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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sniktch" data-source="post: 1520294" data-attributes="member: 7704">[M&M] Red & GoldJulian Chambers, aka Flashstrike Str 14 Dex 20 Con 14 Int 13 Wis 14 Cha 10 cost: 25pp Atk +8 (+13m, +13r) cost: 24pp Def +8 (29 (30 w/ Dodge)/18 cost: 16pp Init: +15 Saves: Dmg: +11(evasion)/+2 Fort +2 Ref +11 Will +4 Move: 30 (teleport 50) Skills: Acrobatics (5) +18, Balance (1) +14, Jump (5) +9, Climb (5) +7, Spot (5) +7 total skills: 21 ranks - cost: 7pp Feats: Attack Finesse, Dodge, Evasion, Expertise, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Iron Will, Ambidexterity, Two Weapon Fighting, Extra Limb (prehensile tail) cost: 22pp Powers Teleport +10 (Extra: Disorient, 3pp, Power Stunts: Turnaround, Fusillade, cost: 34pp) Super-Dexterity +6 (4pp, cost: 24pp) Weapon +4 (Sai, stun damage, 1pp, cost: 4pp) Weapon +4 (Sai, stun damage, 1pp, cost: 4pp) Weakness: Disturbing Appearance (-5 Bluff & Diplomacy, cost: -10pp) Origin: Julian ws born in Seattle, Washington to a typical Amercian family. Dad, mom and older sister all lived in a comfortable two-story house in a nice West Seattle neighborhood. Julian, however, was not typical, he was born with a small tail. Doctors said it was a natural occurance and happened 1 out of every 50,000 births. The tails usually don't grow with the rest of the body and present no health risks. They could even remove it with cosmetic surgery when Julian got older, if the family wanted. The family decided against the surgery, and the tail did stay stunted. Until Julian hit puberty. Shortly after his thirteenth birthday, while on a family camping trip on the Olympic penninsula, Julian's body started to change, and not in the normal way. His tail grew and he started getting body hair. Green body hair. In two weeks time his tail had grown to a length of 4 feet and he was covered in a fine green coat of hair. Knowing his son couldn't return to the city looking the way he did, but not wanting to abandon him, Julian's father sent him to live with an old family friend who lived in the Olympic mountains. Gary Warren ran a small dojo/temple in the solitude of the mountains and agreed to take Julian in and finish raising him. In the beginning, Julian was very unhappy with his situation and often let his anger get the better of him. After some time, through Gary's teachings, he learned that he wasn't cursed and he could lead a semi-normal life. He began to see his differences as gifts and, with Gary's guidance, began honing his natural agility with and integrating his tail into his martial arts training. After being with Gary a year, his attitude had greatly improved. Julian also discovered a new talent. He could instantly teleport himself across short distances with a thought. Thanks to the mental discipline developed through his martial arts training, Julian was able to integrate his teleportation into his martial arts routine and, combined with his rapidly improving agility, became a devistating master able to routinely hold his own against Gary, occasionally beating him outright. After a few more years, Julian had surpassed Gary's training, even taking over the teaching of a few of Gary's other students. The fact that the other students accepted Julian as a teacher, even preferring him to Gary in a few instances, did more for Julian's self esteem than any of Gary's teachings ever could. They even gave him a nickname, Flashstrike, based on his ability to teleport close, attack an opponent, then teleport away before it could respond. When he turned 18 Julian decided he would return to the city and see his family. Before he left, however, he received word that his father had been transferred and his family had moved to Freedom City on the East Coast. Not sure if he was really ready for a cross country trip, but determined to show his family how well he's matured, he decided to go for it. After an intense two-week journey, made tougher because he had no ID other than his Social Security card, Julian finally arrived in Freedom City. While wandering the city looking for his family's new home, he witnessed some street toughs mugging a blind streetperson. Not one to let transgressions like this go, Julian intervened and quickly drove the assailants away. The blind man thanked Julian profusely, but when he asked for Julian's name, Julian just replied "My friends call me Flashstrike." Thus that was the name that was passed amongst the subsociety of the homeless, growing in reputation as a savior. After reacquainting himself with his family, a tense but ultimately happy reunion, Julian was contacted by an entity referring to itself only as "The Other", asking for Julian's, for Flashstrike's, help in combating the growing criminal element of Freedom City. Bored with spending almost all of his time hiding in his parent's house (with his appearance he only ventured out at night where he could stay relatively nondescript), he accepted the offer and soon found himself at a strange complex located about 30 miles outside the city.</blockquote>

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