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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 1754970" data-attributes="member: 11437">Flashpoint - Marcus WillsMarcus Wills had always been interested in tinkering with things.  As a boy, he learned how internal combustion engines worked, and was regularly fixing peoples' cars by the age of 12.  Even though his parents and family knew that Marcus was a genius with mechanical things, they could not afford to send him to a university to take up engineering or something similar.  Instead, Marcus apprenticed to an auto mechanic and joined the shop right after graduation from high school.Following a particularly damaging superhero battle in Southside, the auto shop was irreparably damaged and had to shut down.  Jobless and needing to feed a growing family, Wills was lucky enough to land a very nice job at Astro Labs, working in the motor pool as a mechanic.  In fact, this job was so nice that Marcus was able to move his family out of the ghetto and into a middle class neighborhood near the riverside.While working in the motor pool one day, Marcus discovered that someone had left what looked to be an important package in the back of one of the trucks.  Investigating, Wills accidentally opened the package and found a strange strobe light device.  Curious, Marcus tinkered around with it until the next day, when he planned to turn it in to his superiors.  Unfortunately, Marcus tinkered with it a bit too much, and he was showered with millions of photonic particles, blinding him.Wills' superiors covered for him, explaining that the component had been damaged during transport.  Marcus was laid up in hospital for six months, until one day he suddenly regained his sight.  Along with the return of his sight, Marcus also learned he could control light waves.Unsure what to do with this new ability, and with a huge injury settlement keeping his family well taken care of, Marcus decided to try his hand at using his newfound powers to stop crime in his old neighborhood.  Marcus had a terrible time controlling his powers, however, and he soon turned to The Shield, who had once saved his father from certain death.The Shield took Marcus in, and has begun training him not only to better use his powers, but also in rounding out his abilities, and supplementing his photonic powers with some important superhero survival skills.Flashpoint: 150pp; PL 10; Init +1 (Dex); Defense 15 (14 flat-footed); Spd 30ft Run, 50ft Fly; Atk +6 melee (+1s, Punch), +7 ranged (+10s, Laser); SV Dmg +1, Fort +1, Ref +1, Will +0; Str 13, Dex 12, Con 13, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 10.  Hero Points: 5.Skills: Craft - Mechanical +6, Disable Device +6, Drive +5, Knowledge - Freedom City +4, Profession - Mechanic +4, Repair +10.Feats: Attack Focus - Light Powers, Darkvision, Expertise, Immunity - Light, Point Blank Shot, Power Attack, Power Immunity, Rapid Shot, See Invisibility.Powers: Energy Control - Light +10 [Includes Dazzle - Sight [EX: Area, Selective]; Extras: Absorb Light-Based Attacks (Goes to Healing), Flight, Force Field; Power Stunts: Disintegrate, Energy Blast (Light); Source: Mutation; Cost: 7pp/rank; Total: 74pp] and Luck +2 [Source: Mutation; Cost: 5pp/rank; Total: 10pp].</blockquote>

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