<div class="floatleft">(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3532/3844687933_993ab61683_o.jpg)<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong> Luke Guldan</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Basics</span></span><br/><strong>Character name:</strong>Sonny “The Slugger” Felix<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>TKO<em>Unlike its actual term “technical knockout,” TKO means in his alias Titanic Knockout.</em><br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Single<br/><strong>Age:</strong>22<br/><strong>Height:</strong>6’2”<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>205 lbs<br/><strong>Hair color:</strong>Dark Blonde<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Blue/Green Eyes<br/><strong>Hometown/Place of birth:</strong>Charleston, South Carolina<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">More Personal</span></span><br/><strong>Family:</strong><br/>Linda Sledge (Human) –<em>Mother</em>–<span class="bbc_u">Relationship</span>: Good<br/>Unknown (Mutant) –<em>Father</em>–<span class="bbc_u">Relationship</span>: Unknown<br/>Christopher “Chip” Sledge (Human) –<em>Little Half-Brother</em>–<span class="bbc_u">Relationship</span>: Good<br/>Jeffrey “Jeff” Sledge (Human) –<em>Step-Father</em>–<span class="bbc_u">Relationship</span>: Meh<br/>Michael Hoskins (Human) –<em>Coach</em>–<span class="bbc_u">Relationship</span>: Good<br/>Isaac Hawthorne (Human) –<em>Manager</em>–<span class="bbc_u">Relationship</span>: Frustrating<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Sonny is always moving. He was always an energetic boy, playing outside in some farmer’s field and running wild in the streets. He fell in love with boxing by happenstance. One day he just started shadowboxing and skipping around, playfully sparring with his little brother Chip, when Chip gave him the idea to actually give boxing a shot at the local gym. Ever since then, Sonny has been boxing and doing not much else. It isn’t about being the best boxer in the world—although that is one of his aspirations—but boxing does something therapeutic for him. It allows him to relieve stress and to go somewhere else. When he’s boxing, the world just seems to slow down and he forgets everything that bothers him. He likes staying in shape, and he loves good old-fashioned Southern cooking. The man can eat.<br/><br/>Besides being a lover of boxing, Sonny has a pretty refreshing personality. He is mostly smiling and in good spirits. He often seems boyish and playful. When it comes to girls, he’s pretty naïve. He likes a pretty girl with a good head on her shoulders.<br/><br/>He can be a little competitive when it comes to what he loves best. Anyone who tries to spar him will definitely get one hell of a match. He takes pride in his hobby.<br/><br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Boxing, fitness, adventure, and trying new things.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Sonny was born on accident when his mother was a teenager, playing around with the man who would be the one to bestow him with his mutant genes. When Linda informed his mysterious father that she was pregnant, she had expected him to stick around to help her raise the child. Instead the man, dipped. He wasn’t ready for commitment. As old as Sonny is currently, his mother still won’t tell him who his father is and he tries not to ask. Last time he asked, he didn’t like the pissed look on his mother’s face. Since he didn’t know the man any way, Sonny tried to forget him. Another man came along in Linda’s life when she was in her tweens. Jeffrey Sledge was a truck driver who regularly worked up and down the east coast. Linda had left her wild child with a sitter, and she had went to a local bar to decompress and just take a break from being a mama. It was at that bar where she met her next lover and the one who would give Sonny his little brother, Chip. Sonny, even as a kid, didn’t like Jeff for some reason. He couldn’t understand why he didn’t like Jeff because the man didn’t really do anything wrong. He could only theorize that their personalities didn’t mesh well or because Jeff tried to be his daddy when the only child he was truly father to was Chip.<br/><br/>When Chip came along, Linda’s life got even more hectic for Sonny’s rambunctious nature immediately rubbed off on Chip. The boys ran all over the place and she constantly had to shout for them to “Take all that hoopin’ and hollerin’ outside!” Sonny had a wonderful and memorable childhood with his little brother, but their relationship started to stretch when Chip had inspired Sonny to try out boxing. Sonny had fallen in love with the sport by the eighth grade and high school drew the two even further apart. They played when they could when Sonny returned home from training and wasn’t passed out sleeping, but boxing still stood between them. Sonny did his best to juggle school, his career, and his little brother, but school and boxing dominated the relationship. Sonny didn’t expect to get so famous. In high school, he had the attention of several students, and he tried to keep his popularity to a minimum. A simple Southern boy wasn’t used to being “seen” so much. He also wasn’t used to carrying not only his high school’s reputation with his every match, but his city’s.<br/><br/>Sonny took a break from competing to finish high school when his grades near suffered, but he never stopped training. As soon as he graduated, while Jeff and Linda were harassing him about getting a job, Sonny would run off to the local gym. It didn’t take long for Sonny to acquire a coach, and after a few matches, sponsors and a manager. His parents got their wish for Sonny’s matches and publicity were bringing in millions of dollars. It was more money than he knew what to do with, and he didn’t have much time to actually appreciate it. His manager was running him into the ground. Even with his unnatural spunk, mentally, Sonny was growing tired. He wanted a break, but his manager kept arranging match after match. To this day, Sonny is still a slave to the boxing franchise and some shady characters are taking interest in his uncanny winning streak.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Mutations and Powers</span></span><br/><strong>Classification:</strong>Beta<br/><br/><strong>Type of mutant:</strong>Mutant parent<br/><br/><strong>Powers:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><span class="bbc_u">Megaton Punch</span>: Sonny has abnormally powerful punches. While he has yet to tap into the force designated by the name of the ability “megaton,” he has the natural potential to be able to generate enough power in his fist to release it into a superhuman level punch. Being a professional boxer doesn’t ever require him to tap into such a strength, and so therefore, the potential would need to be realized and built upon.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Megaton Kick</span>: Like his fists, his feet are also capable of producing the same amount of destructive power as his fists. However, he’s not a kickboxer, and so he rarely ever has kicked an opponent. He might have kicked a soccer ball around once, but still. This power has not been tapped into.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Stamina Absorption</span>: The power of his megaton abilities can be generated in two ways. Self-empowerment, where Sonny uses his own mutant stamina and strength, or absorption where Sonny steals the stamina of his opponents. Sonny steals his opponent’s stamina through every successful hit he lands on the opponent. This isn’t controlled. He doesn’t know that is what happens when his opponents become tired early in the matches. While Sonny can exhaust his own stamina reserves to generate a megaton punch (and maybe kick if he ever changes up his training), stamina absorption is the better option. The amount of stamina absorbed will determine the strength of his punch. So if he absorbs the stamina of a super being, then that super being is going to get a pretty super-powerful beating.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><span class="bbc_u">Stamina Empowerment</span>: A sub-power and result of absorption. By absorbing the stamina of his opponents, Sonny empowers himself, making his own stamina seem near endless. Basically his stamina will last for as long as his own or his opponent’s stamina lasts.</li></ul></li><li><span class="bbc_u">Hyper Form</span>: (Dormant) Sonny is unaware of this form, but symptoms of it begin to emerge in his training depending on how hard he pushes himself. When steam starts rising off his body, Sonny is close to achieving his mutant ability’s true form. In this form, Sonny’s body becomes covered in a gold sheen (almost like a trophy). In this form, he is sturdier; his punches are harder; and his stamina lasts longer. This would be Sonny’s “Second Wind” if ever in a truly difficult bout. It takes persistence, determination, and a never-quit attitude to achieve. Sonny hasn’t really faced such opponents to push him to such an extent yet.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Supernatural Reflexes</span>: Sonny can bob and weave so unnaturally quick that it's mostly muscle memory. While he doesn’t always do this in his matches because he needs to make the match last and look realistic, he will demonstrate such a talent every once in a while to get the crowd hyped up. He can dodge the fastest of punches, and similarly, most projectiles. He can be pretty frustrating to hit with your fists.</li></ul><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Champion Boxer</li><li>High School Diploma</li></ul><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u">School Information</span></span><br/><strong>Classes Taken:</strong><br/>TBD –<em>He’s not yet recruited in the school.</em><br/><strong>Clubs/Extracurriculars:</strong><br/>Definitely a boxing club or martial arts club<br/><strong>Student Relations:</strong>Open