Name: Flare
Civilian name: Matsuzaka Hideki (Last name first)
Age: 22
Occupation: Student
Alliance: Good/ X-men
Appearance:
Hideki is of Korean descent. He has pale skin and mid-cropped jet black hair. He is fit and stands about 5â10. He dresses stylishly, the similar to Japanese pop iconic male style.
Personality:
Submissive- Realistic
Hedeki is a very bright and innocent minded individual. He can be curious about others and likes to investigate things. He loves to sing and create small sparklers of harmless light as a form of bored fidgeting. He is generally quite friendly. He studies hard and plays even harder. He likes to perfect his abilities. He tends to become the voice of reason within a group and likes to remain optimistic. He doesnât like to lose control of his abilities and is sensitive about making mistakes. He sometimes likes to be to himself to think and ponder things. He is prone to wander off on his own. He just canât help but light his own path.
Mutant Classification: Alpha
Powers and Abilities:
Light Energy Conversion/ blasts, Flight
Flare has the ability to convert, control and generate light energy into plasmoids to be fired as firework like projectiles, explosive plasmoid light bombs, and intensive light beams or light in general. The strength of the energy varies in degrees of power and intensity, and could range from a multitude of colorful sparkles capable of temporarily blinding a person to a powerful detonation capable of destroying highly durable objects. He can throw his light energy like grenades of light and or fire off sporadic firework-like projectiles of explosive plasmoid light.
When Left undirected, Flare's light will radiate from his body in all directions, producing regular flashes of white light. By conscious control over the light he produces, he can control its direction, frequency (color), amplitude (intensity), and duration. With effort, he can create holograms of human beings and other three-dimensional beings and objects, though this technique is very physically taxing on him. He can stockpile light energy into his body to maintain charge. While charged he gains some increased durability. His eyes are polarized so that he is unable to be blinded by bright lights. He does not take damage from the heat his lights generate.
Using is ability can be taxing when in a highly dark area. If there is no light for Flare to pull energy from then he must use the light stored in his reserves, so massive amounts of light generation in a dark area can drain him seriously. If he is charged with too much light energy his body will begin to expel the energy in a nearly uncontrollable manner. This could temporarily blind others nearby and or cause seizures to onlookers. If he is cut off from sunlight, moonlight or other natural lights for an elongated period of time his body will work hard to produce the light that he lacks thus he will grow weak.
Through Manipulation of the light energy stored in his body as well as light energy heâs currently converting Flare has the ability to fly. He converts his solid body matter into a semi light matter state and can fly at light speed. This allows his body to avoid damage while flying at high speeds. However to fly so fast is physically taxing so only in an emergency does he tap into such speeds. In order for him to carry another while flying, he must convert their body matter as well as his own. He can only convert his body in this way during flight and although intangible, he still sustains pain if he phases through solid and or energy matter.
History:
Matsuzaka Hideki was a foreign- born Japanese citizen of Korean descent. He was raised in Japan and thus speaks Japanese fluently. He was attending school in Japan when his powers started to manifest he began to emanate blinding bright lights from his body during class. A couple of students suffered from seizures. His parents had him home schooled for a year as he practiced gaining some control over his power.
He later studied English at a British Boarding School in London. He returned to Japan to study at Tokyo University, when he was soon scouted out as a pop idol. He became popular in the J-pop world and used his flashy light powers in his live performances. Charles Xavier, using Cerebro, detected Choi and sought to recruit him into the institute. Matsuzaka was surprised to meet Charles Xavier and Magneto, and jumped at the chance to train his abilities properly. He is still working as a pop star so he sometimes has to return to Japan for recordings, performances and other engagements.
Other information: He is worried by the growing anti-mutant sentiment. He didnât have much trouble being accepted as a mutant in Japan. His powers were adored by his fans. However, upon his arrival to the US he saw that things were much different for mutants there. Matsuzaka sometimes wonders if studying at the Xavier and Lenhsherr Institute is worth dealing with all the prejudice towards mutants.[/center][/color]