Profile: Maggott

Additional Information

• Mutant Digestive System: Maggott’s digestive system has mutated into a pair of giant slugs, which he calls Eany and Meany.

These have identical stats:

Both slugs can chew through just about any material with Monstrous(75) ability. They can bite their opponents for up to Remarkable (30) edged damage, and move at up to 2 areas/round. Their insides have Monstrous resistance to all types of damage (including physical, energy, and toxins), allowing them to consume just about anything (including explosives). The slugs must re-enter Maggott through his stomach area in order to pass on the nutrition they have gained. If this does not happen at least once per day, he will begin to starve to death (lose one endurance rank every day, and must make a Green Endurance FEAT or lose 10 health – neither of which cannot be regained until he has digested food again) Maggott seems to be able to control his slugs through a limited form of telepathy. As this control lessens the longer they go without food, use his Endurance rank instead of Psyche if it is currently the lesser of the two. Without this control, they will eat any inanimate matter they can find. If they can find no inanimate matter to consume, they will eat anything they can chew on (including living beings).

• Ability Boost: When Maggott’s slugs eat, he gains a boost to his Strength and Endurance, providing they are within one area. As a side-effect, his skin turns blue. Strength and Endurance each gain +2CS, boosting Strength to Remarkable(30) and Endurance to Incredible(40). This also increases his health by the same amount as the stat increase (40 points) for the duration of the boost (Health reduces to 50 afterwards unless already below that level) The ability boost lasts for 2 rounds for each material strength rank of the matter consumed by the slugs.

• Aura Reading: Maggott can sense the history of locations and items with Am ability. But only after the slugs eat said items.

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Eany and Meany are inseparable, and will not usually roam too far from their “master”. Their primary goal in life is to eat, and if left to their own devices will search out anything they can to eat. Maggott is constantly worried that Eany and Meany will go too far and try to eat something they shouldn't… or someone. He is very secretive about his origins.

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Maggott left the X-Men on good terms, and trusted Wolverine enough to tell him of his origin. Presumably, he would also be on good terms with Magneto should they meet again.

Born to a family of five siblings, young Japheth never quite grew at the normal rate of his other siblings. He suffered from terrible stomach pains and required a special food. Told by doctors his terrible stomach pains were caused by cancer, and not wanting to drain the family´s finances with medical treatment, young Japheth left his small South African village at twelve to commit suicide. He wound up in the Kalahari Desert only to be found and saved by Magneto, who helped uncover the true cause of the boy´s malady: two slug-like creatures that dwelt within his guts that were the boy's digestive system.

Magneto extracted the slugs, Japheth then was brought back home by Magneto, but found his father had been killed by rebel fighters, the Afrikaners. Asked to help, Magneto slaughtered the rebels in retaliation with Japheth by his side, but the boy was horrified and said he would never join Magneto's cause. Magneto grew angry, but told Japheth he would one day change his mind. Little is known of what Maggott did in the following years, but at some point he decided to search out Magneto, to attempt to have Magneto help him master his powers. Maggott's slugs, Eany and Meany, had to burrow their way in and out of his stomach each time, causing immense pain. They also feasted up to five times daily, and the physical and mental toll was becoming too much for the young man.

Using his psychometric powers - which allowed him to read "memories" of a specific area - Maggott finally believed he traced Magneto's signature down to New York City -- but found Psylocke and Archangel instead. After a brief showdown, they were all suddenly teleported away to Antarctica and put on the jury at the Trial of Gambit with other various X-Men. At this location, Maggott finally met with Joseph who, at the time, was believed to be the real Magneto. He finally was able to express his gratitude to the man for saving his life as a child.

Maggott followed the team back to the mansion where they found Cyclops undergoing surgery to remove a bomb within his chest. When the bomb was removed, however, it was still going to detonate, and the team panicked. One of Maggott's slugs gulped down the device, where it detonated in its belly - but caused no more reaction than a fiery burp. Maggott was asked to join the X-Men on a full-time basis. He was the youngest member in the history of the team, though he revealed this fact to no one. He would often keep to himself, due to his bizarre eating habits, which made the rest of the team suspicious. While flirting with all the girls at Xavier's - Cecilia Reyes in particular - Maggott feared the others would be repulsed by the true nature of his power.

Shortly after his arrival, several humans were murdered (nearly devoured, in fact) in Salem Center. The suspect appeared to be Eany and Meany on a rampage - but, after a botched attempt on Wolverine's life, the culprit was revealed to be a group of Ru'Tai demons lead by a creature called Pilgrimm. They bore an uncanny resemblance to the slugs. The team luckily defeated the demons and Maggott was prompted to finally reveal his history to Wolverine. The two began to bond, with Wolverine keeping his secrets (including his true age), but this bonding time was cut short by a threat from the Shadow King in Africa.

After returning to the mansion, Beast believed it would be best for Maggott to further explore his mutant abilities at the Massachusetts Academy with Generation X. He agreed and transferred to the school, but his schooling was again cut short by another threat. This time it came in the form of a big game hunter in search of Maggott's slugs. The Generation X team helped defend Maggott and the slugs from the hunter, but the man escaped. Feeling distraught after having brought danger to his new teammates, Maggott decided to pursue the hunter, and was not heard from again for some time. Maggott briefly returned to Xavier's school for the funeral of Joseph.

At some point during his further travels, Maggott was captured by Weapon X. Sadly, he was one of the first to be executed at Neverland, the mutant internment camp. Before he was killed, he gave one of his slugs to two children in the camp, so a piece of him would survive. Unfortunately, the children and the slug were "escaped" by "Doctor Windsor" (truly Mister Sinister), and the slug is now being held by the mutant scientist. Maggott was later revived using magic and the techno-organic virus to aid in Selene's assault on Utopia.