QUADTRON
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Vulnerability - Quadtron has cybernetic implants in his brain. His toughness is not impervious to electrical attacks.
Social Misfit - Quadtron was born with four arms and no eyes. His social interactions are extremely limited.
Blind - Without his helmet, Quadtron cannot see.
Abandonment Issues - Always afraid that the people around him will leave eventually.
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Background: Roughly thirty years ago, a young, single, expectant mother entered St. Luke's Hospital in labor and a great deal of pain. An emergency C-section later and she realized why it was such a difficult pregnancy: the child she gave birth to was a genetic abnormality. Unable to see anything but the monster in front of her, she quickly left the hospital and abandoned the newborn baby in the nearest dumpster. Fortunately for him, the infant was found soon after by a homeless woman nicknamed "Wagon Wendy" who rescued him from his steal coffin and took him as her own. As the child she named Luke grew, she discovered that he had talents far beyond his physical appearance. Driven with a constant hunger for knowledge, the boy overcame his limitations, adapting to his situation and surroundings. By the age of 10, he understood concepts far above Wendy's capabilities, forcing her to find books about all of the sciences from wherever she could and reading to him. For his eighteenth birthday, he had created, based on touch alone, a functional cybernetic helmet that gave him the gift of sight, built out of discarded parts found in junk yards around the city. Shortly after his first adventure as a "hero," Wendy passed away, causing Luke to leave the city of his birth, wandering across the country. He continued to make advancements on his helmet along the way, creating one of the most complex visual input replacement devises known to man. Unfortunately, the general public doesn't know about his devise, or him. He occasionally encountered various super heroes and aided them when he could, but tried to keep his head low and out of public as much as he could. After all, most people reacted poorly to a freak like him. Now, many years later, he finds himself returning to San Francisco. |
Personality: Quadtron is a shy man who tries to stay out of the public eye. His timid demeanor is his way of respecting other's wishes to not see him rather than due to a psychological need to distance himself from others. When people show an interest in him, he is quite friendly. Down deep inside, though, he always wonders how long it will take before they leave him behind as well. Quadtron's wish for a better, equal and fair world lends itself well to a heroic ideal and causes him to become involved when trouble arises no matter the personal cost.
Powers/Tactics: Quadtron is naturally four times stronger, faster and agile than a normal human at the peak of physical fitness. He has developed a unique brawler style of fighting that maximizes the use of his extra limbs. While he is skilled at hand-to-hand combat, he is not a professional fighter and therefore will grow tired after time if all he does is fisticuffs. As such, he will often mix his hand-to-hand fighting with ranged attacks using his helmet's radiation projection system, which takes the form of a laser.
Appearance: Quadtron is 6'5" and weighs 320 lbs., which is clear in his extremely muscled, well-cut, high-end bodybuilder physique (he has less than 6% body fat). It is his second set of arms, located directly beneath the top set, rather than any form of vanity, that leads him to wear loose-fitting, low-slung shooter shirts most of the time (any other fashion would cause him to rip out the sides of the shirt anyway). Usually relying on what he can find, he is often seen in well-worn jeans and work boots as well. His visual input replacement devise currently resides in a modified black motorcycle helmet with tinted visor, which also does a satisfactory job of hiding the fact that he has no eyes; empty sockets covered over with fully-sealed flaps of skin. While extremely unobvious in comparison with all of the other physical deformities he has, it can also be noted that Quadtron is incapable of growing hair anywhere on his body.
Quadtron was created, designed, and is played by Jim Caswell. Artwork was created by James C. Taylor.
© Copyright 1989, 2012 - James Caswell
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Last updated on 14 May 2012