Thread: The Gifted (Character Profiles)

Username Clockwork Name Evrard Cheval Alias The Galatean RacePower The Galatean's primary abilities are the result of what he would almost certainly refer to as his 'unfortunate condition'- that of a disembodied psychic entity. He is capable of entering, inhabiting, and animating obdurate matter with consummate skill, and his preferred and self-created bodies often contain numerous refinements and surprises for the unwary criminal. RacePower Details In his natural, free-roaming form, The Galatean has only two abilities the first, a delicate but not excessively powerful telekinetic field, allowing him to shape his intended vessel, and the second, the ability to enter and possess that vessel. Once he has exercised this second ability, he cannot leave his surrogate body until its destruction. When embodying a vessel, the Galatean is capable of manipulating its members with tremendous delicacy and not inconsiderable force. Immune to the constraints of ordinary musculature and the ravages of fatigue, he is vastly more quick and considerably more durable than a typical human, capable of great leaps, sprints, and strikes. He has neither a physiological nor an emotional need for rest or sleep, and can therefore track his chosen prey indefinitely. Without the need to breathe or eat, he can survive at the bottom of the ocean or in the midst of deadly nerve agents or viruses. Besides these broad immunities, his animating will maintains the integrity of his form in the face of all but the most vicious blows detached limbs or hands remain under his control, and even at its most battered, his surrogate body is still at least somewhat functional until completely destroyed. His senses can operate through any portion of his body marked with even a symbolic representation of an eye. As a carry-over from his days as a professional thief, the Galatean is reasonably skilled at avoiding notice and circumventing security measures. His present body contains a number of mechanical refinements, notably multiple detachable grappling lines and a number of concealed needles or piercing blades, most containing a reservoir of a knockout compound. Smoke grenades, caltrops, and other typical tools of the vigilante's trade are stored in internal compartments, as is a custom-built police-band scanner. His present body's outer layers are a high-impact ceramic material, with an inner structure of titanium. Background known The files of interpol list a renowned thief by the name 'Evrard Cheval' as both not apprehended, and deceased. The first is true. The second, properly speaking, is not but given his apparent reform, the world law-enforcement community is prepared, for now, to let him enjoy the fruits of his clandestine labor. The fact that he operates most often from countries without extradition treaties with England may have something to with this forbearance. The circumstances of his death also contribute something to the explanation evidently when a group of rabble-rousing anarchists attempted to recruit him for fundraising purposes, he not only declined, but went so far as to put his skill at stealth and legerdemain to disable the majority of their explosive devices. Regrettably, he was not able to similarly disable their guns, and only a latent psychic talent saved his soul from dying with his body. Background unknown by the populous The Galatean's history is, for the most part, a matter of public record. His present methodologies and activities, however, are not. While he is known to have apprehended a considerable number of dangerous career criminals, he has made an equally considerable number of incorrigibles 'disappear'. Not all were even perpetrators of violent crime, and the motives for these actions are unclear. Under a number of aliases, and utilizing very sophisticated false bodies, the Galatean is also carrying on a number of simultaneous love affairs with women and men highly placed in society here, too, his motives are mysterious. Those who have even a few pieces of this puzzle speculate that the Galatean's vigilantism conceals a deeper agenda but what it might be, none can say. Appearance The Galatean's preferred form is, at its base, a dull, nondescript gray. It is there, however, that all notion of unremarkability ends. The surface of his form is inlaid, in what can only be the work of hours and days, with a filigree brocade of iron and silver. His spherical joints are highly polished, and, similarly, engraved with whorled designs. His hands- all four of them- are unnaturally long-fingered, each containing a second thumb opposite the first. His feet are, in fact, merely another pair of hands, and similarly as agile. The palms of all are ornamented with a cabochon garnet in the center of a stylized eye. The head, eerily hairless and only nominally human in shape, is inlaid with garnet, ivory, and jet to resemble a bauta , a carnival mask the mask, however, lacks any holes for eyes. His chest is, instead, provided with six thereof, and, like those on his hands, they are gems. In a nod to his past as a prodigious lover, a heavily stylized representation of a male member ornaments his groin, twisting in upon itself like a perverse ourobouros. Not infrequently, he affects a half-cape in scarlet over his left shoulder otherwise, he seldom wears any clothing. While this is his preferred form, it is by no means his only body his manor in the alps contains a number of spares and special-purpose models.