Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2013 3:36:02 GMT
Name: Vance Astrovik Age: 32 Occupation: Mutant Recruiter Member Group: Mutant Powers & Abilities: Telekinesis: He can make objects fly to his will and, when applied to himself, is able to fly as well and can carry others with him if necessary. He can also channel his power into defensive screen or blasts of sheer force. Playby Jake Gyllenhaal |  |
Vance picks up the large stack of papers in front of him and flips through them, brow raised."Seriously? I've got to fill all of this out?" The mutant who handed him the papers seems amused. "You're the one who chose this line of work, Mr. Astrovik." "That I did. I'll have this on your desk by the end of the week." She nods and leaves him to his work. Part 1: The Basics 1. What is your full name? Vance Jerzy Astroyevicht 2. Where and when were you born? I was born in Saugerties, New York in September of '82. I'm a full-blooded American, you could say. Though obviously I have a lot of Russian in me. Mom doesn't know her background though so I'm stuck with the one. 3. Who are/were your parents? Arnold and Nora Astrovik. My dad's dead. I killed him. Vance clears his throat awkwardly and goes back to writing. It was an accident, I was young. 4. Do you have any siblings? None that I know of. It was probably hard enough for mom to get me off of my father. 5. Where do you live now, and with whom? I've got a pretty tiny studio apartment in LA but I'm not usually there. Mutant business and all. 6. What is your occupation? Currently? Nothing, that's why I'm trying to get this one. I've got some money saved up though so I'm not homeless or anything. I think I'd be really good at this, though. You know, finding mutants and getting them to Xavier's school. 7. Write a full physical description of yourself. You might want to consider factors such as: height, weight, race, hair and eye color, style of dress, and any tattoos, scars, or distinguishing marks. I've included a picture of myself so I think that asking for such a detailed description is a little much and a waste of my time. I have a tattoo of my cell number on my wrist, though. To remind myself. 8. To which social class do you belong? Right now I would have to put myself in the middle-lower class. 9. Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses? None that I can think of off the top of my head besides the normal stuff. Pollen, dust, mold. 10. Are you right- or left-handed? Right-handed. 11. What do you have in your pockets? Well, I've got some spare change, my wallet, and some chewing gum. I don't have a costume shoved in there somehow if that's what you're wondering. 12. Do you have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics? I like to shove my hands in my pockets and rock back and forth on the balls of my feet when I'm running out of things to say and want to end the conversation. It's a terrible habit and a pretty obvious one so you could categorize it as annoying. When I'm bored, I like to spin coins around on flat surfaces. Yes, with my mind. I know, it's wrong and bad and I'd get in trouble if somebody noticed but that's my prerogative. Part 2: Growing Up 13. How would you describe your childhood in general? My childhood was absolute shit. I'm not going to get ragged on for language, am I? Anyway, it was just plain awful, I'm not going to lie about it. I was pretty young when my parents found out I was a mutant. Because I was a kid and I didn't know any better, I would automatically just reach out for stuff with my mind instead of my hands. My dad went nuts about it, couldn't stand it. He was oppressed by his father for being different so by damn his son was going to be as well. And my mother? I'd like to say she was strong and she supported me, but she didn't. She watched and let him hit me and rage at me and then she would quietly comfort me in the dark. I guess I can't blame her, but I don't think he would have turned on her. She was what proved he was "normal". 14. What is your earliest memory? I can't really say for sure. I vaguely remember being a little kid but I think I tried to block most of it out with how my home life was. I do remember being sent off to my first day of school. My father bent down and took me hard by the shoulders, looked me in the eyes and said "you better not fucking use any of those unnatural powers of yours, you hear me boy?" He shifts uncomfortably in his seat and takes a break to roll his shoulders. "I hope this is useful," Vance mutters out loud. 15. How much schooling have you had? I've been through to high school but after an unfortunate incident, I found myself unable to continue onward to college until somewhat recently. I graduated with a degree in history last year. 16. Did you enjoy school? I did enjoy school, yes. It was an escape, a relief. Even with all the shit kids do to one another, it was way better than being at home. I loved it. 17. Where did you learn most of your skills and other abilities? To be honest, I learned how to control my powers by myself, in private, and in prison. My father was very violently anti-mutant and I didn't have the safety of the Xavier Institute to fall back on. Being a mutant was something I was supposed to be ashamed of. 18. While growing up, did you have any role models? If so, describe them. Captain America has always been my hero. He's like this big, strong wall of invincibility and he can do anything. That's what my little child-sized brain convinced itself of. He was a human who gained special powers and embraced them and helped to end an entire war with them. I wanted to be like him. 19. While growing up, how did you get along with the other members of your family? I didn't get along with my father at all. Though I liked my mother, sort of, she wasn't someone I would say I spent a lot of time trying to hang out with. My grandparents were over in Russia and died when I was a kid, but from what I learned of my grandfather, I would have hated him too. 20. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a super-villain. I don't know if this is going to make you look at me negatively, but I had a very angry and hurtful childhood and I couldn't control any portion of my own life, not to mention I had to hide what I was. I wanted to be that guy in the comics, that misunderstood villain who rose up and became powerful because of his hatred and anger and he smashed the ones who hurt him or stood in his way. Looking back on it, I don't think I really wanted to be what a villain is considered to be today: I wanted to be Justice. 21. As a child, what were your favorite activities? Hide and seek. Seriously. Think about it. 22. As a child, what kinds of personality traits did you display? My teachers all called me bright, they sent glowing reports back home to my parents and said I was very fair and played well with other children, though they worried about me because sometimes I seemed to withdraw into myself for hours at a time. This happened most frequently near the time when I had to go home. 23. When and with whom was your first kiss? Now that's a question that, while I'm not necessarily sure how it's relevant to this, I'm more than okay with answering. When I was in elementary school, I switched from being this kid who played around with the other kids to that one guy you see sitting alone on the swings and just kind of slowly moving his legs back and forth. Not really swinging but not staying still either so those other guys don't make you get off so they can swing. This one beautiful girl (let's be honest though, all girls are beautiful) named Indigo Levett (I can't make this up, people) took hold of the swing chains, pulled me forward and kissed me straight on the lips. I'd never talked to her before that and didn't talk to her after, but somehow it's something I've always remembered. Enough that I still know her name about twenty-three years later. Part 3: Past Influences 24. What do you consider the most important event of your life so far? Honestly? The moment I killed my father. While I didn't mean to do it, it set me free from a lot of stress and horror and anger that had consumed me for a lot of my life. It didn't literally set me free because I went to prison (The Vault for powerful prisoners, if you must know) to pay for the crime of killing the man who'd spent my entire life being a horrible excuse of a human being, but the law is in place for a reason and so I served my time without complaint. 25. Who has had the most influence on you? Both of my parents have had a high influence on me. Thanks to my father, I learned a lot about the concept of justice from the time I could comprehend general law terms, enough to research them in books made to help kids understand complicated things. When I was in prison I had a lot of time on my hands to study law books and to come to the conclusion that while killing my father, even by accident, was morally wrong, it was just as well. My mother taught me that you cannot expect others to stand up for you if you're too weak to stand up for yourself. I learned those lessons well. Not to mention if I hadn't killed my father, I would not have found myself in prison, so there's another influence for you. 26. What is the most evil thing you have ever done? I killed my father, Arnold Astrovik. I guess this is the section to go into detail about it. My father grew up in Russia, raised by his oppressive father, from whom I take my middle name. Unfortunately, my father was gay. I say this because he might have ended up a different person if my grandfather hadn't been a homophobic, oppressive asshole. He spent my father's entire life bullying him and making him feel like absolute crap for something he couldn't control and turned him into a bitter, hateful man who denied his very personality to the end. One of his ultimate denials of his true nature, obviously, was to marry my mother and father me. Everything was as "okay" as it could be in this sort of household until I exhibited my mutant powers. Well, this gave my father a wonderful way to pass on the parenting tips he'd learned from his father. He abused me mentally and physically for something I could not possibly hope to change and he made my life full of misery, hate, fear, and anger. I dealt with it. Now that I don't have to and I'm looking back, I don't know how I did it. Probably because it was the only thing I knew and I was scared that the real world was even worse. When I was eighteen though, I lost it. I'd had more than enough experiences with the outside world by then to realize that my father was a cruel, terrible little bigot of a man and that there were ways out there to lead a better life. Namely: college and subsequently a decent job and my own place far away from Saugerties so for once, I felt pretty damn full of myself (by for once I mean that entire year) and I began to argue back with my father. Bad plan, because my anger levels were through the roof and I might have had some beer in me that night. Either way, when I lashed out, I didn't have a full handle on my powers and my words became a physical attack. I watched my father die by my own hands, watched the life leave his eyes as my mother screamed and screamed in the background. I called the police myself, I think. That's what they told me. I can't remember doing anything but staring at him. 27. Do you have a criminal record of any kind? Please see the above. Patricide. 28. When was the time you were the most frightened? I'm gonna be honest here. I spent my entire childhood being frightened of my father, even with my mutant abilities. The only time I was more frightened was prison. The Vault isn't entirely the best place for a person who only killed someone else by an accident, especially not an eighteen-year-old kid. The Vault is a high-security prison for people like me, mutants. They can't keep us from fighting each other, but they sure as hell can keep us locked away from general society. I learned how to control my powers there, learned what my limits were. They're the only reason I survived that place. Part 4: Beliefs And Opinions 29. Are you basically optimistic or pessimistic? I'd say I'm a nice mix between the two. I like to mix my optimism with a nice dose of pessimism if that makes sense to you. For example if someone looked at me and said they hated life, my answer might be any mixture of the sentiment: "hey, could be worse! You could be in the Vault!" 30. What is your greatest fear? Well, that would be to wake up one morning and be sixteen, to realize that everything that has happened so far has been a dream and to know that just outside that door is my father, waiting to jump on me and sneer and threaten. To know that I'll have to go through time in prison again. And of course: the realization that even though I can change what happened in my dream, I'm still going to do it. I'm going to lash out and kill my father because it's the only way I can see at sixteen to get away from him forever. 31. What are your religious views? I don't have any. When you see the things that I've seen, you kind of figure that if God did exist, he doesn't anymore. 32. What are your political views? Obviously I'm pro-mutant, but I like to think I'm a liberal as well. If mutants should have equal rights then I damn-well believe that all genders, sexualities, and minorities should be equal as well. I'm not sure what my stance is on religion at the moment, besides the fact that it should stay out of politics completely. Religion just seems like rose-colored glasses to me. You see something bad, you put your religion-goggles on and bam, everything is nice and great again. It's a crutch. 33. What are your views on sex? Are you kidding? I'm a guy. Have sex. Sex is awesome. Don't have sex with someone who doesn't want to and don't have sex with someone who doesn't have the ability to say no. It's simple. Follow the laws of age and consent and I don't see what the big deal is. Seriously, how hard is it? 34. Are you able to kill? Under what circumstances do you find killing to be acceptable or unacceptable? This feels like a trick question. Yes, I am able to kill, I've done it before. It's a hard reality though, it's easy to say you can kill someone until you've actually done it before and then it becomes this complicated mass of horror in your head. I think I could kill again, though. If it meant protecting mutants or the world or a nation and it came down to killing aliens or something, I could do it. On a smaller scale, I'd say it depends on whether or not the act of killing would be just. I like to leave those matters to the law, though. 35. Do you believe in the existence of soul mates and/or true love? You've got to be kidding me. I guess I believe that you can love someone way more than you've loved other people in the past, but I don't think there's such a thing as soul mates. You can't look at my father or my grandfather and tell me that people like them deserved to be happy. 36. How honest are you about your thoughts and feelings (i.e. do you hide your true self from others, and in what way)? Honestly? I'm not very honest. This is about as honest as I've been with everything that went on in my life up until this point. It's not as though it's entirely comfortable to bring up some of this shit at cocktail parties. "Oh, I never played that video game. I was in prison from eighteen to twenty-seven so you can imagine how impossible it was to get it shipped in." And then of course there's no casual way to just mention that you killed your father. So I keep a lot of stuff to myself. 37. Do you have any biases or prejudices? Oh, definitely. I can't stand bigots or homophobes. How does any of it affect you unless you stick your fucking nose in someone else's lifestyle and make it your problem? Go back to your porch and your horrible old rocking chair and read one of your magazine subscriptions like, I don't know, Bigots Weekly. 38. Who or what, if anything, would you die for (or otherwise go to extremes for)? I don't really have any family I would die for, but I guess I would give up my life if it meant protecting a young mutant. I've been through a load of shit in my life and it's important that things like what happened to me don't happen to them. Part 5: Relationships With Others 39. In general, how do you treat others (politely, rudely, by keeping them at a distance, etc.)? Does your treatment of them change depending on how well you know them, and if so, how? I think I treat them all equally. I try to withhold personal judgement until I know the person a bit better. That's not to say, of course, that I won't look at someone like Magneto and think "huh, look at this crazy asshole" but that's mostly because let's be honest, most people generally know about his past actions. I'm sure he's a great guy, just don't agree with him or his way of going about things. 40. Have you ever been in love? If so, describe what happened. I can't really say that I have been. Unless you count my vague obsession with Indigo as love, I didn't really have time for it. I was busy avoiding my father, and then when that was done I was trying to avoid being killed in prison. Not really a lot of time left in there for a nice date, sending flowers and chocolates... You know the drill. 41. What do you look for in a potential lover? I like eyes a lot and you can usually tell if a person is lying by their eyes. I don't really like liars, even if it's a one night stand. 42. How close are you to your family? Not close at all. I don't think I've seen my mother since they took me away to prison. I don't regret that, we didn't have a great relationship anyway. 43. Who would you turn to if you were in desperate need of help? I would turn to Xavier and his institute. They've been known to help out a mutant in need and being a mutant and all... That would work out really great for me. 44. If you died or went missing, who would miss you? The sad thing is, I don't have anyone like that. My mom wouldn't know because we never talk and it's not like I have a live-in girlfriend. I already finished school so my professors wouldn't report it if I suddenly stopped showing up to classes. Actually, this is a really creepy question. I hope you guys aren't planning on trying to kill me while making sure nobody would notice. 45. Do you tend to argue with people, or avoid conflict? Because of the incident with my father, which showed me how little control I had at that point over my power, I tend to avoid conflict. It's a habit I developed in prison and it kept me out of a lot of bad situations. Therefore I tend to back out of things that involve personal conflict or arguing about something unless it's important to me or someone I care about. I've got control over my powers now, but it's a habit I haven't felt like trying to break. 46. Do you tend to take on leadership roles in social situations? No, most definitely not. I mean, among younger people? Sure, no problem. But usually leadership roles mean conflict and that's not something I like to deal with. However, I'm completely different in a fight. One track mind. If nobody else steps up I will, and I'll get my objectives taken care of quickly. 47. Do you like interacting with large groups of people? Why or why not? No. Large groups of people mean a lot of differing moral values and behaviors considered socially acceptable are bound to clash and lead to arguments. In a work environment, I can do it because I'd be getting paid for it. If it's a social environment and I've got no reason to stick around, I won't put up with it. I'm usually the one that people look to for a judgement on who is right and who is wrong and I don't think it's fair for me to judge people I don't know on subjects that I may not understand or may have a different opinion on. If you force me to judge, however, I will, and you won't like the decision I make. Part 6: Likes And Dislikes 48. What is/are your favorite hobbies and pastimes? I like to look things up. That's mostly why I majored in history, because it involved a lot of research and it's easy enough to translate that research into papers to pass a class. I absorb information about people and events like a sponge, which makes me an ideal person to do dossiers. I don't forget details that I've learned. Well, unless it's been a couple years or if someone gives me a couple concussions. 49. What is your most treasured possession? Books, and my Captain America comics. 50. What is your favorite color? Blue 51. What is your favorite food? This is a hard question. I like a lot of food. I'd have to say though that I really, really like pretzels. 52. Do you smoke, drink, or use drugs? If so, why? Do you want to quit? I smoked when I was in prison, mostly because there were certain things you could get for trading packs of cigarettes, not to mention that smokers were given breaks from work to feed their addiction. I don't do it anymore though, nasty habit. I drink though. Not a lot, not usually. I try not to drink a lot, I mean. 53. How do you spend a typical Saturday night? Sex, parties, booze. Oh, you want the real answer? I mean yeah sometimes I cruise around bars looking for a pick-me-up, but most of the time you can find me arguing online on some history forum about the exact dates that Caligula declared war on Poseidon or some crap like that. 54. What would you do if you had insomnia and had to find something to do to amuse yourself? Well, there's the internet so you can't exactly claim to be bored in this day and age. Although sometimes I like to set drunk peoples' car alarms off. 55. How do you deal with stress? I drink and I play horrible, terrible renditions of classical music on my old piano. Seriously, the neighbors have given up on filing complaints. 56. What are your pet peeves? While normally I'm not doing anything gross or private on my phone or computer, it still irks me to hell and back when someone sits there and stares over my shoulder at what I'm doing. It's called respect of personal space and privacy, and those two things carry over to my phone and my computer, thanks. Done with filling out the questions, Vance leans back in his chair and stretches his arms out above his head. He got pretty snarky while writing it, but they asked him to answer honestly and he did. It's not his fault he became bored with the entire process, they shouldn't ask someone to sit for hours and fill out basically a biography of their entire life thus far if they aren't readt to take a little bit of snark. |
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