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Alright! Here I present Jonathan Hawke. His parents won the lottery when he was a child, and his father turned out to be a smart investor, and they quickly turned $50 million into a $Billions.
He, however, went through a rough patch, unable to find himself. His father thought he was just a loafer, he and got kicked out and cut off. He lived on the streets for a few years, doing odd jobs to pay for crappy apartments. Eventually, he met his future wife volunteering at a soup kitchen. He was struck by her intelligence, and her passion for helping people. So much so that he found that when he did things for people, helped them in ways that were more than just handing them money, it brought the satisfaction he had always been looking for. He began to volunteer with her, in one of the more dangerous parts of town.
Eventually, they were married, and had two kids, a little girl and a little boy. In order to make ends meat, he eventually took a job as a Firefighter, while his wife became a Registered Nurse.
It was during this time that his father invited him back into his life. He saw his son had grown up, and wanted to be a part of his grandchildren's lives.
Then something happened and I'm not entirely sure what it was. Scientific accident at one of his dad's companies, meteor landing in his back yard, radiation leak, something. Either way, he suddenly could sense and subtly control gravitational fields. It was small at first, letting him do little more than telekinetically lift very small objects. Eventually, he learned how to make an object weigh less just by touching it. Then, he found he could lessen his own weight to almost weightlessness.
He tried to fly, but all he could do right now was make himself weightless. Not that useful. Using one of his father's R&D companies, he developed a set of mechanical wings, controlled by tiny sensors in his gloves. Squeaze the right finger on his left hand and the left wing would lower, raise it and it would twist. It was very detailed control, and it took him a while to learn how to use it right. Eventually, he found he could soar through the air, only keeping enough weight to allow wind resistance in his wings.
That's when the real fun began. As his powers grew, so did his confidence. He could go where few others could. He could lift things that weighed a ton, because he would just make it weightless.
And still his powers grew. Eventually, he found he could create Gravity Wells. Then, he figured out how to make an object weightless from a distance. Combining these two, he could make an object weightless, then send it towards him, away from him, or at a target, and the weight limit he could affect grew exponentially, until he could lift objects weighing over 100 tons!
His family life began to suffer. He still did not have access to his father's fortune, so he still had to work, and his hero work began to cut into his family time. He was always gone, he could never let someone get hurt when he could have stopped it. For years this went on, and the strain it put on his wife and two children, now 10 and 6, was tremendous. Eventually, it came down to his work, or his family. He chose family.
But he never stopped practicing. To the rest of the world, the hero known as Hawk simply retired after half a decade of work. Eventually, he became so practiced at his powers that he found he could fly easier, and with fewer problems, if he just got rid of the wings, so he did, since he wasn't using them anyway.
Then it happened. His father passed away, leaving him as the sole beneficiary of his entire fortune. After twelve years of scrimping and saving, of barely getting by, of getting kicked out of apartments because he didn't have the money for rent, he was now a multi billionaire.
After life settled down, he and his wife agreed that his new job was his work as Hawk, but things would be different. He would have to have set hours, unless someone's life was on the line. Days off would have to be days off. He had to commit to his family, or he would lose them, money or no.
So he reappeared, two years after his so called 'retirement', as a new Hawk. His costume lacked the wings, and the color scheme changed a bit, but his emblem of a Hawk remained the same. And he was more powerful now than he had ever been in his first incarnation.
So now, he has a family, his father's fortune, which includes owning numerous business, investments, and whatnot, as well as his crime fighting. Here's to hoping his accountant isn't laundering money!
[sblock=Hawk]
Real Name: Jonathan Hawk
Archetype: Energy Controller
PL 10 (150 Power Points)
Strength: 0
Stamina: 3
Agility: 3
Dexterity: 3
Fighting: 3
Intelligence: 0
Awareness: 2
Presence: 3
Advantages: (Hidden Reserve, Wisecracker)
Extraordinary Effort
Great Endurance
Fearless
Benefit: Wealth 5 ranks (Billionaire)
Skills:
Energy Control 5
Intimidation 7
Athlete 4
Acrobtics 4
Investigation 4
Perception 4
Powers:
Offiensive
Gravity Control: Array
• Gravity Blast: Range Damage 12 – 24 points
o Not sure how this works yet.
• Alternate Effect: Telekinesis: Move Object 12 (Subtle, Limited Direction) – 1 point
o Add Subtle, as well as Limited Direction (to cancel each other out). Alters gravity on an object, making it weightless and then can either move them physically or use gravity wells to move objects around mentally. Can only move objects towards generated Gravity Wells, so no complicated movements, but no effect shows on objects being affected.
• Alternate Effect: Environmental Control: Environment 12 (16 miles, Impede Movement) 1 point
o He can alter general gravity around him in up to a 16-mile radius, making it weaker or stronger. Need GM approval. Was supposed to pick two affects, but only Impede movement made sense.
• Alternate Effect: Snare: Cumulative Ranged Affliction 8 (Resisted by Dodge, Overcome by Damage, Hindered and Vulnerable, Defenseless and Immobile), Extra Condition, Limited to Two Degrees – 1 point
o This is a “Stasis Field”, where Hawk uses gravity to create a bend in time around a single target, immobilizing them.
Defensive:
Immunity: Immunity 2 (Gravity type damage) – 2
Force Field: Impervious Protection 10, Sustained – 20 points
Utility
Energy Sense: Senses 1 (Gravitational awareness, allows Hawk to sense Gravity wells) 1 point
Flight: Continuous, Completely Subtle Flight 7 (250 mph) – 23 points
Hawk makes himself weightless in order to fly, so if he is incapacitated while flying, he is still weightless. He has to increase his weight consciously in order to come back down.
Defenses:
Dodge: 4
Parry: 1
Fortitude: 5
Toughness: 0
Will: 6
Power Points:
Abilities: 34
Powers: 82
Advantages: 4
Skills: 14
Defenses: 16
Total: 150
Complications
Motivation: Responsibility
Relationship: Has a family
Responsibility: Has to be there for family
Responsibility: Has to pay attention to his assets[/sblock]
Just had a great idea for the immortal. Give him power over Life. He can heal, but only empathetically, so he has to take the injury on himself. He can even raise the dead, which kills him, but he revives himself shortly thereafter. With Area Heal of 20 and Immortal 20, he heals everyone around him, taking their injuries on himself, but revives every time he dies within 6 seconds.
I could take less Immortal and get a 20 on Regenerate as well, and get the Area Healing, so he can heal everyone in an area. We could say he heals himself by absorbing ambient life energy from people around him, so he can only heal when there are others around him. In fact, that could also be a condition for his immortality, he has to have at least one other person close by. That helps with the cost.
That's about 70 points on powers alone if healing at 10 and Regeneration and Immortality at 20 each.
I could have him able to give wounds to others when he is injured. A Damage power with the "Fades" effect, since he heals it anyway, where it recharges when he is injured. The worse his condition, the more he can hurt others, but he can only do it while injured. So it's like, bad guy shoots his friend, he takes the injury and gives it back to the bad guy. If he doesn't, he uses the ambient life energy around him to naturally regenerate.
In order to not regenerate, he'd have to be by himself, too far away from other life. But if he was ever moved near other life, he'd come back again.
Or I could have him be able to enhance his traits using ambient life energy. Or if I wanted to get really technical, I could make it so his Regeneration fades, and he only gets it back when he uses his power to hurt someone, as in, he is giving them his injuries. I like that...
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LOL this happens when I read a post and reply before reading others...I like this concept as well. As Shayuri said however it may be cooler in concept then practice, HOWEVER if you want to go with this instead I am happy to keep an open mind.
