Capheus Onyango

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

Mister (Title)
Supervan (Nickname)

### Relatives

Matu Ba (Father, Deceased)
Shiro Onyango (Mother)
*Unknown* (Sister)
Angelica Turing (Sensate Mother)
Bak Sun-hee, Will Gorski, Riley Blue, Nomi Marks, Kala Dandekar, Wolfgang Bogdanow, and Lito Rodriguez (Clustermates)

## Biographical Information

### Education

High School Dropout
(Mustapha Maksai High School)

## Physical Description

### Capheus Onyango: 1988 - 2004

Capheus was born in the Dagombi Plains of Zambesi. His father and mother came from two different tribes and their romance was not accepted by either of their people. After the birth of Capheus, Shiro Onyango and Matu Ba relocated to Zambesi's capital, Ngonya. Matu Ba worked as an advocate for human rights and oversaw a child soldier rescue organization known as the Children's Harbor.

When Capheus was five, his father was assassinated in open daylight, likely by the warlords he was opposing. His killers were never brought to justice. Following the death of Matu, Shiro and Capheus returned to the Plains of Dagombi to live with the Onyango tribe.

Due to lasting enmity between the Ba and Onyango tribes, the village elders insisted that Capheus be returned to his father's people. Shiro refused. One night, a mob of young men from the village came to their home, prepared to kill Capheus. Shiro took up arms to defend her son. Not prepared to be injured or killed, the mob backed down. The next morning, when Shiro confronted the elders, nothing was done about the mob. Capheus and Shiro soon left the village and returned to Ngonya, where they lived a life of poverty on the outskirts of the city.

During this time, Shiro became pregnant and would give birth to Capheus' younger sister. Capheus adored his sister so much and would rarely let her go. However, as they were so poor and Shrio was unable to produce milk, they were forced to give the newborn girl to an orphanage. For eight-year-old Capheus, that day was the most difficult and heartbreaking moment of his life.

About a year after the abandoning of his sister, Capheus and his mother were able to afford modest housing after she got a teaching job. Capheus was then able to go to school — which is where he met and befriended Jela Juma. Despite Jela being a bit older than Capheus, the two became best friends over their mutual love for superheroes. Originally, the two were fans of hearing the stories of the early Watchmen but as they became teens, their passion was taken to new heights with the advent of new heroes, especially their favorite — Superman.

When the two boys did not have their faces in a comic-book or their heads in the clouds, they would often talk about going into business together. They would have the chance to do so when Capheus' mother became sick.

### 2004 - 2013

Capheus and Jela dropped out of school and worked as errand boys and delivery drivers, in additions to performing a number of other odd jobs to make ends meet. Capheus was able to support himself and his mother, purchase the necessary medication for his mother, and slowly raise funds towards a small bus (known as a "matatu"). Once he and Jela had enough money to make the purchase, the two set out on their own path, spending a summer designing and painting their matatu.

### 2013 - 2015

The "Van of Steel" made its debut in late summer of 2013 with a House of El sigil on its grill, a two-tone blue paint job with a sleek red roof — not to mention the hand-drawn art of Superman mid-flight. Capheus and Jela had a few weeks of decent profit, until the Reach appeared in orbit. Due to Superman being viewed as hesitant to the Reach's influence, the Van of Steel's profit margins shrank.

Though when the Reach was exposed for what they were, the Van of Steel slowly began to recover its losses, but in the wake of the Reach being taken down, other hero-themed matatus would flood the market, with the Bat-Van, the Wonder Go-Van, Bus-ter Gold, Green Vantern, and Black Vanary — to name a few. With this saturation, the Van of Steel became an unpopular matatu with no regular customers and barely able to afford the price of gas working regular hours, forcing Capheus and Jela to work much longer hours so Jela could support his wife and kids and Capheus could buy quality medication for his mother — who had been diagnosed by the Reach as having MacGregor's Syndrome.

But little did Capheus know that his life was about to change.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Psionic Metahuman Physiology:** Capheus belongs to a sub-class of psychic known as a sensate.
	+ ***Astral Visitation:*** Capheus can project a portion of his consciousness in the vicinity of another sensate (whether one belonging to him cluster or one with which he had has physical contact previously). This projection is turned to the senses of sensates.
	+ ***Enhanced Spatial Awareness:*** Capheus is able to perceive spatial distances and dimensions, allowing him to easily gauge the length, width and height of something or someone; as well as perfectly assess the distance between two objects. He can also determine the exact measurements of the proportions of an object or person and has an innate understanding for how things fit together. If he understands how something is built, he can quickly become a master of its basic principles.
	+ ***Sensory Empathy:*** Capheus can share his senses, emotions, thoughts, and memories with other sensates — particularly those that belong to his sensate cluster.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Capheus is able to see hear, and interact with beings on the astral plane — particularly sensates, but also ephemeral entities, and invisible spirits such as ghosts. He is also sensitive to intrinsic and psychic phenomena.
	+ ***Telepathic Sharing:*** Capheus can share his knowledge, languages, skills, talents, and even his psychic abilities with sensates from his cluster (see Riley Blue, Will Gorski, Nomi Marks, Bak Sun-hee, Wolfgang Bogdanow, Kala Dandekar and Lito Rodriguez for a list of skills accessible to Capheus) For the transfer of skills, talents, and psychic abilities, Capheus must possess the receiving sensate or allow himself to be possessed by the projecting sensate while they are visiting.
* **Matatu Driver:** Capheus is a skilled bus driver, having driven professionally for his entire adult life. Since his sensate rebirth, his driving skills have improved exponentially.
	+ ***Driving:*** Capheus can do things with a 33-person bus that many stunt drivers would think impossible. Behind the wheel of a sports car or other high-performance vehicle, there are very few things he cannot do, though he retains a particular affinity for vans, buses, and other large ground vehicles.
	+ ***Mechanics:*** Capheus is an incredible mechanic. Once he has taken something apart with his bare hands, he can easily put it back together again — and also gain a deeper appreciation and understanding for its use.
	+ ***Navigation:*** Capheus knows the roads of Zambesi all too well, particularly in and around its capital, Ngonya. He can quickly learn another city's layout if he has a chance to study a map for a few minutes (or access another sensates' memories).
	+ ***Theft:*** Capheus's van has been stolen a few times. He learned a few tricks in order to steal it back. He knows how to hot-wire automotive vehicles.
* **Geek:** Capheus is savvy in popular culture, particularly action movies, comic books, and is also an all-around herophile — particularly in regard to his favorite hero, Superman.
	+ ***Fanboy:*** Capheus has memorized many sound bites and snippets from articles that quote Superman. He consumes any source of media pertaining to Superman he can get his hands on. Capheus can even read a little Kryptonian.
* **Belief in a Better Reality:** Capheus is an optimist and good-natured person. Despite the difficulties life has presented him and the horrors he has witnessed, he remains positive and hopeful, always waking up, anticipating that he will have a "very good day".

### Weaknesses

* **Burden Bearing:** When a clustermate is overwhelmed with intense pain, the excess pain may flood over the rest of the cluster, resulting in excruciating phantom pain.
* **Naivety:** Capheus, tends to neglect pragmatism in favor of moral idealism.
* **Migraines:** Capheus, like most psionics, suffers from severe migraines.
* **Vulnerability — Electricity:** Capheus reacts poorly to electrical stimulation. Electric shock overstimulates the psycellium nervous system of most sensates and induces severe pain and seizures — often with violent coughing of blood and bloody noses.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Weaponry:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
	+ **TOTAL:** 32
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Zakia Asalache is his associate.
* Silas Kabaka is a crimelord who took interest in him.

### Notes

* Capheus Onyango is a character from the Netflix series *Sense8*.
* His appearance is based on Aml Ameen, one of the two actors who portrayed him on the show.
* In the series, he's from Kenya. Capheus is also a fan of the actor Jean-Claude Van Damme which is the inspiration for his van and nickname as "Van Damme".
* His father Matu Ba is the mentor and ally of David Zavimbe, the first Batwing in the comics.
* The name of the school is a nod to villain Mustapha Maksai, killer of Vixen's father.
* In the series, his mother was actually suffering from AIDS.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Capheus Onyango

1. ↑ Network Files: Capheus Onyango 1