I have a lot of thoughts about the Mime family and please excuse my exuberance as this is my chance to spill it all
History: Fredrick Bonnefroy lived a relatively normal life, went to school but had to drop out and work in his family’s car shop when finances became too strained. Despite his lack of education, he isn’t dumb by any means. He’s very tactile in his learning and is especially intrigued by how objects are made are made and produced. Knowing how things are made and the cause and effects of them makes him especially handy in the field of mechanics. He met his wife Penelope while working on her car and the two hit it off immediately.
Along with his working in the shop, he also took to becoming a street performing mime as a side job to pick up some extra cash. Even if it was sometimes at his expense, he saw no harm in the hobby. However, natural curiosity pushed him into looking for ways to make his act much more believable and he unknowingly stumbled across the world of magic and charms. His act improved greatly and there was no question that what Fred had been able to achieve was impressive. It wasn’t until he started noticing small changes that he realized what was once innocent dabbling in magic turned dark as unexpected consequences began to set in.
The price of magic coursing through his veins showed superficially in the beginning. His skin began to turn blue, first at his fingertips which in time would spread to the rest of his body. The markings on his face which he used to apply with makeup became permanent and his hair lost it’s color to become a light blonde. But most notably he lost his voice, the vow of silence mimicking that of the mime and the final part of his transformation into a fully magic mime. It doesn’t take long for the powerful to become feared in wake of people who don’t understand.
During the start of it however, Penelope became pregnant and unbeknownst to the both of them, the same mime powers passed from Fredrick into Claude. With a wife and toddler, Fredrick tried his best to stop the transformation but to no avail, hitting dead end after dead end to fix it. Still, he used the powers to give fantastic shows and catches the eye of the future villain known as Papillion or Monarch. Fredrick is met with an offer of substantial payment and a promise to help him be free of the repercussions of his magical pursuits and agrees to the long term contract.
Over the years he works with Papillion, he creates a friendship and a steadfast loyalty to his employer. Later on when orders lead to more dangerous projects, Fredrick finds being a part of the seedier underground side of Paris didn’t phase him. Paris had never done him any favors so he was simply returning the fact. It’s whenever the goal is within grasp and a rag tag team of supers stand in his way that Fredrick adopts the alias of Mr. Mime and chooses to fight.
Powers: Fredrick’s abilities allow him to mime objects and to be able to see those mimed by others. The smaller an item is and closer proximity, the less he has to focus on maintaining it rather than something large/large quantity and at a distance. Both he and Claude have the same type of miming ability. They are only limited by their imagination which Claude does have more of in comparison. However, Fredrick has more technical know how and in turn it makes his mimed objects more ‘powerful’ (i.e. Claude makes a standard stick of dynamite vs Fredrick making a stick of dynamite with more combustible powders he knows will give a stronger charge).
