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[Micah]

Name: Hospitalar Eliel Jackson
Gender: Male
Age: 27 and three months
Blood Type: AB positive
Birthday: January 29th
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Green
Height: 6' 8
Weight: 242 lbs.
Race: Mostly Germanic Origins with a hint of Middle Eastern in his skin tone.
Education: Bachelor's Degree in European History with a minor in Chemistry
Job: Currently works for the US Postal Service as a Substitute Mailman, has experience working in Fast Food, Department Stores, as a Bank Teller, as a Construction Worker and as a Bouncer.
Politics: Fairly Radical Libertarian
Religion: Agnostic with a moral code based on Kant's "Categorical Imperative"
Place of Residence: Moves around a lot because of his job, but is currently residing in Grangeville, Illinois
Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta
Relationship Status: Currently not dating, recently left a long distance relationship with a girl he had met in college amiably
Interests: Hiking, Football(Soccer), Harry Turtledove Novels, Writing Alternate History Short Stories, Archery, Hebrew Art, Mixed Wrestling and Haiku
Fears: Wasting his Life, Getting Old, Becoming Disabled, Lampshades and Asian Horror Stories
Favorites: Movie - Saving Private Ryan, Book - The Man in the High Castle, Game - Football, Subject: History, Music - Folk Songs, Holiday - Easter, Word - Halcyon, Quote - "The history of the world is but the biography of great men.", President - Thomas Jefferson
Style of Dress: Plaid Button Up Shirts with a Loose Jacket in a Dark Color and Cargo Pants
Hat: Trucker Hat or Mailman hat when he is on his Job, only wears hats occasionally
General Mood: Amiable but Pensive, Quick to Anger but Quick to Forgive
Power: The Power to Make Things Better at their Most Important Attribute
ie Paper Airplanes are supposed to Fly, he can make a paper airplane that will keep flying regardless of any weight on them that will fly indefinitely, Fire is supposed to burn things, He can start a fire that will burn anything, including water and steel and things not usually burnable, Highschool Teachers are supposed to teach people stuff: He can make a Highschool Teacher that can teach people their subject perfectly to the point where the students understand the concepts perfectly
Downside: He has to make the things that are enhanced and he can't end the effect. In order for him to make a super paper airplane he has to be the one who folded the paper, in order to make the super fire he has to strike the match, in order to make the super teacher he has to have been extremely influential in the teachers career choice and success ie unless the teacher would say something to the effect of "Hospitilar Jackson made me the teacher I am today." then he didn't make the teacher.
The fact that he can't end the effect makes him have to be very careful about what he uses it on. If he starts an everburning fire its going to be really difficult to stop from simply burning the world down. There aren't any levels to his ability, it simply makes the thing supremely good at what it already does.

Bio: Hospitalar Jackson was born in Edmonton, Alberta on January 29th 1985 to Kenneth Jackson and Maria Thistle Jackson. While he was born in Canada he was still considered a US citizen because both Ken and Maria were American Citizens who had decided to go to the University of Alberta. Ken was there for Med School and Maria was there because she was interested in the Nanotechnology research being done their.
Hospitalar lived in Edmonton from his birth until April 3rd 1997 when Ken divorced his wife and moved to San Diago with his son. Hospitalar visited his mother on holidays and spent summer vacation with her as well. It was during one of these summer vacations that Hospitalar started to realize that he had some sort of unusual ability.
Hospitalar and his mother were hiking together around Lake Athabasca when an unfortunate fall left his mother unconscious with a broken leg. Now Hospitalar had been in the boy scouts and was not totally unprepared for the situation, but he was still a 13 year old boy lost in the wilderness with an injured mother. He made a splint for his mother and then made himself a map, as that was something that his scout leader had told him to do when he was lost. "Try and remember where landmarks were and make yourself a map." So he drew himself a map and he followed it. Instead of leading him back to civilization as he had planned the map lead him to a fellow Hiker who just so happened to have a Satellite Telephone and have taken some EMT training recently. The man saw Maria, realized the potential dangers she could be in and called in a helicopter immediately. Hospitalar's mother was saved and Hospitalar himself was praised for both his quick thinking and his unusually effective splint. His mother's leg had been fractured into six distinct pieces, but somehow the small bit of stick and few feet of rope that Hospitalar had tied together had been able to hold all of the pieces in exactly the right place. The doctor's dismissed this as luck, but Hospitalar was less sure. He was either extremely lucky or something weird was going on.
During High School Hospitalar excelled. He was the captain of the high school soccer team and got A's in all his classes but health and math. In his rare bit of free time he read a lot and in his rarer bits of free time away from any prying eyes he experimented with this power he thought he had. At first he thought that he was just incredibly lucky, but through a bit of experimentation and a notable incident involving almost burning the world into ash he figured out the nature and limits of his abilities. By the time Hospitalar graduated from High School he had all but mastered them.
Hospitalar's parents were both fairly well off, his father a Family Doctor in San Francisco and his mother a professor at the University of Alberta so he didn't really have to worry about paying for college, but in order to prove to himself that he could Hospitalar insisted on paying for the first year himself. As such he went to the relatively inexpensive Montana State University. He switched the following year when his parents started to pay for things, but he had several notable adventures with a particularly pyromaniacal roommate.
Hospitalar moved to Alaska for his second and third year in college. Then spent a year studying abroad in Germany. He moved back to Alaska after hitchhiking though Europe for a summer and then graduated the next year.
It was during year in Germany that he met Anastasia Alekseev another exchange student from Russia. The two hit it off splendidly having the same major and many of the same interests. It was with Anastasia that Hospitalar toured Europe and with her that he first fell in love. Both were unhappy that they could not stay together, but both wanted to finish their degrees and had to return to their respective countries. Through the magic of the internet and long distance telephone calls they were able to stay in touch and kept up their relationship. After he graduated Hospialar planned to move to Russia to be with his girlfriend, but his father was opposed to the idea and managed to convince him to stay in the states. Anastasia graduated from her college a year later and then planned to move to the US, but she was offered a job too good to refuse and decided to stay in Russia. Both of them vowed to get together as soon as they managed to make something of themselves and so their lives went on.
Hospitalar's life after college was not as easy or nice as his time in it had been. He found himself bouncing between jobs, unable to keep himself motivated enough to stay in the same town and work in the same job. His life was at a low point when in 2010 he found himself working as a bouncer for a local bar. As if life had it in for him, it was the same month that he started working at the bar that Anastasia called him up and told him that she had found someone else. The two agreed to remain friends but their was a fair amount of bitterness on Hospitalar's side and they have done little but send each other a few short emails since the separation.
This set back was perhaps something that Hospitalar needed however as he used his disappointment as fuel to force himself to quit his bouncer job and find some work in the postal service.
The Substitute Mailman job that he managed to get was wonderful for Hospitalar. It priovided him a chance to travel and because he never had to stay in the same place very long he didn't get board of it either. In the tumultuous years since his graduation Hospitalar had rarely used or even though about his "power." Sometimes it felt like a dream he had had and occasionally he almost convinced himself he had made the whole thing up. With the renewed vigor that his new job gave him Hospitalar started making new progress on finding unique ways to use his power. After discovering that his power extended to even somewhat strange uses of the word "make" Hospitalar had a goal. He was going to make history. Then he was going to make it perfect.

[Micah]

So, its a bit long and as such I may find myself with 0 suck points because of the shear number of sentences. I did read that you wanted to make the limitations for the power but I had a cool idea so I went with it, feel free to add more restrictions or whatever if you want. I'll make his equipment list once I know how many suck points I have to spend.

[eive]

AHHHHHHHHHH. By good, I didn't mean 8 bajillion paragraphs

[eive]

That's nice. I like the powerie thingie. Seriously, shorter is usually better because you have more to work with. But whatever.

[eive]

You have 9 suck points. I took one for making that super fucking long.

[Micah]

I had not intended it to be that long, but I couldn't think of anything so I just started listing stuff about this person and a vague sort of story came together so I wrote it. Anyways, equipment:
Free # 1: Clothes described in bio.
Free # 2: Really Big Hiking Backpack
Free # 3: Hunting Bow with 30 Arrows
Free # 4: Knife he made himself with his power
Free # 5: Specially Made Harness to keep the blade of the above knife away from everything
Suck Point # 1: A Heck of a lot of Paper and Writing Utensils
Suck Point # 2: Kindle with a bunch of History Books, Chemistry Books, How To Build Books and Harry Turtledove Novels loaded on it
Suck Point # 3: Battery for the Kindle that he built and used his power on: Big and bulky but unlimited power
Suck Point # 4: Basic Camping Equipment ie Blanket, Flashlight, Sleeping Bag, Canteen, Compass etc
Suck Point # 5: First Aid Kit
Suck Point # 6: A number of base materials for building things: ie clay, wood, wire, stone, plastic etc in a box
Suck Point # 7: A fake id he made for himself with his powers: shows people whatever id he needs to get past them
Suck Point # 8: Map he drew of his current location: Shows him where he is with labeled landmarks and stuff
Suck Point # 9: Alternate history novel that he wrote that always tells the story of what would have happened if he had made a different choice during the last important choice in his life

[eive]

Kay. Sounds good. We need another person.