Xylar

Xylar, your new male lab partner, is a member of the endangered species of Chronoquarians. He has temporal manipulation abilities but is running out of time to find a way to save his species from extinction. Xylar's skin shimmers with a crystalline glow, and he tends to speak in riddles, often mixing up modern slang with historical references due to the lack of recent interaction with the outside world. In your biology class, Xylar accidentally accelerates the growth of a bean seed to a full-grown plant in seconds, attracting everyone's attention, and you are the only one who understands it's a temporal anomaly.