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Alias: Frankenstein
Real name: Danny West
Age: 4
Gender: Male

Appearance: A 7 ft tall, barrel chested, beefy armed, thick necked, hulk of a man. His hair is short, jet black, and constantly spiked out in all directions because of static electricity. His skin is blue and crisscrossed with numerous surgical scars that indicate extensive surgery. He has two bolts sticking out of both sides of his neck, and three protruding from between each knuckle. He doesn't wear shirts often, will never wear sleeves, and wears short almost exclusively. He has a long chain wrapped up around one arm, up down to his elbow.

Personality: Danny approaches all things with a strange mixture of Déjà vu and awe, like he has seen something before but is super excited to see it just one more time. If it's something really cool, like a laser beam, a giant, or a dinosaur, he'll want to see it no matter how dangerous it might be. He is essentially a giant child who wants to be a superhero because it allows him to see, do, and experience amazing things.

He's ruled by his emotions, especially anger, and is extremely naive. The kind of person that really believes that you can just punch all the badguys to make the world a better place, and that all the big bad guys wear costumes so you can identify them for punching.

There are two things he respects above all others: the words of his father and sanctity of life. He vaguely remembers that dying is a bad, bad thing and will do anything he can to keep someone else from experiencing it. 

Despite the intimidating figure he cuts Danny is actually very friendly. He loves to tell stories and hear them in return, typically subjecting anyone he meets to a nigh endless stream of questions about their life while listening in rapped attention. If they decide to answer, that is. Danny's isn't the most tactful person on the planet.

Danny can typically be found doing odd jobs, trying to earn pocket money to pay for things he either wants or wants to see. Music events, movies, zoos, museums, these are the sort of places you can frequently find him. He's particularly vulnerable to tourist traps. If he's penniless he makes his own fun exploring the area.

Short Biography: Danny is an experiment in creating life from death, created by a very irate scientist. Unlike his namesake, however, the Doctor considered the creature his son and set about raising him into a proper young man. After teaching Danny the essentials of walking, reading, speaking, understanding social ques, and to always undertake his tasks with gusto he realized the boy was getting restless and decided to let him spread his wings. After building Danny a car and telling him that he could be either God or the Devil, he didn't care which, he sent his creation out to see the world for the first time with the stern warning that should the press or the cops ever show up on his doorstep Danny would be cut off. Since then Danny has been "living," as it were, out of his car and sustaining himself by climbing power lines and grabbing on.


Powers, Skills & Equipment: 

--[i]Electricity[/i]: Danny runs on an internal supply of electricity. The electricity can be expended to perform various feats. He can discharge it through the air, pump it directly into something, electromagnetize himself, or push his muscles beyond their limits. In the event that he is dismembered he can ever connect to his limbs with a stream of electricity to puppet them remotely.

---[i]Super Undead Physiology[/i]: Danny is really strong to begin with, easily capable of lifting a family sedan all on his own. When expending electricity he could do the same to a tank or full 18-wheelrer, trailer and all. He is also capable of great leaps, able to clear a two story building unaided and a five story expending electricity. He is able to exceed the land speed of a car on foot. This is helped by the fact that, under normal circumstances, Danny just flat out does not get tired. He doesn't need air, food, water, or sleep and could run for up to three straight weeks without stopping to rest. While he still feels pain, and heals at the rate of a normal person, Danny can survive things that would kill a normal person outright. He is incapable of going into shock and does not bleed.

--[i]Mechanic[/i]: Danny is quite good at repairing motor vehicles.

--[i]The Frankenwagon[/i]: Danny's vehicle of choice, a loud black hotrod with lighting lovingly painted where flames would normally go. Built by Danny and his creator, the car has an emergency battery good for one full charge-em-up. It's modified for Danny's size so he can drive it comfortably. He doesn't have a lot of practical experience behind the wheel.

--[i]The Chain of Pain![/i]: Danny can use his chain like a lasso and weapon "just like Castlevania."

Weakness: Danny's electricity is an internal supply and acts sort of like his blood. He grows slower, weaker, and dumber the more it is used up, and will die again should it ever reach 0%. By his creators calculation, using electricity to supercharge his physical abilities deplete it at a rate of 2% every second, with discharges varying depending on how large they are. Danny can recharge from a source of electricity, and left without the ability to do so will only survive approximately three weeks. He can not use his electric abilities when submerged in water or touching something that conducts electricity easily, lest it drain out at an incredible rate. He obviously can not use any electric abilities while touching another person unless lest he electrocute them.

Maybe not a weakness specific to him, but despite his ability to function with nominally fatal injuries he can not survive the destruction of his brain.
 
Full Biography: [hider=Full Biography] Herbert West, eminent surgeon, had heard all the jokes and for a few long years his fondest wish was finding a practice where no one had ever heard of either H.P.Lovecraft or Jeffrey Combs. That was before a group of vampires took over his hospital and forced him to perform experimental surgery on one of their own (the creatures head had been violently severed for its body and its cohorts insisted he "put it back"). This traumatic experience with some of the most famous monsters of Gothic horror perhaps piqued his curiosity and pushed him toward finally deciding to embrace his destiny. One dark, stormy night in his stately New England manor house he cracked open an old book to see if maybe Mary Shelly had been onto something.

Using John Does from the local morgue he set about his dark work, experimenting in his basement to create life. He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

The first year was rough. He obviously couldn't let Danny out of his house because, let's face it, that would raise some very uncomfortable question about where he'd come from. Fortunately he'd recognized where Frankenstein had gone wrong. What he had here was a child, and he resolved to treat it like one. His development was remarkable. In six months he was coordinated enough to let out of the basement, within the year he was speaking. within the next he and his father were talking shop about vintage cars and arguing about the quality of giant robot television shows. Despite these mutual loves Danny eventually grew listless, wondering about the world outside their door. Herbert realized that he had to let his boy spread his wings come what may, and sent him off in the car they'd built together to seek his fortune. Since then he's been riding across the country, occasionally foiling evildoers in the towns he's passed through. He's never actually been in a big city before.[/hider]

Fun facts: 
-Favorite Color: Blue
-Absolutely adores giant robots, especially super robots. His favorite fictional robot is Combattler V. He is still searching for his favorite non-fictional robot.
-He dislikes vampires about as much as he loves giant robots. 
-He has a debit card connected to his fathers bank account, and is explicitly forbidden from using it for anything but buying gas.
-Top three dream jobs: Astronaut, Race car driver, professional stuntman.
-Named for the 1913 folk ballad "Danny Boy."
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