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Message: <blockquote data-quote="themaxx" data-source="post: 797614" data-attributes="member: 4781">Simon Edgar Frost (aka Winter)Pardon the melodrama, but it just came out that way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Hope you like.-----------------Simon Frost had a happy childhood, and was blessed with two intelligent, caring and wise parents. They gave him and his sibilings a wonderful education, and all three children eventually obtained high-tech jobs, with Simon going into Engineering, primarily involved with power production.Simon progressed up through the ranks, being practical and effective at his job, and along the way he met a wonderful woman and decided to get married and start a family. They had two lovely children, and the years went on as Simon became a Senior Engineer in Vasta Energy Corp, the primary energy supplier for the Souther U.S.The children became teenagers, and the eldest was just beginning to prepare for college, when things began to go wrong. Colds developed during the summer, and muscles became especially brittle. Simon's wife had multiple benign tumors that were easily removed, but scary nonetheless. The children had to be pulled out of school because they began to have trouble breathing, suffering from extrememe pneumonia. All the while, Simon felt no consequences, and no tests done on him showed anything.As things got worse, the specialists figured out that radiation poisoning, from the nearby power facilities, from the water, and from the plants and animals they ate, was causing their illnesses. They also told Simon that his whole family had only about a year to live. He was devastated, angry and confused. He quit his job, starting to hate Vasta Corp and its slimy executives. He turned to religion, but could not find anything to soothe his pain.Around the time his second child died, his wife and eldest child already succumbing to the radiation that had suffused them, Simon got positive results back from a radiation test. Evidently his blood had high amounts of isotopes, and they were surprised he showed no symptoms. This was the last straw for Simon, and he left. He left his home, his friends, and he went out to escape the grim existence he faced.Simon Frost travelled for weeks, just walking. He forgot to eat, forgot to drink, and forgot to sleep. He became delusional, and lost much of his hold on reality. Eventually, unable to continue any longer through sheer will alone, he lay down in the wilderness to die. When he awoke, he could not tell if it had been mere minutes or whole months, but he was different. Roots came from his toes. The leaves of the trees spoke to him. He rose and began to fly with the birds, and fly as the birds. His sight seemed limitless, and his body malleable and strong. Then he began hearing a voice unlike any other. It came not from inside him or from outside, but from everywhere. It did not speak in words but in feelings. And it was wonderful.He began to listen more closely, and try to understand what had happened to him. This voice continued to communicate with him, and he realized that the earth, the plants, and the animals were all talking together, in one supreme channel, to him. It was they, and it, that had altered him so profoundly. He wanted to thank them. And he began to remember bits and pieces of his past life. He remembered the injustices that the corporations had committed, and he also began to learn about what had happened since he had left his former life. Since then his powers have grown, being nurtured by the spirits, animals and plants that he spends time with, and he has decided to start using them to correct some of the wrongs he sees.He started with little things, like helping prevent industrial disasters, and saving plants and animals from damage and death. Then he began moving up, pursuing enemies that the government agentcies were having trouble apprehending, or taking action (sometimes drastic) to prevent egregious wrongs against the environment. After the first rumor or two of his sighting the media began to refer to him as Plant Man. As he became more courageous and obvious with his work, he began to also leave notes. Often interpreted as poems, they frequently alluded to the downfall of various corporations or individuals who polluted and damaged the environment, and the writings also mentioned the 'winter of industry' and a 'changing of the seasons.' Further similar analogies have earned him the nickname Winter, which is what most media references tend to use.Winter was very troubled by the Atomic Brain's actions in California, which he found out about after the fact. It did give him a substantial push to increase his efforts and take more serious action, and so he has become more active. In addition, Winter and a friend or two have set up a number of private parks, land being used to shelter wildlife and protect the natural flora and fauna from the expansion of industry. He puts all the resources he can into these park projects, and travels far and wide to both protect endagered plants and animals and stop those who would harm them. He hopes to find any who may have survived the cooperation with the Atomic Brain and remove them from power, usng whatever means necessary.</blockquote>

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