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ST. JOHN ALLERDYCE AKA PYRO

YOU ARE A GOD AMONG INSECTS. NEVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU DIFFERENT.

BACKSTORY

based on x-men movies + headcanons. ( tw exorcism, burn injuries. )

CHILDHOOD + BEFORE X-MEN

ST. JOHN ALLERDYCE was born to a poverty-stricken catholic family. he began to help out the family at very young age, working every small job he could get in their neighborhood for some buck — mowing lawns, walking dogs, cleaning pools, etc. due to the constant struggles they faced, st. john’s father entered a life of crime to provide for the family. his father ended up in prison but even after the sentenced was served, he never returned to the family. as the oldest of his siblings, st. john became the “man of the house” at a very young age and juggled responsibilities his mother had given him as she worked multiple jobs.

st. john’s mutant abilities first manifested when he was thirteen years old. his mother was at work when he had to cook dinner for his siblings and an accident caused a fire that quickly engulfed half their kitchen. he called 911 and quickly tried to stop the fire by himself to prevent further damage but to no avail. as the firefighters seemed to take their time, st. john was scared for the outcome of possibly losing their home. it was the only property they own and losing it would mean life in the streets. afraid for his family and all out of options before the fire spread more, st. john yelled and cried for the fire to stop — and it did. the fire was gone instantaneously and although their kitchen was still in ruins, at least their family weren’t harmed nor end up in the streets.

upon realizing that he might be a mutant, st. john quickly began to practice his abilities in secret — he couldn’t generate fire on his own but he could manipulate it to do whatever he desired. however, st. john’s own mother turned on her son when she discovered his son playing with his constructs of fire one day and believed his son to be possessed by a demon that could harm his siblings. despite st. john attempting to explain that he was a simply just a mutant, she immediately brought him to their church and asked the priest to exorcise st. john. angered by his mother’s unsound fear of him and the priest’s attempts to exorcise him through prayers while he was strapped down on a bed, st. john had no choice but to utilize his powers to free himself, producing a blaze from the priest’s lit cigarette and manipulating the flames as he desired, st. john burned off his straps and everything around him. although spared, his mother and the priest suffered burns and injuries from incident which prompted authorities to arrest st. john.

sent to juvenile detention, charles xavier managed to negotiate st. john’s release, with a condition to his parole that he must live and study at xavier’s school for gifted youngster to further learn how to control his mutant abilities. his mother also wrote him a letter that he was never to come home and see his siblings again.

XAVIER’S SCHOOL FOR GIFTED YOUNGSTERS

st. john started off as aloof and unfriendly, until he met classmate, bobby drake. although they seemed to be opposites, the two boys managed to get along well --- with bobby often being st. john’s impulse control, while st. john always encouraged bobby to take more risks and be less self-conscious. st. john grew an attachment to bobby, often feeling jealousy whenever the other boy would give others more attention --- especially since he considered bobby as his only real friend and best friend.

despite a better life in xavier’s school than he ever had anywhere else, st. john grew increasingly paranoid as mutants continued to be feared, threatened, or killed for simply existing as they were. afraid that charles xavier’s pacifist nature wouldn’t protect them once the anti-mutants come for them. st. john thought long and hard about joining magneto’s brotherhood. and once he made a decision, he asked bobby drake to come with him but the other declined, creating a rift between the friends.

BROTHERHOOD

upon joining the brotherhood, st. john felt less inhibited and unlocked great potential within his powers that he would have never been able to if he stayed at school --- where the use of his powers where regulated due to its destructive tendencies. supplied with magneto’s ideology of taking back their liberties from their human oppressors, st. john became a vehement member of the group and took small leadership roles where he could.

after losing magneto and numerous brotherhood members to thanos’ snap, st. john decided to join an alliance with the avengers to bring back the ones they lost. this decision also reunited him the x-men and former classmates. but he knew that once they saved magneto and all the mutants they lost to the decimation, he’d never take orders again from the avengers.

POWERS

PYROKINESIS: st. john has the psionic ability to cause any fire, however small, to increase or decrease in size, heat, and intensity and to take any form that he desired, even that of a living creature. he can cause walls of fire, streams of flame that can effortlessly disintegrate normal men, and cause fiery explosions even just from barely burning ashes of cigarette or small sparks.

he can psionically manipulate the flame to do whatever he imagines, and sometimes induces it to take semi-solid form as an animate flame being (these creations, though capable of movement and of grasping or carrying solid objects, are not alive and do not think or act on their own). for example, if he causes a fire to take the form of a gigantic bird of prey, he can mentally direct the "bird," to fly and attack a victim. the degree of pyro's concentration necessary to manipulate a flame construct is directly proportional to the construct's size, power, and flame.

pyro’s abilities are only limited by his concentration, imagination, and inability to generate his own fire. pyro is also invulnerable to any fire that he places under his psionic control. however, he can be harmed (just as any ordinary human would be) by any fire that he does not mentally control.

one of his biggest weaknesses is that he is unable to produce fire of his own. initially, he would carry a lighter to compensate. but after joining the brotherhood, he was given dual wrist-mounted flamethrowers by magneto.

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sammysdewysensitiveeyes · 4 years

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PYRO (ST. JOHN ALLERDYCE)

PLACE IN SOCIETY

✖ FINANCIAL – wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty ✖ MEDICAL – fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / deceased ✖ CLASS OR CASTE – upper / lower / middle / working / unsure ✖ EDUCATION – qualified / unqualified / studying

(I actually imagine him from a working class background, but as an author/journalist he probably made a decent living and was at least middle class).

FAMILY

✖ MARITAL STATUS – married, happily / married, unhappily / engaged / partnered / single / divorced / widow or widower / separated / it’s complicated ✖ CHILDREN – has children / no children / wants children / adopted children ✖ FAMILY – close with siblings / not close with siblings / has no siblings (as far as he knows) / siblings are deceased / it’s complicated ✖ AFFILIATION – orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by both parents / other (In my headcanon, he was abandoned by both parents and raised by his grandmother - in Marvel canon, I don’t think we know anything about his family/childhood)

TRAITS & TENDENCIES

✖ disorganized / organized / in between ✖ close-minded / open-minded / in between ✖ cautious / reckless / in between ✖ patient / impatient / in between ✖ outspoken / reserved / in between ✖ leader / follower / in between ✖ sympathetic / unsympathetic / in between ✖ optimistic / pessimistic / in between ✖ hardworking / lazy / in between ✖ cultured / uncultured / in between ✖ loyal / disloyal / in between ✖ faithful / unfaithful / in between

(I call him hardworking, because the dude banged out a bunch of novels and seems to enjoy running missions for the Brotherhood/Freedom Force/Marauders. He likes to party, but I don’t think he’s lazy. Cultured, because previous portrayals show him as eloquent and well-read, even if the current Marauders version seems to only care about alcohol and arson.)

SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION

✖ SEXUALITY – heterosexual / homosexual (at least in MY headcanon he is, maybe bi or straight in Marvel canon) / bisexual / asexual / pansexual / omnisexual / demisexual ✖ SEX – sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable ✖ ROMANCE – romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable ✖ SEXUALLY – sexually adventurous / sex experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious / uninterested

ABILITIES

✖ COMBAT SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✖ LITERACY SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✖ ARTISTIC SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✖ TECHNICAL SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

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