Well, this is my first post on the CoH forums. Loving the game itself so far! If the backstory is too violent, let me know, and I'll change it...but personally, I've had it in mind for a long time (though his name was originally different, but taken on Freedom T_T)
Hero Name: The Grim Warder
Real Name: Unknown (uses alias Jason Hughes)
Age: Assumed to be around 35
Height: 5'10"
Archetype: Natural Scrapper
Primary Power Pools: Martial Arts / Super Reflexes
Distinguishing Features: Large "O" in Roman font tattooed on the back of his left hand (unknown origin), conspicuous absence of navel.
Jason Hughes is a man with no memory prior to what is assumed to be age ten, when he awoke in the middle of a back alley during a downpour. With no identifying features save for an "O" tattooed on the back of his left hand, and no navel, he was truly an enigma, even to himself. He was taken in to a shanty village by a man who called himself Prometheus. The old man raised the child, who gave himself the name Jason Hughes, to do nothing but what he felt was the right thing. It was that attitude that made Hughes want to become a police officer. When his village was taken in by a new shelter, Prometheus fled, and was killed under mysterious circumstances the next week. Crestfallen by the death of the closest thing he had to family, young Hughes joined the police academy as soon as he was able, and passed with flying colors. It was during his time at the academy that he found out about his superhuman reflexes.
His patrol duties were not as exciting as he had imagined. He mainly patrolled the uptown, metropolitan regions of Paragon City, the ones usually free of major activity. He would be called in on occasion to break up a bar fight or settle a shouting match disturbing the peace, but nothing he dreamed of doing. After two years on the force, he fell in love with another officer, Sarah Mercer. In two years, they were engaged to be married.
One fateful day, during a cold, snowy day in December, Hughes heard two people struggling in an alley behind a restaurant. A man with a Greek letter delta tattooed on the back of his left hand was holding Sarah, then off-duty, at gunpoint, demanding all the money she had. Hughes pointed his gun at the man, demanding he drop his weapon. Noticing the letter on Hughes' hand, the man claimed to know who Hughes really was, and why he had the Greek letter omicron on his hand. Hughes shouted again, but the man refused to budge. Infuriated, he aimed his gun at the man's head, but stopped when he remembered the regulations he had trained in. Instead, he shot the man's arm, dead-on. It didn't even faze him. The next second, Sarah lay dead in a snow drift, soaking the ice red.
In a fit of blind rage, Hughes charged at the man, and from what he remembers, time appeared to slow down for him. When the assailant turned to fire at Hughes, he managed to squeeze a shot off that Hughes ducked under effortlessly. The next second, he was in the gunman's face. Hughes broke the man's arm, kicked him to the ground, and shot him in the head. When he realized what he had done, he felt no remorse...but knowing he would be charged with murder, he fled.
Since then, he has adopted the pseudonym of The Grim Warder, or "Grim" for short. He blamed the regulations of law enforcement for preventing him from saving a life. He has since abandoned his gun, stolen a flak jacket from the department, and trained himself in four styles of martial arts, including muay thai and tae kwon do. Though he has never been able to get to the level of reflex control he experienced when disposing of his fiancee's murderer, he still commands a formidable ability. He lives as a vigilante, and protects people using lethal force to eliminate those who would harm the innocent population of Paragon. But even now, a new enemy has come forward, assassins and mercenaries who take shots at Grim on sight. He's certain they're connected to his past, and throughout his duties, he still searches for clues as to who he really is...
