Strength Embodiment

Aside from saving dogs from trees, stopping evil schemes, and aiding pedestrians across inconvenient hardships, Derek enjoys the time he has with a little, peculiar friend he made just a year apart from his heroic debut. It was an unforeseen encounter with a family of apparitions and mythical beasts, warmly dedicated to the preservation and improvement of nature. A powerful infant frolics among them, Cloud. She gained a liking for Derek right away. Perhaps, the nature spirit sensed a great good inside Earth’s dependable Boy Scout; if that is so, then Derek can read the exact same in Cloud.

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This is basically a repost; Derek was made underneath a different post, and I kinda liked him, so I decided to do this.

A being from a distant planet, maybe the offspring of gods, or perhaps a primordial force incarnate. Many have labeled this young man, but were politely brushed aside. The young man, known as Derek, assured the curious public that he is just another citizen. There is no need for speculation, according to him.

TL;DR: Local Hoosier can do anything with just a bit of muscle…

Derek’s track record spans over a 70-year campaign against villainy and injustice in the world. Despite this, he retains impeccable youth (appears 20), enthusiastic professionalism, and overwhelming power. How much power? No one knows. At least, not logically. The hero himself claims to have super strength and only that. Fair, Derek can easily topple skyscrapers and densely obtuse fortresses given time; once overseas, Derek generated a controlled sinkhole with a single, ground-ward strike — this feat raised more questions due to the precise shape the hole took on. Those feats were documented early in Derek’s valiant career, when conflict was simple and political. Holes within the super strength front become more apparent when Derek gets exposed to grander threats; extraterrestrials, interdimensional beings, events beyond ordinary comprehension… Earth’s champion stood against all of these and single-handedly struck all of them down with nothing more than his bare fists.

An alien civilization, one that garnered technology capable of shaping universal variables on a whim, threatened to assimilate Earth’s solar system into their collection of test subjects. Derek, a man of average proportions, tossed a fist-like wrench into their schemes, wiping out the godlike armada in one move. The aftermath of that night looked like a meteor shower. Being ones to not waste time, the defeated aliens used their nigh-omnipotent technology to recruit another species of terrestrials in their stead; the summoned allies possess a eugenically optimized physique.

Known as the Cosmic Undead, they possess the universe’s finest brand of regeneration. Nuclear radiation, apocalyptic disease, supernovas… These phenomenal wonders circumvented their way through destruction. Cultivated by the warrior lifestyle of his people, one Cosmic Undead stood at the pinnacle of them all, T’chlxthh. He alone discovered a hypertrophic effect within his immortality. This innate feature guaranteed a pathway to greater potential, more power than what martial arts could hope to give. By sundering himself with ever-increasing destruction he obtained a physique strong enough to resist, escape and obliterate blackholes. T’chlxthh claimed the title of strongest prior to his match against Derek. Ironically T’chlxthh died by an unwarranted blackhole produced by the latter’s grip strength.