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| name    = Jean-Paul Beaubier
 
| name    = Jean-Paul Beaubier
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| pb = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553648/ Olivier Martinez]
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| pb = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1093951/ Aaron Taylor-Johnson]
 
| codename = Northstar
 
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| teams  = [[Xavier Institute]] - Staff
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| birthdate = May 26, 1970
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| birthdate = May 26, 1994
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| journal =  [http://x_cynosure.livejournal.com x_cynosure]
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| journal =  [https://xp-northstar.dreamwidth.org/profile xp_northstar]
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| player = [[Suzene]]
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| player = Available for Applications
 
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Jean-Paul Beaubier has recently returned to the X-Men after an extended leave of absence to deal with family issues.
 
  
  
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== '''Details''' ==
 
== '''Details''' ==
  
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'''Character Journal:''' [http://x_cynosure.livejournal.com x_cynosure]
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'''Character Journal:''' [https://xp-northstar.dreamwidth.org/profile This Is How An Angel Cries - Blame It On My Own Surprise]
  
 
'''Real Name''': Jean-Paul Beaubier
 
'''Real Name''': Jean-Paul Beaubier
  
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'''Codename''': Northstar
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'''Codename''': Northstar (eventually)
  
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'''Aliases''': Jean-Paul Martin
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'''Aliases''': Jean-Paul Martin, JP (if people feel they ''must'' use some type of nickname)
  
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'''First Appearance''': [http://x-vega.livejournal.com/2004/07/13/ July 13, 2004]
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'''First Appearance''': [https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/3729530.html July 18, 2015]
  
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'''Date of Birth''': May 26, 1970
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'''Date of Birth''': May 26, 1994
  
 
'''Place of Birth''': Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 
'''Place of Birth''': Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  
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'''Citizenship''': Canadian
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'''Citizenship''': Canadian
  
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'''Relatives''': Jean-Baptiste Beaubier (father, deceased), Melisande Beaubier (mother, deceased), Louis Martin (adopted father, deceased), Jolie Martin (adopted mother, deceased), Raymonde Belmonde (father-figure/mentor, deceased), [[Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]] (twin sister)
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'''Relatives''': Jean-Baptiste Beaubier (father, deceased), Melisande Beaubier (mother, deceased), Louis Martin (adoptive father, deceased), Genevieve Martin (adoptive mother, deceased), Raymonde Belmonde (father figure/mentor/former guardian), Jeanne-Marie Beaubier (twin sister, he does not know she exists).
  
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'''Education''': Degrees in Literature and History  
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'''Education''': Partial credits for an undergraduate degree of English Studies and Comparative Literature from Université de Montréal. He’s also working on a minor in History, specifically French Canadian.
  
 
'''Relationship Status''': Single
 
'''Relationship Status''': Single
  
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'''Occupation''': Teacher
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'''Occupation''': Retired Olympic Champion (Men’s Alpine). Currently, unemployed (despite several endorsement deals with various sports equipment/clothing franchises).
  
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'''Team Affiliation''': Former member of [[Alpha Flight]]
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'''Team Affiliation''': [[Generation X]]
  
 
== '''Biography''' ==
 
== '''Biography''' ==
  
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=== '''Childhood''' ===
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=== '''Early Life''' ===
  
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Jean-Paul was twice-orphaned at a young age, once at age two when his birth parents died in an automobile accident, then again at five when the Martins, relations of his mother who had taken him in, met the same fate. Jean-Paul was quickly adopted, but, as the traumatized boy was not a demonstrative or loving child and prone to acting out, he was quickly given up from his first family, and passed on to others who were no better equipped to deal with the troublesome boy than their predecessors had been. Jean-Paul's behavior grew worse as he grew older, progressing from cold distance to outright disrespect and rebellion against his foster parents. At thirteen years old, after a violent confrontation with his current fosters, he finally ran away. He spent almost three months scratching out a living on the streets of Montreal. His days were spent picking pockets, scrounging from dumpsters, and stealing from vendors to live, his nights sleeping in the doorways of shops or in alleys or abandoned buildings, always looking over his shoulder and desperately lonely, though he would not have admitted to it under any circumstances. To make matters worse, it was at this time that Jean-Paul's mutation began to assert itself, making the boy somewhat quicker on his feet than most, but also bringing with it an increased in metabolism that caused the boy to slowly starve on a diet that would have been inadequate to begin with.
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At the age of two, Jean-Paul’s biological parents were killed in an automobile accident - he was in the backseat of the vehicle at the time, but his car seat saved his life. Separated from his twin sister, he was adopted by the Martins, distant relatives of his mother's. Sadly, they could not adopt both children, and so Jeanne-Marie was sent elsewhere. However, they met an untimely end in a boating accident when Jean-Paul was five years old. He was quickly placed in foster care, but due to the emotional trauma he’d suffered, he was not at all affectionate toward or open to forming close relationships with his foster parents. In fact, he began acting out, which made it virtually impossible to find him a permanent home. Jean-Paul bounced from foster family to foster family, none of them equipped to deal with the trouble he inevitably caused.
  
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This bleak lifestyle came to an end when Jean-Paul tried to steal from a book vendor patronized by Raymonde Belmonde, a local business owner. Raymonde  grabbed Jean-Paul's wrist to halt him, earning a hard punch to the jaw for his trouble, and was alarmed to find that the boy was little more than skin and bones in his grip. A promise of hot food and the bookseller's grudging promise not to involve police took a lot of the fight out of the half-starved youth and, over the course of the meal, Raymonde coaxed the boy's story out of him. Raymonde ultimately decided that the boy was not going back into the care of people that had failed him so utterly and managed to call in a significant favor from a local politician, who pulled the strings necessary to establish Raymonde as Jean-Paul's legal guardian. Monsieur Belmonde took on the task of civilizing the suspicious young urchin. Though Jean-Paul never took very well to formal schooling, once the boy's mind was stimulated, it turned out that Jean-Paul had a voracious curiosity that went to work on every book in Raymonde's possession. Raymonde also introduced Jean-Paul to the pastime that would quickly become the young man's greatest passion: skiing. Jean-Paul received his high-school equivalency at seventeen, but put off college in favor of pursuing athletics; it wasn't until years later, when being outed as a mutant forced him to step away from professional competition, that he chose to pursue higher education.
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His behavior grew worse as Jean-Paul aged, progressing from a chilly disdain for those who fostered him to outright disrespect and eventual rebellion. At the age of eleven, after a particularly violent confrontation with his foster father, Jean-Paul ran away. He spent nearly a year on the streets of Montreal, seeking shelter where he could and doing everything possible to avoid being found by the authorities. He ran into gangs roaming Montreal and, in exchange for a free place to crash as well as some under the table cash, Jean-Paul ran errands for them. He helped whichever person offered him whatever he needed at the time to survive when he wasn't pickpocketing strangers or stealing from stores.
  
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Jean-Paul sought and gained his emancipation from the foster system at age sixteen. Though he had grown to trust Raymonde deeply, Jean-Paul's guardian was not a young man and the boy was not willing to chance that he would be at the mercy of others again if anything should happen to Raymonde.
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To make matters worse, Jean-Paul’s mutation began to subtly manifest during this period of his life, making him somewhat quicker on his feet than most. That might have been an advantage, especially where his pickpocketing and thievery were concerned, however the mutation brought with it an increase in his metabolism. This caused the boy to begin to slowly starve on a diet that wouldn't have been adequate for a baseline human his age.
  
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Jean-Paul competed in the Winter Olympics when he was eighteen and once held four Olympic gold medals, all of which he turned over after publicly acknowledging his status as a mutant in 1990 when he began working with [[Department H]]. Jean-Paul has been out of the closet as a gay man to the public and media since 1994 as well, prompting his first sabbatical from the Depatment. Seeking a respite from the scandal at home, Jean-Paul time spent backpacking through the French countryside. On a whim, he applied to the D'Arbanville Circus in France and took a spot among their acrobats using the alias "Paul Martin". He developed a close relationship with the circus owner's hoyden daughter, Clementine D'Arbanville, to whom he confided his identity. He remains in sporadic contact with her.
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=== '''Moving Forward''' ===
  
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The situation came to an end when Jean-Paul, age twelve, attempted to steal from a restaurant owned by Raymonde Belmonde, a man whose work wasn't necessarily all on the up and up but who was generally a good person. Belmonde was alarmed by the horrible condition the boy was in and offered him the meal he'd attempted to steal - for free. That offer took most of the fight out of Jean-Paul and, warily, he accepted the invitation Belmonde extended. He found himself speaking of his life more freely than he expected and, over the course of the promised meal, Belmonde decided that it would be for the best if the boy didn't return to the streets or his former life in the foster care system.
  
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When Department H finally announced the activation of the final stage of the Flight Program, Alpha Flight, Jean-Paul was one of the first members. He grew close with Walter Langkowski, and was reunited with his sister Aurora. The twins participated actively in Alpha Flight on and off until 2004. The twins were notorious for constantly fighting and reconciling, but it wasn't until the Christmas of 2003 that the two of them swore never to speak to one another again.  
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Belmonde called in a favor from a local politician, who pulled the necessary strings to establish him as Jean-Paul’s legal guardian. He took to the task of civilising the suspicious young man with gusto, introducing Jean-Paul to literature and art. While Jean-Paul never took very well to formal schooling, he did read every book in Belmonde’s possession, awakening a love of reading that has continued to this day. It was during this time that Belmonde also introduced Jean-Paul to the pastime that would quickly become the young man’s greatest passion – skiing. By fifteen, Jean-Paul was a top contender in multiple events. By sixteen, he was a shoe-in for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
  
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They had decided to spend Christmas together, Aurora bringing their close friend, the man who altered her mutation and her boyfriend, Walter Langkowski, to dinner. Little did either of them know that Langkowski would propose at that dinner. Jean-Paul suddenly found himself thirty-four, alone, and in love with his sister's fiancee with little of what he considered a future and ended up taking it out on his sister. Visibly shaken, he turned cold, even rude. Aurora, hurt and appalled that the man she loved most in life, her brother, could not be happy for her on such a joyous occasion, she confronted him in anger which only managed to start a huge argument, eventually leading to their separation, convinced this was the end of their relationship.
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==='''Olympian'''===
  
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=== '''Living At The X-Mansion''' ===
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Jean-Paul sought and gained his emancipation from the foster care system just after returning home from the Olympics, two gold medals in hand. Though he had grown to trust Belmonde, Jean-Paul recognised that his guardian was not a young man and was, therefore, unwilling to take the chance of being at anyone else’s mercy should something unfortunate happen to the older man.
  
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Jean-Paul left Alpha Flight and accepted a job offer from [[Charles Xavier]] as a new counselor for the students. While at the school, he was once again reunited with his sister after she appeared on the doorstep one morning and was found by Sam Guthrie. She then proceeded to mistake [[Hank McCoy]] for Walter, attacking him in the medlab until Jean-Paul came down to retrieve her. The twins reconciled, and Aurora remained at the school, refusing to leave her brother's side.  
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He received his high school equivalency at seventeen, and attended  university when not training for competitions. This involved a great deal of self-driven study and online interaction with understanding professors. While competing in the 2014 Olympics, Jean-Paul won four additional gold medals, bringing his total to six, and made an even bigger name for himself in the sports world. He also spoke out quite vocally about Russia’s discrimination against the LGBT community.
  
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Jean-Paul began to train simultaniously with the X-Men as well as his teaching duties, taking key roles in helping some like Shiro through dangerous situations. However, Jean-Paul's time at the school was destined to be short. After only three months, he and his sister decided that it would be best to return to Canada, away from both the X-Men and Alpha Flight for some time.
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==='''When It All Comes Down'''===
  
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Jean-Paul's career came to an end in August 2015 when he was blackmailed, the blackmailer threatening to tell the media about his X-Gene. The X-Gene Jean-Paul didn't know he had. He confronted his coach about it, who admitted he hid the truth from Jean-Paul after blood tests had discovered Jean-Paul did indeed test positive for an x-gene. His mutation was fully triggered when a car accident launched him through the windshield, and instead of hitting the ground he flew several feet away. Belmonde got him away and to safety and contacted [[Angelo Espinosa]] to get Jean-Paul somewhere to safety. Angelo, in turn, brought him to the mansion.
  
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After leaving Xavier's, Jean-Paul retired with his sister to his home in Laval in the hopes that the quiet, semi-rural environment and the presence of someone she trusted would help quiet the turmoil in her mind. Jeanne-Marie, however, continued to slowly deteriorate, her mental state swinging from dangerously fractured to guilt-wracked lucidity. She would alternately curse and attack her brother in her worst hours, or plead for his forgiveness and beg him to not send her away, to not let others see her in her misery. Spurred equally by an arrogance that lead him to believe that he could cure his sister on his own and a deep concern for her mental state if she should perceive herself as abandoned again, Jean-Paul obeyed her wishes.
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Jean-Paul was thoroughly unimpressed with most of the mansion, not making friends easily. He did enjoy a fun night with [[Gabriel Cohuelo]], however, so that wasn't too bad. In November he found himself accidentally dragged into a telepathic mess when a young Canadian telepath latched onto [[Quentin Quire]], and Quentin in turn latched on to the people closest to him. They spent a chaotic few days in the Canadian's body before they finally got her to safety and Charles helped everyone get back into their own bodies. Jean-Paul ended the year with a ski trip that he opened up to the mansion at large. He found himself wholly unamused with [[Topaz | mansion librarian]], until an incident with an exploding water bottle made them unwilling allies.
  
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After an incident that lead to Jeanne-Marie literally killing his pet cat with kindness, Jean-Paul became reluctant to leave his sister alone for more than few minutes, fearful of what she would do to herself, all the while deepening their unhealthy codependency. Finally, her brother's smothering devotion caused Aurora to lash out in a full fury, leaving Jean-Paul unconscious, battered, and bleeding. In the aftermath of the attack, Jeanne-Marie came back to herself. Horrified by what she had done, she alerted James and Heather Hudson to her brother's injuries and fled. She left Jean-Paul only a brief note stating her intention to come to peace with herself on her own or die in the attempt.
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A powers interaction with [[Everett Thomas]] in November 2016 turned Jean-Paul's life upside down when he found out his mutation included super speed, leading him to a crisis about whether or not he earned his Olympic medals. He drowned his sorrows in sex with Quentin, then comforted himself with Topaz's cat as he tried to figure out what to do with this information. Eventually he decided to do more travel, and spent his time exploring the snowy wild, with occasional check-ins to Topaz in order to let her know he was alive and doing well enough.  
  
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Jean-Paul searched vainly for his sister for over a year. Though he at last attempted to move forward with his life again, there is a part of him that is braced for his sister to swoop in out of the blue and scatter any peace he's found to the four winds once more.
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He returned to the mansion in briefly in August 2018, and expressed his interest in the fact that his drawing class contained a visible mutant as a model. When they went missing, he did some searching and ultimately enlisted the help of Susan Storm. A year later he took some time away for more travels, which he decided to extend indefinitely in January 2020.
  
 
== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
 
== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
  
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'''Height''': 5'11"
  
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'''Height''': 5' 11"
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'''Weight''': 180lbs
  
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'''Weight''': 150 lbs
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'''Eyes''': Blue
  
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'''Eyes''': Arctic blue
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'''Hair''': Black
  
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'''Hair''': Glossy black
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'''Other Features''': Jean-Paul has subtly pointed ears and a tattoo on his left bicep, a half-sleeve of the inverted Sun tarot card, as drawn by Luis Royo.
  
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'''Other Features''': Jean-Paul has subtly pointed ears. He acquired several new scars during his stewardship of his sister: a short, jagged one over which obliterated a Gemini tattoo over his heart, and two razor-thin white lines, one across the right side of his throat, the other low on his stomach. There is a tattoo on his left bicep, the kanji for 'hashiru no sensei'.
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== '''Powers''' ==
  
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Jean-Paul is a flight-capable speedster. It is a power which partially manifested in his mid-teens. However, it wasn’t until he was twenty-one that the full extent of his superspeed and the accompanying flight developed. He is exceptionally agile, able to reach incredible speeds on land (500 MPH, which he can maintain for approximately six hours before needing to rest) and in the air (roughly Mach 2, which he can maintain for around four hours before needing to rest). However, pushing these limits would put a great strain on his system. Ignoring the limits of his abilities would result in Jean-Paul arriving at his destination sweat-lathered, body starving for oxygen, heart rate through the roof, and all his reserves drained. In the event that such a journey was necessary he would require extensive rest and recuperation, usually whilst sleeping, to fully recover. He can use his superspeed to automatically compensate for any G-Force differences he might experience.*
  
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Northstar's mutant powers first began manifesting in his early teens, but it was not until he was nearly seventeen that the full extent of his superspeed and the accompanying flight kicked in.  
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His mutation increases his metabolism, causing it to work faster than the human norm. This condition is exacerbated by his athletic activities. Jean-Paul, therefore, burns through a great deal of fuel very quickly and has to keep a close eye on what he eats to ensure he’s getting both enough calories and the proper nutrition. A side-effect of his rapid metabolism is that Jean-Paul has a minor healing factor and recovers from injuries significantly faster than a normal human. An example of this would be that, if he broke his arm, it would take around two weeks for him to have full functionality of the limb, as opposed to the typical four weeks (or more) for a non-mutant.
  
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Northstar is a flight-capable speedster, exceptionally agile and able to reach incredible speeds on land and in the air. The overall durability of Northstar's body increases at high speeds, allowing him to withstand the ravages of wind, friction, and air turbulence. Though this aspect of his mutation provides him with a certain amount of protection from damage caused by high-velocity collisions (ie: he won't break his own neck if he runs into a wall at full tilt), Northstar can knock himself out if he slams into objects at high speeds. This increased durability also gives him a certain amount of protection from blunt-force trauma when he's moving at superhuman speeds, but knives, claws, and bladed weapons slice through his defenses easily. Northstar possesses the same vulnerabilities to the elements and injury as most humans, save for a resistance to extremes of cold. He is as susceptible as any normal human to mental attacks. His speed is not just flight, it applies to all his motion, and he is able to deliver jackhammer-speed blows and simply avoid or outmaneuver his opponents.  
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Jean-Paul’s mutation also provides him with something akin to overall durability whilst traveling at high speeds, allowing him to withstand the ravages of wind, friction, and air turbulence. Though this aspect of his mutation provides him with a certain amount of protection from damage caused by high-velocity collisions (he won’t break his own neck if he runs into a wall at full tilt), Jean-Paul can knock himself out if he slams into objects at high speeds. This increased durability also gives him a certain amount of protection from blunt-force trauma when he’s not moving at superhuman speeds. However knives, claws, and bladed weapons can easily slice through his defences if he doesn’t avoid them.
  
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Northstar's mutation increases metabolism to something faster than the human norm, a condition exacerbated by his athletic activities. As a result, Northstar's body tends to burn through its fuel quickly; he needs to keep careful track of what he eats to be certain that he's getting both enough calories to function and proper nutrition. As a side-effect of his rapid metabolism, Northstar also has a minor healing factor and recovers from injuries significantly faster than the human norm. For example, where it would take a normal human a month or more to heal a broken arm, Northstar might have full use of the limb after two weeks.
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His powers can increase the speed of all of Jean-Paul’s movements, which means he can move individual parts of his body at great speed independently of one another. Thus, he’s capable of delivering jackhammer-speed blows to opponents. This also allows him to avoid or outmaneuver most threats.
  
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Northstar is able to hit a top speed air speed of Mach 2 and is able to maintain that for up to two hours, and a top land speed of 500 MPH for roughly twice that long. Pushing these limits is a terrible strain on Northstar's system; he'll end the journey sweat-lathered with his body starving for oxygen, heartrate through the roof, reserves drained, and needing to pass out for a day to recharge. It also takes much longer to fully recover from such punishing exhertions at forty than it did at twenty-one.
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Jean-Paul can send out concussive blasts from his body. They are purely defensive, meaning if he can neither speed nor fly his way out of a situation, the panic-response/adrenalin rush he gets allows him to physically throw off some of the kinetic energy he maintains in his body. Initially, these blasts will be full-body and non-directed, but they have the potential to become more focused/useful during combat situations (assuming he can learn to trigger them while on the ground and not trapped).
  
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Due to his focus on physical fitness, Northstar's endurance and strength are at peak human levels for his size and build.
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He has the ability to generate a bright, white light equivalent, at maximum intensity, to 500 thousand foot-candles. Jean-Paul does this by varying the rate of acceleration of the molecules within his body out of phase with one another, creating a cascade of photonic discharges. Should he ever meet his twin sister, together they would theoretically be able to generate light equivalent to a full one million foot-candles. (Physical contact would be necessary for them to reach that intensity.)
  
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He possesses the same vulnerability to the elements as most humans, save a resistance to the extremes of cold. This resistance comes from the kinetic energy he uses to propel himself, the molecular friction within Jean-Paul’s body, which causes him to run a bit warmer than most people.
  
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Despite his distaste for the years spent in Alpha Flight, Northstar has kept his costume from his days in the program, as it is the only clothing he owns that will not be destroyed while moving at the extreme velocities he is capable of.
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While his powers have no bearing on his physical strength or endurance, due to his focus on physical fitness, Jean-Paul’s endurance and strength are at peak human levels for a man his size, age, and build.
  
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== '''Trivia''' ==
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'''PLEASE NOTE: Jean-Paul knows basically none of that upon arriving at [[The Mansion|the mansion]].'''
  
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Jean-Paul hates being called JP and prefers to go by "Paul" if there must be a diminutive.
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He is openly gay, but not effeminate.
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He is very health conscious and active in a variety of outdoor sports.
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== '''Trivia''' ==
  
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Jean-Paul owns a bistro in Montreal's ''Le Village'', though he has little to do with the day-to-day operation of the place.
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== '''Plots''' ==
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=='''External Links'''==
  
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===2004===
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+jean-paul+beaubier xp_communication posts]
  
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[[Blaze of Glory]]
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+jean-paul+beaubier xp_journal posts]
  
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[[Trojan Horse]]
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+z+available:+jean-paul+beaubier xp_logs posts]
  
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===2009===
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== '''Plots''' ==
  
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[[Walking Ghosts]]
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===2015===
  
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[[Shiva]]
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[[Different Breed]]
  
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[[So You Want To Be A Superhero]]
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[[Do I Know You?]]
  
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[[Neverland]]
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===2016===
  
 
== Meta ==
 
== Meta ==
  
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'''Player''': [[Suzene]]
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'''Player''': Available for Applications
  
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'''E-mail''': [[Image:Scampos.jpg|180px]]
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'''E-mail''':  
  
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'''AIM''':
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'''Player Icon Base''':  [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1093951/ Aaron Taylor-Johnson]
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'''Player Icon Base''':  [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553648/ Olivier Martinez]
 
  
 
'''Meta Trivia'''
 
'''Meta Trivia'''
  
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Formerly played by Ande with the journal [http://x-vega.livejournal.com/profile x_vega]
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Cai played a P1 version of JPB from January of 2010 until after the [[Genosha Arc]] in 2012. She picked up a P2 version of him in [[July 2015]]. She played him until [[January 2020]] when she became a [[:Category: Player Emeritus|Player Emeritus]] due to RL demands.
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[[Category: 2015]]

Latest revision as of 20:40, 9 January 2022

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.


This page is about the Phase 2 incarnation of the character. For other uses, see Jean-Paul Beaubier (disambiguation).

PHASE 2
Jean-Paul Beaubier
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Portrayed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Codename: Northstar
Affiliations:
Birthdate: May 26, 1994
Journal: xp_northstar
Player: Available for Applications



Details

Character Journal: This Is How An Angel Cries - Blame It On My Own Surprise

Real Name: Jean-Paul Beaubier

Codename: Northstar (eventually)

Aliases: Jean-Paul Martin, JP (if people feel they must use some type of nickname)

First Appearance: July 18, 2015

Date of Birth: May 26, 1994

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Citizenship: Canadian

Relatives: Jean-Baptiste Beaubier (father, deceased), Melisande Beaubier (mother, deceased), Louis Martin (adoptive father, deceased), Genevieve Martin (adoptive mother, deceased), Raymonde Belmonde (father figure/mentor/former guardian), Jeanne-Marie Beaubier (twin sister, he does not know she exists).

Education: Partial credits for an undergraduate degree of English Studies and Comparative Literature from Université de Montréal. He’s also working on a minor in History, specifically French Canadian.

Relationship Status: Single

Occupation: Retired Olympic Champion (Men’s Alpine). Currently, unemployed (despite several endorsement deals with various sports equipment/clothing franchises).

Team Affiliation: Generation X

Biography

Early Life

At the age of two, Jean-Paul’s biological parents were killed in an automobile accident - he was in the backseat of the vehicle at the time, but his car seat saved his life. Separated from his twin sister, he was adopted by the Martins, distant relatives of his mother's. Sadly, they could not adopt both children, and so Jeanne-Marie was sent elsewhere. However, they met an untimely end in a boating accident when Jean-Paul was five years old. He was quickly placed in foster care, but due to the emotional trauma he’d suffered, he was not at all affectionate toward or open to forming close relationships with his foster parents. In fact, he began acting out, which made it virtually impossible to find him a permanent home. Jean-Paul bounced from foster family to foster family, none of them equipped to deal with the trouble he inevitably caused.

His behavior grew worse as Jean-Paul aged, progressing from a chilly disdain for those who fostered him to outright disrespect and eventual rebellion. At the age of eleven, after a particularly violent confrontation with his foster father, Jean-Paul ran away. He spent nearly a year on the streets of Montreal, seeking shelter where he could and doing everything possible to avoid being found by the authorities. He ran into gangs roaming Montreal and, in exchange for a free place to crash as well as some under the table cash, Jean-Paul ran errands for them. He helped whichever person offered him whatever he needed at the time to survive when he wasn't pickpocketing strangers or stealing from stores.

To make matters worse, Jean-Paul’s mutation began to subtly manifest during this period of his life, making him somewhat quicker on his feet than most. That might have been an advantage, especially where his pickpocketing and thievery were concerned, however the mutation brought with it an increase in his metabolism. This caused the boy to begin to slowly starve on a diet that wouldn't have been adequate for a baseline human his age.

Moving Forward

The situation came to an end when Jean-Paul, age twelve, attempted to steal from a restaurant owned by Raymonde Belmonde, a man whose work wasn't necessarily all on the up and up but who was generally a good person. Belmonde was alarmed by the horrible condition the boy was in and offered him the meal he'd attempted to steal - for free. That offer took most of the fight out of Jean-Paul and, warily, he accepted the invitation Belmonde extended. He found himself speaking of his life more freely than he expected and, over the course of the promised meal, Belmonde decided that it would be for the best if the boy didn't return to the streets or his former life in the foster care system.

Belmonde called in a favor from a local politician, who pulled the necessary strings to establish him as Jean-Paul’s legal guardian. He took to the task of civilising the suspicious young man with gusto, introducing Jean-Paul to literature and art. While Jean-Paul never took very well to formal schooling, he did read every book in Belmonde’s possession, awakening a love of reading that has continued to this day. It was during this time that Belmonde also introduced Jean-Paul to the pastime that would quickly become the young man’s greatest passion – skiing. By fifteen, Jean-Paul was a top contender in multiple events. By sixteen, he was a shoe-in for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Olympian

Jean-Paul sought and gained his emancipation from the foster care system just after returning home from the Olympics, two gold medals in hand. Though he had grown to trust Belmonde, Jean-Paul recognised that his guardian was not a young man and was, therefore, unwilling to take the chance of being at anyone else’s mercy should something unfortunate happen to the older man.

He received his high school equivalency at seventeen, and attended university when not training for competitions. This involved a great deal of self-driven study and online interaction with understanding professors. While competing in the 2014 Olympics, Jean-Paul won four additional gold medals, bringing his total to six, and made an even bigger name for himself in the sports world. He also spoke out quite vocally about Russia’s discrimination against the LGBT community.

When It All Comes Down

Jean-Paul's career came to an end in August 2015 when he was blackmailed, the blackmailer threatening to tell the media about his X-Gene. The X-Gene Jean-Paul didn't know he had. He confronted his coach about it, who admitted he hid the truth from Jean-Paul after blood tests had discovered Jean-Paul did indeed test positive for an x-gene. His mutation was fully triggered when a car accident launched him through the windshield, and instead of hitting the ground he flew several feet away. Belmonde got him away and to safety and contacted Angelo Espinosa to get Jean-Paul somewhere to safety. Angelo, in turn, brought him to the mansion.

Jean-Paul was thoroughly unimpressed with most of the mansion, not making friends easily. He did enjoy a fun night with Gabriel Cohuelo, however, so that wasn't too bad. In November he found himself accidentally dragged into a telepathic mess when a young Canadian telepath latched onto Quentin Quire, and Quentin in turn latched on to the people closest to him. They spent a chaotic few days in the Canadian's body before they finally got her to safety and Charles helped everyone get back into their own bodies. Jean-Paul ended the year with a ski trip that he opened up to the mansion at large. He found himself wholly unamused with mansion librarian, until an incident with an exploding water bottle made them unwilling allies.

A powers interaction with Everett Thomas in November 2016 turned Jean-Paul's life upside down when he found out his mutation included super speed, leading him to a crisis about whether or not he earned his Olympic medals. He drowned his sorrows in sex with Quentin, then comforted himself with Topaz's cat as he tried to figure out what to do with this information. Eventually he decided to do more travel, and spent his time exploring the snowy wild, with occasional check-ins to Topaz in order to let her know he was alive and doing well enough.

He returned to the mansion in briefly in August 2018, and expressed his interest in the fact that his drawing class contained a visible mutant as a model. When they went missing, he did some searching and ultimately enlisted the help of Susan Storm. A year later he took some time away for more travels, which he decided to extend indefinitely in January 2020.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 180lbs

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Black

Other Features: Jean-Paul has subtly pointed ears and a tattoo on his left bicep, a half-sleeve of the inverted Sun tarot card, as drawn by Luis Royo.

Powers

Jean-Paul is a flight-capable speedster. It is a power which partially manifested in his mid-teens. However, it wasn’t until he was twenty-one that the full extent of his superspeed and the accompanying flight developed. He is exceptionally agile, able to reach incredible speeds on land (500 MPH, which he can maintain for approximately six hours before needing to rest) and in the air (roughly Mach 2, which he can maintain for around four hours before needing to rest). However, pushing these limits would put a great strain on his system. Ignoring the limits of his abilities would result in Jean-Paul arriving at his destination sweat-lathered, body starving for oxygen, heart rate through the roof, and all his reserves drained. In the event that such a journey was necessary he would require extensive rest and recuperation, usually whilst sleeping, to fully recover. He can use his superspeed to automatically compensate for any G-Force differences he might experience.*

His mutation increases his metabolism, causing it to work faster than the human norm. This condition is exacerbated by his athletic activities. Jean-Paul, therefore, burns through a great deal of fuel very quickly and has to keep a close eye on what he eats to ensure he’s getting both enough calories and the proper nutrition. A side-effect of his rapid metabolism is that Jean-Paul has a minor healing factor and recovers from injuries significantly faster than a normal human. An example of this would be that, if he broke his arm, it would take around two weeks for him to have full functionality of the limb, as opposed to the typical four weeks (or more) for a non-mutant.

Jean-Paul’s mutation also provides him with something akin to overall durability whilst traveling at high speeds, allowing him to withstand the ravages of wind, friction, and air turbulence. Though this aspect of his mutation provides him with a certain amount of protection from damage caused by high-velocity collisions (he won’t break his own neck if he runs into a wall at full tilt), Jean-Paul can knock himself out if he slams into objects at high speeds. This increased durability also gives him a certain amount of protection from blunt-force trauma when he’s not moving at superhuman speeds. However knives, claws, and bladed weapons can easily slice through his defences if he doesn’t avoid them.

His powers can increase the speed of all of Jean-Paul’s movements, which means he can move individual parts of his body at great speed independently of one another. Thus, he’s capable of delivering jackhammer-speed blows to opponents. This also allows him to avoid or outmaneuver most threats.

Jean-Paul can send out concussive blasts from his body. They are purely defensive, meaning if he can neither speed nor fly his way out of a situation, the panic-response/adrenalin rush he gets allows him to physically throw off some of the kinetic energy he maintains in his body. Initially, these blasts will be full-body and non-directed, but they have the potential to become more focused/useful during combat situations (assuming he can learn to trigger them while on the ground and not trapped).

He has the ability to generate a bright, white light equivalent, at maximum intensity, to 500 thousand foot-candles. Jean-Paul does this by varying the rate of acceleration of the molecules within his body out of phase with one another, creating a cascade of photonic discharges. Should he ever meet his twin sister, together they would theoretically be able to generate light equivalent to a full one million foot-candles. (Physical contact would be necessary for them to reach that intensity.)

He possesses the same vulnerability to the elements as most humans, save a resistance to the extremes of cold. This resistance comes from the kinetic energy he uses to propel himself, the molecular friction within Jean-Paul’s body, which causes him to run a bit warmer than most people.

While his powers have no bearing on his physical strength or endurance, due to his focus on physical fitness, Jean-Paul’s endurance and strength are at peak human levels for a man his size, age, and build.

PLEASE NOTE: Jean-Paul knows basically none of that upon arriving at the mansion.

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Meta Trivia

Cai played a P1 version of JPB from January of 2010 until after the Genosha Arc in 2012. She picked up a P2 version of him in July 2015. She played him until January 2020 when she became a Player Emeritus due to RL demands.

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