Painbow

Painbow was a Ward from Oakland and popular online personality. He was killed by the Merry Band in early 2010. After his death, he was revealed to be Adrian Moretti, a junior at Paxton Memorial High.

## Professional Status

### Power Description

Concussive blasts with minor emotion altering

## Abilities and Powers

Evident from his own streams and official PRO promotions, Painbow was capable of generating concussive blasts from his limbs including hands and feet. The produced blasts were not invisible, but were still hard to see, only appearing as a slight ripple. He was capable of varying the intensity of the blast from anywhere to a soft punch to a solid hit from a baseball bat. He showed the ability to fire these blasts in tight bullets, of create cannonball sized spheres. He did not show any control over the blasts once they left his hands. Additionally, he showed some resistance to concussive force, though it is unknown if he body was actually more durable than a normal persons.

It was likely he was resistant to certain emotional tampering abilities.

Painbow also showed somewhat minor empathic abilities, able to noticeably alter the emotions of the person he blasts with his power. The effect wasn't particularly dangerous, but was capable of incapacitating after even just a few blasts.

## Appearance

Painbow's costume consisted of a skintight bodysuit with heavier plating covering his chest and vitals. The suit was prism like, reflecting ambient light around him in a dull rainbow around him. The armor panels reflected light off themselves, creating an illusion of depth. He wore a helmet that covered a majority of his head and was made of a similar material.

He had light brown hair.

## Personal

Painbow constantly hyped himself, and others, up to the extreme. He was seen as extremely friendly and personable, able to empathize with people easily. He was self described as "charmingly arrogant" and "a real people person". Despite his self congratulatory and arrogant attitude, he genuinely cared about the people he was close to.

During his memorial service, much of this was corroborated by teammates and classmates alike.

#### Online Presence

Prior to his death, Painbow was a popular streamer and online personality, though only locally on the West Coast. His stream regularly achieved 40,000 viewers. The streams regularly achieved 40,000 viewers. He primarily streamed his patrols in and around Oakland, occasionally streaming more intimate moments within the Ward's program.

He had collaborated with a number of other online personalities including Cherry On Top, Champ-I-Am and XackAttacX42.

### History

One of Oakland's more prominent Wards, if not purely for his personality and online presence. Was slated to take over the Wards after Full Metal Jacket graduated to the Peacekeepers in the summer of 2010.

#### Death

During the Merry Band's attack on Oakland in early 2010, Scarlet captured Painbow– along with two other Wards. He was held hostage by the supervillain, who had challenged the city to "rescue their heroes" in protracted confrontation that lasted three days, on which each day a midnight Scarlet would kill one of the Wards. His location was found prior to his death, and he was able to be rescued prior to the time limit prescribed by Scarlet. However, in the process of rescuing him, Scarlet rescinded his promise of safety and killed the Ward, along with greatly injuring some of the rescue party. Unlike Scarlet's other victim, he was not murdered on live television.