Essence

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity."
Simone De Beauvoir

☆Personal Information☆

Full Name: Arthur Brooks

Codename: Essence (Formerly Armageddon)

Title: None

Nickname(s): One-upper, Art.

Age: 29(in cryostasis for 46 years)

Gender: Male

Race: Empowered

Ethnicity: White

Orientation/Sexual preference: Heterosexual

Blood Type: B-



☆Appearance☆

General Appearance:




Height: 6” 03’

Weight: 218 bs.

Eye color(s): Blue

Body build: Mesomorph, strong

Extra extremities: None

Hair color(s): Blonde

Hair length: Long



☆Personality☆

General Personality: Arthur is in full belief that he will succeed at his goal. He is unwavering in his goal. He is very calm in nature,
and enjoys a fight if he knows he is playing against someone he is equal or superior to.
He believes he is a bit stronger then most other empowered. He has a large pride that he finds hard to deal with at times.
Very intellectual and likes to solve riddles in his spare time. he's very adaptable, he needs to be for someone who tries to gain other powers of multiple levels in strength.

Personality snapshot: Determined, stubborn, prideful.

Most prominent personality trait: Assurance of his victory in the end scheme of things.

Best traits: Unwavering determination, adaptable, intellectual.

Worst traits: Very prideful, stubborn.

Likes: Riddles, snakes, earthy colors, a good coffee, unique/powerful ability's, a quiet morning.

Dislikes: How often he forgets things, incredibly "Pop" colors, when people say he is selfish in motivation, big insects, instant-mix coffee, blows to the head.

Fears: Permanent short term memory loss, and failing at accomplishing his goal(The last one he appears not to have, but its very prominent).

Goals: Become the strongest thing in the universe, in order to keep what he values safe.

Habits: Writing things on his arm when trying to remember something, so he is also very often carrying a sharpie.



☆Character Information☆



Current faith or religion: Catholic

Current superstitions/quirks: He believes, no matter what people tell him, that the empowered are really just people who have been "touched by the divines."
He also has a tendency to write things that he wants to remember on his arm, but not like a regular sort of way, like very artistic calligraphy style notes.

Alignment: Neutral Good

Marital status: Single

Occupation: Owner of the "Homebrew". A small café that's built to enable all sorts of empowered to hang out with relative peace.

Family: Can’t remember(He had no sibling, parents both have been terminated from all records, completely forgotten. All deceased)



☆Power/Abilities☆

Powers and Abilities: Empowered Mimicry: Arthur can mimic other Empowered' s mutations when he touches them.
If he is absorbing a power, an amber energy glows in the veins of his arms and hands up to his shoulder. He can select ability's and use them as he wishes.
He can use any power of the original holder as long as it's biological in nature. He can selectively turn this ability off. When a power is in use,
his veins glow a certain color and only glow around the area in effect(Like fire breath, his cheeks and the inside of his mouth would glow,
super strength his arms would glow when using the strength, etc.)

Weaknesses: Arthur will gains all the weakness's associated with the power of the original user.
If a effect will even temporarily get him to lose his powers, his power reserves will reset completely and permanently.
People can tell what power he is using depending on the color of his veins. His head wound causes him to be extremely sensitive to head injuries and attacks targeting his head.
Possesses a temporary short term memory loss.

Skills and Talents: Above average intellect, talented cook, adaptability to fighting in unique situations,
great at power assessment, mediocre mechanic/repair skills, able to use advanced lab equipment, talented artist.

Equipment: He has a small laboratory in his apartment so he can determine the capabilities of empowered mutations he gains, and find the general composition of them. He carries a wrestling mask in his pocket that cover his whole face except his mouth and chin.



☆History☆



Current residence: New York, but will travel if he hears of interesting empowered activity going on somewhere else.

Birthplace: Unknown location, but the date was sometime in 1942, he has given himself the birthday of July 7nth. "Died" in 1967.



General History: Arthur Brooks was one of the first Empowered to show up in this world, gifted with the wonderful ability to mimic other empowered,
he believed he was supposed to be the embodiment of the apocalypse, and he played the role well. He conquered and overrun multiple towns in the US before being shot in the left side of his head,
supposedly killing him. His body was abducted by one of his followers, who then created a small cult based after there fallen god.
They had an empowered slowly repair him, trying to fix any lost memories he had back to there original form, this went on for 46 years, it was supposed to be 50 for the full recovery to take effect,
but the cult was discovered by a local police force and right in the middle of one of the restoration rituals, the healer was shot, and Arthur was taken to the hospital,
he recovered days later, able to remember his name, all basic functions, but he couldn't remember who his parents where, where he grew up, and what he was. Over time he rediscovered his ability to mimic powers,
and opened a café where other empowered could hang out with minimal prejudice. He also gave himself a new goal in life,
to become the strongest thing on earth in order to protect it. Currently the government is unaware of his re-emergence, as his past is completely wiped from all systems, almost...