Glimpse PL: 6 [105pp]
Quote:"You can't fight destiny and you are destined to lose!"
Concept:Uncontrolled precognitive teen
Occupation:Student
Base of Operations: Claremont Academy, Freedom City
Real Name:Jordan Henderson
Legal Status:U.S. citizen with no criminal record
Identity:Secret
Marital Status:Single
Height:5'4"
Weight:115 lbs.
Eyes:Green
Hair:Silver
Age:14 years old
Motivation:Responsibility of Power
Complications:Responsibility [school, parents and being a hero], Teen Angst, Secret [identity], Secret [destined to become a girl]
Abilities: STR: 8 [-1] DEX: 14 [+2] CON: 10 [+0] INT: 20 [+5] WIS: 12 [+1] CHA: 12 [+1]
Toughness +6 [+6 flat-footed] Fortitude +1 Reflex +4 Will +6 [+9 vs. Mental Effects]
Skills: Computers 5 [+10], Concentration 5 [+6], Craft [electronics] 4 [+9], Diplomacy 5 [+6], Disable Device 4 [+9], Knowledge [arcane lore] 4 [+9], Knowledge [history] 4 [+9], Knowledge [paranormal] 4 [+9], Knowledge [popular culture] 2 [+7], Knowledge [technology] 4 [+9], Notice 3 [+4], Search 1 [+6], Sense Motive 3 [+4]
Feats:Benefit [Guiding inner voice], Defensive Attack, Dodge Focus 4, Eidetic Memory, Equipment, Improved Throw, Improved Trip, Luck, Speed of Thought, Uncanny Dodge [reality sense]
Powers:Force Field 6 [Progression 1 [increased area, 10-ft.radius/rank], Selective, Subtle; Area [burst]; Requires Concentration Check],
Mind Shield 3,
Probability Control 6 [Jinx, Ranged; Limited to Jinx; Alternate Powers:
Damage 6 [Subtle; Perception Range, Penetrating],
Deflect 6 [all attacks; Free Action],
Move Object 6 [Subtle; Move Action, Perception Range],
Quickness 2 [x5; Mental tasks only],
Super-Senses 4 [Precognition, Uncontrolled]
Combat: Attack +2 Grapple +1 Damage -1 [unarmed]/+6 [Perception range Damage] Defense +6 [+1 flat-footed] Knockback -3 Init +5
Equipment: Uniform, cell phone [1ep], Masterwork laptop [2ep], 2 unspent ep
Abilities 16 + Skills 12 [48 ranks] + Feats 13 + Powers 48 + Combat 8 + Saves 8=105
Notes
Here is Glimpse-Rebooted. His background has been expanded greatly with a lot more detail. His game stats are mostly unchanged, except for increasing his Dodge Focus by 1 and reducing normal Defense by 1, as well as giving him Mental Quickness to represent his rapid speed of thought. His Benefit represents how an inner voice guides him to the general area where his visions will happen, as well as goading him on if he decides to try and ignore them, although that doesn't happen much lately. This same inner voice gives him a sense of reality around him and when something changes, keeping him from being ambushed or caught off-guard.
The few combat feats he has are from taking a self-defense course that including elements of judo. He isn't the best fighter but can hold his own against basic thugs even without his powers. Although if more than 1 or 2 of them take him on, he is in trouble without his powers.
His reality distortion power has a lot of potential, only having begun to explore the potential of it. By tapping into this power he can do many things, the time rift he created in the history section is just one example of a power stunt. Use your imagination to come up with more power stunts he could come up with. But there is a risk with doing large scale stunts too much. And without his powers he is a pushover. Only a PL 1 offensively and a PL 3 defensively. He is still learning what he can do and being trained, so there are a lot of areas to expand in with him. He is good at thinking up plans when needed, using his Eidetic Memory to roll Knowledge [tactics] untrained for now.
Description of Powers:Due to his exposure to the temporal energies from two time rifts, not once but twice, he has some power to see into the future, although the visions are uncontrolled. His inner vice tends to guide him to the general area where the visions are going to take place, goading him on if he tries to avoid it. The visions provide him a degree of protection from mental powers, as his mind seems to be slightly out of phase with normal time.
The power of the temporal energies infused his form, giving him a degree of power to distort reality. Currently he has learned how to use it to mess up others' actions, to causing accidents like something falling on someone, the ground to crack open, etc., to create a distortion field around himself which can is able to deflect any attack and even the power to move objects in a beneficial way to aid Jordan. He has an instinctive ability to create a distortion area around himself, shielding him from harm as well as others within it. He has learned how to control the field, choosing who is affected by it and able to extend it up to a 60' radius. This effect is subtle, only able to be detected by those who can detect reality distortions.
History:
Futures Collide in the Present
Just an ordinary kid, in an ordinary high school, in an ordinary town just 30 miles from one of the most extraordinary cities in the world, Jordan Henderson lead a very sheltered life. Freedom City, a place where dreams came true and heroes lived, if only he could go there. Yet he was stuck in this small town, living what to him was a boring and ordinary life. The old axiom, be careful what you wish for, would soon come to haunt him.
His parents had perfectly normal jobs and worked long hours, Jordan keeping to himself most of the time, trying to avoid the bullies in his neighborhood and the kids at school who teased him, all because he was smart and had a couple of what are considered "weird" interests. Studying up on both technology and history, this alone wouldn't have made him a target. But he was drawn towards the paranormal, finding even just theories fascinating and trying to find a common connection between them all. By the age of 4, he was watching shows about psychic and ones about real magic powers, his parents just thinking he was curious about the world around him.
Leaving him to his own devices, they thought he would grow out of it given time. Many years later and Jordan still had few, if any, real friends to speak of. Mostly hanging out in his room, reading things off the internet and coming up with experiments. He got the nickname of Space Case, chosen by the school jocks as he would zone out into his own little world when reading a book. Short for his age, his scrawny build didn't help things, making him an easy target and some of the bullies saying he should just stick with the girls. Having the highest grades of anyone in his small school's history, the teachers would defend him whenever they could help. It wouldn't be long before all of this changed, an encounter that was destined to happen and would change his life forever.
In the school library one day, something just didn't feel right, as he was all alone and not even the librarian was around. The eerie silence seemed to prevade the room, the air itself seeming alive, when suddenly a loud noise nearby drew Jordan's attention. His own curiosity compelled him to check it out, as he stood up slowly and moved quietly, thinking there was a gas leak in the area as what saw before him couldn't be. An attractive older woman, one whom he knew didn't work at the school, was argueing with someone who looked like him, only a little older. He couldn't hear what either was saying, trying to sneak closer but being nervous, his attention not completely on what was near him. Tripping on the carpet, he bumped into a nearby shelf and knocked one of the books on the floor. This was all it took, as the two figures were alerted to his presence and started to ove towards him. Running in a panic, he didn't realize what was in store for him.
Stumbling into the janitor's closet in a rush, he slipped on some water and ended up falling against some exposed wires in the back of the closet, the school being too cheap to fix such an obvious fire hazard. Convulsing in pain from the electricity surging through his body, he might have died if not for the aid of the strangers, pulling him away from the wiring and water just in time. Dazed and still in pain, Jordan could just barely make out what they were saying, find it strange and thinking he had brain damage. Something about the future and past, something about not messing with the timeline to fix something which had happened for a reason. Slipping into unconsciousness, the pain finally overwhelming him, he awoke later to find himself in the nurse's office. No sign of the strangers was left and when he tried to tell her what happened, she thought he was still in shock and had just hid in the closet from some bullies. Trying to calm him down, she said to stay laying down, til his parents showed to pick him up and take him home.
Minor Changes Build Up Over Time
All seemed normal at first, as Jordan simply went back to his studies, still getting bullied for being smart, although the staff kept a closer eye on him after the incident. Had it all been a hallucination brought on by severe electrical shock, a strange dream he equated to something while he was awake? Not dwelling on the matter, things began to take a turn for the strange less than a week after the incident. While walking down a school hallway to class, a suddenly, blinding headache hit him and he leaned on the way to stop himself from falling. Images began flashing before his mind's eye, things he had never seen before, a scene of something which he couldn't possibly be seeing with his normal senses. In the next hallway, the school janitor was going to change a lightbulb, not noticing the loose wiring which was jutting out from a hole in the wall, electrocuting him to death.
Jordan thought it was an aftereffect of the incident, trying to brush it off as some weird daydream or his overactive imagination. But he couldn't ignore it, as a strange voice inside his head said to go check it out. The pain was too much to ignore, so he followed the voice's advice and rushed to check out what was going on. But what he saw next shocked him, the janitor was about to climb up a metal ladder to change a lightbulb, unaware of the danger. Yelling as loud as he could, Jordan warned him of the loose wiring, as the janitor stopped just in the nick of time. Looking up, he finally saw the loose wiring jutting out from the hole in the wall, exposed and a threat to anyone who came near. The school was pushed into action by this, bringing in an electrician to fix the problem, as well as to look over the rest of the school's wiring, least something like this happen again.
Thinking it was a fluke, a one-time thing, Jordan tried to brush it off and go on with his life. Whatever force was guiding him had other plans, as just two days later he once again got a painful headache while heading out to the school parking lot. A vision in his mind's eye once again, showing a cheerleader out in the parking lot, being ran over by some idiot who was speeding and not paying attention to where he was going. Something inside him once again compelled Jordan to rush to the area and see what was going on. He arrived just in time to see the car as it was speeding and about to turn towards the area where the vision took place.
In a surge of adrenalin, he ran all-out and tackled the cheerleader out of the way just in the nick of time. The speeder was caught and had his license taken away for a year, his reckless actions almost hurting or killing someone. The cheerleader actually began to talk to Jordan, thanking him for saving her, and telling him her name. Lisa Vernon, one of the most popular cheerleaders, turned out to be friendly as well, and over a few weeks time they became friends. She took a great liking to Jordan, despite what her friends said, even finding they shared a common interest in magic. The gazes from others would sometimes bug him, until LIsa said to never mind what others thought, that all that mattered was they were friends now.
Everything seemed to be going great in his life, Jordan was on top of the world and even had newfound popularity, thanks both to saving more lives and being friends with Lisa. But then something else began to happen, as things began to act strangely around him, the energy which seemed to be in the air on the day of the accident seemed to be around him all the time now. Jealousy leads to acts of stupidity sometimes, a some of the more violent and less intelligent of the football players didn't like his relationship with Lisa. Deciding to teach this nerd a lesson, they cornered him one day after school, with the intent to get their point across to Jordan about staying away from Lisa...hard.
Reality is What You Make It
As the jocks began to surround him, no help in sight, Jordan just wished they couldn't touch him, that they would just back off and leave him alone. Closing his eyes, ready for the blows to come, all he heard as a swishing noise, time after time, as he didn't feel one strike hit him. Opening his eyes, he saw a strange haze, similar to a mirage, around him, as the jocks missed with blow after blow. They didn't seem to take the hint, thinking it was a fluke and that they would teach this little punk a lesson still. Attacking him to no avail, Jordan just wished they would be scared off and leave him alone already, as it was getting late.
The very street below them began to crack, breaking open before the terrified eyes of the bullies. Not being completely dense, they ran for their lives, thinking a sinkhole was opening or an earthquake was hitting the area, not wishing to die over a little nerd. As he was safe for the time being, Jordan calmed down and simply ran home, glad that was all over. Back at home all he could think of was what happened, how such improbable things all happened around him. Researching on the internet about anything involving strange occurances similar to what happened to him, it took what seemed like hours to find even a simple answer. From chaos theory and reality distortions, to time-space anomalies, page after page of theories came up with few answers. As he concentrated on a piece of paper, a simple experiment, he tried to will it to burst into flames. But the result wasn't what he wanted, as it instead exploded into a pile of shreaded bits of paper.
He knew something was up, wishing to figure it out fast, before he caused trouble or got innocents or those he cared about hurt. As more visions came, with more lives saved and diasters averted, all the while this strange chaos power of his grew stronger. With time and more research, he found some more reliable sites, one which finally answered the question of what this power is. Somehow, he had gained the power to affect time and space, distorting reality by doing so. It was probably another power he gained from the accident, although he didn't dwell on that for long. Keeping his powers secret from everyone, he didn't wish to worry his parents or worst of all, be considered a freak, especially by Lisa of all people.
Big Mistake, Messing With History
As the powers began to take their toll on him, he began to have more and more visions, each time feeling compelled to help out, despite being exhausted from getting little sleep. He began to suffer from severe sleep deprivation, not thinking clearly and just wishing all of it to stop. He forced his new power in a way he only dreamed possible til then, opening a rift in time to the past. As he stepped thorugh the rift, he was exhausted by the effort but his only wish, his current drive, was to stop this hectic life. He couldn't know the consequences of his actions til it was too late.
As he exited the rift, he found himself standing in the school library, almost one year ago in the past. As he snuck around, slipping between book shelf after book shelf, trying to remain unseen as he knew his younger self was nearby. He didn't want a repeat of what happened the first time, he would get it right and insure he didn't get these stupid powers in the first place. As neared his goal, the closet where all of this started, intent on covering the exposed wiring before his younger self reach it, something unexpected happened. Another rift appeared before him, his mouth open in awe as he saw a woman which could only be described as "healthy" steped through, wearing a knee-length red dress. She appeared to be only in her early 20s, but most shocking of all was her hair. The same long silver hair, although longer than his was, as Jordan had gained in the accident.
"Stop. You have no idea of what you are doing, of all the lives which would be lost and even more caused by the temporal quake caused by stopping yourself from gaining your powers. I know it is hard to hear, you probably doubt my understanding of your situation. But in time you will come to understand why you have these powers, you just need to learn to be patient." she said, in the most angelic voice he had ever heard, as the young boy just gazed upon her in awe. Suffering from severe fatigue, Jordan was shocked and angry now, tired of all the weirdness, tired of the responsibility these powers came with. Raising his voice to her, what came next he couldn't believe. "How would you, could you know wiat it is like! Having to deal with these powers, the responsibility they force upon me. You can't have any idea of just how stressful it is, not knowing when the next vision will come, when someone will need my help once again, whether I want to help or not. Please, please. Let me stop all of this, so I can live a normal life once again." Jordan said in a harsh tone, breaking down in tears at stating the last part, the lack of proper sleep finally taking its toll.
She walked over and place his head on her shoulder, trying to sooth him. "I'm so sorry, I'm so, so sorry. I know what you are going through and more of why, more than you can imagine. But I'm afraid it is too late, far too late to change the past. By trying to do so, you have set off a chain of events where you will undergo a drastic transformation. You see, I'm not some strange woman you have never met before. I'm you, 10 years from your time, 24 years old now. By causing this second exposure to dramatic temporal energies to yourself, you have triggered the chain of events which leads to this in the future. I can't tell you when it will happen, you must just wait and see like I did. Oh, and the accident with the electrical wiring didn't give us these powers. The temporal energies caused by both of us appearing here at the same time, the very temporal rifts we opened, are what gave us these powers. A word of warning, which I don't wish you to learn the hard way. Any attempts to reverse this event or prevent them from happening will always result in more changes for you in the future. For the sake of yourself, as well as myself, please don't do so anymore." the woman before him said, leaving a shocked Jordan standing there, staring with his mouth gapping open at all she had said.
But the chain of events continued once again, as they heard a sudden noise, spotting the past Jordan running for it, panicked thinking they had noticed him but only came to check on the source of the noice. As they heard cries of pain familiar to both of them, they realized what was going on and dragged their past self free from the electricity and water. As they propped him up against the library wall as he yelled out for help, the past Jordan was dazed and could only make out bits and pieces of what was being said by the two figures. "Now that you see what can happen if you attempt to change the past, understand what I said was true. Any more attempts will result in even more changes than I and you caused. I'm your current future self, any more attempts to change the past will result in the creation of an alternate timeline, one where you will suffer even more changes than you see I have." the female Jordan said as she helped up her younger self.
As he nodded in agreement, Jordan couldn't believe that he had caused himself to gain these powers, that he must take responsibility for his own actions. As he watched his future, female self step back through her own time rift and her own time, Jordan hung his head down, and headed back through his own time rift, realizing this would be his future. He was going to have a lot to get used to, he realized at least his wish to not have such a boring life here had been granted.
A Big Move, Accepting Fate
Driven more now by his own sense of responsibility than by an unexplained compulsion, Jordan worked harder than ever to help out when his visions came. Concerned for his health, his parents saw him looking paler and paler, as he was keeping strange hours, only able to get about 4 hours of sleep a night on average. Rather than ask him what was wrong and have him deny it, they jumped to conculsions with little evidence. They thought the stress of dealing with bullies in school was affecting his health, with only one plan to deal with it without embarassing their son. Moving to a new place, they took up residence in Freedom City, moving into an apartment building in the Midtown area. Their new jobs paid more than ever and they could even work at home sometimes, it still wasn't right to Jordan, upset over leaving his friend Lisa behind. If only he could tell them about all that had happened, they would understand. But if they heard the story and saw his powers, they might freak out or worse.
But his first day at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School came with another shock, as Lisa was going there as well. It seems their little town was changing fast, as many businesses were transfering their people to new and bigger offices in Freedom City, all to make room for new developments in the small town. Back together with his best friend from his home town, Jordan quickly settled into the new school, having many classes together with Lisa. He helped her out when she needed it, using it as an excuse to spend time with her more and more. But what worried him was the nature of his new home city. With so many superheroes and villains around and trouble around the bend, it would be hard to keep his powers hidden for long.
Going about his routine as usual, it seemed there wasn't as much trouble he was drawn to, thanks to the heroes in the city dealing with it before he could most of the time. But one day on the way home from school, right after having walked Lisa to her place, another vision came and it was big. He recognized the boy from the news, Chase Atom of the Atom family. He was being attacked and nearly killed by a human-sized robot as it began to overpower him. Not knowing how or why, Jordan simply felt compelled to run as fast as he could, towards the Goodman Building, despite never having even walked past it before. As he arrived, it seemed once again he was just in time, as he spotted the robot as it first lunged at Chase from hiding. Unleasing a focused reality distorting on the thing, he couldn't believe it when it simply shorted out and shut down.
His brave actions though had a consequence he had been trying to avoid, bringing him to the attention of the Freedom League. Just as he was about to run for it, Captain Thunder and Lady Liberty arrived on the scene, blocking his escape. He fessed up about having powers, being drive to act on visions he couldn't control. The two famous heroes took the young boy home, where his parents were shocked as he was flown onto the balcony by none other than Captain Thunder himself. With a bit of nudging by the 2 heroes, Jordan began to tell his parents of all that happened to him since the incident, leaving out the part about being fated to become female and how he caused himself to gain these powers, not thinking they could handle that just yet. They were shocked by this news, but still loved their only son. Hearing how he had some trouble controlling his powers still, they agreed it was best for him to learn how to control these powers better, maybe even becoming a hero.
Being told about the Claremont Academy by Captain Thunder, they thought it was a god-sent that Jordan had been found out. In just a few short days, he was enrolled in the Claremont Academy, being shown around by a senior student before finally being shown to his own dorm room. Settling in for the long haul, Jordan knew that destiny and fate wouldn't let him change what happened, nor what will be. Based on the expression on his future self's face when she discussed the matter with him, Jordan knew it would be about a year, two tops at most, before he would be one of the girls. Maybe even sooner, he wasn't so good at reading others. At least he would have more in common with Lisa, they could hang out without her parents worrying.
But somehow Fate had more surprises in store for him, as only a few days after his own enrollment into the Claremont Academy, he found out Lisa was being enrolled as a fellow student, using the codename of Blur. But the story of how Lisa gained her powers and came to be at the Claremont Academy is saved for her and the tale of her own journey onto the path to being a hero.
Description:Jordan is a short [5'4"] and slight [115 lbs.] boy with little muscle tone for his age, being slight of build. He is somewhat agile and fast due to his slender build. He has silver hair kept slightly long for a boy and intense green eyes whose gaze can intimidate those larger than him. His typical outfit is a simple pair of blue jeans, a green tee-shirt and a pair of broken in tennis shoes most of the time. He has been given a basic student training uniform for now.
History is the same, except for the last two years and the fact that any events of the past 10+ years I don't know didn't happen. More details and stuff to come [relatively] soon.
I'm trying to go through all of the previous characters I've made and haven't done a Rebooted version for yet. Done to 31 now. 
At least I've figured out a trick to speed it up, copy and paste the previous history and stuff to the Rebooted version. Then go through and type up a new history, using what is there, fleshing it out and adding in new details as I think them up.