Post by Travis McKenzie on Mar 8, 2011 9:03:00 GMT -5
Matty McKenzie
“The fuck with what you think, I have a top hat”
Full Name: Matty McKenzie
Age: Forty Three
Civilian or Special: Special
Currently Located: New York
Affiliated with: Hero
Celebrity Claim: McGregor, Ewan
Relation to You: Travis' dad
[/center]PERSONALITYDriven: Matty is one of these individuals who tends to work hard for what they want believing that if something has come easily to him, then the chances are that he really doesn’t deserve it all that much. Matty is all about devoting himself to something, sticking with it even if it becomes to difficult for him to finish. He never put’s 99% into anything, always feeling it is one percent too short. He constantly feels the need to apply himself to the challenge and not chicken out of it. Suffice to say once Matty goes for something, he tends to stick by it.
Blunt: Unlike the rest of his family, Matty’s always been a firm believer in the truth will set you free. Sometimes to the point of arrogance, Matty just can’t help but to spill the beans all the time. He is one of these people who tends to crack under the pressure and will come out with the truth. Some might even go as far to say that the man finds it almost impossible to lie to others. If someone asks for his opinion, you can bet he isn’t going to sugar coat the truth to make you feel better but rather come out with the honest truth, no matter how hard it is to hear.
Loyal: There is no question that once your a friend of Matty’s, you will most likely be a friend for life. He will always back his friends up, even if he knows that they are in the wrong because he knows that they would do the same for him if he needed it. Even f you betray him in some way, Matty will always give you a second, third and even a fourth chance because he feels life is too short to be spent pissed with someone.APPEARANCE
Matty has not lot the signs of aging get to him and really it shows, with his looks keeping to their optimum potential. His chestnut brown hair is constantly short, yet still misplaced all over his head in an attempt to make him look cool.. His face is rarely seen without some kind of smile or grin, showing of his perfectly white teeth. His eyes are a deep marine blue, a contrast to every other part of his face. Keeping up his appearance as a sort of craggy man, Matty does shave, however he tends to keep it to the bare minimum to maximise his own look.
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Potential Sensing: Matty is capable of sensing the potential which lies within something simply through looking at it. Once he spots the object, or person, he wants to use his ability on, he gets an innate feeling revealing the potential which actually lies within. A minor form of precognition, Matty is capable of using his innate knowledge of the full potential of a subject in order to try and bring it out so it can be the best it can be. Matty does not come under the influence of visions of the future but simply knows, just by looking at the object. This ability is strictly passive to Matty meaning that everything he sees is always under the influence of his own abilities. In order for his ability to function, Matty must be able to view the subject so as to learn the true potential of it.
Lie Detection: Matty’s ability of sensing potential has since spread through to his ears. What this means is that Matty is able to hear the potential behind someone’s words in order to find out if they are lying to him. Like before, this ability is just having the innate knowledge once someone lies to him through verbal action. Even seasoned liars, find it impossible to lie to Matty because he is always able to sense the true intentions behind their own tone. Relatively with this ability Matty finds it almost impossible to be deceived; telepaths, deceptors, and of course abilities which help prevent the onsets of lying all proving useless against Matty.
Matty was brought up in a working class family in Glasgow, his childhood always being difficult. Between him he had five sisters and two brothers, with him being the oldest and expected to lead a good example. Time’s where difficult for the McKenzie’s who were using some irrational cost cutting measures to make sure that they made the rent bill in time. Matty was always expected to work hard because of this, so that he didn’t end up like his mother and father who had been worn down over the years of having all of these kids.
In school, he wasn’t exactly the smartest kid, but he knew enough to get him by. He always seemed to be second at everything in school, never really being good at one thing but rather mediocre at a lot of things. It only forced Matty to work harder in order to get what he wanted. He managed to pull through all of his classes fairly easily, but never really standing out to anyone... he was just a ghost in school.
He was not popular, nor was he a loner. He seemed to make himself a nice mesh of friends, fit in comfortably with the group who all seemed like him. His group of friends were never really the most popular kids in school and they were in the same boat as Matty.
It wasn’t till he got to the start of high school that he realised there was something totally different about him. It was never really made clear that he had abilities before high school, in fact he could have had them before, however he didn’t notice it till he wound up in his first year of high school. It all started with one of his friends being rejected by a girl he liked simply because ‘she had a boyfriend’ but Matty being the loyal friend he was, went over to talk to her for him in order to try and persuade her otherwise. As soon as the word that she had a boyfriend left her lips, Matty knew she was lying and confronted her on it.
The girl seemed shocked to be honest, Matty being the first and only person ever to see right through her. She was stunned and ran away with her tail beneath her legs, Matty completely confused as to what had just happened.
Eventually however it became clear who he was, he was the guy with no potential who could sense someone’s potential. It was as if life was playing some awkward game with him, and him developing his powers early on life made him somewhat introverted as a teenager. Adolescence wasn’t really what he had planned now, being able to hear right through fabricated lies of those he trusted.
He tried using his abilities for useful purposes really, like trying to predict someone’s future simply through the potential that they had within them. He would offer words of encouragement to his friends whom all had accepted that Matty was nothing short of some sort of psychic. He was getting along fine, trying to blend his powers in with his normal life just to make life not only a little bit easier for him, but for all the others around him.
He went through school, still being the mediocre student to everything trying to use his charming wit and charisma to win over people, continuing to try and predict their futures in order to knock the populars off their high pedestals and build up those who had little to no self confidence whatsoever.
His whole life changed for the better however when he met the love of his life, the one woman he could not even begin to try and take down a peg because she was simply too good for him. Jayne Mattis was her name, a new girl at the school whom had come all the way from eastern Europe to be there with them, her family fleeing the watchful eyes of her grandparents who all seemed to be sitting in a position of power and looked down on them for so many things. Matty never really cared though, all he knew is that he wanted to be with that girl.
He was head over heels for her, even if she did reject him time and time again. Matty never gave up on his dream of trying to win her over and eventually he managed to wear her down to the point where she was complacent on giving things a shot with Matty. It didn’t take long for his un-denying wit and charm to rub off on her in a good way. He was winning her over, which was a good thing for both of them.
Eventually Jayne fell pregnant with Travis, and they both knew how critical both of their families would be. Matty was supposed to be the one to bring his family out of crisis, but it only seemed that he was pushing it further into crisis. With the little money they had, they went on an impulse to go to America, where no one would be able to find them. Matty, not getting any horrible vibes from the idea, assumed everything would work out for the better and let the winds of change wash over both of them to America.
It was not an easy task however, Jayne having to scrimp and save all the money she had to make things work with Travis on the way and Matty having to combine his wit, charm and ability in order to score a deal at a used car dealership. It wasn’t exactly the job Matty had in mind when he was growing up, but it was all worth it to be with the girl of his dreams and to know that they were doing this all on their own. What made it even more worth it, was the birth of their beautiful son which Matty had helped name after his own father whom had been a big inspiration to him in his own life. He could already see the potential brewing within the chords of fate as he looked at his son for the first time knowing that he was going to turn out like him, someone who was driven to do good for those around him.
Matty continued working at the dealership, thinking it was the best step forward for him and his family, always doing the best in his work simply because he spoke with such charisma and could get inside his clients head. Everything from there, seemed pretty normal. Of course Matty was one of the first to find out about Travis’ abilities with a combination of his first ability and his secondary to ask him if anything weird was happening in his life.
Fast forward to current times and you’ll see that Matty is still working at the car dealership because it’s good money for an easy job. He has kept himself under the radar with all the Registration Task Force stuff feeling that his ability works on an inconspicuous level. His wife is now aware of his ability thanks to an incident on April 4th where she was able to see the entire genetic makeup of him before her eyes. It was hard to explain and Matty knew he couldn’t lie to the woman that he loved and so simply told her of his own capabilities.
