and took to a tendency of of sneaking her in and out of his home after his parents went to sleep and before they woke up. He wasn't aware, but he had become the girl's personal savior.

As Chaim shifted into middle school, the first year came and went by without incident and without much change. The kids around him started to grow and change in ways that he hadn't seen them do before, and Chaim himself started to change and mature himself. He still snuck out and he still snuck his friend in, he still blended into the background, going unnoticed by most everyone. But as seventh grade neared it's end, and his fourteenth birthday got ever nearer...

The world came crashing to it's end, head first.

DURING APOCALYPSE (April 7th through April 12th, 2009)As the Apocalypse struck, Chaim and the rest of his homeroom class were on a field trip to New York City; this meant that they were trapped in the thick of the attack of the man that had once been, and would be again, known as Alex Summers. Trapped in the lobby of their hotel, Chaim, the other children his age, and the hotel staff had barricaded the doors and windows around them from the converts with tables and chairs, plants and paintings, and really anything that was readily on-hand.

But it wasn't enough, as soon enough, the converts began to break down their barricades, causing the majority of his classmates and good few of the hotel's denizens to panic. Chaim, always the quiet on in the back of it all, was the first one to pick up the broken leg of a chair and started fighting off the converts, soon joined by most everyone that was there, and the group made their way back into the kitchen, and once again barricaded off their location. It stuck this time, and here they remained through the hurricanes that followed.

Eventually, the Apocalypse and his converts fell, and the group of refugees was saved by a team of X-Men that had been dispersed to save the civilians throughout the city. Among his class, Chaim would be heralded as a hero, but the boy would from there on out recognize who were the real heroes: the X-Men.

POST-APOCALYPSE
After the Apocalypse is when everything would change in Chaim's life; his sister, Luna, was sent to live with her mother in Italy, his popularity at school suddenly skyrocketed, and Serena was slowly pushed out of his life and replaced by the constant appearances of the other, more popular children at school. Middle school was normally the hardest years of a kids school life, though high school was normally the one said to be that, but for Chaim it was an era of change. Though he remained the quiet boy he was before, his status didn't reflect that.

Now, instead of being the kid in class that was just "there," Chaim was regarded as one of the popular kids. He'd gotten a spot on one of the local news stations due to his heroism during the Apocalypse; in a small town like Ellicott, his quickly became a face that was recognizable. His parents started paying more attention to him, dismissing the women that they had hired to care for him altogether and keeping him on a tighter leash-- it was suddenly as if they cared that he existed. It became harder and harder for Chaim to really go anywhere without anyone knowing where he was or what he was doing. Serena's face was one that was pushed out of his life entirely by the time eighth grade came around, and Chaim's life had started to go by so fast that he didn't even notice.

From that point on, everything that middle school had to offer him was par for the course. The pick of girls that he could want, the popularity that most all kids won't... but even then, something about it all felt wrong. Chaim was, by the end of his tenure there, losing more and more of himself and not realizing it-- fading more and more into the background, and becoming a mirror of his peers. It didn't help that as the year following the Apocalypse lurched to it's close, Chaim started feeling less and less like he was in control of what he was doing; it didn't help that, on occassion, he found himself blacking out and appearing in what appeared to be a much, much different world than the one he had come to know, reappearing in his own sometimes days later.

Eventually, this stopped happening and everything returned to what could be considered normal for the teenager. The world continued on as if nothing had happened, getting back into the groove of things actually being normal. The heroes of the world, the X-Men included, were revered for what they were; heroes. Everything seemed to be on the up and up in the two years, and then some, that had passed since the Apocalypse came to a close-- outwardly, everything was great. On Halloween of 2010, the Brotherhood lured SHIELD to their base on Coney Island and murdered a myriad of SHIELD's agents in an explosion. The Heroic Age had begun, and with a bang. Literally. Chaim, attracted to the idea of super heroes and villains, was drawn to it like metal to a magnet.

2010 soon came to a close with a whimper instead of a bang, and the beginning of the year lurches by, following suit. The second anniversary of the Apocalypse came and went, with parties held in the honor of still being alive.
PURIFIERS
May started slowly, though as a new Mayor was elected for New York City, mutantkind once again found itself in the headlines-- though, not in such a positive light. Matthew Risman, the newly elected mayor, would prove to be a bigot as time went by. Most of Chaim's peers, and his family, would agree with the man. They found mutants responsible for the Apocalypse and so many of the world's other problems.

Chaim wondered how Serena felt about it all.

Riots would break out across New York City, starting one day with the mutant hub known as Mutant Town and spreading into the rest of the city, and over time his sixteenth birthday would come and go. New York, mutants, and the attacks would remain in the headlines for the upcoming months; a mutant socialite was blinded, Mutant Town and then, the headquarters of the charitable organization, X-Corp, was attacked and many people were left behind in the wreckage. It was like a slap in the face; there had even been a riot near his home town, a few miles away in the city of Baltimore. Apparently some kid his age had manifested as a mutant, and had been mercilessly beaten and left in intensive care. He'd died a few days later.

Then, in the middle of August, after thinking about the day for years and who had been behind the incident, Alexander Summers - known as Havok - is outed as the Horsemen of War and arrested for crimes against the human race. Due to this, Chaim had started to consider whether or not everyone had been right; had mutants been at fault for the Apocalypse? Was everything since their fault, too? No, mutantkind as a whole hadn't been at fault, though the idea of Havok scared him witless, now. Martial Law was ordered in the so-called Mutant Town the next day, and then covered in a dome by the Scarlet Witch. The people rioted again-- but that wouldn't be the worst of it.

As September began, New York would be met with another bang; the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters was infiltrated by one of the Purifier's, and suicide bombed. It resulted in the deaths of forty-seven people, children and adults alike. Around the homestead, things had gotten to the point of accusing people of being mutants and fighting in the halls at school. Chaim tried to avoid the most of it, but true to his "hero" image, when it got too bad he was always the first person to break it up. More often than not, the person being accused turned out not to be a mutant-- but on occasion, someone was. And more often than not, that someone was spirited away.

Xavier's was turned into a battleground. Nothing was left. Chaim was shocked, and on the slightest level, devastated. Events would seen start happening quickly; first, the dome that had been erected months earlier is taken down. Mayor Risman goes missing. And then, the trial of Alexander Summers would begin. Chaim stayed close to the news of it, remembering the terror that he had felt holed up in that New York City lobby, but as the trial goes on New York is ravaged first by Magneto's army, the Brotherhood, and then by an army of mutant-hunting sentinels. Alex Summers would sacrifice his life to save the city and, perhaps, the mutants of the world.

Chaim could feel himself more and more caring for the mutant populace, vocally coming to their defense when possible. Especially as Scott Summers addressed the world, extending an olive branch to the world even after all that had happened. He admired these people. Life would go on, back to normal... and it did. Lively debates on what it meant to be human and what it meant to be mutant, whether either one was right or wrong, went on. Chaim found his old friend and starting reconnecting with her-- things had gone back to normal. The year rolled on, and nothing different happened. Nothing new. Nothing exciting.

Perhaps things were too normal?

SKRULLS
Nearing the end of May, Aliens make themselves known and Chaim is placed under the influence of the brainwashing device known as the Complacency Wave. Completely under the sway of the Skrull populace, Chaim was none the wiser to waht was going on in New York City as the X-Men and the other remaining heroes struck out against their Alien "overlords," until after the fact. As the threat was quelled, the world once again returned to what could be considered normal. Why was everything always so normal?

CURRENT HISTORY
As the year went on and the world kept turning, the threat of the Skrulls behind them like so much else, and the Xavier school reopened to the public and outed as a haven to all of Mutantkind and the main base of the mutant heroes known as the X-Men, something seemed to be off about the world. Everything seemed to be too calm in light of what had happened, despite a blip along the way on New Year's Eve. Chaim was more and more striking away from the "popular" kids and staying on his own and with Serena, getting closer to her, and soon enough April rolled around, and with it, the #killyourheroes movement, started by the villain known as Spiral.

The year would go on and the chaos would spread like wildfire; everyone contemplating what it meant, what was happening, what would happen in the future. Summer came around, and Chaim would become privy to the fact that the girl that had once again wormed her way into his life and become his best friend, was a mutant. She still, on occasion, had the bruises but Chaim wondered whether or not she had the power to protect herself. As Summer drawed to it's close, it would turn out that the answer was no. Serena's family would find out the secret that he had learned at the beginning of the season, and whil Chaim had been paying her a visit, no less. Her step-father took it upon himself to attempt to beat it out of her.

Chaim was younger, he was smaller, and he was less experienced with fighting. But he had to stop him. He had to. As the anger and the need to help his friend welled up inside of him, Chaim could feel something else, too. Something different. Something... new. The next few moments were a blur, a glaring blank spot in Chaim's memory only noted by the sound of a pop, screams, and the sound of sirens.

It turned out that Chaim had effectively saved the girl by manifesting his mutant powers and breaking the man's jaw, though he didn't find any of this out until he woke up a day later, in his bed, at home. His father had convinced Serena's step-father not to press charges, though Raphael seemingly couldn't have been any more disappointed in him. That didn't matter to him, much. At the start of September, Chaim was shipped off to Xavier's, as much to get a handle on his powers as to get him out of the way.

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A flash of light. Unyielding, fading after a few seconds of existence, the sound of a pop and a scream. Then it was gone. The sound of sirens and the flash of red lights, and then they were gone, too. He only remembered it in small signs, little tidbits anchored in his mind by the fact the powers that he had now; the bass of a song rang through his ears, causing him to be none the wiser to the world around him. The scenery rushed and changed, the backdrop going from urban to rural to suburban. His teeth pressed against his lip as he gazed, paying attention to nothing, at the leather of the seat in front of him.

His blue eyes glanced to the side momentarily, the sign claiming that he was now entering North Salem. Sitting at attention before, he slumped back into his seat and sighed, twiddling his thumbs on his lap and looking down at them. The bass pulsed again, rocking his ear drums with the sound of a melody. One, two, three; one, two, three. He shifted in his seat, a sudden uncomfortableness washing over him. Was he nervous? He thought that he might be nervous; he had thought about this day, what he would do if it happened. But now that it was actually here, against all odds... he was nervous. Uncomfortable, even.

Was it because of how it happened? Was it because his father sent him here, just so that he wouldn't have to look at him anymore? He looked up to the cabbie's mirror, meeting eye contact with himself momentarily. Look at you, he thought, You're pathetic. You've been waiting for this for the better part of the last four years, and now that it's come, you don't even know it's happening. He cursed himself and rubbed at his eye, at the subconscious idea that there had been something there. Was he afraid? Afraid of what, though?

Everything had always been so normal, so par for the course, when he was growing up. There had been very little change in his life-- everything had been so stagnant. Was he afraid of the change? Was that it? Chaim d'Avanzo was nearing his intended destination; when he actually paid attention to his surroundings, he was getting nearer and nearer to the X-Men-- the people that he had admired since he was barely out of puberty. A haven for mutants. He'd be safe here, right?

Of course he would.

The car pulled to a stop in front of the gates, and Chaim was roused to attention by the cabbie trying to get his attention. "Alright, already." Chaim rolled his eyes and rolled out of the cab, and grabbed his bags from the trunk. He would make a name for himself here. He was determined; he had his resolve-- he wouldn't just be one of those people, floating among the background and only rising to the occassion when it was a life or death situation. That wasn't him anymore. That couldn't be him anymore. He walked up to the front of the car and paid his fair, leaving some extra for the older man's troubles. "Keep it," he said, but the cab driver was already starting to roll off.

Why were those gates so imposing? He didn't know, but he approached them anyway, optimistically bright about his chances and afraid his vision of this place might be shattered. "Well, here goes nothing." He swallowed, taking a moment to sigh and get a better grip of his bag before he approached the academy.
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