Post by lvsphinx on Aug 29, 2024 19:59:05 GMT
General Information
Full Name:
Elijah Williams
Codename or Alias:
Yankee
Anonymity
Public
Gender:
Male
Race:
Human
Age:
31
Place Of Birth:
Queens, New York City, New York
Occupation/Status:
Prisoner
Alignment:
Hero
Factions:
Task Force X
Canon Or Original?:
OC
Powers/Abilities:
Electrostatic Charging: Elijah possesses the ability to store electrostatic energy which he can release or harness for a number of effects, up to a maximum storage capacity of 10,000,000 volts. Elijah can mentally control the amount of electricity he discharges, anywhere from a single volt to his full 10,000,000-volt charge at once. At ten to thirty feet, his maximum charge was more than enough to kill a man. Elijah can also use his body as a transformer, touching an outside power source (such as a generator) and channeling it through his body for use. The amount of electricity he could transform above his body's maximum storage capacity is unknown.
Electrical Conversion into Enhanced Physical Attributions: The electricity coursing through his altered body augments his strength and durability. When fully charged, Elijah is able to lift about 10 tons.
Lightning Bolt Projection: Elijah can discharge lightning bolts from his body, with the lightning bolts traveling as fast as 150,000 feet per second, and heating the air to up to 50,000°F (28,000°C), which is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
Electrocution: The electric flux of Elijah’s body is such that a person touching him is in danger of being electrocuted.
Weapons/Items:
None.
Appearance
Image:
Physical Appearance:
Elijah is a Black male standing at 6'3", with dark brown eyes, a beard, and dreadlocks. Years of regular moderate exercise has given his body lean muscle and some definition.
Clothing and Armor:
When in the field and outside of prison, Elijah prefers to blend in with the local populace, choosing athletic or urbanwear appropriate for the area. Hoodies, simple t-shirts, jeans, and sneakers make up Elijah's wardrobe. He wears no armor, since he relies on his durability in fights. However, he always wears his signature Yankees cap.
Personality
Heterosexual
General Personality:
"You can't erase what you've done."
Elijah is a serious and reverent individual, deeply solemn after years of incarceration and extended lengths of solitude, though he was a much more spirited and cheerful person when he was younger. The accidental deaths of three civilians weighs heavily on his day-to-day mind. He's well aware that he cannot undo what he does or has done, and has committed himself to a life of repentance and redemption, hoping to lead a life that somehow makes up for all the accidental damage he's caused as a superhero. While Elijah is serious, almost severe, he is not humorless, and can enjoy a good joke. Life in prison has simply hardened him to the point that most jests bounce off him without effect. He's honest, earnest, and sincere, but finds it occasionally difficult to trust his fellow members on Task Force X. Elijah is also very tolerant and understanding, his life in the city and in prison having brought him into contact with people from all kinds of backgrounds and with all kinds of stories.
Face/Voice:
Jermaine Lamarr Cole
Character's History
Mother: Alisha Williams
Father: Jerome Williams
History:
Elijah was born to a working-class family in Queens, New York City, demonstrating an affinity for baseball and music at an early age, before he even discovered his powers. He discovered his abilities during adolescence by accident, his body discharging electricity whenever he was significantly stressed, even while during classes. Worried by this development, Elijah's parents tried to convince him to hide his powers as best as he could, not wanting their son to catch the unwanted attention metahumans could get. They were eventually approached by the Protectorate, representing the United States' interests in keeping track of the metahuman population, who offered Elijah's family a metahuman-tailored high school experience for Elijah at Harry S. Truman Academy, but his parents declined, wary of too much government involvement in education and metahuman affairs.
Elijah first began superheroics at the age of 14, stopping a bank robbery for his first save, and felt it was a calling and ideal profession. He would then occasionally get involved with the criminal element, stopping street level crimes while evading police since he was operating as a vigilante, getting called "Yankee" because of his favorite Yankees baseball cap that he always wore during his vigilante work. After graduating high school with a 4.2 GPA, he would then enroll at New York University, graduating magna cum laude with a 4.0 GPA after four years. Cole later worked in various part-time jobs in New York City while in university, including a working ad salesman for a newspaper, a bill collector, a file clerk, and a mascot at a baseball stadium.
After university, Elijah continued his vigilante work while supporting himself with part-time jobs. However, he would eventually find a formidable opponent in Mr. Negative. At first, Elijah was thinking that he was looking into a Triad attempt to wipe out another gang's presence in Queens, but he had actually stumbled upon a scheme by Mr. Negative to unify the gangs in the area for some unknown purpose. Elijah was caught during his investigation by Mr. Negative himself, and they quickly got into a brawl that spilled out of the warehouse and onto the streets. During the chaotic fight, several civilians were injured, three civilians were killed by Elijah's stray lightning bolts, Mr. Negative knocked Elijah momentarily unconscious and fled, and Elijah was taken in by the police.
It was in police custody that Elijah learned that three civilians were killed by electricity, and that he was being charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter. Furthermore, because he was metahuman, he would be in the Protectorate's custody until his trial. Horrified by what he had done, and wracked by guilt, Elijah pled guilty to all three charges, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison on the Raft.
It was only months after entering prison that Elijah was approached by Amanda Waller to join Task Force X, the pragmatic woman finding a potential asset in the incarcerated but ethical metahuman. Upon hearing that his prison sentence would get reduced with each successful mission, Elijah reluctantly accepted the offer, just as wary as his parents of the government getting involved with people like him.
Nevertheless, Elijah demonstrated himself as an effective member of Task Force X, and as a generally more positive presence on the ethically grey and (mostly) criminal team, even befriending some of his fellow members. Through Task Force X, Elijah has been deployed three times: to neutralize terrorists in Syria, to stop H.I.V.E. operations in Genosha, and to disrupt COBRA operations in Madripoor.
After serving some of his sentence in prison, and three missions with Task Force X, Elijah is now only about a year away from being released, or one more mission away. Until release, Elijah continues to serve his sentence patiently, his mind constantly preoccupied with his penance.
Role Play Sample:
If there's anything that prison gives you, it's time. Time to think. To pray, if one were so inclined. To regret. And occasionally, if one were so lucky, to create.
*Tap* *tap* *tap* *tap*
Elijah tapped his pen on his notebook, lying on his belly on his bed in his cell. He was alone, in a solitary cell. Not because he was being punished with solitary confinement. Elijah simply preferred a solitary cell and had requested one a long time ago. After considering his track record with Task Force X, his request was granted, a rarity.
He scribbled a few verses as he thought, his mind dwelling on the last mission. Minutes of silence would pass before Elijah would then scratch out some lines, sighing to himself as he wrote. Poetry was not going well tonight. Somewhat frustrated with his lack of progress, he cast a glance at a mouse that had found its way into his cell, nibbling on breadcrumbs. Elijah watched for a minute, scratching himself under his chafing power-dampening collar, somewhat envious of the mouse who could leave at any moment. Elijah left crumbs in his cell on purpose just for the mice, just to have something to watch to break up the sheer boredom of the day.
For a moment, Elijah considered switching from poetry to journaling, but found his journal depressing at the moment, his latest entries involving being haunted by the memories of the dead, usually of those he killed in the field. There were many times when lethal force was unavoidable, with either his own life or his teammate's life under imminent threat, but that did little to wash the faces of the dead from his conscience. Again, Elijah was haunted by ghosts.
"Lord help me," he murmured, writing a few more lines before scratching out a couple of others. "This line doesn't flow in this verse, this bar is too long," he mumbled to himself, brow furrowing as he almost glared down at his notebook. Elijah almost didn't notice a guard approaching, the guard rapping his baton against the bars of Elijah's cell before unlocking it.
"Williams. Belle Reve called. You're up."
Elijah looked up from his notebook, glancing at the mouse that had skittered away from the new voice. Elijah stowed his notebook away underneath his mattress and got up, stretching with a yawn. He had one more mission before he could be released, so Elijah had plenty of reason to be happier with the summon, but Elijah also wasn't sure he wanted to get more battlefield memories just to expedite his remaining prison sentence. However, since Amanda Waller had a say in it, Elijah didn't have much choice.
