Stephan Anderson

Unnamed Sister

Unnamed Brother

## History

### Origins

Born in the year 1996 in Chicago Illinois. Stephan was born to Elijah and Gillian, his early life was complicated as his father left for work early in the morning for his job. His father worked for the crime gangs in the area and his mother was a teacher at school. This caused the young child to be left alone with a babysitter most days of the week. When he was ten his parents got into a fight and later that week got divorced causing Gillian to take all of her and Stephans belongings before fleeing to New York.

When he became a teenager he was put through high school where he was bullied for being intelligent, determined, creative, and successful in his classes. One day in the crowded hallway of the school he was bullied. One of the kids pushed him into the locker before he fought back punching said kid in the face. After this he was brought down to the principal's office and was suspended for three weeks. This is where he started to take care of his now sick mother Gillian who could no longer support herself. The sickness she had was chronic kidney disease, this is a long-term condition where the kidneys do not work effectively.

### Getting His Powers

Since his mom was no longer able to provide for him this had caused him to leave his entire school livelihood behind and go work for Fisk Industries as a ironworker at a construction company. However, what he didn’t know was that Fisk was a Kingpin in New York and controlled all construction companies by using brute force. About a month into his job he was building a skyscraper with new experimental AIM weapons (which he didn’t know were from the company). While Cutting through a steel pole for a support beam during a rainy day he was struck by lightning while using said experimental saw. This caused a chemical reaction. There was an explosion which shook the floor of the building and his skin changed to steel tripling that of a normal person's skin density. When he was noticed by his fellow colleagues he was forced to flee the building in his torn up and burnt clothes. When he walked through the street and past one of the car window he noticed his face and arms were metal which terrified him.

### Seven Year Time Jump

Now at twenty five years old he was on the run from AIM and Fisk Industries, as they wanted to continue to turn him into a test subject. As Stephan (like any other person) would’ve slept in alleys, gone into homeless shelters before ultimately taking the money he earned from working at Fisk Industries and got an apartment. He would’ve shaved, taken a shower, and then outside to the back of the building where he then started to test his powers. A couple of weeks after the incident where he broke through a brick wall the first sighting of the man was now in Central Park where he was care free.

## Personality

Stephan is a shy, and insecure person when you first meet him but once he starts to warm up to them he shows off his real self, who is softhearted, hysterical, delightful, and overall an amazing person.

## Powers And Abilities

### Powers:

**Organic Metal Skin**- Stephen has a body with an organic metal skin that can resist most attack. Because he trades regular skin for organic metal skin, however he is not immortal. He may not always be in an organic metallic form but is able to transform into it. In this state, his body increases somewhat in height and build. Despite being entirely constituted of steel in his altered state, Steph appears to retain his normal level of mobility, leaving his agility unhindered. He is also able to transform only parts of his body, leaving the rest of it intact.

**Enhanced Strength:** Stephens strength is augmented to beyond peak human levels, but not too high supernatural levels. He is able to perform strength feats such as moving or lifting heavy objects such as cars, trucks, and buses.

**Enhanced Durability:** Stephen’s durability is beyond peak human limits, but not to high superhuman levels. His physical durability (ability to resist damage) is extremely high, allowing him to take numerous blows of internal or external assaults before succumbing to the effects.Stephen can withstand bullets, grenades and low to medium explosives, survive falling from the top of tall buildings and building collapse, withstand beatings from superhumans and take getting beaten with steel rods and bars.

### Abilities:

**Enhanced Unarmed Combat-** The users excel in melee attacks without wielding weapons. Rather than relying on weapons or equipment, they draw on their own strength and skill to fight. Users are able to use different styles of martial arts, they can also perform many different combination strikes, counters, and disarm their foes with their bare hands.

## Weaknesses

**Organic Metal Skin-** Prolonged use of this power could lead to the user suffering from iron deficiency, and is vulnerable to Metal Manipulation

**Enhanced Strength-** Stephan may damage the environment/other people without meaning or noticing. He also has a limit to how much he can lift before it's dangerous for himself to use.

**Enhanced Durability-** Stephen can only take so much damage before it finally takes an effect. At best, he will only be stunned by damage that would usually kill ordinary people. Although Some powers that are capable of bypassing durability like Telepathy, Absolute Strength, Durability Negation, etc, can be counteractive against this ability.

**Enhanced Unarmed Combat:** Lack of a weapon usually puts him at a disadvantage against armed opponents.