Nikki Lee "Nik/Rave" Shivan

Nik Shivan
Portrayed By	Jared Padalecki
Gender	Male
Date of Birth	05/14/74
Age	35
Zodiac Sign	Aries
Aliases	Rave
Place of Birth	Lexington, KY
Current Location	NYC, NY
Occupation	Bar Owner/Bartender
Known Relatives	Too many to list
Significant Other	None
Identity	Public
Known Abilities	Teleportals, Ice Cold Body
First Appearance	???

You never know when a Rave is going to pop up.

History

Some families are meant to have children, some give them up. For the first year, Nik had both parents. David and Lita Shivan. However, their marriage was doomed from the beginning, neither one being truly in love with the other. After their son's first birthday, their divorce was finalized. David went into the military and Lita moved to California with her new husband.

David only saw Nik on occasions, due to his consistently being shipped away. Both remarried… and once again the marriages were doomed to failure. After his younger brother, Brian Christopher, was born, Nik and his mother made a visit home to Kentucky to see her mother. While visiting, Nik asked if he could stay longer with his grandmother, because things were good there. Food was plentiful, life was easy, and his grandmother had time to focus on him, something that his mother never had.

After four years, entering school, and becoming social, Lita came back to try to take Nik back. However, Frances (his grandmother) and Nik didn't want to separate. A custody battle ensued and custody was granted in a unique fashion. Through the school year, Nik would spend alternating weeks with maternal and paternal grandparents. Summer vacation (unless schooling was needed) would be split between the parents.

Despite being an odd situation, it really worked well for Nik. His grandmother, Frances, was a teacher and his grandfather was an electrician. His paternal grandparents were both farmers. Thus, Nik had a little bit of all walks of life. The only thing that was pressured perhaps TOO much were his grades. His grandmother knew his potential and pushed him… hard. He made straight A's until he graduated high school. With that, his SAT and ACT scores, and his personality, he was accepted into a high profile college.

During that first year of college, Nik made many discoveries about himself, including his sexuality. He tried to keep it a secret and succeeded for the most part… until he came home for summer after the first year. He came home one evening from attending a conference for the deaf at a local church (having deaf family members and working with the school for the deaf in his college town, he loved being involved in the community), he found his grandmother sitting on her chair at home, rage written on her face. Angrily, she threw a letter at him, yelling "Straighten up or get out."

For most, mutation hits when puberty sets in, but almost always in regards to stress. Nik was a late bloomer anyway, having only started shaving a few weeks prior to this. Sure he was tall and had most of his characteristics, but his change wasn't complete. This… was the trigger. Picking up the letter, he found a bracelet inside it, along with the note. It was from his boyfriend at the time. He had never even seen the letter. Energy flooded his body.

"Fine. If that's what you want. I'll leave." He never even noticed that his hair had changed, nor his eyes. All he knew is that he walked forward into a ring of blue energy, and came out in an entirely different place. Oddly enough, he was halfway across the USA, in New Orleans. He was young, he was cute, so he was able to find someone to take pity and take him in. They even got him a job waiting tables at a local bar. In private, he researched his body, learning as much as he could about the new things his body could do and take. The biggest issue, and the biggest dead giveaway that prevented most relationships was the fact that his body had become naturally cold. Very cold.

It wasn't school and it wasn't the profession that he wanted originally, but Nik loved it. Wearing sunglasses, nobody could see his eyes. The blue hair? It was passed off as dye, since it was hardly uncommon in the french quarter. He went back to school, taking a couple of day classes at a time and shifting to a managerial course of study, so that he could have all he needed to know to run his own bar in the future, or even a couple of them.

He stayed in New Orleans for ten years before he met with a few investors in New York. After seeing him in action, they decided to work with him and invest in a bar that would be his and his alone… after he paid them back with interest. If the first bar was successful, they would see through to help him open a second. Now, he's in New York, running his first bar. He's not yet contacted his family again, though he's sure it'll happen eventually. He quit going by Nikki years ago, preferring just Nik. He even had it legally changed, but someday, some family member will find and/or contact him. Who knows what will happen then?

Themesongs

• Ra - Sky

Timeline

June 2009

June 2, 2009	Nik and Danny have discussions at work. And a little not-quite-sexual-harassment.	Workplace Discussions
June 15, 2009	Nik is one of many with the Watcher's eye upon him.	Everyday Life
June 26, 2009	Nik runs into Hilary again after avoiding him since power return.	Chilling Admissions

May 2009

May 15, 2009	A new patron comes to the bar. The discussion gets deep, but includes flattery.	A Little Flattery
May 16, 2009	Yesterday's customer comes back again!	Repeat Customer
May 21, 2009	Despite being warned, Nik still loses his powers to the Green guy.	Green Meanie in Mutant Town
May 22, 2009	Waking up Powerless, Nik spends a little time with his new regular customer, Hilary.	The Dinner First Type

April 2009

April 15, 2009	Nik meets a few new people as he runs the bar.	Cold Vodka
April 20, 1009	Nik meets a potential new bartender in Danny.	Bartender to Bartender

Quotes

• "I said it!"

Trivia

• Amazing thing!
• Amazing thing!
• Amazing thing!
• Amazing thing!

Powers

Ionic Pocket Dimension

Nik is bound to a dimension of pure Ionic energy, much like the energy that Simon Williams is made of/uses. While he doesn't control the energy, he does have a limitless amount of space within it. The pocket dimension itself is just under our own dimension, and is as cold as his body, meaning anything stored in it needs to be able to be in cold for long periods of time. There is air, just no real ground or water or anything else necessary for life.

Ionic Body

Nik's body has Ionic energy running throughout it at all times. Due to this, it causes a few unique oddities. His hair is an energetic blue, and his eyes consistently crackle with ionic energy. However, GOOD sunglasses can cover the eyes and the hair can be passed off by dye. By activating the energy and forcefully channeling it through himself, he's also granted the following. His body becomes more durable, able to withstand force of up to 20 tons before having problems. Also, his blood runs as energy, crackling out, but also being replenished. In his ionic charged body, Nik can also go without food or air for long periods of time, being even able to survive in space. He has not yet tested how long he can go without eating or drinking, but he's lasted up to five days before, without shutting down. (At most, he can survive about a week and a half)

Portal Creation

Nik's primary power-use is the ability to create interdimensional portals. Each portal is actually a pair of portals. One side in our dimension with the exit in his Ionic Pocket Dimension, and another directly next to it leading back into our dimension. Each pair of portals has ONE entrance side and one exit side. They can only be used in one direction by anyone other than Nik (or anyone who can use ionic energy). The portals can be created in multiple sizes. He may have up to four entrance portals and four exit portals at a time. The portals can range in size from one foot diameter and circular to up to ten feet diameter and circular. He may create other shapes as well, as long as the overall area remains similar. The portals can reach very long distances (up to lunar distance) however, he cannot reach places he has not been and has not used his abilities in. For now, for example, he can only teleportal to places in New York, Kentucky, and New Orleans. As he explores and finds more places, and uses his powers in them, his area will grow. He CAN place portals beneath things, between them and the ground, but he has to do it slowly and carefully and it may be noticed in the process.

Portal Snap

When Nik closes a portal, if there's something within it, depending on its strength, it may or may not be broken in half. He can cut a clean break in a screwdriver or an aluminum baseball bat, but anything stronger and htere's no chance, it'll be shunted to the side of the portal that more of it is. Cutting things, however, hurts him. With a screwdriver or an aluminum bat, it'll cause him to pass out and have a migraine for a day when he wakes up. Smaller things will have lesser effects.

Air Walk

By creating portals at varying levels in the air, with the exit being in his own room or somewhere he knows, Nik can walk on air. However,he has to have access to his powers and can move no faster than what he could without the portals, only adding in vertical height.

Cold immunity

Because of the cold nature of his body, Nik is very resistant to cold temperatures. Temperatures down to about negative 100 (though space is fine for him when in energy form) don't bother him at all. (Fahrenheit). Anything below this moves down at an equivalent rate as t what it would for a normal person being able to deal with temperatures that low.

Power flaws

Nik's body is consistenly below freezing levels, but only a little bit. Any water that lands on his body may freeze within a few minutes depending on the amount of time it's in contact with the water. Also, his portals are meant for personal and inanimate use. When he allows others through his portals, he has to stand directly in the middle of them to hold them together. While he's inside, he feels as though he's being ripped in two, having to be in two places at once. The longer he holds it open, the harder it is to keep the portals open. If enough pain is caused, though, he'll find himself unconscious in the Ionic Dimension. Finally, he has a problem with heat. Anything over 100 degrees Fahrenheit is unbearable to him, causing him to sweat profusely in seconds, Any little bit of flame that touches him damages his body at twice the speed it would a normal person.

Nik's powers also make him an obvious mutant by appearance. His hair is a bright energy blue. His eyes glow a brilliant electric blue.

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