User blog:GrandMethuselah67/World-1 Character Sheet: Beastmaster/Mandarin (Lucas Harken)

Name: Lucas Harken

Age: 17

Alias: Beastmaster (later Mandarin)

Classification (Unbound): Neohuman; Warper 14, Kinetic/Toucher 14

Classification (Suppressed): Neohuman; Administrator 6, Brute/Traveler 8, Polymorph 4, Toucher/Meta 11

Powers (Unbound): Potentiality Administration, Form Administration

Powers (Suppressed): Animal Manipulation, Animal Mimicry, Elemental Shapeshifting, Customization/Remaking

Monarch: The Ebon Sovereign

Obligation/Frailty: Severe Depression, anxiety.

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Affiliations: Nightwatch (Baron), the Bloody Crown (leader), the Young Sentinels (temporarily), the Camarilla (temporarily)

Quotes:

"Think about it: why do the heroes lose so much, and why do the villains win so much? This isn't a coincidence. It's because villains are active while heroes are passive. Heroes respond to threats, while villains create threats. Already, they begin the conflict on their terms, with their rules. And heroes have no choice but to respond. On a good day, heroes can stop supervillains from killing a couple of hundred people -- assuming they can get there on time. Villains have never fought against someone that was active before, someone who stomps on their territory. We're going to be active."

"Among criminals, might makes right. Isn't that so? You didn't respect me until I broke your fingers, right? Might makes right because criminals are an amoral, cowardly lot. If this is the way I've got to be to make sure people are safe, then this is the way I've got to be."

(As Mandarin) "I've already seized your territory. Your men are mine, and you don't have a leg left to stand on. I'd told you this would happen -- but it wasn't a promise, nor an oath. It was inevitable. This war was over before it started."

(Mandarin) "The Bloody Crown is mine, and with it its legion of highly trained assassins. Call me a supervillain if you want. At this rate, it's better to think I'm one."

Occupations: High School Student, Gang Lord, (Fake) Supervillain, Antihero

Tropes: Well-Intentioned Extremist, Vigilante Man, The Unfettered

Origins: Lucas Harken was only 8 years old when he underwent a Quantum Event, which killed his father right in front of his very eyes. Ever since that event, possibly due to his Frailty/Obligation imposed on him by the Ebon Sovereign, Lucas had been struggling with severe depression and anxiety. To cope with these feelings that he is responsible for the death of his parents (his mother died giving birth to him), he had become a costumed vigilante, determined to return the world back to its Golden Age glory at all costs, even if he has to employ the ruthless methods of supervillains.

Powers (In Detail):
Lucas is, potentially, one of the most powerful neohumans in existence. During his Contact Event with the Ebon Sovereign he was given an evolved fragment of the Samaritan's Astral Shadow. As a result, he has an evolved version of the Samaritan's powers. Due to Lucas receiving help and coping mechanisms for his depression, his Astral Shadow had nearly died due to having no negative emotion to "feed" off of. As a result, Lucas possesses lesser versions of the powers he already has.

Unbound Powers:

Potentiality Administration (Warper 14): Lucas' first power is complete and utter lordship of all potentials in the multiverse. He can control the potential of all things, be they matter, energy, concepts, or other humans. Through this power, he can create or bestow new abilities. He can change absolutely anything or manipulate the interactions between things. He can also use this power to manipulate all probabilities. This ability is the evolved version of the Samaritan's reality warping ability.

Form Administration (Kinetic/Toucher 14): Lucas' second power is ability to manipulate all "forms" by touch. This allows him to change the form of anything, shapeshift anything or grant anything different forms. This power is an evolution of the Samaritan's Brute 12 ability, which is this ability but only applied to himself (self-form manipulation). Lucas can, of course, use this power to shift his form however he wants. Powers (Suppressed):

Fauna Administrator (Administrator 6): Lucas has the ability to manipulate all non-human animals. This is a telepathic ability, and it allows him fine control over all fauna, such as insects, birds, mammals, and lizards. He can also use this ability to perceive through their senses, giving him a potentially 360 degree vision. He can also give Fauna lasting commands, which they'll proceed to carry out even when he is actively not controlling them. At its peak, this ability extends out to seventy feet in all directions, and is always on. He has to make an actual effort to not control animals within his range.

Animal Mimicry (Brute/Traveler 8): Lucas can mimic the traits of any animal within his range without his shape. With this ability, he can fly like a bird (which grants this ability the Traveler classification), crawl walls like insects, duplicate himself like single-celled organisms, or replicate the speed and strength of animals such as the ostrich or the rhino. He can only mimic the traits of animals within his 60 foot range, barring his access to the more exotic animals unless he is relatively near them.

Elemental Polymorph (Polymorph 4): Lucas has the ability to change himself into any element, be it fire, earth, water, or air. This isn't just limited to those elements, though: he can also change himself to metal, ash, light, electronic waves, or anything inanimate. While in this form, he can phase through any material that is made from the element he is made of.

Modding (Toucher/Meta 11): Lucas' final suppressed ability is the ability to "modify" any object/life he touches. He typically uses this ability on animals within his range, turning them giant, giving them mutations that make them more vicious, or giving them supernatural traits. He also uses this on objects, giving it supernatural traits and minor abilities (he cannot grant an object or entity any power above tier 4). He has used this personally on his equipment to grant it supernatural properties.

Allies: Nightwatch and the Bloody Crown
As a result of the guidance of Pathrazer (who secretly guides Lucas and his gang in the control of Nightwatch), Lucas had become one of the most powerful gang leaders in the Solar System. His power and influence had doubled even more when he became the leader of the Bloody Crown. He has a large list of allies that he can call upon, many of them being powerful in their own right.

Nightwatch:



Name: Bradley Sykes

Alias: Phantom (formerly Phantasm)

Classification: Neohuman; Stalker 5, Administrator 3

Powers: Ethereal Form, Possession

Monarch: The Azure King

Obligation/Frailty: Unable to feel emotions to the extent a normal person can

Backstory: Bradley Sykes is the son of Rowan Sykes, also known as the Fool (the leader of Taboo). He was born to one of Rowan's many wives and inherited a weaker fragment of his father's Astral Shadow, allowing him to bend reality to the extent that he becomes invisible and intangible. He inherited an evolved fragment of his mother's Astral Shadow: his mother had the ability to control the bodies of others, and Bradley has the ability to outright possess people. Since he grew up in Taboo, he'd been a serial killer until he turned 14. After that point, he swore off killing innocents and developed his own strict moral code in order to refrain from becoming the same person as his father.



Name: Sophie Yee

Alias: Lady Dragon

Classification: Neohuman; Savant 3, Brute 5-12 Powers: Martial Arts Intuition, Combat Adaptation

Monarch: The Vermillion Emperor

Obligation/Frailty: Narcissism, an overconfidence in her fighting ability, rage when she is underestimated.

Backstory: Sophie is a former enforcer of the Red Rooster Triad. She only worked for them because they were holding her family hostage, but Lucas had managed to free her family while taking over the Triad. Now Sophie considers herself forever in Lucas' debt, and is fiercely loyal to him. She is largely considered the "muscle" of Nightwatch due to her intuitive knowledge of all martial arts and her ability to grow progressively stronger the longer a fight is going on.



Name: Sara Greene

Alias: Minerva

Classification: Savant 10, Administrator 2

Powers: Tactile Psychometry, Technopathy

Monarch: The Azure King

Obligation/Frailty: Mild Autism; reduced ability to understand social cues

Backstory: Sara is, by all intents and purposes, the first member and perhaps the founder of Nightwatch. She had been contacted by Pathrazer (who revealed himself to still be alive) and, with Lucas, she formed Nightwatch. Sara acts as the intelligence and field support of the group, which is made extremely effective with her Savant and Administrator powers. She can discern information by reading the psychic imprints on objects, locations, or people. She can also manipulate machinery telepathically for as far as two miles.



Name: Hannah Smythe

Alias: Bruiser

Classification: Neohuman; Warper 7

Powers: Elemental Exoskeleton

Monarch: The Ebon Sovereign

Obligation/Frailty: Anger issues, tendency to go overboard due to her explosive temper.

Backstory: One of the most recent members of Nightwatch. Hannah used to be part of a Nuclear Order superhero family called the Incredible Five, but she'd been declared dead after she'd gone missing, kidnapped by the Green Serpent Gang. After Nightwatch rescued her, she refused to go back to the Incredible Five due to issues going on within the family, followed by a desire to be independent from her parents. She'd joined Nightwatch due to the relative autonomy she'd be granted within the group, followed by an infatuation with their leader, Lucas.

The Bloody Crown:

Name: Mitra Carlyle

Alias: Marid

Classification: Neohuman; Kinetic 7, Polymorph 5

Powers: Hydrokinesis, Water Mimicry

Monarch: The Azure King

Obligation/Frailty: Pathological need to "test" others

Backstory: Mitra Carlyle is the daughter of Griffin Carlyle, the former leader of the Bloody Crown. When her father was killed in combat with Lucas, she had become Lucas' "concubine" (though Lucas insists on getting rid of the archaic laws of the Bloody Crown and refuses to coerce Mitra into a romantic relationship). She acts as his second-in-command and vizier for the Bloody Crown. She aids Lucas in his efforts to control the criminal underworld; since Lucas had slain her father, the laws demand complete and total loyalty to him until she is strong enough to slay him herself.