Bullet

* Civilian
* Bullet Kid

*"Faster than a bullet, slower than... nothing."*
—Doug State
**Douglas "Doug" State** is a speedster and the youngest member of the Arcadian Rebels, operating under the codename **Bullet Kid**, for his speed, and stylized as **Orange Justice**. Doug lived on his own, but following his acceptance into the Rebels, Doug reunited with his parents, but this was short-lived as they were both seemingly killed by "Star-Crusher." Jason Kade, his new friend, became his brother figure and technical guardian.

However, Doug's father, Willin, turned out to be alive because he had powers as well. He took Doug in to live with him, and so he took a break from the Rebels to spend time with him.

Doug became a hero later on, but his father's suicide left him damaged. He attempted to balance the hero life along with school, but his principal's murderous machinations only exacerbated his mental state. He turned to alcohol for pleasure and declined in his heroism, but he bounced back in time for his final football season in order to be accepted by a good college. He is known by his football team as **Goat Crusader**.

After graduating high school, Doug continued to operate as a superhero, shortening his moniker to simply **Bullet** as a sign of his maturity.

## Biography

### Early Life

Doug was born on January 26, 2001, but lost his parents at an early age. Although he later reunited with them, he believed them to both be fatally wounded by **Star Crusher**. Believing them to be dead, Doug attended school on his own.

#### Becoming a Speedster

Unbeknownst to him, Doug's father was the former superhero, Bullet Man. Doug would inherit his superhuman speed, which he discovered as he became a star athlete at Neo Arcadia High School.

Eventually, Doug met the vigilante Almanac, and was recruited by Argent to their team, the Arcadian Rebels.

### Joining the Rebels

Doug accompanied the Rebels on missions whenever he was not occupied with his academics or his athletics. When he was not playing basketball or football, Doug would help the Rebels combat Sebastian Raymond's forces, Memory Eaters, Goonies, and more, though he occasionally butted heads with his superiors.

Doug also became something of a ward to Almanac, looking up to him and sometimes staying with him to due a lack of parents.

#### Reunited with his Father

Down the line, Doug was found by his father, who revealed that he only survived due to his speedster healing. He reconnected with his father, and at the same time took a break from being a Rebel. However, he continued his athletics.

#### Return

Doug returned in April 2018, with his dad having resumed his day job as a successful scientist meaning he could assist the Rebels more.

The summer after dealing with his high school's murderous principal, Doug accompanied the Rebels on their journey to stop Roger David. During the journey, he raced one of his goons' Stands, "19-2000." Although, he lost because he was intoxicated.

After summer ended, Doug entered his senior year of high school as an all-star athlete, and made progress on getting accepted into his dream school, University of Tennessee. After winning the championship, he decided to attend Duke University.

### Growing Up

After graduating from high school, Doug shortened his superhero name to simply "Bullet" to reflect his growth.

## Personality

*"I wouldn't take me seriously either, trust me."*
—Doug State
Doug is a hyper-active teenage speedster. Often extremely impatient, rash and impulsive, Doug possesses an inclination toward recklessness, to the point of jumping into situations without forethought; a trait which often puts him in mortal danger. The word that best fits Doug would have to be "recalcitrant."

Deep down, Doug envies others with brighter childhoods. Due to not having his parents around to see him grow up, he harbors some depression but makes up for it with brother figures like Jason Kade.

Doug is an enthusiastic sports fan, ranging from basketball and hockey to soccer and football.

## Physical Appearance

Doug is a Caucasian ginger male with blue eyes and a height of 5'9". Throughout his time with the Rebels, Doug has grown eight inches.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

*"You can't even match my speed."*
—Doug State to Lincoln Grace
* **Superhuman Speed:** Doug has the ability to run at the speed of a bullet: 400 meters per second (894.78 mph/1,440 kph/Mach 1.17), faster than the speed of sound (767.27 mph/1,234.8 kph) and a limit of a thousand meters per second (2,236.94 mph/3,600 kph/Mach 2.91, meaning at maximum he can run a mile in 1.6 seconds). Side effects of his speed are increased metabolism and improved thermal homeostasis, as well as numerous techniques. When Doug is under attack, he uses his super-speed as a distraction to catch his enemies off guard. Doug was notably able to keep pace with the car Stand, 19-2000 in a highway race, but was overpowered (though he was intoxicated beforehand). Doug has great control over his speed, as he can decrease his superhuman advantage in sports, which could land him any sports scholarship or get him on any professional team he wants. When he graduated from Bullet Kid to Bullet, he obtained a new suit which augments his speed, possibly beyond Mach 3.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Doug's powers also accelerate his metabolic rate. His body can break down food more efficiently than a regular human and, as a result, expels very little waste products that he can exhale through his skin. This enables him to rapidly heal from injuries much quicker than a normal human, such as being run over by a car and even being shot in the head. He also quickly recovered from being impaled in the foot by a trident, despite the immense pain it caused him. Doug was the first to stand up after the helicopter crash on the ride to Emerald City, albeit injured.
	+ **Extreme Force Generation:** Doug has enhanced momentum, which allows him to enhance the force in his attacks, strikes, impacts and collisions, often propelling objects or people several feet, that he uses to compensate for his average human strength, thus simulating superhuman strength. During the hunt for the Entertainer, Doug completely busted through several walls of a mirror house.
	+ **Cyclone Spinning:** Doug can rapidly gyrate by alternatively spinning at an incredible speed in a cyclone-like manner (he formerly mistakenly referred to this as a tornado). He can use this power to spin through the floor, like a drill, to provide an escape route.
	+ **Intangibility:** If Doug vibrates at the natural frequency of air, his body, his cells, will be in a state of excitement that allows him to phase through walls and other materials.
* **Superhuman Agility:** Doug possesses agility, balance, flexibility, and bodily coordination on superhuman levels, which allows him to easily maneuver while moving superhumanly fast (e.g. making sharp turns). He can also stick landings from great heights. His agility also attributes to his dancing skills.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Doug's physical resilience was increased to extraordinary levels, which allowed him to endure high-speed collisions. As a result, Doug is highly resistant to impact force and he was able to survive a bullet skimming the top of his head, but he required assisted healing from Karma. Doug was able to burst through several walls of a mirror house with minimal bleeding. Doug survived the helicopter crash on the ride to Emerald City.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Doug is able to endure the strain of running at super-speeds for long periods of time without exhibiting fatigue.
* **Flight:** Doug is able to fly by propelling himself through the air via his rocket boots or directing his wind funnels to the ground, however, he is not as fast as when he is on foot.

### Abilities

*"Those football skills do come in handy."*
—Bullet Kid
* **Peak Human Condition:** Doug is an ardent sportsman, a gifted athlete with tremendous skill (specializing in basketball, football, and some baseball) and is in phenomenal shape. He is a fan of the sports in general, and gained experience from joining his high school's basketball and football teams. On his school football team, Doug received multiple offers from colleges, including University of Alabama, University of Tennessee, University of Florida, University of Georgia, and Clemson University, and he led the school in most passing yards of the 2019 fall season. He also holds the most QB rushing yards in the division and carried the team to the championship. Doug was committed to either Tennessee, Duke University, or Alabama until he decided on Duke (which has a 9.9% acceptance rate), when they offered him a starting position as quarterback. Indeed, Doug was one of Neo Arcadia High School's best athletes, as he was their football team's star player and has the potential to become a professional athlete.
	+ **Peak Human Speed:** Even without his powers, Doug is really fast, as he can run the 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds (18.18 mph/29.26 kph, meaning he can run a mile in three minutes and 18 seconds), which is 0.53 seconds faster than the average quarterback (10.73% faster) and 0.08 seconds faster than the average wide receiver (1.76% faster).

*"The key to fighting is patience. A lot of guys waste energy trying to land the most punches. All it takes is one. But you gotta make it count."*
—Jason Kade
* **Skilled Combatant:** Doug is a relatively inexperienced fighter, but gained basic knowledge from training with Jason Kade. As a quarterback, he had some experience with knocking people down, but not exactly any martial arts training. In combat, Doug can infuse his superhuman speed with physical combat, enabling him to fight at incredible speed. His attacks cause more damage than normal due to gaining kinetic energy, and thus momentum, produced through the speed of each hit to simulate superhuman strength. He demonstrated his fighting skills against the slightly more experienced Shadow Boy, and often got into fights at Neo Arcadia High School with Lincoln Grace.
	+ **Sword Skills:** Doug has basic training with a nano-blade and a katana.
	+ **Knife Skills:** Doug has demonstrated natural proficiency in wielding a kunai in battle.
* **Skilled Marksman:** Doug has basic training with handling a pulse pistol and standard handguns.
* **Keen Intelligence:** Doug was admitted to the prestigious Duke University, which requires a minimum 4.13 GPA.
	+ **Skilled Musician:** Doug is an acclaimed rapper and plays the drums.

## Techniques

* **Wind Funnel Generation:** By rotating his arms at superhuman speed, Doug can create wind funnels to repel his enemies.

## Weaknesses

* **Hyper-Metabolism:** Doug has a serious metabolism, which requires him to consume an immense amount of calories. This also prevents him from becoming intoxicated by conventional means, although sufficient consumption of alcohol will render him drunk and incompetent in his high-speed movements.
* **Cold Temperatures:** Because speed is produced by a build-up of heat in the target's atoms, speedsters are vulnerable to extremely cold temperatures. It will also temporarily stunt their healing capacities.

## Equipment

### Attire

* **Bullet Kid Suit:** As a speedster, Doug wears a black and blue friction-proof suit. It is partially made of vulcanized Teflon, which neutralizes any electron imbalance, keeping the friction he creates while running from building up a lethal dose of static charge. His second suit, which is black and yellow, increases his speed and has bracers which can emit hard light constructs, namely discs.
	+ **Rocket Boots:** Doug's rocket boots allow him to fly.

### Weaponry and Gadgets

* **Pulse Pistol:** Doug experimented with using a pulse pistol in battle, but ultimately decided against it.
* **Nano-Blade:** Doug also tried using a nano-blade but stuck with his powers instead.
* **Springfield Armory XD:** Doug tried using a conventional firearm over a pulse pistol, but he discarded of it.
* **IMI Desert Eagle:** Doug obtained a powerful handgun after the high school murder spree.
* **Kunai:** Doug has borrowed a kunai from Almanac on several missions.

## Relationships

* Tammy State † - Mother

Allies* Neo Arcadia High School
	+ Chad Garlem - Best Friend
	+ Dawson Black - Best Friend
	+ Leo/Crack Shot - Friend
	+ Andrew Lavellan - Friend
	+ Alison - Crush
* Arcadian Rebels - Teammates
	+ Jason Kade/Almanac - Brother Figure, Friend
* Killer Demon
* Jake Rollin - Bully
* Ben Write - Bully

## Trivia

* Doug is a fan of the game *Undertale*, a game with a premise featuring seven lost souls, each represented by a different color symbolizing one unique trait. Purple stood for perseverance, green stood for kindness, yellow stood for justice, dark blue stood for integrity, light blue/cyan stood for patience, orange stood for bravery/courage and red stood for determination. There is an eighth color, white, which stood for empathy. Earth-2702 has these soul types.
* Doug's favorite color is blue; specifically, royal blue.
* Doug's counterparts all have an increased physical feature.
	+ Danny, his Earth-2 counterpart, has superhuman strength.
	+ Lastic, his Earth-6 counterpart, has elasticity.
* Doug listens to dubstep and watches anime.
* Other than football, Doug plays video games.