Gunner

Ashley (Ash) Cabre Knight

Ethnicity: Italian heritage

Sex: Male

Age: 29

Appearance:

Hair: Dark brown, usually shaved

Eyes: Metallic silver

Skin: Olive / Light tan

Weight: 258 – heavily muscled

Height: 6 foot 4

Other: When Ash uses his mutant abilities, depending on how much electricity he is channeling, sparks will run up and down his arms and shoulders. Ash has two full sleeves of tattoos that expand out onto his back.

Date Of Birth: October 31st

Place Of Birth: Bangor, Maine

Powers: Ash has Electro-kinesis, the power to control electricity

stored in his body or found in other outlets. While his powers cannot

generate its own electricity, his body naturally gathers a supply

slowly, and he can accelerate the process at will. He is able to

perform multiple feats with his electric powers, including projecting

lightning blasts or balls of energy, identifying different types and

sources of a electric current, or electrifying his body so no one can

touch him without being wounded. He can also disrupt, charge, or

destroy anything that uses any form of electricity and can transform

into pure electricity when touching a controlled electric current

(such as a powerline or wire) and can travel through it.

Power Limitations: Due to the nature of his power, Ash's body runs

partially off electricity, the lack of it in his body greatly weakens

him, often during a fight if his 'storage' of electricity dwindles he

suffers great fatigue or sickness and if he were to run completely

out, without being able to get more in his body, he may lose

consciousness. If Ash were in a place without a supply of energy to

absorb for an extended period of time he would be next to useless and

practically incapacitated. Control collars and power inhibitors have

an instant affect on him and he normally passes out. He can only

detect and absorb electricity within roughly two miles of himself, and

while he can accelerate the gathering process, he cannot completely

control it or turn it off - for this reason he tends to drain down the

lifespan of batteries, light bulbs, and other technology impossibly

fast.

Hobbies and Interests: Guns and weaponry, hunting, working

out/training, camping, poker and other card games, tattoos, football

and other competitive sports. He is never seen without at least one

pack of cigarettes and his zippo lighter - he grudgingly admits to

being a chain smoker.

Background:  Ashely Knight was born into a wealthy family in Maine,

the first born child of Jonathan and Leandra Knight. His mother died

in child birth, and Jonathan eventually remarried when Ashley was four

years old to a woman named Tanya Addams, whom already had two children

of her own, Francesca Addams and Ryan Addams. The three of them had a

fairly normal upbringing and he considered Tanya to be his mother and

Cesca and Ryan his full siblings, even if they were only related by

marriage. When all the problems with mutants started to arise in the

government, the marriage was put under a lot of stress, as Jonathan

agreed that mutants were abominations that had little right to live.

He began to sympathize more and more with the Friends of Humanity's

political position, especially when the situation in other countries

began to worsen. It became something the family never talked about,

until one day Ash's powers were revealed.

Jonathan was horrified that his own son was a flesh and blood mutant,

and he tried to kick Ash out of the house, but Tanya wouldn't have it.

As Jonathan grew increasingly more violent and upset over the weeks,

Tanya made a decision to take her children and left in the middle of

the night. They moved to Vegas where some of Tanya's family lived and

hid from Jonathan the best they could, as she knew Tanya didn't really

have any custody rights over Ash and she would never win if the matter

was taken to court. Ash resented his father's choices, especially when

Jonathan took a more public and active role within the FOH and began

appearing at debates and protests, becoming one of the many faces of

the FOH political agenda. Over the years, as things around the world

worsened and worsened, it was discovered that Cesca was also a mutant.

Cesca decided to travel to New York to join the New X-Men, while Ash

continued to stay under the radar, just trying to make a living. In

the fight with the Dark Phoenix, his sister Cesca was killed, along

with many others. This was when Gunner decided to join the team of New

Asgard, the only resistance group with enough power to hold up against

the Dark Pheonix or Apocalypse's forces.

There, he trained hard and helped with the resistance. He met a girl

by the name of Raquel, with a codename Muse, and eventually the two

fell in love. Both of them were together for years, working along side

those at New Asgard, to fight against the growing opposition of both

the Dark Phoenix and Apocalypse, often pitting the two enemies against

each other to let the Horsemen and the old X-Men do the dirty work for

them. Muse and Ash were engaged to be married, and not long after

during one fight Morghan Le Fay, a powerful curse was cast onto Ash,

crippling him from the waist down. As the injury was magical, not

physical, no healers could help him, and Clover Young was unable to

remove the binding spell. Ash was removed from the active team and

spent his days in a wheel chair, and days turned into months and still

no cure for his condition could be found. He felt useless, and this

put a lot of strain on him and Raquel's relationship, though the woman

he loved was always staying by his side it just wasn't the same

anymore.

When he had not been out on a field mission for almost a year, Gunner

eventually decided that a war zone was no place for a useless soldier,

and in the process of trying to kill himself was stopped. He was

watched like a hawk from those all around him, and felt like a

prisoner among friends and in his own body. During a mission that was

to be a direct attack on the Dark Phoenix's headquarters where Morghan

Le Fey lived, Muse decided to bring Ash along against orders. The two

were separated, and when Morghan Le Fey was killed, the curse lifted

from him and he was instantly able to walk again. He felt alive for

the first time in months, but the feeling was short lived when Muse

was killed in the same battle. The mission was finished, the kids from

the other universe saved and sent back to where they belonged, and he

could walk again, but suddenly it didn't matter anymore. Muse was

dead, and many of the other team members had been killed as well, and

he realized he would have rather stayed crippled in exchange for

keeping Muse in his life.

There was nothing that could be done about it, though, and Ash tried

to move on for a few months but found he simply could not. On the eve

of his second suicide attempt, this one more likely to be successful,

time was stopped and he was approached by a woman, Susan Storm, whom

explained she worked for a team of Exiles, and offered him a deal. If

he worked for them to restore other universes to their rightful time

streams, she would try to find a universe for him where Muse had lost

him, instead of the other way around, and place him there when his

help was no longer needed. Feeling as if he had nothing left to lose,

Ash accepted, and joined the team. He has worked with the ever

changing roster for months, seeing people get sent back to their

universes or being killed, and decided the risk was definitely worth

it. He's regained some sense of purpose, though usually his thoughts

are still taken up by missing his fiance.

Personality: Ash is very suspicious of others until they have proven

themselves trustworthy, so he likes to try and new people whenever he

gets the chance. He doesn't like being told what to do and instantly

hates anyone with any power over him. He comes off as an arrogant

self-centered asshole who's impulsive, rude, and quick tempered, but

Ash is also very intelligent and perceptive, and tends to pay more

attention to people than they may think.

Special Notes: He hates being called by his first name, its best to

just stick with Ash, or his code name, Gunner.