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Name :

Lex Darcy

Age :

16

Gender :

Male

Power :

Darkness Manipulation

Power Description :

Lex has the ability to mentally generate and manipulate darkness. With this ability, Lex can darken an opponent’s surroundings, travel through shadows, become invisible when he merges himself with a shadow (with darkness as his force field), and blast balls of darkness onto his opponents. This power also allows Lex to see clearly in the dark, and because he can acquire energy from darkness he is much stronger in the dark or at night. However, this power has made him sensitive to light. Therefore, exposing him to brightly lit places weakens him gravely, and this is especially dangerous when he is under the sun. Wearing layers of black or white clothes can help him survive the exposure to light, but he still will not be able to generate huge amounts of deactivated photons. Since warmth is sort of a ‘sibling’ to light, Lex also has to avoid places in which the temperature is high, and staying in cold places only would render him a hale and hearty mutant. When using his powers, Lex should be clothed in neutral colours as wearing anything aside from that would distract him from properly utilising his powers. Lex’s skin colour may turn paler as he uses his powers, and his hair and eyes would become the darkest shade of black. Even his lips would lose colour. He would also seem to fade due to his use of darkness as protection for himself.

Apperance :

Lex stands at almost 5’11” with dark hair and blue eyes. He is lean, but underneath all the layer of clothes is a sculpt body. This is mainly due to the fact that Lex trained in Karate for a while before he and his sensei had a row. Lex’s chalky complexion is also due to his evasion of the sun. He changes his hairstyle a lot, but does not let his dark hair grow past his shoulder. He is always clothed in neutral-coloured long sleeves and jeans, and due to the way he presents himself he is almost always mistaken for a being a Goth or even a vampire. One could not deny though that he does tend to look like a vampire, and though he won’t say so himself this attracts quite a handful of girls who like the brooding and mysterious look on guys.

Personality :

Lex’s personality is a reflection of his looks and abilities. To those who do not know him well, he is mysterious and brooding—and he likes keeping his impression upon people that way. The mysterious aura that surrounds him is due to the fact that he is cold and secretive. He had never been warm to anyone, though he does his best to interact politely with others. Once in a while a smile may form on his lips, but this is a rare occurrence and more often than not dark thoughts are usually behind the infrequent smile. Lex is also brooding and melancholy in temperament due to the things that have happened in his past. He is extremely cynical and shrewd, and though he used to be merciful he is now completely unforgiving and cruel when angered. However, there may be a gentler side to him beneath all the coldness. If he spies a little kid being bullied on the streets, he would immediately come to the child’s rescue without further thoughts. He would also never dare humiliate anyone who is seen by many as an underdog. In fact, he would do his best to “toughen up” any underdog he encounters. And while his methods of “toughening someone up” may not always be gentle, his will is good and he knows what he is doing. This gentler side could be the side of him that had remained before all the chaos in his life happened. And though he will always be a frosty as a frozen lake, he will never even think of joining the dark side.

History :

Alexandre Laurent was born to a normal and happy family in a small countryside village in France. There, he lived contentedly with his parents and siblings until he entered school for the first time in his life. Alexandre became a constant recipient of bullying, and his classmates seemed to see him as some sort of punching bag. Even girls had the nerve to make fun of him and call him cruel names. He would fight back once in a while, but most of the time he wished they would just go away. Eventually they would stop bullying him, but that was because he had unknowingly merged himself with the shadows. One of his classmates noticed this and labelled him a freak, and due to this the bullying became worse. His family soon learned of this, and so to keep Alexandre safe they moved to Paris a few months before Alexandre turned eleven. In Paris, Alexandre’s life gradually became better. He managed to actually make friends, though there was only one girl he would consider his true friend. The girl was named Lucille, and as his friendship with Lucille grew stronger he gradually fell in love with her. They became best friends, until on his fourteenth birthday Alexandre decided to ask Lucille out. Lucille gladly said yes, and they were inseparable since then. They probably would still be together if not for the cruel fate that fell upon Lucille. Alexandre had a friend named Evo, and Evo too had been in love with Lucille for years. Evo was bitter about Alexandre’s relationship with Lucille, and so Evo spoke cruel words to Lucille. Lucille eventually ended her own life after being driven mad by Evo’s words, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back for Alexandre. He avenged Lucille’s death and ran away from home, for he was now a hunted murderer. Along the way he managed to learn how to control his powers, until a year and half’s practice enabled him to shadow travel to America. The travel drained his energy, but he was fortunate to have been taken in by a kindly old woman who had proclaimed herself to be a mutant. From the old woman he learned of Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, and after staying with her for quite a while he decided to find the place where he finally would not be called a freak any longer. With this change in his life he also changed his name. He chose “Darcy” as his new surname, for it meant “Descendant of the Darkness”.