Post by madrox on Jun 4, 2006 22:00:46 GMT -5
(Notes: For the history section, I used information from the Wikipedia page on Multiple Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Man), and also some ideas of my own, since Comic-Jamie and Movie-Jamie aren’t exactly the same. Also, I’m too sure about Jamie’s age.)
Name: James Arthur Madrox
Codename(s): Multiple Man
Affiliation: Former Brotherhood member, now under government control. Begrudgingly, he has become an ally to the X-men.
Age: 26
Height: 5’11
Weight: 155 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Appearance:
Jamie is a light skinned man, with an angular jaw and straight nose. His hair is slightly curly, and kept at a short length. He has an average body type; not fat, but not overtly muscular either. All of Jamie’s dupes look exactly like him, and are dressed in his current attire.
Jamie doesn’t necessarily care how he looks, so his style could best be described as grungy. With a stubbly five o’clock on his face and hair combed up and back, Madrox is most often dressed in faded blue jeans and a green t-shirt. The shirt is kept loose in the back and tucked in the front, revealing a large silver belt buckle. Madrox has only one pair of shoes, brown work boots, which have become worn from constant use.
Personality:
The young man known as Jamie Madrox is an anomaly, even to himself. A key component in Magneto’s Last Stand, Madrox joined the Brotherhood with only a second’s thought. His actions and attitude reveals a man who sees life as a mere joke, or just another chance to become the center of attention. Yet underneath his devil-may-care shell is a painfully scared and emotionally fragile Jamie, who lives with constant fear of being alone. It is rare that this side of Jamie is ever seen, as Madrox rarely opens up to anyone. He hides this weak side by telling jokes and closing himself off from others, causing Jamie to be even more alone.
Powers and Abilities:
By striking a hard surface, Jamie Madrox has the ability to make multiple copies of himself. The process behind this mutation is not known yet, but to create a dupe, Jamie must make physical contact with an inanimate object. This can include slamming his fist against a wall or stomping his feet on a floor. Jaime cannot create dupes by his own touch, such as clapping his hands or by touching another living being.
The copies are exact duplicates of Jamie (called ‘dupes’ or ‘madri’). Originally, the dupes followed Jamie unquestionably, but now have developed their own independent thought. The dupe’s personalities tend to represent various splinters of the original Jamie’s emotions, and appear at different moments. For example, if Jamie creates a dupe during times of fear or desperation, the dupe’s personality may center on its own sense of self-preservation.
To reabsorb a dupe, Jamie must either touch the dupe or signal it to come with his mind. When Jamie reabsorbs a dupe, he takes in any experiences, skills, or memories that the dupe may have gained.
Weaknesses:
Over the course of years, the Dupe’s have grown more independent and rebellious from Jamie, and have at times acted on their personal accord. On multiple instances, they have proven to be hindrances against Jamie, one of which would lead up to his first arrest.
Reabsorbing dupes can prove problematic to Jamie for two reasons. The first occurs when Jamie reabsorbs an injured dupe. When this happens, the original Jamie will experience the pain of the wound, but not the wound itself. For example, if a dupe is stabbed with a knife, Jamie would take in the pain of the knife wound, but not the actual wound. Despite this, Jamie would prefer not to absorb a seriously injured dupe, as the original Madrox can still suffer from the sudden pain. On a few rare instances, Jamie has lost consciousness from the trauma of reabsorbing an injured dupe.
Another, more pressing problem that Jamie regularly deals with is the experiences of reabsorbed dupes. Because of the massive influx of data that Jamie takes in with each dupe, he has trouble separating his life from the lives of his dupes. Each dupe brings in a new perspective, one that often conflicts with the original Jamie’s past. This has left Jamie doubting the events of his own life, and to try and figure out what memories are his own. This is the primary problem that Jamie wishes to “fix” while at the Xavier Institute.
Despite this, Jamie’s most dangerous weakness has nothing to do with his powers. Rather, it is a deep-seeded physiological fear formed during his solitary youth. After spending years on the Madrox family farm with no one, Jamie is constantly afraid of being alone. Jamie will do anything to gain the attention he so desperately desires, from making jokes to acting as a decoy for the Brotherhood. This need for attention is not only dangerous to Jamie, but is also his primary motivator.
History:
James Arthur Madrox was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico to Doctor Daniel and Joan Madrox. When the doctor delivering Jamie slapped him, a second identical Jamie dupe formed in the doctor’s hands. Almost immediately, Dr. Madrox contacted his friend Charles Xavier. Xavier suggested that child be raised in a more private setting, due to his mutant ability. Weeks passed, and the Madroxes moved to a quiet farm in Kansas. While there, Daniel Madrox created blueprints of a suit for Jamie to wear. The suit was intended to stop Jamie from accidentally creating more dupes. The suit would remain unfinished though, as a tornado struck the Madrox home, killing both Joan and Daniel Madrox. Jamie was 15 at the time.
For the next five years, Jamie lived on the ruined farm by himself. Jamie was not entirely alone though, as he kept several dupes as friends. This still did not stave off his desire for human contact, causing Jamie to later constantly crave attention. As Jamie became more desperate for other people, the dupes began to form their own personalities. Eventually, they were able to convince Madrox to leave the farm.
After leaving the ruined Madrox farm, Jamie traveled across Kansas, looking for a place to belong. It would be the allure of the city life, and a high population count, that caused Jamie to stay in Wichita. With absolutely no money to his name, Jamie came up with an idea: he would create a handful of dupes, spread them out across Wichita and have them work at different, low-end jobs. At the end of the day, the original Jamie would find the dupes, reabsorb them and collect their pay. This allowed Madrox to not only amass a good sum of money, but also to gain work skills within seconds of reabsorbing a dupe.
The plan worked well, but had a serious downside. Because he sent out new dupes everyday, Jamie was reabsorbing more dupes in a moment than he ever had. Within months, Jamie had difficulty seperating his own thoughts and feelings from those of his dupes. He even began to doubt his own life, wondering if he was the real Jamie or just a dupe waiting to be reabsorbed. On top of that, Jamie’s dupes were starting to act rebellious against the original Madrox, getting fired from their jobs and breaking the law in Wichita. This caused Madrox to be more suspicous of his dupes, and he began to take extra precaution against the rebelious ones. Instead of having one dupe at a job, Jamie would use two or three, reabsorbing one and making a “fresh copy” to finish the work. The rapid duping and reabsorbing caused Jamie’s mind to further deteriorate.
At age 21, Jamie robbed his first major bank. With all the information coming in from rapid dupe absorbtion, Jamie wasn’t sure how or even why he robbed the bank. But what Jamie did know was that he was good at it. Being a theif gave Jamie all the attention he ever wanted, and the thrill of heist excited him. So it was then that Jamie, along with a few of his more rebellious dupes, decided to remain a robber.
For the next few years, Jamie continued his life of crime. He moved across the country, robbing banks as he went along. With an unlimited supply of brute force, Jamie was a successful theif. Ironically, it would be one of Jamie’s own dupes that landed Madrox in jail. Before his biggest heist ever, robbing seven banks with seven different Madroxes at once, a seventh dupe, representing Jamie’s “civic-minded” side, tipped off the FBI. Jamie and his dupes were arrested quickly and then taken into custody. What happenedt to the seventh dupe, Jamie has yet to find out. But luck would befall the original Madrox, as the police transport carrying him was attacked by Magneto. After being rescued, Jamie joined the Brotherhood.
During the events of the battle on Alcatraz, Jamie was willingly used as a decoy and captured by the U.S. government. Months after the Last Stand, the government still had Jamie under lockdown. He would have remained in prison, if not for a meeting between a few of the higher-ups in the U.S. government. With the looming threat of Magneto’s new mutants, the government official decided to use Jamie to their advantage. As a part of plea-bargain for a shorter jail sentence, Madrox agreed to work for the government, but he would require more training to gain full control over his mutant powers. Days later, an official government order was sent to the Xavier Institute: Jamie Madrox was to be its newest boarder.
Sample post:
“I’ll take two cards.”
“Okay…one…two. There, two cards.”
“Hey dealer, where are my cards?”
“I gave you your cards!”
“No, you gave Jamie number four his cards. I’m Jamie number two, and you haven’t given me my cards.”
“How can I tell? You all look alike! Well…we all look alike. I swear to god, this is the last time I play poker by myself.”
If this conversation was happening to anyone else but Jamie Madrox, one might start to get worried. You see, Jamie’s a mutant, and with a simple strike to a hard surface, he can make copies of himself. A simple strike and Jamie’s got an exact duplicate, identical right down to every tiny detail. Have him hit a hard surface four times and he’s got a poker game in the making.
Right now, Jamie is sitting on the cold concrete floor of dingy prison cell located somewhere in North America. The guards won’t tell him where, or what he’s being held for. Jamie figures it probably has to do with that whole ‘participating in a war against mankind’ thing he was apart of a few months ago. Or at least, Jamie thinks it was a few months ago; the guards won’t tell him any news from the outside. For all he knows, Jamie could be the last mutant alive.
Sitting in the dark cell, Jamie looks around at his poker buddies. To left of him is Jamie-1, and to the right of is Jamie-2. Two other Jamies are sitting in front of him; Jamie-3 looking focused on the game, while Jamie-4 looking wholly disinterested.
“Why are we even playing this stupid game?” Jamie-4 asks, the throwing his hand of cards into the air. “It’s a waste, and besides we have nothing to bet with!”
“Well, we could have our buddy Jamie here whip us up some more Jamie’s to use as poker chips.” Jamie-1 asks. “You could do that right, pal?”
“But Madroxes playing for Madroxes?” The Jamie-4 cut in. “God that’s just stupid.”
Jamie Madrox, the original Jamie Madrox that is, was used to being alone. He didn’t like it, but dealt with it as a fact of life. It was an inescapable truth; Jamie was most often alone (Or, alone as one can be with exact dupes at your side). So it was somewhat of a nice surprise when he heard the sound of footsteps moving closer to his cell. The original Madrox then put down his hand of cards, and in some anticipation, looked out of his cell to see who was coming. It was the guards.
“Oh, it’s just you guys.” Jamie said, looking back down at his cards. “You know, if you two keep leaving me down here without any food or water, I’m going to have to report it to your manager.”
“Shut up, Mutie.” The first guard spoke, tired of Jamie’s incessant jokes. “Hurry up and get on your feet.”
“What, are you guys going to try and ‘cure’ me again?” The Original Jamie smirked. The guards had already wasted seven vials of the reaming cure on Madrox. When the guards had first brought in a gun full of the vials, there were crowds of dupes awaiting them in Jamie’s cell, and each time they fired off rounds, they just hit more dupes. The original Jamie lost his food privileges for three days for that stunt.
“No, someone wants to talk to you.” The guard replied.
“Who?”
“I don’t know. Some suit. Says he wants to cut a deal with you, or something. Want me to tell him he’s just wasting his time?”
The Original Jamie thought for a moment. Whatever the deal was, it would have to be better than here, locked in cage, playing cards alone. “No. Send him in.”
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Screenname(s): Madrox (or just Andy)
Email: alettich1@student.gsu.edu (my main email address. For some reason, I wasn’t getting the confirmation email with this address.)
IMs: None
RP Experiance: From most previous:
1.) I am currently apart of ‘Realities Exile’, a Metroid-based RPG board (http://www.realitys-exile.com/). I have been a member there for seven months.
2.) I was apart of ‘Realms of Hyrule’, a Legend of Zelda RPG board (http://www.zhq2.com/roh/forums/index.php). I was a member there for a year.
Name: James Arthur Madrox
Codename(s): Multiple Man
Affiliation: Former Brotherhood member, now under government control. Begrudgingly, he has become an ally to the X-men.
Age: 26
Height: 5’11
Weight: 155 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Appearance:
Jamie is a light skinned man, with an angular jaw and straight nose. His hair is slightly curly, and kept at a short length. He has an average body type; not fat, but not overtly muscular either. All of Jamie’s dupes look exactly like him, and are dressed in his current attire.
Jamie doesn’t necessarily care how he looks, so his style could best be described as grungy. With a stubbly five o’clock on his face and hair combed up and back, Madrox is most often dressed in faded blue jeans and a green t-shirt. The shirt is kept loose in the back and tucked in the front, revealing a large silver belt buckle. Madrox has only one pair of shoes, brown work boots, which have become worn from constant use.
Personality:
The young man known as Jamie Madrox is an anomaly, even to himself. A key component in Magneto’s Last Stand, Madrox joined the Brotherhood with only a second’s thought. His actions and attitude reveals a man who sees life as a mere joke, or just another chance to become the center of attention. Yet underneath his devil-may-care shell is a painfully scared and emotionally fragile Jamie, who lives with constant fear of being alone. It is rare that this side of Jamie is ever seen, as Madrox rarely opens up to anyone. He hides this weak side by telling jokes and closing himself off from others, causing Jamie to be even more alone.
Powers and Abilities:
By striking a hard surface, Jamie Madrox has the ability to make multiple copies of himself. The process behind this mutation is not known yet, but to create a dupe, Jamie must make physical contact with an inanimate object. This can include slamming his fist against a wall or stomping his feet on a floor. Jaime cannot create dupes by his own touch, such as clapping his hands or by touching another living being.
The copies are exact duplicates of Jamie (called ‘dupes’ or ‘madri’). Originally, the dupes followed Jamie unquestionably, but now have developed their own independent thought. The dupe’s personalities tend to represent various splinters of the original Jamie’s emotions, and appear at different moments. For example, if Jamie creates a dupe during times of fear or desperation, the dupe’s personality may center on its own sense of self-preservation.
To reabsorb a dupe, Jamie must either touch the dupe or signal it to come with his mind. When Jamie reabsorbs a dupe, he takes in any experiences, skills, or memories that the dupe may have gained.
Weaknesses:
Over the course of years, the Dupe’s have grown more independent and rebellious from Jamie, and have at times acted on their personal accord. On multiple instances, they have proven to be hindrances against Jamie, one of which would lead up to his first arrest.
Reabsorbing dupes can prove problematic to Jamie for two reasons. The first occurs when Jamie reabsorbs an injured dupe. When this happens, the original Jamie will experience the pain of the wound, but not the wound itself. For example, if a dupe is stabbed with a knife, Jamie would take in the pain of the knife wound, but not the actual wound. Despite this, Jamie would prefer not to absorb a seriously injured dupe, as the original Madrox can still suffer from the sudden pain. On a few rare instances, Jamie has lost consciousness from the trauma of reabsorbing an injured dupe.
Another, more pressing problem that Jamie regularly deals with is the experiences of reabsorbed dupes. Because of the massive influx of data that Jamie takes in with each dupe, he has trouble separating his life from the lives of his dupes. Each dupe brings in a new perspective, one that often conflicts with the original Jamie’s past. This has left Jamie doubting the events of his own life, and to try and figure out what memories are his own. This is the primary problem that Jamie wishes to “fix” while at the Xavier Institute.
Despite this, Jamie’s most dangerous weakness has nothing to do with his powers. Rather, it is a deep-seeded physiological fear formed during his solitary youth. After spending years on the Madrox family farm with no one, Jamie is constantly afraid of being alone. Jamie will do anything to gain the attention he so desperately desires, from making jokes to acting as a decoy for the Brotherhood. This need for attention is not only dangerous to Jamie, but is also his primary motivator.
History:
James Arthur Madrox was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico to Doctor Daniel and Joan Madrox. When the doctor delivering Jamie slapped him, a second identical Jamie dupe formed in the doctor’s hands. Almost immediately, Dr. Madrox contacted his friend Charles Xavier. Xavier suggested that child be raised in a more private setting, due to his mutant ability. Weeks passed, and the Madroxes moved to a quiet farm in Kansas. While there, Daniel Madrox created blueprints of a suit for Jamie to wear. The suit was intended to stop Jamie from accidentally creating more dupes. The suit would remain unfinished though, as a tornado struck the Madrox home, killing both Joan and Daniel Madrox. Jamie was 15 at the time.
For the next five years, Jamie lived on the ruined farm by himself. Jamie was not entirely alone though, as he kept several dupes as friends. This still did not stave off his desire for human contact, causing Jamie to later constantly crave attention. As Jamie became more desperate for other people, the dupes began to form their own personalities. Eventually, they were able to convince Madrox to leave the farm.
After leaving the ruined Madrox farm, Jamie traveled across Kansas, looking for a place to belong. It would be the allure of the city life, and a high population count, that caused Jamie to stay in Wichita. With absolutely no money to his name, Jamie came up with an idea: he would create a handful of dupes, spread them out across Wichita and have them work at different, low-end jobs. At the end of the day, the original Jamie would find the dupes, reabsorb them and collect their pay. This allowed Madrox to not only amass a good sum of money, but also to gain work skills within seconds of reabsorbing a dupe.
The plan worked well, but had a serious downside. Because he sent out new dupes everyday, Jamie was reabsorbing more dupes in a moment than he ever had. Within months, Jamie had difficulty seperating his own thoughts and feelings from those of his dupes. He even began to doubt his own life, wondering if he was the real Jamie or just a dupe waiting to be reabsorbed. On top of that, Jamie’s dupes were starting to act rebellious against the original Madrox, getting fired from their jobs and breaking the law in Wichita. This caused Madrox to be more suspicous of his dupes, and he began to take extra precaution against the rebelious ones. Instead of having one dupe at a job, Jamie would use two or three, reabsorbing one and making a “fresh copy” to finish the work. The rapid duping and reabsorbing caused Jamie’s mind to further deteriorate.
At age 21, Jamie robbed his first major bank. With all the information coming in from rapid dupe absorbtion, Jamie wasn’t sure how or even why he robbed the bank. But what Jamie did know was that he was good at it. Being a theif gave Jamie all the attention he ever wanted, and the thrill of heist excited him. So it was then that Jamie, along with a few of his more rebellious dupes, decided to remain a robber.
For the next few years, Jamie continued his life of crime. He moved across the country, robbing banks as he went along. With an unlimited supply of brute force, Jamie was a successful theif. Ironically, it would be one of Jamie’s own dupes that landed Madrox in jail. Before his biggest heist ever, robbing seven banks with seven different Madroxes at once, a seventh dupe, representing Jamie’s “civic-minded” side, tipped off the FBI. Jamie and his dupes were arrested quickly and then taken into custody. What happenedt to the seventh dupe, Jamie has yet to find out. But luck would befall the original Madrox, as the police transport carrying him was attacked by Magneto. After being rescued, Jamie joined the Brotherhood.
During the events of the battle on Alcatraz, Jamie was willingly used as a decoy and captured by the U.S. government. Months after the Last Stand, the government still had Jamie under lockdown. He would have remained in prison, if not for a meeting between a few of the higher-ups in the U.S. government. With the looming threat of Magneto’s new mutants, the government official decided to use Jamie to their advantage. As a part of plea-bargain for a shorter jail sentence, Madrox agreed to work for the government, but he would require more training to gain full control over his mutant powers. Days later, an official government order was sent to the Xavier Institute: Jamie Madrox was to be its newest boarder.
Sample post:
“I’ll take two cards.”
“Okay…one…two. There, two cards.”
“Hey dealer, where are my cards?”
“I gave you your cards!”
“No, you gave Jamie number four his cards. I’m Jamie number two, and you haven’t given me my cards.”
“How can I tell? You all look alike! Well…we all look alike. I swear to god, this is the last time I play poker by myself.”
If this conversation was happening to anyone else but Jamie Madrox, one might start to get worried. You see, Jamie’s a mutant, and with a simple strike to a hard surface, he can make copies of himself. A simple strike and Jamie’s got an exact duplicate, identical right down to every tiny detail. Have him hit a hard surface four times and he’s got a poker game in the making.
Right now, Jamie is sitting on the cold concrete floor of dingy prison cell located somewhere in North America. The guards won’t tell him where, or what he’s being held for. Jamie figures it probably has to do with that whole ‘participating in a war against mankind’ thing he was apart of a few months ago. Or at least, Jamie thinks it was a few months ago; the guards won’t tell him any news from the outside. For all he knows, Jamie could be the last mutant alive.
Sitting in the dark cell, Jamie looks around at his poker buddies. To left of him is Jamie-1, and to the right of is Jamie-2. Two other Jamies are sitting in front of him; Jamie-3 looking focused on the game, while Jamie-4 looking wholly disinterested.
“Why are we even playing this stupid game?” Jamie-4 asks, the throwing his hand of cards into the air. “It’s a waste, and besides we have nothing to bet with!”
“Well, we could have our buddy Jamie here whip us up some more Jamie’s to use as poker chips.” Jamie-1 asks. “You could do that right, pal?”
“But Madroxes playing for Madroxes?” The Jamie-4 cut in. “God that’s just stupid.”
Jamie Madrox, the original Jamie Madrox that is, was used to being alone. He didn’t like it, but dealt with it as a fact of life. It was an inescapable truth; Jamie was most often alone (Or, alone as one can be with exact dupes at your side). So it was somewhat of a nice surprise when he heard the sound of footsteps moving closer to his cell. The original Madrox then put down his hand of cards, and in some anticipation, looked out of his cell to see who was coming. It was the guards.
“Oh, it’s just you guys.” Jamie said, looking back down at his cards. “You know, if you two keep leaving me down here without any food or water, I’m going to have to report it to your manager.”
“Shut up, Mutie.” The first guard spoke, tired of Jamie’s incessant jokes. “Hurry up and get on your feet.”
“What, are you guys going to try and ‘cure’ me again?” The Original Jamie smirked. The guards had already wasted seven vials of the reaming cure on Madrox. When the guards had first brought in a gun full of the vials, there were crowds of dupes awaiting them in Jamie’s cell, and each time they fired off rounds, they just hit more dupes. The original Jamie lost his food privileges for three days for that stunt.
“No, someone wants to talk to you.” The guard replied.
“Who?”
“I don’t know. Some suit. Says he wants to cut a deal with you, or something. Want me to tell him he’s just wasting his time?”
The Original Jamie thought for a moment. Whatever the deal was, it would have to be better than here, locked in cage, playing cards alone. “No. Send him in.”
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Screenname(s): Madrox (or just Andy)
Email: alettich1@student.gsu.edu (my main email address. For some reason, I wasn’t getting the confirmation email with this address.)
IMs: None
RP Experiance: From most previous:
1.) I am currently apart of ‘Realities Exile’, a Metroid-based RPG board (http://www.realitys-exile.com/). I have been a member there for seven months.
2.) I was apart of ‘Realms of Hyrule’, a Legend of Zelda RPG board (http://www.zhq2.com/roh/forums/index.php). I was a member there for a year.
(And yes, he is defecting!)