Name: Lionel Luthor
Alias: Mentalist
Age: 16
Appearance:
Parents: Lex Luthor + DNA from various sources
Mentor(s): Luthor (Strategy), Black Atom (Fighting)
Skills: Computers, engineering, physics, strategy
Powers:
Genius intellect: A combination of his father's genes and Coluan genes gives him an estimated IQ of 300.
Energy absorption/projection: Tamaranian DNA allows him to absorb much of the sunlight which hits him and project beams of light from his hands. It also helps fuel his other abilities.
Telepathy: Mental communications, mental attacks, and reading the thoughts and memories of others. He doesn't have the skill to go through the smaller cracks in a person's mental defenses, though, so he relies on the Brute Force approach much more often than other telepaths.
Telekinesis: Flight (up to mach 2 in atmosphere), Defense aura (skintight TK defensive field), bubble shield (a spherical TK shield projected around him that gets weaker the further it is from him), UV cutter beam (uses TK to confine a beam of energy from his hands, to penetrate defenses. It's the only move he currently has that his brother doesn't), Hold/crush (holds an opponent, preventing them from moving. Will slowly increase in pressure and crush his enemies if he sustains it), Enhanced strength (technically he is pushing either his arm or the object with his mind, but it's easier than doing it from a distance. Inferior to his brother's version, as his brother also has Tamaranian strength and durability.)
Nano-tube cells: The medical nanites have built a web of carbon nanotubes in his body, like that possessed by people that use omni-venom.
Weaknesses:
Immuno-deficiency: He was born with SCIDS, and his father gave him a nanite control center and medical nanites to replace his immune systems. Should he be hit with an EMP attack, the surviving nanites will take time, up to a few hours, to rebuild their numbers to the point where they can prevent disease.
Allergies: Severe allergies to Nuts, Shellfish, and Wheat. Treated by the medical Nanites.
UV dependance: He has to absorb about two hours worth of sunlight per day or he grows weaker.
Dull telepathy: He has difficulty getting through telepathic armor, so he generally relies on the "brute force" approach when invading someone's mind.
Equipment: Communications Equipment, Holographic wrist-comp
Personality: Determined to prove himself to his father and beat his younger brother. These have been his driving force sense he was a child.
Bio: After leaving Earth, Lex Luthor decided that he needed an heir to carry on his legacy. He set out to build a genetically perfect heir. For three years he tinkered with its DNA, fixing what he saw as errors and adding various bits of alien DNA. When he was done, he grew the child in an artificial womb, making sure that it had all of the nutrients it needed to grow strong. When it was born, however, Lex knew that he had failed. Tests on the baby revealed multiple genetic problems that he hadn't found, most of which were caused by the interaction of the various types of DNA. He used medical nanites to fix what he could, and then got to work fixing the genetic problems so that he could create an even better heir.
The second child became Lionel's brother Louis. Despite being younger, he had surpassed his older brother in many ways by the age of five, and continued to beat him throughout their childhood. Louis became their father's second in command, and Lionel was barely accepted as one of their father's lieutenants. He was given a refitted cargo ship that was originally built on Earth before the sterilization and told to work a trade route. Eventually he proved himself in battle against pirates and managed to capture several of their vessels. He returned to his father's space station to find that his brother had conquered a pirate base.
He knew he needed to do something big if his father was going to respect him, so he volunteered his fleet to work with Wayne's fleet in the space battle. While he managed to hold his own against more powerful ships, eventually he was left with only his original ship, and was forced to flee. When his father finished the time portal he volunteered to enter to fix the past. Lex agreed, though Lionel wonders if it was only so that his favorite son could remain behind in case they failed.