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Alvidan General History

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Alvidan
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Alvin Daniels was just a normal guy, until a chance encounter with a dimensional rift granted him swiftness, laser eyes, and titanium skin. Armed with these abilities, he fought petty crime as Alvidan while saving to equip himself as a hero.

Returning one day to the site of his empowerment, he found strange crystals growing there. There were some people out there willing to trade the crystals for gear, so he was able to power up to fight crime.

Later, he tried to save a hero called the Options Oracle from being overwhelmed, but failed, however as the Options Oracle died, he passed on a portion of his power to Alvidan, increasing his abilities and his resolve.

Alvidan was approached by BADGE, which recruited him to help fight The extradimensional Invaders. With their guidance, he learned that his powers were mainly psychokinetic. He soon learned to produce powerful shields of kinetic energy and move huge masses of stone, though his powers had a very short range. He also learned to bend space so that he could step long distances in a short time.

BADGE also assisted him with some equipment, and helped him refurbish some gear captured from criminals. With that, his heroic career was certainly getting somewhere.

Unfortunately, where he was getting was pretty much the middle of the pack, as far as super heroes were concerned.

He started a regimen of ninja training to assist in his skill development.

While fighting against an escapee from Purgatory Prison, He suffered a curse that caused his gear to malfunction. This made it behave as if he had a different core and peripherals. Eventually he learned to control this, so that he could switch his gear functions to a limited variety of choices.

He managed to track down an Escapee called "Your Zombie Ex-Girlfriend", only to discover that she had turned over a new leaf and was seeking to use her zombie abilities for good. He allowed her to remain "at large" even though it went against his orders.

Both his powers and his gear continue to improve, the former mostly through practice and the latter through gathering things from his enemies that are repurposed for him.

He finds himself having trouble with the genetically engineered Vixen, even though he manages to catch her by surprise once she promptly escaped him. After several more attempts to capture her, he finally managed to do so and began questioning her about her boss, Dr. Fulcrum.

Alvidan woke up one morning changed into a woman, though uncertain what had happened or how long it would last, they were determined and continued to fight crime. Alvidan realizes eventually that the change in form, like the ability to change gear, relate to the Seed of Potential that he got from the Options Oracle. He is switching abilities and forms with his analogs from other worlds.

His (her?) abilities continue to change and grow. This lates change allows becoming some kind of monstrous shapeshifter which resembles an undead werehyena while in combat. It is very effective in fights, but not particularly comfortable.

Alvidan accidentally discovered that it is possible to release the energies that empower him explosively, and trained himself to control it by use of a key word. While Alvidan was Improving, other heroes were betting better faster, so he remained pretty average.
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Alvin Daniels was an average guy, working as a Janitor trying to make money for college when things got strange.  He had heard rumors that there were odd things happening, but had dismissed them as just that, rumors.

So he was outside the elementary school where he was working, painting the curbs orange, when the light got funny.  The first thing he noticed was that he had a second shadow, when he turned to look there was this this thing like a glowing rip in the air just behind him.

He stared at it as if hypnotized (or possibly afraid to move) for several seconds as it got brighter.  Then the rift began drawing things into it.  Alvin dropped to the ground, letting loose of his paintbrush, and grabbed onto whatever he could.  This resulted in him getting scratched on his hands from the ornamental bushes he wound up holding on to and getting orange paint on his pants...as well as losing his paint and brush as they were drawn into the rift.  

After a brief struggle, where Alvin feared he was about to be drawn in, the rift collapsed, throwing him backwards forcefully and knocking him out.

When he awoke, he felt surprisingly well...as if his bumps and scratches were almost healed.  He opened his eyes and tried to focus his fuzzy vision...and found a burst of energy blasting from his eyes striking what he was looking at!  Fortunately, that was a piece of sidewalk and the damage was minor.  He eventually got enough control not to blast things and looked at himself, discovering his skin looked metallic, though he found that, like his vision, he could go back to normal with a effort.  When he tried t move, he discovered his speed was greater than it had been.

Given that he was a big superhero fan, he set out to become a hero, though at first that meant doing things like saving cats from trees...
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Have you ever thought about trying to get a costume?  I mean a serious costume, one you could wear into a super battle, not a kid's halloween costume.  It is not an easy thing, especially without someone knowing you are the person wearing that costume.

That is kind of how Alvin wound up wearing black jeans and a red and black hoodie when he made his first appearance.  He had to find something that could stand up to wear and tear, but hide who he was.  Not exactly a great costume, but it worked for the the first day or two.  

By then, he knew (from public announcements) that the world was under assault by an outside force and that it was changing some people, granting them fantastic abilities.

There were others also, ones from elsewhere who opposed the enemy.

This quickly gave birth to a service industry for supers. where costumes could be found, so he did not have to stay in that getup all that long.
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Once he managed to get his hands on a better uniform...in green as it happens..Alvin spent the next couple of days fighting normal criminals.  Many of them seemed, upon interrogation, gathering materials for a group called "The Legion".

It did not take too many times busting up low level operations to draw the attention of someone slightly higher in the food chain.  The fellow was a Raptor, one of many winged fliers with a ring that helped them focus their powers.  

Alvidan was taunted by the Raptor, who was flying above and attacking him with ranged weapons from beyond the range of Alvidan's Laser Vision.  Alvidan, however, was clever enough to use his speed to let him jump high enough to bring the enemy down, an claimed the ring as a prize.

This capture brought the minor hero to the attention of BADGE, who offered him useful government contacts and gear, in exchange for him being on call and turning over broken enemy gear to them for study.
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So, Alvin is still working at a Janitor at this point, and one day at work he discovers the strange crystals growing out of the pavement at the spot where the dimensional rift had been.  The crystals are too large and sharp, they would cause damage to the tires of a school bus if it crossed that spot.  He removed the crystals, but the quickly grew back.

He finally had to tear up that area of the drive and replace the pavement, taking the pavement crystal garden back to where he lived.  He soon found that some others...people with more cerebral powers than his, were able to find ways to use the crystals to create items to focus their powers.  He was able to trade some of his crystals for new gear to help improve his abilities even further.
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It's great how you incorporate your story into the HR canon so well.
"Embrace your inner weirdness"
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Thank you, Strange Quark.
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Alvidan had encountered a few minor morphon touched people, such as a thief who used hypnotic abilities based on light and sound to commit robberies (fortunately his faster reflexes and altered senses allowed him to ignore the hypnotic effect) and someone who was turned into a bloodthirsty vampire-like creature and needed help.

The Pyrokinetic calling herself Firebrand was the first real challenge...not so much to defeat as to prevent collateral damage.  Alvidan had to find out he could use his own powers to control fire, though to a limited effect, so he could win the fight.
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The Raptor's boss sent someone after the one who beat him, a member of a more elite team, the Valkyries.  Alvidan's increasing powers allowed him to defeat that enemy also.  BADGE was able to find out how to duplicate the gear she was using and gave a copy to Alvidan.

Alvidan is not certain if it is the ring and armor that let the next Legion Minion find him, but a speedster called Impulse was soon causing him trouble.  Alvidan had to push his speed to new limits to win, showing that his powers were still growing and changing.
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