The Mighty (Simon)

The Mighty, also known as Simon, is a super, acting as a superhero in Dublin. He is also working for the (unknown to him) villain, Donnchad seeking to take over Dublin in the name of the Irish people.

## Backstory

Simon was a simple miller. During the mists in Dublin, he received his powers, and from then decided to put his new abilities to good use, becoming the city's protector. Soon after, he met Donnchad, who convinced the 17 year old of the soft tyranny of living under English rule, and convinced him to aid alongside his gradually increasing forces, in the Dublin Revolution. During his time as a hero, he defeated several supervillains, including Wraith, and met The Heroes Brian and Aubrey.

While he promised Brian to hold off on the revolution in favor of journeying to O'Ferrall to win the tournament first, he ultimately broke this promise after being reinforced by Donnchad of the urgent need to act now, attacking the estate of Lord Richard. This event causes Brian and Aubrey to flee, not wanting a confrontation with him. He saw them during the attack, which served to instill guilt in his actions, and shortly after the attack, he left Donnchad's service, seeking to find Brian and Aubrey in O'Ferrall, where he might fulfill his purpose of Irish liberation in the way Brian proposed.

Simon met up with the party again when joining the tournament. He and Brian both made it to the second to last day, with Simon finally losing to Murchad O'Ferrall. Along the way, Simon became fast friends with Roland, and was approached by many nobles offering him employment for their factions. He has so far denied, looking to Brian for guidance on the matter.

## Personality

Simon is a simple and honest young man, with a simple understanding of moral responsibility. He was once idle in his life, content with the simple things, but was inspired by his power to take action, and to pursue something greater, believing it to be a waste to not use his powers to do so. He is also very impressionable to those he deems as his senior, leading him to be manipulated by Donnchad and later inspired by Brian.

His time spent with Donnchad led him into developing a rather extremist philosophy in regards to Irish liberation, and believes fundamentally that the English need to be expelled from the land, and attributes any unfavorable political or economic happenings to the English. His extremism has the potential to lead to dark actions, which will affect him if that comes to pass.

His interactions with Brian, and the failed revolution in Dublin have cause him to rethink his outlook, and he has since become reticent of joining revolutionary bandwagons, though he knows that he will have to eventually to achieve Irish independence. He has become emotionally dependent on Brian, looking to him for inspiration and approval, though trying to maintain an air of heroic confidence around others.

## Stats

Simon's power allows him to reduce the weight he experiences in an object to 2%. This does not increase his strength, it simply reduces the difficulty of a strength check he makes based on the "new mass" of the object he is handling.

Simon has advantage on checks to Grapple, Shove (not down), Shove Aside, and Overrun.

Simon has a jump distance of 100 ft. He takes fall damage as normal.

## Powers

To most, his powers appear as incredible strength. In fact, while he is very strong, his true power is his ability to reduce the gravity of objects he touches. To him, the object's weight is negligible, only 2% of it's original weight. However, the object's weight is still present - it is simply that he does not experience it. In practice, if he were to pick up a giant rock, he could throw it as if it were a small stone, but it would impact as the giant rock that it is. He can also reduce his own weight to himself, enabling him to jump incredible distances.

His powers have some drawbacks, mainly that it requires the use of massive objects to use effectively - he could not for example, use his powers to choke someone with super strength, or cut harder with a normal sized sword. In contrast to regular super strength though, his power has the advantage of enabling the use of massive objects without the object's weight affecting him in turn, or being affected by it's own weight. For example, if he were to pick up a cart by its wheel, it would remain intact as he carries it, rather than snap at the wheel, as it would have if it were simply lifted with enhanced strength.

His powers thus encourage his use of his trademark weapon, the meteor hammer, though he also throws rocks and wields large hammers if possible.