<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>SHADOW</strong></span></div><br/><br/><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Shadow<br/><strong>REAL NAME:</strong>Erik Crowley<br/><strong>PLAYED BY:</strong>TheHangedMan<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>18<br/><strong>SEXUAL ORIENTATION:</strong>Straight<br/><strong>HEIGHT:</strong>5'7 (170.18 centimeters)<br/><strong>WEIGHT: </strong>188 lbs (85.27kg)<br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE/COSTUME:</strong><br/><br/><div align="center">(http://www.maskworld.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ghost-Mask-black_black.jpg)(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c195/TheOneTheOnlyTheShane/0000ryt3.jpg)</div><br/><strong>FACE CLAIM:</strong>Andrew-Lee Potts<br/><strong>POWERS/ABILITIES:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Shadow Sense: When in low light conditions, his ability to see things is not only not hindered, it is actually increased. Moreover, in no-light conditions, he effectively has a 'blind sense' that extends out five feet around him. In this zone, he is cognizant of the presence of both living and nonliving things. However, he still can't see; he might be able to sense a person in this range, but he can not tell age, gender, race, or any details whatsoever. More practice with this may increase his range.</li><li>Dark Affinity: When in  darkness, he is able to function overall better. He becomes slightly stronger, faster, and more resilient; while above average in human terms, there is nothing quite super about this yet. </li><li>Dancing Shadows: surprisingly, the one skill he is able to manifest in lighted conditions. He can make peoples shadows bend and move in certain ways that are illogical or which would otherwise be physically impossible. He can also 'bend' the shadows of inanimate objects. Currently, this is little more than a parlor trick, but in time, it could conceivably become much more useful or even lead to the development of new powers.  </li><li>Shadow Tendrils: Shadow is able to focus ambient shadows into tendrils that he can control and use like additional limbs. These shadow tendrils can move across connected surfaces in any direction, allowing Shadow to wrap them around solid objects. The length of these tendrils depends on how much shadow is available to be manipulated and although their 'grip' is initially quite weak, these tendrils should grow stronger with development and training.</li></ul><strong>WEAKNESSES:</strong><br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Harming Light: He is light sensitive, requiring very dark sunglasses to function normally during the day/in lighted conditions; without his glasses, he's basically blind on a sunny day. Even with them, he usually gets headaches after too much exposure to sun (or any artificial light source greater than 50 watts). Rainy/overcast days are more annoying than harmful, though (reduced physical capabilities, no headaches/blindness).</li><li>Powerless in Light: When he is in very bright settings (whether it's natural or artificial light), he is unable to manifest any of his Shadow abilities (This applies to any new 'shadow' abilities he may acquire, obviously). Dancing Shadows exists as an exception. </li><li>Overexposure: Not only does light hamper his normal and super powers, too much consecutive light exposure will have serious adverse physical conditions. Increased thirst leading up to persistent dehydration, inability to sleep, reduction in critical thinking skills (on top of what is lost from extreme tiredness), lethargy, general frailness. In theory, a week of constant bright light exposure (60+ watts) could pretty much kill him. He needs at least eight hours in low light or no light conditions in order to stay healthy.</li><li> Twitchy Shadow: Not so much a weakness as an anomaly. His shadow tends to move independently of his body. Obviously marks him as something different, however. He jokingly refers to his shadow as "Charlie". </li></ul><br/><strong>HISTORY:</strong>They say when you grow up in a cold environment, you get used to the cold. You grow up in a hot place, you get used to the heat; so on, and so forth. With this maxim in mind, it should be no surprised that someone at home in darkness, who is able to use the shadows themselves to his advantage, has a fairly dark, even bleak history.<br/><br/>Born into an abusive family, he became a victim of 'the system'; moved from foster home to foster home. He was a 'troubled child' that didn't get along well with others, which resulted in him being shifted around to numerous homes. The constant changing of environments made him into a cynic, who refused to make friends, believing it was futile.<br/><br/>He was also bullied a lot, and generally, had a lot of trouble; and caused some of it, too.<br/><br/>He eventually ended up running away from home, and tried to make a living doing under-the-table jobs, going in and out of homeless shelters and such. He would often dwell amongst the homeless, who he sympathized heavily with.<br/><br/>One night, in New York City, he saw a woman getting raped, and something inside him just snapped. He broke up the scene, and ended up in a fight with the rapist, who tried to kill Erik with a knife. Erik was able to wrestle the knife away from his assailant, but during the fight, the rapist was sliced in an artery, and ended up bleeding to death (very much an accident).<br/><br/>After that, he became something of a vigilante, dubbed "The Street Cleaner" by some newspapers. He didn't kill, though. He returned lost wallets (after robbing the pickpockets), would knock out criminals and leave them around for the police to deal with. He was sick of thugs and bullies always getting their way with the world, and decided that if no one else would do something about it, he would.<br/><br/>He is not sure about the origins of his powers, or even when they first showed up. As near as he could tell, he'd always been "this way".<br/><br/>One day, when he was experimenting with controlling the shadows of a park bench in Central Park, a SHIELD agent took note of the anomalous activity, and the only person in the vicinity, and began to ask a few questions. Feeling kind of like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar, Erik was pretty honest and upfront about what he could do. The man introduced himself, and made a proposition to Erik.<br/><br/>He agreed to 'give it a go', but as of his arrival, he remains somewhat on the fence about it. There are plenty of things he can gain; but it's a big change compared to the relative stability he had found on the streets, and he was still expecting there to be a 'catch' to it all.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong>Smart, surprisingly cheerful (when he wants to be), capable of great good, capable of great malice,  independent, vindictive, grudge-bearing,  philosophical, distrustful.  Complicated.<br/><br/><br/><strong>EQUIPMENT:</strong>7 inch fixed blade dagger, airsoft pistol (for taking out lights), dark wooden truncheon, costume, backpack.<br/><strong>CHARACTER O/O's:</strong>Same as player's.<br/><strong>PLAYER O/O's:</strong>https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=191021.0<br/><strong>NOTES:</strong>In terms of power development, he'll gain more powers that have to deal with the shadows; ideas include giving substance to shadows (and being able to use them as bindings, for instance), and being able to 'melt' into shadow (becoming essentially formless, with everything he's carrying). Light will always inhibit his powers, though, so he's very much a situational powerhouse.  Also, he is more of an anti-hero than a traditional superhero.<br/>