Height: 6'1"
Weight: 215 lbs.
Age: 25
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Ethnicity: American, specifically, from Staten Island, New York City
Personality: Alan has a very patient and understanding personality. He can be withdrawn, due to the pain he has suffered in the past. He is responsible and cautious, but also caring and kind. He likes to avoid conflict and settle it peacefully, due to the violence of his past. Highly-intelligent and good at thinking on his feet, his gentle nature belies a master warrior. Though not very social, he is not out of place at social functions.
History: Alan Arnan was fifteen years old when his life changed forever. His father, Marshall Arnan, owed money to a notorious mobster named Carmine Alcone. When he couldn't pay up, they took the debt in blood, murdering Alan's parents. A witness to the crime, the hitmen hunted Alan down and tried to burn him alive inside a warehouse. When his life was in greatest danger, Alan's pyromancer abilities awoke. He escaped the inferno without a single burn, and after wandering a bit, ran into investigative reporter Leslie Downing.
Alan sought revenge for the death of his parents, and systematically eliminated the Alcone Family within a year. On his sixteenth birthday, Alan was betrayed by Downing, who revealed herself to be a Director for a special branch of the government dealing with individuals like him called "Mutant 300", or "M-300". Alan was locked in federal prison for months, where he bulked up and increased his knowledge of the martial arts. Alan was released from prison and sent to a special boarding school, where he met two other unique individuals, a telepath named Erica and an ice user named Ricky. He had a good group of friends, and his relationship with Erica was about to get serious before she found out about the violence of his past and became scared of him. At the same time, Downing and her pet mutant, Whiplash, began stepping up M-300's plans.
The true purpose of M-300 was to steal the powers of mutants and create a cure for cancer with it. 299 powers were taken, and Alan's was going to be number 300. In a last-ditch change of heart. however, Whiplash surrendered his own powers so that Alan could continue to be hope for their kind. The scientist behind the project, Dr. William Grisling, injected himself with the formula, seeking to become a god. Growing to monstrous size, he called himself Energon and threatened the whole city. Not even the combined powers of Alan, Erica, and Ricky were enough to stop him.
Downing, ashamed that her project had gone awry, gave them information on where to find an obsidian sword that could slay Energon. Located deep in the Arctic tundra, it was found and Alan used it to put an end to the man who sought godhood. However, Alan and Erica's fractured relationship was not repaired, and she left to go to Texas with Ricky after graduation. Alan began teaching martial arts, until the demon Aragos sought to steal his power and destroy the earth. Using trickery, he almost possessed Alan and used his power to cleanse the earth of humans to make room for his demons. Only with Erica's return and declaration of love did he find the strength to banish Aragos from the earth once and for all.
For this heroic deed, Alan was granted an audience with the Fire God, Infernus, who had long ago gifted pyromancy to the Arnan family as a reward for their piety. Alan was offered the chance to succeed him, but he chose to stay on earth. Infernus understood, and said that the offer was available whenever he desired it. At age 18, Alan was invited to teach at the Silhouette Institute, and gladly accepted. He has been teaching there for seven years, and is among one of the most well-respected teachers. His wife Erica is currently pregnant with the couple's first child, and he is very excited.
Extra: A martial arts Grandmaster in every known and unknown martial art, Alan teaches this combat to his students, so that they will not hurt innocents with their power.