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Manic Street Preachers - Faster
Name: Joseph "Joe" Fears
Alias: Falcon
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Allegiance: Villain
Written Description: Joe stands at a short 5 foot 7 and has a fit, slightly muscular physique. His hair is a dark brown and is kept at a medium length, almost messy style. His beard, slightly more trimmed is the same dark hue, in fact the only thing to break this pattern are his hazel eyes. He doesn't really have a costume, although the red bandana worn around his mouth, backwards cap and aviators has become somewhat of a cult image for him.
Power Set: Super speed - Joe is able to get from Edinburgh to London in the space of minutes. Albeit, the faster he moves the more exhausted he'd be after he stopped running, but he is learning more and more about how to adapt to this.
Background story: Speed. Joe's life has always been about speed. His father unsuccessfully ran trials for Britain to compete in the Olympics years before Joe was born and constantly pressured him to become what he could not. Joe, however, had no interest in running, not until his teen years anyway.
See, Joe was quite good in school, excelling at English, History and even French. Regardless of this however, he hated the place, and spent most of his time skiving to go out and cause trouble with his friends. Ironically enough, his father's constant training with running came in quite handy at these times, as he often had to run from angry store owners, parking attendants, policeman and worse yet, angry fathers of upper class girls.
For years he went by uncaught, doing all sorts of minor crimes ranging from bike thievery to graffiti - most of which slandered the police. That is until he met his match. A young police officer equipped with something that Joe couldn't outrun. A bike. Of all the things to be caught by Joe had to be caught by the most humiliating of all - a bike cop.
His court case was simple. Pay an extremely large fine, go to juvie or enroll in one of the sectors of the military. Without much else to do with his life, Joe chose to enroll in the RAF. What surprised Joe was how much he enjoyed the airforce, at first he thought it would be better just to go to juvie, but the place grew on him and he was even enlisted to fly his own jet when he was of age.
His squadron were like brothers to him, and he admired his leader as a father figure. He even gained the nickname 'Falcon' for how well he took to the air, being unafraid to fast as fly as his plane would take him. However, things couldn't go well forever. They were attacked on a scouting mission with his squadron being shot down and his jet being badly damaged. Something extremely strange happened during this ordeal though. After being hit his arm was flung into the wreckage of his control panel, but rather than being electrocuted and crashing the plane began to speed up. It began going faster and faster until Joe finally tore his arm from the panel, dive bombing into water near his aircraft carrier. He was honourably discharged and sent home with nothing but the knowledge of his new powers.
He began training, day in day out, getting faster and faster each day until he became but a blur. Eager for a change of scenery with this new change of lifestyle, he moved to the US. Always one, to act before thinking, Joe blew his savings within the first few months of staying there. He was never someone who wanted a regular 9 to 5 job and managed to squeeze his way into a heist gang with a few less reputable friends he had made during his time in the US.
With his added skillset the heists went by without a hitch. Hell, he could have even done it on his own if he knew how to crack a safe. He was even named leader after their former leader was shot while escaping from a bank. Rules changed quite a bit after he was made leader though. There was to be no killing of anyone who wasn't directly endangering their own lives. Due to this image shift and his high profile - music blasting, approach to heists, Joe became quite the infamous celebrity. Heck, some shops even began supplying t-shirts with his likeness on him, branding him 'Falcon' after his tattoo of the very same animal was spotted on his wrist. Two very different ways of getting the same nickname.
Business was less than booming when the virus hit. Less people meant less money and less things to buy. Joe almost decided to turn his life around when the aliens began attacking, but it was unfortunately not to be. He was captured by the aliens whilst sleeping. Can't run when you're unconscious.
Nemesis: Amenthis Coldwater/Portal
Nemesis's story: Joe met his nemesis whilst heisting Daria's National Bank. After successfully escaping police capture and returning to a dingy abandoned warehouse he was using as a safe house, he noticed something slightly off. If he had reacted a moment later he would have been behind bars a long time ago, as he narrowly evaded the grasp of the portal hopping superhero out to catch him. Since then, Portal has continued to show up at most every robbery, Joe pulls off, with the chances of escape becoming slimmer and slimmer as the two grew to realize each others strengths and weaknesses. Regardless of her vendetta against him, Joe bears no real ill will towards Portal, commonly being heard bantering with her.
