<div class="floatleft">(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/RequiemOgre/Games/blazethumb.jpg)</div><strong>Hero</strong><br/><span class="bbc_u">Name</span>: Preston Scott<br/><span class="bbc_u">Alias</span>:  The Living Blaze<br/><span class="bbc_u">Aspect</span>: Mutant<br/><span class="bbc_u">Heritage</span>: Caucasian<br/><span class="bbc_u">Age</span>: 22<br/><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Orientation</span>: Straight<br/><strong>Abilities</strong><br/><span class="bbc_u">Primary</span>: Fire Manipulation - Blaze has the ability to control any flame that he can see, and to set small sparks off to ignite fuel sources.  He can not grow a fire or diminish it, but he can force it to contort or flow at his command.  He tends to use this to form shields and walls of flame, or extend it into bolts of fire to strike out with.  This also grants him immunity to fire and extreme heat.<br/><span class="bbc_u">Secondary</span>: Fuel Creation - Blaze can create a colorless, nearly odorless gas .   This gas is highly flamable, and can be ignited by his own power.  Once he has a flame started, he continue to add fuel to it and cause it to grow, but has no ability to diminish it (thus, he can not make fires smaller).  Extended use of this power is incredibly fatiguing, and he has to eat three times what a normal person does to power it.<br/><span class="bbc_u">Travel</span>:  Flight - By creating a high concentration of fuel, Blaze can use it to "push" himself through the air.  He flies at an air-speed of around fifty miles an hour, though can ignite the flame for a very short (usually around five second) burst of speed that propels him very close to the speed of jets.  His velocity rapidly drops again until he is back at his normal cruising speed.  He can only do a couple of short bursts without knocking himself unconscious from fatigue.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong><br/><br/>Blaze was born to a blue collar family in North Shore, but showed a keen intellect from his earliest days.  He graduated with top honors at high school, but was a social outcast that never found his stride and fell in with the goth crowd.  He started school as a software developer, planning to direct and create video games.  While in school his mutation awakened, though he did everything in his power to hide it.<br/><br/>One night, while at the goth club Sister Inferno, several members of his clique were getting harrassed by skin-heads.  Driven by danger, Preston (Or Blackrose, as he prefered at the time) used his powers to drive the attackers away.  He loved the rush of power and confidence that came as a result, and from that point on appointed himself as the protector of his outcast friends as The Flaming Goth.  He busted any skin-head or gangbanger he could find that so much as looked crossly at his protected crowd, but never took any of it seriously.  He used his new found following for social status, and found more women in his bed in those nights than he ever had before.<br/><br/>That naivete ended when his parents were killed as the result of a villain running wild in the city.  Though Preston was never able to fully find out who was responsible, the carefree side of him died that night.  He tried to conduct a serious investigation into his parents death, but no one took the Flaming Goth seriously.  Deciding it was time to change it all, Preston broke contact with his goth crowd and left school.  He rebranded himself as the Living Blaze, a hero the city could actually be proud of.  Though he was never able to find out who sent the robots to the city that eventually killed his parents, the months since have not smashed his sense of duty... even though he has gone to the poor-house for it.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong><br/><br/>Preston Scott is quiet, dark, and thoughtful.  He hates his life and just about everything attached to it, and desperately wishes his mother was there too tell him it would all be better.  Almost brilliant, Preston could have been one of the greatest game designers, but instead works at McDonald's to pay the bills.  Any job with more responsibility than that takes away from his true calling.<br/><br/>The Living Blaze, on the other hand, is a media whore.  He loves his life, he lives to do the right thing and look good doing it.  Though he is not famous world-wide, he has attracted the attention of the media and the people of the city.  He is always happy to give an interview or stop for a photo-op, and the videos that surface of his antics on Youtube tend to receive a lot of traffic.<br/>(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/RequiemOgre/Etc/prestonscott.jpg)<br/>Preston Scott<br/>(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/RequiemOgre/Games/flaminggoth.jpg)<br/>The Flaming Goth