Throwback
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
NAME: Bradley Barnhart
ALIAS: Throwback
AGE: 19
PLACE OF BIRTH: San Bernadino, CA
POWERS: Access to the Eternity Force grants:
- Flight
- Superhuman strength and durability
- Energy projection
In 1987 San Bernadino, California, Bradley “Brad” Barnhart was an enthusiastic but underachieving mall-rat with a mullet that could deflect sunlight and a devotion to synth music that bordered on cult-like. His biggest ambition was to get backstage passes to see Laser Monday on their “Neon Widow” tour. Fate, being a bored trickster, had other plans.
One night, he lay on the hood of his Corvette, gazing up at the stars when he spotted what he thought was a shooting star, until he realized it was getting bigger. Racing closer and closer, the flaming object fell from the sky headed straight for him. He managed to slide off the hood just before the shape came crashing down onto his car, totaling it.
As the smoke cleared, Brad approached the mangled automobile and was shocked to find a man sprawled out atop the wreckage. Though he appeared unhurt, his futuristic silver garb was tattered and in flames.
As he was surely dead, Brad approached the prone figure but was shocked when his eyes snapped open and he grabbed the lapels of his leather jacket and pulled him close. He revealed his name was Andros Bann and hunting him was an alien tyrant named Abbezar, a creature obsessed with purging the universe of “temporal contamination.” And Bann carried the one object that threatened the villain’s whole plan: a cosmic relic shaped like a silver wristband, pulsing with infinite possibilities.
The Eternity Band.
It can manipulate time like a VCR tracking wheel: rewind, fast-forward, and pause moments in time in a localized area. Bann had stolen it to prevent the tyrant from rewriting history into one long, depressing dictatorship. But his spaceship was toast, backup was nonexistent, and the Abbezar was already tearing through dimensions like wet tissue.
Cornered, Bann locked eyes with the nearest heroic-looking earthling.
Brad.
Andros tasked Bradley with returning the band to an organization called The Time Corps for safekeeping. Brad protested. He had a math test in the morning. But he slapped the Eternity Band on Brad’s wrist, and shoved him through a portal.
Brad expected to land in 1987, maybe two hours earlier. Instead, he landed here. He discovered his favorite mall is now basically a mausoleum. Phones don’t have cords. Music lives inside rectangles. Fashion has become a surreal collage of decades, and Laser Monday has… zero Spotify listeners.
Stranded in the present, Brad's decided to blend in and make a little money by becoming a superhero, he adopted the moniker Throwback because he literally is one. A walking mixtape. A mall-rat turned protector of the present, wielding the most powerful retro accessory in the universe.
Throwback derives his abilities from The Eternity Force, an extradimensional cosmic energy field that he can access to grant himself a number of superhuman abilities.
Time Manipulation: Throwback is able to channel the Eternity Force to mentally manipulate the time in the general area or a specific target in various manners, including accelerating, slowing, stopping and even rewinding or looping time.
Pulse Blasts: Throwback is able to summon cosmic energy and project it in the form of concussive blasts or waves. The blasts themselves pick up kinetic energy; so the farther they travel, the harder they strike.
The Eternity Band: A sleek, silver band that's worn on the wrist, The Eternity Band is a high-tech device, created in the distant future that allows the wearer to access and harness The Eternity Force. The band draws energy from "The Realm Eternal", a dimension of limitless temporal energy. The Band can bend light around itself to appear invisible or take the form of other objects. When Brad is dressed casually, it appears as an ordinary wristwatch.
