| Kael Langford |
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| Portrayed By |
Josh Hutcherson |
| Gender |
Male |
| Date of Birth |
7-31 |
| Age |
18 |
| Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
| Aliases |
Gale, Typhoon |
| Place of Birth |
Dallas, TX |
| Current Location |
NYC |
| Occupation |
Student |
| Known Relatives |
Family |
| Significant Other |
Max Farlane |
| Identity |
Secret, to the public |
| Known Abilities |
Aerokinesis |
| First Appearance |
Courtyard Meeting |
Ever been caught in a windstorm? Well, here's a taste…
History
Growing up, Kael was a good kid. Well, as good a kid as any when you're growing up in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas. He got into his fair share of trouble. Pulling pranks on his parents and schoolmates. Laughing it up with his little group of friends. Even joking around about cooties, while secretly admiring childishly some of the girls that he was making fun of.
His parents weren't strict. They knew that he needed room to experience life as it is. With it's trips, folleys, and potholes. Literally and figuratively. His town wasn't the best in the world, nor were some of the neighbors. But that didn't stop them from voicing their opinions… loudly to the kids that were crossing the street or playing in the middle of it. He heard things that kids shouldn't have heard. Things along the lines of politics, how the cops of the nearby city were the scum of the earth.
There was one thing that caught Kael's attention on his way home from school one day, it was an old geezer talking about the end of the street where Kael lived. It was in a cul d'sac where mostly all the kids lived. It was nice for them as they had their friends right across the street or right next to them. But the elderly gentlemen started to talk down about the kids there. Normally Kael would've just walked down the street an tell his parents about what he heard. But this time was different.
It was a few weeks after his thirteenth birthday. It was nearing the start of the school year, so their parents were starting to drag them to stores to buy them clothes and supplies for the coming year. It was also a lovely fall day as the winds started to pick up. Kael's hair started to look like it were tipped pure white as a good gust of wind blasted down the street; the total opposite way that the wind was blowing before. The gust slammed into the old man, knocking him over onto the porch; his cane slamming into the porch knocked Kael out of his little trance before the little teen started to sprint home; where he hid in his room the rest of the day.
He kept that little incident hidden from his parents, but he couldn't keep it hidden from long. Strees does not bode well on a young teenager, and it builds and builds inside of him. It took Kael an entire year to tell his parents about that incident, and his father wasn't a happy man. He backhanded Kael, and yelled at him to go apologize to the man. His mother pleading at his father to not do this as it was late at night, but his father was adamant to have his son live up to it as he shoved Kael out onto the sidewalk that headed away from the house.
He didn't go to the old man's house, in fact he walked off into a field where he and his friends had a small hut that they made out of scrap wood that they had haphazardly built. He hid away in that till morning, curled up in a ball as he woke up to the sound of his mother's voice calling out for him. Then chimed in the voices of his friends. But the one that rang out the most was the voice of his father. The one who actually hurt him, and he fell silent once more. He was found by his friends, who brought his mother over. Once those caring arms wrapped around him; he just let it all out. All those tears that were held up within him were let lose onto his mother's shirt.
Two years after that night, Kael had grown more aggressive towards his father. Not obeying his orders to do chores was the first thing, then he started to talk back a few months later. He'd shown a preference for asking his mother for anything, and even if his mother told him to ask his father; he'd just lie and say that he said yes. Which got him into trouble on a good many occasions.
It was on the first day of spring that he came home, the clouds growing darker as the teenager just walked slowly; letting the wind push him along the sidewalk. Using his own personal training to cause the wind to loosely curl around him, just so he wouldn't lose touch with it. It was when he got home that things grew worse, the rain started to fall and reports of an incoming thunderstorm came over the radio. Kael was at the kitchen, watching the lightning crackle over the clouds. Through the trees that lined one side of his house.
Bedtime soon came, and the boy fell asleep to the sound of the rain on his roof and the thunder of the outside. It wasn't too far into his sleep that his eyes shot open at a extremely bright flash and then the cracking sound of a tree falling. The moonlight shining through his window was being eclipsed by the falling tree, and the boy scrambled to get out of his bed as the tree crashed through the wall and window. Survival instinces kicked in and a rather powerful gust of wind blasted out from the boy; knocking the tree off it's course and back out of the room; though taking most of the wall with it as it slammed into the ground.
The noise woke up his parents and they came storming into the room. Seeing the scared child on his bed; looking frantically at the window as the white faded from his hair, his father leaped to the conclusion that it was Kael's fault and stormed into the room and proceeded to let his son know that it was wrong to do that. By means of physical violence. Kael got a blood lip, a black eye and a bruise on his cheek before his hair flared white and his father was slammed against the wall and pinned there by the very air around the house. The door slammed shut and wouldn't budge as his mother tried to get in.
The walls' sheet rock were beginning to strip off and slap into things around the room before the winds just suddenly stopped and Kael fall down onto his bed; out like a light. The very next day, as the insurance company was looking at the damages, the family was given a visit by a woman from the Xavier's Institute. Telling his parents that Kael needed to be schooled for proper control of his powers. His father was all to ready to agree, and his mother reluctantly let her son go. After he got everything situated with his school, he was on his way to New York City.
Timeline
| ** March 11 |
Kael is taken to the med bay my Magneto and fixed up. Then Scott comes in. Men argue. Kael says things, then passes out. |
A Very Long Day |
| March 11 |
Kael, while out with Chezlie, getting some new games; run across Daisuke. A fight ensues, and it ends up with Kael nearly bleeding to death. |
The Sounds of the Changed |
| March 10 |
After Rashmi is put into the medbay after her runin in with Jordan. Kael rushes down there to see if she's alright. Then girls start to argue. |
A Little Meltdown |
| March 7 ** |
Finding Addision in the forest, Kael asks Kenta if he can help the adults with what's going on. They say No. |
The Voices in his Head |
| February 26 |
Kael finds Max skating about on the lake. And he lets him know who he got to go with them on the Vermont trip. Needless to say. Both of them are excited. |
And within the madness...peace. |
| February 22 |
With Owen gone back to his family, Kael asks Lorna to chaperone Max and himself to the ski trip! |
I Can Has Chaperone? Redux |
| February 21 |
Kael meets another fluffy thing! James! Looks like he isn't a dog though. Sad Kael. |
Not A Dog |
| February 4 |
Kael has a rather emotional goodbye to Leo. |
Goodbye |
| February 4 |
Kael meets a new student, and a teacher he hasn't seen before. Mike and Jono! Though, the latter isn't really a teacher. |
Courtyard Encounter With Optional Snowballs |
| January 16 |
Kael happens upon Max and Dallas in the kitchen. (Different Person posting) |
Speaking Easy |
| January 15 |
Kael happens upon Max and Dallas in the kitchen. |
interlude-with-yoghurt |
| January 05 |
Kael asks Owen to chaperone Max and Kael to Vermont for a Ski Trip! |
I Can Has Chaperone? |
| November 7, 2009 |
Kael goes to a tropical resort with Keith for some power training. Wherin he learns to not trust him when standing on a cliff's edge. |
Tropical Winds |
| October 25, 2009 |
Kael heads to Keith's Penthouse to get in on his weekend training with the Air Spirit. But, he's greeted by Kaden. And, it's a bit shakey. |
Learnin' Somethin' New |
| August 1, 2009 |
Keith brings Kael to his penthouse for training the day after his birthday. Defense abilities might be the next thing on Kael's To-Learn list. |
Bad Role Model |
| July 23, 2009 |
Kael stops a robbery at a 7-11. The first outside use of his powers. Outside of school that is. |
A Convenient Wind |
| July 31, 2009 |
It's Kael's birthday and he springs it on every when he's at the pool! He gets a cupcake and then a full blown party after the scene ends. |
Pool Party |
| June 15, 2009 |
Kael is one of many with the Watcher's eye upon him. |
Everyday Life |
| June 22, 2009 |
Kael sneaks away with the other X-kids to try and do their part in this power fiasco. It works! Kael go FaecPaunch! |
Junior Mutants vs MODOK |
| June 24, 2009 |
Kael, as Gale, along with Sam and two others; reform and reverse the power swap across the entirety of NYC! |
Power Swap Again |
| May 6, 2009 |
Kael meets up with what in his eyes would be considered a Master of the Wind. Words are exchanged, a promise is made, and Kael now has a teacher for his powers. |
Two Winds Meet |
| May 9,2009 |
Kael and Max comfort one another, mainly the former for the latter, and then soon fall asleep in Kael's bed. |
Chilly Cuddlin' |
| May 9, 2009 |
Kael meets up with Ororo in the Danger Room to work on his powers. Then Logan and a group of students show up. Then Scoot. ANd then things just get really awkward in the end! |
Weathered the Storm |
| May 10, 2009 |
Kael /finally/ meets up with his new roommate, Leo. |
Better Than The Last |
| May 11, 2009 |
Kael gets a fright when Max starts to forget things, things that are more and more important. To the Infirmary!! |
Cold Worries |
| May 17, 2009 |
Kael, and a group of other mutants, investigate something that crashed in the Quad. SAd to say, it stole their powers! Now a small group of the school is left without their powers! Kael and Max included! Though, that doesn't bother those two that much. |
Attack of the Green Meanie |
| May 17, 2009 |
With Max's powers gone, he and Kael get the same idea. To celeprate with a non-hypothermia cuddle. |
A Chilling Warmth |
| May 27, 2009 |
Kael went to the kitchen, still slightly in his gloom, and he meets Christopher and Jericho. And he also sets up a time to meet with Jericho. |
Breakfast and Powers |
| April 27, 2009 |
Kael meets up with three new students; July, Eddie, and Robyn to be precise, of the school. He shows off his powers as well. While seeing other students as well. |
Courtyard Meeting |
| April 28, 2009 |
Kael means up with one of the younger students, only a year under him, Max. Video games and late hours seem to be common between these two. |
New Found Friend |
| April 28, 2009 |
Kael winds up in the basement after exploring the school, and Jared shows him to the Medbay. Where he meets the first Corsair teammate. And a very tall wolfman. Guess who that is. |
Healing, Wind, and Fuzz |
| April 29, 2009 |
Hungry, Kael heads into the kitchen for a small drink before bed. There he meets with Storm, and then a bit later Scott comes in. Awkward questions are asks, along with a real dumb one. |
Fourth Meal |
| April 30, 2009 |
Kael and Max are watching TV, Time Warp, and July and Vlad come in one after another. Somewhere in there, Man Law is broken, then repaired. |
Man Law |
| April 30, 2009 |
Kael heads out to the beach, where he finds Owen restin' on teh sand. Then Pryce shows up with his twin, giving the little Aerokinetic some lovely ideas for his powers. |
Lazin' with the Dyvil |
Powers
Kael has the power to control the very wind. He can fly, in hi slater years he will be any way.
His control has gotten better. The max speed he can reach is around 60mph. He can push it to 70mph if he doesn't do anything special; just pure gust. He has extended his reach out to around 40 feet of being able to control the wind /and/ form something with it. But he hasn't been able to pull anything beyond that to him. The time that he can withstand using his powers has nearly tripled due to the fact he's been using it nearly every day for as long as he can. His maximum time has risen up to 6 hours before he needs to rest.
But, if he keeps his energy up while practicing; such as drinking energy drinks or eating energy bars, he can extend the maximum time till those don't work that well anymore. With drinks/bars, he can practice well enough for up to three hours. But once he stops, he'd be feeling it through dizziness for a few moments
If he uses his limbs, he has much better control over the winds than when he's only using his mind. If he uses his hands as directional helpers, or as spots for the winds to curve around, he has much better control and can speed them up quicker to their max speed.
As with wind, comes flight. To fly, Kael swirls the wind under him in a very loose cyclone effect. Providing lift and thrust depending on how strong he has the winds.
At the moment, all he can do is basically fly and float there. If he tries to do anything like a blast of air or a wind wall; the winds keeping him up in the air vanish. And he starts to fall.
He's gotten the control of flying down, the speed is still something that he needs to work on; but he can fly rather well now. Still hasn't manage to be able to fly and use any kind of attack or defense while in the air though. He can still go as fast as he can fly, but not at the speed that he can push it to. The durations have risen at the same rate of his endurance. About an hour at most, If he does a constant speed. If he guns it, it's slashed down to around 30 moinutes or even less if he goes top speed right off of the bat.
At his peak level of control, he'd be able to go the speed of the fastest winds propelling him. Which, at the moment is 318 miles per hour. But, as is stated, that's far later in his life.
An ability that takes some degree of control but a loose grasp on it. Shaped in a very loose orb about as big as the controller's torso, Kael can blast wind at someone, something, or jus tin a general direction. This speed is about half of the maximum that he can control, and they can go about 30 feet from him before they just vanish into nothingness.
The amount of blasts he can produce has doubled. About 16 loose ones, and about 12 dense ones. But he's also been practicing making the blasts smaller. About the size of a soft ball league base ball, the big ones. Those, can make a good deal more of as they're smaller.
The smaller blasts of air would feel akin to having a medicine ball hurled at you at the speed Kael sends it at you. Giving the potential for broken bones if in the right place as it is a more dense blast of air. The larger ones are more loose, not able to cause the damage of the smaller ones. It's more like being in front of a /very/ big leaf blower. A strong blast able to knock an average adult backwards stumbling, anything smaller or lighter would have the risk of being blown off their feet a small distance.
Though the practicing of his powers with Storm, Kael had found out that he could sense the way a wind was blowing if it wasn't natural. If it were unnatural, Kael could be able to sense it through two different ways.
If he sent a breeze under his control in the way of it, he could tell which way the wind was going and about how fast it was moving. But this only works with how far that he can control the wind.
The second way he could tell if the winds were being sent at him. Extending about half a foot away from Kael is a personal wind space, winds that he knows that he can control to the best of his ability. It's also an area of wind space that he can tell the direction of the wind being pulled from him before he feels it.
At the moment, the walls he's able to make are can be either horizontal or vertical. With the llargest dimension being double his height, and the smallest being half his own height. He can sustain these for about an hour now, and he has also learned how to change the direction to be going from side to side instead of just upwards.
Wind Dome: The same principle and durations at the windwall, just in a dome. The wind would be in a circular rotation obviously, moving about as fast as he can control them. He would be setting the speeds.
As with the wind whipping around him, Kael would have the liability of getting cut, scraped, ect. from the things whipping around in the winds. To offset this, his powers have gradually toughened his skin, as if a scale to his powers. Currently, his skin is about as tough as light leather. Able to guard against small cuts, scraps, and things of that caliber. Anything more would indeed break the skin, bruises would still show up.
If he over exerts himself controlling the winds, it runs off of his personal reserves of energy. Meaning, he'll get hungry after using his powers. If he over exerts himself, he runs the risk of passing out. If he does pass out, he's good for a good while, think a good nights' sleep. 8-10 hours of pure rest before he's able to move about again. It'd be shorter if someone healed him through it, or brought him out early.
Quotes
- "… What's aerokinetic mean…"
Trivia
- Kael, even though he's 16, is gay.
- He's always trying to think of ways to use his powers.
- He's really shy around adults that he doesn't know.
- He loves apple juice, but doesn't like apples that much to eat.
- If something is on Kael's mind enough, he's prone to blurting it out. Or acting very out of the ordinary causing people to ask.
- He has little confidence in the control of his powers. But with the confidence from his teachers, and friends hopefully, his confidence is growing.
- The more wind that Kael controls, the more his hair turns white. At first, it's like he tipped his hair white. Then it looks like he streaked it. When it goes fully white, he's using up all the wind he can muster.
- There isn't anything more relaxing to Kael at the moment than flying around. If he ever needs to wind down and you can't find him. Look up. Or find Max.
Theme Song
Theme Song #1: Happy Up Here by Röyksopp - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Bpx63wkbA
Theme Song #2: Joe Satrinai - Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdz4MTAo7j0
Theme Song #3: Sick Puppies - You're Going Down - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2bohKixLt8
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