Exray
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| The All-Seeing Exray
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| Player: @Diplomacyman
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| The eyes of the law
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| Class Focus: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Power Level: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Research & Development: | Confidential | |||||||||
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| Real Name: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Known Aliases: | Exray, The eyes of the law, Specs, Big-Brother, The-All-Seeing-Man | |||||||||
| Gender: | Male | |||||||||
| Species: | Human | |||||||||
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian | |||||||||
| Place of Birth: | London | |||||||||
| Base of Operations: | Millennium City Observatory | |||||||||
| Relatives: | Sebastien St-Cyr (father), Anne-Marie St-Cyr (mother), Vincent St-Cyr (brother) | |||||||||
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| Age: | 29 | |||||||||
| Height: | 6'1 | |||||||||
| Weight: | 109lbs | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Very bright blue | |||||||||
| Hair: | Brown | |||||||||
| Complexion: | Pale | |||||||||
| Physical Build: | Toned, lean | |||||||||
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Lawful Good | |||||||||
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Memorable | |||||||||
| Identity: | Secret | |||||||||
| Years Active: | 2004-2006, 2011-present | |||||||||
| Citizenship: | British/US Citizen | |||||||||
| Occupation: | Doctor | |||||||||
| Education: | PHD in medicine | |||||||||
| Marital Status: | Single | |||||||||
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| X-ray vision, generate x-rays from hands | ||||||||||
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| Optic visor, strobe gloves, | ||||||||||
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Intro
Three years ago I was desperate and took a job, I was set up; things spiraled out of control and now I'm in far over my head. But what scares me is how different I've become, sometimes I can't even tell when I'm acting anymore. That's why I'm compiling this, a detailed biography and an explanation of my current lifestyle and techniques, so if I ever take things too far you might be able to use this information to find some psychological flaw or chink in my methods that could be used against me.
Good luck.
Biography
Extract from a letter of resignation by Dr Carl Wright to the national board of medicine:
I realize there is no apology I can give that even begins to encompass the magnitude of my errors and the betrayal of trust that you and my patients had in me, however I can at least give you an explanation.
Two years ago in 1982 my son was born with birth defects that eventually claimed his life soon after, an entire life filled with unlimited potential snuffed out because we were unable to properly scan and prevent these issues during the developing stages of the pregnancy. I refused leave off work and when I should really have gone into mourning I instead became obsessive over finding and attempting to treat even the most minor of defects in patients during the pregnancy.
My grief blinded me to the fact I was performing an unhealthy number of x-rays on the fetuses, I made sure they weren't exposed enough for radiation poisoning but forgot that the rays were penetrating the womb and quite literally blinding eyes which hadn't even grown accustomed to light yet.
The guilt from what I had unwittingly done to hundreds of children consumed me and I dedicated all funds I had left in an attempt to reverse the effects of what I'd done. I've worked tirelessly, investing in laser eye surgery, cybernetic implants, anything that might work. And as you will of heard, I've managed to make one boy see.I let myself and the press believe I'd found a way to reverse the procedure, even cure blindness altogether. I regret to tell you now that it was simply a freak incident, this patient was never fully blinded, in that development stage of the pregnancy his eyes had actually adjusted to the x-ray spectrum. A relatively simple laser eye operation was able widen his visibility to include the regular colour spectrum, nothing more. The rest will remain permanently blinded.
The Final Report from Agent Hill Regarding Operation Over-Eye
Law enforcement, no matter how effective, stops crime but has little impact on preventing it. This was the conclusion that the NSA reached when they created operation 'Over-Eye' in 2010, a vast new surveillance project with the priority being to prevent crime more than to stop it. The reasoning being that most criminals are either desperate or not of sound mind, for both types the severity of the punishment matters little; to really make a dent in crime figures something about the general public's psyche needs to be altered.
"We are watching you." That was the tag line, it wasn't meant to intimidate, just to make people look over there shoulders every now and again, we tend to act more self-conscious and rational if we thing someone might be watching. The public however didn't react well to the new scheme, protesting and some riots meant we had to put the project on hold and rethink implementation.
Abilities and Equipment
X-ray Vision
I suppose the cornerstone of my crime-fighting and the only power I actually have unaided, take everything away and I can still see through walls.
Stun Blasts
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Reinforced Gloves
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An audio equalizer on each ear protects me from sonic attacks by dampening any high decibel sounds before they reach my eardrums; it also has speakers in-built to allow me to communicate with team-mates.These were added to my arsenal to fight The Auditor who during our first few encounters easily incapacitated me, he still remains a formidable foe but I'm now safe from direct sonic attacks.
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The Observatory
Ever wonder why someone built an observatory right in the middle of a light polluted city? Ever wonder why no-one ever seems to come in or out of the building? Or why the telescope sometimes points down? The Observatory is my base of operations in Millennium city, the computers inside are connected to one of the vastest arrays of surveillance technology in the world spread across the entire city, its the telescope that really makes it though.
With my optic visor I can see across a city, using the telescope I can theoretically see anywhere on the planet. They don't call me all seeing for nothing.
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Rogues Gallery
Mnemonic
Powers:
- Perfect eidetic memory
- Amnesia inducing weaponary
I genuinely have no idea how long I've been trying to stop this man, or how many times we've met. If you think you've ever known someone with an eidetic memory, trust me you haven't, not like him. Mnemonic it seems doesn't just remember an event, he remembers every minute detail about it, he could read a book in an hour, watch a training video and absorb it all in less and it creeps me out. I shouldn't really have to say how dangerous this makes him, in order to stand a chance I'm forced to improvise and use unconventional methods each time we meet, I know he will have memorized our previous encounters perfectly.
Mnemonic makes use of uniquely designed electroshock weapons that induce memory loss in their victims, that's how he gets away from me, I can't follow him with my Exray vision if I've forgotten I'm even chasing him. There's so many times now I've come-to in bizarre places with no idea why I'm meant to be there.
Mnemonic isn't your typical super-criminal exactly, his targets are other criminals, he'll often strike at mental hospitals and prisons. He isn't a killer, nor is he a vigilante, Mnemonic believes that reforming criminals is a lost cause so ops to wipe their minds in the hopes that it might change them. What led him to do this I don't know, nor does he; once he told me his earliest memory was waking up on a hospital bed with one of his electroshock weapons lying next to him.
I'll be honest, part of me respects him. At some point we came to the same realization, that costumed vigilantism, playing cowboys-and-Indians with each other isn't going to work, something else needs to be done. He crossed the line in the sand though, break the law and you're a criminal, there's no two ways about it.
Its important that I write this down as I have a suspicion that Mnemonic is trying to remove himself from my memories, the next time I read this I could have no idea who he is.
The Auditor
Powers
- Enhanced hearing
- Sound manipulation
101
The 101
Reading through the biography it might seem a little odd that I've listed the Benefactor here, he is after-all my biggest ally, my funder and the person who convinced me to take all this up again. That doesn't mean I trust him though; I know little to nothing about this man, if indeed he is a man, not a woman, or an it. Whoever they are they've got a large amount of resources at their disposal, know more about me than anyone else and have a potentially unknown motive. If I'm making contingency plans for myself I definitely need one for him.Conclusion
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OOC
Origins
Exray is a character I've been nursing for a while now, he grew from the idea of a hero trying to make the absolute most of an otherwise pretty crummy super-power. I really wanted to make a character who embodied something more than simply what they appeared to be at face value such as Iron-Man representing the cold-war arms race, Wonderwoman for feminism and many of Alan Moore's characters. Somewhere along the way he picked up a Big-Brother motif and turned into almost an opposite to V for Vendetta which became a lot of fun to play around with. I wanted to theme his rogues gallery around each having their own super sense to counter Exray's vision and tried to make them a little more morally grey than the run of the mill variants.
The concept started life as an attempt to make a radiant archetype without having to use a fantasy origin (silver player) while still making the battle animation's and colors fit. Originally he was a power-armor hero who fired microwave blasts but I decided to change it to x-rays as they were vaguely medical to better fit and the character grew from there.
Roleplay Notes/Hooks
- Does your character need someone found or have someone watched? Exray has one of the largest surveillance networks available at his disposal and with his vision can do a stakeout from across a city
- Right now 'Exray is watching you' posters are dotted all around Millennium City, perhaps your character has something to say about this?
- Exray has a strict policy around fellow heroes and won't compromise their secret identity by looking through their masks/disguises
- You might be surprised how many buildings in Millennium City were decorated with lead paint, it has a knack of stopping him from seeing plot ruining details
- The power of Exrays hand blasts are left somewhat vague depending their on who he's fighting alongside, at its most basic level his gloves have a bright flash strobe which can dazzle and temporarily blind opponents, when things get a bit more high stakes its something more akin to Wasp of the Avengers stingers and a direct hit can render a normal man unconscious.
