Character Name: Skin
Alternate Identities: Angelo Espinoza
Player Name: NPC
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Brown |
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Brown |
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5' 7" |
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110 lbs |
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Young Angelo Espinosa grew up in the Barrio in South Central Los Angeles and saw his father killed in a drive-by shooting. Having had violence forced on him at such an impressionable age, Angelo joined a gang and fell in love with a fellow member named Tores. Following one particularly violent shoot-out with a rival gang, Angelo was forced to fake his own death and entrusted his cousin Gil with the knowledge that he was still alive.
Later, Angelo was one of several young mutants kidnapped by the techno-organic alien race the Phalanx. Angelo and his fellow captives Husk, M, and Blink, were rescued from Harvest by the combined efforts of Banshee, Jubilee, Synch, the White Queen, and Sabretooth. Soon after this group became the founding members of Generation X, a team of mutants enrolled in Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters at its new branch in the re-opened Massachusetts Academy. Angelo was given the codename Skin as a result of his mutant ability.
During his time with Generation X, Skin was targeted by the armored vigilante the X-Cutioner, who believed him to be responsible for the death of Angelo Espinosa, not knowing that they were the same person. This prompted Skin to return home where he disguised himself as an old man and visited the grave that bore his name. There, Skin encountered both his mother and Tores, though they were unaware of his true identity.
On a later trip to Los Angeles, Generation X were attacked by cybernetic Prime Sentinels from the government-sponsored anti-mutant Operation: Zero Tolerance. Skin was reunited with Tores when he sought help from her and her own gang and learned that she too was a mutant.
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Skin is a mutant who has between four and six feet of extra skin on his body. Skin has control over this extra skin, and can extend the skin to grapple objects. When relaxed, Skin's extra skin sags and gives him the appearance of a melted candle, but with concentration Skin can contract the extra skin and pass for a normal human.
Skin's extra skin also grants him some degree of resistance to physical injury. The skin is also highly resistant to punctures and tearing, but the tensile strength of this resistance has not been recorded. When Skin falls unconscious, his skin starts to fall into a liquid state, and Angelo will appear to be melting. Why this phenomenon occurs has yet to be understood.
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Angelo Espinosa is a man of many secrets. It took him a long time to even reveal a little about his past to his best friend Chamber, and even longer to tell his friends that he had faked his own death in order to escape a harsh life on the streets. Little else is known about him. We don't know the full story of his involvement with the L.A. street gangs, or how his apparent ex-girlfriend, known to us only as Tores, became such a powerful and influential leader. We do know that his mother makes regular visits to his grave site, but we know little else of his close family. We know that after his "death", the first person he contacted was his surfer cousin in Venice Beach, Gil. It's clear that Angelo has done some things in his life that he is not proud of, and that he is always trying to make up for them, but beyond that know little else.
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