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LtR:The Watchman (Carl Barrett): Light Manipulation & TeleportationAndromeda (Maria Langley): Flight, Super StrengthGoliath Man (Matt Lannock): Super StrengthGolden Guardian (Ryan Dawn): Enhanced Strength, Reflexes, Healing Factor, Instantaneous ReactionParagon (Steven Clarke): All-Power, Inspiration, UnityThe Titan (James Rush): Energy ManipulationMr. E (Eddie Edwards): Perfect Aim, Super Healing Factor, Adaptive CamoflageWhen the superhuman boom first occured after “The Moment”, W.I.L.D decided to put together a team of superheroes to monitor and police the emergant superpowered population. This would lead to the creation of A Division. But this wasn’t the first attempt to create such a team. W.I.L.D even recycled the codename they would give A Division, “The Protectors Project”. Originally approaching Ryan Dawn, Golden Guardian of the then current version of Team Supreme, to be the team leader, W.I.L.D collected together a small group of the strongest superhumans they could find for the team. Dubbed “The Protectors”, the team would last for 5 years, battling numerous national, internation and planetary threats. However, it was not to last. The details of their last mission are classified, and none of the living team members will talk about it. All that is known is that the mission ended with The Watchman blinded, Andromeda missing and Golden Guardian dead. Mr. E would go AWOL shortly after and Goliath Man would retire from heroics althogether in the aftermath. When W.I.L.D created A Division only The Titan would return, with Paragon turning down the invitation.
Eddie Howe has been a criminal pretty much his entire life. Born into a poor family, he stole as a means to survive and often only got three good meals during his numerous stints in juvenile detention. As a teen he began getting involved in gangas and that led onto a heavy involvement in organised crime as a adult, often in a henchman type role. Originally a low ranking member of Henry Richards Card Pack gang, after Richards arrest and subsequent incarceration he found himself working for a mysterious criminal by the name of Mr. Edwards. It was during this time that the Goliath Serum became available on the black market, so of course Mr. Edwards made sure to acquire some and set to work experimenting with the serum, using Howe as his test subject. Though Mr. Edwards was not able to improve on or replicate the serum during his experiments, it would be remiss to say that his experiments were a failure. Howe gained massive strength, able to lift a truck cab with one hand, and became Mr. Edwards personal enforcer, going by the name Deadlift due to his strength and his skull bandana that he wears as a mask.
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Known as the Living Pollutant, Sludge was once a nuclear plant worker called Terrell Goodwin. Goodwin was transformed into his current state when he was caught in the crossfire between law enforcement and a gang of criminals who had stolen an alien artifact in transit between W.I.L.D safehouses. When the artifact was exposed to material from within the plants main reactor it began to give off a strange energy and Goodwin, being the closest person to the artifact at the time, began to mutate and absorbed the artifact and its energies, alongside a copious amount of radioactive material. Now with his human body consumed by toxic waste, Goodwin is essentially no more. He lackas any intelligence, his primary motivation is to create more waste for him to absorb. His body is made of a number of highly toxic and corrosive materials and his touch is deadly, even being within a certain distance of him is hazardous to a person’s health.
A superhuman with increadible strength and an exceptional resistance to the cold, Irving Peary was previously a climate scientist, but he now uses his powers to fight against man-made climate change and industrial ecologival damage. However, his methods (including attacking industrial instillations such as oil rigs/ pipelines and even industry leaders) have lead to him being labelled an “eco-terrorist” by some quarters and he has been forced to fight many members of the superhuman community on either side of the spectrum. He does tend to favour working with those who share his views; Inferno is a close friend, having lost family to the oil industry she shares his distain. He has also teamed up with Coldheart in the past, although this was a deception by the cryogenic super-villain in order to use Peary’s abilities to further his own ends. However, his scientific background has been useful to superheroes in the past as well. He was instrumental in defeating Sludge when the living pollutant first appeared and W.I.L.D are not above using him as a consultant whenever they have him in custody.
Born with both superhuman intelligence and a crippling degenerative condition that caused him near constant pain, Morris Carson spent much of his life coming up with new solutions to alleviate his suffering. Despite his massive intellect, nothing he tried worked, so he started mechanising himself. By replacing his organic body with machinery he managed to remove the pain, however, he became addicted to the surgery, eventually becoming just a brain in a robotic body. Now impervious to pain and with strength and endurance far surpassing a normal human, he has set his sights on a new goal; to remove human weakness by converting everyone into cyborgs like himself.
Arch-nemesis to the now-retired Hero known as The Watchman, Nightslaker is the yin to Watchman’s yang, being able to freely control and teleport through darkness, as his enemy does with light. Whilst the Watchman’s mystical power manifested it’s self in the form of a lantern, the Nightstalker’s power is manifested in his claw-like guantlets. He is the one responsable for the loss of Watchman’s sight, the reason he had to give up his superheroics.
When the secret of the Goliath Serum was stolen by the Oliver siblings, Tori Lannock was put in a very tough spot, the thing she had been relying on to be a superhero was now being used against her. Fortunately, the Oliver’s hadn’t sold off the formula, just the serum they had, so Tori and her father Matt (formerly the superhero Goliath Man) decided that the best way to deal with the situation was to destroy all the remaining serum and the formula, to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands again. With the help of her A Division team-mates, Tori managed to track down all of the people the Oliver’s had sold the serum to and recover the stolen property, before finally defeating The Domiantor and putting the Oliver siblings behind bars. Knowing that losing her access to the Goliath Serum would mean an end to her days as a superhero, Tori took the drastic step of copying how her team-mate Antaeus got his powers and drank the last remaining vial of serum. The effect was almost identical to what happened to him, her body gained almost a full foot in height and her muscularture is now constantly hyper-charged. Whereas before she could lift up to 10 times what would be normal for a woman of her size and weight, she can now lift over 100 times what should be possible. However, she is having some trouble adjusting to the changes to her body and has become quite clumsy with physical interactions with normal, everyday situations (the A Division base has seen its repair budget eaten through almost thrice as quickly as anticipated since her transformation). Also, she’s had to give up her position as a new recruit trainer, as there’s now no guarantee she isn’t going to kill someone just demostrating basic self-defence.
It is a widely known fact that Matt Lannock, formerly known as Goliath Man, created the serum that gave him and his daughter Tori (aka Amazon) their powers. What isn’t as widely known, however, is that Lannock wasn’t the sole creator of the Goliath Serum. He worked in partnership with another scientist called Walt Oliver. However, they fell out over the usage of the serum. When Lannock discovered Oliver had been reaching out to some less reputable buyers, he froze his partner out. In retaliation, Oliver tried to recreate the serum and took on Goliath Man as The Dominator. However, the serum Oliver created wasn’t as refined as the one Lannock used and it eventually took a toll on his body. After Walt Oliver finally succumbed to the effects of his serum, his children; David and Elizabeth, took it upon themselves to take revenge for their father. They stole the Goliath serum from Tori Lannock (now working for A Division) and David used it to become the new Dominator. However, they weren’t done yet. Having stolen the serum, they then planned to sell the secret on the black market, allowing it to get into the hands of the people Matt Lannock had tried to keep it out of when he cast aside their father.
@Vampyrist- Cheers dude.
Name: Peter Hicks-BothamAlias: Particle ManPowers: Matter Manipulation and Transmutation. Can steal Protons, Neutrons and Electrons from atoms and add them to other atoms, transmuting elements into other elements so long as he knows the chemical compounds of the elements in question.
Formerly a scientist researching matter deconstruction, transportation and reconstruction at a molecular level, Louis Willows was transformed into a plasmic energy form during a teleportation experiment gone awry. With their consciousness in a continual state of flux and their very touch causing people to be horrifically burned, Louis was driven insane and now seeks a way to end their suffering, even if it means forcing someone else to do the deed for them.
The four most powerful individual spirits in all of Ancient China, the four Heavenly Beasts (also known as the four symbols) are the embodiment of the constellations, guardians of the seasons and the elements, and the creators of all other spirits, including the zodiac.
The oldest and wisest of the Beasts is Xuanwu, the Black Turtle, who has dominion over the north, winter and the element of wood.
Next comes the Azure Dragon, Qinglong, who presides over the east, spring and the element of water. Qinglong is also one of the four river dragons of China, with his home being the Yangtze River.
Zhu Que comes next, the Vermillion Bird governs the south, summer and the element of fire.
Lastly, there is Bai Hu, the White Tiger. He is the youngest and probably the most powerful of the four individually, and he controls the west, autumn and the element of metal.
Between them, the four spirits keep the balance of the spirit and human worlds. However, if they are unable to perform this vital duty, there is said to be a fifth Beast, far greater than any of them. This Beast is said to be a great Yellow or Golden Dragon, known as Huanglong, who administers the final element, the very earth its self.
