Cortex
Power Level: 10 (150/150) Trade-Offs: ; -5 Defense +5 Toughness Unspent Power Points: 0
In Brief: Brain in a Jar - Telekinesis as a side-effect
Residence: A Jar Base of Operations: Still a Jar
Theme:
Catchphrase: Quite.
Alternate Identity: Identity: Axon Cerveau Birthplace: Louisiana Occupation: None Affiliations: Family: Father: Monsieur Cerveau (Super Villain Mad Scientist and Inventor and [Minor] Mentalist – Location Unknown), Mother: Unknown.
Description: Age: 16 Apparent Age: Only an experienced neurosurgeon can tell. Gender: Male Ethnicity: Caucasian Height: 2” Weight: 16 lbs Eyes: none Hair: none
Power Descriptions: Multicolored swirls of telekinetic force coalescing in beautiful fractal bands.
History: Axon grew up never knowing his parents. Raised by nannies and boarding schools, until he was summoned on his 13th birthday to “a lair” (And who has a lair anyway?) to reclaim his family legacy. A legacy of mad science and super-villainy. A legacy he wanted no part of. But he accompanied his father on his heists, never sure if it was out of fear or curiosity. He even created a few rudimentary devices. But then there was the accident. A hot screaming agony where his were not the only screams. And then darkness. The endless monotony of it. How long he spent in that state, alone in the dark with only his thoughts. Calendars said it was only a few months, but that can’t possibly be right. He could swear it was years. Years, spent clawing back to interaction. To a form of sight. His father studied, poked, prodded, and tested him. Helped him to grow his new gifts. Wanted him to join him again. Axon would do anything to escape the boredom. But his new found powers connected him to the victims, he could feel their heartbeats, their pulses, their terror. Axon renounced his father, renounced villainy, and legacy, and is trying to forge his own path. Claremont is another boarding school, yes, but this one will be different.
Personality & Motivation: Axon’s personality is in flux. He was a spoiled kid who never had the love of his parents, and never knew his mother. He was raised by hired hands. Then manipulated by his brilliant father. He spent months recovering from the total loss of his body, and then the thrill of being able to do things beyond the kin of mortal man. He isn’t stable, entirely. But he has had a lot of time alone with his own thoughts, and he trusts that he’ll settle down. One thing he doesn’t want is to ever cause fear again.
Powers & Tactics: Axon is nervous about causing direct damage to people. He has in the past, but he doesn’t care for it. He creates force constructs and rips things from people’s grasp. He prefers non-violent methods of containment. His BrainSphere has no method of propulsion built into it. He takes great joy in flying around like a giant glass ping-pong ball. The BrainSphere does have a network of sensors that replicate many basic sensors, and turn his brain signals into verbal (speakerphone) communication.
Complications:
Not a Normal Teenager: Axon might be able to throw a car with his mind, but he can’t really drive it.
Genetics isn’t Destiny: His father might have been a mad scientist, but that doesn’t mean Axon has to, even if the odd doomsday device does pop into his head at the most inconvenient of times.
Survivor’s Guilt: Axon became a brain in a jar when his father saved him from an explosion that killed hundreds, an explosion that his father caused. It’s when he first the truth of what his father was, and that he and he alone survived. The guilt hasn’t begun to untangle.
There’s No Going Back: Whatever perpetuating nutrient bath he’s been stored in, his brain has grown. He’s the largest human brain on record. Even if a body could be cloned or regenerated, he’d never fit.
Boredom is a form of Torture: A brain is designed for multi-channel input. Axon will do anything not to be so endlessly, ceaselessly bored.
Abilities: 16pp =-10 + 0 + 0 + 8 + 14 + 4
STR: +0 (-)
DEX: +0 (10)
CON: +0 (10)
INT: +4 (18)
WIS: +7 (24)
CHA: +2 (14)
Combat: 0pp= 0
Attack: +1 (Size)
Melee:+1 Ranged +1
Defense: +1 (Size)
Flatfooted: +1
Grapple:-4 (size)
Initiative: +0 ()
Saves: 18pp = 5+10+3
Toughness: +10 Impervious / +15 Impervious (+10 BrainSphere, +5 Forcefield)
Fortitude: +5 (+5 Con +0)
Reflex: +10 (+10 Dex +0)
Will: +10 (+3 Wis +7)
Skills: 8pp (32 ranks)
Bluff 5 (+7)
Knowledge (Tactics) 10 (+14)
Knowledge (Technology) 10 (+14)
Notice 3 (+10)
Sense Motive 4 (+11)
Feats: 5pp
Diehard
Inventor
Jack-Of-All-Trades
Luck 2
Powers: 28 + 5 + 5 + 68 = 106pp
BrainSphere Brain in a Jar (Device 7) (Hard to lose; 35pp Pool, Descriptor: Technological)[28pp]
Immunity 13 (Aging, Critical Hits, Life Support, Starvation & Thirst)[13pp]
Protection 10 (Impervium Glass, Extra: Impervious 10) [20pp]
Super Movement 1 (It Floats!, Water Walking) [2pp]
Shrinking 4 (Extra: Permanent, PF: Innate) [5pp]
Super Senses 5 (Ranged: Touch, Penetrates Concealment, Descriptors: Mind & Training) [5pp]
Big Ole Brain! (Array 20) (default power: Move Object; 61pp array, Pfs: Alternate Power 3, Dynamic 4)[68pp]
DBE: Move Object 20 (Extras: Range (Perception); Pfs: Precise)[61/61pp]
DAE: Create Object 20 (Extras; Impervious 15; Pfs: Progression: Object Size (250 Ft Cubes), Precise) [61/61pp]
DAE: Flight 5 (250 MPH)[10/61pp]
DAE: Force Field 6 (Extras: Impervious)[12/61pp]
Drawbacks: Disability (No Body, Very Common, Minor) [-3pp]
Totals: Abilities 16 + Skills 8 (32 ranks) + Feats 5 + Powers 106 + Combat 0 + Saves 18 + Drawbacks -3 = 150
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