Jacky Diamond

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Jacky Winters (Scenesys ID: 220)
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Full Name: John Joseph Winters
Gender: Male
Species: Mutant
Theme: Marvel (FC)
Occupation: Veterinary Assistant
Citizenship: {{{Citizenship}}}
Residence: {{{Residence}}}
Education: {{{Education}}}
Status: Dropped
Groups: Xavier's School
Other Information
Apparent Age: 21 Actual Age: 21
Date of Birth 29 February 2004 Actor:
Height: 178 cm Weight: 84 kg
Hair Color: Dark Brown Eye Color: Blue
Theme Song: {{{Song}}}

Profile

A mutant from Yonkers, Jacky found himself at odds with one Scott Summers in his teens, and was recruited to attend the school for mutants run by Charles Xavier. Graduating early at 17, he went to a veterinary school in Washington state, and returned to work with a family member as a veterinarian's assistant. Of course, that doesn't keep him from having Other Adventures on the side. He may need to get a 'supranym' somehow.

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Description

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Jacky Winters is a pleasant-looking young man, about 5'10" (178cm) and a muscular 185 pounds (84kg) with pale blue eyes, dark brown hair cut short, and a tendency to wear slightly more expensive sporty clothing.

As Diamond, his clothing is unaffected but his body (not just his skin) turns to a solid but flexible diamond composition that provides him with boosted strength, greatly enhanced toughness, and a resistance to psychic attacks.

History

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John Joseph Winters (Jacky) was born in 2004 on Leap Day. His parents met in Toronto at the New Years Eve celebration in 2001, and fell in love. They lived there for several years, then his mother vanished when he was 5 years old, simply disappearing while on a trip to pick up groceries. There was no trace, almost like she'd never been there. His father gave up when Jacky was 8 years old, moving back to Yonkers where his family lived, and in short order, took in a woman he'd met in a bar. She had four kids from previous relationships, two girls and two boys, the oldest girl a year older than Jacky, then a boy a few months older, another a year younger, and the youngest girl two years younger, not all of them sharing a father.

Jacky's father drank while she was around because she drank, not realizing that she was also giving him drugs when he was drunk. This caused Jacky and the other kids to form a close alliance to deal with the ongoing neglect and parental incompetence. She bullied each of them in different ways, but was especially cruel to Jacky when his father wasn't there to stop her. She didn't give any of the kids drugs though, because that would be likely to be found out by CPS and she'd lose her meal tickets.

When Jacky reached age 12, "freaky stuff" began happening to him. He could see things behind closed doors (like her having sex with a stranger) or hear thoughts (his younger step-brother being terrified of her sending him back to live with his birth-father who she'd convinced him would eat his skin) and soon after that, he was able to make her stop beating one of the other kids, by force of will. She realized he was a mutie freak and went to a local "church of humanity" to get help but he felt her coming with the mob and managed to escape. He was on the streets for a few weeks before his father finally sobered up and realized what was going on, and got CPS to take her kids away. They also found her stashes, and sent her to jail for various crimes. Unfortunately Jacky's father also ended up in jail and Jacky was sent to live with an uncle.

Jacky was in high-school when he ran into a young Scott Summers, who got mad at him for making another kid give him his lunch. Jacky was easily beaten despite his use of his mental power to make Scott forget him, and fled into a construction site, where he was accidentally exposed to radioactive cobalt from an earth-scanning machine. This caused his hands to turn into diamond. He hid them under gloves for a while, finally realizing what had caused it, and tried to make Scott help him get back into the construction site. It didn't work, but Jacky got in later, and exposed his entire body, becoming living diamond.

Professor X used a sonic device based off the power of another mutant to stun him, and he reverted to flesh, which allowed Xavier and Summers to subdue him long enough to convince him to go to Xavier's school where he could learn to control his powers better. He agreed, and while the "First Class" was largely not taught in the same group, the training was comparable. Jacky thrived in a school where nothing was holding him back, learning music and sports and science and (as he was now staying with his father's brother, a veterinarian) he decided that he would go to veterinary school. He graduated early at age 17, and went back to Washington State to study there on a full-ride scholarship. Four years later, he has returned with a Bachelor of Veterinary Sciences degree, and is doing additional training at his uncle's vet clinic, living in the "Mother-In-Law Apartment" behind the uncle's house.

Meanwhile, he's still using his powers from time to time. Because he has to. The powers insist on being used.

First appeared in an "Origin of Cyclops" back-story in X-Men 39-42. Jack Winters (aka Jack O'Diamonds) was a mutant, who was exposed to radioactive material, triggering a secondary mutation. Initially, he had ESP in the form of clairvoyance and telepathic abilities that allowed him to sense the presence of others, he could send strong mental suggestions to control others, and could resist and deflect Professor X's mental assaults so he could escape. He could also teleport himself or others by "separating the atoms of their bodies and recombining them at their destination." This teleporting was limited in range.

The secondary mutation caused his hands, then eventually his entire body, to become living, flexible diamond. He was immune to Xavier's telepathic attack in diamond form but still able to use his own powers at short range. However, as he tried to deliberately increase his strength and durability, the diamond became more rigid, until his struggles caused him to shatter. (Somehow, he was buried and brought back as a zombie later by Black Talon and then Necrosha, but that's silly and stupid.)

Personality

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Jacky is usually a laid-back kind of guy, happy to do the things he has to do. But when he's at work, he's a champion of the animals! And when he's partying, he's got to be the life of the party, which he is well equipped to do. And when he's bored, well. That's the risky time. When he's bored he goes out and plays with his powers. He tries to be a good guy but sometimes, well, having ESP lets him know when certain Upright Citizens aren't ... and he sometimes feels like they need to be given a bit of a slap up-side their karma.

Abilities

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DIAMOND
Jacky can turn his body into organic diamond. This is a binary thing. He's either diamond or he's not.

When he's in diamond form, he is much stronger than his (well-trained strong human) norm, able to easily lift and move around 25 metric tons (27 US tons) and with effort, twice that. His zero-range TK power remains active allowing him to lift things that would otherwise break or bend. He's practically unbreakable in that form as well, requiring at least 300 tons of force to crack his flesh -- or a properly tuned vibrational attack.

While in diamond form, his mind is completely shielded from telepathic intrusion of any kind, though like his durability, his mind-wall can be breached by a sufficiently powerful assault from someone who is touching him.

His involuntary ESP abilities, including danger sense, are blocked, though he can still use his voluntary ESP with effort and concentration. Teleportation is unaffected by diamond form.

ESP
Jacky has ExtraSensory Perception. Normally, it's under his voluntary control, when he can use it for touch- or sight-ranged perception, hearing or seeing at a distance, picking up psychometric information, picking up surface thoughts and emotions, seeing "through" solid objects (or usefully, fog) or even sensing illness or injury. He can also sense life-energy, metahuman or mutant power, magical energy, and whether a thing is alien to its environment. This all requires deliberate concentration.

However, he also has an involuntary reflex sometimes. It gives him a ten second danger sense (mostly if the danger is from someone with ill intent or is something that would injure him or someone near him - and this has included sensing the police closing in on someone). It can also give him unintentional waking ESP intrusions or break into his dreams. The intrusions in dreams are usually some sort of future-sight or a warning of something happening elsewhere that needs to be addressed. Intrusions while waking are usually due to something urgent and immediate.

TEKE
Jacky has "zero-range telekinesis" aka "touch teke" which scales with his physical strength. He has NO conscious control or awareness of it as a specific power, mistaking it for a part of his ESP. Not especially useful for large movements, it mostly permeates things and allows very fine manipulation of molecules.

SHIELD: this use of the power allows Jacky to instinctively protect someone from harm, or to reduce the effect of random projectiles, abrasions, etc. It generally kicks in only during an emergency or when his danger sense flips on.

HEALING: This power allows him to speed-heal himself in human form (he thinks it's simply meditation and bio-feedback) and when using his ESP to scan an animal or another person, he can sometimes reflexively help them to heal from injury or disease, or to ease a condition that's keeping it from recovering (like moving a kidney stone or breaking up bladder stones in a cat.) He has, once, desperately fixed his phone when he dropped it and was afraid he'd broken it. (He had, but a bit of molecular-level manipulation repaired the break.)

DIAMOND: When he's in diamond form, he can use it to repair cracks and breaks in his body, again thinking it's biofeedback to speed his normal healing. He doesn't HAVE normal healing in diamond form. He also uses it to lift things that he otherwise would have no ability to lift because of physics and the limitations of materials. The shielding effect can protect himself, things he's lifting, and other people, much more strongly than he can in flesh form.

TELEPATHY
Jacky has mid-range telepathic abilities. Like his ESP, he has voluntary and involuntary forms. He can voluntarily read thoughts, intentions, and emotions in line-of-sight or at a range of about 500 meters around himself, by lowering his mental barriers. His mental barriers are strong enough to keep out a Xavier-class telepath. He can attempt to "push" the thoughts, emotions, or actions of other people, usually only one or two, but if the emotional broadcast is simple, he can affect larger numbers. He's been known to use this during musical performances, as well as when scamming someone.

His power is strongest at touch range. If someone is touching his skin, they can get past his barriers more easily. The main exception to this is when he's in diamond form, which protects him from all but the strongest intrusions, and even those have to be done by touch.

TELEPORTATION
Jacky can teleport himself, others he's touching, or things he's touching short distances of a few hundred meters relatively easily, or up to ten kilometers to places he's currently aware of by ESP. The teleportation is somewhat tiring and he has to rest for a minute or so. He can teleport himself and others much longer distances if he's well acquainted with the area he's going to, but if it's much outside the usual range, it will drain him to exhaustion for several hours.

Skills

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BRAWL
Jacky is moderately trained as a fighter, but nothing exceptional. In his human form he is able to hold his own in hand-to-hand fighting with one or two ordinary people, but a well-trained fighter can put him out of commission quickly. In his diamond form, however, he has the strength and durability to be a "Thing" level brawler, except that the Thing is a much better trained fighter if they went up against each other. Really, Jacky needs to train better.

LIFT
Do You Even Lift - the words that sunk deep into his soul during his first year at College. He was a pretty lithe fellow at the time, but only 135 pounds (61kg) and his roomie was a football player. He ended up learning about exercise and how and why to do it, which is why he now has a borderline superhero physique even without the benefit of prolonged Danger Room torture.

MUSIC
Jacky's hobby for years has been music. He can sing well, has a pleasant voice, and can play stringed instruments of the guitar variety. His skill is enough that if he wanted to join a band he could, and he could busk for money (especially using his powers) but he's not quite good enough to be in a "real" band.

VETERINARIAN
Jacky has a Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree, which basically means he's done the equivalent of a Physician's Assistant certification for human medicine. He can diagnose illness and injury (especially with his powers) and can generally treat, or know what needs to be done to treat, the animal. He is not certified to work on humans.

Resources

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JOB
Jacky has a job as a Veterinarian's Assistant, working for his father's brother at a vet clinic in Yonkers four days a week. This provides him with sufficient income to do much of what he needs to do but not enough to buy a house or anything. As a result, he lives in a "mother-in-law" apartment behind his uncle's house, which is slightly too large to be considered a "tiny house" and slightly too small to be considered comfortable. (It's part of the job perks. If he leaves the job he has to give up the house.)

LOOT
Jacky has personal savings of about two years' income, from busking, saving his work income, and occasionally doing "jobs" for random people he runs into when his ESP tells him to go to a particular place and talk to a particular person who needs something.

He also owns a nice acoustic six-string guitar, a nicer twelve-string guitar, an average mandolin, and a banjo that needs repair. He has a portable amp and some acoustic-mikes for the instruments as well.

He has one very good suit and a bunch of average-quality clothing and a "special" bodysuit made of a highly durable adaptive material that was part of his graduation present. It's black and is not spandex even if it acts like spandex.

MURDERCYCLE
Jacky has a fast motorcycle and appropriate body armor for driving it. Room for one passenger holding quite tight.

Weaknesses

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FATHER
Jacky's father is in prison. He was released while Jacky was away at school, but ended up working with a car theft ring when he got out because he wasn't able to get honest work, due to an alcohol problem that hit him as soon as he was out of jail. Jacky loses his temper with his father rather easily, which isn't really fair - the Evil Woman actually deliberately addicted him to drugs and alcohol - but who says emotions are fair?

SONICS
In his diamond form, certain frequencies of intense sonic attacks can cause Jacky to "ring" in sympathy which will render him immobile, and if sustained, will force him to resume human form and be stunned or even unconscious. In his human form, Jacky is susceptible to most of the things that can hurt people.

SUSCEPTIBLE
Jacky is insecure, and has no reflexive super-strong moral core, tending to the "might makes right" reflex if he isn't thinking things through carefully. This means he can be tempted, or fall into bad things if he's with bad company.

Logs

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Title Date Scene Summary
Apokolips in the Park September 29th, 2017 Summary needed
What Do You Do On A Saturday September 10th, 2017 Summary needed
Klunk's Day Out August 20th, 2017 The cat is out of the bag and into the sewers.
Hospital Flowers July 31st, 2017 The Titans (and friends) stumble upon a strange phenomenon while visiting at the Children's Hospital. Something is afoot.
The Naming of Cats July 27th, 2017 It isn't just one of your holiday games.
Key To Success July 15th, 2017 Just because a magical artefact is inactive, it doesn't mean it's not of use to SOMEONE. Sometimes, that someone barely qualifies as 'someone.'
Failing a Sneak Check July 7th, 2017 Summary needed
The Bank Is Not Open, Duh June 11th, 2017 In which robbers forget which day it is and learn crime really doesn't pay when you're stupid
Manners in the Manse June 4th, 2017 Summary needed
Little Trouble In Big Queens May 30th, 2017 Summary needed
Heroes United! Issue May 21st, 2017 In which a comic nerd turns out to be a mutant and has his Origin (NPC), there is a small clutter of felines, an amazonian-tall office girl is knocked out, a Sailor Moon fan recognizes a baddie, and glass-man talks a Nerd down.
Shine Bright Like a Diamond May 10th, 2017 Summary needed
Trouble Brewing May 6th, 2017 Summary needed

Cutscenes

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