<div class="floatleft">(http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/S/71/712/505314/Black/image1xl.jpg)</div>NAME: Maximilian Arturo, goes by "Max"<br/><br/>NOM DE GUERRE: The Obsidian Knight<br/><br/>PLAYER: Urbanzorro<br/><br/>AGE: 17<br/><br/>GENDER: Male<br/><br/>SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Hetero<br/><br/>POSITION/GRADE: Freshmen<br/><br/>ORIGIN: Genetic Manipulation & Evil Pacts<br/><br/>RESIDENCE: Most recently Bellview Meta-Level Security Prison, previously a secret base in Central America<br/><br/>PARENTS AND RELATIVES OF NOTE: Alexia Rothschild, aka the super villain 'The Obsidian Lady.' Aka mom.<br/><br/>POWERS:<br/><span class="bbc_u">Major Power:</span><em>Darkness Manipulation</em>: Max has the ability to create and manipulate darkness. It is possible for him to use this power to partially blind his opponents, create solid objects, and lash out with blasts of darkness. This ability is fed by negative emotions such as anger, sadness, and fear. Inversely it is theoretically possible for Max to do the same with light particles, which in turn are fed by positive emotions such as love, joy, and hope. Due to the circumstances that Max has spent his life in he does not know that he is capable of manipulating light. Because he has never had enough access to the necessary emotions to manifest this ability, and once he does, he may just lose access to his darkness powers.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Minor Power</span><em>Enhanced Physique</em>While not anywhere near the level of someone who is super strong or super fast, Max is still naturally at a level of physical condition that is slightly above what would be possible for a 'normal' human.<br/><br/>The Appearance<br/><br/>EYE COLOR: Green<br/><br/>HAIR COLOR: Light Brown<br/><br/>HEIGHT: 6 Feet 3 Inches<br/><br/>WEIGHT: 198 LBS<br/><br/>BODY TYPE: Slim/Trim<br/><br/>APPEARANCE: Max keeps himself cleanly shaven. He wears a single silver ring on his right ring finger. He has three scars from gunshot wounds. One on the front of his right shoulder, another on the left side of his rib cage and the final one on his left calf.<br/><br/>Beyond the Image:<br/><br/>LIKES: Playing Chess, Planning, Fighting, Doughnuts, Reading, Hot showers, Breakfast, Writing<br/><br/>DISLIKES: Being lied to, Not understanding something, When someone won't admit to being wrong, The status-quo<br/><br/>TALENTS: He's pretty decent at playing chess and can beat most people he plays, he's good at getting into people's heads. Not that he can read minds so much as just understand the point of view of others. He's also a pretty good teacher if you can get him to be willing to teach you something he knows.<br/><br/>CHARACTER TRAITS: Angry, driven, confused.<br/><br/>PERSONALITY: Due to the situation he lived in, Max is a very serious person. Even to the point of seeming uptight and high strung at times. He has a somewhat dark sense of humor and can often find comedy in things that most people would consider sad or horrible. He doesn't joke very often, mostly because he has never had practice doing so, and occasionally has difficulty understanding why some things are considered 'wrong.' He believes that in all things the ends justify the means and the strong are meant to have control and power over those who aren't this leads to him being impatient with people who don't live up to expectations.<br/><br/>History: To say that Max was born is to be misleading. He was brought into the world with the purpose of serving as his mother's greatest follower and eventual successor. With that in mind the truth is that he was more created than anything else. His mother collected genetic samples from several different men she considered to be superior and then spliced their genetic codes in order to bring forth the best traits while leaving out the worst. She then used the resulting hybrid sperm to fertilize herself. During her pregnancy Max's mother took further steps to insure that her offspring would be physically worthy of the criminal empire she would one day leave to him. She enacted several forbidden and dark sacrificial ceremonies, calling out to any forces that would listen. Once Max had been carried to term it became obvious that her actions had not been in vain.<em>Something</em>had seen fit to gift the child with great powers this in addition to the natural superiority he had received from his mother's genetic manipulations made him into just the thing she had wanted to create.<br/><br/>The next 15 years of Max's life were anything but a traditional childhood. He was drilled in all subjects that his mother considered important for him to learn such as mathematics, history, science, even classical and modern literature. What he was not taught was the value of life, the inherent good in helping others, and the concept of 'wrong.' He was instead brought up to believe that he deserved to rule over others by sheer virtue of his possessing the power to do so. He was introduced to death at a young age and taught to become enured to it.<br/><br/>After Max reached 16 years of age he was to begin his true training in the use of his powers, in physical combat more advanced than the basic martial arts he had already learned, and other such things. But that was never to be. Instead, a task force comprised of soldiers from the military of the nation his mother had placed her lair in and led by a superhero attacked his mother's stronghold and defeated her. The battle took under two hours and by the end of it Max's mother had disappeared, her lair had been captured, and Max had killed five men(and wounded many others) before they finally captured him.<br/><br/>He was transferred to the United States and placed in a meta-level security prison. After a year's worth of debate, the government decided that they were ill-equipped to rehabilitate someone of Max's unique situation. It was then decided, given his good behavior and a recommendation by they prison's psychologist, that he would be sent to Nebula High on a probationary status. With the hopes that introduction to an environment where he would be surrounded by good instead of evil would allow him to truly be reformed into a hero rather than a future villain.