Name:Jesse Maldonado
Age:21
Gender:Male
Appearance:Jesse stands at five feet and eight inches tall, 130 pounds, and pink dyed hair. He’s Caucasian-Italian with blue eyes and smooth light skin. At first glance, Jesse doesn’t look too intimidating with his slender stature and feminine traits. However from gymnastics, his upper body is on par with that of an Olympic athlete and he’s one for keeping in shape and eating right. Most of his attire are clothes from Topman, Zarra, Forever 21, and other preppy stores. He tends to dress in the latest fashion and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing something outdated.
Powers: Density Manipulation – His altered DNA allows him to manipulate density of his body's molecular structure. By manipulating it, he can defy the laws of physics and change his molecular density without harm, allowing him to become completely intangible or impervious. And his genetically enhanced DNA maintains a distinct corporeal memory which enables Jesse to revert back to his original molecular structure at will. Jesse can also extend his density control onto other people/objects by touch.
- Intangibility – Jesse can throw off the density of his own molecular structure making him intangible, thus he is able to pass through solid matter by passing his atoms through the spaces between the atoms of the object through which he is moving. In this way he and the object through which he is passing can temporarily merge without interacting, and each is unharmed when Jesse has finished passing through the object. Jesse is able to damage and disrupt, displace, or delete tangible matter by phasing parts of one's body through it and un-phasing said body parts, or simply phasing through it. An example of this is phasing through an electrical system. The phasing would cause the system to malfunction. When used on living creatures, it can be potentially fatal.
- Imperviousness – Jesse can condense his molecules, making his body as hard as diamonds – his tissue, skin, muscles, bones, etc. is extremely dense/solid, allowing them to withstand harmful strains on the body such as crushing weights, impacts, pressures, bullets, and changes in temperature. He also gains enhanced levels of strength and stamina, this is possible because of how hard his body has become, allowing him to resist tearing a muscle and/or their bones shattering easily.
Weaknesses:Time Limit – Jesse has only 30 seconds before he has to revert back to avoid the risk that the effects from his powers will become permanent and kill him.
Skills:Jesse has been trained in gymnastics since the age of 5. His flexibility and agility allows him to do amazing feats which he combines with combat to make a very decent combatant. Although the latter wasn’t learned until him being an Empowered threatened to get him killed. Because of his abilities, he’s become good in stealth and thievery. Jesse is also great with computers and makes mean Italian food.
Personality:Jesse is a flamboyant, charismatic person. Although partaking in very illegal activities, he's a good person at heart, and is careful not to get any of his friends involved. He takes care of his loved ones, no matter what strange problems they have. He is suspicious and went through a lot in his life. He is the kind of guy with a dark sense of humor. Jesse may rake in cash doing things the cops frown upon, but that doesn't make him a bad person. He just knows how to have a good time, and he likes to make sure everyone else around him is having as much fun as he is. Though some people underestimate his toughness, but do not let the pink hair fool you. He's not afraid to stand up to anyone who mocks him. If you want to share your clothes and trade makeup tips with, then Jesse is your man. He's not exactly the perfect partner but his flamboyant personality will surely provide comic relief. There's never a dull moment when he's around. Because of his abilities, Jesse is also a very claustrophobic person and doesn't like to be confined anywhere.
History:Jesse grew up in the suburbs. He didn’t really have a hard life; others would see him as spoiled. However, he never acted as if he was above anyone. He’s always showed people the respect they gave him. At the age of 5, his mother put him in gymnastics as a hobby to keep him away from the hoodlums that roamed the neighborhood after school. Jesse became sort of a prodigy in his hobby, even qualifying for the Olympics when he was only a freshman in high school. High school was particularly eventful as that is the time most kids discover who they are as a person. He had always known he liked the same sex, but never really pursued it or acted on it. He came out of the closet at only 15. Most were supportive, others not so much. Since he lived in a relatively liberal environment, he was generally surrounded with a lot of positivity even dating a few times through school.
But most of his troubles began when he started developing his abilities. There were moments where he remembered falling asleep in bed and woke up on the first floor of his house right under where his room would be. Jesse soon found out he would phase through his bed and fall downstairs at night. He thought they were just falling dreams until he awoke mid fall and hit the floor. His parents wanted to get him helped but he refused, knowing not a lot of people could do this and he would probably be in some lab, tortured for the rest of his life. So he continued to live a normal life as much as he possibly could while still learning about what he could do behind closed doors. Soon Jesse graduated high school and went on to college to study Psychology. Then his life turned upside down.
Jesse came home one day to visit his family for holiday break when he found them dead on the floor. It turns out people had found out about him and came looking for him. Only to find Jesse not there, so they killed his parents so they wouldn’t say anything. Now the only thing he could do was run. He couldn’t go back to school. They probably knew he attended college by then. He called the cops, grabbed as much stuff as he could, and fled. Since then, Jesse has started doing illegal things like phasing into banks at night and stealing money, pick pocketing, taking money from ATM’s and doing gambling. He needed all the cash he could get if he was going to keep running. He just didn't know how long he had to keep running.
