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[h3]NAME[/h3]
[indent]Gabriel Alexis Corbyn (Milky Way)
Demul Veros Zua Kival (Andromeda)[/indent]
[h3]ALIAS[/h3]
[indent]Andromedan
Space Oddity[/indent]
[h3]COLOR[/h3]
[indent][color=C71585][i]Medium Violet Red[/i][/color][/indent]
[h3]ALIGNMENT[/h3]
[indent]Hero[/indent]
[h3]IDENTITY[/h3]
[indent]Open secret
[i]His family and a few of his friends know, because he barely made an effort to keep it secret from them. The rest of the world does not know his name, but many have seen his face.[/i][/indent]
[h3]PERSONALITY[/h3]
[indent]The sort of person who would have watched 1960s Batman as a grown up and thought 'that is the best superhero' exists, and his name is Gabriel. Once a bit of a troublemaker, he changed much over the years, and specially after becoming Andromedan, but he was always blessed with an unwaveringly optimistic moralism and a gentle goofyness. Gabriel is not naïve, far from it, yet he has an unshakeable faith in the inherent goodness of people, the universal value of life and the inevitability of justice. There is not a tinge of cynicism in him, not even the ghost of a sarcastic smirk on his face whenever he helps those in need. He is kind and sincere to a fault, almost always showing empathy for others and expressing himself with openess.

An extrovert with a very proactive streak, Gabriel is quick to make friends and quite effective at coaxing them to try new things with him. Although his days of being a rowdy punk-ish kid are behind him, he still loves to live life at a hectic pace, constantly experiencing new sensations. His many tattoos speak of only a fraction of his fondly remembered adventures through the years, both on Earth and beyond, and his passions and hobbies have ran the gamut from singing rock music to learning Spanish to studying Greek mythology to becoming a competitive swimmer. He likes parties and concerts, absolutely loves music from the 70s and 80s, and also is a bit of a flirt.

Born and raised in a liberal Christian family, Gabriel is still a believer to this day, even if it is not his faith so much as his instinct that guides his moral compass. He is openly bisexual, and has had a small handful of relationships since his middle school years. Whenever he is not in his costume, Gabriel is either spending time with his family or friends, or training for his swimming competitions, or trying (and failing) to study for his college classes.[/indent]
[h3]COSTUME[/h3]
[indent][hider=Image][img]https://i.imgur.com/tze49Fh.jpg[/img][/hider][/indent]
[h3]ORIGIN[/h3]
[indent]Now and then, the Universe breaks its own rules, like the cheeky, pretty thing it is. Sometimes, time will suddenly dilate for no apparent reason within a small empty room. Sometimes, gravity will spontaneously make waves in the empty space between star systems. Sometimes, entropy will get weird and decay will go backwards for this one particular flower, or just stop moving in any direction for an entire planet. And sometimes, against all odds, a single being will exist in two or more places at the same time without knowing it, like a weird alternate version of Schrödinger's cat.

Gabriel Corbyn was one such being. From the beginning, perhaps even from his conception, he belonged in two galaxies: the Milky Way and Andromeda. Somehow, Gabriel Corbyn of Earth was also Demul Veros Zua Kival of Nigundalos. It was not just that their bodies were identical all the way down to the subatomic level, but also that their behavior, thoughts and sense of self were one and the same.

The paradox remained unobserved until long, long after he was born, causing only a few, mostly imperceptible spatial phenomena around him. Gabriel thus enjoyed a seemingly normal childhood, growing up with loving families on either side of the Universe. A bit too passionate for his own good, he became more and more unruly as he neared adolescence, and once he got there he was nigh unstoppable. Although he was generally well-intentioned, he repeatedly got himself into trouble with elders, and would often run away from school or home to spend time with other wannabe rock stars and their Andromeda equivalents. By the age of sixteen he had already gotten himself his first few tattoos, hundreds of hours in detention, and many months without internet access at home, but he was already on track to be a relatively functional young man with a bright future ahead of him.

Not long after he turned sixteen, however, his ignorance of his cosmic dualism came to a sudden and world-shattering end. On that year, Nigundalos fell to an alien invasion, and his family on that planet was killed in a subsequent massacre. The emotional trauma of the atrocity broke through the cosmic and mental veil that had kept him from becoming aware of his true nature. With that barrier gone, the Universe reacted to the revelation of the paradox by plunging Gabriel into another galaxy to reunite his conscience with that of his self from Andromeda. It was then that Gabriel caught the attention of Mirvo Neu Kan Takol, a fellow cosmic dualist from both the Milky Way and Andromeda, and the holder of the title of the Andromedan at the time.

The Andromedan rescued Gabriel from Nigundalos and took him to the caravan of space ships that served as the headquarters for the Cosmomancers. There, the Andromedan introduced him to the secrets of the Cosmomancers, nomadic renegades who had learned to use their nature as living singularities to change the Universe. Theirs was less of a corps of intergalactic guardians, and more of a spontaneously formed cooperative of humanitarians bound by a shared belief in a future universal utopia. Over the course of the next few weeks, Gabriel learned to exploit the consequences of his cosmic dualism, all the while developing an interest in the Cosmomancers' vision. His character, however, would soon drive him to move beyond what he had been taught.

Despite his training being nowhere near complete, and the Andromedan strongly objecting to it, Gabriel took it upon himself to single-handedly help the refugees from Nigundalos escape and find a new home. The odyssey that followed took him and the refugees past the limits of what he had once thought physically possible, but after days of pursuit he succeeded in taking them back with him to the Milky Way and stranding their pursuers in the Black Eye Galaxy. Impressed, Takol passed down the title of Andromedan to him, along with his armor, and helped him find his way back to Earth.

As the new Andromedan, Gabriel set out to use his powers to help as many people as he could, in ways both big and small, all the while desperately trying to juggle the public life of a young superhero with the private life of a semi-normal teenager. He stayed in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont, until his high school graduation, then spent several months hitchhiking to the West Coast with his then girlfriend, Maxine, and finally settled down in California. There, he began attending classes at UC Berkeley, where he had gotten a swimming scholarship, all the while continuing to help the people of Earth, and sometimes the rest of the Milky Way, as the Andromedan.[/indent]
[h3]HERO TYPE[/h3]
[indent][b]Mystic / Other[/b]
[i]Gabriel is what knowledgeable beings call a [b]cosmic dualist[/b], someone who once paradoxically existed in two separate places at the same time without realizing it. As a living singularity, he is simultaneously more and less than a sorcerer: his powers represent a very unique form of magic, one that barely qualifies as such since it arises exclusively from the rare paradoxes which break the fundamental laws of the Cosmos. It is unlike common spellcasting, bound to different kinds forces and far more capricious in its use.[/i][/indent]
[h3]POWER LEVEL[/h3]
[indent]Cosmic[/indent]
[h3]POWERS[/h3]
[indent][b]SPATIAL MAGIC[/b]
[i]With a slightly warped sense of self and just a bit of nudging, even space itself can be altered. As a cosmic dualist, Gabriel can distort tridimensional space in a myriad of ways, open rifts into places beyond the immediately visible, and even create new space, provided he is willing to risk really getting on the Cosmos' nerves. It is not an easy form of magic to master, largely because it is not really magic in the conventional sense, but rather fundamental physics gone awry, and it will often backfire on its users or just refuse to work altogether. One's ability to safely and reliably manipulate space is dependent on a plethora of factors, many of them incomprehensible to the human mind. Thus, in order to be able to use spatial magic on a regular basis, Gabriel must rely on 'anchors', remnants of massive singularities from cosmic antiquity that help stabilize the conditions around him and diminish the danger of cosmic backlash. Along with these anchors, he also has access to 'beacons', pieces of objects that once came into contact with spatial rifts or transcended our plane of existence, which serve as guides whenever he travels through space using his powers.[/i][/indent]
[h3]ATTRIBUTES[/h3]
[indent][b]HEIGHT[/b] [i]1,82 m[/i]
[b]WEIGHT [/b][i]74 kg[/i]
[b]STRENGTH [/b][i]Normal Human[/i]
[b]SPEED [/b][i]Normal Human[/i]
[b]ENDURANCE [/b][i]Normal Human[/i]
[b]AGILITY [/b][i]Normal Human[/i]
[b]INTELLIGENCE [/b][i]Average[/i]
[b]FIGHTING SKILL [/b][i]Trained[/i]
[b]RESOURCES [/b][i]Minimal[/i][/indent]
[h3]WEAKNESSES[/h3]
[indent]Being a cosmic dualist, a rule-breaker by nature, carries many great perils. Even with an anchor, Gabriel knows that he could cause a minor cataclysm every time he manipulates space, and that he could accidentally cast himself out of existence altogether if he travelled through space without a beacon. This forces him to restrain his powers even in the face of desperate circumstances. Cosmic anomalies like the one that created him can also pose a problem, insofar as being in the proximity of one may weaken him or make his powers act out.

More importantly, however, Gabriel is still, biologically speaking, a tiny puny human, with little squishy bits and all. Guns, knives, sticks, the common cold, or a well-inflated football... if it can hurt any normal young human, it can definitely hurt him.[/indent]
[h3]SUPPORTING CHARACTERS[/h3]
[indent][b]MIRVO NEU KAN TAKOL,[/b] [i]his mentor and the previous Andromedan[/i]
[b]JAKE MOON,[/b] [i]his classmate at UC Berkeley and very likely future boyfriend[/i]
[b]CLAUDIA SOUTHERN,[/b] [i]a fellow cosmic dualist and occasional rival, also known as Delphinian[/i]
[b]JEREMY CORBYN,[/b] [i]his father[/i]
[b]NATALIE CHOMSKY,[/b] [i]his mother[/i]
[b]KATHERINE CORBYN,[/b] [i]his sister[/i]
[b]NOAH CORBYN,[/b] [i]his brother[/i]
[b]NOAH CHOMSKY,[/b] [i]his maternal grandfather[/i][/indent]
[h3]OTHER[/h3]
[indent][hider=On the Cosmomancers]Over the course of cosmic history, the decision to call oneself a "cosmomancer" was generally understood to have less to do with having magical powers derived from cosmic anomalies and more to do with embracing a worldview and a way of life. The Cosmomancers are, in fact, a lot more than a category of sorcerers. They are renegades, terrorists, vigilantes and, to hear millions of sapient beings tell it, liberators. For millions, if not billions of years, Cosmomancers have stubbornly defied every great tyrant they have come across, and freed countless worlds from oppression.

Always few in number, sometimes left on the verge of extinction by mightier foes, they have survived many great perils and remained a relevant player in cosmic struggles by being always in motion. Rather than have a homeworld, or any other sort of territory to fall back on, the Cosmomancers have almost always been nomadic, relying on their ancient, ever-changing fleet to serve as their sanctuary and rally point.

Over time, the Cosmomancers' fleet has varied in size, firepower and name. At its foundation, it was comprised of a few refugee ships known simply as the 'Sanctuary', a safe haven for the persecuted of the Universe. Then, during a long period of great galactic conflict, it became the 'Untouchable Armada', the highly militarized command center of an intergalactic coalition led by the Cosmomancers. The third Andromedan, an ambitious figure and the only Cosmomancer who ever held absolute power as the leader of her peers, massively expanded it and renamed it 'Tomorrow', a symbol of the progressive future he aspired to. When almighty beings from dark space invaded the outer rim of Andromeda, the Cosmomancers renamed it 'Light Undying', a symbol of hope in the face of the seemingly unwinnable fight. Later on, it received the title of the 'Eternal Commune'.

Now known as the 'Dream Unchained', the Cosmomancers' fleet is a modestly sized collection of destroyers, corvettes, mobile space stations and freighters. It provides a safehaven for all one-hundred and nine Cosmomancers living today, as well as approximately thirteen thousand refugees and volunteers. Thanks to the abilities of the Cosmomancers, the Dream Unchained is not bound by the normal limitations of space travel, and can in fact travel large distances faster through rifts in space, or hide within manipulations of space. Within the ships and stations, there is a thriving communal society, at once both cosmopolitan and militant, where mutual aid is the norm.

The Cosmomancers do not have a firmly established structure today, nor have they had one for most of their history, except in times of crisis. There are no designated leaders, and all decisions are made collectively and, when possible, with the consensus of all other inhabitants of the fleet. It is common for older Cosmomancers to pass down their titles to people with cosmic abilities that they find in their travels, as a way to both lessen their burdens in their twilight years and prevent seniority from becoming a symbol of authority. Retired Cosmomancers usually continue to do the same things they were doing before, except without their tools of old and taking a secondary role in important matters.[/hider][/indent]