CHARACTER NAME: Shawn Coleman
SECRET IDENTITY: The Banner/The Hulk
SPECIES: Human
GENDER: Male
HAIR: Brown
EYES: Green
HEIGHT: 5'8"
WEIGHT: 185lb
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[BIOGRAPHY][/glow]=========================
Shawn was raised in a patriotic military family. They had a long proud tradition of combat that could be traced back to before England’s 100 years war (assuming there was one), and from the moment he was determined to be a boy... his father had expected him to uphold that tradition. His father was the Army Chief of Staff, General Coleman. A man who commanded ground troops through several American wars... all the while writing home to his son about his exploits and experiences. Shawn on the other seemed destined for other things.
He was always a smart boy. He was at the top of his class from kindergarten, and while his family moved often, he managed to stay ahead of his studies and excel where others would have failed. He showed aptitude for math, science and nearly every other subject. Mastering them faster than any of his teachers had ever seen. Still, any thought of a future as a doctor, lawyer or scientist was brushed off by his family.
Shawn never really showed much aptitude for the martial arts. He often got picked on at school, was the butt of jokes, and generally kept to himself. Eventually his parents placed him in the finest military schools wherever they landed. Even being a generals son wouldn't protect you in the military school system... in many cases, it just made things worse.
Shawn finally found acceptance in a girl he met, Alyssa Davis, in advanced calculus. The two of them got along perfectly, but she was beautiful, talented and charming, and he found it impossible to compete with the quarterbacks and more popular boys who vied for her time. Still, the two of them would talk late into the night on the phone... would pass notes at school... and though Shawn wouldn’t realize it at the time... she was madly in love with him.
Eventually, after receiving his neuroscience degree, Shawn caved into his father’s pressure. He joined the army as an intelligence officer. Though he was far from any combat, he hoped that serving a short commission would satisfy his father and allow him to pursue his real dream... science. He enjoyed his service only mildly, but it allowed him to use his greatest asset and allowed his father to keep an eye on him.
2 years into his enlistment, it was discovered that Shawn had developed a severe case of leukemia. The army was barely capable of treating basic ailments and Shawn knew that the best they would do would mangle his body and possibly ease his pain as he died. He spent hours and days researching treatments and experimental programs that might save his life. He used his official access to dig into secret army experimental files. And then he found it. The army had a Top Secret program, Project H.U.L.K., that was experimenting with immune supplementation and battlefield treatment development. The next day, without contacting his father, Shawn volunteered for the program.
When his examiner walked in, Shawn could not have been more surprised. Alyssa Davis, the girl of his dreams would be his handler during the project. That night they met for dinner, and for three weeks they continued meeting nightly. They talked until the sun came up... text messaged each other and snuck meetings in the hall between treatments... and then one night they slept together.
And then... the very next day it was almost impossible for him to get a hold of her. He found out she had been dating a combat veteran who had just returned home. He left her message after message... But she had pulled herself off of his case and virtually disappeared. Eventually, through the grapevine he heard that she had been dating a soldier who had been thought dead and had returned from combat. In an instant Shawn thought his life would end. He didn't want to continue the treatment... didn't want to go on living... but he had signed on and the Military wasn't going to stop.
During the treatment Shawn was injected with several concoctions and then loaded into a converted MRI machine. Rather than flood its patient with magnetic waves, it blasted Lt Coleman, Dr Coleman... with Gamma radiation.
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Shawn's success was both miraculous and unique. He made a complete recovery, and the Army would continue trying for more than a decade to duplicate the results. Not only did he make a full recovery almost instantly, within days his body was beyond anything it had ever been before. It had enhanced physical abilities... strength, speed and agility. He was capable of feats that only peak humans had exhibited. Later he would also discover that he had an ability to heal himself of injuries faster than medical science could ever have hoped for.
Shawn was fascinated by the changes and began systematically studying himself... there was a new agent in his blood stream. Small green Gamma particles had fused with his immune system and were acting like steroids. He was able to kill the common cold... the flu... even the Aids virus couldn't survive more than a few seconds in his bloodstream. The only thing science could compare it to was Crocodile immunities... and even those fell short of what he was seeing.
Still, with the depression of his abandonment fresh in his mind Shawn asked for a reassignment. He called his father personally and asked to be sent to a combat unit. Though his father was calm, and said he would 'see what he could do'... as soon as he hung up the phone he list a cigar and had a celebratory glass of Brandy. His son had finally accepted his responsibility to follow in his father’s shoes.
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Shawn went through a year of combat field training before spending time in Afghanistan... and then in Iraq. Alyssa sent him more than 2 dozen letters but Shawn never opened a single one. Had he opened one he would have known she had broken up with her boyfriend... that she wanted to be with him...
Shawn had become a hardened combat veteran, his sharp intellect allowed his unit to become highly decorated and maintain one of the lowest casualty rates in US combat history. And then it all came to an end... Due to no fault of his own, his unit was ambushed. In an instant half of his men were cut down. Though they had superior weapons, the enemy had the numbers... if Shawn couldn’t do something soon his men would be wiped out. And then it happened. He stood up to help provide cover fire and was shot in the shoulder. His men who tried to drag him down but an RPG blasted right behind them sending the three of them head over hill into the center of the street. Shawn’s ears rang and confusion flooded his brain. There was no way for his mind to explain chaos to him... Looking around he saw his life blood spilling into the street... his men were strewn about and dying... He was scared... he was panicked... but above all... looking at the carnage around him... he was very, very ANGRY... Angry at his father... Angry at himself... angry at his failure... angry at the whole stupid concept of war... In that moment life for Shawn Coleman changed forever...
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[ABILITIES][/glow]
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INTELLIGENCE: 7i
STRENGTH: 3
AGILITY: 3
SPEED: 3
DURABILITY: 3
HEALTH: 3
ENERGY: 14
REGENERATION: 10
WEALTH: 3
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[ACTIONS][/glow]
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Commando 3
-Intelligence Bonus/2 Weapon Modifiers (Human Form)
-Strength Bonus/2 Weapon Modifiers (Gamma Form)
-Efficient
-Power Weaker away from power source
--Cannot use non-combat aspects or firearms when transformed
-SPECIALTIES (Human): Mechanical Glove, Infiltration/Exfiltration, Small Arms (pistols, Uzis)
-SPECIALTIES (Gamma): Smashing, Throwing Things, Crushing
General Knowledge 3
-Intel Bonus
-Power unusable away from source (human form)
-SPECIALTIES: Applied Science, Weapons, Medical Science
Inventing 1
-Intel Bonus
Leadership 4
-Efficient
-Strategist
-Power unusable away from source (human form)
Mastery of Gamma Radiation 10
-Force Field
-Transform into Element
-Substitute AN for Strength
-Ability to Modifier only when used as strength
-Substitute ½ AN for Speed/Agility
-Add 1/2 AN for Durability
--When in Gamma Form energy comes from Durability
-Transforms automatically when health is reduced to 0
-Mental Defense at AN
-Others not shielded from power use
-Causes collateral damage
-Force Field does not help others
-Power unusable away from source (gamma form)
-Power out of control without intelligence
-Intelligence reduced to 1 when transformed
-Cannot transform at will (based on anger)
Scientist 5
-Intel Bonus
-Power unusable away from source (human form)
Scientist SPECIALTIES: Cellular Biology, Immunology, Neuroscience, Engineering, Military R&D
Social Skills 4
-Power unusable away from source (human form)
Social Skills SPECIALTIES: Military Protocol, Various Languages and Cultures, Blending in, verbal evasion
Technology 3
-Intel Bonus
-Power unusable away from source (human form)
Vehicle Operation 5
-Power unusable away from source (human form)
SPECIALTIES: Motorcycles, Heavy Vehicles, light aircraft, cars
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[MODIFIERS][/glow]
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Animal Senses 2
-Enhanced human senses
Defense, Mental 6
-Power unusable away from source (Gamma form)
Healing Factor Enhanced
-Healing Factor Accelerated when in Human form
Rage, MoGR 7
Increases Every panel
Warmind
-Power unusable away from source (gamma form)
Reflexive Dodge 3
-Bought with Animal senses
-Power unusable away from source (human form)
Toughness 4
-Nullifies AP
-Nullifies 2x Damage
-Power weaker away from source (gamma form)
--Toughness = 1 in human form
--No Null Ap or 2x damage reduction for human form
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[EQUIPMENT][/glow]
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A.R.M. +5
(Automated Retrieval Mechanism)
-Adds to Close or ranged Combat
-Indestructible
-Includes basic laptop functionality
-Includes basic cell phone/communicator functionality
(The arm is much like the new Bionic commandos only not permanently attached. Google Bionic commando and there is a great pic of it in action. He is slamming a guy into the wall while firing an Uzi... amazing!)
Good Quality K-Bar +2 ($200)
Tracking Device ($400)
Kevlar Armor +1 ($1,200)
Custom Pistol +3 ($5,000) - Non Lethal option
Custom UZI +3 ($5,000) - Non Lethal option
Custom Rifle +4 ($10,000) - Non Lethal option
Laptop (integrated into arm) ($2,000)
Watch/Heart Rate Monitor +2 to staying calm