WIPEssential Information
Name/Aliases: William Adison / Gunoh Kelsa Uk / Tempest
Sex: Male
Age: 28
Appearance:Civilian - Standing at 6’1” Will could be considered to be in the peak of his physical state. Short trimmed black hair cut in a neat fashion is accompanied by a modern sharp and groomed beard. Not a superstar by any chance but he is still considered attractive. Underneath his well-presented exterior however, is a scarred body. The expensive suits hide flesh that has been torn, cut and burnt many times. Almost 40% of Will’s skin is comprised of scar tissue. Whilst extensive and reliable regenerative medical technology exists, he is stubborn in refusal his to undergo such treatment as the wounds have meaning to him. On the back of both palms he bears a branded mark, seemingly infused by something more than a flame brand; ψ
Tempest –
Tintrayach Energy Manipulation Prototype & Embedded Software TestbedThe T-4 is the first field worthy and operationally functioning version of the Tempest battle suit and thus the first, and current suit to actually be worn by William. It was developed and produced solely by the genius mind of Collin Gamble, Will’s lifelong friend, and conveniently head of Adisoncorp’s Advanced Research, R&D department.
The bottom half of the suit is similar to modern army standard combat armour. It is designed to offer flexibility and a large degree of movement whilst still providing high quality protection. This is achieved using Polynesiphenylene-Cruaphthalamide, commonly referred to as its product name ‘Cuvlact’. Cuvlact is a material with huge tensile strength made with overlapping, interwoven layers of Kevlar and Cuvantis, a little understood hard to obtain material with discernibly otherworldly characteristics. It is stab proof,
mostly bulletproof and protects against kinetics. The implementation of this material in the T-4 allows for a great balance of protection and mobility where the lower body is concerned; assuming the user can avoid being shot in the leg too frequently. Some metal plating is implemented in the boots and the less mobile parts of the lower body.
The upper half of the T-4 however, is much a different story. A heavy one-of-a-kind battle armour comprises this section of the suit. Dense metal plates and basic kinetic barriers offer much more protection than the lower half, but with the obvious restrictiveness in the mobility department. Will is a hand to hand combat fighter by nature however, and the metal suit does not serve the function of protection as its primary utility. Its real function is the containment, channelling and control of Will’s powers; the ability to generate lightning and kinetic blasts (
see history and powers section for more details). The suit acts somewhat like a battery, storing reservoirs of Will’s power which are used for two reasons. Firstly to ensure there is constantly an energy reserve for Will to use and secondly, even more importantly, to limit the amount of energy expended in a single blast. Of course, the joint areas of the suit feature the same way, so as to limit the mobility reduction.
Finally, the helm of the suit is a sophisticated battlefield computer. Will cannot see directly from within in the helmet. Instead information is fed to him through four sensors on the exterior of the helmet and displayed to him in a complex but intuitive internal heads-up display. It features night vision, sonar, infra-red, uv and other modes such as target tagging.
The T-4 also has a half-cape. Why? Because if Collin has to go to the immense effort of producing these suits, he gets to give it a fricking cape, that’s why.
For a visual idea of what the suit looks like it’d be quite similar to this awesome piece.Personality:“You’re turning out to be a proper hero Will.”
“Oh shut it.”
William’s attitude seems to only take two forms: irritated or irritating. Whilst he mostly presents himself in a light-hearted if somewhat patronising manner, he doesn’t take too well to genuine harassment or intimidation. By no measure an unintelligent man, Will does though find himself often playing the sardonic asshat due to the annoyingly ridiculous level of intelligence of most people he keeps company with these days, especially the one always by his side; Collin.
History:Born into the Adison business empire, Will from the outset had advantages that most are bereft of by circumstance. Adisoncorp has had its fingers in many pots, but mostly deals with commercial technology R&D and some less than savoury practices. Will is the second son, his older brother Harry born five years before him. Their father, Walter, was an unpleasant, cold but fair man. He was by no means an absent or interested parent but nor was he a charitable one. His privileged childhood did much to keep Will sheltered from some of Enduwin’s harsher realities, at least at first.
At several stages in his early life Will has had minor ‘occurrences’. Inconsequential on their own, but thought provoking when laid out together. Electronics frizzing off sporadically, incongruous movement of objects when reacted to something quickly. Thoughts of it being tangible, of something truly being there were buried by his ‘logical’ mind. Over time, throughout his childhood though, these thoughts grew, as did the true cause.
Through his adolescence and rebellious anti-establishment period, Will learned a lot of what really made humanity tick. Albeit to him the ‘establishment’ was nothing more than his parents, and his acts of dissent mostly involved skipping off classes and wandering the less than reputable parts of Fortitude City. It was in these teen years that Will would meet probably the most important person in his life so far, other than himself, Collin.
Collin was everything he was not; book smart, optimistic and as poor as a church mouse. By the time the pair were fifteen they were as thick as thieves; literally. Will out of a rebellious spurn of capitalism and Collin often out of necessity. Idealistic visions of petty crime soon turned to eye-opening cataclysms of what a life of crime was really like. Things happened that set about turning the two back on the straight and narrow, conversations had, events seen, neither seems wanting or willing to discuss it. Will eventually demanded of his father that either he be allowed to attend the public school Collin was about to entire for his final three years before the possibility of University, or else pay for Collin to attend Redwell Prepatory School, the establishment against which he was currently revolting. After much heated debate including words such as ‘poverty’, ‘prick’, ‘pompous’ and ‘vermin’ Walter eventually let his social barriers down for the apparent benefit of his child.
Now, Mrs. Gamble was a proud working class mother, not one to take charity without a dent in her pride, and she utterly refused to accept anything from the Adisons other than with regards to her son’s education. Laying down pride for her child, much like Walter Adison.
The years encompassing Will’s life from this point are pretty much a blank. Absolute refusal on his part to discuss it and lack of any physical or digital evidence. Returning to Fortitude recently Will found himself the remaining living Adison in the city, his inherited shares in the company also gone years ago with assumed death. Parents and brother both died of natural causes, and the company was passed into public stock exchange with no heir.
The source of his powers remain a mystery however, Will does have a perfectly concocted cover-story should it ever become necessary to ‘divulge’. Actual knowledge of the source of his power is, in his opinion, could wreathe the world asunder. What he has divulged to Collin is that he isn't a naturally born son of the Adisons. He is a genetically manufactured life that isn't technically human.
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Optional Information
Equipment:-T.E.M.P.E.S.T.Highly sophisticated battle armour designed, built and maintained by the tech savvy little genius that is Collin Gamble. The suit has many functions but its three primary uses are: Control of Will’s powers, protection from the people inevitably attempting to kill the vigilante and enhancement of sensory input to give a tactical advantage in the field.
-MoneyDespite his shares having been liquidated without his consent due to a clause being enacted assuming his was dead, the personal material wealth of his family was bestowed upon him after his eventual return. He’d never admit it, but it is realistically his single greatest asset.
-Collin GambleTempest is a three pronged system: William, the suit and Collin. Each needs the other two for anything to actual happen. When his childhood friend reappeared under circumstances more conspicuous than anything other than the initial vanishing, Collin was sceptical to say the least. Sceptical and furious that is. Surprising how the one person to whom you can talk to about some rather horrifying elements of your past reappearing after nearly a decade and demanding your help and silence can truly and utterly drive even a calm man to rage. Followed by eventual begrudging acceptance.
Currently Collin is the Director Of Advanced Research at Adisoncorp, an ambiguous but noteworthy title . Along with Will, he located Adisoncorps decades old, failed weapons test facility on the city’s outskirts. They then went to extensive effort to clear it out and relocate the equipment to a secure facility in the city centre. Here, sleepless nights, a huge pool of money, a spark of genius and a bit of blind luck eventually lead to the functioning T4.
Skills:Beyond the scope of his powers, Will has a superb mastery of Shin Ju Naoi, the art of hand to hand combat crafted and perfected by the shadowy group of monks known as the White Hand.
The only thing sharper than his reflexes is his wit, or so he claims.
PowersHis outward aesthetic physiology is almost identical to human but internally he has incredibly dense and functioning stacks of electroplaques. The Tempest suit and it's incorporated power core focus the energy from these stacks which function as voltaic piles. The main functions of the suit in this regard are creating potential differences as need so as to 'aim' the electrical energy, and the conversion to kinetic energy and subsequent projection of it. The power core was found in the abandoned Adisoncorp lab and Will has convinced Collin of its magical origin. Strange, that such a powerful object would be left behind.
