<strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Toy Maker<br/><strong>REAL NAME:</strong>Tobias Edmond<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>22<br/><strong>SEXUAL ORIENTATION:</strong>Straight<br/><strong>HEIGHT:</strong>5'9"<br/><strong>WEIGHT:</strong>160lbs<br/><strong>AFFILIATION:</strong>The X-men, The Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning<br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE/COSTUME: </strong><br/>(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/151/9/b/origami_cyclone_by_temari114-d3howwn.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE WITHOUT COSTUME:</strong><br/>(http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4649131518656559&pid=15.1)<br/>(http://espirale.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/p_1222_905_3267257d-16c2-4bbe-af3e-97dc8afd3373.jpeg?w=652)<br/><br/><strong>POWERS/ABILITIES:</strong><br/><span class="bbc_u">Animation:</span>Can give a life to inanimate objects/substances, animating the objects to act/move on their own accord out of the user’s control; however they do seem to work in tandem to their animator.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Can bestow sentience to drawings, illustrations, sketches, etc. The creations assume a 2D life, traveling along walls, or even coming into 3D reality; Ex: Etch-A-Sketch drawings</li><li>Can create figures out of clay and being them to life.</li><li>Can bring some Elements to life: earth, stone, metal, and wood being the only ones he can do at this moment.</li><li>Can bring any sort of object to life, such as: statues, game stations, rugs, bottles, etc..; Note that at the moment, he can only animate statues.</li><li>Can make toys become real:  Toy guns and tanks firing live rounds, action figures and dolls come to life for an army, and can make toy vehicles lifesize and working.</li></ul>It is currently unknown how much he can animate all at once, but the larger the object, the more tired he becomes, thus he usually sticks with the small things.  Biggest thing he has ever animated was a 12ft tall, 5,000lb bronze statue of a Greek god just to see if he could.<br/><br/><strong>WEAKNESSES:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Being knocked unconscious will either cause the things he gave life to to revert back to their inanimate stage OR lose control.</li><li>Little Physical combat training</li><li>Has to physically touch the object he wishes to animate; Said object must not be alive</li></ul><br/><strong>HISTORY:</strong><br/>Tobias was always a loner, preferring to play with his "toys."  He learned of his gift at the age of about 10, it's power peaking by the age of 16.  It was about that time that he moved out of his parents house.  Though he is considered to be a High-School dropout, he isn't unintelligent by any means.  Rather, he used his powers to live off the street, animating small figurines to help him get by.<br/><br/>By the age of 18, he was picked up by the police in New York.  No, it wasn't for anything illegal, but rather, he was using the figurines to figure out where a Serial Killer was after a friend was murdered.  The police gave him a home and trained him a little, but he wasn't cut out for such matters and they instead had him use his abilities to send in small, animated animals into various dangerous situations as spies.  Though this method, he saved countless lives of the police force.<br/><br/>However, less than two years later, a strange voice entered his mind during his dreams.  He placed it off as irrelevant, but the voice insisted he go to the nearest airport.  After a week of this, he gave in and went there where he found that he had tickets to board a flight.  Upon landing, a car was there to pick him up and eventually take him to The Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong><br/>Tobias is rather calm, easily picked out of a crowd as the lone wolf type of person.  That's not to say that he dislikes other people, it's more that he doesn't understand them as well as inanimate objects.  Tobias is usually seen wearing comfortable clothes, whether the situation calls for them or not.  He isn't one for following the social norms.<br/><br/>He doesn't intentionally push people away, but he does anyway.  It's not out of spite, anger, or anything of that sort.  It's more that there's a slight barrier between him and the world.  Should that barrier be breached, then that person will find a kind, gentle, and lonely heart.  When he is alone, he usually has something or another animated so as to either speak with it or just to enjoy watching it in it's new life.<br/><br/><strong>EQUIPMENT:</strong><br/>Nothing really special.  He carries a backpack with various figurines, toys, and action figures so he is always ready for any given situation.  Other than that, he has a phone and it's charger.  There's usually a small, painted, wooden dragonfly that he has animated that flies around him occasionally.<br/><br/><strong>KNOWN ENEMIES:</strong><br/>None thusfar<br/>