Lionized

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Lionized
Player: @Talen Lee
Origin: Natural
Archetype: Blaster
Security Level: Striga Clearance
Personal Data
Real Name: Leander Callum
Known Aliases: None
Species: Human
Age: Confidential
Height: Confidential
Weight: Confidential
Eye Color: Confidential
Hair Color: Confidential
Biographical Data
Nationality: Confidential
Occupation: Police Special Detective
Place of Birth: Confidential
Base of Operations: Confidential
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Confidential
Known Powers
None
Known Abilities
Astonishingly sharp mind
Equipment
Concussion taser, poisoned knife, two pistols, personal forcefield generator, and investigation onboard wearable computer
No additional information available.
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
- Sherlock Holmes

Contents

Character

Leander Callum's personnel reports throughout his time in the Police Service have had a common thread running through them: "Callum is professional and sensible when conducting his duties, yet has clearly issues controlling his frustrations."

Leander's stern manner and his history as a patrolman in post-Meta Detroit City[1], Leander has developed both a strong respect for the rule of law, and a rising, roiling anger at those who are charged with enforcing it and failing in doing so.

Spoiler warning: Details about a player-created storyline, or information currently unrevealed about a character, follow.
As a behavioural modifier, Leander regularly doses himself with a dubiously-legal narcotic on the recommendation of a medical professional. Since the drug in question is legal to use, but not legal to own, or legal to purchase, this drug's application is the strong thread that binds him to the PPD Special Offenders Unit - who are using special dispensation to keep Leander in-supply of the narcotic.

Unfortunately, the drug itself is heavily behavioural-influencing, and while, after partaking, Leander is able to diminish his intense form of super-sensitivity to detail, the actual dose itself is best compared to a cocaine high, during which time he's unuseful as a police officer. He therefore only takes the drug when he's off duty and able to sleep off the effects. While enjoying the aftermath of the drug, however, Leander is very much a workaholic, desiring things to keep his mind active as long as he is able.

Leander is addicted, but not to the drug itself, but rather to the detective he can be when he's using it.
Spoilers end here.

Powers

Leander is a 99th percentile human; that is to say, his DNA is mostly identical to other humans, and features no metahuman mutations that are most in common with mutant-origin heroes.

Thanks to a minor birth defect, Leander suffers from a form of autism that diminishes his ability to 'filter' the details in the world around him. Thanks to years of discipline, rather than being helpless and thrown around by a thousand details he can't manage, Leander has managed a number of mneomic tricks. In practice, he has a somewhat Sherlock-Holmes-like sense of observation; a thousand details leap to his attention and affirm his sense of the world around him.

Leander is, however, despite his very competent level of physical ability and acuity in the mind and the eye, not able to threaten meta threats without help. For this reason he packs a force taser, a glowing white concussive device that he can use to throw enemies away from himself, and a pair of 'Showstopper' style Meta-Threat Responder firearms.

Metatext

RP Notes

Themes

Lionized's origin point stemmed from the relization that when I created The Rose Paladin, he was by and large too extreme a lawful man. Josiah was never going to have those moments of doubt, the periods where people would doubt his character, because by his cleaving so firmly to the principles in which he believed, he was simply not something with which most people could interact. This difficulty started me to consider a more moderate Josiah - a more reasonable man who could fulfill the role of the 'good cop' in a narrative. Able to walk into a dive bar without the same Benton-Fraser style reaction.

This left me with a character like Josiah, who I needed somehow to keep on the chaotic side of lawful. Someone who could be more reasonable in their day-to-day dealings with individuals; Josiah would never be rude or mean to those who disagreed with him, but he would lose a large body of social options.

So Lionized, after being tempered by old Sherlock Holmes stories, an interest revitalised by the Robert Downey Jr movie, was shaped to represent a central theme of Moderation. This theme helped shape his subsequent characterisation.

Trivia

References

  1. "Like the worst parts of Somalia and Sarajevo. Here's your goddamn Libertarian paradise."
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