Personality: Todd spends most of his high school career as a juvenile delinquent: tagging the buildings, picking pockets, vandalizing the principal's property, talking the big talk, and cracking very bad jokes. His moral compass is a little skewed, though he's not really a bad sort-- he never actually tries to hurt anyone, usually, just get attention-- he just always winds up making trouble. And yet, all that trouble-making is largely an attempt to try and prove he's as cool and badass as the other mutants he goes to high school with. His power might be awesome in his own eyes, but others find it kind of lame-- he jumps and catches flies with his tongue, big whoop-- and he's kind of a wimp in general, and the others in the Brotherhood tend to pick on him. Actually, everyone tends to pick on him, and whenever he's pitted against one of the goody-goody X-men, he always loses. It's enough to make a guy think he sucks, and only encourages the acting out, in an attempt to get some kind of pride back.
When there's any danger to his person, Todd usually screams and runs to hide behind the nearest ally. When it comes down to it, and his abilities can actually do some good for his friends-- not people in general, just his friends; he's not got any kind of altruistic instinct-- he can knuckle down and do what needs to be done, but on the whole he'd much rather run away than fight. He is something of a coward. Never let it be said, though, that Todd doesn't appreciate those allies who let him hide behind them. He does know how to say thanks. He's kind of used to being brushed off, but he does it anyway. Maybe one of his foster parents raised him right-- a little, tiny bit-- or maybe he just has the common sense to know when gratitude is due. Whenever someone else rescues him or helps him out, he's definitely going to like them more, and be willing to return the favor, if he can. He'll even apologize, now and then, if he's done something he probably shouldn't have.
Despite it all, Todd is essentially an optimist, at least when it comes to his own chances at something. When he really wants something, it's hard to deter him. He just doesn't give up easily, and always thinks he'll come through in the end. Of course, that means when he doesn't come through in the end-- which does tend to happen more often than not-- he's even more disappointed and down.
When Todd actually does like someone, he'll follow them to the ends of the earth, making corny one-liners and giving them pet names, and making really rather pathetic compliments of how good-looking and talented and awesome they are. Honestly, he's a little creepy about it. For those people who have won his devotion he'll actually be brave. In fact, for those people who've won his devotion he'll actually bathe.
Skills | Powers: +Wall-crawling: The ability to cling to walls with his bare hands and feet, or even with gloves and thin boots. +Super-jumping: The ability to leap incredible distances, at least twenty feet straight up and almost thirty in straight distance. +Spitty Goo: Hey, what else do you call it when you spit a bunch of goo that clings to things? Todd certainly isn't any more creative about it. This substance stinks and has the consistency of warm rubber, sticky and thick and generally noxious. +Prehensile Tongue: That green tongue of his is prehensile and stretches to a good ten feet. He has been known to catch himself from a fall with it, grasp things with it, and especially to catch flies with it. +Agility and Flexibility: The reason it's so easy for Todd to crouch frog-like and hop rather than walk whenever he gets the chance is his skeletal and muscular framework is looser and more limber than most. His toes are, in fact, so flexible that he can write with them-- albeit a bit messily. +Thievery: Todd steals things. He's a very skilled pick-pocket, in particular, and he knows how to pick locks, after his time on Verdana.
First Person Sample:
Aw, man, this is gettin’ old. Like seriously old.
[An annoyed and nervous looking-- and maybe slightly sickly-looking, too, given the greenish tinge to his skin and eyes-- teenaged boy peers down at the camera, holding the tablet at an angle that tilts his face half sideways. He looks a little wild-eyed, and there’s a freshly cut mark on one cheekbone, what might be a cursive letter C, beneath the blood. He wipes it absently, winces, and then continues.]
How many times does a guy gotta wake up in a weird place in his life, huh? This is seriously wacked out, and I wanna-- I wanna complain to the management of wherever this is. Is there management? I already got kidnapped once, I don’t wanna get kidnapped again! Don’t matter if it was, like, a good kidnapping last time or not, yo.
This one is kinda less good anyway. The last one didn’t cut me up!
[He looks away, and apparently around, and finishes with a worried-sounding,]
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Todd spends most of his high school career as a juvenile delinquent: tagging the buildings, picking pockets, vandalizing the principal's property, talking the big talk, and cracking very bad jokes. His moral compass is a little skewed, though he's not really a bad sort-- he never actually tries to hurt anyone, usually, just get attention-- he just always winds up making trouble. And yet, all that trouble-making is largely an attempt to try and prove he's as cool and badass as the other mutants he goes to high school with. His power might be awesome in his own eyes, but others find it kind of lame-- he jumps and catches flies with his tongue, big whoop-- and he's kind of a wimp in general, and the others in the Brotherhood tend to pick on him. Actually, everyone tends to pick on him, and whenever he's pitted against one of the goody-goody X-men, he always loses. It's enough to make a guy think he sucks, and only encourages the acting out, in an attempt to get some kind of pride back.
When there's any danger to his person, Todd usually screams and runs to hide behind the nearest ally. When it comes down to it, and his abilities can actually do some good for his friends-- not people in general, just his friends; he's not got any kind of altruistic instinct-- he can knuckle down and do what needs to be done, but on the whole he'd much rather run away than fight. He is something of a coward. Never let it be said, though, that Todd doesn't appreciate those allies who let him hide behind them. He does know how to say thanks. He's kind of used to being brushed off, but he does it anyway. Maybe one of his foster parents raised him right-- a little, tiny bit-- or maybe he just has the common sense to know when gratitude is due. Whenever someone else rescues him or helps him out, he's definitely going to like them more, and be willing to return the favor, if he can. He'll even apologize, now and then, if he's done something he probably shouldn't have.
Despite it all, Todd is essentially an optimist, at least when it comes to his own chances at something. When he really wants something, it's hard to deter him. He just doesn't give up easily, and always thinks he'll come through in the end. Of course, that means when he doesn't come through in the end-- which does tend to happen more often than not-- he's even more disappointed and down.
When Todd actually does like someone, he'll follow them to the ends of the earth, making corny one-liners and giving them pet names, and making really rather pathetic compliments of how good-looking and talented and awesome they are. Honestly, he's a little creepy about it. For those people who have won his devotion he'll actually be brave. In fact, for those people who've won his devotion he'll actually bathe.
Skills | Powers:
+Wall-crawling: The ability to cling to walls with his bare hands and feet, or even with gloves and thin boots.
+Super-jumping: The ability to leap incredible distances, at least twenty feet straight up and almost thirty in straight distance.
+Spitty Goo: Hey, what else do you call it when you spit a bunch of goo that clings to things? Todd certainly isn't any more creative about it. This substance stinks and has the consistency of warm rubber, sticky and thick and generally noxious.
+Prehensile Tongue: That green tongue of his is prehensile and stretches to a good ten feet. He has been known to catch himself from a fall with it, grasp things with it, and especially to catch flies with it.
+Agility and Flexibility: The reason it's so easy for Todd to crouch frog-like and hop rather than walk whenever he gets the chance is his skeletal and muscular framework is looser and more limber than most. His toes are, in fact, so flexible that he can write with them-- albeit a bit messily.
+Thievery: Todd steals things. He's a very skilled pick-pocket, in particular, and he knows how to pick locks, after his time on Verdana.
First Person Sample:
Aw, man, this is gettin’ old. Like seriously old.
[An annoyed and nervous looking-- and maybe slightly sickly-looking, too, given the greenish tinge to his skin and eyes-- teenaged boy peers down at the camera, holding the tablet at an angle that tilts his face half sideways. He looks a little wild-eyed, and there’s a freshly cut mark on one cheekbone, what might be a cursive letter C, beneath the blood. He wipes it absently, winces, and then continues.]
How many times does a guy gotta wake up in a weird place in his life, huh? This is seriously wacked out, and I wanna-- I wanna complain to the management of wherever this is. Is there management? I already got kidnapped once, I don’t wanna get kidnapped again! Don’t matter if it was, like, a good kidnapping last time or not, yo.
This one is kinda less good anyway. The last one didn’t cut me up!
[He looks away, and apparently around, and finishes with a worried-sounding,]
Do you even got bugs around here?
[Yes, he did just say bugs.]
Third Person Sample:
Todd hanging out with his “girlfriend”
Marks:
Block T on the back of his left hand, for “thief”, and a cursive C on his right cheekbone, for “coward”.