Name: Michael Garrone
Age: 25
Species: hippopotamus (mutant)
Occupation: former construction worker, former bouncer, former bodyguard, former wrestler.
Currently self employed at a personally owned nightclub.

Michael was born as the eldest five siblings into a lower class family in Liondwell.
Michael’s family had to experience economical difficulties and would often find itself in hard times; still Michael’s parents did their best in order to raise their sons as honest and hard working people.
Like many other mutants, Michael’s power manifested during adolescence and from the very start Michael started to use his powers in order to helps his family.
While he was still attending school he used to his powers in order have the possibility of following his classes but at the same time to earn some money. He would attend such a feat by creating a duplicate that would attend at school, while he, along with three more clones would perform various job in various part of the city. Michael tried to keep this as a secret, fearing the reaction of his parents for his mutant nature, however it did not take long for Michael’s family to become suspicious about the income that the boy was bringing in.
Eventually Michael was cornered by his parents and forced to admit the truth behind his earnings. His parents were obviously shocked to learn about their son’s abilities but still they were able to accept him and, although hesitant at first, they allowed him to continue to use his powers since they were in need for the money and Michael’s use of powers didn’t appear to be illegal or dishonest. . However they also placed one condition: if by any reason Michael’s powers was going to became either illegal or dangerous in any way he was going to stop immediately. Michael gladly accepted.
After reaching the age of majority, Michael continued with a similar lifestyle: his clones would perform various jobs in various cities and eventually “joining their forces” when this was needed.
This period allowed Michael to experience the world in a really wide way, acquiring many skills and allowing him to mature more rapidly than any normal people. Although he is only twenty-five years old he has the experience and maturity of a much older man.
Thanks to his help, Michael family situation become better and things seemed to be going just fine.
Unfortunately the increasing number of beings with extraordinary powers and abilities led the authorities to increase the measures of control over the super powered beings and Michael situation became potentially dangerous as well as potentially illegal.
After discussing the situation with his family and a long time friend who had become a lawyer Michael decided to stop his multiple jobs and register himself as a mutant.
After the registration, the authorities imposed Michael several restrictions to the use of his powers in order to prevent an unfair treatment towards normal individuals and Michael found himself unemployed. He also had to face some hostile treatment by normal employers that refused to hire him simply for being a mutant.
After some thinking Michael decided to use the money collected in his years before the registration to acquire a local that he converted into a nightclub, the “Garrone’s Place”.
Since he was the owner of the nightclub, he was also allowed by the authorities to use his powers and so now he is basically running the place working as barman, bouncer, caretaker and disc jokey at the same time.
His local has been a big success and Michael has become quite a celebrity in Liondwell, both for his nightclub and background story.
His nightclub has become quite a major centre for the social life in the city and Michael is know to accept all kind of customers alike, as long as they respect the rules.
Although his formidable presence was a really big deterrent for rowdy customers Michael did also contracted a deal with an expert witch that he met during his years before the registration and had her cast a spell on his nightclub that basically strips all super powered beings (except for Michael of course) of their powers, being them magical or biological. The spells also affect offensive technological weapons, making them unable to work properly. The spell protect the entire nightclub and the land around it.
From the very moment that a person walks within the perimeter of the spell he becomes a normal, whatever their powers are and this contributed to the nightclub’s popularity since it allowed some of the super beings who for some reasons believe their powers to be a curse instead of a gift to have some temporary solace and peace, along with other people with the same problems.
Michael has always welcomed this young people with open arms and in many cases he has acted as paternal figure, helping many super to understand their powers and accept them.
His background and the present occupation has made him the kind of guy that know everyone and can give many useful information to people who need them but he is generally never to inclined to share this infromations.

Powers:
-duplication abilities. By fully concentrating his will Michael can generate up to five biological duplicates of himself, capable of independent thought and with the same strength, knowledge and skills possessed by the original.
He is capable of creating even more than five copies of himself, but this come with the side effect of weaken himself and his clones, both physically and mentally so he never push himself above his limit.
The original Michael can also absorb the duplicates back into himself at will, absorbing the memories, skills, and experiences of the duplicate. When this is done the duplicate disintegrate into dust. This same process happens when one of his clones is killed or destroyed.
A consequence of the absorption process is that Michael can heal instantly from whatever kind of illness or wound may affect him.
This regenerating power also give him a partial form of immortality; as long as there is at least one healthy duplicate Michael cannot be killed since his memory and life-force are simply passed to the new vessel.
-skilled fighter: among his other jobs Michael tried to become a professional wrestler.
He was unable to complete this task but still he learned some good fighting skill that have been honed thanks to his work as bodyguard and bouncer.


Personality:
Despite his intimidating appearance Michael is actually a law-abiding and respectful citizen.
Michael has always done his best for becoming the honest and hard working figure his parents wanted him to be and he succeeded.
His sense of honesty has allowed him to don’t fall in the trap of using his powers for evil purposes and he never developed a superiority complex like many other supers.
Michael is generally friendly and respectful to others but he has shown that he can be very tough and strict when this is needed and when forced to fight he demonstrates a real fierce style, making sure his opponent to be knocked out for good.
He also shown to be very supportive towards mutants but at the same time he has always refused to join mutant rebels groups, despite receiving many offers.
He also never showed true support to mutant groups that operate on the opposite side, preferring to remain on a neutral zone and don’t take side.



Now this has been quite a tough work. Originally this new character was going to be a psychopathic villain with a really sad backgorund but I grow depressed and unsatisfied with the original sotry so by grades it become a good guy, well actually more like a neutral guy.

Anyway I hope you will like it!