Imposter
Kelly was among the group of jumpers and jumper-wannabes that first approached Blaise Andrieux. Awed by how effortlessly the quarter-Takisian could control their minds, they eagerly recruited him into their ranks. Initiated into the jumper gang by Latham, known to the jumpers as "Prime", Blaise quickly became their new leader. Fascinated by his cruel good looks, alien ancestry, and fearless nature, Kelly fell for the young man even harder than she had for David Butler. Hoping she would lose her virginity to Blaise (who idly encouraged such fantasies even as he devised better uses for her), Kelly's life soon took a nightmarish turn. Terrorized into a permanent triple jump by her psychotic "boyfriend," Kelly was left trapped in the body of Blaise's grandfather, Dr. Tachyon, while the alien scientist was forced to inhabit hers. Moments after the jump, Blaise stripped, beat, and raped the now female Tachyon occupying Kelly's body. Not yet able to access his new body's telepathic abilities to stop the grotesque spectacle before him, Kelly was physically restrained and forced to watch.
Cowed by Blaise and succumbing to the alcoholic tendencies of "his" new body, Kelly fell into the role of pawn and imposter. Over the following months he was forced to pretend he was really Tachyon, becoming the front man for the "Jump the Rich" reign of terror and preaching violent wild card revolution at his captor's instigation. Unable to properly control the telepathic powers he had inherited along with Tachyon's male body, Kelly slid deeper into alcoholism and mental instability. Unknown to Kelly at this time, he and Blaise were being stalked by the ace vigilante Black Shadow. Meanwhile, after subsequent rapes and beatings, Tachyon had become impregnated with her own great-granddaughter - much to the amusement of Blaise and those jokers who resented Tachyon as the author of their misery. Kelly was forbidden to visit or even see Tachyon during this time. Somewhere in Tachyon's second trimester, Kelly used his newfound mind control abilities to overpower the guard outside her cell. Lacking precise control, he accidentally killed the unnamed jumper in the process. When Tachyon demanded she be returned to her rightful body Kelly admitted he was never a true jumper and, now, never would be (as Latham had been assassinated in the meantime by Mr. Nobody). Before Tachyon could convince, much less teach, Kelly to use his telepathy to overcome their mutual tormentor the visit was violently cut short. Kicking and beating both Kelly and the pregnant Tachyon, Blaise separated them once and for all.
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