[quote=@Rtron]
Took me a little over a week, but I got him written up.

[hider=Eli][b]Name:[/b] Eli Evans
 
[b]Alias:[/b] Biomancer

[b]Age:[/b] 64

[b]Powers:[/b] Organic Manipulation and absorption.

Eli can control, manipulate, and absorb organic matter provided he is touching it. The more organic matter he has access to, the more drastic things he can do with it. Most often it involves rapidly healing himself or others, making weapons or armor out of his body, using his body as a weapon, or turning organic matter into weapons.

Due to his primary ability, Eli can have superhuman physical attributes. Long years of forced retirement and age have degraded this, however, and he is only capable of lifting 1.5 tons and running at 50mph with reflexes capable of catching an arrow in flight. He can only keep either the strength or the speed going at a time, however. Both puts too much strain on his body.

[b]Weaknesses:[/b] Eli is old, and hasn't used his powers in twenty years. It hurts to use his powers, he's rusty at the various techniques, and in general is slow at using his powers. 

Anything to do with fire Eli despises. Burning generally makes it difficult for him to quickly heal and anything he makes from organic matter only provides fuel for fire. 

Eli is incapable of manipulating any inorganic matter. Metals, gases, plastics, etc etc. 

Anything that doesn't attack Eli's organic matter specifically (Hexes,curses, psionic attacks, mind control, etc etc) Eli is very vulnerable too. 

Manipulating organic matter requires energy and most often that energy is drawn from whatever is being manipulated. As Eli is most often manipulating his own body, he's often using huge amounts of energy and as such requires and equally huge if not larger caloric intake to off set it. If Eli can't regain energy, he can't use his powers. 

Eli can survive and heal most wounds and, if given enough biomass absorbed, even regrow limbs but those all require his brain to be intact. Anything going through his skull and hitting his brain is guaranteed to kill him.


[url=https://m1.paperblog.com/i/62/629921/alexander-ovchinnikov-ilustraciones-L-xze12J.jpeg][b]Appearance:[/b][/url] Eli stands at 5ft 7in with a strong, stocky build. His forced retirement has caused him to lose the fitness of his youth as he reluctantly became used to a career where he didn't have to be ready to fight at any given moment, but beneath the layer of fat he's still powerful and capable of holding his own in a fight. His white beard and hair are kept carefully maintained, trimmed to an exact length and style. Bushy eyebrows are usually found drawn together above harsh brown eyes and a broad nose that more often than not has its nostrils flared. His lips are typically drawn into a scowl, making the multitude of wrinkles on his face even more apparent. Especially when he grumbles in his deep rumble of a voice.

His general clothing tends to be jeans and t-shirt. Simple, but kept clean and immaculate. It is rare to find him in ripped or dirty clothing by choice. 

His costume used to be a [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/55/61/45/5561455373880bcf18a3a80bac59f630.jpg]menacing suit[/url] of organic armor, capable of conventional weapons and most heavy firepower. He isn't capable of covering his entire body in such a material anymore and now only generates a thin layer over his body to provide mild protection and hide his identity. Not much good it does, since his trial, but old habits die hard. 

[b]Equipment:[/b] In general, Eli has basic body armor, a pistol, and a battle rifle. He hasn't used any of them in over a decade, but keeps them on hand in case a situation ever arises where he needs to use them. 

[hider=Origin] Eli and his younger brother, Frank, were destined from birth to be superheroes. Their parents were going to usher in a new era of supers, people designed to protect the world from evil and tyranny. People that were beacons of hope and justice. Their parents were dedicated to their purpose and experimented extensively with manipulating the human DNA in embryo and drawing out powers in it. By the time they had Eli, they had it down to a science. Eli never found out how many failed projects, and bodies, were behind his creation and he frankly doesn't want to know. All he knows is that when he was born with his powers, his parents were capable of accurately predicting what they were going to be and how they would develop. Every step of his life was planned to help him control and expand his abilities. For the first four years of his life, everything was the Evans family version of normal. 

Everything changed when his younger brother was born. Frank was born with super powers, yes, but his powers weren't the ones that his father had predicted. Instead of pyrokinesis Frank had the ability of flight and cyrokinesis. For the first year, their father was confused and bewildered. Delighted his son had not one, but two powers of course, but confused as to why his predictions were so far off. After a year had passed, the truth came out. Their mother had cheated on their father, and an illegitimate pregnancy had come out of it. Eli and Frank were both to young to know this. All a young Eli knew was that his father suddenly had a look on his face that had never been there before, as he sent Eli to his room with his infant younger brother. They wouldn't find the truth out til years later. 

Looking back, the only one who was surprised was their father. The relationship was not one built upon mutual love and respect, but merely a desire to further the future of the human race. It was their father who had made the mistake of getting emotionally attached to what was supposed to only be scientific, and pushing their mother into a relationship that was more than she expected and far more than she wanted. 

That did nothing to ease their father's jealous, terrifying, rage. All Eli remembers is hiding in his room with his brother as both of their parents screamed and things were broken in the house beyond. The next day their mother was gone and all their father would say on the matter is that she had left and they would be better off without her. That was a lie of course and their father took to drinking and drugs in short order. He went from strict and inspired scientist, guiding them on their way to becoming protectors of humanity, to a mean and hateful drunk who berated or hit them for every mistake, failure, or misstep. It was in particular aimed at Frank as his very existence reminded their father of their mother, and how she had betrayed him. As Eli grew older he began intentionally provoking the ire of their father to protect his younger brother. He was the oldest, it was his job to protect Frank from whatever their father threw at them. 

This continued for 11 years, with their father beating and berating them into controlling their powers more or simply just because he could. Their powers only grew stronger by the day, as did their bond with one another. Their mother was gone, their father a bastard, but they had each other. They would always have each other.  One day, after Eli had turned sixteen he finally had enough. As their father raised a fist to hit Frank again for some small mistake, Eli caught it. Their father turned around in a drunken rage, only to cry out in pain and agony as his arm began to wither away. Eli kept an iron grip as his father screamed and thrashed, his eyes cold as ice. "You're never touching us again. You're never hurting [i]anyone[/i] again." He only stopped when Frank grabbed his other arm, crying out for him to stop. 

Eli hesitated, but relented to his brother's wishes. He dropped his father, who cradled his useless and stick thin arm and cried to himself. Eli and his brother packed what little possessions they had and headed out the door, with Eli sparing only one glance behind. "Don't look for us. Or I won't stop next time."

The next four years were spent scrapping by a living on the streets of Saint Louis, USA. Food, shelter, and clothing were scarce, but they were never in any danger. Between the two of them and their powers, anyone who dared to cross them soon learned the error of their ways. They tried to kept mostly to themselves, the idea of using their powers to become heroes a repulsive one after years of hearing their father scream at them that was what they were supposed to be. But nonetheless word of their abilities spread among the other homeless and desperate and they soon were the nucleus of a small community that protected one another as best they could. Regardless of their wishes, Eli and Frank became heroes of the people. When they could, they searched for their mother as best they could but it was ultimately fruitless. They were only two kids, with no money or resources to even keep a roof over their heads much less find someone they had either only vague memories of or no memories at all. After two years of nothing they gave up entirely. 

Eli only went back to their old home once, when he heard about his father being taken away to a mental hospital ranting and raving about his 'perfect creations' that betrayed him like everyone always did. He only went to see if there was anything that they could use to help Frank and those depending on them. He personally had no desire to help the people that gathered around them for protection, but Frank had a kinder heart. Frank had embraced the role thrust upon them by the desperate, much to Eli's exasperation. Their old home might have had something to sell, salvage, or otherwise use to aid all the people they had to deal with now. Eli found nothing useful, but he did find their father's journal. Against his better judgement he read through the book. Most of it was scientific jargon that he couldn't understand, but it clearly laid out two things; Frank was only his half brother, and their father had murdered their mother. 

Eli lit the book on fire and dropped it in the trashcan outside. He had always had suspicions, but now they were confirmed. It was a secret he planned to take to his grave. 

As soon as Frank was sixteen, Eli took the two of them to the army recruiter. They were struggling to keep the community together, and were drawing attention from local gangs. The gangs wanted to use the two brothers as powered muscle in their own struggles, and were willing to hurt the people they were supposed to be protecting to force them to obey. Eli convinced a reluctant Frank that the best way to save those people now was to leave and take any reasoning for the gangs to attack them away. Frank was an idealist, but he still listened to his older brother as the authority on all matters. If Eli said it was a good plan, it was a good plan.

Frank and Eli rapidly progressed through the military, ending up in the special forces in two years. The military had uses for two super powered soldiers, especially since Eli displayed little moral qualms and Frank listened to Eli. They spent the next eight years doing black ops for the USA military. Assassinations, sabotage, kidnappings, extractions of VIPs from hot zones, supporting the main forces in armed conflicts, countering other country's supers, anything and everything that was required of them they did without question. They always had each others back and no matter they could always rely on each other. 

Frank finally drew the line after a mission that had them assassinating a rural tribe leader in the middle east. They did the job quickly and quietly, only to find out later that the man was the head of a local coalition trying to stop Oil from being drilled on sacred lands. Without him, the coalition would fall apart and their sacred lands would be defiled. 

"We're better than this, Eli! We should be helping people, not suppressing them!" Eli personally saw no reason for such rhetoric, but it clearly mattered to Frank a great deal and he relented. If Frank wanted to be heroes of the people, they would be heroes of the people. But he would be there when the people decided to stab them in the back.  When their tour of duty ended that year, they did not renew it. Instead, they headed back to the mainland USA to fulfill Frank's dream of being heroes to the people. For the next five years that's what they did. The beginnings were rough, since they had no direct oversight or goals other than 'help people'. For the first year they were known as useless amateurs, often causing more damage than they fixed. But as they learned how to operate as heroes, rather than soldiers, they became more skilled and efficient. 

They started saving people and rising in importance. Other heroes began taking them seriously and they began doing real good, in Frank's eyes. With the money they had gotten from the military and what occasional cash Eli was able to convince Frank to accept for some of their heroics, they were able to hire a private investigator company to look for their mother. Eli knew the truth, but he couldn't bear to tell Frank what had really happened. Better that Frank never know, he thought, than him go through the pain of learning his mother was killed because she had Frank. 

The brothers started clashing with one another much more as time wore on. Frank began to see Eli's lack of empathy and ruthless practicality as not just a method of protecting them, but a genuine flaw that leaned him towards villainy rather than heroics. Their arguments began getting worse and worse as Eli pushed against what he perceived to be Frank's foolish idealism, hope, and kindness in a world that will only crush those types of people under its heel. The traits that Frank was holding up so high were only weaknesses that were going to get him hurt in the future, or worse. Frank didn't see it that way. Frank believed the words they had been taught when their father wasn't a drunken bastard. They needed to be symbols of hope, beacons of justice, something people could aspire to be. All Eli saw was the laughable idealism of a broken man when he heard those words. 

It was during one of these arguments that Eli's frustration got the best of him. Frank just wouldn't [i]listen[/i]. He never listened. Not when Eli said they should take more payments, not when Eli said they were risking getting themselves in trouble, and especially not when Eli said they were risking themselves too much for people who they didn't even know. He snapped out the truth that Frank wasn't their father's son and that their mother was dead because she had him. As soon as he said the words, Eli regretted them, but the damage was done. Frank's face closed off and he walked away, ignoring his brother's calls for him to come back. That was the last time they worked together as the inseparable team they had always been. 

Eli continued working as a super, but one for hire. He left the idealism and hope to his brother. He would do the smart thing and use his powers to aid those who could pay the most. He wasn't a true villain, finding the ideals of 'lets destroy or take over the world' distasteful, but he was never on the 'good' side for free. He would clash with other superheroes like Hex, hired by companies or villains to do various jobs that put him in conflict with the 'heroes'. They all reminded him of his brother, and he only regarded them with disdain. 

Eli kept an eye on his brother, staying close enough that he could leap into action to help if need be. They might be not speaking to one another, but Frank was still his little brother. And they watched out for each other. No matter what. 

Following the exploits of 'Cyro' and how he saved the day time and time again was easy. Frank was always a flamboyant character. As he watched his brother, he noticed a small pattern beginning to form that he approved of. As his brother went on and realized he no longer had Eli to watch his back, he became more and more inclined to use lethal force against those who wouldn't let themselves go without a fight. It was good, Eli thought, that Frank was finally realizing what type of world they were in. He would occasionally reach out, try to mend the rift between them, to now avail. Frank always ignored his messages or himself when he tried to make things up in person. Nine years passed like this before he was hired for his last job. A coal power plant had been taken by some eco-terrorists determined to stop the 'murder of mother earth' by any means necessary. He was to go in and free the hostages and take care of the terrorists by any means necessary. The corporation that hired him made it clear that they wouldn't be dismayed if the terrorists were killed in the endeavor. 

Eli broke into the power plant and began making his way through efficiently and ruthlessly. The terrorists were more fanatic about their ideals than they were well trained, and he made short work of them. When he reached the center of the plant, he saw just how far they were going for their plans. They had rigged a multitude of explosives to the center of the plant, intent upon destroying it and everyone inside if their demands weren't met. To make things worse, the surviving terrorists were all in the center with hostages and detonators in their hands. Eli couldn't move fast enough to stop them all from detonating the explosives.

As Eli was considering how to stop or minimize the explosion, his brother walked through the door on the opposite side. For a moment, they just stared at one another. Then Eli sighed in relief. By himself he couldn't deal with this situation in a way that ended well, but with Frank? He could handle everything. He asked his brother for help. It could be like the old days, if only for a moment. When he saw Frank hesitate and then agree, he was elated. Remembering the moment, as he has over and over for the last twenty years, he wishes he would have seen the look in his brother's eyes as he agreed. 

They made a plan and sprang into action, working seamlessly with one another as if they had never spent a moment apart. Everything was going smoothly until it was his brother's last target. As Eli finished off his he turned to the man panicking and going to press the button. He looked confidently up for his brother to freeze or kill the man with an icicle. 

He was still looking as the explosion ripped through the plant and sent him flying. He woke up too the police and military all pointing weapons at him as he was dug out of the rubble, ordering him to surrender quietly. His brother was floating in the background, hands at the ready. Eli doesn't know what his brother told everyone outside the plant. All he knows is that his brother betrayed him, the only person left in the world he thought he could trust. He could have fought, tried to escape. Probably would have succeeded too. He was always the better fighter than his brother and Frank was the only one there who would've been able to put up a fight. But what would have been the point? Escape and be on the run for life? Kill his own brother just to run? No. They wanted a villain, and he was just suddenly so exhausted. Tired of everything. 

He surrendered and they took him away in handcuffs. His trial was highly publicized, but he paid barely any attention. He was accused of something heinous enough to lock him away for life but Hex, that bastard, convinced the judge and jury to only give him 5 years of jail time. So Eli waited in jail, as quietly as he could. Occasionally someone he helped put away or someone who had been put away by another super would try to get revenge, and he would defend himself, but for the most part people left the quiet, bitter, man alone. When he got out he went into isolation as far from people as he could. His money from all his jobs as a super for hire was still there and he put it to good use. 

The only person who mattered clearly didn't want him in the world. Eli had no doubt that if he tried to go back to his old ways his brother would try something like that again, or just try to kill him. And as hurt and angry as he was with Frank, he couldn't bring himself to actually hurt his little brother. They were family. So Eli isolated himself as best he could except for a few communications, on the forlorn hope that his brother would actually reach out to him. There was plenty of radio chatter between the supers as they organized themselves, but nothing from his brother and nothing for him. Gradually, it all died down as the supers began to disappear, and Eli was left with silence, and a dead hope that he'd ever see his brother again. 

That is, until Special agent Reynolds crackled over an old channel. Eli listened more out of boredom than actual interest and was going to shut it off mid transmission. After all, it wasn't his problem that she couldn't do her job. Then she mentioned Hex. Eli hesitated, and listened through. Then he sighed and picked himself up. Hex may have been a goody two shoes nosy bastard, but he had been legitimate. If Hex had visions of a 'Reality Bringer' ending the world, something like that was coming. And as much as Eli didn't care for the rest of the world [i]he[/i] lived on the world.  Besides, he owed the bastard Hex for preventing him from being rotting in prison currently. He was an old man with one foot in the grave, but he could do something before kicking the bucket. 

And maybe, just maybe, Frank would answer the call. He was always tight with Hex, always spouted the same 'heroes have to use their powers for good' garbage. It would be good to see his brother again.

Maybe. [/hider]

[b]Personality:[/b] Eli is most obviously characterized by an almost total lack of empathy for his fellow man. He never cared for the plights of anyone but himself and his family. And since his family is all either dead or have turned their backs on him, he cares even less. He views the world as a cold and merciless place and the people in it even more so. Kindness and mercy are only weaknesses that others will use to either stab you in the back, or force you to carry them through every difficulty they encounter. He views superheroes as the ultimate manifestation of that foolishness, people using powers to help those who don't want to help themselves, opening themselves to attacks they normally wouldn't be open too with their abilities. Villains are worse, greedily trying to take as much as they can, assuming that because they have powers they're unstoppable. As such, he generally finds most other supers to be insufferable.

The notable exception to his lack of empathy is children. Eli either sees his brother and himself in them, or perhaps thinks they're the last vestige of innocence in the world. Regardless, the only time anyone is able to see Eli be gentle or kind is when dealing with kids. He's even been noted to do some of the 'stupid heroics' he mocks superheroes for when they're in danger. 

A generally practical and ruthless person, Eli favors an 'by any means necessary' methodology. It typically doesn't matter what has to be done or who has to be sacrificed to get the job done, Eli is willing to do whatever is the most efficient route to getting an objective accomplished. Control and detachment are traits he values and prides himself on, ignoring the fact that he himself struggles at times with control and detachment.

Eli lacked tact since before his self-imposed exile. A little under twenty years of being in isolation has made that even worse. In general, he shouldn't be the one doing the talking and it would be best to have someone nearby to shut him up if the team is in a delicate situation that needs to be talked out of. 

Eli is still values family above all else. He has no idea where Frank is, or if Frank is even still alive, but he would do anything for his brother without question. When they were in the military, this extended to their squad that they would operate frequently with but he even has less of an idea of where any of them are. Dead, presumably, in some war or operation by the USA government. 

Despite the tough and immovable persona Eli presents, he's afraid of not dying. Immortality seems like a curse, rather than boon. It was a constant worry of his when he was younger, that his powers wouldn't let him age or die and he'd have to live forever or kill himself. It was a relief when he began showing signs of aging, even though he knew that it was most likely his subconscious influencing his powers to prevent them from manipulating his cells. Heroes who were immortal or undead always unnerved him, and he kept his distance as best he could. As if they could infect him with their immortality. 

[b]Misc Facts:[/b] Eli likes to keep himself and his gear immaculate and well-groomed. A minor neurotic tick, he frequently uses his powers to keep his hair a certain way, his nails trimmed, so on so forth. He's used his power endless times in his life to prevent scars from forming.

Eli has a working knowledge of how the human body is put together and operates, and how various organic structures in the animal, plant, and insect kingdom are put together and operate. He has spent his years studying how they work and what makes them work, on the off chance that Frank would reach out to him and he'd need to use his abilities once more. It never came to be, but now that the Special Agent has reached out to him he can finally put them to good use. Hopefully. 

Eli has a tendency to unconsciously hum as he focuses on something.

Eli likes arachnids. He had a pet Goliath tarantula he let go before heading to Cedar Fort, and he still misses Suzy.

[b]Relationship with Hex:[/b] Hex and Eli were rivals, of a sort. Whenever Eli would be hired to do something for a corporation or a villain who didn't want their hands to be dirtied or any connections to lead back to them, Hex would be there spouting some general bullshit line about using their powers for good. He always annoyed Eli, with his oozing self-righteousness. His hexes were incredibly frustrating as well, given how they affected Eli as a person and not just his organic material. Occasionally Hex would convince Eli there was enough profit in helping the 'good' side that they'd work together, but such occasions were rare. Hex was the one who prevented Eli from being incarcerated for life, though Eli doesn't know what was said or why, still reeling from his brother's betrayal. Presumably some vision of his about Eli's 'potential.' [/hider]
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This is a great sheet man. It's an improvement on what I already thought was a great writing style you had, Rtron. It makes me super happy to see this, like with DJ :) You always listen to feedback, and then take it on to your next projects. It's also always nice to see a familiar face. 

I like that you went old old, it's refreshing and you really took that 'jaded superhero' theme to the extreme, didn't you haha. A fantastic origin story, so well executed. I enjoyed reading Eli go from villain to reluctant hero, to hero for hire, to villainous again, just through a whole cycle. It feels very real - and I'm so interested to see where his allegiances will take him when we bring the 'Reality Bringer' in - and since we have a character like Benny....

I'm really happy with this sheet, and you can post it in the character section. And also be proud of this one, you killed it :)