Dr. Vincent Ohad

Real Name: Vincent Ohad
Titles: Doctor of Bioengineering, Neurology and Chemistry
Alignment: Lawful Good
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Race: African American
Hair: Bald
Eyes: Green
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 90 kilograms
Blood type: A+

Description: Vincent is bald, dark skinned, and very fit.  Despite the hardships he's faced, Vincent is almost always smiling.

History:  Vincent was born in 1985, the youngest child of three.  Growing up in the slums of New York was hard on his brothers—who took to the gangs—but Vincent had enough sense to avoid that life.  By the time he was a sophomore in high school, both of his older brothers were dead; the eldest shot in a gang dispute, and the middle brother shanked in prison, after being convicted of multiple homicide—vengeance for the eldest brother's murder.
Knowing his best chance of escaping life lay with the army, Vincent signed up at eighteen, and was trained as a bomb disposal expert, then shipped off to Iraq.  Returning after four years, Vincent used the education benefits granted from his term in the military to attend the California Institute of Technology, studying neurology and bioengineering.
By no means was Vincent the smartest student at the school, or even in his specific program.  But without doubt, he worked harder than any of his competition.  By the age of 28—about a year from completing his PhD, Vincent left school to further his research in cloning and memory.  Over the next two years, he managed to not only create a functional clone of himself, but also to copy his own personality and memories over to the new Vincent.
Although initially far from flawless, Vincent gradually perfected the memory transfer process.  Through trial and error (testing on his own clones, of course), he discovered that trying to share memories among more than six bodies lead to crippling headaches and bouts of amnesia.
Vincent returned to the university to complete his degrees, meanwhile simultaneously studying chemistry at another university and using his knowledge of cloning to vat-grow organs.  By 2017, the blackmarket organ business had made him a rich man—rich enough to construct a secret cloning facility in the Andes, pay off all his debts, and return home to buy his parents a house.
Being in six places at once can leave one with a surplus of time.  Vincent spent it well, traveling across every inhabited continent, visiting each major city.  As he traveled, he saw firsthand the interactions between mundanes and supermen.  Before, he had shut himself away from such things, focusing entirely on his research.  Even in Iraq, superhumans had been almost entirely absent.  Vincent could not think of himself as one of them.  He was six normal people, not some sort of inhuman monster.
In 2018, tragedy struck.  One of Vincent was home (the others abroad), in New York, visiting his parents—who had only just retired.  Metahumans assaulted New York City.  Vincent and his parents were killed in the fighting.
Two of Vincent returned to New York as soon as they heard the news, stepping through the ruined city.  Vincent found Vincent in the ashes of the house he bought for his parents, burned alive.  His parents were subjected to a similar fate.  The clones discovered their dead original's spinal computer system still intact, and downloaded the memory:

A man plummets, his skin ablaze with fire of his own creation.  He tears through the rooftop, igniting the house around.  The burning man stands, a sadistic gleam in his eye.  Coughing through the smoke, Vincent shouts at his parents to run, positioning himself between the metahuman and them.  But his sacrifice is futile—fire rises up from the burning man, a wave of wild flame, cascading outward, the inferno consuming both Vincent and his parents.  Through the agony and smoke, Vincent can still see the burning man rise in the air and launch himself skyward, ripping through the roof again in search of more humans to slaughter.

Dying changes a man.

From that day onward, Vincent worked harder than ever, ramping up organ production to finance the expansion of his base in the Andes, and building up a considerable fortune.  He studied explosives and military tactics; became an expert in tactical operations; learned to fly and drive all manner of modern vehicles.  By 2020, he had made himself into a six-man army, prepared to war against those responsible for so much death.
But even now, Vincent is hesitant.  He had seen firsthand the true results of vengeance—two brothers dead, a dozen lives ruined, nothing resolved.  At very best, retaliating in kind could result in only the most pyrrhic of victories.

Personality: Vincent is a very hardworking and moral person. His circumstances and life have made him a serious man, but he can still find humor in his bizarre situation.

Power: Clones (6 points)
Vincent has a cloning facility, hidden in the Andes.  There, he grows clones of himself.  Growing a new clone takes ~2 months.  Clones are functionally identical to the original, except they begin to  degenerate within four years, dying within seven.

Imprint (2 points)
Clones are implanted with a spinal computer system, which backs up all memories.  Vincent clones will typically share memories among themselves, although limitations of the human mind prevent him from sharing memories among more than six clones ((I won't have more than six active at any one time)).  The computer system is encrypted with a 4096-bit one-time pad.

Grid:
Intelligence: 4
Occult: 0
Strength: 3
Speed: 3
Durability: 4
Ability: 6/2
Fighting Skills: 4
Magic: 0
Spells: 0
Flight: 0
Wealth: 4
30/30
((If there are any heroes which match the description of the burning man, they're more than welcome to play the part—otherwise he could just be an NPC))
((I figure the cloning facility would be a minor base or something--I'll try to post it tonight))

There's no personality.

You only need INT or OCC; not both. You should only have both Intelligence based stats if you're going to put five or more in each stat.

So I also assume the clones would be exact copies of himself down to the stats?

If so, the clones would need to be only 3 active, plus yourself. So, four "you's"

Perhaps.

Plural has a character, named Plural, that has a form of cloning/replication.

Perhaps seek out his app for a guideline.

Chellizard wrote:There's no personality.

Added. I left it out because I thought his history pretty clearly covered that.

Chellizard wrote:You only need INT or OCC; not both. You should only have both Intelligence based stats if you're going to put five or more in each stat.

Ok. I remember reading somewhere that I got occult 3 for free with intelligence 4+ or something. Changed to 0 (or should I just remove Occult from his attributes?).

Chellizard wrote:So I also assume the clones would be exact copies of himself down to the stats?

Yup.

Chellizard wrote:If so, the clones would need to be only 3 active, plus yourself. So, four "you's"

Six, but yeah.
The original died--he was in New York.

Chellizard wrote:Perhaps.

Plural has a character, named Plural, that has a form of cloning/replication.

Perhaps seek out his app for a guideline.

Plural is way stronger than I want Vincent to be.

The Occult stat works in correlation with INT and vice versa.

The first three levels of INT and OCC share the exact same descriptions, while one leans a tad bit more toward Techy stuff and one leans toward Supernatural stuff.

It's so you can know about the supernatural while only having INT, or knowing how to use a computer and etc while only having OCC. If you want your character to be like that RP wise.

It's basically a built in, optional, RP mechanic.

Other than that, everything checks out imho.

Approved and moved.