Kevin Sidney

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

Changeling or Morph (Cryptonym, Undecided)

### Relatives

Edward Sidney (Father)
Roxy Roth (Mother, Deceased)

## Physical Description

### Childhood: 1980 - 1993

Kevin Sidney was born a fully activated mutant. Luckily, he was born at home. His mother's water broke, she felt a single contraction, and then her newborn son fell to the floor in a lump of what looked like a bloody eight pound mass of dough. When Mr. and Mrs. Sidney recovered from their fainting spell, they found a chalk-white child without a nose who would occasionally lose his form when he sneezed, burped, or had the hiccups. The parents loved their unusual child but were too scared to expose him to the world for fear of what would be done to him. They gave their little boy a name and raised him from home, only taking him out with heavy cosmetics when absolutely necessary.

Kevin's mother died from lung cancer when he was three, leaving him to be raised by his father. Kevin used humor as a coping device, often imitating things he saw on cartoons and television to attempt to cheer his father up. This imitation helped him perfect his shapeshifting ability.

The garage of the Sidney home became Kevin's personal space. Since he was not able to go play with other kids, Kevin's father stocked the garage with video games, a large television, and plenty of toys and snacks to keep Kevin entertained while he was at work. Kevin had no chores to speak of, other than helping his father wash dishes after dinner and though he had learned to read and write, he didn't do too much studying of anything. He spent his days watching television, playing video games, and practicing his shapeshifting - often by taking the form of television personalities for his own personal amusement.

For Christmas when Kevin was eleven, his father gave him a personal computer and exposed his son to the World Wide Web. Kevin fell in love. Through interactive text conversations via "chat rooms" with other users, Kevin developed his first real friendships outside of his home. He also used programs known as search engines to research "unusual birth defects". He eventually found an academic paper which Charles Xavier and Moira MacTaggert had written discussing a theoretical "X-gene" which could cause unprecedented and unlimited mutation. Kevin read the article dozens of times and showed it to his father. Edward Sidney told Kevin that this was a dead-end, but after months of considering it, Kevin decided to give us a call. Dr. MacTaggert was on the next flight.

Edward Sidney was afraid of losing his son, but after he was shown pictures of the campus and it's unusual students, and was assured he could visit his son anytime, he agreed to enroll Kevin in Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

### Gifted Youngster: 1993 - 1995

Kevin became part of Alpha Squad. Though he was well-liked by most of the students, it took him several months to come out of his shell and several more months to learn social conventions that he never had to deal with before. It was almost painful for him to realize that school was not just like he had imagined (or how it was depicted on television).

Having a deep hatred for smoking, Kevin tried to convince Raven to quit but the blue shapeshifter proved to be too intimidating for Kevin to continually harass, instead he focused on trying his anti-tobacco routine on the new groundskeeper, Logan. Physical threats didn't mean much to Kevin so Logan's usual intimidation tactics fell flat and he found this eggheaded mutant popping up regularly throughout his day.

Somehow, Kevin came to enjoy his visits with Logan and would often find himself helping the groundskeeper with his duties when he did not have to attend class. Once Kevin stopped harassing him about smoking, Logan actually didn't mind the odd student tagging along. An unlikely friendship developed, though it was mostly one-sided at first.

## Analysis

* **Mutant Level:** Kevin is a Gamma-Level Mutant with Alpha-Class projected potential.
* **Mutation: Malleable:** Kevin's entire body is composed of unstable molecules, which gives him the ability to shapeshift to a remarkable degree. His powers seem only limited by his great imagination, emotional state, and his physical mass. He can transforms body parts into just about any shape and is a natural mimic of voices and sounds. He can change the chemical composition of his body into a gas or liquid. Kevin can also change his color, stretch, contract, extort, compress, and expand his body or give himself virtually any superhuman physical power.
	+ ***Inodorosity:*** The substance that makes up Kevin's physical composition is odorless and emits zero scent.
	+ ***Augmented Strength:*** By growing additional muscles (or rather focusing his physical mass in specific areas), Kevin can temporarily enhance his strength to lift approximately 2 tons. This put severe strain on his body though and he usually has to go relax (or "ooze out") for some time after any prolonged physical lifting.
	+ ***Augmented Durability:*** Due to Kevin's unique genetic build, he can either absorb the impact of any type of man-made ballistic projectile by deforming his body along the path of its trajectory or allow it to pass through him unarmed. He is impervious to virtually any form of penetration wound and does not bleed but is somewhat susceptible to energy based attacks.
	+ ***Augmented Healing:*** Kevin possesses a healing factor that enables him to regenerate his cellular structure at an extraordinary rate and even reattach severed body parts, although he does need time to recover afterwards. If he is cut in half, his parts can be put back together and made whole or he can just reform into two smaller Kevins and then unite the two together on their own. Kevin's cellular structure makes him immune to poisons, drugs, and nearly all terrestrial diseases.
	+ ***Augmented Stamina:*** Kevin's body does not possess fatigue-building poisons within his muscles making him phenomenally durable and indefatigable. He can also survive without food or water for weeks. In fact, he doesn't need to eat what we call food (though he definitely prefers it over most alternatives). Kevin can eat (or just absorb) anything which is biodegradable to convert into his physical mass to sustain him and convert into cells to replace damaged or destroyed cells. He does still need water, though. If he is improperly hydrated, his cells loses some of their malleability and he becomes flaky and prone to cracking, with dried chunks of him falling off intermittently. It's pretty gross.
* **Expertise: Computer Whiz:** Kevin likes computers. He is not on par with what the kids call "hackers" but he knows how to "surf" the web to find information, he is familiar with how to use a database, and even knows some simple computer repair techniques. He is getting even better too now that we have given him free reign of one computer in the computer lab.
* **Background: Couch Potato:** Kevin is a pop culture guru. He has seen just about every movie from the last twenty years (at least those that had a home release to VHS) and often quotes movie lines. Kevin also knows way too much about cartoons, daytime soap operas, and late-night television.
* **Physical Imitation:** Kevin can't hold an exact imitation of a person for prolonged periods.

### Threat Assessment

* **Might:** 2 - Normal / 4 - Superhuman
* **Acumen:** 3 - Learned
* **Speed:** 2 - Normal
* **Tactical:** 2 - Normal
* **Energy:** 0 - None
* **Resilience:** 7 - Virtually Indestructible
	+ **TOTAL:** 35 / 41
	+ **RANKING:** Exceptional

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Kevin was recruited on July 19th, 1993 at the age of 13.
* His best subjects are Computer Lab and Film Studies.

### Notes

* Kevin Sidney resides in Subsidiary Reality M, within Murum Locus.
* Morph is a character originating from *Marvel Comics*.
* Kevin is a composite character of four Morphs/Changelings:
	+ Changeling, an early antagonist to the X-Men who ultimately comes to embrace Professor X's dream.
	+ Morph, an easygoing comic-relief character from *X-Men: The Animated Series*.
	+ Morph, from 1992's X-Men Adventures #1, which adapted the "Night of the Sentinels" TV pilot.
	+ A new Morph featured in the "Age of Apocalypse" crossover event, debuting in the one-shot comic X-Men Alpha. Which later debuted an alternate-reality version who first appeared in Exiles #1.
* His mother's name is a nod to his creators: Roy Thomas and Werner Roth.

## Gallery

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## Cerebro Files

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Kevin Sidney

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