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{{CharacterNew |NameOnMUSH=Doug Ramsey |Color=#333 |Char_id=1126 |Img= |FullName=Douglas Aaron Ramsey |Gender=Male |Species=Homo Superior |Theme=Marvel |Chartype=FC |Active=Approved |Occupation=Adventurer, Student |Groups=X-Men, Xavier's School, New Mutants |Citizenship=United States of America |Residence=Westchester County, New York |Education=Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters |Quote="Returning from death seems to have abnormally widened my perspective. I used to translate words...but everything we touch, every movement we make creates information. Everything is a language, and I translate it all." |PAge=20 |AAge=20 |DOB=13 March 2007 |Height=175 cm (5'9") |Weight=68 kg (150 lbs.) |Hair=Blond |Eyes=Blue |Actor=Evan Peters |Song=Cypher's IC Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/yb62xm8e |Profile=Douglas "Doug" Ramsey was a member of the second generation of students who passed through Xavier's school, commonly known as the "New Mutants". Unfortunately Doug was caught in a crossfire with a terrorist, and he died taking a bullet for one of his friends. He was buried in a quiet grave in Salem Center, to rest in peace...

However, recently, something seems to have disturbed this young man's grave, having dug it out. The CSI men didn't want to admit that it looks like something dug its way out of the grave from inside.

Current Player Approved: May 8, 2019

|Description=Doug Ramsey is not a terribly big guy. 5'9", can't be over a buck fifty, but he's solid. He has squared shoulders and a body that tends to the stocky with a deep chest and a wide-legged stance. Physically, he's in rude, ruddy good health. He has a bit of a babyface, wide-cheeked with a gentle chin, wide, shy blue eyes and a big smile. His hair is an incredibly thick, shaggy mop of wheat-gold hair.

He's a well-dressed nerd today, in a crisp white shirt, black suit jacket, neatly pressed black slacks, dress shoes, and a red bowtie with white polka-dots, his hair combed and well-shellacked into a thick golden swoop. He does clean up well, in a college professor kind of way. |History=Douglas Ramsey was part of the second generation of students to join Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, with a mutant power of pattern recognition which allowed him to instantly understand and communicate in any language, both written or spoken. Doug went on adventures with many of his fellow students, and was known for his precocious and adventurous spirit. In particular, Doug struck up a friendship with an alien being known as "Warlock" which was adopted and became something of a class mascot, as Warlock was a mutant himself, the only member of the alien Technarchy who had evolved to develop empathy and respect for organic life.

Unfortunately, Doug never developed martial powers like many of his teammates, and in their youthful enthusiasm they forgot about his vulnerability; Doug died a hero by intervening when one of his friends was about to be shot. He was buried quietly in Salem Center, NY.

He was resurrected when an enemy of the X-Men used the techno-organic virus he was infected with to rebuild his dead body. His role in the plan was to bypass the security system of the X-Men's base and enable an army of zombified mutants to launch a surprise attack. But Doug's friends wouldn't let go of their friend so easily, and during the battle that ensued Doug was freed from enemy control and rejoined the X-Men. Afterward, he left to go on a journey of self-discovery, seeking to solve the challenges and difficulties he had faced in his rebirth. |Personality=Doug was always a smarty, a bit of a nerd, good with computers and fond of science fiction and fantasy novels and role-playing games. But he was also possessed of a precocious, adventurous spirit, a love of his friends and a warm heart.

Death has damaged Doug a bit. Even as the experience of his resurrection has expanded his powers, he is having to re-learn how to communicate, how to sift out the overwhelming barrage of language and find what matters, and find "His" language.

But deep inside, despite the horror of his death and the agony of his return to life, he is moved more than ever by love; before he died, he sometimes wondered about his purpose in life, and what good his powers were.

Now, he realizes his life is the endless quest for understanding... and that his friends and loved ones are what make life worth living. |Abilities=PATTERN RECOGNITION
Doug's mutant ability is sometimes erroneously classified as "Linguistic Comprehension" (and indeed, that's generally how he couches it, seeing the entire world as language to be deciphered) but what it really is a high-level ability to decipher patterns that may be psionic. What Doug's power does, is actually rapid mental decryption. His brain is a lightning calculator, instantly able to study patterns and extrapolate not only their meaning, but what comes next; he can read and craft complex computer coding like lightning and understand the language of birdsong with equal alacrity.

He can instantly decode and communicate in virtually any language both oral and written, and even languages that would be completely alien to him (such as extradimensional tongues) can be broken down and mastered in the span of a few hours.

With some observance and awareness he can even examine the movement patterns of large groups and determine not only the presence of a potential disturbance but also with some active effort track down the source of that disturbance before it happens.

His ability to read body language has developed to such an acute degree that he knows what even trained combatants are going to do before they've decided to do it; his powers allow them to read their movements and give the ability to instantly decipher what they're going to do next. |Skills=ATHELETICS
Doug has the athletic ability of a human being who engages in regular, vigorous exercise.

COMBAT
"Your attack is useless. It is a dead language."

Doug Ramsey is not a trained combatant, aside from the basic self-defense courses he took before he died. He's not super-durable or super-strong or super-fast.

But his powers make him incredibly dangerous in a fight. He knows what people are going to do; he knows intuitively how he should react to it. He knows if the enemy is striking to disable or out to kill, if they're attacking out of fear or anger. Reading others, something people spend a lifetime trying to master, comes as easily to him as breathing at a level of skill they could never hope to match.

Simply put, Doug can read his enemy like a book... and skip ahead to the ending.

COMPUTER WHIZ
Doug is a world-class computer geek and hacker, both due to his experience and because of the fact that thanks to his powers computer code just unspools before him. No matter how complex it is, how detailed, it all reads to him as plain as day, and he understands how to put it together in order to achieve the desired result.

LANGUAGES
Yes. Yup. Mhmmm. Si. Ydw. Ja. Tha. Hai. Shi. That bit of fun aside, Doug is an intuitive and educated expert on languages, how they work, how they're put together, and why they evolve. As an interest, it just evolved naturally, dovetailing with his mutant power, and he is especially interested in languages from outside of the human sphere and dead languges -- even though they're not really a riddle to him, they're still fascinating.

SCHOLASTICS
Doug is an all-around mathlete, an intellectual, deeply well-read and great to have on your team on trivia night. |Resources=PARENTS
Doug's parents, Phillip and Sheila Ramsey, are still alive; they were informed that their son died in a "hunting accident." They were loving parents, and once they came to terms with the staggering implausibility of their son's resurrection, it's likely they would take him in again.

WARLOCK
Doug's best friend is the enigmatic aberrant Technarch known as Warlock. Their bond is incredibly close, but Warlock has moved on in the interim since Doug's death, to seek his own destiny. But their closeness is something that cannot be disputed; the two were happiest in one another's company, and it is a given, if Doug needed his buddy, Warlock would come to the rescue.

XAVIER'S SCHOOL
Doug was a student at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters; he's part of a family. He can go to them for shelter, he can go to them for help, and if at all within their power (which it most certainly is) they'll give him shelter and aid. |Weaknesses=DEAD MAN WALKING
Doug Ramsey died. He straight-up died, his parents buried him, his friends mourned, and then life moved on. He remembers being shot, he remembers dying, and he remembers waking up, breathing the stale death-laced air in his rotten coffin and then clawing his way through rotten wood and soggy grave earth, and then reeling under the sensory input of the world around him. The experience has left him deeply traumatized, and it may take him a very long time to come to terms with it.

TECHNORGANIC VIRUS
The truth of Doug's resurrection lies in the fact that his frequent intimate proximity to his friend Warlock led to Doug developing a slow-burning infection of the Technorganic virus the Technarchy uses to corrupt organic matter and incorporate it into their collective. If Doug hadn't been killed, the virus may well have destroyed him anyway. His death, however, and the fact that Warlock was himself an aberrant Technarch caused the virus to mutate; it was then used by an enemy of the X-Men to physically rebuild Doug's body and then control him. After his friends were able to free Doug, the virus went into remission -- if asked about that, he says "he asked it to, nicely." The Technorganic virus is extremey dangerous, and while there is not enough traces of it left in Doug's system to be contagious, he has felt its touch and it may have other surprises for him in the future. }