[hider=Jake Krain "Outsider"][center][h1][color=#B8EEFF][b]Outsider[/b][/color][/h1][hr][img]http://i.imgur.com/vkAJEpL.jpg[/img][/center][hr][color=#B8EEFF][b]Name:[/b][/color] Jake Krain.
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Alias:[/b][/color] The Outsider.
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Age:[/b][/color] 19.
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Alignment:[/b][/color] Hero.
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Loyalty:[/b][/color] Minutemen.
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] Standing at 6'1 and weighing in at 171, Jake is a leanly muscled young man with a typically lazy posture and fairly relaxed, but oddly sinuous and predatory gait. He walks with an air of confidence and unintentional mystery, seemingly aloof, his gaze often appearing bored or disinterested. He's hard to read unless you know him well and he's the sort that most would call conventionally attractive. All in all he's a well built, but not muscly guy with a laidback look and a demeanor to match.

His costume consists of [url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/65610677900808192/275878081720483840/Outsider_Costume_FR.jpg]this outfit[/url] and a white mask that covers only his eyes and the bridge of his nose. Additionally he wears a pair of black and white gloves.

[color=#B8EEFF][b]History:[/b][/color] 
[hider]Born alongside his twin sister, Ashlynn, to their single mother Jake grew up in a stable home with mother and sister both. Jake was what one might describe as an excitable and friendly kid. He did well in school—though not terribly far above average—though he was sometimes rather preoccupied or difficult to corral.

Around the age of 9 he expressed great curiosity regarding his father and that side of his family. His mother told him stories of the man and offered, when he was a bit older, to let him visit his relatives in Japan. He happily agreed, patiently studying the culture and the language over the next four years as something of an obsession while keeping correspondence with his grandparents overseas. Finally on his 13th birthday, his mother allowed him to travel to Kyushu, Japan where his grandparents lived. 

As if he'd known them all his life, Jake took great delight in visiting them and quickly grew used to their company. One day, his grandfather decided to take Jake on a tour of the city. It was on that same day, while they were out on the town, that Leviathan attacked. With the city flooding, the two were pushed underwater as the water level rose and waves crashed into them, practically toppling a building on Jake's grandfather. With his grandpa pinned underwater, Jake was panicked, but tried to be brave like the heroes who fought nearby.

However, in an attempt to swim down to rescue his grandpa, Leviathan swam past him in the water and the beast's after-echo struck him hard, knocking the air from his lungs and slamming him back into an exposed pipe, which would have impaled him. However, perhaps out of luck, he triggered, causing his human body to swap out for the one he would one day term his “Second Vessel,” allowing him to survive being impaled by the metal pipe.

Scared, in pain, and confused, Jake instinctively thrashed and eventually pulled himself from the pipe, his body healing rapidly. He nearly balked and swam away, before the image of his grandfather, gasping for air, pulled him back.

So it was that he forced himself to swim towards the drowning man and extricate him from the collapsed building's wreckage. Once freed, he carried the man above water before—to his surprise—flying back to their home where he did his best to protect his grandmother as well. Eventually, the waves subsided, but the damage had been done.

It was hours before a rescue team came for them and it was not until he saw them in the distance that he moved out of sight and shifted back before joining his grandparents. Several days later the three were on a one-way trip to the states where they would stay.

Following the harrowing incident, Jake seemed quieter...withdrawn, but his sister—as she always had—helped him recover, though he would never be the same boy he'd been before Leviathan.

Time went on and the fear of his newfound powers grew less and less even as his curiosity rose—though both emotions were...less intense than he remembered them in the past. Like his powers, this would be just another thing he grew used to. No longer deterred by the watchful eyes of his grandparents—who had bid him not to use the frightening abilities—he began to experiment in secret. Of course, as with all things between twins, he couldn't keep it a secret from her for long.

So it was that throughout their adolescence and the drama of highschool the two practiced their abilities away from the city where prying eyes wouldn't see. This drew him and his sister closer than before, and so she would serve as one of few things that grounded his emotions and made him feel...well, somewhat more normal than he typically did among others.

With some rocky relationships in between, Jake and his sister eventually graduate high school with Ashlynn entering higher education, unlike him. He just didn't have the motivation or those sorts of aspirations it seemed—not anymore at least. Instead, he found himself a part time job, enjoying life as much as he could, and helping to support his family where he could.

More recently he's begun stretching his powers at night, taking out minor criminals, though never anything even vaguely high profile. He's been active for the last two months and has only had encounters with three other parahumans in that time. While he's remained essentially in the shadows, some rumors of a strange creature lurking in the night have begun to spread. While he knows otherwise...he hopes they're not about him.[/hider]
[center][color=#B8EEFF][h3][b]Personality[/b][/h3][/color][/center]
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Motivations:[/b][/color] As per a promise he made to his grandfather, Jake, in all that he does, makes an honest attempt to leave things better than he found them. Beyond this he has a strong wish to protect those he cares about—especially since they are few in number.

[color=#B8EEFF][b]Sexuality:[/b][/color] Straight.
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Likes:[/b][/color] [list]
[*]Girls with piercings.
[*]Working out.
[*]Parkour.
[*]Coffee.
[*]Curry.
[*]Tea.[/list]
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Dislikes:[/b][/color] [list]
[*]People commenting on his [i]other[/i] appearance.
[*]Being inactive for long periods of time.
[*]Cigarettes/smoke.
[*]Monotony.
[*]Boredom.
[*]Dogs.[/list]
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Derangement:[/b][/color] Essentially, following his trigger event, Jake has felt more and more detached from reality, particularly the events and people around him on an emotional level. It became harder for him to form lasting emotional bonds or to just, well, care about most things. Additionally, he's noticed more and more that he only feels 'all there,' emotionally when utilizing his powers—and during a brief period of time after use as if a small part of him was cordoned off into his second body when he triggered.

While Jake has grown used to this, the activation of his power tends to cause an almost 'emotional high,' sometimes resulting in emotions becoming more intense in general—the reality being he's just experiencing the average intensity of human emotion which he is typically denied. Currently, Jake's working theory for why this happens is essentially as follows:

[color=#B8EEFF][b]“When I triggered, I think my power cordoned off a small part of my psyche, allotting it to my Second Vessel so that when I inhabited it it wouldn't feel unfamiliar and unnatural, but instead would fit me like a glove. However, this appears to have resulted in a loss of emotional intensity in my...human half. Kinda sucks.”[/b][/color]

[center][color=#B8EEFF][h3][b]Parahumanism[/b][/h3][/color][/center]
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Skills:[/b][/color] Having been practicing parkour for awhile, Jake is pretty good at getting through almost any environment with great efficiency. This also makes him a very athletic and somewhat acrobatic individual. Beyond this he knows how to throw a mean punch or kick properly, but he's certainly no martial artist.

[color=#B8EEFF][b]Classification:[/b][/color] Breaker[b]|[/b]Brute[b]|[/b]Mover.
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Details:[/b][/color] Jake’s power affords him a subtly enhanced physical awareness and control, while sacrificing a measure of his emotional sensation. This emotional dampening is a side effect of his main power, which allows him to--at will--swap to a monstrous alternate form. This switch--whether from human to monster or the inverse--sends the unused body into another world, where it dwells in stasis. Inactive bodies are largely unaffected by time, but will heal as normal. In the case of his alternate form, known as his Second Vessel(SV), it will also ‘recharge’ its energy stores by absorbing the energy from light. When willed, Jake will swap to his Second Vessel, which causes a brief sense of nausea and disorientation that can be adjusted to, but not mitigated. What follows are the properties and capabilities of his Second Vessel.

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Measuring in at 35 feet in length and 10 feet tall from ground to back, Jake’s Second Vessel is monstrous indeed. Sporting four arms and a host of prehensile tentacles, Jake has an even higher degree of dexterity and awareness in this form than when in his human body, allowing him to perform incredible physical feats. Among these feats are those of strength, as the sheer size and mass of his SV affords him rather considerable physical strength, allowing him to lift roughly 1.54 tons per limb, which with his 9 tentacles and 4 arms gives him a total lift strength of around 20 tons independent from his flight. Beyond this, the SV’s chitinous armor gives it something of an edge, allowing it to resist low caliber rounds, cutting implements and a measure of blunt force trauma. The natural armor is somewhat stronger than ceramic body armor, but with more impact absorption due to the nature of the material.

More central to his ability however, is the incredible metabolism of his Second Vessel, which generates not only copious amounts of biochemical energy, but also high voltages of bioelectricity. This energy goes on to fuel not only his regeneration, which allows him to easily recover from most surface damage or muscular tearing in seconds, but also his flight and kinetic barrier. In essence the energies are transmuted into potential energy, which then overflows from his body and flows along its surface. By intuitively controlling the speed and direction of this energy’s flow, Outsider can fly, turning on a dime or rapidly accelerating as needed. With this control, Outsider’s SV is capable of instantly accelerating from 0mph to 30mph after which his flight can propel him 15mph faster every second. Furthermore, as the potential energy on his body accumulates, it is compressed, forming a kinetic barrier roughly two inches away from his SV’s flesh.

The aforementioned barrier is primarily resistant to physical assaults, particularly impact force, as the more surface area struck in an individual impact, the easier the force is distributed and resisted by the barrier. Conversely, piercing and slashing attacks with sufficient force behind them are much more likely to break the shield. When broken, the shield shatters and disperses, reforming over the space of several seconds depending on how much damage was taken. The barrier is capable of resisting a significant amount of force, protecting him from most forms of physical damage.

Following from this barrier is the last kinetic manifestation of his power, which allows him to alter the flow of the potential energy around his body, focusing it in an area--or over his whole surface--and then release it in kinetic blasts of varying size and potency. These blasts act like shockwaves of invisible force, typically expanding from the point of impact as they disperse--though he can make them more focused and contained. The potency of a given blast depends on how long energy has been gathered prior to its release. The strongest blast that can be emitted without charge is capable of pushing a grown man off his balance and across a distance of eight or so feet and would be experienced as a force striking the whole surface of the body facing its point of origin.

Last among his SV’s capabilities are its senses, which include enhanced touch, drastically enhanced hearing, and the ability to detect magnetic fields and electrical impulses--natural and artificial. This electromagnetic sense allows Outsider to detect the aforementioned within a radius of roughly 264 feet. His hearing on the other hand is harder to quantify, but allows him to hear sounds more clearly and to filter sound to a limited degree. While physical structures exist to allow these sensory abilities, they are internal, and thus cannot be easily targeted.[/hider][/indent][/indent]
[color=#B8EEFF][b]Limitations:[/b][/color] Possessing three particularly notable weaknesses, Outsider’s Second Vessel does have its downsides. First of these is its hearing, which--due to its sensitivity--is actually one of the few senses it has that can be used against it. Thus, particularly loud, high or low pitched, noises can be used as a painful deterrent against his form, causing pain and even a sense of nausea and discomfort. It should be noted that sound totally ignores his kinetic barrier, which reveals something about the shield’s nature as a primarily physical defense. Essentially, the kinetic barrier is only properly effective against physical assaults and is much less efficient and durable when attempting to defend Jake’s SV from energetic assault, including most lasers and electricity--though high ambient temperature or radiation will be warded off, unless significant temperature spikes or sufficient explosive force are utilized.

However, while the aforementioned details are certainly significant weaknesses, the biggest weak point of Outsider’s Second Vessel takes the form of a hyperdense crystalline ‘core’ located in the most armored portion of the form’s torso. This core is the only truly ‘vital’ part of his Second Vessel and if it is damaged, Jake will be shunted back into his body regardless of the current circumstances he is in. If the damage is minor, it will make the form unstable, perhaps causing unpredictable flickers back and forth between bodies. If moderate damage is sustained Jake will be shunted back into his human body at the time of the damage and a second or two following any attempt to switch forms. Any damage beyond this is considered major and will render his power unavailable until the damage is repaired. While such a scenario has clearly never occurred, the core can be completely destroyed and if this comes to pass the exact consequences are unknown.
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[*]While the body is not particularly damaged even by high voltages of electrical current, it can be distracting, unpleasant, and disorienting to have it channel through it.
[*]The disorientation from switching bodies stacks, becomes more intense and deleterious the more times Jake swaps in a short period of time.
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[hider=Equipment][color=#B8EEFF][i][b]Cellphone:[/b][/i][/color] What it sounds like.

[color=#B8EEFF][i][b]Disposable Prepaid Phone:[/b][/i][/color] A cellphone he uses sometimes when 'in costume' just so he can throw it away and not be tracked or the like.[/hider][/hider]