Kevin MacTaggert

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Kevin MacTaggert
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Player:	Mari

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Real Name: Kevin MacTaggert

Codename: Proteus

Aliases: Mutant X

First Appearance: not yet in game

Date of Birth: July 13, 1979 (Earth-617) / July 13, 1997

Place of Birth: Muir Island Mutant Research Facility of Earth-617

Citizenship: British (though his birth was never officially reported)

Relatives: Dr. Moira MacTaggert (Mother), Joseph MacTaggert (Father)

Education: none

Relationship Status: single

Occupation: none

Team Affiliation: none

Biography

Life on Earth-617

Birth, Manifestation, and Experimentation (TW: spousal rape, child neglect, medical abuse)

Kevin was born at the Muir Island Mutant Research Facility to his mother, Dr. Moira MacTaggert, who was living at the facility to escape her abusive husband, the politician, Joseph MacTaggert. From his conception, Kevin was an unwanted child, the product of spousal rape.Moira tried to love her son, but could not bring herself to do anything beyond care for his most basic needs, and even that was a struggle. Within six weeks of his birth it became apparent that Kevin was a mutant, though it would remain unclear if he had been born that way or if he had manifested as a result of his near constant distress since exiting the womb. Taking him to her lab, Moira was able to determine that her infant son had immense power, but was unable to sustain that power himself, needing to feed on the lifeforce of others.

Perhaps due to her existing feelings towards her son, Moira soon stopped thinking of Kevin by name, instead referring to him only as ‘Mutant X.’ This name is an allusion to her then-partner Dr. Charles Xavier. Xavier and Moira considered Kevin as a possible solution to their shared goal of reversing death by use of his great power. Moira would spend the next three years of Kevin’s life almost constantly experimenting on the boy in an effort to understand the extent of his power, but he would soon prove to be more dangerous than she had anticipated. As a result of the danger his powers posed, Moira switched gears to look for a cure for mutations within her son, continuing to experiment on him for the next three years. During this time, Xavier would fund the construction of a solitary confinement cell to house the boy.

When Kevin was six years old, Moira admitted scientific defeat and stopped experimenting on her son. She blamed Kevin for her failure and locked him in the cell that she and Xavier had built, which would only open from the outside with a scan of her handprint. Kevin now spent his days in a metal room with no windows, no toys, and only a single bed and toilet for furniture. Moira would enter each day to bring the boy food, and he would secretly and subconsciously feed on her lifeforce as well to sustain himself. Each day he strove to make his mother love him and become a “real boy”, and each day he failed.

Other Arrivals (TW: child neglect, medical abuse, self-harm)

When Kevin was around ten years old, more mutants began arriving at the facility to stay long-term. Some he only heard walking outside his cell or above him, but one he heard inside his mind. His mother’s Charles had never been able to find his consciousness to communicate telepathically when he visited, and thus Kevin was fearful of the voice. For several months he heard the other voice with an accent he couldn’t name reaching out, looking for a friend, and finally Kevin would respond- in this way he made his first friend, a child named “Davey” who he had never and would never see. The longer Davey stayed, the more familiar his experiences became to Kevin, as Moira would soon start experimenting on the other boy as well. As both boys aged, Davey told him that there were more people in his head than just him, and that not all of them were nice.

Through Davey, Kevin learned some things about his mother. First, that she referred to Davey as the son she never had, and second, that she was seeing someone new, a man named Sean who she had informed that her son was dead. At this age, Kevin began trying to break out of the cell. Hoping that if he slammed his body against the door enough times he might dent it and be able to escape. Kevin was unsuccessful.

Battle of Muir Island and Escape (TW: child neglect, medical abuse)

Decades passed in the same monotony, and Kevin’s life continued to follow the routine of his daily visits with his mother and the occasional psychic visit from Davey, although his friend was seemingly drugged and left comatose more often as he aged. Then, on Earth-617, the Shadow King’s infection of the island, and possession of his only friend, resulted in a major battle between the X-Men and the Muir Island inhabitants. For the duration of this period, Moira stopped interacting with Kevin as the Shadow King’s hatred amplified her own- Kevin’s powers began sustaining his own body but this impacted his health as he was running out of life force. The battle resulted in damage to Kevin’s cell which allowed him to escape. During his escape he heard his mother tell Cyclops that it was “too late the day he was born.” When Kevin left he initially tried to kill his mother but was stopped by Polaris, he then sought out his father, hoping to get to know the man he had never met. Moira’s hatred of her son seemingly outweighed her hatred of her abuser, and she warned Joe about Kevin’s approach. Moira’s warning was not enough to stop Kevin’s interaction with his father. Kevin, starved for human lifeforce and on his last legs possessed his father’s body. He was immediately disgusted by the man he now knew so intimately and after stealing all of his father’s life force, returned to his own body. This would be Kevin’s first kill, and pulling on the information from Joseph’s mind, Kevin gave himself the name “Proteus,” determined to decide for himself who or what he is.

“Death” and Dimension Hopping

Riding the high of wielding that much power for the first time in his life and still hungry after such a long time without eating, Kevin went on a bit of a rampage, attacking civilians and feeding on their life force to sustain himself. He began experimenting with his powers for the first time in his life, and created significant amounts of panic by way of granting an entire village the ability to grant their own wishes, repairing castles to their full medieval glory, and on one notable occasion fusing two bodies together just to see what they’d look like. The X-Men searched for him, hunting him down, but he was difficult to track- as a being of psionic energy who could hop from body to body, Kevin could look like anyone and be anyone, and his mind was undetectable to telepaths.

Kevin took up residence in an abandoned castle ruin, where he was approached by Charles Xavier and the X-Men. Charles demanded that Kevin return to Muir Island and the repaired cell or be killed. Kevin asked what his crime was and if there was no possibility of redemption for him, if all he was doing was listening to his powers. Charles told him that redemption wasn’t possible for people like him. Kevin told Charles that all he wanted was freedom, for him and everyone, but that if attacked he would fight back. Charles sent the X-Man, Colossus, after Kevin, knowing that metal was one of the boy’s weaknesses. Colossus, following orders, did not relent in his attack even as it became clear that Kevin could no longer fight back. With his last burst of power, Kevin decided to change his reality, and managed to transfer himself to a different universe, one where he’s loved, resulting in his supposed “death” in Earth-617.

Resurrection

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Height: 5'11"

General Build: skinny and boney

Eyes: blue

Hair: red

Other Features: Kevin isn’t anything remarkable as a person, he’s simply a ginger man. What makes him easily distinguishable is the perpetually gaunt look to his features, his too-wide eyes that seem to be constantly looking for any source of light he can find, and the fact that he looks at other humans as if he might eat them (the more powerful the mutation, the longer he’s likely to stare at you).

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