Martin Cooper

Martin Cooper, labeled the Fencing Prodigy, was the leader of the Talon Alliance under the alias of **Whitetail**.

## Information

### Quick Stats

Gender: cis male

Sexuality: pansexual

Age: 24

### Physical Appearance

Martin is a lanky young man with pale skin. He has pale blue eyes and straight hair dyed a silvery gray. He typically dresses in a snazzy suit with a red necktie and black boots, and wears wire-rimmed glasses.

As Whitetail, he wears a white coat with long coattails, light armor padding underneath, and black stockings. He has thick white gloves and carries a rapier and a dagger. He wears a white helmet similar to a fencing mask, with black mesh obscuring his face and gray feather designs.

### Personality

Martin is a level-headed person who acts friendly and polite, but seems a bit distant and is good at concealing his interests. He is driven and hardworking, having a determined and vigorous energy, and can be a bit of a control freak at times. He is outgoing but not warm, very observant and strategy-minded, and prides himself as being very composed and thinking before he acts. However, his tendency to micromanage sometimes causes him to lose track of the big picture. Though he can be melodramatic in some regards, his ways of joking, complimenting, insulting, or otherwise interacting are often very subtle, like he's afraid to express himself. But if he respects someone, he'll show it in his own way.

Martin harbors a longing for recognition and an obsession with being on good standing with the public, which has shaped the persona of Whitetail: a stoic, focused hero that commands respect and stays cool under pressure, acting as an inspiring leader to his team. Whitetail is precise and purposeful, and appears to put citizens above all, though his displays of transparency and altruism, to gain the trust of others, clash with Martin's fear of his history being discovered. Martin will do anything to preserve Whitetail's reputation. He isn't the most loyal person and tends to act in self-preservation if forced into a corner. He wants to do good in the world, but sometimes loses sight of what that really means.

### History

Martin is an only child raised in Ockross primarily by his wealthy father, who had no powers but was a successful businessman. His mother, who had a sixth sense-like power that Martin inherited, was also the host of a mysterious spirit and a vigilante hero by the name of Aethersoar. She was often out of the house, and Martin never knew much about her work or her role as a hero. When Martin was three years old, his mother was killed by the Ockross police, and his father refused to give him more details. In turn, Martin talks little about his family life to others.

Throughout his childhood and teenage years, Martin kept a close relationship with his dad, despite them both skirting around the subject of his mother. He was a hard worker in school and his natural quiet charisma allowed him to make some good friends. He's always shown interest in becoming a superhero, giving him the freedom to fly like a bird as people watched with awe from below. When he met a fellow powered teen, Cyrus, in middle school, they became fast friends, and by their freshman year they were dreaming up a new idea for a team.

It was then that Martin became the leader and founder of the Talon Alliance, often referred to as simply the "Talons." When the group was founded, it was just as much a close-knit friend group as it was a team of superpowered crime fighters. Though they weren't the biggest hero team, they had their moments of success, and as the group grew up together and graduated high school, they began to regard each other as family. Then one day Martin left on a mysterious business trip, telling the group he'd be back in a few weeks. They didn't hear from him for *four years.* Turns out that word had gotten out that his father, who was living retired in the next state, had been the husband of the infamous vigilante Aethersoar. Martin's father was under interrogation, but Martin himself couldn't tell his team for fear of revealing his own connection to Aethersoar. But he had to go, dropping everything for his father and rushing to help him. Did he get answers about his mother's past? Not really. But he got things cleared up for his dad and that was all that mattered, and once he was certain everything was under control, he had to return to his friends.

Martin made it back to The Roost, a diner owned by one of his teammates that doubled as their main meeting place. However, since his departure, the Talons had devolved into chaos and their reputation had fallen apart. They had gotten into a spat with the police after a particularly destructive mission that caused a lot of property damage, no one really was able to keep a steady job as they had put most of their resources and trust into the team, and to support themselves they turned to collecting bounties and contract killing. Martin was horrified. He was meant to have a team of famed and adored superheroes, not undercover mercenaries—he couldn't stand to have his friends persecuted in the same way his mother was. Now, he has a choice to make. Does he whip the Talons back into shape and try to restore their reputation, or cut his losses and set out on his own?

## Heroes of Ockross

### Powers

**Gliding:** Using his coat as a sort of squirrel suit, he can glide for short distances or enhance his jump length.

**Enhanced condition:** Whitetail is physically stronger and more agile than the average human.

**Sixth sense:** He has an impeccable sense of direction and can use it to maneuver during darkness, bad weather and other disorienting situations, as well as create mental maps of places even after he's visited them once. In other words, he’s a literal human homing pigeon.

**Sword mastery:** Skilled at swordplay and fights with a rapier.

### Relationships

* Teammates
	+ Cyrus Lak/Swansong- Second-in-command and best friend
	+ Jordan Pierce/Bladedance- Team brawler and trainee, acts as an older brother figure/role model to them
	+ Reyna Flynn/Peregrine- Team lookout and sniper
* Family
	+ Arthur Cooper- Father, deceased
	+ Mitzi Vogel/Aethersoar- Mother, deceased, a vigilante superhero and host of a spirit. Was killed by the Ockross police
	+ Aeth- Guardian, his mother's spirit companion