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Adam Jonathon Gareth is the son of Mavus Shaw and Junon Gareth. He is the brother to his late twin sister, Josephine Gareth.

As the son of Junon, Adam inherits his mother's genes and becomes a conduit to the Achilles Force, a realm of vast energy rivalling that of the Power Force in terms of potential. After witnessing the death of his friend and uncle figure, Truman Venir, Adam decides to take action against the Aspects, a race of deities who descended from the skies to rain punishment upon discovering that their greatest soldier, Mogul, the Aspect of Sin was slain by the resistance forces of Croft and Corinth.

Adam took pieces of his father's old armour from his last battle against Mogul as well as his mother's dagger, Kronus. Geared up as a vigilante, the first in a long time in an apocalyptic Corinth, Adam fought the Aspects under the codename Arcbolt, alongside his sister, Jo, who went by the codename Worldstream. The brother and sister duo would engage in a guerrilla war against the Aspects, dubbing the resistance movement as New Darkstar.

After one fateful encounter with a group of Aspects, Jo was killed by Lapheth, the Aspect of Fury. Jo releases the last of her power to momentarily boost Adam's superspeed powers to greatly surpass the speed of light, sending him back in time to rewrite history. Training the people of the past to defeat the monsters of the future.

Powers

Achilles Superspeed: Adam uses the Achilles Energy to boost his speed and reflexes to superhuman levels. At full speed, Adam was capable of easily breaking the sound barrier. This was especially effective in his war against the Aspects, as Adam was incapable of dealing significant damage or fighting them head to head. Adam's speed was fast enough to evade and quickly escape multiple Aspects. When using his superspeed, Adam's body sparks with cyan electricity, and his eyes glow cyan, similar to his parents when they use their powers. At full speed, Adam's brown curly hair stands up on end, becoming spikier.

Achilles Electrokinesis: Adam is able to harness the Achilles Energy to deliver powerful jolts of cyan electricity. However, his control of the power is subpar, and is highly destructive. Adam resorts to channeling the power into either Kronus, or Mavus' Repulser glove to better control the blasts of electricity.

Achilles Connection: Adam is able to telepathically link with other users of the Achilles Force through his memories. This was used on his father during his battle against Mogul, where Mavus saw his son's childhood memories in his own perspective.

Limited Technopathy: Adam inherits his father's genes to manipulate technology, but at a very small extent. Adam's control over machines is inferior, compared to his father, as he was only able to sense and understand a piece of technology, but unable to manipulate it to his liking. As a result, if Adam wishes to repurpose a piece of technology, he ultimately needs to repurpose it with his own hands and skill, rather than willing it like his father could.

Equipment

Kronus: Adam wielded Kronus, to honour his late mother. Paired with his superspeed, Adam is capable of dealing slashing damage at an overwhelming speed and frequency, typically dispatching his opponents very quickly in the blink of an eye. Adam keeps Kronus strapped to his belt.

R6 Main Fragments: Adam also wears fragments of his father's R6 suit, in particular, his shoulder pad and repulser glove which he uses to channel his electrokinesis.

Relationships

Josephine Gareth

Josephine "Jo" Gareth is Adam's twin sister. A meta human inheriting her mother's Achilles Energy genes, Jo was classified a Tier 1 threat due to her immense telekinetic potential. Her vigilante persona was dubbed the Worldstream as she was capable of lifting entire landforms and hurling them at her enemies.

Adam loved Jo with all his heart, frequently acting as the "older twin". Jo in turn, looked to Adam as an older brother figure. The two would always play together in their broken home, and Jo would always hide behind Adam whenever their father would have his drunken fits. Despite Jo looking up to him, Adam held an inferiority complex to his sister, believing her to be more powerful than he was. Adam saw his superspeed as weaker than Jo's telekinesis.

When Jo was killed by Lapheth, Adam became severely traumatized, and sought revenge on all the Aspects, particularly Lapheth.

Junon Gareth

Junon died giving birth to Adam and Josephine. As a result, Adam never knew his mother. Mavus, shaken by Junon's death, became detached from the world, falling into a depression. As a result, Adam was never able to ask his father about Junon, and would always consult old photos of the two together, or Junon's old photos she had kept in her old room.

Adam's one desire was to see his mother in person, and deeply respects her for her heroics during her time in Darkstar. A testament to this is the fact that Adam always had his mother's knife strapped to his belt, always wielding it in battle despite better and more balanced alternatives. When Jo sent Adam away, she sent him to the past, where she could make Adam's dream to meeting their mother become a reality.

Even when in the past, Junon did not doubt Adam on his claims of being her future son. She treated him as her own child, causing Adam to trust her even more.

Mavus Shaw

Adam's relationship with his father is strained, due to his drinking addiction as well as his depression over Junon's death. In his childhood, a drunk Mavus would abuse Adam and his sister, giving him PTSD. Adam sees Mavus as "pathetic" due to believing that Mavus would not use his so called Tier Zero superpowers as he was too scared to fight the Aspects, when in reality he had already lost his powers saving everybody from Mogul. Adam resented his father for never revealing details on his mother due to the pain of recalling their time together.

Adam refuses to call himself by his legal surname "Shaw", and rather adopts his mother's maiden name "Gareth". He also despises using his technopathy abilities, as he believes using it would make him like his father.

When Adam met Mavus from the past, he begins to restore a little bit of faith in his father, but occasionally snaps at him due to post traumatic stress.

Truman Venir=

One of the last surviving members of the Mogul Resistance at the time, Truman acted as Adam's uncle figure, with the boy referring to him as "Uncle Truman". Truman tells Adam about his adventures with Junon and Mavus. It is Truman who tells Adam that his mother was a powerful woman who helped turn the tide against the Aspect of Sin. Part of Adam's admiration for his mother was due in part to Truman's admiration to her as well.

When Truman is killed by the Aspects, Adam decides to use his powers to battle the Aspects in a guerrilla war. Despite the overwhelming odds, knowing that if Junon and Darkstar were alive today, they would have done the same.