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Fandom: X-Men: Evolution
Name: Todd “Toad” Tolansky
Canon Point: Middle of Season Two, before the episode HeX Factor, plus a year plus in Outer Divide

History:
+Wiki: X-Men Evolution: The wiki page for the show itself.
+Marvel Wiki: Todd Tolansky: The only X-Men Evolution version page I could really find.

Todd's background is never really gotten into, with anyone who knows him. The shape-shifter Mystique recruited Todd early in his high school career, the first of the teenaged Brotherhood mutants. There is never any sign in canon of Todd's parents, and presumably he is either orphaned or abandoned, as he was in comic canon. At some point he lived on the streets, without a real home, and he probably spent time in the foster system when he was very young. The only parental figure he ever has in canon is Mystique, who bosses him around and incites even more acting out than usual in him. She shows nothing for contempt for him despite his (occasional) attempts to please her and protect her. She usually threatens him into obedience, rather than offering rewards.

During the course of his canon, Todd lives at the Brotherhood of Bayville Boarding House, a crumbling manor that always seems in various levels of disrepair and disorder. He attends Bayville High in New York State. It seems reasonable to assume he lived in Bayville, NY, prior to the series beginning, due to how familiar the local high school students are with him in the first episode. Most of his time in high school is spent focused more on picking pockets and avoiding being beat up by bullies than actually studying. He is often picked on, whether by other mutants or not.

For a while, he and the others actually drop out of school, after the "testing" Magneto set to the teens and the disappearance of Mystique. They tried "coming out" in a very messy fashion at the high school, and then just never went back. His canon point comes from during this point in time.

Character Development and Relationship Transfer from previous RP:
Waking up in a spaceship pod on an alien planet, as part of some multi-cosmic rescue scheme, was not how Todd had expected to spend his last years of high school, but really, it’s been a big improvement over Bayville. He doesn’t have to go to school, he doesn’t have to deal with the cold war between mutants and normal people, and best of all, he doesn’t have to get ordered around by people who seem to think he ought to fight other mutants. Over the course of the year and handful of months he lived on Verdana, he’s won over a couple of friends, he’s learned that the way his authority figures used to treat him was pretty crappy, and he’s actually picked up a modicrum of responsibility, through having a couple part-time jobs and raising a pair of large, furry prehistoric mammals he named Thing One and Thing Two. (Shut up, those are great names. He was super proud of coming up with them.)

So now he knows that there are multiple worlds out there-- and multiple versions of the same person in many of them. He’s had two versions of his fellow Brotherhood mutant Quicksilver, two of his wall-crawling counter-part Nightcrawler, and three of Professor Xavier, plus he’s met two men who look exactly the same but who obviously come from different time periods. Oh, and he’s sorta-kinda got a girlfriend from a post-apocalyptic world. Amazing, right? Lucky for him, said girlfriend has already shown up in the Underworld, or there might be some panicking.

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,]

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”.

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History:
+Wiki: X-Men Evolution: The wiki page for the show itself.
+Marvel Wiki: Todd Tolansky: The only X-Men Evolution version page I could really find.

Todd's background is never really gotten into, with anyone who knows him. The shape-shifter Mystique recruited Todd early in his high school career, the first of the teenaged Brotherhood mutants. There is never any sign in canon of Todd's parents, and presumably he is either orphaned or abandoned, as he was in comic canon. At some point he lived on the streets, without a real home, and he probably spent time in the foster system when he was very young. The only parental figure he ever has in canon is Mystique, who bosses him around and incites even more acting out than usual in him. She shows nothing for contempt for him despite his (occasional) attempts to please her and protect her. She usually threatens him into obedience, rather than offering rewards.

During the course of his canon, Todd lives at the Brotherhood of Bayville Boarding House, a crumbling manor that always seems in various levels of disrepair and disorder. He attends Bayville High in New York State. It seems reasonable to assume he lived in Bayville, NY, prior to the series beginning, due to how familiar the local high school students are with him in the first episode. Most of his time in high school is spent focused more on picking pockets and avoiding being beat up by bullies than actually studying. He is often picked on, whether by other mutants or not.

For a while, he and the others actually drop out of school, after the "testing" Magneto set to the teens and the disappearance of Mystique. They tried "coming out" in a very messy fashion at the high school, and then just never went back. His canon point comes from during this point in time.

Character Development and Relationship Transfer from previous RP:
Waking up in a spaceship pod on an alien planet, as part of some multi-cosmic rescue scheme, was not how Todd had expected to spend his last years of high school, but really, it’s been a big improvement over Bayville. He doesn’t have to go to school, he doesn’t have to deal with the cold war between mutants and normal people, and best of all, he doesn’t have to get ordered around by people who seem to think he ought to fight other mutants. Over the course of the year and handful of months he lived on Verdana, he’s won over a couple of friends, he’s learned that the way his authority figures used to treat him was pretty crappy, and he’s actually picked up a modicrum of responsibility, through having a couple part-time jobs and raising a pair of large, furry prehistoric mammals he named Thing One and Thing Two. (Shut up, those are great names. He was super proud of coming up with them.)

So now he knows that there are multiple worlds out there-- and multiple versions of the same person in many of them. He’s had two versions of his fellow Brotherhood mutant Quicksilver, two of his wall-crawling counter-part Nightcrawler, and three of Professor Xavier, plus he’s met two men who look exactly the same but who obviously come from different time periods. Oh, and he’s sorta-kinda got a girlfriend from a post-apocalyptic world. Amazing, right? Lucky for him, said girlfriend has already shown up in the Underworld, or there might be some panicking.

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,]

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”.

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