Eduardo Dorado Jr

## Background

### 2001 - 2014: Eddie Dorado

Eduardo was born in Argentina to his namesake Eduardo Dorado Sr. & Laura Ballesteros. Unfortunately, Laura died giving birth to little Eddie. Her death caused Eduardo Sr. to throw all his time into his work at S.T.A.R. Labs, leading to his grandfather Sebastian moving Eddie into his house & raising him. When Eduardo Sr. had to move to the states to finish his zeta-beam research with Doctor Adam Strange, Sebastian refused to let little Eddie go with him as he knew he would be too busy to take care of him. Not wanting to argue, Eduardo Sr. left & had Eddie stay with his grandfather.
As Eddie grew up, he understood that his father was not around though he did not understand why. He grew more & more frustrated, and the small number of video chats they had did nothing to ease his anger. After one particular conversation went really well on Eduardo Sr's day off, his father asked him to move to the states with him so that he could enroll in high school here. He knew he had missed too much of his life & he couldn't make up for it, but he wanted to try to improve their relationship. Eddie was unsure, so he elected to spend the summer there with his father first then make his decision at the end.

After saying goodbye to his grandfather, Eddie took a plane ride up to Taos, New Mexico. Before Eddie could even look for his father at the airport, he was abducted by agents of The Light. While his father used every resource possible to look for him, Eddie was transported various places before ending up inside a unique looking building full of other teenagers & a few adults. After speaking to the others, he discovered that they were inside a spaceship that belonged to The Reach, a species that had just arrived on Earth.

For the following weeks, Ed was experimented upon by the Reach to see if his meta-gene could be triggered. All while going through this process, Eddie met other teenagers (Asami, Brenda, Paco, Tye). Brenda's mother had also been captured, acting as a surrogate mother for the five of them but eventually she was taken & assumed to have been killed. Eventually, The Team infiltrated the base, liberated the kids & brought them back to the Bio-Ship. Ed made it safely aboard the ship, using his new powers to teleport as many other abductees as he could. The liberated abductees were gathered in STAR Labs for a debriefing, where Ed was reunited with his father. After hearing how adamant his father was on finding him, Ed decided that was good enough for him & moved in with his father. However, his father got more than he bargained for as Ed's new friends Asami & Tye had no family to return to. Ed gave his father a deal: he would come live with him, if his friends could too. Eduardo Sr. didn't even hesitate & immediately agreed to take all three teenagers into his house.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Metahuman Physiology**
	+ ***Teleportation*:** Eduardo possesses the ability to instantly teleport himself effortlessly, to any location within his sightline. Under normal circumstances he is limited to only teleporting himself but if sufficiently motivated, he can manage a passenger. However, when he does carry others with him, both he & the passenger experience pain.
* **Multilingualism:** He can speak fluent English & Spanish.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* On his days off, he stays at The Hub. He has his own room there.
* He is best friends with Tye Longshadow. He is good friends with Jaime Reyes, Asami Koizumi, Virgil Hawkins, Brenda Del Vecchio & Paco Testas.
* When his grandfather heard Eddie was missing, he suffered a massive heart attack. Eduardo Sr. had him flown to the states to see the best doctors but they could not save him. However, the two were able to make some sort of amends before he died.

## Notes

* Sebastian Ballesteros was an Argentine business tycoon & the first male Cheetah.