Shaw, Sebastian

The Player
Player Name:Clark
Gender:Male
How did you find us:Was hunted down
Other characters:Icarus, Nightcrawler, Havok... soon

Character Information

Playby:


Jason Isaacs

Statistics
Character Name: Sebastion Hiram Shaw
Code Name:The Lord Imperial, The Black King, formerly the Black Bishop, formerly Doctor Klaus Schmidt
Height:6'2"
Weight:210 lbs
Age:187 years

Personal File

Dress Style: Often dressed imaculately. Well kept suits, from all different sorts of eras. His favorite is actual an old british navy admiral uniform, without the decorations.

Personality: He's a thinker. Proud of his mutant heritage, he feels he is the height of evolution. However he looks down on all mutants and

Likes: Power, Respect, control

Dislikes: Self righteous people, losing control, being disrespected

History:
Doctor Klaus Schmidt was a genetic physicist in Nazi ran Germany where he conducted a series of experiments and projects to find perfect specimens, much like himself. One such subject was Erik Lensherr, who he pushed to harness his power... going so far as to kill his mother to prove a point.
He spent years working, in secret, with young Erik, pushing him to the limits of his abilities, but was never very satisfactory to the pushing Doctor. Though he wouldn't have to push for much longer... when the Americans hit Camp Austwich... he was forced to flee as they freed the prisoners. He was believed killed in the protracted battle.
He fled to America, where his considerable fortune allowed him to change his name to Sebastian Shaw. There he went about working in the government for a time, relaying information back to Germany. When word of the Nazi defeat reached him, he seemed to retire.
It wasn't long before he began his own business, starting as a pharmacuetical company, he went on to become more technical, making prothetics. It was about then he had met Donald Pierce. A young man from a rich family, with a vendetta against mutants. He had led an assault against a mutant enclave, and was beaten, bad... He had lost both arms and legs. But in that, Shaw saw potential... he rebuilt him, giving him cybernetics that far surpassed the modern technology of the world. Pierce was stronger and faster than ever before when he awoke. Hiding his identity as a mutant from Pierce, Shaw began manipulating him with mere words... even going so far as to help him destroy the mutants who had wounded him.
Shaw then began working on a new project, Project: Armageddon. A series of machines that could hunt down and track whatever his backers wished. Bolivar Trask caught wind of that, and immediately sought him out. Seeing the potential in such a thing, Shaw let Bolivar purchase his prized Master Mold... And thus begins Shaw's tale, pushing him into an inevitable meeting with the famed X-Men.

Mutant File

Mutant Powers:Kinetic Energy Absorption: Sebastian Shaw is a mutant with the superhuman ability to absorb kinetic energy and to metabolize it to enhance his own physical strength, speed, and stamina. This makes him extremely difficult to defeat in battle, as every blow struck against him only makes him stronger. Unusual tactics are required to defeat him, usually by incapacitating him or by attacking him psionically. Shaw absorbs the energy of any blow he is struck by, not just punches, but also projectiles like bullets, and to a less successful degree, electricity and physically based energy beams. Without absorbing energy, Shaw is merely a strong ordinary human, though normally he works to keep his strength at a superhuman level. For example, in one instance, he was shown to spend time hitting a wall after waking in order to build up his power reserves.
Kinetic Metabolism: Shaw can forgo sleep if he receives enough kinetic energy. Often he will have his mercenaries pummel him to give him enough stored energy that he need not sleep for some time.
Enhanced Durability: Shaw can still be crushed/cut, but cuts are superficial because he saps the blade of all its thrusting/cutting energy. Shaw is adept at not letting enemies realize his power until they have hit him one too many times. Hitting Shaw is often described as "punching a mattress". If properly energized, Shaw can lift and hold approximately one hundred times his weight. If bound, he can be punched by a teammate until he is strong enough to break the bonds. He is also adept at taunting foes into attacking him.
Enhanced Speed: When he has absorbed kinetic energy, Shaw's speed is increased.
Enhanced Stamina: Shaw's stamina in increased beyond normal human levels when he absorbs kinetic energy.
Accelerated Healing: Shaw has healed from being hit repeatedly in the nose by a foe with super strength in less than a few hours.
Kinetic Energy Contact: After being repeatedly hit by that same foe once, Shaw simply touched the foe's head and foe's nose started to bleed.
Telepathy: Shaw can only read surface thoughts, and can mentally converse with only other telepaths, however he cannot pry into deeper thoughts. Likewise he is able to hide from some of the most powerful telepaths, they would know he was present, just not where... or what was on his mind. Though they could still talk to his mind if they wished it.


Skills:

Weaknesses: Telepathy; one cannot actually hurt Shaw with telepathy for he has a strong will, however, one can freeze him in place for a period of time.
Lack of impact; dependant upon how hard a strike one deals Shaw... a knife or sword can still cut him, though his power robs it of energy... if a person continues to push, it could go deeper, as long as it enters slowly... not a feasible mode of attack against a faster moving Shaw.

Family: None living.

Anything else of note:Shaw is a talented combatant, actually creating his own martial art style, which requires him to dodge most of the attacks directed at him, though he will lull his foe into a false sense of security by 'accidently' allowing himself to be struck, until he has gained enough power to redirect. He's also a gifted engineer and physician, a brilliant man... and an evil genius. Dangerous to the core.