Geist

Geist Attributes Agility: 3 Strength: 1 Toughness: 2 Perception: 6 Intellect: 3 Willpower: 7   Abilities Astral Projection 10 Astral Vision 2/6 Cooking 7 Knife Combat 4 Projective Telepathy 5 Telekinesis 4 Advantages Body Homing Knives Michelin Star Multi-Lingual Mutant Physiology Resist Possession Flaws Animal Detection Astral Powers Mutant Narcolepsy Poor Vulnerability Information Name: Paul Becker Paul was the up and coming hot chef in New York till a bitter and angry ex outed him as a mutant. Now he has been kicked out of the kitchen he helped to put on the map and having a hard time finding a job. Position: Mutant Chef Team: N/A Age: 26 Sex: Male Race: Mutant Type: Original Character Actor: N/A Alts: N/A Timezone: Central Standard Time (UTC-6, North America) Music: N/A Quote: N/A Tone Likes: N/A Tone Dislikes: N/A Background There is one important lesson that Paul Becker has learned, that is that life is hard. He was born to an average but fairly poor couple that lived in a one bedroom apartment in one of the worst parts of New York. When he was only a few years old he was diagnosed with Narcolepsy and put on the first of what would be a long line of medications that often did little or nothing to help. He grew up a mostly normal child despite being a bit introverted and having something of a temper. In high school Paul found what would be the true love of his life, cooking. He immediately started plans in motion to become the greatest chef on the planet. Along with extra classes in languages, graduating high school a year early, and the normal summer jobs in kitchens, he worked as hard as he could to place himself in a position to enter the Culinary Institute of America where he planned to first earn his associates and then find some way to afford finishing his training at Le Cordon Bleu in France. It was during his first year at the Culinary Institute of America that both of his parents were killed in a car accident. The stress from his parent funeral, debts he was accruing while working towards his dream, and an increasingly hostile relationship that triggered his powers for the first time. The money from his parents life insurance policies was enough to help him afford his eventual training at Le Cordon Bleu, and help keep him afloat while he begged, badgered, and if need be blackmailed the best chefs in Europe to allow him to work in their kitchens. At the age of 24, after 7 years of immersion in culinary schools and kitchens Paul Becker returned to New York to take his first job as Chef De Cuisine in his own kitchen. It took Paul only a year to make the restaurant that hired him one of the hottest spots in New York, and personally earn his first star form the Michelin Guide. For the first time in Pauls life things were going smoothly. He had fame, he was paying off his debts, and he had the best foods he could find to work with. He should have known that the other shoe was about to drop. His ex, a bitter and vengeful man, himself recently returned to New York learned of his success and choose to ruin Paul by using the growing tide of anti-mutant sentiment released proof that Paul was a mutant too several popular gossip magazines. Outed as a mutant, with protests outside his work, and an almost complete drop in revenue at the restaurant the owners had little choice but to replace Paul who now has found himself all but black listed as a Chef and is only a bare step ahead of loosing what little he has in the world. Abilities Power: Astral Projection (10) Paul is able to leave his body and travel as a psionic projection. He can move his mind to nearly any location on or near (HALO distance) the Earth. He can leave his body for any length of time with no ill effects except those that would come from not eating, drinking, or moving for however long he is gone. On the Astral Plain his Speed and Agility are based on his Intellect and his Strength and Toughness on his Willpower. He while Astral Projecting on the physical plain of existence he is invisible to normal people, but can be seen by other people Astral Projecting, Telepaths, and anyone that can see Astral Projections or psionic energy. Power: Astral Vision (2/6) Paul is capable of seeing the parts of the Astral Plain that line up with the physical world, along with psychic energies and the auras of people. While inside of his body he is limited to basic shapes and limited information that could be gathered from the power. When Astral Projecting he can see auras and psychic energies much clearer and can gather a lot of information about them. Skill: Cooking (7) Paul has had some of the best culinary training he could afford, and quite a bit he could not afford. He has degrees from the culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Bleu. He has also worked in the kitchens of several 2 and a couple of 3 star chefs. Skill: Knife Combat (4) Paul grew up in, and lived in a number of bad neighborhoods and had to learn to protect himself. Being both weak and not very tough he early on learned the best way to even things up in a fight is to use a weapon, and knives were always easier for him to get a hold of and hide than other options. He has practiced and learned as much as he could about handling and using knives on his own, including both hand to hand combat with them and knife throwing. Power: Projective Telepathy (5) While he is Astral Projecting, and only while Astral Projecting, Paul has the power to project thoughts and sensations into the minds of others as well as make direct assaults on their psyches. He is not able to read thoughts or memories, or in any way pick up anything the way a normal telepath might. He is also unable to manipulate memories of the past, or directly control anyone simply project things into their mind at the exact moment. Power: Telekinesis (4) Paul can, again only when Astral Projecting, effect the physical world with his mind. He can lift objects up to 2.5 tons, create psionic barriers that are as strong as brick walls, or hit someone with a concussive force just under that of an anti-tank grenade. He can create multiple effects at once but each different effect cuts the strength of the effect in half. For instance he could lift a single car, or two objects that weigh about a ton each, or four objects at a little over 1000 lbs each, ect. Advantages Advantage: Body Homing No matter where Paul goes with his Astral Projection, or where he might be taken by others once he is out of his body, he can always find his body. Unless trapped by something that can affect his astral body he can always return to where his physical body even if he cant always take control over it thank to his narcolepsy. Advantage: Knives Paul owns several knife sets, including his personal work knives that all together are worth more than some people pay for their first car. His knifes are amongst the best on the market, the cheapest in his work set is worth well over a hundred dollars on its own. Advantage: Michelin Star Paul is the youngest American ever to have received a Michelin star. The star he has belongs to him personally and not the restaurant that he worked in and had taken over as chef de cuisine in before he was publicly outed as a mutant and fired. Advantage: Multi-Lingual Paul spent several years in France at The Cordon Bleu, and a couple of others working in some of the best kitchens in Europe. He spent a great deal of time in high school and just out of it learning every language he thought might help him and thus is fluent in French, German, and Japanese. He is also passable in Italian, and Spanish, and is at least capable of swearing quite creatively in Portuguese. Advantage: Mutant Physiology Paul was born with an odd physiology. His brain is divided not into the normal 2 hemisphere but into 4 semispheres. Throughout his body as well there are nodules of neural cells that under normal conditions are inactive but under MRI light up like brain cells under use whenever he uses any of his powers that make his body act like a broadcasting antenna for psychic powers. His altered physiology augments his ability to resist telepathic tampering with his willpower, and makes it nearly impossible to use technological means to brain wash him or alter his mind because of how different his brain is physicaly from a normal human one. Advantage: Resist Possession Paul cannot be possessed when he is inside of his body. Anyone, or thing, that attempts to posses his body tends to be bounced out of it, or find that they simply have no ability to control it. When outside of his body though he is extremely vulnerable to possession. Flaws Flaw: Animal Detection Most animals an many feral Mutants and Metahumans can detect Paul when he is Astral Projecting. Most animals can tell he is there, or that at least that he is nearby without being able to pinpoint him exactly or know for sure what they are detecting or how. For some reason cats, and those with feline eyes, tend to be able to see him whenever he is astral projecting. Flaw: Astral Powers The majority of Pauls powers can only be used while he is Astral Projecting, and the one he can use otherwise is significantly weaker when not using his astral projection. Flaw: Mutant Paul is a mutant, and as such is hated and reviled by a large segment of society. Also, as a mutant any power or technology designed to detect, track, or depower mutants effects him as well as they do any other person born with the x-gene. Flaw: Narcolepsy Paul suffers from a form of narcolepsy that is difficult to control even with proper medication do to his mutant physiology. Physically he appears to drop into a deep sleep but his mind continues working. Flaw: Poor Paul is poor, and pretty far in debt. He was born poor, and spent every cent of his parents life insurance and nearly everything he has made as a chef paying off the debts he made to get his education and follow his dream to be a chef. Other than a Stark S-phone he picked up at the Stark Expo he has nothing to his name but some clothes, his books, and his knives. Flaw: Vulnerability Paul's body is extremely vulnerable when he is not inside of it. His autonomic systems keep going but nothing else does. He can be harmed, captured, and even taken over with no ability to resist. He is also especially vulnerable to being taken over and possessed, and once someone else is inside of his body while he can return too it he cannot take control again unless it is vacated. Gallery

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