Leap Year

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== Powers ==
Sebastion is pretty much just a normal kid, above average intelligence perhaps, but nothing outstanding. He began his hero career with some souvenirs of his inter-dimensional travels the most powerful of which were a modular blaster pistol (including adhesive, flash, kinetic, EMP, smoke, and stun ammunition), and a wormhole generating belt. 
After returning from the exotemporal void where he had been trapped, Seb had absorbed a quantity of temporal and dimensional energies which granted him a limited control over physical space, the ability to temporarily exit the flow of time, to collapse local temporal variances (resulting in brief burst of multiple/duplicate Sebs) and to tear holes in space in a much cruder, but more powerful manner than his former belt. 
These powers were expended in an effort to fix a temporal drain the Zodiac Tree was causing, and help recover some of the damage it had caused as a result, rendering Seb once again a regular human. 
== Background ==
=== Pre-Big Team ===
His story began when a strange dark skinned man a couple years older than him showed up and told him that he was in danger. It turns out Sebastion is the nexus point for a diverging continuity line resulting in either one of the worlds greatest heroes… or great villains.
Sebastion is just a normal kid, no super powers, above average intelligence maybe, but nothing notable by Halcyon’s standards. His son however is a being of great potential; in one timeline this potential is realized in the Hero Epoch, a genius technopath with an affinity for time related abilities who is one of the premier heroes in the Halcyon of the mid to late 2000s. In the other timeline Seb’s son instead becomes the scourge of Halcyon known as Quantum Knight, a being who abuses time manipulation, and an advanced suit of armor to make Halcyon cower in fear.
The events leading to Quantum Knight travelling back to attempt to abduct Sebastion are unclear, but Epoch suspects it was an attempt to prevent himself from being born (collapsing the divergent timelines into a hellscape of Quantum Knight’s personal dominion). Able to sense the ripples of this event Epoch enlisted his mentee’s aid to prevent Quantum Knight from succeeding.
Doc Infinity was a young man with the ability to locally manipulate time, and the drive to help make the world a better place. After equipping him with a device to augment his abilities Epoch sent him back to intercept Sebastion before QK could get to him and take him away from earth, tasking him with keeping Sebastion safe until Epoch could devise a way to defeat QK permanently.
Due to the nature of the events around Sebastion, Doc continued to age normally, while Seb remained temporally locked into the age from which he’d been removed from his home reality. The only way for Seb to actually begin moving forward again was for him to return back to the time he had left from. Unfortunately to do so would immediately alert QK to their location and thus they spent 12 years out amongst the stars, alternate earths, realities where earth never existed in the first place and many other stranger places and times before Epoch finally contacted them with the plans for a device that should be able to protect Earth from Quantum Knight’s manipulations.
With another relative year or preparation, securing the aid of allies they’d made on their journeys the device was complete and they were finally ready to make their stand. The two returned at last to earth and Halcyon city and as was inevitable Quantum Knight was soon there. As Sebastion made his stand to defend Doc while the man powered up the device he was surprised when several other teens in costume collided with their battle and helped to knock through a rift Doc was able to generate before slamming a temporal barrier into place attuned to Quantum Knight’s pattern, effectively barring him from earth (and locking most of his power away should he manage to return).
Thus was Seb introduced to the Big Team, and became Leap Year. Their altruistic intentions matched up well with the example Doc had been setting for him during their travels and well… Earth was boring frankly compared to the craziness of space adventures.
=== His Time on Big Team ===
During the events of the Gambite attack he overloaded his portal belt to create a space-time distortion to allow him to singlehandedly evacuate the Molecyon palace of civilians as the place was collapsing, and shortly thereafter popped out of existence, ending up in a weird time 'void' between dimensions, a place where fragments of timeline and debris from temporal accidents and the like ended up.
He was stuck there for 2 months (6 months for him) during which time he absorbed a bunch of ambient dimensional energy that naturally accumulated in the place, and ended up becoming a Doomed, able to weild the absorbed energy to warp space (and occasionally time), but remained somewhat unstuck and at risk of disappearance from existence once and for all.
Using these powers he was able to return to Halcyon and rejoin Big Team, and in the ensuing months he managed to learn more about why Quantum Knight was pursuing him, culminating in him and a few team mates travelling to a semi-apocalyptic version of Halcyon where corporate greed had suceeded in harvesting the Zodiac Tree of it's bountiful energies, leading to it's death and the decay of the timeline. This in turn caused Quantum Knight to travel to other timelines in an attempt to save his own, sacrificing them to keep his own dying halcyon alive, while he attempted to use Seb's as a focal point of time energies to kill our Tree/timeline and permanently restore his own. After clashing with some of this Q-verse's dark versions of surviving Big Team members (Ernest/Supercell & Jenny/Omen) as well as a disciple of QK's a woman named Graviton, Seb managed to talk them down and offered up his own plan to fix the damage caused between their two dimensions.
Using the advanced technology QK had managed to accumulate through his own dimension hopping, and his own borrowed powers, he managed to use the void where he had been trapped as a bridging mechanism to connect the two dimensions, and the two different versions of the Zodiac Tree. The Zodiac Tree of our home dimension had been leaching energy from neighboring dimensions including Q-verse, and so by connecting it to the near endless reserves of energy within the void, it would no longer need to do so. By connecting it to the Q-verse Seb was able to revitalize a part of Q-verse's tree, allowing a new sapling to sprout which would, with care and protection from Quantum Knight's group, stabilize their dimension and help restore vitality to it.
Acting as a conduit for this energy took its' toll on Seb, knocking him out, and in purging himself of the energies of the void he managed to snap back to a relatively normal existence. It also unfortunately caused a number of health concerns to catch up with him, namely 6 months eating nothing but what he was able to put together from an abandoned Denny's in the void, leaving him of poor health for a time afterwards.
=== Post Big-Team ===
He recovered just fine thankfully, and after a few months of recovery and rehabilitation, and some discussions with fellow one-time Nomads Ellen and Tay, and the Fey-touched partners Eddie and Grayson, the three opened up a home for troubled youths housed amongst/nearby the roots of the zodiac tree in the relative safety of the void. Connected to, and yet seperate from Halcyon the place was an excellent location to give these youths the freedom to explore themselves, to heal from the difficult lives they had often lived, and to find more meaningful uses for their talents. With the help of Ellen and Tay's space tech, fey energies borrowed from the tree, and the groups experience dealing with teens from all walks of life while on Big Team, the place has been flourishing and generally quite successful in rehabilitating their wards in a rather... unique environment. Seb has been splitting his time between mentoring the kids, and remote studying to obtain a proper qualification in Human Services.
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
Denis Keffler
Sebastion's father, a software engineer
Janette Keffler
Sebastion's mother, part time screenwriter, full time mom
Sofie, Laurens, and Rudy Keffler
Sebastion's three siblings. Sofie is off at college studying medicine, while Laurens is trying to decide between pursuing a career in tennis or electronics; Rudy is still just trying to figure out who they are.
=== Friends ===
Doc Infinity
a reliable support character for Seb, and responsible for giving him advanced warning on a number of Quantum Knight incursions, and other weird time/dimensional events, is Doc Infinity. Doc was the one who accompanied Seb on his space adventures as was his guardian and something of a mentor/older brother type for Seb. Doc is now in his mid to late 30s but was originally an older teen himself when he first met Seb and took him off to space to hide him from Quantum Knight. Doc originates from another alternate timeline where instead of becoming Quantum Knight, Seb's son used his tech aptitude & hyper intelligence (always imagined him as a Paragonized Brain going by the Hero name Epoch), to keep his timeline safe from the negative effects of our Zodiac tree. He had to stay in that dimension to maintain things, but knew about what Quantum Knight was up to, and so sent his protege Doc who had natural, if minor/local time warping powers to safeguard Seb. After returning to Earth Doc remained here to keep an eye out for Quantum Knight as Seb's Guy in the Chair, and since Seb's retirement from heroing has returned home, though he definitely keeps in touch.
Serendipity
One of the newer team-mates, but one who Seb has enjoyed spending time with and who seems to hold a lot of potential. There are some burgeoning feelings there as well with how things have been developing lately, complicated somewhat by her inexperience and her relationship with Bishop, though he is definitely happy to help her rebuff their claims of ownership.
Jackal
Though they haven't been on many missions together, especially due to her more recent duties as The Jackal, Seb greatly admires and respects her competence and reliability. She is also friendly and approachable and just seems like an all-around good person and Seb has been happy to help her out.
Weatherman
Having joined the Big Team around the same time Seb has always felt something of a bond with Ernest, one which he seemed to return after confiding his own doubts and insecurities in Seb. Since Ernest's become more comfortable with his powers Seb may have wished he was a bit less reckless, but has always trusted him and enjoyed his company and conversations together.
Infrared
Seb has never put much faith in preconceived notions and gossip, so he accepted Ellen onto the team without reservation, even if their initial meeting was a little hectic. She has been a solid team-mate since, perhaps a bit passionate like Ernest at times, but has a good head on her shoulders even so.
Rewind
Another newer member who Seb was happy to help out after uncovering the convoluted family relations Ryan was struggling with after the incident at the museum. Has only worked with them a few times, but admires their academic passion.
Challenge
The infamous Challenge who predates him on the team and remains after his own departure as well. Doesn't know her well, but the few times they have worked together she has been good company, and an often much needed mood booster.
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