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Owen Welles
Topic Started: Jun 27 2014, 07:00 PM (274 Views)
Astro
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Character Name: Owen Welles
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Height: 5'10
Weight: 180 lbs
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Occupation: Student, Courier
Grade Level: First year
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Despite his rather strange personality most of the time Owen has a natural skill in perception and problem solving which are no doubt aided by his higher speed of taking things in and processing them make no mistake he is still by no means a master detective but with any luck he may be some day.

General Weakness'
Most notably Owen takes everything a little too quickly and has a tendency to rush into things without fully thinking things through unless he knows ahead of time he will need to. Despite his knack for perception he may overlook things and run into things for that matter. Owen's at times rather strange attitude also has a tendency to drive some people and makes it hard for a lot of people to take him seriously and his fascination with getting in adventures can endanger himself and others.


Equipment You Have:
A) Extendable Baton: What appears to be a small metal rod hidden in an inner pocket of his coat when taken out and given a flick of the wrist at his high movement speed the rod extends into a segmented 2 foot long metal baton with a small ball tip. When extended with the right motion the metal segments swivel and lock into place making it so that it will not normally collapse while swinging and must be manually put back down.
B) Yada Yada Electronics: Basic kind of portable electronics a student would have, laptop computer in his dorm (and sometimes with him), cell phone, mp3 player.
C) Comics and Collectibles: Owen is a rather large fan of superhero comics among other things he packed better in way of action figures and comic books than he did food and clothes and thus has quite the collection in his room.
D) The Treasure Hunter's Handbook: Saved the most important for last. An old dusty leather bound tome that is just one copy of the book. The Treasure Hunter's Handbook is an old guide supposedly dating back hundreds of years that contains all the information required for a great treasure hunter in training including the treasure hunter rules of conduct a guide to artifacts and legendary creatures and ruins one might encounter in addition it has extra room for notes so that one may add things they discover.

Residency Request:
Yuki

Schedule:
Homeroom Teacher: Lavender
1) Supernatural Studies
2) Survival Studies
3) Physical Education

Personality Description:
Owen has a personality in line with what one might except from someone with superhuman speed impulsive, adventurous and what one might call eccentric. Perhaps in part due to trying to rebel against his normal early upbringing, partially due to not having a lot of experience with people and partially due to a little bit of genuine insanity he has a tendency to say or due things many people would consider unusual thus he doesn't often due to well with super serious individuals.

Despite being a bit odd Owen is cheerful and jokey if a little chatty and can be a nice guy to have around if one doesn't fear injury on one of his crazy little adventures he tends to get himself into. Despite endangering himself and his friends in his search for adventure he is a very loyal person once someone manages to win him over he'll have there back no matter what that requires.

On the other hand Owen is impulsive and even a little chaotic at times and he can be quite competitive, it's rather easy to get him to do things by challenging him even unintentionally. His focus on challenging himself can be problematic in other ways as well due to the fact he often pushes himself farther than he should or disregards the safety of himself or others in order to pull through in a challenge. As he doesn't consider there to be a whole lot of things he's good at one he comes across someone better than him at one of the things he actually is good at he has a tendency to treat that person as something of a rival, not in a mean spirited way mind you at least not most of the time, but he will push himself even farther than normal in order to beat that person.

Owen has a focus on adventure and solving mysteries leading him to be a very curious and inquisitive person but also very determined and he can be rather hard to break unless someone knows his specific buttons to push going in to it. Due to his focus on adventures he also can be easy to get involved in tasks or help people out if he thinks there's any chance he may get and adventure or discover something out of it. Despite all of this though when things go south he is capable of getting serious and handling things no matter what it requires.

Personal History:
Owen hails from a fairly normal family, in a fairly normal city and at least for the first few years of his life had a pretty normal life. As far back as he can remember Owen had a thirst for adventure and spent much of his day trying to get himself into adventures when he wasn't reading about those of others in stories and comics that is. Despite all the trying he did to break through his current dull world into a world of monsters and mysteries and superpowers he was still stuck in the same old grey world.

Of course that's not the story we're here to show today is it ? When about 10 years old there was a time when he had to decided to fashion himself into something of a schoolyard superhero costume made out of simply mismatched clothes and swim goggles on his head, turns out this was rather fitting for the day he was about to have. In his attempt to protect his fellow students he got into an argument with some other children attempting to protect a new girl around his age they had been picking on, one thing led to another and young Owen got challenged to a race by a few of the other children. Owen even then not being one to back down from a challenge, quickly accepted, the start and finish line were made and they were off. Although managing to keep up a little behind the others he was still losing, at least at first. A little over half way through the race the boy seemed to be surrounded by arcs of lightning and he was off like a shot, a cloud of dust appeared around where he once stood and within a fraction of a second he had not just outpaced his rivals but shot right passed the finish line going faster and faster. Unfortunately he couldn't figure out how to stop that is of course until the back wall of the school house stopped him by knocking him out.

The teachers and other who had brought him in figured he must have dreamed up his story of superhuman speed when he smacked into that wall, but that couldn't be true of course ! Owen spent the next few mornings getting up hours before school and going for runs to train himself down by a creek near the school, eventually getting the hang of this whole stopping thing, as well as other useful things at high speed like turning and not crashing. One day however he made a little better time than he thought he would and ended up running through the city where he was spotted by his mother while commuting to work. That night his parents had a discussion about this and what to do about it and made the decision to take him to live for a few years in a small town with his grandfather.

Now to many this may have seemed like his parents not wanting him with his new abilities to ruin there normal life but that's not really what it was. In reality his grandfather Oliver was a rather odd man himself and not having the ability themselves to bring him up to use his abilities properly wanted to get the best person they could think of for the job. So they phoned up the old man, asked Owen if this was alright with him and drove him up there. As it turns out this was quite the blessing for Owen. His grandfather being the owner of a museum in the town of all sorts of artefacts he had apparently collected on his years of adventuring himself. Oliver having spent years in his own youth as a treasure hunter and apparently having some sort of powers of his own ,although Owen never found out what they were, the older man made a good person for the child to talk to but also a mentor for him.

At some point during the time Owen spent living with him Oliver found out about a school called Hyakuji from an associate of his, a place where Owen could train to be even better at his abilities beyond what his grandfather could teach him and be around people with similar abilities. When he was old enough to be able to his grandfather revealed his plans to send him to the school, and upon taking all this in Owen quickly became excited as now he could begin his own adventures.

Mashed Potatoes? The proof is in the pudding
Edited by Astro, Jun 28 2014, 11:50 PM.
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For a first time profile, and one of super speed in particular, this is fairly well made. There's a good effort to balance things out, there then being just one problem...

And that's specifically how the various side features required for Owen to be protected from harm are folded in as part of the speed power itself, which as it currently reads, they aren't necessarily. Not helped there appears to be a bit missing, given one sentence begins "Finally due to him being a conduit for the" and then simply goes on to say that he has the various protections. Depending on how its set up, you could maybe fold it in with perception, as a general 'here his how is body/his power is adapted so as not to kill him' thing, but its a bit hard when they have separate (passive vs active) functionalities.

Beyond that, I'd probably say have a bit more clarification in general, especially given super speed is one of those powers people sometimes have trouble wrapping their heads around. So for example you mention he has protection/resilience from, among other things, 'destroying things he runs into, killing himself by running into things'. I imagine what you mean there is a kind of impact protection from his own speed, but not if say, someone throws a stone at him (aside of the difference from him running into the stone that is), right?

Like I said though, for a first effort, fairly good.
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Heh that's what I get for doing up the power section at 4am.

So I kept the impact resistance thingy in with speed as that's the power that it most relates too but I changed it to define it better and explain how it works.

As for the other required protection (Like keeping from bursting into flame) I added this onto the section about his heightened healing speed, called it Hyper Speed Physiology and explained this is due to his body working a little differently to accommodate his powers just like his heightened metabolism which is why they're now in the same section.
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Jun 27 2014, 07:00 PM
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Other Abilities
Despite his rather strange personality most of the time Owen has a natural skill in perception and problem solving which are no doubt aided by his higher speed of taking things in and processing them make no mistake he is still by no means a master detective but with any luck he may be some day.

General Weakness'
Most notably Owen takes everything a little too quickly and has a tendency to rush into things without fully thinking things through unless he knows ahead of time he will need to. Despite his knack for perception he may overlook things and run into things for that matter. Owen's at times rather strange attitude also has a tendency to drive some people and makes it hard for a lot of people to take him seriously and his fascination with getting in adventures can endanger himself and others.


Equipment You Have:
A) Extendable Baton: What appears to be a small metal rod hidden in an inner pocket of his coat when taken out and given a flick of the wrist at his high movement speed the rod extends into a segmented 2 foot long metal baton with a small ball tip. When extended with the right motion the metal segments swivel and lock into place making it so that it will not normally collapse while swinging and must be manually put back down.
B) Yada Yada Electronics: Basic kind of portable electronics a student would have, laptop computer in his dorm (and sometimes with him), cell phone, mp3 player.
C) Comics and Collectibles: Owen is a rather large fan of superhero comics among other things he packed better in way of action figures and comic books than he did food and clothes and thus has quite the collection in his room.
D) The Treasure Hunter's Handbook: Saved the most important for last. An old dusty leather bound tome that is just one copy of the book. The Treasure Hunter's Handbook is an old guide supposedly dating back hundreds of years that contains all the information required for a great treasure hunter in training including the treasure hunter rules of conduct a guide to artifacts and legendary creatures and ruins one might encounter in addition it has extra room for notes so that one may add things they discover.

Residency Request:
Yuki

Schedule:
Homeroom Teacher: Lavender
1) Supernatural Studies
2) Survival Studies
3) Physical Education
Approved. Nice to have another speedster about.
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