Blackflight

Blackflight
Player: @magemighty
"An Urban Myth?"
Character Build
Class Focus:	Tech-vigilante
Power Level:	40
Research & Development:	Arms
Biographical Data
Real Name:	John Summers
Known Aliases:	Blackflight, The Cape, Shroud, Demon, Eric O'Reilly
Gender:	Male
Species:	Human
Ethnicity:	Caucasian
Place of Birth:	Bishop City
Base of Operations:	Millennium City (Temporarily), Usually Bishop City
Relatives:	None listed
Characteristics
Age:	52
Height:	6'2"
Weight:	165lbs
Eyes:	Blue
Hair:	Greying-brown
Complexion:	Pale and aged
Physical Build:	Muscular, large and intimidating.
Physical Features:	Extensively scarred body from his younger years.
Status
Alignment:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Neutral Good
Reputation:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Reclusive
Identity:	Secret
Years Active:	10 (Intermittently)
Citizenship:	American
Occupation:	Socialite, Board member at Summers Industrials
Education:	Degree-level, Psychology and Criminology.
Marital Status:	Single
Known Powers and Abilities
None.
Equipment and Paraphernalia
In possession of the Amulet of Vengeance, the gem being shattered and implanted to parts of his body. Various gadgets and vehicles. Extensive assets accumulated over time.

Attributes
	Strength	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Endurance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Agility	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Speed	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Fighting	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Projectiles	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Durability	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Resistance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intelligence	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Psyche	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intuition	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Charisma	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
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Characteristics

Appearance

Blackflight is a 52 year old man, but, outside of his mask, he appears older than that - appearing to be closer to his late 50s or early 60s. He has greying brown hair, early wrinkles and world-weary eyes, his previous lifestyle having sped up his ageing. He does, however possess and imposing, muscular figure, larger than his younger self through routine workouts and preservation techniques to keep his body spry and fit. To people of his appropriate age group, he could probably be seen as attractive.

As Blackflight, he wears a kevlar-mesh suit, not dissimilar to the kind that Nighthawk wears. He wears a partial mask with a web-like fibre over the mouthpiece to conceal it, whilst allowing ease of breathing. At the end of each of his arms are bladed tips, again, another cue taken from the vigilante, Nighthawk. His suit is made up of a dark, black cape. The cape merges into his shoulders seamlessly, seeming to droop onto the chest slightly. The chest is covered with an armor-style pattern, a black-undermesh with lighter grey plates on top. A centerpiece of his suit is his jet black utility belt, known to contain his infamous gadgets. Below the belt, the mesh pattern continues again, being swiftly finished by matching colour grey combat boots.

Personality

Blackflight is an elderly, bitter man.

Years of crimefighting have taken their toll on the old man, forming a cynical, realist outlook. He rarely sees optimism in any situation and rather looks at the circumstances he finds himself in analytically. Alongside these issues, years of giving up crimefighting have broken his heart, watching his city fall into decadence in the absence of its protector, in spite of the efforts of other vigilantes to curb rampant crime and corruption. His bitterness has resulted in an excessively violent outlook and attitude when in the suit since his return to crimefighting, the only way to curb the issues in his city being to do so with more violence.

In his day-to-day persona of John Summers, he once seemed vacuous, now he puts on the act of a man approaching retirement, frequently making sure to appear a dedicated worker that stocks up his pension to retire to a nice life afterwards. A far cry from his younger playboy persona, he does occasionally dip into it at socialite gatherings. When not in such gatherings, he is known to be a grump, seemingly discontented with the state of modern society, feeling it relies too much on celebrity worship - basically your grumpy grandpa.

Skills

Blackflight has developed an array of Skills with which he continues to fight crime in Bishop City, refined over years of practice. Some are detailed below:

Martials Arts:

Blackflight wields several Martial Arts in an Idiosyncratic mixture:

Proficient in Ninjutsu - Blackflight trained in Ninjutsu from Ninjas in Japan, in an attempt to practice stealth, escapology, guerilla tactics and the joint-lock heavy hand-to-hand combat style with which to fight with. He also developed his skill with thrown weapons - his modified shurikens, whilst training there. Whilst by no means a Master, he does use his Ninjutsu training to great effect in stealth situations.

Proficient in Eskrima - Whilst in the Philippines, Blackflight trained in Eskrima, specifically the dual wielding component of it - which he still actively practices today, through the use of Eskrima sticks which can be joined together to form a Bo Staff, to compliment his Ninjutsu training, forming an Idiosyncratic mixture between the two Martial arts.

Skilled Boxer - Whilst growing up in Bishop City, he trained in Boxing alongside a personal trainer. He still incorporates the heavy punches into his combat routines, his physical strength leaving him able to knock out a weaker opponent in a single punch.

Mastery of Kung Fu - Blackflight has mastered a single style of Kung Fu, focusing around counters and moving with the flow of the battle - Wing Chun. He learnt it in Hong Kong from some of the early modern practitioners of the style. He relies in his Mastery of Kung Fu to perform his seemingly impossible counters and manage handling multiple opponents.

Academics:

Blackflight is by no means an unintelligent man, having pursued several fields of study throughout his life:

Psychology - Through his extensive study of Psychology, the subject of his degree alongside Criminology, Blackflight has extensive insight into the theories of crime, the criminal mind and the behaviour of the insane, he uses this knowledge to help profile criminals within his territory, keeping track of their predicted movements to isolate them before they can cause too much harm.

Criminology - As the minor part of his degree, Blackflight has insight into the theories associated with Criminology and their management, understanding and prevention of crime. He uses this knowledge to isolate areas of the population and his city which crime is most likely to occur in, patrolling these areas extensively.

Forensic Science - Blackflight has knowledge of the field of Forensic Science, he is hardly a genius when it comes to it, but his knowledge is valid enough to allow him to conduct scientific investigations and collect evidence at crime scenes.

Detective training - Blackflight has trained in various methods of investigation across the world, enabling him to be considered a skilled detective, something he employs regularly in Bishop City.

Equipment

The MAV

Car

Owned by Blackflight

Vehicle Statistics
Weapons	Speed
Armor	Maneuverability
Shields	Stealth

Data
Propulsion:	Wheels
Power Source:	Jet engine propane tanks alongside a self-perpetuating fusion core for electronic functions.
Origin:	Constructed and modified over the years by John Summers and an elusive partner.
Occupant Capacity:	Two occupants, driver and passenger.
Dimensions
Length:	6.60 meters
Width:	2.3 meters
Height:	1.3 meters
Weight:	1 tonne, to the nearest tonne
Weapons and Ammunition
Two machine guns, loaded with rubber bullets, alongside a single projectile launcher, for larger ammunition.
Other Capabilities
No special capabilities.

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The MAV

The Manoeuvrable Attack Vehicle, Blackflight's personal car both constructed and modified by Blackflight and his mysterious tech broker - Codenamed Hephaestus - over the years. The original concept was simple, to build a car with the speed of a Formula racing car, and with the armor of a light-armored vehicle, with which Blackflight could conduct his war on crime in the form of car chases. The vehicle in its original form proved to be cumbersome and tank-like, yet dramatically falling short in the armaments department. After an encounter with some heavily armed VIPER cells, the car was all but wrecked, forcing Blackflight to return to the drawing board alongside his mysterious benefactor to redesign the vehicle with combat in mind, to make the vehicle even more versatile and effective on the streets.

These added armaments included two automatic machine guns, located at each tip. These were adjusted to fire air-rounds and rubber bullets for the sake of subduing and injuring foes and even protesters, for the sake of causing panic and dispersion rather than grievous injury. A later addition was the Heavy-duty military grade turret, retrofitted to fire gas rounds filled with tear and knock out gas, to disperse and subdue crowds. It does have a heavy-fire capability, but it is rarely used.

Weaknesses

Blackflight is just a man, and a man has many weaknesses:

Just Human - Blackflight is, at his core, just a man in a fancy suit. He's vulnerable at the exact same points as any human, maybe even more so given his age. Groups of people can overwhelm him, superpowered opponents can probably beat him into the ground, those of greater combat skill are probably just as likely to defeat him.

Elderly - Without the amulet shards inside him, Blackflight is an elderly old man - this extensive physical activity would catch up with him in an instant, maybe even proving fatal to him.

Old wounds - Several of Blackflight's old wounds failed to heal properly, forming weak spots on his body, not that he'd reveal those easily.

Mental instability - From a young age, Blackflight has demonstrated a degree of mental issues, these manifest in excessive violence nowadays, but he could be driven into shock and other associated issues under the right stimulus.