<div class="floatright">(https://cloudinary-a.akamaihd.net/holdmyticket/image/upload/w_700,h_700,c_fit,c_limit,q_68,dn_72,f_auto/v6/uploads/attractions/1e2453c1814520ce133a4af4f49304e4.jpg)</div><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Snapdragon</strong></span></span></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Basics</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Full Name:</strong>Robert 'Bobby' Coles<br/><strong>Age:</strong>22<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Nationality: </strong>American<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Student, Ex-Felon<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Physical Description</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Hair Colour:</strong>Black, Shaved head<br/><strong>Eye Colour:</strong>Dark Brown<br/><strong>Height:</strong>6'4" (8'2" as Snapdragon)<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>180lbs (575lbs as Snapdragon)<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong>Donnie 'Godemis' King<br/><strong>Physical Features:</strong>Bobby isn't particularly fit, showing clear signs of both drug and alcohol abuse. He does have very visible muscles however, as he has such incredibly low body fat percentage due to how efficient his body is. His teeth are damaged and his arms are highly vascular. He has a habit of wearing white contacts to maintain his 'boogeyman' image. Bobby has a great deal of different tattoos. Most of these are L.A gang tattoos, signifying his past deeds. While he is not ashamed of them and does not hide them, he isn't proud either. They are far too big a part of him to lose, no matter how far behind him is old life is in his eyes.<br/><br/>In his pyrokinetic form Bobby becomes a 'demon' he has nicknamed Snapdragon. This form gives him a great deal of height and weight. In it he has a monstrous, inhuman visage with glowing eyes and a huge row of spiked teeth. His skin becomes charred and leathery, and he is permanently set alight. His voice becomes an inhuman growl, and echoes out loudly.<br/><br/><strong>General Appearance:</strong>Bobby grew up in west L.A and his casual style is typically baggy white tees and baggy blue jeans. He's adapted that a little since gaining the 'Snapdragon' persona, and dressed to intimidate as fitting his work. He wears darker shirts and jeans, often coupling them with bright white or red contact lenses. Now that he is at the school he dresses very casually again, returning to his comfortable and  relaxed style.<br/><br/><div align="center">(https://cdn2-strangemusicinc.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Godemis-Freedoom.jpg)(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/8c/6d/3d/8c6d3dc98308f57feb39f7c6e6bba54d.jpg)(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/toVLKjBtiPE/maxresdefault.jpg)</div><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Who they are</span></strong></span><br/><br/><div align="center"><em>Snip, Snap, Dragon!</em><br/><strong>-Snapdragon's 'Catchphrase'</strong></div><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>For years Bobby was a killer and a thug. Used as a tool in gang violence he was a figure with a nightmarish reputation. Even to hardened criminals he was a ghost story that spooked them. He was cold hearted, thoughtless and nearly entirely emotionless. He killed without mercy or regret, and held nothing back with his incredibly brutal powers. He relished the Snapdragon persona and would be antagonistic to people just to find an excuse to use it. He even murdered women, children, civilians and police officers while he worked. Once he was sent to a building there were no survivors.<br/><br/>He never gave a single thought to the world at large, not caring what happened to himself or humanity. All he wanted to do was gain money and power, all the while burning anyone or anything in his path. He had no emotional connection or empathy for his victims, and barely even cared about what he did. He developed a major dependence on drugs, as the toll of his actions was weighing on him in ways he didn't fully realise. He struggled to sleep, felt restless and sick, but never realised why. The only thing that silenced the screams and images was substance abuse.<br/><br/>Years later when Bobby was captured and imprisoned on Riker's island he deliberately requested solitary confinement. He knew full well that if he was allowed with the general population it would only be a matter of time before he committed mass murder. He soon became self hating and self depreciating, coming to terms with his deeds and evil as his drug dependence left him. Each day and night was a waking nightmare, as his power let him avoid sleep it never ended. He developed a personal faith, perhaps loosely based on Christianity but he would never call himself a Christian. He simply believed he needed to live out the remainder of his life as a kind man and a pacifist, even if that meant never leaving his cell again.<br/><br/>After two years in prison he was considered fully and entirely reformed. He was granted a meeting with Charles Xavier to decide whether it might be possible for him to join the X-Mansion. He was initially highly cautious and uncertain about being placed in a school environment, fearing that he could be goaded into anger. But with Charles's promise to help him learn to control himself he finally agreed to become a member of the school, with the express point that he had no interest in ever becoming an X-man as he couldn't bring himself to bring out 'The Dragon' ever again.<br/><br/>He has a lot of belief in Charles and his methods, and one of the few things that frustrates him is the warlike suggesting Charles to be a weak man. He sees him as incredibly strong as he has stuck to his convictions despite the doubts of anyone around him. He sees it as the duty of anyone truly powerful to maintain a strict goal of pacifism, and himself will not employ violence. Bobby knows better than most that the Governments methods regarding some mutants are absolutely necessary. He feels that he deserves to be tagged and monitored, as in a single bad day he could kill thousands. He believes Magneto is a lost man, who needs to find his faith and belief once again. But he cannot judge another for their violence, as his past involves more evil than many other men and his didn't even have a valid cause to fight for.<br/><br/>Bobby tries his hardest to be a kind and caring person but he has a habit of pushing others away from himself. Due to his past deeds he tends to believe he has the capacity to relapse and doesn't like to grow too close to others. He has never had any romantic feelings in his life, and struggles to truly understand them. He will go out of his way to do good deeds, seeing himself as trying to atone for his past. Although he is incredibly well behaved and strict about how he lives his life it is hard for him to be seen as a symbol of a 'Good' mutant both because of his criminal past and his appearance, being covered in tattoos and showing clear signs of heavy drug abuse. If confronted he will never argue back, and would rather allow himself to be beaten or otherwise injured instead of fighting someone else.<br/><br/>Although he despises 'Snapdragon' and will not burn, heat up or transform if he can possibly help it, he will use his speed. He cannot help the rate at which he naturally moves, and he sees little evil or harm in doing things more efficiently. He is curious to be given a chance to show off, or share, his more mundane powers a little. But he will close up very quickly at any suggestion of using what he can really do.<br/><br/><strong>Biography:</strong>Bobby was born in west L.A and grew up surrounded by a great deal of violence. His parents dealt drugs together, often disappearing to serve brief prison sentences before the corrupt system spat them back out to the streets. Bobby suffered physical and mental abuse, being screamed at and beat by his irrational and unstable parents. His household often contained a great deal of drugs, weapons and visiting criminals. He almost never attended school, and when he did his mind was never truly on the matters at hand.<br/><br/>When he was little more than a young child he witnessed his father batter a man to death with a baseball bat, while Bobby's mother held him back and told him to look away. But young Bobby was incapable of tearing his eyes away from the horror. To this day he remembers it clearly, and considers it to be a spark that drove his darker tendencies going forwards. As he was just about to become a teenager his parents finally fell out worse than before, leading to a fight. Bobby locked himself in his room while he heard crashes, screaming and swearing from downstairs. He was in shaking, uncontrollable tears when the silence stopped with a single echoing gunshot. In an instant he stood, tearing down the stairs to see what had happened. He collapsed to the floor when he saw his father laying on his back, a single gunshot wound in his forehead. His mother was shivering and wailing, the pistol itself in her loose grip.<br/><br/>Bobby froze in the moment, screaming internally but being incapable of even acting. It was at this moment that his latent mutation manifested. Time seemed to slow to a standstill. He could see his mother's shuddering breaths as if each one lasted a minute. Anger welled up inside him steadily, as this waking horror seemed to stretch on indefinitely. As the rage bubbled up he felt something else, something new. A heat rose inside him and a sense of power rushed through his body. In an instant he was wracked with agonising pain, just having time to see a look of horror as his mother looked at him before the entire room began to burst into flames. First the wood and paper lit, and then even the metal and concrete began to spontaneously combust around him.<br/><br/>Bobby passed out in the inferno, having incinerated the building and killed his surviving parent. When he was found in the wreckage by the fire crew it was considered nothing short of a complete miracle. Unfortunately he was nothing more than a brief 'feel good' news story about a disaster survivor before he was tossed into the ghetto he grew up in's dismal orphanage system. He was not the scared and beaten child he had been though, and now seemed to be something of a monstrosity. He was violent, unpredictable and incredibly intimidating to even older children. This was in no small part due to the incredible powers he was carefully hiding. It wasn't until Bobby eventually reached sixteen that he decided it was time to abandon the orphanage and give up on ever finding a real home.<br/><br/>After only a few short days on the streets he had a run in with a group of criminals who began to push him and threaten him. Bobby was no longer a person who would take it, and in an instant he swung his fist with incredible force. To the men it was almost impossible to perceive, but the single strike broke the would be bullies neck with ease. A few of the men backed off, but then decided they could make real use of the clear mutant. They brought Bobby back to their house. It was a dilapidated, shoddy building and depressingly reminded Bobby of home. But these people were being kind to him, they gave him food and water and talked to him about what they did.<br/><br/>It didn't take much convincing for the angry and hurt teenager to agree to trade his talents for shelter, food, water and protection. He would be a threat and enforcer, someone to turn them from two bit thieves and dealers to the real big leagues. Before long this worked out far better than they had hoped, as Bobby's persona of 'Snapdragon' began to truly manifest it turned out that he was closer to a demon than a child. He had no mercy, and butchered anyone he was sent for. His showmanship built up, creating a dark image for himself. He would dress in dark clothing, got tattoos of skulls and flames across his body, and took to wearing white or red contacts at all times. Soon he found a catchphrase for what he called his 'Magic trick'.<br/><br/>He would walk into a rival drug den and head directly into the center, waiting for people to notice and start threatening him. When they did he would simply say 'Snip, Snap, Dragon'. Clicking his fingers twice on the words snip and snap when he said dragon he would focus on bringing about his powers. In a roaring inferno the entire den would light up in a split second, often most of the victims would barely hear the world dragon before being set alight. There were never any survivors, and forensics could not find any source of the flames or an explanation as to just how something that hot had been created.<br/><br/>It took only three before the handful of gangsters he joined ruled Compton with an iron fist. Nothing happened there without their say so, and the threat of Snapdragon was one even the most cynical of killers took deadly seriously. They all knew someone who had been killed by the boogeyman of the drug trade. However, Bobby himself was growing despondent. While he didn't feel depressed the toll of his actions wore on him. He turned to abusing the drugs he traded, and drinking himself to sleep each night. He lashed out more and more at his friends and allies. Eventually, when pushed too far, he asked his own friends if they had ever seen what they were inflicting on people. They realised too late what was inevitable, and with three simple words they all fled. But the building was ablaze before they could take a few paces, and Bobby alone walked through the fire unharmed as the people who had taken him from the street and made him a killer died around him.<br/><br/>This time the police were finally growing closer, as an FBI investigation had been launched. It was considered clear that the infernos were the work of a particularly deadly mutant, and eventually Bobby was uncovered. When it came time Bobby made no effort to resist arrest. He walked onto the street with his hands behind his head, falling to his knees. The fire service doused him in foam and water, then handcuffed him and placed him in a specailised cold storage transport unit. For the first time since he lost his parents Bobby felt genuinely weak. The icy conditioned seemed to sap him of his power.<br/><br/>Without trial or an offer of Xavier's school Bobby was imprisoned at Riker's island. Considered an 'Alpha' threat he was granted his request of solitary confinement. He spent the next three years finding himself, as his drug and alcohol habits finally left him he grew sad and withdrawn. He was a changed person, and found no lust for violence any more. He didn't speak to anyone but a single psychologist for those entire three years, but that woman considered him to have changed for the better. She felt he was a genuine case of an incredibly hardened criminal truly reforming themselves.<br/><br/>It took a long time but eventually he was allowed to meet with Charles Xavier and offered a place at the X-Mansion. He is highly nervous about his place there, given his huge problems interacting with people in the past and his horrifically destructive nature. He intends to better himself, finally gaining a real education and learning what it is to both care about others and be cared about himself. But, he has sworn he will not be an active member of the X-Men. He does not wish to fight ever again, as he fears Snapdragon far too much to want to bring him out. At this point it's been a year since he last willingly brought out his pyrokinetic form in jail, and he hopes he will last many more years before a day dark enough to warrant it.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Superpowers &amp; Equipment</span></strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong>Alpha<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Bobby:</strong></span></div><br/><strong>Pyrokinetic Speedster:</strong>Snapdragon is a speedster fueled by energy, primarily in the form of heat. He passively draws energy from any nearby sources and rarely needs to spend time recuperating unless he pushes his powers non-stop for an extremely long time. The largest drawback to his power is that he is only capable of fully utilising his powers if he enters a 'pyrokinetic form'. This greatly enhances his speed and energy manipulation, but comes with a highly destructive and chaotic downside. Even while outside of pyrokinetic form he emits a great deal of heat, but as he is so fast this is very brief, and it isn't enough to cause any devastation. Outside of his pyrokinetic form he can reach Mach 3 with reasonable ease. However, when fully pushing his pyrokinetic form he can reach Mach 7. Although at this pace even his enhanced reactions begin to falter, and his explosive danger makes him more of a living missile than anything.<br/><br/><strong>Speedster Physiology:</strong>Snapdragon possesses full 'Speedster' physiology. His body is perfectly adapted to suit moving at the absurd pace he can manage. He is nearly entirely immune to blunt force trauma impacts while running, letting him throw punches at several times the speed of sound without hurting himself. Not only that but he can react to things faster than anyone else can think. He is more than capable of dodging bullets from no more than milliseconds away. To him a gunshot is a painfully slow event, and he can simply casually sidestep the shot, while to anyone else he will move as a sudden blur. This speedster physiology also grants him a minor healing factor, while a lot better than a human it is nowhere close to Logan or Sabretooth. His muscles incredibly tightness also gives him enhanced strength, enough to lift a car over his head but not throw it. Despite not being well educated Bobby's speed at processing information lets him learn extremely quickly, and he is particularly adept at reacting in uncertain situations.<br/><br/><strong>Energy Absorbption:</strong>At all times Snapdragon drains energy around him. Anything form of energy will be steadily sapped, and he has no control over this ability. When drained or weakened it is enough to flicker lightbulbs, short out mains circuits and sap other energy manipulators. However, when full, it has little to no real effect. It can be felt by others who possess a lot of energy, but beyond that it does nothing. It would cause the air to grow colder, but as he absorbed the heat he would expel some of it, and so the air is always warm around him. As long as he has enough energy he will never tire, and requires no sources of food, water, sleep or even air to function. Due to the fact he is constantly drawing in more energy it is impossible to take what he has stored whether he wants it gone or not, only intense cold or expending it can diminish his reserves. As he has such a vast capacity to absorb and gain energy he is nearly completely immune to other sources, most of them will merely empower him further. However, if pushed with an incredible quantity the most likely affect is that it would force him to enter his pyrokinetic form.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Snapdragon:</strong></span></div><br/><strong>Pyrokinetic Form:</strong>If Snapdragon has enough energy stored he can become what he considers the 'demon' that he's nicknamed Snapdragon. He can only maintain this form very briefly, and if he pushes it for more than a few minutes he will collapse. Throughout he will suffer incredibly intense pain, as the transformation wrought on his body followed by the burning agony is crippling. Through this he has developed an incredible pain tolerance. He is able to pass directly through solid objects in this form, either by incinerating them or briefly turning his body into superheated atoms, passing through and then re-forming on the other side. Due to the fact he has trapped the darkest parts of his mind, including all of his hatred and anger, in with his powers he is a nightmare for a telepath in this form. He is almost impossibly strong willed, and they will be forced to witness the cruelty he inflicted. The additional powers this grants are:<br/><br/><strong>Enhanced Physiology:</strong>Snapdragon's already incredibly superhuman, but this form enhances that to a far greater level. His maximum speed more than triples from Mach 3 to Mach 10. His strength goes from just about lifting 1-2 tons to lifting and throwing upwards of 20 tons. He becomes bulletproof, and seems to be nearly entirely impervious to any and all harm. In reality the sheer quantity of energy he is formed from is nearly indestructible, and the only way to put him down is to wait until his energy is burnt out.<br/><br/><strong>Pyrokinesis:</strong>In this form Snapdragon is still a chaotic living fireball, setting alight to areas around him seemingly at random. But, in addition, he has the ability to create and control flames. He can hurl fireballs, or emit great walls of fire from his palms or mouth. If he truly wishes he can create an inferno around him the size of a large building, hot enough to melt metal. He is also able to alter the heat of the air or solid objects, increasing it exponentially to cause severe pain, difficulty breathing the burning air or things to burst into flames.<br/><br/><strong>Flight: </strong>Utilising the amount of raw energy in his pyrokinetic form to create a blast of flames not dissimilar to a jet engine Snapdragon can propel himself into the air. Perhaps unusually he is considerably slower in the air than he is on foot. His ordinary cruising speed is roughly 140mph but he can propel himself to Mach 2 with some effort.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><strong>Flaws or Weaknesses</strong></strong></span></span><br/><br/><strong>Hates the cold:</strong>Areas of extreme cold (Starting at 0 degrees and rapidly worsening as temperature drops) Snapdragon's powers are highly diminished. He will suffer from fatigue in the cold much quicker than most people, eventually falling unconscious. If he has a good amount of stored energy he can counteract this at least somewhat, and when he uses his powers it will warm up at least a small area.<br/><br/><strong>Only so much energy:</strong>Snapdragon's body is incapable of physically tiring as any other ordinary human's might. Instead he is powered exclusively by his energy supply. While he can absorb a vast amount, and can continue to function while siphoning more, he will eventually run out. This is particularly true for his 'demonic' Pyrokinetic form, which can only be held for a few brief minutes.<br/><br/><strong>Energy Overload:</strong>Bobby constantly Siphon's energy which needs to be expended. At a certain point he either has to chose, or his body forces him, to use his pyrokinetic form. While in solitary he had so little energy to use that this was nearly never an issue, but since moving to the school his levels of energy have been rapidly increasing.<br/><br/><strong>I don't play well with others:</strong>Snapdragon has too major problems while working as a part of a team. Firstly he will always draw energy from those around him, forcing other energy users to focus on keeping their power to themselves. This will even cause some mild fatigue in ordinary people who spend too long near him. And secondly he cannot control the destructive nature of his pyrokinetic form, and will incinerate things around him at random. As these flames can easily melt solid steel nobody without incredible resilience can be near him and even they are liable to suffer incredible pain.<br/><br/><strong>Dark history:</strong>Bobby is haunted by the memories of his former criminal life. He genuinely despises that history, and wishes to leave it entirely behind him. Unfortunately he cannot rid himself of the crippling guilt the memories carry. He is a restless sleeper and prone to bouts of heavy depression. At these times he keeps to himself, knowing he is liable to become irrational.<br/><br/><strong>I don't do that anymore:</strong>Bobby's dark history has given him great passion about violence. He despises it in all forms, and has sworn to himself to never take another life. He spends a long time meditating and praying, attempting to soul-search and fix himself. The large issue here is that he is not sure he would be psychologically able to make himself become 'Snapdragon' ever again. Perhaps if his friends were threatened, but even then the toll it would take would be nothing short of crushing.<br/><br/><strong>Former user and abuser:</strong>Bobby has had a long history of abusing both alcohol and extremely hard drugs. While in prison he has been forced to be 'cold turkey' and has recovered from his former dependence on either after a long period of suffering. However, if he were to suffer any extreme loss or emotional pain he would be at risk of falling back to his old ways.<br/><br/><strong>Voice in my head:</strong>'Snapdragon' is more than a mere nickname given to his pyrokinetic form. There is at least a little truth to his ideas that it is a demonic being. In reality he suffers from schizophrenia, having compartmentalised the 'evil' past him and locked it away he will sometimes hear it speak to him. It urges him to violence, a return to his old ways. He can almost always silence it, and is now over a year clean of utilising 'Snapdragon'.<br/><br/><strong>Everything's so slow:</strong>Snapdragon perceives the world a thousand times faster than any ordinary human, having a reaction time of 0.0004 seconds. He can have moments of impatience, although as he has grown used to his perception of events he has become more attuned to containing himself. His meditation has led to a great deal of inner peace, and he rarely behaves rudely or impatiently anymore.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Other</strong></span><br/><br/>Notes for character relations:<br/>-Both videos and rumours surrounding Bobby's time as 'Snapdragon' have been scattered around the school the past few years. Tales of a demon-mutant boogeyman who kills drug dealers and burns all witnesses. Everyone will have heard of the Snapdragon, and many have likely seen the videos.<br/>-Bobby absolutely hates to be referred to as Snapdragon. He will not become angry, as making him angry is a nearly impossible feat now, but he will become dejected and upset, likely separating himself from others.<br/>-Bobby has no current interests, because all he has known is violence, drugs and prison. He has had no time to explore any kind of peaceful side to life. Even on rainy, grim days he can be found laying outside on the grass with a wide smile on his face, just feeling the nature around him and most importantly his freedom. Although he is trapped in the school, he feels incredibly free after being an abused child, then a tool for drug barons and then in solitary confinement.<br/>-Although Bobby hates Snapdragon, he does not hate his speed related powers. If anything he feels briefly happy when people are impressed and consider them a 'good' thing.<br/><br/>Non-Mutant skills:<br/>-Street Smart: Bobby is a streetwise person, having grown up in a very grim neighborhood. He can spot signs of trouble or upcoming aggression easily, and is adept at reading people. He also has a number of practical skills such as hot wiring, lock picking, stealing and remaining undetected.<br/>-Inner peace: Bobby has meditated for years. He hopes that he is no longer capable of feeling anger, although deep down he knows it is always a possibility. His calm is almost impressive to behold, and he cannot be goaded or pushed into an argument or a state of aggression.<br/>-Musically gifted: One of the few non-criminal skills Bobby learned he had an aptitude for and developed while living in a gang was rapping. He is very much an amateur, but he does enjoy it a great deal. (Somewhat a nod to his face claim.)