Patriot

Michael Owain, also known as the Patriot, is a MYverse character. He is a former Collective alum who's only purpose is to serve the country and be a force to beat the Russians during the Cold War era, and is also a sensation throughout the 1980s.

## Biography

### Personality

In the Collective, Michael was well known among his teammates. However, he had a terrible personality due to the influence of the Collective's brainwashing. Despite his flaws, Michael shows that he has a brave, humane side and truly cares about saving the world, due to the time where he had Clara, a young RadioShack employee as his right hand when the Collective "betrayed" him when the company has accusations of espionage and collaborating with the enemy.

### Appeareance

Patriot has brown hair and green eyes. In the 1980s, he used to have a clean-shaven, all-American good guy look that made him be a sensation of the decade.Due to his pretty boy looks, he has a high popularity. And nowadays, he has more facial hair and looks 30 years younger, because of the C-blend he took after being experimented as a child.

## Background

### Early Life

Patriot is born as Michael Owain in a small town in Ohio called Hawkins. His father, a former military general, passed away in an accident when he was younger. Due to his father's undying love for the nation, he decided to join the United States Army at the age of 17 to pass on his father's legacy. When he joined the Army, he was chosen by Dr. Bohrmann and raised in Los Angeles National Laboratory, where he later was experimented on in order to be their vision of what they call as a "one-man-army" who can singlehandedly destroy the Russians.

### The Superhero Life

The experiments were successful and Dr. Bohrmann and his team finally created their vision: a one-man army who's as strong as the entire United States military. Equipped with a strong suit and a shield to protect, the man himself is called the Patriot. Patriot's first mission is to take down a platoon of communist sympathizers lurking in the forests of Latin America, and he successfully did it without an army. Sooner and later, Dr. Bohrmann decided to "create" 5 more superhumans to be on Patriot's side, as a team.

### The '80s Sensation

In the mid-to-late 1980s, Patriot became an overnight sensation due to his pretty-boy-looks, work, patriotism and strong-will. And some of his team members "created" by Dr. Bohrmann, has gotten more recognition. Dr. Bohrmann called the team as "The Collective", and it's now a company of superheroes led by Homefront.

During that era, his big highlight is when he was a special guest in the TV show "Solid Gold". He performed the rap verse of "Rapture" by Blondie and it created history and it's now considered as one of the greatest moments of the 1980s. Apart from that, he released a rap album produced by DJs who worked for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and a cover of "Rapper's Delight". Because of his looks, he was in teen magazines such as Teen Beat and 16 Magazine. He was also considered a teen heartthrob at that era, and somehow, considered as Ralph Macchio's and Tom Cruise's biggest competitor.

He was an actor too, and he acted in commercials and episodes of various TV shows. His most iconic commercial is the commercial to the ice cream shop Flavor Ocean located in Santa Monica Pier. Due to his popular demand, the Butterscotch flavor is one of its bestselling flavors.

When one of the "supes" on his team are accused of collaborating with the enemy and espionage, Patriot immediately left the team to start a "solo career" without the fame and attention. At that time, he got an offer for a movie, but he declined, saying that he "doesn't want to see himself in the big screen". He then decides to make a career change in order for him to use his status for good, returned to his native Hawkins, and found a young RadioShack employee named Clara, fought Russian guards inside a mall called Starlite, which is now closed down and things has changed since that. At that time, he is also in a relationship with a woman named Joyce, but unfor

Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he then decides to work on his own. As the One-Man Army, again, he decided to go on a mission in Siberia to take down a military general, and also an attempt to take down the Soviet "hero", Crimson Steel. Eventually, they failed to take each other down, and this rivalry is still going on until the present day.

### Present Day

Patriot is now married to a psychologist named Dr. Yvette Harris, and has adopted 3 kids: Alec, Adonis and Aimee, each of them are related to members of the Death Squad. They bond as a family and created a team called The Irreplaceables, and their purpose is to use their powers for good, to take down the Collective. Apart from that, he temporarily joined Da Homiez and became Butcher's best friend. After Butcher lashed out and used the C-blend, he decides to leave the team and go back to the Irreplaceables.

Nowadays, him, Alec and his best friend Lily Sloane, who's also the sister of Dally Sloane from Da Homiez join forces together to help find the remaining C-blends and secret Russian authorities lurking around Los Angeles---and the US.

## Abilities & Powers

### Super Strength

The C-Blend gave him super-strength, that leads him to living a long life and maintaining the youthful look. He is skilled at hand to hand combat, grappling at a constant strength.

### Shield

The shield is used to protect him from bullets, chemicals or gas.

## Relationships

### Joyce Withers

Michael and Joyce are neighbors and sweethearts. Back in Hawkins,they used to spend a lot of time together when they were younger. And when he reached superhero status, it has been confirmed that they're in a relationship, that makes his female fans jealous. When coming back to Hawkins, they see each other for the last time. They reunite in Los Angeles on his way to pick Alec up from work.