Outlander

## Appearance

### *Physical Description*

Jon has an average physique and appears to be quite fit; however, this is not the case. Jon is that fit at all. In fact, he complains about his back and knees hurting all the time.

He has light skin and Ash Gray eyes. His hair is coffee-brown and usually keep short. It tends to go unmanaged a lot of the time but that's to be expected with someone like Jon. When it is styled, he usually has it smoothed out and neat in the back and pushed up in the front. There are other things noticeable abut him, though. There are always shadows under his eyes from lack of sleep; however, they very in darkness depending on just how much sleep Jon doesn't get over the week. And his facial hair is just a pencil mustache.

### *Civilian Clothing*

As a civilian, Jon usually wears assorted hoodies and various coloured sweatpants along with navy blue & white tennis shoes and a pair of glasses with prescription lenses. He says that his vision progressively deteriorted after 3 feet. This means he get 3 feet of clear vision and, after that, everything gets more and more blurry as it gets farther away.

### *Hero Costume*

As Outlander, Jon dons a dark moss green hoodie with a phthalo green hood and sleeves paired with dark moss green sweatpants and jet-black motorcycle boots . He adds sports glasses with one-way, black-tinted lenses, black fingerless gauntlets, and earbuds. The earbuds run under his hoodie and connect to his phone, which is kept in his pocket. The Tripych uses a military grade, highly secured chat room. During their patrols/missions, they open up a private group call in the chat room.

## Personality

### *Goals*

* Keep **Cornerstone City** safe
* Understand his curse and master the power it has given him

### *Character Traits*

Jon is complicated. Sometimes he can be very responsible, smart, cunning, and brave... and then there are times when he acts like an irresponsible moron with zero self-preservation skills. He can be dumb enough to jump into situations that he has no solution for, he'll try to crack jokes in the middle of fights, and even just stop and have casual conversations with criminals.

On the flip side, he is a scary amount of cunning. No one, not even his team, really know what his real end game is. He knows how to keep secrets and can bob & weave through conversations with reporters by using half truths like a pro. His plans are ingenious and he always seems to be capable of getting into people's heads. He knows exactly how to turn others against each other or bringing people together.

However, sometimes, he can seem a little psychotic. He's not above torture and even seems to reval in it from time to time. But underneath the disguise of a chaotic goof and cunning hero, Jon is a sad and lonely man. He has few friends, one of which is in Korea since he's on duty for the military, and his twin sister is the one of the few people in his immediate family who shares his interests. And with how many siblings he has, he tends to get pushed to the side while one of his sisters takes centre stage. But he tries not to focus on things like that. He tries to stay positive in spite of everything. It doesn't matter how many deaths he's witnessed. He pulls himself together and puts on a brave face. He doesn't want to show the world anything that lays beneath the surface.

## History

### *Family History*

The year was 1632, and the Lang Family lived in a small village in the German countryside. In their village, there was an old hag who threatened everyone that passed by her cottage. She was a mean and crass old woman, and ugly to boot. Then, one day as **Ulrich Lang** passed by the hag's cottage, he saw the hag performing witchcraft. Like a good civilian, he went and reported her to the local witch hunters.

They found her in the middle of oher witchcraft and arrested her. Out of spite and the need for revenge, the hag spat out a curse upon the Lang family and all its generations after with her dying breaths. **Ulrich** feared her curse and what it may do. He was lucky, in a sense, that the cursed affliction was almost immediate. When he arrived home, his wife and children possessed devil-given powers! For the safety of his family, he had them pack their things and they departed to a city called **Berlin**. There, they made a life for themselves without anybody knowing of the hag's curse.

### *Early Life*

Centuries later, cursed powers appeared in the possession of the Lang Siblings, who lived in America. Their father, Richard Lang, was the grnadson of **Anzo Lang**. who came to America from Germany before the world wars.

Becuase of the curse, each of the Lang Siblings experienced an awkening of their powers. For Jon and his twin sister, Jayden, their powers were extra hard to control on account of their ADHD. So they had to be pulled out of school to learn how to better contain their powers, resulting in the 2 of them having to repeat kindergarten.

After that gap year Jon & Jay were allowed to go back to school since they'd become a lot better at hiding their powers. But one thing that their parents could never have predicted happened: Jon & Jay grew up obsessed with superheroes. They believed that, since they had powers, they could totally be superheroes in the real world.

### *Origins*

Jon and his twin sister had been crafting superhero costumes for themselves since they were kids. They were fascinated by the world of heroes and villains yet they'd grown up and learned that the world wasn't a comic book. While they still fantasized about donning costumes and fighting crime, they knew that the real world wouldn't tolerate them getting involved in law enforcement matters.

But Jon knew what happened to their powers if they went unused. He knew that if he didn't use his powers, they'd fade away and he'd be just like everyone else. He'd be no one. So, one night, Jon decided to follow his dreams and patrol the streets of **Cornerstone City** under the cover of darkness.

But Jay saw him sneaking out the window and taking off with his powers. So she was forced to follow. The 2 spent til 3 in the morning chasing each other through the air above their hometown. And when Jay finally caught him, she asked him if he was out of his mind, if he was trying to out their family secret. Jon responded timidly: "I don't want to be like everyone else. My powers are all I have, they're the only thing that make me special. If I just sit there and let them fade away, I'll die a nobody. I know these powers are supposed to be a curse, a lesson on how to keep secrets, but I don't want my powers to be a secret anymore. I want to use what I've been "*cursed*" with to help people. Why keep our powers a secret and let them fade when they could be used for so much more!"

His small speech seemed to get through to her. She still dreamt of being a hero just as much as her brother did so, in a lapse of judgement, Jay gave in and agreed to help Jon fight crime in **Cornerstone City**; however, she had 1 condition: Jon had to convince the rest of the family to become superheroes, too. Surprisingly, it wasn't as hard as she'd thought it'd be. In fact, their dad was the hardest to convince nonetheless. When came the family's first night patrol, Jon gave each one of them an alter ego to go by in the field.

### *The Clan*

Jon led his family out into **Cornerstone City** to protect their hometown under the name "Outlander." As a family/team, The Clan patrolled the streets and stopped at least 3 muggings, caught 2 burglars, and stopped an out of control car. A bystander actually caught a video of his dad using his powers to stop the car so, naturally, Outlander and co. opted to get out of there as fast as possible.

The next day, they were all over the news. Some saw them as helpful while others called them reckless interlopers. Nikko came home from school and told her brother about how everyone was talking about the so called "Clan" of supereheroes in **Cornerstone City**.

## Skills and Abilities

### *Powers*

#### **Foreign Energy Manipulation**

Jon's powers are, well, extremely powerful. He draws power from beyond familiarity. It manifests as maximum-green lightning with a black outline. He can bend the energy to his will and produce various effects. He infinitely generate foreign energy, project enregy attacks, create energy constructs, generate energy barriers, and disrupt matter.

### *Sub-Powers*

##### **Power Infusion**

Outlander can infuse a piece of his powers into an object or person to grant them a small portion of his powers for a limited time. Depending on how large a portion they receive, anything, or anyone, infused with his powers could project energy attacks, generate energy barriers, create energy constructs, nullify energy, and disrupt matter.

#### **Transmutation**

Outlander's foreign energy is violitile, strange, and unpredictable. It has a variety of effects. One of such is the ability to replace matter in his world with an equal amount of foreign matter from beyond familiarity. He can even use such to create fire or water.

#### **Energy Nullification**

Outlander can use his foreign energy to nullify other forms of energy near him. Additionally, no form of energy can hurt him since it's immediately nullified.

#### **Space/Time Depletion**

Jon's foreign energy can deplete the effects of space and time around him. This warps the physical world and causes weird occurances. He can use such effects to speed up his reaction time or even accelerate his running speed. He could even do the opposite to an opponet. This ability also seems to distort gravity and allow him to walk on surfaces that a normal human couldn't walk on.

#### **Aerial Transportation**

Jon has a special way of taking to the skies. After creating 2 physical bolts of foreign energy, he can ride them through the air as if he was on a zipline (1 foot balancing on a bolt near his feet and 1 hand holding a bolt above his head). His max speed when riding his bolts os somewhere around Mach 3.

#### **Matter Disruption**

Foreign energy is a power tool. Jon can even use it to disrupt matter or make it unstable.

#### *Sub-Powers*

##### **Tangibility Manipulation**

Jon can use his foreign energy to disrupt the matter that constitutes an object or person to alter how it's capable of inacting with other physical objects. He can use such an ability to make himself, or others, intangible and do the same to other objects. He can even use his powers to force the air or water to become solid but not change state of matter!

##### **Irradiation**

By using his foreign energy to disrupt matter around him, Jon is able to make anything near him radioactive. He can even manipulate how dangerous the radioactivity is.

### *Skills*

#### **High Heat Tolerance**

Both Jon and his twin sister are "*cold-blooded*" so they like being in the heat. Over their lifetime, Jon & Jay have developed a naturally heightened tolerance for heat. Their skin doesn't get burned by high temperatures as easily as their sisters and they can last longer outside in sweltering summers than anyone else they know.

#### **Trilingualism**

Jonathan is able to speak English (his native language), Japanese, and German fluently.

## Weaknesses

### ADHD

Jonathan was born with **Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder**. This makes it harder for him to focus, which sometimes lead to him losing his control over his powers.

### **Light Sensitivity**

Since Jon's eyes lack a great deal of melanin (this is why they're grey and not blue), his eyes are more sensitive to light. Light levels that would typically be regarded as normal seem bright to him, which makes it just a little bit harder to see. Additionally, sudden exposure to bright lights can casue temporary blindness if the light is bright enough and prolonged exposure to bright lights give him migraines & eye pain.

## Equipment

### **Cellphone & Earbuds**

This set up utilizes a special, military-grade, private connection to stay in touch with The Clan or the members of Triptych. The encryption on the chat room was designed by Jon, Jay, and their friend the military, **Andrew**. Even the government's top white hats wouldn't be able to break through the chat room's/ group call's security.