Name: James Winston

Codename: Drake

City of Operation: he watches over Cleveland, but he lives in the wild.

Appearance:

He is no longer human looking in anyway and is twice the size of a normal human. His hands can still function in a way similar to a regular human hand.
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Age: 25

Gender: male

Superpowers:

Dragon Physiology: His transformation into a dragon has given him the powers of the mythical creatures, which include fire-breathing and large leathery wings that allow him to fly at fast speeds. He also has very dense scales that can protect him gunfire and melee weapons. When he is angry or in battle his body is surrounded in hot flames which he uses as a form of defense. His sense of sight and smell are nine times better than a normal human and he can see in the dark.

Fire-Breathing: James' fire breath is incredible hot and can melt through steel if he breath on it long enough. The flame comes out of his mouth in the form a jet that has a range of 35 feet.

Skills/ Talents: He is excellent in survival skills and has an extremely good sense of direction and navigation.

Equipment: None

Weaknesses: Even though his tough scales allow him to take hits from firearms and blunt damage, he can still be harmed by heavy weaponry and a bomb will not obliterate him, but it can kill him. Silver and gold can distract him and make him lose focus. Extreme cold can be deadly to him and if his bodily temperatures drop too low then he will die.

Psyche: James is a man with temper problems thanks to having parents who argued a lot and a very authoritative mother who yelled at him when he made mistakes. These anger issues affected how he socialized with people and it made him very combative and got him into several fights. Because of his monstrous appearance, normal people feared him and hated him calling him a monster. Because of this he has contempt for humanity, but that doesn't stop him from doing heroics.

He is good deep down and tries to do the right thing, but his anger leads him astray. Thanks to the fearful looks and angry condemnation of normal people, James has contempt for humanity and coming from a family who immigrated to America after WW2 knows what hate can be like. Despite his temper he was still able to find love. 


History: James was not a very loved child, his parents would argue a lot and his mother was overly strict. She would yell at him when he made mistakes and then blame her husband for his mistakes. This made James a very angry young child and it became very easy to provoke him. His anger issues got him into several fights with kids and suspension from school.

This didn't help his family life and his anger got worse. There was a bright side to his life, he found love in a girl he had met in high school and she seemed to be able to calm him down when he was angry. Her name Anna and he cared much for her. When he finally graduated from high school James moved out of his parents house as quickly as possible and went to collage in Cleveland.

As his relationship with Anna developed more James felt better than he had then all of his childhood. Things were looking up and he was preparing to move in with Anna when the accident happened. He was biking in the city park and while on a trail his bike hit something and fell off of it. He was dazed for a moment and then quickly got to his feet very angry and he looked to see what he had run into. James saw that he had run into an late middle aged woman and his temper got the better of him and he shouted at the woman. The woman became furious and revealed herself to be a witch with great magical powers and then cursed him causing him to lose consciousness. All he remembered was things going pitch black and awaking in a hospital bed.

At first he felt normal, Anna had been by his side from the moment she had been allowed to see him. She had been terrified for James' life and the doctors said that he had sustained a concussion, but nothing too serious. Not long after Anna left for home did James begin to feel sick. First he got terrible stomach pains and then a really bad headache. James' body started to feel like it was being ripped apart.

He closed his eyes tightly hoping for it stop and after what seemed like an hour it did, but he didn't feel the same. When James opened his eyes he looked directly into a mirror and there staring back at him was a large scaly dragon. The sheer shock of his appearance made him thrash about the room in a panic and his newly formed wings and tail knocked over several objects in the room. His body became ignited in flames and caused the fire alarms to go off. When the doctors came running into the room they were greeted by a terrifying sight.

They screamed and James fled and he quickly smashed through the window to make his escape. He hoped that this was a nightmare, but it wasn't, it was real and now he was now like a freak. His mind went back to the woman and he realized she was the one who had done this to him. He tried to find her but she had disappeared.

 James then thought of Anna and he couldn't bare the thought of facing her like this and he stayed away from her, breaking his own heart in the process. He soon learned to fly and breath fire. Not knowing what else to do he began to help others in need. He decided that he would use his curse to try and do good, but people still feared him and many hated him for what he was. He found a weapon that he would use to dish out justice to those that he thought deserved it. James' still searches for the woman who cursed him to be in such a hideous form.