Full Name:
Renwik Pollux LeBeau

Age: 25

Height: 6’2”

Parents:
Renwik LeBeau (Gambit)
Mother Unknown

Alignment: True Neutral
 

Powers and Abilities:

Molecular Acceleration - Renwik has the ability to take the potential energy stored in an object and convert it to kinetic energy thus “charging” that item with explosive results.

Mild Telekinesis - Due to being able to control the energy in an object, he is also able to move things with his mind, though normally uses that power when it comes to his throwing knives and cards, because 9 times out of 10, moving items also results in them exploding.

Enhanced Regeneration - In other words, he can recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs and limbs, sometimes slowing, or even stopping ageing.  

Quirks and Habits:

Ren is oftentimes fiddling with his favorite deck of cards, a gold lined pack with intricate designs on them. It’s a nervous tic and those cards are his security blanket for when he feels stressed out.

He used to smoke quite a lot, and to kick the habit he instead started to chew toothpicks though his smoking habit sometimes kicks back in if he’s especially stressed out.

Also an avid drinker, despite being unable to get drunk due to his regenerative properties. He can get tipsy. It just takes a whole lot of strong alcohol.

Defining Features:

His dark red eyes that glow when he uses his powers. He oftentimes will wear contacts if in a public place and doesn’t want to be stared at or treated differently, usually settling for blue as his main choice because that was the color he wished he had growing up.  

Renwik was never supposed to exist. A pure accident on behalf of his father and the one night stand who was too purist to abort the baby after discovering she was pregnant. Born on a cold October night in Marseille, France,  and abandoned on the streets a few hours later, his mother refusing to even look at him the moment she saw his deep red eyes, claiming she had given birth to the devil, and it needed to be cast out. He was taken in, unwillingly, by the orphanage there in town because they could not find it in their heart to kill a baby, despite the nuns who resided there believing the same thing his mother did. They set out to raise him and beat the evil out of him, despite there being no evil to start with.

 

Forced to stay away from the other children when eating or sleeping, but integrated long enough for classes and outings for the others to torment him and throw stones and spit names. They called him “El Diable” and that was all he was known for, as they never bothered to give him a name. Until one day, he had enough and ran away at the age of 12, rathering to risk his life on the streets than spend one more day with the people he was sure would kill him eventually anyways. 

 

Beginning his life on the streets was difficult at first. He had never been outside the orphanage without the rest of his group, but he had nothing to lose so he started learning how to survive. He learned how to steal and hide from the police after. He made makeshift shelters in the sheds or farmhouses of people who hadn’t been home in a long time, running if they saw him and starting over from scratch. This worked for him until the day he discovered his mutation when he was 13 years old. He remembered waiting for a shop owner to turn his back so he could steal some of the fruit on his cart when his hands started to glow and burn. Still so conditioned from what he’d been told growing up, he believed the pain was his punishment for stealing so he ran into an alley and tried to get the burning to stop. But it only spread faster the more scared he got. Soon he felt as if his whole body was on fire and he couldn’t take it anymore and it exploded out of him. A wave of explosive energy radiating from him and decimating the entire block and half of the next one over, ripping through walls and bringing down half of buildings,  burning the people nearby. He thought he was dead at first, but he looked down and found massive burns on his skin quickly stitching themselves back together. He remembers hiding in that alley until finally running when he heard sirens in the distance getting closer.

 

It didn’t take long for Professor X and his school to find the boy, cowering back in the barn he had woken up in that morning. Unable to understand English, the boy did not understand what they said to him as they tried to explain they were there to help. He only calmed when they showed him their abilities and he managed to understand that they were like him and they were only trying to help. They managed to get him on their ship and they took him back to America. By the time they had gotten back, they had already figured out that this boy was Remy LeBeau’s son. Their meeting was frightening but Remy was able to speak to him in his language and explained as much as he could without scaring him. The moment he realised that his son didn’t even have a name, he quickly called him “Renwik” and vowed to never let him be hurt again. It was the closest thing to family the boy ever had, and that night was the first night he had ever slept soundly.

They quickly realised how damaged he really was. He was stand-offish and he avoided the other children like they were the plague. So they kept him isolated per his request, and started training him on his powers. 

Remy started working with him. Teaching him not only about his powers, but about how to be human, something no one ever let him be. He taught him about compassion and love and forgiveness. He taught him how to use his negative experiences to help him make himself better, and to use those negative emotions to help control his powers. But despite learning to move past his childhood, he still harbours a strong hatred for children because of the way he had been treated. He knows it’s unfair to judge all children for the sins of a few, but it is something he simply cannot get past, even as an adult.

By the time he had turned 18, he had learned to control his abilities quite well, but still felt like he would never fit in with the others there so he left one night with just a note to his father and to Professor X, thanking them for everything but explaining he needed to live life on his own.  Despite having nowhere to go, Ren figured something out and ended up in New York City, sleeping in the upstairs room to a shabby bar on one of the worse sides of town. It was there that he learned how to play poker, and despite not wanting to be a cliche of being his father’s child, he learned that he was incredibly skilled with cards and chose them as his new obsession. 

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Through the next few years, he became masterful at his poker playing and started to earn more and more money than he ever expected to have, setting it aside and saving it for his own place one day since he started living in an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of the city. Despite this rack up of cash, he continued to steal and took odd jobs around town that needed his specific set of skills, stealing rather valuable things for some less important people. He liked the thrill of it, but it made him a good amount of enemies, but he wasn't afraid of them. He was confident in his skills and had grown quite arrogant. He knew how to fight thanks to what his father and others had taught him, becoming proficient in throwing knives (but he often used playing cards as an homage to his father, and also because most fights he got in were at his poker games and they were easy to get to and less expensive than knives.)

 

All was well until the day Zara Hardy walked into the bar he frequented and tried to kill him after being hired by SHIELD to take him down (because of something rather valuable he stole from them) and ended up being taken back to the facility. Zara had a change of heart and helped him escape, due to the unspoken chemistry between the two. He was caught again however and they made a deal with him. If he worked for SHIELD and stopped his stealing for the next two years, then he would be allowed to wander free after that without them bothering him. He took the deal and has been spending his time trying to avoid missions they assign him and spending time with Zara as their relationship continues to blossom. Despite the circumstances of them meeting, she has become the first woman he’s ever loved.