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Real Name: Douglas Ramsey
Occupation: Student, adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. Citizen
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Unrevealed
Base of Operations: X-Men Mansion, Westchester County, New York
Past Group Affiliations: New Mutants
Known Powers:
Linguistics: Cypher is a mutant with an Incredible facility for translating languages, whether spoken or writ ten, and human or alien in origin. His superhuman skill also extends to his great talent in deciphering codes and computer languages. Cypher’s skill is such that once was able to make great headway in translating the written language of an extraterrestrial race in a matter of minutes.
Cypher’s mutant talent for translating differs from the translating ability that a human who is a genius n this field, yet not a mutant, possesses, even though both people might achieve similar results with any given translation problem. Cypher’s mutant talent is an intuitive one which works on a subconscious level, and which may, in part, be related to telepathy. A non-mutant human, even a genius, would have to work out a translation consciously, step by step. Rather than working the problem out step by step, in his conscious mind, Cypher instead subconsciously solves the problem. Hence, Cypher can reach the correct solution by means that appear to be leaps of logic, and he himself may not consciously be aware of the entire process by which he reached the correct translation.
Talents:
Computers (Hardware and Software)
Contacts:
X-Men, New Mutants
Role-Playing Notes:
Doug is a good, clean all-American kid who used to feel left out because of the purely intellectual nature of his power. Now that he and Warlock have devised a hybrid form, he sees more action. He used to have a crush of Kitty Pride, but is now more interested in Betsy Braddock.
History:
Douglas Ramsey was a teenage friend of Kitty Pryde, who, as Shadowcat, is a superhumanly powerful mutant belonging to the X-Men. Ramsey shared Pryde’s interest in computers and video games, and they became close friends. Although Pryde’s expertise with computers was a result of her own natural (but not superhuman) genius in that area, Ramsey had a particular knack for deciphering both human and computer languages that was the result of a mutation with which he was born.
Both Professor Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men and the New Mutants, and Emma Frost, the White Queen of the Hellfire Club, learned that Ramsey was a mutant. Frost offered Ramsey a scholarship to her Massachusetts Academy, hoping to induct him into the Hellions, the team of adolescent mutants which she trained there to serve the Hellfire Club’s secret criminal purposes.
Ramsey went to the Academy for his final admissions interview accompanied by Pryde, who suspected the Hellfire Club’s intention of recruiting her friend. At the Academy, the White Queen captured Pryde, who was later rescued by the New Mutants and thus Ramsey did not end up attending the Academy.
Although Ramsey became a friend of the New Mutants, he did not know that either he or they were mutants, and they concealed their superhuman powers and costumed identities from him. Finally, one night when both Xavier and the X-Men were away from the mansion that serves as their base, the techno organic alien being known as War lock arrived and, confused and terrified, found himself battling the New Mutants. Seeking to communicate with the alien, the New Mutants summoned Ramsey and revealed their costumed identities to him. Ramsey succeeded in initiating communications with Warlock, and shortly afterwards both Ramsey and Warlock became members of the New Mutants. Ramsey was code named Cypher, for his ability to decipher languages.