Когти и Марвел

Canon/Original: Canon, http://www.comicvine.com/hellion/29-40454/

Codename: Hellion.

Real Name: Julian Keller.

Nickname:  None (as far as I know).

Age: 17 (or so).

Gender: Male.


Appearance: Blue-eyed, dark-and-long-haired tall guy (comicvine says his height is 5’ 10’’). Athletic build due to special trainings at Xavier’s. Has side-whiskers. Lost his hands and partly his forearms during events of Second Coming, thanks to Bastion’s Nimrods. Still he is often referred as "pretty boy” (Owl, some guys from Sapien League, maybe Kimura).


Clothing: Everyday clothing usually consists of T-shirts and jeans, not infrequently baggy (standard teenage set);  shirts are also acceptable. Combat/training gear is mostly drawn in old good red variant (Hellions’ uniform with black and/or white parts such as X-es and stripes, contains T-shirt, pants, Grinders-looking red boots, jacket, fingerless gloves) and in black and yellow Messiah Complex variant. There was also Superman-trousers-looking version of the last one, but let’s talk about something else.

Powers: High-leveled telekinesis which lets him move objects (himself as well) at high velocity, project bursts, create TK-shields.

Weakness: His TK does not protect him from vibranium bullets (see NXM v2, Crusade), so adamantium (and carbonadium, too, I guess) is also a grave threat for him. Ultrasonic devices can be used against Hellion, too, since they "turn brain to mush” (NXM v2, Mercury Falling).

Personality: So overconfident © Kimura. He also acts very arrogant sometimes, and that causes him serious troubles. Our guy is known as a womanizer (you know, dancing with all three Stepford Cuckoos at the School Ball and telling his almost-or-already girlfriend Sofia that "You know, there used to be five of them” isn’t that nice), troublemaker (Cyclops said it aloud in the Haunted arc of NXM v2) and rebellious bad boy (see tvtropes for more interesting info). However Julian is kind to his friends (e. g. Brian Cruz aka Tag… who is dead now, Cessily Kincaid aka Mercury, Sooraya Quadir aka Dust) and not just in words only (he and X-23 rescued Cessily from Facility in Mercury Falling arc, also he saved both Noriko and Laura during their battle with Nimrod in NXM v2, etc). And the most interesting part is his relationship with Laura Kinney known as X-23. In Children Of X-Men arc he told Sooraya that he "can’t stop thinking about a girl who literally scares me”. Also they were referred as each other’s boyfriend/girlfriend for several times (Owl and Kimura in NXM v2, Mercury Falling, Kimura in X-Force v3, Not Forgotten, Santo in X-23 ongoing, The Killing Dream) and (sic!) they both did not confirm nor deny it. Most of HeliX (Hellion/X-23) fans believe that these two have some kind of romantic interest in each other.


History: Julian is a Los Angeleno, was "born and bred” in a rich family (his parents were not that rich back in the years but worked their way out of poverty, major thanks to Kingmaker, see Hellions mini-series). He has always been a black sheep and a troublemaker (especially as against his elder brother James), so I believe his mom and dad sighed with relief when he was sent to Xavier’s. At the Institute he continued making lots of troubles, countless friends and enemies. He made Northstar’s (who was his mentor then) heart bleed as Jean-Paul once said, but the boy kept on getting himself in troubles. He then transferred to Emma Frost’s squad, Hellions, and Emma allowed him to take codename "Hellion” ("Wait, are we "Hellion and the Hellions” now?”, as Santo said). She saw a (great?) potential in him, and Julian became a charismatic leader of the strong squad which later has won numerous prizes at school field days and other major trainings. His squad and New Mutants have had countless encounters (one involved rescuing Wither from FBI) though he had a certain relationship with New Mutants’ co-leader Sofia Mantega aka Wind Dancer ("I like you, Sofia, and don’t like your friends”, he said). These were the sunny days of these young mutants, but then one person (namely Scarlet Witch) said just three words: "No more mutants”, and that marked a dawn of a new era of Craig Kyle and Chris Yost. Wind Dancer, Prodigy, Tag and countless others lost their powers, Wither withered Wallflower’s wrist by a tragic accident, there were seas of sorrow and oceans of tears. That is the time when Laura came to school (thanks to Wolverine for that magnificent "Consider yourselves introduced”), when there was no more squad system, when a new New X-Men team appeared (consisted of Hellion, Dust, Mercury, Rockslide, Elixir, Surge, and X-23 whom included Scott Summers himself), when David shown guys Danger Cave built by himself (there was that crowning moment when Laura killed all the hellspawn things that were attacking Hellion, and Nori laughed: "Aww, she’s sweet on you, Keller”), when Sofia and Julian broke up (he so shouldn’t say mean things about David being human), when a rocket stroke a bus full of leaving former students who had not even been mutants by that time, when Matthew Risman sniped Laurie Collins right in front of her boyfriend Elixir, when Stryker and his Purifiers attacked the Institute… Then they fought Nimrod (super-Sentinel from the Future), but Laura was seriously injured so her healing factor could not handle it; Julian had to take her to Elixir who was in the Institute, almost half-world away, and Emma Frost had telepathically removed barriers from Hellion’s mind which were responsible of restraining his power from full usage. Another epic moment after Laura’s been healed by Josh; Keller: "I… I knew you could save her…” (black out). Then there was Whatever Happened To Wither arc where Laura was sitting in Keller’s room and watched him sleeping. When he mumbled "Sofia…” she arched her eyebrow and was already gone when he suddenly woke up. And there was epic kiss between Kevin and Selene (who is, like, 3000 years old? Oh, man). In Mercury Falling he first met Kimura and was totally shocked by the way Laura was dealing with Facility agents while they were tracking Cessily. In Quest For Magik he was talking to Nori about Kimura and about Laura who "is totally messed up” just at the time everything exploded and all the kids sucked to Hell (to Limbo, to be precise). After not a long time X-kids gathered in drawing room again, trying to find out who is the youngest mutant (which equals "who is going to die next”). And Surge, who wanted David to leave the school (for his own sake) VERY badly… kissed Julian in front of Prodigy (and all the other kids). David was very upset but didn’t leave, Julian was very-very upset, too, and Laura stormed off the room and cut herself heavily in girl’s shower room. The other day, though, it was like "nothing happened”. During Messiah Complex events Hellion got shishkabobbed by Lady Deathstrike (who then had been cut to pieces by X-23: "You were dead the second you touched Julian Keller”) and lapsed into a coma.

He woke up only to find out that X-Men are disbanded and "everyone is taken care of, just like you here” (X-Men: Divided We Stand). When Julian started screaming at Frost that she is, again, taking from him everything he had, she’d just put him to sleep telepathically. When he woke up for the second time, there was no Emma Frost here. And everything’s been paid for by Worthington. And our guy was all alone… so he made a decision. He came to an old enemy of the X-Men, whose name is Erik Lensherr (Magneto, Master of Magnetism), offering his help/powers/etc, but Magneto just turned him down saying that "You love them so much you want to hurt them”.

Unfortunately, it is unknown to me how Julian finally joined X-Men in their new home in San Francisco during Secret Invasion.

He also appears in X-Force #13 along with the other mutants (Surge and Boom-Boom) abducted by Leper Queen and her Sapien League. They’ve been injected with modified Legacy Virus but X-Force rescued kids after Messiah War arc (but they also lost Laura, hello again, Kimura).

Hellion played a role in the Utopia crossover beating Simon Trask , crying "These streets belong to the Future”, being slapped by Emma Frost In Black Dress and kicked by Daken The Dark Wolverine, being captured by Dark X-Men (Osborn’s variant) and HAMMER soldiers.
And then there’s Second Coming, where Bastion’s armies are just wiping mutants out of the Earth’s face. Hellion fought among his fellow mutants and, after taking down several drones, got struck by robot’s disintegrating ray which caused his loss of hands and a part of his right forearm. Laura was really sad.

Later, in X-Men Legacy and New Mutants he is all bitter and makes comments on that Hope is wondering why all around think that she is dangerous. In Fables Of Reconstruction arc Kavita Rao is telling him how to use gauntlets (artificial hands) which Madison Jeffries designed for him, and Julian then just screams "Enough!” destroying her lab in one single telekinetic burst. Kavita was very, very mad at him, said that he is selfish and that she was trying to help him, but he just replied "I didn’t ask for your help”. When Rogue came to "collect Julian”, Kavita asked her to "get him far, far away”. Then a group of mutants headed to San Fancisco to help people rebuilt the part of the city which has been destroyed by Nimrod Sentinels. While they all were working (Keller laughed at Hope who was using a shovel instead of her powers) there was an accident which led Omega Sentinel to lose self-control. And when Karima was on her way to kill off Hope and a little human girl Julian made his move beating her (Karima) down with a telekinetic wave ("TeKe Force” as he said, George Lucas frowns). He almost killed her, so after that he had a conversation with Cyclops who said that Keller is on probation now and if anything happens he will be either kicked off from Utopia or dealt with at X-Brig.

After None So Blind arc there appeared Age of X universe where Hellion is one of the five Force Warriors who build up force shields every day to protect Fortress X from human attacks.

And Julian has also been stabbed in the back by Hellverine in the X-23 ongoing series just when he was saying something like "Laura, you’re my best friend” (better it’d be "Laura, I love you” but… that’s how it happened).

Team Affiliates: Student.

RP Sample:

Kate Ashton was making her way down the quay and enjoying fully all the treasures of this world, such as sun which was shining in the deep blue sky and coloring the sea with pretty white sparkles, refreshing wind and the ocean waves crawling over the shore, when she suddenly noticed a boy – or more exactly a young man – sitting on a concrete barrier with his hands in pockets. He was observing a measured continuous movement of water, still he didn’t look content. Or happy. Or anything. How there could be such a sullen man in this beautiful shiny world where her heart was singing and her soul was filled with joy? So the girl sat down by his side.

-          Hi, I’m Kate! – She beamed with delight. – What’s your name?

-          Julian, - the guy muttered.

-          Nice one! – She exclaimed. – Why so serious?

-          Pardon?

-          Why are you sitting here all alone and gloomy when the world’s longing for you to make it scream with joy?

-          Oh, maybe that’s because the world actually hates me and I don’t want to see anyone of my so called "friends” and I’m not even allowed to be right here? – Julian hoped with all his heart that such a harsh answer would make this girl go away, but… she laughed. Oh, God, am I forsaken now?

-          What’s so funny? – He frowned.

-          Ah, haha, I… I think you’re lying. Things can’t be that bad, it’s just the way you see them. Or you just don’t want to tell me what you’re doing here. Come on, I can keep a secret!

-          Well, maybe, - Julian became thoughtful. – Indeed I am solving a strange problem here.

Kate was all ears. Her eyes widened and she leaned closer to not miss the most interesting part.

-          Once I was walking here and suddenly saw something in the water. First I thought that someone is drowning and as there was no one to cry for help I rushed to that person. But it came out that no one was drowning. It was a beautiful girl; she was cold and charming at the same time. She stepped out from the water and stood in front of me; then she reached out her hand, touching my forehead, and laughed; I’ve never heard such a lovely laughter. Then she turned around and disappeared among the waves. I’ve been waiting for her in vain ever since. She never came back.

-          Wow, - Kate whispered in a small voice. – It the most fascinating story I’ve ever heard.

Suddenly Julian burst into laughter.

-          Why are you laughing? – The girl arched her brow.

-          Because I lied, - was the answer. – You only believe in what you want to. And you want to be cheated. So when I said the truth you only laughed at me. When my speech was all rot you were all attention. People are always satisfied with lies and always want to throw rocks at the one who’s telling the truth. That’s it.

The young man then jumped to his feet and stormed off, leaving Kate all adrift.

 - What a nasty guy, - she said finally, but there was no one around to tell her that Julian Keller has been not such a kind person lately. She sighed.

Previous RP Experience: About three years already, but only at forums where people speak in Russian. Used to play such characters as Hellion, X-23, Kimura.

Sourced From: http://www.comicvine.com/hellion/29-40454/ and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/X-MenOtherTeams and comic books =)

UPDATE 3 апреля 2011.

Пришлось переписать биографию, ибо большей части событий из комиксов на ролевой ещё не происходило, получился такой вариант (почему-то иногда возникают глюки и знаки препинания отображаются неправильно)

History: Julian is a Los Angeleno, was Уborn and bredФ in a rich family (his parents were not that rich back in the years but worked their way out of poverty, major thanks to Kingmaker, see Hellions mini-series). He has always been a black sheep and a troublemaker (especially as against his elder brother James), so I believe his mom and dad sighed with relief when he was sent to XavierТs. At the Institute he continued making lots of troubles, countless friends and enemies. Julian and Josh Foley were the ones responsible for MagmaТs awakening (after the said awakening she burned the whole infirmary to the ground). He made NorthstarТs (who was his mentor then) heart bleed as Jean-Paul once said, but the boy kept on getting himself in troubles. He then transferred to Emma FrostТs squad (it was the same time Frost told him that his friend Elixir has been one of the Reavers once, another anti-mutant organization; after that guys smashed each otherТs faces), Hellions, and Emma allowed him to take codename УHellionФ (УWait, are we УHellion and the HellionsФ now?Ф, as Santo said). She saw a (great?) potential in him, and Julian became a charismatic leader of the strong squad which later has won numerous prizes at school field days and other major trainings. His squad and New Mutants have had countless encounters (one involved rescuing Wither from FBI) though he had a certain relationship with New MutantsТ co-leader Sofia Mantega aka Wind Dancer (УI like you, Sofia, and donТt like your friendsФ, he said). Also that summer Hellion and his squad moved to his house in Los Angeles for a vacation, got in trouble with airport security and then with JulianТs parents since heТd made a call involving their connections and, as his father told him, УYou dragged our names through the mud todayФ. AndЕ theyТve reworked their will so all the family business and money are inherited by his elder brother James. So he decided to find out some Уillegal thingsФ that can help him fight the situation since his parents earned their money and УNo one gets that rich. That quickФ. ThatТs how Hellions met the Kingmaker, who offered a wish for each one of them. JulianТs was of Уfortune and gloryФ which he got soon but for a short while. Guys needed to pay their price for getting things theyТve wanted most. And the price came out as stealing some case from Paladin and Diamondback; after receiving said case Kingmaker revealed it to Hellions that it contains some sort of bio-weapon and that it will be soon handed to Dr. Octopus himself. Guys were displeased by that fact but yet УA dealТs dealЕ Signed and deliveredФ. Well, then Julian asked Kingmaker to destroy the papers and cut them loose from their deal and when it was done our funny little heroes tried to get the case back. And Kingmaker wiped the floor with them. The rematch, however, turned out completely different, and Nick Fury of SHIELD finally got the case; sadly (uh-huh), computer files got damaged during the fight and Kevin FordТs power made the bio-weapon inert (УAccidently, of courseФ). But Emma Frost was proud.

Тоже не подошёл, ибо в их реальности Эмма Фрост не была директрисой Института, соответственно, сказали лучше расписать о том, как он попал в Академию. Но про это мало что известно, так что пришлось дыбать инфу по Новым Мутантам 2-го тома.

Hm, well, I think there's not too much to tell about that certain period of time. It is known that his powers manifested during puberty. His parents didn't abandon him or anything, but send him to Xavier Institute as he refused to keep his powers hidden (his father William repeated it in Hellions #1). His first appearance was in New Mutants volume 2 #2 and by that time he had already been a student.

И потом ещё

I've run through the pages of New Mutants volume 2 and finally found some extra info on Julian.

So, as I said, his powers manifested during puberty (by that time he was already a black sheep to his family, always causing them troubles just to impress them or in try to get their attention, according to NXM Yearbook), and his parents told him that his TK can be easily hidden and so he should just not... make himself known and show everyone what he is capable of and all will be just fine. Yet he refused to do so, and there was nothing else left for his parents to do but to send him to Xavier's. Still it was not an act of abandoning or anything; he still was a part of Kellers family, and his parents were (I suppose) glad to see him at his vacations. Maybe his brother James, too - he was not shown in any comic as I recall; there was the only one mentioning of Jimmy in one of Hellions-mini issue (I've posted already that pic where William Keller says that James is in NYC managing their bussiness, right?).

At Institute he got a bunch of friends, among them were mercury-maid Cessily Kincaid for whom he was like an elder brother, rocky guy Santo Vaccarro (another big - literally! - local troublemaker), lizard boy Victor Borkowski, with whom he was hanging around a lot (I don't know if it was already known that Vic is... a gay, oh), Josh Foley (who wasn't known to be a former Reaver by then and even hadn't had that golden skin), then there were also Brian Cruz (who finally became his best friend some issues later) and Dallas Gibson (who was not shown in the series that much). But first time we see him at the telekinetics class, trying to make a tower of small blocks in a game of Jenga. And that was the time Prof X was showing Sofia Mantega his school (and then he asked Julian to take his place in that small guide tour). By the way, he looked very upset when he was late for Northstar's flight class. But though he looked sad, too, when Sofia tried to fly and landed on one of the guys by accident, Julian was all joy when he told his peers that "This girl blew over, like, six kids!". Though he seemed to be all sweet over Sofia, he couldn't keep his mouth shut when it needed to be (like when he was already going to offer her to have a date, maybe, he managed to spoil all the thing by telling rude things about Laurie Collins, Sofia's new roommate).

Keller still didn't show any tact when he first met David Alleyne. His second phrase (after "Hi, welcome, I'm Julian") was about Kevin Ford, who was sitting next to David, and it was like "You don't want to sit here, cause Kevin has a death touch". That little conversation ended up with Alleyne suggesting Keller to shut up.

In NM #7 it is revealed (again?) that Julian is SO a troublesome person. When he told Foley that Ms. Grey gave him (Julian, I mean) a detention, Josh's question was not "What for" or anything, but "What'd you do now?", which indicates that it was so not a first time. After that the two managed to get to infirmary and woke up Magma who was in a coma. She wasn't ready for such an awakening, so the "rescue operation" ended up with exploding of the said infirmary (and Magma slipped away). Both guys recieved a detention (for Hellion it was "...an additional week after you finish your current detention"). Northstar (who was Julian's mentor that time) said that he had used up almost all imaginable punishments on Keller already. But our telekinetic tried his best to shirk his "punishment work". Like, told Northstar a sob story about how his parents don't want to see him (it was not true, as you remember) on a Parents' Day.

Later he made a request to switch his mentor (his new advisor was Emma Frost now, who was not running this school then). Jean-Paul told him that guy might make a mistake but signed the papers. So Julian asked Ms. Frost if she was going to take Josh, too, and that was the time Emma mentioned Josh was a former Reaver. That ruined everything, because Keller started a fight with Josh and their friendship... ended. Ever since Julian was being very rude towards Josh (and David, too), but he was not acting the same way towards Sofia (that didn't make her develop a crush on him or anything, though).


And I think we should decrease his age from 17 to 16 since he's sixteen in Hellions mini.

Oof, feel a little exhausted =)

UPDATE 30 апреля 2011.

And then... (пришлось выдумывать подробности его жития-бытия до поступления к Ксавьеру)

Julian Keller was born to a family not that rich. Elizabeth and William already had a son, James, five years old and were living their hard times. They both worked like a navvy but still hardly made both ends meet. Raising two sons was hard to bear for Elizabeth, but she and her husband managed to solve most of the problems to give their children proper education and attention they begged for. For Julian it wasn't enough. He has always been a black sheep, trying to impress the people around and to become the hub of the universe; he gained said attention, and wanted more and more, since his parents couldn't provide it as before anymore. He didn't know that Keller's business was about to fade away.

When Julian was ten years old, his parents' tax forms said they made thirty thousand dollars for the year, and they were into debt. A few months later his parents' company went international. He, unlike his brother James, somehow didn't notice the difference. While James plunged into his studies, Julian was making numerous friends (starting with their butler, Thomas) and foes everywhere, from his home (he hadn't had very good relationship with his father) and school to vacations and bussiness-like dinners his parent took him to sometimes. And they spent ten thousand dollars on his twelfth birthday. Still he wasn't curious about how they'd managed to earn such amount of money in such a short period of time.

Being fifteen years old, he quarreled with James, and suddenly a green neonic wave surrounded his hands, and James' desk was broken as Julian banged his fist on it. That was a shocker. But his parents and brother didn't abandon him for being a mutant and advised to keep his telekinetic power hidden. Julian liked his new powers and tried to improve controlling skills. When he refused to "seem normal", his parents made a decision and sent him to Xavier's. The boy didn't argue - first, his family still was glad to see him at home at summer vacation, second, it was a perfect chance to learn how to control his TK and "make some cool stuff with it".

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