HeroMachine Character Portrait Creator

Thank you for the kind words. Here is Adam Callahan, formerly Psych and now Psyche.

As Psych, the telepathic hero was the team clown on the Cadets, his constant jokes lightening the mood of the team in tough situations. He was accompanied in his joviality by his best friend Snowball. When fighting the supervillain that phased Paige out of existence, Snowball perished. The villain’s reactor had overheated and Snowball threw himself on it to cool it down and avoid a catastrophic explosion. Adam stayed with his friend telepathically as he died, comforting him as his body melted and his consciousness drifted away. Feeling his friend’s life slip away resulted in Adam sinking into a depression. The cadets split apart and for a couple months Adam retired from heroics. When he returned, he had changed. He was now filled with anger and he vented his frustrations on criminals. After his mental powers almost left a petty thief catatonic, the government stepped in and offered him a position with SPARO, the superhuman special forces group. He took it figuring that it would give him purpose and allow him to use his rage in a helpful way.

With SPARO, his mental powers grew exponentially. His original mind reading and slight ability to push thoughts grew into the ability to read several minds at once over a vast difference, the ability to control others, the ability to alter perceptions of others to see what he wants them to see, and the ability to read the depths of people’s minds. With these skills, he was a good SPARO operative. He helped take down superhuman despots and terrorists. However, SPARO’s morally questionable tactics alongside their use of deadly force soon got to Adam. He had killed people and using his powers, he had destroyed minds and trapped others in hells of their own making. He had used his powers to push enemies to kill their comrades. He was worried that he had become a monster. This caused him to leave after his four year term was up and he returned to superheroics.

He returned darker and more somber. His prior humor had became pitch black and his optimism turned to cynicism. He was also tired of keeping secrets and he came out after he came back. His old friends all supported him as he did so and he felt better about having one less secret. His new demeanor led him to adopt a new name of Psyche, as he felt Psych was too happy.

While on patrol one night, he ran into his old enemy Titan. Adam was tired and did not want to fight him as he knew it would be difficult for both parties as both had grown stronger in the five years since they had last met. He also recognized something in Titan’s eyes. A feeling that he also didn’t want to fight, that he was tired of this. He saw that Titan had also changed, that he had experienced hell and had become a monster. This kindred feeling caused Adam to ask Titan just to talk. He figured he needed a chance to vent as Adam also needed. So the two went to a seedy cape bar patronized by villains and antiheroes. The two talked and became friends and drinking buddies. Adam helped Tony recover from his depression and convinced him to stop being a supervillain and instead help others. Titan decided to become a big gun, a hero only called when the threat needs someone really powerful to stop it.

Eventually, the friends realized that their friendship had evolved into more romantic feelings. This led to one of the stranger superpowered couples. A hero and a former villain. This relationship took some time for others to get used to, but when the former Cadets saw how Tony brought back some of Adam’s joker side, they accepted it. Anthony’s supervillain parents have also reluctantly accepted it and their son’s refusal to be a villain as their son seems to be happy.

Inmate Number: G-001694
Surname: Dyer
Forename: Amy
Initial Date Of Commitment: 11/06/15
Patient Age: 26
Gender: Female

Patient Information: Dyer appears to suffer from DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder, commonly known as Multiple Personality Disorder). She certainly shows a convincing case to suggest one markedly different alter alongside the host personality. The host, Amy, is a rather meak and shy girl with a pronnounced stutter, whilst the one identified alter, Amanda, is highly volatile and aggressive, with a tendancy towards pyromania. As of yet, staff are only aware of these two personalities, and there have been no hints of any others. It is obvious from documented evidence (police reports and child services documentation) that Amy suffered a great deal of physical and mental abuse during her formative years, before she was taken away from her family at age 6. We can speculate that Amanda formed around this period, as it fits the developmental time frame for the disorder and events from this time could also explain her pyromania, as a barn fire at her family’s farm killed her elder brother and family dog during her early years. In interviews with asylum staff, Amanda has admitted to going out and starting fires in local properties as a teenager to cope with the stress of being in the foster care system. Evidently, these fire-starting trips would become more regular and more reckless as she grew older. When questioned about this, Amy claimed she has no knowledge, as is congruant with cases of DID. Dyer came into the asylum’s care after being caught in one of Amanda’s arson attacks. She was badly burnt in the incident, however, treatment at the local hospital became complicated as Amanda refused skin grafts and even attacked the doctors that treated her, whilst Amy was in a near catatonic state due to the shock of waking up in the hospital badly burnt with no idea what had happened for the entire time her personality was in control. Fortunately, since being commited, Dyer has shown great improvement, through a treatment schedule of anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs alongside regular cognative and creative therapy sessions and incidents of Amanda taking control have become few and far between. However, Amy has become quite scared of Amanda since becoming aware of her second personality and there is still a high risk of a mental break when she is exposed to high stress situations (see 07/07/16 incident. Amanda nearly blinding Doctor Roberts after Amy recieved the news of a former foster mother’s death) and it is also worth noting that, early on in the treatment, Amanda would regularly self-harm, which lead to the application of chemical and physical restraints to Dyer whenever she was left unsupervised.

Patient Interview Exerpt:

Doctor: Taped Patient Interview with Patient G-001694: Dyer, Amy. Session 9.  Conducting the interview is Doctor Jeremy Hollingshead. Hello Amy, how are you today?
Amy: H-hello Doctor. I-I’m… okay I guess…
Doctor: Doctor Levering tells me that you’ve been very well behaved since our last session. Taking your medication, staying out of trouble, you haven’t had an incident in a few months now, is that right?
Amy: Y-yes d-doctor.
Doctor: Yes, you have made very good progress. Hopefully we will soon be at the stage where we can get those burns of yours taken care of.
Amy: *whimpers*
Doctor: What’s wrong Amy? Do you not want the Doctor to treat your burns? I thought you said that they were still painful? If we get them seen too we can decress your medication and start the next stage of your treatment. Do you not want that?
Amy: I-it’s not that s-sir, i-it’s just… s-she d-doesn’t like t-the i-infirmary. A-and I d-don’t w-want her t-to g-get out again y-you see. I’m a-afraid t-that s-she’ll hurt s-someone again, or hurt m-me…

I’ve been trying to make this guy a costume for literally years. Every time I thought I had something I went “…Nah, this is garbage.” and scrapped it.

But this time I decided to go way simpler than I had been doing in the past and…I guess it works?

So here’s a guy who has popped up in several other peoples stories but has never made an actual appearance until now. The man with the healing touch, Trauma.