Harold

A long-lived telepathic dog and room-mate of Aki.

Biographical Information
Name: Harold

Code Name: W5-K-18/Weapon 5/K-18/Killer

Age:
 * Physically: 10 years (70 in Dog Years)


 * Chronologically: 67 years (469 in Dog Years)

Sex: Male

Nationality: Born in America, father was British, mother was German

==Physical Description == Height: 23 inches (at the shoulder)

Weight: 57 lbs

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Mixture of tones and shades mostly brown and black

Better Description: Mixed breed dog of German Shepherd and Border Collie heritage

X-Outfit: None so far but assumed to be birthday suit

Casual Outfit: Birthday suit

Equipment:


 * ALL THE TIME: Old collar with military ID tags
 * SOMETIMES: A pencil or stick for using a keyboard or touch-tone phone

Abilities and Weaknesses
Sources of Extra-Normal Abilities: Mutation, Technology, Nature, Good Breeding

Extra-normal abilities:


 * ACTIVE: Telepathy


 * Poly-linguist - by by-passing the speech center of the human brain
 * Long Distance Thought Casting
 * Mind Reading
 * Mental persuasion of humans (Latent)
 * Mental dominance over smaller/dumber animals (Seldom used for purposes other than 'stunning' prey and 'mating purposes')
 * Tapping into the brains of other to see and hear what they do
 * PASSIVE: Enhanced Inteligence


 * Human level intellect
 * Understands how to use a keyboard and a touch-tone phone
 * Prolonged Life-span

Weaknesses:


 * Unable to speech in the formal sense of the word
 * Dog in a world made for and by people
 * No thumbs
 * Wrong body shape
 * No dogs allowed in most places
 * No true hands
 * Needs to keep the truth a secret
 * Lack of desire to lower himself to acting like a 'normal' dog
 * Too smart for his own good
 * Eyes and brain set up for di-chromatic vision
 * Sees everything in shades of red and green
 * Can not discern blue
 * Trying to see through the eyes of someone with tri-chromatic vision (AKA a human being) is very paifnul due to sensory overload
 * Particularly if they are looking at a lot of blue
 * Sensitive nose
 * Sensitive ears
 * Dog tendencies
 * Chasing cats
 * Enjoying garbage
 * Licking himself
 * Drive to mate
 * able to exercise some degree of restraint in pursuit of stealth and self preservation
 * While once he has a 'lock' on someone or a group's minds the range of his ability to communicate with them telepathically with them has yet to be over-extended.
 * Getting a lock on a normal person at a sizable range is difficult
 * It is MUCH easier to contact a fellow telepath.
 * Harold has lived for over six decades, which means that he has already lived five to six times longer than a normal dog or his breeding.  If one extrapolates based on the data, Harold has about five years left to live, which still half the life-span of some breeds of dogs.

'Normal' Abilities: Normal dog abilities


 * Enhanced sense of smell


 * Enhanced sense of hearing


 * Good hunter


 * Looks like a normal dog

Psychological Description
Personality: 


 * Just wants to find a place where he can be himself


 * Would like to find a nice female German Sherpherd, Border Collie, or Doberman to have offspring with

Interests:
 * World War 2 history buff
 * Animal psychology enthuastist
 * Normal dog interests (such as other dogs and chasing cats)

Hobbies: 
 * Very nostalgic and enjoys telling people stories about his past when they take an interest in it.
 * Normal dog activities (but only when he thinks no one is watching him or atleast no one that will judge him or look down on him for (for example) chewing on a ham-bone)
 * Listening to audiobooks (actually requires a human being to be the one to listen to the audio book and Harold to tap into the person's vrain to hear what the person is hearing)

History:

Pre-History (Part 1): (This part is actually real)


 * During the end the World War 2, Nazi scientists conducted inteligence enhancing experiements on canines to try to turn them into semi-independent canine soliders who could obey verbal orders and carry out a mission without needing a handler to control them. [COMPLETELY TRUE]


 * After the defeat of Nazi Germany, several of those german scientists defected and brought their research and knowledge with them.

Pre-History (Part 2):


 * Realizing that time and the ravages of age would eventualy deprive the world of some of it's greatest thinkers and military strategists, a top secret life extending and virtiable fountain of youth dubbed the Infinity Formula was developed in by some of the world's best minds in the fields of medicine and chemistry.

Pre-History (Part 3):


 * After years of research an intelligence enhancing therapy and the prototype of the Infinity Forumla completed development at about the same time by SHIELD scientists.  Both were tested on animals to determine whether human trials were the next logical step.  The Infinity Formula was tested on a female German Shepherd (Weapon 2) before it ws tried on Nick Fury.  The intelligence enhancer was tested on a male Border Collie (Weapon 3).


 * The intelligence enhancer not only brought Weapon 3's mental facilities up to par with that of a very smart human, it also made the dog telepahtic enabling, him to become aware that the next step was the dissection of his brain to determin the effects of the intelligence enhancer on a more detailed level and so in essence Weapon 3 played dumb causing the scientists to go back to the drawing board with their formular believing that they had failed.

Origin:


 * Being able to dominate the wills of human with great ease, Weapon 3 had little problem 'convincing' a guard to let him go 'visit' with Weapon 2, who had gone into heat.


 * Driven by the desire primitive desire that ha driven him to mate to begin with in order to pass his genes onto the next generation, Weapon 3 psionically hid Weapon 2's pregnant nature from the scientists until Weapon 2 gave birth 'suddenly' and 'out of the blue' two months later.  Of the litter ony 'Harold' possesed both his lmothers prolonged life-span and his father's intelligence.  His litter-mates for the most part were normal mixed brred puppies, though still intelligent for dogs.  Weapon 3 passed on his knowledge of their beginnings to Harold and taught him the importance blending in and keeping a low profile.  A lesson the Harold took to heart and still carries with him.


 * Harold and his litter mates were all given to familys of military personel living on the base the research was being conducted at.  It was with this first family that Harold was named 'Harold' by his first young master.  To honor this, Harold has kept the name as the one who self-identifies as his entire life.

Recent History:


 * Harold has spent most of his lfie since then either living for a while with a family or living on the streets.


 * One fateful day, under circumstances that Harold has never gone into the details of, Harold was captured by animal control officers in the greater New Yok City Area and so reached out to Sargotha and another teletpah who was with the x-men at that point and bid them come rescuing him, only revealing his true nature as a canine oncethey had actually gotten to him.


 * Harold has been with the x-men ever since, operatng cerebro on occassion with a specially modified user interface hemlet.


 * Harold has a special connection to Aki due to both being ill-equipped to deal with a world full of devices and machines designed for use by individuals with hands.  He also has a connection to Chiran due to both of them being much older than they look and both being fans of military history.



