Patchwork Man:
PL: 14
Strength 7
Stamina 8
Agility 2
Dexterity 2
Fighting 8
Intellect 8
Awareness 3
Presence 0
Skills: Deception 12 (+12), Expertise [Computers] 8 (+16), Expertise [Pop Culture] 6 (+15), Expertise [Science] 12 (+20), Insight 8
(+11), Perception 8 (+11), Ranged Combat [Grafted Powers] 6 (+14), Stealth 9 (+11), Technology 12 (+20)
Advantages: All-Out Attack, Close Attack 6, Improved Initiative, Inventor, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 6, Task Focus 2 [Expertise (Pop Culture): Super Heroes & Villains]
Powers: Body Grafting: Affliction 14 [Powers/Abilities Impaired & Dazed, Powers/Abilities Disabled & Stunned, Powers/Abilities Transformed [Powers half rank value & limb missing]; resisted by Will] (Extras: Extra Condition, Increased Duration [Continuous], Progression); (Feat: Feature [body changes to resemble all victims grafted in a collage-like style]) & Variable X [powers/abilities of victims] (Extra: Linked [to Affliction], Increased Duration [Continuous], Free Action); (Flaw: Limited [can only perform 8 Grafts max], Quirk [Can only use powers of the victims of Affliction])
Pseudo-Cell Physiology:
Immunity 8 [Aging, Disease, Environmental Cold, Environmental Heat, Poison, Pressure, Radiation, Starvation & Thirst]
Impervious Toughness 8
Regeneration 2 [1/5 rounds]
Offense: Initiative +6
Melee Attack +14
Ranged Attack +8 // Grafted Powers Attack +14
Defense: Dodge +14
Parry +14
Toughness +8* [*Impervious]
Fortitude +12
Will +12
Costs: Abilities 76+ Skills 28+ Advantages 18+ Powers 117+ Defenses 31= 270 pts.
Real Name: Stuart Williams
Height: 6’3”
Weight: 237 lbs
Hair: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Brown (glow red when using Body Graft power)
Complications:
Enemies: The Vanguard, the Alliance.
Obsession: The Patchwork Man wants to become the most powerful Alpha on the planet.
Background: Scientist Dr. Stuart Williams was an expert in robotics and artificial intelligences that worked at Noxxor Industries who’d learnt he was suffering from a highly aggressive cancer that would kill him in less than a year. Devastated over his situation, Dr. Williams threw himself into his work to distract himself. Unfortunately, this ended up straining his already fragile marriage as Dr. Williams had not told his family about his illness as he didn’t want to burden them any more than they already were going to be when he passed, causing his effort to backfire as his wife took their young children and left Dr. Williams. Pushed further into his growing depression, Dr. Williams threw himself into his work with an even more intense dedication to cope with his loss.
It was around that time that the Vanguard defeated the artificial being known as Damocles and the government had turned her inert form over to Noxxor to be studied. Because of his expertise, Dr. Williams was part of the small circle of specialists allowed access to the potentially dangerous artificial being. As the scientists learned about the way Damocles was constructed and the fact that she was more akin to a synthetic being rather than an android than what was first thought – Damocles’ body perfectly mimicked human anatomy to the point that the only difference was that her body and an non-powered person’s was that hers was comprised of a man-made substance that was named “Pseudo-Cells”.
The scientists learned that the Pseudo-Cells were reactive to outside stimuli despite the fact that Damocles was “inactive” at the time and the fact that her body’s Pseudo-Cells were resistant to all forms of disease made the possibility of serious medical benefits very likely. The news caused Dr. Williams to immediately see a possible cure for his own medical issues, and the following months were filled with his carefully monitoring the progress of his co-workers as they tested for possible side-effects of Pseudo-Cells they’d collected and implanted in test animals.
Unfortunately, there are those in society who object to the use of animals in such a manner, no matter what the potential benefits and after several and soon as word spread in the scientific community of what was the project team was working on the number of protestors grew in front of Noxxor. Eventually those in charge bowed to the public outrage of several animal rights groups and closed the Pseudo-Cell project. Dr. Williams was beside himself as he’d forgone any kind of therapy in lieu of using the project instead. Seeing his chances of surviving his disease slip away before his eyes pushed Dr. Williams past his breaking point and that night he snuck back into the project lab and set up the injection machine with a large sample of the Pseudo-Cells and laid himself on the procedure table.
The pain was more than Stuart Williams had ever endured in his life and he passed out within moments of the first injection. When he awoke, the doctor found himself face to face with members of Noxxor Industries’ security staff who were asking exactly what he was doing in the closed lab. To say that Dr. Williams’ response was violent would be an understatement, and most those men ended up being placed on disability afterwards. Other members of the security staff, who’d watched on video feed, contacted the Alliance for assistance and it was Vega who responded, confident he could handle the situation. It didn’t take the hero long to locate Dr. Williams but what happened when the rogue scientist tried to resist the hero’s efforts made the situation even stranger – as Dr. Williams’ newly gained powers manifested upon that first contact and he “took” the very arm that Vega had tried to grab him with. In the ensuing chaos of Dr. Williams’ powers allowing him to “take a piece” of Vega that somehow granted him the same powers the hero possessed; energy manipulation, superhuman strength and resistance to injury and flight, he was able to effect his escape.
After finding a place hide it didn’t take Dr. Williams very long to come up with a theory about what had happened to him – something about Damocles’ Pseudo-Cells had interacted with scientist’s DNA somehow and had granted him an aberration of the synthetic being’s power to mimic the powers of Alphas. This was in addition to a few enhancements to his body as Williams remembered throwing the security guards around like rag dolls. What Dr. Williams’ didn’t realize was that he also gained some of Damocles’ mental traits, specifically a strong desire to take of the powers of others for his own and soon the former scientist was plotting his next move against the Alliance.
When Dr. Williams made his move against the Alliance he took them by storm: taking advantage of his possessing the arm of Vega to open the magical locks of the Shadowspire and laid in wait for his next victim. Using the element of surprise, Dr. Williams was able to “take” limbs from Makeshift, Arc, and Blackstone with their powers added to Vega’s it wasn’t much trouble for the villain to take out Sundance and Echon.
However the Sentry had come to the Shadowspire when the other members of the Alliance didn’t answering his attempts to contact them, as he was “only” human, though exceptionally trained, and not super-powered in any way Dr. Williams decided he was not threat. Sentry quickly figured out the basics of Dr. Williams’ powers then devised a plan to deprive his opponent of his stolen powers using his knowledge of his allies powers abilities. After Dr. Williams had been defeated and properly restrained, he was taken to New Alcatraz where he was subjected to all manner of tests by several of his former colleges in an effort to undo the transformation he’d undergone. But after a decade of trying it was determined that the process was irreversible by that point and time and Dr. Williams, or the Patchwork Man as he was called by the media, has no interest in trying to reverse the process and has broken out several times in an effort to take "limbs" from some of the most powerful heroes in the country.
At this point he is being held in a special cell in New Alcatraz, designed by Odyssey Technologies.