Issachar Aloise

In Character

Biography

Issachar Aloise was born in Montreal, the son of a prostitute and who-knows-who (although he suspects it was one of the local ecclésiastiques.) His mother, unable and unwilling to raise him, sent him to a Catholic work-home for despairing children where his strange abilities and frequent heat-induced sicknesses ostracized him.

In an effort to make friends, the lad took up the popular, sinful sport of bare-knuckle brawling. He was excellent but sadly it did little to help his popularity rise, especially once his opponents began to walk away from matches with small, but painful, burns. Like any good French boy, Issachar was a heavy smoker from a young age, and it was widely assumed that he cheated during the matches (although it should be noted that no one ever saw a cigarette on his person while he was fighting.)

Issachar was fully aware of what he was, and he kept it as quiet as he could, barely acknowledging it himself except when his abilities posed serious health dangers.

At age fifteen, tired of the discipline and pious hypocrisy at the work-home, Issachar took his leave and left the city with his only boyhood companion--also a mutant-- eventually getting a job at the Blouin Luc sawmill in St-Jean-d'Orléans. He was fired after getting into one-too-many brawls with fellow employees (none of whom, he is quick to point out, were actually from Quebec. This is a very valid reason to knock someone's block off. Obviously.) More specifically, he was fired after a co-worker, a pleasant father of three from Newfoundland that was in for the winter season, ended up in the ICU burn-ward on the brink of death.

With no education to speak of, no responsibilities, and a warrant for his arrest, Issachar decided it was a choice time to travel. He thumbed his way across the border and has been on the move since.

Powers

Issachar is able to elevate his body temperature to the extreme; the phrase, "makes the blood boil" is literal with Issachar, and during displays of his power it is unwise to make physical contact as his skin becomes super-heated. It also naturally has effects on the surrounding environment, although it has not thus been generated at a high enough level to go beyond a radius of a few feet.

However, he has limited control over his abilities, and has thus far not figured out a way in which to avoid personal harm when they erupt. He suffers from frequent heatstroke, had a heart attack when he was seventeen from the strain, and often blisters and burns his own skin during bouts of rage.

He never went to school and is illiterate, and has a slight grasp of the English language.

Out of Character

Liz is awesome. She's been around for years.