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CATEGORICAL Q-POWER INDICES
Offensive
Defensive
Omnimorphic
Intramorphic
Contrasensory
Hypersensory
Motile
COMBAT
NON-COMBAT
NO CLASSIFIED POWER INVESTMENT
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Active Cost / Effect |
Classification |
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Offensive |
Cyclone Blast |
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Offensive |
Hurrcane Blast |
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Offensive |
Tornado Lift |
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Offensive |
Whirlwind Prison |
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Motile |
Ride the WInd |
Hypersensory |
Listen to the Winds |
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Power Alignment Analysis |
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Master of the Winds |
Shifting Re-Attunement |
04 // Training, Talents & Resources |
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Well Educated |
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English |
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Ancient Greek |
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Latin |
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Experienced Interviewer |
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Public Speaking |
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Persuasion |
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Logical Deduction |
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High Society |
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College Professor |
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Published Author |
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Fantasy Literature |
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Classic Literature |
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Power Stunts |
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Lightning Reflexes |
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Ignore the Wind |
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Protective Winds |
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Handsome |
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Wealthy |
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Famous Author |
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None |
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Basic HTH Training |
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| 06 // Operational Risk Profile | |
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Psychological Complication: Protect the Innocent |
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Psychological Complication: Claustrophia |
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Enraged: Berserk Flashbacks When Confined or Constricted , go , Occasionally, recover , Frequently |
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Social Complication: Public ID Frequently, Major |
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Distinctive Features: Ozone Smell, Hair Always Blowing |
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Accidental Change: When Confised or Constricted , Occasionally |
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Unluck: , Moderate |
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| 07 // Legal / Incident Record | |
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| AEGIS Notations for Icarus Authorized Personnel Only Haris Collins was already accustomed to living partly in imagined worlds long before he became Vortex. A college English professor and successful science-fiction and fantasy author, he built his career around stories about ordinary people confronting forces far larger than themselves—alien civilizations, impossible technologies, collapsing societies, and the moral cost of power. His fiction tends to be thoughtful rather than escapist, with a strong interest in identity, free will, and what people owe one another when institutions fail them. After becoming a Quasar, those themes stopped being intellectual exercises and became painfully personal. Haris is intelligent, articulate, dryly funny, and somewhat introverted. He has the habit of observing a situation before acting, mentally turning events over from several angles the way a novelist might test different versions of a scene. That can make him seem detached, but in reality he is highly empathetic. He notices frightened civilians, overlooked victims, and people being treated as disposable because those are exactly the kinds of characters he used to write about—and because he knows firsthand what it means to have control over your own life taken away. His transformation left him with a complicated relationship to heroism. Haris does not romanticize what happened to him. His powers were not a gift, destiny, or calling; they were the result of kidnapping, torture, and experimentation. He strongly resists anyone trying to redefine that experience as something fortunate simply because he survived with extraordinary abilities. He can appreciate what he is now capable of while still condemning the means by which those abilities were created. That history also makes him an outspoken advocate for other victims of forced Quasar experimentation and abduction. Haris is particularly suspicious of secret programs, euphemistic government language, and scientists who defend atrocities by pointing to useful results. He is not automatically hostile toward authority, but he asks difficult questions and expects real answers. When someone says that sacrifices were “necessary,” Haris is usually the person who asks who actually volunteered to be sacrificed. As Vortex, he brings an unusual temperament to a superhero team. He is not naturally aggressive and prefers control, positioning, and precision over brute force. Wind suits him almost perfectly: he redirects attacks, moves allies out of danger, separates enemies, and changes the battlefield rather than simply overpowering it. When pushed, however, the scale of what he can do becomes frightening. Haris understands that tornadoes and hurricane-force winds are not “clean” powers, and that awareness makes him cautious about escalating. His writing remains important to him after becoming Vortex. He continues to write when he can, although his work gradually changes. Earlier novels may have treated superhuman transformation as metaphor; afterward, his stories become less comfortable with simple chosen-one narratives and more interested in survivors, consent, trauma, and what happens after the dramatic rescue. Readers sometimes assume his new books are autobiographical. Haris usually responds that all fiction is autobiographical—just rarely in the ways readers think. He also has a slightly sardonic attitude toward the absurdity of his situation. A man who spent years correcting student essays and writing novels about impossible people now finds himself flying through thunderstorms and creating tornadoes. He is fully aware of the irony. When teammates begin talking like characters in one of his novels, he may quietly point it out—especially when someone says something melodramatic enough that he wishes he had written it first. At his core, Haris is a humanist. His defining belief is not that extraordinary people are destined to save the world, but that possessing extraordinary power creates an obligation to protect people who have less of it. That conviction, more than the wind itself, is what makes Haris Collins Vortex. |
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