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Character's Name: Terrance Ward/Trauma
Series: Avengers: The Initiative
Timeline: post issue #19, after the events of Secret Invasion
Canon Resource Link: Marvel wiki~
Personality:

Trauma seems, at first, to be not much more than an angry emo kid with a strangely appropriate power. Which, well. That is what he is when he arrives at the Initiative. He's estranged from his family due to his power (which considers a "condition" rather than a gift) - which is probably what fed into his anger more than anything to begin with.

Though I guess that's kind of pointless since he mellows out a lot later on. Under Mirage's Tutelage he learns to control his power, but more than this, he decides that it would be best for his power to be used to help people than to become a weapon (which sees him stripped of his status as an Omega level threat,) showing that, for all the anger and hate he displayed early on, he's an inherently good person- just with a fe issues to smooth out. Though- when you can't help but pick up on everyone's deepest fears, who wouldn't be?

He's deathly afraid of being alone but he's also terrified of hurting the people closest to him - ever since his powers manifested in High School he's slowly driven everyone away due to the fact that he couldn't control his powers, and they tended to come out during the worst times. (He turned into his mother's worst fear during an argument and she was so traumatised she had to be commited, during an argument with his father he found out his father was afraid of killing him, which was what ultimately made him agree to join the Initiative.) Because of this, he tends to keep people at arm's length, better to be alone of his own voilition than to be rejected again because of his powers.

Whilst not particularly, um. Strong. (He's likely the most physically unfit of the recruits/graduates in his class.) He's not afraid to jump into a situation if he's needed; taking on opponents such as KIA, the Hulk and the Thor!bot with relatively little hesitation. (Though he was a bit of a failget in those fights as his power was rendered useless each time.)

What your character can offer:

Trauma has mild telepathic abilities allowing him to know the fears of people around him- these are linked directly to his shape-shifting abilities, wherein he can transform into a physical manifestation of any fears the people around him have. It's unknown whether it works on anyone other than the person who's fear he's taken on, but as he seems to intend to use Armory's fear to fight during the initial training excersize, it suggests that so long as the person who's fear he's using is within range, he can feed off it just fine.

The downside to this is, of course, that even though he has his powers under control since meeting Mirage, he can't help but transform if someone is projecting too strongly. (Such as during Secret Invasion; because his team was afraid he could turn out to be a Skrull, he transformed into one against his will and was detained.)

In combination with his powers, Trauma also works as a counsellor, using it to help people come to terms with their issues by helping them literally face their fears and anxieties.

What items will they be bringing with them? Just his suit~

Third-Person Sample:

Okay. So he'd gone off the deep end, right?

Not that he wasn't totally used to weird things by now. He was a shape shifter who turned into what people feared, after all. He'd come back fom the dead. But crerpy, glowing things in his office were a little too ominous for his liking. (And if it dared to shout, "Hey! Listen!" So help him, it was getting punched for the hours annoying pixie 'help' he'd had to endure.)

He moved a little closer out of curiosity. Couldn't sense anything, so that meant either - well, it could mean a lot of different things, really. It was hardly as if he was one of the most powerful psychics in the world, or anything like that. If someone had a psy-blocker or anything like that, he wouldn't be able to sense anything either. (Or if they were a crazy, killer robot.)

No - Chill out, Terry. Now he was overthinking things. Who was he to say that a strange, glowing thing had to bad? Just because awful, awful things had a way of happening to him over and over again didn't mean good things couldn't happen too. Maybe it was a message- that could be a good thing. Admittedly it could also be bad, but it was unlikely to kill him straight away either, and that meant maybe he could investigate it a little without worrying about his face getting melted. He'd already done that whole 'coing back from the dead' thing once, he wasn't so sure he'd come back a second time.

Tentatively, he reached a hand towards it, attempting to touch it or even grab it and bring it closer for further inspection. But his hand went straight through it.

Well, okay. Maybe he really was overthinking this and he'd just gone crazy instead. It was bound to happen eventually.

He stared blankly for a moment and finally turned on his heels in exasperation to leave the office. Whatever it was, hopefully it would wait to turn his life on its head until after he'd had a coffee.

First-Person Sample:

Ah- um, okay, this is new. Use this, huh? Well, I'm using it now. What do you want?

[A sort sigh] You guys should warn me before sending me out like this, y'know. What if I had an appointment? Not that I really expect you guys to care or listen, but... I would've thought just taking us in our sleep and sending us places was a bit much, though. I don't reember getting briefed on being sent to Silent Hill. Whole round table thing get too boring or something?

[There's another sigh followed by some footsteps as he starts to pace up and down.] Don't know what I'm expecting here anyway. If anyone's out there to get this - I can't sense anything - this is Trauma. I... think I might need some help.