La cellule blanche était parfaitement ennuyeux, parfaitement fougueuse. Il avait besoin de quelque chose à faire, de quelque chose pour occuper son esprit. Les motifs sur les panneaux muraux avaient servi cette fonction pendant peu de temps après qu'il avait été jeté ici, mais maintenant le simple manque de quoi que ce soit s'estompait de sa santé mentale.
Encore une fois, peut-être qu'il était déjà en colère? N'avait-il pas décidé de détruire la civilisation et de prendre le monde en main? Ce ne sont pas là les objectifs des hommes les plus raisonnables. Mais non, il a décidé, il n'était pas fou, et s'efforcerait de rester ainsi. Il aurait besoin de son esprit à son sujet si jamais il devait régner. La connaissance, c'est le pouvoir, il a répété mentalement, et la précision, c'est la force. La connaissance, c'est la puissance, la précision, c'est la force. Il s'en tenait à ces choses aussi longtemps qu'il était ici.
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Le premier PDA était intrigant, sinon tout à fait impressionnant. Le "Guardian Angel" a affirmé qu'il avait été choisi personnellement, et pourtant c'était clairement un travail à taille unique, le traitant comme un Rogue qui avait échoué dans sa carrière criminelle, et serait intéressé par un plan maléfique. James Falcon n'était ni l'une ni l'autre de ces choses, et quiconque avait pris le moins d'ennuis pour le rechercher le saurait. Bien sûr, ils seraient également ignorants de son récent changement de cœur et de résolution pour devenir ce que beaucoup appelleraient un supervillain. Il était arrivé à cette conclusion ici, dans cette cellule, sans personne d'autre. Néanmoins, il a appuyé sur le bouton rapidement. Toute occasion de sortir de sa cellule était la bienvenue, et si elle venait de quelqu'un qui n'avait aucune idée de ce qu'il était ou de ce qu'il deviendrait, alors qu'il en soit ainsi.
Le deuxième message de la PDA était beaucoup plus à son goût. Ce "Monsieur Sinister" a peut-être sauté en cherchant ses bienfaiteurs, mais James pourrait certainement respecter les capacités de l'homme s'il était vraiment capable d'accomplir une telle chose. Il vaudrait la peine de garder le PDA et d'en apprendre plus sur cette personne et ses objectifs, même si leurs chemins doivent éventuellement se séparer. Il pourrait les utiliser pour recueillir des ressources et de l'expérience, et peut-être gagner des alliés alors qu'il combattait vers son objectif.
Il tapota de nouveau, puis s'assit avec son dos au mur et ses jambes s'étiraient devant lui. Il aurait besoin d'éclaircir sa tête et de faire un plan, comme il le pouvait, avant de lancer sa carrière de voyou. Ce devait être le premier grand acte de sa nouvelle vie, et il le saisirait de ses deux mains. Il a compté les secondes comme le temps s'est glissé.
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.”