| History: | Jordan was born after the death of his father, following his tumultuous love-affair with Aurora and her infidelity with Langowski. Unaware she was pregnant, but feeling ill often, and finding Walter Langowski trapped in a woman's body, Aurora fled for a time, and buried herself in Jean-Marie. The baby was left abandoned on the steps of a church, and was taken into foster care. When she reverted to Aurora again, Jean-Marie forgot all about having ever had a child and went on with her existence.
He grew up extremely sickly and anemic, and little seemed to help. He was intelligent and studious, but his physical issues, and the complete lack of records of his parentage kept him from being adopted, and in the care of the exceedingly strict church. He would spend as much time as he could hiding out in the library, or devoting himself to his studies to avoid most of the other kids, or the disciplinarian head priest, who always seemed to find fault with his charges, regardless of what they had or hadn't done. Jordan in particular was a popular target as he never struggled or fought back, and accepted his punishment meekly.
When Aurora and Northstar became telepathically linked, he learned of this past. Though he protected his sister from the trauma that might hit should she learn of it, Northstar arranged to have the child taken out of foster care. He was tested to see who his father was, as there were a number of candidates, and eventually his paternity was traced to Roger Bochs. Madison Jeffries and Lillian Crawley quickly filed to adopt the child of his dead friend. The presence of mutants proved to have a detrimental effect on him, however, and his health kept getting worse. Walter Langowski and Michael Twoyoungman both agreed to try and help.
Ultimately, it was determined that the procedure Langowski had done on the recently impregnated Aurora had messed up the baby's mutant gene, and while he had survived, his mother's mutated structure had almost killed him. He was determined to be some kind of power absorber, but while his system tried to copy the abilities of other mutants, it kept failing, and causing something akin to an allergic reaction instead. Ultimately, it was determined that a blood transfusion from a mutant might allow him to realize some kind of more stable structure. Lillian Crowley's blood type matched, and she agreed to donate, with the help of the alien lasers which had allowed her surgery some time back.
The change was almost immediate - Jordan's anemia and sickly frame quickly filled out, and then some. He began to show signs of increasingly invulnerable skin and super strength, akin to, but not nearly exact copies of Lilian's own invulnerable bio-aura power. Eventually, his structure stabilized as something entirely different than original indications had shown.
He grew into his teens with Jeffries and Crawley, getting a proper education. He was going to take their name, but ultimately, Jeffries felt it would be a better tribute to his father to take on the Bochs name and line instead. Upon proving his lineage, he inherited his father's not inconsiderable estate, put in holdership for him until he turns 25, and majority share of Bochs electronics. | | Powers: | Warped Copycat:
Jordan was originally supposed to have powers somewhat similar to Mimic, copying the abilities of other mutants. The alteration to Jean-Marie's powers and genetic structure while he was in early development 'broke' the power. For most of his life, exposure to mutants severely taxed his weakened system. With the infusion from Lilian Crawley, his genetic structure has strengthened, and now he has something similar to his proper powers, but in a very altered state. He now copies the powers of mutants around him unconsciously, but at an /extremely/ weakened, and somewhat altered state. He cannot do so at an intentionally higher level without meeting very specific conditions. There are a number of permutations to this, and examples of how this works follow:
1. Diamond Child: The blood transfusion from a matching donor has permanently altered Jordan's genetic structure. Where Lil possesses an invulnerable bio-aura, Jordan's muscle, bone and organ tissue has become as hard and dense as diamond.
*Invulnerability: Jordan is almost completely immune to direct physical harm, much like his adoptive mother but in a different fashion. He can only be cut by substances like diamond, adamantium or Nemesis' sword. Even then, unless there is considerable super strength behind it, its rarely more than a scratch. He can be thrown around, and conceivably could have his brains rattled enough to be concussed, but in general can take an absurd amount of punishment and keep coming back for more. Heat, cold, etc. can cause him pain, but he takes little actual physical harm. He does still need to breathe, eat (in fact, he has to eat huge amounts of food regularly to keep his enhanced body in top condition), drink and sleep, and does feel some degree of pain. He also does tire, but does so at an extremely slow rate, able to continue acting some twenty times longer than a very physically fit human under similar conditions.
*Super Strength: In addition to weighing somewhere in excess of 700 pounds, Jordan's extraordinarily dense body has given him considerable super strength, in a range akin to Colossus or Ben Grimm, similarly super-dense altered beings. He can bench press just over 70 tons, an amount slowly increasing as he ages and matures.
2. Weakened Copying/Uncles: Constant exposure to Jean-Paul, who enjoys being a doting uncle, despite hiding his relationship from Jean-Marie gives a prime example of how the weakened version of his powers works. Rather than true super speed, flight, etc., Jordan has semi-permanently gained extraordinary athletic ability. He can run, jump, etc. at near peak human levels, super strength aside. He has an amazing, but still human reaction time and reflexes.
Likewise, due to long term exposure to his adoptive father, Madison Jeffries, Jordan has a knack for tinerking and machinery. Even if he hadn't shown his father's head for mechanics and electronics, he'd have picked up a good deal off this. He still has to go through the steps, cannot telekinese anything, etc., but he has an amazing talent when working with mechanical and electronic devices, and can push the boundaries of super-science within these fields, such as the ability needed to produce wonders like the Box armor.
If he were to spend several months without contact, these abilities would fade, but as he has been around these mutants very frequently for several years, it takes little contact now to maintain them, to the point they are nearly innate abilities.
3. When around other mutants, he begins to copy altered and extremely weak versions of their powers, perhaps about 5% as effective at best. Around a Namor/super Atlantean, for example, he might begin being able to hold his breath for longer periods or swim a little better. Exposure to Cyclops might lead to slightly improved nightvision and his eyes may turn red.
These abilities tend to fade almost as soon as contact ends unless he's around the mutants for an extended period of time. The longer and more constantly he's around a mutant's genetic signature, the longer the abilities tend to last, though it would take years of almost constant contact in order to make anything else a part of his regular powerset.
4. Should he come into a situation where he takes in bodily fluids from another mutant, such as blood exposure through a cut, or a very deep kiss, he can duplicate a warped version of their powers akin to roughly one-quarter of their ability. These are never exact copies - more like weaker abilities suggested by the original.
Examples might include - contact with Wolverine's blood through a cut on his arm might give him extreme empathy with predatory animals, or boost a single sense to extraordinary levels. A deep kiss with Dazzler might let him reflect sound or light based attacks back at an attacker. Such copying tends to last about an hour before the abilities fade. This is also a very difficult circumstance to come into during combat situations in particular, and not something he makes an effort to do, both because of the obvious awkwardness of the ability, and its unpredictable nature.
5. A blood transfusion /from a mutant with his blood type/, which is extremely rare, and found only among homo-superior will permanently alter his powerset in a drastic fashion, adding to the abilities he gained through this process with Lilian Crawley. If the transfusion is from any other blood type, he will reject the transfusion, probably grow rather ill, and only gain the benefits of #4. This is the only way he can truly copy new powers on a significant scale, and even among mutants, only one in every few thousand shares his blood type, and no baseline humans do. | | Abilities: | Athletics: The combination of his hyper-fit body, and long exposure to Northstar has given Jordan a tremendous talent in this field. He picks up on new athletic activities quickly, and loves X-Games type sports in general.
Mechanics/Electronics: Even were it not for Madison Jeffries, Jordan would be his father's son. Very bright in general, he has a real knack for making things work. When combined with his mutant gift and long term exposure to his adoptive father, he's on the cutting edge of technology already, and were he properly motivated, he could probably reproduce the Box armor, though he sees no real need to. With his theoretical designs, however, Bochs Electronics has begun to thrive again after surviving through a few motivated employees, Roger Bochs' patents and his financial foresight.
Linguistics: Jordan speaks French and English as co-native languages. He is also fluent in German, and near fluent in Japanese and Romany, though he speaks them with an obvious accent. He speaks English with a slight French-Canadian accent, but not nearly as heavy as Jean-Paul's. Time growing up around a church has also allowed him to read and write fairly passable Latin, but it takes time and thought.
Bright: In general, Jordan has his father's intellect. He picks up on new concepts fairly quickly, and can be a dedicated student. He reads voraciously, and has a fairly broad knowledge across a range of subjects, including philosophy, history, theology and geography. While certainly no Reed Richards, he could keep up with Hank McCoy in casual discussion so long as the talk stayed away from life sciences. | | Paraphernalia: |
| | Personality: | | Similar to Aurora's transformation, while he's shown no signs of her mental illness, now that he has a super strong frame, he has gone a long way in departing from the sickly, meek youth he was. He revels in his powers, engaging in what for anyone else would be reckless behavior, and while he's still studious and hard working when 'on the job', be it at school or pursuing his father's work, at night, he's fun loving and nearly shameless, with an appreciation for motorcycles, clubbing and women. | | Trivia: |
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|  | | Real Name: | | Jordan Bochs | | Current Alias: | | Diamant | | Aliases: |
| | Relatives: | Roger Bochs - Father (deceased)
Jean-Maria Beubier - Mother | | Current Affiliation: | | Alpha Flight | | Previous Affiliations: |
| | Base Of Operations: | | Alpha Flight HQ, Canada | | Alignment: | | Good | | Identity: | | Public | | Citizenship: | | Canada | | Relationship Status: | | Single | | Occupation: |
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| | Characteristics: | Gender: Male
Height: 6'0"
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Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown | | Player: | | Jeff |
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