Cam Beckett

Cam Beckett

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Dec 26, 2016 7:56 am

Name: Cameron Beckett
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 120 lbs
Age: 18
Home: Walla Walla, Washington

"Good, good, step right in. Now, stand on that X, hold this wire and whatever you do, don't blink."

Powers
Cam would describe himself as a tinker. He puts slot A into tab B and connects that bolt to that unstable power supply, and comes out with a ray gun or a beam of some sort. It seems to be a disproportionate number of beams, now that he comes to think about it. He should really get looking into that sooner rather than later.

Cam can construct technological devices. Specifically, his mutation allows him to connect, alter and modify technology in ways that they were not designed to be connected, altered or modified. He has a clear picture, in his head, of what the end result of his tinkering will produce, and is able to reproduce it in reality.

He can't do this without appropriate materials, of course -- he can't turn a piece of bubblegum into a nuclear warhead or anything like that -- but he can take an old vacuum motor, a canvas bag and some Pym Particles and make a shrink ray, or a toaster, seven springs from an alarm clock and some PVC pipe and create a toast-firing rocket launcher. He can create devices or alter existing devices well beyond usual restrictions of education, knowledge, resources, or physics.

He does not have a 100% success rate, however. It's not a perfect translation of mental image to reality -- perhaps with more training and experience, he could get there, but there are, as he puts it "too many annoying variables" in reality, leading to a need for a great deal of experimentation. His doctors say that he needs training and experience, at least -- he would argue that he needs to eliminate variables from reality.

He also can 'repair' things, to a certain extent, but his power is much more focused on creating things from scratch -- to the point where, if one of his gadgets becomes damaged, it's normally easier to start from scratch rather than try to figure out how he connected things the first time.

Appearance
Cam can normally be found with a cocksure smile on his face, even when one of his experiments hasn't seemed to be working out quite proper. He normally has short blonde hair, though whether or not he has eyebrows really depends on how well his recent experiments have gone. He's short and skinny -- normally, again, pending on the results of experiments.

Background
According to the psychologists at Muir Island, Cam Beckett exhibits signs of antisocial personality disorder, featuring histrionic features. A consistent pattern of disregard for the rights of others, as well as impulsive and heedless behavior, got him in and out of trouble in school. This only worsened once his mutation developed -- he showed no hesitation on using his classmates as experimental subjects, which worsened as he got more creative and more powerful. He was finally shipped off to Muir Island for psychological evaluation once he caused all the bones in one girl's right arm to dissolve.

That being said, Cam would fervently disagree with that diagnosis. Of course he cares about others! The girl in question had just been the last cut from the softball team, and he was going to replace those bones with stronger ones, allowing her to pitch faster. It's called ~science~, look it up. Did he ask permission? Of course he didn't ask permission; do you ask permission when you buy someone a present? How rude can you be!

Cam has a motto of never causing permanent harm to anyone, no matter who they may be, or what they have done. He just has slightly different definitions of "permanent" and "harm" than most people. Other people are more than just good test subjects -- though they are the best test subjects, don't get him wrong. There's benefits to helping other people, because then they're more likely to be useful to him in the future. They're just far less important that he is, that's all -- he's not going to actively try to hurt anyone, but a few omelettes must be broken to make an egg, right? Anyway, they should be glad -- they might get their names in the history books. They are aiding science. That's all anyone can ask for, yes?

After a battery of psych tests and counselling sessions, and quite a few months on Muir's campus, it's been decided to try Cam back in a more social environment on Xavier's campus. He is to be given monitored lab privileges in an attempt to get his powers more under control, and mandatory psychological evaluation to make sure his mad science doesn't blossom into full-bloom supervillainry.
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Re: Cam Beckett

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Dec 26, 2016 8:06 am

I'll go ahead and ask a tricky question before approving this: What kind of scale are we talking about in what he can build? Rays and bone-pulverizers sound like it's more hand-held gadgets rather than large-scale things?
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Re: Cam Beckett

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Dec 26, 2016 8:08 am

That is generally what he specializes in, yes. He hasn't built anything larger than that, and it would likely take some more power development for him to get to that point. I wouldn't rule it out for the future, but he's not going to create the Bottle City of London or anything anytime soon.
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Re: Cam Beckett

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Dec 26, 2016 8:17 am

Seems reasonable. Please refrain from translocating other peoples' projects or turning the walls into shag carpet.

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Re: Cam Beckett

Postby Hank McCoy » Wed Jan 04, 2017 12:01 am

Given the young gentleman's ability to violate commonly held notions of engineering and physics without so much as a how-do-you-do, the question in my mind is whether said devices continue to work when not in his presence, and if so for how long?
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Re: Cam Beckett

Postby Cam Beckett » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:58 pm

A very good question, and one I had not considered!

I would say -- and this is negotiable -- that in theory, the devices would continue to work without his presence indefinitely. However, in practice, this does not happen; something snaps or breaks or unwinds due to poor build quality (vis a vis breaking the boundries of physics and whatnot), and if he's not around to fix it, the odds of it being fixed are very low, at best.
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Re: Cam Beckett

Postby Hank McCoy » Mon Jan 09, 2017 9:12 pm

Well then, I believe we can make accommodations. However, the headmistress has told me to request that you make a noise like a forklift backing up whenever you enter a room she is in.

She has also asked me to not say it was her asking for that.

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