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Name: Shackle
Identity: Jeremy Holland
Age/Gender: 26/Male
Height/Weight: 5'10"/165 lbs.
Hair/Eyes: Brown/Brown
Appearance: Jeremy is a fairly average man, not terribly good-looking but not ugly either. He stands a few inches shy of six feet tall, and has a mostly-fit build to him. His brown hair is kept short, though it gets a bit fuzzy and shaggy sometimes. His eyes are deep brown, and he usually has a bit of a trimmed beard, goatee or something for facial hair. He wears non-descript clothing with a hat and sunglasses usually.
As Shackle, he wears a stylized metallic armored suit, silver and black, with red highlights, with an almost medieval yet futuristic feel to it. He has a bulky sword hilt on his hip with no blade and on each wrist are what look like manacles (not connected to each other).

TRAITS (+1 Spirit from Hindrances)
Agi: d6; Sma: d8; Spi: d8; Str: d4; Tough: d6
Charisma: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 4; Toughness: 5 (+2 power, +6 armor)

SKILLS (+1pt from Hindrances)
Fighting (Agi): d4
Intimidation (Spi): d4
Investigation (Sma): d6
Knowledge (Electromagnetism) (Sma): d6
Knowledge (Metallurgy) (Sma): d6
Notice (Sma): d6
Repair (Sma): d4
Shooting (Agi): d6
Stealth (Agi): d4
Streetwise (Sma): d6

EDGES
Arcane Background (Super-powers)
Marksman

HINDRANCES
Greedy (Minor)
Monologuer (Major)
Ruthless (Minor)

POWERS

Attack, Ranged 2 (3d6) = 5pp
-Armor Piercing AP 4 (+2)
-Requires Material (-1)

Flight 2 = 4pp

Interface = 1pp
-Code Breaker (+1)
-Device (hand-held little Black Box) (-2)

Malfunction = 5pp
-Area Effect (+2)
-Slow to Activate (-1)

Matter Control 2 (Metal) = 4pp
-Range (+2)
-Requires Material (-2)

Toughness 2 = 1pp
-Requires Activation (-1)

GEAR (+$1000 from Hindrances)

Binoculars (Low Light and Infravision as well) (Wt 2, $250)
Cellular Smartphone ($20)
CommLink
Combat Armor (Armor +6, Negate AP4 Ballistic, Wt 4, $200)
Energy Weapon Short Sword (Str+d8, AP4, Heavy Weapon, Wt 4, $700)
-Spare Power Packs (2) (Wt 2, $100)
Flashlight (10” beam) (Wt 3, $20)
Handheld Computer (Wt 1, $250)
Lighter ($2)
Rebreather (Wt 1 lb, $250)
Tool Kit (Wt 5, $200)

Jeremy Holland grew up poor in a bad neighborhood, his father long gone and his mother Kelly struggling to keep a roof over their heads. Jeremy was an introvert, bullied in school (the worst of which was Chuck Dennis), but he studied hard and got good grades. He liked computers, games, and was a social outcast other than a couple of friends who were nerds like him. He kept his head down and dreamed of better days, worlds of fantasy, and revenge. He made it through high school with little problem other than bullying and loneliness, worked odd jobs and saved up money so he could start college where everything would be better. Except it wasn't. It was more of the same. So he persevered, studied hard and graduated early.

After college, he became an intern with a couple of scientists, and later a research assistant for the scientific genius Dr. Henry Caulson, an expert in the fields of electromagnetism and metallurgy. The two worked on a project that would allow for vehicle that would run on the magnetic field of the earth itself, requiring no fuel and no wheels either but would instead float a bit off the ground. In addition they were concurrently working on a project for the United States military, one involving both personal railgun-type weapons as well as close combat weapons utilizing electromagnetic energy to form a blade capable of cutting through tank armor.

Dr. Caulson caught Jeremy copying data and attempting to sell it. The two argued and fought, and Jeremy shoved Dr. Caulson in to the magnetic generator they used for the experiments. One of the gauges must have been damaged for the generator overloaded and exploded shortly thereafter. Dr. Caulson was killed and Jeremy was badly injured and comatose. When he awoke from the coma, everything seemed normal until a few days later. He found he had been changed somehow by the accident, and could control electromagnetic energy and metal.

Of course, being the greedy person he was, he immediately became a super-villain and tried to get rich quick! He fought, and was defeated by, the Hollow Hood many times, yet still managed to make enough money for some fun now and again, as well as afford some parts for machinery. He built a small black box that he could carry with him to help him get in to places and download data to sell on the black market.

Then the V'Sori came and everything changed.