17: Namor McKenzie (Jack Cooper)

Jack had done a lot of swimming during his rehabilitation, it was great therapy and one of the few bits of it he enjoyed.
“You might want to be careful who you embrace your mutancy in front of. It’s okay here but it’ll get you lynched in most places.”
Jack wasn’t a mutant but he hated bigotry in all its forms and that included anti-mutant sentiments.
“Pushing yourself is something I can relate to, the doctors told me I would never drive again, and I race still. Pretty damned good at it too. If you grow soft here that will be down to you Namor. Physical activity is a part of good health and it is encouraged.”
He was certainly an impressive figure Jack decided, far too noticeable for field work but then not everyone was temprementally or physically suited to that task.
Jack decided a lake swim would be better than a pool today, he took them to one of the jetties that sprouted sporadically from the shore of the island.
“I don’t need prosthetics to swim.” He sat down and suddenly his blades were laying on the deck with his sweaty running shirt. For a guy with missing bits of his legs he could move very quickly, he executed a near perfect dive into the water of Breakstone Lake.