Name: Raymond 'Ray' Shaw
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Side: Neutral leaning on hero
Personality: Martin is the type of person to be liked by a very particular type of people. He has a habit of insulting people for no apparent reason as a joke and then laughing if they find it funny. He never goes too far or at least tries not to and always has the best intentions in most things he does. His way of going about things can be considered a little unorthodox, he often showbolts or teases his enemies even during a life-threatening fight. He treats his friends as well as he can while still insulting them just as much as everyone else.
Biography:
Ray's beginnings as a conduit can be considered different from a lot. Instead of being sent to Curdon Cay and having his powers trained there along with having his spirit broken, he was instead found by a veteran conduit who helped him escape the DUP and also learn how to train his powers. But I'm getting ahead of myself, Ray's real beginnings before he even gained his powers are a lot more humble than you might expect.
Ray grew up in one of the poorer areas of his humble town. His father and mother tried their best to provide for Ray and his brother and sister, but their jobs only gave them enough money to pay all of the bills they had received along with all the food and other essentials that the family needed. Ray didn't mind much, he never really ate much anyway and spent most of his time outside with his friends. Unlike a lot of his friends and the people he knew in and out of school, he actually tried to get good grades. His 'eccentric' personality would always pull him down though. He frequently got into trouble and was sent to detention, but he also got some of the best grades in the school. It's fair to say that the best grades in a failing school isn't much of an achievement, but it's better than having the worst.
His powers began to surface after he had left school. He had gotten a job at a local radio station as a sort of runner to get the higher ups drinks and whatnot. He was making some dick presenter his coffee when just about everything in the entire room stuck itself to the ceiling. Things began to float about and smash against the walls like some sort of ghost angry at architecture. This was the first burst of Ray's powers. He knew better than to blame it on the supernatural. Some part of him knew he was a conduit, he just didn't tell anyone with DUP about.
He hid his powers rather well in public. He managed to teach himself how to 'switch off' his powers whenever he noticed something floating around. He was eventually found though, by a senior conduit who had been captured and then escaped from Curdon Cay. The conduit began to follow Ray and for a very specific reason. They both had the same powers. The conduit, a Polish man named Jarik had taken inspiration from the celebrated Cole Macgrath and had decided to become a hero himself. He discovered that it was a lot harder than he had expected to 'do battle with the evil villains of the world' as he so aptly put it. He was captured after about a year of chasing down small time criminals and sent to Curdon Cay. He escaped in a transport van and was not set on being a mentor to Ray.
His chance came when Ray was unable to switch off his powers whilst in public. Things began to fling around the place, bouncing off the area around Ray like a bouncy ball in a small room. Jarik swooped in and practically threw Ray on top of the building opposite. He offered him the chance to learn more about his powers and become a 'hero' like him. Ray declined of course and was just about ready to leave when Jarik reminded him that just about everyone within earshot had just discovered that Ray was a conduit and the DUP were sure to come and lock him up. Ray wasn't happy about it, but he accepted the offer to learn more about his powers.
Soon enough Ray was ready to go on his first night of 'heroing' which was essentially helping old ladies across streets, giving sleeping bags to the homeless and paying for parking meters. Ray had to admit, while it wasn't exactly the type of work Superman could be seen doing, it was admirable for someone of such destructive capability to do something as small as give a homeless man a good conversation and a warmer bed for the night. Disaster struck one night though when an actual 'supervillain' appeared in town. He was a conduit hellbent on destroying the very people who had sent him to Curdon Cay which included just about anyone who wasn't him. Jarik and Ray arrived soon on scene and put up a good fight. Jarik was soon put down though, after a concentrated blast of plastic engulfed his face and suffocated him to death. In a fit of rage Ray crushed the conduit under his own gravity, leaving only a blood trail behind.
He later moved to New York city after deciding it was too risky to stay in his hometown or anywhere near.
Power: Gravity Manipulation
Power-: He can send concentrated concussive beams of gravity, change his own gravity and the gravity of a small area about 4ft around him, use a sort of telekenesis by manipulating the gravity around an object and adapt to any gravity so that he's not crushed by his own powers.
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