Raleigh

Main Portrait

## Appearance

Raleigh is a tall, lanky individual with messy brown hair. Their skin is fairly tanned, and they have many freckles. Raleigh's eyes are one of the few non-human features they decide to retain in their common form - they instead opt to have more hawk-like eyes for better sight.
Raleigh also has a scar over their right eye, which they got in during their escape from their lab facility.

Raleigh dresses casually, often wearing a dark green jacket and a white shirt underneath. Due to their shapeshifting abilities, they don't have a costume for hero duties.

## Powers

Raleigh was genetically altered as part of a series of experiments to create a line of superpowered soldiers.
As a result, they possess extreme strength and agility, as well as limited shapeshifting abilities.

Raleigh's shapeshifting is animalistic in nature: they know how to mimic the form of many different animals they've seen throughout life. On paper, their shapeshifting should be much stronger than that, but Raleigh doesn't know how
to activate those powers. In fact, the only reason they can shapeshift into animals at all is because they were taught by a spirit of nature.

## Background

### Pre-Big Team

Raleigh was kidnapped at a young age by an unknown scientific organization as part of a series of experiments called Project EAGLE (Enhanced Adaptive Genetic Lineage Experiments). Project Eagle aimed to create a line of shapeshifting soldiers, and Raleigh was one of the first human test subjects.

Raleigh’s time in the lab was considered a failure; while they had the ability to shapeshift theoretically, any attempts by them to actually use these powers were unsuccessful. As a result, Raleigh was set to be de-powered and put up for adoption at the age of 6. After Raleigh was told the news, they became extremely agitated and began attacking the scientists - using claws that were able to manifest for the first time ever. Eventually Raleigh managed to escape the complex, only to find themselves lost out in the middle of nowhere.
Luckily for Raleigh, they were quickly found by a woman named Nancy Hill. Nancy took Raleigh into her care and raised them in a cabin in the woods of Pennsylvania. Raleigh was homeschooled by Nancy, and so Raleigh didn’t get to meet many people.

It took a while for Raleigh’s powers to really manifest. Whenever they got really angry, they’d grow claws and sharp teeth, but that was it for the longest time. Between the nature of their own shifting, and the copious number of fantasy books that they had read, Raleigh concluded that they were a werewolf of some sort.

One night, while roaming the woods on a full moon (as one does when they are utterly convinced that they’re a werewolf), Raleigh was contacted by a spirit of nature, taking on the form of a werewolf itself. It taught Raleigh how to more properly shapeshift, finally allowing Raleigh to harness some of the potential they'd been given.

Several years later, Nancy and Raleigh decided to move to Halcyon city in order to get Raleigh a better education, as well as to allow Raleigh to meet more people.

## Relationships

### Family

**Nancy Hill**

Raleigh’s adoptive mother. Raleigh and Nancy have a very healthy relationship, and Nancy is very protective of Raleigh. This means that she isn’t too fond of Raleigh’s hero-ing, but she understands why they do it.

Nancy is a very capable person, having lived in a cabin in the woods for several years. She’s not exactly the most personable, and often is ruder to people other than Raleigh.