David Earl McFadden Jr. (Discord's Story)

### Relatives

Maya Ormond-McFadden (Wife, "Deceased"), Earl McFadden (Son, Alive), Jayson Ball (Adoptive Son, Deceased), David McFadden Sr (Father, Deceased), Norma McFadden (Mother, Deceased), Mary Cobb (Deceased), Garrett (Deceased), Mary Lee Singletary (Deceased), Mamie McFadden (Deceased)

### Affiliation

United States Military, Divine Council, The Union

## **Origin**

David McFadden (also known as DJ) was born on December 5th, 2003, in Newark, New Jersey, despite his parents living in Paterson. Due to his mother's location when she went into labor, she was forced to have her baby in New Jersey's capital, rather than her hometown. DJ's first few years as a toddler were spent in the crime riddled city. Eventually, his family moved to Greenville, North Carolina. There, DJ's early childhood was developed and his morality molded by the sociopolitical landscape of the American South.

Nobody knows for *certain* why DJ's powers waited to activate, nor did anyone truly know the source of his latent genes. The world only knows when. In late 2017, during DJ's cruise to Hawaii, the cruise boat was hijacked by a group of pirates. They opened fire on the crowds near the pool, massacring most. DJ's body, however, caused the bullets to flatten upon impact. Shortly after his discovery, he struck at one the helpless pirates, delivering enough force that his hand burst through their skull entirely and turned their brain into unrecognizable mush. Without hesitation, he put down the rest of the pirates and tested out his newfound strength by pushing the cruise ship to Hawaii, moving it for dozens of miles with no difficulty.

DJ was swarmed with press on his arrival to Hawaii, now being thrust into the spotlight. His name and face were plastered all over the media, the world now simultaneously terrified and in awe of its first superhuman. DJ tested out his new abilities, realizing that he had flight, heightened levels of vision, and superhuman speed given enough time to accelerate. He, through experience, quickly found out that he was invulnerably to modern weaponry as he patrolled the streets of Charlotte on a daily basis. His newfound status as the first superhuman of Earth propelled humanity into a new age of brief peace, followed by a wave of turbulence that would shake the planet to its core.

## **Powers and Abilities**

* **Godlike Strength:** David possesses enough strength to move any manmade structure, deliver strikes equivalent in force to that of a supernova, and lower body strength that allows him to sprint at hundreds of millions of miles per hour. He is considered to be the most powerful mortal in the universe and the most powerful human to ever exist. However, this level of strength is only provided if he's moving fast enough to generate enough force to accomplish these actions.
* **Godlike Reflexes:** David has reflexes that are far superior to that of the finest Olympic athletes. His reflexes are fast for him to be able to react to all Earth-based projectiles with ease.
* **Godlike Speed:** David, through both flight and running, can move thousands of times faster than speed of sound. His upper limit is currently unknown, but he has flown faster than lightning while in orbit of Earth.
* **Godlike Durability:** David is capable of brushing off the entire arsenal of the American military, his durability matching his physical strength. He's only been harmed by a supernova's explosion whilst out in space, and even then, it only momentarily dazed him. The upper limits of his durability are unknown.
* **Altered Physiology:** David is immune to the effects of harmful radiation, seemingly. He's capable of traveling through space with no harm done to his body. David's body is also denser than the average human, giving him a slim appearance but a very heavy skeletal and muscular system that's ultra compact. He weighs seven hundred pounds despite having a lean build.
* **Heightened Perception:** David's senses are heightened to peak capacity for a human, enabling him to pick up on subtle things that most people wouldn't notice.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat Training (Advanced):** David has trained with the Navy Seals, becoming proficient in several martial arts. David has been trained by the most prominent warriors in the galaxy, the members of the Divine Council. They taught several fighting forms that mankind hadn't been introduced to yet, putting David through a rigorous training regimen that honed his body and mind. Even without his powers, David is one of the best fighters on planet Earth.
* **Military Knowledge:** David has gone through extensive training with the Navy Seals, gaining enough skill that even powerless he's a formidable operative. David has been trained in the art of warfare by the Divine Council and because of that, he's capable of establishing strategies that are well-regarded enough to put him in the ranks of the world's finest generals.
* **Enhanced Intellect:** David's brain's composition has been altered by his genetic mutations. He thinks far faster than any human can and possesses a higher level of intellect for an Earthly individual.
* **Physics Negation:** David can, when he concentrates, bypasses the the light barrier while in space. In order to do so, he negates the laws of physics in his vicinity. While he does this, he cannot interact with the universe, he can only travel through it. Such an action is exhausting and drains him of enough energy to keep him at suboptimal capacity for the next 24 hours.
* **Charisma:** David is a skilled orator, capable of convincing people to believe even the most nonsensical things when necessary. He's endeared himself to the world through both his actions and words.

## Weaknesses

* **Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:** David's maternal grandmother died in his adolescent years, and her impact on his childhood was akin to that of a second mother. Robbed of an extended life with one of his closest loved ones, the juvenile bottled his turbulent emotions and supported his family as best as he could. A year later, his mother passed and all that was worthy within him shattered. His empathy subsided to levels where it directly impacted his ability to render justice, and his work ethic suffered tremendously. The First Star's War, hosted betwixt humanity and Xandia, borderline rendered him insane, as he bathed himself in the blood of hundreds of thousands of humanoid aliens. At the end of the war, the US military activated a hyper-nuclear bomb across Antarctica to deal with the Xandian incursion situation there. That was where his family had lived, and all were presumed dead in the blast. For fifteen more years, David suffered in silence until an incident where his mind was opened up to him by the telepath known as Migraine. Under her control, David saw the worst of his experiences all over again--and he broke, killing every false illusion he saw under the pretense they were real. When he came to, he had murdered the entire city of Charlotte. After that, he disappeared off the grid.
* **Avatar of Sloth:** After the loss of his two loved ones, David was approached by Sloth in his sleep. Unbeknownst to the hero, Sloth latched onto his soul and utilized his trauma to its advantage, making the hero relatively lazy and unmotivated, gradually building up its influence until David's final public outings.