Aidan O'Cabe

Jane O’Cabe (Wife, Deceased)

Ciara O’Cabe (Daughter, Deceased)

Eric O’Cabe (Son, Deceased)

### Affiliation

IRA (Former Member)Her Majesty’s Office of Metahuman Affairs (Informant, Agent),

## Physical description

### Weight

194 lbs

Aidan O'Cabe, currently addressed by most as Father O'Cabe or simply Father O', is a former member of the Irish Republican Army, and a metahuman veteran of bloody conflict known as the Troubles. Both terrorist and freedom fighter, O'Cabe betrayed his comrades in the IRA after having had his fill of blood. Since then, he has immigrated to America, where he devoted himself to atonement, becoming a priest of the Catholic Church.

## Biography

Born in the tension filled streets of Derry as a poor Catholic youth, Aidan was a powerful and troublesome boy, frequently feuding with other children and becoming enamored with his grandfather’s tales of fighting the British in the Irish Civil war. Despite the best attempts of his pious parents, no reprimand kept the youth from fighting Protestants. Radicalized by massacre of Bloody Sunday, Aidan ran away from home and joined the IRA at the age of 13, developing a close bond with the charismatic Eric O’Malley the leader of the local IRA cell; who became a father figure to the teenager.

In 1977 when O’Malley received his first shipment of Ichor, Aidan begged to be allowed to be a recipient of the mysterious serum. O’Malley eventually acquiesced and the resulting injection of Ichor turned Aidan into a metahuman, a moderately powerful brawn in meta lingo, but a individual straight out of Gaelic legend to the Irish. Aidan was delighted with his powers, he was a superhero equal to those of America, only he was liberating Ireland from the despicable British. Taking the name of legendary hero Cú Chulainn, Aidan was a figure of shock and awe for the IRA, a tool of propaganda rather than violence.

Eventually O’Malley who at this time had become known by the moniker of Lugh convinced Aidan to reconnect with his family, the begrudging young Aidan was deeply surprised when his parents were overjoyed with his return, instead of berating him for leaving. Aidan began to balance a burgeoning civilian life and his life as a IRA metahuman, marrying a childhood friend named Jane and siring twins with her (whom he named after his mentor and a fellow compatriot), who were unaware of his identity as the metahuman Cú Chulainn. Yet his good life ended on a Sunday morning in June 1982 when a bomb set by a loyalist paramilitary exploded during mass, killing his family and several others. The unharmed and enraged Cú Chulainn proceeded to massacre every person in the nearest loyalist stronghold barehanded. 27 people died in the massacre, 9 being civilians and one of those civilians a toddler.

The day became the first of increasingly violent metahuman attacks in the troubles by the IRA and an event which has traumatized Aidan. Cú Chulainn slowly became increasingly disillusioned with Lugh’s increasingly brutal methods, yet remaining loyal longer than all of his fellow Irish metahumans, even with the new threat of British metas. Yet even he defected to the British when offered clemency for revealing the location of Lugh, who he had believed to have gone too far even in the name of freedom. The act still haunts Cú Chulainn, betraying his beloved mentor for the tyrants he had struggled against for decades. Surprisingly however his clemency was respected by the British, in exchange for a tracking chip and exile from the Isles. Now the weathered freedom fighter lives as a priest in inner city Baltimore, seeking to repent by serving the needy and guiding the young.

## Physical Appearance

Aidan was once a powerful and built figure, muscles bulging with metahuman strength and the good looks reminiscent of his heroic namesake. Guilt and regret has weathered away the heroic good looks of his youth and he is far more wiry than the physical apex of his past. Despite chronologically being seventy years old, he resembles a man in his late thirties.

## Personality

Guilt and Regret have left Aidan a shell of the man he once was, the vibrant idealism and fierce patriotism of his youth have been worn away by tragedy after tragedy. The trauma of the death of his family, the guilt of butchering innocents and the regret of betraying his mentor have left him filled with intense self loathing and a deep desire to repent. He is still capable of joy however, even if he often does not realize it and still strives to live up to the heroic moniker he had took.

## Relationships

The relationships of his past life have been severed either willingly or not, he has developed relationships in the community he has served, particularly trying to mentor troubled youth.

## Powers

Cú Chulainn was the foremost Metahuman combatant of the IRA and is still a considerably powerful meta even out of shape.

* Superhuman Durability*:* Cú Chulainn has class 3 durability and is bulletproof to small arms fire, his skin can be pierced by higher caliber weapons at medium to close range.
* Regeneration: Cú Chulainn’s regeneration is speculated to be on the lower end of class two, due to his significantly slowed aging and regeneration of a lost eye.
* Super Strength: The strength required for the feats performed at his attack in Strabane would likely be in the upper end of class two, his decreased fitness however has likely lowered the maximum tonnage he is able to lift.
* Super Speed: While not a speedster by any means, the ichor enhanced muscle fibers tied to his super strength allow him to produce a top sprinting speed of 47 miles per hour.
	+ *Enhanced Nervous System:* The enhanced nervous system of Cú Chulainn allows his brain to catch up with his faster muscles, allowing for a faster reaction time. This was exhibited during combat in the raid on Omagh to counter incoming ordinance.

## Skills

O’Cabe has shown knowledge in the manufacture and handling of numerous types of homemade explosives, ranging from small pipe bombs to wiring complex booby traps. O’Cabe is also adept at the maintenance of firearms and marksmanship, as shown during the raid of Omagh against SAS snipers. O’Cabe is a highly dangerous terrorist and guerrilla fighter, do not attempt to aggravate without clearance, he is recorded to possess the fifth highest bodycount among O’Malley’s inner circle. O’Cabe is fluent in English, Gaelic and Latin.

## Stats

**Threat Level:** Delta

**Durabilty:** Class 3

**Regeneration:** Class 2

**Speed:** Class 1

**Strength:** Class 2

## Trivia

* Despite being generally knowledgeable, O’Cabe never graduated secondary school, equivalent to the American high school. He’s a fully ordained priest.