Deitric
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| The urban Achilles himself. | |
| Deitric | |
| Player: @Jocastus | |
| Origin: | Natural |
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| Archetype: | Scrapper |
| Security Level: | 31 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Deitric Two-Feathers |
| Known Aliases: | The Thundering Tempest |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 25 |
| Height: | 6'2'' |
| Weight: | 225 lb |
| Eye Color: | Turquoise |
| Hair Color: | Black; long |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Tattoo artist, Licensed Superhero |
| Place of Birth: | Riverwind Cherokee Reservation, Oklahoma |
| Base of Operations: | Skyway City |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Father (missing), mother; deceased, brother; deceased. |
| Known Powers | |
| Absolute control of electricity and electromagnetism as extension of his very being. | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Brawling, tattooing, street-wise, electrical manipulation, electronic tampering, sonic dampening | |
| Equipment | |
| Throwing knives, weighted fingerless gloves, kevlar-mesh undershirt | |
| [Open to roleplay!] | |
Contents |
Overview
A hardbitten, street-tough punk turned street-sweeping hero, Deitric Two-Feathers is the emissary of Grandfather Thunder on Primal Earth; representing the pure manifestation of lightning and thunder through his physical form in a manner that transcends the concept of mutation or magic. Deitric is one of the few registered "supers" who openly shows his face, both to the public, and to his enemies - refusing to hide behind the anonymity of a mask, Deitric is willing to answer for any of his actions and more than eager to allow any would-be criminal avenger to come after him once they're out of prison. He can most commonly be found in Skyway City, Talos Island, and Atlas, but makes his home in Skyway.
History
Deitric was born in 1985 on the Riverwind Cherokee Reservation in rural Southwest Oklahoma, the second son of James Two-Feather and Anita Two-Feather. Like many reservations, Riverwind was - and is - very much stricken by poverty and has seen better days, and Deitric grew up in a family where making ends meet was a matter of having a home, or living out in the streets. Unwilling to continue raising their children in the rough conditions of the reservation, James and Anita made the move to Paragon City when Deitric was six (and his brother, James Two-Feather Jr., was twelve), but their luck didn't improve. Moving into the slums of Skyway City, Deitric's family traded rural poverty for urban poverty, and all the things that came with it; drugs, gang warfare, poorly funded education system, and demeaning work for minimum wage.
The knock-around life for a growing adolescent in Skyway kicked the Oklahoma accent out of Deitric and immediately began to shape him into a city-slicker; the effects were even more profound on his brother. By the time Deitric was ten, his sixteen year old brother was running with the Outcasts in the streets of Skyway and even braving the Hollows. As he grew into his early preteen years, Deitric sought to emulate his brother, but his enthusiasm to follow in his elder sibling's footsteps was checked by the involvement of a local police officer, Victor Tullo, who took Deitric under his wing through some of the hardest years of his life that were to come.
By the time Deitric was thirteen however, James Jr. was dead, killed in broad daylight in a gunfight with the Hellions and Trolls. By the time he was fourteen, his mother had died as well - the doctors said of cancer, but in the letters from the old medicine men at the reservation, it was suggested she died from a broken heart at seeing her eldest son murdered in the street without the perpetrators ever being punished. A few weeks after his mother was buried, his father simply disappeared. He didn't die, he didn't go back to the reservation. He simply left the house for work at the local factory one day and never came back, abandoning his sole son to the hungry streets of Skyway. Deitric's one ray of hope was Officer Tullo, but like many unsung heroes of the police force, Victor was killed in action only months after Deitric's biological father abandoned him.
The almost absurd amount of duress in such a short period hardened the teenage Cherokee considerably; his childhood ended when his father left and he became a man at the age of fifteen, whether he was ready to become one or not. Deitric is one of the few individuals who, rather than cracking like ice under the pressure, simply focus and harden like a diamond. Fighting tooth and nail for his survival, Deitric could be found at the young age of sixteen in underground fighting matches, trading blows with men twice his age, running errands for local businesses around Skyway with a bloodied lip and blackened eye.
Originally considered a bit of a joke because of his age, the tribesman quickly put that notion to rest with a swift throat punch in his first fight; he fought mean, he fought hard, and he fought dirty. As he grew older and his knuckles grew scarred and rough, the tribesman began to make a serious name for himself in the underground fighting circuit as a young man who refused to quit; anyone who hit him hard got hit twice as hard or twice as often. No amount of pain or injury seemed to stop the Cherokee youth - all his pain and rage at the poverty and violence he'd been subjected to coalesced into white-hot anger, and like avenging Achilles amongst the Trojans, he indiscriminately tore apart anyone who stepped into the ring with him. It wasn't talent, it wasn't even determination, necessarily; it was pure grit and rage and hatred. By the time he was twenty, it wasn't uncommon for the occasional professional fighter to step into the ring to test themselves against the young man, but in the end Deitric bounced them out of the cage, same as any other person who went toe to toe with him.
As time went on, Deitric's antics grew more and more bold - he took to brawling with gang members not only inside the ring, but outside the ring as well, often on the receiving end of a beating from several Hellions or Outcast when he would throw himself at a group, intent on going down swinging and taking someone with him. When he was twenty-one, Grandfather Thunder; the great spirit that had guided the Cherokee for ages untold, felt a prick of intensity as one of his children rattled the bars of his cage, clawing and ripping at the injustice around him. Beneath the anger and unbridled aggression, Grandfather Thunder could see that Deitric was a young man who was genuinely good - he fought out of anger now, but if given the right impetus, he would just as willingly fight for the sake of others, to see that no one suffered what he had been forced to endure. With little pomp and circumstance, Grandfather Thunder invaded Deitric's psyche to have a mano-e-mano discussion with the young Cherokee.
Somewhat unwillingly, Deitric received a very potent gift - he was made to be the avatar of lightning and thunder itself. Still technically human, he was given a command over electricity that was as natural as a beating heart and as easy as breathing. In return, he was to be the representative of Grandfather Thunder on Primal Earth, and Grandfather had one very, very clear command: Go forth and help humanity however you can, and continue fighting against the injustice in the streets. Imbued with such awesome powers, Deitric continued his in-ring brawling, but began to expand even further into the streets, often rushing out of dark alleyways to batter down any gang member he found, leaving their unconscious bodies at the stairs of the local PPD.
It wasn't until the Rikti Invasion and the destruction it brought that Deitric truly stepped into the role of a hero, even if he refused to wear a cape and mask. Now, Deitric fights alongside heroes, costumed or otherwise, for the sake of mankind; although he still works fervently for Skyway's benefit, he has since become a fighter for the good of all people, not just those who suffer from the same poverty and pain he suffered through.
Currently: Deitric is currently operating primarily out of Talos and Founder's Falls, as a hero. He still refuses to wear a cape or suit, but will fight alongside most any hero. [OOC: Deitric is more or less open to a lot of roleplay potential; it's entirely plausible that he come into contact with a hero who he works with regularly who eventually convinces him to pick up the cape and don the mask, so to speak.]
Personality
[Barring a full on description that will come soon, just a quick list of personality traits.]
-Aggressive in most circumstances regarding villainy or any threat.
-Sometimes moody and brooding ala Achilles of legend
-Still retains some pent up anger and resentment over childhood and youth; occasionally seems to blame caped heroes for "not doing their job."
-Somewhat prideful; prone to mouthing off; sardonic sense of humor.
-Very rough around the edges; no higher education, etc.
-Often curious about magic and technology, less from a scholarly standpoint and simply a "what's that?" view.
-Ultimately good natured and unyieldingly adherent to his morals.
-Despises gangs, drug dealers, pimps, and anyone else who preys on the suffering of the poor.
-Holds concepts like honesty, integrity, and determination as very high ideals.
Abilities and Traits
[Later.]
Things Worth Noting
-Anyone with connections or knowledge in the criminal underworld (primarily in Paragon, dealing with gangs and so forth) will likely have heard of Deitric as the "Thundering Tempest" or "Cherokee Champion" from his time as a prizefighter. Entirely plausible that some characters could have even watched one or more of his fights.
-Specific underground fight that a character could possibly have heard of or even seen; Frostfire vs Deitric. Frostfire was the Outcast who recruited Deitric's brother, and when he entered the cage with the intent of teaching twenty-two year old Deitric a lesson about interfering with the Lost outside the ring, the Cherokee youth went berserk and beat the mutant into a bloody pulp; it took several Shockers to absorb Deitric's electrical output and hold him back while other gang members dragged Frostfire from the ring.
-Owns a tattoo studio in Skyway and lives on the floor above the studio, entirely open to the possibility of doing tattoos for characters; feel free to throw me a tell if you're interested.
-As a tattoo artist, Deitric has several tattoos himself, primarily two full-sleeves and work scrawling across his upper back. These tattoos have a strong Cherokee motif; thunderbirds, eagle feathers, and totemic animals make up several designs, although there are some classical "biker" designs used. The Cherokee word for "Brother is tattooed on his left arm, while the word for "Mother" is tattooed on the right; the term for "Father" is distinctly missing. The phrase "VT/Gone/Not Forgotten" is tattooed on the inside of Deitric's forearm, as are the dates of his mother's death, his brother's death, and the death of Officer Tullo, as well as Tullo's badge number.
-Deitric is known to sometimes fall in with a vigilante biker gang that rides through Paragon City, operating outside the law with the intent of upholding it. Deitric's "fighting" jacket has "Suicide Kings MC" stitched into the back with the title "Honorary Brother" beneath the Suicide King playing card emblem. Although as a registered super Deitric prefers to work with law enforcement (hint for those LE characters out there), his ties to the Suicide Kings is tolerated as he often guides them into less caustic courses of action.
-Isn't exactly nice to the criminals and villains he brings in. They're often very heavily beaten, probably beyond what was required for apprehension; they're often seen sporting bloodied faces, broken bones, and gruesome electrical burns. Deitric, as a hero/anti-hero, is not above using violence as a means of interrogation, either. Law enforcement characters might have heard the story of when the tribesman was once allowed to interview a Lost gang member, only to start beating the man with a chair until he finally started to talk. The Cherokee man has been barred from interrogating prisoners until further notice, although the sight of Deitric being near a chair and within ten feet of the interrogation room has been known make some of the more yellow-bellied gangers spill their guts in an effort to avoid being beaten with aforementioned chair. Whether this is true, or simply scuttlebutt and exaggeration amongst the PPD, is impossible to say.
