Name: Samuel Kerr
Age: 32
Power: Bone Manipulation
Classes: Head of Medical Staff
Faceclaim: James McAvoy
Status: TAKEN
Sam’s skill level is finely honed, thanks both in part to his enthusiasm for self-experimentation and due to his extensive medical education and training. He can manipulate, distort, and stimulate growth in not only his own skeletal system but in those of others - a handy skill to have in the field of medicine.
✔ CHARMING, KIND, OPEN-MINDED
✘ INTENSE, PRESUMPTUOUS, RASH
Sam Conway is the youngest of eight children from a farming family. Like all of his siblings, Sam was adopted. His parents, John and Edna, always said that the reason they had so many children was so that they could entertain one another, since television was too expensive, and considering how small Grantown-on-Spey is, they were probably only half joking.
Sam grew up just outside the Scottish town, in the wild country of the Highlands, and though it was a quiet life it was never boring thanks to the gallivanting about together the Kerr siblings did. They might not have been bound together by the unity of blood, but they were as thick as thieves and were a living example of what the word clan means.
Up until his fifteenth year when his power manifested, Sam’s life was fairly uneventful. There’s no denying that he was a late bloomer but he’ll forever be grateful for the fact that it took as long as it did; he’s not sure he would have been able to emotionally handle the overwhelming burden of change that comes with such an upheaval of self before then. Of course, he wasn’t exactly prepared to watch a bloody, compound fracture heal itself back together shard by jagged shard then, either, but Sam’s not sure that anyone can ever ready for that experience.
The miraculous and gruesome unveiling of his powers came as a direct result of a massive auto accident involving both he and his brother Richard. They were driving home from a party in town and were t-boned by a drunk tourist as they went through the only stoplight in all of Grantown-on-Spey. With luck, neither they nor the driver of the guilty vehicle were killed. The relief of both boys surviving was strong, yet it took some time for Sam’s family to be entirely comfortable with his gift. (Remarkably it was Richard, who had seen everything firsthand, who was the quickest to come to rights with it; “I allus knew you was a freak, Sammy,” he said, “I jes’ didn’t know you was a proper ‘un.”)
Lighthearted and quick to joke, the accident and resulting discovery of his abilities sent Sam into a very serious period of contemplation. He felt certain that he hadn’t been given this strange and wonderful (and, it had to be said, somewhat frightening) gift only for it to go to waste. After much consideration, the young man decided that he was not only going to apply the same work ethic he’d developed from farmwork to better his own capabilities, he was going to apply himself to figuring out a way to use it to better the lives of others.
Cue med school. Sam moved to Glasgow to attend St John’s School of Medicine. It quickly became apparent that the young man with dreams of a surgical residency had a remarkable talent with all things orthopedic. The difficulty for Sam was in learning how to disguise his capabilities beneath a mask of simply being a quick learner with a natural aptitude.Somehow he managed without anyone catching on, though there were a few close calls.
After school he moved to London to complete his residency. Sam had intended to pursue a surgical career but during his pediatric rotation, he discovered a surprising affinity for children, which led him to decide on a placement in pedes. After his four year residency, he began a dual fellowship in emergency medicine and pediatric surgery at the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Life carried on as it does and would have probably followed a very predictable course had the public revealing of mutantkind not occurred. Sam quietly left his job in the UK in order to take on the position of head of medical staff at Morgana Academy, where he hopes to provide medical care for those who might otherwise be discriminated against in the public healthcare system.
