Legal Name: Justin Joseph Locke
Place and Date of Birth: Harlem, NY, January 15th, 2022
Known Aliases: N/A
Appearance: Caucasian Male, weighing 130 lbs., standing at 5 feet 10 inches. Mostly average build on a thin frame. Dark brown hair cropped short, light brown eyes. Wears a pair of cheap, black-frame glasses to aid with his sight. Clean shaven.
Psych Profile/Personality Analysis: Textbook narcissism. Is very aware of his mental strengths and intelligence, and can be very arrogant about it. Can be highly emotional at times, and isn't afraid of being loud and speaking his mind. He doesn't care about other people's thoughts or feelings and gets defensive when he's put on the spot or someone finds a flaw in something of his. Will befriend you if he finds common ground, however.
Bio: Was born right on the cusp of The Awakening to Alice and Joseph Locke. Ushered into a new age of man, Justin was raised among the glitz and glamor of the early Golden Age Awakened humans. Granted, he was far too young to remember any of it, but his father was definitely a fan. Then The Black Year occurred and passed over the world like a sickening plague. Definitely, the wrong time to realize your only son was an Awakened human as well. His mother, a fierce pro-human supporter, couldn't deal with her child's "sickness", and his father's support. Claimed she was "living a nightmare", divorced her husband, and disowned her child.
It was father and son against the world from there on out. Instead of the event creating a rift between the two, it only strengthened their bond. Made the registry and residential schools easier for the two to process. Joseph loved his son's curiosity for his work and enjoyed being someone his son could look up to. Learning was second nature to the boy, and he easily excelled in most of his classes. It was to the point that he became unruly and dismissive of his peers and curriculum, as it didn't pose much of a challenge to his growing mind.
The prejudice and stigma against his kind became more relevant to the boy as he grew older. Upon the shutdown of Residential schools, Justin was transferred into normal schools with normal humans. Despite the taunting, the incessant bullying, and the lack of support from staff, Justin was able to complete his years with overly exceptional grades. His father gave him the hope of attending any college he could've wanted, and spent years building a fund to do so. Justin knew of the controversy involving Awakened humans being kept out of establishments of higher learning but stayed optimistic for his father's sake.
Then, as life has a habit of doing, disaster struck him all at once. Joseph Locke was struck down in a freak accident on the job. Left the 18-year-old with whatever possessions he had left and his college fund was made available to him. He wanted to take that chance to pack up his things and leave. But then a protest for Awakened humans started in his neighborhood. He was barely involved but was curious enough to check it out anyway. The protest went south once the police got involved, and became unruly. Amidst the panic and anger of the crowd, Justin was arrested simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even as he managed to pay his bail, his status as an Awakened human changed from simply registered, to potentially dangerous.
Justin managed to live on his own for a couple of years afterward, bitter at the world around him. His attitude darkened, his heart hardened. Denied a college education due to extensive background checks, Justin used his college fund to hold on to his living arrangements for as long as he could. And even that was beginning to run out.
Criminal Record: One count of unlawful assembly. Two recorded counts of trespassing.
Known Talents: Between Justin's burgeoning intelligence, and his father's previous careers as an infrastructure and construction electrician, he has a hard efficiency in electrical wiring and schematic reading. Joseph had a tendency to bring work home, and Justin absorbed most of the knowledge passively. As he grew older, he began to branch out into the other fields of electrical work. His scope shrunk from skyscraper wiring to dismantling home appliances and creating his own software. Learned resistor codes, enjoyed the intricacies of soldering and circuit boards. In his late teens, he acquired a fixation for self-defensive electroshock tools and weapons. Learned how tasers ticked, prodded around cattle prods, and buried that knowledge into his own creations. His most recent creation was an electroshock glove he called "The Awe". In its most recent version, he's fashioned a simple potentiometer-based console that controls the amount of amperage he can administer.
Known Abilities: Justin has several documented accounts involving his above average intelligence. First noted at age 6, where (on a hunch) one of his teachers suggested he'd take a mental evaluation. He was reported to have had an IQ level of 103. Now at 20, his levels have seemed to plateaued at about 139, just around the "highly gifted" level of the "genius" designation. Intelligence will expand exponentially if given a chance at higher learning. His body (skin and organs, with the exception of his hair) is exceedingly resistant to generated and natural forms of plasma, as well as natural chemical reactions like fire. Cannot be burned, or subdued by electrical shock.
