Post by skybright on Mar 2, 2006 0:54:19 GMT -5
Character's Name: Father Richard Steele
Mutant Nickname: Padre, Father Rick
Mutant Power(s): He quite literally has eyes in the back of his head.
Occupation: Catholic Priest
Gender: Male
Age: 58
Height: 5’ 6”
Hair Color: Completely (and naturally) bald.
Eye Color: Brown (all four of them).
Physical Description: A shortish, very solidly-built, muscular man; Father Steele looks more like a wrestler or a bouncer than the traditional image of a priest. He often wears a battered straw panama hat when venturing far from his parish; this disguises the otherwise-obvious fact that he has an extra pair of eyes.
Country/Hometown: Butte, Montana, USA
Immediate Family: Brother, Michael, also a mutant and a priest: currently serving in South America; parents, Stephen and Irina, both still living in Montana.
Personality: Gentlehearted but tough and scrupulously fair, Father Steele has little time for bullies or bureaucrats. He is a good-humored man, who perhaps takes just a little bit more pleasure than he ought to out of catching people off-guard; the tendency leads him to be brusque on first acquaintance. He isn’t afraid to speak his mind, in the homily or elsewhere.
Weaknesses: The tendency to speak his mind has led him into trouble on more than one occasion.
Additional (Non-Mutation) Skills: Juggling, arm wrestling, and sheer physical strength, as well as the religious and moral knowledge one would expect.
Hobbies/Interests: Literature, music, and sports; he’s also a dabbler in botany and keeps a small garden in back of the rectory.
Personal History: Richard Steele and his older brother Michael were raised devoutly Catholic in the mining town of Butte, Montana. Their father, Stephen, was a fourth-generation Irish gold miner; their mother, Irina, was a Czech refugee who fled with her parents just ahead of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. She and her husband were both fiercely opposed to any form of oppression (Stephen was president of the local Union for seven years), and they instilled the value in both their sons.
While both boys manifested their mutations at early ages, only Richard’s was visible. At the age of ten the hair on his head fell out completely; soon afterwards, excruciating headaches gave way to an extra pair of fully-functioning eyes in the back of his head. This gave the boy an almost completely 360* range of vision, although the ability was somewhat limited by the hats he wore to hide the new organs. The Steele boys found greater acceptance than many mutant youth, however; perhaps because of high chemical concentrations from the mines, Butte had one of the highest per-capita mutant birthrates in the world.
Richard’s elder brother, Michael, had always felt called to be a priest, and entered seminary as soon as possible. Richard attended Montana State in Bozeman for two years before dropping out at the age of nineteen to join the Marine Corps. He served two tours with the Corps in Vietnam; during his second tour, he caught part of the shrapnel from a grenade in his throat. Although he survived the incident, it left him deeply shaken and questioning his purpose in life. After being honorably discharged from the Corps, Richard Steele returned to America and enrolled in seminary. He has been the parish priest of a small, mostly-mutant parish in New York City for the better part of twenty years.
Mutant Nickname: Padre, Father Rick
Mutant Power(s): He quite literally has eyes in the back of his head.
Occupation: Catholic Priest
Gender: Male
Age: 58
Height: 5’ 6”
Hair Color: Completely (and naturally) bald.
Eye Color: Brown (all four of them).
Physical Description: A shortish, very solidly-built, muscular man; Father Steele looks more like a wrestler or a bouncer than the traditional image of a priest. He often wears a battered straw panama hat when venturing far from his parish; this disguises the otherwise-obvious fact that he has an extra pair of eyes.
Country/Hometown: Butte, Montana, USA
Immediate Family: Brother, Michael, also a mutant and a priest: currently serving in South America; parents, Stephen and Irina, both still living in Montana.
Personality: Gentlehearted but tough and scrupulously fair, Father Steele has little time for bullies or bureaucrats. He is a good-humored man, who perhaps takes just a little bit more pleasure than he ought to out of catching people off-guard; the tendency leads him to be brusque on first acquaintance. He isn’t afraid to speak his mind, in the homily or elsewhere.
Weaknesses: The tendency to speak his mind has led him into trouble on more than one occasion.
Additional (Non-Mutation) Skills: Juggling, arm wrestling, and sheer physical strength, as well as the religious and moral knowledge one would expect.
Hobbies/Interests: Literature, music, and sports; he’s also a dabbler in botany and keeps a small garden in back of the rectory.
Personal History: Richard Steele and his older brother Michael were raised devoutly Catholic in the mining town of Butte, Montana. Their father, Stephen, was a fourth-generation Irish gold miner; their mother, Irina, was a Czech refugee who fled with her parents just ahead of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. She and her husband were both fiercely opposed to any form of oppression (Stephen was president of the local Union for seven years), and they instilled the value in both their sons.
While both boys manifested their mutations at early ages, only Richard’s was visible. At the age of ten the hair on his head fell out completely; soon afterwards, excruciating headaches gave way to an extra pair of fully-functioning eyes in the back of his head. This gave the boy an almost completely 360* range of vision, although the ability was somewhat limited by the hats he wore to hide the new organs. The Steele boys found greater acceptance than many mutant youth, however; perhaps because of high chemical concentrations from the mines, Butte had one of the highest per-capita mutant birthrates in the world.
Richard’s elder brother, Michael, had always felt called to be a priest, and entered seminary as soon as possible. Richard attended Montana State in Bozeman for two years before dropping out at the age of nineteen to join the Marine Corps. He served two tours with the Corps in Vietnam; during his second tour, he caught part of the shrapnel from a grenade in his throat. Although he survived the incident, it left him deeply shaken and questioning his purpose in life. After being honorably discharged from the Corps, Richard Steele returned to America and enrolled in seminary. He has been the parish priest of a small, mostly-mutant parish in New York City for the better part of twenty years.