Lightspeed [Christopher Jones]
Public Identity
PL 8 (132 pp)
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 148 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Neatly cropped brown
Skin: Fairly pale
Nationality: American
Current Residence:
Current Work: Military Scientist
Attributes: [Cost 28 pts.]
STR: 12 +1
DEX: 18 +4
CON: 12 +1
INT: 20 +5
WIS: 12 +1
CHA: 14 +2
Defense: 26/13 ff/14 ment [10 + 4 Dex + 8 Power (Super-Speed) + 1 Dodge (Feat) + 3 Purchased] [cost 6 pts.]
Initiative: +4 [+4 Dex]
BAB: +3 [cost 9 pts.]
Melee: +7
Ranged: +7
Speed: Move 70 ft/Sprint 71,680 ft (7,168 mph)
Damage: +12 [+4 Dex +8 Power (Super-Speed)]
Fort: +1 [+1 Con]
Reflex: +14 [+4 Dex +8 Power (Super-Speed) +2 Feat]
Will: +1 [+1 Wis]
Hero Points: 4
Skills (27 pp)
Acrobatics +8 (4 ranks, 4 dex)
Balance +8 (4 ranks, 4 dex)
Computers +8 (3 ranks, 5 int)
Diplomacy +7/+10 (5 ranks, 2 cha, [3 attractive])
Drive +6 (2 ranks, 4 dex)
Language (4 ranks; French, German, Italian, Spanish)
Science [Biology] +15 (10 ranks, 5 int)
Science [Chemistry] +11 (6 ranks, 5 int)
Science [Genetics] +15 (10 ranks, 5 int)
Science [Physics] +11 (6 ranks, 5 int)
Feats (16 pp)
Attack Finesse
Attractive
Dodge
Evasion
Lightning Reflexes
Move-By Attack
Photographic Memory
Wealth
Superpowers:
Super-Speed +8 (Power Stunts: Dual Damage, Wall Run, Water Run; Extras: Mach One Punch; Flaws: Limited [Doesn't apply to Initiative], Obvious [Emits bright but harmless radiation in non-visible spectrum of light, 5 second light trail when using super-speed]; Source: Mutation; Cost 5pp/rank +6pp stunts; 46pp)
Weakness (-12pp): Power Source [Light]: This weakness is twofold: 1) Lightspeed is Vulnerable to Darkness attacks. 2) In a totally lightless environment, Lightspeed loses all his super-powers. They do not return until he has been exposed to sufficient ambient light (I‘m thinking well-lit room, a floodlight, that sort of thing), at which point they return at full power rank immediately. I’ve basically taken the two together as being worth 12pp. Technically Vulnerability is worth 10, but Darkness is a bit of a shaky one, so I wouldn’t say it was worth the full 10..and the power loss thing is very situational. If you don’t think it’s worth 12pp together, let me know and I’ll tweak him some more.
Abilities [28]
BAB [9]
BDB [6]
Skills [27]
Feats [16]
Powers [46]
Weaknesses [-12]
Total [120]
Christopher Jones has always been a little abnormal. Even before he gained super-powers, he was always a little different. Born in New York to a well-off middle class family (Alan and Mary Jones), Christopher went to the best school in the area. There, the teachers discovered something. To put it bluntly, Christopher was a genius. His incredible natural intelligence was readily apparent, and he moved up several classes in the space of a few months. Nothing challenged him, and as a result he became lazy, slacking off and having fun, his cleverness and near photographic memory carrying him through school with near-perfect grades in exchange for little or no effort. Only one aspect of learning could hold Chris’s interest; science. He devoured scientific textbooks avidly, committing formulae to memory, reading both deeply and widely. Christopher went to university early, easily gaining entrance to Harvard, completed a degree in Biology in half the usual time, and then went back to do another one, focusing on Genetics. Christopher also has degree-level knowledge of Chemistry and Physics, though no formal qualifications in them. Yet although he did phenomenally in his courses, and although Science fascinated him, Christopher still felt incomplete somehow. It was all too easy; he was able to study, party, take self-defense classes and take up gymnastics, and yet it still felt like he wasn’t really challenging himself. He felt like he was waiting for the other shoe to fall.
Christopher finished his second degree, and was immediately snatched up by a company to help develop their genetically modified food products. The pay was excellent, the hours easy..and yet Christopher still felt an itch at the back of his head, telling him it wasn‘t enough. He continued his efforts to fill his hours, working overtime and having an active social life. It looked like Christopher’s life was going brilliantly; he was rich, had job security and still managed to have a social life, but he still found himself at a loss sometimes, feeling a little detached from the life he was living. It was all too..easy. Then, things got a little more interesting. Christopher was working late in the lab, wanting to finish off some important work. He began inputing his findings into his computer..and suddenly began typing faster than seemed humanly possible. Christopher stopped, not quite believing what had just happened, and decided he must be suffering from lack of sleep. He got up and headed for the door..only to smash into it as he covered the intervening space in less than a second. Shaken, Christopher staggered to his feet. Experimentally, he moved to a corner of the room, and found himself halfway up the wall! Crashing to the floor again as he stopped moving, Christopher once again levered himself to his feet. He stayed very late that night, taking samples of his blood and examining them with the lab’s facilities. Christopher took sick leave over the next several days, taking time to adapt to his abilities and learn at least a rudimentary control over them. He found that it was mostly instinctive, and as long as he didn’t panic, remarkably easy. Finally, Christopher had found something his intelligence hadn’t prepared him for, and he revelled in it; though the irony of his situation has not escaped him. He, the man who always felt he had too much free time, can now complete tasks in the blink of an eye, leaving him even more free time. Chris was convinced that this was some kind of sign; finally,
finally, he could really make a difference. It felt that his life finally had a real purpose. Chris didn't need any encouragement to contact the government and try and get som use out of his abilities.
Family: Alan Jones, father, age 54. Worked as a civil servant, now retired. Resident in the USA.
Mary Jones, mother, age 55. Worked as a secretary, now likewise retired. Resident in the USA.
Powers: Christopher can move at an extremely accelerated rate with no real effort. He can run up sheer walls and over water without falling or sinking while so running. However, Chris’s powers have one major limitation: they require ambient light to function, though they can function on even tiny amounts of such light. Chris hypothesises that his body in some way coverts the light into a power source, enabling his superhuman feats of speed. If in a place with no light, such as a pitch-black windowless room, a bunker without electricity, a sewer, or suchlike, Christopher’s powers do not function.
Personality: Christopher is cheerful, easygoing, sociable, charming, and sharp enough to cut himself. He's very much a ladies man, something any moderately attractive female members of the team will quickly become aware of. He tries not to take life too seriously, though if confronted with the more sickening aspects of life he sobers up fast...and acts faster. Only the foolish would confuse his joking attitude with flippancy or idiocy. Christopher isn't an irresponsible man, but he does have what might be termed a healthy respect for his own abilities if you were being charitable, or a somewhat inflated ego if you were being nasty. He's not obnoxious; it's just that having been without real challenges most of his life, he's convinced he can deal with almost anything. Besides this minor character flaw, Christopher is a very nice man. He likes to say that the only thing that moves faster than his legs is his brain - and he may be right.
I'm from the UK, so the more hand-waving aspects of his past are due to me not knowing America and the American education system very well.
Christopher's my attempt at a speedster who doesn't have Dex as their highest stat, and has abilities other than just being fast. Hopefully he works...
Hero Point Usage (unless otherwise specified)
Damage: Re-roll below a 10
Fortitude: Case by case, assumed no
Reflex: Re-roll below an 8
Will: Re-roll below a 14
Special case: Vs Darkness attacks (If Chris knows it's a darkness attack that is, say he's getting zapped with Captain Darkness's fabled Energy Blast), re-roll below a 15, regardless of the save type.
Initiative: No hero point usage
Skill checks: Case by case, assumed no
Attack rolls: Case by case, assumed no
Notes
-Completes 'routine tasks' at 256 times the speed of a normal man.
