CHARACTER NAME: Havok<br/><br/>REAL NAME: Alexander 'Alex' Summers<br/><br/>AGE: Early 30s<br/><br/>SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual<br/><br/>HEIGHT: 6'0"<br/><br/>WEIGHT: 175 lbs<br/><br/>AFFILIATION: Avengers (Present) Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Starjammers, X-Factor (Past)<br/><br/>APPEARANCE/COSTUME:<br/><br/>(http://i43.tinypic.com/1z38ak4.jpg)<br/><br/>APPEARANCE WITHOUT COSTUME:<br/><br/>(http://i44.tinypic.com/2rwkriu.jpg)<br/><br/>POWERS/ABILITIES: Havok is a extremely powerful mutant possessing the power to absorb ambient cosmic energy, process it and emanate it from his body as waves of energy that heat the air in the path, turning it into plasma in the form of a blast or discharge, with a tell-tale concentric circle pattern. These waves will emanate from his body in all directions unless he purposefully tries to channel them in a single direction, usually along the length of his arms. This results in control over an extremely powerful sort of destructive force. He is immune to the adverse effects of most forms of radiation and heat. In the past, he was not entirely able to control this ability, which made him a danger to those around him unless he wore a special containment suit equipped with special sensors for measuring and controlling his power output. Havok is immune to his own powers and to those of his brother Scott.<br/><br/>Should Havok direct his energy at the lowest level, he can project it towards a human being and his target will suffer a severe headache, but will not burn up. He can absorb cosmic energies from his environment (such as starlight, x-rays, and gamma radiation) and store them within his body cells, metabolizing the energy in order to generate plasma wave discharges that super-heat and disintegrate objects or create concussion bursts by violently displacing air molecules in his path. His absorption is normally passive, but he has shown that he can actively drain and absorb energy as well. He also seems to have gained the ability to fly and survive unaided in vacuum.<br/><br/>WEAKNESSES:<br/><br/>Like most mutants, he is still vulnerable to direct attack. Though he has come dangerously close to absorbing far too much gamma radiation and other forms of dangerous energy. He also has a distinct weakness for Lorna Daine (Polaris) despite the two former lovers parting as friends.<br/><br/>HISTORY:<br/><br/>Alexander Summers is the younger son of Christopher and Katherine Summers, and younger brother to Scott. Christopher was a test pilot for the air force, and was flying a private plane with his family on board when the plane was attacked by a spaceship from the Shi'ar Empire. There was only one parachute, so Katherine strapped it to Alex and Scott before pushing them out of the plane.<br/><br/>Both boys survived the crash, but Scott suffered a serious head injury upon landing. Taken into care with the belief that their parents dead, Scott and Alex were separated. Alex was adopted by the Blanding family who had recently lost their son. Todd Blanding had been killed in a car crash. His new parents tried to make Alex the same as Todd, and Alex tried his hardest to please them. When the boy who caused Todd's death attacked Alex, Alex's mutant powers surfaced. However, raging out of control, his plasma blasts accidentally incinerated the boy. No one was aware that Mr. Sinister had been monitoring Alex ever since he had been adopted. He then placed genetic locks on Alex to stop him from developing his mutant powers again. As a side effect of the blocks, Alex also forgot what had happened and how he had killed a boy.<br/><br/>Alex remained unaware of his mutant powers until he graduated from college. Unknown to Alex, his professor of archeology named Ahmet Abdol was also a mutant. Professor Abdol had discovered a psychic link between himself and Alex. While both of them had the latent mutant power to absorb and transform cosmic radiation, Abdol's ability to exercise the power was jammed in an unknown manner by Alex' body. Abdol called himself the Living Pharaoh and kidnapped his student, taking Alex to his laboratory. Abdol found a way to screen the ambient cosmic radiation from Alex' body, permitting the Living Pharaoh to attain his latent potential. The bombardment of energies transformed Abdol into the Living Monolith, a gigantic mutant with vast cosmic power. Alex's mutant powers resurfaced under the strain of Abdol's technology. The activation of his mutant powers signaled to Professor Charles Xavier. The Monolith was defeated while in combat with the X-Men and Alex was reunited with his older brother; the X-Men's field leader, Cyclops.<br/><br/>While with the X-Men, Havok fell in love with Lorna Dane, the mutant known as Polaris. They both served for a time in the X-Men helping to repel the invasion by the alien Z'Nox. Neither Havok nor Polaris wished to lead a life as an adventurer, but they discovered that they had a mutual interest in geophysics. Hence, Havok and Polaris began their graduate studies in geophysics in the American West. Shortly after the X-Men's disastrous mission to Krakoa, Havok and Polaris felt that they were no longer needed in the X-Men and left to return to school in order to complete their degrees.<br/><br/>Alex has not had an easy life. He has been in and out of teams for the better part of eight years. In that entire time he has loved, lost, died, and been revived. Havok has had several stints with the mutant team X-Factor which was once a government backed project to fight injustice and evil across the country.<br/><br/>His former affiliation with the Avengers would eventually lead him to return to the team following the tragic events when the Avengers took on the X-men. He knew he could no longer trust his brother after everything that had happened. So he joined up with Captain America, Thor, and the Scarlet Witch among others to form a new Avengers unit, hoping to make a real difference in the world this time.<br/><br/>PERSONALITY:<br/><br/>Alex is known for stepping up when he needs to. He doesn't share a lot of the vision that his older brother (Scott) once had. He has since grown up a lot, moving away from the stubbornness of his old ways. He used to be a hot head, believing himself invincible for the longest time. Though his greatest fear is not being able to control his ability and it ultimately killing the ones he cares about the most. Even though he wants to make a difference in the world, to help humans better understand mutant-kind, he is reluctant when asked to step up and lead the new squad of Avengers. Yet he does so after the group suffers an attack at the hands of Red Skull. He generally has a warm and kind demeanor, but don't piss him off, he won't be used as a doormat.<br/><br/>EQUIPMENT: Most of Havok's costumes act as a containment suit and constantly monitor his energy output.<br/><br/>KNOWN ENEMIES: Too many to name.<br/>