Lexian Masterton
KM-3
Kinetic Manipulation
Name: Masterton, Lexian Jonathan
Name: Lightning, Johnny
Race: Mutant / Caucasian-American
Age: 17 (January 21, 1996)
Euclid
The son of Dwight Masterton
A football track star. It was struck with lightning while practicing for a track meet.
Its mutant gene activated and saved it. KM-3 can now store electricity and use the power for its abilities.
It can Super Speed and discharge bolts of electricity. Currently a full charge takes all night and it can do five or six things with it.
Its importance lies not only with its birthright and family circumstances, but in the incredibly rare electrical discharge powers and the equally rare super speed survival. KM-3 possesses BOTH.
KM-3 has personal hatred issues stemming from its mutant status, and seeks a cure to the condition. This can be used as a lever, but must be counseled against. Too useful.
Recently lost relationship with human female. Avoids relationships, did not need anti-mutant indoctrination.
Special Containment Protocols: A simple room of any dimension with a wired charged grid embedded within the walls, fluctuating random current and voltage, isolated from the main grid.
Addendum: Observers have suggested KM-3 may have a romantic infatuation with training instructor Sho Kitoji. Confirmation required. Discouragement of interracial infatuations may be required.
Summary: Too important to lose.
Talk about characters who changed dramatically in the first three episodes.
Alright I will. Johnny had way more of the arrogant jock aspect at the start, but I quickly realised it wasn’t productive and it wasn’t fun. So I changed him. He was always this way now. Deal with it.
In my original vision (version 2.0) Lexian expresses the vesting of blame for events and outcomes beyond control. He didn’t choose to be a mutate, he does not want it, but he is a vessel for the blame society, particularly his father, puts on him. In the same way morons blame white people today for slavery generations ago (these same morons don’t seem to care about slavery happening today, but that is another issue.) I put class and civility in Johnny and turned it up a bit to comic levels. He comes from wealth and privilege and is now considered scum, because of his mutation. He provides me with another avenue to explore mutancy and its follow on effects. But ultimately, like all of these characters, he’s here to provide enjoyment for the players. It’s too easy to get bogged down in symbolism and what things are supposed to be for the message and the themes to work. Move past that. If everything needs to stack up just right, write a book, don’t play an interactive Tabletop game.