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Lexie Carson was working as a local journalist for a struggling newspaper in Arizona when her GorWol trait manifested. It occurred during her interview of a local businessman when a nearby bank was getting robbed. The police responded and in the ensuing street shootout stacks of money littered the street. Knowing the money could help the paper Lexie wished she could send it to her office and poof the money disappeared. When she got to her newspaper building later that day she found $10,000 of the bank money in her office. Confused she hid the money until she could figure out what to do with it. She took a weeks vacation and began experimenting with her powers discovering she could teleport herself and others (having tried it out on her cat Whiskers) to a known location she visualized. She also discovered she could teleport objects she saw and focused on to a different location when she was in close proximity to the objects. When she returned to work she found out she was fired after her boss discovered the bank money in her office and she was now wanted by the police for questioning. Lexie then turned to a life of crime and became a house burgler, teleporting into rich homes (bypassing security measures), and teleporting stolen goods to whatever hideout she was using. She eventually discovered she possessed the power of intangibility when a homeowner confronted her during one of her robberies and shot at her with his handgun. Lexie instantly turned intangible allowing the bullets to impact the wall behind her. Possessing the powers of teleportation and inatangibility made Lexie, now using the moniker of Phantom, almost impossible to incarcerate. Lexie now bounces around the US doing a few robberies to get quick money and avoiding any meta-human entanglements like picking sides in the meta wars. When the heat gets too much for her in one area she simply vanishes and reappears at a different location.
Kuk Chuwon was born in Chongjin Political Prison Camp in North Korea. Both of his parents were prisoners who were allowed to spend a few nights together for good work behavior and turning other prisoners in for minor camp violations. Chuwon was condemned to spend his whole life at Chongjin prison under the three generation prison rule for his maternal grandfathers listening to BBC over a pirate radio. Chuwon had a harsh early life, struggling to catch enough rats and frogs to supplement his meagre diet of corn and cabbage gruel. At the age of seven he started working the agricultural fields in the summer and the mines in the winter. At the age of 10 he told the camp prison guards his parents once spoke about escaping the prison. Thinking he did his patriotic duty after being told he would get extra rations Chuwon was instead tortured after the Camp Commander believed Chuwon was part of the escape attempt. After being tortured for a few days Chuwon saw his parents executed based on the information he provided. Chuwon shed a tear at the sight of his parents dead bodies and was subjected to more extreme tortures that would have killed other boys. Chuwon spent 10 additional years at Chongjin Prison Camp enduring painful tortures. His only friend was an old NK University Professor imprisoned for having a hidden copy of Romeo and Juliet. The Professor educated Chuwon constantly, teaching him basic math, science, English, Mandarin, history and geography. After the Professor died Chuwon was transferred to the notorious Camp 22 at Hoeryong, where he was poked and prodded by NK scientists. They believed he was a meta human and inflicted additional pain on his body to get his GorWol trait to manifest. Nothing seemed to work. Planning to escape with another prisoner Chuwon was caught in some barbed wire with Prison Guards coming after him. Fearing capture, torture or even death his GorWol trait fully manifested and Chuwon defeated the guards with thermal energy blasts and escaped. He made his way into China and then into South Korea. He was approached by agents of the South Korean National Intelligence Service recruiting him as a weapon against North Korea. He accepted their proposal and spent time training with the 707th White Tiger Battalion. He took the name Hwarang after the stories the old Professor used to tell him about ancient Korean Empires. He now lives for revenge against the North Korean Regime. Hwarang is an ergokinetic. He can discharge a red hued energy from his hands and eyes. His ergokinesis allows him to absorb other forms of energy and channel it back out, replenish his reserves, heal him from wounds or harmlessly dissipate it. He can also fly and his limited resistance. Hwarang also heals 10 times faster than a normal human. Now that he is free Chuwon spends time experiencing life to the fullest and brooding over extracting revenge on the north.
Aubrey Holland was a typical Kentucky grad student doing an online MBA and working at a local boutique when her life changed. She met a mild mannered man named Steven and was swept off her feet. They dated for a few months and then married. Little did she know the man she fell in love with was wanted by the Chicago Garconi Mob family for turning states evidence against the family. Steven was in the witness protection program and when photos of their wedding went online the Garconi family found him. A hit squad was sent to eliminate him but he fled before they arrived. He did not warn Aubrey and she was taken captive when she got home from work. She was taken to Chicago and psychologically tortured for months. Aubrey finally snapped when Garconi men dropped Stevens head in her cell. Aubreys GorWol trait manifested and she found herself possessing tremendous psionic powers. She ripped the door off the hinges from her cell and started killing any mob soldiers she came across. She spent the next week killing off every member of the Garconi family she could find. This brought her to the attention of the ISF and she fought Gravenger and Thebe. They barely defeated her and she fled. Taking the moniker of Domina, mistress of the mental arts Aubrey has tremendous psionic powers of telekinesis and psionkinesis. Her psionkinesis allows her to attack minds with psionic energy, control minds, alter thoughts, change memories, and induce fears. This occurs easier with weak willed individuals as opposed to strong willed individuals. Her telekinesis allows her to make protective shields, fly, move objects, control opponents bodies, and shoot telekinetic force bolts. Presently she is keeping under the radar to avoid detection from Dr. Dimento.
Jasmine Gilmore worked as a petrochemical factory cook in Trinidad and Tobago when a chemical fire in the factory caused her to be trapped in the factory kitchen. Succumbing to the noxious fumes Jasmine passed out under one of the kitchen cooking tables. Her GorWol trait manifested and Jasmine awoke with incredible powers enabling her to survive the fumes and escape the fire. Jasmine fled the area ending up in Venezuela. With no money, papers, or ID Jasmine stole money and food to survive until she could figure out what to do with her life. Wanted by the police for petty crimes, Jasmine, taking the moniker Firefox, fell in with a local crime boss helping him eliminate rivals and rob banks in return for a new identity. When the crime boss was raided by the Venezuelan National Police Jasmine fled again to the US. She turned to robbing jewelry stores but never harmed civilians. Firefox fought both heroes who tried to arrest her and villains when they tried to recruit her. Presently she still operates within the US robbing jewelry stores and avoiding heroes. Firefox can generate a chemical fueled energy from her hands which she uses to shoot blasts, melt objects, and fly. She is learning to adjust the chemical composition of her energy for different effects.
Castanzo DeFuerza was a struggling Mexican experimental meteorologist studying extreme storms and their impact on the environment. He finally received a grant to conduct research at the famed Catatumbo river in Venezuela. Castanzo spent a few weeks observing the lightning phenomena and concluded he needed to gather data from within the overhead clouds during the lightning storm. Bribing a local crop duster pilot to fly him and some gear into the storm clouds at night Castanzo ignored the obvious risks of flying into a lightning storm. Everything was going well during the initial flyby but the storm started to increase as the prop plane started to fly through the clouds. A sudden tornado inside the clouds caused the plane to break apart and as Castanzo was falling to the earth he was struck 57 times by lightning. He crashed on the beach, blacked out and awoke with super powers as his GorWol trait manifested when he was struck by the lightning. His research assistant found him and called him crazy for trying the flight and Castanzo accidentally hurled compressed air at the assistant instantly killing him. Determined to take revenge on a world that mocked his theories Castanzo used his powers to travel north. He quickly came into conflict with Warmage when he tried to kill the Director of the US National Weather Service. Warmage quickly knocked Storm Lord out but he easily escaped custody. Storm Lord is still on the run. Storm Lord is a powerful aerokinetic and atmoskinetic. He can control air currents and influence the local weather around him to create powerful storms. He can generate small directed tornado’s, create air shields and powerful gusts of wind, fly and move objects by increasing the air speed around them. Once he has control over the local weather he displays a low level of electrokinesis- he can generate lightning strikes from storms he creates. He can also generate snow and ice in the form of weather effects from his storms displaying some cyrokinesis. He cannot control electricity or snow/ice/cold from sources not of his creation.
Not much is known about the mercenary calling herself Tigerclaw. She’s worked as an assassin for the NYC Mafia, an enforcer for a Bolivian cocaine cartel, a bodyguard for a Russian crime lord, a business spy for the Chinese and as an international bounty hunter. Tigerclaw is a trained killer with her hands, firearms, bladed weapons, bows and crossbows. She has had run ins with some meta humans on both sides of morality, most notably Darkfist, Saethwyr, Breathstealer, Bowslinger, Canadian Shield, and Bengal. It is believed she is Eastern European, Polish possibly since she speaks Polish, Russian, Czech in addition to French, Spanish, English and Chinese. She is a skilled acrobat and gymnast, a master of disguise and acting. She also has knowledge of many international intelligence agencies operation procedures which means she could possibly be a former operative of the Polish Foreign Intelligence Agency or the Polish Internal Security Agency.
Angela Sumner was a chemical geologist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. She was on the scientific team experimenting with moon rocks brought back from a recent manned moon mission. The moon rocks were special because they gave off low levels of radiation energy. Angela was in the lab conducting chemical testing on one of the larger moon rocks when the rock cracked open and exploded. Angela was doused with chemicals and was irradiated by moon rock radioactive energy. A piece of the moon rock embedded in her forehead and she passed out. She did not perish because her GorWol trait manifested when the moon rock made contact with her skin. Awakening in the Oak Ridge hospital Angela discovered she was restrained to her bed against her will. The Government decided to experiment on her to see how her physiology had changed due to the accident. Spending 6 months hidden, shackled and experimented upon Angela finally broke free when an unrelated lab fire temporarily shut down power to her wing. Angela escaped and began taking revenge against the US Government which brought her into conflict with American Star. Since becoming a villain Angela, taking the name Moonfire, has battled both the ISF and American Watch. Moonfire possesses increased strength (10 tons), reflexes, speed, endurance and durability. She can fly, fire energy blasts, and under duress can channel her energy into increasing her strength and durability.
Batcha Donauri worked as a Georgian gold miner near Tblisi when South Ossetian rebels attacked the gold mine area. The attack caused a cave in and Batcha was trapped underground with 12 other gold miners for 5 days. When the cave in was cleared Batcha was the only one still alive due to his GorWol trait manifesting. Recovering in the hospital Batcha discovered his strength had increased along with his endurance and toughness. Seeking revenge against the South Ossetians Batcha created the persona of Golden Ram, a Georgian meta hero and began attacking South Ossitian towns. Branded an international criminal by Russia and Georgia (who was seeking a diplomatic resolution to the South Ossetian problem) Batcha fled the area finding employment as an enforcer for various seedy criminal organizations in Istanbul, Albania and eventually Germany. His criminal acts brought him into conflict with Kataphraktos, Vargr and Vikka. Golden Ram possesses super human strength (40 ton range), enhanced endurance, agility and reflexes and is has very dense and tough skin. His super strength allows him to leap vast distances. Golden Ram wears a Corinthian styled breastplate and helm which he tries to play off as the source of his powers in addition to calling the rams fleece he uses as his cape as the actual Golden Fleece from history.
Ever wonder how that guy you read in the news who molested children ended up dead; or how the drug addict in the news that killed an old lady during a robbery and was let off on a technicality ended up missing? There are rumors of a masked vigilante stalking known criminals the law didn’t seem to punish. This vigilante, calling himself Kinslayer, travels across the US meeting out justice for the extremely wicked. It does not matter the crime- the stock broker in NYC who ran a ponzi scheme and bilked millions of dollars from average people- he ended up murdered on his private yacht; the psycho in Atlanta who kept women locked up in his basement for years- beaten to death; the cannibal in Texas who eats children- burned to death; the white supremacist in Idaho who murdered 10 people on a joyride then holed himself up in a bunker- had his throat cut. An FBI Task Force attributes at least 37 deaths to this Kinslayer, although they officially claim he does not exist. American Watch member Sentinel came across the Kinslayer in Chicago and says he is male, medium height and build, possibly Mexican-american due to the accent. He is quick and fast, an expert shot with firearms, skilled with bladed weapons, hand to hand combat and possibly ambidextrous. If you are a criminal then beware for this guy may end up finding you…
With the rise of meta-humans across the globe it was just a matter of time before the PRC sought their own meta-human operatives to counter the influence of the ISF and Western powers. A new department under the Ministry of State Security was created to handle all meta-human activities. This department secretly tested millions of Chinese citizens for the GorWol trait and in doing so caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands trying to forcibly manifest the candidates. The first successful Chinese manifestation was a young and uneducated Red Army soldier named Geng. Geng survived the forced manifestation (being shot) when his body transformed his flesh into a malleable but strong metallic alloy. Kept hidden for years at a secret facility Geng learned how to control his powers and was given a special suit to enhance his body control. Given the code-name Yaoguai (demon) Geng was the first PRC meta human operative. Yaoguai has the ability of mimetic poly-alloy. His body transformed into a hard yet supple metallic alloy which he can use to change the shapes of his appendages (usually into bladed weapons or solid objects). He also creates shields for defense. He can only create solid objects like hammers, blades, and other tools, but not objects that require moving parts (guns, wheels). He is also limited by his body mass. His body grants him enhanced strength (one ton), reflexes, endurance and durability. During his isolation Geng was trained in Choy Li Fut Kung Fu and is a dangerous hand to hand opponent.
The second PRC meta human operative was a spoiled child from a wealthy family in Beijing named Jin. Jin was an early Wushu practitioner and became an expert in Wushu before the age of 15. His family did not want him tested but Jin was adamant he was more than special and volunteered. Jin survived the forced manifestation (being shot) when his GorWol trait manifested and he dodged the bullet. Jin was eventually diagnosed with super human reflexes, speed and senses. He also has low level aeorkinetic ability which he uses for flight, and is beginning to display some weather control powers (mostly wind and rain). Jin was secreted away to the Ministry of State Security’s Meta Human Department HQs for three years before he was unveiled as Xia Wang (Rain King) the leader of the PRC Meta Human Squad. Xia Wang is a skilled Wushu practitioner, on level with Wushu world champions, and uses the twin tiger hook swords as his favored weapons. He was groomed to be the leader of the PRC meta team and has training in tactics and strategy.
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