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"Lightning always strike twice when I'm around, baby."
C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T _________________________________________________________C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T  _________________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y _________________________________________________________C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y Virgil Ovid Hawkins _________________________________________________________ 18 | Single _________________________________________________________ N/A(s) [If Applicable] | African American N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S - A B I L I T I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ ENHANCED ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Exposure to the chemicals involved in the Big Bang Incident have enhanced Virgil's physiology to handle large amount of electricity, beyond what normal humans are able to tolerate. Virgil's innate electric resistance can be overcome by large electric currents of sufficient voltage, although this has never been explored. Virgil's cells also act as bioelectrical 'batteries', allowing him to drain, store and release electricity for later use. Virgil's bioelectricity can be depleted if he generates electricity for extended periods of times and must be recharged from nearby electric power sources. Virgil's innate electrophysiology results in a higher bodily static charge which can lead to unintended effects when contacting machinery, objects or living beings. ◼ ELECTROMAGNETIC MANIPULATION Virgil's primary ability is to manipulate electromagnetic phenomena, primarily in the form of electricity. Virgil can achieve simple effects such as manipulating static attraction to enable him to cling to objects and levitating metallic objects to more esoteric effects such as generating electromagnetic forcefields and manipulating electrons at the subatomic level. More advanced applications of his powers require higher concentration and effort to achieve. Usage of his abilities also drain his bioelectricity and Virgil abilities are severely limited if he does not have a sufficient reservior. ◼ ELECTROMAGNETIC DETECTION Virgil can detect and sense electromagnetic waves and currents in his surrounding environment up to three blocks, perceiving it as music. - T O O L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Dakota Municipal Manhole Cover Stamped with the symbol of the Dakota City Municipal Department, this 3 foot diameter cast iron disc is used by Virgil as a makeshift electromagnetic surfboard to move around the city in style. It also comes in handy as a makeshift weapon. Hey, 100 pounds of cast iron steel flying at 60 miles per hour will make any mugger throw their hands up. - N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S - S K I L L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Electrical Engineering It was a complete coincidence that Virgil planned to study Electrical Engineering at N.Y.U before he got his powers. I mean, all you have to do is not put the screwdriver in the charging port and boom, you're a qualified electrician. Just don't look at that C on his Physics mid-term. - T A L E N T (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ RAPPING N.W.A and Eminem got nothing on this boy. He spits electric tunes and got his own album at the age of 18, even though he isn't a rapper. Because rappers are lame. He's definitely not a rapper. - | T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... "What really happened that night? Really, Rubberband? You wanna go over it all again? You want to know the truth? Alright, cuz this is the 100 percent unverified truth. Static style. I'mma hear None of that bull served by those pigs on the TV. 'Gang war'. 'Robbery'. Buncha bullshit. Only thing we all agree with was that it started with the Big Bang. Triple G's to blame for that stupid ass nickname. I'll just call it for what it is. Same old story of protests and police that's always happened in America. I was out there that night protesting. Yeah, you heard me. You think you remember who I was, I say come fuckin get me. We were out there that day because of Marvin. Media probably forgot about him now but they were sure quick to offer their sympathies that day. You remember him too, Rubberband. Marvin. 16 yyears. Perfect SAT scores. Got a Stark Industries internship. Genius. One of those guys you knew who could change the world. Two weeks before the protest, he got wasted by the friggin' cops for taking out his smartphone the wrong way. We wanted to have our voice heard. Cops didn't. So, an hour into the protest and we're in the docks when all of a sudden, we hear sirens. Couple of the stragglers bounce but we try and keep chill. We let the authorities know we're organizing. Having a peaceful protest. Things was different, though. Before, everyone was all loose and calm. Now, with a couple of glorified mall cops peeking over our shoulder, we all felt as though we were a dog in a cage. People were getting antsy and fritzy. Couple of those corpo freaks from AlvaTech lended a couple of Reach tech to the police. Called it a enhanced non-lethal crowd dispersal tool. I'mma just call a duck a duck. It was tear gas. Not the usual, onion in your eyes crap but different. It didn't make you cry but it made you freeze up, locked all your muscles in place. Some of my buddies called it like having glass shoved down your bones and your legs turn to rubber- no offense, Rubberband. We know now in the Agency papers that the gas they used was an experimental nanotech gas that was meant to subtly change your genetic makeup over time. Hypothesis from the feds was that it was an experiment to see if the meta gene could be slowly introduced over a period of time in a general population. One guy could just run fast, his son would run at the speed of sound, you get the drift. What those Reach guys didn't plan that day was the shipment of chemicals that had arrived on the port that day. I've thought so many times about what went wrong that day. Maybe, it was one asshole in our crowd, some carrying iron when they weren't supposed to....Anyway, protest took a turn. Police began to call SWAT. They began unloading that tear gas on us, they call it quantum gas now. Then, the Bang happened. Some bullet hit a gas tank and the gas tank exploded with all the chemicals stored at the dock. I don't remember what happened much until I woke up with a bunch of tubes hooked up to me. Few weeks later, people start developing powers. You probably know all the famous ones by now. Ebon....Kangorr.....Talon....Shiv......Media started calling us Bang Babies, Triple G gets all the credit for that one. Agency locks Dakota City out and turns it into a quarantine zone. Blah blah blah blah, go search up Wikipedia if you want to write an essay on this. So, why do I do this, Rubberband? I do it cause I want to make something out of myself. We all only got one life on this earth. Before the Big Bang, I was nothing, hear me. Now, I get to be something. What's the use of power if you don't use it to help the little guy on the street?" Born the child of Robert and Sarah Hawkins, Virgil's life was just as ordinary as it could be for a teenager until one bad day, when he got caught in the middle of the Big Bang. The incident changed Dakota City forever, giving rise to a new breed of meta-humans dubbed by the media as Bang Babies. Manifesting electromagnetic abilities from the incident, Virgil became the vigilante known as Static to control the outbreak of bang babies and chaos that ensued after the Big Bang. One year after the Big Bang, the Agency declared Dakota City a quarantine zone on account of a disturbing new trend. There were reports of spontaneous development of metahuman powers within Dakota City, a phenomenon known as bang bloomers. Until the effect was fully studied and understood, Dakota City would remain closed off from the world. Virgil managed to escape in time alongside his family and hopes to make a new life for himself in New York City. Unfortunately, the shadows of Dakota won't leave as more meta humans from Virgil's city flock to New York in search of a new home..... P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) Static is back, baby! So, after some mulling and some time spent off the character, I decided to return back to Virgil with a fresh lens. I feel that Static's overall history (limited as it is) and the themes that have resonated from both the show and the comic with me fit well with the overall meta-narrative of resistance and government overreach in this universe. We aren't telling the origin story of Static this time around. Static has been operating in the public eye for a good two or three years now. He can't quite return back to his home city as it is the site of the Big Bang and therefore, has served as a metahuman quarantine zone. Static managed to sneak out for reasons that will explored later in the story and is now based in New York City alongside a couple of other stragglers from the Big Bang Incident. The key element that I want to reframe significantly in this version of Static's story is the villains. Static villains are the same people that participated in the protest that led in the Big Bang. What happens when you give a bunch of young people, disillusioned with the powers that be, actual superpowers? Certainly not heroes but certainly not villains either. I think that's something I want to explore in this RP. |
