Santo Vaccarro

Gianna Vaccarro (Sister)

Salem Center, NY

## Background

### **1993 - 2007: Santo Vaccarro**

Santo Vaccarro is the only child of Thomas Vaccarro, an up & coming lobbyist on the Hill & Kennedy Vaccarro, a stay at home mother. His family was a conservative Christian family, forcing Santo to fit into their perfect ideal for him.

It became quite clear to Santo & his sister that their parents were unhappy. Thomas' religious values & political standing prevented him from getting a divorce so he began having affairs with various women, many which were in the news.

At the age of thirteen, Santo's skin turned quite rugged. Believing it to be some type of skin condition, the doctor prescribed him some ointment for dry & irritated skin. The medicine did nothing to help & by the end of the month, Santo's body was completely composed of rocks. Not wanting a scandal, Thomas reached out to the Xavier Institute, knowing of the place's new reputation as a safe haven & school for mutants. As means to save his political career, Santo was sent away from his family & enrolled at the institute.

## Personality

Santo Vaccarro is mostly described a bully & crude. The longer he stayed at the Institute, the more mature he became but he still has his moments. He was more of a follower, usually of Hellion's but slowly shifted to be being an equal. He is respected by his peers & usually put on the front lines given his mutation.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutant Physiology:** Santo's body is composed completely of inorganic granite. When Santo's body was obliterated by Nimrod, he was able to put itself partially back together but needed Julian's help again to fully reform. His appearance became larger & more rugged. It's hypothesized by Beast that given his experiences reforming his body after being destroyed, Santo is actually a non-physical psychic entity that can form and control a stone "golem."
	+ ***Rock Explosions & Rock Projectiles:*** Santo once was able to fire "granite projectiles" using his appendages, but now has the power to explode on command and reform himself from any surrounding rocks. His projectiles were fired with Level Five Force.
	+ ***Superhuman Strength:*** Rockslide has continuously been shown performing great feats of strength. Rockslide possesses superhuman strength. He is capable of lifting 75 tons.
	+ ***Superhuman Stamina:*** Rockslide's musculature generates less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. He can exert himself at peak capacity for at least several hours before fatigue begins to impair him.
	+ ***Superhuman Durability:*** Rockslide's extremely dense bodily tissue is considerably harder and more resistant to injury than the body of an ordinary human. He can withstand great impact forces, high caliber bullets, temperature and pressure extremes, and falls from great heights without sustaining any injury.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** Rockslide is a good hand to hand combatant.

### Weaknesses

* **Energy Blasts:** He can be split into pieces by powerful energy blasts from enemies such as Nimrod.
* **Geokinesis:** Because Rockslide's body is composed of rock or earth, he is susceptible to others who control rock materials like Magma.
* **Rock Separation:** If parts of his body are ripped off & thrown very far away they will not come back.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Energy Projection:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Fighting Ability:** Unknown

## Trivia

* Santo has very close friendships with Victor Borkowski, Cessily Kincaid, Julian Keller, Ruth Aldine & Nicholas Gleason. However, he is friendly with most (if not all) of the young mutants.
* His dream is to be a world-class wrestler.
* Santo enjoyed pizza, wrestling & french pastries. He disliked vegetables, weaklings & homework.
* He highly respects the Hulk & even pretended when he was playing "super hero battles" as a child.
* Rockslide has said he'd like to take on Brawn.

## Notes

* The original character of Rockslide belongs to the Marvel Universe.