Update:
Busy real life is being busy. lol
I've got a base character done for Dr. Smash (Using the M&M 3e Basic Heroes Handbook) and am working on converting him for more advanced play. Here's what I have so far:
Name: Dr. SMASH
Secret ID: Fabian Semsch
Abilities: (Big)
STR 5 (12) STA 4 (12) AGI 0 DEX 1 FGT 6 INT 2 AWE 3 PRE 4
Defenses:
Tough +5 Dodge +8 Parry +8 Fortitude +5 Will +6
Skills:
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2
Games: Perception 4, Tech 4, Vehicles 4
Piloting: Perception 4, Vehicles 8
*Academics: Expertise (Tech 4, Science 4); Perception 4
[Perception: 12, Science 4, Tech: 8, Vehicles 12]
Advantages:
Power Attack
Protective: Interpose, Teamwork
Unstoppable: Improved Smash, Takedown
Power Suite: (Metamorph)
Alternate Form (sustained):
Enhanced Stamina 8
Enhanced Strength 7
Immunity 10 (Life Support)
Impervious Toughness 12
Leaping 4
Limitations:
Due to some sort of strange fluctuation of his dna-alteration, when Fabian sleeps or is knocked unconscious, he automatically reverts to his normal, human form. When awake, he almost immediately shifts back to his “Doc” form, and actually has to concentrate to remain as the smaller, Fabian.
Background and Orign:
Fabian Semsch was a cyber-aeronautics engineer working for the Factor Five corporation, a think tank group that professed a goal of pushing the boundaries of technological advancement in aeronautics beyond what was generally thought possible..and to do it generally at a handsome profit. While far from a genius in his general studies in college, Fabian proved to be a near-prodigy when it came to cyber-aeronautics and any related computer technologies. He earned his Masters degree at Perez University by the time he was 22 and was well on his way to his Doctorate degree when he was hired by Factor Five. He received the degree during his second year there.
Brazen and arrogant as only a young prodigy can be, Fabian might not have always been well liked by his fellow technicians, but he was still often consulted on different experimental technologies that the company was developing. One of these was the Regenesis Capacitor Engine, a revolutionary generator and battery that if successful, would revolutionize the way the world handled power distribution for planes, jets, and even space-bound shuttles around the world. It was this device that would change Fabian’s life forever. That, and the appearance of the small-time supervillain, Psychophant...a mutated man with chaotic powers that necessitated a need to feed in a parasitic manner on other people and creatures. Using these abilities, his threat level would ebb and flow, depending on his last feeding, as a side affect was the occasional draining of super-powers from any heroic or villainous victims.
Psychophant learned of the Regenesis engine from media stories and decided that a near-unlimited source of energy might be just the thing he needed to resolve his unique issues and to gain ridiculous levels of power. And so, during one of the test runs of the machine’s power surging protections, the villain broke into the lab and interrupted the testing. Security was called, but Psychophant overpowered them and took the device, breaking it’s protective casing and drawing on it’s energies to great effect.
Immense levels of plasmatic energy surged into the villain’s body, and he began to glow...and grow, both physically and in power levels. Psychophant began to go giddy with power and started to destroy the laboratory around him. The lab was quickly evacuated. Mostly...
Reading the instruments in the lab and knowing that the uncontrolled growth of the Regenesis capacitor’s surges, it was not only possible, but likely that the villain’s body would either go into a state of sub-nuclear meltdown and implode, or worst case scenario...explode with the power of a nuclear bomb.
In a rare moment of selflessness, Fabian charged out of his hiding spot and lept from a 2nd floor balcony onto the still growing Psychophant, climbing up to where he could reach the Capacitor and used his expertise to somehow reverse the polarity of the energy fields!
The results were instantaneous. Suddenly, the power drained from the villain rather than flowing towards him, and after a few moments of this, the Regenesis engine, which was not designed to absorb external energy...exploded. Half of the laboratory was destroyed in the blast and Psychophant was violently knocked unconscious.
When security and emergency forces arrived on the scene, they found that the young technician was miraculously alive and ...changed. Apparently Fabian had somehow absorbed a good deal of the energy and by doing so, altered his DNA in quite surprising ways. He’d grown almost a foot taller and gained a few hundred pounds of what appeared to be pure muscle. His skin had taken on a pale hue and his hair was all but gone.
Disoriented when EMTs first approached him and asked who he was, the engineer had tried to say, “Doctor Fabian Semsch.”, but what those present heard was something closer to a gravely mumbled, “Doc-tor iamm...Sma...sh..”
Personality:
While still retaining a bit of his former arrogance, recent events have given Fabian a new view on life, and he’s working hard on his social skills, tempering his sarcasm with humor, and actually trying to make friends with those around him. He actually believes himself lucky to be alive, and is doing his best to work through the emotional issues that come with spending a good deal of your time like a hulking creature that makes people stare.
When “powered up”, he will answer to either Fabian or Dr. Smash, but generally tells his friends and co-workers to call him Doc.
