Name: Nathan Elijiah Morgan Codename: Guardian Nicknames: Nate Date of Birth: October 30 Age: 27 Place of Residence: Los Angeles, California Father: Unknown Mother: Heather Morgan (deceased)  Siblings: Marissa Morgan (23), Josephina Morgan (18), Christian Morgan (17) Occupation: Resident

Physical Description

Height: 6' 2"
Weight:225
Hair: Keeps head shaved
Eyes: Brown
Distinguishing Features: Muscular


Hobbies: Drink, smoke, work on cars, mess with his younger siblings' boyfriends


Powers

Mutant Power: Strength

Extents (ability): If he can get his hands on it or his arms around it, he can lift it.  Exactly how much hasn't been fully determined, but he can't lift up a house for example, but might be able to tear up a good amount of flooring if he tries


What do you think of your mutant ability: He finds it useful at times, but he's rather used to hiding it, having seen the consequences of what happens when he doesn't


Personality

Psychological Background: He's protective to the nth degree, and tends to flip out at any threat to his siblings.  When they're safe and secure, he's friendly and affectionate. He's "Mr. Responsibility and Organization." He's also a story teller, he's got a story for everything, most of them having happened to him or around him (fortunately or unfortunately, depending on the story).  Pretty optimistic, always looking for the bright side.  Marissa, Joey and Christian may be his half siblings, but he doesn't believe in the title "half".  Family is family.


Personality Quirks: Refuses to drive anything but a standard, believing an automatic isn't a "real car," works out almost neurotically (having had to hide his mutation for all his life, he's come to the realization that his physique should at least look like it matches whatever strength he inadvertantly displays in the real world), he personally doesn't hold grudges, but holds them for other people.  his mother taught him how to play piano, and he's actually quite good, but he vehemently denies it when asked, thinking it bad for whatever "image" he thinks he has


History

General History: Nate is the oldest of the dysfunctional family, being born to Heather when she was only 15, no more than a child herself.  He learned quickly that someone had to be the adult in the household, and that he would be it, because his mother was incapable of it.  Before he was ten years old, he was the head chef, human laundromat and main grocery shopper for the family.  Heather would regularly disappear for days at a time with whatever man she was with at the time, and come home only to tell them they were moving from one urban housing project to another urban housing project, usually in another state.    

He spent every hour of every day until he was 22 making sure his sisters were fed, clothed and went to school.  He started working when he was 13, and prided himself on at least getting a high school education.  College was out, there just wasn't time.  He couldn't leave his sisters alone in whatever place they were living at after all.  The only time he left his sisters alone was when he was nineteen, he had found one of his mother's boyfriends going after one of his sisters, and got violent, nearly killing the man.  The judge showed sympathy and he got a year in prison, six months with good behavior.  Nate never let on that the reason the man was hurt so severely was because he was a mutant, he knew that would only make things worse.

Then, when he was twenty two, he went into his mothers room to wake her up for her job, only to find she couldn't wake up.  Heather had finally drank herself to death after months of insisting she was "fine."  Now Nate really was the head of the family.  Unlike his mother, he didn't move the family out of Phoenix and instead stayed, paying off Heather's debts as best he could and trying to find the youngest, whom Heather had abandoned twelve years ago, without success.

When Joey's mutation was exposed in a destructive way, Nate was fired from his job.  He did some research and discovered the Northern Lights Academy, and sent his baby sister there for her protection and education and he himself moved to LA.  Then came the phone call that not only had Joey's boyfriend nearly killed her, but the missing brother had been found and was there.  With Marissa in tow, Nate went to Alaska to fix his sister's life and to meet the brother who didn't know him.



Special Notes: The second oldest, Marissa, is not a mutant.