When Charlie was two his mother and father died in a car accident and Charlie went to live with his uncle on his uncle's farm. His uncle was a mean spirited old man and hated having to provide for his younger brothers off spring especially one so young. Being on a remote farm the social workers tended not to visit regularly and the old man took to locking Charlie in his room for days at a time to keep him from under his feet. This practice became more and more regular as the boy started to grow until his uncle only unlocked the door to feed him and this soon only happened once a day. 

Charlie's room was cold and damp. There was one bare light and a switch in the hall, which his uncle would put on while Charlie ate in the evenings so most of the nights were spent in darkness, controlled this. There was a broken metal bed frame with a worn out old mattress on it, two blankets and a pillow. Next to the bed was a small table, which Charlie used for eating at. There was a dirty old window opposite his bed through which he sometimes watched his uncle working the fields. There were two doors into his room one to the hall the other to a small bathroom in here was a cracked sink, his only constant supply of water, a bath which only produced cold water and a mirror.

With no one to talk to Charlie soon retreated into his own mind. Making a world for himself where he could see other children the dirty mirror in the bathroom. Here he would spend hours every day just looking into the mirror wishing he could be there with them. By the age of seven he was talking to these imaginary friends and they would teach him to read and write. Although for most part he was lonely Charlie was always happy to visit one of his playmates.

Around the age of nine Charlie discovered something truly amazing about the mirror in his bathroom, if he concentrated he could push his hand through it as if it was water, and if he wished hard enough he could exit into the bathrooms of his imaginary friend's houses and actually play with them. With practice this ability became second nature to him, all he'd have to do is think of one of his friends and step through and he was there.

By the age of thirteen Charlie had many hundreds of friends from all round the world. Other things started to happen around this time as well instead of having to think about his friends he could step through the mirror and exit into another room, he called this place mirror land as there were millions of mirrors stretching into infinity all round him. By looking into these mirrors he could see other rooms, streets houses, buildings, it suddenly started to dawn on him that these other places were as real as his own room that his mirror land was his connection to the outside world.

One evening after his uncle had passed through to him his left over evening meal Charlie went into the mirror land. He browses for a few hours until he came upon a little girl crying. She was about six years old and was hiding down between the bathtub and the sink. She was looking way from the mirror towards the bathroom door. Following her gaze Charlie saw a large man standing there shirt open to the waste belt in hand and he was shouting something at the girl. He steps to wards her and raises the belt. Charlie knew what was going to happen next having received a good hiding from his uncle on many an occasion. Not being able to bear seeing the young girl beaten or even worse Charlie surged through the mirror.

It took the brute a few seconds for his brain to tell him that yes the mirror had come alive and standing in front of him was a vaguely human shaped thirteen year old boy made out of glass. Charlie took advantage of the mans delay and went to grab his belt hand only to be stunned when out of his fingers shot a bolt of intense white light, as the brightness dimmed Charlie found himself standing over an unconscious body. Not wanting to be around when the brute woke up and not wanting to leave the girl in danger he did the only thing he could think of, he picked the sobbing girl up of the floor and leaped back into the mirror.

Back in mirror land he was able to calm down both himself and his guest. Sitting there with his arms round the little girl for comfort he soon realised she had fallen asleep. This allowed him to get his thoughts into focus and decide what to do. He couldn't bring her to his room, his uncle would go spare. Suddenly Charlie hit on an idea. Waking the girl he asked if she had a relative she could stay with, she said her grandmother loved her but lived a long way away and since her mother had died her dad had stopped her visiting. He then asked her if her gran had a mirror, yes she had a beautiful table mirror in her bedroom that the little girl used to sit at while she had her hair brushed before bed. Charlie got her to describe it in as much detail as she could. Once he had a picture in his head he went into mirror land searching for it.

It took him three days to locate two mirrors that might have been her gran's. Over these three days Charlie would revisit his room just before tea and wait until his uncle had left the food. He would then take it and re enter mirror land and share it with Jennie. On the third night Charlie and Jennie sat in front of the first mirror waiting for the inhabitant of the room to enter, much to the little girls disappointment the lady that entered was not her gran. Soon they were standing in front of the last mirror. Looking at them brushing her hair was an elderly lady getting ready for bed. Jennie jumped for joy it was her gran. She wanted to go to her there and then but Charlie held her back. It would be a shock for her if they were to just appear out of the mirror it would be better to do it when she was asleep.

A couple of hours later granny was asleep and holding Jennie's hand Charlie stepped through the mirror and into the bedroom. Quietly he indicated to Jennie to go over to the bed and gently wake the old lady. Stirring from her sleep the old girl was more than a little surprised to see her granddaughter sitting next to her. She explained what had happened and introduced her to Charlie. There was at first a look of fear on the old woman's face until Charlie realised he had taken on the appearance of glass again. With concentration Charlie reverted back to his normal appearance. He explained that Jennie's dad had been abusing her and that he had stopped it. It was now down to the old girl to protect her granddaughter but if every they needed his help to leave a message written on the mirror and he would come running. With that Charlie stepped back through the mirror and home.

Knowing now that he could make a difference to people's lives he decided that he would use his abilities to protect the helpless whenever he could. The only person he couldn't seem to protect was himself. Over the next five years he stayed locked in his room, his uncle would beat him more and more and he would do nothing about it, for some reason deep down inside every time he saw his uncle he reverted to that little boy that was first locked up in that bedroom all those years ago.

By the age of eighteen Charlie had help dozens of children to escape abusive environments and had learned to control his powers. One night just after coming back from rescuing a kidnapped child he realised his uncle had not left any food out. Going into mirror land he looked through all the mirrors in the house to see where is uncle was. Finally he located him lying still on the floor of his bathroom in front of the toilet with his trousers round his ankles. Stepping through the mirror Charlie was hit by the strong smell of human waste, upon examining his uncle he realised he must have been dead all day. By the look of it he must have had a haemorrhage while on the toilet and died soon after. Finally Charlie was free, his tormentor was dead, but also Charlie cried for the old bastard now he was really all alone in the world.

That night Charlie put together a story that he had been away at collage and returned this evening to find his dear old uncle dead and that he had called the police straight away. After the police had left with the body Charlie went into mirror land and contacted Mark, a teenager that he had saved a couple of years earlier. Together they broke into one of the collages and Mark using his skills with computers doctored their records to say that Charlie had been enrolled there for the last two years.As he was his uncle's only next of kin Charlie inherited the farm and the land around it. Most of which he sold of for a good profit. Now he has renovated the farmhouse he lives there quietly. His neighbours say he is gentle and kind and willing to help them out when ever asked. Once behind closed doors Charlie becomes The Mirror Man protector of the innocent and abused. His house is a refuge for lost souls.

Not long after his uncle died he found the key to his room. Stepping into mirror land he closed his eyes spun round three times and with his eyes still closed through the key away. It arced through the air and disappeared through one of the million mirrors around him, lost forever. His room is forever locked now but when he is down or needs time to think he enters it through his bathroom mirror sits on his broken old metal bed and in some small way feel safe and secure.

Powers
Mirror Man can enter another dimension that he has created from all his pain of childhood. This dimension allows him to view the world through any mirror he looks through in mirror land. Stepping through one of the mirror land mirrors gives him access to room where the mirror resides in the real world. Doing this quickly while in the real world makes it look like he is teleporting.This power also works similarly for glass, in that he can walk through one piece of glass and appear through another although he cannot stay in mirror land while passing through glass.

For some reason mirror land expels him quickly, as if he is attached to the real world by a piece of elastic thus his teleportation through glass is only for short distances and line of sight only. He can only enter mirror world through mirrors. But using mirrors he can move to any place in the world given the time. If Charlie has looked through a mirror before he can locate that mirror quickly and either exit through it or with a small mirror to look through see what is happening in front of the other mirror.

Another of Charlie's extraordinary powers it the ability to take on the properties of the mirror. As Glass is a semi liquid in mirror form Charlie can stretch his body in all directions , and his mirror form is more resilient to damage. In addition to these powers his mirror form allows him to deflect energy attacks that he can see, reflect light, defuse light , store light and expel it as concentrated beams from his hands and probably the most unusual power is his ability to call forth his reflections from surrounding glass and mirrors to form duplicates of himself although they tend to be less powerful than Charlie.

Rules
85 points into stats, 20 points into skills and 20 into Base Will. That leaves 125 points for miracles. Let's see what we can do.

Gourmet miracle: Enter Mirrorland 2d+1wd
(DRU; cost 4/8/16; Extra: Glass Blink, +1/2/4; total cost 30 pts.)

Description: With a successful roll he enters a mirror and disappears from the real world into Mirrorland. While in Mirrorland he can see back through the mirror into the real world, but can't affect the real world unless he leaves Mirrorland. While in Mirrorland he can see back through and return through any real-world mirror in the world that's within range of his power, not just the one he used to disappear. The power works on glass but with more limited effect, allowing him to "teleport" from glass to glass, in line of sight only, without remaining in Mirrorland.

"If Charlie has looked through a mirror before he can . . . with a small mirror look through see what is happening in front of the other mirror"

Gourmet Miracle: Mirror View 4d
(R, U; cost 3/6/12; total cost 12 pts.)

"Another of Charlie's extraordinary powers it the ability to take on the properties of the mirror. As Glass is a semi liquid in mirror form. Charlie can stretch his body in all directions , and his mirror form is more resilient to damage."

Elasticity 4d+1wd
(D, R, U; 4/8/16; Extra: Reflexive, +3/6/12; Flaw: Reducer 4, -8 pts; total cost 48 pts.)
(For the toughness, use Elasticity's reflexive Defends quality to gobble attack dice.)

"In addition to these powers his mirror form allows him to deflect energy attacks that he can see, reflect light, defuse light , store light and expel it as concentrated beams from his hands."

Control Light 4d
(A, D, R, U; cost 5/10/20; total cost 20 pts.)

"probably the most unusual power is his ability to call forth his reflections from surrounding glass and mirrors to form duplicates of himself although they tend to be less powerful than Charlie."

This one you really can't fit in a 250-point character. Up to this point we have 15 pts left. If you're capped at 250, ditch the duplicates and use the extra 15 points on a bonus die here and there.

For each possible duplicate, take Sidekick with a batch of miracles Attached to it duplicating Charlie's other powers but with fewer dice.

Sidekick 4d
(A, D, R, U; 20 pts)
Sidekick powers:
-Elasticity 4d (D, R, U; Extra: Reflexive, +3/6/12; Flaws: Attached to Sidekick, -1/2/4; Reducer 3, -6 pts; total cost 18 pts)
-Control Light 4d (A, D, R, U; Flaw: Attached to Sidekick, -1/2/4; total cost 16 pts)

Total Sidekick cost with attached powers: 54 points per simultaneous duplicate.