Birth Name: Jerry Mathias

Nova Name: Splash
Series:

Eruption: Accident

Nature: Thrillseeker

Allegiance: The Beach Patrol!

Strength: 3, Brawl 2

Dexterity: 4, Athletics 5, Drive 1, Stealth 2

Stamina: 3, Endurance 3, Resistance 3

Perception: 2, Awareness 1

Intelligence: 3, Academics 1, Engineering 3, Linguistics 1 (Spanish), Medicine 1

Wits: 3, Arts 1, Biz 1

Appearance: 3, Style 1

Manipulation: 1, Subterfuge 1

Charisma: 2, Command 1, Perform 1

Backgrounds: Attunement 2, Eufiber 1, Allies 4, Influence 2, Resources 2

Willpower: 5

Taint: 1

Aberrations:

Quantum: 3 (1 Tainted)

Quantum Pool: 26

Mega-Attributes: None

Quantum Powers: Density Decrease 5, Immolate 1 (Aggravated, Lethal),

Flight 1, Hypermovement 1 (matter-surfing), High end EM scan (Mega-Per

Enhancement bought separately)

Son of a wealthy SoCal businessman and his immigrant Mexican domestic,

Jerry is consumed by feelings of inadequacy from a lifetime growing up in a house working for his half-siblings and expected to never tell them of their relationship (since obviously his father wasn’t supposed to be having a fling with the maid). The words were never said and Jerry never felt that he did anything worth his father coming out and saying to him or his half-brothers who the ‘maids boy’ really was. And he never worked up the nerve to ‘out’ his father, but ran around cleaning up after his brothers and maintaining their cars and boats and mowing the lawn and cleaning the pool while what he knew festered within him.

He managed to get into a cheap college (although his father snuck him money for this, he put it in the bank and went to the only one that offered him a decent scholarship and worked his way through it), meeting Max at a frat party soon before he erupted (Max already had and was something of a college celeb). They were surfing together, at night, drunk, when Jerry, who was a damn good surfer if he said so himself, greyed out from one too many jello-shots and rode a curl straight into a dock pylon.

And through the dock pylon and out the other side, and his speed kept increasing as he rode through pylon after pylon and into the cliff-face beyond and out the crest of the beachside hill into the night sky.

He blacked out again at this point and his next conscious though was why he was a half-mile away from the water with a wetsuit on and a surfboard beneath him with another boardless surfer hovering over him looking concerned. Max helped him figure out some of his limits, but more importantly brought him to his sponsors, who were delighted to find yet another telegenic Nova to market and hooked him up with a trainer to explain and refine his powers.

Keri explained to him that he could slide between the molecules of matter, robbing it of inter-atomic energies that he could use for propulsion. Thus he could effectively ‘fly’ by stealing momentum from the air, or ‘surf’ the ground or water at a far faster rate since there was so much more inter-atomic energy for him to tap. He could also concentrate and take all of the interatomic energies (or at least try to) and effectively ‘melt’ anything he passed through!

He didn’t have to use a surfboard, but he just liked the idea of surfing down Main Street, and his Attunement is such that he can strap himself to his ‘boogie board’ and go, whether it be across (or through!) land, sea or (at a reduced rate) sky.