Victor Flynn

Caroline Flynn-Neuman (daughter)

Isaac Flynn, William Neuman, Patrick Newman, Andrew Neuman (grandsons)

Bethany Flynn, Susanna Flynn (grandaughters)

Victor Flynn, better known by his alias, Supreme, is the most powerful metahuman to be created within the twentieth century. He received his powers from the I-2 ichor formula, which granted him the godlike physical might and power over radiation which he would then use to destroy the Japanese city of Nagasaki and end the Second World War.

## Biography

### Early Life

Flynn was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1918, to a pair of rich parents. Throughout his childhood in the Roaring Twenties, Victor never wanted for anything. His father was a young but wealthy steel factory owner hailing from a long line of old money, and greatly respected by his fellows for his service in the Great War. Young Victor was often regaled with tales of the great battles they had fought, though his father often left out the worst horrors of the war from his tales. As such, Victor spent his younger years with a great sense of nationalistic pride and and desire to one day serve in the military as his father had. However, as he grew older, Victor's dream of service faded to a distant memory.

### The Crash of 1929

Victor spent much of his time after school walking the grounds of his father's factory and mingling with the workers there. A happy and pleasant boy, he was always willing to lend a quick hand here and there, and his positive demeanor always cheered his father's employees, many of whom he befriended. As a result, when the stock market crashed in 1929, Victor found himself pleading with his father not to fire his friends. It did not work. The next few years were hard for Victor, though nowhere near as hard as they were for children born from less wealthy backgrounds. Still, as his father became totally preoccupied keeping their business afloat, Victor was largely ignored by him, until he was eventually sent off to boarding school, and later on, to college, where he studied economics.

### World War 2

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the entry of the United States into the Second World War, Victor rushed immediately to the nearest recruiting station. His childhood dream of following in his father's footsteps as a war hero was reignited within him. He joined the Marine Corps, and was assigned to 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division, which was deployed to the Pacific Theater. During his career, he would advance to the rank of Captain, taking command over his platoon, and was among the soldiers who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, despite having had a bullet wound at the time.

### Rise of Supreme

Because of his heroism, Captain Flynn was recalled back to the US after Iwo Jima, as he had been selected as the first test subject of a new dose of I-2 formula. Taken to a lab in the Utah desert, Victor was injected with the serum. Unfortunately, the outburst of radiation that came from his body after his powers manifested destroyed the entire base. But Victor survived, unharmed, digging his way out of the rubble, where he was recovered by the military. Victor spent the next few months training with his newfound powers and letting scientists run tests on him, all the while weighed down by guilt for the incident that had occurred when his abilities first manifested.

In August of 1945, after it was discovered that the atomic bombs that were going to be deployed against Japan had been sabotaged, Victor was called upon as a substitute. For an entire day, he deliberated on whether or not he could snuff out so many lives. Eventually, Victor decided that he must put an end to the war, for the good of the world. Off he flew to Japan, where he unleashed his burgeoning power upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing the Second World War to an end, and taking for himself the name of Supreme, as the new most powerful man on the planet.

### Return Home

Following the end of the Second World War, Victor returned home to the US, and received a hero's welcome. He accepted it numbly, but took no pleasure in it. The cheerful, optimistic youth who had signed on to fight for his country was gone, replaced by a man haunted by his own power. Filled with doubts and self loathing over what he had done, Victor flew north after just eight days back. Following three months living alone in the Alaskan wilderness, Victor was finally tracked down by government agents, who asked him to return, and once more use his powers for the good of America, not as a soldier, but as a superhero.

Victor agreed after some consideration, looking upon the offer as a chance to atone for his misdeeds. Victor joined a team known as the Homelanders, which at the time was composed of individuals who had all served within the war as he had.

### Intervention in Vietnam

Victor was against the Vietnam War from the start, having publicly voiced his opposition to the conflict, and urged fellow members of the American Superhero Association to abstain from participating. Given the weight his word carried, few meta heroes volunteered to serve in the war, and public support for the conflict decreased considerably.

On December 20th, 1971, Victor made a routine save in Washington DC, catching a woman who had attempted to jump off a bridge. When he inquired why she had tried to kill herself, the woman, named Mary Gilbert, answered that her son had been drafted to fight in Vietnam, where he had been killed. Victor was shaken by the incident, and fell into contemplating how many young men would die fighting for a cause they didn't believe in.

The next day, Victor flew to the United States Capitol building, interrupting a session of Congress, and stating that he wished to address the country. Within minutes, a camera crew had assembled, and Supreme regaled the nation with the story of what had occurred to him the day before. He declared that henceforth, he intended to put an end to young men being drafted for the war, stating that forcing the country's youth to give up their lives for a cause which they had no stake in flew in the face of the beliefs he had fought for during the Second World War. He would begin visiting conscription centers and military bases around the nation, and ask every boy he encountered if they were there voluntarily, and if not, send them home.

As Supreme's work began, his actions sparked an outcry across the country. Politicians and lawmakers denounced the so called "Winter Solstice Address", declaring it a violation of the law and an incitement towards insurrection. Elsewhere, however, protests and marches began in support of Supreme's promise, and it was this, along with the backing of most of the ASA and the gratitude of the many young men he liberated from the draft, that assured Victor he had done the right thing.

#### Extermination of the Thunderguard

*"Don't ever ask me for anything again. You, or any of the other heartless bastards who run this country. I'm done."*

## Physical Appearance

Victor appears to be a Caucasian of around sixty years of age, despite being one hundred and ten years old. His skin is tanned, with numerous lines and crinkles upon his face, though he remains decent looking for his age. His once ash blonde hair has faded largely to a pale gray, and he has recently taken to letting his granddaughter Bethany style it for him, and currently has it cut short on the sides, long and spikey on the top. His eyes are a pale gray-green in coloration.

When employing his powers for purposes such as flight or energy blasts, Victor's skin, hair, and eyes take on a silvery blue glow. If agitated, his eyes will often flash with solid blue light as well.

## Personality

In his younger years, Victor was a friendly, good spirited youth, full of high ideals and optimism. Brave and righteous, he fought for his country in the Second World War because he thought it was the right thing to do, and wanted to defend his home above all else. It was his nature to be honorable and truthful, to defend those weaker than himself, and stand by his friends and allies to the point of stubbornness. Idealistic and faithful, Victor often trusted that those above him knew what was best, and was obedient and loyal to his superiors.

That was, until he had to serve as a living bomb. The countless dead at his hands shook him to his core, and planted within Victor the seeds of cynicism, but he still retained his moral code, and his desire to help people. The further slaughter he perpetuated at the end of the Vietnam War on the orders of his government shook him even further, and he decided that he had done enough, tired of serving a government whose morals he did not agree with.

In the present day, Victor is still a kind, honorable man, but world weary. Though he is polite and friendly to those he encounters, he nevertheless tries to avoid the public eye, or serving the government in any way, preferring to keep to his own and spend time with his family. He retains an old school set of values, and is firm in enforcing his beliefs on his children and grandchildren, and even more firm when it comes to their safety.

## Powers

Metahuman Physiology: Victor has spent several decades as the most unquestionably powerful man on the planet, as a result of a massive dosage of the I-2 ichor formula. This power of his has enabled him to obliterate two cities and crush armies, allowing him to bring the Second World War to an end.

## Stats

Threat Level: Alpha

Power Mastery: Master

Karma Level: