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Real Name: Gilbert
BensonAlias: Proteus 2
Occupation: Energy being/child
Legal Status: Citizen of Scotland (legally dead), minor Citizen of the United States (presumed dead)
Identity: Unknown to general public
Place of Birth: New York City/Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Erika Benson and Moira MacTaggert (mothers); Joe Mac Taggert (Proteus’s father, deceased); Gilbert’s sister (name unrevealed)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Reality Warping: Proteus II possesses the Unearthly ability to reconfigure its surroundings into whatever shape and nature it desires. Proteus uses this power to alter the direction of gravitation pull in an area, cause structures to un ravel into their component parts, turn the air into ground, etc. His only limits are that he can not will things to simply cease to exist.
Proteus can affect either individual objects or a sphere 50 miles in diameter, whose radius doubles every hour. It can also choose not to affect individuals or groups within this area. At one time, it used this ability to turn the city of Edinburgh (and its inhabitants) into geometric constructs, and also intended to reshape the entire planet.
Flight: When not possessing a body, Proteus II can levitate off the ground or fly at Typical speed.
Invulnerability: Proteus II possesses Unearthly resistance to all physical and energy attacks. Unlike its predecessor, Proteus II has no weakness to metal.
Possession: The Proteus energy can possess bodies with Monstrous Ability, enabling Proteus to briefly exist in human form. If Proteus attempts to possess someone, he must roll a green FEAT or better to succeed. The would-be victim then has to make a better Psyche FEAT roll than Proteus to survive (e.g., if Proteus scored a yellow FEAT, the victim needs a red FEAT). If the victim fails, its life-force is consumed and its memories subsumed by Proteus. A victim with Monstrous or better Psyche cannot be possessed. Proteus usually consumed the bodies he possessed within a matter of hours, leaving a burnt-out husk, re turning Proteus to his energy state.
Telepathy: Proteus II had Amazing rank telepathy.
Limitation:
When not possessing a physical body, Proteus exists as an energy form unable to physically manipulate objects.
Talents:
Proteus II has no known talents.
Contacts:
As well as his two “mothers,” Proteus II is known to the X-Men, X Force, and New Warriors.
Role-Playing Notes:
The original Proteus was a brutal killer who lived only to possess other bodies. After years in a disembodied energy state, it was resurrected and bonded to the abused child Piecemeal. This new being, known as Proteus II, had a different outlook on life.
It was unhappy about its resurrection and bitter toward both its “mothers” (En ka Benson and Moira MacTaggert) whom it believed had treated it callously—Benson by abusing it physically and mentally, and MacTaggert by keeping it locked away as a prisoner in Muir Isle. But unlike the first incarnation of Proteus, Proteus II was not actively malevolent or cruel—it just wanted a bet ter life, and didn’t feel it owed anything to a world it felt had betrayed it. Unlike the original, Proteus II was willing to talk and listen to reason.
History:
See the combine history of Harness and Piecemeal