Charles Baxter

*I didn’t choose the thug life. The thug life chose me 😔.*

- **Charles Baxter**

## History

### Origins

Born in New Jersey to a large and well loved family in the community, they didn't live very well off but still made ends meet. Charles grew up in a somewhat moderate household.  When he was still a young boy it was discovered he was gifted and quite intelligent. As he went through school Charles often slacked off, acting as the class clown. Although he excelled much with science and chemistry. Outside of school Charles did what he could to help his family and their surrounding community growing up. Charles participated in track and basketball as extracurriculars, he was also well liked and had many friends in and outside of school. Around the time he was about to graduate high school he was offered  a scholarship to a University in California, Charles saw this as a chance for him to get out of his less fortunate life and a way to help his family and pursue science. Once Charles graduated high school he said goodbye to his family and moved across the country to attend college. In his time in college Charles took up an internship at a lab near the college where he would work for over a year while doing his college studies and part time jobs. At the lab, Charles assisted in a special project that he was doing he research on at the time as the project went on for a couple of months. One day while helping with the project an accident would happen where a generator malfunctioned, as Charles went to check it went off and fired electricity into him, sending him flying into chemicals and rubber materials. While Charles nearly died from the incident and was hospitalized for weeks he recovered remarkably well and was admitted out of the hospital to finish his college work.

After quitting the internship just before finishing his second year of college, Charles would continue to enjoy and study in his remaining 2 years of college. During that time Charles started to discover his abilities. As he learned more about them he started to train and do stuff with his abilities. A few months into his final year at college Charles would create a home made suit before heading onto the streets and doing heroic acts and fighting crime. After finishing college Charles would make another suit and fight crime full time with it. Now it's been over a year since he's finished College and works at an art Gallery and doing stand up, along with fighting crime, facing notable criminals, and performing heroic acts as Elasto.

## Personality

Charles is an intelligent, creative, and artistic individual. He's often charming, confident, and courageous. Charles is charismatic, witty, funny along with often being comedic. He cares for others and their well being, looking out for them. He is kind and compassionate, and can be a reliable friend and ally when it comes down to it. Charles is often adaptable and skilled. Charles can be stubborn and hard headed at times.

## Powers and Abilties

Elasto has many properties of the electric eel, such as:

* Malleable Physiology: His body exists in a fluid state and form, neither completely liquid or solid. He has control over his molecular structure.
* Elasticity, Plasticity, and Size Alteration: He can stretch his limbs and body to superhuman lengths, sizes, and shapes. He can stretch long distances and sizes. He is also able to shrink and grow to tremendous sizes.
* Shape-Shifting: He can contort his body into various positions and sizes that are seen as impossible for normal humans, he can also use his abilities for disguise by changing the shape of his face and body. In addition, he can alter his bodily mass and physical constitution at will, with great concentration he can also change color.
* Superhuman Agility and Strength: Charles' stretching powers grant him heightened agility enabling him flexibility and coordination that is extraordinary beyond the natural limits of the human body. He can also alter his strength by growing or adding more muscle.
* Invulnerability: His powers extraordinarily augment his durability. He is able to withstand corrosives, punctures, and concussions without sustaining much injury, although he can be momentarily be stunned or rendered incapacitated. He is resistant to high velocity impacts that would kill an ordinary person, he could also withstand blasts from energy weapons, and is completely bulletproof. His bodily mass can also be dispersed, but for all intents and purposes it is invulnerable.
* Regeneration: He is able to regenerate and assimilate lost and damaged tissue, though it takes time, it is far faster than the ordinary human.
* Electrokinesis: Charles can generate raw electricity which courses through his body that he can manipulate and control. Along with that he can absorb and store electricity for his own use. Charles can also manipulate existing electricity.
* Electromagnetism: He can sense sources of electromagnetic energy or objects that can be affected by it such as underground water pipes. He can magnetize and demagnetize metals.