Name: Jack Roman
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Codename: Rook
Power:
Copycat- Rook has the ability to mimic ones physical appearance of any other person he touches. This ability mimics everything down to the bone structure. A perfect DNA copy including the opposite gender. Rook can keep this up for a couple hours without any problems or permanent damage to his own body. He can copy anything human or even metahumans without the powers (or just cosmetics if the power if physical) *Look in weaknesses for limitations and drawbacks
Mimic- a much simpler version that only alters skin and hair color. Similar to an Octopus, his skin and hair pigment change to mimic his surroundings. Rook must be still for a few seconds for this to work and does not affect his clothes.
Appearance:
Personality: Jack is a cocky bastard. Stubborn, vain, conceited at times and a downright smartass. If it wasn't for the Brooklyn accent people would think he's British. If he's not trying to get in your pants, he's in your wallet. Loyal to nobody except for a rare few, Jack cannot be trusted to finish a mission without undertaking a few side missions to line his own pockets in the process.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Jack is extremely calm under pressure. Thanks to his US ARMY Ranger training he is an excellent marksman and extraordinary at gathering intel without being found. He has a silver tongue and a silver gun if necessary, both can be handeled with surgical precision.
Although Jack can change pretty much everything with his power except his clothes and especially his voice. Still unable to mimic voices, this can cause major drawbacks especially if he is disguised as a female. Another drawback is that after using a form for over two hours, his body slowly tries to push its shape back to normal. He can force this to take longer but it soon becomes painfull and might cause major internal damage. Jack has a couple different colored fingers as well as two different shaped ears in his original state due to pushing himself too far. He hides these features with thick rimmed glasses pulling the eye away from the ears and either wearing gloves or putting his hands in his pockets.
History: Born May, 4, 1987
Jack was born an orphan housed at Newhope Orphanage in Brooklyn Ny. Upon the death of the mother at birth and no father in sight to claim him. Living in the Newhope house until he was five years of age where his first family took him in until the age of nine. It was just a case of bad luck, divorce and illness left the mother unable to care for him so back he went. Jack took this rather personally since he grew very attached to the Roman family. Refusing to grow attached to the multiple other families whom tried to adopt him. Some lasted as long as a year, others didn't even last a week. Jack was a problem child rebelling with every family. He didn't want them, any of them.
At age 16 he ran away and lived off the streets for a year, robbing, stealing and sqwatting in abandoned houses to survive. Banding together with only a few others he managed small cons and all out robberies on small businesses. Saving up just enough money to have a local forger make up some fake birth certificate for him to join the Army. Once in he became quite the soldier, a naturally talented 17 year old with the knack for killing. Not staying with his squad for long before being shipped off to Ranger school. There he learned quite a few things about survival and tactics, how to breathe when under fire and how to keep calm under pressure. He was good... real good, and at the age of 21 he passed the test for sniper school.
At 23 he was a distinguished marksman with a handfull missions under his belt but Jack felt... bored... unentertained. His need to keep going drove him to take a solo mission in Iran. During that mission he was tasked to take down someone rumored to be leaking intel to the enemy. Little did Jack know it was all a huge test rigged by Obsidian. For months he tracked the target, watching his every move, counted every bead of sweat through his rifle scope until the perfect shot pronounced itself at one point he knew his target better than he did himself, almost as if they were one in the same. It was at that moment that he let it fly, almost in slow motion he watched as the 7.62x51 NATO round place itself gently inside the mans cranium. At that moment, Jack couldn't help but get wood. THAT was the sense of accomplishment he was looking for. All this time searching and he finally did it.
Upon completion of the mission Jack called for Evac but instead a millitary apache to pick him up, it was a private heli owned by Obsidian. A man in a well dressed suit offered him a chance to start new and promised that he would get much more satisfying jobs than this to put under his belt, not to mention a much MUCH larger paycheck. Jack couldn't of put his John Hancock quick enough.
Other:
Ace in the hole- His precious little 22mag revolver. Its saved his life on numerous occasions and can be hidden very easily. He never leaves home without it.
Rook got his name from a specific tactic in chess called "Castling" where the Rook and King pieces alternatively swap to alternating sides or switch places, confusing the enemy and bolstering defense. Although Jack knows little about chess, he has used this tactic quite often.