Stargazer
(Leo
Morris)
PL 6 (90 pp)
Abilities: Str 14, Dex 12, Con
18, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 14
[26 pp]
Attack: Melee +4, Ranged +4 [8 pp]
Defense: +2 (+1 flat-footed) [4 pp]
Initiative: +1
Damage +2 hand to hand, +6 with Dazzle or Blast or
Corrosion
Saves: Toughness +4 (+10 with Force Field active, 6
Impervious), Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 [0 pp]
Skills: Acrobatics 1 (+2), Bluff 0 (+2, +6 vs. those who
might find him attractive), Climb 1 (+3), Computers 1 (+3), Concentration 0
(+2), Craft (structural) 2 (+4), Diplomacy 2 (+4), Disguise 0 (+2), Drive 1
(+2), Escape Artist 0 (+1), Gather Information 0 (+2), Handle Animal 1 (+3),
Intimidate 0 (+2), Investigate 1 (+3), Knowledge (history) 4 (+6), Knowledge
(earth science) 1 (+3), Knowledge (life science) 1 (+3), Knowledge (theology
& philosophy) 1 (+3), Language (English, native), Language (Italian), Medicine
2 (+4), Notice 4 (+6), Search 4 (+6), Sense Motive 2 (+4), Stealth 0 (+1),
Survival 1 (+3), Swim 1 (+3)
[8 pp, 32 ranks in skills]
Feats: Attractive 1, Diehard
[2 pp]
Powers:
Sonic Control 6 (auditory Dazzle (area burst) 6,
Power Feats: Dynamic,
Dynamic Alternate Power – Move Object 6 (modulated
sound waves),
Dynamic Alternate Power – Flight 6,
Dynamic Alternate Power – Force Field 6 (Extra:
Affects Others +0),
Alternate Power – Blast 6 (sonic),
Alternate Power – Healing 6,
Alternate Power – Corrosion 6), [22]
Super-Senses 6 (accurate (hearing), danger sense
(hearing), detect (hardness of objects / toughness ratings), extended 1
(hearing), ultra-hearing), [6]
Immunity 2 (aging, disease), [2]
Force Field 6 (Extra: Impervious) [12]
[42 pp]
Abilities 26 + Combat 12 + Saves 0 + Skills 8 + Feats 2
+ Powers 42 = 90 pp
Leo grew up following his uncle around expeditions all
over the globe, ostensibly archaeological, but increasingly humanitarian in
nature. Building shelters for people, providing medical aid, even preserving
the cultural and historical details of a people who had long since despaired of
having anything to be proud of in their past, amidst the bleakness of their
present situation, Leo followed his uncle around the globe, much to his
parent’s consternation when they found out that they’d been ‘wasting their time
on hopeless causes’ and ‘tilting at windmills.’ Leo stood up to his parents,
who were far more interested in being wealthy and not feeling guilty about it,
and was promptly disowned, which suited him fine, since he had effectively
grown up raised by his adventurous uncle anyway.
It was in
Tracking an ancient riddle, scattered in fragments across
the world, Leo’s uncle was lost to a Serpent Man sorcerer seeking the same
riddle, and it was sheer chance that Leo got his hands on the artifact before
the snake-man. Underwater, off the coast of Greece, hampered by scuba-gear
while the serpent seemed to swim effortlessly about, like a shark through the
water, Leo watched his uncle succumb to the creature’s venomous attack, and
only the strange ‘Lyre of Apollo’ that they’d found at the last served to
protect him from the creature, it’s low thrum sounding deep within his bones
and making him feel like he was about to fly apart at the seams. And yet, while
the strange sensation pulsed through him, his body was as hard as stone, and
the serpent mans claws and fangs could not find purchase in his flesh. In
desperation, he strummed the lyre again, and even under water, the sound
carried, this time a shrill lance that boiled the water in front of it and tore
a ragged hole in the Serpent Man! Shocked, the serpent man fled, and Leo rose,
pulling his uncle to the surface only to find that it was too late, that the
elder man had died already of his injuries.
Testing the lyre in the air, it seemed to have no further
effects, but the strange vibrations continued within his body, and it was only
through concentration and focus that he learned to manipulate the strange sonic
vibrations that now infused his body. With a sharp blow from his hand, he could
set up a destructive resonance within an item, and cause it to fly into
splinters. Using meditative and yogic focus techniques, he could move the
vibrations through his body and cause them to burst forth from his palms, to
strike a distant target like a gunshot. In time, he learned to use the forces
more gently, to slowly move an item, or even suspend it off of the ground, and
then finally to do the same to himself, allowing him to fly through the skies.
He learned to hear the ‘songs’ that all items sing, songs that reveal their
weak points and show the places where they can be shored up and reinforced,
allowing him to strengthen another by touch for a time, making them more resistant
to harm, or even to heal and repair injuries! (A technique that he regrets not
having learned in time to save his uncle, but as it took six months of actively
trying to develop the skill to heal, he knows there is no chance he could have
saved his uncle with this power.)
Leo still carries the Lyre of Apollo, although it has no
effect on his powers. He is concerned that the Serpent Man who sought it might
yet return, and find some way to gain similar powers over the ‘Words of
Creation’ from the instrument. He has already learned that the words have many
destructive applications, and he does not want them to fall into the hands of
those who would use them towards violent ends.
Taking the name ‘Stargazer,’ from a childhood fascination
with astrology (and to confuse potential foes into speculating that his powers
may have something to do with the stars, light or prophecy), Leo has sold his
uncles holdings and donated the lot to various charities that he and his uncle
have worked for in the past. He has moved to
Leo is pretty darn close to being a pacifist, despite his
easygoing physical nature and rugged build. He prefers to stick to destroying
objects, shielding or healing others, or deafening foes, as well as seizing and
restraining folk with his move object function. He can and will use his sonic
Blast attack, but it will be only in defense of self or others, and never
casually. He is studiously developing new techniques, and insists that he
should be able to transform items, or even create objects out of thin air, if
he can only ‘find the right tune.’ He has been assured that mind-affecting
stunts, such as Emotion Control, Confuse or Mind Control, should be quite easy
for him to develop as well, but he’s even *more* opposed to damaging or
violating someone’s mind or feelings than Blasting their flesh, and has refused
to even begin working towards these sorts of effects.
Despite having traveled over much of the world, Leo has
spent very little time around people his own age, and is alternately attracted
to his fellow students and envying their easy friendships, and yet also deeply
troubled by what he sees as their superficiality. When some of his team-mates
greatest concerns were what to wear to the dance (as he sees it, unaware that
few if any of his classmates had it this good!), he was watching his uncle
having to turn away mothers who had traveled two days to their aid station,
babies strapped to their backs, because they'd run out of food and medical
supplies and had nothing left to give them.