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NAME: Iggy
FANDOM: Maximum Ride
TIMELINE PERIOD: Post-The Final Ride
BACKGROUND:
At first glance Iggy (just Iggy - though there is some rumor that it's short for Icarus) seems like he could be just your average fourteen year-old boy: tall, thin, and pale, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Of course, then you take a closer look, and you realize he's built like an Olympic swimmer, stands over six feet tall, and that he's not looking back at you - he's blind. Oh, yeah - and did I mention the wings? That's right, wings - they span maybe fifteen or sixteen feet, and tuck into indentations along his spine. And then you realize - he's probably just about the farthest from average you can ever get.
See, Iggy's a genetic experiment - and not the first, as he's the third oldest member of his flock (six months younger than Max, and two months younger than Fang). Like the rest of his flock, his DNA has been grafted with that of a bird, making him a human-avian hybrid, and gifting him with a number of enhanced abilities - not to mention those wings. What's more, further experiments done in an attempt to heighten his night-vision have rendered him blind, meaning that his remaining senses have adapted to compensate. Of his flock, he hears things first, smells things first, and they will freely admit that he has the best senses of any of them. He's been known to feel people coming from vibrations in the floor, to pick up a stranger's PIN number from the sounds it produces on the keypad - and he consistently tells his flock apart from the touch of their skin or the sound of their footsteps.
For being blind, Iggy does pretty well. He's the only member of the flock who can cook, and once he has someone show him around a new place, he can pretty much find his way around. Using the concept of echolocation, he's devised the same sort of system for himself, identifying the locations of people and things by the way sound bounces from them. Still, it does bother him sometimes, the feeling of being lost in such an elemental way each time they change locations - as they must, frequently, being on the run. He has been known to quip sarcastic and bitter remarks about his lack of sight - though he is rather sarcastic a lot of the time. Later on, as the flock begins developing new abilities through spontaneous mutations, Iggy finds himself with the strange ability to "feel" the color of an object, and to see "whiteness" - things against a white background appear visible to him.
For all of this, though, Iggy is perhaps more of a normal teenager than either Max or Fang. Since the two are older (not to mention sighted), they share command of the flock, leaving Iggy to be more of a brother to the others than a leader. The closest to him is probably Gazzy, as the two share a love of all things explosive. With his highly sensitive sense of touch, Iggy is a genius with things electronic and explosive, able to fix a damaged computer in minutes, able to whip up a bomb from scratch. And he loves doing it. Max has noted that he can somehow hide bombs on himself without her knowing, get his hands on materials so that she can't stop him. And as if he needs any more to add to his potential for delinquency, he's an expert lockpick - he carries a kit around constantly, on his person, and can get through most locks in well under four minutes. In addition, he displays a notable interest in the opposite sex - although, this may be more evident in him because Fang and Max are rather wrapped up in each other. He pesters Fang to describe the "beach bunnies" in L.A. and jokingly tells Max to bring him back a French girl - which Max writes off as sexist, but is really quite understandable behavior from a fourteen year-olf boy.
The only family Iggy has is the flock, and he loves them more than anything. Part of his bitterness over being blind is probably due to the fact that it makes him less useful to the flock, less able to protect the younger members and aid the older. He is the only one (besides Max) to meet his birth parents, an instance that should be quite incredible for him - and for a while, it is. Until they have magazines and television stations in a bidding war over the rights to produce a biography on him. Mere hours after they leave him with his family, he is back with the flock, disillusioned with the world and his parents. This instance only drives home for him the importance of family being the people who love you, and not necessarily the people to whom you are tied by blood.
FANDOM: Maximum Ride
TIMELINE PERIOD: Post-The Final Ride
BACKGROUND:
At first glance Iggy (just Iggy - though there is some rumor that it's short for Icarus) seems like he could be just your average fourteen year-old boy: tall, thin, and pale, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Of course, then you take a closer look, and you realize he's built like an Olympic swimmer, stands over six feet tall, and that he's not looking back at you - he's blind. Oh, yeah - and did I mention the wings? That's right, wings - they span maybe fifteen or sixteen feet, and tuck into indentations along his spine. And then you realize - he's probably just about the farthest from average you can ever get.
See, Iggy's a genetic experiment - and not the first, as he's the third oldest member of his flock (six months younger than Max, and two months younger than Fang). Like the rest of his flock, his DNA has been grafted with that of a bird, making him a human-avian hybrid, and gifting him with a number of enhanced abilities - not to mention those wings. What's more, further experiments done in an attempt to heighten his night-vision have rendered him blind, meaning that his remaining senses have adapted to compensate. Of his flock, he hears things first, smells things first, and they will freely admit that he has the best senses of any of them. He's been known to feel people coming from vibrations in the floor, to pick up a stranger's PIN number from the sounds it produces on the keypad - and he consistently tells his flock apart from the touch of their skin or the sound of their footsteps.
For being blind, Iggy does pretty well. He's the only member of the flock who can cook, and once he has someone show him around a new place, he can pretty much find his way around. Using the concept of echolocation, he's devised the same sort of system for himself, identifying the locations of people and things by the way sound bounces from them. Still, it does bother him sometimes, the feeling of being lost in such an elemental way each time they change locations - as they must, frequently, being on the run. He has been known to quip sarcastic and bitter remarks about his lack of sight - though he is rather sarcastic a lot of the time. Later on, as the flock begins developing new abilities through spontaneous mutations, Iggy finds himself with the strange ability to "feel" the color of an object, and to see "whiteness" - things against a white background appear visible to him.
For all of this, though, Iggy is perhaps more of a normal teenager than either Max or Fang. Since the two are older (not to mention sighted), they share command of the flock, leaving Iggy to be more of a brother to the others than a leader. The closest to him is probably Gazzy, as the two share a love of all things explosive. With his highly sensitive sense of touch, Iggy is a genius with things electronic and explosive, able to fix a damaged computer in minutes, able to whip up a bomb from scratch. And he loves doing it. Max has noted that he can somehow hide bombs on himself without her knowing, get his hands on materials so that she can't stop him. And as if he needs any more to add to his potential for delinquency, he's an expert lockpick - he carries a kit around constantly, on his person, and can get through most locks in well under four minutes. In addition, he displays a notable interest in the opposite sex - although, this may be more evident in him because Fang and Max are rather wrapped up in each other. He pesters Fang to describe the "beach bunnies" in L.A. and jokingly tells Max to bring him back a French girl - which Max writes off as sexist, but is really quite understandable behavior from a fourteen year-olf boy.
The only family Iggy has is the flock, and he loves them more than anything. Part of his bitterness over being blind is probably due to the fact that it makes him less useful to the flock, less able to protect the younger members and aid the older. He is the only one (besides Max) to meet his birth parents, an instance that should be quite incredible for him - and for a while, it is. Until they have magazines and television stations in a bidding war over the rights to produce a biography on him. Mere hours after they leave him with his family, he is back with the flock, disillusioned with the world and his parents. This instance only drives home for him the importance of family being the people who love you, and not necessarily the people to whom you are tied by blood.