Mark Beau

Mark Beau, known as Clawstrike, is a vigilante with retractable claws, enhanced physical attributes and regeneration. He was given the powers by MayTech after being tricked into becoming an expirement. He now does lumberjacking as a spare-time gig under the name John Fitz.
He is a vigilante that, during his hunt for Jonathan Mays, stopped multiple criminals. He usually takes on higher level crime with the alias Clawstrike.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
==== Childhood and secondary education ====
Mark Beau was born in 1981 in Canada to a family that was in the upper middle-class. He came from a long line of lumberjacks and war veterans. His grandfather, Anthony, used to tell him and his younger siblings stories from World War 2, where he was a soldier in the First Canadian Army. Mark was fascinated by the stories, wanting to become a soldier like his grandfather in the future. He dreamt of helping liberate a country like he liberated the Netherlands. 
In secondary school he excelled in history thanks to his grandfather. He was a well-respected kid, having good enough grades and excelling in physical activities. He joined his school's football team, playing as a forward, and immediately showed promise, becoming captain of the team in his 3rd year. He usually stuck up for the little guys in his school, ripping bullies to shreds.
=== Adulthood ===
==== Joining the Canadian Army ====
In 1999, Mark joined the Canadian Army. He was a skilled soldier that fought through pain to achieve tasks. At boot camp he never lacked and always impressed the drill sergeant. When he was punished, although unreasonably, he went through with his punishment. He showed a lot of discipline that many other soldiers lacked. The drill sergeant told Mark that his discipline and good behaviour will get him a role as a general some day. Mark hoped that day would come.
==== Deployment to Afghanistan ====
In October 2001, Mark would be deployed to Afghanistan with Joint Task Force 2. At first when hearing the news he was filled with excitement, but that grew to sadness. He was only twenty, leaving home and going to a foreign country. But what hit him most was the risk of dying on the battlefield. But his grandfather went through it, so he had to, too. In his first months in Afghanistan, he realised the mentall toll war takes you through. 
==== Mission near Kandahar ====
While on a mission to save people and fellow soldiers in a village near Kandahar, he saw what war did. He saw his friends, civilians and even enemy soldiers die. But that didn't stop him from trying and trying. In the first hour of the mission, the task force were told to be silent and they did. The force snuck through the village. They had notices more Taliban soldiers were coming to the village and that they would have to be as sneaky as they could be. But the other soldiers didn't come, what did come was helicopters. Helicopters the Taliban stole from American, British and German teams. The helicopters would drop bombs on the village. They had realized the task force was there.
When he woke up, cars were parked everywhere. It wasn't only Taliban, though. People that donned an emblem with a dragon and a demon with goat horns were also there. He read the name, "CHIMERA". They were picking up soldiers, possibly taking them to blackmail the U.S. and Canada. He quickly grabbed his pistol, standing up and shooting soldiers of this "CHIMERA" group. He was ambushed by Taliban and Chimera. But he kept fighting, throwing away and grabbing new guns. He couldn't leave like this. He was shot multiple times, but he sucked it up, continuing to fight for the freedom of the villagers and his fellow troops. Other troops awoke, it was the tenth hour. They helped clear soldiers off of Mark. 
More soldiers came running in, injuring other soldiers that weren't already injured. The Afghan Air Force came, dropping troops, trying to block them from escaping. But Mark wasn't gonna let that happen. He tried to help all of the injured soldiers, injecting them with morphine. He rounded all of his fellow troops and many surviving villagers up on the back of a Chimera truck. He got in while being shot at by the Taliban. The Afghan Air Force began dropping bombs on the village. 
Mark put the pedal to the metal, hitting high speeds with the truck. They couldn't die like this. Bombs continued to drop. The truck flipped over, and Mark was knocked out, unconcious. He woke up to U.S. soldiers doing CPR on him, soldiers and villagers. He was brought back to the base in Kandahar, where he and troops would be treated for their wounds. Due to his honours, Mark would become a legend for soldiers. Mark would be awarded the Medal of Military Valour by the Queen of Canada, Elizabeth II. 
==== After serving in the military ====
Mark would serve in Afghanistan until 2014, when Canada pulled out of the war. In 2014 he moved out of Canada, moving to Philadelphia. He would become an author and speaker. He would write critically acclaimed best sellers like "The Tenth Hour", about his mission near Kandahar. He would also write critically acclaimed books about World War 2 from the perspective of his grandfather. In 2016, when Mark was practically retired and hadn't felt thrill in 2 years, he was approached by Jonathan Mays, who wanted him to oversee a "super-soldier" expirement. It was called MayTech Expirement O.O5.
=== Becoming Clawstrike ===
==== MayTech Expirement 0.05 ====
When he had arrived to oversee the expirement, he was abducted. The true expirement was to get several soldiers and test on them. Jonathan Mays wanted to mix homo-sapien blood with homo-superior blood. He wanted to be in the history books for mixing mutated super-humans with humans and creating a new race. His expirements were awful, involving loads of pain. Test subjects died horrific deaths. They added skeletal claws to Mark's skeletal system. He learned to retract them, but when he did, he would lose blood. Their solution to this was to give him regenerative powers. 
Despite surviving and proving he was the strongest test subject, he still seemed "weak" to Jonathan Mays, who wanted more. Mark's bones would be covered with chromium found on Kepler 22-b. It hurt like hell. But an upside was it made his claws stronger. After these huge changes to his body, Mays still thought he was weak. Mays wanted to erase all of his memories and inject him with rage fuel. The day of the expirement, Mark was put into a tub while Mays watched from a protected area. In the tub, Mark would be given a digital snorkel given the procedure would take long. They injected a microchip into Marks brain which put shock on the hippocampus and made him quickly forget everything except recent things and education. The microchip would then inject rage fuel into Mark's brain. When the procedure finished: "With his metal tusks, he bit the chains and was finally free." was uttered, Mark woke up enraged, drawing his claws and murdering countless soldiers. 
==== Escape ====
Enraged, he would kill any soldier that was in his way. Giving him a healing factor was a bad idea, and Jonathan Mays just realized that. To try and stop him, they opened the doors and let him escape, but he wouldn't budge. He wouldn't stop. It was like his mission was to wipe out all MayTech employees and soldiers. He clawed his way to the control room, which Mays had escaped. But that didn't mean he was going to stop. He, single-handedly, killed everyone in that place except Jonathan Mays. 
==== Hunt for Jonathan Mays ====
===== Searches and turning to vigilantism =====
A thing Mays forgot to erase from Mark's mind was the pain from the expirements and the toll it took on Mark. Mark dove deep on Mays's past, seeing he had a wife, Katelyn Willard, a son, Lucas Mays, and a daughter, Iris Mays. They were all targets from now on. He wanted to murder them all and watch as the light left their eyes. But Mark was also conducting another search. A search for information on himself. He didn't even know his own name or where he had come from. He knew of no family. He was nobody, so he decided to make himself somebody by stopping crime. And not petty crime, like alleyway robberies, but major crime, like bank robberies and such. He did this under the name "Clawstrike." 
=== Events of Phase 2 ===
==== Killing Jonathan Mays ====
On May 4th, 2024, Clawstrike entered Jonathan Mays's home in Clarkesville, Tennessee with murder on his mind. On entrance, Jonathan's newly-wed wife stood there with a baseball bat, ready to attack Clawstrike, but she never did. Clawstrike grabbed the bat, asking her where Mays was, but she didn't answer. This made Clawstrike killed her as she wasn't useful. Claws to the stomach did the job. Clawstrike would find Mays upon searching upstairs, and he didn't show mercy when he did. He wasn't there for a tea party. He attacked, not stopping. In the end, he killed Mays. Claws to the neck did the job for him.
==== Signing the Brooklyn Accords ====
In February, 2024, when the Brooklyn Supernova happened, Clawstrike was there at the service of the people amongst other vigilantes that came to help. When invited to a meeting he didn't come to discuss politics, he came because Lucas Mays was going to come. Lucas had been a target of his for a long, long time, and now that his identity was revealed, it was easier to locate and kill him. Sadly, a target of his, Iris Mays, died in the supernova. He wished to kill her himself, but, he found out she had a nephew who was young. Clawstrike wasn't going to kill a child, so his plan is to wait until Jason gets old enough. 
At the meeting, all he did was stare at Mays, also known as "Warden." But eventually had to do something to get suspicion off of his back and signed the Brooklyn Accords. He didn't agree with the policies and was going to break them anyways. He was never a rule follower, well at least Clawstrike wasn't. He didn't know if he was a rule follower before or not. After the meeting, Clawstrike waited outside of the room for Warden. When Warden came out he attacked, destroying his armour and at the end, deactivated his armour. During the battle, Warden showed an insane energy surge that shocked Clawstrike, but Clawstrike still considers the result to be a win for Clawstrike. 
==== Laguardia Airport Battle ====
Pro-accords vigilantes were meant to board a private jet to The Hague, but 45 seconds into the flight, vigilante The Patriot, would crash it into the ground with zero casualties, the pilot having been given a parachute so that he could drop safely. The crash came as a surprise to Clawstrike, but he figured it was Lucas Mays that did it in an attempt to kill him.
When the teams were talking, he got impatient. He was there to talk, not talk it over like a little girl. When the fight begun, he was matched with Haine, who was his equal. Fair. The fight would be equal, both of them regenerating after each hit. But Clawstrike would have enough and go ham on Haine, cutting arms off and such. After that, he would direct his attention to his actual enemy, Warden. He would send attacks his way. Clawstrikes mask would rip off and Warden would realize that Clawstrike was famous Afghanistan hero Mark Beau. Warden mentioning the name brought many memories. It enraged him. 
When trying to attack Warden, he would be grabbed by Dawson Garrisson in The Centurian suit and dropped on the runway. He was left tired and fatigued. He accepted the defeat, as the war was not over.
==== Manhattan Catastrophe ====
On May 14th, 2024, the anti-Accords vigilantes would be arrested and would escape with the help of Heyday II. Clawstrike would stall Warden from escaping. While attacking Mays, he would give up and start telling Mark information about himself. This woke him up and left him in a trance. He would be out.
A little after that, Liberty Prime would fly Warden to the moon and throw him back. Warden would fall on the helipad, which crushed many bystanders. He was shocked. Liberty Prime had just killed many people. He had also officially woken up, Clawstrike was no more. It was now Mark Beau.
Mark would join The Breeze in trying to kill Liberty Prime. She would try first, her attack rebounding. As Liberty went to attack her, Mark would step in and attack him. He would deal solid damage. But Liberty would tear off Mark's flesh. Mark was fine without the flesh on his face. He dealt an attack to Liberty's genitals, ripping them off. This did enough damage to enrage Liberty. Mark would be thrown to the sky. 
Mark would maneuvre himself to land on the helipad. He noticed a huge energy beam come out of Lucas's chest and that it was killing him. He pinned Lucas down cause he saw the beam was killing him. With his claws he stabbed the Ionite element that the beam came from. He then took Lucas to his apartment, where he would leave him to rest.
=== New Clawstrike ===
Following his awakening, he would start wearing a leather suit with no mask as Clawstrike. He would take up lumberjacking in Trumansburg, New York with Lucas Mays under the name John Fitz. He grows to become best friends with Lucas Mays, hanging out with him every day. Chopping wood, swigging beers, talking about life and most noticably about Mark's missions as Clawstrike. 
== Appearance ==
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 200 lbs
Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Brown
Mark Beau carries a fit body around, muscled but still lean. He stands at six feet three. On his knuckles he has faded scars, this is due to his retractable claws. His beard is a mutton chops beard. His hair has two spikes, they are made to look like animal ears. 
== Personality ==
Mark Beau is an honest, brave and overall great man. When getting to know him, you'd know that the medals in his collection were all deserved. In his service at the military he proved that he wasn't the type to back down and give up on his fellow troops. He showed insane bravery. After his service he showed creativity and great story-telling and that he couldn't be limited to one thing, which was physical stuff, and that he could delve deep into literature.
== Powers & Abilties ==
=== Powers ===
* Superhuman Strength
* Superhuman Durability
* Superhuman Speed
* Superhuman Agility
* Superhuman Senses
** Animal Empathy
* Regenerative Healing Factor
** Longevity
** Contaminant Immunity
** Superhuman Stamina
** Atmospheric Adaptation
** Psychic Resistance
* Retractable Claws
* Feral Mind
=== Abilities ===
* Master Martial Artist
* Weapon Proficiency
* Stealth Mastery
* Multilingualism (English, French, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Spanish)
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
* Mary Beau † - Mother
* Emmanuel Beau † - Father
* Anthony Beau † - Grandfather
* Sara Beau † - Sister
* Samuel Beau † - Brother
=== Allies ===
* Lucas Mays - Former Enemy, Best Friend
* Layla Mudenda - Former Enemy, Friend
* The Patriot - Former Enemy, Friend
* Cliff Cavanaugh - Former Enemy, Friend and Partner
* Heyday II - Ally
=== Enemies ===
* Jonathan Mays †
* Liberty Prime
Category:Characters
Category:Vigilantes
Category:Phase 2