Post by astrocreep on Sept 6, 2010 22:48:20 GMT -5
Hawk
Henry "Hank" Hall
Fighting: Incredible / Good
Agility: Remarkable / Typical
Strength: Incredible / Good
Endurance: Incredible / Good
Reason: Excellent / Good
Intuition: Remarkable / Good
Psyche: Remarkable / Good
Health: 150 / 36
Karma: 80 / 30
Resources: Poor
Popularity: Good
Known Powers:
Hank, giving into his anger was possessed by the Kestrel spell. He possesses similar powers to his Hawk form, but boosted considerably when mixed with Kestrels:
-Alter Ego: Stats change as provided above.
-Body Resistance: Amazing protection vs. Physical and Energy damage.
-Claws: Capable of inflicting up to Monstrous Edge damage. These claws are able to cut through solid steel and have been enhanced magically so hypothetically could cut a Kryptonian's flesh.
-Life Sense: Shift-X rank, Hank is only able to detect one target at a time.
-Dimensional Travel: Good rank, used only to transport himself to the realm of the Lords of Chaos.
-Regeneration: Good rank.
-Hyper-Running: Excellent rank.
-Hyper-Leaping: Amazing rank.
-Teleportation: Incredible rank.
-Personality Transfer: Monstrous rank, the Kestrel spell is able to leave Hank's body, possessing another target.
Equipment:
None
Limitations:
Serious Rage: Kestrel is a cold blooded killer. However, Hank still attempts to keep himself from using lethal force. When in combat, Hank must make a successful Psyche FEAT roll to refrain from killing opponents.
Dual Personality: Hank's body houses both his own mind and the mind of Kestrel. The power combination of himself and Kestrel has been extremely useful, however it appears Hank is losing his grip on reality with two minds working at the same time.
Talents:
Acrobatics, Military, Tracking, Leadership, Stealth, Edged Weapons, Guns, Thief
Contacts:
Lords of Chaos
History:
Hank Hall and his brother Don were complete polar opposite. Hank hard-headed, and irascible with a talent for athletics. He lorded this over his brother, whose talents were more intellectual, and pasifistic. Although they could often be each other's most ardent adversaries, Hank and Don were extremely close and Hank was very protective of his younger brother.
By his teens, Hank grew to be fiercely proud of America's role in world events, and firmly believed in the policy of dealing with Communist regimes from a position of strength. Irwin Hall, a prominent superior court judge, often lectured his sons on seeing both sides of an issue, not just making judgments from their respective conservative (Hank) and liberal (Don) views. He tried to make them realize that justice requires balance, not single-mindedness.
During Hank's senior year in high school, Hank and Don were visiting Judge Hall at work when an assassination attempt was made on their father. Hank and Don followed the would-be assassin to a warehouse hideout. Climbing inside to eavesdrop, Hank and Don became locked in a room where they listened helplessly to the mob's plans to kill their father, they wished they had some sort of power to save him. Their plea was answered by a mysterious mingling of voices who offered them superpowers if they each would just "say the word".
The voices belonged to T'Charr, a Lord of Chaos, and Terataya, a Lord of Order. Even though the forces of Order and Chaos were eternal enemies, these two Lords had fallen in love. They wanted to prove to their fellow Lords the benefit of Order and Chaos' working together in balance and found two likely candidates for this purpose in Hank and Don Hall, creating Hawk and Dove.
Hank was named Hawk to reflect his aggressive personality. Whenever danger was present, he could say "Hawk" and trigger the magical change into Hawk. Once the danger was gone, Hawk quickly reverted to Hank. Hawk's clothing appeared out of nowhere and spread quickly across his body, completely replacing whatever Hank was wearing. This costume could not be removed on low-magic worlds like Earth and actually hid the fact that Hawk, as a conduit for pure Chaotic energy, wasn't completely human.
Hawk soon made himself known in Washington, D.C. first by saving his father (with Dove's help), then by numerous other deeds. Hawk was often feared or distrusted, but even his critics saw the good he was doing for the city. Hawk and Dove joined the Teen Titans for a short time, but soon went to reserve status in order to devote more time to protecting their "home turf".
Meanwhile, T'Charr and Terataya saw that the brother bond they'd expected to help prove their point was instead under-mining the experiment by causing Don to be too deferential to his more volatile sibling. They shunted Dove's power from Don Hall to an untainted vessel - Dawn Granger. Unfortunately, Don/Dove was rescuing some children from a collapsing building at the time, and was killed by a shadow demon.
Without the balancing effect of Dove, Hawk had less control over his chaotic tendencies. He soon was dismissed from the Titans' reserve list and blacklisted in twelve countries. He was eventually tracked down by the new Dove, who suggested they become a team. After some initial - and violent - protests, Hawk came to accept the new Dove, seeing her not as a usurper but as someone who would carry on his brother's work. With Dove's return, Hawk's chaotic side was once again in check. During a later adventure in another dimension, Hawk learned the true nature of his powers and had those powers further augmented by the Lord of Chaos who had created him. Hank grew more furious as time went on, and was unaware of the tragedy that would soon befall him.
Ten years in the future, a power-mad despot ruled the world. Knowing this despot was actually a hero gone bad, Waverider wandered to the past to prevent Monarch's origins. During the battle against Earth's heroes Monarch managed to escape, stopping along the way to pick up Dawn Granger, otherwise known as Dove. During the next few hours, Monarch used his teleporting ability to steal an odd array of equipment. Standing atop a hilly glen, Monarch proceeded to build a powerful device that would subjugate the Earth of ‘the present' to his will. By this time, Hawk tracked them down and when Dove tried to stop Monarch, the villain seemingly killed her.
Hawk and Dove were always destined to be two sides of the same force, and they needed each other to maintain stability. With Dove dead, there was no one who could keep Hawk's mind in check; no one to stop him from slipping into chaos. And in a rage, Hawk killed Monarch - learning that he himself was the Monarch of the future.
Hank Hall looked at the dead Monarch and then the machine he was building. Muttering to himself that Earth needed someone to maintain balance, someone to instill a sense of order; he put on Monarch's armor and continued building the device. The combined might of earth's heroes eventually defeated Hall, who now was known only as Monarch.
Dove's apparent death, however, was actually part of a larger plan by the evil sorcerer, Mordru. Mordru saved Dawn from death and created a concealment spell so she would appear dead. Mordru knew the offspring of Hawk and Dove would create a being of perfect balance between Order and Chaos - and he planned to use that vessel for his own evil ends. Dawn was impregnated by Hank Hall, who had become the villainous Monarch. Dawn later gave birth to Hector Hall - who later assumed the mantle of Dr. Fate.
Stealing the chronal energies of Waverider, the rogue Monarch adopted the guise of the time-warping Extant and joined the former Green Lantern Hal Jordan - now the power-mad Parallax - to hasten the breakdown of time and create an entirely new reality of their own design.
It was then revealed that the Team Titans leader in the future was the villainous Monarch - who created a false future world so he could train meta-humans (The Team Titans) to act as sleeper agent assassins. He knew of the impending time crisis, and wanted a super-powered army at his command. Extant commanded all the Team Titans to attack the heroes who were trying to unravel this time crisis. His plan was thwarted; the heroes contained the Teamers.
Threatening to engulf the entirety of creation with the collapsing time stream, Parallax wiped out potential time-lines and drew scores of heroes from various possible eras into battle at the most literal Ground Zero, the beginning of time. There, as Parallax fell before the heroes' assault, the young meta-human Damage exploded with unspeakable power, initiated a new "Big Bang" and restarted time. Reality and the time stream were rebuilt at the most basic levels.
But Zero Hour erased the false time-lines that had emerged. As a result, all the Team Titans were erased from existence. It was also during this event that Extant hit Atom with a chronal blast that de-aged him to a teenager. Atom would later lead a short-lived incarnation of the Teen Titans.
Extant continued to plague all heroes, trying to manipulate time to further his own power-mad goals. A later encounter with the Justice Society may have at last put his schemes to an end forever; Atom Smasher was still reeling over his mother's tragic death, who died in a plane crash engineered by the terrorist group, Korba. He eventually placed Extant on that same plane - in place of his mother - mere moments before it exploded. This closed a time lap and resulted in the destruction of Extant.
When black power rings flew over the graves of Hank and Don Hall, they revived Hank, but were unable to bring back Dove because of his peace with the world. Hank rises and goes after Holly and Dawn Granger, the current team of Hawk and Dove.
He lures them into a library by leaving a trail of dead hawks and doves up to the library. He attacks them, but Dawn is able to evade all of his attacks. Holly, unfortunately is too fixated on attacking Hank, and her heart is soon ripped out, turning her into a Black Lantern. Along with many other Black Lantern titans, he and Holly attack Dove. She is approached by the ghost of Don Hall, the first Dove, who says they would be able to save Hank. He then unleashes a white energy blast at the Black Lanterns. Hank is able to escape with Tempest and Terra, while Holly and the rest of the Black Lanterns are destroyed. Hank is eventually revived by the Entity, the white light, just as Don said. He and Dawn then joined the birds of prey.
As time passed, Hank found his anger growing more than usual. Something was happening that he did not understand. Even though he saw Dove as his balance, Hank would make the decision to leave on his own. This rash decision would change his life forever. For the first few months, things seemed to run smoothly. Hank would fight then think of his brother Don to calm himself. This worked..for a short period. Once again, however the anger continued to increase. His breaking point was when the world went to hell, literally. Cities were destroyed, millions were dead. The sun moved closer to the earth making the days even longer. You could call it a mental breakdown, seeing everything he attempted to protect fall in what seemed to be only moments. Society would attempt to rebuild itself, but Hank couldn't..not this time.
With no word from Dove, Hank would travel the world looking for something to distract his attention, something to take his anger out on. One night while staying in the ruins of Gotham, Hank slept. As he slept the Lords of Chaos would appear in his dreams, offering their assistance. With their assistance he would need to finally give in to all the hatred that filled him inside. Reluctantly he would agree, feeling a power boost almost instantly. However, this boost was more devious in nature. The spell Kestrel inhabited Hank's body, taking almost full control. But Hank was not a weak minded individual. He fought constantly, mentally taking control of his body once again. Kestrel remained offering only suggestions while in battle. Over time these suggestions grew stronger and seemed more appealing. Now the two fight as one, cleaning the streets of magical beasts and attempted to do what is right while still finding a way to unleash their fury. This is only a momentary fix, it won't be long until Kestrel attempts to take hold once again.
Henry "Hank" Hall
Fighting: Incredible / Good
Agility: Remarkable / Typical
Strength: Incredible / Good
Endurance: Incredible / Good
Reason: Excellent / Good
Intuition: Remarkable / Good
Psyche: Remarkable / Good
Health: 150 / 36
Karma: 80 / 30
Resources: Poor
Popularity: Good
Known Powers:
Hank, giving into his anger was possessed by the Kestrel spell. He possesses similar powers to his Hawk form, but boosted considerably when mixed with Kestrels:
-Alter Ego: Stats change as provided above.
-Body Resistance: Amazing protection vs. Physical and Energy damage.
-Claws: Capable of inflicting up to Monstrous Edge damage. These claws are able to cut through solid steel and have been enhanced magically so hypothetically could cut a Kryptonian's flesh.
-Life Sense: Shift-X rank, Hank is only able to detect one target at a time.
-Dimensional Travel: Good rank, used only to transport himself to the realm of the Lords of Chaos.
-Regeneration: Good rank.
-Hyper-Running: Excellent rank.
-Hyper-Leaping: Amazing rank.
-Teleportation: Incredible rank.
-Personality Transfer: Monstrous rank, the Kestrel spell is able to leave Hank's body, possessing another target.
Equipment:
None
Limitations:
Serious Rage: Kestrel is a cold blooded killer. However, Hank still attempts to keep himself from using lethal force. When in combat, Hank must make a successful Psyche FEAT roll to refrain from killing opponents.
Dual Personality: Hank's body houses both his own mind and the mind of Kestrel. The power combination of himself and Kestrel has been extremely useful, however it appears Hank is losing his grip on reality with two minds working at the same time.
Talents:
Acrobatics, Military, Tracking, Leadership, Stealth, Edged Weapons, Guns, Thief
Contacts:
Lords of Chaos
History:
Hank Hall and his brother Don were complete polar opposite. Hank hard-headed, and irascible with a talent for athletics. He lorded this over his brother, whose talents were more intellectual, and pasifistic. Although they could often be each other's most ardent adversaries, Hank and Don were extremely close and Hank was very protective of his younger brother.
By his teens, Hank grew to be fiercely proud of America's role in world events, and firmly believed in the policy of dealing with Communist regimes from a position of strength. Irwin Hall, a prominent superior court judge, often lectured his sons on seeing both sides of an issue, not just making judgments from their respective conservative (Hank) and liberal (Don) views. He tried to make them realize that justice requires balance, not single-mindedness.
During Hank's senior year in high school, Hank and Don were visiting Judge Hall at work when an assassination attempt was made on their father. Hank and Don followed the would-be assassin to a warehouse hideout. Climbing inside to eavesdrop, Hank and Don became locked in a room where they listened helplessly to the mob's plans to kill their father, they wished they had some sort of power to save him. Their plea was answered by a mysterious mingling of voices who offered them superpowers if they each would just "say the word".
The voices belonged to T'Charr, a Lord of Chaos, and Terataya, a Lord of Order. Even though the forces of Order and Chaos were eternal enemies, these two Lords had fallen in love. They wanted to prove to their fellow Lords the benefit of Order and Chaos' working together in balance and found two likely candidates for this purpose in Hank and Don Hall, creating Hawk and Dove.
Hank was named Hawk to reflect his aggressive personality. Whenever danger was present, he could say "Hawk" and trigger the magical change into Hawk. Once the danger was gone, Hawk quickly reverted to Hank. Hawk's clothing appeared out of nowhere and spread quickly across his body, completely replacing whatever Hank was wearing. This costume could not be removed on low-magic worlds like Earth and actually hid the fact that Hawk, as a conduit for pure Chaotic energy, wasn't completely human.
Hawk soon made himself known in Washington, D.C. first by saving his father (with Dove's help), then by numerous other deeds. Hawk was often feared or distrusted, but even his critics saw the good he was doing for the city. Hawk and Dove joined the Teen Titans for a short time, but soon went to reserve status in order to devote more time to protecting their "home turf".
Meanwhile, T'Charr and Terataya saw that the brother bond they'd expected to help prove their point was instead under-mining the experiment by causing Don to be too deferential to his more volatile sibling. They shunted Dove's power from Don Hall to an untainted vessel - Dawn Granger. Unfortunately, Don/Dove was rescuing some children from a collapsing building at the time, and was killed by a shadow demon.
Without the balancing effect of Dove, Hawk had less control over his chaotic tendencies. He soon was dismissed from the Titans' reserve list and blacklisted in twelve countries. He was eventually tracked down by the new Dove, who suggested they become a team. After some initial - and violent - protests, Hawk came to accept the new Dove, seeing her not as a usurper but as someone who would carry on his brother's work. With Dove's return, Hawk's chaotic side was once again in check. During a later adventure in another dimension, Hawk learned the true nature of his powers and had those powers further augmented by the Lord of Chaos who had created him. Hank grew more furious as time went on, and was unaware of the tragedy that would soon befall him.
Ten years in the future, a power-mad despot ruled the world. Knowing this despot was actually a hero gone bad, Waverider wandered to the past to prevent Monarch's origins. During the battle against Earth's heroes Monarch managed to escape, stopping along the way to pick up Dawn Granger, otherwise known as Dove. During the next few hours, Monarch used his teleporting ability to steal an odd array of equipment. Standing atop a hilly glen, Monarch proceeded to build a powerful device that would subjugate the Earth of ‘the present' to his will. By this time, Hawk tracked them down and when Dove tried to stop Monarch, the villain seemingly killed her.
Hawk and Dove were always destined to be two sides of the same force, and they needed each other to maintain stability. With Dove dead, there was no one who could keep Hawk's mind in check; no one to stop him from slipping into chaos. And in a rage, Hawk killed Monarch - learning that he himself was the Monarch of the future.
Hank Hall looked at the dead Monarch and then the machine he was building. Muttering to himself that Earth needed someone to maintain balance, someone to instill a sense of order; he put on Monarch's armor and continued building the device. The combined might of earth's heroes eventually defeated Hall, who now was known only as Monarch.
Dove's apparent death, however, was actually part of a larger plan by the evil sorcerer, Mordru. Mordru saved Dawn from death and created a concealment spell so she would appear dead. Mordru knew the offspring of Hawk and Dove would create a being of perfect balance between Order and Chaos - and he planned to use that vessel for his own evil ends. Dawn was impregnated by Hank Hall, who had become the villainous Monarch. Dawn later gave birth to Hector Hall - who later assumed the mantle of Dr. Fate.
Stealing the chronal energies of Waverider, the rogue Monarch adopted the guise of the time-warping Extant and joined the former Green Lantern Hal Jordan - now the power-mad Parallax - to hasten the breakdown of time and create an entirely new reality of their own design.
It was then revealed that the Team Titans leader in the future was the villainous Monarch - who created a false future world so he could train meta-humans (The Team Titans) to act as sleeper agent assassins. He knew of the impending time crisis, and wanted a super-powered army at his command. Extant commanded all the Team Titans to attack the heroes who were trying to unravel this time crisis. His plan was thwarted; the heroes contained the Teamers.
Threatening to engulf the entirety of creation with the collapsing time stream, Parallax wiped out potential time-lines and drew scores of heroes from various possible eras into battle at the most literal Ground Zero, the beginning of time. There, as Parallax fell before the heroes' assault, the young meta-human Damage exploded with unspeakable power, initiated a new "Big Bang" and restarted time. Reality and the time stream were rebuilt at the most basic levels.
But Zero Hour erased the false time-lines that had emerged. As a result, all the Team Titans were erased from existence. It was also during this event that Extant hit Atom with a chronal blast that de-aged him to a teenager. Atom would later lead a short-lived incarnation of the Teen Titans.
Extant continued to plague all heroes, trying to manipulate time to further his own power-mad goals. A later encounter with the Justice Society may have at last put his schemes to an end forever; Atom Smasher was still reeling over his mother's tragic death, who died in a plane crash engineered by the terrorist group, Korba. He eventually placed Extant on that same plane - in place of his mother - mere moments before it exploded. This closed a time lap and resulted in the destruction of Extant.
When black power rings flew over the graves of Hank and Don Hall, they revived Hank, but were unable to bring back Dove because of his peace with the world. Hank rises and goes after Holly and Dawn Granger, the current team of Hawk and Dove.
He lures them into a library by leaving a trail of dead hawks and doves up to the library. He attacks them, but Dawn is able to evade all of his attacks. Holly, unfortunately is too fixated on attacking Hank, and her heart is soon ripped out, turning her into a Black Lantern. Along with many other Black Lantern titans, he and Holly attack Dove. She is approached by the ghost of Don Hall, the first Dove, who says they would be able to save Hank. He then unleashes a white energy blast at the Black Lanterns. Hank is able to escape with Tempest and Terra, while Holly and the rest of the Black Lanterns are destroyed. Hank is eventually revived by the Entity, the white light, just as Don said. He and Dawn then joined the birds of prey.
As time passed, Hank found his anger growing more than usual. Something was happening that he did not understand. Even though he saw Dove as his balance, Hank would make the decision to leave on his own. This rash decision would change his life forever. For the first few months, things seemed to run smoothly. Hank would fight then think of his brother Don to calm himself. This worked..for a short period. Once again, however the anger continued to increase. His breaking point was when the world went to hell, literally. Cities were destroyed, millions were dead. The sun moved closer to the earth making the days even longer. You could call it a mental breakdown, seeing everything he attempted to protect fall in what seemed to be only moments. Society would attempt to rebuild itself, but Hank couldn't..not this time.
With no word from Dove, Hank would travel the world looking for something to distract his attention, something to take his anger out on. One night while staying in the ruins of Gotham, Hank slept. As he slept the Lords of Chaos would appear in his dreams, offering their assistance. With their assistance he would need to finally give in to all the hatred that filled him inside. Reluctantly he would agree, feeling a power boost almost instantly. However, this boost was more devious in nature. The spell Kestrel inhabited Hank's body, taking almost full control. But Hank was not a weak minded individual. He fought constantly, mentally taking control of his body once again. Kestrel remained offering only suggestions while in battle. Over time these suggestions grew stronger and seemed more appealing. Now the two fight as one, cleaning the streets of magical beasts and attempted to do what is right while still finding a way to unleash their fury. This is only a momentary fix, it won't be long until Kestrel attempts to take hold once again.