Post by abhorsen on Apr 13, 2024 22:52:47 GMT -7
Sandman
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Full Name: Flint Marko
Super Hero/Villain Name: Sandman
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Occupation: Career Criminal turned super
Team Affiliation: Hammerhead's gang
General Appearance:
Yes, that's his villain outfit. Otherwise he'd be nude. He can appear naked (turning the clothes into sand), then wear actual clothes on top, but those clothes aren't sand, which can cause problems. So for villainy, he's wearing the black and green stripes (specifically equal sized stripes like in top picture).
Personality:
All he really wants now is a big score so he can provide for his kid. For all his crime, he's a good dad. But Spiderman keeps getting in the way. He's not happy about that, so he doesn't like Spiderman, but much in the same way you don't like traffic: it's annoying as hell, but it's a fact of life and there's no deep loathing.
As career criminal, and decently successful at that (he got to his 30s in crime without powers in a world of superheroes), he knows how to do crime quite well. It's the 'super' part of super-criminality that's new to him. Sure, some of the stuff he could do with sand that I've outlined in the powers section would be super broken, but does he realize he can just drown someone in sand? Nope, not yet.
He's sand. If you shoot him, that'll be some sand pouring out of his body, but that's about it. Most force attacks do nothing to him (bullets, hammers, fists, swords, etc), other than cutting through sand. You can certainly cut off his arm, but well, that's where the rest of this comes in:
Regeneration (short term): As long as the parts cut off/separated somehow are still dry sand, all that's needed is the time for it to flow back to where he wants it to regenerate. Basically at the speed that sand might flow out of a bucket, with the acceleration as the bucket is beginning to be poured followed by the swift fall as it's turned over.
Regeneration (long term): Let's say you turn the Sandman into glass, but miss some sand. That leftover sand is still sentient. It can erode the glass statue back into sand, but that takes a while (depending on what it was turned into, etc, but think days long or longer timeframe). If you 100% got all of it, then he'd be stuck. Note that damaging the statue doesn't hurt him any, and in fact he wants the statue damaged, as if a fragment of glass is small enough, that's basically sand as far as his power is concerned.
Combat Shapechanging: He can't disguise himself as anything other than a bucket of sand, himself, or himself wearing the clothing he wore when he fell into the particle accelerator, but he can turn his fist into a ball of spikes. Note that cutting or piercing isn't great with this, but bludgeoning is fine: again, he's sand. A sand bag can crush you or bruise you fine, but it can't exactly stab you. It's the same with Sandman
Mobility: pretty high. He can flow in any direction towards a place part of his body can solidify and bear weight. Up a brick wall? yes, slowly. Up a glass wall? Nope. Also, he can flow through nearly anything that isn't air or water tight, and he can erode holes in things that are that tight (though that takes a long time, he isn't a sandblaster (yet)).
Weaknesses:
He's sand. Whatever screws with sand screws with him. Getting him wet slows him down a ton, just like wet sand flows slower. Heat turns him into glass and fragile and immobile. Same with other chemical reactions.
What he's carrying? That's not sand. All of the above? Doesn't apply to that. Also, the regen and lack of blood? It makes it so that any hero can disembowel him, and not get any nightmares.
He's also got a mind like any other human. Any mind attacks hit him normally.
Or really a mind that's a little below. He's not that imaginative, and so he doesn't realize all the implications of is abilities.
He has a kid Penny who's sick. This is his life right now. If someone were to solve that problem, they'd quickly earn themselves a new bodyguard, problem solver, whatever. Or someone could threaten the girl in order to control the dad. How well that goes depends on who exactly is doing the threatening.
-Power Gained By: Falling into a particle accelerator
Taken Category: Villain
Registration Status: Nope.
Abilities:
From nearly 20 years in crime while not having power, to suddenly being at the fore front with power, his knowledge of crime is similar to the knowledge of a company held by a CEO who was a former mail clerk and worked themselves up most of the ranks. He knows how to get off the books stuff, where to fence goods, that yes, cops can lie to you and do so frequently, and I could go on.
Equipment and Assets:
A secure and safe from confiscation bank account, along with a tax paying alias that 'earns' a salary from a fake corporation. He almost never carries anything physical to a crime other than himself.
Once a criminal because he thought it would be the way to power, glory and fortune, he's now stuck in a job he hates. Only his job isn't corporate. A career criminal that mellowed out with age, a kid, and only then got powers. Now with the registration act, he's stuck: he can't get registered, he can't get a normal job, so crime is the only possible career. Now in reality, there's other options, but Flint Marko is self sabotaging if nothing else.
Worse, now his kid is sick. The doctors are still figuring out how exactly she sick, too, and that costs money. His big score keeps needing to get bigger.
Other Information:
"Okay Bob, I can handle most of the robbery, but I'm gonna need a getaway driver and lookout. You in for, say, 30% of the cut?"
"Uh, Flint, you know you can probably move better than a car now, I don't think you'll need a getaway driver for this heist."
"... Yunno, you're right. Man, it's a pity I couldn't have gotten smarts instead. Those guys make so much more for so much less risk."
"Flint, you can't get killed anymore. They can't even lock you up. I think you got the lowest risk job there is now. Every day, just bore thru a new safe and steal what's inside, easy as."
"Nah Bob, that's how they getcha. First few times you can do it, but eventually they put together an MO, then they ID you, then spidey figures out how to put you in jail and make you stay there. They got the Shocker in there, and he's literally just lightning. They can figure out something for me."
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