Artie Maddicks
| Artie Maddicks | |
|---|---|
 Portrayed by Freddie Highmore | |
| Codename: | |
| Affiliations: | Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters - Student |
| Birthdate: | February 17, 1994 |
| Journal: | x_artie |
| Player: | Bounce |
The speechless Artie has been a student at the school since 2002, using his telepathic holograms to communicate with others.
Contents
Details
Character Journal: x_artie
Real Name: Artie Maddicks
Codename: None
Aliases: None
Occupation: Student at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
First appearance: X2
Family: Unknown.
Date of Birth: 17th February, 1994
Place of Birth: Unknown
Citizenship: Now American
Relatives: None known: very little is known about Artie's earliest years with the Morlocks. He has no known surviving relatives.
Education: Artie is currently a Sophomore at Xavier's school. His entire formal education has been spent at Xavier's, in its various incarnations studying at times with other students and, at others, on his own when there were no other students of a similar age at the school. He studies American Sign Language off campus and has since early secondary school, as his inability to talk means that he will need to be fluent in sign when he leaves the mansion for college or work, building on his earlier lessons with Doug.
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Student
Team Affiliation: None
Biography
Artie has been at the school for as long, if not longer, than the older students such as Kitty Pryde and Theresa Cassidy. Little is known about his background: when Sarah Morlocke arrived, she identified him as one of the tunnel-dwelling Morlocks who had somehow survived the massacre. Artie himself has been unable to communicate much of what happened - he appears to have no great memory of his life before Xavier's, and his inability to speak also makes things difficult.
At the school, he originally shared a suite with Doug Ramsey and Jamie Madrox, becoming roommate and inseparable best friend to Miles Blaire when he was brought to the school by Alison. Sarah later identified Miles as another Morlock, however he too had no memory of that life. With the departure of Jamie, Miles and Alison to the West Coast Annex and Doug's job with the Snow Valley Memorial Center for Mutant Affairs, Artie lost most of his friends. He rooms now with Leong Manh, brother to Shan, and along with Leong's sister Nga and Shiro's little sister Leyu, is one of the school's floating population of students. He will be a sophomore in the coming school year, no longer one of the 'little ones'.
Powers/Abilities
Artie has a blue, forked tongue, much like a lizard's or a snake's, which renders him unable to speak. He is compensated by the ability to project images or 'psychic holograms' of varying complexity - this ability has improved over time, and his images have become gradually more realistic from the basic 'stick drawings' of his early life.
It's not yet known what the limit to Artie's power is as he is able to use it only whilst he is actively applying attention to them. Practice and his mutation mean that he tests as a genius in the spacial awareness part of IQ tests, despite being extremely average everywhere else. He can create both two and three dimensional holograms but, in both cases, they decrease drastically in detail as they get larger. He's limited both by the amount of detail he can visualise at any one time and the fact that displaying anything over about a two by three metre size gives him a splitting headache. The largest two dimensional shape he's made to date was roughly the size of a garage door and basically consisted of a couple of stick figures. He can produce very detailed, realistic images but cannot copy a page of print text as anything other than a pattern of light and dark on a page, not as legible text. He'd probably find copying a painting much easier. That said, he can project several words at a time onto a background and can make his images move but finds this easiest with simple images simply because he has to be able to visualise every line in them at once, something that becomes much harder when they're moving. For the most part, he works to a roughly A2 to A3 size with minimal detail to his images in every day life - anything else is too slow for communication.
He can also make three dimensional figures but, again, the larger they are, the less detail they have, and right now, he cannot make even sketched up cartooned figures larger than about three feet tall and, again, finds his more detailed images much easier when he has a model to work from: he might be able to mimic some of Marie-Ange's imps and follow their movements, as long as they don't move too quickly and aren't too detailed.
He's limited to line of sight for his projections at the moment but will be able to be expand to places he can't see eventually as long as he can visualise it and he's got a range of about 50, 60 meters right now. But, beyond that, people outside his line of sight or beyond his range can still see them.
Equipment
Trivia
Plots
2003
2004
2006
X-Men Mission: The Perfect Nanny
2007
Meta
Player: Bounce
E-mail: 150 px
Player Icon Base: Freddie Highmore
Meta Trivia
Artie was introduced to the game as an NPC and was initially socked by Frito, then made into a mod sock. He was also one of the only NPCs with a journal x_artie (Charles Xavier is the other.)
The PB was changed in 2009 on account of Artie not being ten years old any more, and there not being a lot of older images of Bryce Hodgson out there.
In March 2010 he was apped successfully by Bounce.
