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[rocksforbrains]

PLAYER INFO.
name: Franky
age: 25
timezone: Central
journal or handle name: heyitsfranky
methods of contact: email: glcfuru at gmail.com | aim: ikarifuru | plurk: robospider9000
characters you currently play: N/A

OPTIONAL i am apping my character from another game: Yes, from capeandcowl

CHARACTER INFO.
↪ basic.
character name: Santo Vaccarro
character age: 18
aging up?: N/A
canon: X-Men
canon point: The end of Wolverine & Jubilee #4

↪ depth.
history:  A wiki link is here

personality: The words "bully", "jerk", and "insensitive" get thrown around alot around Santo. This is because they are for the most part true. He doesn't really go out of his way to be some kind of terrible asshole to people; it's just how he relates to others, admist a cloud of tough guy attitude and the mocking, harmless-in-intent ribbing that goes along with it. The only real difference is he doesn't have the little voice telling him "Dude, not cool" when he decides he wants to make a joke about someone he barely knows or that might be a bit offensive. This is the first rule of dealing with Santo Vaccarro: if you can deal with someone making fun of you because he likes you, then you can stand being around him.

The second rule is to be prepared to be referred to by your last name only forever, unless he deems it too lame to use.

He can take just as good as he gives - actually much better than he gives, as many more complex zings will go completely over his rocky head - and despite his rough nature rarely gets upset at any of it. This also makes it quite easy to tell when Santo considers you a buddy; if you're someone he likes, then he'll step off when it's clear you're offended. Except when it might be funnier not to. He does have a pretty big mouth and might tell a group of your mutual friends you're a homosexual for the hell of it! The guy does really mean well, though. Deep down. Way deep down.

Beyond his habits of picking on people, the rest of Santo's outward personality confirms to what you would expect from a teenager with a bit more muscle than brawn. He loves being strong, showing no real concern over his mutation because dude he is a superstrong rock man that is awesome. He is likewise enamored with feats of strength, harboring dreams of going into a pro-wrestling league that'll actually accept mutants and more than willing to fistfight a sentinel at his squad leader's command. Even if he hasn't done something that awesome lately, he's more than happy to make something up or brag a bit more about a previous accomplishment.

Perhaps with all this focus on macho stuff it shouldn't be too surprising that Santo doesn't do so well with his non-physical schooling. While not exactly stupid he's more than a little unobservant, missing out on things like his friends having fights or the existence of the Young Avengers until well after they're publically known. This again feeds back into his teasing. The jokes and cracks might seem harsh, but sometimes it's only because he's honestly not aware he's doing anything wrong at all. The rare few times he can actually pay attention to details, like freaking out over seeing Sooraya in her underwear, show that he does have some sensitivity and does indeed care about his friends and fellow students. He's just not that great at showing it.

While Santo is one of the more laid-back and worry free students at Xavier's, he does have a little bit of hidden depth. He's fiercely loyal and protective, primarily to Julian but in at least some way to everyone at the Institute. He'll occasionally show he really cares in a grand gesture, such as threatening to leave the team unless Anole and Pixie were allowed to join. On top of all of this, thanks to a schoolyear with a ridiculously high mortality rate Santo is quite likely to go totally apeshit on anyone trying to harm another student. Through sheer force of stubbornness he'll fling himself at threats with very little provocation - especially now that he knows he can pull himself back together again - and keep punching until either he or the punchee go down

Lately, this has expanded into Santo trying to be a real superhero, even though his costume consists of his X-Men uniform plus a hockey mask. He patrols nightly, beats up criminals, and seems to just be waiting for his gig to make him San Francisco's own personal Daredevil analogue. He seems to be unaware that this is probably not happening any time ever.

It's very likely this need to protect others was spurred on by Brian's death - not that Santo would readily admit something that emotional in public.

abilities: Formerly, Rockslide was a rock-skinned mutant who could fire his fists off as projectile weapons. After a bad run in with Nimrod, he has evolved much further. There's really no actual form to Santo anymore, at least not a normal permenant one. Instead the young X-man exists as a sort of floating psionic entity, pulling together materials from the Earth to form a body to inhabit. The quality of these materials seem to matter - pulling himself together from Limbo rock gave him a high resistence to magic - and if necessary he can self-destruct the "golem" form with a substantial amount of explosive force, spreading bits and pieces of rock shrapnel in all directions. With enough material to work with, Santo can even make his bodies gigantic, though the strain on his energy this creates is tiring.

Outside of reforming and exploding, Santo has a couple of other powers that should be obvious for a guy made entirely of stone. His rock body is highly durable, able to withstand bullets and most blunt forces with ease. Super strength is Rockslide's other major power, his average body being able to lift 75 tons of weight at maximum. Finally, the golem form's biology is signifcantly different from a normal human's. While Santo feels heat and seems to able to fully use all five senses and even eat, extreme temperatures have little effect on him. He also does not get tired as easily, though you wouldn't expect that from how he sleeps like goddamn forever.

tl;dr version for "how many powers does this guy really have?!": Rockslide's a psionic entity with geokinetic powers allowing him to form/explode a durable rock body. Not that this is a sentence he could really follow if someone told him it.

weaknesses: Santo hates lasers. And magic. Both tend to blow through his bodies like they aren't even there, and he has no real defense against pure energy blasts like he does against fire and ice and electricity. Even hot enough temperatures can melt his bodies down. Santo also lacks any real defense against psychic attacks or mind control, and can fall under them easily until snapped out of his state by a friend.

He's also just. Really not that bright in general, at least at academic subjects and occasionally at common sense. His temper is also a problem, and hurting someone he cares about is a sure way to set him off and cause property damage.

other information: For the last couple years of his life, Santo has been bouncing back and forth between his world and a pocket universe that's home to other interdimensional visitors, all of them staying in an alternate version of New York called the City. Santo's time in the City has made him somewhat older and wiser than in canon, while also causing other problems. He's had a steady girlfriend for the last two years, and shown a remarkable ability to stay loyal while also being a big obnoxious flirt. He is somewhat more considerate to the thoughts of others, and better about catching on to when he should keep out of a situation.

On the other hand, his pessimism has become even more pronounced, immediately assuming the worst in every situation. Likewise, his rage towards friends and innocent people being hurt or injured gets a little less controllable every time it happens. He's had to have been talked down from hunting down and hurting more than one villain in the past because of this.

↪ samples.
first person sample:
[As the smartphone clicks on, the obnoxious sound of the device scraping against rock comes through the speakers. It's loud, but not enough to drown out the grumbling of a man's voice from nearby.]

C'mon, you stupid piece of crap. You better not have broken already! It's not my fault you aren't built for dudes with hands my size and made of r-Oh, hey, is it on?

[The man clears his throat, which for some reason sounds like someone trying to gargle a mouthful of road gravel.]

Yo, this is Rockslide! Hopefully someone here knows who I am, and if you don't...then, uh, well, hi. I'll get around to telling you all about me soon, but first I'm gonna go out on a limb and just hope for once that I'm not actually stuck here and someone has figured a way out. I mean, it's not like I just got taken from one weird alternate reality trap universe thingie to another, right? That doesn't happen twice in a row, does it?

[A pause, and then he sighs.]

Yeah, right, I already know the answer to that one. Hope you jerks like being stuck with one another, 'cause that's what we're looking at. Luckily for all of you, I'm an expert on this exact situation, so listen to me and everything's gonna be just fine.

third person sample:
When Santo was a child he, like all children, watched a great deal of cartoons. In fact, he probably consumed more animated violence than he should have, perhaps explaining why he happened to end up the way he did. One cliche from all those wonderfully cheesy cartoons was when the situation the episode was all about seemed to start over, prompting one of the characters to let out an exasperated "Here we go again!" It was never really that funny to Santo, and now that he was looking around at the buildings of yet another unfamiliar city in another unfamiliar world, it was even less so.

In fact, it was kind of pissing him off.

He looked over the devices given to him on his arrival, grumbling under his "breath" about stupid alternate realities and stupid alternate reality phones. It was annoying, having to treat them so delicately when he really just wanted to break them, as if doing that would somehow send him back to the last world he was in, the one that he liked. But if he couldn't contact others, then he couldn't know if any other friends from his world or the other had shown up. And the thought of not having a network full of people to annoy and laugh at and be Best Friends with was simply too much for Santo to consider.

The thought that really kept him calm, though, that maybe he was the only one of his kind here. The only mutant...and maybe the only superhero around. He could be like Captain America, or one of those Invader people who were the first superheroes, but better. Because he was Rockslide. How could he not be better?

Santo grinned as he realized that this place might have potential after all.