Basic Information
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Superhero/Villain Name: Echo
"An echo of what I was, of what we were..."
Civilian Name: Ezra Loe, Edan Fo-To D’sra
Origin City/Planet: Lans/Ghol
Hometown: Coast City
Sex: Male
Race: ‘Infinitized’ Ectonian
Height: 5’8 ft, 173 cm
Weight: Light
Age: 21 Birth Date: February 17, 1806
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Costumed Appearance: Snow white hair and glowing green eyes are his two most noticeable features, though his eyebrows are a dark and heavy contrast to his light skin and abnormal hair color. His suit is also decidedly unusual in both its shape and make, being like a jumpsuit with a single black skin-tight underlayer and white gloves, boots, a belt, and a collar. There is the symbol of his family placed off center on his chest, reminiscent of a “D” though slightly distorted.


Civilian Appearance: Ezra Loe spends a lot of time on his appearance, though it doesn't look like it. His hair is usually messy, and painstakingly dyed black every day, the nature of his physiology, and that of his hair in particular, often bleeds the color out by the time forty eight hours pass, and in much shorter time if he uses his powers often. His glowing green eyes are usually safe to be seen during the day without raising suspicion, but a pair of sunglasses are never far out of his reach. His clothes are a hodge podge collection of plain brands, band tees, and a small collection of hoodies and hats to hide his hair in for lazy days.


Icon: A hexagon with a dark grey frame and a neon green interior. It's the symbol of the portal used to banish his kind into the ecto-star. (Will make an image myself later.)
Costumed Personality: Echo is easily amused, quick to make jokes, especially those that might terrify his enemies, though he also loves when they banter back. He delights in popping out of dark shadows or suddenly appearing around corners to spook his opponents. He's also not known for playing it easy, often hitting hard and only restraining himself from dealing severe damage, though he might leave a scar or three.
Civilian Personality: Shy is the best way to describe Ezra, though studious and intelligent also come to mind, shy is simply the most obvious of his assumed personality, and also the most important. It's decidedly difficult to conceal his alien nature when in close or intimate relationships, so Ezra works hard and keeps his head down, sometimes enjoying outings with his peers during the day, but never staying long into the afternoon and never at night.
Super Abilities:
-Skills:

• Growing up in a family of scientists and engineers, Edan came to Earth with a superior education to even the modern college graduate, though his knowledge on many subjects was not particularly useful in his new life and he had to study relentlessly to catch up on certain skills before even considering attending an American college. His natural intelligence and advantageous origins did come in handy in some subjects however, specifically around certain types of technology, and the scientific fields of chemistry, physics, and astrology.

-Powers:

• Ecto-Being: Echo has been ‘infinitized’ which is a term his people use to describe being converted into an ectoplasmic life form. Ectoplasm is suspected to be a material not native to this universe, or dimension, and thus behaves unusually, giving off large amounts of unique energy. This energy can be used by ectoplasm based technologies or life forms to obtain and fuel their powers. This allows him to exists entirely off his own energy output, requiring neither to eat, drink, or breathe, though he must do the latter in order to talk.
• Ecto-Energy Manipulation: Echo can manipulate the very energy his body is made of, usually in the form of shooting super charged blasts of the glowing green energy out of his hands, but also by making barriers of it to repel attacks. A large amount of the energy can be expelled from him all at once in an explosive wave, but though effective such a move would also incapacitate him until he had a chance to recharge, and similarly by expending a large amount of ecto-energy over time by overusing other abilities would also weaken and eventually incapacitate him. Another use is to coat objects or beings in a field of energy in order to extend his other powers to them.
• Flight: Ectoplasm has a unique relationship with gravity, largely due to being an element with excessive amounts of innate energy as well as having suspicious origins possibly not of this dimension- essentially it ignores gravity when it wants to, and obeys as it wills. Being made of said substance gives Echo the ability to fly as he wishes.
• Intangibility and Invisibility: Much like ectoplasm’s wishy washy relationship with gravity, it can have similar reactions to most kinds of light and matter, thus allowing Echo to become invisible and still see, and become intangible and still breathe, but only for short periods of time as both are taxing and take focus.

-Weaknesses/Vulnerabilities/Power Negations:

• Blood Blooms: A type of alien flower, with red petals and thorny black stems. They look surprisingly Earth-like but they feed on a rare kind of ectoplasmic radiation abundant on Ghol that's rare on Earth. They can be found in colder climates in the American Northwest scattered in dirty corners around major population centers, and though they look sickly and shriveled compared to their huge blooms on Ghol they can still suck the energy from Echo at a quick and painful pace.
• Trauma Coma: Though Echo needs no air to breathe, and thus can't be choked out, he can still lose consciousness if subjected to enough force.
• Physical Attacks: Granted some small resistance to energy based attacks, Echo is actually weaker against physical strikes which work to disrupt his own energy and break his form. This weakness explains his tendency to fight from range when weakened or uncertain, but is easily exploitable when Echo is feeling confident and chatty.

-Gadgets:

• Zon Tube: Essentially a handheld prison cell, Echo’s in fact. This was used on him when he first became ‘infinitized’ and was banished to Zon. It’s cap shows the green hex framed by grey that symbolizes the Gate to Zon portal. It's use is in destabilizing ectoplasm and storing it for short periods of time, an item he has yet to need but held onto anyway. It works only on ectoplasm however, and is damaging to normal Ectonians and can destroy ecto-technology, but has no effect on other organisms or objects.

-Weapons: None.
Civilian Occupation: Part-time student at CCU, part-time gym clerk at Buffy’s, and occasional fill-in for a waiter at the Small Café.

Biography
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Character History/Origin:

Echo was born under the name Edan Fo-To D’sra, second child of Emad Fo-Fen and Edj To-To, his mother and father, the founders of House D’sra. They were brilliant scientists, but considered odd by the rest of their people because of their fascination with Zon. Perhaps the naming scheme gave it away, but you see, Echo was not born on Earth, instead he was born on a small cold world orbiting a most perplexing star.

That world was called Ghol, the tiny city where he grew up was called Lans, and the people that lived on that world called themselves Ectonians- or that is the best translation available at least. All life on Ghol was shaped by Zon, the Ecto-Star, a massive collection of ectoplasmic energy unlike anything the Ectonians had come across before settling on Ghol. Gradually the Ectonians came to rely on the unique star for sustenance, acquiring an almost photosynthetic-like ability to harness it, as did all life on the planet, absorbing small amounts of ecto-radiation to become stronger, faster, lighter, and infinite other tiny applications for the trace amounts of ectoplasm now collecting in their bodies.

Ghol was the only world in that system however, and it had grown lazy and content, letting much of their advanced technology stagnate and regress. So when the two geniuses Emad and Edj began studying Zon and managed to turn ectoplasm into a power source for machines, they started a technological revolution that would end in the greatest series of catastrophes the planet would ever see. As new industries sprung up, the Ectonians were desperate for more ectoplasm and, because the planet was so close to the star, they began using a powerful portal device called the ‘Gate to Zon’ to send small expeditions out to harvest ectoplasm straight from the star’s thin atmosphere, which did not melt or burn for reasons the Ectonians never discovered. A mere decade after these expeditions started Edan was thirteen years old and living in the most expensive house on the planet, though that wealth was not visible in taste or looks but in sheer value of the technology being designed and assembled there, but that changed when Zon got his vengeance on the mortal thieves; a massive lash of ectoplasm, much like an overcharged solar flare, burst out from the star and raked across the surface of the planet, killing thousands and spawning the first of the ‘infinitized.’ These were not just Ectonians, but also other creatures from Ghol that had evolved the ability to harness ecto-radiation, the ability was turned against them and used to overload their cells until all that was left was ectoplasm in the mold of the organism they had once been, some ‘molds’ more accurate than others. All of the infinitized creatures were shoved through the Gate of Zon, deemed too dangerous to try and kill. Soon after they discovered that the former organic creatures could now survive in Zon’s atmosphere, a foggy green place interspersed with floating islands of ectoplasm-contaminated minerals, and with that discovery came the law to banish the infinitized Ectonians as well.

That was the theme for the next few years, Edan found his life turned upside down as his world began to die, struck five more time by flares from Zon, and his parents struggling to save them. Then, as he turned nineteen and left on a trip to deliver aid to a Zon-struck city, Edan was caught in the lash of the seventh flare. Becoming infinitized was the single most painful experience of his life, and immediately following it was twelve days surrounded by others who’d been struck, trapped in a wasteland with both those whose very minds and bodies had been corrupted and those who had remained mostly whole but too horrified and grief stricken to do anything but fall apart. On the beginning of the thirteenth day, whilst fleeing from one of the more crazed individuals, Edan was captured in a Zon Tube and banished through the Gate.

He was there for barely a month, eking out an existence amongst the few sane he had found, when he was contacted by a mysterious alien from deeper inside the ecto-star. He and his group were offered the chance to escape, and through agreeing they found themselves locked in ancient life pods riddled with ectoplasm and launched into deep space on separate courses. Edan crash landed on Earth alone, roused from his long sleep within the pod and then began the long and arduous process of learning to fit in. He was grateful to have escaped the bleak light of Zon, and his desolate and despairing homeworld, but when he discovered his trip to Earth had taken a little over two hundred years he nonetheless worried and wondered over what had become of Ghol and his family.

Now it is three years past his arrival on Earth, Edan is now Ezra Loe, who sometimes visits the Small Café which may or may not be frequented by a couple other secret aliens. He works hard to disguise himself, and struggles with the pressure of forcing himself to keep others at arm's length lest he end up on a government dissection table. Even as he tries to keep his head down, he does his damndest to succeed anyway, trying hard to pull in enough money to survive and fund his education, dreaming of the stars and a job he knows he’ll never get. All the while others are stirring, breaking out of their shells just enough that Ezra thinks of becoming Echo.

Fun Facts:

• When Echo blushes or bleeds, the color is neon green.
• Ectonians naturally have various blue or green shades of skin, but when Echo was infinitized some of his old looks were changed, including rounding his ears from the naturally pointed Ectonian ears.
• Ectonians were not deeply religious, but they had many beliefs regarding their ancestors, spirits, and Zon, all of which culminated in Echo translating the Ectonian name for Zon’s peculiar ‘spiritual’ or ‘spectral’ energy into the human word ectoplasm.
• Echo has had no luck finding other Ectonians or even a whisper of their existence since coming to Earth.
• Echo always wanted to be a space explorer, and has now set his sights on the unattainable dream of being a human astronaut.
• Ectoplasm absorbs heat, making rooms begin to chill when Echo enters them, and he is always cold to touch, but an ecto-blast will still leave burns behind regardless of if the energy ‘feels’ cold
• The guise of ‘Echo’ as a hero was born out of Ezra fantasizing about being free and using his powers, using them for good was an afterthought really, he just wanted to stop hiding somehow.

Optional information
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Nemesis: None yet.
Allies:

• Benjamin Bello: A middle aged alien from a planet called Tamaran, he is a staunch pacifist and vegetarian, thus why he hides on Earth pretending to be human instead of on Tamaran enjoying the warrior culture and large feasts. He is a friend of Ezra’s who figured out he was an alien and invited him to the Small Café, which is run by an alien and thus automatically having the patronage of every alien in the city, though that number is few. Ezra views Ben as a possible informant about all things alien on the west coast, and a few things alien elsewhere.

Team: None yet.