Powerhouse

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Benjamin "Ben", also known as **Powerhouse**, is the leader and one of the founders of the Flickr Fighters. He is also an entrepreneur and the CEO of Imagine.

## History

### Origins

Ben was born in Scotland in 1999. At a young age, he made his way to becoming an entrepreneur, running a company named 'Imagine', which creates advanced tech for beneficial purposes. He also developed superpowers of power replication and storage, an ability which was not known by everyone else.

### Forming the FF

Ben he came up with an idea to form a superhero team in 2017. He approached two people, one namely being Jonathan Mak, aka Multi Sharp and the other being Xzavier, aka Matchstick. He also went on to try and recruit Multi Sharp's secret protege Paola Gutiérezz aka, Embershell, whose status was still unknown to her former mentor after presumably being killed in a raid in Springfield in 2016, but she turned him down.

A year later, Ben founded the Flickr Fighters in 2018 alongside Sharp and Matchstick. He started to recruit more members to the team and developed a base and more technologies within Advent City, New York. Ben eventually cut a deal with Embershell as she had powers growing within. In order to learn about herself, as she became a undercover agent engaging in narcotics, but stopped until July 2018 after she took down most of these groups. He would still keep close contact with the heroine.

In February 2019, days after her uncle's funeral, Embershell informed Doctor Elite (one of her close friends) and Powerhouse about her family passing, as they sent her gifts in mourning as she thanked them. She cut off contact with both men, only telling them to call her once if there was any emergency, stating she would also be doing it for Sharp.

By April 2020, Ben was busy dealing with Imagine, but as Doc had fallen comatose due to him suppressing powers through drugs, he was forced to reveal to Sharp his former protege's location as it was an emergency call. Causing such a compromise, Sharp

## Personality

Ben is a wise and intellectual person, and was well liked for his leadership abilities, being able to handle any situation at work or with the Flickr Fighters. He would crack dad jokes once in a while and is quite old fashioned.

Regardless, Ben did keep dark secrets under his calm demeanour, despite not being a bad person. Having harbored the existence of Embershell for years caused his co founder and fellow friend, Multi Sharp to distrust him. He also engaged in high stake black market deals despite under the pseudonym "**LC**" in order to investigate the criminal underworld.

## Powers and abilities

**Genius-level intellect**: Ben is if not, one of the most smartest people on the planet. He has a mastery and diploma in technology and sciences before he was even 18. He is also a gifted hacker and thinker, being

**Power replication and power storage**: Ben can replicate and store anyone's power on touch, but only one at a time. No one has knowledge of his powers except his co founders and the team's resident scientist, The Professor

**Leadership skills:** As a master tactician, Powerhouse is always several steps ahead, being able to co-ordinate and execute plans like playing chess. He is in charge of many things such as the roster's administration and facitilies.

## Equipment

**Mech suits**: Ben uses a variety of different mech suits with a wider variety of weapons and gadgets.