Aces High

Aces High is the leader of the Royales, New York's most well known and respected Peacekeeper team.

## Professional Status

### Power Description

Enhanced intelligence linked to environment

### Affliation

The Royales (Leader)Peacekeepers (Leader)

Parahuman Response Organization

## Abilities and Powers

Aces High is a Thinker whose power makes him smarter as problems become bigger and more complex. The greater a problem he's given, the faster he can devise a solution for it. According to himself, his power applies to a wide range of applications. It is unknown exactly *how* he gets smarter or what the upwards limits of his intelligence is. It is also unclear what kind of intelligence his power gives him, whether is gives him information or just allows him to act upon current information in impossible ways. Though exaggeration, his ability to 'always win' whenever he is personally directs the Royales is world renowned.

A marked feat of his intelligence was his ability to, albeit partially, disarm a Tinker constructed bomb over the course of twelve hours. This is though be an impossible feat that, according to PRO reports, the Tinker himself was unable to do. Likewise, when he is present to Calamity attacks, he is able to coordinate plans and devise tactics for whichever team he is leading.

### Limitations

Since specifics, and therefore limitations, are largely left up to speculation, some concrete details have been gleaned through interviews and online presence. The following is a post from PHO from 2007:

> **@aces\_high\_official** so me and friends were wondering how exactly your power works. you say that youre smart but isnt that also **@checkmate\_official**s thing? also youre super hot
> **@\_wendy-ngo\_** It works better when I can lay it all down on the line. Risk equals smarts. Checkmate is much better for mid to long term stuff. Also: thanks :)
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This implies that his power works better when he is under more pressure, which is consistent with how his power is explain to work. It also suggests that his power is better for creating short term plans. It is unknown if this is because of a limitation within his power, or because Checkmate is able to create longer term plans. Either option seems likely, but feats from his early days as a Peacekeeper suggest it to be the latter.

## Appearance

Aces High is considered conventionally attractive by most people: tall, brunette and handsome. He isn't incredibly muscular, but is well built from his career as a superhero.

His costume is an off white jumpsuit with a red, stylized spade over his chest. His shoulders are flanked with metal, candy red pauldrons, the same metal that makes up his gauntlets and greaves. He has similarly colored bands of metal that run across his torso. His face is covered behind a domino mask. The costume has gone through a number of revisions over the years, though each maintains a similar color scheme and design choice. He has sold originals of the costumes of charity, the highest fetching over three million dollars.

## Personal

Aces High is one of the most popular and personable capes in North America, even perhaps more than Clockwork, though this is constantly debated online and even between the pair. He regularly gives interviews and often appears on talk shows. He has a several types of merchandise, including clothing, posters and beauty products, that can be purchased on the PRO website.

He frequently attend social events and functions, gives interviews and hosts charity events.

He has gone on record saying that it was difficult for him to get to where he is now. In his biography, *Coming Up Aces*, he is quoted as saying "understands that my abilities don't exactly scream superhero," but he is "thankful for the chance I was given to prove myself".

### Early Career

Aces High was always a member of the Royales, even when it was just called Peacekeeper Team One. His career started in late 1995 when he joined the fledgling Peacekeeper department as a new recruit. He was only nineteen when he joined.