<div class="floatleft">(http://soulartistmanagementblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/AUSTIN.S-12.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character name:</strong>Eugene 'Flash' Thompson<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Venom, Flash<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><strong>Height:</strong>6'2"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>210lbs<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>Blonde<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Blue<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of birth:</strong>Forest Hills, Queens, New York<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong><br/>Harrison Thompson - Father<br/>Rosie Thompson - Mother<br/>Jesse Thompson - Younger Sister<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Flash's deepest desire is to be a hero. Stemming from a mixture of wanting to be nothing like his abusive father and wanting to inspire his sister he has incredible determination. From a young age he idolized vigilantes and private crime fighters, but he has always been disillusioned with the police as his father proved to him that they were not the heroes he felt they should be. Deep down he knows it is an unfair generalization but he cannot shake the stigma he grew up with.<br/><br/>He enjoys physical sports and exercise, having trained himself for years to get fit so that he could be like his heroes. In high school he earned the nickname 'Flash' for setting school record 40 yard dash times each year during American Football tryouts. His absolute disdain for criminals particularly includes alcoholics and anyone who abuses the weak or vulnerable. Instead of following his fathers cruel footsteps he has always gone out of his way to fight those he considers bullies.<br/><br/>However ever since his interactions with the symbiote Flash has began to develop some issues. While he has noticed them he has not resolved them as that would require admitting them to himself. He has developed a blood lust and a desire to fight crime with nothing short of extreme violence. He has to force down ideas of pride and arrogance, and dislike for the weak, that he has noticed can surface now that he is bonded to the symbiote. He hopes the X-Men will be able to help him become the hero he wishes he already was, and now he is surrounded by those he considers his own heroes. The only authority he has much respect for is the X-Men and they're the only thing curbing his urge to become a lethal vigilante.<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Boxing, American Football, Vigilantism<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Eugene Thompson was born in Queens New York to a loving mother and an abusive father. He suffered at the hands of the violent alcoholic, while his mother tried to help she was as much a victim as he was. Knowing his father was a police officer capable of such evil Eugene rapidly become disillusioned with conventional law enforcement, instead looking to heroes for hope. He became almost obsessed with the idea of becoming a superhuman and fighting criminals and wrong-doers, fighting for the weak and powerless. He started physically training himself at a young age, disguising it as an interest in sport and athletics.<br/><br/>Growing into a teenager he was constantly in trouble for fighting others, particularly bullies. He would give them serious injuries in his manic state when faced with injustice, often being seen by others as a madman more than a hero. All he wanted was for others to consider him as a good person, but he couldn't see any other route to it but fighting any bad people he met. When he was a little older he grew more popular despite his issues, just because of his athletic lifestyle and fame on the football team earning him the nickname 'Flash', He took the name on with pride as a sign of something he achieved that let him throw away what his father named him.<br/><br/>When he was 17 Eugene, now going by Flash almost exclusively, witnessed a mugging late at night in an alley. In a heroic but foolish effort to fight off the muggers he tried to tackle three men alone. While he was big and strong for his age, and had boxing training, he was no match for three real thugs. They beat him near to death and left him bloody and unconscious in the alleyway, taking everything he had and leaving him for dead. It was while he laid in the alley that an alien symbiote found him. It had crawled through the night from the tiny meteor it traveled on, seeking out a viable host.<br/><br/>When he awoke Flash not only felt recovered by enhanced. He immediately felt a rush of strength and a strange awareness of the world around him. He knew immediately that something was different, and began to pray to anyone that would listen that he had been granted superhuman abilities in his time of need. And so he considered it almost an act of God that he was indeed superhuman. Testing himself over a few weeks he began to discover the multitude of impossible feats he could accomplish with seeming ease from climbing sheer walls to lifting cars. While he was excited he was also deeply nervous of the strange black liquid he always seemed to see on himself out of the corner of his eye.<br/><br/>This time when Flash took to the streets of New York he was far more capable of fighting crime. He took down small time thugs and muggers, tying them up and leaving them for justice systems. Over months he began to live for his personal brand of heroics, leaving criminals battered but never dead and staying out all night 'Working'. The black liquid became more consistent, and he could feel it. It would change and enhance his powers, blocking punches and stabs and eventually coating his body in a pitch black suit when he went out, concealing his identity. It was half a year into his vigilante life that he found a man he'd recently apprehended threatening a woman at gunpoint. When Flash dropped down to intervene the gun went off. While the murderer tried to say it was a mistake Flash lost his mind entirely, crashing into the man with all his force he killed him nearly instantly.<br/><br/>Fleeing into the night Flash tried to come to terms with himself, for the first time witnessing the now far more monstrous visage his black suit had. It seemed to have a real taste for violence. Knowing that he could not become a serial killer, and fearing his own vengeful nature, he chose to visit Charles Xavier's school. He hoped to become a student, learn to control himself and understand what he was, and then become the hero he'd wanted to be since he was a child. Since joining he's still maintaining to all others that his powers are nothing more than a unique mutation, although so far he's avoided showing anyone his more monstrous side in the Danger Room he hopes he wont be shunned when he does.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Mutations and Powers</span></span><br/><strong>Classification:</strong>Gamma<br/><br/><strong>Type of mutant:</strong>Created<br/><br/><strong>Powers:</strong><br/><br/><strong>DNA Compatibility:</strong>Flash's DNA bonded to the alien symbiote when it could find no other host, waking his dormant mutant genes and allowing him to become Venom. He just believes he is a strange mutant although he would like answers he is scared that Venom, and his powers, will be taken from him if anyone finds out he is anything else.<br/><br/><strong>The Symbiote:</strong>The Venom symbiote that bonded with Flash has given him an almost entirely superhuman body. He cannot remove the symbiote, and is very much stuck bonded to it. Unlike many mutants at the school Flash's initial mutation was completely unnoticeable and did not effect his life in any way, it is only the combination of his mutation and the symbiote that has granted him any level of superhuman ability.<br/><br/><strong>-Superhuman Strength:</strong>Venom can press up to 25 tons, and is strong enough to lift and throw a car.<br/><strong>-Superhuman Speed:</strong>Venom can run at speeds in excess of a peak human athlete, up to 60-70 mph.<br/><strong>-Superhuman Stamina: </strong>Venom can function for a long time in dangerous environments without rest, even breathing toxic gas or underwater.<br/><strong>-Superhuman Durability:</strong>Venom is almost completely bulletproof and very resilient to conventional attacks, his only real vulnerabilities are heat and sound.<br/><strong>-Superhuman Agility:</strong>Venom can perform complex flips, leaps and jumps at high speed with little issue.<br/><strong>-Superhuman Reflexes:</strong>Venom can react incredibly quickly to danger, not fast enough to dodge bullets but fast enough to easily overwhelm ordinary humans in a hand to hand fight.<br/><strong>-Accelerated Healing Factor:</strong>Venom can heal incredibly quickly from severe injuries. While operating as a vigilante he has been shot and suffered no negative effects for longer than a few minutes.<br/><strong>-Wall-Crawling:</strong>Venom's hands and feet can easily cling to any wall or surface, enabling him to climb tall buildings or hang from rooftops.<br/><strong>-Webbing Generation:</strong>Venom can fire strands of the alien symbiote up to 70ft with a greater tensile strength than steel cables. He can use these tendrils to attack or ensnare enemies. The major downside to this ability is that it is the same symbiote making up his costume and if he overuses it he will begin to grow weaker.<br/><strong>-Concealed:</strong>Venom is gifted at camouflage both physically and mentally. The symbiote can change into any clothing Flash desires in an instant. It can also conceal him from other's gifts that enable them to see his mind. While fully physically enclosed Flash is resilient to telepathy or similar abilities such as a danger sense.<br/><strong>-Danger Sense:</strong>Venom possesses an extremely efficient extrasensory ability that detects nearby danger or threats and warns Flash before he can even see them.<br/><strong>-Venomous Fangs:</strong>Venom can grow a threatening maw of razor sharp fangs, each dripping with a lethal venom, giving him his namesake. A bit can easily kill an adult man in less than a minute.<br/><strong>-Symbiote Manipulation:</strong>Theoretically Venom can manipulate the Symbiote to form weapons, tools or shields for himself. However this currently takes him a great deal of effort and focus and he lacks the training to consistently manage it. Once while falling he successfully gained bat-like wings along his arms and glided to safety, but he cannot replicate it in a controlled environment.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong><br/><br/><strong>Boxing:</strong>In order to train for his heroics Flash has always had an interest in fighting, religiously practicing a particularly aggressive boxing style until his knuckles bleed and he can no longer stand.<br/><br/><strong>American Football:</strong>Even before his superhuman abilities manifested Flash was an all-star of the high school football team. He is still a gifted athlete, even more so now that he is beyond peak humans, although it saddens him that he can no longer compete fairly.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taken:</strong>Mental Resilience, Power Control, Strategy and Tactics, History 101<br/><br/><strong>Clubs/Extracurriculars:</strong>Track, Swimming, Boxing, American Football<br/><br/><strong>Student Relations:</strong>TBA