Velocity the Panther

## Appearance

The cougar has very dark blue fur due to his black panther gene condition, and his eyes are blue. His speed suit is light blue and black, and it pretty much covers his whole body other than his head.

## History

Compared to big histories of other characters... Cole's history is pretty tame.

He had a pretty normal childhood for a meta, discovering his velocity powers in a stressful situation at the age of 10, saving a friend from a car accident while finding out he had the speed to do so later.

He grew up deciding to keep his power a secret for four years, but once his family moved to a quiet neighborhood, Cole then decided against keeping it a secret and decided to push his limits to see how fast he could be. Every time he reached his peak, he broke his limit and continued to get faster and faster, and with each burst in potential power, the more control and potency he had with velocity in general.

One day while in a fast food restaurant to hang out with a group of buddies, the restaurant was suddenly under attack by a robber. Putting his speed to good use, Cole ended up saving the lives of everyone in the building. The and fame praise he had earned from there had got to his head, and he decided to use his speed for heroic purposes ever since, making new friends and new enemies from there onwards.

## Personality

Occasionally, he is a little impatient, but otherwise, Cole is a pretty okay guy to hang around. He doesn't bother trying to hold in secrets about himself, because he does not like feeling weighed down by it. He is also very competitive about even the smallest thing, such as chess. However, he does show good sportsmanship whenever he does lose, claiming that he has all the time in the world to beat them again later.

He enjoys playing instruments, his favorite being the piano. He is a music composer, and spends his time making improvised quick five second songs every now and then, occasionally stretching the song to be many seconds to several minutes long.

In battle,Cole does not keep a serious attitude. His ability to dodge seemingly every attack makes him feel invulnerable, and he would get cocky really quickly.

## Equipment

### Speed Suit

Cole's speed suit is meant to survive extreme forces of concentrated pressure (such as in punches, kicks, or footsteps on the ground), as well as intense heat, allowing Cole to be able to, well, not burn through his clothing every time he revs up his speed.

## Pre Multiverse Core Abilities

Cole would rather be known as super versatile rather than just fast. The amount of abilities related with speed prove so. Obviously, based off of his name, Cole has the ability to manipulate his velocity.

### Speed

Cole was known to run well over 2,000 mph at the age of 10.

It eventually increases to massively hypersonic speeds due to outrunning lightning at 16, sub-relativistic speeds for outrunning the bullets of Emma's meta rifle at 17, then to reaching near light speed at 19.

Cole is able to stop on a dime and make 180 degree turns almost instantaneously.

### Velocity Manipulation

By being able to manipulate the velocity of himself, Cole can move and act *precisely* as fast as he wants in any sudden direction. He can keep a constant velocity in order to surpass the limitations of physics, preventing the likes of telekinetics and physics manipulators from pinning him down. As a result of having this ability, Cole is in control of his speed, and it cannot be stolen from him.

### Velocity Generation and Absorption

He can also absorb velocity from other things, Cole can also stop momentum and compact atoms to the point where he can make invisible inertia shields from physical strikes, as a sort of momentary force field.

Cole can even lend some of his momentum to others, so they have temporary speed as well. This speed generation works down to the atoms, allowing Cole to accelerate their healing, and let them phase through objects. By stopping air molecules around his feet while he is in midair, Cole can kick-jump in midair and perform something similar to double jumping.

### Molecular Speed Manipulation

By moving his molecules at high speeds, Cole can phase through objects, go completely invisible, resist freezing or heating attacks, or, if he was the destructive type like his rival, use it to cause molecular combustion. At his best, Cole can even oscillate his molecules to cause vibrations equivalent to the epicenter of Magnitude 10 earthquakes, something he uses to attack stronger foes.

### Accelerated Body Functions and Senses

Attempts at offensive mind abilities are normally useless if one's brain is not at that caliber of Cole's thinking speed as well, which is faster than a supercomputer. If he were to figure out this were being attempted, Cole can send an incredible amount of messages per second in an attempt to overload and cause mental pain to the attacker, or simply think too fast for the user to comprehend.

High tier thinking speed allows Cole to quickly understand the environment he is in and react accordingly, making him flow almost too gracefully, even in environments that constantly change. His healing process increased to the point where should he get injured, he can heal from wounds at a rapid pace, though nothing extraordinarily fast in combat.

### Tachyon Neuron System

Cole's secret to his super speed is due to his neuron system being powered by tachyons rather than electricity. He was destined to eventually reach the level to be beyond the speed of light, something that his enemy Tachyo feared.

### Tailwind Generation

Whenever something moves, air move in to take its place. One may feel this when they are running as the air moves around travels body, and one can see it when a car travels by and small objects such as leaves and trash seem to be flowing in the same direction momentarily. However, when Cole is dashing without being in the speed aura, the air around him takes up space so quickly, it can move very heavy objects. This can be from Mobians, to cars, and at his best, even moving two grounded passenger jets out of the way of a collision from a falling giant.

### Sound Barrier Striking

By not using his speed aura, Cole's supersonic movements can cause sonic booms. He can make decoy gunshot sounds, or momentarily deafen a foe.

### Speed Elements

By moving at high speeds, Cole can be able to generate high wind speeds, and he could use a limited form of aerokinetic combat as a result. With the ability to generate friction, Cole can generate heat and electricity. Due to being able to handle said abilities, Cole has grown a high resistance to lightning and fire variations of attacks.

## Post Multiverse Core Abilities

After being amped by the core of the multiverse, Velocity's speed reached a godly level of heights.

### GodSpeed Amp

Whenever Cole decides to cut loose, he has even shown to be *much* faster than Summer. He has even startled Daemon by running towards him head on, and Daemon's tail blocked the strike before he himself realized that Cole was upon him. Cole is able to stop on a dime and make 180 degree turns almost instantly.

The well known catchphrase "To Infinity and Beyond" works well in this moment, as Cole's raw speed alone can affect the timestream. Upon moving this fast, that means Cole, to a limited temporal extent, can control causality since cause comes before effect. At this level of speed, Cole can potentially win races before they start, and he can cause opponents to be hit seemingly before he hit them. This makes Cole, at his prime, immune to probability manipulation because his actions are already written down in history before he does it.

### Velocity Generation and Absorption

Lending velocity to others can now allow Cole to let others enter different universes and dimensions, and even unfreeze people from frozen time.

### Molecular Speed Manipulation

If he is capable of allowing others to enter other universes and dimensions, Cole can obviously travel there himself now.

Cole's Magnitude punches can now increase to a whopping Magnitude 40, something he uses to attack beings like Daemon.

### Speed Aura

Now surrounded by the essence of the multiverse core, this allows Cole to travel at his speeds without causing damage to the environment, or any G force problems, able to pretty much ignore physics limitations. However, if willingly disabled, things such as sonic booms and tailwinds can result in collateral damage of nearby environments..... including his enemies.

His speed aura is also the source of his durability, reasons as to why he can survive strikes from *very* powerful foes.

Cole is also able to survive in a vacuum for as long as he wants with no negative effects thanks to this.

### Fifth dimensional Teleportation

Not exactly teleportation, but since Velocity has absorbed part of the multiversal core, he has access to the 5th dimension for only an infinitesimally small amount of time. There, he can travel above the concept of the time and space, allowing him to get from one place to another seemingly instantaneously. However, due to him only having a tiny amount of time to move, this 'teleportation' is limited to about 5 feet. Velocity tends to use this to pass through inaccessible places or to escape containment.

## Flaws

Cole usually holds back a lot at the start of a fight unless he is serious from the start, such as with his rival enemies or people like Daemon.

He punches fast, there's no need to learn hand-to-hand.. right?

Cole is sometimes impatient, and will rush ahead without a plan. Due to the fact that their enemy forces are usually too strong to take on one-on-one, this usually ends badly for Cole.

Cole can access the fifth dimension, but he is not built for it. Each time he teleports, it causes him pain, and he can ultimately heavily injure or maybe even kill himself from accessing the fifth dimension for too long, pretty much creating a teleportation spam fail-safe.

Stated several times, Cole's speed aura prevents him from performing a majority of his versatile abilities. He cannot do these things in unison.

The speed aura comes from the essence of the multiverse... a mortal like Cole isn't built to keep using it for extended periods of time.

## Trivia

All of the abilities that Cole has were inspired from multiple characters. No, the Flash and Sonic were *not* the only characters.

Unless said person makes a big deal about it, Cole surprisingly does not care if someone is faster than him.