Name: Carlos Maguel Estrada
Codename: Motega (Meaning
New Arrow in Kiowa)
Academy X Student Team: OmegaAge: 18
Birthday: March 7th
Hair: Keeps it black now.
Eyes: Completely black.
Skin Tone: was tanned, mutation paled it.
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 194 lbs.
Build: Athletic and agile build with strength behind it.
Race/Nationality: Latin/Native American (Kiowa)
Notable Characteristics: A red ink tattoo on right arm and back. and his eerie black eyes which he hides behind red shades. An eerie and icy aura surrounding him at all times. His blood is thicker than normal and black. He has many more Tattoos, and numerous scars.
Uniform: Loose yet well protective in the modern X-men design. It looks like his usual wear, but heavier and more protective, as well as form fitting. The red piping are down his legs and on the jacket. He wears a heavy belt and harness that houses numerous tools of his trade.
Standard Dress: Carlos dresses in clothes that allow freedom of movement. His jacket which he bought upon landing in New York quickly became his Favorite. His pants are actually three years old and were perfect for his Capoeira, and his top was a leather vest made for him by the
Ravens of Shadow upon his completion of training. A Modern redux of tradition the vest is protective yet flexible and has the tribal marking on the back.
Place of Birth: Barranquilla Columbia
Superhuman Ability: Feeding off of shadows and ambient darkness, Carlos can tap into a sub-space dimension of Nightmares (So he calls it), pulling from it a cold black fire that he can use to generate a multitude of effects. Mainly he can assume the guise of a wraith or cloaked figure, gaining durability, as the dark matter he channels protects him.
Explanation and Uses: Like a ghost, he can phase through people and solid matter, imparting upon a person a freezing chill and a pure sense of dread, in some cases knocking the person out from shock. He can use his cloak as a portal to cross an underlying dimension home to the nightmares and guilt of the collective world. Carlos is not immune to the Nightmare Realm- But he can control it, while taking damage to himself. He can use the nightmare realm to conceal himself in plain sight, and reflect light. But his shadow remains, a dead giveaway of where he is. When standing near to him like that, one can feel an insane sense of paranoia and cold. He can seemingly collapse in on himself and pass through the dimension rapidly to appear somewhere else, effectively teleporting. The greater the distance the the more strain to his own mind the dimension stresses. Carlos can glide short distances granted he has a large enough cloak to do so and a high vantage point.
His eyes are now naturally an inky blackness with no white. When he channels the energy, smoke almost seems to come from them... It allows him to 'see' with altered sight-- He can track people-- By tracking their fears. The more they are afraid, the easier he can find them. By swallowing someone into his cloak he can drag them through the Nightmare dimension, although he only does so if necessary. There is a backlash of negative energy that causes severe guilt- Or induces a psyche breaking fear that is enough to drive the strongest crazy. Even when Carlos himself walks though it he wakes to a nightmare of terrified penance.
The only way to pass through the realm unharmed is with some sort of fire or light-- At the very least, a torch. This was discovered by another mutant who absorbs, amplifies, and uses solar energy to generate light and heat could pass with Carlos unharmed. He cannot 'see' someone if they are near a large heat source-- Or a very well lit room. The realm that Carlos channels allows him to absorb natural fire and extreme heat. The realm craves light, anything of warmth. Although, at the same time, it seems to fear it. Standing too close to the boy can make your body temperature drop significantly in a few moments. Sources that are of mystical or psionic make, (I.E Hellfire, Phoenix fire) are things that the realm has no use for-- And thus Carlos cannot absorb. They would hurt him like any other person.
The darker it is-- The stronger the realm is. By proxy, the stronger Carlos is. On a clouded night with no moon he can, with difficulty, generate a cloak of dark matter to engulf at the very least three NY blocks. in daylight this might be restricted to just a smoky black vapor rising off of him. Carlos can channel and exude, or propel a mildly concussive blast of the dark matter that one can almost feel on their skin. It can induce fear and a deathly ice like chill as it steals the warmth from the body. At night he can do this easily while cloaked in the dark matter. In the day time, it is far more difficult. At the strongest these blast have the strength of a wrecking ball, in daylight he'd be lucky to knock a person back.
*His eyesight differs upon his well usually he sees as if there is light even in the darkest of places. In normal light or daylight he sees with only minor difficulty and full color blindness seing everything black or white. If he pushes it he can see what has now become known to be peoples souls, or their inner light something his powers can effect directly and even steal, killing a person. This is coupled with an aura like perception that Carlos has learned to read, tipping him off to others state of being health wise, and emotionally. He can't read with a hundred percent accuracy, though he is still learning. This is coupled with his sixth sense, his ability to sense fear and others. And it Functions as a radar within a small area of a few meters.
*He has started and been met with little success in creating small constructs out of the black ectoplasm that he taps from his dimension. For intents and purpose his training has been reassigned to Ms. Elizabeth Braddock. His power in this function works similar to a psy-knife. He can create small knives and shields with solid consistency anything larger like the cloak is strictly semi solid or not at all. His knives can physically cut and also impart the psychic anomaly of his powers.
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Non-Mutant Abilities: Carlos has been a fighter nearly all his life. By tradition of a barely existant people who have only evolved and adapted, he was raised. He was taken into a more dark and quiet group that specialized in stealthy executions. To that end Carlos is gifted even before his mutation at moving without being noticed. His training focused on close in fighting, using a mix martial art, which extended into knife combat. He was an exceptional Archer and was only getting better eventually becoming the best. Poisons and medicine are a tradition and method for fighting that he was also taught. Though uncommon, he can and has treated weapons with something toxic. To this end he's built a few immunities which hasn't helped with the ever increasing innovation in science and ever new toxins that he may be unnocostumed to.
Getting away from a kill is just as important as getting in and executing. To a great degree he was taught parkour, the art of continous movement, and momentum building. Through rooftops and especially the jungle, he can move a significant distance at a full sprint without losing speed as he vaults, slides, and bounds through obstacles. Indoors he could bound off walls and even the ceiling if he needs to. His training at the academy has broadened his ability and he was recently introduced to the sword. He has a general distaste for guns, but his past training included their use and disarms. From handguns to assault rifles, even heavier military grade boom sticks, he's fired them all atleast once.
His conditioning has given him resistances to most toxins and poisons, and training in general has given him a vast knowledge of chemistry. He also knows healing and survival methods, as well as minor explosives though examples are limited to noise makers and smoke bombs. He has atleast once displayed a form of hypnotism over an animal albeit a large one though this might be tied to his power.
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Other: Because his body is inhabited by a mystical diabolical being, Carlos has been rigorously training and conditioning his mind to keep the Demon in check, even control it. His attempts and progress in the matter is relatively low to non existent though one or two occasions have risen where Carlos has summoned a bluish flame of hellfire in self defense. This Demonic presence might have altered some of Carlos' power as it does when it takes hold. Though they are uncommon, rare, even, an episode in which this presence takes control of Carlos holds extreme and frightening changes as well as unknown power. In appearance Carlos' completely solid black eyes have formed gold rings signaling the transition between himself and the demon. His regular powers become more potent easily forming solid ectoplasm into a trench coat, as well as forming a field of negative energy that saps all warmth from an area and easily causes terror.
His voice becomes dual toned as if two people were speaking. He is alot more durable with a higher undetermined threshold for pain, and mentally he loses all inhibition, ridding him of mercy and other emotions. He is likely unable to discern friend or foe. He is physically capable of great strength punching into concrete and possibly lifting a small car. He gains a proficiency and tendency to set things aflame with a blue hellish fire, that burns the soul and anything regular fire would. All these powers and what could be are held in check by psionic barriers and only under extreme supervision, Is Carlos allowed to explore these powers. They are forbidden for the field and he would actually prefer to be rid of the whole thing though it has been surmised judging from memory that it was implanted in him at a very early age and is probably difficult and possibly life threatening to remove.
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Power Levels: (45 Used out of Possible 47)
Physical Strength (1-10): 5
Speed (1-10): 6
Durability (1-10): 4
Intelligence (1-10): 4
Energy (1-10): 6
Agility (1-10): 8
Power Mastery (1-20): 9
Non-Mutant SkillsSmall Weapons - Knives (Master) (10 credits)
Guns - (Intermediate)
Bow/Arrow (Master)
Martial Arts - (intermediate)
Gymnastics - (Master)
Computer Skills (Beginner) 10 Credits
Swords (Beginner) (10 Credits)
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Personal Strengths: He is still very strong willed, and has through various amounts of testing and mental training from Emma and the Cuckoo’s learned more about himself, his mind—And the darkness within. He is less exhausted during the day, and light does not completely blind him as it once did—But he is still sensitive to these things. He has a strong sense of achievement, and will apply himself to the fullest even though he may feign otherwise.
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Personal Weaknesses: There is still a demon living in him (Emhdal), though locked away deep in the recesses of his mind. And no matter how much he cares for those around them, and believes that the future Evie told him about will never come to pass—He has to wonder where the monster ends and he begins. He has yet to discern how much of him is the monster and how much is the man—He does not know who is stronger. The demon makes him stronger, but it is inherently evil—And it thirsts for nothing but power and chaos. He has an ongoing inferiority complex.
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Personality: Carlos personality has radically changed in the past year. Though still warm and inviting towards others, he is prone to aloof moments, and coldness when not in the mood. He's much more tame then prior but still free loving and lazy when permitted. When personal issues come up especially with his inner demon he tends to isolate himself. His most stable moments are around Narcissa. Composed by tradition and upbringing, Carlos understands what it is to have a family that loves him and would stay with him as a whole. To this extent when he fell in love, he fell in love hard, and is openly affectionate. He has become a devoted boyfriend showing his extreme loyalty and in a small part, his sense of family and responsibility. He's become highly possessive and less flirtatious, though playful banter is still common.
Hobbies: First and foremost Carlos is a dedicated Archer. He has studied Capoeira, and can only apply it to his fighting style. He likes to compete in his free time. He surfs on the rare occasions he goes to the beach. He likes playing practical jokes that scare people going so far as to use his powers to impersonate death himself, or to scare an old superstitious man. Stealing at random is his cup at tea at night, though he has exhausted all challenges and therefore engages in less often. In the day more often then not you'll find him in a tree lazily napping the day away. He loves music and can play the piano and guitar, and is a fine tenor too. *Alot of the time if he cannot be found in the mansion he is either working or riding on his motorcycle which has been completely customized from the stock it came from. He also has a pet basilisk he calls lil Ada, which is kept in a secret area on the front lawn underneath his favorite tree. Traditionaly part of his heritage he is practiced in tattooing and has a night job near the mansion at a local parlor. By extension he's a very good artist.
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Mutant/Human Relations View: Carlos has become apathetic and cautious to the subject. He's been fighting his whole life this is one he would like to exempt himself from.
Family: Carlo Estrada - died in a raid.
Lilian Luc Estrada/Perez - took to taking care of her son until he was old enough to fend for himself. Recently remarried.
Montigue Jose Perez - Carlos' martial arts intructor now step father. He's a big part of Carlos' upbringing and training.
Carlos descends from a native American tribe that migrated in the late 1600s to South America. The Estrada family is one of the few families that splintered from the tribe to settle and make life in the new more modern world. The Kiowa being a nomadic warrior tribe during its more ancient years, was still teaching the old ways, even in the modern era. They were always silent, nothing more than a Shadow. They were trained after gifted individuals in the past, that had long since passed on. The Shamans' said it was magic-- Science claimed mutation. To an extent these trainings made Carlo Estrada perfect for a small time private investigator.
With so much rampant crime in Barranquilla, none of which needed such investigation, and down on his luck, Carlo searched for a new job. What he found was Lilian, and true love. The fiery Latina woman, happened to be from another family of the Kiowa tribe, and she was raised by the Shaman and was an educated Herbalist and chemist.
It was after a few weeks of dating that Carlo was able to get a job and someone to spend his off time with. She worked for the
Barvaria Brewery, and his new job was Loss Prevention and internal investigation. The companies stone faced, but hard arsed female CEO saw not only a little brew going missing but some cash as well. On top of that, he began to moonlight as a body Guard. Carlo became close friends with his employer, and after months of hard work, and much grander wedding then he could have planned for himself and Lilian, brought fourth the energetic and charismatic Carlos, only five months prior his employer's own bouncing joy.
History: Carlos, born on March 7th, was born healthy and energetic, but on a night of misgivings. He was always crying and only comforted in the dark. His grandfather, Shaman of the Kiowa, told his parents that though he was a pure and innocent child, he was born under the eyes of a shadow god. He had a likeness to those that had long since passed on. A long magic ritual of smoke and dancing, that hadn't been seen in years-- And Carlos was considered healed. His Father, constantly working, and his mother taking lessons from the CEO to help maintain the Brewery when she was gone, left Carlos in the care of the Stone family nanny along with bright beautiful baby Isabella Stone.
It was growing up for nine years like this that Carlos could recount as the happiest of years, constantly being the playmate of the nearly royal Stone family daughter. Though she had an open heart, and rarely asked for anything.
The next couple of years were rough. Ripped away to spend time with his grandparent's the moment his powers started showing themselves, it was the season of tempering and Carlos was of age. For The Kiowa there was a hardened tradition of making warriors, by taking a time of trial and training. It was in the span of the next few years that would rigorously challenge and reshape the young Carlos.
Focusing on his best abilities Carlos was the first of his direct Family to be recognized as What was roughly translated to be called
Raven of Shadows, a classification of warrior that meant he walked a path of darkness, taking his prey from high places, quietly. Not disturbing the peace around those unaware. He was a silent, solitary protector. Having trained non stop and working as hard as he could to make his father proud he returned home at the age of fourteen. Men were made young. Carlos received, with slight enthusiasm, a customized bow from his family, and a kiss on the cheek from his sister-like friend Isabella. He was allowed to take up guitar as well as dance lessons. This would be the last bits of Happiness Carlos could remember.
Back to training, His so called dance lessons, where infact martial arts. Catering to his slim, agile, and yet deceptively powerful build, a mixed schedule was made, using dance, Capoeira as the foundation. Constantly in motion, he learned to enjoy his training. Learning Guitar and syncopation as a side to help in the dance like activity when he wasn't working hard... Carlos had a semblance of normality at last.
His 15th birthday fast approached, and missing his mother he was brought back by his father to celebrate. Not the best of times with violence every where. Carlos by now was formidable as a young teenager, capable of taking down grown men He helped his father at the brewery catching thieves. With life as normal as it could be for him the next couple of months, his father let him tag along in his work, if only to keep an eye on him.
It was at one of these jobs where he met, and though he didn't know it at the time, would later fall in love with a client's daughter. Narcissa Lucania was different, just like him. He saved her from incinerating her family-- His power craved her own, strangely enough. She could enter his darkness and be unharmed.
With things slightly better, they didn't stay that way in the Sandy City. Out in the Market with his parents for some time to themselves, it was only five weeks after Isabella's birthday. He could remember it clearly. He had been looking at a jade necklace, and it's twin in a clear quartz- Thinking what great presents they would be for his two favorite women... That was when -It- happened. Gunshots were fired. It was thunderous and deafening- Painful beyond all measure. The loudest sound-- scream that of an unknown horror. It sounded like a hundred buzz saws, a thousand voices right in his ear-- But felt worse. His parents on the ground as well as everyone on the street. No one had a clue what was truly happening all they knew was the terrible noise and the pain it caused.
All Carlos wanted to do was to get away, him and his parents. Carlos thought he was going to die, and icy chill ran up his spine and his vision blurred. Darkness surrounded him and he felt nothing, the whole world slipped away. He was swallowed and contained. Carlos had disappeared from existence, scared out of his mind and seeing his nightmares in this darkness. For two weeks his parents searched for him.
Carlos was willful, more than any mental demon could guess, and he stood against the nightmares he faced for the first time. He wanted out, and he wanted it now.
To his surprise the darkness listened and opened to him. Carlos was found a day after two weeks in the brewery right as it opened. The employees knowing him well and knowing that he was missing went to fetch his parents. It was Esperanza Stone that was the first to arrive to take charge of him until his parents returned. She, knowing full well the cause of his disappearance and by now what was happening to the young teen, felt a great deal of pity and guilt. Her family had a history of the genetic anomaly.
Moreover, something struck her that she shouldn't have been feeling. Fear, it was then she noticed the black smoke of something unknown surrounding Carlos. Lighting some candles the effect faded as did the smoke but she made her guesses. As the Estrada family arrived to thank and talk with the Stone family Mother. Carlos' Mother cried and his father only comforted her as he thought out what to do.
Life had seemingly continued. The only friends he had were Isabella and Narcissa from afar. Though it was no secret that the two didn't get along. Carlos secretly practiced with his powers discovering they weren't too bad. Isabella quickly learned to carry a lighter and not to be afraid of him. It was with him that she learned control of her own powers. He tried to show her that just sheer force of will could do anything. Behind the CEO's back, Carlos' taught Isabella how to refine it slightly, but the young Isabella more timid then he, and still grieving for the loss of her father, cut those lessons short.
At this time, it was found out that the Baveria Brewery had Mutants among them. A small armed group against mutants rolled up one night. In the midst of the anti mutant hype, they had a planned attack and raid on the Brewery. It was here that Carlo Estrada, Carlos' Father Lost his life.
This was when Carlos found his powers to be more then they appeared. The man who killed his father couldn't hit him, couldn't stop him not even by starting a fire as Carlos shrouded by his dark smoke followed him. Carlos was on a warpath.. He knew not what drove or guided him, he simply followed a feeling and his eyes became completely black. He could suddenly see very well in the moonless sky as tracked and chased the man stalking him like wolf.
When Carlos caught up to him, he swallowed the man and followed him dragging him to the dark place. The man couldn't take it like Carlos could. He broke and fractured, as every pain and guilt he had about his misdoings were thrown back at him in a nightmare that Carlos could fuzzily see in the darkness. Carlos sensed the fear and darkness in the man, and with a frightened and fearful look of shock realized that he was feeding on the mans fear. He let the man go, left him there in the alley broken and curled in the fatal position, repeating over and over that he was sorry. It was the last time for a long time Carlos would ever use his powers like that again, not until it's secrets were fully known to him.
Carlos grieved and was doing far better then he could remember. His family had moved on and worked as it always did, mostly trying to return back to a semblance of normality. Normal had become three mutants helping each other adapt. Even though Isabella had been sent away to a school in America, they kept in touch. Narcissa also had powers. For months at a time she stayed in the city with her father. and within weeks Carlos, who by now radically changed into a nocturnal creature due to his powers. started dating his sun goddess, Narcissa. Their infatuation with one another was almost unhealthy... To great irony -If opposites attract then Carlos and Narcissa were the yin to the others yang. Her powers revolved around light and heat and the sun.
She represented his every opposite- if Carlos was dark she was light. It was with this that they found she was unaffected by his darkness and could travel safely through the dark dimension even sparing Carlos himself the torment. This was a huge perk for Narcissa, someone she could be around. Her powers were atomic, particularly on the brightest of days. though she came to Columbia to learn control in secret... Her knack for it was low and her learning not so smoothly as Carlos or Isabella.
Carlos however could contain and help Narcissa and was called upon to do so once it was discovered that Narcisaa could be nuclear, and that Carlos could be around her without combustion. Though progress had been made it wasn't enough and Narcissa had to leave, to go to back to places where the sun could not reach her as much.
Carlos could move across great distances if he wanted to-- But it drained him. If he tried to get to Narcissa, or Bella-- His mind would surely break. Carlos felt alone but continued on as much as he could to at least to finish things. It was then his Mother Along with Esperenza Stone, and Narcissa's mother over the phone that Carlos Learned of the Xavier Institute for the gifted. It was this very meeting of their mother's that he was privy to, that he learned he would go to be with Isabella and then Narcissa once she was ready for it. Carlos was happy, as happy as could be for the first time in what felt like a long time. Though he would move Far away from his mother he could be with the only two people that made him feel happy. That was all the incentive he needed to pack his belongings. He was headed to America. Thank God Isabella taught him English.
*Having arrived at Academy X Carlos had a somewhat rocky start being little more then untamed and wild. He was unpredictacble and awkward, but manage to find a few friends and then some. He had fun, even though shocking truths of his considered family and of himself have completely shaken his world. Many misadventures and an oversize pet later it was prom night and he was content for the night that nothing went horribly wrong. A year and a war later in Columbia He returns to the academy. Somewhat darker but determined.
Misc Facts-Carlos is Multi-lingual, knowing Spanish, Portuguese, the Kiowa dialect, and with the help of Isabella English.
-Though not prone to substance abuse, he smokes before a mission, getting a slight high.
-Carlos is partially deaf in his left ear mainly due to someone who shall remain nameless. *cough*Bella*cough*
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