IC
Name: Mateo Holt
Nicknames: Mat
Position: Stargate Psychic
Age: 16
Birthday: December 10
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 143
Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Green
Marks: Mat has a lot of freckles, especially across his cheeks

Appearance: Mateo has grown up to be, as his mother puts it, a "fine young man". That is, he is clean cut and hasn't seemed to fall prey to the outlandish trends and fads of his peers like tattoos, body piercings, and weird hair styles. He keeps himself well groomed, his hair short with side swept bangs. His mother's genes have left him a little pale with lots of freckles, the kind of complexion you expect to burn in the sunshine. He's kept a balanced body composition, being neither fat or too thin with the type of muscle definition earned from sports and a lot of physical activity. He has very good features with defined cheek bones and a full mouth.

His dress style is a little more kept than most people his age, at least when he goes out, and he had a tendency to favor old fashion trends and wears things like bow ties, driving caps, suspenders, and gloves.

Psychic Ability: Automatic Drawing
Expanded Abilities: Unlike most automatic artists, Mat isn't just able to draw any future. His works concentrate instead of scenes of death, destruction, murders, wars, fights, and other pictures of horror and cruelty.
Limitations: Mat's ability is a recently discovered one lending him little control to what he draws or when. He draws at his best when he's high and has a tendency to sleep-draw in the middle of the night. If the need to draw something is strong enough, he'll even go so sfar as to draw with his own blood.

Personality: Mat was impressed at a very young age with the idea that he is better than everyone else, never so more than now once he's learned exactly who his father is and what he does for a living. As a result he acts very snobby and egotistical towards most people he meets, especially his peers and especially to differently-abled people (homosexuals, cripples, boys who wear make up, girls with weird fashion tastes and people with colored hair). Basically he can find something wrong with absolutely everyone and will go out of his way to make fun of them for it. He has a short temper, especially when people make fun of him ans he often acts out violently towards people before he has a chance to stop and think about the consequences of his actions.

Mat's idol is his father, he grew up hearing stories about him from his mother who raved about how talented, successful, and powerful he was, about how many people looked up to him and all the underlings he had. Mateo quickly became of the opinion that his father could do nothing wrong and would do anything to get away from his mother if it meant he would get to live with him.

For as well put together as he acts, Mat guards his vices and flaws viciously. He has a bit of a drug habit and considers using a necessity and no just because he's an addict. His drug use allows his ability to surface and an ability is a must if he is able to stay at the Project with his father. Sexual cravings, desires, and "girly emotions" are all treated similarly like weaknesses that he struggles to control and keep private. When he gives in, he binges and comes completely unhinged and hedonistic in his pursuits to please himself.

Mat, despite his older brother and two step siblings, despises his family and wishes he were an only child. He doesn't take too well to competition for his father's attention and while he and his brother are strong rivals they can band together when it comes to harassing their step siblings.

Strengths: Mateo claims a higher than average level of intelligence, not exactly genius level (although that's what he'll claim) but enough to get him out of normal classes in school. The specialized nature of his ability could prove to be a considerable strength if he ever found a proper way to harness it. He is also extremely dedicated and willing to do whatever necessary to achieve his goals (success, power, wealth, fame infamy).
Weaknesses: Mat is too rash, this combined with his bad mouth has a tendency to distance him from people (not that he'd want to be friends with them anyway) but can leave him in a very lonely place (many more enemies than friends). When he fails he takes it too seriously and reacts self-destructively. His ability is also completely erratic and thus not very useful and often leads to disappointment.
Likes: drawing, fights, bullying people (especially O), waving around money, using big words, clothes, teasing animals, drinking, fooling around with people he wouldn't dare be seen in public with.
Dislikes: failure, making mistakes, embarrassing himself, being made fun of, his older brother, his step siblings, his step-siblings' mother, soft moments, emotional people.

History: Mateo was born the second child of Renata Holt, a young electrokinetic. Growing up, he had a very unique family dynamic. Their father was rarely around but kept in touch leaving Mat and his brother to grow up under the care of their mother. Unlike most women, Renata kept an emotional distance between herself and her children. She wasn't neglectful just distant. She demanded the best from her children at all times regaling them with stories of their father and refusing to accept failure. Mateo quickly saw his brother as a rival, an enemy, and did his best to undermine him at every available turn. The same attitude passed over to his two step siblings who were born some years later although his dislike for them was much more physical as he felt little personal connection to either of them (at least Keegan had the same lineage as he did).

He did extremely well in school. Too well, in fact, and quickly became bored with the classes which were far too easy and turned to picking on the other children around him. He got into trouble, naturally, and after many parent teacher conferences and a few trips to behavioral therapists, Mateo was placed in a special class where he could receive more one on one attention. It seemed like a good idea at first, at least to Mat who was ready for a challenge to prove himself. The problem arose in the fact that given the small school he was enrolled in, the special class also contained the developmentally disabled and he hated it even more equating his time there as his own personal hell.

As he turned eleven, twelve, thirteen, the age that most young psychics begin displaying some sort of special ability, Mateo was devastated when there seemed to be nothing special about him at all. Contact from his father came less and less and his grades dropped earning the disapproval of his mother. It was then that he slipped into bad behaviors, a stolen drink here or there and then more frequently. He would go out and drink, trade alcohol for cigarettes and get wasted which lead into flirtatious drug use and then to steady drug use all over the course of a few years and kept hidden from his mother and his snoopy brother the best that he could.

While his grades returned to their normal good marks long before drinking became a habit for him (his mother simply would allow him to do poorly in school), he was still massively depressed until finally he realized what he was drawing while under the influence weren't just the normal productions of a moody teenager but the actual future he was ecstatic. His mother was pleased too, a little relieved even and sent him to New Hampshire to be with his father.