Name: Steven Cole Kenton Codename: Discharge Nicknames: Steve, Stevie Date of Birth: Feb 22nd, 1995 Age: 16 Place of Residence: Streets Father: Senator Alexander John Kenton IV, (Living, age 56) Mother: Lobbyist Ellyn Ann Kenton, (Living, age 53) Siblings: Lawyer Alexander John Kenton V (Living, age 27) Emily Rose Kenton, (Living, age 24) Medical student Occupation: Runaway

Physical Description

Height: 5' 9"
Weight:143
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Distinguishing Features: Steven has a Ying Yang tattoo on his right shoulder blade and several thin scars crisscrossing his back. On his right wrist, there is a scar from a seriously bad burn.

Hobbies: Baseball, Basket ball, Bikes, Camping, Collecting Japanese weapons, Hiking, Reading, Riding, Roller Blades, Self Defense, (Jujitsu, Karate and Ninjitsu), Swimming, Track


Powers

Mutant Power: Kinetic Energy

Extents (ability): Steven has the ability to tap into the potential energy contained in objects and turn it into kinetic energy. Allowing him to control and manipulate this energy. Sort of. He can charge an object in his hands and throw it with deadly accuracy. And the charged object releases the energy explosively when it hits something.

He can delay an explosion for 5 seconds to 2 minutes and can charge any object roughly the size of a marble to the size of a watermelon. Unfortunately, Steven does not have this power completely under his control. When he's upset, nervous, scared or angry, he will accidentally charge anything he's touching. And he does not know how to change the kinetic energy back into the harmless energy it was before. So once he's charged something, it will explode.


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Personality

Psychological Background: A private person, Steve hates being in the public eye and has gone to great lengths in the past to avoid reporters and cameras. Fun loving though, he wants to be able to enjoy himself before he's forced to decide how to live his life. He resents his parent's political careers, and the way they treated him. He wants most to be able to live his life by his own rules and had chafed at the restrictions they placed on him. On they're trying to make him live up to the images that they want him to uphold. Resents their trying to force him to be the person they've decided he WILL be. Not the person he is. And hates them for not loving him just because he's their son. And of his parents, he fears his father the most.


Personality Quirks: Collects Japanese weapons and swords, enjoys martial arts, avoids cameras, loathes reporters, loves snowstorms


History

General History: Born on February 22, Steven has spent his entire life being shoved in front of cameras by his parents to further their political careers. Being paraded around by them as the All-American boy. As an image to the world, part of their perfect little family. And they put a lot of pressure on Steven and their other children. They expect nothing but the best from all of them. The best behavior, the best grades, the best sports performance. All so that they can trot their children out to show what a perfect family they are and how they deserve people's votes. And if they didn't rise to their parent's expectations, they could expect to be beaten for their failure.

Steven is 8 years younger than his sister. And, in the words of his own parents to him, an accident. Serious politicians, his parents only had their elder children because politicians with family seemed to be more popular, especially in rural areas. But after getting pregnant, well his mother certainly couldn't have an abortion. That would ruin their political careers. Especially with her campaigning against abortions.

His father is a politician who is currently running for Presidency of the USA. Running on an Anti-mutant Campaign. He feels he has a great chance to win, as long as his personal bodyguards are able to keep any mutants from trying to assassinate him or members of his family. Steven's mother is a lobbyist for old-fashioned family morals. Both his parents are prejudiced against anyone who isn't a straight, well off, white Roman Catholic. To say their slightly racist, moral snobs would be like saying the Pope is slightly Catholic.

Steven's brother, Alexander the 5th, is a serious young man who is almost as ambitious as their parents. He managed well enough in their home growing up and is now a rising young star in the justice system as a lawyer. Though he refuses to use either of his two young sons in the way their parents used him to further his career. Just like he refused to  name either of the boys Alexander John Kenton the 6th. A fact that has infuriated his parents. But now that he is well away from them, he needn't fear punishment. And he has as little to do with them as possible.

His sister Emily used to rebel against the family in small ways. She took up smoking, ditched a couple of classes and swiped a few things from stores. Now living in Boston, she's attending Harvard to get a doctor's degree, she's engaged. She's much happier herself living away from reporters and demanding parents.

Steven however, seems to have been born to go against EVERYTHING his parents stand for. He loathes being shoved in front of cameras. Hates being expected to be perfect all the time in everything he did. And doesn't like his parents looking down their noses at anyone they consider beneath them. He hates being dragged off to state parties to dance with the latest girl from one of the 'right' families his parents tried to force him into dating.

Steven took up smoking like his sister had, got a tattoo using a fake id and a tattoo artist willing to pretend that was his right age in return for the money. And got himself kicked out of three private schools despite good grades and being a track star. Forcing his father to pay out big bucks to keep it quiet what he'd done. His father's frustration grew towards his youngest child. The child they hadn't really wanted. The beatings Steven suffered grew worse. Tell he was beating Steven at the slightest provocation, though he's always careful not to hit him on the face, arms, or legs. Wouldn't do for a reporter to find out. And Steven, despite the training he had in martial arts, wasn't able to protect himself from his father. He was so much smaller than Alexander, and his father had training in martial arts too.

Then two years ago, Steven's mutant powers surfaced. His father was yelling at him, Steven was terrified of what he knew was coming, and the ball he'd been holding dropped from his hand, a weak explosion destroying the ball and blackening the floor beneath it when it hit. That day was the first and last time Alexander struck Steven across the face, knocking his son out.

Steven woke later half drugged out of his mind and to dizzy to even try to call on his fledgling power to help him. Strapped down so that he couldn't even move to try to struggle. His parents, disgusted by the revelation that they had spawned a mutant had called in a trusted friend of his father. A man that owed his career, and chance to abuse any captured mutants in experiments, to Alexander. Bruce Anders would help them contain Steven until they could get rid of him. And wouldn't betray their secret to anyone.

And Bruce built a power dampening devise right onto Steven's right wrist so that he wouldn't be able to remove it. Badly burning Steven's wrist as he soldered parts of the 'bracelet' into place. It was a small mercy when Steven passed out from the pain. He was sick with pain for a long time after before the severe burns on his wrist finally started to slowly heal. Steven was very closely guarded by Alexander's men after that. As Alexander claimed the extra security was to protect his son from death threats made by mutants.

Steven knew what was coming. He realized his parents were planning on having him killed at the first opportunity. Probably in a way that they could use public sympathy to ensure that his father would win the Presidency he's now running for.

So two months ago, Steven packed his book bag and stole all the money that was in the wall safe in his father's office. Then he ran away, fleeing from his parents. Using the money to get out of Chicago. He's been living on the streets since, looking over his shoulder as he tries to survive. Knowing his parents, who have claimed he's been kidnapped are still looking for him to finish him off. The bracelet still attached to his wrist since he can't remove it, which means he can't even access his power still.


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