Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin
STATUS: ACTIVE
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Biography
Name: Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin
Alias: Colossus
Age: 26
Height: 6' 6" (normal); 7' 5" (armored)
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Powers and Abilities
Species: Homo Sapien (Mutant)
Powers: Enhanced Mutant-Physiology: Organic Steel Form, Superhuman Strength, Peak Human Speed
Abilities: Skilled Painter, Expert Combatant
The X-Gene
The source of the mutant’s powers.
Character
Piotr is a shy, self-effacing, modest and selfless young man. For himself, he only desires a rural life as a farmer and painter, preferably in the motherland – but Charles Xavier has entrusted him with a great burden.
Piotr doesn’t fight for himself, and in some ways considers he’s not worth fighting for.
He fights for his friends and to defend innocents, especially children. His speech sometimes imply that he’s “not worth” a stroke of luck or the pain of his friends – but this is because he considers himself but a minor piece of a great cause.
Piotr is an innocent teenager from a simple place who was thrust into a world of complexities and conflict. He lacks direction outside of the Cause, and his private life is haphazard, torn between his quest for reassuring female affection and his strong wish to be a decent, caring man.
As years went by he started to be a bit more of an individual, and less of a part of an apparat, but his own wishes weren’t really compatible with his duties. He fought on, until he could resolve his contradictions by making the final sacrifice.
Piotr is a pure, good, untouchable soul and the voice of idealistic humanism among the X-Men. That he killed twice came as a shock, especially to himself.
This, combined with the deeply unfair deaths of his whole family, made for a lasting pain that never went away. Piotr couldn’t reconcile the harsh reality with his big hearted world view. He was, maybe, too much of a good soul for this world.
Colossus speaks in a somewhat formal, literary fashion, without contractions. What he says sometimes feels like a public speech by an idealistic politician, although thankfully he’s much, much briefer.
Powers and Abilities
𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬
Enhanced Mutant Physiology: Colossus is a mutant with the superhuman ability to convert the tissue of his entire body into an organic steel-like substance. This substance resembling steel is of unknown composition but appears to be analogous to osmium and to carbon steel. He is able to transform into this armor-like state at will (the process is virtually instantaneous) and remain in that form for an as yet undetermined amount of time. The longest time he has remained in armored form by choice so far has been five days). Once in his armored form he remains so until he consciously wills himself back to normal. If he is rendered unconscious, however, he spontaneously reverts to his normal form.
Organic Steel Form: While in the armored state, Colossus possesses the same degree of mobility that he does in his normal form, though his endurance and speed are enhanced. The conversion from flesh and bone to organic steel is accomplished by a psionic whole-brain interface with an ionic form of osmium, an extremely dense metal, located in another dimension. In willing the act of transformation, Colossus actually exchanges osmium atoms for his carbon atoms. The psionic interface with the other dimension re-creates all of Colossus's body in functionally similar organic ionic-osmium materials. The process by which Colossus gains additional mass from an unknown, perhaps extra-dimensional, force remains unknown. Colossus cannot become partially or selectively armored; his body is either entirely converted or not.
Superhuman Strength: After transforming into his armored state, Colossus possesses vast superhuman strength. As a teenager, he was sufficiently strong enough to be listed as a class 70. (This scale is only for comparisons between characters, and should not remotely be taken literally). However, as a fully mature adult, his strength has increased to the point that he is listed at exactly class 100. He was able to hold his own against the Juggernaut, though Juggernaut has also defeated Colossus.
Superhuman Stamina: Also, while in armored form, Colossus' musculature produces considerably less fatigue toxins than the musculature of a normal human. At his peak, he can physically exert himself at peak capacity for several days before the build up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him. He also does not need to breathe while transformed, but it is believed that he could not survive for long in a vacuum.
Superhuman Durability: In his armored form, Colossus has a high degree of imperviousness to injury. His armored form can withstand ballistic penetration, including that of a 110 millimeter Howitzer shell. He can survive temperature extremes from 70 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero (-390 degrees Fahrenheit) to approximately 9000 degrees Fahrenheit. He can survive a collision with a loaded, one ton flatbed truck at 100 miles per hour or an explosion of 450 pounds of TNT. He can also survive falls from great heights while in his armored body. Colossus' armored form cannot rust under normal Earth conditions. Furthermore, his eyes become steel-like and allowing his eyeballs to withstand and deflect even the impact of a .45 caliber bullet.
Peak Human Speed: In his armored form, Colossus's speed is at the peak of human potential, enabling him to run 32-36 mph.
𝐀𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
Strong Speaker: He has proven to be very good at speaking positively, truthfully, and with charisma in front of large audiences. His innate nobility has earned him the respect and friendship from a good number of different persons.
Expert Combatant: Even though Peter has a gentle demeanor and personality, he is a skilled hand to hand combatant who utilizes judo and wrestling techniques. He also received some training personally from Wolverine and honed himself through years of combat training within the X-Men's Danger Room.
Multilingual: Peter is fluent in both his native language of Russian and English. He was also telepathically taught Japanese by Professor X, along with the other X-Men who traveled to Japan to attend Wolverine's wedding.
Skilled Painter: Peter is a talented artist adept in both sketching and painting, once becoming very famous using the name Peter Nicholas while suffering from amnesia.
The X-Gene
The X-Gene activation leads (via transcription and translation) to the production of an exotic protein. This protein produces chemical signals inducing mutations on other genes, ending up with mutant organisms, variously empowered. The activated mutants, once through a mutation or X-Mutation, are told to be "mutated", which is also told of mutants who suffer further mutations through experimentation.