"Overlook"
"Because Contessa said this is necessary to setup the right dominoes for our ultimate goal."Name: Ruben Manhattan
Alias: "Overlook"
Age: 21
Alignment: Hero, typically.
Loyalty: Independent, but is known to help the Wards when they require assistance.
Appearance: Ruben is a caucasian male of a lanky and slender build, with a deep scar on his cheek, how it got there is currently unknown. As for his other features, he has an amputated leg at his pelvis, bright green eyes, and a wheelchair.
When he's in costume, he dawns his Overlook helmet, crafted with expert paper-mache, a gas mask he had from the bunker, and wired from leftover robot parts. He also puts on a navy hoodie, with a design that looks inspired by a prism, although no information on it has been released.
History:
Ruben was your standard kid, doing well in most of his classes, living in an ordinary house, and having an unremarkable life for most of it. The only remarkable thing about him was that he was incredibly intelligent in general, allowing him to excel academically. Aside from that, he was just your typical teen until his family was hit with news.
At the age of 13, Ruben was identified with severely progressed bone cancer in one of his legs. Thankfully for him, with the right treatment it would be cured and his life wouldn't be completely ruined by this, except he would have to give up something he would've liked to keep. He would have to lose his leg and undergo a lot of chemotherapy.
Eventually, although it took a while, he was cured of his ailment before it could get any worse. He quickly proceeded to go back to school and seek to further his education, however he eventually had to drop out due to his failing grades, his lack of attendance to any of his classes, and a case of clinical depression from everything hitting him at once. His family grew desperate to try and save their child from getting any worse, so they decided to give him something that might help him cope with all this stuff in his life.
They gave him a nuclear bunker.
Now no ordinary family could ever afford to have a bunker installed in their home, especially after their son had a successful cancer treatment, but finding a pre-made bunker proved easier and cheaper. When Ruben was introduced to this new place through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, his family encouraged him to create it in his own image, which is what began to help Ruben start to cope with his depression. Time passed, and eventually a self-sustaining house was made in the run-down blast-shelter that was owned by Ruben. A decent farm was made in it using plans found on the internet so Ruben could grow food and such, it had a place where Ruben could recycle and heat water for hygienic purposes and such, and it had two methods of power to supply the place with, which were both clean and renewable sources (a few solar panels were installed covertly around the bunker's entrance, and a decently-sized wind turbine was nearby as well). Ruben had his own little corner of the world for him to live in, and he loved it. Life was looking up for him...
Then surprise-surprise, his trigger happened. He thought about what his life was, how his family sent him to a bunker for him to live out the rest of his days, how his depression helped his family decide on getting him this bunker, and most importantly, how he missed being his normal self. He felt something hit him hard, which he labeled as the depression coming back to haunt him, but it was his memories and emotions of how most of his life went before his amputation and before he had his bunker. Ruben had forgotten most of who he was, and gained incomprehensible knowledge of a vast array of topics, but one stood out from the rest. He became an expert strategist and hacker, and he wanted to help change the world with it.
When you're confined to a wheelchair and when you are in a bunker for a while, you start to realize that you have a lot of time on your hands. When you realize you have time on your hands, you start building things. Or maybe that was his dad-senses kicking in as a side effect. Either way, within about a year, going through a few designs, and almost losing a hand in addition to his leg, Ruben created something he called "The Eye", which was basically a camera in a flying ball, able to use bluetooth technology to allow Ruben to speak to a target of his choosing, with the camera allowing Ruben to look out upon the world from his computer in his bunker. With quick haste, he began to construct an expertly crafted helmet with a futuristic design, with a small microphone allowing him to speak through and communicate with The Eye, and allowing him to conceal his identity to the people he spoke with. It was then he adopted the name of Overlook, and his future as a helpful companion to those who needed him for a difference started.
In reality though, Overlook's memories were fabricated by Cauldron in order to keep it to secrecy. Ruben is a Case 53 and the mutation he suffered from Cauldron's experiments had resulted in the loss of his leg. However, his now-amputated leg has some sort of magnetic properties to it, and is very cold to the touch of others excluding himself. Ruben doesn't know this due to the amnesia, but he hopes that the therapy he's receiving from the PRT would result in his memories coming back.
Personality
Motivations: All Ruben wants is to help contribute to making a difference.
Sexuality: Bicurious, but he'll say straight if asked.
Likes:
- Trap Music
- Video Games
- Debating religious influence in history.
Dislikes:
- People invading his privacy.
- People claiming to be his family although they're not to him.
- Pretentious Fucks.
Derangement: Ruben has an odd form of retroactive amnesia, where he forgot most of the events in his life that mattered leading up to the amputation of his leg due to cancer, and from there until he started to work on his bunker. When he was asked once by an anonymous person what he remembers from the times before his amputation, all he can respond with is "It's a foggy bit of my life..." followed by a very small detail of an event he's trying to remember.
Parahumanism
Skills: He's an expert Morrowind player, and has done a lot of competitive Pokemon battling. He is also an expert at being anonymous, and has pretty much nullified any way for his true identity to be traced. Everyone who has ever worked with him only knows him as Overlook, unless they worked with him prior to his adoption of the name.
Classification: Pre-Cog Thinker.
Details: Overlook is able to predict enemy movement patterns, and can accurately predict what they're going to do in the next second. He is able to do this even if he has only watched the subject for merely a few seconds, and it can prove invaluable to many organizations that want to figure out the way that other capes go about with their powers. Surprisingly, this power works beyond the realm of face-to-face, and Overlook is able to use this with his tools of the trade. Other than his normal powers, he gained a very strong amount of knowledge in terms of hacking and in terms of strategy, making a chess game with him really annoying.
Limitations: Overlook is a precognition Thinker, and as such, he cannot predict and read the actions of any other precognition Thinker. In addition, Overlook is currently unable to use these powers until he gets over his amnesia, and he is affected by the fear that if he created an additional drone for him to use that he would lose access to another body part, so he just keeps the Eye as his main method of work.
Equipment: The Overlook helmet is outfitted with a wireless microphone that allows him to communicate to people he's connected to via the Eye, and his computer setup (nicknamed the Titanic) is powerful enough to make even the Amish cry with awe. His main piece of equipment is The Eye, described in the hider below.
The Eye is the creation sprouted out of Ruben's sudden surge of intelligence. Through the many designs it went through and how it almost removed his hand, it ended being a small ball of human ingenuity. The actual design of it kept homage to the mask created during the time, and the overall capabilities of it compliment how Overlook as an individual gets things done and how he portrays himself.
- It is a black, transparent, plastic spherical shape with 3 separate rotors allowing it to fly around, and it's size (about the size of an apple) makes it surprisingly aerodynamic.
- A camera is within the contraption, hooked up in such a way that it can look around in complete 360º rotation.
- Provided it is close enough to a headset or bluetooth earpiece of another person, it can sync with it and allow Overlook to talk to that person wirelessly.
- Much like how Overlook's bunker is powered, The Eye runs off of solar power, and has a battery that can be recharged within it.
- An original plan of it had a speaker installed, but it has never been used, nor is it confirmed that it's still in the final design.
- It can return to a home location upon request.
- It's top speed that has been recorded was 21.3 mph.
- It does have legs.
Aside from that, Overlook has a singular Beanie Baby, which he found in the bunker when he woke up in isolation so long ago. It was Flaky the Bear, and it may or may not have become Overlook's closest friend.