| Gideon Moreau and the Genoshan Nativist movement. |
[16 Nov 2011|01:09am] |
 Gideon Moreau: Son of Zealot, Grandson of the Genegineer (but he's hardly going to brag about that part), and, incredibly importantly, Nephew of Phillip Moreau and (by marriage) Jenny Ransome-Moreau. Gideon asserts that the existing population of Genosha, before the influx of immigrant mutants and the official handing of the country over to Magneto, has been given short shrift. He believes that if anyone had the right to declare themselves Genoshan Royalty, it was the leaders of the initial revolution, his aunt and uncle, who stuck it out for years when foreign superpersons had all forgotten about Genosha, until Magneto arrived. Never mind that Jenny and Phillip would never have done such a thing. They've disappeared in the intervening years (or as Gideon likes to put it 'disappeared').
Gideon makes a great show of trying to 'reclaim Genoshan patriotism,' separating it from loyalty to the government. He shaves his head 'in solidarity with the victims of the Magistrates' and generally is very, very 'more Genoshan than thou' unless he thinks the 'thou' in question could be persuaded to join the cause.
Gideon may not have his grandfather's scientific genius, or his uncle's sheer physical and emotional courage, but the brains and charisma of the Moreaus have not completely passed him by, and he has his father's self-entitled arrogance in spades.
He finds his mutation even more amusing; his father's geokinesis taking a twist towards magnetic fields. Gideon would happily see Magnus lose all of his positions, including 'Master of Magnetism'.
 Erik Mellencamp: When Seamus Mellencamp died at the hands of American agents retaliating for past Acolyte crimes (not so much the ones Mellencamp had committed personally as others, but, well, he was scary), Mrs. Mellencamp was grateful that she and her young son Erik would be secure and taken care of. And if you'd asked Erik up until recently, he'd have said they were. They had food and a roof over their heads, and he had friends, playing a lot of team sports as long as someone else was calling the plays. Then Gideon had a talk with him. Shouldn't the loss of a valued person like Mellencamp have gotten more attention all those years ago? Shouldn't the American government, whose priorities when it came to mutants who looked like the Mellencamp family were so clearly illustrated, continue to be a concern? And yet why had MAgneto not better recognized such heroics? And why was he letting his grandson play nice with the American government?
Once the questions and doubts started, Gideon was very good at cultivating them.
Erik Mellencamp is incredibly strong, capable of lifting in excess of 50 tons. He is also incredibly durable, capable of withstanding a tank shell at close range. He has a substantial healing factor, capable of healing minor wounds quickly and normally fatal wounds within hours. He has a lizard-like tail that he can whip at high speeds and strike with incredible force.
 Jenny Cook: Alice Cook was a mutate for whom readjustment after the downfall of the Magistrate Regime was .....difficult. Crippled by near-suicidal shame at the slightest mistake that would once have provoked the displeasure of the overseeing magistrates, Alice had to put forth great effort to manage any kind of will of her own. Growing up watching her mother in this struggle, Jenny (named after Jenny Ransome-Moreau, the spirited role model Alice knew she couldn't be for her daughter) watched Alice embrace Magneto's regime.... and grew to believe it was exactly the sort of authoritative crutch her mother should have been spared if she were ever to acquire true mental independence. Didn't future generations deserve better?
Jenny is a psi focusing on shielding and scrambling. She can render several people undetectable to telepathy and also break a person's concentration completely unless they have extremely strong psychic shielding themselves.
 Twenty-Five Hundred: He doesn't talk about real names. He doesn't talk about much. There's a good chance that Mutate #2500 may have actually been one of the few 'born mutates,' grown in-vitro from the already enslaved, and never given a real name at all. At any rate, he's a quiet guy, and he listens to Gideon.
2500's powers are based in teleportation, but not just of himself and others. He can teleport unwilling subjects within a certain distance of him to a place within his line of sight, though an act of will from the victim can minimize the distance and height involved. He can do the same with objects, though weight and mass greatly affect the distance he can transport them. If given sufficient time to concentrate, he can even teleport specific personal effects off of an individual from a shirt, a parachute, or, if sufficently focused, even a piece of a superhuman's energy aura. This can significantly drain those that rely on energy, though this may also weaken 2500.
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