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[kentuckian]

Cannonball NAME: Samuel "Sam" Guthrie CANON: The New Mutants/XMCU TIMELINE: TBD AGE: 17 SPECIES: Mutant ALIAS: Cannonball PB: Charlie Heaton

Sam is a young mutant who was forced to drop out of school to help his father in the coal mines in Kentucky. One day while working the mines, Sam suffered a panic attack as a result of his claustrophobia and accidentally caused a cave in, which claimed the lives of his father and most of his crew, when he tried to escape using his powers. On the run from the authorities after the incident, Sam was eventually found by Cecilia Reyes and brought to the Milbury Hospital in Boston in hopes of getting better control of his abilities and help to deal with the emotional fallout from the traumatic accident. While staying at the hospital for an undisclosed amount of time, Sam befriended four other mutants (Illyana Rasputin, Roberto da Costa, Rahne Sinclair, and Danielle Moonstar) who suffered their own traumatic experiences like Sam. When Rhane was showing newcomer Dani around, she mentions that Sam is "one of the good ones", and while they watch him train using his powers, she says it sometimes looks like he was punishing himself. Between Dani's powers unknowingly manifesting their fears and a conversation with Roberto, it's revealed Sam still carries immense guilt over the accident and all he wants to do is 'get better' so he can go home. PERMISSIONS backtagging: Yes threadjacking: Yes 4th-walling: No mind reading: Yes romance: Yes (M/F) fighting: Yes injuring:: Yes killing: No POWERS (from the character wiki) thermo-chemical energy field propulsion: Sam possesses the ability to generate thermo-chemical energy from his body. This energy is used as thrust to cause his body to be propelled through the air, like a cannonball, at great speed and heights. blast field: This energy also manifests itself as an impenetrable and virtually indestructible "blast field." He can use this blast-field to function as a personal shield or extending it to encompass others, shape the field around another person to imprison them, or absorb outside kinetic impact into his own energy supply and then re-channel it to increase the bludgeoning power of his blows or create explosive shock waves upon impact. Sam is also capable of generating the blast field without actually having to blast off, though it takes him extreme concentration to prevent himself from propelling into the air flight: Sam is able to fly while using his mutant abilities. superhuman strength: When he is using his powers, Sam possesses superhuman strength due to the energy field that forms around his body allowing him to generate additional force. superhuman durability: When he is using his powers, Sam possesses superhuman durability due to the energy field that forms around his body insulating him from outward impacts and collisions.

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