[ N . O . V . A . P R O F I L E ]
Alias | Dynamo
Age | 25
Gender | Male
Appearance | 187 cm / 74 kg
copper skin / caramel hair / amber eyes
groomed / thin
Notoriety | Wanted
Class/Level | Yellow / Metamorphic Volatile
Abilities | Electroform / Electrokinetic- Electroform: Converting to a body made entirely of energy, Roman has the ability to become what is essentially sentient electricity. In this form he can travel through conductive elements like power cables, possess technological devices, and subsist entirely on a diet of energy, as well as becoming immune to the effects of disease and physical injury. On the downside he becomes susceptible to EMPs and unstable once in contact with insulators such as rubber or air.
- While Roman cannot be harmed physically as an electroform, he can still be destabilized by energy-based attacks, his own energy expenditure, psychic attacks, and power surges or blackouts. Instead of manifesting as bleeding or bruising however, upon returning to his physical form the damage would present as exhaustion, hypothermia, or overheating, potentially to a fatal degree.
- Clothing, carried objects, and sometimes even small creatures can all be carried by Roman into his electroform, becoming encoded software stored in his consciousness, essentially frozen in a sort of stasis before rematerializing when he returns to his physical form. The software cannot be edited, deleted, or added to.
- Electrokinetics: While bound to the limited natural behavior of electricity as an electroform, the same rules do not apply in his physical form. Capable of launching electrical attacks or manipulating electrical fields from a distance, Roman can operate in both an offensive and defensive capacity using everything from sparks, bolts, and shockwaves to overloads, force fields, and flight.
Attire | loose casual style / high quality
Armament/Equipment | portable chargers / miscellaneous smart phones
[ T E M P E R M E N T & L I F E S T Y L E ]
Alignment | Dynamo
Personality/Habits | Roman is energetic and restless, with a confident decisiveness that holds a certain charisma. Being inquisitive and compassionate, he also holds a certain charm that makes him likeable. However he has a stubborn deviant streak, refusing to conform and reluctant to deal with authority. Apart from his young nephew, he finds it hard to open up and maintain close relationships.
Occupation/Trade | Criminal Hacktivist
Skills/Talents | trilingual - english, spanish, italian
programming / hacking
art - digital, traditional
Family | Damian Diaz / Camilla Monte / Julio Diaz / Joshua DiazRoman’s parents, Damian and Camilla, were just rethinking their divorce when they died mysteriously. Neither he nor his elder brother, Julio, were sad to see them go. They were judgemental and shallow people who couldn’t handle their own emotions, and should never have been allowed to let their baggage loose on children. Julio was little better, sleeping around and getting involved in things he shouldn’t, spewing offensive rhetoric that drove the brothers apart. Julio now sits in jail, and in the ensuing debate over the fate of his son, Roman fought for and won custody.
Background |
Neither of his parents had been ultra-rich, but they had been well off. Key word being ‘had.’ Roman and his brother grew up in Uptown with their mother, visiting their father on alternating holidays in Midtown. Camilla Monte did love to spend her money however, and not always in legal ways. Between her expensive tastes and long bouts of emotional and impulsive luxury cruises, by the time she reignited her relationship with their father and they both tumbled over the railing in a drunken stupor, they only had a fraction of what they should have inherited. Julio sold their home and moved to Los Angeles, leaving Roman to take his share and rent an apartment in Midtown.
Now, Roman had always had powers, it was an unacknowledged fact that their family liked to forget. When he was a child the lights would flicker on and off at his will, but he spent so long hiding it, imitating his mother and pretending not to notice it, that it never occurred to him to use them intentionally until his later high school years. He discovered an ability to manipulate certain kinds of technology, interfacing with and commanding computers and phones as well as lamps and various other tech. It became a quality of life thing, not a special skill used for anything but mundane tasks.
Then, a month into his new home in Midtown, he possessed a computer in the library. He was stuck there for nearly two months, flickering in and out of the physical world helplessly, causing the librarians to become convinced they were haunted. Except he hadn’t actually possessed the computer, not really, he’d simply turned himself into an electrical form; he’d finally used his powers so much that he tipped over the threshold, becoming energy himself. When he resurfaced a good six months after his disappearance, it took some time to adjust after having learned how to navigate the various networks of the city, building and creating things that weren’t possible in the material world. He’d only stayed so long because time had flowed differently for him; his body did not need sleep or nutrients, nor did he see the sun rise or night fall or any other thing that marked the passage of time for organic people - in fact he’d only left after nearly dying when a power outage plunged him into darkness and he had to cut off huge chunks of accumulated data and programs he no longer had the power run. It had felt a bit like chopping his brain in half.
Then came Julio’s sentence, and the custody court, and Roman latched onto that new purpose like a lifeline, trying to regain a sense of normalcy after almost forgetting the real world even existed. Josh became more than a distraction however, especially when he developed powers, and while he might’ve been his nephew, it felt more like having a little brother. The two of them became a team, their relationship the foundation of his new bold confidence and driving him right into the arms of Chimera, a group Roman believed could make a brighter, more secure future for himself, Josh, and others like them; those who were trapped in a system that could only harm and never help.
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