Name: Konstantin Salazar
Alias: The Wanderer
Age: 31
Gender: A dude
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Powers: Portal Creation: This man can create portals to places that he can see or remember, at least within a range of 10 miles. This can also be facilitated through up to date pictures and live video feed
The amount of focus and energy required to tear open these cracks in the fabric of space itself allows for only one to be active at any given time, and the more distant the target location, the more strain it will bring to his mind.
Hardlight Energy Shielding: The energy Konstantin uses can also be redirected into forming barriers and shields of solidified psychic energy. These shields can withstand blows from at least one magazine's worth of small arms ammunition, but will instantly give way to things such as explosives.
Weaknesses: All his supernatural abilities stem from a necklace studded with a magical gemstone. Take that away, and he's only an ordinary person.
Appearance:
Konstantin is 5'9" tall, with tanned skin and a glamorous man bun on his head. He's usually sporting Adidas products, it seems.
Other: He's blind in his left eye since birth.
History: Konstantin Salazar was born to a simple, if not a rather difficult life. As the first born child of a family of rural peasants in the province of Cagayan, located in the northern agricultural heartland of the Philippines, his destiny was initially simple: toil the fields, maybe get to complete elementary school before the lack of funds forced him to stop all formal studies. That is what they all had to live with, he was told. That's just how life was: a cycle, an unending wheel of repeating patterns.
And so, that is just what he did. Or rather, that is what Konstantin's circumstances forced him into. He wasn't the best student in any field (other than perhaps the rice field), so it wasn't like some foundation was going to suddenly take notice of any 'gifts' and give him a scholarship. His family just had enough for them to live through everyday… and that's just how it is.
One day, though, everything changed. Konstantin had an… experience, one might say. During an incursion in the woods, he heard a voice. A voice called out to him, speaking his name from underneath the ground. Not sure what it all really meant, he began digging. Instinct screamed at him to simply leave, that this was a total waste of time. However, it kept calling… and soon enough, Konstantin unearthed it.
An artifact of some kind? He was not sure at the time, but it came in the form of a necklace from inside a wooden chest that was, strangely enough, unlocked. The necklace itself glimmered with purple light, almost as if it was magic…
Without hesitation, Konstantin put on the magical artifact, and it immediately filled his mind with visions, no, memories of its past wielder. Most of it were vague glimpses, flashes of a life whose footsteps had long vanished from the world. The one thing that was clear, however, was the gift that it granted to whoever wore it: the freedom to travel through portals that cut through the fabric of space. Seeing a way to finally remedy the problems of his family, and most of all himself, he would participate in some… bank heists down in the capital region, taking just enough to raise the Salazars from their station of near poverty to one of relative comfort. Konstantin's parents and siblings didn't dare ask where all that money came from, but they've had their own… theories. They didn't know he had become a portal evoking, shield-creating sorcerer, if wielding the powered artifact of a sorcerer counted as being one.
With their greatly enriched position, Konstantin and his siblings got their degrees and then occupations one by one, ending the cycle that had permeated in their family for many generations. His parents soon succumbed to old age after that, leaving his siblings and himself. They were well prepared for those moments, though, and took it rather well.
There wasn't going to be a lot more to that, if it weren't for the Snap. At that time, they had emigrated to the United States a year after the Chitauri invaded New York, and had well established themselves in a new country. Konstantin, along with two of his three siblings, were snapped away, leaving only the youngest sister. Distraught with grief, she committed suicide, leading to all their properties being sold off to the highest bidders. When the Avengers reversed that catastrophe, Konstantin and his two brothers returned to a world where everything that they had built disappeared, and their sister truly dead. They had, thankfully, managed to keep a secret stash of money, and so managed to stay afloat in the turbulent months that followed the reversal.
Now, Konstantin feels rather guilty about the methods he had used to bring his family out of poverty, especially now that it had mostly fizzled away due to their disappearance. Perhaps as a way of making up for those pasts heists back in Manila, he had turned to becoming a vigilante in New York City. Sometimes he gets compensated by grateful citizens, sometimes not. At other times fearmongers say he's a public menace. At the end of the day, he's helping.
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