<div align="center"> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>SURGE</strong></span> </div><div class="floatleft">Faceclaim</div><div class="floatright">Costume</div><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Information</strong></span><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Tomas "Surge" Rodriguez<br/><strong>Playbook:</strong>The Scion<br/><strong>Gender: </strong>Male<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Straight<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><strong>Height/Build:</strong>5'11, slender-bodied<br/><strong>Hair/Eye Colour:</strong>Black/Black<br/><strong>Faceclaim:</strong>Jay Hernandez<br/><hr/><br/>Tomas is the renegade child and would-be heir of the globally infamous technopath supervillainess<strong>Doctor Apocalypse</strong>. She is a<strong>Grandiose Tyrant</strong>and superhuman supremacist who rules the island nation of Apocalyptia, formerly known as Gradalencia before Dr. Apocalypse conquered it and wiped out the existing benevolent monarchy. Now the island is a haven for all manner of mundane and super-powered criminals, all under the iron-clad fist of its ruler with her<strong>Unrivaled Genius</strong>,<strong>Diabolical Machines</strong>, and<strong>an arsenal of weapons and gadgets</strong>. Their relationship is<strong>full of denial</strong>, as the Doctor continues to believe Tomas will eventually come to his senses and rise up to claim his destiny one way or another.<br/><br/>As the teenage hero Surge, he fights with<strong>Electrokinesis</strong>. He also possesses the powers of<strong>machine control</strong>but refuses to use them in public to avoid further association with his mother.<br/><br/>His mother once fought and thrashed Demi Goddess's father, The Trojan. Tomas feels an obligation to make it up to her for that.<br/><br/><strong>Dyra</strong>is the only one who understands what he's going through. He once confessed to them that he wishes<strong>UNDEFINED</strong>, like his mother.<br/><br/>Has Influence Over:<br/>-Superion<br/>-Dyra<br/><br/>Is Influenced By:<br/>-Skye Knight<br/>-Freight Train<br/><br/>Tomas craves respect from<strong>Thunderbolt</strong>, a speedster and powerful electrokinetic who is Halcyon's<strong>Greatest Hero</strong>. He looks up to the hero as an icon of what he could be without the shadow of his parentage hanging over him, though neither realizes Thunderbolt is actually his biological father by means of a stolen DNA sample.<br/><br/>Tomas also seeks the forgiveness of Lluvia, a teenage superheroine with hydrokinetic powers who is the sole survivor of Guadalencia's former line of ancestral heroes and<strong>his mother's greatest victim</strong>. She was smuggled off the island in secret by loyalist partisans when her family was killed, growing up in Halcyon city and becoming a heroine under a false name and different costume.<br/><br/>He learned about his mother's true nature when<strong>a palace servant</strong>helped him sneak out to see the island and the crushing oppression its people lived under, instead of the sheltered and pampered life he had known.<br/><br/>He turned away from his lineage to become a hero because<strong>his mother was never empathic towards him or interested in what he wanted</strong>, first seeing an interesting science experiment then a convenient successor. He was mostly raised by minions and servants, and identified with them better than he did his parent.<br/><br/>Outside of the team, the only person who supports him is<strong> Scream</strong>, an aged and retired former villain who knows how hard it can be to earn the world's trust.<br/><br/>He cares about the team because<strong>They don't hold his mother's crimes against him</strong>or care what he might do. All the adults - even his mother - see him as an extension of her, an agent in her scheming, or a pawn to hurt her or win her favor. The team looks at him and sees what he wants to become instead.