Thread: Lotus Academy: Profiles

Name William Vulcun Smith goes by Bill School Position Freshman Age 18 Gender Male Physical Features Nothing Special House Dolphin Dorm Room Dolphin Building first floor room 103 Sexual Preference straight Powers Metal Energy Manipulation can manipulate the energy content of any metal he's touching, hot cold and electrify Abilities technical thinking, rapid analysis, technical drawing Weapon untrained, will reach for the nearest metal anything. Likes old school metal, chemistry, tinkering and repairing mechanical equipment Dislikes most art, conflicts verbal or physical Bio William lived a quiet life as the child of Robert and Elana Smith. Robert worked at a nearby steel factory while Elana worked as a waitress at a diner. Due to the long hours at both of his parents jobs William lived rather solitary life, often spending time with a baby sitter until his mother arrived home. Despite this, it was a very loving household and he was well loved by his parents. Throughout school he largely drifted beneath the radar, excelling in math, science, and history but proving deficient in writing, music, and art. Generally a rather quiet person, content to listen and write down the answers quietly, it was in high school that he blossomed. While most of his teachers remember him as the quiet bright one in the back of the room, his Shop class teacher remembers him a little differently. While his in class behavior was the same as his other classes, outside of class though he was always going out of his way to talk and converse with the teacher, not because he was having trouble, rather it was quite the opposite. William was ever curious and wanted to know more about building things. It was during high school that William discovered his latent ability. he was using a mechanical pencil with a metal body during an english test. Time was winding down and and William knowing he was not strong at writing, was feeling the pressure. Steadily thee metal body of the pencil in his hand began heating up and continued to do so until it burned him. He dropped the pencil and stared at it for a couple minutes confused and tried to pick it up again only to find it was still hot. William grabbed one of his wooden pencils and nudged it off the paper and continued on. When he got home that night he was excited and wanted to try to recreate it. As he reached for a metal rod, a bit of electricity arced from his class ring to the rod with a crack. He continued to test out his ability in secret while he was home alone after school. At least he did until he almost killed himself. William figured out that the triggers for his ability were his emotions and a focus. He also discerned that he could only do it with metal he was in contact with. One day while he was experimenting with electricity and trying to generate it in one steel rod then get it to arc to another rod in his other hand. He was successful in doing so as he heard her car pull in. For a moment William panicked, not wanting to make his mom think he was a freak, and that was all it took. The electricity that was arcing from one rod to the other reversed direction and instead of moving through the air, the electricity coursed through him and stopped his heart. His mother called an ambulance and he was resuscitated, then taken to the hospital. He was treated for electrical burns and kept overnight until he was able to confide to the doctor what had happened when his mother and father weren't going to hear it. The doctor reassured that the other burns on his hands he had acquired quite a collection by this point were not the result of abuse left him free to go. It was then that William stopped using his ability. In his off-time he researched his ability over the net and found out that while he was the only one he knew of with his odd ability, we wasn't alone in having one. As he continued through school, he often buried himself in classwork, but it still nagged at him that he could be doing something new, something different. When he got the letter from Lotus Academy, he went for it, not wanting to regret not exploring this avenue of himself while at the same time wanting to do it in a safer environment. The burn marks on his hands and arms remind him what happens when you aren't careful. Appearance Willaim stands 5'7 tall, has a slender but muscled frame, blue eyes, short brown hair, and has a number of small burn scars decorating his arms and hands with a larger electrical burn scar in the middle of both of his palms. wears leather gloves when he can to hide them.