Tejs Stenberg

[Tejs Stenberg]

Tejs Stenberg
FACE CLAIM:  Thure Lindhardt
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AGE: 15
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
POSITION: Bellefonte Student

POWER: Earth Manipulation

Tejs have the ability to control  stone, rock, dirt and sand. The purer the material is, the easier it is for Tejs to manipulate. Man made materials, such as concrete or glass, require considerably more training and effort to manipulate, than pure earth or sand, and can only be manipulated after years of training. Currently, Tejs can only manipulate dirt and small rocks in the most simple ways, such as throwing them in a straight line within a limited range.

After much training and growth Tejs should become able to manipulate earth in multiple ways. Currently he won't be able to do much more that rip clumps of earth from the ground and throw them at his enemies, making his power unsuited for combat. With years of hard training he should be able to improve his abilities enough to be able to condense earth to make it harder, erect barriers of earth, shape the earth into different shapes, burrow tunnels, be able to sense movement and objects through the earth and generally improve his control. How well he can do these things will also largely depend on the material he uses.

When fighting Tejs will unconsciously link the control over his power to his movements. That means that in order to throw a rock at somebody with his power, he will need to make a throwing or punching motion to focus his power and pull off the attack. Although Tejs believe his power is linked to movement, he should in theory be able to learn to manipulate earth using only his mind. Although using his mind alone would be considerably harder than his normal method. But it is unlikely to happen, unless someone else points out this possibility to him. Even then, he would probably prefer to control his power with his movement due to habit and ease.

LIMITATIONS: Currently Tejs won't be able to manipulate anything heavier than half his body weight, his upper limit being 35 kilos, and then only with great difficulty. If Tejs after years of training have fully mastered his power, his upper limit will rise to half a 350 kilos, or about five times his body weight, but only with great difficulty.

Tejs starts out with the ability to manipulate things within a 5 meter radius. Exactly how much he can expand his range in the future, will large depend on how much he trains.

The biggest weakness Tejs have is his need for material in order to use his power. If he can lured somewhere without earth to manipulate his powers are worthless. So the environment plays a huge part in the effectiveness of Tejs's power. Restraining his movement will also prevent him from being able to use his powers.

It will take years of training for Tejs to achieve mastery of his power, and his upper limit probably won't be relevant for years. I mostly put it in there so he was something to grow towards.

Tejs can only fight efficiently for about two minutes, before the side effect of his powers kick in. If he keeps using them after the two minuet mark, he will start hurting himself. This is largely due to his lack of training in his powers, but also a lack of normal physical training.

 
SIDE-EFFECTS: Any time Tejs uses his power, it requires him to expend both physical and mental effort. The effort he exerts raises with the weight of the material being manipulated, coupled with the difficulty of precise movement. Throwing a rock in a straight line requires mostly physical exertion, while more complicated task such as shaping or condensing earth requires more mental effort.

Prolonged use of his powers will first cause physical and mental exhaustion, then headaches, followed by a nosebleed and ending in Tejs blacking out. If Tejs pushes himself way past his limit, he could in the worst case suffer a stroke or an heart attack from using his powers.


HEIGHT: 182 cm
HAIR COLOR: Blond
EYE COLOR: Blue

MISC: Tejs considers himself an outcast, and try to reflect this is in his appearance. He usually wears dark clothes, sometimes with sarcastic slogans. Usually he will be wearing a black hoodie underneath a black blazer, with matching dark jeans and black Blucher style shoes.

If excited or flustered, Tejs will start speaking with a notable accent that should be easily recognizable.


PERSONALITY: Tejs is at first sarcastic and abrasive. He will treat people rudely and with distrust. This behavior derives from his expectation that everyone else will treat him the same. If people to Tejs surprise don't respond to his behavior with hostility, he will eventual stop being hostile and begin to treat that person with a begrudging respect. If treated respectfully, Tejs becomes much more open and friendly. Tejs is a loyal, and in his own way, caring friend to those few he deem worthy of the honor. He consider friendship as serious business, and will usual stand with his friends through thin and thick. Tejs will also seek out other outcast and try to socialize with them, considering their company better than nothing.

Tejs have a strong interest in politics and governance. Being originally from Denmark, he considers The USA backwards, crude and largely a force for evil. This view of the states, impacts his view of the average American. He hates the blind patriotism, warmongering, racist and crazy religious belief that the American people in his view have seemed to adopt. Believing American's to be ignorant of their short comings, he enjoys pointing out what he considers to be the many faults of The USA. Couple with a teenagers normal contempt for authority, Tejs will usual deny cooperating with people involved with the American government out of distrust.

As a protest of living in the states, Tejs have come to adopt and hold high old Danish virtues, such as modesty, equality, directness, and shared responsibilities. Despite acting hostile will try his best to help people in need and stand up for others rights. He believes its his duty to do so, both because he actually does care about people rights and well being, but also so he can act as an example to others as a way to improve the behavior of the Americans that he consider immoral. He is a strong believer in democracy, the welfare system and individual rights.

Tejs uses a lot of his time alone attending his interests. His interest include escapist fiction, video games, politics, debating online. He also have a secret love of cartoons and drawing. When he went out he would usually hang with other outcast, hippies, stoners, punks and goth. And despite his young age would sometimes both smoke and drink. Sometimes would to some of the more heavily forested areas of Colorado near his home and wander. Appreciating the quiet beautiful environment, as opposed to his turbulent home life. Tejs especially like the mountains, something his native land lacked.

Almost all of Tejs dreams involve him traveling back to Denmark. His biggest fear is being forced into being a weapon by the USA government. He believes that the US government is trying to exploit him, the main reason for this is being forced to attend Bellefonte Academy against his will. He considers this a violation of his rights.

If involved in a dangerous situation Tejs will usually act with caution, trying to figure out the best way to solve the problem at hand. He will avoid situations were he feels he might be in danger, unless there is some reason for him to fight. He doesn't mind sparring, as he sees as an opportunity to both prove himself to others, and improve his skills.

Just a quick clarification of my character concept. Tejs is a outsider, that through hard life experiences have become incredibly jaded. A lot of his hate of America and its people come from redirecting the anger and frustration from his life towards a convenient scapegoat. He choose to blame the American government and its people for the hardship he has suffered. Despite this I want Tejs to be able to grow as a person and become more accustomed to, and maybe even assimilate into American culture. But only if he has the experiences that turns him around. Otherwise he could go the other way and start actively using his powers to fight the government instead.

SECRET(S): none


FATHER:  Erik, Stenberg
MOTHER:  Thyra, Stenberg
SIBLINGS:  None
WORTHY MENTIONS: None

CHILDHOOD: Tejs was born in Denmark, where he lived until he was 11 years old. He lived in small townhouse with his parents in the suburbs outside Denmark's capital. It was a good place to grow up. People felt safe and were generally friendly with each other, with little poverty around. Tejs had access to parks and forests and grew up with a appreciation of nature. Tejs had a close relationship with his family, and especially his father. They weren't rich but got along fine.

Tejs wasn't the most social kid, but managed to make a few good friends. He did good in school, got along fine with the other students, and regularly ventured into the nearby forest to LARP with his friends. All of this changed when Tejs were informed that his family would soon be moving to America.

Tejs dad was an ice hockey player playing for the biggest team in Denmark. Ice hockey weren't really all that popular in the Denmark, and as such the pay and fame didn't come close to matching other professional athletes, especially soccer players. So Tejs's father felt that he was wasting his talent playing in such a small country. He wanted to try his luck in The States, chasing the American dream. He had arrange a deal to start playing for a minor league team in Colorado. Tejs's father hoped that he would be able to showcase his skills in the minor league and advance to the majors. So Tejs's family moved the states. Tejs mother was a nurse by trade, and was counting on finding employment once they arrived.

For Tejs's father the move were an exiting opportunity, but to Tejs it was like being ripped away from everything he knew. Yet he still tried to remain hopeful. But it wasn't long after arriving that Tejs learned how hard it can be to fit into a new country. The move probably wouldn't have been so bad, if only Tejs mastery of the English language was better. He had troubled both understanding other people and getting them to understand him. This made him feel alienated from the other children. They would sometimes make fun of him, when he tried to stammer his way through an English sentence.

Tejs had never been all that social, but he started to stop trying to make friends, and although he managed to learn the language after about a year, he still didn't really like talking to other people. It wasn't long before he was considered the weird foreign kid by his classmates, a reputation he couldn't seem to shake. This went on for two years.

ADOLESCENCE:
Tejs's father had worked hard to try and make it in the American league, but it was becoming clear that the level was much higher than in Denmark and he had trouble keeping up. The money he earned weren't all that good, even combined with his wife's earnings they still couldn't maintain the lifestyle they had lived in Denmark. Then in one game Tejs's father was hit by an tackle that broke two of his vertebrae. That meant that not only did he have to retire from playing, but the family got settled with huge medical debts. Tejs remember thinking back then, that if this had happened in Denmark the medical care would have been free, and his family wouldn't have been forced into such a dangerous situation.

With only the money from Tejs's mother to rely on, the family fell on hard times. Tejs's father was unable to work because of his injury and spend almost all his time at home. He had taken to drinking as a way to dull his pains. He also felt that it was his fault that his wife and kid were forced into a bad situation.

As his family started to deteriorate, Tejs found himself either locked in his room, or strafing far from home. When he finally socialized it was with a bad crowd. He started to drink and smoke at the age of 14 in an attempt to both fit in and escape his problems. He started wearing dark clothes, and began being openly hostile towards most people.

One day when Tejs were fifteen he was wandering around the a nearby forest trying to get away from his family for a while. As he lay in a grassy field watching the nearby mountains, a small nearby rock suddenly caught his attention. He looked at it for a while, slightly confused about its appeal. Then half in jest he lifted his hand pointed at the rock and then pretended to throw the rock. Much to his surprise he felt a sudden rush and watched the small rock skid across the ground. Despite now having a slight headache, he spend the rest of the day trying to move the rock with varying success.

As he went home feeling strangely exhausted, he ponder what exactly this new power meant. He had heard strange rumors about the incident with the in Montana, that perhaps somehow mutants were involved, but he hadn't really believed that mutants really existed. Chalking it up to the crazy conspiracies of the internet. But even then it was the only explanation he could come up with.

Then about a week later, while Tejs were still thinking about whether he should he tell anyone about his new powers, a stranger came to his house. The stranger talked to his parents before asking Tejs to join them. The stranger explained that he was sent as a recruiter for the Bellefonte Academy here to recruit him. Tejs was surprised that the recruiter knew about his powers, but he wasn't wild about the strangers offer. He quickly put together that the recruiter wanted to take him away the same place where those mutants in the news had been attacked earlier. He declined the stranger offers, and was shocked to hear, that he didn't actually have a choice in the matter. He was told to go pack whatever belongings he wanted to bring. While packing, Tejs decided that if he had to go, it wouldn't be willingly. He tired to sneak out the window from his room, but was discovered by the recruiter before he even made it into his own yard.

On his way to the Belle Fonte academy, Tejs tried to escape from the recruiters several times, but was always immediately caught. He tried to argue that they had no authority to force him to attend the academy, as he wasn't even a citizen of the United States. But unknown to him, the American authorities had already contacted the Danish government and made an agreement to send him to Belle Fonte. And so it was that Tejs would have to attend an academy, that he considered a prison.

ADULTHOOD: N/A


If you guys don't mind, I'll be using an old written sample I wrote for another character I played.

It had been a quiet night so far. There hadn't even been as much a car alarm going off in the entire neighborhood. Usually there were some activity at 2 a clock. Even if it was only drunks walking home from the local bar. Where were all the people. Well most were sleeping Robby presumed, but where were all the criminals. Had Robbie's work the last few months really scared every criminal in Springdale so much, that they didn't even dare leave their houses at night. Not that there that many criminals in Springdale to begin with. There were the usual pushers that sold drugs to teenagers, perhaps even a thief or two once in a while. But that were pretty much it. Springdale was a pretty peaceful town after all. In no small way thanks to Robbie's dad. Robbie shuddered, he didn't want to think about his parents when he were patrolling. This was when he forget all the crap at home, and become someone else, someone better. When he could become, Speedball. It was of course easier to one's mind from wondering when there were something to do. Yawning, Robbie leaned himself against the chimney of the house, which roof, he was standing on. Perhaps it was time he got home. It didn't seem like anything were going to happen tonight, and he did have that test tomorrow. History, what a bore. If he wanted to learn how the Vietnamese invaded Russia in 1939, starting the third world war, he would watch a movie about it. Suddenly Robbie's thoughts were interrupted by a scream a couple of blocks away. “YES” Robbie thought to himself. Finally, some action. Maybe it was another purse snatcher, or perhaps even a proper robbery with guns and everything. Those were always fun, easier too as he didn't have to chase the thief around the whole neighborhood.

Robby pushed himself off the chimney that he had been leaning against, and took a couple of steps towards the edge of the roof. He stood there for a moment trying to remember what direction the scream had came from, before he activated his power. As his power activated, the air surround Robbie became filled with orange bubbles. Robbie himself stretched out and seemed to grow half a feet. The transformation didn't hurt Robbie, on the contrary, the force field that now surrounded him, protected him against almost all physical injuries. Robbie took a deep breath and jumped off the roof of the house. It had taken him quite some time before he had been able to get himself to jump off roofs. Something in him always screamed that it was a bad idea, but it was undoubtedly the fasted and most fun way to get around. Robbie fell towards the ground with his feet first. Any ordinary person would probably have broken both their legs if they had attempted such a jump, but luckily for Robbie he wasn't ordinary, he was the superhero Speedball. Robbie hit the ground and immediately bounced off it at great speed towards the origin of the scream. The force field around absorbed all kinetic energy aimed towards him, and reflected back towards whatever caused the impact. Effectively making Robbie bounce off it.

It didn't take long for Robbie to reach the origin of the scream. It seemed that Robbie had been almost right in his assumption that a robbery were going on. The thing he had reversed in his head were the victim and the robber. In his mind Robbie had imagined a frail looking woman being threatened to hand over her valuables to some low life male thug with a gun. The reality were quite different. The one holding the gun were a young woman probably in her early twenties. She was wearing dark leather clothes and black make up. She reminded Robbie of the girls at his school who hang out behind the gym in the breaks smoking, and listening to crappy death-metal. The victim were a man in his thirties. He was wearing a long brown coat with matching slacks. His big glasses and bowl haircut made him look like a stereotypical nerd. The scream from earlier had most likely come from him. The man were nervously fiddling with his pockets, while the girl waved the gun back and forth. “Hurry up asshole. Don't think I won't shoot your skinny ass just because I'm a girl.” The girl sneered. The man whimpered in respond and started fumbling through his pockets faster.

Robbie landed close by but neither the man nor the girl seemed to notice. They were both caught up in the robbery. “Put the gun down miss. There us no reason for this. There are much better ways to make money than robbery. Have you tried selling cookies?” Robbie wisecracked. It wasn't his finest wisecrack, but then again most of the people he taunted were scary looking men. The girl and the man turned their heads to look at Robbie. Both of them looked like they didn't know what to think. After a moment of looking confused the girl waved the gun at the man again. The man immediately started searching his pockets again. Then she turned her head against Robbie. “What the hell are you suppose to be? Some kind of superhero.” She sneered. Robbie looked a little hurt by her remark. “Well I thought that was kind of obvious. I mean I even got the suit and every...” Robbie was about to explain, but he was interrupted by the girl. “Shut up bubble boy. Come any closer and I'll blow a hole in your fucking skull.” She sneered. Robbie sighed and started rubbing his neck. This wasn't going to end with negotiations, but he decided to give it one last try. “Look lady to be completely I don't really want to fight you. You know us superheros have a reputation to keep, so we can't just walk around beating up woman. So how about you give me the gun huh.” Robbie said and took a step forward with his hand extended forward. The girl started screaming. “One more step kid, and I'll shoot. You understand.” She screamed. She seemed to have forgotten the man next to her. Which to Robbie surprise were still fumbling through his pockets. Robbie stopped for a moment before he took a another step forward.

A loud bang could be heard throughout the neighborhood. Robbie felt something hit his force field just in front of his chest. The bullet ricocheted off him, and flew into a nearby phone pole. Robbie reacted quickly. He jumped forward and grabbed the girl's gun with his left hand. The girl were too bewildered that Robbie didn't lay bleeding on the ground to act. Then he gave her an uppercut with his right hand. The fist landed clean on the girls jaw, effectively knocking her out. She let go of the gun and fell to the ground with a heavy thump. Robbie stood for a moment and looked at her, before turning to the man. The man were looking surprised at Robbie, like he didn't know how to feel. Robbie noticed he was still fumbling with his pockets. “Eh, could you not tell anyone I knocked her out. I mean I don't want to spoil my reputation. Oh, and could you also call the police for me.” Robbie asked the man. The man slowly nodded, as if he barely understood what was going on. “Great, well then I'll be going. In the future you should probably bring your girlfriend with you for protection. You know... if you have one.” Robbie joked before he took off into the night. Another night, another crime stopped.

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Welcome to the Bellefonte Academy, LordOfLuck!
I can't wait to see Tejs interacting with the rest of the students
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