Post by Archetype on Jan 7, 2010 22:31:34 GMT
Name: Nathan King
Alias: (The) Archetype
Age: 36
Deceased: March 10th 2005, aged 31.
Date of birth: 5th November 1974
Hometown: Leeds, England
Powers: In 2005, at the age of 31, Nathan King was murdered. But since, his body remained suspended in stasis, making him neither alive nor dead. This is not a mutation, but instead a direct result of one. Originally, Nathan’s mutation lay in supreme sentience; but when he 'died', as well as picking up on other people's emotions, he could transfer his psyche into another person’s physical body and replace their consciousness with his own. When Nathan returns to his usual body, or passes to another individual, the original person’s cognitive awareness returns, but with restricted knowledge of what their body witnessed during the controlled state - like in a coma, they may recall certain sounds, smells, but never the entire experience. To take over another’s physical form, he compresses their mental state into full subconsciousness; an almost coma-like condition; thus the longer he is in control, the more difficult for the person to adjust when they return and in very lengthy (and extreme) situations they may never return from their shut-down state, rendering the victim braindead. Nathan cannot stay in the other forms for any lengthy period of time. A day at maximum will drain his energy and he’s forced to revert to his original body. Nathan has no need for basic human bodily functions - he occasionally likes to humour them, as he can eat and drink (but later regurgitates,) but it would make no difference if he starved himself or not.
Appearance: Despite the truth about Nathan, he looks every inch a human being. He is simply a paler than most, as though he doesn’t see the sun very often. He doesn't breath, and to touch his skin is cool and lifeless. Upon his chest, there is a remaining scar from where the bullet killed him. This is the only part of his body that Nathan has ever found tender enough to be painful since ‘waking up’. Since his death at 31, Nathan has never aged a day older. His high-flying lifestyle is long behind him and now he's an aloof, scruffy looking man. A figure on the street one would want to hurry pass and would never recognise as Nathan King.
Personality: Once a strange, but nevertheless good-natured man, Nathan is now a mixed bag of personality traits, which can occasionally conflict. A lifetime of witnessing and feeling other people's emotions had left him a little unhinged and unable to control his own all that well. Tortured and twisted by his undead state, his underlying nature has become a malicious one, taking relish in his mutation of taking over unwitting victims to doing his bidding. He’s sly, witty and cunning, able to act light-hearted even in the heat of dangerous sensations. His sense of humour is often mocking and at times almost immature. This spirited trait can easily switch however, tainted by his arrogance and domineering behaviour. He only seems to care for himself, using others any way he sees necessary (whether by powers or not) and easily discarding them when done. His lack of need for life and so his lack of zest has made him very rash indeed and his ability to not get hurt has caused him to become dangerously reckless.
History:
The son of a powerful businessman, Nathan was born in Leeds, England into a comfortable lifestyle that promised him a future in his father’s worldwide empire; King Industries. It encouraged vanity and a sense of superiority, traits that have only worsened after he developed his powers. Despite having a relatively happy childhood, he was seen as one of the strange kids, a little on the quirky side. Harmless, but his behaviour was sometimes excessive and he seemed to take great pride in all he did and expected people to lap up his grandiose way of life. Even before his powers developed, Nathan had always seemed to have an uncanny ability to pick up on how people felt, reading their body language expertly. It influenced the way he acted, as he was always one step ahead of other people, which is what made him become the creative entrepreneur his father had dreamed of. During his lifetime, Nathan journeyed worldwide with his family; well-travelled and despite his nature, is cultured and quite intelligent. He has always been something of a recluse, enjoying people for what they could do for him, rather than for any form of friendship.
Nathan fully developed his powers of empathy at the age of 15, while accompanying his father on a business trip in Boston, suddenly able to realise he could acutely pinpoint who was feeling what and to an extent, influence it.
He hid this discovery from his parents, knowing he would be considered an abomination due to their strait-laced ways. Their success was important to them and their family, and his oddity would be branded a slur. For the rest of his life, Nathan kept his powers secret to himself, concentrating on following his father’s footsteps to become deputy chief executive in his cooperation.
So far, Nathan’s life was going to plan. He was next in line to take over his father’s business and was already near enough a millionaire. When his father stepped down from the King Industries, Nathan was given the leading role of the worldwide cooperation and directed the mechanical contracting company into the realms of serving for mutantkind; his creations both served and apprehended them. Nathan didn't see all of mutantkind as worthy, there were criminals just as in human beings, and they needed machines and weapons powerful enough to stop them.
However, during a high-flying business trip to Munich, he was hunted down by mutant renegades, UNIT. Believing him to be creating weapons to destroy mutantkind, the team relentlessly tracked him down; his military cargo was destroyed and his security team murdered. Without even a chance to defend himself, he was shot at point blank range by Adeola Wright. He was dying within minutes.
But as soon as he closed his eyes, he suddenly found himself looking through the eyes of the person who had shot him and watching his own dead body lay before him. Terrified about what to do now he was trapped in the body of his killer, Nathan fled from the scene, leaving his body behind and hiding from the other vigilantes.
Emergency services and patrol soon swarmed the scene to find Nathan King’s cold body. The globally acclaimed businessman was declared dead and the area became taped off by the police. Watching from the distance, Nathan was horrified at what he was witnessing. His own body was dead and yet he felt he was still very much alive.
From afar, Nathan tried to transport his mind once more and after several tries, managed to return to his body. Held in stasis between life and death, his body now had an active brain. He was back in the body he should’ve died in, which was now little more than a shell, yet his brain was now firing more neurons than ever.
Eventually, he was able to encourage the further blood flow to focus control of his body and picked himself up, fleeing the scene of the murder and leaving nothing but a bloodstained sheet behind.
Suspicion was pointed at those who had killed them, that they had stolen his body in intention to be held as ransom against his grieving family. Such accusations never proved to be true and it was never known what happened to Nathan King’s body, nor who had murdered him.
Nathan was forced to lie low as the papers proclaimed his death. He was mourned by the business world as one of the greatest entrepreneurs and inventors of his profession. Nathan had to endure these headlines as he disappeared; no one could recognise him, it’d cause too much of a stir. But that wasn’t his only problem; he was now a man who although he walked and talked, could not breathe. Blood lay still in his veins, cuts healed themselves and returned constantly to the stasis his body had been held in since his ‘death’. Nathan has never physically aged older since the night this second mutation developed.
Constantly keeping a low profile and full of hate for this new life that had overcome him, Nathan turned darker and withdrawn, his sanity being pushed to the boundaries as he struggled to deal with this phenomenal event. He has frequently tried to commit suicide, but a dead man cannot die again. Any injury he sustains is quickly recovered to the form he has held since he 'died'. Years on, Nathan remained full of bitter revenge. He was neither alive nor dead and unlike some mutants, he valued the fact he was a human being; now, he's a freak even amongst mutants.
Played by: John Simm
Alias: (The) Archetype
Age: 36
Deceased: March 10th 2005, aged 31.
Date of birth: 5th November 1974
Hometown: Leeds, England
Powers: In 2005, at the age of 31, Nathan King was murdered. But since, his body remained suspended in stasis, making him neither alive nor dead. This is not a mutation, but instead a direct result of one. Originally, Nathan’s mutation lay in supreme sentience; but when he 'died', as well as picking up on other people's emotions, he could transfer his psyche into another person’s physical body and replace their consciousness with his own. When Nathan returns to his usual body, or passes to another individual, the original person’s cognitive awareness returns, but with restricted knowledge of what their body witnessed during the controlled state - like in a coma, they may recall certain sounds, smells, but never the entire experience. To take over another’s physical form, he compresses their mental state into full subconsciousness; an almost coma-like condition; thus the longer he is in control, the more difficult for the person to adjust when they return and in very lengthy (and extreme) situations they may never return from their shut-down state, rendering the victim braindead. Nathan cannot stay in the other forms for any lengthy period of time. A day at maximum will drain his energy and he’s forced to revert to his original body. Nathan has no need for basic human bodily functions - he occasionally likes to humour them, as he can eat and drink (but later regurgitates,) but it would make no difference if he starved himself or not.
Appearance: Despite the truth about Nathan, he looks every inch a human being. He is simply a paler than most, as though he doesn’t see the sun very often. He doesn't breath, and to touch his skin is cool and lifeless. Upon his chest, there is a remaining scar from where the bullet killed him. This is the only part of his body that Nathan has ever found tender enough to be painful since ‘waking up’. Since his death at 31, Nathan has never aged a day older. His high-flying lifestyle is long behind him and now he's an aloof, scruffy looking man. A figure on the street one would want to hurry pass and would never recognise as Nathan King.
Personality: Once a strange, but nevertheless good-natured man, Nathan is now a mixed bag of personality traits, which can occasionally conflict. A lifetime of witnessing and feeling other people's emotions had left him a little unhinged and unable to control his own all that well. Tortured and twisted by his undead state, his underlying nature has become a malicious one, taking relish in his mutation of taking over unwitting victims to doing his bidding. He’s sly, witty and cunning, able to act light-hearted even in the heat of dangerous sensations. His sense of humour is often mocking and at times almost immature. This spirited trait can easily switch however, tainted by his arrogance and domineering behaviour. He only seems to care for himself, using others any way he sees necessary (whether by powers or not) and easily discarding them when done. His lack of need for life and so his lack of zest has made him very rash indeed and his ability to not get hurt has caused him to become dangerously reckless.
History:
The son of a powerful businessman, Nathan was born in Leeds, England into a comfortable lifestyle that promised him a future in his father’s worldwide empire; King Industries. It encouraged vanity and a sense of superiority, traits that have only worsened after he developed his powers. Despite having a relatively happy childhood, he was seen as one of the strange kids, a little on the quirky side. Harmless, but his behaviour was sometimes excessive and he seemed to take great pride in all he did and expected people to lap up his grandiose way of life. Even before his powers developed, Nathan had always seemed to have an uncanny ability to pick up on how people felt, reading their body language expertly. It influenced the way he acted, as he was always one step ahead of other people, which is what made him become the creative entrepreneur his father had dreamed of. During his lifetime, Nathan journeyed worldwide with his family; well-travelled and despite his nature, is cultured and quite intelligent. He has always been something of a recluse, enjoying people for what they could do for him, rather than for any form of friendship.
Nathan fully developed his powers of empathy at the age of 15, while accompanying his father on a business trip in Boston, suddenly able to realise he could acutely pinpoint who was feeling what and to an extent, influence it.
He hid this discovery from his parents, knowing he would be considered an abomination due to their strait-laced ways. Their success was important to them and their family, and his oddity would be branded a slur. For the rest of his life, Nathan kept his powers secret to himself, concentrating on following his father’s footsteps to become deputy chief executive in his cooperation.
So far, Nathan’s life was going to plan. He was next in line to take over his father’s business and was already near enough a millionaire. When his father stepped down from the King Industries, Nathan was given the leading role of the worldwide cooperation and directed the mechanical contracting company into the realms of serving for mutantkind; his creations both served and apprehended them. Nathan didn't see all of mutantkind as worthy, there were criminals just as in human beings, and they needed machines and weapons powerful enough to stop them.
However, during a high-flying business trip to Munich, he was hunted down by mutant renegades, UNIT. Believing him to be creating weapons to destroy mutantkind, the team relentlessly tracked him down; his military cargo was destroyed and his security team murdered. Without even a chance to defend himself, he was shot at point blank range by Adeola Wright. He was dying within minutes.
But as soon as he closed his eyes, he suddenly found himself looking through the eyes of the person who had shot him and watching his own dead body lay before him. Terrified about what to do now he was trapped in the body of his killer, Nathan fled from the scene, leaving his body behind and hiding from the other vigilantes.
Emergency services and patrol soon swarmed the scene to find Nathan King’s cold body. The globally acclaimed businessman was declared dead and the area became taped off by the police. Watching from the distance, Nathan was horrified at what he was witnessing. His own body was dead and yet he felt he was still very much alive.
From afar, Nathan tried to transport his mind once more and after several tries, managed to return to his body. Held in stasis between life and death, his body now had an active brain. He was back in the body he should’ve died in, which was now little more than a shell, yet his brain was now firing more neurons than ever.
Eventually, he was able to encourage the further blood flow to focus control of his body and picked himself up, fleeing the scene of the murder and leaving nothing but a bloodstained sheet behind.
Suspicion was pointed at those who had killed them, that they had stolen his body in intention to be held as ransom against his grieving family. Such accusations never proved to be true and it was never known what happened to Nathan King’s body, nor who had murdered him.
Nathan was forced to lie low as the papers proclaimed his death. He was mourned by the business world as one of the greatest entrepreneurs and inventors of his profession. Nathan had to endure these headlines as he disappeared; no one could recognise him, it’d cause too much of a stir. But that wasn’t his only problem; he was now a man who although he walked and talked, could not breathe. Blood lay still in his veins, cuts healed themselves and returned constantly to the stasis his body had been held in since his ‘death’. Nathan has never physically aged older since the night this second mutation developed.
Constantly keeping a low profile and full of hate for this new life that had overcome him, Nathan turned darker and withdrawn, his sanity being pushed to the boundaries as he struggled to deal with this phenomenal event. He has frequently tried to commit suicide, but a dead man cannot die again. Any injury he sustains is quickly recovered to the form he has held since he 'died'. Years on, Nathan remained full of bitter revenge. He was neither alive nor dead and unlike some mutants, he valued the fact he was a human being; now, he's a freak even amongst mutants.
Played by: John Simm
