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<td valign="top">[[Image:Mondo.jpg|left|100px]]'''Mondo:''' Hailing from Samoa, the son of a large, sprawling family, [[Mondo]] showed aptitude for sumo wrestling and went to train in Japan. A knee injury curtailed his competitive ambitions, and treatment of the injury was further complicated by the discovery he was a mutant. Sent to [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]] for powers training, Mondo had trouble fitting in, seeming at times to be too jovial and easy-going.
  
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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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This changed as the pressures of crushing homesickness combined with the field trip curse. Forced to use his powers aggressively, first against [[This Savage Land| dinosaurs]] and [[Voodoo Child| then]] in [[Murderworld]], an obscene parody of the circus he loved, Mondo's calm cracked. It was decided that he return home for the duration, to potentially pick up his powers training later.
  
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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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Mondo is a mimetic shapeshifter. He can synch his body's properties to the properties of any piece of matter in direct contact with his skin. He will ONLY be able to synch to solids - not liquids, not gasses, not plasmas or any of the more exotic states of matter. His limitation to solids is a psychological defense mechanism - his power permits synching to any state of matter, but the chance of not being able to return to "normal" is too high to risk. And in the case of non-solid states of matter, there's always a chance of a section of his body not being in contact with the main mass when the synch is dissolved. If that were to happen, Mondo would suffer immediate, potentially fatal injury as his body reformed without the missing material. With solids, there is no danger of that happening.
  
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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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Mondo's mutation cannot and never will be able to synch to an energy field of any type.
  
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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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He alters the properties of his own flesh to match the properties of the matter being synched to. If he synchs to steel, his flesh becomes as solid as steel and as flexible as steel. If he synchs to concrete he'll take on the density and solidity of concrete.
  
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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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Short-term, he is limited to the most simple forms of matter - he finds non-complicated elements the easiest to synch up to. The more complicated the molecule, the more difficult to synch his body to its structure. He has practice synching to stone and wood, as those materials were in easy supply in Samoa and in Japan. Synching to rice-paper disagreed with him - he intensely disliked feeling that flimsy. He also needs practice in not using his hands and feet only to synch to materials - he's developed a bad habit of having to fondle the material in question with his hands or walking on it with bare feet in order to synch with it.
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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 13:39, 9 January 2008

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Mondo: Hailing from Samoa, the son of a large, sprawling family, Mondo showed aptitude for sumo wrestling and went to train in Japan. A knee injury curtailed his competitive ambitions, and treatment of the injury was further complicated by the discovery he was a mutant. Sent to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters for powers training, Mondo had trouble fitting in, seeming at times to be too jovial and easy-going.

This changed as the pressures of crushing homesickness combined with the field trip curse. Forced to use his powers aggressively, first against dinosaurs and then in Murderworld, an obscene parody of the circus he loved, Mondo's calm cracked. It was decided that he return home for the duration, to potentially pick up his powers training later.

Mondo is a mimetic shapeshifter. He can synch his body's properties to the properties of any piece of matter in direct contact with his skin. He will ONLY be able to synch to solids - not liquids, not gasses, not plasmas or any of the more exotic states of matter. His limitation to solids is a psychological defense mechanism - his power permits synching to any state of matter, but the chance of not being able to return to "normal" is too high to risk. And in the case of non-solid states of matter, there's always a chance of a section of his body not being in contact with the main mass when the synch is dissolved. If that were to happen, Mondo would suffer immediate, potentially fatal injury as his body reformed without the missing material. With solids, there is no danger of that happening.

Mondo's mutation cannot and never will be able to synch to an energy field of any type.

He alters the properties of his own flesh to match the properties of the matter being synched to. If he synchs to steel, his flesh becomes as solid as steel and as flexible as steel. If he synchs to concrete he'll take on the density and solidity of concrete.

Short-term, he is limited to the most simple forms of matter - he finds non-complicated elements the easiest to synch up to. The more complicated the molecule, the more difficult to synch his body to its structure. He has practice synching to stone and wood, as those materials were in easy supply in Samoa and in Japan. Synching to rice-paper disagreed with him - he intensely disliked feeling that flimsy. He also needs practice in not using his hands and feet only to synch to materials - he's developed a bad habit of having to fondle the material in question with his hands or walking on it with bare feet in order to synch with it.

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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