Eli 'Cog' Weyland

[Eli Weyland]

Name: Eligius ‘Eli’ Weyland
Codename: Cog
Age: 18
Nationality: UK (Goodwood, West Sussex)

Background: Eli had a normal life. His parents were engineers for Rolls Royce in Goodwood, so he enjoyed an upper middle-class existence. He generally was altogether more interested in taking things apart and putting them back together (provided he wasn’t distracted by yet another project) than going outside or having a large circle of friends or sports. Everything was going fine even when he tested positive for the X-Gene and developed a useful reflexive understanding of machines and electronics through some minor form technopathy and some enhanced intelligence. He met X-Corp and they’d assessed him as needing only the occasional update.

Normal things seldom last though and shortly after turning there was an accident. Nobody other than Eli witnessed it and later interviews found his memory of the affair was fragmentary at best. His parents said he was working on a project one moment and the next moment the detached garage was gone, spread out across their lawn, the neighbors lawn, and alleyway in pieces. Emergency services were called, X-Corp was called. Leading to a whole host of people arriving to find a crater filled with debris and no sign of Eli. The investigation found little except that whatever Eli had been working on must have vaporized him and destroyed the garage.

However, over the next few weeks it became clear that Eli wasn’t dead or at least clear that there was something seriously wrong in the neighborhood. For Eli he awakened without a body, but feeling much more connected to the machines around them. He found he was able to talk to machines, and those machines could talk to him. He found himself able to become connected to these ‘machine-spirits’ and slowly rebuilt his body with their assistance. He made his sensory organs from broken cellular phone pieces, speakers became a way to speak, and a whole host of spare pieces formed his limbs. It was in this state he met his parents who called back in X-Corp.

Over the next two years, being home schooled, being tutored by X-Corp, and improving his body so that he didn’t look like a junkyard automaton. When he graduated from being home schooled he applied to and was accept at the Xaviers University.

Power: Eli’s original mutant abilities were enhanced intelligence, and an innate understanding of machines and electronics. This technopathy was greatly amplified by the loss of his body, and now he can connect, understand, and manipulate machines and electronics much more effectively. His body is one such machine and he continuously tinkers with it. Adapting it to overcome new challenges, situations, and projects. Some current modifications are the addition of multiple tentacle-like limbs with interchangeable attachments to help in situations where one hand is definitely not enough. Another was the modifying his 'eyesight' so he could capture video, stills, and the ability to see in the ultraviolet, infrared, and other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

He’s still learning how to manipulate machines effectively, tending to be a bit of a gentle touch when manipulating machines and views using too much force as something awful. He is however much more ambivalent about manipulating the mechanisms that make up his own body.

Description: Eli is an assembly of metal pieces that look generally humanoid, he has a face, eyes, arms, and legs. He tends to wear a hoodie, and loose baggy clothing to better cover his body. His near-death experience and the sudden connection to machines has made him a little strange, he’ll often talk about how machines feel, and think. He has after a fashion found religion, and worships what he refers to as the god in the machine an amalgamation of the machine-spirits/minds that he connects to. It has lead him to collect broken and discarded technology to adopt and fix himself. This inevitably leads to him having a room and workspace filled with machines and projects in various states of repair. His connection to machines make it a bit hard sometimes to connect to others, but his parents and X-Corp have convinced him that he should try to make friends with things that don’t have screens.

[Ashlie Minamida]

Two questions. What's the range on his Technopathy and does he actually wear a skull on his shoulder?

[Sean Hall]

I'm strongly considering the skull I think he's probably going to make little assistants over time that house various 'machine spirits' he has 'rescued/adopted' over time.

I'd say his effective range is like 75-100 feet with declining efficiency and increased effort required the further he is from what he's trying to actively technopath. He's not going to be as effective as say Natalie at remotely accessing things (based on posts). He's at his most effective when he can actually physically interface (or in the future have an assistant act as a relay) with an object than trying to remotely access a thing. So he's probably not going to go wandering the internet or remote hijacking databases/computers, but he can access machine systems nearby (including some funny ones other technopaths probably ignore like HVAC systems and such).

Let me know if that range is too much.

[Ashlie Minamida]

Nah, that's fine. And I like the angle of including less "electronically advanced" things to set the power apart from Natalie.

Approval 1/2

[Hank McCoy]

We do humbly request that you refrain from trying to anoint anything in the Point.

Approval 2/2