I don't have his hero name down yet.. but he's a dark/dark defender...
Excuse the typos.
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Joshua Richards, a nobody. One of the 'normal' kids at school. Since jr. high he'd been nothing special. In to high school, he wasn't one of the nerds who everyone knew exsisted and pretended didn't, he wasn't one of the jocks who the girls fawned over, he wasn't one of the goths who wanted to be seen as a frightening presence.. and all people were worried about is that being goth might be contagious.
And in to College, he was still just the nobody, one of those with an undeclared major and major bouncing, never sure what he was doing.. He did abit of everything. but never excelled at it.
His parents, divorced, had been competing to be the 'favorite parent' since he'd been young, a habbit they never grew out of. Both had plans for him, his father wanted him to be a dentist, and his mother wanted him to be a lawyer. His opinion was both were very simular, they both put people in alot of pain and draw alot of blood, and get paid by the person they did it to.
All in all, his life was going nowhere.. That though was before his dormant gift woke within him. The craft had not surfaced in his family for 10 years, but it found him. He really didn't know what he was doing with it, but he decided that he should use these powers for good (and then he chided himself on being so cliche).
Now, the city he grew up in, that of Flagstaff Arizona, was a fairly safe place. And less the cops couldn't handle, but none the less Joshua took it apon himself to deliver vigilante justice to muggers, and petty thieves. This actually paid off though. One night he caught a couple of street punks acousting an elderly man for his wallet, and Joshua stepped in, and set them fleeing for their life, screaming in terror (... okay so that's how he likes to tell it. Really they thought he was a cop and bolted).
The elderly man, one professor Alexander Wilson of the AAS (Academy of Arcane Science) however noticed the potential in Joshua and gave him his card.
Before long, Joshua was accepted in to the AAS, located hidden within the mountains of Colorado, his parents believed he'd gone to school to be a vetrinarian.
At the AAS, life was quite different, there were very few students, and and those there were very close, it was only a matter of days untill Joshua fit in, perhaps because everyone there was a misfit. He even found himself a girlfriend, one Jessica Simms from southern california, an elementalist with an impressive power of fluids.
This is where life takes a turn for the worse for Joshua again. Late one cold winters night he and Jessica were in her dorm.. And regaurdless of what everyone wanted to say they were not engaged in physical intimacy (yet), they were working on an experiment regaurding certain volatile compounds, required homework for her. Noone is sure how it happened, but the compounds got blended, and the results were impressive. And explosive, half of the dorms were destroyed, fortunately few were hurt because of how few students they have.
Jessica did not survive the blast. Joshua did, barely. He was given about as much chance of survival as a decapitation victim. bounced between hospitals, kept on life support in a most fitfull and frightening death-sleep. finally they decided to send him to the city with hospitals best equipped for treating injuries from massive magical mishaps. Paragon City.
When he finally woke up in Chiron Medical Center, he remembered nothing (again, so cliche), and he wished it would have remained that way. he recalled vividly the events of that winters night, and even worse did he remember the hellish nightmares of his year long coma. The blast had scarred his body, taken his right eye, and forever marred his soul.
This his real vision isn't what it once was, he now has vision most do not, his eye sees as well in the dark as it does at noon. and he can see the core of the person. Who and what they really are. Their intentions, their feelings.. Their dreams.
He's chosen to remain in Paragon City, his parents think him dead, so he's got nothing to go to wherever he goes. So, he does what every other Joe Schmoe with a power or a magic sword or a spiffy gun or super flight boxer shorts does in Paragon City, and took up life as a super hero! He found his powers most changed from what they once were.. if he could even remember what they used to be. But channling power from the netherworld is most certainly not what it was.
I don't have his hero name down yet.. but he's a dark/dark defender...
Excuse the typos.
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Joshua Richards, a nobody. One of the 'normal' kids at school. Since jr. high he'd been nothing special. In to high school, he wasn't one of the nerds who everyone knew exsisted and pretended didn't, he wasn't one of the jocks who the girls fawned over, he wasn't one of the goths who wanted to be seen as a frightening presence.. and all people were worried about is that being goth might be contagious.
And in to College, he was still just the nobody, one of those with an undeclared major and major bouncing, never sure what he was doing.. He did abit of everything. but never excelled at it.
His parents, divorced, had been competing to be the 'favorite parent' since he'd been young, a habbit they never grew out of. Both had plans for him, his father wanted him to be a dentist, and his mother wanted him to be a lawyer. His opinion was both were very simular, they both put people in alot of pain and draw alot of blood, and get paid by the person they did it to.
All in all, his life was going nowhere.. That though was before his dormant gift woke within him. The craft had not surfaced in his family for 10 years, but it found him. He really didn't know what he was doing with it, but he decided that he should use these powers for good (and then he chided himself on being so cliche).
Now, the city he grew up in, that of Flagstaff Arizona, was a fairly safe place. And less the cops couldn't handle, but none the less Joshua took it apon himself to deliver vigilante justice to muggers, and petty thieves. This actually paid off though. One night he caught a couple of street punks acousting an elderly man for his wallet, and Joshua stepped in, and set them fleeing for their life, screaming in terror (... okay so that's how he likes to tell it. Really they thought he was a cop and bolted).
The elderly man, one professor Alexander Wilson of the AAS (Academy of Arcane Science) however noticed the potential in Joshua and gave him his card.
Before long, Joshua was accepted in to the AAS, located hidden within the mountains of Colorado, his parents believed he'd gone to school to be a vetrinarian.
At the AAS, life was quite different, there were very few students, and and those there were very close, it was only a matter of days untill Joshua fit in, perhaps because everyone there was a misfit. He even found himself a girlfriend, one Jessica Simms from southern california, an elementalist with an impressive power of fluids.
This is where life takes a turn for the worse for Joshua again. Late one cold winters night he and Jessica were in her dorm.. And regaurdless of what everyone wanted to say they were not engaged in physical intimacy (yet), they were working on an experiment regaurding certain volatile compounds, required homework for her. Noone is sure how it happened, but the compounds got blended, and the results were impressive. And explosive, half of the dorms were destroyed, fortunately few were hurt because of how few students they have.
Jessica did not survive the blast. Joshua did, barely. He was given about as much chance of survival as a decapitation victim. bounced between hospitals, kept on life support in a most fitfull and frightening death-sleep. finally they decided to send him to the city with hospitals best equipped for treating injuries from massive magical mishaps. Paragon City.
When he finally woke up in Chiron Medical Center, he remembered nothing (again, so cliche), and he wished it would have remained that way. he recalled vividly the events of that winters night, and even worse did he remember the hellish nightmares of his year long coma. The blast had scarred his body, taken his right eye, and forever marred his soul.
This his real vision isn't what it once was, he now has vision most do not, his eye sees as well in the dark as it does at noon. and he can see the core of the person. Who and what they really are. Their intentions, their feelings.. Their dreams.
He's chosen to remain in Paragon City, his parents think him dead, so he's got nothing to go to wherever he goes. So, he does what every other Joe Schmoe with a power or a magic sword or a spiffy gun or super flight boxer shorts does in Paragon City, and took up life as a super hero! He found his powers most changed from what they once were.. if he could even remember what they used to be. But channling power from the netherworld is most certainly not what it was.
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