Dustin Travers
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Dustin hanging with his "friends." | |
| Dustin "Dusty" Travers | |
| Player: @Jack Travers | |
| Origin: | Science |
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| Archetype: | Defender |
| Security Level: | 36 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Dustin Andrew Travers |
| Known Aliases: | Dirge |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 14 |
| Height: | 5' 3" |
| Weight: | 115 |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Hair Color: | Blonde |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American Citizen |
| Occupation: | Skull |
| Place of Birth: | Cap au Diable, Rogue Isles |
| Base of Operations: | Kings Row, Paragon, USA |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Andrew Travers (Father, Deceased), Tina Travers (Mother, living in Cap au Diable), Jack Travers (Sister, 17, Paragon City hero) |
| Known Powers | |
| Power Leech, Minor Negative Energy Attacks | |
| Known Abilities | |
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| Equipment | |
| Skull mask, cell phone | |
| Dusty is addicted to Heroin, and extremely agoraphobic unless he is strung out. | |
Dusty Travers is the younger brother of Jack Travers, my first Virtue character. He began as a brief mention on her bio page, her excuse to come to Paragon City, but eventually he blossomed into a full-fledged character.
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Affiliations
The Skulls
The Artful Dodgers Supergroup Click here for the Guildportal page
Jack Travers (Sibling)
Bradley Williams
Personality
Dusty Travers is an angry, hurt young man. He is only 14, and is not really mature beyond his years. He blames the people around him for his troubles and will stubbornly stick to even the weakest of arguments before admitting he is wrong. Most of Dusty's awful attitude comes from the fact that he is addicted to heroin and too ashamed to admit it. Without it, he is extremely agoraphobic and too much space around him will reduce him to helplessness.
In rare moments, Dusty's true personality as a scared child and eager caregiver will shine through. Like so many heroes (and villains) he was shunted around during his childhood and craves love and stability. Even the one constant in his life, his sister Jack, disappeared on him for three years.
As a result, Dusty is petulant and snotty, and really just needs a good kick in the pants to get him back on track.
Powers
Radiation Emission
Dusty's main ability is leeching. His minimal powers were nurtured by Dr. Susan and Elrod Hartman for their own purposes, but they definitely guided him toward his current specialty: the draining and weakening of others.
Dusty's radiation is not, in fact, true radiation. He is not radioactive, he just has similar abilities to those who are.
Radiation Aura
Dusty's ability to heal others was not taught to him like most of his abilities. After drawing in energy and life force from chosen targets, he found that he could just as easily transfer it as keep it. Dusty enjoys this ability, both the taking, and the giving.
Accelerate Metabolism
With a small tweak to a subject's unconcious body functions such as breathing, heartbeat, and the release of hormones, Dusty can cause beneficial changes for a short period of the time. The recipients of this effect will feel pumped for the space of a minute or so, and will be able to run faster, think quicker, get better response from their muscles, and find their senses enhanced. Once the effect wears off, the target will often feel a little tired until their body repairs the disrupted balance.
Mutation
Raising someone from near death is Dusty's hardest challenge. He has to concentrate very hard in order to force the fallen hero's body to speed up and slow down as their vitals dictate, while at the same time pulling in energy from other sources to transfer over to his intended target's body.
If Dusty messes up on this, very bad things can occur. The fallen person's body may damage itself as Dusty speeds it up or does not transfer over enough extra energy. The body's vitals may halt completely if Dusty loses concentration in the middle of his give-and-take balancing act.
EM Pulse
For this incredibly detrimental blast, Dusty uses the same technique as he does for Accelerate Metabolism, only this time he pushes the body beyond it's normal limits into a chemical overload. Targets of this power are unable to function for a short period of time, and their body becomes very physically vulnerable while it tries to resume chemical balance.
Dark Blast
Dusty's blasting power comes straight from within, as the leaking power he absorbed as a child became a part of him. With training from the Hartmans, he has learned to control it like it is a muscle in his body.
Dark Energy Blasts
Dusty has various ways to send the hungry dark power hurtling towards unfortunate enemies. It requires very little effort on his part.
Tenebrous Tentacles
With concentrated effort, Dusty can coalesce his dark blasts into undulatiing arms that will ensnare his enemies. The arms will slowly drain life from their captives in order to sustain themselves.
