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Age: 19
Gender: Male
Appearance: 5'8", dark hair, pale skin, scrawny. Always tends to wear clothes that are big, but he doesn't look like some gangster punk.
Personality: Arnold is a schemer, and his outward facade reflects that. Inside is a man who is constantly thinking, very paranoid, very angry, yet fighting with his conscience about what is good and what is bad. Arnold is a very caring person (WAY WAY WAY WAY) down, but his constant struggle to survive and his greed have overshadowed his want to not be selfish.
Strengths: Arnold is very clever. He should be so, because he's been scheming people most of his life to get money. He also has the power to heal people, only later to find out that it's actually just a small talent he can do. Arnold has what he describes as "Sticker Cells" that help him bind to and adapt to any surface and any element. The power of healing comes from his ability to manipulate the cells of the people he touches into whatever he wants those cells to do, making him able to even get rid of cancer.
Weaknesses: Putting too much energy into his power is lethal for him. He can only stand so much at one time, and each time he uses his power (intensly, in the case of a physical fight or escaping and such) it takes it's cost out on his body. Putting too much strain on his sticker cells will cause them to start eating away each other until his brain is consumed (since it would be the first thing to go do to the probability that the cells will attack the nervous system first)
Bio: Arnold Mason was born to an unwed teenage mother on May 15, 1990. Due to an unconcious channeling of his power, his sticker cells attached themselves to the walls of his mother's stomach, and when the doctors had to pull him out, he inadvertently killed her. It was a strange, fantastic marvel, and it baffled the surgeons when an autopsy was performed on the mother. Linda Mason had dictated to her mother, who ended up raising Arnold, that Arnold would be his name, after her father. Garnetta Mason never had the heart to tell her grandson about his mother's death, as the strange facts of the entire case and the fact that she died could've messed Arnold up for the rest of his life. Instead, she told Arnold that she was his mother, and Arnold grew up in her home never suspecting a thing, and never channeling his dormant power.
When Arnold was nine years old she passed away of old age. On her death bed she made her lawyer tell Arnold the truth. She then had her lawyer put him in an orphanage. After she died, her lawyer instead found Arnold a foster home. Arnold was troubled, and the lawyer couldn't bear to take him to a place like an orphanage.
Arnold Mason was taken in by Mr. and Mrs. Dodson, and they loved Arnold and took good care of him for as long as they could. However, the Dodson's son Brian was jealous, and took every opportunity to humiliate Arnold. This included beating him up, having his friends hold him down while he spit snot into his mouth, putting broken glass into his eyelids, etc. One day, Brian tried to do it again, but Arnold wouldn't have it. Brian had his friends hold Arnold down while Brian took out a butcher's knife from the drawer, intent on giving Arnold a nasty cut down his middle. Suddenly, Arnold, in defense, threw his hand up against Brian's face, meaning to push him away. Instead, in his anger, Arnold finally conciously channeled his abilities, causing the cells in Brian's face to realign, rendering him blind. Arnold then packed up a few things and ran away from his foster home, away from people he came to love and away from Brian Dodson. Arnold was 15.
For the next four years, Arnold came to understand that he was different, special, and able to heal/cause maladies. He got a job as a patient transporter at a hospital in New Justice, where he learns about sick people and offers them and their families his healing services. Of course, he does it for a fee. The people he heals often only trust him when he manages to do something a little more minor, like heal cuts and bruises. Needless to say, aside from his work, he's got some pretty good savings going on.
This is where we find Arnold at the beginning of Sagas.
EDIT: On how Arnold recieved his abilities before he was born: The simple explanation is that he inherited it from his mother. Linda Mason agreed to have Eden Corp. pull a few simple experiments on her in exchange for them paying for her hospital bills. Only a certain number of people in the Sagas universe have the right sort of cells to react to serums and radiation put into them through Eden Corp.'s experiments. Linda Mason didn't have the right sort of cells, but the chemicals laid dormant in her body and eventually rewrote baby Arnold's genes.
Edited by TheAvengerButton, 04 January 2010 - 02:45 AM.
