Ω Quentin Quire Ω

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QUENTIN QUIRE

Quentavius Quirinius "Quentin" Quire

ALIAS:

Kid Omega

DOB/AGE:

appears early 20s

PRONOUNS:

he/him

SPECIES:

human mutant

CANON:

Marvel Comics (Earth-616)

CANON POINT:

X-Manhunt Omega #1

APPEARANCE

height

5'8"

build

slim and wiry

eyes

blue

hair

pink undercut

PERSONALITY

Quentin Quire is a product of his environment. At his core he's a conglomeration of gifted kid burnout, generational trauma, and classic adolescent coming-of-age angst, and his story is about a broken kid struggling to grow up and find his place in the world. He's tried out identities like costumes over the years, flip-flopping between extremes whenever the persona he's taken on doesn't feel right anymore—from a quiet teacher's pet to terrorist, delinquent to class president, teacher's assistant to high-ranking member of a shady secret society. Quentin rebels and under-achieves to avoid people's expectations of him and his own potential, but he also desperately wants to be valued. Within a few years he'd settled on the lighter side of morally gray, but then encountered a different problem: when you've made teenage rebellion your entire personality, how can you grow up and follow the rules without losing yourself?

ABILITIES

TRIVIA

• Quentin's brain burns sugar approximately 15 times faster than an average human's.
  
• As a teenager, Quentin regularly hacked into SHIELD's bank accounts and funneled money into off-planet accounts under the name "Carlos Danger".
  
• He also sold fake I.D.s out of his dorm room.
  
• One X-Men editor had the theory that Quentin's t-shirts are actually blank, and he telepathically projects the slogans into the minds of the people around him.
  
• Quentin is actually quite old, estimated 70-80, though he states he doesn't actually know how old he is since he was time-traveling for much of his life. When he returned to the present, he psychically implanted his consciousness into a copy of his younger body. For unknown reasons, he was resurrected for the final time into a younger body and now appears to be in his early 20s.
  

BACKGROUND

FAMILY/ RELATIONSHIPS

Biological parents (unnamed)
Deceased.

Adoptive parents (unnamed)
Status unknown. Disowned Quentin on his 16th birthday.

James "Logan" Howlett (Wolverine) unofficial guardian/mentor
Took responsibility of Quentin during his attempted supervillain phase and gave him a second chance. Wolverine is the primary reason Quentin did not end up down a much darker path.

Jubilation "Jubilee" Lee teacher/mentor
Offered Quentin a home with the X-Men. He used a piece of the Phoenix to save her life and change her from a vampire back to a mutant.

DETAILED HISTORY

Link here. (Currently WIP)

BRIEF HISTORY

Quentin Quire was a mutant student at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where he was recognized for his intelligence and quickly became one of the top students at the Institute as well as a personal favorite of Charles Xavier. After receiving a call from his parents on his birthday saying he was adopted, Quentin changed his appearance and started a riot at the school, taking out his anger on humans and his fellow mutants. In the process, a girl Quentin had a crush on (Sophie) and Quentin himself died, though due to the drug affecting his psychic abilities, he became incorporeal and remained semi-conscious in a containment unit. The cosmic entity of destruction and rebirth known as the Phoenix Force caused him to reconstitute his body, and he briefly attempted to resurrect Sophie, but he was unsuccessful and returned to being incorporeal. (Quentin was a random throw-away character up until this point, so his powers and personality were not well defined or balanced until after.)

A few years later, Quentin became corporeal again and caused some chaos by using his powers to force world leaders to confess their darkest secrets. This led to a schism between the two most prominent mutant leaders at the time, Wolverine and Cyclops. Wolverine ended up taking Quentin with him to his new school, called the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, concerned that if the boy was put in prison he would become a monster. At the school, Quentin immediately became a troublemaker, constantly rebelling against his teachers, bullying classmates, skipping classes, and threatening to burn down the school. Over time, Quentin grudgingly became attached to his classmates as friends and to Wolverine as a mentor, eventually becoming class president and graduating from the school without ever having burned it down, much to his dismay. He also met a future version of himself during this time, a version who was an X-Man and host to the Phoenix Force.

Now graduated and unsure of what to do with his life, Quentin became involved with a new company called the Phoenix Corporation, whose goals appeared to revolve around making sure the future where Quentin became a Phoenix host came to be. However, to make that future happen, Quentin would have to eventually kill a classmate, who the Phoenix Corporation said would become a monster. Overwhelmed by the lofty expectations of those around him, he traveled to the future to confront his older self and ultimately witnessed his future self be killed by a future version of his then-girlfriend, Idie Okonkwo. Quentin fell into a depression, and after inheriting the Phoenix Corporation after the death of its CEO, he retreated into himself, spending his 17th birthday at a nightclub where Wolverine was explicitly banned from entering.

After Wolverine's death, Quentin briefly returned to the school, now renamed the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach, and was recruited unwillingly to a team led by an older member of the X-Men team, Jubilee. While there he struggled with a newfound desire to make friends despite an unwillingness to talk to anyone without hostility. Eventually it became too much, and he retreated to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, living with a sentient island named Krakoa. Shortly after, Thor came to his island to request his help battling the Phoenix Force, which appeared to be on its way to destroy a planet. Quentin agreed and had a discussion with the Phoenix that led to him absorbing a small piece of it. He returned to Earth and after 4 days of self-imposed exile he returned to the Xavier Institute, and Jubilee promised him a place to stay and be accepted. However, a villain threatened to kill Jubilee, so Quentin used the power of the Phoenix he'd absorbed to safe her life. This act of self-sacrifice drained his powers briefly, though they have since come back.

His powers still weakened, Quentin made his way to Los Angeles, where he met up with a film crew who wanted to make a reality tv show about a superhero team. Quentin lied and claimed to be a member of a team, but after 3 weeks of watching him play video games with no teammates in sight, the crew threatened to leave. Quentin then hastily joined the newly formed West Coast Avengers team, where he provided the financial backing through the (highly intrusive) camera crew as well as acting as one of the two most powerful members of the team. This dynamic gave Quentin a new level of responsibility he wasn't used to, as the weaker members of his team depended on him to provide protection against psychical and psychic threats rather than flashier uses of his powers that put him in the spotlight, and he had started to come to terms with that responsibility when his time with the West Coast Avengers ended.

Quentin joined the rest of the mutant community on the newly-formed island nation of Krakoa, where he joined an elite strike team called X-Force. Due to the mutant invention of unlimited resurrection, Quentin died and was resurrected over twenty times during his time with X-Force, eventually leading to a rare instance of self-reflection. He determined his multiple deaths were (obviously) a form of self-destruction and started making efforts to be less abrasive towards other people and dedicate himself to his team and to Krakoa. Unfortunately, the leader of X-Force, Beast, was becoming increasingly morally dubious and sent the team off to commit a variety of war crimes in the name of the greater good. After some time in his new more heroic role, Quentin defended Krakoa against a corrupted psychic robot called Cerebrax, fusing with it and gaining access to time travel abilities in the process. He used his newfound power to travel through time and defeat several different psychotic clones of Beast scattered across time. Upon returning to the present and separating from Cerebrax, Quentin lost his time-traveling powers. Shortly afterward (for unrelated reasons) Krakoa was destroyed, and the remaining mutants went into hiding. After Krakoa's fall, Quentin died one last time, torn to pieces by Wolverine's longtime enemy Sabretooth. His head was temporarily reanimated by Sabretooth in a special box that limited his free will. Sabretooth was defeated, and Quentin's friends deactivated the technology keeping his head artificially alive, at his request.

One last mass resurrection of mutants happened in a pocket dimension, and that included Quentin. At some point post-resurrection Quentin went to Alaska to join a new team of X-Men lead by Cyclops.

Note: Quentin is a telepath. By default I do not write Quentin using his powers invasively without player permission.

ICly, he has a complex about people being honest and as a result tends to be pretty upfront about either getting permission or at least giving people fair warning before using his powers. He talks about lobotomizing people and whatnot, but he doesn't actually back it up.