[COLOR=SLATEGRAY][CENTER][sup][h1][center][img]https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/0/0d/Hobart_Brown_%28Earth-616%29_from_Prowler_Vol_2_5_001.jpg[/img][/center][b][center][color=darkmagenta] H O R N E T[/color] [color=chartreuse]H O R N E T[/color][/center] [/b][/h1][/sup] [color=silver][sup][i][color=darkmagenta]"[/color][color=chartreuse]Well, you know Pete, Prowler was never exactly the most creative name either. I work with pneumatics, not words...[/color][color=darkmagenta]"[/color][/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T[/color] [color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T[/color] [/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][img]https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/3/31666/5606761-prowler2016006-cov.jpg[/img] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y[/color] [color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [sub][COLOR=darkgray]Hobart 'Hobie' Brown [b]|[/b] Motts Hunt, The Bronx - Formerly Harlem [/COLOR] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=darkgray]Selfemployed - Pneumatics Engineering Systems Consultant[/COLOR] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=darkgray]Former Criminal - Never Charged[/COLOR] [b]|[/b] [COLOR=darkgray]Infiltration Specialist[/color][/sub][/center] [indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R N O T E S[/color] [color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R N O T E S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [INDENT][hider=][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color] [indent][sub][b][color=lightgray] M I S C E L L A N E O U S[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]►[/b][/color] [u]The Hornet Armour[/u] - Hobie's current costume is a modified version of his Prowler Suit. The key differences are that utilising pneumatic blasts and drafts, caught by his glider cape, he is capable of short-distance flight. It also utilizes sedative 'stingers' which are also fired pneumatically, effective to aim over about forty feet, assuming regular weather. His suit still has precautionary grappling hooks in each gauntlet, and impact-resistant boots, capable of allowing him to withstand falls and harder landings. His boots also possess the pneumatic means to allow him to leap great heights, useful if conditions aren't the best suited for a ground based take-off. [color=lightgray][b]►[/b][/color] [u]Skills[/u] - Whilst Hobie is a genius of sorts, he's still a specialised one. A self-made man who found his own innate gifts for working with pneumatics & fabrication, he is a creative and innovative thinker in his field. He is currently using his skills to function as an investigator/detective work, and his own skills and genius don't really transfer that way. He can make obvious inferences, and see blatant connections, but he is neither Batman, nor Vic Sage. He has no training for it, and no natural aptitude in that regard. He's just able to gain access to information by use of his brilliant suits, and feels they should be put to good use. Holding bad people accountable. - Hobie is a moderately good hacker. Again, self-taught. But he's not a miracle worker in this regard. - Hobie is a surprisingly good melee fighter for a regular human of his mere size - he attributes this to being the youngest of nine brothers who 'thought they were the Wutang Clan'.[/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P O S T C A T A L O G[/color] [color=lightgray]P O S T C A T A L O G[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [INDENT][hider=][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color] [indent][sub][b][color=lightgray] P O S T C A T A L O G[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray]◼ [/COLOR][/SUP] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][/cell][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T[/color] [color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]Hobie Brown should have been lost in the Source. New York done enough other young men dirty like that. What's one more? The dirt poor guy, hustling to make ends meet. Made a decision to use his skills to get himself paid. Until he ran head first into a man who'd done the same once and lost far more than he ever thought possible from it. The Spider-Man. Someone who looked at him and for a moment saw where he had been, and a person - a fellow human - who hadn't done so much that there was no way back. He told Hobie what he'd learned on his darkest day. The deeper meaning of what someone from his own family had tried to tell him once. That with great power comes great responsibility. But Hobie didn't take the same message that Spider-Man did. Now, by night, Hobie uses his God-given skills, abilities and 'powers' to hold other powerful men responsible. Because, after all, with great power must come great responsibility... [/indent][/COLOR] [INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )[/color] [color=lightgray]P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]The classic 'Second-chance man'. That's what we're getting here. Hobie was spared, given a second chance and made good with it. He has a solid career, that never happens if he goes to prison, and 'made it out'. Now he's hellbent on crushing those who would exploit people who grew up in similar circumstances - to try and give those people the chances that he had. The chance to make good. The chance to 'be more'. Captain America, the Avengers, maybe even Spider-Man bring hope. Hobie brings down giants who trample people like ants. [/INDENT][/COLOR] [INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] T H E H I S T O R Y O F H O B I E[/color] [color=lightgray]T H E H I S T O R Y O F H O B I E[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]The youngest of nine brothers, Hobie was born to Tyrone “Tiger” Brown and Josie “Jo” Brown in Harlem New York. Before Hobie can remember, his father went off to war. He is MIA and the family was receiving payment and benefits, but with nine kids they struggled to stretch so far. Only one parent with her hands full with nine young boys, in the background of the ‘crack wars’ of the mid-to-late 90s. Jo was shot in a home burglary, in an unsolved crime committed by someone doubtless seeking fast money for drugs. Rushed to Emergency, she was given a blood transfusion which was poorly screened. The transfusion infected her with HIV, back in the days when the diagnosis was viewed as a certain death sentence. Facing an impossible choice of fighting a prolonged legal battles he certainly wouldn’t live long enough to see the end of, she accepted a cash settlement for the medical ‘mishap’, and the family used the money to buy a sizable home in South Bronx. At tremendous cost, she had managed to provide and get her boys out. Their oldest brother, Abraham, had left the home already for opportunities overseas. He would return packages of money for the family periodically, as they remained in correspondence. As their mother was approaching her end, the family reached out to have him brought home, but he didn’t make it back in time. Before ‘Jo’s passing, she made the brothers swear to look out for one another – this resulted in the eight remaining boys, always remaining in close proximity. Even as some left home, they would still remain in the Bronx. The eight boys had a ‘hustle-life’ attitude to money and its procurement, but had formed a zero tolerance attitude to drugs and gangs, all having seen the impact that they had indirectly had on their own family – the drive for money for drugs which resulted in their mother being shot, and the gangs who peddled drugs to one who shot her. Direct confrontation from all eight of the Brown Boys any time someone was foolish enough to attempt to recruit one on their own, saw an unsteady truce where the family and gangs both left well enough, and each other, alone. Hobie, the youngest of his family, and in many ways the most fortunate, with seven older brothers watching over him and pushing him to meet his potential had the best grades of the group and was their hope to be the family’s first chance at going to college. He was a natural talent in many sciences and mathematics. A mishap with one of his inventions, saw him lose the opportunity as intent was read into the disaster, and he was suspended for the remainder of the school year. He later completed his schooling and got his GED, but school’s which had courted him distanced themselves after the incident, despite his pleas of innocence. Hobie had a number of jobs over the years. [/INDENT][/COLOR] [/cell][/row][/table][hr][/COLOR]