<div class="floatleft">(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/357/d/a/mysterio_spiderman__modern__by_workingclassdrifter-d5owxim.jpg)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Zachery Gold AKA Mysterio<br/><strong>Age:</strong>28<br/><strong>General Description:</strong>Appears to be a male a little under 6 feet tall that keeps in at least decent shape. Not a professional athlete for sure but definitely can hold his own with amateurs. That's all that's known about him as the costume looks kind of like a nice suit with a silvery helmet covering, an updated look for old Fishbowl Head. Out of costume he keeps his hair short, and lately he dresses in nondescript track suits to keep a low profile. A bit of a dusky skin to him he has an impish smile and a relaxed mannor.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Ever the showman, he grew up a pickpocket and that's never really left him. A bit of a con-artist to survive he eventually came under the wing of a retired stage magician who wanted to help him turn over a new leaf. Now a stage magician by training, he can't help but show it off occasionally.<br/><br/><strong>Brief History:</strong>An orphan on the streets, he'd decide to survive best by ducking the system and making it for himself on the streets. As a result he has a rapsheet as long as your arm but most of it is pickpocketing and con games, nobody was ever physically hurt. That is until one day a "friend" talked him into helping with a supervillain bank job. Yeah, he was carrying a gun but at least it wasn't loaded. Interestingly enough he ended up having to use his pickpocketing skills to prevent some of the less mentally stable in the group of robbers from killing hostages, something that went noticed by two in particular.<br/><br/>Apparently the hostages included a retired magician and his daughter, who paid his bail and spoke for him in exchange for training to turn his petty larceny skills into the skills of a proper stage magician. He was good too, learned quick - good enough that when the war came around instead of being made to fight like his record would of suggested he instead entertained the troops. Good thing too, out in the front he ended up learning from them how to engineer and jury-rig new set ups for his tricks.<br/><br/>Getting back from the war, the disenfranchised Gold gave up his career and returned to homelessness - but its there where he found a new calling. Recognizing that the warehouse he was crashing in had been staged for magic tricks, he stumbled upon a safehouse/hideout of the old Mysterio believed killed in the War. Altering the gear to be more toward his needs he would become a new Mysterio out to show the world that there was a new show in town after all. . .<br/><br/><strong>Social Ties:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><span class="bbc_u">Society of American Magicians</span> - The oldest fraternity of professional stage magicians in the world. At its peak it had about 6,000 members world wide though the war brought it down to about 2,000 around the world. Many members that have heard of the new Mysterio do believe that he is a magician, but have no idea which one let alone that he's a member.</li></ul><br/><strong>Abilities and Items:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><span class="bbc_u">Sleight of Hand</span> - Technically not a superpower, but Zach was a highly skilled pickpocket and conman from the school of hard knocks. </li><li><span class="bbc_u">Cheap Shot</span> - While not trained, he does have a knack of getting in a particularly nasty first blow.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">The Grand Stage</span> - A talented stage magician, he has a knack for prep work to create his illusions. With a little prep time in an area, he can properly stage somewhere without people realizing it or noticing it later without training.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Master of Illusion</span> - Getting his hands on the old tech of the pre-war villain Mysterio and adapting it he essentially takes his magician skills to a superhuman level. From suction cups to fake wall crawling to simple chemical mists to obscure or to cause hallucinations, the technology is now advanced enough to even be able to generate 3-D holographic illusions.</li></ul><br/><strong>Weaknesses:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><span class="bbc_u">Mortal</span> - Just a normal human being, with all the strengths and weaknesses that goes with it.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Alley Fighter</span> - Not very well trained in combat, his "training" was more to get one hard blow in and run away. Beyond that first blow he usually is actually pretty bad at fighting.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Control Freak</span> - Many of his illusions hinge on how well he can control an area. If someone does something he didn't expect ahead of time it can being the whole plan down.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Smoke and Mirrors</span> - While his illusions are impressive they are just illusions. There's never as much substance to them as the appearances suggest. Some have none at all - the holograms are just light shows have nothing to actually touch for example.</li></ul>