JACKPOT
Real Name: Axel Gresham
Occupation: CEO of Noah Corp
Place of Residence: Noah Corp HQ, Boston, MA
Age: 35
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 176 lbs.
Hair Color: Sandy blonde
Eye Color: Green
Character Image: Josh Holloway
Personal Appearance: Axel Gresham is very laidback in his style of dress, often wearing jeans, sneakers, and a T-shirt, making him a more relatable presentation to a common audience. He wears glasses because obviously, he has poor vision otherwise. He has a full goatee and grows his hair somewhat long. Often he leaves something of from his laboratory on his person, most commonly latex gloves. But at his large parties and other festive gatherings, he often dresses top notch with stunning impression on his wealthy guests.
Personality: Axel is generally speaking a very laidback person, and is very carefree in most aspects of his life. He is an absolutely brilliant man, but most of this is put towards his devotion to genetics, more specifically gene splicing and if his thought remains on some unfinished experiment he can sometimes seem very distant. He is also a very personal and secretive person, especially about his own personal life and origins, and when that is tested his temper flares easily. Sometimes, he grows very instinctive, his thoughts lost on hunger, aggression, dominance, and lust. Generally he is confident in himself and his abilities, and loves to entertain, he loves to throw large, high powered parties. He is also commonly seen snapping and/or whistling. He keeps himself in above-average physical condition and is confident in his own fighting ability.
Another aspect of his personality is his paranoia, although he claims he has no paranoia but instead he is just being far more intelligent than anyone. His confidence protects him from constant fear of others killing him but he can still be quite defensive. But his paranoia is most evident in the length of time it takes for him to befriend people, not as business acquaintances, or on the level between host and guest, but as true friends.
History: Very little is known of Axel Gresham’s childhood and early past and he confides that information in no one known, although it is suspected he may have some confidants. What is known is that he was born and raised in Boston by James and Sarah Gresham. This is also where he excelled in public school. It is also known that he has always been especially fond of animals, despite rumors that he is malicious, cruel to animals, and experiments on them in twisted manners. Very few people know of his other abilities, mutant and trained that make him a formidable opponent. Beyond that, nothing is known about his life until he founded Noah Corp in his hometown of Boston after graduating with top marks from local Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was an extremely talented genetic engineer who worked for both private corporations as well as the government, earning both the trust of these facilities as well as large sum payments. One of his greatest early accomplishments was to disprove the applicability of cloning in an excellent speech at MIT.
Noah Corp, founded on Gresham’s singular earnings as well as a series of government grants, devoted itself towards research into the process of gene splicing and its applicability to the human genome. He labored for a decade soon after college all the while struggling to keep his corporation afloat with little initial earnings. Eventually, he had perfected the process and had full knowledge of its workings. So he opened the corporation to the highest bidders on the world market to be the first to experience the phenomenon of gene splicing between the human and animal kingdoms, a union of the dangerous and powerful animal body and dangerous and powerful human mind, an achievement of man and man’s science, an affront to the divine. Unfortunately for the world, Gresham opened splicing to anyone for any purpose, no question’s asked, often holding large parties for guests contemplating the process. The government had already given Gresham full reigns on the project because his work would be such an advancement for science and he agreed to use only American wildlife, including threatened and endangered species for his massive gene pool. By the time they realized the mistake, Gresham had already amassed a small army worth of gene spliced Manimals and had high powered allies across the globe. But his only goals are to further his research and to profit at the same time for both his corporation and his personal wealth.
Powers:
1. Axel has a very unique mutant ability. When he snaps his fingers, he creates a link to his own pocket dimension where he stores a massive arsenal of all sorts of objects; research equipment, weapons of all natures, medical equipment, Mentos, and even some of his Manimals. Fearful opponents and entertained allies claim he can summon an army at the snap of his fingers. His ability also works in reverse by which he can send things in a close vicinity to his pocket dimension. But any object moved by his power must be contiguous, he cannot divide objects apart with his power.
2. Axel is his own best experimental result. He was not his first test subject, but upon verifying the fruit of his labor, he gave himself the initial genetic treatment, taking several months and much money, prior to the actual application of the animal genes. Now, he will use any genes he requires from his private and personal gene pool (located in his pocket dimension) on himself as the situation requires, and can apply them to his prepared genes at any time in under a minute. But, he is also the only known person to have a de-splicing agent to return to his human form. It is presumed he maintains some of the best qualities of America’s fauna at all times, and sometimes this leaves him prey to instinctive nature.
2. Axel is a brilliant genetic engineer and person in general.
3. Axel has dangerous and high-powered allies across the globe.
4. Axel is a well-practiced magician/party entertainer in his spare time, able to perform many common feats such as opening, escaping, or picking locks of all sorts, breathing fire, juggling, sword swallowing, etc.
5. Also in line with his researching, magic, and power, Axel has absolutely perfected his slight of hand, mastering things like cards, dice, and the shell game, but it also makes him a formidable opponent, armed or not.
