Samuel Wilson Jr. a.k.a. Falcon
Abilities
- Strength: 18
- Dexterity: 18
- Constitution: 16
- Intelligence: 10
- Wisdom: 18
- Charisma 12
- 32 PP -
Combat
- Initiative: +28 [+4 Dex +24 Improved Initiative (Super-Speed)]
- Defense: 23 [10 +3 Base +4 Dodge Focus +6 Dodge Focus(Super-Speed)]
- Toughness: +7 [+3 Con +4 Defensive Roll]
- Attack: +4 (+12 Unarmed) [+4 Base +8 Attack Specialization (Unarmed)]
- Damage: Unarmed +4 (Bruise)
- 14 PP -
Saves
- Fortitude: +7 [+4 Base +3 Con]
- Reflex: +10 [+6 Base +4 Dex]
- Will: +8 [+4 Base +4 Wis]
- 14 PP -
Movement
- Base Speed: 30 / 60 / 120
- Super-Speed: 5000 fpr, 500 mph
- Leap: 7000 / 3500 / 1750
- Swimming: 1000 fpr, 500 mph
Skills
- Acrobatics +6 (2 ranks)
- Diplomacy 3 +4 (3 ranks)
- Escape Artist +5 (1 rank)
- Gather Info +16 (15 ranks)
- Investigate +2 (2 ranks)
- Medicine +5 (1 rank)
- Notice +16 (12 ranks)
- Profession (Reporter) +5 (1 rank)
- Search +8 (8 ranks)
- Sense Motive +16 (12 ranks)
- Sleight of Hand +5 (1 rank)
- Stealth +5 (1 rank)
- Swim +5 (1 rank)
- 15 PP -
Feats
- Dodge Focus 4
- Defensive Roll 4
- Attack Specialization (Unarmed) 4
- Evasion 2
- Move-by Action
- Interpose
- Fast Overrun
- Improved Overrun
- Improved Throw
- Improved Disarm
- Power Attack
- Contacts
- Well-Informed
- 23 PP -
Powers
- Immunity (Aging) [1]
- Super-Speed 6 [30]
- Power Feat: Dodge Focus 6 [6]
- Power Feat: Wall Run [1]
- Power Feat: Rapid Attack [1]
- Power Feat: Special Alternate Power [1]
- Leaping 8 [8]
- Swimming 3 [3]
- Power Feat: Special Alternate Power [1]
- (Strength) Extra: Autofire x3 [12]
- Power Feat: Special Alternate Power [Free]
- Immunity (Entrapment) [5]
- Duration changed to Sustained
- Regeneration 7 [7]
- Duration changed to Sustained
- Bonus +2, Bruised 1, Injured 2, Staggered 2
- Super-Senses 13 [13]
- Accurate Hearing (Auditory) [2]
- Extended Hearing x100 (Auditory) [2]
- Ultra-hearing (Auditory) [1]
- Extended Sight x100 (Visual) [2]
- Low-light Vision (Visual) [1]
- Ultravision (Visual)[1]
- Danger Sense (Special: Timeflow) [1]
- Direction Sense (Special: Timeflow) [1]
- Distance Sense (Special: Timeflow) [1]
- Time Sense (Special: Timeflow) [1]
- Power Feat: Uncanny Dodge (Danger Sense) [1]
- 55 PP -
Drawbacks
- Minor Vulnerability: Dazzle (Visual) [1]
- Minor Vulnerability: Dazzle (Auditory) [1]
- Minor Vulnerability: +1 to Knockback checks [1]
- 3 PP -
Abilities 32 + Combat 14 + Saves 14 + Skills 15 + Feats 23 + Powers 55 - Drawbacks 3 = 150
Trade-offs
- +3 Max Defense / -3 Max Toughness
- +3 Max Attack / -3 Max Save DC
Hero Points: 3
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Powers:
Arnim Zola abducted Sam, and used him as a guinea pig for his genetical experiments. These experiments weren't meant to turn him into a superpowered being, but to test the geneticist's latest theories on DNA grafting. As a result, most of what he was subjected to wasn't part of a clear-cut project. At the time Zola happened to work a lot on birds' DNA, and he tested the way to graft it to humans on several prisoners. Sam was lucky to survive the experiments, but they still quite messed him up.
Zola accelerated Sam's metabolism to to make him react more quickly to the chemicals, and gave him something that hollowed out his bones and hardened his tendons, but that compromised his blood and caused him to twitch constantly. Zola designed a genetic reshaping goo and injected him directly into Sam's eyes and ears, and that worked, giving him the traits of birds' sight and hearing, but Sam was unable to focus with them, since his nervous system didn't properly readjust.
Then he made one last experiment that Sam can't remember what was about, and it only seemed to make everything worse.
That night, though, the Falcon was born. The Falcon, the red energy in Sam's chest, seemed to fix everything, the sight, the hearing, the convulsions, all gone. It did a lot more. Sam can now draw upon it to accelerate himself up to a hundred times, to run or swim incredibly fast, and to jump incredibly high. He could probably fly too, if he really tried. His sight and hearing are now even better than those of birds, since they are linked to a human consciousness. He can see the ultraviolet as a fourth primary color, an he finds that it adds beauty to most things. He can read by starlight, and listen to a whispered conversation in the restaurant across the street. He finds his new senses truly wonderful, and he's ever grateful to God and the Falcon for them. They can't make him forget what Zola did to him, though.
There's more though. Sam is not sure how the Falcon does what it does, but he's come to think that it has to do with time and space. Sam couldn't run so fast if his reactions weren't up to the task, or he would have long since run into a car or a wall and died. Instead, he always seems to know where and how an obstacle would come up, and how to react accordingly. He has like a preternatural sense of his position and distance, of how to reach things or get back to them. He thinks that maybe Zola sneaked into his DNA some genes of migratory birds, and that the Falcon expanded upon them. Sensing distances has made his movements quite elegant. For example he found that he could pick a target place, leap, and land exactly there, to the foot.
This kind of perception applies to time as well as space. It took him a bit, but he finally understood how to "read" his "time feelings", and now he knows in every moment what time it is. He hasn't needed an alarm clock since. When he draws upon the Falcon, it feels nearly like a tickle, as if he and the world were on different clocks, and his went faster. That is probably why he can recover more quickly when he's vibrating, it's like accelerating his personal time.
Drawbacks:
His eyes are unlike they used to be. The irises grew and turned into the rich golden color sported by owls and eagle. It's not easy to spot and to connect with his Falcon identity, but for good measure he always wears dark glasses, claiming to suffer from a slight photophobia. It's not entirely false, he found out that sudden, bright flashes or too loud noises can daze him quite nastily.
His body also changed in reaction to the experiments and his new abilities. His bones are hollow, his tendons stronger, his muscle tissue lighter and less bulky. Despite being 5'11'' and remarkably strong, he looks positively thin, and weighs less than 120 lbs.
Complications:
Sam's real superpower is that all that happened to him hasn't made him bitter. The angry, grief-stricken youth that went to the Caribbean looking for vengeance fell into a hell he couldn't have imagined, there he found out that the only way to survive the pain and retain his sanity was to cling to the memories of his parents. That is why he couldn't kill the Exile, Samuel Sr. and his wife would have never wanted thier kid to become a killer. Since he escaped he just tried to turn his father's dreams into reality, and he thought the best way to do that was to become someone that could inspire people as he did. Sam can't speak with his father's passion and force, but he can so something else. Thus the Falcon was born.
His mask doesn't have to hide only his identity, but his whole skin too. When people thought of super-heroes they thought of Captain America. Tall, strong... and white. Could a black hero be accepted? Sam talked with Sarah, his older sister and Carl Jaspers, Sarah's husband, both Sam's only remaining family and the only people who know of his secret, and they thought better to let people begin to think of the Falcon as a true hero, and only then reveal he's been black all along.
Since Sam decided not to go back to law school, Carl helped him find a job. He began to work at a newspaper, delivering correspondence and going on errands. Soon though he found a way to help a reporter find proof to his latest story -with his powers retrieving info can be easy-, and was taken as an assistant. Meaning he still gets sent on errands from time to time, but he also gets to write his own little articles from time to time or help the more experienced journalists with theirs. On the good days, it can be as much fun as foiling robbers.
Arnim Zola is still in hiding. Sam is very worried about him, because the geneticist still has some of his blood. Is he still torturing innocents "for the sake of science"? What if he finds out a way to duplicate the Falcon? Is the Falcon Zola's doing, or something already within Sam waiting to get out? A bit of both? Anyway the moment the twisted nazi scientist will show up, the Falcon will be there to front him.
