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<div style="color:#585858">'''EARLY LIFE'''</div> | <div style="color:#585858">'''EARLY LIFE'''</div> | ||
<font size=4>O</font>liver Thomas Black was born in London, England, on January 13, 1997. He lived a typical middle-class childhood in the United Kingdom, until his mutation began to reveal itself during puberty. <br>The first signs were easily overlooked and quickly blamed on things like puberty or the flu. Awkward moments of excessive sweating, spontaneous headaches, suddenly feeling real warm or cold. Unfortunately the fever symptoms got a lot worse and the teen was eventually hospitalized when his declining body temperature started to reach critical levels. | <font size=4>O</font>liver Thomas Black was born in London, England, on January 13, 1997. He lived a typical middle-class childhood in the United Kingdom, until his mutation began to reveal itself during puberty. <br>The first signs were easily overlooked and quickly blamed on things like puberty or the flu. Awkward moments of excessive sweating, spontaneous headaches, suddenly feeling real warm or cold. Unfortunately the fever symptoms got a lot worse and the teen was eventually hospitalized when his declining body temperature started to reach critical levels. | ||
− | <br>Of course things only got | + | <br>Of course things only got stranger. Despite the abnormally low body temperature, Oliver's organs continued to function effectively. And a layer of frost and crystalized ice began to form on his skin, leaving the boy with a frost-shrouded appearance that immediately gives away his mutant nature. By downing a concoction of chemicals Oliver is still able to return to looking like his old self again, suppressing the outward mutation by lowering his core temperature and basically tricking his body, but the serum only lasts for a while and actively using his powers negates the effects. |
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− | At the age of 16 Black filed for emancipation and moved to the United States, where he | + | At the age of 16 Black filed for emancipation and moved to the United States, where he concluded his history of changing schools after ending up at Westside High in Millennium City, Michigan. Oliver initially started fighting crime to gain a handle on his nascent abilities and simply to unwind. Using his mutant powers to help others became his way of coming to grips with his new reality. <br>Although he has walked the fine line between heroism and vigilantism in the past, Black Ice is on really good terms with the Millennium City Police Department. Having lend his aid in the solving of numerous cases of street crime and various investigations into underworld activity. Before finishing his senior year Black had already decided he would pursue a career in crime fighting. |
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