Post by Newton Pulsifer on Aug 16, 2012 13:03:00 GMT -5
Super Identity and Secret Identity: Newton Pulsifer, also known as The Spanner
Alliance: Heroes
Gender Preference: Male
Age: 24
Birthday: 1st of April
Personality: At a glance, Newton Pulsifer is pretty average. He leads a healthy life of having a desk job and being healthily bored with it. You wouldn't be able to tell at a glance, but Newt is pretty contemplative and sits down to think about his world views and what he believes in fairly often. (So far he hasn't been able to bring himself to believe in any religion, nor has he been able to be an atheist. He's also tried believing in the Universe and that didn't work either.)
Because of this, Newt has a tendency to try and find more interesting things to do with his life other than the typical desk job in a typical company. Being a mutt kid, he optimistically tries to do his best as a hero. Even though he's not particularly good at being a hero, he's behind a good percentage of anonymous tips to the police that actually come through. He finds that even though a lot of the things heroes get involved in are frightening, he's quite adaptable and usually comes out in one piece.
Appearance: Newt is two-thirds of tall, dark, and handsome. His hair is usually unkempt and a bit oily no matter what he does to it, so he doesn't bother anymore save for a morning comb.
His style is also pretty simple, considering as a wages clerk you can't really afford to be creative when all you're allowed is business casual. Newt tries to be creative with his clothes with odd patterns on his tie or shirt, but this ends up looking awkward instead of creative.
Newt is very aware that a lot of the popular superheroes have costumes, so he does too. He designed it himself to be a little less flashy than the others, and yet he's still quite uncomfortable in it. The Spanner's outfit consists of a black overcoat that manages to mostly cover up the rest of his body. Underneath, he has a green vest and uncomfortably tight fitting pants. He tries to match his shoes with the vest, but that doesn't happen very often.
About five minutes into his first fight with it on, he realized it didn't do all that much for protecting his identity since it didn't include a mask. He then proceeded to buy a pair of shades which he uses only as the Spanner. It doesn't do much else than cover his eyes. Newt figures it's enough.
History: Newt's childhood was relatively simple. He was a child with dreams of being a computer engineer and his parents fully supported this hobby. Unfortunately, fate thought differently. The first time he picked up a handheld gaming console, the screen suddenly decided to crack. When Newt built a radio meant to pick up local stations, he could get none of them. (However, he did seem to be able to tune into a station in Quebec. He assumes its in Quebec because the voices were speaking an odd French.) And then there was that one time he tried assembling a jukebox. When he plugged it in, he caused a street-wide blackout.
Needless to say, Newt was never destined to be an engineer. He had no idea this may be because he was a mutt kid until one day he realized sometimes, he could tell. It was just a vibe he got from people. He would be able to find the mutated people in a group.
He kept this ability to himself as he grew up. He figured that would be best, considering people were always arguing about mutt kids. Sometimes he would leave anonymous tips for the police for when someone was doing things against the law, but other than that Newt kept to himself until very recently when he realized maybe, just maybe, he could make his ability useful.
(So long as he's never working with someone with a lot of technology. There was that one time he broke a villain's miniaturizing ray. By mistake.)
Secret Identity: Newt's life outside of being the Spanner mainly consists of being a wages clerk in a moderately large company. This, of course, is a largely uneventful job that rarely gets him meeting many people.
Power: If Newt concentrates, he is able to sense if someone has a power or not. It comes to him in the form of vibes. Newt is also sometimes able to determine what kind of power if he's been around the same one multiple times (the vibes would appear very similar to him and he can draw a conclusion based off of that.)
Newt also is able to wreck any piece of technology he touches.
Unfortunately for him, this is an uncontrollable power and it mainly works against him. Some of the times he actually tried to break something, it ended up working better than before. Newt basically crosses his fingers whenever he has to deal with technology on a day to day basis and hope that something doesn't break.
RP Sample: There was no time to change into the Spanner's outfit, so Newt had to sneak around groups of people. The police were setting up caution tapes around the crime scene--the city's museum. Whoever pulled this heist picked a good time. Nothing had been on television for a while. In fact, there were more reporters than law enforcers. Newt kept his head down as he passed a news anchor, shielding his face from the camera
"I'm Robin Scherbatsky with Metro News 1 reporting to you live from the scene of the crime..."
He hung back and tried his best to look like he had a purpose here instead of the many other spectators who looked like curious monkeys, climbing over things in order to get a better view of the museum's curator entering the building. Newt listened to the report, holding his hands behind his back and staring in the opposite direction of the reporter.
"...an anonymous post on a message board written three hours before the discovery of the crime..."
Newt frowned. It was true he felt the leftover waves of a mutt kid using powers in the vicinity. So the thief had left a warning note?
He would have to investigate further. It was going to be difficult for him though, considering the perpetrator used a computer to post the warning...
Other: Nada. c: I'll be careful with his indication powers.
Password?: Clark Kent Superman Clark Kent Superman