Name: Albert King Hughes, friends call him Al.
Super Hero/Villain Identity: Fault Line
Age: 37
Nationality: African American
Location: Los Angeles California, United States of America
Appearance: Albert stands at a respectable 6’3” weighing in at 247 with an impressive athletic build. His shoulders are broad and he carries them slightly forward, with his chest more inward. He has a very square set and short jaw line which he keeps clean shaven on a daily basis, his eyes are a dark green in color and sit slightly wide set and low on his face. His hair is kept incredibly short, no doubt less than a few centimeters long with a ‘style cut’ starting in line with the top of his right eye and earlobe and going about half way back across his head.
He prefers to dress in white t-shirts and blue denim jeans when in casual wear, with simple tennis shoes. However the man knows how to dress, owning several proper Italian cut three piece suits, their color schemes are of course:
Suit 1: Black, White, Burgandy.
Suit 2: Black White, Light Blue
Suit 3. Black, Silver, Dark Blue
But those aren’t the suits you want to hear about:
The super suit of Fault Line is a black spandex two piece, with bright yellow trim and upon the back is a yellow circle with dark cracks running from its center outwards. He dones a simple, yet effective black mask over eyes. The suit is skin tight for the reasons to do with his ability, as he channels tectonic energy he found that if his clothes were loose they tended to tear away from his body as the energy coursed through him, the spandex have so far been the only clothes that stayed securely on his body.
Personality: Albert is a patient man, he strives to be understanding of others plights and puts himself in others shoes before taking action. You could say he believe no one is beyond redemption and shows this by often times giving others second and third chances.
That being said he despises those that use others for personal gain, whether they be manipulating them emotionally, physically, mentally or supernaturally. It is an unforgivable action in his eyes, more so than perhaps even taking a murder, because once you've taken someones ability of choice, you've taken more than just their life from them.
He understands that while life is unfair that is never an excuse, when trying to help others he understands the importance of both the carrot and the stick, and employs them both equally in his life. Whether it be with his children or with those he is trying to help and even the villains he fights. Some people need to be sat down and given the lay of the law, and sometimes given a good slap up side the head, but equally to him is knowing when to take someone into your arms and allowing them to vent, to speak freely and be given a support to lean against.
In short Albert is a patient and caring man, any day where he can say he helped someone get their life on track is a day he is happy, and he isn't capable of leaving someone alone that he feels needs help. He can't just tell himself 'they'll be fine' and leave it at that.
Backstory/Origin: Los Angeles is a pretty nice to place to grow up, if your families rolling in the dough they get from every other sucker in the city. And compared to many others, Albert started off with pretty good chances.
Going back to his Grandfather, Jerome Bason Hughes, who was a professional boxer and popular nationwide. Jerome was gifted the Gym that he always practiced at by the owner when the man retired, and ran a rather successful business outside of the ring. Jerome had a son, George, who would then later have Albert.
George helped run the Gym with his father, and even started community out reach and troubled youth programs out of the building. Given young men and women of the lower income areas somewhere to work through their frustrations constructively, helped them build character and do to their families popularity, get jobs and find the resources they needed to compete in school and the work force.
Unfortunately the gangs that prayed on these same youths never take kindly to such programs, and one of them, the Muertos, took it upon themselves to end George’s life. Why is this important?
Albert was only 14 when his dad died, and it was less than a month later his psychic abilities awakened and he channeled his first ‘tremor’.
Confused, angry and scared he ended up falling in with a gang rival to the Muertos called the Bishops. He felt a connection to them, they seemed to appreciate him, weren’t afraid of his abilities and gave him a direct line to getting back at the men that killed his father. What followed were several years of robberies, assaults and very very expensive vandalism.
However on the night when he would finally get to take the life of one of the men that killed his father… a lot happened. He couldn’t say exactly what happened, it was all a whirl wind, but the night ended with his hands clean of blood and the Bishops. Bent over the toilet sick to his stomach and with himself, what followed was a long and silent period of several months during which he really looked at himself, for the first time since his father died three years prior he walked into the family Gym.
He made the decision to be a man like his father was, and focused on that, keeping his abilities hidden and working with his Grandfather. But when he was 23 he saw on the news, a young man, an Ultra not unlike himself years before, being arrested. Roped into a Gang after he lost his parents, his abilities used for their own ends, something clicked and he decided.
People in the city, in the Ghetto’s, needed a real role model, especially the Ultras. Someone that was going to stand up for them, against the gangs, the crooked politicians, the dirty cops and all the crazies that though they were above the law. He knew how to fight, he knew he had power, and finally he had a real purpose.
So Fault Line was born, the hero of Los Angeles that delivers justice equally to all with the great might of the Earth itself. He also continues his father’s work in community out reach from the family gym, which he now owns though his grandfather spends his days relaxing there, it is now a Boxing and MMA gym.
Tools/Equipment/Weapons: Currently None
Skills: Martial artist, experienced business man, motivational speaker.
Abilities/Powers/Mutations: Psychic ability: Tectonic Channeling: With the power of his mind Albert is able to channel the energy created by the shifting of the Earth’s Tectonic plates. He can use the energy in several ways:
Physical Enhancement: He can use the energy to empower his muscles, causing him to run faster, jump farther, and punch harder.
Kinetic Barrier: He can cloak himself in a layer of energy that acts as a shield and barrier, absorbing physical forces that contact him and protecting his body.
Tectonic Tremors: He is capable of directing and releasing the energy in short range waves and blasts of physical force.
