Name: Alex Strong
Alias: Atlas
Experience: two months
Hometown: Hub City
Age: 15
Powers: By saying this phrase "By the power of Atlas! Give me your might!" Alex is struck by white lightning and transform into his superhero persona Atlas with a variety of incredible abilities.
superhuman strength: Alex is strong enough to lift trucks with ease and punch through steel. As he ages his strength grows in power.
Titan Wave: Alex claps his hands and creates a shock wave of force powerful enough to blast apart stone. He can focus the shock wave to specific points to increase its effectiveness.
Magical resistance: Being the hybrid son of a titan and a mortal human, Alex has a higher resistance to magic than a normal human being.
Superhuman durability: He is tough enough to withstand gunfire and tank explosions.
Superhuman stamina: Alex can hardly tire and is able to keep moving at top speed for hours.
Super Jump: He can leap over tall building in a single bound with ease
Weapon summon: he can make Stone Crusher magically appear in his hand and can make it reappear when he is disarmed.
Weaknesses: Despite his incredible durability, Alex is weak against silver and objects made of the metal will be more effective against him than other earthly material. He is also vulnerable against Olympian weaponry used by the gods.
Reason for joining Robin?: Alex wants to be part of a team so that he can develop is teamwork skills and improve as a hero. Joining Robin seemed like the quickest opportunity to do so.
Appearance: Alex stands at exactly six feet in height and weighs roughly two hundred and fifteen pounds. He is built like a linebacker in professional football. Alex has pale skin and bright red hair as well as mystical green eyes. His costume is
metal armor styled off of ancient Greek culture and was gifted to him by his father Atlas, and he wears leather pants as well iron age winter boots. The next piece of his costume is a horned
helmet and a
spartan capeBRIEF Bio: For as long as he could remember Alex always had a good citizen side to him and he helped others when they needed it. Alex had only his mom and even though he had asked her about his father several times she didn't tell him anything that he wanted to know, only that his father couldn't be with them. He wanted to know more, but no amount of questioning would get his mom to tell him. So Alex focused on his school life which included him playing for his high school's football team.
When he played football it was like another side of him came out, a more aggressive and violent side. Linebacker and Safety seemed to be positions that he was born for and Alex quickly established himself as the enforcer of the team's defense. His NFL heroes were legends like Jack Lambert, Dick Butkus and Night Train Lane who all had aggressive playing styles. Life was normal for him despite his lingering questions about who his father was, his mom didn't have any pictures of him in their house and so he had no idea what his dad even looked like.
Thing however changed drastically for Alex when one day while he was walking beside the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Hub City, he saw a dog who had been tied down to the tracks by its leash. Its owner must have either lost the dog or this was some sick act by an abusive pet owner. Either way he had to save the animal from an oncoming train. On his first attempt to free the dog he found that the leash was stuck tight to the rails. No matter he wouldn't give up on the dog even though the train was coming ever closer.
He kept trying to free the dog and kept failing to do so. The train was approaching fast and it looked like he was going to die trying to save the animal. His mind began to think of everything he had done so far and how he was not going to see his mom again because of his selfless act of good. As the train was a mere several feet from hitting him a flash of white light surrounded him and the train hit.
To his utter shock he didn't feel any unimaginable pain and the train came to a thunderous halt as it derailed off of the tracks. Alex opened his eyes to see that the train was motionless in front of him with a big dent in the front made by him. He then looked down at himself and to his surprise he was dressed in armor and wearing a red cape. Once his immediate shock was over with he freed the dog and ran from the scene out of fear.
Once he had gotten far enough away he saw that his armor had vanished and he was back in his normal everyday attire. When he got home he told his mom everything that had happened and that's when she explained to him who his father was. His father was the titan Atlas, elder god of the Greek pantheon who was punished with holding up the sky for going to war with the Olympians.
When he heard this Alex could barely believe it, but he had seen what had happened to that train and flash of light and the armor he had been wearing. His father must have come to his rescue and awakened his abilities. From then on he discovered his incredible powers, which included having amazing strength far beyond that of any normal man. At first he was amazed by his powers, but then he realized that with his incredible strength he could do terrible harm and knew that he had keep his abilities under control.
His superhuman strength made football to easy and he got no thrill out of it despite everyone lauding him as sure potential to be a legend in football history. He kept his emotions in control and tried to be as calm as human possible so that his strength didn't accidentally show and he hurt someone. Control was the main part of his world now, he had to control his powers so people wouldn't die.
One night Alex had a strange dream and he was visited by his father in this dream. His father explained to him how transform into his other self with the use of a phrase. When he said the phrase Alex was struck by a white bolt of lightning and transformed into Atlas his hero identity. With his new powers and costume, Alex set about doing basic good deeds such as rescue cats from trees and help elderly people in need, the basics.
Eventually he moved up to stopping petty crime and that got discovered by a boy named Matt Mcginnis also known as Robin, another hero who was closely tied to Batman. Matt asked him to join his team of heroes known as the Titans and Alex agreed since he wanted to get more experience with heroics and practice his teamwork as a hero.
Notes: he uses a
great club as his primary weapon besides his fists. The club is called Stone Smasher and it is magical. It is tough enough to smash through most surfaces without breaking and it is able to harm both supernatural and magical beings. Finally he can channel his power into the club to release a blast of divine power that hits with a great amount of force in the form of white bolts of lightning, but this ability is more taxing on his body than any other power he possesses.
Theme song:
Half Pint
