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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8528154" data-attributes="member: 30538">Simon<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-TQh3XJb/0/86c42e79/M/a9c75565173de140f6a56e665e0b02e6--my-drawings-pencil-drawings-lew-davis-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Art by <a href="https://pixels.com/profiles/1-lew-davis" target="_blank">Lew Davis</a>The youngest of the first grouping of students under the Kids Unlimited banner, Paul Bilal was faintly bewildered when it came time to choose a superhero name for himself. Nothing he had been through in the first twelve years of his life prepared him for any of this, and he found the fuss over the fact that he could draw things quickly to be ridiculous. On hearing the nursery rhyme, fable and folktale-inspired names of his fellow students, he asked if he might go by the name "Simple Simon". He was talked out of the first part, but the reference to a cartoon series he has never heard of appealed to his mentors. Particularly since the things he draws do, in fact, come true. The only student at the Bethany Ryan School to be a resident of Columbus, Paul is the child of relatively recent immigrants to the United States from Mauretania; his father drives a taxi and his mother cleans houses. They contacted the school soon after its foundation was announced and revealed their son's talents to them, hoping that he could be taught how to use them more discreetly than he had been to this point. For his part, he seems to genuinely not understand what the excitement is all about, but is happy to use this talent to help other people.Simon is one of the most potentially powerful superpowers ever identified, and the Morrison Institute is still struggling to develop terminology to explain what he does. The current best guess is that he is able to project extremely realistic-seeming force fields that are often directed by fragments of his consciousness, and that channel highly versatile energy controlling abilities through them. In practice, anything that he draws, in any medium, can be brought to life. His only limits are those of his imagination, the time that it takes to produce the image, and his inability to portray certain things. (He is unable to depict invisible objects, for example, with his best efforts producing translucent ones.) He notably cannot draw things "in advance" -- once a drawing is finished, in his opinion, there is a relatively narrow window of opportunity, roughly six seconds in length, for it to become animate, after which it will just be a drawing. (He refers to such sketches as "cold" in contrast to the "hot" ones that he can use.)Simon prefers to use his sketchbook and pencils to create his images, but can and has used different materials. Only preventing him from making any mark in any surface would suffice to prevent him from his art, though unfamiliar or rough methods (a stick or finger in dirt, for example) would likely require longer periods of drawing and limit the subject matter that he could represent. The possibility that he could expand his powers to include transforming any form of art into a reality is somewhat terrifying to some observers.Simon -- PL 6Abilities:STR 0 | STA 1 | AGL 1 | DEX 0 | FGT 1 | INT 1 | AWE 1 | PRE 1Powers:Fast Sketch: Quickness 3, Limited to Drawing - 1 pointSketchpad: Variable 8 (summoned and created objects), Check Required (Expertise: Art, DC 17) - 49 pointsTypical Settings: Default: Summon Heroic Monster 6, Controlled - 30 points (DC 23)Emergency Weapon: Ranged Damage 8, Accurate 2; Easily Removable (-6 points) - 12 points (DC 20)Advantages:Defensive Roll, Improved Initiative, Language (English, [French is native]).Skills:Expertise: Art 6 (+7), Expertise: Popular Culture 4 (+5), Insight 5 (+6), Perception 5 (+6)Offense:Initiative +5Unarmed +1 (Close Damage 0)Defense:Dodge 5, Parry 4, Fortitude 3, Toughness 3/1, Will 9 Totals:Abilities 12 + Powers 50 + Advantages 3 + Skills 10 + Defenses 17 = 92 pointsOffensive PL: 1*Defensive PL: 4*Resistance PL: 6Skill PL: 2Complications:Doing Good--Motivation. Innocent. Minor. Power Loss (Sketchpad, if unable to draw.)</blockquote>

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