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 Thunderbolt

Name: Jason Rowly

Alias: Thunderbolt

Age: 24

Alignment: Villain

Loyalty: the Jacks

Appearance: Jason is an abnormally large man. Standing at just under seven feet (6' 10" to be exact) Jason towers over most everyone else. Having a large physique on top of his height and Jason cuts an intimidating sight. Jason weighs around 240 pounds, and the vast majority of that weight is visibly muscle. Jason spouts white hair, which is dyed.

Jason's normal clothing is comfortable, as there is no way to be truly inconspicuous given his physique. He wears a nice long sleeve shirt, relatively tight with the sleeves rolled up to near his elbows. His pants are black slacks, comfortable enough to run in if needed. Meanwhile, to anyone who would actually notice, Jason wears grey running shoes.

His costume, in contrast, is meant to strike concern in his foes. While similar to a black suit, there is obviously a layer of armor over most of his body. He wears a helmet, very similar in appearance to a skull, that protects his head from harm and helps minimize sounds. A lightning bolt is emblazed upon the front of his helmet and the back of his armor.

After the Warehouse job, Jason updated his helmet to be sound proof with a built in communications system.

History: Jason had a relatively normal childhood, minus his father. The man was hardly ever in his life, but when he was he was a terror to the boy. Constantly drunk or strung out on some drug, John Rowly was an emotional, physical, and verbal abuser. Those nights, and occasionally days, were easily the worst for Jason. Beyond that, or perhaps because of that, Jason never did well in school. He suffered from barely passing grades, a lack of motivation, and a generally paranoid behavior.

The only counter to this Jason had was sports, to which he signed up for many. While not very good at most of them, he learned quickly and ironed. He was shunned somewhat by the teams, however, since his mother was barely covering the bills. The only way he got to play, therefore, was charity events that helped the less fortunate get into sports.

This was his life until he turned eighteen. Unable to move out after graduation due to terrible trouble getting a job (and an unwillingness to let his mom deal with his father solo), Jason's life did not improve. No longer able to take sports as an outlet, Jason took up exercise on a daily basis. With his towering build, and growing muscle mass, he soon began to build the courage to stand up for himself to his father after several more years of the same routine over and over.

That was a bad day. November 12, 2004. Jason, now almost 24 (his birthday being January 4th), attempted to get his father to leave him and his mother for good. His father returned that night, raging, and immediately set himself upon his son with a knife in hand.

Moments away from being stabbed to death, his father yelling and punching, Jason felt fear like never before. As the knife plunged into his arms, several times, he felt like his mind would break before his body fully did. He so desperately wanted to flee, to escape this knife and his father, before he died. The fear mounted with each passing second.

That was when he triggered, the knife no longer penetrating his skin afterwards. Consumed by rage and pain, Jason struck his father. Grabbing the man and tossing him, Jason continued his attack. Each blow sent his father flying into the wall until he laid dead on the floor. This did not stop the rage fueled Jason, however, as he continued to hit the lifeless body.

Since that day, Jason has changed. A constant fire stays lit inside of him, and the desire to never be poor or broken again remains his driving force. Having pulled many small range theft jobs, as well as robbing an armored truck once, Jason carries cash on him at most times. 

Early on he began using his ill gotten money to buy custom built pieces for his costume from many different sources. Always paying in cash, never giving any more information than necessary.

During that very last heist on the truck, Jason publicly proclaimed himself as Thunderbolt.

Personality

Motivations: Jason is motivated by money and the opportunity to prove himself in a fight. However those get achieved, preferably together, Jason doesn't mind. 

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Likes:Fighting
Money
Owning nice things
Innuendos
Freedom

Dislikes:Guns
Do-gooders types
Holier than though types
Lazy people
Laws
Drug users
Drunks

Derangement: Jason has become extremely violent since his trigger, and beyond that he has a hard time knowing when to quit. When he gets running, so to speak, he just continues to ramp up until the problem is solved by being destroyed. 

Parahumanism

Skills:Jason is proficient in several martial arts styles. He couldn't tell you what they are, however.
Brute strength, given his workout routine
Enhanced stamina, due to him always running around
Analytical, good at figuring out where best to hit things to make them break, fall, or come apart through logical deductions and guesswork
Most sports, such as basketball, running events, and boxing

Classification: Brute and Striker / Mover

Details: When Jason touches anything, he can make the conscious choice to reduce that objects mass factor to near zero. So while his strength stays the same (albeit still incredible compared to normal levels), his punches after initial contact become incredibly dangerous, allowing him to smash through things or to send things flying.

He can also activate the ability on himself, granting a great increase to mobility from incredible jumps to increased speed.

The Brute aspect is an enhanced durability, allowing him to tank damage with reduced harm to his body. This is a direct relation to his mass reduction abilities. So he's naturally locked in a state of extreme mass creating super durability via density (but conscious application of his power to get the extra mobility nullifies said durability as a logical extension of removing said mass).

Limitations: Jason's abilities require at least five seconds of continuous contact to activate, and requires his focus to even start activating.  Meaning he can't just touch something and accidently drop it's mass factor.

Beyond that, the mass factor change only lasts five seconds, after it either leaves his touch or he deactivates his ability.

When applied to himself, it lasts until he chooses for it to end, but this leaves him greatly vulnerable as it removes has Brute aspect of his power.

Any object smaller than a bus is affected by the mass change in it's entirely, while anything larger only has the area of an average SUV affected.

His defensive ability is always active, but only protects his external skin. His eyes, and internal parts, are not any different from a regular persons. Beyond this, Jason can take damage from many guns at close range, and high caliber bullets have a much easier time beating his ability.

Equipment: Entirely dependent on the job he's hired to do.
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