Bass-Cannon -NOW COMPLETE-

by **Fredpool** January 6th 2015, 7:43 pm

Bass-Cannon
"Get ready for the boom"

Basic Biography

Real Name: Aiden Reigner
Renegade/Hero/Villain Name:Bass-Cannon
Title:Energy manipulator
Alignment:Neutral Good
Age:23 years old
Gender:Male
Race:Caucasian
Hair:Black
Eyes:Green
Height:6’2 ft
Weight:175lb
Blood type:O-

The Looks

Spoiler:

The Legacy

Personality:
Aiden is a caring individual who will always try his best to help those he sees in need of assistance. Even without his powers he will try to help out random strangers in need. This is due to how he was raised. His parents taught him that if he acted like a hooligan, that’s all people are going to see him as. After the accident in the alley with the death of the mugger, he is always very careful about what kind of energy he uses against people. He will only kill if there is no other reasonable option available. During fights now he’s trained more and more, Aiden has become cocky and will always make wisecracks at his opponent’s expense.

History:
Aiden started off with an easy life. He was born in England into a moderately wealthy family with his Dad ‘Michael’ being a well-known musician and his mother ‘Diana’ being a sound specialist. From a young age he has always had the pressure from his Dad to be a musician, at the age of 6 he and his parents moved to GrantCity. At 6 he was already a specialist on the guitar and at 8 he was an expert at the drums. As Michael was un-knowingly pushing him more and more, Diana was helping him to relax by showing and teaching Aiden all about her sound equipment and how to do anything with speakers and soundboards. Although his parents could afford to take him to private school, they let Aiden choose whether he wanted a private education or a normal one. He chose to have a normal education at a public school in GrantCity due to Aiden not wanting to “Stay around all those CashEaters”. He was fairly popular in school due to his parents both being known in the music industry. Although he didn’t want it to go to his head, at times Aiden found himself exploiting this popularity and acting like a ‘Jerk’ sometimes only to apologize either the next day or the day after to whoever he was a Jerk to.
After the years of showing teachers and other students in his music lessons everything he knows he moved onto College. He chose this time to go to a school that was more based around music, in the hope that he might learn more he spent endless hours staying there trying to learn anything that he didn’t already know. During these hours he had made two close friends; Joel, the short brunette kid who was a little on the big side but you could trust with anything. Aiden felt that Joel almost like a musical brother to him. Joel studied the technical side of music like Aidens mother, except his parents were based around the interaction between user and speakers rather than the Soundboard aspect. And then there was Sarah, the tall turquoise haired bass player that Aiden just couldn’t take his eyes off of most of the time. Over the course of a few months Aiden and Joel became more and more like brothers. They would stay up late some nights either playing videogames or drawing up doodles for Joel’s parent’s next big sound system. Most of the time however during the day and at night, Aiden would be with Sarah. After the first night they spent together after he invited her into his house while his parents were away for the weekend, they felt complete with each other. They became close on both a mental and physical level.
It was in his final year, after 2 years of easy work for Aiden, that his life took a turn for the worst. His parents had left for a weekend away which wasn’t unusual for them, work demanded that they leave most weekends, but it was on the Sunday that they had finished their Job, when Michael had finished playing in a bar for a charity concert and Diana had gone up on stage with him to take a bow, that chaos decided to take place. Local drunks had gotten past the security at the front door and immediately started a fight, throwing the whole bar into chaos. In the midst of all this Michael was trying to protect Diana, but when someone was thrown against a door behind the bar and it swung open to reveal the gas tank, that Death was imminent. When bullets started being fired that’s when once hit the tank, causing an explosion that engulfed the entire bar. Everyone inside, including Michael and Diana, were either in pieced or burnt to a crisp. There was no survivors and 50 people were now dead.
This caused both economical, emotional and physical problems for Aiden. With his parents dead he had no cash income, he did however have enough money to finish College and stay in his home as his parents had always put money aside for him, but he knew this would eventually run out. Even with his knowledge of music he found it hard to work through his final year. Although he would at times snap at each other and they wouldn’t talk for days, he was still close friends with Joel and Sarah. Although his parents had died Aiden was at this time 18 nearly 19 and didn’t need a legal guardian or parent. Even though he didn’t need one his two friends made sure he was always ok, being both friends and family. After college Aiden had passed perfectly even though it was a tough year.
During his year after college he spent most of his time with Joel and his parents at their company, “ManningMusic INC”, trying to figure out new speaker and sound designs to improve how small they could make speakers and increase their sound levels as well as a high battery life. During one test, Aiden decided to test out a new speaker without having it checked by Joel or his parents. He was in one of the company’s testing rooms when the speaker malfunctioned due to a power surge. The surge locked the doors to the room with Aiden inside, unable to get out. Within seconds the speaker had reached unbearable frequencies, getting louder and louder until a member of staff at the company walked past and saw Aiden with the speaker, immediately calling help and eventually with the help of other, break down the door and smash the speaker. By this time Aiden was on the flaw, blood coming out of his ears. He was immediately rushed to hospital and put into the best care due to Joel’s family paying the hospital for it. It was days before Aiden woke up only to find that he could barely hear anything. He was diagnosed with permanent hearing damage.
After he got out of hospital Aiden fell into depression. The combined sadness of losing his hearing and the loss of his parents made him turn to alcohol and he became an alcoholic. For months he didn’t speak to anyone, he didn’t even try to communicate with Joel or Sarah. As he was walking back from a liquor one day he got caught in a storm. Aiden initially thought nothing of it. “It’s just a little bit of rain” he thought. Within seconds he regretted thinking that as hail the size of footballs started falling from the sky. He quickly ran under the nearest bus shelter for cover and quickly calling Joel for the first time in months. As he dialed the number, a strange bolt of black and yellow lightning struck him in the chest, knocking him un-conscious and leaving a worried Joel on the phone. Aiden woke up in a hospital bed, un-able to move as he didn’t have the strength. As he looked around he could see colors everywhere coming out of nowhere. He tried to move only to pass back out moments later as a doctor came up to him. When he woke up again, he was greeted by both Joel and Sarah by his bed. Aiden was amazed to see his friends beside him but he was even more amazed that he could hear them as they greeted him. Confused as to why he still had his hearing aids in he reached in to check them only to find that he didn’t have any in. Overwhelmed in happiness, Aiden hugged his friends, apologizing for ignoring them the past couple months.
A couple days passed and Aiden was let out of hospital, the doctors amazed by his remarkable recovery. He soon got back to work with Joel and his family as well as seeing Sarah more often. During his time working with Joel however, he noticed more and more of these random waves of colors everywhere. They weren’t part of anything, they were just color floating in the air, transparent but there was color. They disappeared after about a second or so, they only appeared when noises where made, and disappeared when the noises stopped and change color depending on the frequency of the noise. When walking back from work once, Aiden was pulled to one side by a hooded man with a knife. The man took him down an alley and demanded for his wallet and everything else he had of value. A noise behind him distracted the mugger and Aiden took the opportunity to fight back, tackling him to the ground, knocking the knife away. The two scrapped around and Aiden ended up being thrown to one side and the mugger retried the knife and approached him, ready to strike. As a loud sound of music echoed down the alley from a car that passed, Aiden stretched out his arm in self-defense. To his amazement, the color from the music changed into pure energy and shot towards the mugger, knocking him back and unconscious. After rushing back to his apartment, Aiden began freaking out at what just happened. Did he just do that? Was that even real? He didn’t know what to do. He calmed down after an hour or so and began thinking. After a couple thoughts he stood up and turned on his speaker in the wall, watching the color and music stream out of it. He lined up some glass bottles on a table and stood a couple meters back in front of the speakers. He quickly outstretched his arm towards one of the bottles only to have nothing happen. He tried this a couple times with the same result. Aiden stood further back and thought for another minute. He took a deep breath, concentrated on the music color and then the bottle and in a swift movement he swung his arm forward. This time a red bolt of energy, the same color as the music, shot out from behind him over his arm and hit one of the bottle, smashing it to pieces. Aiden was completely blown away. He could somehow control this strange sound energy. He tried it again with different music to find that the bolt was a shade of blue like the music and that the bottle didn’t smash on impact with the sound, it just got knocked back into the wall and smashed. He stayed up all night trying out different music and trying to make sense of what he could do, only to be woken up at 3pm by a confused Joel as to why there was smashed bottle everywhere.
Aiden tried to explain everything to Joel, only to have him say that Aiden was probably up all night drinking. After a quick demonstration however Joel soon changed his views. The two spent the entire day researching and testing Aiden’s new abilities. During one test they found that if he concentrated and closed his eyes, Aiden could hear a fly from the other side of the apartment even with the music turned up on full volume. The two eventually went over to one of Joel’s old storage warehouses for further tests. The warehouse was just outside of GC away from any main roads. After days of staying in the warehouse and ordering takeout food the two got back to work at MMInc, deciding although what they had found was amazing it wasn’t worth their jobs. After a few more days of just doing their regular jobs Aiden got a call from the hospital. They said that Sarah had been in a mugging and was badly hurt and they called him as he was her emergency contact. He and Joel both rushed over to the hospital to find a badly injured Sarah asleep. Aiden noticed some Police just outside the room and used his new abilities’ to listen in on their conversation. They were talking about where they found Sarah and that the sketch artist had finally sent a picture of who they thought hurt her. Aiden peered out the door and got a look at the sketch and immediately left the hospital, leaving Joel looking after Sarah. He put his hood up and pulled up a scarf around his face as he walked into the area the police were talking about, looking for the guy in the drawing. After a couple minutes of searching he found a group of thugs down an alley, one of them being the guy from the sketch. He walked down towards them, confident and very, very angry. It didn’t take long for one of them to notice him and pull out a knife. Seeing noise coming from an open window in the alley, Aiden quickly knocked all five guys back and into a wall with just one swing of his arm. He walked up the guy who hurt Sarah and held him up against the wall, angrily asking him why he would hurt an innocent person just for money. The thug replied that “nowadays it’s not just for money but there are people just like me out there doing it just for the pure thrill of having that much power”. In anger Aiden through him against another wall surprisingly easily, looking at his arms seeing them resonating with the same color as the music from a minute ago. As the thug got up he asked what Aiden was and said that no matter what he is, he enjoyed hurting he’s “met”. In a burst of anger, Aiden went to punch him but accidently shot a bolt of energy though the thug’s chest, killing him instantly. Scared he slumped back against the wall and seconds later two policemen started walking down the alley and saw the passed out thugs, the dead one and Aiden. They quickly pulled out their guns and told him to get up and put his hands up slowly. Not wanting to get caught and get convicted of murder using a weapon he knew no-one would understand, Aiden slowly got up and used music from the window from earlier to knock back the two officers, but not knock them out. He sprinted down the alley, taking turns everywhere only to come to a wall. Aiden started panicking, “what would Joel think? What would Sarah think? How’s Sarah doing?!” He didn’t notice his arms resonating from his most recent blast and in frustration, shook his arms at the ground. The energy resonating from his arms created round energy waves that quickly launched Aiden over the wall. He landed with a thud, not knowing that he could do that. After he ran back to his apartment he quickly called Joel to tell him what had happened. After Joel had to stop him mid-sentence he told him that Sarah didn’t make it. The internal bleeding alone was too much for her. Aiden soon hung up the phone and went and sat on the side of his bed. “I should have been there. I should have been there!” In a mixture of rage and sadness he turns up his speakers and begins to trash his million dollar apartment.
As the days past Aiden had barely left his apartment. He hadn’t touched any alcohol and the night Sarah died he destroyed all of the drinks he had stored. After a while Joel came by. This was the fourth time he had tried to come in and see Aiden in the past five days he’s been in there. He was surprised when a tired Aiden opened the door and let him into the now wrecked apartment. Joel told him that his family were worried about him, they didn’t care that he was missing work, they were concerned about how he was doing both emotionally and physically. He responded by saying that he was finally calming down and that he wasn’t angry, he was sad that he wasn’t there for her when she needed him most. He then explained in full what happened with the thug and keeps repeating that it was an accident but since he learned about what happened to Sarah he was alittle happy about what he did, and it was eating him up inside. Joel consoled him and tried to tell him that if he was in the same situation he would be the same. After that Aiden said to him how he’s also been thinking about something else. What happened to Sarah and what he’s feeling right now shouldn’t be felt by anyone else and after what the thug said “nowadays it’s not just for money but there are people just like ‘him’ out there doing it just for the pure thrill of having that much power”. Joel questioned at what Aiden was getting at. He explained that the killing of the thug was an accident but what if he had just knocked him out? The police would have arrived and taken him away. Yes, Aiden would have been apprehended as well but he’d just escape like he originally did. He continues explaining that he wants to make sure what happened to Sarah didn’t happen to anyone else. He then continued and said how he could save people now, more than the police could, he could keep people safe and help the police catch the guys they needed to. He said that he was given these “Gifts” for a reason and this may not be the right one, but it’s the one he wants to use them for. Joel stared at him for a while. He didn’t know if his friends was just filled with guilt over Sarah’s death and was delusional or whether the lightning strike had damaged his brain. Aiden looked at him and told him “My whole life I’ve been searching for a meaning. To do good. Now I have that power I can’t ignore this, you don’t have to help me but I’m going to do this one way or another. I just finally know…..What I have to do.” His friend stood up and put his arm over Aiden shoulder “where do we begin?” he asked with a smile.
Over the next two weeks the two spent time at MMInc, Joel’s parents happy to see Aiden’s ok, but the majority of their time was spent moving equipment to an old warehouse hidden in a junk-yard that Joel convinced his parents to buy years ago. The Warehouse was underground, the entrance was through a shipping container that had an old hidden elevator. The warehouse was off records but Joel’s parents knew that there was an underground storage facility that their son like to store his most prized belongings in. Thirteen days after they had started buy equipment and moving it underground, the “J-Pad” as Joel called it was finished. Aiden quickly replied with “We’re not calling it that”. Although they had all the equipment, Police-scanners, multiple monitors with maps of the city, a “Kick ass” computer hooked up to the police-mainframe thanks to some of MMInc’s more IT based employees. They didn’t have an outfit. They both knew that a costume was essential if Aiden was really to do this, not only for style but to protect who he was and the people close to him, they both read comics. After a while of ideas Joel drew up a sketch of a suit that was both practical and “Awesome” as he said. Aiden added a couple of design features as well as practical improvements but they soon had a costume designed that would be great for Aiden specific abilities’. The two spent the following Three days assembling the suit. They used one of MMInc’s private production rooms to make the armor and shielding parts of the suit. They used a light-weight metal that had the same sleek look as plastic that the company used for reinforced speakers. They made the helmet, shoulder guards, Arm bracers, belt and some chest and back protection from this metal that Joel called “Speakeranium” as he could never remember the actual name. The rest of the suit they used a woven Polymer and Kevlar blend. They got these from the internet. They figured that if anyone looked into it, it would come across as a couple rich kids wasting money on expensive clothing. They made the color scheme simple enough. They liked Black and a dark purple. Joel asked why purple? Aiden responded by saying that it was one of Sarah’s favorite colors. After the suit was made, Aiden tried it on. He liked it, it was light enough that he could move fast and wasn’t weighed down by anything. The suits main feature was the bracers. Inside them was the speaker that Aiden had originally designed that caused him to go deaf. This wasn’t intentionally done as a though back to what originally happened to him, they were the lightest and most powerful speakers that they could fit into the suit. All he had to do to activate the speakers was let the small amount of energy he always had charged up resonating from him jump start them. From there he can use him sound energy manipulation to change the frequency, volume and state of the sound playing. He had chosen to primarily have bass sounds come from the speakers, due to that being one of his most favorite instruments. He also had guitar sounds in them for the same reason.
Rather than go out into the city immediately he decided to train. He didn’t want to go running in blind like he had before. He spent weeks training in mixed martial arts during the day and at night he would practice his abilities’ in the newly named “BassDrop” lair. After he felt like he could at least put up a fight he went out into the city as his new alter-ego. He used both his hearing and Joel with the scanners to find any source of crime. The helmet had a wireless head piece installed for their communication. Aiden used his ‘flying’ that he had been practicing to get around the city. He was still perfecting it but he had a good grasp of it right now. During that night Aiden stopped his first mugging. He heard someone begging not to get hurt down an alley and followed it. He found a mugger with a gun and a civilian man just handing over his watch. Aiden landed a couple meters behind the mugger with a thud as he hadn’t quite mastered landing. He took in the energy from the noise as the mugger turned around to see what it was. Aiden had never faced a man with a gun before and was anxious. What was he doing? Did he really do this? What would Sarah or his parents think? As the mugger aimed at Aiden, confused as to what he was and why he was there, Aiden quickly knocked those thoughts out of his head. They would be proud he was doing something productive with whats happened to him. He concentrated and focused. As the man pulled the trigger Aiden saw energy from the gun shot come out of the barrel of the gun and almost instantly he flicked his fingers, manipulating the energy into knocking the bullet off course and into the wall. Before the mugger could react to what just happened, Aiden stretched out his arm and fired a blast from the speaker in it, he then turned that into a concussive blast and knocked the mugger off his feet and into a wall. The civilian was amazed by this and quickly put his watch away and walked over to Aiden, who backed away as he got close. “Wow….just…..who are who?” asked the man. Aiden thought for a second and heard Joel down the earpiece “This needs to be good! You need a Name!”. Aiden looked at the man, staring at him through the purple visor on his helmet. “Im BassCanon. See ya around.” He then aimed his arms at the ground and took off using the speakers. He spent the rest of the night circling around different areas of the city, on occasion Joel would tell him if a police scanner picks up a robbery or any crime. It was a successful night.
Now, 7 months down the line, Aiden is still training in mixed martial arts and still pushing his abilities’ to the limit to try and discover what else he could do. He found that by absorbing the energy from sounds can cause his body to improve while charged. His speed would increase as well as his strength and reflexes. His body while charged would also heal faster. He still has his job at MMInc and so does Joel. They live a simple enough life during the day. “Usual 23 year old crap” as Aiden puts it. But during the night, he and Joel become more than just usual 23 year olds. They become BassCanon.

The Powers

Sound to Energy conversion:
This allows him to turn any sound he can see or hear into raw energy. Depending on the sound the energy can do different things such as fire energy blasts. Aiden can absorb the energy to conserve for later use for powers such as flight or improved human attributes. (6 ABI)

Seeing sound and super hearing:
His improved hearing allows Aiden to not only hear a fly’s wing beat in a crowded room of people making loud noise, but also has linked his neural sensors to his audio ones, allowing him to see sound in its different varieties. This means he cannot only see where noise is coming from, but can tell if someone’s lying due to the color of the noise and their heart beat’s color. (1 ABI)

Flight through sound energy:
Using the energy he harness’s from sound, Aiden can form it around himself and project it through his arms and legs to propel himself off the ground. Depending on the energy harnessed depends on the speed. (4 SPD)

Heightened human attributes while charged:
If Aiden in charged with the energy he harness’s from sound, his base human abilities are heightened, making him stronger, faster and allows his body to heal faster than it normally would. As with flight earlier, the amount it is heightened is dependent on the amount of energy harnessed. (4 STR, 4 DUR)

Grid
Intelligence: 3
Strength: 4
Speed: 4
Durability: 4
Ability: 6/1
Fighting Skills: 4
Flight: 2
Wealth: 3

by **Forceaus** January 6th 2015, 9:41 pm

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