Thread: Heroes: Emergent  (Character Profiles)

Character Name Benjamin Wintergreen Age 25 Height 5 9 Orientation Straight Power Fear Breath- Benjamin breaths a cloud of black dust whenever someone nearby is afraid, he can manipulate the cloud as if it were solid and use for a variety of ways, mostly offensive. Personality Benjamin is a very cold individual, he grew up without a family and relied on the mean streets of Laredo Texas, running with gangs and getting into trouble with the law. He has no respect for authority figures except for those in the criminal underworld who could do him harm. Benjamin is also a sadist, using his Fear Breath to torture innocent people, particularly women until they are very much near death. Even though Benjamin is considered to be a monster, there is a very small part in the back of his mind that makes him want to be a better person. Bio Benjamin was born in a very poor area of Laredo Texas, the 3rd poorest city in America to essentially the town drunk who was once an NFL football star, and a work from home mother. Growing up, there were days when the family would go without food, or electricity, but everyday there would be domestic abuse. It started on Ben's first birthday, when in a fight with his mother, his father shook him. This didn't affect young Ben physically, but mentally something was broken. For the next several years, he would be the target of his father's abuse. From cigarette burns to being whipped with a belt. His mother not only stood by and watched, but during the nights that he passed out drunk, his mother, being sexually depraved for years, would make love to him. Unaware that it was wrong, Ben felt that since this was the only kind of affection he would get, that such dark sex was a societal norm. By the age of 15, a group of SWAT had got wind of his father being part of the Columbian drug cartels and the two sides had a fire fight, leading to the deaths of his parents and him being taken away to live with his grandmother. During these next few years, Ben developed into a very sick young man and attempted to rape his grandmother, in the chaos and fear, he literally puked up black smoke and strangled her with it, killing a woman who truly tried to help him., without a guardian to guide him, Benjamin began getting into all kinds of trouble and ran with many gangs. During a robbery of a church's donations, Benjamin confronted the priest and learned about forgiveness and religion. Back when he was a baby, hi is father had shaken nearly all the good from his son, except for one tiny corner, leaving just the pure darkness and evil of a twisted human mind. Letting the priest go, Benjamin would continue his terrible acts, but continue to search for forgiveness and a deeper understanding of religion. One day, Ben was arrested on the streets because the priest he had let free had turned into his rat and informed the police of every evil deed he had committed and was sent to life imprisonment, it was here that he joined up with the Aryan Brotherhood. Seeing them as his new family, he tried to prove his worth in the prison system, eventually revealing his powers to the higher-ups of the organization who used him as a hit-man. Realizing that death and destruction was all he knew, Ben decided that he would one day take over the Brotherhood. By the age of 21, Ben alone had instigated a prison riot of nearly 700 very dangerous inmates let loose into the world, himself among them. With the help of the Aryan Brotherhood, he crafted a new identity and became a video game clerk, using his monetary gains to stay out of the public eye and keeping the authorities off his back. Once he was comfortable in his new life, an unexpected visitor showed up at his apartment doorstep his mother. It turns out that she too had a special gift, the ability of hallucinations. She gave her son one during a fight with his father had shot him dead with a gun. Finally free of his influence, she left him on the doorstep of her mother's and kept watch on him this entire time. Using what he learned from the priest, Ben managed to forgive his mother for the abuse she had placed upon him and the emotional scarring, but things took an odd turn when they developed a romantic for them relationship. And finally here we are, in a small town park, away from prying eyes with Benjamin using his powers to strangle a young woman to death, his mother beside him, a smile on her face and her hands around the small of her son's back.