Template:Featured Articles/25-2007
 Warren grew up an only child in Manhattan. His grandfather was the founder of Worthington Industries, and as a result Warren's family is extremely wealthy. He was sent to a boarding school as a child, and his mutation emerged while he was a student there. He managed to keep his wings, the physical manifestation of his powers, strapped down but he would not remain grounded -- at one point, his school dormitory caught fire and he was able to rescue several of his classmates, while wearing a wig and sheet. After this he started taking to the skies of NYC, fighting crime in a mask and costume. It was there that Professor Charles Xavier found him, and asked him to join his school as one of the founding students, along with Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Ororo Munroe and Henry McCoy. His parents, still alive and living in New York, think he is adjunting at a boarding school much like the one he had once attended. An only child of privlege, Warren initially had difficulty settling in at the mansion. However his natural charm and wit soon won him friends among his peers, although he never did get on with Logan. Jean's death hit him hard and he became isolated from the younger members of the school, focussing on his classes and on his lover, Piotr Rasputin and Piotr's little sister Illyana Rasputin. When Illyana was kidnapped and later disowned by her brother, Warren stood by Piotr, despite the uproar the disowning caused in the school and Piotr's general unpopularity among the students. When Piotr left for several months to undergo security training, Warren was forced to interact among a wider group, making some unlikely friends such as Amanda Sefton and Paige Guthrie. He also renewed old acquaintances, such as Jake Gavin and Shinobi Shaw. Warren was an active X-Man for all the time he was at the school, however he suffered a crisis of faith after the Skippy incident. His idealism was dinted by the increasingly violent world outside of the mansion. However, the creation of HeliX and the Red X program gave him hope that perhaps not all heroes were naive fools. Upon his graduation from law school and his passing of the bar exam, Warren returned to the school full-time as a teacher. However he was unable to settle, and when Alison Blaire and Haroun al-Rashid left to create the West Coast Annex in April 2006, he and Piotr joined them. Warren's mutation is a pair of natural wings that span almost sixteen feet, from tip to tip. His entire anatomy is structured for ease of flight: hollow bones, minimal body fat, greater proportional strength than most humans, eyes that can withstand high winds and lung membranes that allow him to breathe in extreme velocities and altitudes. |
