Post by Havok on Jun 9, 2007 0:04:34 GMT -5
Real Name: Alexander Summers
Code-Name: Havok
Team Affilliation: Brotherhood
Age: 25
Height: 6'1"
Hair: Blond
Weight: 180
Powers: Havok's body quite literally contains the power of a small sun. The power manifests itself most commonly as white hot rings of plasma as he directs it with his hands, however he is not limited to using solely his hands as his entire body generates this intense heat. He absorbs cosmic energies constantly, such as starlight, x-rays and gamma radiation. He is also able to enter a fully engaged nuclear reactor unharmed. This energy is then stored within his body's cells to be metabolized. The energy is released and as it super heats the air around him it becomes visible as white hot plasma. These waves work successively as the heat they generate multiplies within the target, the larger the object the more energy required from Havok's body.
The plasma rings, once released, are not really of a concussive nature but rather they disintegrate the object they come into contact with by drastically altering it's internal temperature. When it comes to organic forms, more often than not his blasts will melt them or cause them to burst into spontaneous combustion. The nature of his mutation allows Havok to endure and even thrive in conditions that would prove deadly to anyone else. He could live inside a nuclear reactor if he wished, the energy only feeding his own massive needs. He is immune to his own brother's optic blasts and to some other energy attacks, namely those of a super-heated nature or drawing from the same energy sources like his own.
His own internal body temperature runs at slightly higher than normal as a result of his mutation, allowing him to ward off low-level colds and viruses. Because of his mutation, Alex's body emits heat regularly in low doses unless otherwise checked, much in the same way Dazzler emits minor emissions of light. This heat can seem like an aura under the right conditions, the aura amplified when he actively discharges his plasma waves. The plasma usually appears to come from his hands but he is capable of discharging or releasing the energy from any point on his body. Alex's potential is hindered by only his own stamina, morals and mental outlook.
For all intents and purposes he is a living battery constantly recharging as his body absorbs the rays that both give our planet life, destroy, and power our lives. Havok is able to create seemingly concussive blasts that can disentegrate or disrupt molecules in objects outside of his direct line of sight or path (bypassing a teammate for example) but doing so creates a huge drain on his stamina and is directly related to his ability to concentrate. While 'powered' up Alex is invulnerable to gunshots or other projectiles that are vulnerable to heat or melting. In addition it can be difficult for another to attack him hand to hand when he is fully using his abilities because of the heat he puts out.
History:
Alexander Summers is the younger brother of Scott, his parents being airforce pilot Christopher Summers and his wife, Katherine Anne. During a flight back from Anchorage, a Shi'ar Imperial freighter materialized above his family's plane. The Shi‘Ar wanted no witnesses, so the plane was set on fire.
With only one parachute left, Kate Summers strapped Scott into it and tied Alex to him. The parents said their final goodbyes to their children and pushed them out the plane door a moment before it exploded. Unknown to the two boys, Kate and Chris were transported to the Shi'ar craft, where they were kept as Earth specimens.
The explosion set the Summers brothers' parachute on fire. During the fall, Scott first manifested his optic beam to lessen the impact of the fall and he shielded Alex from their landing with his body. Alex and Scott were brought to an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska, secretly run by Mr. Sinister, who had registered Scott manifesting his mutant power.
Sinister believed that Scott was the Summers brother with the most potential, so he had Alex adopted away from the orphanage to both separate them and render Scott emotionally vulnerable.
Alex was raised by the Blandings, whose son, Todd, was killed in a car accident, leaving them and their daughter disturbed. They constantly tried to make Alex fit into their image of their son, which he tried to do as best as he could. When the boy who killed Todd kidnapped Alex and his foster sister, Haley, and then tried to blow up their house, Alex manifested his powers for the first time, incinerating the boy.
Sinister appeared, quite surprised that Alex’s potential even exceeded that of Scott but, unfortunately, he seemingly lacked any control over his gift. He placed psi-blocks on both Alex and Haley, causing them to forget everything that happened that night.
Alex continued to grow up, and eventually became a very good geophysics student in college. When he graduated, his brother, Scott, and his teammates among the X-men visited the campus, only to witness Alex being kidnapped by men in Egyptian garbs. As Cyclops, Scott followed and, in the Living Pharaoh’s lair, Alex used his power by pure instinct, when the Pharaoh was about to kill Scott. Still, the villain gained the upper hand again and the reason for the kidnapping became apparent.
Both he and Alex were metabolizing the same kind of cosmic energy, keeping the Pharaoh from using his abilities to their full potential. Therefore, he put Alex into an isolated containment box and the Pharaoh reached his full power, transforming into the gigantic Living Monolith. Still, Alex was able to generate a powerful plasma blast from inside his containment chamber, destroying the entire building, and disabling the Monolith. Alex believed himself to be too dangerous to be around others people, so he ran away.
In the desert, Alex was approached by the Sentinels, who had been restarted by Larry Trask. Taken to their base, Trask offered a way to control over his power. Alex agreed and was given a costume, which regulated his energy output, and the codename Havok.
To spare another captive mutant, the magnetic Lorna Dane, from being examined and tortured in Trask’s labs, Havok continued to work for Trask. Unbeknownst to him, the Sentinels went after the X-Men and, soon, the Iceman was captured too. Havok learned of the full scale of Trask‘s operation and opposed him, but they all were placed in stasis tubes. When the other X-Men arrived, they were one by one captured, only Cyclops remaining free. He managed to free his brother and, together, they blasted some of the robots, resulting in a big explosion. Cyclops dealt with the remaining Sentinels by outsmarting them with their own logic. However, Havok was severely injured by the debris.
The X-Men didn’t want to go to a common hospital, as it would have endangered their secret identities. Instead, they found the address of a Dr. Karl Lykos in Xavier‘s notes and he was eager to help. Alex was taken to Lykos‘ practice for treatment, though, in actuality, Lykos' treatment was to drain lifeforce from his victims, feeding his own vampiric urges. When he tried to absorb Havok's lifeforce, the incredible amounts of mutant energy triggered his transformation into Sauron, a pterodactyl energy vampire. Without knowing that the creature was the same doctor they had met only hours before, the X-Men battled with Sauron until his energies were depleted. Returning to his home, Lykos once more wanted to leech off Havok but was intercepted by his girlfriend, Tanya, and Alex was released with a clean bill of health.
Havok actively joined the X-Men and began a relationship with Lorna Dane, much to the anger of Iceman, who too showed a romantic interest in the magnetic mutant. While the senior X-Men were busy in the Savage Land, Havok and Lorna were approached by Xavier about the imminent invasion of the alien Z’Nox. They had never met the professor before, so they weren’t as shocked as the other teammembers, who believed their mentor dead, while he in isolation had been preparing defenses against the aliens.
Shortly afterwards, the X-Men encountered a group called the Promise. They wanted to wait for the time after the final confrontation between humans and mutants and only stepped out of their cryogenic chambers every ten years to check on the world’s status and to recruit more members. In one of these occasions, they targeted Lorna and Alex, as they had not yet been indoctrinated by Xavier and could be easier influenced. However, not all within the group agreed with the ways of leader Thomas Messenger and he was killed by Lucy Robinson, who also helped to free Alex from the chamber that would have put her in suspended animation for ten years. With the rest of the team fighting the Mole Man, Havok was the only one that could go to New York and try to aid the Fantastic Four in their battle against Namor and Magneto. Yet Alex never reached his destination, as an angry mob thought he was part of Magneto’s and Namor’s invading army and so he had his first painful confrontation with anti-mutant hysteria.
Iceman couldn’t accept that Lorna had chosen Alex over him. The two males often battled and, on one occasion, Havok lost control of his plasma burst, accidentally injuring Bobby. Shocked, Alex immediately quit the team.
A few months later, Xavier sent Lorna after him to ask him to come back. On her way to the southwestern deserts of the United States, Lorna was recognized by the Hulk, who mistook her for his former green haired lover Jarella. Once he saw his error, the Hulk felt deceived and grew angry. Before things became serious, Havok intervened and battled the raging Hulk, demonstrating a control over his abilities he never had before. Realizing that he could make it as a hero, Havok agreed to come back.
On their way back to rejoin the X-Men, the pair was captured by the Secret Empire; the X-Men did not investigate as Xavier assumed that Lorna had not succeeded in making Alex return and, instead, chosen to retire with her lover together. Only long weeks later, the X-Men became aware that more and more mutants disappeared and, finally, they rescued their friends with the help of the Falcon and Captain America.
After the X-Men’s historic battle against the mutant island Krakoa, which required the recruitment of an entire new line-up of international mutants, the original team, including Havok, left the X-Men. Alex and Lorna decided to enroll in a college in Nevada for geophysical studies but, soon after, the pair were mind-controlled by the Shi'Ar agent, Eric the Red, who gave Lorna the codename Polaris.
The Shi’Ar Empire wanted to prevent the meeting of Professor Xavier and Princess Lilandra, so Eric the Red used his pawns to battle their former teammates various times. In the end, though, the X-Men defeated them and Professor X was able to free Havok and Polaris from Eric the Red’s control.
Shortly after the X-Men departed from Scotland, Alex and Lorna too left and returned to New Mexico to complete their degrees. For a time, Polaris and Havok led a happy life, only to be interrupted by the X-Men asking them to help from time to time. Disinheartened by
the X-Men's inability to make significant progress in regard to Mutant Rights or relations with a human populace that would deny them rights, Havok came to see Magneto's view as the correct one. Even though this placed him squarely at odds with his older brother Cyclops.