Ryoh Hirai
The Surrogate
[Leonardo Araldi] [21] [Male]
[APPEARANCE]
[COSTUME]
[ALIAS]
Spark
[POWERS]
"Item Level Up"
Leo's only power consists of adding enhanced abilities to obejects by adding a certain "spark" to it (thus his hero name).
Leo can visualize information about a given item like a video game HUD, allowing him to know how it will interact with his spark.
Each item has a given number of enhancement "slots" and a certain selection of possible enhancments that appear in its description.
The exact mechanism that determines the objects number of slots and "skill tree" seem random,
but similar objects have similar, if slightly different, trees and slots.
Leo has a finite number of spark "points" to spend on objects, and must gain more by using his creations and
"bonding" with them over the course of new (or dangerous/difficult) situations.
[Skill trees, slots and spark points are completely left to the gm to determine, to avoid tempting me into PPing]
[STRENGTHS]
-Great Potential-
The skill trees of some objects bring their abilities to incredible proportions: sky's the limit.
-Great Versatility-
Leo can turn a roll of duct tape and a paper clip into a weapon, and a weapon into a life saving tool.
As long has he has spark points and something to work with he can find a solution to most problems.
[WEAKNESSES]
-Item Reliant-
Leo needs SP and good items like a junkie needs his fix, when he accumumalates too much of one or the other, he must create
or risk a psychotic breakdown as the creative energy literally starts flying out of him.
-Unskilled-
Leo is not particularly good at anything except maybe videogames (And even there he is not reallt that good, he just likes to brag). Fighting? Nope. Computers? Nein Academics? Nihil. The list goes on.
-Naive-
Naivete? What's that?
[WEAPONS]
His costume is the only means of defence he has.
He spent years making the costume he has, adding layers of physical, thermal and electrical resistance.
The most important part of his costume, and the one he spent thousands of points unlocking, is its personal gravity manipulation.
This ability allows him to manipulate his own gravity to achieve levitation/slow flight and enhance running and jumping.
[EXPERIENCE]
Zeee-roh.
[BACKSTORY]
Leonardo was born in a small and caring Italian suburban family in a little town near Turin.
His mother Ilenia, was a renowned cardiologist, while his father Lorenzo was a nurse.
They met on the job in one of Turin's most important hospitals: it was love at first sight.
This all happened twentyfour years ago, as Leonardo was the fruit of their happy relationship.
Little Leo was cute as a button, and as he grew his beauty didn't wane a bit, making girls flock to his side.
Leo, though, was also the goofiest boy you could meet, and he wasn't really that interested in girls for most of his life,
preferring to play videogames.
His life changed when he was just twelve.
All he can remember is a weird dream with a voice speaking with sounds
that were like a blend of a 56k modem and a majestic violin playing.
The next day he was run over by a car.
He felt like dying, and maybe he did die, for a while at least.
When he woke up from the coma, he was six months older and all his could see was
ITEMS.
EVERYWHERE.
Since then he became obsessed with creating new items with his power,
He became a sort of mad scientist, always experimenting and throwing failures away at an alrming rate.
When he was eighteen he finally revealed his ability to the public and starting gathering funds to
buy more stuff and work on his costume.
He wanted to fly so bad,
And now that he can, he's gonna make big points
as a Hero Inc. employee.
[PERSONALITY]
Goofy, naive and full of hope. He is a real dreamer, a child at heart.
All he want from life is interesting experiences, and his power gave him
a quick and easy way to them. He tends to make friends easily
and he has a tendency to get attached to people and rely on them.
He struggles to find things he is good at, and developed a sort of complex,
thus, when he receives heartfelt thanks for whatever reason, he feels very realized.
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