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Character Name: Broderick "Brody" Lees (born Fred Dukes, Jr.)
Character Journal:
Physical description (face, build, weight): Brody is a slab of a human being, at about 6'10" and visibly about 350 lbs.
Age: 17
DOB: March 11, 1997
PB: Tyler Labine

Character location/Home: Xavier's Mansion, formerly Valdosta, GA
Alignment: Hero-ish
Relatives: Fred Dukes (Father, living), Carmella Unuscione (Mother, living), Efram Lees (foster Father, deceased), Susan Lees (foster Mother, living), Arlene "Arlee" Lees (foster Sister, living)

Abilities:

Hyper-defensive Form: Brody's body has mutated in such a way as to deflect or nullify nearly all forms of damage. His physiology is more malleable and durable than a baseline human, and his organs are much more difficult to injure: any poison would have to be administered in massive quantities to effect him, and he is seemingly immune to more common diseases. Most blunt or piercing attacks bounce off of him or get 'stuck' in his malleable for, and the ones that don't or are more powerful are likely to cause his rubbery form to bounce more than cause him any real harm.

Strength: With his dexterity and resistance to injury, and his incredibly durable musculature and bone structure, Brody is powerful enough to let him deadlift over ten tons currently.

Bouncing: While more of a side-effect of his other powers, Brody is able to bounce against surfaces and, using his strength and agility, direct his course to a certain extent.

Agility: Brody is remarkably dexterous and agile. He has a keen sense of balance and a strong center of gravity, related to his mutation, allowing him to pull off with ease acrobatic tricks that trained athletes a third his size and with a lifetime of training would have difficulty mastering.

Size: Brody is nearly seven feet tall and appears to weigh upwards of three hundred pounds, though since his soft tissues are much denser than normal humans he is actually much heavier.

Weaknesses and Flaws: Brody is susceptible to attacks targeting his sensory organs (sonic or light-based) and all psychic powers. Though he's resistant to actual damage, strong enough physical attacks will still cause him discomfort. Brody needs to eat over thrice the number of calories per day as a normal person to keep his metabolism going.

Personality: Brody has little idea what he's doing past his next meal, his next distraction, or his next handful of dollars and he has learned to try his best to go with the flow and see where things take him. He's never had much of a rudder in his life and due to his detached upbringing in foster care Brody has little feeling of belonging to any group or place, and secretly longs for it. Brody misses his foster father, but never really saw eye to eye with the man, and he's more inclined typically to listen to a female authority over a male one due to his closeness to his mother. He's polite, sharp without being really smart, and tries his best to control his temper, which can get the better of him. While he's often confused by the preternatural, rarely does anything really phase him, and the few friends he's made in his otherwise detached life have his strong loyalty. While not the best student, Brody is an avid reader of non-fiction and is a treasure trove of trivial information. He has very little inherent trust in authority, and as such little regard for most laws or rules that don't really entail harm to others.

Backstory: Broderick Lees wasn't born Broderick Lees; he was born Fred Dukes Jr. to the Acolyte Carmella Unuscione after a night with Fred "The Blob" Dukes. He was quickly given anonymously to the state, with his father not even aware of his existence. Brody was in foster care in South Georgia most of his young life, making a few friends with some of the other disenfranchised kids in the system but mostly keeping to himself. He lashed out some, either at other kids or his foster father, but his foster mother was a calming and positive influence on Brody and tried to keep him on the straight and narrow. He became more distant from others as his powers began to develop and his foster father died, and he quickly moved into the typical teen malcontent activities of shoplifting, skipping school, starting fights, and generally being kind of a jerk. Brody was arrested when an altercation with local members of the Friends of Humanity in an all-night diner parking lot became violent and Brody ended up hospitalizing nearly a dozen FoH members. This put him on the radar of the X-Men, and he was approached after the incident, along with the police, about transferring to the Mansion to commute any sentence from the attack.

Plans: I would like to play around with the nature/nurture, pre-destination of villainy ideas with Brody. His parents are more or less terrorists and at least Blob is unaware of his existence, but it wasn't as if he had the best upbringing to start with and he does struggle with things like power and justification and rightness. He's not exactly a typical hero, in either looks or mindset, and doesn't really understand the politics of, well, nearly any situation, so he's more inclined to be blind to nuance or what he thinks is right and may be a good counter to the more jaded or those used to the weirdness of the superhero community. Brody tries to socialize but he's remarkably bad with the opposite sex and really normal friendships overall, and is likely to hang out and just talk with people he's left around (although he'd be more comfortable reading about the history of Roller Derby or trying to fix the sink in the kitchen sink as he's rather handy).