Live never goes how you expect it. And a young woman, runaway, was doing what she could to survive in New York City and ended up in the career of a call girl. Just a fancier prostitute. One of her clients got her pregnant. There were complications during delivery and after she had the twins she knew she was going to die. The father promised he’d raise the twins as their father and the woman died believing it. Not true to his word, the father put the boys up for adoption, never to hear about them again.
Richard Larkin was a small time musician who was in a small band that would get hired to play weddings and other functions and his wife. Lily, was a children’s book illustrator. They weren’t rich but they were happy, there was just one thing missing from their life, a child. Since they couldn’t have kids, they decided to adopt and ended up with one of the twins, not knowing he had a twin brother. Robyn Seamus Larkin he was named. They were able to raise him in their small two bed room apartment in Williamsburg, an artistic area of Brooklyn New York.
Robyn was raised to be a creative child and if he liked something, just do it. When he was little play-doh was his favourite thing to play with and as he got older he took any sort of pottery or sculpting classes he could sign up for. Anything he could mold with his two hands, Robyn loved. His adopted parents were happy that they adopted such an artistic child and encouraged him to do what he loved. Around the age of six he learned he was adopted and it took him a while to understand it but once he did it was just a way of life, though a part of him was always curious who his real parents were.
Robyn was one of those kids who walked to the beat of a different drummer and with his parents always encouraging him to be himself. He got picked on a bit at school, didn’t always have the most friends but he was fine with that. He didn’t change who he was for the sake of anyone. He was always the kid that had pretty good grades, mostly B’s some A’s but his art classes is where he excelled, especially with anything and sculpting or pottery. The other thing Robyn got into in middle school and into high school was the cello playing in the school orchestra.
By high school, Robyn was one those ‘goth’ kind of kids. He didn’t try to be he just enjoyed more macabe things, the Tim Burton type movies, EMB and industrial music, black or stripped clothes, but he wasn’t morbid or depressed and never once did he write bad poetry or cut himself. By this time a lot of his sculpting was strange little figures that had a kind of creepy feel to them, but Robyn liked them and his parents applauded his talent.
By the age of fifteen things got weird for Robyn, he started getting headaches almost daily and they would get bad, to the point where his parents took him to a doctor which couldn’t figure out the problem thus he was sent to a neurologist. After a few tests they determined nothing was wrong and that he was probably prone to headaches and put him on strong medication for the headaches but they never helped. His parents were definitely worried.
Right after his sixteen birthday, his sophomore year of high school, was when things really became serious for Robyn. One day in school, in the middle of his German class, he was suffering one of his headaches. It just became worse and worse until he passed out. When brought to the hospital they found that his brain was still active but he was comatose. Again the tests started and after some blood work and tests it was discovered, Robyn was a mutant, they just didn’t know his powers.
After a few days though, one of the nurses was checking up on him when her bare arm brushed against his bare arm and his eyes flashed open, glowing bright purple. He didn’t mean to but his Psonic Vampirism manifested then and he drained the nurse of her physic energy casing her to pass out and go comatose for a two days.
The next day a representative showed up from Xavier’s and offered to take him into their school, talking to his parents rather then him at fist. Strangely Richard and Lily were fast to agree with the arrangement. There son being a mutant wasn’t something they signed up for with the adoption and weren’t sure how to handle it. A creative individual normal child yes, but mutant, they’re still trying to adjust.
Robyn was talked to by the representative shortly after and they told him a bit about him being a mutant and about Xavier’s. The next day he was released from the hospital, went home, packed his things, said his awkward good bye to his parents and left for his new school to learn about what he really is.
PsychicVampirism - In order to survive and to use his powers, Robyn must drain the physic energy off of others. Currently he can only drain from those with a weaker mind than him, people like Emma, Addison, Jean Grey are way out of his reach and he where he could try, they’d know someone was trying but nothing would drain. Anyone with any sort of physic training would be able to resist the vampirism as Robyn doesn’t have a lot of control or training. Right now the average non-powered human and anyone without any physic training will be all he can drain. He must make skin contact right now in order to drain. (Later he’ll be able do this without.) His eyes glow purple when he drains physic energy.
Robyn can 'drink'/absorb psychic energy from other sources, mainly the air around him. It’s something he has to actively do during the day as it’s more like taking ‘sips’ rather than a ‘gulp’ if he were to directly drain from someone. Where as he can keep the headaches at bay with this along with the other side effect it doesn’t ‘taste’ as good. It’s always the most potent from the source, ie absorbing from skin contact, but it doesn’t strengthen or lessen the effects. Right now he can go about three days of just feeding from psychic energy off the air before wanting it from the actual source.
Effects of Psychic Vampirism
In order to survive and use his powers Robyn needs to drain the equivalent of half of someone’s physic energy
If he drains 1/8 of someone’s energy they’ll get a mild headache for about two hours.
If he drains 1/4 of someone’s energy they’ll get a migraine for 4-6 hours.
If he drains 1/2 of someone’s energy they’ll have a migraine for at least 6 hours and suffer a mild disorientation for about an hour.
If he drains 3/4 of someone’s energy they’ll pass out for a few hours, have a migraine for several hours afterwards with disorientation.
If he drains all their physic energy, they’ll be comatose for about a day.
He cannot drain enough to kill anyone or leave them brain dead.
If Robyn doesn’t drain physic energy the following things happen:
One day without – He ends up with horrible headaches that painkillers won’t work on and his powers are halved.
Two Days without – He can’t use his powers at all, constant migraine and mild disorientation, some memory problems and trouble concentrating.
Three Days without – Still can’t use his powers, passes out for an hour at a time, several times durning the day, headache, disorientation, sever memory loss
Four Days without – Comatose, he’s not brain dead, but his brain shuts down to reserve the small amount of energy that’s left. Anyone who comes in skin contact and has a weak mind will be drained until they break skin contact or he drains all the energy he can.
Psychic Weaponry - Robyn's Psychic weapons use up his own physic energy to form any bladed melee weapon he can imagine. The physic energy shows as a purple energy in his hands. He can only form one weapon at a time (he can’t ‘duel wield’ two pyschic daggers). obyn can make a psychic weapon up to six times a day and it can make longer weapons now, up to three feet in length now. He still can only maintain a psychic weapon for up to six minutes before it is dispelled. The same effects are still in place that it’s a mental push attack when someone gets struck with one of his weapons–
Anyone with a psi-screen will suffer nothing against his weapons.
Anyone with any sort of mental resistance will get a headache and some mild physic discomfort but really he can’t effect anyone with mental resistance yet.
Anyone with no mental resistance will suffer an attack to the psyche that will feel like his or her brain is being ‘scrambled’ and will be possibly be stunned from a mental attack for several minutes.
The weapon can only effect things with a mind, they don’t cut anything physical and when hitting something with a consciousness it will only stab ‘the mind’.
Possession - Robyn can jump into another person’s psyche and take over their mind. Only when really concentrating can he actually do this. When his mind leaves his body, Robyn’s body will go limp and comatose. Like with his other powers, anyone with a psi-sheild, he’ll be able to nothing against them. Anyone with any sort of mental resistance will be able to fight back and push him out. Anyone with no mental resistance will not be able to resist him. While he has control over their body, the victim won’t be able to remember anything and when Robyn hops out of their mind they victim will feel like they’ve been asleep. He cannot stay inside someone for more than ten minutes.
Using his psychic weapons he can stick a psychic dagger into someone and transfer part of his consciousness into that person, possessing them. The victims mind is temporarily pushed back while the psychic dagger is in the victim (Robyn can let go of the dagger and still have the person possessed, though the purple glowing dagger is fully visible) but Robyn doesn’t have complete control. His motor skills in both himself and his victim will be limited and choppy movements. Speaking is do able but with be slow and choppy. He can keep a person possessed like this for up to 5 minutes and they have to stay in range of sight. If the range of sight is lost, he cannot longer possess them. Also the victim has to stay within one hundred feet of his body. Once they go beyond 100 feet, the possession is broken. This counts as one of the psychic weapons that Robyn can manifest for the day.
Astral Projection – LOST DURING MINDBENDER/UPGRADE PLOT -Astral Projection - While in the white prison Robyn tried to use his Astral Projection again to cause a ‘glitch’ in the illusion like he did with the Happiest Place on Earth. Unfortunately this time MindBender and Upgrade anticipated him trying the same thing and it caused a mental backlash on Robyn. It’s like his Astral form was blocked and sent back instantly in his mind and acted like a severe mental assault. Because of this Robyn is no longer able to access the astral plane, if he was to try again the backlash would happen with the same effects of what happened when he was in the white prison, bloody nose, severe headache and dazed for several hours.
Mental Resistance Strong mentalists will be able to push over Robyn's defenses like they were a minor speed bump (ie Emma Frost, Addison, Psylocke) but mid to low level telepaths he’d have a better chance at defending himself from. He has to focus to defend himself though so if he’s not actively trying to shield his mind it’s open to any telepath/anyone with mind control. Low-level illusions and emotion control he can resist and mid/low level illusions and emotion control he can resist for a time. He can resist mid/low level mental intrusions for about two minutes before his mental shields will be torn down. That means that someone has to be actively trying to break down his mental defenses, again this is for mid/low level mentalists.
Psychic Detection Robyn has started to be come more sensitive to the psychic realm. He can now feel when someone has psychic powers when they are in a 15' radius or if someone is using a power that is psychic based, he'll be able to sense it.
