Caius Messer

Caius Messer is 15 year old male mobian rat with dark brown fur. He is a psychic mutant. The majority of his early life was spent dealing with bullying, but upon the unlocking of his powers, quickly became intoxicated with his abilities.
==Appearance==
===Body===
Caius is very dark brown in fur color. He is 3'02. He has large floppy ears that hang down over his head, with a noticeable bent in his right ear. He commonly has dark circles over his eyes from lack of sleep. His eyes themselves are blue. He has a long rat tail covered in bruises.
===Attire===
Caius' typical attire is a blue T-Shirt, beige jeans, and brown running shoes with white socks. The clothes are rather small on him, and in less than stellar condition, with the jeans noticeably ripped. Only the shoes seem to be in good shape.  
==Personality==
Caius used to be a timid individual, constantly fearing a group of kids who would beat him up. His suffering was silent, however, as he feared being seen as weak for "snitching". Commonly, he would come home with injuries, and became a great liar in order to cover this up. 
However, after unlocking his powers, his mentality underwent a major overhaul. He could now get revenge on bullies as they where unable to utilize their best advantages against him; Numbers, and by extension, fear. After his revenge, he grew intoxicated to the power he attained. Even though he needed to keep his powers a secret, he wastes no oppurtunity to psychologically torture people who wronged him before.
Since then, he was been making the lives of anyone who wronged him a living hell, using a mixture of subtley and his powers to instill both paranoia and fear, as well as physically beating the worst of them. Caius is also more openly violent, to the point where it becomes a danger of him snapping. He felt notably no remorse when he landed one of his victims in a mental hospital after repeated exposure to his power.
==History==
===Childhood and Prepubescence===
Caius' childhood was relatively quiet, growing up in a town in California. He was an only child, and grew up with a few friends. His parents were rather poor, but they still managed to provide for him. He made a few friends in school, and usually had no problems; everyone in his neighbourhood supported eachother.
When Caius was 12, his father got a job in Chicago. The job was better paying, and the family had been unable to keep their home in California. While Caius did not want to move and lose his friends, his family had to move.
===Early Teen Years===
Caius moved into an apartment in Chicago. It was meant as an intermediate until Caius' family could afford a better living space. The move was especially tough on the boy, as he now needed to adjust to a new school and new people. Whiel the transition into school was smoother than it could have been, Caius found himself the target of many bullies for being the "short, weak kid."
The bullying had been rather minor at first, before mid year when things got much worse for him. The bullying became much more violent, and the offenders would usually be the same gang of kids. When Caius tried to report the bullying, little action was actually taken, and when it was, the violence would continue; worse than before, as "punishment" for Caius being a snitch.
After a few failed attempts to stop it, Caius shut himself off from the world. When his parents, asked, he told them nothing was wrong, being able to hide injuries he'd gotten for some time. His fear of the worse beating he got for snitching made him paranoid.
===Unlocking his Powers===
Caius had been seriously damaged emotionally by the constant bullying taking place. Being powerless to stop it added to the pain. Naturally, Caius' grades and quickly even his health suffered. His parents noticed, but Caius would convince them that everything was fine. 
However, things got to a fever point when the bullies targeting Caius decided to take it too far. On one April adternoon, he was dragged into an alleyway her he was very badly beaten, and nearly got his tail cut by one of the bullies. However, at this moment, Caius somehow tapped into latent psychic abilities and in kicking wildly, managed to trigger his ability and take away his attacker's biggest advantage; numbers.
In a rage, Caius managed to attack and seriously injure one of the attackers, while the others found themselves unable to help at all and fled in panic. The bully with the knife dropped it in his escape. After he calmed down, Caius realized he'd somehow stopped the bullies. While he wasn't sure at first how, he celebrated his victory, and took the bully's knife as a trophy, declaring he would never again let anyone do this to him again. He also declared he'd get his unholy payback...
Since that day, Caius slowly learned to use his powers, gaining sadistic glee from the fear and injuries he's caused as payback, most notably a cut on one of the bully's chest. Caius has also figured out the mechanics of his powers, and spares no expanse to use them...
==Powers and Abilities==
===Psionics===
*Bystander Effect Field: When Caius has an intended person to commit violent acts (whether psychological or physical in nature), he emits a powerful psionic signal that prevents anyone within an undefined range from consciously performing an action to help Caius' victim (including actions such as, but not limited too, physically trying to stop/injure or otherwise hinder Caius, protect the target from Caius, or give the victim some form of assistance through powers, psionics, magic etc. Anything that happened beforehand, however, does work, and keeps working until its effect expires.
*Paranoia Field: Anyone attacked by Caius or stopped by his field will be instilled with a sense of fear and paranoia for a few days afterward. The feeling of helplessness stays as subconscious thoughts that can only be removed with proper hypnotism, magic healing, or time.
===Super Powers===
*Enhanced Durability: Caius is much more heavily resistant to pain than a normal person. Whether this is a direct result of his latent psionic abilities, super-powers, an undiagnosed medical condition, or if he is simply is tolerant to pain.
*Enhanced Reflexes: Caius' agility, bodily co-ordination, and balance is notably greater than a normal person's. He can make maneuvers such as grinding down rails, balancing on fences or ledges, or climbing up a rocky surface much more effectively than normal. This is most likely the result of constant physical activity from trying to escape bullies.
*Superhuman Speed: Caius' running speed is much better than a normal person's. He can easily run 25 miles per hour, despite his poor physique.
Category:Rats
Category:Males
Category:Weapon User:Knife
Category:Psychic Users
Category:Characters