Name: Pendleton "Penn" Howl
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Appearance: [url=http://cdn.styleblazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/beards-hugh.jpg]Penn[/url]
masked appearance: [url=http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/297/3/0/grim_reaper_commission_by_n_deed-d5ivirq.jpg]The Reaper[/url]
Mask: [url=http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/255/8/4/mask_update_by_grim___reaper-d49nuvz.jpg]Mask[/url]
Abilities: Penn is a borderline prodigy and proved it during his time as a university teacher. 
Masked Abilities: Levitation - Penn does not call it flight, as he moves around with the absence of external forces, and doesn't push against anything.
Umbraspace/Hammerspace - Reaper can put himself and other objects into shadows, using them as gates to the void. He cannot put other humans or living beings into the void, as it lacks air.
Night vision
Limited Pyrokenesis, black flames.

Personality: 
Masked Personality: Reaper is a being of justice, and has little sense of mercy. He knows when he isn't enough to handle a situation, and isn't afraid to ask for help from other masked beings.
Biography: Pendleton Howl was raised in a small town in northern California to a family with a comfortable lifestyle. He was raised well, and was almost considered a child prodigy in sciences and mathematics. He excelled in just about all of his classes, and gained a full scholarship at the age of fifteen.

Years later, Penn decided to take a trip back to his little hometown, and stumbled on a tiny store next to the road he was traveling. Deciding to take a look at what was there, he encountered an interesting mask. He was a man of science, but he still loved the stories of mythology and the impossible, so he bought the reaper mask and put it on. In black flames that burned with a pain like no other, he transformed for the first time into his alias known as The reaper. He kept the mask a secret from everyone, including his own family. and only put it on again when he returned to his home near the college he now taught at as a professor.

He became The Reaper again, fighting crime and all of the normal superhero things, but in his down, Reaper way.

As the years went by, the thoughts and abilities of the reaper began to linger onto his normal body, eventually to the point where he could create small flames and hide in the shadows without the mask. By then, he had already found the institute. It was old and run down when he found it. No signs of human life anywhere. He repaired it, recreated the facility in the middle of nowhere. During this time, he studied the mask as much as he could, wanting to unlock the secrets that were within the mask. One by one, people with masks showed up at the institute, all with the same questions. He offered to help them, as long as they could help him with his research. It became a base of sorts for masked heroes and villains alike, even with their remarkably small numbers. They grew over time, but even the masked men and women were susceptible to an early fate out of Penn's hands.