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Name: Thomas Prior
Codename: Antaeus
Other Aliases: The Freak
Profile: Starting out as a small time theif, Tom Prior sought to make a name for himself in the criminal community by stealling Matt Lannock’s strength enhancing serum. He managed to successfully break into Lannock’s Lab and acquire the serum, but he was discovered whilst making his exit. During the commotion that ensued Prior was knocked into a hot plate, burning the right side of his face. However, he managed to get away, but was tracked down by police within a few hours. In an attempt to hide the evidence, he drank the serum, something that caused his body to grow and his strength increase immensely, his powers being much the same as Goliath Man or Amazon’s, just to a much higher degree. He escaped custody and began working as a criminal enforcer, known as The Freak, due to his freakish size and scarred face. However, his life of crime did not last, as he started a family and the strain of his lifestyle began to take its toll. He turned himself in and was offered amnesty by W.I.L.D in exchange for his taking part in a rehabilitation program and his services as a member of A Division, which Prior accepted, taking the codename Antaeus (after the giant of Greek Mythology who was unbeatable whilst in contact with the Earth) to replace his original nickname.
Name: Luis Deacon
Codename: Blackstar
Other Aliases: (None)Profile: A child of The Moment*, Luis Deacon has the ability to create small explosions, which he can use as either a offensive weapon or as a means of propulsion, allowing him short (if uncontrolled) flight. He can create these explosions due to a special substance secreted by his skin that he can ignite using either heat or friction. He is immune to the effects of these explosions himself (and has perfected a technique for avoiding injury from the force of being thrown by his explosions), but he has to be careful around others as he has accidentally cause injuries and deaths in the past thanks to his ability. He joined W.I.L.D’s A Division after they offered him assistance in researching ways to control his powers and minimize the risk he poses towards other people.
*The Moment: An event that occured around 25 years ago that released mutanogenic particles into the atmosphere. These particles have since caused a small number of the babies born since the event to be born with superhuman abilities (around 1 in every 500000 people or 0.0002% of the worlds population are estimated to have been affected). It is unknown at the current time when this event occurred, only that it was first observed when its effects started to show in the infant population. It is also unclear what caused the event, leading (conspiracy) theories lay blame on aliens, God or government experimentation, none of which have been confirmed.
Name: Megan Harris
Codename: Copy Cat
Other Aliases: (None)Profile: Another child born with superpowers after “The Moment”, Megan Harris has the ability to copy any other superpower. This can be either temporary or permenant, depending on the circumstances of the copy. To copy a power temporarily, Megan only needs to be with a ten metre radius of the superhuman who she is trying to copy, and this effect lasts for around an hour if she leaves that radius. However, to copy a power permenantly she needs to have physical contact with the subject and maintain that contact for a minimum of a minute to 5 minutes, depending on the complexity of the power set. Megan only discovered her power in her late teens, due to the relative scarcity of superhumans she only came across another whilst on holiday with her friends. Unfortunately, the powers set she accidentally copied to discover her own power was that of a pyrokinetic and, not being used to the power, she spontaneously combusted. Fortunately, part of the powers she copied was immunity to being burned and the superhuman she copied was able to stop the fire, but it did leave Megan a slight bit traumatized. She was able to overcome that trauma however, and has worked on learning to control her ablities, even managing a level of control that allows her to cherry-pick from power sets rather than copying the whole set. After joining W.I.L.D she was able to permenantly gain a fraction of innate capability, meaning she can now immediately know how to control any ability she copies, which has proven very useful, as it removes her need to work out a power set under pressure.
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Name: Thomas Hall
Codename: Dynamo
Other Aliases: (None)Profile: Born with the ability to absorb electricity and covert it into Superhuman Speed (his theoretical top speed cannot be calculated as it is risky to test how much electricity he can absorb before suffering any negative effects, but projections do put his max at around 700-800 mph or 300-350 metres per second) as a result of “The Moment”, Thomas Hall originally wanted nothing to do with heroics. He didn’t even play sports at High School, partially because he didn’t want to be considered a cheat and mostly because he didn’t really care. He just wanted to make people laugh, not impress them with his powers. However, one day that all changed. After doing a try out gig at a local comedy club, Thomas and his boyfriend were taking a short cut home when they were the victims of a targeted hate crime. Their attackers used weapons. Thomas managed to get away, his boyfriend didn’t. That night, Thomas used his powers in anger for the first time, absorbing the electricity from all of the surrounding street lights and taking out the attackers in less time than it would take to blink. But he couldn’t bring himself to get revenge. Instead he handed the attackers over to the Police and dedicated himself to using his powers to help others. He was one of only two members of A Division to approach W.I.L.D about joining.
Name: Adam Bateman
Codename: Mr. Mass
Other Aliases: (None)Profile: An expert physicist and chemist, Adam Bateman worked under contract for the military as part of a team trying to create a method of shrinking equipment in size and mass for easy transportation. After nearly a decades worth of work, the team had managed to create an unstable substance that could, theoretically, be coated onto equipment and that would shrink it in reaction to a certain audio frequency. However, before any proper test trials could be carried out and accident in the lab caused a fire that destroyed most of the research. The substance was boiled away in the fire and Bateman was hospitalized in the aftermath from inhaling the fumes whilst trying to save his work. When Bateman came to though, he found that inhaling the fumes of his creation had given him the ability to access its properties. He was now able to shrink or grow to different sizes by listening to different, almost inaudible frequencies through a headset. He was later approached by W.I.L.D, who offered to give him funding to further his research in exchange for use of his abilities in their A Division, which Bateman accepted as the military had cut funding for his project after the accident.
Name: Diego Reyes
Codename: Prodigy
Other Aliases: Daniel KingProfile: Another child of “The Moment”, Diego Reyes was born with a number of mental and physical adaptations that make him one of the worlds most dangerous assassins. He has numerous Intuitive Aptitudes, such as Anatomical Intuition (innate knowledge of any and every weak point/ physical limit of any biological being, allowing him to instinctively target whilst fighting), a Predatory Instinct (which makes him a master of tracking and capturing targets) and Combat/ Weapon proficiency (allowing him to immediately understand and weild any weapon to perfection without any prior training). He originally used these skills to make a living as an ultimate fighter, but found himself growing bored with the sport after going undefeated in over 100 fights. Instead, he decided to become a soldier and later a mercenary and assassin in order to truely make himself feel alive. He was eventually caught after assassinating the dictator of a small third world country and was given amnesty by W.I.L.D in return for acting as a trainer for their operatives and working as a member of their elite superhuman response division, A Division, under the guidance of the rehabilitation program.
Name: Jamie Walters
Codename: Stinger
Other Aliases: (None)Profile: Born with Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic condition that causes the weakening and wasting of the muscles (specifically the shoulders, upper arms, pelivc area and thighs) , Jamie Walters has had to use a wheelchair since she was 13 and has reached the point where she has almost no strength in her upper legs at all. However, what she lacks physically, she makes up for mentally. Born with superhuman powers thanks to “The Moment”, Jamie is an increadibly gifted Technopath, able to control computers at will. She has used this in a variety of ways, she is a moderatly successful drum and bass musician and a world class hacker, having played festivals and hacked Nasa, the FBI, the CIA, the Kremlin, the UN and the Chinese Military all before the age of 18. Of course, the later got her into rather a lot of trouble and, if it wasn’t for W.I.L.D realising the usefulness of her abilities, she would most likely be in jail by now. However, after working for W.I.L.D for a short period of time a problem emerged for Jamie. Due to her disability, it was considered impossible for her to go out on operations, but there were an increasing number of scenarios where having the technopath in the field would have increased the effectiveness and efficiency of the operations hugely and saved time and numerous lives. So the W.I.L.D technical department, alongside some of the worlds leading medical experts, put together a support suit for Jamie that would act as a harness and a protective shell to allow her to go out on these dangerous missions, as well as having four mechnical arms with various built in inputs for extracting data and a helmet with a decriptor built into the visor. Despite the suit providing artificial muscles to allow her the same sort of free movement that an able bodied person would have, she still has to move with it to control it, which isn’t easy, so she had input ports grafted into her shoulders and lower spine to allow her to directly control the suit using her technopathy and move it as though it was actually a part of her body. However, the suit is both expensive and exausting, so she is banned from using it when not on missions, instead having to make do with her wheelchair.
Name: Lucy Falkner
Codename: Superstar
Other Aliases: Star-GirlProfile: As a teenager, Lucy Falkner came across the wreckage of a crashed alien spacecraft. Unfortunately, the crafts engines were very badly damaged and it imploded, but not before Lucy was showered in a strange radiation. She was unharmed by the experiance, other than a few cuts and bruises escaping from the blast radius, but the radation had contaminated her system and given her the ability to fly and to control background cosmic radiation, even to project it in energy blasts. When her father, a failing publicist and PR man, found out, he saw an opportunity to get rich by turning his daughter into a work for hire superhero. Very quickly Lucy, under the pseudonym Star-Girl, became a bonefide celebrity and one of the most high profile superhumans on the planet, but she didn’t see much rewards from it. Her father took a large percentage of the profit, forcing Lucy to live off of an allowance and controlling every aspect of her life, from what she ate to who she was friends with. Lucy managed to find her way out of her fathers control when he began to get physical in his control of her life, taking him to court and making her identity public in the process. She was later contacted by W.I.L.D with the offer of becoming a member of their A Division, which she accepted as a means to keep herself out of the public eye, taking on the new identity of Superstar, as a sarcastic nod to her past.
Name: James Rush
Codename: The Titan
Other Aliases: Subject 105Profile: One of the earlier recorded superhumans to emerge after “The Moment”, Rush has the ability to control energy, converting it at will and manipulating it output to allow him to use it in a varity of ways from flight to super speed and even blasts of heat, sound and light. These abilities come at a price and Rush has to keep up an energy intake equivelant to 12 male adults in order to replenish the energy he can burn off. When his powers came to light, he was kidnapped by mercenaries working for an unknown benefactor in order to see if his abilities could be harnessed for profit, as either weaponry or for use in the energy sector, alongside some other superhuman children. However, the test subjects were able to escape their captivity, though the benefactor was never caught. After the incident, Rush began to train himself to use his powers, eventually becoming the crime fighter known as The Titan, using a special suit made for him by one of the friends he met whilst he had been kidnapped. He would later be approached by W.I.L.D to lead their new superhuman response unit, A Division.
Name: Gwen Penton-Lance
Position: A Division Coordinator and LiasonProfile: The W.I.L.D Agent assigned to the superhuman response team known as A Division, Agent Penton-Lance is effectively the one in charge (although The Titan is the field team leader) and the one who reports back to the higher ups in W.I.L.D after every mission. An exceptional agent, she is quick witted, sharp and intelligent, adept at reading situations and people. Though she enjoys her work with A Division and has the respect of all of the operatives, she has put in numerous requests to be transfered to the S.R.C, for what she claims to be “personal reasons”. However, for the time being, she is still part of A Division and has been assigned the task of hosting Anelle at her flat whilst a more permenant residence has been found for the alien operative.
Name: Gideon Mantel
Position: Technician- A Division (W.I.L.D Technical Support Department)Profile: Yet another superhuman born from “The Moment”, Gideon Mantel was born with a superb intellect, combined with his Innate Capability in almost every field. Able to comprehend any subject or any physical object within minutes of learning the basics, he was an expert in computing at age 6, a first degree math major at age 8, an expert in particle physics at age 10 and one of the worlds leading cosmology experts at age 13, though his main passion and interest lies in the fields of robotics and engineering. This of course, attracted attention and he was kidnapped by a shadowy group of mercenaries in order to see if his powers could be harnessed for profit. During this time he met James Rush, who would later go on to become The Titan and the two became close when Rush defended Mantel from their guards. After they escaped, Mantel helped Rush build his energy containment suit and later joined W.I.L.D on Rush’s insistance. Mantel is not a field operative however. He suffers from Aspergers Syndrome and anxiety in high stress situations, so is not suitable for combat situations. Instead W.I.L.D have put his intelligence and skill in engineering too good use, making him part of the Technical Support Department and attaching him to the A Division as their Technical Support, giving him to opportunity to create the most advanced technical solutions to aid in combating world threats.
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Name: Negadroid
Profile: Not much is known about the robot known as the Negadroid. It uses technology far more advanced than any current human creation, leading some to speculate that it is either alien, from the future or from an alternate dimension. It is capable of repairing and replicating itself through a piece of technology called the Restoration Matrix, making it increadibly difficult to fight against, and it is fueled by negative emotion. This appears to be the machine’s primary motivation, to sustain itself by creating more fuel to use and it does that by spreading fear, anger and hatred where-ever it can.
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