Refugee from another timeline, Nate is the son of his world's Jean Grey and Scott Summers. Born with incredible powers, he works to find his place in this world through unconventional approaches and transcendental meditation.
Background
Conceived through the most questionable science possible, Nate had people trying to play him from day one. After coming up against eugenics titan Apocalypse and his gross family, Nate's massive power ended up reacting with a shard of the M'Kraan Crystal and sending him to Superia-Earth.
Once there, he experienced more than a few misunderstandings and being at odds with others on a similar path. Over time, however, Nate started to figure out his own identity and a place he could be, in this world so different and so reminiscent of the one he came from.
SIGNATURE ABILITY
Cosmic
Very rarely, Nate can bring closer to his full power to bear. Though this will cause him exhaustion afterwards and may even injure him, he can achieve the Phoenix-compared levels that he has been observed to possess, in his potential. He can direct his abilities in any one major direction with tremendous assured success, or try to manage more things at smaller scale. Another option might be taking on an extremely powerful foe alone by necessity. Whatever the case, Nate can usually answer a challenge, though he usually ends up recovering for longer than he'd like.
SKILLS
Meditation - Competent Level
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Showmanship - Competent Level
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Nate learned some showmanship and acting, and he sometimes puts them to use, usually in concert with his powers.
Transcendence - Expert Level
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Through extensive transcendental meditation and spiritual work, Nate has managed to achieve a truly transcendent state of being. In this way, he is able to use his psionic powers to become a being of pure thought. However, he can also turn himself back into a physical form. Both of these acts take tremendous focus and power and are not done lightly or without thought to consequences. However, it also makes it not only possible but likely that if the worst should ever happen, Nate has a more convenient way than most to return to the battle for evolution.
Through a similar process, Nate is capable of moving things from the astral plane to the physical world. As with anything else, it takes a huge amount of energy and would be extremely noticeable to every telepath on the planet. Both of these things are exceedingly rare.
ABILITIES
Power: System - Basic Level
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Nate's system has been engineered from the start, making him very efficient at such high power levels and giving him robust health and an astonishing physique. He doesn't really age, and his body usually maintains itself somewhere around peak condition. He does require more sustenance or some energy intake, in order to recharge from major or long-term use of his powers.
Power: Telekinesis - Supreme Level
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Essentially, Nate's potential is as unlimited as the Phoenix, and as sobering as Dark Phoenix. However, usually his operating power level on a day-to-day basis is much less scary. He is still capable of moving massive objects with his mind and is also skilled at using his telekinesis defensively.
His most impressive telekinetic feats tend to be impressive largely due to the high level of finesse required to accomplish them. A fairly common power stunt, changing clothes by rearranging their molecules, is fairly easy for him to accomplish, as long as he has a clear image in his mind of his goal. It's helped by clothes generally being comparable molecular makeup. Other stunts are more difficult, such as disassembling an unfamiliar complex machine and then reassembling it correctly, and these require more focus and effort.
Nate can focus his telekinesis into energy blasts which are capable of critically damaging steel at usual levels, he can create shields that can withstand cosmic-level assault, and he can levitate and fly up to supersonic speeds. Uncommon and extremely finessed power stunts, such as extensive atomic manipulation, typically require Nate to focus exclusively on those feats, with limited ability to spare energy for much else. For example, if Nate wanted to bend light waves to make himself invisible, he would likely have to focus with most of his telekinetic power on that for the time he wanted to do it. During that, he would be less capable of doing other things telekinetically, but could still act telepathically.
Power: Telepathy - Supreme Level
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Gifted with the highest level of telepathy, Nate is able to use his powers to accomplish things even other high-level telepaths usually never try. As is the case with most telepaths, Nate can read the thoughts of others and communicate with them through that telepathic connection. He is also able to manipulate thoughts, memories, and perceptions, making him able to manifest compelling illusions.
Nate's abilities related specifically to his power of telepathy include but are not limited to: telemetric perception (reading thought impressions on an object touched by the person thinking), mind control, psionic blasts, astral projection, sensing anomalies and disruptions, and of course remote interface with multiple minds. At his strongest, Nate has the potential to touch every mind on the planet, but his regular operating levels tend to be significantly below that. He isn't that majorly affected by distance, where his telepathy is concerned, however. If Nate has already established a connection with a mind, it is even easier for him to reconnect to them.
Nate also possesses inherent, instinctive defenses that are solid enough to stop the strongest of attempts to get inside his head. He also has the ability to use his telepathy to conceal himself from even the power of a top-level telepath enhanced by Cerebro, so that at least he is beyond detection when not making a spectacle of himself.
Power: Transport - Basic Level
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Through a significant power stunt and great finesse, Nate is capable of traversing large distances and making it possible for others to do the same. It takes much more effort and energy to open an actual gate of any kind to another place, and it is more demanding with more people to teleport. Most usually, he only uses this power for himself, which makes it less exhausting, and doesn't tend to travel massive distances without a really very good reason. In a time of need, as usual, Nate will push himself much further.
ADVANTAGES
Nate is highly creative and an unconventional mind, so he may come up with ideas that no one else even conceived of. It also helps with novel application of his powers, something that has become identified with him. Even though he essentially only has two major powers, the various creative applications make him extremely formidable as an ally or an opponent.
Coming from a different reality has given Nate a different outlook on things, which can be very helpful. At times, his different circumstances brought things to light and allowed for resolving a matter in a way that would otherwise probably not have been possible.
WEAKNESSES
After so much soul-searching and meditation, Nate has become even weirder than he started out being, and that was pretty weird. It's hard for some people to really understand him. His detachment from society also gives him a unique perspective that tends to put off the normies, but some of the other odd people who don't fit in too.
Aside from that, though, his long-term search for identity and enlightenment have made his priorities at times different from others. He might become distracted by something that otherwise seems not significant. He might space out. He could get lost in someone else's thoughts for a second. But usually that's about all; he's good at catching himself. Still, it could cause problems or make a situation worse if it happens at an inopportune time.
Sometimes, usually intending to protect himself, Nate will temporarily interfere with his own powers subconsciously. This tends to be only in a time where he needs rest because of massive power expenditure but is not allowing himself to recover adequately. He might block his ability to use his telepathy or his telekinesis, but both are never inhibited at once. However, since virtually all of his powers are finessed applications of one of those two, suppressing one can make half or more of his best abilities unusable. With time and work, he always gets past these blocks, but by that time, his body has usually had the opportunity to recover.
Being so powerful isn't always a great thing. Because of his astonishing power levels, Nate must maintain practiced self-discipline or risk causing untold damage to friend and foe alike, not to mention himself. With such massive power requiring careful control, it can cause Nate profound exhaustion or even injury to accomplish some of the things he tries to do. His great power also makes him a regular target for recruiting attempts and, much less wisely, attempts to take him out of the picture.
Having come from such a nebulous timeline, Nate's perspective isn't the same as those native to this Earth. At times, his origins may affect his decisions majorly, and there are things in his memory that are very different to their reality in this world that has become his home. The discrepancies could cause problems at any level, from simple misunderstandings to actual clashes. In the same way, not everyone he recognizes from his timeline are even remotely the same people, which can cause no end of problems.
Nate's system is extremely efficient, but it's also built to deal in large amounts of power. Due to this, Nate needs to eat more than even the average superhuman in order to keep using his abilities at reliably robust levels. It also means he doesn't really have to exercise much at all to maintain a statuesque physique.
The timeline that Nate came from was never supposed to exist. There's a lot of technical detail that could explain why, but the long and short of the situation is that reality is not immutable in Nate's timeline of origin. Because of this, he could remember something happening two very different ways, and both memories could be completely accurate. Its nature causes it to exist in a quantum sort of state, meaning that until and unless Nate actually returns to the timeline where he originated, nothing is concrete, and even when and if he does, they are set only for that time and return to relative chaos when he is not present. This, understandably, is weird and hard to deal with at times.
