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Jean-Paul Beaubier

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[ CHARACTER INFO ]
Birth Name: Jean-Paul Beaubier
Nicknames: JP
Codename: Northstar
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Mutant Abilities: Superhuman speed, stamina and reflexes. Light emission. Northstar can create cyclones by running in circles, can run up walls and across water, and can breathe while traveling at subsonic speeds. His mutation allows him to withstand up and around Mach 10 speeds without suffering damage to his skin or breathing apparatus. He can also release a photonic cascade from his body, as bright as a lighthouse beacon.
Affiliation: X-Men

[ APPEARANCE ]
Height: 5'10
Weight: 168lb. (looks 10lb. lighter because of his denser muscular mass)
Hair Color: black, with some silver streaks he usually dyes black
Eye Color: sapphire blue
Defining Traits: pointy ears, like an elf; silver in his hair when he lets it grow out

Clothing Styles/Colors: High fashion to preppy, for the most part. His idea of casual is an elegant sweater over slacks. If you do see JP lounging around in something that looks like a tee-shirt or jeans, they will surely be some big designer name brand. It's unlikely JP even knows what The Gap is. He wears mostly blues, greys and other colors that bring out his eyes. There's usually some black involved as well.
Other: If he's in a subdued mood, he might wear muted earth tones: warm light browns, sand. His friends joke that the only way to get him in red is when he used to wear the Canadian flag as a uniform, since he tends to shy away from bright colors in general.

[ PERSONALITY ]
General Likes: Canada, his twin Aurora, order, Paris (France), fine dining, nice things, quiet evenings, reading, romantic dinners, outdoor sports, flying, handsome & intelligent men*cough*, writing (novels), classical music, theater, opera, classic rock, indie rock (more the SF than the NY sound), children, dogs

General Dislikes: rap, hip-hop, noisy, crowded places, homophobia, bigotry, mutant hysteria, all things dirty and unkempt, cooking

Skills Mastered: hand-to-hand combat & some martial arts, professional skiing, trapeze artist, business, writing, flight, high-speed maneuvering

Astrological Sign / Birthday: Virgo/August 23, 1980
Sexual Orientation: Gay (a Kinsey 5.5)
Positive Traits: fiercely loyal, meticulous and reliable, practical and diligent, intelligent and analytical, trustworthy, noble and has a heightened sense of justice.
Negative Traits: extremely nationalistic, can be a snob, workaholic, is a little introverted and socially shy (especially if there's an attraction; although he will on occasion blurt things out to guys he likes), can be somewhat vain and conceited about his looks, shows poor judgment regarding his sister Aurora, can be blinded by his prejudices sometimes

[ ETC ]
Personal History:
Jean-Paul Beaubier’s parents were killed in a car crash shortly after his birth. He and his twin sister Jeanne-Marie were taken in by the Martins, cousins of their mother, but they could not afford to raise both children and so sent Jeanne-Marie to a catholic girl’s school. When Jean-Paul was six, he was placed in a foster home after his foster parents died, and the twins grew up unaware of each other. As a teenager, Jean-Paul was caught stealing by Raymonde Belmonde, who became his mentor and guardian, helping Jean-Paul cope with both his emerging mutant nature and his sexuality. Belmonde introduced Jean-Paul to skiing, which he used as a means to help control his super-speed. Jean-Paul later joined a circus and became a talented trapeze artist. He came to regard his fellow performers as the family he had never known. However, there was still much anger and frustration within him which he ultimately expressed by joining the separatist Front de Libération du Québec movement. Becoming part of the Front’s radical Cell Combattre, Jean-Paul acted as a courier. He came to disagree with the Cell’s terrorist methods after he saw himself forced to save innocent lives from a bomb. He subsequently severed all ties with the Front.

Jean-Paul returned to his passion for skiing, and by secretly using his powers he quickly became a world champion, winning a gold medal at the Olympics and becoming famous and wealthy. At that time, the Canadian government’s Department H had begun forming a team of superhuman operatives, Alpha Flight. The team’s founder, James Hudson, had already recruited Jean-Paul’s sister as Aurora, and after seeing a photo of Jean-Paul he noticed their resemblance and discovered they were siblings. Hudson invited Jean-Paul to join the team as well, and he was overjoyed to learn that he had a sister, joining the team as Northstar to be with her. The twin’s reunion came as a surprise to all, for when they touched they created a flash of intense light.

Later visiting his sister, Northstar was shocked to discover that she had a dual personality, alternating between the free-spirited Aurora and the shy, reserved Jeanne-Marie. When Hudson reformed Alpha Flight without government funding, Northstar managed to convince his sister to return with him. His sister began to switch personalities with increasing frequency, and Northstar sought psychiatric help for her. After a titanic and tragic falling out, the twins separated and haven't spoken in a long time.

Much later, after discovering an abandoned baby girl who had been born with the AIDS virus, Northstar adopted her, naming her Joanne, but she died weeks later. Northstar then publicly announced his homosexuality, hoping that his celebrity status would increase interest in HIV prevention.

In the months that followed, Northstar was forced to clear his name in a grueling murder investigation, reunited with his former teammates to uncover the truth about the new Department H, and they assisted a new Alpha Flight team against the latest Weapon X. Northstar then left to write his autobiography, “Born Normal.” At a book signing in Philadelphia, Northstar was recruited by the X-Men and, needing a fresh start after so much tragedy in his life, he accepted.

Extra: For all that Jean-Paul can be very self-motivated, he tends to be a pessimist. Being an orphan twice, he has some serious abandonment issues that translate into it being difficult for him to commit sometimes. The fact that his foster parents lied to him (by omission) regarding the existence of his twin Aurora has left him with some rather deep trust issues as well. He can appear intractable when he thinks he's right, which is most of the time, he admits. But underneath all the bravado of someone who's been forced to be self-sufficient is a scared young man who's desperate for someone he can trust. JP doesn't make himself easy to love at first glance, but there are reasons for that. Aside from the above mentioned, he is always afraid that people only want him for his looks, which has happened often.

Although he doesn't consider his relationship with Raymonde Belmonde an abusive one, the truth is that the man took advantage of an underage, insecure orphan. JP disagrees, but he wasn't ready for that type of relationship, although he had always known he liked boys that way. It left him with a subconscious need to look for a father figure in all his lovers.

The upside of all this inner turmoil is that Jean-Paul has found a way to focus it to a fine, lethal point in the battlefield, making him a fierce adversary. It's not hard to see why people confuse him for an elf, with the pointed ears, the way he moves like the wind, moving so fast he seems to materialize from thin air, his face a terrible and beautiful mask. Add to that that his secondary mutation is that he shines like a star come to earth and, in a world where the gods themselves fight alongside heroes, one sees it's easy to think him a supernatural being.

That being said, JP is an agnostic, but not an atheist. He disapproves of all organized religions, although he is respectful of others and never voices his opinions on the subject.

Memories:

13 entries

Interests:

19: aurora, canada, competitive sports, fatherhood, flight, gay rights, history, light manipulation, mutant rights, mutants, paris fashion, publishing, skiing, training, twins, virgo, writing, x-gene, x-men

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	23:	aegistic, after_shock, anna_marie, asystole, ballistic, brutalgenius, cryogenetics, fluxed, forge, hell_bent, i_empyrean, jean_grey, mercurious, northnlight, novoadonai, scarlet_witch, shatterdstar, the_arch_angel, the_juggernaut, the_phoenix, united_mutants, united_npc, wreakhavok
	2:	mutant_babble, xmen_united

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19: after_shock, brutalgenius, cheekypanache, cryogenetics, cwicseolfor, hell_bent, i_empyrean, jean_grey, mercurious, metam, mistersinister, northnlight, novoadonai, shadowwalker, shatterdstar, snowdriven, the_arch_angel, the_juggernaut, united_mutants

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