ZEUS (Jesús Cazador)

[Black Sam]

ZEUS


HERO NAME: Zeus
LEGAL NAME: Jesús Cazador
NATIONALITY: Argentina
GENDER: Male
HAIR: Black
EYES: Brown/Golden
HEIGHT: 6’2”
WEIGHT: 190#
AGE: 21

ABILITIES
INTELLIGENCE: 4 
STRENGTH: 2 
AGILITY: 2 
SPEED: 2 
HEALTH: 4 
ENERGY: 4/12 
REGENERATION: 6 

ACTIONS
Close Combat 3 

• Strength bonus or weapon modifier; split stones for multiple targets
• Specialties: American boxing; jiu jitsu; krav maga

Energy Absorption 6 

• Absorb up to AN x2 from electrical sources only; excess stones lost at 1r/Panel
• Energy damage suffered may come from reserve stones
• Can spend stones = range to ground himself and cause electrical energy sources to arc to him
• May substitute AN for Strength or Speed while there are reserve stones in this Action Box
• Stones held as reserve in this Action Box cause him to glow with a golden aura
• No attack/reflection included with the power
• Power out of control without girdle and vambraces

Flight 4

• Flight Speed up to AN (200 MPH, costs 1r)
• Add stones for weight carried
• Power out of control without girdle and vambraces
  

General Knowledge 3

• Intelligence bonus
• Encyclopedic general knowledge (ask relevant questions of GM); AN vs. scenario description
• Specialties: chemistry; international law; physics

Lightning Bolts 3 

• As Psi-Weapon, but can only create a sheaf of javelin-like bolts of electricity for use with Ranged Combat
• X2 damage, Range 3, may choose to stun (stones of damage = panels of stun)
• Power out of control without girdle and vambraces

Musician 4 

• Performance, composition, and knowledge
• Specialties: classical; opera; pianist; singing (baritone)

Ranged Combat 3 

• Weapon Modifier; split stones for multiple targets
• Specialties: lightning bolts; thrown weapons; trick shots

Statecraft 4 

• Social Skills & Leadership
• Assign up to 2r/character, total limit per panel = AN
• Specialties: business; high society; politics; polyglot

MODIFIERS
Toughness 3 

Wealth 5 

• Owner of Aegis, Inc.

EQUIPMENT
Girdle & Vambraces

• Made from Orichalcum, an industrial gold-based alloy patented by Aegis, Inc.
• Enables Zeus to focus the electrical energy he absorbs
• Storage compartments in the girdle
• EM resistant communicator/PDA in vambrace
• Provides +1 Defense

Spare Battery Pack, x2

• Stores 3 stones of electricity each
• Stored in his girdle

CHALLENGES
A Bit of a Maverick +1 While he respects his family and others who have gone on to accomplish great deeds, Zeus only truly values his own mind on things, and this independent streak often gets him into trouble. He plays by the rules because not doing so would rob him of opportunities, but in the end his objective is almost always to do things his own way.

Conflicting Interests +3 The Cazador family expects Zeus to become a great hero and bring honor to the family name, as well as protect their secrets and demonstrate loyalty to them above all else. The family has pushed him to follow their guidance his whole life, and he has no reason to think they won't direct his heroic career as well. The problem is, he knows that to be the kind of man his grandfather wants him to be will require him to be subject to no one. He is loyal to the family and does appreciate their wisdom, but how far can that go? Zeus has a head full of plans and dreams that don't necessarily align with their expectations, but he's also afraid to go against them directly. He's already abandoned his personal life to become a hero, and as a way of retaining some control he's started up a personal business on the side. For now, his long-term goals and theirs seem to align, but a future where he falls from their grace fills him with anxiety. It remains to be seen whether he can keep all those plates spinning at once...

Enemies of the Family +2 While many people in Argentina revere the Cazador family, they have also made many enemies abroad. These people will no doubt see the newest hero to rise up from the secretive legacy as a weak link, and will pose a challenge to him personally sooner rather than later. 

Family Secret +2 In Argentina, the heroes of the Cazador family practically revered as demigods; a station that is much more strategic than accidental. For three generations now, the family has produced individuals with amazing superhuman abilities that the masses attribute to God’s favor. The truth is that Apollinaris Duarte Cazador – Zeus’ grandfather – was a brilliant innovator who learned to distill gene-changing properties into a serum that’s been carefully tailored over the years. An unfortunate side effect of this serum is that those members of the family chosen to receive it (only the best and brightest) are forbidden to have any relationships that might bear offspring, for the resulting mutations would be terrible – not just for the resulting child, but for the family’s image. This method of obtaining powers is frowned up by governments and the public, so if word got out it would pose a major challenge for the family.

He’s an Asshole, Sir +2 Zeus is self-confident and has a high opinion of his capabilities, which often rubs people the wrong way – and by default, he doesn’t really care. He isn't trying to make enemies, but he assigns a rating to everyone he meets and treats them accordingly.

[Black Sam]

BACKGROUND
Prior to the 1980s, Argentina was a very troubled nation torn by political ideologies that spawned terrorists, military coups, and civil unrest. Corruption abound, and outside pressure to bring reformation only made things worse. Then a hero rose up, declaring peace and driving out the corruption from within Argentina’s institutions, bringing with him power the likes of which Latin America had ever seen.

Apollinaris Duarte Cazador, the former executive of a European pharmaceuticals company, left his homeland for college in Great Britain when he came of age and remained there until his heroic return to Argentina. According to his biographers, the grandson of Greek immigrants loved his country and could no longer stand the suffering of his people. As Apolo, he returned to Argentina with the power of the sun and destroyed the worst villains plaguing the nation, winning the surrender of the rest. It was feared for a time that he would use his power to seize control, but in short order he peacefully retired to an estate near Buenos Aires with his children and became a renowned humanitarian. A handful of heroes have risen from among his large number of descendants, each adopting a Greek theme and serving his homeland proudly.

Jesús Cazador is the latest member of the family to develop extraordinary abilities. He grew up in a home adjacent to the family estate in relative anonymity, groomed from his earliest memories to be worthy of the family legacy. Nobody ever questioned where the Cazador powers come from, and young Jesús always just assumed they’d come to him.

He wasn’t entirely wrong.

The truth is that the heroes of Cazador are manufactured by their clever progenitor; a distillation of gene-changing properties first engineered by Apolo, though his own abilities require a dose of the original formula to activate. Over the years he’s perfected the serum to grant his progeny permeant abilities – even within the family, it is assumed that the powers develop spontaneously sometime in early adulthood.

Jesús was always one of abuelo Apolo’s favorites. He was independent, proud, and intelligent – just as a Cazador should be, Apolo often proclaimed. The attention made other members of the family jealous, including his own father. Most of his childhood was spent in the care of tutors and nannies, though he never resented it. Unlike other members of the family around his age, Jesús avoided organized sports which he considered a waste of time and focused on activities he thought would make him a better hero in the future. He maintained his physique in the gym and his mind in the library, and his aspirations to become more important than even his grandfather developed while he was young.

By the time Jesús was 18, he had already earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry and was accepted to study law at Stanford University, in California. The night before graduation he was called home to a family council – a command he almost ignored. Never one to allow his short-term wants to conflict with his long-term opportunities, however, he answered the summons and his elders judged him worthy to carry on the family legacy. The serum was administered and he was secluded for weeks in the family’s secret compound beneath their estate as his body reacted to the treatment.

At first it didn’t go so well, but his grandfather assured him that it was not uncommon for the change to be an ordeal. Adjustments were made and over time his powers were fine-tuned. Over the course of several city-wide power outages, Jesús – dubbed Zeus by his grandfather – gained control over his abilities and worked hard to develop them, even though control often slipped away from him. Working with Apolo on the difficulties, Jesús engineered a device from an alloy of his own design that helped him keep his powers in check.

Jesús left his old life and friends in California behind abruptly, and though some were concerned by his disappearance, the idea of Jesús Cazador making a sudden, drastic decision without consulting anyone seemed pretty true to form. To keep himself occupied in the months before his admission into the hero establishment, he put his degree to work and started his own patent holding company, Aegis, Inc., whose only current asset (besides his personal cash investments) is the formula for his gold alloy, dubbed Orichalcum, which is already starting to gain interest from the tech industry.

During his summer break, Zeus hasn’t been shy about letting his hero status be known. He makes everyone refer to him by his heroic name lately and wears his black-and-gold uniform exclusively, and only partly because the Orichalcum girdle and vambraces are necessary to control his powers. Although he’s only been privy to the dark secret of the family legacy for a few months, he always believed that the heroic power was his birthright, and he’s been preparing for his new role his whole life.

[Black Sam]

LINES OF EXPERIENCE
TOTAL LOE EARNED: 9 LOE 

TOTAL LOE SPENT: 0 

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• 1 LOE - Picture
• 6 LOE - Goals
• 2 LOE - Journal – Day One
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INTERNAL EVALUATION CHECKLIST (+10/-10)

NAME	RATING	NOTES
Abuelo Apolo	+10	He's my hero
Marcy Cazador	+4	Like her but she's a rival
Héctor Cazador	+2	I mean, what's the point? He's frivolous and a waste of talent, especially since he's Family
Valentina Cazador	+6	I always looked up to her, but she could be doing so much more.
Tomás Cazador	0	Don't really know the dude.
Daiana Cazador	-1	She's nice enough, but the thought of everything she's given up for some stupid trees makes me sick.
Hikari Fujiwara	+1	Who? Pre-judging: She's cute +1; Japanese +1; good breeding +1; disowned -1; kind of annoying -1

BOUNTIES
+List a short term goal for your character (Something your character is trying to accomplish within, say, the next 3 issues of the game) 3 loes

+Long term goal (Something your character ultimately is striving for in this game) 3 loes)

+The opening of this game is going to be your character being accepted into your local hero establishment. Write a journal entry summarizing the thoughts/reactions of your character going from your backstory to being accepted into the establishment.

SHORT-TERM GOAL

• To find an appropriate mentor of my choice, not my family's.

LONG-TERM GOAL

• To build a reputation, earn a following, and build connections so that I'm in a good position to run for public office once this hero nonsense runs its course. To quit heroics at the top of my game and use it as a platform to gain political power.

JOURNAL – DAY ONE
Mother insisted that I wear a real suit for my "big day." I think she was embarrassed by my new uniform; the sleek bodysuit that I wear all the time now. Cousin Marcy says that it compliments my figure – for what I paid for it, it had better. It was no matter; truthfully I was annoyed that the family made such a big deal over my admission into 
Academia Nacional de Héroes but nobody cared that I missed my own graduation ceremony from Stanford. Admission to law school was more challenging than being recruited to Argentina's hero establishment, which was a certainty merely because my abuelo said it was so. One day, that sort of power – the power commanded by respect and authority – will be mine. For now I play by their rules and bide my time.

There were speeches by grandfather Apolo, Miss Mercury, and even my uncle Cronus for whatever reason. I said a few words, prepared well in advance by my elders. My sister was present – I wish we'd had a moment together, I would have valued her advice more than the canned congratulations of the others. I suspect she was being kept away from me deliberately so as not to soil my fresh reputation, which angers me some, but I know is for the best. Erebus shook my hand but had few words. Perséfone was nowhere in sight, of course. The press was barely contained outside the venue, Hotel Panamericano Buenos Aires, which I'm sure someone in my family owned. 

The celebration was good, overall. My accomplishments were appropriately celebrated, my potential adequately lauded, and newly-minted adoring fans were on hand for the conclusion. Just as the party began to bore me it was over, and I was whisked outside with my parents for the limo ride to our nation's hero establishment. I stood on the steps of the hotel looking out over the downtown of la Capital Federal, at the Obelisk and the Colón Theater, at the crowd of professional cameras and cell phones pointed at me. That's when I decided to deviate from the plan, just because I could. 

With a kiss to the forehead of mamá, and a casual word to papá ("Have my things forwarded to my new address" – the look on his face was priceless!), I shot up into the sky and out over the city to make the trip to my new life under my own power.

It felt good to be in control for a change.

[Black Sam]

ORIGINAL CAD

HERO NAME: Zeus
LEGAL NAME: Jesús Cazador
NATIONALITY: Argentina
GENDER: Male
HAIR: Black
EYES: Brown/Golden
HEIGHT: 6’2”
WEIGHT: 190#
AGE: 21

ABILITIES[11w]
INTELLIGENCE: 4 (2w)
STRENGTH: 2 (0w, 2r)
AGILITY: 2 (0w, 2r)
SPEED: 2 (0w, 2r)
HEALTH: 4 (2w)
ENERGY: 4/12 (2w)
REGENERATION: 6 (4w)

ACTIONS [18w]
Close Combat 3 (1w) CL 0
Strength bonus or weapon modifier
Split stones for multiple targets
Specialties: American boxing; jiu jitsu; krav maga

Energy Absorption 6 (6w) CL 1
Absorb up to AN x2
Energy damage suffered may come from reserve stones
Excess stones lost at 1r/Panel
Can spend stones = range to ground himself and cause electrical energy sources to arc to him +1CL
May substitute AN for Strength or Speed while there are reserve stones in this Action Box +2CL
Stones held as reserve in this Action Box cause him to glow with a golden aura -1CL
Can only absorb electricity -2CL
No attack/reflection included with the power -2CL
Power out of control without girdle and vambraces -2CL

Flight 4 (1w) CL -1
Flight Speed up to AN (200 MPH, costs 1r)
Add stones for weight carried
Fits with main power -1CL
Power out of control without girdle and vambraces -2CL

General Knowledge 3 (2w) CL 1
Intelligence bonus
Encyclopedic general knowledge
Ask relevant questions of GM
AN vs. scenario description
Specialties: chemistry; international law; physics

Lightning Bolts 3 (3w) CL 2
As Psi-Weapon
May choose to stun (stones of damage = panels of stun), Range 3
X2 damage +2CL
Can only create a sheaf of javelin-like bolts of electricity for use with Ranged Combat -1CL
Power out of control without girdle and vambraces -2 CL

Ranged Combat 3 (1w) CL 0
Weapon Modifier
Split stones for multiple targets
-Specialties: lightning bolts; thrown weapons; trick shots

Statecraft 4 (4w) CL 2
Social Skills & Leadership
Assign up to 2r/character, total limit per panel = AN
Specialties: business; high society; politics; polyglot

MODIFIERS [6w]
Toughness 3 (4w)

Wealth 5 (2w) CL -1
-Bought with Statecraft
-CEO of Aegis, Inc.

[Black Sam]

NPCs

Active heroes of the Cazador family (there have been others who are either deceased or are retired to private life in Buenos Ares.)

#1 Hero in Argentina: Miss Mercurio
(Zeus' cousin)



Powers: Can transform into liquid metal that can stretch and move very quickly. Hyperagile, strong, and partially invulnerable.
Living Location: Buenos Aires

Macia "Marcy" Cazador is the current darling of Argentina. Besides being a superhero, Miss Mercury is the star of the most popular telenovela in all of Latin America. She is stunningly beautiful and charismatic, and has a very wholesome reputation that is more imaginary than deserved. Like all the heroes of her family she is more than a little aloof, but her reputation for graciousness, generosity, and her tireless defense of the common man endears her to the masses.


Cronus
(Zeus' uncle)



Powers: Density manipulation and flight.
Living Locations: Los Angeles

Héctor Cazador is a second-rate hero with first-rate connections among the Hollywood elite. His aloofness is mostly affected, played up to support his image. A notorious tease of the paparazzi, Cronus always dances on the line of embarrassing his family, but it is a role he plays well with his elder's approval.


Hécate
(Zeus' half-sister)



Powers: Described by the public as "witchcraft," the abilities of Hécate are psionic in nature, from glipmsing the future, hypnosis, hearing thoughts, and feats of telekinesis.
Living Location: Ostensibly Buenos Ares, but she spends most of her time abroad.

Valentina Evalinda Cazador is a dozen years older than her only sibling, and she's easily the least popular hero in the family. What she lacks in raw power she makes up for in ruthless efficiency, a tendency that has made the public relations team employed by the Cazador family keep many late nights in the office. She has a knack for falling for bad-girls and spends more time carousing than her elders approve of. Still, she's loyal to the family and gets seriously angry when fighting against injustices perpetrated against minorities, so nobody argues that she doesn't take her responsibilities seriously.

Erebus
(Zeus' nephew)



Powers: Connected to a negative dimension of dark energy, Erebus can pull semi-tangible shadows into our reality in the form of inky clouds or tendrils from his body. He can use this dark dimension to teleport across distances in the real world and can even store others there in oubliettes.
Living Location: Buenos Ares, but he operates all over South America.

Tomás Cazador is a grim hero who often works with South American intelligence agencies to bring down organized crime and terrorist operations.

Perséfone
(Zeus' aunt)



Power: Plant growth and control. She also emits intoxicating pheromones.
Living Location: Amazonian Brazil.

Daiana Rosalinda Cazador is the hero over whom the family holds the least sway. She abandoned her duties in Argentina when an episode of over-logging threatened the Amazon and left without consulting the elders. Considered a selfless hero by some and a borderline villain by others, Persephone is a genuinely good and caring person who is quick to help others, but also feels the life and sentience in the plant world around her and cannot turn a blind eye to the atrocities she seems committed against it.