True Silver
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| True Silver | |
| Player: Soot | |
| Origin: | Technology |
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| Archetype: | Scrapper |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Daniel Justice |
| Known Aliases: | None |
| Species: | Human/Kheldian |
| Age: | 25 |
| Height: | 6'2" |
| Weight: | ??? |
| Eye Color: | White |
| Hair Color: | Silver |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American (Irish) |
| Occupation: | Rich Recluse |
| Place of Birth: | Steel Canyon, Paragon City |
| Base of Operations: | Steel Canyon, Paragon City |
| Marital Status: | Happily Married |
| Known Relatives: | Luke Justice (uncle), Daniel J. Justice III aka Justin (future son from alt. timeline) |
| Known Powers | |
| None | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Heightened Perception, Martial Artist | |
| Equipment | |
| Grappling Hook | |
| No additional information available. | |
True Silver came from a sudden and unholy combination of Batman, Daredevil, Green Arrow and my father. He's since evolved from that into something I don't think I can completely discribe.
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Affiliations
Lilian Evans
Memory Metal
Luficia
Unit v4.0
Personality
"Information is power" sums up Silver's philosophy. The more you know about a person the more power you have over them. The less you let a person know about you the more you are in control of the relationship and the situation. What this means for Silver is who he lets you see may not be who he really is. To everyone except his most trusted friends Silver is solid, but stoic. When he does talk, he has a sharp tongue and a penchant for misdirection. To his group mates, Silver is background noise, the silent listener that leads only when he needs to, but then firmly. Only a few privileged get to see the other side of Silver: soft, gentle, kind--a mild man. Which personality is really Silver? Not even he knows.
Abilities
A web of sensors is woven through True Silver's skin, replacing his nervous system. While he is technically blind, these sensors allow him to 'sense' what others cannot, from vibrations to energy to heat to gravity fields. In all Silver has at least twelve extra 'senses' none of which are visual. He also has augmented hearing and touch. Silver uses these extra senses to predict the movements of others, giving him an ability to react that seems to border on precognition.
True Silver augments this ability with years of training in several martial arts. He combines these to form his own unique fighting style, efficient and precise.
Due to blending with a Kheldian, Silver can heal himself of minor wounds. He also manifests energy as ribbons or whips.
Weaknesses and Limitations
Silver is only human, neither immortal nor perfect. He can be killed, maimed, wounded or tricked, but his greatest weakness is his own stubbornness and paranoia. His tendency to trust only himself means that he has trouble accepting help from others. His ability to predict possible outcomes makes him paranoid and fearful of the future. Past experiences have given him a fear of mind control and of magic that almost borders on a phobia
Silver’s sensors are very little help in seeing ghosts and spirits. It is impossible for him to determine colors or subtle patterns. He cannot see holograms or computer and television screens.
As a Kheldian, Silver has a weakness to quantum guns.
Equipment
Silver keeps only a few essential gadgets on him: a grappling gun, which he uses to travel and a lock-picking kit.
Character History
Becoming More
During Daniel Justice’s twelve year, his world went from dim to black. He had been born with a hereditary, degenerating condition that effected his eyes. His father, a brilliant if somewhat eccentric scientist, knowing his son’s condition, spent every waking moment and all of his fortune developing a suit of sensors that would allow his son to lead a normal life. Daniel, meanwhile, saw little of his father, raised by his uncle and taught by private tutors for his entire life.
In Daniel’s fourteenth year, his father tested the suit on himself. The flood of information overwhelmed the man’s already weak heart and killed him. Daniel’s uncle, his father’s oldest brother, continued his brother’s work. Two years later the suit was perfected and without his uncle’s permission Daniel tested it. It nearly overwhelmed him, but his younger body and lack of sight allowed him to adjust.
By his eighteenth year, Daniel had mastered the suit fairly well and had discovered an interesting fact; the suit not only let him lead a normal life, but it also gave him far more information about the world then any normal human could comprehend. His father has sacrificed his own life to give him this chance. It became obvious what needed to do with that chance.
By Daniel’s twenty-second year, he had earned a degree in criminal justice from a private university. He had also reacquainted himself with the martial arts taught to him in his youth and had worked his body into a finely muscled weapon. He began memorizing the streets and layout of Paragon City, making himself aware of every corner and crevice. He spent the following two years working quietly as a lone vigilante.
Finally, in Daniel’s twenty-fourth year he registered as a hero, taking a name suggested by his uncle.
An Alliance
He still kept to himself, convinced that he worked best alone, until one day he rescued a younger more idealistic hero from a gang of Hellions. This hero, Barmace, insisted that the only way heroes could truly help people was if they banded together. He proposed an alliance. Silver, incredulous, agreed if only to prove Barmace wrong. The result was the Steadfast Pact.
While Barmace eventually disappeared, True Silver remained with the Pact. Eventually, due to his seniority, and an odd but firm form of command he came to be considered the leader of the Steadfast Pact.
Romance
A brief romance with another hero named Luficia ended in tragedy when a new and potent enemy, Daos, twisted Silver’s already deep suspicion of magic into a crippling fear. This fear was directed specially towards Luficia and her use of demon-derived magic. While Silver later learned to suppress the fear, the relationship was never renewed and Luficia later married Moonflash.
Despite their history, Silver considers Moonflash and Luficia his most trusted allies in the Pact.
An interesting by-product of this romance was Memory Metal, a son of Luficia and True Silver from the future. Memory Metal’s coming split his future off into another timeline and he had since changed this timeline even further.
Paris
A trail of murders that ended in Paris led Silver to discover one of his uncles. Luke Justice had been the first True Silver and had supposedly died a hero’s death, but now he lays a careful plan to depower or kill all metahumans, aliens and artifical life-forms whether hero or villain. He is convinced that this is the only way the world can ever be at peace.
Mother
Silver was visited by his mother, a sorceress who had left his father when Silver was three. His mother offered to teach him magic to help him overcome his fear of it. It was from her that Silver first acquired the use of the Shadows.
More Machine
Increasing paranoia over mental intrusions forced Silver to use his sensor suit more and more until he refused to ever take it off. The strain of the sensors on his brain began to take their toll and he began having headaches, finally collapsing. His friends forced him to turn the suit off, but he refused to live without the sensors. With the help of an old colleague of his father, a man specializing in micro-cybernetics, Silver had the sensors implanted directly into his skin. The implantation meant multiple connections to his brain, instead of a single feed and greatly decreased the stress on his mind. Over time, the sensors have come to replace his own nervous system, allowing him to control what he feels and senses.
Obsidian
During the summer of 2006, Crey created a clone of Silver, hoping to discover his ‘secrets’. They found nothing, but used the clone in another experiment. They forcefully bonded a nictus with a host and succeeded. The nictus, Obsidian, was not amused. Unable to leave the host due to the process used, he instead took control of the host temporarily and escaped.
The clone was convinced that he was Silver and spent weeks under the disillusion that his friends had abandoned him to his fate. Finally convinced that he was a clone he decided to live a life apart from Silver.
Unfortunately, Obsidian was not so easily placated. An already fully developed love for the suffering of humanity finally led him to take his host over fully. He trapped Silver in an alley and they fought until the clone collapsed from organ failure, a side effect of a poor cloning process.
Silver, mad at himself over his clone’s death, suddenly decided he no longer wanted to be a hero. He put his own costume on his clone’s body. He took a bus out of Rhode Island and wandered off, finally ending up in Connecticut.
Somewhere in Connecticut, Silver discovered a young run-away, a pyrokinetic mutant that had run from his boarding school because he had accidentally set the school on fire. Silver convinced him to go back and together they helped evacuate the building and put out the fire.
The school was a private boarding school with a reputation for taking special cases, specifically metahumans. The principal, seeing Silver for what he really was (despite Silver’s insistence of being and competent portrayal of an ordinary blind man), asked him to stay on to teach.
The Pact had considered Silver dead, but three months later evidence finally point to the contrary. Several of the members tracked him the Connecticut, but Silver seemed to have no idea who they were. When they tried to show him by feinting an attack on him to waken his instincts, Silver lashed out with nictus energy.
Obsidian, knowing his host’s body was dieing and only able to take an identical host had lured Silver into a fight on purpose and had transferred from the clone to Silver. Knowing Silver’s friends would notice his presence and not entwined enough yet to take full control of Silver’s body he had suggested the idea of retirement to Silver and had kept him from thinking about going back.
With the nictus finally revealed, Jason (JS 07 M 378, a mind-riding ghost) was able to draw him out and disperse his life-energy. Without Obsidian’s influence, Silver realized that the Pact still needed him and returned to Paragon City.
Silver returned to the school after the winter break to complete his contract.
Hero of the City
Despite his attempts to remain low-key Silver sometimes fails. His background war with the lower criminal element finally gained recognition when he was awarded the title Hero of the City.
Rebirth
The debilitating headaches returning, Silver finally realized that implanting the sensors had failed to entirely relieve the problem. He was dieing, and there was nothing left to do about it. He managed to keep the problem to himself until confronted by coalition member, Gothic Defender over a different matter. After a conversation with the Shadows, the younger man found out that Silver was dieing and that though some of the Shadow’s actually wanted Silver to die so that they could use his body, some knew of a way to help.
The second semester Silver had taught an old man, a gardener, had died. Silver had made a sort of friendship with him and had taken his deathwatch. When the man finally passed away, a bright light separated from him. It was a Kheldian, it needed a new host and Silver was the only suitable and trustworthy one nearby. Silver, afraid of yet another thing possessing him, asked the Shadows to keep it away. Instead, they trapped it in a piece of gold. This Kheldian was what some of the Shadows’ suggested.
When reminded of the Kheldian, Silver panicked and refused, insisting that he would rather die and even if he wanted to join with it the Shadows’ would never allow it. When finally convinced he still seemed pessimistic, but informed Gothic Defender that if the Shadows’ thought his shadow magic was drawn from demonic sources they would obey him. Gothic Defender convinced the Shadows’ and ordered them to release the Kheldian.
The Kheldian, Gold, merged with Silver, and since their personalities were so very similar they joined completely, making an entirely new being. Gold’s personality changed Silver subtly, the only obvious difference is Silver’s new willingness to actually smile and laugh.
Lily
Silver, in his normal pastime of eavesdropping on Pocket D, found himself leaning next to a cat-girl. She quietly broke through his hard mask, bringing happiness to his life that he had never known. Despite his reluctance to let love into his life again, he found that he really had no say in it. After blending with Gold, he found himself even more willing to accept that he had fallen in love with her.
And on July 27, 2007, Daniel Justice married Lilian Evans.
Trivia
- Silver normally eats very healthy, but he has a weakness for pizza.
- Silver’s grandfather was the head of an Irish mafia.
- Silver loves musicals.
- Silver uses the only metal ever given to him as a coaster.
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