Le vent rugissait autour de lui alors qu'il montait vers le haut, et les cellules, les allées et les lumières clignotantes des niveaux inférieurs devenaient floues autour de lui. Cependant, comme l'eau s'est déversée dans la prison, elle a aussi touché le fond de l'arbre et a été prise dans le courant. La colonne d'air est rapidement devenue une tempête de pluie inversée, l'attrayant à travers sa combinaison de saut et piquant ses yeux alors que les gouttes volaient au-delà. Près du sommet, il a incliné son corps de sorte qu'il a avancé et a pu s'allumer sur le bord même du niveau supérieur.
Avant lui allongeait un dôme colossal, ce qu'il supposait être la partie aérienne de la structure de la prison. Il était presque entièrement vide, juste des murs en acier nus en toile avec des poutres de support et éclairé par des ampoules accrochées au plafond par des fils. Chacun d'eux était contenu dans son propre petit dôme réflecteur, de sorte que le sol était recouvert d'une brillance étoilée qui s'étendait à travers des ombres bleues profondes. La chute d'eau à l'envers, derrière lui, commençait à vaporiser du liquide à travers le sol, où il formait des flaques qui glissa faiblement dans la lumière tachetée.
Les seules autres choses dans la pièce étaient une porte barrée à l'extrémité et le colosse métallique se levant du centre du sol. Le directeur était humanoïde, mais de façon exagérée. La tour des bords sombres et aigus était surmontée d'une petite tête et de yeux brillants et perlés qui balayaient la pièce avec malice. Il pouvait voir la lueur bleu pâle du powerpack mentionné dans le PDA briller de l'intérieur de la poitrine de la chose, mais il était évidemment bien protégé. La chose s'est levée et a pivoté vers lui, flirtant comme elle l'a fait. Falcon a levé son bouclier de plateau de façon incertaine. Il n'était pas un combattant lui-même, mais sûrement certains des autres qui arriveraient derrière lui le seraient. Celui qui avait parlé au fond du puits, par exemple, avait l'air de savoir ce qu'il faisait.
Name: James Edward Falcon
Allias: Falcon
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Powers: Falcon can cause objects around him to change size, growing or shrinking into perfect scale replicas of themselves without changing density. A secondary ability allows him to teleport to anywhere he can see.
Appearance: Falcon has narrow grey eyes set above a prominent nose and a slim, clean-shaven face. He keeps his dark hair short, and was typically known to go around in a smartly-tailored business suit and tie. His torso is solidly built though not overly muscular, and his long legs take him to a height of 190 centimetres. (Picture to come)
History: James Falcon came into his abilities as a young man and, seeing that his powers were less well suited to flying though the skyline fighting criminals, he instead entered the world of business. His talent for growth and long-term strategic thinking saw him rise to prominence at a young age.
Because of his belief that superbeings should use their abilities to make the world better, he put much of his wealth funding altruistic projects. He put money into refugee camps and disaster relief, and funded drug research and subsidies where he felt that the government was falling short. As time passed and his business empire grew, his philanthropy also branched out to supporting political campaigns of candidates he felt had good priorities, then to supporting the cases of criminals whose actions he believed were justified, such as those who used dubious methods to expose corruption or exploitation. It was when he was found to be sheltering two of these men in his mansion while police were searching for them that he himself was arrested for obstructing the course of justice and trumped up charges related to his use of financial resources to exert undue influence on politics.
James did not resist his arrest and agreed to stand trial, confident in his assertions that the good he did for the world far outweighed the bad and that others would see that and overlook his breaking the letter of the law for upholding its spirit. He was dead wrong. A number of his political and business rivals piled in on the case, pushing for as harsh a sentence as possible, and he was sent to prison for five years. As a regular prison would be unable to hold him and no suitable facility was near to hand, he was extradited and sent to a secure facility designed to hold the most hardened violent supervillains, the ICF.
Horrified and insulted by this turn of events, he brooded on his anger and frustration, and so the supervillain Falcon was born. The people who had put him here, he decided, were incompetent fools. He had spent a long time plugging holes in a broken system with his own hard work and donations, but to truly help, much more would be required. The whole system needed to be broken down and rebuilt from the ground up, and the people in charge needed to know what they were doing and be able to see it through. People like Falcon. This would be his new mission in life, and arriving in jail, he had plenty of time to plan.
Personality: James Falcon is not an impulsive man. Rather, in all things he prefers a cautious, calculating, strategic approach. To him, knowledge is power and the way to get what one wants is by careful planning and precise execution. He prefers his own company when ruminating on these things and reacts irritably to distraction, though he will happily share his ideas and talk at length at more appropriate times. He is possessed of great determination and drive to reach his goals, and, facilitated by his approach above, has usually been successful. He truly does want to make the world a better place, but this ambition has been twisted by his anger and frustration about the ineffectiveness of government at achieving meaningful changes. He has become proud, vengeful and ruthless.
Strengths: Falcon’s most formidable asset is his strong intellect, which allows him to use his abilities to full effect in a number of situations. This is backed up by his sharp senses and good reflexes.
Weaknesses:
Falcon’s teleportation ability only enables him to move within his line of sight, which limits its usefulness when it’s dark or his vision is otherwise obscured. He can take one other person with him or an equivalent amount of material, but no more.
His size altering powers do not work on himself or any other humans.
He dislikes being thrust into situations without warning, as his best strength comes from planning ahead and being able to control his environment.
Secret Hideout: As mentioned above, Falcon is not from Lochwell City, so he has no current base in the city. What he does have, however, is his emergency Swiss bank account, which he started when he first entered business and has been feeding ever since in case some unforeseen disaster should make the rest of his fortune inaccessible.
Equipment: For now, a prison jumpsuit. But just you wait until he can get out and get creative!
Relationships: James has immense respect for The Chief, a superhero from his hometown who doesn’t just catch criminals, but spends just as much time using his abilities to be helpful to law-abiding people. This is supering done right, in his opinion.
“Superbeings are not bound by the laws of men. We are born with the power to break the laws of nature itself, and are bound to step in and use that power when ordinary systems fail to protect mankind. I spent years trying to prop up the current system and plug its gaps with my powers, never realising that what it was beyond all hope of repair. Similarly, I reject my sentence under your legal code and instead answer to a higher moral law. It now demands that I step in not to uphold civilisation, but to destroy it. I will burn everything down to the bedrock and start over, This time, I will be in charge and I will see things done right.”