Overview[]

Thomas Shepherd 02 — Troublemaking Speedster


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Name:	Thomas Shepherd
AKA:	None
Codename:	Speed
Age:	17
Race:	Human Mutant
Role:	Neutral
Type:	Marvel FC
Registration:	Unregistered

Speed

Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd is a cynical juvenile delinquent from a broken family. Although not really violent, his mutant abilities make him a nearly unstoppable thief, and added to his anarchist leanings, also quite a prankster and vandal.

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Character Sheet

Abilities: Power

Enhanced Metabolism: 3, Enhanced Stamina: 3, Intangibility: 5, Matter Disruption: 5, Speed: 5

Abilities: Skill

Brawling: 3, Politics: 3, Streetwise: 4, Self-Educated: 3, Petty Thievery: 5

Advantages: A Strange Family, Street Contacts, Well Read

Flaws: Ego, Criminal Record, Impatient, Quick Living

Languages: English

Abilities

Power: Enhanced Metabolism (3)

Tommy's body is build for moving at great speed. His bones, tendons and muscles are stronger and more flexible than a normal human, giving him slightly superhuman strength (Strength 3, he can lift about 1,000 pounds) and some protection from impact (Toughness 3, although impact he causes is controlled by his speed power). He can accelerate himself much more, although not for long periods (objectively speaking, what for Tommy is long for a normal human is brief!). Tommy metabolizes about 95 per cent of all he eats, and he eats three times more than a normal human. He only needs to sleep about two hours a day (although they feel like 8 hours to him). He also heals 5 times faster than normal (Regeneration 2).

Power: Enhanced Stamina (3)

Speed's metabolism is far more efficient than a normal human, allowing him to operate without rest for about 36 hours. However these are subjective hours. He lives at 5 times the speed of a normal human, so he seems to tire as fast as a normal human. If he accelerates himself at maximum speed, he tires 10 times faster than normal, so running for 40-45 minutes at match 5 (which would allow him to run about 2,500 miles) leaves him quite tired. He would needs to rest about 15 minute (a little more than an hour subjective time) and eat a good meal before being able of do it again.

Power: Intangibility (5)

Speed can also use his matter disruption power on himself to 'push' his body through solid items. This is pretty unpleasant for him, although his body can handle it without real damage, so he only does so in emergencies and when moving very quickly (to minimize the time intangible). It does not protect him from energy attacks, since it works only on solid matter.

Power: Matter Disruption (5)

The definitive proof Speed powers are not merely physical is his ability to destroy matter on physical contact. He can make items, even fairly large ones (up to a couple cubic meters) crack, explode or even be reduced to dust by generating hyperkinetic vibrations that accelerate the item molecules in different directions. He can affect plastic, stone, concrete and even most metals. Very strong alloys such as titanium steel or harder can resist his powers unless he pushes (exhausting himself).

Power: Speed (5)

Tommy main mutant power is his ability to move faster than a normal human. He lives in a slow motion world, as his thought processes, metabolism, and reaction speed are about 5 times faster than a normal human being, and he can accelerate himself to even faster. Although he rarely tries to move to supersonic speeds, he is able to run at about 4000 miles per hour when he really wants (this is Match 5). At such speeds he is virtually invisible to the naked eye, he can outrun bullets (and catch them easily if he matches speed with them) and "dodge" energy blasts (they just can't cause him much damage in the brief miliseconds they hit him). His power is both physical and psionic. He has an enhanced metabolism, but he also can control motion mentally. He can perform such stunts as running over water and up walls by redirecting momentum, he can transfer kinetic energy to objects and destroy them, he can survive high speed collisions that should splatter him all over a large area, and he can punch at supersonic speeds without pulverizing his hands. As long as he has caused the motion, he is generally alright. This motion control also protect his clothes as long as they are close enough to his skin. (It does not protect large items or people carried, though).

This accelerated perception of time allows him to multitask easily, making him to seem smarter than he is (he is not a genius, though, just very quick), making him notice details faster and more frequently than normal people (Perception effective 4) and bestow him phenomenal reflexes (Dexterity is up to 9 for some tasks, as he moves and reacts 50 times faster than a normal human)

Skill: Brawling (3)

Tommy has been in plenty of brawls since he was a little kid, so he knows how to handle himself. He has little formal training, but has some experience and can defend himself decently even without powers.

Skill: Politics (3)

Tommy is a bit of a political activist. He is quite interested in the current local and global politics and has studied on his own modern political theory and history.

Skill: Streetwise (4)

Having spent a lot of time in the streets and among gangs, Tommy is quite familiar with the underworld. He knows how to hide, how to fence goods, how to pick pockets, how the police operates, etc. All skills a young delinquent should know and master (he has yet to master them, but he has a good start).

Skill: Self-Educated (3)

While Tommy hasn't yet finished High School...or even attended on a regular basis for a number of years now, he has a keen interest in learning. After all, it's something he can do at his own tempo and speed. While interested in Political activism, he is fairly well read on a number of subjects, depending on what takes his fancy at that particular moment.

Skill: Petty Thievery (5)

Tommy had to learn to survive when he went to live on the streets and the best way he found to do that...and the way that made sure he didn't contract any skanky diseases...was through thievery. He was able to use his speed to his advantage for pickpocketing, shoplifting, and other petty theft. Necessity combined with intellect and speed made him quite the natural at this sort of acquisition.

Advantages

Advantage: A Strange Family

Tommy does not know yet, but he is (kinda, sorta) the son of the Scarlet Witch and Vision, grandson of Magneto, brother of Wiccan and nephew of Quicksilver (with which he shares powers and looks). Surely this is an advantage. Right???

Advantage: Street Contacts

Tommy has been living pretty much on his own for years, spending most of his time in the streets of New York and nearby cities, and he keeps in touch with a lot of odd people, from gangers to bums, petty criminals, not-so-petty criminals, homeless, metas and mutatns living on the streets, honest social workers, even pizza delivery kids, struggling artists and political radicals. Despite his usually 'hyper' mindset, he is not aloof, just cynical, and usually amusing and helpful. So he knows people that tells him things, and sometimes he trades favors with them.

Advantage: Well Read

Living in an altered timeframe has some advantages. Tommy has a lot of 'free time' and has become a voracious reader to combat boredom. He has a large collection in his studio apartment, and a laptop full of ebooks. Normal school is not good for him (so slow!) but he has educated himself better than most people his age, and keeps himself up to date on world events.

Flaws

Flaw: Ego

One can't be shy and humble if they want to survive in this world and no one knows that more than Tommy. He has developed a rather healthy Ego and sense of self-worth, especially when he feels that he's in the right or needs to get defensive for some reason. No doubt it hides deeper feelings which really aren't useful for survival.

Flaw: Criminal Record

Tommy has been a bad boy. He shoplifted, stole cars (for joyriding), wrote graffiti on his last school walls, etc. He was caught a few times, and did some time in juvie, and then had to do social work. This was a couple years ago, but records remain. He hasn't really reformed, he is just too fast to get caught, and he is a runaway. And he no longer steals out or rebelliousness or anger, he does it to survive, to help his friends and to fight 'evil', where evilness is defined by his borderline anarchist political mindset.

Flaw: Impatient

Impatience is relative. Problem is that Tommy's mind is too fast compared to normal people. He is not thoughtless, he is not tactless and he is not aloof. He is not particularly given to rushed decisions (no more than any other teenager, at least). But he can only wait so long to people that. Is. So. Slow. So sometimes his friends and acquaintances will find he has done things without waiting for them, which can be pretty annoying. But, man... they were still arguing about the toppings of the pizza; so he left, brought the pizza, ate his ration, and let them argue about if they liked the toppings or not, and what a jerk is Tommy. He will also organize your DC collection by alphabetical order, because he had 5 spare minutes, was bored and wanted to be helpful. And so you will never find what you were looking for /ever/ again.

Flaw: Quick Living

So Tommy lives five times faster than normal. Also, his metabolism is very efficient, getting more bioenergy out of food (and water and air). This is very good, but simple math proves that he needs to eat, drink and breathe far more than a normal person, roughly 3 times more, and this if he does not speeds himself up to move even faster. Now, food, drink and water are not hard to find in an urban setting so he has yet to run into trouble (although he carries a few energy bars for emergency races). But fact is he suffocates three times faster than average Joe if lacking air, deadly poison will kill him five times faster, drugs will also affect him faster (his metabolism is fast, not poison-proof) although he will also recover faster. A deadly wound... is bad, it is very unlikely medical assistance will arrive in time. Fortunately he does not seem to be aging faster than normal, at least so far.

History[]

Thomas Shepherd doesn't know that he's adopted. He doesn't know that his parents, Frank and Mary Shepherd of Springfield, New Jersey, adopted him from a somewhat shady adoption center in Transia, a small country in Eastern Europe. When Tommy was only a few years old, the marriage began to disintegrate. Frank dove into his work to escape his failing family life and Mary's manic-depression took a major toll on the family's foundation. When Tommy was nine, they finally divorced, but with split custody. The drama became so much that Tommy ran away from home at fourteen and never looked back.

A fourteen year old living on the streets isn't really able to make good decisions and as his mutant abilities started to emerge, Tommy got into a great deal of trouble. He associated himself with gangs, recreational drugs, and petty thievery, all of which garnered him a juvenile criminal record. Imagine his surprise when he was caught and tossed into Juvie to serve a sentence for petty theft. The rehab there did, at least, get through to some part of him and he tried to reform...a little bit. He quit the drugs, left the gangs, and started hanging out with the Bohemian, social activists.

His powers continue to develop as he moved through his teenage years and while he isn't as obvious in his breaking of the laws, at this point, it may be nigh impossible to catch him as he resorts to pickpocketing and shoplifting to make his way. A recent member of the Young Allies, he's slowly learning that others might be depending on him and he might be able to start depending on someone other than himself.

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