Wolfcub

Dan Stevens as Nicholas Gleason

Name: Nicholas Gleason Codename: Wolfcub Faction: N/A Position: N/A Age: 27 Hometown: N/A Gender: Male Height: 6"2" Build: Solid Skin: Brown Hair: Brown Eyes: Grey

Details

Background

Nick Gleason was born, a mutant, to loving parents from Cleveland, Ohio. Despite being a red eye'd, slightly fuzzy child with fangs and pointed ears during much of his youth, he had a fairly normal - even idyllic - upbringing.

When he was 13, his parents were both killed in a car accident and Nick was sent to live with family who simply put did not know how to deal with him. Matters only worsened when puberty well and truly started for him and his mutation kicked into overdrive, taking him from odd looking kid to gangly wolfman over the course of three painful years. It was during his sophomore year in high school that he came to the attention of the newly opened School for Gifted Youngsters and his relieved relatives sent him there as soon as the offer was made.

After graduating from the School, Nick and several other fellow students founded a team called the Paragons, separate from but affiliated with other teams also founded by School alumni and staff. The group operated for a couple of years but this was the height of registration and after the 'Brooklyn Blitz' the team broke up from a combination of legal, social and personal pressures. Nick, unwilling to submit to the continuing rigors of registration fled 'civilized' life and headed both figuratively and literally underground.

For the next few years he lived among those calling themselves Morlocks, a valued friend and ally to some, but never really 'one of them'. When Registration ended, Nick returned to the surface and began trying to put his life back together. Finding that a few of the old team assets were being held for the team by backers - most pertinently a small office building - he convinced his former sponsors to let him take them over with an eye toward eventually rebuilding the team. To pay the bills, he began to teach a bit at the School, and got a private detective's license. These days he can just about make ends meet. It's not the life he thought he'd have before this wild ride started, but for now it will do.

Powers

• Hunter's Form: Being stuck as a big, brown wolfman does come with some advantages. Nick can lift twelve tons, is resistant (but not immune) to low velocity firearms (pistols), can run up to 40 miles per hour for several hours, has just above peak human levels of agility and has claws that can cut mild steel. Additionally, he heals injuries in about three quarters of the time regular people do.

• Hunter's Sense: Nick possesses hearing and a sense of smell equivalent to a wolf. This does not always work out to his benefit, though. See 'Humanity Stinks'.

• Canine Mind: Nick's psychology - and brain structure - are significantly different than regular people. That can be a problem - see 'Feral' - but it also means that his instincts are pretty sharp when it comes to tracking, surviving or doing things that wild animals do.

Skills

• Survival: Nick spent a good portion of registration underground with the Morlocks and the Legion of Monsters. Though he has since returned to a more or less normal life, he remains quite capable of surviving in urban and wilderness environments.

• Combatant: Nick was a professional hero for a time, and his life since then has not been conflict free. He can hold his own against well trained fighters in melee combat though anyone who might be considered elite definitely has an advantage against him.

• Private Detective: Nick is a duly licensed private detective, and is a fairly decent investigator, helped by his keen senses. A lot of his clientele are mutants and others who trust someone 'not normal' to handle their problems better than the authorities.

Advantages

• X-Alumnus: Nick graduated from the Xavier's School and teaches wilderness survival part time there. He has a few friends among the students and staff, and a few who remember when HE was a student.

• Walker in Darkness: Nick lived for a time in the Monster Metropolis and has contacts among those who call themselves Morlocks.

• Paragon Investigations: While the Paragons have not reformed and most of their team assets have since been sold off or claimed by the people who backed the project in the first place, there was enough left that Nick is able to run his PI business out of it and keep everything more or less taken care of. He may one day try to resurrect the team, since some of the original backers are still keen, but for now this is enough.

• Kit: One of the things left over from the Paragons is his old flack vest, which he has kept. Because getting shot hurts, damn it.

Flaws

• Obvious: Nick is a 6'2" brown wolfman. He is utterly incapable of blending into a crowd and that earns him negative attention of varying sorts, as well as incredibly unwelcome positive attention as well.

• Humanity Stinks: Literally. And they're noisy too. Being in a city is near perpetually distracting for Nick and he's much more sensitive to especially strong smells or loud noises than your average person, and that's to say nothing of stuff he can hear that other people can't.

• Feral: Nick's 'lizard brain' is especially strong and can put him into fight-or-flight mode if he's ever significantly mentally or emotionally compromised - say by being telepathically manipulated, distraught or even just short on sleep.

• Berserker: More than just being a bit 'wild', Nick can be pushed into a berserk rage if someone pushes his emotional buttons enough. It's not something he's likely to simply fly off the handle and do, but when it happens he is almost totally incapable of distinguishing friend from foe.

• Continuing Evolution: Nick's mutation has progressed through several stages taking him from a fairly normal looking child to the wolfman he is today. That has been accompanied by a great deal of pain and radical changes in his physiology, biochemistry and neural structure. It shows no signs of stopping too, and as changed as he is Nick worries about what his mutation might throw at him next.

Contacts

• Contact 1: Something about them.
• Contact 2: Something about them.

Gallery

Logs

2019-07-23 - The Pack Makes Things Better
Summary: Investigating in the Disaster Zone, Nick and Isis are attacked as well as make some...
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2019-07-23 - Collars and Car
Summary: Nicks teaching a wilderness class. Hank drops by. Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Tue Jul...
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2019-07-19 - Into The Sewers
Summary: Nick brings news of an abduction Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Fri Jul 19 08:00:21 2019...
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2019-07-13 - Dropped Muffins
Summary: Nick decides to find out why Isis is down. It has to do with Muffins. Log Info:...
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2019-07-10 - A Reverberating Conference
Summary: Jimmy returns Pepper's phone; Nick and Isis arrive to share information. Log Info:...
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2019-07-04 - Cat Scan
Summary: Jean drops by to see Isis. It goes swimmingly Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Thu Jul 4...
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2019-07-02 - Stolen Clothing
Summary: In the aftermath of encountering the voice box on the street, Nick seeks Isis Log Info:...
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2019-06-30 - Weirding Module
Summary: A meeting is interrupted by a Werewolf with a Voicebox. Log Info: Storyteller: None Date:...
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2019-06-28 - A Song For The Birds
Summary: This diner has gone to the birds. Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Fri Jun 28 08:15:52...
(dominant isis-marik jimmy-baxter jimmy-baxtor nick-gleason pepper-potts plot)

2019-06-27 - Section 10 Memories
Summary: Nick and Isis investigate a lab called 'Section 10'. Nick finds out a bit more about Isis'...
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2019-06-26 - It Sounds Like ...
Summary: Nick makes a resounding discovery when he goes to buy a new car. Log Info: Storyteller:...
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2019-06-23 - Unexpected Encounters of the Dream Kind
Summary: Nick waits for Isis to return from her fight with the Dream Queen. He doesn't expect what...
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2019-06-21 - Isis meet Titania in the Dream Dimension
Summary: Dream Dimension Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Fri Jun 21 03:37:49 2019 Location:...
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2019-06-18 - Dream a little
Summary: Chinese Food and a discussion about dreams, sort of, ends the day for two Paragon...
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2019-06-12 - More Man Than Beast?
Summary: A talk with Kyle doesn't go as planned Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Wed Jun 12...
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2019-06-12 - Heated Vetting
Summary: Allison arrives at Paragon Investigations for vetting for the Institute. Things get heated...
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2019-06-11 - Why Is The Ice Cream Gone?
Summary: Work never ends for the team at Paragon Investigations. Nick and Isis catch up things...
(isis-marik nick-gleason social)

2019-06-09 - Working Late
Summary: Working late gets interrupted by a newcomer Log Info: Storyteller: None Date: Sun Jun 9...
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2019-06-08 - Placating a Kitteh
Summary: Discovering a mutant, the X-Men launch a rescue mission. Log Info: Storyteller: None Date:...
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