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Real Name: Takeshi Matsuya
Occupation: Student
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no criminal record
Identity: Taki's abilities as a mutant are not known to the general public
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mother and father (unidentified, deceased), uncle (unidentified)
Base of Operations: St. Simons Academy, New York City, New York
Past Group Affiliations: Ally of the "X-Terminators"
Known Powers:
Transmutation: Taki possesses the mutant ability to transmute metal, plastic, glass, and rubber into any shape or form that he can conceive with Remarkable ability. Anything that Taki creates has Remarkable statistics: a gun would do Remarkable Force or Energy damage, a helicopter would have Remarkable Air Speed. Taki cannot create objects out of thin air: he must have something to work with. Normally he uses his own wheelchair for transmutations, but he can alter other objects. The only limitation his transformations have is that energy must be supplied. The battery in his wheelchair only has enough power to provide the equivalent of Typical lifting strength. Other objects will have Strength equal to their own weight. Taki can create generators that refocus energy from other sources, such as the mutant Boom-Boom's Time Bombs.
Since the events of Inferno, Taki has lost much of his power and now he can only create objects that he can imagine in detail. For instance, he would have to know how to design a computer to create one. This will normally necessitate a Yellow or Red Reason FEAT roll, although simple objects (such as wheeled vehicles, simple projectile weapons, etc.) may require either a Green FEAT roll or no roll whatsoever based on the simplicity of the object in question.
Equipment:
Wheelchair: Taki lost the use of his legs in an automobile accident and is unable to walk. He normally moves around in a wheelchair that has Typical ground speed, Good material strength, and Poor control.
Weakness:
Dyslexia: Taki suffers from dyslexia, which requires him to make a Yellow or Red Typical FEAT roll to read, and a Feeble Yellow or Red roll to write.
Talents:
Despite his youth, Taki has the Physics, Computers, Electronics, and Repair/Tinkering skills. He is also skilled at constructing vehicles of any sort, and receives a + 1CS there as well.
Contacts:
Taki is close friends with the mutants Leech and Artie Maddicks, and has helped the other members of the "X-Terminators." X-Factor has taken him under their wing because of his mutant status and efforts to thwart Inferno.
Role-Playing Notes:
Originally, Taki had a large chip on his shoulder and considered himself superior to his fellow students and teachers alike. He does want friends, however, and has become close pals with Artie and Leech. He tends to be overconfident, and is not as experienced a fighter as he would like to think he is.
History:
Taki is the son of Japanese-American citizens who were killed in an automobile accident when he was about six. That same accident cost him the use of his legs. An uncle took him in, but viewed him as a burden and shipped him off to St. Simons Academy for Pre-Adolescents. That same uncle felt a responsibility to attempt to have Taki healed, but the efforts of various doctors proved useless.
At St. Simons, Taki encountered the mutants Leech and Artie Maddicks who had
been sent there by X-Factor. At that time the demon N'astirh had been sent
to Earth by S'ym to find children of power. Leech and Artie were kidnapped
and Taki's mutant power manifested for the first time when he transformed his
wheelchair into a battlewagon to fight the goblins. His inexperience and
Leech's power-nullifying abilities allowed him to be defeated and the goblins
escaped.
When the teachers refused to believe his story, Taki called in the other
youthful protégés of X-Factor (Rusty, Skids, Boom-Boom, and Rictor).
Together they traveled to New York City but Taki was kidnapped by
N'astirh's goblin minions. N'astirh believed that Taki could create a
computer that could handle the magic spells which N'astirh needed to open a
gateway between Limbo and Earth. Taki was able to, but stalled for time
until the X-Terminators could arrive and rescue the babies that N'astirh was
using to open a pentagram to Limbo.
In the final confrontation between N'astirh and S'ym, N'astirh allowed himself to be infected with the trans-mode virus which affected him in a way so that he could use Taki's computer whereas previously his demonic nature prevented him from doing so. In a last ditch effort Taki caused the computer he had created to revert back to normal. N'astirh, who was linked to the computer, was completely obliterated.
This effort cost Taki some of his power, limiting his abilities to transmute non-organics. He, Artie, and Leech returned to St. Simons where Taki is still attempting to overcome his dyslexia while perfecting his abilities.