Played by Banks] (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=37928)<br/><br/><strong>Name</strong>: Sam Doyle<br/><strong>Age</strong>: 28<br/><strong>Gender</strong>: Male<br/><strong>Nationality</strong>: American<br/><br/><strong>Picture</strong><br/>(http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/67018/67018,1194032889,23/stock-photo-young-handsome-boxer-6678688.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Sexual Orientation</strong>: Hetero.<br/><br/><strong>Sexual Style</strong>: Switch. Prefers to be in control.  His partners pleasure is his pleasure but only so long as he is the one providing it.  He is not rough but can be forceful if his partner seems to be hiding her true needs/feelings (not into rape though).<br/><br/><strong>Description</strong>: Sam is 5'10 tall, he has a thin but muscular build with big shoulders due to his amateur boxing training (wiry is the word).  He has short hair, dark eyes and seems to be grinning every time you look at him.  His likes to keep any edge he can get over people both in social relations and fighting, and as such eats healthy and keeps substance abuse to a minimum (mostly alcohol and only on social occasions).<br/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Sam has two great loves: the exhilarating feeling of winning, and women.  He takes both of those things for granted - he is popular as an amateur boxer, and his ability gives him a significant edge over most opponents.<br/>He is generally distrusting of others, and trusts only himself.<br/><br/><strong>Unique ability</strong>: He has uncanny control over the muscles in his own body and that of anyone he touches.  He can slow his heart-rate down to near nothing, can operate each of his muscles individually allowing for seemingly greater than normal strength and accuracy.  In addition, he can cause muscle spasms in a target as long as he is touching the effected muscles through their skin.<br/><br/><strong>Weakness</strong>: It requires a lot of concentration, and leaves him extremely fatigued afterwards (depending on the time he uses this skill and how many muscles involved he could literally be dragging his feet trying to walk afterwards).<br/>In addition, every now and again after overusing his muscles he gets an extreme jolt of pain.  It does not last long and he has never been able to identify any aftereffects (OOC: GM choice what to do with this.  If requested I could work it out more).<br/><br/><strong>Background</strong>:<br/>Born to American Irish parents in Chicago, Illinois Sam never new his mother.  She had run out on his dad at an early age.  He never begrudged her the fact, as he hardly knew his dad well either, being a Cab driver left him away from home most evenings and Sam's school life kept them from seeing each other during the day.<br/><br/>Sam went to school in a standard Chicago city public school, made a few friends but all in all he wasn't that into school life until he got into his first fight.  The other kid was both older and bigger than him.  As they started to fight he not only noticed that he was stronger, but also that he was faster than his opponent.  He won by a landslide, changing his life change forever.  Throughout his school life people now either feared him, sucked up to him or wanted to fight him.  He was fine with all 3.<br/>It was not until a few years later that he fully came into his powers - during a fistfight he had laid a few punches on some guys mid-section.  He felt the impact, but more than that he felt the strain on the other guys muscles, he felt as though he could give it an extra push if he tried.  The next hit he scored he tried it, the extra push.  Two things happened, first he felt a jolt of pain in the muscles of his hand, and second his opponent collapsed almost immediatly, clutching his stomach and rolling on the floor.<br/>As it turned out Sam's punch caused a rupture in his opponent's abdominal muscle which ended up needing surgery and 2 months of rehab.<br/>Sam was kicked out of school due to the incident.<br/><br/>He thought long and hard about his powers, and what he wanted out of life after this incident concluding that he loved fighting, and that he still needed a job.<br/>Not wanting to bring a lot of attention to himself he joined an amateur boxing gym, where he could fight all he wanted without much fear of reprisal.<br/>As for the job, that sorted itself out.  His dad had been planning on teaching him the taxi business anyway, and there was no time like the present.<br/><br/>Over 10 years this became his routine, work evenings and nights driving a taxi like his old man, fighting and training during the day.  He got more and more proficient in his powers and was even able to cause minor spasms in his opponents through boxing gloves.  He used this edge to win most of his fights, assuming no one could be aware of this type of power and even if they were would be unable to notice his using it.