Heat-Wave
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Heat-Wave | |
| Player: @Cyber-Knight | |
| Origin: | Mutant |
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| Archetype: | Blaster |
| Security Level: | 50 |
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| Real Name: | Alexander Michael Hendrichs |
| Known Aliases: | None |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 29 |
| Height: | 6'2" |
| Weight: | 206 |
| Eye Color: | Grey |
| Hair Color: | Grey |
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| Nationality: | U.S. Citizen |
| Occupation: | N/A |
| Place of Birth: | Chicago, Illinois. |
| Base of Operations: | Steel Canyon |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Mother - Deceased / Father - Deceased |
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Heat-Wave started out during beta as an alt that eventually became my main character, And has been my most active character since the inception of the game. This profile is still very much a work in progress.
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Affiliations
None at this time.
Personality
Serious, quiet, and a loner, Heat-Wave can come across as uncaring, and emotionless. His personality is best described as being Dark and stoic. Heat-Wave fights for what he feels is his only hope for personal redemption due to the deaths of innocents he feels responsible for.
Abilities
Heat-Wave is capable of creation and manipulation of Fire. Contrary to the popular (and inaccurate) belief that he "arrests" his foes after burning them with fire based attacks. Heat-Wave is actually able to cause the fire to feed solely on the oxygen in the immediate vicinity and not the target itself. Once the O2 in the small area has been consumed the fires die out leaving the Target unconscious due to the sudden and rapid lack of oxygen, Once the fire has dissipated O2 quickly fills the vacuum and the target is able to breath naturally. The only after affects reported by the perpetrators has been dizziness, headache, scorched clothes and hair, missing eyebrows, and the occasional melted credit cards and drivers licenses.
Fire requires three things in order to exist, Fuel, Oxygen, and Heat, by forcing the fire in his attacks to utilize oxygen, as it's primary fuel the fire dies out quickly having used both of run out of immediate fuel and suffocated itself.
He has been known on more than one occasion to refrain from processes described above when angered, though this has been rare and is generally reserved for the most heinous of crimes.
Equipment
Heat-Wave's Suit and Cape are made from a Next gen ultra light form of Nomex designed specifically to resist the extreme temperatures that he is able to produce. Though he has burned through it more than once.
Character History
Heat-Wave's ability to control the element of fire manifested itself prematurely at an early age. When the Apartment building that his family caught fire. Separated from his family, It was during this fire that the stress caused his powers emerged in a violent explosion that nearly leveled the shook the building do it's foundation and caused the fire that was nearly under control by local fire departments to explode into a raging inferno. The only survivors of that fire were Heat-Wave and his younger brother. Aside from a few bruises and scratches, neither suffered any burns.
Living with the knowledge and guilt that he was responsible for the deaths of not only his parents but the other people still inside the building, He has become distant, and quiet, keeping to largely to himself and has been plagued by nightmare's since he was a child.
It wasn't until he assisted in the fight against the Rikti during the initial invasion over 3 years ago did he decide to come to Paragon City and take up the mantle of a hero, not only to help those in need, but as a means to find some small measure of solace and perhaps in the process earn redemption.
