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Name: Ian
Code Name: Ghost
Age: Aproximatly 17, exact age is unknown
Birthplace: Unknown
Occupation: Member of Team X
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 160 lbs
Eye Color: Grey, almost silver
Hair Color: Black Mutation: Ian has the ability to make himself invisible by bending, refracting and refocusing light around himself, however, he is still physically there so he can't go through walls or other solid objects. He can also use his power on anything or anyone he is touching, but if he breaks physical contact with something or someone he has made invisible they will reappear shortly thereafter.. Anything that is going from visible to invisible (or vice versa) becomes a silvery color before disappearing or reappearing.
Since visible light is bent around him, Ian sees in higher spectrums of light while invisible, allowing him to see in almost total darkness and other low-visibilty situations, it also causes his vision to be mostly monochromatic, but anything effected by his power appears blue and lasers (like those used in security systems) appear red. One other side-effect of becoming invisible is a temperature drop due to the fact that he doesn't absorb as much light while invisible and those around may feel a slight chill. An object or person in the "silver" state will have a outer temperature of approximatly -15 degrees celsius, while an object that is invisilbe will have an outer temperature of about 5 degrees celcius. However, whatever is effected by his power won't feel the chill as much except while in the normally brief transistion between visible and invisible, since they become insulated while invisible. Since this insulation keeps anything that is invisible a constant 35 degrees celcius it can protect against extremes in temperature and allow Ian to function in sub-zero or desert climates with little fear of exposure while invisible.
Ian is also capable of keeping himself or another object in a state of flux between visible and invisible and use the sub-zero temperature to freeze and eventually break things such as locks, ropes and other objects by making them brittle.
Ian is also adept in the use of computers and is a capable hacker. He is also a skilled thief, lockpick and pickpocket.
Costume: Ian wears a midnight blue jumpsuit-like uniform that allows him to move freely, his uniform also includes special-made boots that are designed to allow him to walk silently while still giving him protection, gloves and hidden pockets to store items. He also almost always carries his lock pick with him wherever he goes. History: Ian was stolen from his family when he was about 4 by a corporation known as The Centre because they saw evidence in his blood that he could be a potential mutant and due to the trauma of the event he doesn't remember much about his family. For approximatly 9 years he was trained and tested so that he would be prepared to work for the centre once his powers developed.
When he was around 14 his powers manifested themselves and his training began being focused on the skills of the thief, during which he learned he had a knack for picking locks. During this time he was also befriended by a computer tech at The Centre named Broots, who taught him how to hack into a computer system without being detected.
Shortly afterwards he was sent on his first mission, which he completed without a problem, once he got over the awe of seeing the outside world for the first time since he'd been stolen, and The Centre began using him for more and more missions. The missions were usually similar in nature, get someplace undetected, steal something of value, often information or a prototype of some sort, and bring it back. Ian enjoyed these missions, partly because he didn't know any other way but mainly because it was the only time he was allowed outside of The Centre. However, this changed one day when they wanted him to murder someone, that was a line he wasn't willing to cross. Ian decided to escape
since he knew that failure wasn't tolerated by The Centre. He went along with the planning for the mission, secretly planning his escape as they did. Before he left for what he hoped would be his last mission for The Centre Ian put a trojan horse program on one of The Centre's computers so that he could gain access to it from another location.
Once he arrived at the location where his mission was to take place, Ian picked the pocket of the pilot who had flown him to the mission's location and removed the tracking device they always planted on him and escaped. One of the first stops he made was a computer store where he picked the lock on the door and bypassed the security system so that he could use one of the display systems to access the computer he had left the trojan horse on and retrieve any data he could find regarding his past, unfortunatly the data was heavily encrypted so he had to copy it to a cd to try and decipher it later. He also decided to hack into their banking system and move some money from their accounts into another less secure one so that he could withdraw it from an ATM. After erasing any trace that he'd been on the computer Ian went to put some money on the counter for the cd he'd used and was taking with him when he saw something called "Pez". Curious as to what it was Ian took one and left some money for that as well.
After a month of being constantly hunted by The Centre, Ian found a way to hopefully get them off his trail, he faked his own death.
He travelled like this for about a year, getting odd jobs to pay for food and sometimes a place to sleep, occasionally stopping at public libraries and electronics stores to try and decrypt his past, when he arrived in the area of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Thinking they might have a computer system capable of decipher the cd, Ian decided to break in and try. Unfortunatly he wasn't aware that the school was for mutants and the headmaster was a telepath.
He was surprised when he was asked to stay even though he'd broken in and took the offer since he wasn't always sure where he would be sleeping or eating. A couple days later one of the residents of the school and another mutant, a member of the Brotherhood, were kidnapped by a group of mutants called The Marauders, Ian volunteered to help rescue the two in a rare joint mission between the X-Men/Team X and The Brotherhood.
After that mission he was asked to join Team X by it's leader, Jason Anderson. Before answering however, Ian decided that if he was to even consider staying, he should tell Professor Xavier about his past and give him the option of asking him to leave since The Centre could still someday find him and he didn't want to endanger anyone. After the Professor's offer to stay continued even after hearing his tale, Ian decided to accept Jason's offer and become a member of Team X. |
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