Jackson Hunt
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Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right; they are contention over varying degrees of wrongness."
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Richelle E. Goodrich
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Full Name |
Jackson David Hunt.
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Nickname |
Jack. He always thought that Jackson sounded like a name you could only put either in front of a title of royalty or a tombstone. Until, he obtains one of those, which he doesn't intend to any time soon, Jack will do.
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Birth Date |
July 22nd, 1998
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Age |
20
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Classification |
Junior
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Gender |
Male
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Sexuality |
Bisexual
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Alias |
Countdown
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Role |
Hero
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Loyalty |
Mayweather
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In Depth Appearance |
Jack is the type who never really smiles unless surrounded by good friends or bad puns. He generally has a much more neutral expression, although some have been known to call it a "resting b**** face." He is about 6'5". His daily attire normally consists of a button-down shirt and a pair of blue jeans, generally with whatever shoes are closest to his bed when he wakes up. He is also currently attempting to get a tan.
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Habits | Quirks | Oddities |
Talking to himself
Sleeps on his floor once in a while
Still posts on MySpace
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Hobbies |
Playing the guitar
Sunbathing
Meditation
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Likes |
Orange (the color)
Oranges (the fruit)
Bootlegs of Broadway shows
Any music from the 20th century
Silence
PUNS
Crime shows
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Dislikes |
Professional wrestling
Horror movies
"Bandwagon" sports fans
Movie sequels not as good as the original
Anything that doesn't taste like it smells
People who wear too much perfume
Sour foods
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Fears |
Heights
Public Speaking
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Personality Traits |
Withdrawn
Cautious
Good sense of humor
Sensitive
Short-tempered
Warmhearted
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Personality |
Jackson is generally a bit of an outsider in most social groups, the sort of person who everyone knows but just barely. He has a few close friends who he is quick to confide in on most issues, and his trust is hard to earn, but also generally hard to lose. He believes that no matter what, everyone has good and evil within them, and they need to work to embrace the good side of them. He also is a firm believer that even if you make a mistake, you should always be given another chance.
Alongside these beliefs, he thinks that there should truly be no difference between villains and heroes, but he also knows how to play the game. As long as he is given the choice, he will identify as a hero, if only to keep others from seeing him as wrong. He thinks that if schools like Delphina didn't encourage students to work against the law, then all powered people would be able to coexist among themselves and among the nonpowered society.
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Abilities |
Countdown has the ability to slow down time and, although it takes more effort, he can stop time altogether for short periods of time. He can either slow down or stop his perception of time, or he can use his abilities to "trap" others in time as well. He can also mess with people's watches or clocks, for some reason.
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Limitations |
His abilities to slow and stop time are both determined by his will and physical strength. The fact of the matter is that these abilities go against everything that we know of quantum physics, so it takes a lot of effort to control them. His ability to mess with clocks, however, has no limit that he has observed.
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Place Of Origin |
Phoenix, Arizona
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Family |
Mother- Taylor Hunt
Father- Daniel Hunt
Neither of his parents have any sort of powers, nor did they know that Jack had him until he left for Mayweather.
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History |
When Jack was born, he lived in an absolutely normal family with no trace of supernatural powers. If the idea had ever been suggested to him, he would've likely scoffed at the notion. Throughout his years of elementary and middle school, he was an average student and made friends relatively easily, all without knowledge of his abilities. One day, however, he was talking to a junior girl, who just so happened to be the quarterback of his high school's football team. When the muscular man tried to fight him, Jack stumbled upon his ability: he could slow down time! Using his newfound ability, he gave the quarterback a humiliation that he would never forget. He continued to study this ability, although he made sure not to tell anyone, not even his parents.
As he slowly evolved his ability, he also became more and more withdrawn. He was afraid that if he told anyone, they would say he was crazy or ship him off to some science lab to be studied. Eventually, his friends became his ridiculers, as he was pulled away from them by his own sense of paranoia. Of course, this all eventually changed. One day, his class was taking a field trip to the Grand Canyon, and his former friends were roughhousing, as they usually did. Unfortunately, one of them shoved too hard and pushed a student he knew, Dylan, over the edge of the cliff. Jack suddenly shouted out in panic until he saw that everyone, and everything had gone silent. This was the first time he had ever stopped time completely. With this in mind, he saw that he had a choice: he could either pull Dylan back onto the cliff and expose his ability, or let him fall and keep the secret. That was when he made the only choice that he still regrets to this day, the one thing that he has never told anyone.
The ambulances arrived quickly afterwards. They had to use a helicopter to get his body from the bottom of the canyon; Jack overheard the paramedics say that the student was dead upon impact. Afterwards, he learned that the roughhousing students who caused his fall were all in juvenile prison, and this made him feel guilty. In his opinion, he might as well have pulled the trigger. Of course, with no evidence to convict Jack, he was seen as innocent entirely. At this point, he knew that he needed to learn to control his abilities further, so that he could never let this sort of thing happen again. Through gossip and research, he learned that there were plenty of kids with abilities like his and that they went to two separate schools: one for heroes, the other for villains. In the end, he decided to apply for Mayweather, telling himself that while he may not be a hero, he would become as close to one as he could. Eventually, at the new school, he was able to somewhat open up back into his former self, able to form friendships because he no longer had to hide his powers. He thinks that Mayweather has taught him that while he may never be a true hero, he sure isn't the only one in this situation. Despite their differences, Jack is excited to meet the students from Delphina and show everyone that villains can be good and bad, just like heroes.
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Extra |
He only enjoys watching superhero movies if they show that heroes and villains aren't necessarily black and white. That's the main reason that he loved Civil War.
