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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 2119494" data-attributes="member: 28553">Name: Mason KimAlias: BanjaxAbilities (18 points)STR: 10 (+0)DEX: 14 (+2)CON: 10 (+0)INT: 16 (+3)WIS: 14 (+2)CHA: 14 (+2)Combat (9 points)Damage Save: +0Fortitude Save: +0Reflex Save: +2Will Save: +2Base Defense: +0Initiative: +2Speed: 30Base Attack: +3Melee: +4Ranged: +4Skills (28 points)Computers: +8Craft (electronics): +8Craft (programming): +8Disable Device: +4Knowledge (conspiracy theory): +4Knowledge (local underworld): +4Open Lock: +4Repair: +8Spot: +4Taunt: +4Feats (11 points)Attack FinesseDodgeTalented (Craft (electronics) and Repair)All-Around Sight (flaw: Device)Darkvision (flaw: Device)Radio Broadcast (flaw: Device)Radio Hearing (flaw: Device)See Invisibility (flaw: Device)Powers (54 points)Datalink: +6- flaw: Range (touch)- 6 pointsDrain: +6- flaw: Limited – One Source (super-science)- 6 pointsStun: +4- flaw: Range (touch)- 4 pointsSuper-Intelligence: +6- flaw: Limited (only useful with machines)- 6 pointsForce Field: +4- extra: Force Attacks (Energy Blast (stun))- flaw: Device- 8 pointsGadgets: +6- 6 pointsTeleportation: +6- extra: Blink- flaw: Device- stunt: Extended Teleport- 14 pointsTelescopic Sense: (sight) +4- extra: Extra Sense (hearing)- flaw: Device- 4 pointsBackgroundMason Kim grew up as part of a stable family in a safe, semi-wealthy California suburb.  His family wasn't one of the wealthy ones, but they did well for themselves at the jobs necessary to support the rich folks' lifestyles.  As a child, Mason never wanted for much, except perhaps excitement.His mutation finally manifested itself, at age 15, in a gradual manner.  Over a course of weeks, he began to realize that the electronic and digital devices that surrounded him were full of subtle energy and coded information that he could somehow feel.  At first, he didn't even recognize the phenomenon as mutation-related.  He simply assumed he was just noticing something most people don't, like the tiny, high-pitched whine of a cathode ray tube.  But as he began to understand and interpret the language of electrons, he found he could touch such a screen, close his eyes, and still know exactly what it was displaying.  Eventually, he realized that he was experiencing something unique.He kept this quiet, however.  He had no interest in getting shipped off away from the highschool--where he'd finally started making a few good friends and talking to girls--to go to one of those special schools.  Not over something like this, something he could easily hide, something that could never be dangerous anyway.So he kept his simple power to himself, gradually learning more about it as he felt the pulse and flow and sizzling patterns of the machines in his daily life, and--when he was absolutely certain he was safe from observation--experimented with trying to send data back at them.It was only a year before he found he could use a computer faster and more effectively just by touching the system unit.  And two weeks after that, he learned to skip the hardware altogether, and access the Internet just by touching a public data jack.Mason's unique insight into electrical devices incubated a preternatural understanding of machines.  While still in highschool--and without so much as reading a repair manual--he began tinkering with electronics.  He was successful enough to burn down half his family's garage and almost kill himself through electrocution twice.  He was hooked.After high school, he rode a full scholarship off to college, the big city, and a curriculumn of engineering and computer science.He never quite made it all the way to a degree.He began making good money writing code in between classes--usually in his dorm room, where no one could see that he wasn't using his hands--and started to wonder if he even needed college.  Especially while there were such interesting things to distract him.  The money he made as a freelance programmer almost always went into electronic components, which in turn went into any of a dozen different private projects he'd spend his nights messing about with.He'd never had much interest in the various mutant hero groups that crowded the media, but the very night he managed to get his portable forcefield system working decently was also the first night he hit the streets as Banjax: solo, unlicensed superhuman vigilante.  And while he kept attending classes--however sporadically--for almost a month afterwards, that was also the night that his college career truly died.From there, his life settled into a comfortable routine of high adventure and dangerous science.  By day he'd lie, drowsing, on the couch of his new apartment, curled in a fetal position around a closed laptop, writing code in a whisper of electrons.  By night, he'd run around the city in a multi-lensed helmet and a shimmering blue forcefield, looking for trouble and generally finding quite a bit of it.  Over time, his costume and array of gadgets changed, and he raised his sights ever higher, taking down ever more prominent crime figures.  More than a few people died.  He dabbled in technology verging on science fiction, eventually achieving a reasonably-safe personal teleporter.No one was safe from him.  Not Marlon "Bomb" Welch, the explosively-powered gang leader Mason launched out an 8th-story window--and into traffic--with a force blast.  Not Dane Freggiaro, the regenerating mob enforcer for whom he invented a disintegration chamber.  Not even the Heavy Crew, a mercenary team who found their modified military power armor turned against them by Banjax's special touch.Eventually, he began to look past the endless crime bosses and mutant criminals towards suspicions of corrupt government agencies.  It could be that that's why he was finally arrested.  Mason himself certainly thinks so.Unreported and untrained mutant powers, possession of what any creative DA could term illegal weaponry, unsanctioned vigilanteism (and all the assorted violent crimes that that entails)--Mason Kim was looking at serious prison time.  And so, despite his now-validated distrust of the government, he jumped at the chance to take a stint in the Guardians instead.Powers and EquipmentMason's only real "power" is his ability to electrically communicate with and manipulate electronics by touch.  He can start a car without a key, read or write to magnetic media by handling it, hack a network by grasping a data cable, or severely scramble a suit of power armor with a touch (the technique which prompted him to call himself "Banjax," and archaic word meaning to ruin or destroy).  If pressed, he can channel enough electricty into his touch to shock and stun a human being, but it's not a trick he relies on often.His primary advantage is in his array of home-made gadgetry.  Between his intuitive understanding of machines and his ability to influence them directly, he's managed to make possible a number of feats beyond mainstream contemporary technology.  His main devices are a forcefield-generating suit which can be used to direct burts of concussive force, a face-obscuring helmet that bristles with a variety sensory equipment, and his most profound accomplishment, a suit that enables quick, short-ranged teleportation.At any given time, he generally also has a few completely experimental devices more-or-less assembled and ready to go in his workshop, and available via a more cumbersome, long-ranged teleport system that uses his personal teleporter as an anchor point.Almost everything he builds would be entirely unusable by anyone else.  His mutation makes any sort of normal mechanical interface unnecessary, and in some cases his own brain actually serves as a calibrator and relay for separate components.  His helmet, in fact, lacks any sort of internal display.  Reverse engineering his devices would also prove difficult, due to the haphazard nature of their workings, with gaps here and there that can be filled only by his unique ability.AppearanceWithout his Banjax gear, Mason Kim is a short, moderately attractive young Korean man of average build and nondescript mode of dress.  He keeps his hair cut closely to improve direct head-to-helmet contact.The main element of the Banjax outfit, the forcefield generator, consists of a black jumpsuit covered in a web of straps which support dozens of smooth, palm-sized metal disks--which actually project the field--and a single, back-mounted power supply.  The teleporter is a complicated and multi-segmented cluster of machinery attached to a heavy belt.  Most striking, though, is probably the helmet, which covers Mason's head entirely in black steel, presenting to the world an assymetrical collection of camera lenses, including a number mounted on the back and sides of the apparatus.PersonalityStill vaguely immature at 21, Mason is a slightly amoral thrill-seeker at heart.  While he truly did start his vigilante career with the intention of helping people, the primary reason was always the same as the reason for all his time spend inventing devices no one else could ever use: it was a tremendous amount of fun.His moral code is one that, he feels, functions as elegantly and unquestionably as a mathematical proof.  Inflicting a small hurt--or committing a small crime--in order to prevent a greater one is entirely justified.  Greater hurts are acceptable to prevent even more terrible ones, and the systems scales all the way up to justify the murder of people whom the world is theoretically better off without.  At the same time, however, he abhors the use of unnecessary force.In the recent years before his forced conversion from a criminal vigilante to an enlisted soldier for the North American Alliance, he had become increasingly interested in theories regarding the powers involved in the War, and the rumored injustices and excesses of the Mutant Age governments.  He doesn't specifically believe any particular theory and has no strong political leanings, but he maintains a healthy skepticism regarding the motives of government agencies all the same.</blockquote>

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