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I'm not stupid, Mr. Summers. I know it's not about helping me control my powers, because I'm going to be in this suit until I die, if I even do. I don't think you even care about me as a student, just as an asset... You want me on your side, because... You want me to kill Mr. Logan.
- —Abraham Verne
History
The Neighborhood Haunt
Abraham's earliest history is not known. What is known, however, is that when his mutant abilities manifested at the age of thirteen, he could no longer touch anything without it dissolving instantly, nor could he exist in normal human settings without wreaking incredible destruction on the environment around him. He departed from his home and whatever normal life he had, content to just wander the wilderness absorbing whatever struck his fancy to provide him sustenance. Soon the Air Force took notice of him, and when he told them they could certainly try to kill him since he wouldn't stand down, it provoked a long series of tit-for-tat assaults during which neither party was injured, but hundreds of millions of dollars in military equipment was vaporized. Eventually, the military called a truce, offering him a suit that would allow him some semblance of normalcy if he'd only agree to cease his aggressions against them. He agreed, then set back out into the wilderness.
Trying Out for the Exiles
Sometime later, having heard of the famous reality show starring the Exiles, Abraham ventured out west to their headquarters in Santa Monica to audition for the team. He was told by their security that auditions had to be done in person at their training camp in the Mojave Desert. Fortunately, he was able to get a helicopter ride there, bragging about his inability to get airsick due to his lack of guts the entire time. Once he got there, he fought brutally against his competitors, burning through Mant's armor and Sycamore's dense wood hide, and loudly announcing himself to the cameras to try and get the team's attention. He was unsuccessful, and Anarchist himself told Abraham that he was a loose cannon, even too dangerous by the Exiles' standards, especially due to his abilities. Unless he learned control, he would never be able to show off the way he pleased. He suggested that Abraham try the one place they all had failed: the Xavier Institute.
Back to School
One-Eye in the Wings
Coming soon!
Appearance
Personality
Powers and Abilities
Powers:
Anti-Matter Physiology: Abraham Verne is a mutant whose mutation granted him a physiology composed almost entirely of anti-matter. While this is his only technical mutation, it affords him a wide array of superhuman abilities.
- Relative Invulnerability: Abraham's anti-matter body instantly dissolves all matter that comes into contact with it, meaning he cannot be harmed by any conventional weaponry. This also theoretically makes him immune to diseases, toxins, and all the frailties of typical human physiology, such as airsickness.
- Matter Absorption: Any contact that Abraham's body makes with solid or liquid matter destroys the matter at the atomic level. He can then bolster his strength proportionally from whatever matter he has "taken in," also serving as a form of regeneration.
- Energy Absorption: One of the only powers still not fully within Abraham's control, he constantly absorbs any energy he comes into contact with. He cannot shut this ability off, and will absorb all energy present in his immediate vicinity: if he were to stand near a generator connected to a city's power grid, he would cause the entire city to blackout.
- Anti-Matter Blasts: Abraham can release his anti-matter in the form of powerful "annihilation blasts" which annihilate anything they come into contact with, and seem to be effective for whatever distance Abraham wills them to be, from feet to fractions of a mile.
- Glowing Shadow: Abraham can release anti-matter from his entire body at once, which weakens him, but emits tremendous destructive force omnidirectionally.
- Fallout: Use of Abraham's abilities results in the same phenomena as when positrons and electrons collide, i.e. gamma ray photons, but also have stronger effects in terms of electromagnetic distortion, meaning electric, magnetic, and thermal energies, and superpowers over them, may be disrupted or cease altogether.
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Depletion: It seems that the only weakness that Abraham has is the risk of the anti-matter that composes his body being dispersed, which would render him a lifeless skeleton. He also cannot return back to humanoid form, nor can he interact with the world without the use of a protective containment suit.
Equipment
Notes/Trivia
Notes:
- Abraham Verne (Earth-166) is the Earth-166 counterpart of Abraham Verne (Earth-616) (also known as Caput) and of Arlo Summers (Earth-616) (also known as Anti-Matter). This amalgam was made in order to fortify the stories of both characters, as was done with many other characters in the Marvel Renaissance.
- Abraham also draws inspiration from a character whom it has been noted he somewhat resembles: the Scooby Doo villain known as the Spooky Space Kook. This informed his hometown, which is the site of a United States Air Force base near farmland, as well as some character traits outlined in Trivia (noted with italicized text).
- This character is dedicated to JMOfficial, not just for his support during the creative process, but for his "particular fondness for antimatter characters."
Trivia:
- Anything Abraham touches without his protective suit on leaves a hollow yellow crater shaped like whatever touched it (handprints, footprints, etc.).
- Abraham's voice is apparently uncomfortably shrill, and most of his fellow students find his laugh disturbing.
- Abraham's suspicion is correct: Cyclops began mentoring Caput as a secret Corsair because he believes that Abraham's mutant abilities could be one of the few things on planet Earth capable of killing a fully confident Wolverine. Caput believes he could do this if absolutely necessary, but refuses to be Cyclops' plan, only a contingency. Cyclops begrudgingly accepted, but also noted that he does genuinely want Abraham to be able to control his powers. Abraham doubts this.
- ↑ OHOTMR #5