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❥ Character Information

Character Name: Wade Wilson
Character Age: 41
Character Species: Human Mutant
Current Health: Alive, but has cancer that his regenerative powers keep at constant bay
Outfit: Wade will arrive in his full Deadpool super-suit minus all of his weapons.

Character Canon: X-men Cinematic Universe
Link to History: Wiki Here- Wade is from the Revised Timeline
Canon Point: Wade is coming in at the end of Deadpool 2 right before he uses Cable's time travel device.
Canon Iteration: Original canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: n/a

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills: Wade is a Special Forces/Army trained soldier, so he has a lot of skills outside his mutant powers. He's an expert with most all firearms, especially hand guns and sniper rifles. He's also a talented martial artist and can dual wield swords. Furthermore, he can also speak multiple languages outside of English, including German, Spanish, Japanese, and ASL.
Canon Abilities: As a mutant, Wade has regenerative powers that mean he can heal him from any injury, as well as knit together lost limbs or regrow them entirely. He has cancer, that is constantly warring against this healing ability, and if he were to lose his powers it would start to slowly kill him. Wade also has the ability to break the fourth-wall and I will always abide other characters permissions and ask before fourth-wall breaking a character's canon. Usually the comments are things that would make no sense to the receiver, and most people dismiss the idiotic words that come out of his mouth most of the time anyway.
Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes: When Wade is being particularly selfish, careless, or when he expresses deep honest emotions that he usually hides, that is when his Myth aspects will manifest. That would be ram horns on the side of his head.
Role Reasoning: Wade is in a constant struggle to try and be better than he is. He's greedy, careless about his safety and the safety of others, murders people for money, and seldom cares about those who aren't within his circle of friends. He wants to be a hero and has tried to join the X-men and form his super-team, but he's failed each time to achieve that. I would like to have him grapple with that struggle here too. Perhaps that might end with him trying to become a legend or getting dragged down further into his worst impulses if he feels he cannot achieve it.

❥ Personality

OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH:

What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them? (cw: cancer) Wade was dying of cancer and once all other options hadn’t worked to cure himself, he’d signed up for a secret experiment with a shadowy organization in a last-ditch effort to stay alive for his girlfriend Vanessa’s sake. They claimed they could cure him and make him into a superhero, instead, he was tortured for months to the point of death over and over. The logic being that intense pain/trauma could trigger latent mutant abilities. The real goal as well was to make super-powered slaves to sell to the highest bidder. Eventually, he did get those powers, but it broke his mind in the process, making him unstable, horribly scarred, and broken. This made him who he is today, a broken man with superpowers who hides behind absurdity and jokes to avoid facing the pain and agony bottled up inside him.

What is the most important and defining relationship(s) in your character's life, and why? (cw: suicidal ideation) His most defining relationship was with his girlfriend Vanessa. He would have done anything for her. If not for her, he would never have tried to save himself and enter the experiment that made him into a mutant. He loved her more deeply than he loved anything before. She made him try. Unfortunately, his careless actions led to her death, which is something he can’t forgive himself for. He’d done everything he could to stay alive for her, and after she died, he did everything he could not to. He tried to kill himself many times to punish himself, and he also felt that there was no point in living. Except his powers prevented that at every turn. He eventually found a family in Russell, Cable, Domino, Colossus, NTW, and Yukio to live for them instead, but there’s still a whole in his heart where she’d been.

Is your character capable of forgiveness, or will they hold a grudge until they die? Would anything ever make them change their mind? It depends on what the other person did if Wade could find forgiveness in his heart. He can absolutely hold a grudge forever, having gone to the ends of the earth to track down Francis (the man who made him a monster) and shot him in the head despite Colossus’ attempts to talk him out of it. But if there is something that he can see in them that he identifies with, he can forgive. He needs something to latch onto. If everything they give him is irredeemable? He’ll have no qualms about never forgiving them, and even killing them depending on the situation. However, he was able to forgive Cable for trying to kill Russell once he found out the reason why was because Russell in the future had killed his family. Because Wade had just lost Vanessa, he was able to empathize with that. He still fought him for trying to kill Russell, but he understood him for it.

If your character could change one thing about their past, what would it be and why? Or why not? Based on the after-credits of Deadpool 2 where he actually goes back in time as does this, it’s obvious that the most pressing thing he would change is Vanessa’s death. He would have made sure to save her and keep her alive at all costs. He might have chosen having never gotten the experiment done on him that had made him, but there is the selfish part of him that would want them both alive regardless of the trauma he endured and the potential that she’d still be in danger around him. He wants to have a life with her and wanted to build a family with her. Before she came around, he didn’t look at family as a good thing, as his childhood had been so bad. So the opportunity to get her back and still be with her is one that he'd take readily.

❥ Player Information

Player Name: Mari
Pronouns: she/her
Are you over 18?: yes
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