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Name:Christian King.

Alias: Sovereign.

Age: 23.

Occupation: Government founded Hero .

Alignment: Good.

Power(s): Superhuman Strength: 50 tons
Superhuman Durability: His skin and bones are four as dense as a normal humans. Capable of deflecting small to medium caliber rounds.
Superhuman Speed: He is capable of reaching a to running speed of 95mph. And a top flight speed of Mach 4.
Flight: by some unknown means he is capable of propelling himself into the air at great speed.

Skill(s): Military expertise. Strategically trained. Guitar player.

Strengths: Determined, Boyscout Charming

Weaknesses: trusting, naive, mortal.

Likes: Rock music. Heavy soft alternative doesn't matter. Smoothies. Pizza.

Dislikes:Villains, vigilantes. Science

Background: Christian King was a regular soldier who joined a special black ops team that was captured in a undisclosed location. They were tortured and drugged. He survived but had so many poisons running through his systems the army gave him to their science department, and let them have a whirl with what was left of his broken body. They experimented with all sorts of drugs and serums. Finally They decided to hit him with highly dangerous Radiation treatment because he was about to die anyways and from the chamber emerged a newly born killing machine. The Military wanting to call him Captain or super something or another, but he decided on his name telling them that they should be happy that he hasn't killed them for what they had put him through.

Other: Wants to kill those who prey on the weak. Has a specialized suit for added protection. The pride of the military's technology is his cape it can stop any type of round up to 50 caliber, but it's just short of a tank, that they still need to work on.

Appearance:
- Christian King.
- Sovereign.

Name:Selene Stevenson.

Alias: Syren.

Age: 30.

Occupation: College Professor.

Alignment: Evil.

Power(s): none.

Skill(s): Has spent her life in the study of communication. She has learned everything there is to know about sound.

Strengths:Intelligent, strong willed.

Weaknesses: Stubborn, takes things personally.

Likes: Studying, and tinkering with powerful machines.

Dislikes: people.

Background: Selene was a prominent student and later a great professor. She had a few bad days and failed experiments but she bought the eye of the government and received large amounts of funding for her research in a sound. Months went by and she produced a mechanism for amplifying sound that could be put in the helmets of soldiers for stealth missions. they cut her funding, discredited her and had her removed from the college. But that was just the first invention. She was saving the best for last, it was a hand held sonic emitter. capable of taking control of sound waves in a 50 meter radius. This device could amplify suppress, emit, direct, and even nullify all sounds. The best part....Sonic booms. She called it the Boom Stick it could fire sonic booms in any direction it was pointed for a distance of 300m. She began to show them what they had missed by taking out small platoons of soldiers one by one. and she killed an entire training camp just outside of Fahrenheit.

Other: Her equipment doesn't end with the Boom Stick, she has an entire suit and life devoted to sound, we'll just have to see what the Military was missing out on.

Appearance:
- Syren.

Name: ??? " Izzy".

Alias: Weather Man.

Age: ?

Occupation: Weather Man.

Alignment:Neutral.

Power(s): ?

Skill(s): gymnastics, specifically floor exercises.

Strengths: Computer genius chemist.

Weaknesses:human, hermit.

Likes: The planet, clouds. disco. The Reaper and Heatstroke.

Dislikes: unknown.

Background: He has deleted all files on himself. It is well known that he has the whole city on surveillance and is in control of the city's weather.

Other: Might be hallucinating his assistants, he doesn't sleep.

Appearance:
- "Izzy".
- The Weather Man.

Name: Brian Held.

Alias: Bullet.

Age: 18.

Occupation: Jack of all trades.

Alignment: Neutral.

Power(s):

Super Fast: He can move at incredible speeds. That includes running or simple moving his fingers.

Superhuman Stamina: Due to the rapid movement he has a stamina that is far far beyond that of a normal human.

Superhuman Reflexes: He can respond in the fractions of a millisecond. He has to because moving at high speed leaves little room for error.

Superhuman Durability: His body can handle the impact caused by his speed. Otherwise his body would simply shatter because of the force.

Skill(s): Pin Point accuracy, 3D imaging, Tae-Kwando, Karate.

Strengths: Hyper Metabolism.

Weaknesses: No Patience at all.

Likes: Any kind of food, Money.

Dislikes: Your mom jokes.

Background: At the age of 14 he found out about his powers, And has been taking all kinds of jobs ever since.

Other: Is incredibly hyper active.

Appearance:
- Brian Held.

Name: Alexander Grail.

Alias: Zeus.

Age: 25.

Occupation: Electrician.

Alignment: Neutral.

Power(s):

Thunder/Magnetism: Can charge particles and effectively create lightning.
Also has control over magnetic fields, which he uses to create a rail-gun styled attack using a coin.

Heat/Lightning/Radiation Resistant: Due to his powers, Alexander is safe from exposure to thermal and electrical fields, as well as some minor radiations.

Skill(s): Pinpoint accuracy.

Strengths: Guessing, Wire-expert.

Weaknesses: Light-weight drinker, Prefers the easy option in most scenarios.

Likes: Robots, gaming, getting drunk.

Dislikes: People who keep on nagging and show-offs.

Background: Alexander grew up as a normal child, but one day found that he'd blown out a light-bulb just by touching it. After this, he found that his powers continued to grow, and so he began using them to his advantage.

Other: Uses the phrase "Shocking, isn't it?" way too often.

Appearance:
- Alexander Grail.

Name: Tara Illias.

Alias: Necropotence.

Age: 41.

Occupation: By day: college Lecture Professor, doctor/mortician for the institute.

Alignment: Good.

Power(s): Imperium Mortuus- Tara has the ability to control and re-animate any detritus substance that was once alive. She has also demonstrated ability in controlling substances which, although not alive or dead at current, may have been alive in a previous state. Having said this, Tara is also able to aid the ill, by making their dying cells function as usual, essentially over-riding their illness. However, this requires a large percentage of her stamina and concentration. Tara may be able to fully heal someone, although the stress of this will most likely cause tremendous damage to her personally.

Skill(s): Certified Scientific Genius.
Master of most martial arts- ( Karate, Judo, Tae Kwan do, Kung-fu, Jujitsu, Tai Chi, Muay Thai and Aikido).
Superhuman Strength- Roughly double that of the average human.
Superhuman reflexes and speed- At least rivalling that of a human in peak physical condition.
Highly intelligent.
High endurance.
Able to control powers with unwavering skill
Can count cards in black jack and work out statistics in poker fairly easily.
Multilingual, can learn any language within two weeks if placed in a environment where it is naturally spoken, and where she has a translation book. Has a personal knack for being able to perfectly duplicate accents down to city areas.
Can play bass guitar with exceptional skill.

Strengths: Combat.
Science.
Math.
Strategy.

Weaknesses: Powers are exhausting.
When using her powers she is open to psychic links, due to the nature of her power.
Powerful magnets

Likes: Helping people, spicy foods, horror films, heavy, hard and classic rock, martial arts movies, strategy games.

Dislikes: Villains, bigotry, Disney, Ann Coulter, country and pop, speed metal, ignorance (sometimes just stupid people).

Background: Tara was born in England, to a military family. Her father traveled the world and took Tara and her mother along with him. As Tara grew her father wished her to be able to protect herself and had her learn many forms of martial arts, as well as military Close Quarters Combat stances (CQC). She showed promise as a student, having a high IQ of 175 and remarkable skill in the fields of mathematics, biochemistry and physiology.

At the age of ten Tara's mother gave birth to her sister, Jeska. By the age of twelve Tara's IQ was 180, and she had mastered many of the martial arts that she had undertaken. Tara was the apple of her parents' eyes, but at this point her mutations had begun to emerge. What began with strange dreams and warping of the wooden furniture lead to Tara seeing a psychiatrist after a large number of dead family pets being found laying about her room one morning. Tara was also tested for any cell damage, and was found to have a mutated genetic strand.

Tara's father was forced in to putting Tara up for adoption against his will, her mother wanting nothing more to do with her. She was taken by the British government, who conducted a series of tests on her, finding that her body could continue to function, even though cells were technically dead. After failing to integrate her body with cybernetics they 'killed' her and locked her body in a cell.

Her body was reclaimed by a group of rogue mutants who had begun an attack on the facility, and her cybernetics were successfully integrated at a later date. Tara joined the mutants in their cause, and made it her sole mission to cast doom on humans and mutants alike who would impede their evolution. She then adopted the name 'Illias', a combination of “The Illiad” and 'Achilles'.

She became highly cynical and cold, and had begun to train in Aikido once more. However, her anger seemed to inhibit her training. She had also put her mother in to a coma during a revisiting of her bigamous parent. Tara also began to continue her studies in a local college, and at the age of 20 she met Kyle Gardner, who was escorted from an auditorium after making a speech about the treatment of mutants. Tara saved him from being assaulted by a group of anti-mutant thugs.

Tara and Kyle eventually formed a relationship, before which Tara learned that he was not a mutant, and was an Aikido practitioner as well, by which he helped her to master the style. Tara heard a rumor that she was being used by Kyle, as proof that he could get with any girl that he chose, back up by what appeared to by Kyle himself admitting to it. In an uncontrollable rage she killed him, not letting him even try to explain. After, she realized that the rumors had been the fabrications of her own group of mutants, who were trying to push her away from Kyle, fearing that her relationship with a human would ultimately lead to her breaking away from their mold. One of their members was a shape shifter and had mascaraed as the Kyle that had admitted to using her. After a battle royal with her former comrades in which most fled and a few died by her hands Tara fled, becoming a recluse.

After vanishing for several years, Tara resurfaced as a mortician and a college lecturer with twin children, a boy and girl. Tara had also become a member of anti-terror fighters named HUNTERS, co-leading the team along with two mutants named 'Feral' and 'Tinker'.

Tara learned that her sister, Jeska, was looking for her, but found that she intended to kill her. Jeska revealed that their mother had been having an affair before their parents had even divorced, and that Jeska was only her half-sister. Tara is forced to kill Jeska when no other option presented itself as plausible, as Jeska could not set aside their differences, since Tara's mother bore a hatred for mutants into her so deeply she was self loathing.


Other: Restarts the HUNTER initiative later in life. When speaking casually, she does so in "The Queens English", sometimes speaks in a central/northern American accent when around people she does not know.

Appearance:
- Tara Illias.

Name: James Mayfield.

Alias: X.

Age: 28.

Occupation: Bank-robber.

Alignment: Evil.

Power(s): Reality manipulation- James can control the fabric of reality, causing people to see exactly what he wants, and therefore can change his own appearance. Whilst he can make it seem that he is different, his own appearance does not physically alter, only visually.

Skill(s): Fast-witted, Good base of knowledge.

Strengths: Espionage, Stealth

Weaknesses: Power isn't as useful as it sounds.

Likes: Old records, decent romance novels, walks in the park, dalmatians, his iPod.

Dislikes: Seraphael, Superheroes, CDs, VHS Cassettes.

Background: James Mayfield began working as a government agent, going in to enemy territories and acquiring intel. When he realized the extent of his power, he turned to a life of crime, preying on banks and areas with a high concentration of expensive goods.

Other: Wants to help people, but can't find a good outlet. Often donates to charities.

Appearance:
- James Mayfield/ X.

Name: Zackariah Isaak Ryder

Alias: Arbor
Age: 22

Occupation: Ecologist/Geologist

Alignment: good

Power(s): Unlike most homo-superiors, Zack's mutation developed very early in his life (at about 2 years old), or at least a part of it did (his psionic link). He has absolute control over (ability to manipulate) Plants, sand, dirt, rock, minerals, magma and all things that come from the earth.

Zack's mutation is considered partly mental because of his strong emotional and physical link to the earth he controls. As such if he is made extremely emotional, physical stressed or injured the very earth and flora around him is affected. (For instance when made extremely angry, seismic and volcanic activity in the area increase along with his temper, trees can start to explode and the ground may start cracking and indenting in his immediate area. When emotionally drained or sadden the ground will start to dry out and plants die at a rapid rate, in other cases such as when he is happy, things around will flourish. Later on in his life, he learned to control things with the small amounts of earth and plant born materials, his powers of manipulation spanning from glass (sand) to cement to cotton clothing (the cotton plants). He can control metal ore fairly easily, but has difficulty maintaining control over refined and alloy metals for more than a few seconds. As such he could flip a car, but not hold in in the air, or bend the stocks of guns just enough to keep them from firing correctly, but not stop bullets.

Even though he has speed and agility near that of a normal well fit human, the earth protects him at incredibly fast speeds. He doesn't even need to think about it for a wall of earth to reflexively come up to stop even a super dense tank shell without a scratch. (The earth can take on denseness, durability, strength, sharpness, etc, etc far greater than even super hard metal alloys or shields because of his unnatural abilities)

Skill(s): Good gardener/farmer, good with animals. Smarter than most, good with puzzles. Good leader. Very fast reader.

Strengths: Zack has a keen sense about other people, he knows who his friends are and who he can trust even if they can't see eye to eye and is trust worthy in his own right. Zack is has gone through more horrific events and ordeals in his early life than many go through in their in their entire lives, yet has come out of them a more mature man than most people 10 years older than him are. Zack is a very compassionate, caring individual, with a flare for leadership and just a dash of charisma. Even though his has an overall happy, placid personality and maturity beyond his years, there are still hints of the scared young man from his early teens sometimes evident though short lapses in his outer armor.

Weaknesses: Zack can still be some what emotional over the events of his past, and has a bad temper is ever truly pushed. Once truly angered Zack has a hard time not only letting it go but even controlling his own powers, sometimes causing collateral damage even without trying. The same can be said for his other strong emotions, he has yet to be able to fully reign in his unconscious use of powers while in a strong emotional flux.

Likes: peace, quite days alone with a book, autumn, logic, coffee, classical, Celtic and Mediterranean music, Sci-fi.

Dislikes: Overly loud people, needles, pollution

Background: When Zack was still a small child (about 3 years) his family moved from birthplace in California to a city in Colorado, thinking he would live a healthier life if he started out in a cleaner environment. Zack had been somewhat sickly for a year, his parents thought this was caused by the pollution getting into his lungs. They were partially right, it was the pollution, but it was because it was killing most of the plants in the city, when the moved to Colorado he almost immediately improved. As Zack grew his parents and everyone else saw that he had a gift for growing plants, he seem to know, the exact time when it as best to plant and water them, where the best places to plant them were so they could get the most minerals possible.

Some farmers also soon realized that plants Zack grew seemed to grow faster than others do, in fact, much faster then anything should grow, but he never used fertilizer or any other form of growth help. Also the ground was always soft when he planted, and if he was mad at someone the ground was hard and unyielding to them, and some noticed that if there were ever potholes or bumps in the road they seem to disappear when Zack was around. Then stories about violent mutants started popping up and soon most of the people soon realized that Zack’s abilities weren’t natural, first they started to protest that it wasn’t fair for his family to have such advantages, then things started to get more serious. The people in the village started to want radical solutions, and the citizens came after Zack with everything they could find that they thought would do him harm, soon after they heard about a mass killing by a mutant, they all armed themselves with guns and started shooting.

In the ensuing violence Zack’s parents killed trying to get Zack to safety, the mob found him crying over his parents bodies even after that they was still intent on seeing his death. But right as they were about to shoot, Zack screamed and vines, roots, and, bark shot out of the ground and engulfed the attackers in one swift movement, turning them into a small grove of trees. So at the age of 11 Zack had lost his parents, his hometown, and taken 200 lives in a matter of hours.

Needless to say this event attracted more then a few eyes to Zack.
Agents from the Omega project were there 3 hours before them and after 2 hours of chase and at the cost of 5 special mutant capture agents, they captured their first specimen, and he was then tattooed with a bar code labeling him as a demolition unit. He was then shipped of to Alaska, where the massive Omega project base was located. There he and all the other subjects would be operated on at the molecular level as often as possible so that his mutation would grow more easily control, have a wider range of control, and allow him to keep his emotional link to the earth more under his control. Zack was the first of only five subjects to be considered a success to be captured, one of the other five being Blake Gruden (Torch). But shortly after the operations and training were complete the group called "HUNTERS" disabled the facility and freed those captured.

After what he had been through in the project Zack wanted nothing more than to re-enter life and fade back into normality. The HUNTERS facilitated this the best they could and allowed him to obtain a college education, majoring in Ecology and Geology.

When he was contacted by a member of the HUNTERS when they were looking for new members Zack was slightly hesitant due to his want to stay out of the spotlight but after a small amount of coaxing and explaining that they generally operated under the radar his underlying want to help people and the group that gave him his new life won out.

He was paired with Elizabeth Illias (Ascalon) due to their well matched abilities. Zack hard a good long range and environmental control with impressive defensive ability and Elizabeth was one of their best close range fighters with ample offensive power on a person to person level.

After working together for two years their relationship grew to more than friends, leaving them in their current relationship.

Other:
Appearance: -TekTek Pending-
- Ascalon.