Name: Mike Walkman.
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Power: He has the power to manipulate pigments and any mix that includes pigments, but he focused on manipulating ink. He can create small amounts of pigment, in any color he desires, and only up to a 2 liters worth of ink. He can only control up to 33 square meters of ink at his best, but that would come with drawbacks, like physical harm. He can cover himself in ink, greatly increasing his speed and strenght. The cover works like armor, but with other benefits. He can still manipulate the ink covering his body, so for example, he can cover himself in ink and make his right hand turn into a sword, or his other forearm turn into a shield (He can change the ink, not his body.). The temperature of the ink is the ambiental (Like anyone's body temperature.) He can control the ink's flexibility and durability at will, the minimum flexibility being solid, and the maximum durability being that of iron, however, making it as durable as stone means making it as dense as iron, heavily increasing the weight of the ink. He can't make the ink as durable as iron and make is as flexible as water; the only way he can get the flexibility of the ink to solid is by turning it into iron. He can also control any ink/pigments in any surface, like paper, tissue, etc... Anything beyond what I said here is impossible, unless he grows stronger IRP.
Reason for Power: Due to a mutation in his DNA inherited by his family that, as it passed on in the family, got worse and worse, until the mutation granted him powers.
Appearance: He's 6 foot, has green eyes, short brown hair, and is thin, which benefits him in ways.
Outfit: He wears a light blue jacket and a white-T shirt under it, a beat-down black jeans, and a white, almost grey, basic shoe.
Personality: He's confused; may show signs of bi-polarity. He acts happily sometimes, but he is generally said to be realistic, tending to be a pessimist. He doesn't like villains, but at the same time, he can't bring himself to join the heroes, seeing as the war would bring more casualties than needed, and he doesn't want to kill, even if that would bring "good". He stays neutral and avoids any kind of fights that could bring casualties. He is also interested in what each side has to offer.
Backstory: It can be summed up in arcs:
Origins:
At a small town in Russia, Mike was born in poverty. His parents had problems; his dad had debts to pay with a bar, had drinking problems, and couldn't do anything alone. His mom was pressured to do everything alone, which led to her getting depressed. As they were poor, they couldn't pay for the remedies, and whatever money they had was used to buy drinks. That's around the time Mike was born.
Early Life
Mike grew up learning to look at the bright side of things, but, even though he had a happy nature, he still needed to get money to sustain his family; with his mom at her edge and dad spending every last bit of money to buy drinks, he needed to do something that would give him money; and quick. So, he started to rob local shops and markets. Not for the sake of robbing, but out of necessity. He learned about his powers at this time, too.
Teen Life
He started to see that looking at the bright side of things wouldn't help him- he was in the middle of trash and he knew that. He started to adopt a realistic way to see the world. He continued to steal, which greatly enhanced his sneak skills and his speed, since if he got caught, he ran. He also already used his powers to learn how to read and write, but also to manipulate documents, pretty much, cleaning his documents had he done anything wrong and been caught. He now lived in hiding from people- luckily, he wasn't caught by police or heroes. He learned about the existence of the Far. A place to re-establish himself. He abandoned his miserable life to get travelling to the Far.
Early Adult Life
Mike got to the Far after a long time of travelling. He got a job, and saw as many many so called "heroes" confronted villains. Casualties were common. He started to think about how moral these "heroes" were. He could, but choose not to help the heroes. Same thing happened with the Centipede; He saw that they were, objectively, wanting to do bad things; but he saw the Centipede as anarchists, people trying to take over the government and try to do something better. Wrong? For Mike's point of view, yes, but he wasn't willing to involve himself in a fight that he knew was impossible to win, and he was interested in what these "villains" would do. As the Centipede attacked, he heard rumors about the new organization of heroes being formed, and some locals approached him about it. Now, he knows he will ultimately need to pick a side; but he's trying to find himself in the world first.
Reason for Being neutral/ an anti-hero: As stated above; He doesn't think that the world is as black and white as "Heroes good, centipede bad". He thinks that both sides have their good and bad. He doesn't want to pick a side yet; he wants to see what the Centipede will do, and picking a side now would be mean fighting, which would bring casualties, so he prefers not to.
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