[hider="Rival"]Name: Ken Harmon

Alias: Rival

Age: 24

Personality: Direct, strong-willed, determined, serious, relentless.

Powers: "Match" Rival's base strength, durability, and endurance automataugment themselves based on his opponent. His body will "match" the physical capabilities of whoever he is fighting if they're stronger than his own, allowing him to literally punch above his weight class. This effect does not stack when facing groups of enemies, but will target the strongest opponent, meaning in groups of about four or less, Rival is quite capable. The ability has a radius effect of about 5 meters. He shines in single combat.

Weaknesses: Rival's ability does not account for most non- physical attacks. Energy projection such as plasma, radiation, electricity, etc. affect him unless his copied durability protects him as much as it would whoever he copied it from. Furthermore, gas, telepathy, psychic attacks, and magic pretty much bypass his powers. Against large groups, Rival has a disadvantage.

Background Hero: Wildcat

Former Team Affiliation: JLA

Appearance: 5'8" and with a solid, stocky build. Muscular and tan. Keeps his black hair short with a fade and stays clean shaven. Tattoo sleeves on both arms that carry emotional meaning detailing his past; those he's lost and the ones he fights for now. He has piercing light brown, almost orange eyes, and his expression carries gravity as he sizes up opponents.

His suit is comprised of Kevlar reinforced blue jeans and Kevlar reinforced black leather jacket, boots, reinforced combat gloves, and a utility belt. The belt contains several tools, including two pairs of extra strong power-dampening cuffs, plenty of plastic restraints, a couple tracker bugs, smoke bombs, and a built in LED flashlight in the buckle. The buckle makes the belt look vaguely like a slightly smaller championship belt. His mask is a rubberized red wraparound that covers from his nose to above his eyes.

Potential Storylines: Mostly I'd love to see Rival challenge larger and larger foes as the story progresses, see his limits pushed, etc. A girlfriend would be fine, as well. Maybe some rivalry too, that seems fitting of his name, at least.

BRIEF Bio: Growing up in a pretty bad neighborhood, his parents and younger brother died when a home invasion took a turn for the worse. Ken, 15 at the time, got home just in time to see the robbers burst out of the front door, jump into their van, and escape. Upon finding his family dead, Ken swore vengeance, and tracked the culprits to a junkyard. Stupidly, he confronted them and got his ass severely handed to him. He was only saved by the intervention of Wildcat, who took him under his wing.

Notes: Ken was trained for years by Wildcat, competing and winning multiple boxing tournaments, learning Jiu Jitsu and karate as well, and becoming a proficient MMA fighter. His fighting style heavily relies on him turning one on one engagements into slug fests, with his proficiency in MMA being used to take down weaker opponents and then challenging the strongest with direct attacks. He spent years as a vigilante like his mentor until joining the JLA with Wildcat's encouragement.[/hider]