"Just try to keep up with me now!"
PL 8
Name/Codename: Marcello Trentini / Velox
Age: 20
Height + Weight: 5'5 ; 150 lbs. | 7'0" ; 250 lbs
Ethnicity/Nationality: Italian American
Distinguishing Characteristics out of his armor: Wild hair and full stubble, wheelchair-bound.
Languages: English, Italian, Latin
Complications
Motivaction: Recognition Marc wants the public to see and know him as a genius hero in the same vein of Tony Stark. In private however, what he really desires is for his childhood hero to see him as an equal peer.
Unstable technology The Velocity Drive in his power-suit employs a highly experimental process that should be generations beyond what humanity is capable of. Despite having invented it, even Marc doesn't fully understand how it works. The risks are increased once he engages Turbo Mode, and there have been times when it would malfunction or perform in an entirely unexpected way.
Illegal AI He knew the risks in trying to follow in the footsteps of Stark by programming his own Artificial Intelligence, but the benefits far outweighed the costs in his own mind. Rachele, the intelligence he created, is meant to act as his co-pilot and help pick up the slack where his human mind has trouble keeping up with speeds he can achieve. And in the time since he created her, they've both grown to consider each-other close friends as well as partners. When he discovered that the creation of an Artificial Intelligence was outlawed in The Sokovia Accords, they both agreed it was best to keep her existence secret.
Stubborn When the chips are down and things look grim, Marc refused to back down even when his defeat is inevitable. He's never let it stop him before, and he won't let it hold him back now.
Paraplegic In the Hyper-Suit Marc can hop skip and jump as much as he want, but that's only though the use of a neural interface helping him control the servo motors of his armor. Without it, Marc has to face the realization that ever since his injury he has has been left paralyzed from the waist down. If something catastrophic happens and he looses the ability to control the legs of his suit, then he'd be left crawling for his life.
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Biography:
He was there with his family watching the news when Tony Stark revealed to the world who he really was. Right then and there things for clicked for Marc Trentinni, and sparked within him a desire to become great just like the man on the screen. He had always been an ingenious and gifted child, his parents indulging him by purchasing robotics kits at the store for him to piece together. All he needed was the right motivation to kick things off for real.
There was never an exact plan in his mind at the start about what he wanted to create or how he was to do it with what limited resources he had. If the great man could make the finest piece of engineering from within a cave however then he knew he could do something even better with own basement. Something extraordinary, something that would get him the attention he knew he deserved.
Visits to the local scrap-heap were a frequent weekend pastime for him, remaining in there for hours in order to scrounge up just a few traces of some special mineral or a rare material component. And it was by a sheer stroke of luck that he finally happened across something that just might work after modifying an old RC car so it could accelerate to almost 200 MPH. He called it the Velocity Drive.
It was always only just on the edge of his understanding the more he worked with his experimental device, the physics behind everything even making his head hurt the longer he thought about it. There were many accidents of terrifying and catastrophic proportions in his earliest models, one of which cost the family a car with it suddenly blinking out of existence. Every instinct told him that he should stop before he got hurt, but stubbornness won out and he continued to develop it late into his teenage years.
It was then he had the idea to incorporate it into a suit similar to the one his hero wore, become a genius hero of speed and precision. But during his first trial run he lost control, his mind incapable of keeping up with the speeds he was undergoing which caused him to twist on a runway and tumble hundreds of meters. That accident cost him the use of his legs and his parents told him he should stop then and there. He refused to listen.
What he needed was a computer advanced enough to anticipate and adjust his movements while using the suit. Something that would be capable of learning and understanding what he wanted to do before he could even do it. And taking inspiration from the recent Age of Ultron, he had just the solution. An artificially intelligent being to act as his co-pilot.
Rachele was created after a year of intense study and programming, and she was everything he had hoped for and more. Together the two of them designed and built a new set of power-armor, which they hereby dubbed the Hyper-Suit. With her at his side subtly directing his movements, he no longer had to worry about his mind being too slow to catch up with the speeds he could achieve.
After entitling themselves as Velox, the two rocketed into the super-hero scene in an effort to prove their worth to the world at large!
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Abilities: 0+2+2+4+4+16+4+4= 32
Strength 0, Stamina 1, Agility 1, Dexterity 2
Fighting 2, Intellect 8, Awareness 2, Presence 2
Advantages 5
Eidetic Memory, Improvised Tools, Inventor, Ultimate Effort (Technology), Well-Informed, Languages 1(Italian, Latin),
Agile Feint, Assessment, Close Attack 5 , Move-By-Action Favored opponent(Previously Assessed), Uncanny Dodge
Skills 15(30)
Expertise: Science 7(+15), Perception 8(+10), Investigation 2 (+10), Insight 6(+8), Technology 7(+15),
Vehicles 2(+4), Persuasion 2(+4)
Powers 52
Removable power armor: (42+22)-12= 52
-Hyper-Suit: 10+7+4+21=42
..Sealed Environment : Immunity 10 (Life Support)
10
..Titanium Plating: Protection 7
7
..Sensory Array: Senses 4 (Rapid 2(Vision), Radio sense (Ranged, Radius, Acute), Distance Sense
4
..Sapient Combat Computer(Rachele): Enhanced Advantage 10 (Agile Feint, Assessment, Close Attack 5 , Move-By-Action Favored opponent(Previously Assessed), Uncanny Dodge), Enhanced Defense 10 (Dodge 5, Parry 5), Feature 1(Intelligent AI)
21
-Velocity Drive: 4+15+3=22
..Dang Fast! Speed 4(500 ft. per round / 30 mph)
4
..Turbo Mode: Super Speed 5(2 Miles per round / 1,000 mph)
15
....Full Velocity Blow!: Strength-Based Penetrating 6 Damage(Momentum) 9
1 (15/15)
....Machine Gun Blows: Strength-Based Accurate 1 Multiattack 7 Damage 7
1 (15/15)
....Sonic Boom: Affliction 9 (Toughness(Alternate Resistance); Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated)
1 (9/15)
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Marc has a base speed rank of 4 using his suit, which represents his "safe" range of movement. Turbo-mode represents him pushing his device into experimental and potencially dangerous limits, adding onto his base speed rank using Super-Speed.
Offense
Initiative: +17
Unarmed: +7, DC 15
Full Velocity Blow!: +7 DC 24, Momentum, Penetrating 6
Machine Gun Blows!: +9 DC 22, Momentum, Multiattack 7
Sonic Boom: +7 DC 19 Fort (Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated)
Defense 1+1+5+8=15
Dodge 1
+5 (+8), Parry 1
+5 (+8), Fortitude 5 (+6), Toughness
7 (+8), Will 8 (+10)
Power Points
Abilities 32 + Powers 52 + Advantages 6 + Skills 15 (30 ranks) + Defenses 15 = 120/120
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