Photonic

Adam Hawthorn the Second, known by his undercover operation codename Photonic, was a CEO of Melior Corporation along with Dr Jane Wix and Koji Nakamura and heir to his father's banking estate Hawthorn Business Investments, currently still run the first Adam Hawthorn which acts as Melior's financial backer. While a businessman, he also became interested in particle physics, and eventually became the user of the Photonic Project, a suit devised by Koji to allow the user to harness ambient photons.

### **History**

Adam was born in Kensington in Central London, England in 1987, but moved to McLean, Virginia in the US when he was 7, the birthplace of his mother Maryjane Hawthorn, where he studied business at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

It was at the university where Adam met Koji Nakamura, a young genius confined to a wheelchair, the two looked at starting a scientific research business, but worked their way up as lab assistants, where they both met Jane Wix, whose tenaciousness and confidence eventually grew into the formation of Melior Corporation.

### **Appearance**

Adam was a tall, slim man with thin, blonde hair, a gaunt face with a long chin; he has blue eyes and a thin, pointed nose. He was often always dressed in suits when not wearing his Photonic Armor.

### **Personality**

Adam was an extremely savvy businessman, and a natural at understanding money flows and banking systems, he was more confident behind the scenes or in an office but in public, and when dealing with others in person he was somewhat feeble and nervous, often fumbling. However the use of the Photonic Project, developed by Koji, made him confident behind the mask, and brought out a more action-orientated side of Adam never seen outside the use of his suit; Koji remarked that it was almost like a second personality and perhaps a phycological effect conjured by the power of the suit.

### **Powers and Abilities**

#### **Powers**

While Adam had no superhuman abilities himself, his use of Koji's Photonic suit granted him a number of augmented abilities.

#### **Abilities**

**Savvy Businessman**: He was an extremely gifted in finance and monetary assets, as well as the general workings of a business and mediating all and every parts of the operation to maximise efficiency and productivity.

**Computer Software Expert:** He is skilled in the use of computer software and programs of varying kinds.

**Basic Particle Physics Understanding:** While no expert like Koji, Adam takes a keen interest in physics and has gained some knowledge on the workings of Koji's suit.

**Some Fighting Knowledge:** He has trained in some basic systems of fighting, hand-to-hand combat and self-defence.

### **Weapons and Equipment**

**Photonic Suit:** Created by Koji Nakamura as an experiment into harnessing photons and binding them to a computerised network, Koji's confinement to a wheelchair meant that he himself couldn't test the suit properly, and Adam volunteered, despite the risks involved. The flexible and thin suit is essentially a wearable, white solar panel (or rather a flexible all-over "photocell" covered by a conductive PVC fabric), but instead of transforming light into electricity, it directly redistributes each photon in a complex matrix of graphene circuits built into a thin Nitrile-Polyester underlayer. Once distributed across the board and stored in thin photo-batteries, the computer systems can work in coalition with brainwave data and electronic particle-shunting to allow the user to essentially re-emit photons from the suit as light energy in various forms.

* **Enhanced Strength and Durability:** The photonic matrix of the suit made the fabric tougher and stronger overall, tightening around his existing muscles and amplifying their actions by several degrees, allowing him to lift around 3 tonnes and providing better resistances to damage and energy; in particular the suit was highly resistant to various electromagnetic particles.
* **Enhanced Sensor and Analysis Systems:** The suit possessed a cowl and visor that allowed him to scan, analyse and store information, as well as giving him better optical and auditory range in various spectrums unseen or unheard by a normal human.
* **Photosheild**: The suit could emit a protective cocoon of photons that could reflect most forms of impacts, hugging tightly to the suit's shape and surrounding him in a yellow glow.
	+ **Flight:** The suit could emit enough photonic pressure from this Photosheild to propel Adam through the air at the speed of sound, possibly faster; the exact flight speed of the suit hasn't yet been clocked, but extensive use of this system does drain the suit's storage quicker than any other system.
* **Energy Blasts:** The suit could emit energy blasts from it's palms or fists that possessed quite the concussive impact and cause burning. These blasts could be modulated to be more precise and searing.

### **Limitations and Weaknesses**

Adam is meek and nervous outside of his suit, and moreso Koji believes the suit has had a psychological effect on Adam in leu of his normally submissive characteristics, causing such a shift of personality and confidence, even ego, that it borders on a serious form of bipolar disorder.

The suit may cause undiagnosed physical issues to Adam, including overheating and burning of skin and perhaps disruption of neurons and brainwaves that may account for his recently unstable behaviour; as such the suit is also extremely addictive for Adam. However he is aware of this and limits his time in the suit where he can.