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[b][color=lightgreen]"Don't blink or you'll miss it."[/color][/b][/center][hr][hr]
[color=lightgreen][B][  NAME  ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][INDENT]Jacob Tyler Fleetwood[/INDENT][/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][  HERO IDENTITY  ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][INDENT]Blast[/INDENT][/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][  NICKNAME/ALIAS  ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][INDENT]Jake[/INDENT][/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][  AGE  ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][INDENT]21[/INDENT][/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ GENDER ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][INDENT]Male[/INDENT][/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ AFFILIATION ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][INDENT]H.E.R.O. (Full-Time) [/INDENT][/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][  APPEARANCE  ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][INDENT]Jake's physical appearance doesn't stand out all too much in a crowd. He stands a bit taller than average, at just around 6 feet tall, and he has a muscular but decidedly lean runner's build. He is very evidently Caucasian, with peach colored skin that tans somewhat in the summertime and is usually accompanied with a smattering of knicks, cuts, bruises and sometimes road rash. He has a mop of wavy, golden blonde hair and has hazel eyes. Most of the time, he has around his neck a pair of black goggles that look similar in design to ski goggles, albeit slightly smaller and with a lot more technology going on.[/INDENT][/color]
[INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]Civilian Attire:[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]Jake, like your average college-age frat-boy-looking male, is not somebody known for elaborate fashion, to say the least. When he's out and about, a t-shirt or a tank top, jeans, and sneakers compromises most of his wardrobe in the summertime. In the winter, he'll add on to a limited rotation of jackets and boots to his mix of clothing. The lack of diversity in his regular attire is not laziness (well, at the very least, it's not [i]solely[/i] because of laziness, as much of his clothing is custom-made to remain intact when using his powers. Outside of his HERO-issued smartwatch, Jake very rarely wears any type of jewelry.[/color][/INDENT]
[INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]Hero Attire:[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]Jake, much to the chagrin of HERO's R&D team, is happy to fight in whatever he has on. He does have a hero suit, which is olive green with black highlights that covers everything from the head down. Over his head he has a black hood and, of course, his goggles, which seem to go with him everywhere he goes. The suit is made from both carbon fiber and Nomex, the same material used to make firefighter uniforms, in order to give the suit a great deal of durability and also make it flame-retardant. [/color][/INDENT]


[color=lightgreen][B][ PERSONALITY TRAITS ][/B][/color]
[INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]◦ VIBRANT.[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]Jake is extremely (and I mean [i]extremely[/i]) energetic. Everything about him just naturally indicates that he always has the most energy in the room. He's naturally very outgoing, having the people skills and charm that is both the envy and nightmare of introverts everywhere. When he is talking to somebody, he generally speaks a mile a minute. He's also very jumpy: he's the type of person that can't sit still, is very fidgety, and generally has a short attention span. This lends itself very well to hero work: Jake is very eager to volunteer for any time of assignment and has a number of traits that make him a natural leader, or at the very least, a hero that people can rally around. [/color][/INDENT]
[INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]◦ CONFIDENT.[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]Jake is headstrong and hyper-confident in his own abilities, bordering on arrogance. He's not the type to put other people down, but he certainly is the type to think that he's the best at just about anything he does, which can rub people the wrong way. This confidence translates into how Jake deals with his hero assignments: he shows as little fear as possible and is often the first to go in and the last to leave. This attitude makes Jake surprisingly difficult to work with in team settings; he's perfectly affable, but does not take orders well- at least, orders that he doesn't agree with. He does believe in himself, but sometimes a hair too much.[/color][/INDENT]
[INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]◦ THRILL-SEEKER.[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]Jake loves anything that excites him. In his young adulthood, the thing that has satiated his hunger for thrills has been his work as a hero. He enjoys the thrill of the fight and having a job where he can use his powers all the time. Unlike many heroes, Jake does not do his job out of some deep desire to help the city, but rather because it's fun. That's not to say that he doesn't get any satisfaction of helping people, but that's not what Jake wakes up thinking about every morning. He loves the rush of adrenaline that taking on a villain gives him. If he ever got permanently assigned to deskwork, he'd quit on the spot. [/color][/INDENT]
[INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]◦ SPOTLIGHT-HUGGER.[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]In addition to the thrill of the job, Jake also craves attention and loves the pseudo-celebrity status that being a superhero with HERO has gotten him. Though he would never admit it, he cares very much about his reputation and how both his colleagues and the public view him. He loves being behind the cameras, he seeks every chance he can to rub shoulders with the most popular heroes and celebrities in Castleburg. Since joining HERO, he's also been a pretty prolific womanizer. [/color][/INDENT]
[INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]◦ FRIEND OR JUST FRIENDLY?[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]Jake is somebody that is, for the most part, perfectly easy to get along with. He has things about him that can, needless to say, be irritating, but he is a perpetually genial and optimistic person that knows how to have fun and is always down for anything, whether that be some minor task or grand adventure. He has a certain childlike joy that he finds in every adventure he takes on. However, in another childlike way, he seems to really not understand what it means to really care about something. Maybe it's something that HERO can unlock in him. [/color][/INDENT]

[color=lightgreen][B][ BIO ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][INDENT]Jake is a Castleburg native, born right in the heart of the city. His parents, both heroes, died in the line of duty when Jake was extremely young, before he could ever really forge any sort of relationship with them. He was raised by his paternal grandmother, Louise, in his formative years, where his life was relatively normal for a good few years. He played sports, made friends, got into some- but not too much- trouble, and read comic books. Nothing really stood out about him, outside of his boundless amounts of energy and affinity for the outdoors.

Jake's powers unlocked right around the age of 12. He made an extremely difficult catch while playing football for his school team, but instead of rushing the ball into the endzone, he rushed it about 800 yards through a brick wall and into a high-end Italian restaurant. This incident, as did many incidents of superhuman children unlocking their powers, the attention of HERO, who reached out to Jake's grandmother and offered him admission into their Academy for Young Heroes. Jake's grandmother, though very protective of the young lad, could not keep up with the hyperactive, and now superpowered, youth, and knowing that the school would temper his powers better than she could, she sent him off.

Jake did fine in school: his grades weren't good, but they weren't bad, but he stood out in the development of his powers and his aptitude (and great interest) in combat training. As soon as he was eligible, he waved goodbye to the school and enrolled at HERO on the day of his 16th birthday, eager to both start making money just to use his powers and experience the joy of being a hero. When he was younger, he never really understood why his parents left the world. Now, he could start to grasp it. Who wouldn't want to use these powers every day and every night? Jake started undertaking hero work as soon as he was able to, and he became a hit. At 17, he was named Castleburg's Best Junior Hero. By 19, he had completed the most solo tasks of any HERO operative under the age of 20. He even got his face on a cereal box (Fruity Crisps!) and appeared in news ads.

Since then, the story has pretty much been the same for Jake. Keep defeating villains, finishing missions, collecting paychecks, and getting onto those cereal boxes. He's been doing that, and he shows no signs of slowing down.[/INDENT][/color]

[color=lightgreen][b]|  MISCELLANEOUS  |[/b][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][list][*]Huge sports fan and demonstrates remarkable knowledge and interest in any conversation that is sports-related. His favorite sport is American football, but he at the very least demonstrates a fundamental understanding of, if not deep knowledge about, any sport that has any type of following.
[*]Has an apartment in the East Flank, but is currently looking for an upgrade to a nicer part of town.
[*]His powers were passed from his father, who was also a speedster (Thomas Fleetwood/Speed Demon), whereas his mother was a hydrokinetic (Mara Fleetwood/Oceanid). The villain that took their lives was never caught.

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[color=lightgreen][B][ RANKING ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][INDENT] Ι (Iota Class) [/INDENT][/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ POWERS ][/B][/color]
[INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]Accelerate.[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]Jake is what comic book fans would call a "speedster." His powers allow him move several orders of magnitude faster than your average human. While his max speed has not been measured precisely and can vary heavily with very minor shifts in Jake's physical fitness or the environment, it is certainly solidly above the speed of sound at his top speed. Jake's high-velocity movement allows him to run across bodies of water, easily best automobiles, and build up a significant amount of inertia in order to make his attacks even more devastating.[/color][/INDENT]
[INDENT][INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]◦ Speedster Physiology.[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]Moving at high speeds, as it happens, does generate a lot of friction. Jake, along with his speedster powers, has fortunately developed high heat tolerance, superhuman resistance and friction resistance to prevent him from incinerating every time he kicks his speed up to high gear. That same feature does not apply to clothing, but fortunately for Jake (and the world) HERO has tailor-produced clothing interwoven with special fibers to prevent them from incinerating. Most of the time, at any rate.[/color][/INDENT][/INDENT]
[INDENT][INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]◦ Mega Momentum.[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]Moving at high speeds, ALSO, as it happens, allows one to build up a great deal of momentum to deliver devastating blows. So while Jake can't exactly run up walls, he can do the next best things and run [i]through[/i] walls. [/color][/INDENT][/INDENT]
[INDENT][INDENT][color=lightgreen][b]◦ Heed the Speed.[/b][/color] [color=Gainsboro]There area few drawbacks to Jake's very impressive power set. One of the most glaring is that Jake cannot breathe when using his power at any more than a slight speed boost. While some magicians and world record chasers can hold their breaths for very long periods of time, Jake did not develop superhuman lung capacity and, even with extensive training, has managed to hold his breath for up to a minute and a half, tops. Still a lot of time, but not forever. Another problem is that Jake, owing to the laws of physics, cannot stop moving when he's been running at very high speeds effortlessly. This has resulted in a lot of injuries and collateral damage, as sometimes slowing down involves crushing multiple walls (and often bones). Lastly, Jake's powers require lots and lots of calories. This, fortunately, is not too big of a problem, as Jake has learned to quickly stop for fast food before going after a villain.[/color][/INDENT][/INDENT]

[color=lightgreen][B][ PHYSICAL STRENGTH ][/B]
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[color=Gainsboro]Jake had scholarship opportunities to, at the very least, compete at the collegiate level and beyond in American football and is a great sportsman that is also in excellent physical shape. Even with his powers providing a boost, though, he isn't [i]particularly[/i] superhuman in this respect.[/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ AGILITY ][/B]
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[color=Gainsboro]In terms of raw speed, Jake is trounced by very few. The only noticeable weakness in his agility is the fact that 
he does not have fluent control of where he's going once he's reached the upper echelons of his possible speed, but once you're going that fast, is control really that big of a concern?[/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ INTELLIGENCE ][/B]
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[color=Gainsboro]Jake is not particularly stupid. But he's also not particularly smart, and his tendency to zoom directly into conflict without thinking of a plan is a point against him as well. He also does have a short attention span. Both of those latter points, though, aren't really knocks against Jake, who wouldn't have had a real problem getting a high school diploma if he needed one. Not a scholar, but not a [i]total[/i] simpleton. [/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ DESTRUCTIVENESS ][/B]
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[color=Gainsboro]Jake's hero name is [i]Blast[/i] for a reason. An armored human body moving as fast as it does when Jake's legs are powering it can do some pretty significant damage. This ability does pale in comparison to some other heroes that are far more capable of wreaking havoc with their powers, and being a human wrecking ball is not the most effective way of causing harm, but don't tell that to HERO's Collateral Damage Department. [/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ LETHALITY ][/B]
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[color=Gainsboro]Perhaps more lethal than the Average Joe that can't run faster than Mach 1, but outside of trampling somebody with his powers, Jake isn't really capable of causing huge damage with his person.[/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ ENDURANCE ][/B]
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[color=Gainsboro]Jake is shockingly resilient. He is heat-resistant by nature of his powers, and is also much more durable than the average person, able to take abuse as a result of his powers and shrug it off in situations that regular humans would find lethal. That being said, though his durability is enhanced, his bones still break (eventually), pain still hurts, and bullets still cut through him like Swiss cheese. [/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ STAMINA ][/B]
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[color=Gainsboro]The fast food thing wasn't a joke; Jake needs to stay constantly replenished in order to use his powers. That being said, his powers perfectly match the person that he is, which is extremely energetic already. [/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ EFFICACY ][/B]
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[color=Gainsboro]Jake has had extensive training to control his powers, and is capable of performing very impressive sharp turns and weaves for somebody moving at his speed. He's limited by the laws of physics (or whatever bastardization of them exists in this universe), but for somebody moving as fast as he does, he exerts a remarkable degree of control.[/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ MORALITY ][/B]
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[color=Gainsboro]As noted earlier, Jake does not operate on some high-ground moral compass. He likes seeking thrills and having fun, and that philosophy does sometimes negative affect his hero work. Jake is, however, quite well-adjusted to society and is generally a good person. He certainly is discomforted by the pain of others and does want to help, as much as that urge is overpowered by his free-spiritedness and devil-may-car attitude at times.[/color]

[color=lightgreen][B][ SKILLS ][/B][/color][list]
[color=Gainsboro][list][*]Respectable hand-to-hand combatant. Though Jake has never really been [i]formally[/i] trained in close quarters combat, a combination of natural intuition, experience, and HERO's training has made him formidable, though by no means an expert. Being faster than everybody else in the room does help, though. 
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[color=lightgreen][B][ EQUIPMENT ][/B][/color]
[color=Gainsboro][color=Gainsboro][list][*]His goggles, which are high-tech H.E.R.O. equipment that essentially functions as "Google Maps for people that move faster than a jet plane." Not only do the goggles help clarify his vision, they help him mark locations in real time, making it easier for him to move seamlessly. They also protect his eyes. He can still use his powers without them, but can't see nearly as well and this is much less precise in his travels. 
[*]H.E.R.O. grade knuckledusters, which are built of a highly-resistant titanium alloy and also has a shock mode. Gives Blast's punches a little more sting.

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[color=lightgreen][b] [ IDENTITY ][/b][/color]
[indent][color=lightslategray] Director Hugo Powers [/color][/indent]
[color=lightgreen][b] [ THOUGHTS ][/b][/color]
[indent][i][color=lightgreen]"Should change his name to Captain Killjoy. Is his superpower having no fun?"[/color][/i][/indent]
[indent][color=lightgray]Jake obviously takes issue with the Director's strictness, and has on multiple occasions found himself in the Director's office for misdeeds. He does have a deep, though hidden, respect for the man, who he sees, in a distant way, as almost a father figure.[/color][/indent]
[color=lightgreen][b] [ RELATIONSHIP LEVEL ][/b][/color]
[indent][color=lightgray]His boss. Begrudgingly follows orders.[/color][/indent]
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[color=lightgreen][b] [ IDENTITY ][/b][/color]
[indent][color=lightcoral] Assistant Director Emily Duff [/color][/indent]
[color=lightgreen][b] [ THOUGHTS ][/b][/color]
[indent][i][color=lightgreen]"Dude, she's smoking h-...umm, happy, is what I meant to say. Nice lady. "[/color][/i][/indent]
[indent][color=lightgray]Jake certainly has a more immediately close relationship with the Assistant Director than her direct superior. They haven't had too many interactions over the years, but he still has fond opinions of her. [/color][/indent]
[color=lightgreen][b] [ RELATIONSHIP LEVEL ][/b][/color]
[indent][color=lightgray]Also his boss, though given the narrower age range and personality differences, closer to friends than the other head honcho at HERO.[/color][/indent]
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