Speed

Thomas Shepherd is just a kid with a juvenal record looking to blow stuff up and save the day. Girls love guys who save the day.

Speed is Thomas's name in Generation X. He's a new member and is a speedster, and is at least as fast as another well known speedster - Quicksilver. He doesnt really takes the responsiblity that should come with his mutant powers all that seriously.

Background

 * Born to Frank and Mary Shepherd, Tommy is a child of divorce; he spent most of his time bouncing from one parent to the other. Both of them worked for a living and never had enough time to spend with their son, which led to him falling in with a not so good crowd.


 * One day, he was playing hooky when a teacher tried to make him serve detention. Tommy decided to run, and his powers activated. He stopped, finally, about two hundred miles away with a trail of trash and debris behind him. Once he'd gotten over the prerequisite freakout, two or so weeks later, Tommy started to gain some control over his powers.


 * Truancy gave way to criminality, and by the time Tommy hit sixteen years of age, he was known as a capable con-man and thief, though few people knew of his true abilities. Enter Mister Myers...


 * Myers's official position was the head of Tommy's high school science department; unofficially, he was running his own scam with his brightest and most ruthless students. At first Myers tried to convince Tommy into his operation, but Tommy refused (it bored him). Myers decided to threaten Tommy's parents. Tommy decided the correct response to this was to blow up the entire f-cking school. It wasn't his finest moment. It got im arrested, in fact, and sent to "the facility".


 * Officially, "the facility" was a juvenile detention center for kids with super-powers, but juvie isn't supposed to conduct experiments on kids. But they did on Tommy. For months, without anyone on the outside being any the wiser. Fortunately for Tommy, their attempts to make him a living weapon cranked his powers up to 11; their mistake, really.


 * During the Labyrinth, there was a shake-up at the Facility and Speed busted out. He ran around helping to fight the aggressors, but once that was over, he decided not to go back to the facility (shocking, right?) and instead run off.


 * Now the kid's free, with more power than any teenager should have. It's just all fun all the time now, right? Someone needs to teach him about great power and yadda yadda. If only he had a cool uncle, right? Generation X, here he comes.

Personality
Speed is arrogant, egotistical, snarky, and mean. He doesn't tend to filter what he says at all, and that often makes for a lot of conflict in his social life. It's not easy to get along with a guy who's constantly pointing out hown omfgslooooow people are (as his major pet peeve). It's just one of those things, right?

To top it off, he's always in a bad mood. It's not that he's in a bad mood because he's just grouchy, it's that everything is so slow around him that it is literally aggravating to him just how slow everything is. Imagine being stuck in a world full of people who move at the speed of a grampa with a bad hip. That's Speed's world.

So of course he masks it with snark. And maybe a little be of arrogant charm. He comes on strong and he doesn't apologize for it. Why would he? Why /should/ he? He is who he is, and if you don't like it, you're not worth his seconds.

That said, once he's deemed a person worthy, he may still berate and snark at them, but they are his friend. Period. Loyalty is something that Speed does not toss around lightly, but when he does, it's a fastball going 500mps.