Daxton was the oldest of three siblings. Normal, happy for the most part. His parents fought, but nothing that the kids had to worry about.
He liked comic books, playing video games and his sorta girlfriend Jill. Nothing special in his own mind. He did mess around with some of his friends, having the start of a decent base for some parkour skills. But nothing extraordinary, in fact he broke his arm in middle school trying to do a stunt. In that time he ended up joining the photography club, much to his father's chagrin.
Dax's mother was a nurse in the army, his father a sergeant. Being an army brat his whole life, Daxton got used to moving around. He enjoyed that part, but not actually the military aspect of his parents lives. His mother understood, his father didn't. He joined ROTC his freshman year, well….he was told he was going to, and not wanting to fight his father, Daxton showed up. That's the last thing the boy remembers before the flashes and pain and screams, although he's unsure if they were his own or someone else's.
Daxton was 'recruited' after his father suggested his name to a special unit commander that happened to be stationed at the same location as the Jones. After a small observation time, Dax was pulled from his life. His mother told nothing, beyond her eldest was missing. His father though, was told his son was now furthering the nations safety, to be proud. He was at first, but now…listening to his wife's tears each night, now he questions his decision.
He was injected and experimented on. Not the first, most likely not the last. He had a unit he called family. His memories blocked by the drugs they fed into the newly designed soldiers to keep them obedient. His perceptions of time had been altered, along with his ability to move through it. He can step through the space between moments, forward never backward. But it comes with a cost.
The special unit, which later becomes debunked as never actually having been part of the military, has rigged it's experiments when not active, to fall into a fugue state. Leave them in a room without some kind of stimuli (usually a clock to keep the sense of time) and they become lost. He was shaken out of his own Fugue state, strapped to a bed when he was found. . Around his neck is a dog tag with a set of numbers who's meaning is currently unknown, and the word TEMPO.
He remembers nothing of the two years he lost, although he gets flashes (Sometimes whole nightmares), unsettling flashes of terrible things. He has a worry that there's more people, like him. Trapped. Being forced to do horrible things.
Now that Daxton is free, the teen always has an old fashion wind up watch on.
Constantly moving, if restrained to the point he can't move, Daxton will become irrationally violent. It's most likely a fear of the Fugue setting in. Part of his anxiety is feed by the fact the boy is almost always drinking something with caffeine.
Daxton believes his family gave him up, so he has no desire to make contact beyond the screaming match he had with his father when he was rescued.. They have been told he's safe and healthy, but unwilling to return home. Probably a wise decision, as no one is quite certain yet what his potential is, and what he was being trained for. And if the group that created him wants him back….or dead.
Daxton's speed comes from slowing down time around others. He's not actually going any faster, everyone else is going slower.
Speed Phasing: He is able to slow down time around object that he can slip part of his body through said object, either to reach something on the other side, or more likely , to break it.
Speed Tricks: Dax is able to do a small variety of tricks, running in circles or twisting his arms to create wind tunnels. He can catch bullets too, if given warning that one is being shot off.
Super Speed:He appears to move, very fast. Sometimes fast enough to run up a building. or if he gets enough going, perhaps even on water.
Time Fugue:If Daxton is ever without some form of stimuli, he will fall into a timeless fugue. Almost comatose. He is lost, the moments in time that he speeds around crashing together. It's terrifying and he is constantly checking that his watch is wound. If he ever found himself in a sensory deportation tank, he might not every come out of it.
Time Echoes: In the space between time, time is endless. It overlaps and echoes, never truly dissipating into the past. In those spaces moments live and can be re-experienced. When successful (And that isn't always on purpose), Daxton experiences something that's happened in the past in the same location as he is currently. It can be any or all of the senses, depending on the amount of success. When pulled into the Time Echo, Daxton freezes up and appears to be in the Time Fugue, but can not be brought out of it till the moment the echo is showing him is over. It's very disorienting and he can experience some confusion afterwards.
"Several days ago a training assignment with several Order of Ares went off rails and the team, with two teachers returned smelling of smoke and covered is wet plaster and dust. They also had a plus one. Rumor is he's an experiment and blew up a building. Or is a teleporter, or maybe he's actually an army spy. He spent a few days in isolation in the medical bay. Again, there's rumor that there was a yelling match between him and someone over a video chat. The words "Betray" and "Nation's safety" were thrown out. Along with some rather colorful swears. His name is Dexter..or Dennis…No, Dexter Jones. That's it. "
There a crack in the wall of the laundry room. There's speculation on who caused it. Several Ares were seen doing laundry that night, along with a few Athenians. Could there have been a rampaging Frog out of detergent? A speedster stuck on spin cycle? A power surge for some fabric softer? Or was it just a miniature melt down separating whites from darks?
Apr 12 2016
It seems that the rabble-rousers of team Ares has been up to trouble yet again. Late Sunday, well past curfew, a morose looking bunch, that included Derek, Annaliesa, Daxter or whatever that new guys name is, Fred and Felicia, arrived at school, only to be greeted by Enigma. All but Derek was ushered back to their dorm room. Derek instead was taken to medical where he was treated for a minor head wound.
Rumours abound as to what happened and why the group broke curfew. The most popular of them of course is that the boys got into a big fight over one of the girls. Which girl though has the school pretty split evenly in their opinion.
April 26 2016
Last night, four students had apparently broken curfew and discovered some sort of strange, possible Alien technology along the mainland beachfront. After calling Faculty and Staff in to help, Felicia, AnneLiesa, Daxton, and Oliver were brought back to the school, along with the tech, and given a week's worth of detention for disobeying the rules.
After a discussion with Oliver, his detention was reduced to 4 days instead of 5 for the Ares teammates.
May 10, 2016
Once more, Ares was not at school when they should be. Once again that Doxtan has been hurt somehow and is off to Med Bay. He's probably doing something to get out of class in town. Though there is rumors of some encounter between the students and some other group up on Maple Drive, near the playground and abandoned Train Depot. The trouble makes of Ares probably started it too. Rumors include Felicia needing medical attention, but that can't be true, she's the sort that could fall from the sky and hurt the ground.
May 11, 2016
There was a small disturbance tonight in the Ares Dorm Hub (… which probably makes you wonder why this is 'news,' but keep reading!) involving a pair of students. It seems that the new girl in Prometheus had gone into the Ares dorm for some reason (it couldn't have been good- there's never a good reason), but what happened remains a bit of a mystery (to the students, anyway. Faculty have access to the security cams and can easily see exactly what happened). Just a few minutes after she went in, Drexler was seen carrying her out, post haste, while she was bawling her eyes out. But what is even more rmarkable is the fact that she was almost invisible in his arms as he hurried her towards the med bay. What in the heck happened to her, and how are they gonna expel that speedy kid for whatever he did? Only time will tell.
May 13, 2016
Friday night, after school (and detentions) before anyone took off for the weekend, there was trouble in the laundry room. Most likely started from the Doxsan character again, and that crack in the wall. There is more damage currently in the laundry room. A chunk of wall damaged by some round object, scorch marks on the wall, flooding with water (fresh water, not that the ocean flooding in). Also, a washer has been buckled on the front to the point of out of service. Ares was blaimed for the fiasco, possibly another fight between students over the prom nominations or something.
Faculty have moved a washer and dryer to each dorm hub and have posted yellow tape on the laundry room door, as temporary restriced access (students can bypass the tape and enter if they so wish, but this could lead to detentions).
May 20th, 2016
20s is the theme, as evident by votes and decorations have gone up at the gym (a speakeasy at the punchbowl and a pattywagon to take pictures with), and at Pargaon Island (detroit boat rum runner theme). At Prom the winners are announced (and may be RP'ed, just Poseidon has been having trouble getting on over his Fridays of late, and uusaly not until 9-10 PM CST). Prom King is Randal Forthwyth of Athena and Prom Queen is Jessice Stein of Metis. The Prom Prince is Daxton Jones and Prom Princess Felicia Carlyle, hopefully they continue their reign into homecoming and Prom as seniors ….
Jun 1st, 2016
Just the other night there was yet another setback in the repairs of the laundry room, with four students coming out of the sealed room and heading straight up to medbay just before lights out. One of them, that Prometheus chick with the big buckle boots and the raccoon makeup? Yeah, that one… purple something… she was carrying the student that went missing last month. Lindsey something. To no one's surprise at all one of the other students was that Ares guy… Darren, Dorax, no, Derek… yeah, the Prom Prince. It's almost like nothing bad can happen around here without an Ares involved somehow. The other two were some girl with fucked up eyes in an Athena uniform that no one recognized, and that really upbeat girl from Prometheus… Kelly, Kylee? Yeah, that one who's always cheerful and smiling. Except since getting back she hasn't so much as smirked or chuckled, which has some of her teammates concerned.
And the laundry room itself? Well some students poked their noses through the door and said that all of the dryers in the place had been picked up and stacked around the crack in the wall and that one of the washers looked to have been ripped apart.
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June 13, 2016
Tues afternoon three students are escorted back into the school and quickly following that word spreads that there was some kind of shoot out with local gangs in Thunder Bay. And the students happened to be near enough to intervene.
There's a shaky recording that's already become viral of a some dark haired teen doing matrix type moves, He actually stops the firefight by catching the bullets and then dropping them dramatically. When a scaly alien shows up with sharp teeth, the camera man drops a few swears and turns and runs.
Felicia and Deeter (Figures, Ares!) were there, along with Oliver of Team Metis. All seemed bruised up, and the speedster had bandages around both hands and his head. Seems like the Med bay is going to get some use this summer after all.
Aug 24, 2016
There has been increased activity from local Triads. Rumor has it Aidan got in a fight with some of them with Rebecca. Who, along with Daxton were mysteriously absent from the school the 20th to the 24th.
Sept 23, 2016
Coral Springs lovey dovey couple of Rebecca and Dextron seem to have had some kind of fight. Usually the couple is inseparable during meals and after classes, but for the past two days that's not been the case. No news if this is just a fight, or if this is the end, but the Prom Prince was seen leaving the island today after classes with a duffle bag. And poor Becky's been red eyed and sniffly. Wonder what that jerk did to her?
"Time is a precious thing. Never waste it."
Willy Wonka
Daxton is very different than he was before stepping foot into that fateful ROTC meeting. Where there once was an smart ass, loud teen, now is a quiet , almost reserved, young man, At his core, he's still the same, it's just much harder for him to feel comfortable in doing so.
He's quiet and it's unusual for him to make eye contact for long or be still.
The speedster is content to be an observer, although at the core of him, he's a hero. He acts on instinct, which combined with his repressed training and speed, is pretty fast.
Daxton does not have a runner's physic. The brunette has broad shoulders, the rest of his body has been trained hard for 2 years. Not that he holds himself like he has. The teen slouches, usually a hoodie pulled up, or a beanie to cover his short, military hair cut. His eyes are a piercing blue, almost shocking if he ever brings his gaze to meet anyone's. He dresses comfortably, loose jeans and long sleeved shirts on the weekends. His school uniform is much more pressed and proper. Which doesn't fit with his still slouched stance.