Zyne Xander De la Vega

[Tsunami]

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Name: Zyne Xander De la Vega
Alias): Zyne, De la Vega, Zynexzan
Codename: Tsunami
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Type: Mutant
Affiliation: Brotherhood
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Play-by: Suzuki Akira
Family:

Birth parents unknown. Adoptive parents: Leo De la Vega (father), Jane De la Vega (mother)

General Appearance:

Zyne stands at five feet seven inches tall, has a slim build, and weighs at a hundred and twenty one pounds. Most people assume that the multi colored hair is a dye and bleach job but in fact, the colors that range from pale yellows and oranges to deep blacks is natural for him. His eyes are a medium brown with goldfish-like orange flecks in them that can be seen if caught in a certain light, and his skin is pale. Another thing about his skin is that when he is wet, koi-like reflective scale patterns show up randomly over it. His muscle layout is lean and toned, not that he really shows it much with how he likes to stay covered up for the most part. The reason he tends to keep his torso covered up is due to the gills he has that can be seen from the outside of his body even when he presses them shut. You see, instead of having gills someplace like the sides of his neck or along his jawline, he has them at the sides of his ribs, the slits being in between the ribs. Though they can open and close, when closed they still look like cuts. Zyne is also missing a bellybutton; this making him even more self conscious about when it comes to baring himself. He has webs between his fingers and toes that he can retract so not to be seen. The webs go midway past his fingers and toes.

Personality:

Zyne likes rainy days over sunny ones. He doesn't like cursing as he feels that everyone already does it and that there are more creative ways of saying things to get a point across. He is very self conscious about his gills not only because of them looking like cuts into his ribs but because they are vulnerable and sensitive and he doesn't like to let them be exposed to just anyone or really anyone in general. This keeps him from getting into many situations that call for him to be shirtless or for him to be touched too much.

He prefers mild flavors over strong ones and absolutely refuses to eat fish as he just can't seem to bring himself to do it. He's fine with eating other sea creatures though. When he is upset, he doesn't really talk about it. He more of broods over it until he is over it or until the situation is resolved in another way. For some reason, when he smiles he gets shy soon after and he tends to cover his face even more than it already is when he laughs. He isn't the type that thinks that it makes a guy any less than a man if he cries. In fact, he does cry if something hurts or touches him enough.

Were it not for the fact that he's a slow healer, he might have been a masochist as pain just makes him excited as long as it isn't too much of it. He is an sentimental packrat; someone who collects things of sentimental value and has trouble parting with it. Zyne has moments when he just feels lost, when he feels like there is something he should be doing but isn't doing it. It bothers him when he has those moments and he will be found brooding when those moments hit. Well, brooding or painting.

Zyne is gender-blind. This makes it so he feels the same way about males as he does with females and ultimately what brought him to decide he was bisexual.

Abilities:

He has the ability to draw moisture from his surroundings with concentration and to control and manipulate water that is already around; Hydrokineses. He can move water as if it is an extension of himself and can sometimes feel through it. Not feel as in a real sense of touch but if something obstructs it or is in it, he can tell. Thanks to his gills, he can breathe under water and due to the times he had been away from water for longer periods of time than he would have liked to be, he can hold his breath and recycle the water already in his gills for up to half an hour until it is all used up. He can hear exceptionally well under water as well as being able to see in it. Due to his flexibility, his ability to empty his lungs, and his webs he has higher than human capability of swimming as well as being able to go to depths that would crush most surface dwelling people and creatures. His bones are somewhat more flexible than other people's and have more of a bending point before they would break. He is cold blooded like a fish so he is less likely to get heatstroke or hypothermia. This also makes him less likely to get sick from human illnesses as he lacks the natural body-heat of one to sustain the same viruses and so on. When he is covered in water and causes this intentionally, he becomes more slippery, his body giving off a kind of lubrication so he can pass through the water faster the lubrication also seconding as a means for him not to become waterlogged (like when people become pruny after a long bath).

History:

Twenty five years ago in a town near Yokohama at the edge of the North Pacific, one of the town's residents came across something strange on the beach. At first, the man wasn't sure on what to make of the odd oval object the size of a beach-ball roughly. As he got closer, it moved then split open; an infant slipping out with all of the liquid that was inside the egg. At first, the man was going to take off like hell itself was on his heels, but something made him stop and move forward instead. He inspected the infant, being hold enough to pick it up and found that the baby had tenfingers, ten toes, and wha seemed to be four cuts down both sides of his body! Baffled, the man looked closer to realize that they were gills. Too compassionate to just throw the helpless thing away but too disturbed to keep it, the man brought the child to the nearest big city and dropped him off at the first orphanage he could find. The orphanage took in all kinds so they took in the gilled child as well with open arms. The assumption was made that he was a mutant but no real identity was placed over his head.

The difficulties involving his health were found not even an hour after he was brought to the orphanage, him having almost died of dehydration in that time. It was a brush of luck that allowed him to survive as one of the staff at the orphanage placed him in the fish tank that was in the lobby for guests to look at while waiting for an appointment. This became his temporary holding until they had set up a tank for him in the nursery. It was three months later that he was adopted by a couple from America and brought to the United states. There had been others who had wanted to adopt him but after screenings to see if they would be fit parents for him, they were found to be unable to handle such a high maintenance child. So this couple had impressed the staff at the orphanage enough to let him be taken home by them. They were the De la Vegas; an American couple with a Spanish last name due to Spanish ancestry on the father's side.

For the first three years of his life with the De la Vegas, a majority of his time was spent in his quite literal water bed; a tank that had been set up for him with things of childhood comforts placed within it. But after that, he began to spend more and more time out of the tank as they worked out ways to make that possible. They found that he was able to leave the tank and be fine as long as his gills remained wet and he got to water before too long. From there, they tried and tested different things.

Public school wasn't exactly an option for him due to the fact that he and his parents hadn't discovered a means of him being on dry land for too long at a time so Zyne was home schooled for the most part. It wasn't until his teen years that he was able to go to a public school and due to Highschool holding all kinds, he was able to get by even if he refused to be seen without his clothes on. When it came to gym, he would not dress in the locker-room but rather hide himself in an actual locker to get changed in. It was when he started Highschool that he began wearing his masks; the cloth over his nose or one that covered the lower half of his face. This was because he had found that inhaling water in with air into his lung-gill cross organs made him able to function alright without needing to dive into some water every half an hour. He wasn't able to do much as far as outdoor activities though. Swimming was his best topic in Gym though, although he would never swim without a shirt on.

On reaching the age of eighteen, Zyne felt it was time to leave home and go on his own. Not interested in college, he instead took up a job that was offered to him by a friend of the family. When not at work, he would play in whatever band he happened to have joined at that time or he would do some painting at his apartment. Following a falling out with his employer and a fight with his parents about what he was going to do with his life about a month ago, Zyne packed up and left the city. He moved into New York where he took up a job as an auto-body painter and customizer.

This was not to last long though, as it was found out that he was a mutant and an assault followed soon after. While trying to defend himself, Zyne ended up accidentally exploding his assailant's heart by suddenly building up a massive amount of fluid in it. Not knowing what else to do, he took off. During his escape, he was approached and recruited by a man calling himself Magneto.

Other:

If he is away from water too long, his skin and flesh will dry and crack painfully and if it goes too far, he will fall apart, dry out, and die. Because of this, he needs to take about five to twelve showers a day depending on the humidity of the day, and he needs to drink water often. Although he can breathe air to a point, he absolutely has to keep his gills damp or soaked with water or he will suffocate. Salt water is the best for the breathing but he can handle fresh water as well. Due to the issue with the water breathing and gill dampening, he wears different devices to make sure he has water to inhale either through the gills at his ribs or through his nose and or mouth. If he isn't planning on doing anything extensive, he is able to get by with soaked towels being worn around his ribs under his shirt; plastic being wrapped on the outside of that so the towel does not dry out too quickly. The towel usually being rewetted as needed. If he is planning on being out and about for a while, he will strap packets of water onto himself under his clothes and rig it so he has a thin tube leading to either a mask that covers the lower half of his face or just his nose so he can breathe it in. The get up usually has him breathing easily for a few hours or even a full day. Due to being self taught on the use of his powers with hydrokinesis, he hasn't learned how to do a great deal with it without becoming worn out due to unknowingly making it hard for himself. After preforming a huge act with it, he will either feel faint or flat out pass out.

Sample RP:

He kept his gills tightly shut and sealed to keep in whatever water was in them and panted a bit through his mouth in distress. It wasn't that he was in any life-threatening danger, unless one counted dying of embarrassment. Why did she enjoy tormenting him like this? It really didn't make any sense since with others she seemed to be more or less disinterested. Was he that entertaining to her?... Well, he supposed at the moment he might be.

"Medusa, please! I need my clothes!" He almost pleaded, his arms moving so he could cover his gills with them and his hands.

He had been sleeping in his tank not too long ago. Yes, tank. Seeing how he needed to stay wet constantly or risk the chance of drying up like jerky, he slept in an aquarium that was six feet by five. Zyne had no idea on how she managed to strip him down to his nothings while he had been sleeping but the sometimes too playful member of the Brotherhood had managed it much to his embarrassment.

The aquatic mutant couldn't very well leave his tank without his clothes. Not with someone in his room with him unless they were a lover. And, since having arrived here, he had had none of those. Right now, he was trying to cover up as much as he could but she'd stolen his blankets as well. So he was sitting in a corner with his legs obstructing the view as much as possible.