Gabriel Cohuelo
Velocidad
| Fighting |
Incredible |
| Agility |
Good |
| Strength |
Poor |
| Endurance |
Good |
| Reason |
Excellent |
| Intuition |
Good |
| Psyche |
Good |
| Health |
195 |
| Karma |
80 |
| Resources |
Good |
| Popularity |
10 |
Powers
- In spite of his codename, Velocidad does not possess the power of super-speed. Rather, he is a "localized time manipulator." Thus, while he tends to utilize his powers to approximate super-speed, he does not actually move at an accelerated rate. As a result, he cannot accomplish feats - such as running on water - which require actual velocity. Nevertheless, Doctor Nemesis notes that these limitations do not reduce his effectiveness in close combat engagements.
Velocidad's powers appear to accelerate his aging. Both Velocidad and Oya note that he has aged noticeably since his powers first manifested - looking 16 before his powers activated and 18 soon thereafter.
History
Gabriel is a 16-year-old mutant from Mexico City. When his powers manifest, he loses control; his thoughts race and his body begins to move so quickly that he can no longer be seen with the naked eye. Fearing for his safety, Cecilia Reyes and Psylocke restrain him with Cecilia's force field until Hope Summers arrives to stabilize his powers.
After this incident, Gabriel decides to follow Hope on her mission to retrieve the remaining Lights. Eventually, after recruiting Oya and Primal, the group travels to Japan, and Gabriel participates in his first mission - subduing the mutant Kenji Uedo. Kenji lost control of his bio-mechanical powers, and has started destroying Tokyo. In the course of the fight, Gabriel is excited that he is now teammates with X-Men like Wolverine and Cyclops, but worries about the danger he's put himself into.Gabriel is eventually key to taking Zero down, as he rushes Hope close enough to Zero to mimic his powers, while also helping ensure the other Lights are not injured.
After successfully subduing Zero, he follows Hope to Utopia, eventually relocating with the rest of the Lights. Like the rest of the student-aged population, Gabriel takes classes taught by more experienced X-Men. However, like all the other Lights, he is more concerned with training Hope provides than the classes taught by the X-Men, so much so that he followed Hope after she stormed out of an ethics class being taught by Emma Frost.
When a Sixth Light was located in Germany, Gabriel, Hope, and the other Lights went to pick it up. When they arrived, Gabriel went to do a quick recon of the hospital the Light was located in, but he was quickly knocked unconscious. Deducing that the Light was a telepath, Kenji offered to share his limited protection against telepathy with the group, including Gabriel. Inside the hospital, the Lights discovered that the Sixth Light was actually an infant who was scared to be born. They were able to convince it to embrace life, and Hope suppressed it's X-Gene with a touch until it was older.
Later, Hope decided that the Lights needed their own codenames. Gabriel quickly shouts out "Velocidad" (the Spanish word for speed) and claims the name as his own.
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