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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Haley.
AGE: 22
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ussenterprise.
IM: AIM: wings and lace
E-MAIL: ozymandisauce(at)gmail(dot)com
RETURNING: 1! Charles Xavier.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Jean-Paul Beaubier
FANDOM: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: From when he accepts Charles Xavier’s proposition to become a teacher at Xavier Institute; pretty much, before Wolverine kills him and he gets resurrected and all sorts of shenanigans go down. So yeah, while he’s a teacher at Xavier’s Institute!
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: Northstar
ALTER EGO: Jean-Paul Beaubier; teacher, businessman, former Olympic skier.
BACKGROUND:
Jean-Paul is a mutant who was born in Canada, a twin to his sister, Jeanne-Marie, whose parents were killed in a car accident when they were just babies. Jean-Paul was sent to live in Quebec, Canada, with his cousins on his mother’s side and grew up with the name Jean-Paul Martin. His sister was separated from him and sent to grow up in a Catholic boarding school – because of this, Jean-Paul grew up without any knowledge of his identical twin sister (whom he would later find he shared his mutant powers with) until much later in life. Unfortunately, Jean-Paul led a rough life as a child. His adopted parents were killed in an accident when he was 8, leaving him without parents entirely and living in the foster homes for much of his childhood. He often got into trouble as a teen, and it was not until he tried to steal from a man named Raymonde Belmonde that he found himself someone who could be a real role model – regardless of the man’s own rather skewed moral compass. Raymonde helped him grow and recognize his mutant powers as they began to take shape.
Jean-Paul spent some time in France as an acrobat, before his nationalism drew him back to Quebec, Canada, where he joined the Front de libération du Québec (or FLQ) -- a separatist movement who wished to separate Quebec from Canada as its own nation -- that quickly became a terrorist organization. Learning of their terrorist dealings, Jean-Paul quickly separated from the group after having attempted a rescue of a group of civilians on a bus that’d had a bomb planted on it by the FLQ. Jean-Paul’s separation from the group lead him to take heart in skiing instead; a skill that was easily made more effective with the use of his mutant super-speed. He became an Olympic champion easily with the help of his mutation and easily became quite famous. His fame brought him the recognition he needed for James MacDonald Hudson to seek him out and bring him in as an addition to Alpha Flight, Canada’s own group similar to the Avengers. Jean-Paul’s agreement to join this group was due in part to the fact that they had his long-lost to him and unknown sister, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, on their side. She convinced him to join with them and upon learning of his real history and past, Jean-Paul took on the Beaubier name as well as the superhero alias Northstar.
Most of Jean-Paul’s time spent as a superhero was with Alpha Flight in Canada. It was during his time with them that he found an abandoned young baby in a garbage can and, shocked by the circumstances, adopted her. However, the child had AIDS, and in her death a few weeks later and following an inspiring battle with Major Mapleleaf (I could not make this up), Jean-Paul decided it would be in the best interest of himself and of the AIDS crisis to come out publicly as a gay man and garner AIDS awareness with his fame. However, Jean-Paul’s membership with Alpha Flight was always somewhat on the rocks (and on-and-off) due to his arrogant nature, as well as the strain on his relationship with his sister – who was becoming increasingly more schizophrenic as the years went by. Jean-Paul eventually separated from them for good – as he considered it – as tensions had built out of his own arrogance and the group’s operations had been suspended, leading him to leave and separate from his sister as well (who had been kidnapped, at this point).
Jean-Paul did eventually find and retrieve her; seeking help for her schizophrenia and, though Alpha Flight was re-instated, he did not join them. Jean-Paul then writes an autobiography; one of the first steps to his marketing of himself as a brand image. It’s at one of the signings for his autobiography that Jean Grey recruits him into the X-Men for a temporary position with which he’s needed to help in Genosha. After that mission ended, however, he went back to living his life as a normal person would – well, by building a business empire for himself on his Northstar brand (snow sport equipment primarily).
It is after he’s really established his business that Charles Xavier approaches him, in Montreal, and asks that he teach at Xavier’s Institute. The following events are just prior to where I’m taking Jean-Paul from: he reluctantly agrees to assist with a mission in Canada after telling Xavier that he will consider his offer, where he’s faced with flying a young mutant boy to a safe haven in which he can get help – because he’s about to explode. He and the boy are at odds at first, as the boy is initially homophobic and treats Jean-Paul to a lush of cruel words. Jean-Paul copes with them, and finally gets the boy to open up to him, just before the child ultimately explodes and dies (for lack of a better way to summarize). It’s from this experience that Jean-Paul decides hey, kids really aren’t that stupid, and maybe he’s got a chance at something here – so he takes the position that Charles offered him at the Xavier Institute and becomes an advisor and teacher to classes of younger mutants.
PERSONALITY:
Well then! Jean-Paul is arrogant, that much is true. He’s described that way in quite a collection of issues and descriptions of him online. However, that’s obviously not the only thing to his personality, even if some writers would seem to beg to differ. Jean-Paul is a bit of a complicated character. His sister, whom he’d been separated from birth, is drastically schizophrenic – something that happens to her after they become close and discover their shared mutant power. He grew up with two of his sets of parents passing away, and he sought attention by becoming a petty thief as a teen. Essentially, everyone he’d ever been close to in his life either passed away or had something tragic occur to them – severing their closeness. Jean-Paul seems to make up for this in his arrogance, in his attention to himself and his brand, and his – what I’d like to believe – respect for himself that strains a bit too far.
Underneath all of it, he’s got issues, essentially, but he truly has a heart of gold. He continues to come back to Alpha Flight despite differences with them because he truly wants to help people, and he is a good person. While he makes questionable decisions (like joining the FLQ), he can recognize a bad situation when it exists and he’s conscious enough of his own moral compass to tackle the truth of it and get out, while saving lives on the way. (It should be noted that Jean-Paul feels terribly about the bus bombing and, in a face-off with the villain Arcade in his own titular Northstar comic, he is made to relive the incident and crippled by the images of the people on the bus coming to life from the dead as zombies and accusing him of their deaths. His guilt for his involvement with the terrorist organization is severe, even though he never harmed anyone during his time with them).
Jean-Paul is also the first openly gay comic book character in a mainstream comic publication, and because of this, his personality is sometimes determined by his sexual identity in certain issues; this is also untrue of his character. While it is something that he deals with, he has already accepted himself for who he is and he is accepting of his identity and believes firmly that others should as well. However, in his homosexuality, Jean-Paul sees himself as being alienated from other mutants and other characters. He had one role model as a child, and it is not stated in canon (but is implied) that said role model helped him handle his homosexuality as he grew older in the same way as the evolution and expansion of his mutant powers.
Jean-Paul is a sensitive character, as evidenced by his adoption of the young child with the AIDS virus. He did not know she was bound to die when he adopted her, nor did he know of her disease initially. He was incredibly close to her, just as he was to the child he attempted to rescue on his mission for Charles Xavier many years later. He has a special part of his heart reserved for helping and caring for others – he would not be a superhero without it. It’s with that desire to provide himself as a role model for others that he takes his job at the Xavier Institute and challenges himself to expand outside of his arrogant and narcissistic image, much to the benefit of both himself and the students at the Xavier Institute.
POWER:
For the sake of Cape and Cowl, I’ll be limiting his list of powers here, lol. Let’s start:
Super speed is Jean-Paul’s primary mutant power, letting him run/punch/have reflexes at the speed of (purportedly) 99% to the speed of light. He doesn’t push it this far, however, since that would tear him apart physically and probably kill him. B|
Flight is another one of Jean-Paul’s powers, perhaps his secondary, really. It is one of the mutant powers that he uses in his flight class that he teaches at Xavier’s Institute.
Photokinesis is another of his abilities – allowing him to generate an incredible amount of light from his body and propel it outward at enemies.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[ There’s a slight tapping on the communicator for a moment before a voice chimes in, a prominent accent echoing from it that would at first sound French – though with a little bit of further cultural knowledge could be pinpointed directly to the province of Quebec, Canada. Then there’s a bit of a clearing of a throat, before a long line of French is being spoken quickly. ]
Calcique! I’ve not been in such an unusual place since Genosha. This reeks awfully of terrible memories. [ There’s a soft, almost impatient humming before the voice urges itself to continue, this time in accented English, perhaps in an attempt to garner all of the attention and sympathy that is possible for himself in such an unusual situation. ] Dare I question, where on the earth am I at this moment? I’d known it had been a risky idea to join the staff at the Xavier Institute. Had I known it was quite this risky, I dare say I’d have considered the man’s proposition much more deeply…
Regardless. J’ne sais pas. I am a strong man. I can take a challenge such as this. [ He laughs openly then into the communicator, clearly coming to a bit of ease with himself as he’s battling with his newfound location. ]
How would you say? Ah, how would my students say? [ A small chuckle as he takes in a breath. ]
Ah, yes.
Bring it. [ A soft, final click, then silence. ]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Jean-Paul did not consider himself a man of many words. At least, not in the company of those that he did not deem it necessary. As such, it was difficult for him to prepare himself for what he was sure would be an interesting trek into the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters as he sought out a return to his original position as instructor of flight, speed, and business economics. This City was both new and intriguing, but Jean-Paul was irritated, to say the least, that he would have to work so hard at all to reclaim a spot he’d already held once before. He was in a large hallway that was thoroughly familiar while at the same time feeling eerily distant – only a copy of a place he’d once known so well. It unnerved him, to say the least. He did not mean to pace but he found himself doing so regardless, as he waited his turn in the hallway. He was here at the Institute on business; here for an interview, for the chance to reclaim what little he could of his former life outside of the City.
But is it worth it? He thought to himself. Is it worth it, in a City so ripe for new beginnings, that he should seek to cling to something he’d only known so briefly before? Surely he could strike out and become someone else entirely. Not that Jean-Paul was unhappy with himself as he was, certainly not. But there was an air of adventure to taking a risk like that – to transforming himself, returning to the man he once was, or better yet – to a better man entirely. Jean-Paul was shaking his head at himself as the thoughts began to overwhelm him. He did not want to get himself carried away with illusions of grandeur, that was hardly acceptable. It had not been before, and it certainly would not be now. After all, he did not mind his job as a teacher. He found it unusually fulfilling. There were few things in Jean-Paul’s life that he found truly and honestly fulfilling – he wondered often if that was why he’d taken to being a thief all those years ago – and in teaching he’d found something that really awakened a spirit in him. A healthy, energetic spirit.
Without his realizing it, Jean-Paul was smiling as his pacing ceased in the hallway. Yes, this was worth it. Every moment he waited was just one moment closer to grasping a hold of something he found very dear to him, and he realized in that moment that he would not give it up for the world. His satisfaction was enough, and his determination was great – after all, he was Northstar. There was no way he wouldn’t win his job back.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Not that I can think of! c: ♥
NAME: Haley.
AGE: 22
JOURNAL:
ussenterprise.IM: AIM: wings and lace
E-MAIL: ozymandisauce(at)gmail(dot)com
RETURNING: 1! Charles Xavier.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Jean-Paul Beaubier
FANDOM: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: From when he accepts Charles Xavier’s proposition to become a teacher at Xavier Institute; pretty much, before Wolverine kills him and he gets resurrected and all sorts of shenanigans go down. So yeah, while he’s a teacher at Xavier’s Institute!
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: Northstar
ALTER EGO: Jean-Paul Beaubier; teacher, businessman, former Olympic skier.
BACKGROUND:
Jean-Paul is a mutant who was born in Canada, a twin to his sister, Jeanne-Marie, whose parents were killed in a car accident when they were just babies. Jean-Paul was sent to live in Quebec, Canada, with his cousins on his mother’s side and grew up with the name Jean-Paul Martin. His sister was separated from him and sent to grow up in a Catholic boarding school – because of this, Jean-Paul grew up without any knowledge of his identical twin sister (whom he would later find he shared his mutant powers with) until much later in life. Unfortunately, Jean-Paul led a rough life as a child. His adopted parents were killed in an accident when he was 8, leaving him without parents entirely and living in the foster homes for much of his childhood. He often got into trouble as a teen, and it was not until he tried to steal from a man named Raymonde Belmonde that he found himself someone who could be a real role model – regardless of the man’s own rather skewed moral compass. Raymonde helped him grow and recognize his mutant powers as they began to take shape.
Jean-Paul spent some time in France as an acrobat, before his nationalism drew him back to Quebec, Canada, where he joined the Front de libération du Québec (or FLQ) -- a separatist movement who wished to separate Quebec from Canada as its own nation -- that quickly became a terrorist organization. Learning of their terrorist dealings, Jean-Paul quickly separated from the group after having attempted a rescue of a group of civilians on a bus that’d had a bomb planted on it by the FLQ. Jean-Paul’s separation from the group lead him to take heart in skiing instead; a skill that was easily made more effective with the use of his mutant super-speed. He became an Olympic champion easily with the help of his mutation and easily became quite famous. His fame brought him the recognition he needed for James MacDonald Hudson to seek him out and bring him in as an addition to Alpha Flight, Canada’s own group similar to the Avengers. Jean-Paul’s agreement to join this group was due in part to the fact that they had his long-lost to him and unknown sister, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, on their side. She convinced him to join with them and upon learning of his real history and past, Jean-Paul took on the Beaubier name as well as the superhero alias Northstar.
Most of Jean-Paul’s time spent as a superhero was with Alpha Flight in Canada. It was during his time with them that he found an abandoned young baby in a garbage can and, shocked by the circumstances, adopted her. However, the child had AIDS, and in her death a few weeks later and following an inspiring battle with Major Mapleleaf (I could not make this up), Jean-Paul decided it would be in the best interest of himself and of the AIDS crisis to come out publicly as a gay man and garner AIDS awareness with his fame. However, Jean-Paul’s membership with Alpha Flight was always somewhat on the rocks (and on-and-off) due to his arrogant nature, as well as the strain on his relationship with his sister – who was becoming increasingly more schizophrenic as the years went by. Jean-Paul eventually separated from them for good – as he considered it – as tensions had built out of his own arrogance and the group’s operations had been suspended, leading him to leave and separate from his sister as well (who had been kidnapped, at this point).
Jean-Paul did eventually find and retrieve her; seeking help for her schizophrenia and, though Alpha Flight was re-instated, he did not join them. Jean-Paul then writes an autobiography; one of the first steps to his marketing of himself as a brand image. It’s at one of the signings for his autobiography that Jean Grey recruits him into the X-Men for a temporary position with which he’s needed to help in Genosha. After that mission ended, however, he went back to living his life as a normal person would – well, by building a business empire for himself on his Northstar brand (snow sport equipment primarily).
It is after he’s really established his business that Charles Xavier approaches him, in Montreal, and asks that he teach at Xavier’s Institute. The following events are just prior to where I’m taking Jean-Paul from: he reluctantly agrees to assist with a mission in Canada after telling Xavier that he will consider his offer, where he’s faced with flying a young mutant boy to a safe haven in which he can get help – because he’s about to explode. He and the boy are at odds at first, as the boy is initially homophobic and treats Jean-Paul to a lush of cruel words. Jean-Paul copes with them, and finally gets the boy to open up to him, just before the child ultimately explodes and dies (for lack of a better way to summarize). It’s from this experience that Jean-Paul decides hey, kids really aren’t that stupid, and maybe he’s got a chance at something here – so he takes the position that Charles offered him at the Xavier Institute and becomes an advisor and teacher to classes of younger mutants.
PERSONALITY:
Well then! Jean-Paul is arrogant, that much is true. He’s described that way in quite a collection of issues and descriptions of him online. However, that’s obviously not the only thing to his personality, even if some writers would seem to beg to differ. Jean-Paul is a bit of a complicated character. His sister, whom he’d been separated from birth, is drastically schizophrenic – something that happens to her after they become close and discover their shared mutant power. He grew up with two of his sets of parents passing away, and he sought attention by becoming a petty thief as a teen. Essentially, everyone he’d ever been close to in his life either passed away or had something tragic occur to them – severing their closeness. Jean-Paul seems to make up for this in his arrogance, in his attention to himself and his brand, and his – what I’d like to believe – respect for himself that strains a bit too far.
Underneath all of it, he’s got issues, essentially, but he truly has a heart of gold. He continues to come back to Alpha Flight despite differences with them because he truly wants to help people, and he is a good person. While he makes questionable decisions (like joining the FLQ), he can recognize a bad situation when it exists and he’s conscious enough of his own moral compass to tackle the truth of it and get out, while saving lives on the way. (It should be noted that Jean-Paul feels terribly about the bus bombing and, in a face-off with the villain Arcade in his own titular Northstar comic, he is made to relive the incident and crippled by the images of the people on the bus coming to life from the dead as zombies and accusing him of their deaths. His guilt for his involvement with the terrorist organization is severe, even though he never harmed anyone during his time with them).
Jean-Paul is also the first openly gay comic book character in a mainstream comic publication, and because of this, his personality is sometimes determined by his sexual identity in certain issues; this is also untrue of his character. While it is something that he deals with, he has already accepted himself for who he is and he is accepting of his identity and believes firmly that others should as well. However, in his homosexuality, Jean-Paul sees himself as being alienated from other mutants and other characters. He had one role model as a child, and it is not stated in canon (but is implied) that said role model helped him handle his homosexuality as he grew older in the same way as the evolution and expansion of his mutant powers.
Jean-Paul is a sensitive character, as evidenced by his adoption of the young child with the AIDS virus. He did not know she was bound to die when he adopted her, nor did he know of her disease initially. He was incredibly close to her, just as he was to the child he attempted to rescue on his mission for Charles Xavier many years later. He has a special part of his heart reserved for helping and caring for others – he would not be a superhero without it. It’s with that desire to provide himself as a role model for others that he takes his job at the Xavier Institute and challenges himself to expand outside of his arrogant and narcissistic image, much to the benefit of both himself and the students at the Xavier Institute.
POWER:
For the sake of Cape and Cowl, I’ll be limiting his list of powers here, lol. Let’s start:
Super speed is Jean-Paul’s primary mutant power, letting him run/punch/have reflexes at the speed of (purportedly) 99% to the speed of light. He doesn’t push it this far, however, since that would tear him apart physically and probably kill him. B|
Flight is another one of Jean-Paul’s powers, perhaps his secondary, really. It is one of the mutant powers that he uses in his flight class that he teaches at Xavier’s Institute.
Photokinesis is another of his abilities – allowing him to generate an incredible amount of light from his body and propel it outward at enemies.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[ There’s a slight tapping on the communicator for a moment before a voice chimes in, a prominent accent echoing from it that would at first sound French – though with a little bit of further cultural knowledge could be pinpointed directly to the province of Quebec, Canada. Then there’s a bit of a clearing of a throat, before a long line of French is being spoken quickly. ]
Calcique! I’ve not been in such an unusual place since Genosha. This reeks awfully of terrible memories. [ There’s a soft, almost impatient humming before the voice urges itself to continue, this time in accented English, perhaps in an attempt to garner all of the attention and sympathy that is possible for himself in such an unusual situation. ] Dare I question, where on the earth am I at this moment? I’d known it had been a risky idea to join the staff at the Xavier Institute. Had I known it was quite this risky, I dare say I’d have considered the man’s proposition much more deeply…
Regardless. J’ne sais pas. I am a strong man. I can take a challenge such as this. [ He laughs openly then into the communicator, clearly coming to a bit of ease with himself as he’s battling with his newfound location. ]
How would you say? Ah, how would my students say? [ A small chuckle as he takes in a breath. ]
Ah, yes.
Bring it. [ A soft, final click, then silence. ]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Jean-Paul did not consider himself a man of many words. At least, not in the company of those that he did not deem it necessary. As such, it was difficult for him to prepare himself for what he was sure would be an interesting trek into the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters as he sought out a return to his original position as instructor of flight, speed, and business economics. This City was both new and intriguing, but Jean-Paul was irritated, to say the least, that he would have to work so hard at all to reclaim a spot he’d already held once before. He was in a large hallway that was thoroughly familiar while at the same time feeling eerily distant – only a copy of a place he’d once known so well. It unnerved him, to say the least. He did not mean to pace but he found himself doing so regardless, as he waited his turn in the hallway. He was here at the Institute on business; here for an interview, for the chance to reclaim what little he could of his former life outside of the City.
But is it worth it? He thought to himself. Is it worth it, in a City so ripe for new beginnings, that he should seek to cling to something he’d only known so briefly before? Surely he could strike out and become someone else entirely. Not that Jean-Paul was unhappy with himself as he was, certainly not. But there was an air of adventure to taking a risk like that – to transforming himself, returning to the man he once was, or better yet – to a better man entirely. Jean-Paul was shaking his head at himself as the thoughts began to overwhelm him. He did not want to get himself carried away with illusions of grandeur, that was hardly acceptable. It had not been before, and it certainly would not be now. After all, he did not mind his job as a teacher. He found it unusually fulfilling. There were few things in Jean-Paul’s life that he found truly and honestly fulfilling – he wondered often if that was why he’d taken to being a thief all those years ago – and in teaching he’d found something that really awakened a spirit in him. A healthy, energetic spirit.
Without his realizing it, Jean-Paul was smiling as his pacing ceased in the hallway. Yes, this was worth it. Every moment he waited was just one moment closer to grasping a hold of something he found very dear to him, and he realized in that moment that he would not give it up for the world. His satisfaction was enough, and his determination was great – after all, he was Northstar. There was no way he wouldn’t win his job back.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Not that I can think of! c: ♥