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<td valign="top">[[Image:Shan.jpg|left|100px]]'''[[Karma]]:''' Xi'an Coy Manh or "Shan" as she prefers to be called, is the daughter of a South Vietnamese war veteran suffering from post traumatic stress and a leg injury. The family immigrated to the US when Shan was a young teen - it was on the refugee boat that she manifested her ability to psionically possess others when they were attacked by pirates. She built herself a successful life in the State, studying hard, until her college graduation when a hotel fire killed her parent, made her twin brother and her uncle fugitives from the FBI and placed the responsibility for raising her young siblings directly in her hands. Struggling to cope for some time, she eventually got a job at [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters| Xavier's]] as the school's librarian, the position suiting her quiet, orderly nature and the school providing an education to her younger brother and sister, also twins and both X-positive (but not yet manifested). She remains at the school, caring for [[Manh Family| Leong and Nga]] and debating whether or not it is time to take an active role in her own life again.
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Shan's mutant power is [[Psionics| psi-based]]: She can project a psionic energy surge enabling her that overwhelms people's minds, putting her in control. It's fairly strong; while it would not stand up to a developed telepath like [[Professor Xavier]], or someone with really good shields, she can take down fairly powerful minds otherwise. Her power extends to being able to 'lift' information from her victims' minds, such that she can hear what they're thinking, and to make them tell her what she wants to know (however, they don't know that they're being possessed until after the fact, which makes that a bit easier to handle).
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Warren grew up an only child in Manhattan. His grandfather was the founder of Worthington Industries, and as a result Warren's family is extremely wealthy. He was sent to a boarding school as a child, and his mutation emerged while he was a student there. He managed to keep his wings, the physical manifestation of his powers, strapped down but he would not remain grounded -- at one point, his school dormitory caught fire and he was able to rescue several of his classmates, while wearing a wig and sheet. After this he started taking to the skies of NYC, fighting crime in a mask and costume. It was there that [[Charles Xavier| Professor Charles Xavier]] found him, and asked him to join his  school as one of the founding students, along with [[Scott Summers]], [[Jean Grey]], [[Ororo Munroe]] and [[Hank McCoy]]. His parents, still alive and living in New York, thoughr he was adjunting at a boarding school much like the one he had once attended.
  
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Her power allows her to alter perception as well as memory, and eventually will enable her to generate a psionic deflector field that makes her immune to psychic attack. She has to consciously generate the field, however; it's not natural. She doesn't, at this point, know how. There is no physical manifestation of her powers.
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An only child of privilege, Warren initially had difficulty settling in at the mansion. However his natural charm and wit soon won him friends among his peers, although he never did get on with Logan. Jean's  death hit him hard and he became isolated from the younger members of the school, focussing on his classes and on his lover, [[Piotr]] and Piotr's little sister [[Illyana]].
  
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The range is limited, but the number of people she can take control of is less so -- she can get about ten people under her control with some effort, which isn't much use for crowds, but good enough that she won't have a problem with small groups.
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When Illyana was kidnapped and later disowned by her brother, Warren stood by Piotr, despite the uproar the disowning caused in the school and Piotr's general unpopularity among the students. When Piotr left for several months to undergo security training, Warren was forced to interact among a wider group, making some unlikely friends such as [[Amanda Sefton]] and [[Paige Guthrie]]. He also renewed old acquaintances, such as [[Jake Gavin]] and [[Shinobi Shaw]].
  
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Shan's control is mostly self-learnt, but pretty tight because she's had about a decade and a half to control it; since her power does, for the most part, take conscious effort, it's a bit easier to control than some of the 'always on' powers.  
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Warren was an active [[X-Men| X-Man]] for all the time he was at the school, however he suffered a crisis of faith after the [[Skippy (plot)| Skippy incident]]. His idealism was dinted by the increasingly violent world outside of the mansion. However, the creation of [[HeliX]] and the [[Red X]] program gave him hope that perhaps not all heroes were naive fools.
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Upon his graduation from law school and his passing of the bar exam, Warren returned to the school full-time as a teacher. However he was unable to settle, and when [[Alison]] and [[Haroun]] left to create the [[West Coast Annex]] in April 2006, he and Piotr joined them. His family ties are in New York, however, and the school has a habit of drawing people back.
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Warren's mutation is a pair of natural wings that span almost sixteen feet, from tip to tip. His entire anatomy is structured for ease of flight: hollow bones, minimal body fat, greater proportional strength than most humans, eyes that can withstand high winds and lung membranes that allow him to breathe in extreme velocities and altitudes.  
  
 
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Revision as of 13:42, 9 January 2008

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Warren grew up an only child in Manhattan. His grandfather was the founder of Worthington Industries, and as a result Warren's family is extremely wealthy. He was sent to a boarding school as a child, and his mutation emerged while he was a student there. He managed to keep his wings, the physical manifestation of his powers, strapped down but he would not remain grounded -- at one point, his school dormitory caught fire and he was able to rescue several of his classmates, while wearing a wig and sheet. After this he started taking to the skies of NYC, fighting crime in a mask and costume. It was there that Professor Charles Xavier found him, and asked him to join his school as one of the founding students, along with Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Ororo Munroe and Hank McCoy. His parents, still alive and living in New York, thoughr he was adjunting at a boarding school much like the one he had once attended.

An only child of privilege, Warren initially had difficulty settling in at the mansion. However his natural charm and wit soon won him friends among his peers, although he never did get on with Logan. Jean's death hit him hard and he became isolated from the younger members of the school, focussing on his classes and on his lover, Piotr and Piotr's little sister Illyana.

When Illyana was kidnapped and later disowned by her brother, Warren stood by Piotr, despite the uproar the disowning caused in the school and Piotr's general unpopularity among the students. When Piotr left for several months to undergo security training, Warren was forced to interact among a wider group, making some unlikely friends such as Amanda Sefton and Paige Guthrie. He also renewed old acquaintances, such as Jake Gavin and Shinobi Shaw.

Warren was an active X-Man for all the time he was at the school, however he suffered a crisis of faith after the Skippy incident. His idealism was dinted by the increasingly violent world outside of the mansion. However, the creation of HeliX and the Red X program gave him hope that perhaps not all heroes were naive fools.

Upon his graduation from law school and his passing of the bar exam, Warren returned to the school full-time as a teacher. However he was unable to settle, and when Alison and Haroun left to create the West Coast Annex in April 2006, he and Piotr joined them. His family ties are in New York, however, and the school has a habit of drawing people back.

Warren's mutation is a pair of natural wings that span almost sixteen feet, from tip to tip. His entire anatomy is structured for ease of flight: hollow bones, minimal body fat, greater proportional strength than most humans, eyes that can withstand high winds and lung membranes that allow him to breathe in extreme velocities and altitudes.

This character is currently unplayed, but is open for applications. If you are interested in applying for this character, you can contact the mods at x_moderators @ googlegroups . com and you can find the application form here.

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