Expiation - App

Player: Mouself
Contact: Mouse on discord
Age: 35
Current Characters: None currently

Character Name: Quintavius "Quentin" Quirinius Quire
Character Canon: Marvel Comics (Earth-616)
Canon Point: X-Men (2024) #1
Age: Short answer: early 20s.

Long answer: approximately this old, but he transferred his consciousness to a younger (estimated early 20s?) body, then died, then got resurrected back into the young body again. Also it's unclear how much of that time he remembers because time travel and a parasitic psychic robot were involved. He still acts like a shitlord 20-year-old though.

Crime: Terra Verde (X-Force did some war crimes)

Background: Wiki link

Personality:
the stuff everyone sees

• Main Character Syndrome - Quentin is the poster child for main character syndrome. He literally won't shut up about how awesome and important he is and how stupid everyone else is. Is it very cringe? Definitely. Is it a sign of some deep-seated insecurity? Absolutely. Is he going to spend any more time than is 100% necessary dissecting that or trying to self-improve? Nope!
  
• Snark - Quentin doesn't wear meta-commentary in-joke t-shirts anymore, but he's still a snarky little turd. Recently he's attempted to be slightly less abrasive due to realizing that it actually kinda sucks when nobody likes you, but making little quips and pop culture references and endless complaining are pretty solidly baked into his personality at this point. He is still the exact type of person to watch Rick & Morty and tell you that you're not smart enough to understand it.
  
• Tsun - Quentin cares deeply for the people who have been kind to him or have had hope for him. He wants somewhere to belong and a family to be part of, but the edgelord main character persona he's created for himself limits how he feels he can express that affection. In his younger years he was staunchly resistant to admitting he cared about anyone (see: Logan, Jeff the Land Shark), and usually pointing out that he cared would send him angrily running off to show how much he DOESN'T EVEN CARE OKAY!! but he's grown out of pretending his tsun behavior is genuine. Nowadays he throws out sassy comments, back-handed compliments, and is by no means a nice person to talk to, but he's more or less okay with people realizing he does actually care deep down. They just have to read between the lines to get there.
  
• Rebel (without a cause) - The one thing Quentin hates more than anything in the world is being told who or what to be. He told his then-girlfriend Idie "all I've ever wanted was the right to wake up every day and be who I want to be," and when he was younger every attempt by an outside party to mold him into being a certain way was met with immediate hostility and Quentin trying his very best to become the exact opposite. At one point he ran away from Logan's school to go to evil kid school because the teachers didn't like him... and then immediately proceeded to rebel against evil kid school. In his current canon point, he's obstinate and cynical, but he allows his team to set expectations for him that he doesn't immediately buck—as long as they let him be an asshole.
  
• Hero (only kind of ironic) - Quentin has made significant sacrifices for the greater good for much longer than anyone, including Quentin himself, has ever truly considered himself a hero or anything positive for that matter. He provides psychic defense against the Red Onslaught, a version of Red Skull using Charles Xavier's significant telepathic powers, gets the crap kicked out of him while trying to destroy the Hellfire Academy (evil kid school), psychically battles an ancient technopath despite it causing him obvious pain, throws himself into a brain-eating robot to save Krakoa, and ends up getting disemboweled while investigating an unknown distress signal. Quentin may have a reputation for being a trouble-maker at best, psychopath at worst, but when shit gets real, he can and will take a beating to save the world. Recent canon has shown Quentin fully embracing the idea of being a hero and a reliable teammate—even if he still talks about being the star of the show.

the stuff everyone doesn't see aka "just found out my entire personality is a trauma response"
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: Here's his wiki.
Here's a list of examples for how he's used his powers in the past

The Basics:

• Telepathy - idk man, it's brain stuff. If your brain can do a thing, Quentin can probably make it do the thing. Look, there's 60+ years of telepaths existing in Marvel, and at this point their abilities and limitations can basically be summed up as "whatever the plot needs them to be." See second link for examples of what Quentin has done.
  
• Telekinesis - he moves stuff with his mind. Also he can make shields. Tk is how he flies.
  
• Psychic constructs - okay so there's a part earlier in canon where he creates a shared dreamscape thing and calls it a "construct" but in this instance I'm talking about constructs made of psychic energy. Think Green Lantern crap. He used this a ton in one book, but not much in his current book, so honestly I'm probably going to mostly ignore this one. It's silly.
  
• "Genius Intellect" - I'm only adding this because Quentin theoretically has a secondary mutation where his brain processes information at a much faster rate?? He talks a lot about having "a thousand brilliant thoughts per second" and mentions at one point that the world feels like it's moving very slowly, buuuuut that could just be depression. These kids are not mentally healthy, alright?

The Important Stuff:

• Quentin senses the presence of sentient beings (plants, animals, people, basically anything that thinks) and can interact with minds the same way he can interact with the physical world. You can think of this as him being a living antenna for electrical brain signals or alternatively as a connection to the astral plane.
  • Note: based on the mod answers I've seen floating around, I'm going to assume NPCs have thoughts on a surface level but no actual mind underneath that Quentin could dig into. Basically if the astral plane is a hallway, and minds are doors, NPCs would have doors that when opened would lead to a blank wall. (And in case you're wondering, he didn't have the skill level to conceptualize that last time he was in Aldrip and also I was too lazy to figure it out so I just said "his powers don't work".) Let me know if that sounds wrong!
• Quentin has always had an incredibly impressive level of control for his age and experience level. Most young telepaths struggle to not accidentally manipulate people's minds or "overhear" thoughts they weren't meant to hear. This does not appear to be a problem Quentin has had, at least not since he was very new to his powers.
  
• Good news: having such good control means Quentin's primary limitations are his imagination and ambition. Bad news: Quentin is kinda bad at both of those. In a recent book he's died (they have resurrection now, don't worry about it) over 20 times despite being on paper one of the most powerful mutants alive. He's embarrassingly easy to manipulate or lie to, considering his powerset includes hearing thoughts and mind control. In the 10% of situations when he has direction and a specific goal, he can do incredible things. But for the most part, limitless potential for Quentin just means limitless decision paralysis.
  
• Telepaths are super common in Marvel universe. There's like 20 of these buggers in the mutant community alone. There's telepath etiquette, and Quentin more or less adheres to the social norms like, you know, "don’t mess with people’s minds without permission." In canon, if you're a telepath who doesn't want to get your ass kicked by everyone on the planet, you mainly operate as team radio (telepathic communication), stealth (psychically masking), intel (probing for minds/information in a new area), and occasionally defense (tk shields or knocking out enemies).

Inventory: Just his silly little outfit jk i love this costume with probably a couple of snacks and candy bars in those pouches

Samples: TDM #10 thread 1 TDM #10 thread 2

Questions: There's a question I had re: him sensing NPCs in my powers section!