Luke Brian

Luke Brian

Identity: Luke Brian • Affiliation: Athena Security (subset of Zeus Dynamic) • Base of Operations: {{{Base}}}

Ethnicity: American Mutt (Italian/Irish/Turkish/Israeli) • Nationality: {{{Nationality}}}

Age: 34 • Gender: Male • Height: 5'11" • Weight: 184 lb

Eyes: Brown • Hair: Black • Other Features: {{{OtherFeatures}}}

Origin: Probability wave unleashed by alien technology • Power Level: 10 (150 Points: Abilities 42, Defenses 5, Skills 11, Advantages 6, Powers 86)

Abilities

Strength	3	Stamina	3
Agility	4	Dexterity	3
Fighting	4	Intellect	1
Awareness	3	Presence	0
Points: 42 (2pts per rank)

Defenses

Defense	Ranks	Ability	Other	Total
Dodge	{{{DodgeRanks}}}	4	{{{DodgeOther}}}	{{{DodgeTotal}}}
Fortitude	{{{FortitudeRanks}}}	3	{{{FortitudeOther}}}	{{{FortitudeTotal}}}
Parry	{{{ParryRanks}}}	4	{{{ParryOther}}}	{{{ParryTotal}}}
Toughness	-	3	{{{ToughnessOther}}}	{{{ToughnessTotal}}}
Will	{{{WillRanks}}}	3	{{{WillOther}}}	{{{WillTotal}}}
Points: 5 (1pt per rank)

Combat

Initiative: 4 + {{{InitiativeMods}}} = +{{{InitiativeTotal}}}

Attacks:

Skills

Skill	Ranks	Ability	Other	Total
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{{{Skill2}}}	{{{Skill2Ranks}}}	{{{Skill2Ability}}}	{{{Skill2Other}}}	{{{Skill2Total}}}
{{{Skill3}}}	{{{Skill3Ranks}}}	{{{Skill3Ability}}}	{{{Skill3Other}}}	{{{Skill3Total}}}
{{{Skill4}}}	{{{Skill4Ranks}}}	{{{Skill4Ability}}}	{{{Skill4Other}}}	{{{Skill4Total}}}
{{{Skill5}}}	{{{Skill5Ranks}}}	{{{Skill5Ability}}}	{{{Skill5Other}}}	{{{Skill5Total}}}
{{{Skill6}}}	{{{Skill6Ranks}}}	{{{Skill6Ability}}}	{{{Skill6Other}}}	{{{Skill6Total}}}
{{{Skill7}}}	{{{Skill7Ranks}}}	{{{Skill7Ability}}}	{{{Skill7Other}}}	{{{Skill7Total}}}
{{{Skill8}}}	{{{Skill8Ranks}}}	{{{Skill8Ability}}}	{{{Skill8Other}}}	{{{Skill8Total}}}
{{{Skill9}}}	{{{Skill9Ranks}}}	{{{Skill9Ability}}}	{{{Skill9Other}}}	{{{Skill9Total}}}
{{{Skill10}}}	{{{Skill10Ranks}}}	{{{Skill10Ability}}}	{{{Skill10Other}}}	{{{Skill10Total}}}
{{{Skill11}}}	{{{Skill11Ranks}}}	{{{Skill11Ability}}}	{{{Skill11Other}}}	{{{Skill11Total}}}
{{{Skill12}}}	{{{Skill12Ranks}}}	{{{Skill12Ability}}}	{{{Skill12Other}}}	{{{Skill12Total}}}
{{{Skill13}}}	{{{Skill13Ranks}}}	{{{Skill13Ability}}}	{{{Skill13Other}}}	{{{Skill13Total}}}
{{{Skill14}}}	{{{Skill14Ranks}}}	{{{Skill14Ability}}}	{{{Skill14Other}}}	{{{Skill14Total}}}
Points: 11 (1pt per 2 ranks)

Advantages

Combat: {{{CombatAdvantages}}}

Fortune: {{{FortuneAdvantages}}}

General: {{{GeneralAdvantages}}}

Skill: {{{SkillAdvantages}}}

Points: 6 (1pt per rank)

Powers

86

Points: 86

Other Traits

Equipment:

Complications:

History

Luke was born to a poor family of next generation immigrant mutts in Chicago. Through the muddle of his heritage, he's sort of a Catholic Jew, but only a few in his family ever paid that much mind when he was growing up. Luke himself realized at a young age that he is gay, and even as a boy he was never one to feel shame, but it distanced him even more from his heritage. His family had a difficult time with this revelation when it became increasingly apparent in Luke's teenaged years. His Irish Catholic father forced him into military school to straighten him out after discovering him with his first boyfriend.

Luke acclimated easily to military life and even enjoyed it, plus he was getting laid more than ever, so he set his sights on a military career. However, Luke was unrepentant about his sexuality, so after a successful basic training in the Army and deployment in Afghanistan, he was discharged under Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2002.

An international private military contractor called Zeus Dynamic immediately recruited Luke for his solid performance record. Zeus Dynamic also made it clear that it already had several openly gay ex-soldiers on its payroll. Eager to continue on a military path on his own terms, Luke accepted the offer and advanced his training as a close combat specialist. He spent eight years with Zeus Dynamic deployed throughout the Middle East, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan. These were surprisingly happy times for the man.

They ended with two tragic events. In the fall of 2010, Luke's longtime boyfriend, fellow merc Jordan Whitehall, disappeared, along with his entire unit, on a covert op in northern Iraq. The American military eventually reported all involved dead, and only through his superiors did Luke learn that they had run afoul of some black ops mission involving a classified Iraqi chemical plant. Just as he received this news, Luke also learned that his mother was fighting breast cancer.

Luke took an extended leave of absence to return to the States, where he found his family in shambles. Several of his siblings had turned thug and addict, and many of his family barely talked to each other. His mother was eager to make amends for his past treatment, though, and even Luke's father had grown warmer over the years. Luke spent the next year as a stabilizing influence for his family, and he expended most of his accumulated wealth trying to bring his family in line, with limited success. His mother died in November of 2011, just as the first snows fell, and Luke decided it was time to get back to his passion.

His concern for his family prevented him from leaving the States, however, and he was beginning to age out of front line deployment, so Luke asked for a Stateside civilian assignment with Zeus Dynamic's daughter company Athena Security as a bodyguard. Initially, the detachment of floating from assignment to assignment was just the balm he needed, but the last few years, thanks to his exposure to both America and the Middle East's wealthy elite, have brought enough disillusionment to cause him to question what his service really amounted to, particularly at the cost of Jordan's life. He is hoping for new inspiration to strike.

Power Details 86 pts

Kinetic Manipulation (Standard Array) 32 pts

Luke instinctively absorbs kinetic energy from his environment and repurposes it. Through his ingrained military training, he tends to exert stored kinetic energy for physical applications, leading to incredible speed and quickness.

• Superspeed (Rank 10, 30 pts): Enhanced Initiative, Quickness, Speed. 3 pts/rank.
• Kinetic Leap (Rank 10, 10 pts): Leaping. 1 pt/rank.
• Kinetic Thief (Rank 10, 30 pts): Affliction - Degrees: Dazed, Stunned, Paralyzed; Progressive). 3 pts/rank. Through touch Luke can continuously rob a target of its ability to generate kinetic energy, potentially depriving it of the ability to physically act at all. However, while siphoning in this manner, he can only store kinetic energy and not expend it for his own benefit as usual.

Kinetic Attack (Standard Array) 33 pts

Luke is always able to absorb kinetic energy and redirect it to destructive purposes, mostly to enhance the physical attacks he's already familiar with.

• Kinetic Bullet (Rank 10, 30 pts): Linked Power: Damage (Strength, Ranged) + Affliction (Ranged) - Degrees: Impaired, Disabled, Incapacitated; Quirk (Requires Objects as Ammo). 3 pts/rank. Luke can overload a projectile with kinetic energy to deliver a burst of excess force on impact that causes significant internal trauma, often incapacitating a target through pain and shock.
• Rapid Strike (Rank 10, 22 pts): Multiattack on Damage (Strength), Accurate (5 ranks). 1 pt/rank up to Str, 2 pts/rank over + 5 pts.
• Strike Everything in Sight (Rank 10, 30 pts): Damage (Strength, Area Attack, Selective), Accurate (3 ranks). 2 pts/rank up to Str, 3 pts/rank over + 3 pts.
• Kinetic Shockwave (Rank 10, 30 pts): Move Object (Attack, Area, Damaging); Flaw (One Direction: Away). 3 pts/rank. In desperate moments, Luke unleashes his excess kinetic energy in a shockwave, repelling and damaging every nearby target.

Kinetic Redirect 8 pts

When he is prepared, Luke can change a projectile's momentum, redirecting it to a new target.

• Kinetic Redirect (Rank 8): Deflection (Reflect, Redirect; Flaws: Limited to Projectiles, Range Reduced to Close). 1 pt/rank.

Frictionless 5 pts

How do you exert the force to grab someone that absorbs that force automatically?

• Frictionless (Rank 5): Immunity (Grab and Entrapment Effects). 1 pt/rank.

Kinetic Absorption 8 pts

Luke instinctively absorbs the kinetic energy of most physical attacks, robbing that attack of its ability to harm him.

• Absorbing Aura (Rank 8): Protection (Impervious; Limited: Kinetic Only). 1 pt/rank.

Complications

Zeus Dynamic International Corporate Logo

Athena Security American Corporate Logo

• Motivation: Thrill Seeker: Luke's empowerment cuts through his recent malaise, and he embraces it eagerly. He's spent most of his life on the front lines, and the excitement of taking on threats that only Sentry could face has quickly gone to his head. He's also eager to challenge the limits of his new abilities. Anytime Luke puts himself or others in unnecessary danger for the thrill or challenge of it, he gains a Hero Point.

• Connections: Zeus Dynamic: Although Luke has gone independent, he still maintains connections to Zeus Dynamic and accepts contracts through them, usually through Stateside daughter company Athena Security. The mercenary company isn't so eager to lose such a suddenly valuable asset, however, and has no qualms leveraging Luke's past employment and loyalty to keep him close. Anytime Luke is obligated to take action in service to Zeus Dynamic's interests, he receives a Hero Point.

• Power Loss: Luke's powers operate by absorbing and amplifying kinetic energy from his environment. His powers diminish in areas that contain little kinetic energy and cease entirely in areas devoid of kinetic energy. When subject to these conditions, Luke gains a Hero Point.

Zeus Dynamic

Zeus Dynamic is an international corporation based in Istanbul, Turkey. It is a conglomerate of American, European, and Middle Eastern military interests known principally as a private military contractor, but it has arms in weapons research and development, information technology, and other more esoteric endeavors. Like most military contractors, it recruits its roster from retired and discharged soldiers from a variety of countries alongside those who would never qualify for proper military service. Zeus Dynamic predominantly represents American and Western European interests, but it's not above profiting from playing multiple sides when the opportunity arises.

Zeus Dynamic maintains a number of subsidiary companies outside of the Middle East, principal among them Athena Security in Richmond, Virginia. Officially, Athena Security offers private security details and bodyguards on contract within the United States, with some international travel. Unofficially, Athena Security is also one of the contractors that handles paramilitary operations within United States borders that the U.S. military would rather not be held accountable for. Both Zeus Dynamic and Athena Security have black ops programs unknown to a majority of its constituents.

Friends & Family

Jordan Whitehall, Deceased

Felice Fakhouri

• Felice Fakhouri: Handler. Felice is Zeus Dynamic's liaison to Athena Security, charged with protecting the corporation's international interests Stateside. She also manages Athena Security's roster of independent contractors, most of whom are specialized assets running non-routine assignments. This includes Luke after the Manhattan incident. Luke has quickly learned that Felice is generous to those who please her but sharp with displeasure otherwise. She is an unfailingly well-mannered and shrewd woman whose results can rarely be argued, and rumors circulate that she is retired from the company's black ops division.
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Rewards

• 10.14.2014: 1 PP
• 10.22.2014: 1 PP