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[Laird_Thorne]

Name: White Diamond (Phillipe Darias)

Concept: Reluctant Hero

Age: 22 (Born - March 22, 2006) Height: 6'1" Weight: 190

Hair: Black Eyes: Green

Aspirations:

• In the short term, ...
• In the short term, ...
• In the long term, ...

Origin Path: Suburbia (College Professor •)
Role Path: Pilot (Detective Lastrad, RCMP •)
Society Path: Project Utopia (Project Scientist •)

Skills: Athletics •, Close Combat •••, Culture •, Empathy •, Enigmas •, Humanities •, Integrity ••, Pilot •••, Technology ••
Attributes: (Force Approach) Intellect ••, Cunning •••, Resolve •••, Might •••, Dexterity •••, Stamina •••••, Presence ••, Manipulation ••, Composure ••
Skill Tricks: I Can Figure It Out (Pilot)

Edges: Big Hearted •, Wealth ••, Direction Sense •, Hair Trigger Reflexes •, Small Unit Tactics •, Dormancy ••, Eufiber •, Photographic Memory •••
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Stamina •
Mega-Edges:

Quantum Powers:

• Growth • (Duration)
• Density ••• (Duration, Non-Living)
  • Mega-Might •••
  • Toughness •••

Quantum: ••• (Quantum points 25)
Transcendence:

Health: Bruised, Injured, Maimed, Taken Out (At Stamina 3, add an Injured level, and Stamina 5 gives an additional bruised level)

Armor: 0 or list armor stats and tags for example: Soft 1 (Complete 3)
Scale: Durability 1, Leadership 1, Mental 1, Might 1, Power 1, Size 1, Speed 1

Experience Points spending: 150/ 150 XP

• Quantum Trait +2 - 36 XP
• Dormancy •• - 6 XP
• Eufiber • - 3 XP
• Density ••• - 36 XP
  • Duration Tag - 12 XP
  • Non-Living Tag - 12 XP
• Growth • - 12 XP
  • Duration Tag - 12 XP
• Mega-Stamina • - 12 XP
• Edge - Photographic Memory ••• - 9 XP

 

Background

Growing up in a place named Briland might seem to some to be an interesting place, just from the name (especially when neighboring places had names like Jacob's Island and Whale Point). To Phillipe Darias, it was just home. Away from home, his home was known by another name, Harbour Island. Being located on Eleuthera in the Bahamas, it was only natural that Phillipe take on a career in Marine Biology or Archaeology. Phillipe had one difficulty with that career path however.

Osteogenesis imperfecta, commonly known as Brittle Bone disease, was the diagnosis the doctors gave Phillipe's mother. Phillipe was five years old and this was after the sixth time he'd been brought in to the ER with broken bones in as many months. After the second time, the police had been called and Phillipe had been placed in a foster home for a week. After Phillipe had bumped into the coffee table and had to be brought back to the ER, the police and social workers were no longer involved. The smallest bump or fall, and his bones would break. At that point, his mother began what would become a lifelong pattern of protecting her son. Anytime they would leave the house, Phillipe would be in a wheelchair. He couldn't play with other kids because it would result in several broken bones and a lot of pain for Phillipe. Unable to act and play like a normal kid, Phillipe dove into books and computers. He would read for days on end, and when he wasn't reading or studying, he was on the computer. However, his mother did allow him to learn to swim. He learned in his own pool, and had a tutor/guardian for all his interactions in the pool.

With his mother being a research Astrophysicist, Phillipe did have every chance otherwise; the best schools, the best doctors, just nothing seemed to help with his physical or mental health. Growing frustrated with this, his mother looked into every option she could. Finally, finding a possibility in a project she was working on involving crystals and dimensional energies. Late in her initial research, she discovered that exposing the crystals to specific frequencies of sound caused them to vibrate and emit energy particles which had a strange side effect of increasing the density of objects struck by the particles. Seeing an opportunity, his mother arranged for exposing Phillipe to the particles. Amazingly, after the exposure, Phillipe’s bones and muscles grew stronger and Phillipe gained a bit more confidence in everything he did. It gave him a bit of courage to step outside his (and his mother's) comfort zone and enter a Marine Biology program in the US.

Attending the University of Toronto in Toronto Canada, and being away from home for the first time, spent most of his off time learning to fly and indulging in writing for the school newspaper. As time went by, Phillipe started down another path however. After researching an article he hoped to get published in the local paper, he ended up working for a gang who was into a bit of everything, including smuggling. Phillipe made extra money by riding along as copilot on several flights carrying unknown cargo in a small plane in the middle of the night. Only when a Coast Guard helicopter opened fire to get his attention did the full impact of what he was doing hit him. Calmly, he took the controls and landed the plane, promptly turning himself in and turning State's Evidence against the gang. In exchange for this cooperation as well as the fact that he had no prior criminal record, he was placed on probation and allowed to go home under strict conditions (the terms of which were sealed). It seemed that Phillipe's life was back on track, but it was not to be without a serious incident to propel him along it and to an unclear future.

Two weeks after returning home and on his way to deposit the first paycheck of his new job with a dive boat, Phillipe thought he saw a couple of the gang members that he'd run with following him up the street. However, when he'd turned to take a good look, the individual wasn't there. Chalking it up to paranoia, he continued on to the bank. As he reached for the door and began pulling it open, he caught the reflection of a car driving by with a long tube sticking out of the window, pointed in his direction. In a spilt second, as his mind registered the rocket launching out of the launcher toward him, his survival instincts kicked in and he made a decision that would shape things to come.

In an instant, Phillipe grew nearly a foot and his entire being took on the appearance of a translucent white crystalline form. The rocket impacted and the explosion blew the bank doors inward followed by fire and smoke, setting off alarms and sprinklers. When the atmosphere around the entrance began returning to normal, Phillipe's form stood there, barely scratched. He stood there for a moment before running down the street after the vehicle that had performed the drive-by. Unable to catch it, he ducked into the seclusion of a small park and willed himself back to normal. To his surprise it worked and he headed toward his home. Once there, he collapsed into his bed, exhausted from the effort of changing his form.

In what seemed like minutes, but what in actuality was days, Phillipe awoke to a knock on his door. When he answered it, he was greeted by an Interpol detective who asked to speak with him and assured him he was not in danger if he promised not to become the crystalline figure. The detective told him that he knew that it wasn’t Phillipe’s fault, but the explosion at the bank had wounded several and killed a young mother and her infant son. They had been about to step out the doors of the bank when the rocket hit. Phillipe’s emotions suddenly bottomed out. He blamed himself for the injuries and deaths. Lieutenant Lastrad could see the young man’s thoughts spiraling out of control so he smiled. He discussed how the region was becoming so much less the paradise it once was, and more a criminal haven. He proposed that Phillipe use his ability and become a protector of his homeland instead of a rampaging monster a couple of media reports had painted him. Seeing a chance to finally make a difference, Phillipe agreed. Soon after, White Diamond (as someone had suggested the press call him) was appearing all over the islands disrupting smuggling, robberies and other criminal enterprises.

While he felt he was doing some good, Phillipe still felt guilty. Not just because of the incident at the bank, but because others seemed to get hurt too. While the press wrote off the casualties as justifiable, Phillipe thought differently. With a heavy heart and a feeling of being hunted constantly washing over him, he left his home country and traveled back to Toronto where he hoped to start fresh and get past the hurt he had caused. However, his arrival did not go unnoticed. A couple of days after his arrival, he was met by former Lieutenant Lestrad, now working for the RCMP, and a Project Utopia representative. Between the two, they convinced Phillipe to join the Project. After a short training period, he became one of the newest members of Team Tomorrow.

 

Edited March 29 by Laird_Thorne (see edit history)

[Laird_Thorne]

I backed the KS for Trinity Continuum but never thought would get an opportunity to make use of the books... glad I was wrong. :)

Still working on concept, but shouldn't be too much effort as always have supers-style concepts running around in my head.. LOL

 

[Laird_Thorne]

@Vecnahand - I think this is ready for a review. In my mind, he's like Colossus, just Crystalline instead. :)

Edited March 29 by Laird_Thorne (see edit history)