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Name: Kerr Nordstrom
Code Name: Destrillian Prototype #000-000-011 – Oeranos’ Wrath
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Physical Appearance:
Even in spite of the best efforts of Violan scientists Kerr’s body has stubbornly refused to become the specimen of physical perfection that the years of genetic and biological manipulation should have made of him. Small even for his age he would be considered scrawny, standing at a slight five foot seven with a build that is as lean and slight as a waif, giving him the unhealthy look of someone recovering from an illness they’d been suffering from just a little too long to ever make a full return to health. Even his hair seems lifeless, it could have been any colour before he was taken to the facility but now it hangs unkempt and long, lank and pale grey.
The only part of his body that still retains any semblance of life are his eyes. Two hateful holes of jet black set beneath faint, withered eyebrows, and unhealthily framed by sleepless bags and brimming with spite, malice and cunning, giving life to an otherwise gaunt, unremarkable face.
Personality:
Kerr didn’t play well with others as a child, after all why should he? He was so much better than they were to begin with; he also deserved their toys, money and anything else he could steal from them for that matter too.
A natural bully, even to the other Destrillian prototypes he is callous and mocking, far too spoilt by an overly indulgent upbringing that failed to curb his ever swelling greed, egotism and ambition. His own deeply rooted sense of pride remained unchanged inspite of his ten years of imprisonment in the Violan facility. He was quite ready to cooperate with the experiments of the scientists, the childhood greed for the attention and belongings of others had long since mutated monstrously into a lust for more power, to be the best and the strongest. He has no desire for social interaction; it doesn’t benefit his ends and doesn’t help him achieve his goals, which he is quite willing to wait patiently to achieve. Because he has little doubt in his own mind that he will in the end.
However, inspite of his arrogance, Kerr is also regarded as a dangerous tactician and incredibly patient when it comes to executing his plan of action. Capable of forming sophisticated combat strategies, which are usually only undone by his refusal to work with or rely on the other prototypes, this mistrust is not only bred out of the fears that not only do the others actions lie outside of the realm of things he can control and predict, but also that they may show him up to be weaker and less powerful than they are. As a result he is both mistrustful of the others and secretly fearful of being shown to be weaker. He cares for nobody’s wellbeing but his own but still despises needless violence and impulsive behaviour, which he sees as counterproductive and potentially problematic. He has fully embraced his role as a weapon of war, and is loyal to those who gave him the power to match his ambition.
Elemental Power: Gravity
Elemental/Psychic/Physical Abilities:
A constant thorn in the side of Viola’s specialists, the full extent of what Kerr could be capable of is known only to himself. Even through combat situations and rigorous training under all manner of physical and psychological conditions Kerr was known to use his own resourcefulness and quick thinking to overcome obstacles just as often as he would tap into his elemental power, making the full scope of his abilities purely hypothetical at this point. Trained Violan psychoanalysts attribute his unwillingness to demonstrate any true display of power to the fact that Kerr, perhaps more than any other Destrillian is conscious of the negative consequences of relying too much on his elemental manipulation.
The most commonly displayed use of his power has been his ability to redirect the projection of his own personal gravity, shifting it to the side to enable him to walk on walls or upwards to adhere to the ceiling. Whilst he has shown the most proficiency at using this power to the extent where a quick burst of it will not drain him to any significant degree, the rate of its prolonged use exponentially increases the toll it takes on his body and in his current state of development Violan scientists have noted with some disappointment that he is unable to scale any higher than a five story building without succumbing to extreme levels of exhaustion.
A much later development of his power eventually remedied this problem, extreme testing was done on pressuring Kerr to go as far as cancelling out his own gravity field. The result was that Kerr developed the ability to float, independent of the pull of the Earth’s gravity. However several drawbacks were discovered to his ability to float, firstly whilst he could defy gravity he had no means of self propulsion, meaning that he was unable to fly or move himself once airborne and was confined the limitations of the speed of which he left the ground to begin with. Secondly continued use of this power for extended periods of time proved to be even more damaging to his health. After the initial testing, Kerr has shown extreme reluctance to engage in the use of this power.
When on the offensive Kerr has been shown to exhibit the power to creative localised gravity fields around suitably small inorganic objects and then compress them to become tiny and highly dense under the extreme pressure of the gravity field. Then in combination with his telekinetic ability he is able to propel the object with at an extremely high velocity to reap destruction on his intended target. As this is one of his more sophisticated abilities it is one that has been shown to be incredibly mentally taxing if it is used repeatedly.
In combat his preferred method of attack is to increase the gravitational forces surrounding a certain object to crush it under whatever amount of pressure Kerr desires, though the larger the object the more concentration it requires to inflict any significant amount of damage to it.
To what extent Kerr can manipulate gravitational forces still remains the subject of intense discussion and theorising amongst Viola’s top scientists and the nation’s top astrophysicists. One hypothesis suggests that with greater dedication to the placement of the gravitational fields he induces on objects then he might become able to spread the gravitational force inconsistently across the diameter of the object, meaning that one half one experience a greater force and the other a lesser force. Extreme manipulation of these tidal forces induced upon his obstacles would literally grant him the ability to rend them apart. A second hypothesis suggests that Kerr could potentially augment his physical strength, speed, agility and durability by directing his gravitational manipulation inwards to alter the makeup and density of his own molecules. In doing so he would vastly improve his performance and skill in hand to hand combat, as well as performing feats that even a human at peak physical conditioning would be capable of. However many theorists now sadly expect never to learn the full extent of gravitational related powers attributed to Kerr because of his own reluctance to use them and because of the intense speculation that his own physical fitness would not be enough to let him live through the application of more sophisticated use of his powers.
Kerr’s psychic abilities are fairly well developed in terms of perceiving the next movements of his opponents through subtle changes in the stresses to their gravitational field, of which he is acutely aware. However, because of his reliance on the natural blending of his psychic perception and his elemental senses, the rest of any psychic abilities he might possess remain woefully undeveloped with the exception of the telepathic abilities bound to all Destrillians though for the most part he wilfully suppresses that aspect of his psychic abilities.
Despite his slight build Kerr was one who really embraced all aspects of his training and achieved significant prowess in all aspects of it. His quick mind and instinctual ability to sense the tiniest of changes in the movements of the human body have helped him become an adept martial artist, who is praised for quickly disabling his opponents. However against opponents who are more heavily set he has been shown to have more difficulty in close quaters combat because of his own physical inadequecy. Unrelated to the development of his powers he has taken to training to fight with melee weapons with some success, and has learnt to become a keen marksman through extensive military training with all manner of long range firearms.
Forgotten History
The youngest of two sons of one of the nation’s most wealthy and high ranking members of Parliament. Kerr was never the favoured child growing up, his childhood was plagued by a series of illnesses that led his parents to favour their more charismatic and successful older brother. Devoid of much parental attention and praise throughout his developing years Kerr was by no means badly taken care of. As he was growing up he had merely to demand a present and he would receive it, a facet of his pampered reality that he was quick to realise and take advantage of. Whilst he cared not for the fact his parents never showed him the love that they showed his brother, he did care that they seemed to overlook him and not pay him the attention he felt he deserved. This bitter sense of inferiority only got worse as the two brothers got older, and was the cause of many heated arguments in the family as Kerr resorted to running away repeatedly just to get his parents attention.
At age 7 his father, now one of the most powerful men in the country, was among a group of government and private individuals to become aware of the Destrillians project and quickly became one of its chief supporters. Genuinely believing it to be the best way to save his country and to save his ailing political career as news of his troubled family life threatened to become public knowledge. One series of pitched discussions with his wife later it was decided that it would be best for the whole family if Kerr was to ‘disappear’ and in secret, be donated to the project. The event occurred one night when the boy was asleep in his bed, he was drugged at dinner and in the night was handed over to the team of Violan scientists.
The newspapers the next day reported that child abduction was a threat to even the highest levels of government office, and the massive sympathy generated for Mr. Nordstrom ensured that he remained popular and in a position of power for the next decade.
A wee bit discourteous mayhaps?
so win, yes?
