Character Name & Journal: David Alleyne | helpdesk_hero Guild Affiliation: Unaffiliated while he can, Guardian when he has no choice
Plot/CR Hooks: David's smart, but he makes bad life choices. Smart in the way of 'make your gadgets if you need them' or in the way of 'help you figure your way into or out of a bad situation'. He's got years of practice at both, powers to back them up, and this way of hovering around the people that he comes to know and care about that puts him in danger all too often.
Of course he's also fun to call on his hypocritical bullshit. David wants the best for people, but can sometimes be cruel because it's meant to 'teach someone to be better'. This could easily be spread into points where he is hurting someone when he's trying to help and needs called on that.
Character Motivations: Not die, again. Between canon and CRAU David's at four, and he's trying to avoid the full handful or more. But he's also heavily motivated by wanting to take care of those people he deems as his. These can be people from back home, or just generally anyone he develops a deep connection to. More than anything he wants to see those people who want to get home back where and when they belong, or at least at a time and place that will work better for them. This tends to mean he's going to be looking for technological answers to these problems until he comes up against the wall and comes to accept that he's got no power here.
Ultimately he's likely to settle in Excelsior, given his own technology focus and bias, and will be looking for work and support in the tech industry there, trying to live a low key life when he's not considering how involved he wants to be with heroics. It doesn't tend to go well for him after all.
Oh, and he's trying to find a way to get characters who came in from Mask or Menace and lost things to the Fates their memories back.
Potential Roles: In canon David is often treated as the man with the plan, the brains behind all of the rest of a team, or someone who just keeps things running smoothly. This plays out both in supporting the X-Men even after he lost his powers, helping the Young Avengers come up with a plan to save the universe from Loki's actions, and with the X-Factor series he's in as part of the heavy analytical lifting for a team of detectives.
In terms of power David's great at support. He's a technopath, psychometric (among other more complicated things), and can create psionic energy constructs, so any of these could be a good reason to drag him into action that is ongoing. The constructs at least people could assume to have seen him using during the TDM conflict with the dragon, so he might be pulled into stuff with that as a point of use. He's also very good with technology and could be convinced to help with making needful gear, or even just researching things for other characters that relate to this world or things they are working on.
Finally, dude's rolling in so many absorbed knowledge sets that he's a doctor among other things. So if you need help for that (and can't get your hands on a healer or Josh Foley), he's a decent back up.
Prodigy/David Alleyne | Marvel-616
Character Name & Journal: David Alleyne |
Guild Affiliation: Unaffiliated while he can, Guardian when he has no choice
Plot/CR Hooks: David's smart, but he makes bad life choices. Smart in the way of 'make your gadgets if you need them' or in the way of 'help you figure your way into or out of a bad situation'. He's got years of practice at both, powers to back them up, and this way of hovering around the people that he comes to know and care about that puts him in danger all too often.
Of course he's also fun to call on his hypocritical bullshit. David wants the best for people, but can sometimes be cruel because it's meant to 'teach someone to be better'. This could easily be spread into points where he is hurting someone when he's trying to help and needs called on that.
Character Motivations: Not die, again. Between canon and CRAU David's at four, and he's trying to avoid the full handful or more. But he's also heavily motivated by wanting to take care of those people he deems as his. These can be people from back home, or just generally anyone he develops a deep connection to. More than anything he wants to see those people who want to get home back where and when they belong, or at least at a time and place that will work better for them. This tends to mean he's going to be looking for technological answers to these problems until he comes up against the wall and comes to accept that he's got no power here.
Ultimately he's likely to settle in Excelsior, given his own technology focus and bias, and will be looking for work and support in the tech industry there, trying to live a low key life when he's not considering how involved he wants to be with heroics. It doesn't tend to go well for him after all.
Oh, and he's trying to find a way to get characters who came in from Mask or Menace and lost things to the Fates their memories back.
Potential Roles: In canon David is often treated as the man with the plan, the brains behind all of the rest of a team, or someone who just keeps things running smoothly. This plays out both in supporting the X-Men even after he lost his powers, helping the Young Avengers come up with a plan to save the universe from Loki's actions, and with the X-Factor series he's in as part of the heavy analytical lifting for a team of detectives.
In terms of power David's great at support. He's a technopath, psychometric (among other more complicated things), and can create psionic energy constructs, so any of these could be a good reason to drag him into action that is ongoing. The constructs at least people could assume to have seen him using during the TDM conflict with the dragon, so he might be pulled into stuff with that as a point of use. He's also very good with technology and could be convinced to help with making needful gear, or even just researching things for other characters that relate to this world or things they are working on.
Finally, dude's rolling in so many absorbed knowledge sets that he's a doctor among other things. So if you need help for that (and can't get your hands on a healer or Josh Foley), he's a decent back up.