Syncopate

Syncopate is a vaguely villainous parahuman from New York and leader of the Courts.

## Abilities and Powers

Syncopate appears to be able to travel backwards in time, though appears to be limited in the distance he can travel backwards. The farthest he's been seen as traveling backward is three minutes, though he frequently travels backwards twenty seconds or less. It is unknown if he is limited in how much he can travel backwards, but it would appear he is. Some sources say that he is unable to travel backwards to the same time more than a handful of times. Other sources place the amount of times he can travel backwards to be significantly longer, those this could be because of the confusion and uncertainty is power tends to cause.

He has shown the ability to pull certain events or objects that happened in intervening 'future' time into the present, though he is likely limited in some fashion. He does not appear to need to place them 'when' they happened, or even place them at all. It is likely he has to make a conscious effort to choose which events to bring to the past before he travels back to it. It appears that he can only place objects into the past to where they would have occurred in the future, though there has been conflicting sources on this. It is unknown if there is a limited to how many things he can bring backwards or what counts as an 'event'.

A known phenomenon about his power is that those effected by his power will remember the intervening time he traveled back through. It is unknown how his power decides who will and won't the intervening time, as only those directly involved with Syncopate with experience the flash back (so not everyone in New York experiences a three minute hiccup, for example). As of yet, there has not been a definitive answer to who will and won't remember the intervening time. Those who are directly involved in a conflict almost always do, but not every time. Likewise, people he hasn't interacted with in the slightest sometimes get pulled backwards. The general consensus is, if you interacted with him in any of the time he is traveling back through, you will remember. This effect doesn't work through technology, however. It is unknown if there is a range limit on this aspect of his power.

When traveling backwards, he perfectly reconstructs events and injuries. This power is, likely, capable of bringing people back to life and has been known to fix any injury or negative effect by rewinding time.

#### Disclaimer

It should be noted that all of the above is from either eye witness accounts, official PRO reports or forum theories. There is very little, if any, footage of his power in action and there are a number of conflicting sources and information about how his power works. His power was best summed up by MyCrowd user @kirkland\_klockwork.

> **@kirkland\_klockwork:** He's bullshit. That's all there is to it. He's a fucking time traveler who can kick your ass before you even have the chance to ask him name.
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#### Equipment and Possible Tinker

Syncopate carries a number of small, spherical capsules that are covered in runs and made of an indeterminate metal. These appear to be focuses in which he casts his "spells". The staff he carries also glows when he travels backwards in time. It is possible that Syncopate is a Tinker of some sort, though there is no corroborating evidence for this, other than the equipment he carries. The "spells" don't appear to be anything particaurly special, likely something that a normal person could get their hands on, but the staff seems like a different story. It is unknown if that staff is even required for him traveling backwards through time, but he has never been known to do it without it.

## Appearance

Syncopate styles himself as a master of the "temporal arts". He wears blue and white robes with gold and red belts across his waist. The gold and red accent the rest of his costume. Covers his face behind a crystal blue mask that seems to be stuttering, slightly fracturing an effect that is carried across the rest of his clothing. Has a pouch in which he carries a number of his "spells", along with a metallic staff.

Syncopate has dreadlocks.

## Personal

He styles himself as a master of the "temporal arts" and seems to really believe that he is a wizard, though it is just as likely he is just very good at staying in character. He gesticulates during combat, using gestures and somatic when when "casting" his spells. He has stated as preferring to beat people in the future, show them they cannot win, then wrap things up with no one injured. He has shown a particular distaste with injuring people.

It is unclear what Syncopate's motive are, as he doesn't appear to have any desire to hold territory, but also hasn't shown any desire to be a hero either. He seems to be content leading the Courts, doing whatever he wants, when he wants.

## History

Founded the Courts in early 2006. He has remained the leader since it inception, though has been challenged multiple times.

## Trivia

* Interestingly, Syncopate has a PHO account @the\_court\_of\_one, though he rarely, if ever, posts on it. Perhaps even more interestingly, there is a humorous fan account, @magic\_time\_guy, that posts regularly from the perspective of Syncopate.