Template:Featured Articles/15-2007

Courier: Jake Gavin hs been a Courier for International Infonet Inc since he was 21, and since his mother (60%) and father (35%) are co-owners of the company, he's lived the life of a Courier since he was born. This has made his idea of ethics and moral a little... strange. Jake came to Xavier's as a woman, to see if Charles could help him change back into male form permanently; something he'd not been able to do since May 2003 as a result of the Big Headache. Xavier explained that the problem was probably in Jake's head, and Jake agreed to stay at the school for therapy, acting as the temporary Student Counselor along side Pete Wisdom. The school housed several people Jake already knew a little from before, like Emma Frost, Betsy Braddock, Pete Wisdom, Warren Worthington III and Monet St. Croix. During his tempestuous first days, he was accidentally turned into a frog by Amanda Sefton. He also made the frightening discovery of Gambit, who he recognized from a chance meeting years before. Jake remained at the school for several months, until finally regaining his control over his powers and being able to switch between forms again. Following his new success, he decided to return to the family business at the urging of his parents. While working for Infonet Inc, Jake used his former association with Xavier’s to help increase their reputation in certain areas. Unfortunately, it drew the attention of Remy LeBeau when he was working to set up new networks following Wisdom’s defection to the Hellfire Club. LeBeau brought Jake back to the mansion to assist him in the new effort to rebuild the shattered intelligence networks. Working with Betsy and Remy, Jake helped design new lines of communication, and arrange for relationships with some of his contacts at Infonet. However, after Remy’s crippling and the return of Wisdom to the school, Jake decided that he had fulfilled his duties, and once again decided to return to his family’s business. He still maintains an unofficial alliance with Wisdom, Remy and Betsy, trading off the odd piece of information that might be of concern. Jake has a photoreflexive malleable genetic imprint which gives him absolute control over every cell in his body. As a result of that, Jake can change his appearance, and survive a gunshot through the head without a mark to show for it. He can also control his cells at a distance. Like if you cut off his thumb and took off with it for nefarious purposes, he could destroy the entire thumb by thinking about it. He is an emergent mutant, meaning he’s had his powers all his life and used it ruthlessly to escape babysitters and curfews.