Espinosa, Miguel - Evolution

[Miguel Espinosa]

MIGUEL ESPINOSA

FULL NAME: Miguel Martine Espinosa
CODENAME: Evolution
FACE CLAIM: Harry Samba
AGE: 19
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Aegis
ALIGNMENT: Hero

Personal

SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
GENDER: Man
PRONOUNS: He/Him
ETHNICITY: African descent

Double Life

ABILITIES: Animalistic Adaptation
Over time, animals adapt to their environment to become better predators, to protect themselves, or to make them more attractive to others of their species.  But it's quite a long drawn out process that's been documented.  In Miguel's case, it doesn't take very long at all.  If there's a blow coming towards him, his power is to adapt in a way to protect him from that.  If someone's coming in with a kick to his arms, his arms can adapt and develop armour on them.  If he needs a bit of extra oomph to his attacks, he can spawn claws to do more damage.  Basically, any adaptation the animal kingdom has made over the course of time, Miguel can employ it quickly.  In a battle or otherwise. 

One particular way he likes to use it is...well he's in a band.  Does he occasionally adapt his vocal cords to be like a song bird's to hit the high notes?  Of course! 

SKILLS:

- skilled guitarist, pianist and vocalist of his own merits

- excellent wrestler, also well versed in a variety of martial arts

- skilled fencer with rapier and longsword both

- business-minded: can work a deal really well

- speaks English, Spanish and French fluently because of his own interest, and parental influence

WEAKNESSES:

- it takes energy and pain to adapt, especially the first time using a new adaptation.  If he hasn't sprouted claws before, it's going to take a longer time for them to develop, and it's gonna be painful throughout that whole time.

- overuse of his powers can lead to headaches as well as an increased appetite or sleep

Appearance

GENERAL: Miguel is 6'5" tall.  He wears his hair in short dreadlocks on the top with a fade on the sides.  He has a muscular build, and some might even describe him as built as he's very fit.  His ears are pierced.  Sometimes he also has a septum piercing.  He walks in a relaxed, but confident way.  Sometimes when he's studying you'll see him wearing glasses.  They're gold rim, and round.  Normally it would seem at odds with his cool guy look, but somehow they work for him. 

COSTUME: Miguel's costume is made up of a type of material developed to adapt when he does.  It can be rearranged very easily via muscular sensors in the middle of battle.  His costume is made up of high topped combat boots, black combat tactical cargo pants, a red t-shirt and a red and black vest with laces up the side.

Personality

For the most part, Miguel is a relaxed sort of fellow.  He likes hanging out with his bandmates, reading books both nonfiction and fiction, and collecting types of tea and different colour lava lamps.  There are a select few things that he isn't so relaxed about however.  This is his studies at Astaria's college, as well as the way the band VALENCIA is presented. 

Where the band is concerned, he's sort of a perfectionist.  He knows what special effects will compliment the songs best.  He knows the best ways to get media coverage for what the band is doing.  Some of what he does is relaxed personality, but some of it is calculated carefully.  And Miguel gets annoyed if a balance isn't struck at least sometimes.  He's very passionate about the music VALENCIA makes. 

History

Miguel was born on February 14, 2001 in Madrid, Spain.  To know about his upbringing you first have to know about his parents.  His lineage if you will.  His father, Alberto Espinosa, was a Spanish businessman.  Very successful in funding ventures of others.  He met Miguel's mother on a business trip to France.  Adrienne Bertrand was the daughter of a famous French designer.  Normally, her leaving to marry and move to Spain might have been looked down upon by her family, but she was the youngest of three children.  And she was adopted.  Instead of being trained in the family business, she took up the sport her mother enjoyed: fencing. 

And so that is the home Miguel was brought into.  A wealthy family in Madrid.  A mother who started teaching him how to fence when he was seven years old.  He was not an only child of course.  He grew up with four siblings.  Two brothers, and two sisters.  Three older, one younger.  And him, smack dab in the middle trying to keep them from biting each others' heads off.  Regardless of the fact he wasn't going to inherit the business his father had grown, his father did teach him some business and it served him well in small ways like bargaining.  While Miguel did keep learning fencing from his mother, in his spare time he developed an interest in music. 

When he was fifteen, his older siblings had moved out.  They were helping with his father's business.  The family took a vacation to Besalú, Spain to unwind.  It was just his father, mother, his younger sister and himself.  While there, his parents fell in love with the area.  Over the next year, they visited more and more until they finally bought a home in the town for themselves.  His father, forever the businessman, invested in some things that didn't need too much of his attention.  It was basically his father's way of retiring.  His mother kept up her fencing, and so did Miguel and his sister.  It was during one of his fencing sessions with his mother that his powers first manifested themselves.  He grew a type of hard shell on him the moment before his mother rapped him on his arms to discipline bad form.  It became a time when she would help him discover what he could do.

It was during Miguel's high school years that he met Alexis, Mateo, and Gael.  Miguel met them when he was seventeen, and they formed the band VALENCIA.  They did struggle at first.  Miguel's father thought it was a waste, but didn't see any harm in it.  Neither did his mother.  And so he persevered along with his friends.  Miguel juggled the band, his fencing, and his studies.  He was determined to do well in it all.  He graduated and started studying in college.  When the band started to take off though, it was time for Miguel to stop his lessons with his mother.  He did so rather reluctantly considering he enjoyed the one on one time with his mum.  However, he recognized it was important and that the band would need his know-how.  He was business minded and did his best to deal, and find them some good gigs when he could.  They all had a talent that could be recognized.  And, Miguel knew, could be sold.  A lot of the attention was on Alexis of course, but Miguel knew that tended to happen with front-men.  Especially when they had the powers Alexis did.  Besides, he had his own fans he knew.  Boyvbands were never just one person.  And Miguel's voice was a nice bass that contrasted. 

They finally packed up and headed to the US when Miguel was nineteen .  To Astaria where their record label was.  His parents and siblings call him regularly to check on him.  Video calls sometimes.  And sometimes flights over to visit him.  His younger sister has even toyed with the idea of coming to the US on exchange.  Miguel is still a college student, although not full time for obvious reasons.  After all, he's a hero of Aegis too.  Alexis had joined for the publicity.  So had Miguel to a certain extent after making his identity public, but he also knew he could help the world that way.  He's fairly new at it but doing well because of his background in skills that benefit the team too. 

Player

OOC NAME: Exxie

PRONOUNS: They/Them

OTHER CHARACTERS: I have 14 others at this point.  I am not listing them.  Forget about it man.

SOURCE: How'd I hear about it?  I think the site was conceptualized in discord so...discord?

credit to Laura of Adox

[Aaron]