New character and organization for approval. [hider=Crusher] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/GXdtHFH.png[/img][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/SSZfBKU.png[/img][/center] [hr] [b]Name |[/b] Jason Tyler Newton [b]Aliases |[/b] “JT”, “Newt”, “Crusher” [b]Age |[/b] 18 [b]Gender |[/b] Male [b]Pronouns |[/b] He/Him [b]Appearance |[/b] Jason doesn’t cut the figure that most people would imagine when they here the term “gang enforcer” or “muscle”, not quite 5’10 (177cm) and just shy of 140lbs it would be appropriate to call him “lanky” or “slender”. That said it’s not his height or weight that most people first notice but instead his wide range of tattoos including a plethora of face tattoos. The most iconic and noticeable being the newt climbing up the right side of his head and a bold C L under his right. The newt being a reference to his nickname “Newt” and the CL being the initials of his former gang Clear Line. He typically keeps his hair dyed bleach blond with a well-kept fade and a small man bun. When not wearing sunglasses one might also take note of his dark hazel eyes. Currently though in an attempt to hide his identity has dyed his hair black and fully shaved his head. In addition to changing his hair color and style he has started wearing ice blue contact lenses to change his color, makeup to cover-up face tattoos and has begun growing out a beard and mustache. [b]Notoriety |[/b] Wanted [b]Danger Level/Variant Type |[/b] Class 3 Distortionist [b]Abilities |[/b] [h3][b]Relative Gravity Manipulation[/b][/h3] JT can manipulate the relative gravity an object or person experiences. He currently has trouble manipulating gravity past the threshold of 8g, of which he can only hold for a couple seconds. Between 5g and 7.5g he can hold the manipulated field for closer to a minute. 2.5g to 5g require a focused effort but as long he is actively paying attention can be held near indefinitely. Between 0g and2.5g is nearly second nature and can be held with 0 expenditure of will or concentration beyond the initial activation. Below 0g and ranging down to about -1g falls under similar will and focus requirements as the 2.5-5g range. -1g to about -1.8g has similar limits as the 5 to 7.5g range. Lastly pushing past -1.8g down into the -2.5g range JT can only hold this for a matter of seconds. This gravity manipulation does have a much larger limit then focus and concentration though. JT can only augment the relative gravity of an object that is either directly in contact with him or directly in contact with another object he is manipulating. This only extends out through one object and is part of why he has made weighted chains one of his primary melee weapons, being able to wrap someone in a chain and then manipulate their gravitational field through the contact with the chain. Further after years of experimenting with his power JT learned to be able to lower relative gravity below 0, in essence giving him the ability of a flight albeit much less controlled than other Variants whose primary abilities actively include flight. [hr] [h3] [Gear] [/h3] [b]Attire |[/b] Jason’s attire primarily consists of graphic tees paired with jeans and a plain leather jacket with a hood and heavy steel-toed, mid calf bovver boots. Not being a vigilante or a Noble Jason doesn’t have a “hero’s outfit” of any sort. [b]Armament/Equipment |[/b] As far as equipment goes Jason is decently low tech. His preferred weapons are a pair of heavy gauge chains with hooks on the end, one he keeps wrapped around his waist the other around his left arm, a butterfly knife, a pair of brass knuckles and a cold steel baseball bat. He also carries on his person about a half dozen heavy duty padlocks, his sunglasses that have built in Omni-Lens tech, bone induction speakers and manual transition lenses (they can via command transition from tinted to clear) , and a prepaid burner phone (that has replaced his normal Rhoella smart phone since he’s been on the run). Lastly in his jacket pockets are near always a pack of cigarettes and black steel Zippo style lighter. [hr] [h3] [Temperament & Lifestyle] [/h3] [b]Affiliation |[/b] Ex-Syndicate, Ex-Clear Line [b]Personality |[/b] Brash and arrogant and prone to making hasty decisions Jason has nearly no respect for non-variants, an ideology that was both well-suited and reinforced by Clear Line. Life has hardened JT into a cold and callous individual, but he still does have morals and a heart buried underneath it all, despite spending over four years as an integral part of Clear Line he has never killed someone. [b]Habits |[/b] Typically Jason would be viewed as a casual/social smoker, not even smoking every day, in fact under normal circumstances a pack could last him upwards of four weeks. However when stressed or nervous he quickly turns from casual to chain smoking. Beyond smoking Jason is nearly always listening to music either through his phone’s speaker or through the bone induction speakers on his Omni-Lens Sunglass. When bored he’ll often resort to entertaining himself with knife tricks. [b]Occupation/Trade |[/b] [list] [*] Whatever job will have him [*] Ex gang enforcer [/list] [b]Skills/Talents |[/b] [list] [*] Five Finger Fillet [*] Automotive Maintenance [*] Hot-wiring [*] Knife Tricks [*] Poker and Dominoes [*] Pick-pocketing/Shop-lifting [/list] [b]Family |[/b] [list] [*] Alicia Newton, Mother, alcoholic/drug addict lives in Atlanta somewhere. [*] Jimmy Foster, Father, Deadbeat, no idea where he is. [*] Mark Newton, mother’s brother, in prison for armed robbery. A level 3 Volatile/Distorntionist who can accelerate or decelerate atomic movements in non-living objects via touch. In practice this allows him to cause things to freeze, melt or catch fire. [*] Zakk Newton, part of Clear Line Atlanta leadership. Age 24. A level 1 Distortionist with the power of personal temporal manipulation, allowing him to decelerate the flow of time around him, effectively giving himself super speed, heightened reactions and longer time to think decisions through. He can also accelerate time around himself entering a comatose state. [*] Sierra Foster, father’s sister, a lawyer specializing in Variant Law, lives in Texas. [/list] [b]Background |[/b] JT grew up in a broken home, no father to speak of and barely a mother. When his mother was home it was to sleep off a bender or very occasionally, maybe once or twice a year, promising to get clean and be a good mother only to sleep into another bender a month later. It was because of this when his cousin Zakk got his own place when JT was 12 and offered to let JT live with him he jumped at the chance. Unbeknownst to JT at the time his cousin was an active member of the variant supremacist group Clear Line. This led to JT essentially growing up in the gang and after only about a year and half, shortly after his variance manifested, becoming a full member shortly after he turned 14. After a couple years working odd jobs in the crew JT was brought up into the inner circle, partly due to his performance but mostly because of his cousin was quickly moving into a leadership position. Being brought into the inner circle took JT from doing drug drops, petty robbery and playing lookout to handling money, extorting business owners and enforcing for the gang. Shortly after he turned 18 (November 2079) JT was made the primary enforcer of Clear Line Atlanta, in addition this moved him into a leadership role. It was at this point that JT was made aware of the connection between Clear Line and The Syndicate. Initially this caused no problems for JT after all The Syndicate and Clear Line obviously had similar goals and so JT continued his work with Clear Line. Until March, 2080. It was mid March that JT was put in charge of overseeing the arrival of a cargo container in Savannah. So JT along with a junior member of Clear Line and a senior member of leadership made the four hour drive from Atlanta to Savannah with a flat bed semi. Their only job was to pick up the container and drive it back leaving it at a warehouse that as far as JT was aware was unaffiliated with CL. During the loading of the cargo container however JT heard the sound of someone crying. Not being able to identify where it was coming from he made an executive decision to open the container. Inside of which he found roughly a dozen people. Bound, gagged, laying in their own filth with IVs and IV bags connected to them. Upon further inspection he discovered that the IV bags were filled with a mix of sedatives and variant suppression drugs. Here he made another rash decision removing the IVs from the people in the container and untying them. When he hopped out of the container he was instantly met with a fist in the gut from his senior Clear Liners, a metamorph who could change into other mammals. The single fist turned into a brawl, one that the Shifter was ill suited to. As he finished with his senior member the junior came around having heard the scuffle, taking his bat he swung it cracking into the head of his fellow Clear Liner. After fighting with his fellow gang members JT latched the container, hopped back into the cab of the truck and once on his way out of Savannah called emergency services for an ambulance for his former allies. He at this point had no idea what he was going to do with a truck full of variants but he couldn’t see how trafficking them had any benefit to Variant-kind. Fortunately the decision was made for him as he blew down the interstate at nearly 80mph the truck began to rock before a loud explosion reached his ears and shortly there after he found the semi on it’s side skidding across multiple lanes. A variant in the back had regained consciousness and managed to blow a hole in the side of the container with such force that it sent the truck skidding. JT lost consciousness during the crash, smacking his head into the roof as the cab went parallel to the road, it wasn’t until he heard sirens that he awoke. Knowing that if he was detained the police would quickly find evidence of human trafficking JT kicked op the door above him and lowering his relative gravity down below 0g rocketed into the sky. The sun hadn’t even risen by the time his phone began to blow up with Zakk and the fellow leadership wanting to know what had happened, they had seen the news of the container crashing and had heard what the account from the other two Liners, who were still hospitalized. Aware that if he returned to Atlanta it would only be a matter of time before CL found him, he saved the video from his Omni Lens from the night before, ditched his phone and stole an abandoned car. Following this betrayal of Clear Line and more importantly The Syndicate videos were leaked to the police and N.O.V.A. showing JT using his powers to extort and commit violent assaults. One of those videos was of his Clear Line initiation, a process that requires prospective members to hospitalize an agent of N.O.V.A., M.A.D. or an anti-Variant politician or advocate. More importantly the Syndicate and on a smaller scale Clear Line mobilized a search for him. He has since quietly made his way to New Haven which he has heard rumor has a strong Pariah Underground movement as well as hoping to maybe turn his information over to N.O.V.A. if he gets the chance. [/hider] [hider=Clear Line] Clear Line started as an activist group promoting equal treatment for Variants and had several chapters throughout the southern United States, being primarily based out of Atlanta, Georgia. However it was quickly co-opted from it’s initial well-meaning goals into Variant Supremacist group. The group quickly and quietly became a feeder organization for The Syndicate despite a few differences in their ideology. For Clear Line the idea of hiding behind masks and pseudonyms is humiliating and degrading, while they don’t have an active hatred of people who do hide use masks and pseudonyms they do view themselves as being more true to their Variant nature by not doing so. Moreover Clear Line is actively against the concept of Noble Licensing and believe it is naught but a way for N.O.V.A. and M.A.D. to track Variants. They strongly believe that Variants who become Nobles are actively harming Variant rights and paving the way for laws to demand registration and identification. Clear Line maybe a Variant Supremacist group but according to them they don’t “hate” norms but only look for the public admission and validation that Variants are the superior race. A key belief throughout Clear Line is that Variants are more suited for roles of power and governmental control than non-variant individuals. Despite starting as an activist group and transitioning into a supremacist group Clear Line has moved into a Variety of organized crime, primarily extortion, racketeering and various drug trades. They are staunchly against moving implants or augmentations that could be used to allow non-variants to gain an equal footing with Variants. Further despite their view points in regards to non-variants Clear Lines member demographics are roughly 3 non-variants for every 2 Variant members. These non-variants are typically family or friends of Variant members and have very little upward mobility within the organization. Clear Line has been labeled a domestic terrorist organization and a hate group. The name Clear Line initially derived from the idea that the line separating Variants and non-variants was invisible and that there was in fact no line, meaning that both Variants and non-variants should be treated equally. It has developed into the idea that there is in fact a clear and obvious line separating Variants from their lesser non-variant counterparts. [b]Clear Line Terminology |[/b] CL- an abbreviation for Clear Line Clear Liner, Liner, Shepherd- the term for a member of the group Norm, Normie, Nonpo, Lesser, Sheep- All terms used to refer to non-variants. [/hider]