CHAMBER

Real name: Jonothon Evan Starsmore
Occupation: Packer
Identity: Mutant abilities not known to others, but his appearance tend to attract unwarranted attention anyway.
Legal status: Illegal Immigrant - Citizen of the United Kingdom, he travelled to the United States without a Green Card.
Other aliases: Jono, Jon
Place of birth: London, England
Marital status: Single
Known relatives: Parents
Group affiliation: None
Base of operations: Basement room, somewhere in Queens
First appearance: December, 2000
History:

Born and raised in London by a middle class family, Jonothon Starsmore was a well educated, handsome and well adjusted young man until his mutant powers manifested themselves in the most horrific way. His life before his accident was almost perfect - he has been comfortably well off with a good family, and a beautiful girlfriend - Gayle. He was also an accomplished musician, with possibilities of becoming a commercial success, before one high an incident in a night club prompted his mutant powers to literally explode from his body, demolishing the four storey building, killing many and crippling Gayle. Jonothon awoke some time later laid out in a hospital morgue with most of his chest, neck and lower face missing.

Hideously deformed his internals had been replaced by a bio-nuclear psionic biokinetic force, which has the appearance of a raging fire where his body used to be.

Staggering home his appearance was met with horror and disgust, as well as no little repulsion and hatred. His family sheltered him for a few months, during which time he took to hiding his injuries beneath swathes of bandages. He made no attempt to contact his friends, or Gayle, his guilt over their injuries so intense that he became intensely bitter, angry and isolated. He was also terrified that his powers could damage him again, or worse, others, and made up to mind to travel to the USA, where it seemed much more was known about the mutant phenomenon. He travelled to the States, but has found himself both homeless and isolated further.

Height: 6'3"
Weight: Unknown, assumed to be lighter than average due to lack of internal organs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Auburn
Unusual physical characteristics: Although Jonothon is average as far as build goes, his body has been damaged by the bio-nuclear psionic biokinetic force that seethes inside him. He is missing his lower jaw, and most of his neck and chest. To keep his psionic force, and injuries hidden he wraps the upper part of his body in black bandages which give him the appearance of a victim of terrible burns.
Strength level: Average human strength, although one of the side effects of Jono's transformation is to the radical alteration of his central nervous system. Put simply he doesn't seem to have one any more, and is therefore practically immune to pain. Jono is also immune to any diseases that affect typical human physiology.
Known superhuman powers: Jono has a mild telepathy with which he communicates with others - communication has become rather difficult since his accident, and so he has been forced to resort to this rather unconventional way of 'speaking' which is an offshoot of his powers. Anyone hearing him gets the impression of a rather disembodied voice echoing in their head. While Jono is unable to control or attack others telepathically he can, to a certain degree, read thoughts. Jono is able to read feelings to a greater extent than the average human. He can tell whether someone is happy or sad, lost or lonely, rejoiceful or content, but subtle emotions are usual lost in a haze of thought.

Jono has a minimal control his the psionic bio-nuclear reactor that makes up most of his body. He can form intense blasts of force and heat, which can have a variety of effects. In a fight Jono is actually pretty powerful and can use his psionic blasts to literally burn his attacker, or just to blast them away. His psionic blasts have all the power of a nuclear blast - they're hot. He can generate intense heats that can even fuse soil into glass. Like any kind of nuclear power, if Jono releases his blasts suddenly and with force in one particular direction it is like being in the path of a fairly major explosion. Get in the way of a psionic blast and it would be like being hit by a truck - physically they pack a pretty major punch. His control over his blasts varies, but either way, Jono's finesse is fairly lacking. He has the force of a tank but no subtlety.

The original explosion that blasted off Jono's face and chest was powerful enough to practically destroy a 4 storey building. He is therefore almost too frightened to use his powers lest they be a danger to himself or others. While the bio-nuclear force has damaged his body enormously it has the added bonus of being an internal power source - he never needs to eat or drink anything again, all the energy he needs to sustain him is provided. He doesn't need to breathe or even sleep if he doesn't want to, although he does just out of habit. Eating and drinking, however, are occupations for someone with a mouth, and so a pleasure that has been lost to him forever.
Other abilities: Jono can play the guitar to a high standard of expertise, and can rock with the best of them. He's pretty much all but given that up since his powers manifested themselves, however. Also, while Jono is no expert he can tinker about with car and motorcycle engines a bit, possibly an offshoot of a somewhat misspent youth.
Weapons and paraphernalia: None, all his defences come from his powers and physical abilities.
Other notes: Jono has spent the last few months settling into a dead end night shift that covers the rent on a ramshackle basement room in Queens. Since he neither eats nor drinks, or in fact breathes, he isn't regularly seen during the day - he is well aware of his horrific appearance and keeps his head down. He also is an illegal worker - another good reason not to be too obvious.