Colin Wilkes (Old)

Colin is an orphan from Gotham who after being kidnapped by Scarecrow and given Venom, Colin became a hero by the name Abuse.

## History

### Pre-Venom

Colin was left at St. Aden's Orphanage by his mother who told the people there that the baby's name was Colin Wilkes and left the boy a photo of herself. Colin grew up without a clue as to who his mother or father were and instead grew up in foster home to foster home.

He'd have to stay at the Children's Hospital from time to time due to both abuse and his own violent outbursts. Due to a janitor by the name of George Colin started getting interested in superheroes and started collecting new paper clippings, which were some of the few things he owned.

Colin was a problem child from time to time both at foster homes and St. Aden's Orphanage, the problems he caused were always from one of his traumas or other mental illness.

Due to all this Colin had a history of claustrophobia, chiroptophobia, abandonment issues, paranoia and violence.

Then one day Colin was kidnapped by Scarecrow, Colin was picked as the Children's Hospital had listed many of his phobias which stood out to Scarecrow as good ways to make the child fight Batman while on the venom. Colin was given the venom and while on it was made to fight Batman who was able to figure out that Colin was a kid and then stopped the venom from flowing into Colin letting him turn back to looking like himself.

### Post-Venom

Colin after everything was likely to stay at St. Aden's Orphanage til he turned 18 since at this point he was a very broken kid both by mental illness and the fact that he had been used by a super villain, this didn't really make Colin feel all that bad as it meant he'd be able to settle down in his room more and keep a better eye on the other kids at the orphanage.

Soon Colin found himself able to turn into a behemoth of a man with super strength and other powers that made him someone that people wouldn't be able to hurt, Colin decided that even though he'd never be the hero on tv kissing a baby's forehead or on the front page of the news he'd do some good with his powers and fight the against the abuse of children in Gotham. From beating up muggers and drug dealers Colin was able to get the money for trench coat, a hat and custom-made brass knuckle dusters that would when Colin hit hard enough imprint both his new name along side what earned them their beating: Abuse.

Colin soon after becoming a hero started having to deal with very big problems as children's kept showing up in the Gotham river, after a while of searching Colin was able to find out who was behind it all along side with Robin, the bodies came from a fighting ring for children, the two were able to beat the adult who ran it. After their team up Damian (aka Robin) became friends with Colin, giving him a small base near his orphanage along with the cycle of Abuse.

After a while Abuse came across a case that some other people were looking into, The Outlaws, the team and Abuse worked together to solve the case, after which Abuse continued to work with them til the team was truly formed.

Abuse tried to keep the fact that he was just a kid a secret from the team but a mission needed a kid plant to look into a kidnapping ring, Colin went in as himself and while in there he met Bane who was there as the Secret Six were hired to find one of the kids who had been kidnapped, Colin talked with Bane quite a bit as he could tell Bane was well Bane. Soon it was time for The Outlaws to save the day but while did so, so did Secret Six as they started trying to get the kid were sent to save out of the place, due to the fact that both teams started at around the same time made both teams think the other team was ether the bad guys or just in the way along with Red Hood being able to pin members of Secret Six as bad guys made the teams fight. Colin stayed with the girl Secret Six were trying to take as he was worried about her, the team was unable to keep him away so just took the both of them, once they were all somewhere safe it became clear that Secret Six weren't trying to do anything wrong and it became clear to Bane that Colin was hiding something which he was able to find out was the fact that Colin had venom in his veins and had no clue how the stuff worked, at that point Bane offered to help train Colin and teach him about venom.

Since then Colin has been training with Bane and acting as a member of The Outlaws.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

**Venom**: Colin was injected with venom as a part of a plot by Scarecrow, after which said venom stayed within Colin's system letting him at will activate his powers

* Enhanced Strength
* Enhanced Durability
* Enhanced Healing

### Weaknesses

**Mental Illness:** Colin has multiple mental illness, mostly coming from his hard childhood.

* Claustrophobia
* Chiroptophobia
* Abandonment Issues
* Paranoia

**Venom**: As it within Colin's veins the effects of venom are very strong within Colin though mainly when he uses his powers

* Increased Aggression
* Weakness: If Colin were to not use his powers for too long (about three weeks) he'd find his child body to start to become weaker then it was even before he first was injected with venom
* Increased Heart Rate: Due to the enhanced strength along side increased aggression Colin's heart rate goes up, if he were to use to much of his power or for too long he could start having heart pain.

### Abilities

* **Lock Picking:** Colin grew up in a bad part of Gotham as well was sometimes locked up by abusive foster homes so learned how to pick most normal locks.
* **Driving**
* **Investigation**: Colin has very good street smarts and knows where to look for clues, tending to look for the people that no one else would ask about a case. Colin isn't the best detective but he knows the places to look and the type of people to talk too
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Colin first learned street fighting then later started getting trained by Bane on how to use his powers and how to fight.