Doctor Shockter
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| The Daring Doctor Shockter! | |
| Doctor Shockter | |
| Player: @Doctor Shockter | |
| Origin: | Mutation |
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| Archetype: | Defender |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Dr. Wilshire Francis Shachter, MD,MSc |
| Known Aliases: | Doc, Wil |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 28 |
| Height: | 6'1" |
| Weight: | 161 lbs. |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Hair Color: | Blue |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American (British/German background) |
| Occupation: | Medical Doctor |
| Place of Birth: | Paragon City, Rhode Island, USA |
| Base of Operations: | Paragon City (Founders Falls District) |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Wilfred Peter Shachter (Father, deceased), Miranda Shachter (Mother, deceased), Mia Shachter (Sister, deceased), Fiona Watterson (Grandmother, living in England) |
| Known Powers | |
| Advanced control over ions in the atmosphere, most often used in creating cohesive bolts of electricity. Wil practices his ionic control down to the subatomic level to promote rapid cellular regeneration in his healing arts. Able to ionize his body and repel himself, granting him flight. | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Received his Medical Doctorate in Medicine and obtained his Master of Science in Surgery from the University of Paragon City (Steel Canyon Campus), making him a capable healer. | |
| Equipment | |
| His Mark 1 AEGIS Suit, designed and built by close friend Fronsmag Magnusson, and more importantly, the AEGIS gloves. His hands are the primary conduit of his powers, and the gloves control the electricity when Wil himself is unable to. | |
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Wilshire Francis Shachter, (born May 11, 1982) is a Class-1 Mutant, able to manipulate ions in the atmosphere. Although he is a Registered Hero with the Paragon City Hall, Wilshire's all but hung up his cape, conducting what he refers to as "hero business" only on special request by close friends. On the rare occasion he is called back into action, Wilshire typically acts in a support role, tending to the wounds of his comrades and blasting enemies from behind with his electric beams. (( Still a work in progress, there'll be more eventually! ))
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Early life
Wilshire grew up in the Founders' Falls district of Paragon City, the son to a quiet family of an Architectural Engineer and a Landscape Designer: his father and mother Wilfred and Miranda Shachter. His sister Mia was three years his elder, and Wil was often the subject of teasing at his sister's hands. Despite that, they had a close relationship, one in which in their older years, the socially inept and awkward Wil was protected and encouraged by Mia.
As a youth, Wilshire was admitted into a preparatory school where he was quiet and unassuming, never in any large amount of trouble and never very noticeable by the other children. He wasn't exceptionally gifted athletically (proving himself to be a klutz on and off the pitch), but his love of reading lent itself well to his academic endeavours. At the age of 14, Wil's powers began to develop; at first it was small coincidences, finding himself being shocked by static charges much more frequently, soon escalating to getting in trouble for "Indecent Behaviour" when his charged hands would accidentally statically cling to his female classmates' skirts and be difficult to remove. Wil began wearing leather gloves after these events as an early attempt to control the static charges, and finished high school without further incident. At the behest of his father and mother, Wil was pushed into the Medical program at the University of Paragon City in Steel Canyon. This was a sad moment for him because he would be separated from his closest friend growing up, his big sister Mia.
The Incident
It wasn't until he turned 19, during his first year in Medical Training that his powers fully manifested themselves in all their chaos. Late one winter afternoon, Wil received word that his parents and sister were involved in a horrific car crash on their way to visit him: none of them survived. In his grief and rage, Wil's hands crackled with electrical energy and discharged arcs of lightning inside his dorm room, the leather gloves melting pathetically and doing nothing to stop him. Pots and pans flew about in the magnetic maelstrom, electrical appliances blinked on and off, and light bulbs popped under the overcharged onslaught. The next morning, Wil found himself huddled into a corner and his dormitory a mess, fully aware of the terrible powers he controlled, and hating himself for being unable to help his family with it.
The Creation of a Hero
Wil knew that he had to control his powers somehow, and went to the only person he thought could help him, an Engineering student one year his senior, Fronsmag Magnusson. Though majoring in geomorphology, Fronsmag was a deft hand with electrical engineering, and helped design and build Wil's AEGIS suit and, more importantly, the AEGIS gloves. The Mark I gloves were a made of a synthetic, exothermic and insulated blend of fibers that effectively withheld Wil's electric blasts but could also conduct them into a controlled beam. This was at first a design concept to simply help facilitate the discharging of energy so that it did not build up into another catastrophic outburst, but soon found it's way into being the standard weapon of the soon-to-be hero.
Throughout his years at the university, Wil trained and focused his ability, discovering his apparently mutant power to exert control over ions in the atmosphere, playing with mastering magnetism and understanding electricity to further grasp hold of his unique powers; all the while keeping this a secret from the few people that knew him.
In his first year of medical residency at the Steel Canyon Medical Center, Wil made his powers public. While on his way home on the Green Line to Founders' Falls for the weekend, an older lady began to have a heart attack, which soon moved into cardiac arrest. Wil moved into action and immediately began CPR. Her pulse continued to weaken, and without his medical kit, Wil had no other choice. Placing a hand on her chest and one at her side, Wil performed a defibrillation, sending a 600 volt jolt into her and cleared the pulmonary arrhythmia. Following this event, Wil began his research into the medicinal effects of ionization and usage of electricity in his medical work.
Powers
Teh zappy-zap. (Clearly this will need to be worked on.)
