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Kyle Gibney
Portrayed by Greg Cipes
Codename:	Wildchild
Affiliations:	X-Men, Xavier Institute - Graduate student
Birthdate:	March 20, 1990

Journal:	King of all wild things
Player:	Frito

Kyle Gibney is a former student of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, and is currently an education major at Empire State University while also juggling a job and a place on the X-Men. His feral mutation and healing factor give him a tendency to leap before he looks.

Details

Aliases: Beast Boy (X-Men Trainee name), Wildchild

First Appearance: October 25, 2004

Place of Birth: Billings, Montana

Citizenship: American

Relatives: Tyler Gibney (father), Margaret "Midge" Gibney (mother), Arlene Cross (maternal grandmother), Frank Cross (maternal grandfather).

Education: Graduate of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, College student at Empire State University, majoring in Education

Relationship Status: Dating Janet Van Dyne

Occupation: Part of the maintaince and groundskeeping staff at the Xavier Institute

Team Affiliation: X-Men

Biography

Childhood

Kyle was born the only child of Margaret Gibney and Tyler Gibney, although unknown to Kyle until his late teens, Tyler is not his biological father. Until his early teens Kyle was a fairly average boy. Not quite a 'handful', but active, cheerful and just a little bit loud. A little hyper, a little overly affectionate, but nothing that was a major problem. Until he hit thirteen, puberty and all the social games that teenagers play in middle and high school.

Desperate for friends, he fell into socializing with the local 'bad crowd', believing that the group accepted him. In truth, they used him as an errand boy, an alibi and a lookout, and he quickly picked up a few skills in jimmying car locks and hotwiring cars. With a want to be accepted by his friends, Kyle took a dare. Kyle stole a Porsche.

Naturally, he was caught and arrested, and sent to juvenile hall. The stress of the situation caused him to manifest his mutation a few days after arrival, and he spent nearly a week in the center's infirmary, in bone-wracking pain. It was another several weeks before his mutation finished manifesting, leaving him nearly a foot taller and with several physical changes.

Rescued

Only a week after his mutation fully manifested, social workers and members of the local police came to transfer him to a detention facility designed for mutant adolescents. That is what they told Kyle, and the guards at the juvenile detention center. In reality, they were Mistra operatives, intent on taking him to be trained.

In October 2004, the Mistra training facility that Kyle was held at was discovered by Nathan Dayspring. He and several others - Pete Wisdom, Madelyn Bartlet, and Sam and Paige Guthrie went to the facility intent on shutting it down and rescuing the children there.

While Kyle was in the process of being empathically manipulated by one of the Mistra operatives, Nate found him and attempted to rescue him, and then calm him. It backfired, sending Kyle into a panic. In his haste to escape, Kyle attacked Sam, and was then tranquilized by Madelyn and brought to the school.

Living At The X-Mansion

Kyle's time at the school was largely been one of self-discovery and acceptance. He had to learn to accept his mutation, and now almost embraces it, at least on the surface. His unusual appearance still causes him some discomfort, but he considers the benefits to far outweigh the disadvantages.

With the resources of the school at hand, Kyle became a fair to average student, putting in a great deal of effort to maintain a B+ average, and showing a preference towards English and Literature that seem out of place in the athletic looking hyperactive young man.

In the time that Kyle has spent at the school, he has developed a close and unlikely friendship with Forge. He is also good friends with Marius Laverne, Jennie Stavros, Julio Richter and Angelica Jones. Before she left, and again since her return, he was a frequent stalking target and friend of Catseye.

During his senior year of high school, Kyle spent it much like any other normal teenager with an acceptable set of grades. Fighting off Senioritis, sorting through piles of college applications, looking for dates and wondering just what the heck he's going to do with himself in the future. Unlike the average high school senior, Kyle gained an additional and new set of responsibilities.

Maturity and the X-Men

After being the subject of a kidnapping for the seventh time, and suffering genetic manipulation and brainwashing at the of Dr. Rory Campbell, Kyle (along with Jennie and Marius) decided to join the X-Men in an effort to both learn to prevent threats to himself, but also to help prevent it to others. He was beset upon with the trainee codename "Beast Boy" and spent the last half of 2007 learning to control himself, work with the team, use his powers responsibly, and how to write mission reports that do not use the word "PWN". The last of these has, much to the regret of the team leaders, not been entirely successful, even into 2009 and Forge and Kyle's 'report' on the events of Analog Kid, Digital Man.

His ex-boyfriend Jay Guthrie returned to the mansion, which caused Kyle no small amount of awkwardness until he and Jay managed to resolve their lingering issues. In the meantime, Kyle went on a single date with Laurie Collins, with any further dates being prevented when their respective powers interacted badly and they decided it was best to not risk it. In winter 2007, Kyle began dating Clarice Ferguson, after Clarice assisted Kyle with his contribution to the 2007 Halloween themed costumes of the Teen Titans from the DC Universe comic series.

Kyle's training as an X-Man began to pay off during the events of Thirteen Days. When the X-Men and trainees who had remained behind were called up to retrieve and rescue their teammates who had crash-landed, Kyle found himself defending Skin, Blink and a squad of soldiers from Toad. Quick thought and some unorthodox tactics gave Kyle the upperhand, luring Toad in close range with insults and mocking and despite a broken jaw, breaking Toad's kneecaps and knocking him unconscious. The injuries took some time to heal, and in the meantime Kyle found himself embarrassed to to thanked for saving Angelo and Clarice's lives.

Presented with actual opportunities for the first time, and beginning to believe he wasn't as dumb as he had always been told when he successfully passed his SATs, Kyle enrolled at Empire State University, majoring in eduction, although he was - and remains - reticent about his choice in major. To earn money for himself, he began working as Cain's assistant groundskeeper, a job he found himself well suited to doing.

Despite his new-found maturity and adult status, there were several incidents which displayed Kyle's temper. Recurring arguments on the journals with Laurie, an extremely negative reaction to a suggestion by Kevin that they experiment with his healing factor and hostile reactions to the nickname 'Dog Boy' were mostly generated by residual trauma from the Hounding incident and Kyle's deep-seated insecurities about his feral nature. An incident with another mutant, in which Kyle was turned into a fox gave him small comfort knowing that he was a fox-based, rather than a dog-based feral. His issues with Laurie, however, were more difficult to address, with apologies said and the two repeatedly trying to talk, only for another argument to arise on the journals.

Following a student pick up gone horribly wrong, Kyle was made full X-Man, taking on the code name "Wildchild".

Keeping The Faith and Doing No Harm

Kyle once again found himself at the mercy of others when he and several other younger X-Men, plus Jan we captured by the Brotherhood of Mutants. Kyle in particular suffered, being brutally tortured by the sadistic Senyaka. During the worst of it, Kyle regressed to some of the Mistra programming he had been given several years ago, manifesting a tactical personality which helped him escape. The incident disturbed Kyle, who had thought he had escaped Mistra's reprogramming unscathed. The death of Colin MacInnis gave him the chance to talk to Anika about the issue and as always, she was more able to help him than most.

Bouncing back, Kyle assisted in a Red X mission and rescued Nathan from drowning in Alaska. During this time, he and Clarice realised they were essentially friends having sex, rather than a couple, and ended the relationship amicably. Later on, Kyle started dating Janet Van Dyne.

The journal fights with Laurie continued, however, with Kyle driven outside to cool off safely. His personal anger management strategies came in even more useful when Yvette Petrovic, in an uncharacteristic bout of anger and frustration, pursued the man who had kidnapped her in Kosovo. Kyle was shot during the rescue, but managed to resolve things enough with the young girl to suggest the Danger Room as a safer way to let off steam. Less successful was managing his own temper as yet again, he and Laurie fought in the journals, this time about seat upgrades.

The issues between Laurie and Kyle came to a head when, following an attack on the pair by another mutant in New York, Laurie accused Kyle of not being able to control himself due to his feral nature. The accusation, which he felt was as good as calling him an animal, enraged Kyle and virtually destroyed any friendship between the two. Over the next several months, Laurie made several attempts to rebuild things, but more often than not the attempts resulted in further hostilities.

The Weight of Responsibility

During Day Zero, Kyle found himself fighting War alongside Sabretooth, the man who had eviscerated him. In the confusion, Sabretooth escaped, a situation which Kyle predicted would not end well. He was correct - only a month later Sabretooth was implicated in an attack that left Garrison, Pete Wisdom, Jay and Dani missing, presumed dead. Assisting with the FBI investigation with Adrienne Frost, Kyle confirmed the former Brotherhood member's participation by scent.

Kyle mourned his three friends and buried himself in his various duties. With Cain's departure and Kyle's promotion to groundskeeper, these were many. Between his job, the X-Men and his studies, Kyle found himself stretched thin. Laurie continued to pick at him, driving him to ask Haller and Samson to intervene, but despite that stress, Manuel believed him to be the best choice for a suitemate for the unshielded empath, citing the simple clarity of Kyle's emotions as the reason for the choice.

The return of the missing did little to clear the tension; Kyle found Jay's new-found predatory instincts clashing with his own and they very nearly came to serious physical violence on several occasions. The two resolved things 'their' way, featuring a dead rabbit as a peace offering. Suzanne Chan also came to Kyle's rescue, offering to take on the paperwork side of the groundskeeping, something he had struggled with due to his youth and not being taken seriously by contractors.

Already close with Yvette and Catseye, who had returned to the school, Kyle found himself helping out the various New Mutants more and more, in particular, Doreen Green, whose feral episodes were disorienting and frightening to her and whom Kyle rescued from a tree at one point. Callie Betto also joined Kyle's maintenance crew, assisting with the gardening angle.

In mid-2009, more than six months after the fight which had created the gulf, Laurie and Kyle were forced to cooperate to escape elevator controlled by technopath Milan. It proved to be a step towards ending hostilities, and the two have restored their friendship, with Kyle occasionally providing Laurie with a dose of reality to oppose some of her more sheltered or naive viewpoints.

Winter and 2010

Late summer saw Kyle having to confront his own pack instincts, going under telepathic cover to rescue Nate from his captors, and seeing first-hand what he would have likely been like had Mistra continued their empathic conditioning. The telepathic camouflage also had the unintended and minor side-effect of removing the last remnants of the tractable 'beta' conditioning from Ahab.

This resulted in his being more than willing to aggressively confront Jay Guthrie on the winged mutant's unwillingness to be assigned a trainee code name and the two spent weeks sniping at each other.

Autumn and winter brought a reminder to Kyle about why he hates zombies, when Nico's Halloween decorations came to life. He was briefly deafened trying to track and re-capture some of the escapees from the jailbreak in November, and despite he and Laurie having restored their friendship, was unable to comfort her after her own encounters with the prisoners. He found himself working closely with Catseye to track and return Nicholas Gleason when the young man ran away after accidentally hurting Julian Keller.

The autumn departures saw Kyle attempting to remain optimistic about the eventual return of those who left, but when Jay, Forge, and Jennie Stavros all left within a short period, he seemed to lose some of his belief that his people would always come back to the fold. Since the departures, Kyle has been less social, and less quick with a joke or reassuring remark, and quicker to anger, even going to the point of damaging his laptop and working off the frustration sparring with Forge's other close friend, Doug Ramsey.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 6’5”

Weight: 205 lbs.

Eyes: green-brown

Hair: dirty blond

Other Features: Due to his mutation, Kyle has somewhat larger than normal ears, pointed at the tops. He also has extended top and bottom canine teeth, and the nails of his fingers and toes are clawed. His feet are larger then normal human feet, and have developed in such a way that Kyle is most comfortable walking on the balls of his feet. On any given day, he might have short spiky hair, longer shaggy hair, or below-the-collar hair tied back into a ponytail and a variable amount of facial hair, depending on his mood, and whether or not he decided that shaving was more or less important than another fifteen minutes of sleep.

Powers

Kyle has what is described as a " feral" mutation. He possesses enhanced agility and strength, and his senses of sight, hearing, smell, and taste are incredibly acute. He also possesses atavistic physical traits, with claws, elongated canine teeth and a less complex digestive system.

As an effect of the increased agility, Kyle possesses a natural sense of balance and lands on his feet more often than not when falling or jumping - he is not at the trained skill level of a gymnast or acrobat, but easily does flips, cartwheels and handstands. He can - and does when showing off - walk on his hands for several yards. He is also stronger then someone of his build would normally be, with increased muscle density, although not to a great degree - it is a byproduct of his healing factor rather than a separate power of it's own.

Kyle's finger and toenails are clawed - on his hands, they are thicker, tougher and sharper than normal human fingernails, tan and slightly curved. He can retract his claws into the nailbeds of his fingertips, although this prevents him from bending the first knuckle of each finger. Because of the claws, Kyle has difficulty with holding pens and pencils, and his handwriting has been described as somewhere between terrible and 'why would anyone do that to a piece of paper?'.

On his feet, the claws more resemble that of a large cat or dog and he cannot retract the claws on his toes. In addition Kyle's feet are noticeably different looking from regular human feet. The bones of his feet are elongated - if his feet could be put in normal shoes, he'd be somewhere around a American size fifteen or sixteen - but where his heels are narrow, the balls of his feet and his toes are wide. and he walks primarily on the balls of his feet. Putting his feet flat on the ground is uncomfortable for him and causes cramps in his Achilles' tendons.

Because of this, Kyle does not quite move like a normal person. He hunches when he walks, and unless he takes a great deal of care to try not to, tends to 'bounce' a little. He actually looks more normal running than walking as most people run on the balls of their feet. He can also run on all fours, and not only refuses to demonstrate, but will refuse to acknowledge it to anyone who happens to see it on the rare occasions it is necessary.

Kyle's ears are pointed, larger than normal, and look a little 'too big' for his face. He also has fangs - his top and bottom canines are much longer then normal, and this is typically visible when he talks. He also has a thicker and heavier jaw then a normal human - he can bite through small bones.

Kyle also possesses a healing factor. Less powerful than that of Logan or Sarah, he heals from injuries faster than normal, up to regrowing two toes that were accidentally severed in a wood chopping accident. He is resistant to colds, flus and infections, and recovers very quickly from exposure such as hypothermia. Kyle also seems to possess somewhat of a degree of control over his healing factor, and with enough incentive can heal life-threatening injuries first, while leaving other injuries for later. This control is very limited, and has only occurred twice, both in situations where Kyle was near death.

Equipment

Marius purchased a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14 for Kyle as repayment for his help in saving Marius life. As of his 18th birthday, and the closing of his juvenile criminal record, Kyle is finally the legal owner of the motorcycle that was purchased for him years earlier.

Trivia

Despite all former protests to the contrary, Kyle is not only an excellent dancer, he very much enjoys it, as it gives him a chance to show off his agility and athleticism without being violent.

Due to his mutation, Kyle's digestive system reacts badly to a number of artificial flavorings, colorings and preservatives that most people can consume. Despite being a self-described omnivore, he is very conscious of what goes into his food - and the food choices and sensitivies of others. When you have a two page long (and growing) list of foods you can't eat, you can't help but notice it when other people do the same.

Kyle is the owner of a small black-and-white cat named Shamu, Jr, which he and Marie rescued from the snowed-in animal shelter in Kansas City. Shamu is spoiled rotten, and takes complete advantage of it.