En patrouille
C'était comme il l'avait prédit. C'est ennuyant. Les patrouilles ont rarement vu une quelconque action parce que les gens avaient tendance à éviter activement de commettre des crimes lorsqu'ils savaient qu'il y avait des caps dans les environs. Surtout PRT Wards. S'il n'y avait pas de mauvais gars à gérer alors comment Chroma pourrait-il se faire passer pour bon? Il s'était déjà résigné à de faibles attentes, mais au moins Scarlet l'accompagnait donc il ne s'ennuyait pas complètement. Il avait quelqu'un à qui parler, bien qu'il se parlerait sans doute si elle n'était pas là. Il semblait moins vigilant et plus bavard, regardant à peine n'importe où mais en avant contrairement à son partenaire. "C'est pourquoi l'Américain moderne n'apprécie pas la valeur de l'art studio autant qu'ils l'ont fait dans le..."
"Alarme. Je vais vérifier."
L'interruption a fonctionné, incitant Chroma à se taire et à se retourner. Il n'a même pas entendu l'alarme de la banque jusqu'à ce que Scarlet l'ait soulevée. « Ah, donc nous pouvons être les premiers répondeurs », se fit-il remarquer, s'arrêtant délibérément un moment pour laisser Scarlet se mettre devant lui et le conduire correctement à la source de l'alarme. Elle était beaucoup plus mobile qu'il ne l'était de toute façon, étant capable de sauter et de se lier sur les toits pendant qu'il était forcé de courir sur le sol à la vitesse d'un humain normal. Ce n'est qu'à ce qu'elle l'a contacté par l'oreillette radio qu'il avait une bonne compréhension de la situation. "Une banque, dites-vous?" Chroma a répondu à la radio, se branlant sur l'ironie de ses grips antérieurs. "Je suppose qu'il est temps pour moi de nous peindre une photo, n'est-ce pas?"
Il n'était pas aussi rapide que Scarlet, mais Chroma était toujours en mesure de le faire à une vitesse décente, arrivant devant la banque avec les alarmes toujours saillantes. Il y avait déjà une petite foule qui commençait à se rassembler à l'extérieur, des cols en caoutchouc essayant de voir ce qui se passait. Et avec l'arrivée des héros costumés, il est devenu évident qu'un vol avait effectivement lieu. « Très bien, Scarlet, » Chroma a commencé à parler, à courir sa main à nouveau dans ses cheveux et à prendre une posture détendue avec son corps. « Sortons les civils d'ici pour que je puisse travailler ma magie. Je ne peux pas faire d'art s'il y a des gens innocents qui pourraient se mettre en travers du chemin." Il a fait un mouvement de rotation avec sa main libre avant de réunir les deux devant sa poitrine. "La première chose, c'est que j'ai besoin de préparer une toile."
Toute la banque avant qu'ils ne deviennent tout d'un coup blancs. Toutes les couleurs avaient été complètement débordées par le pouvoir de Chroma. Les planchers, les murs, les plafonds, les bureaux, les plantes, le mobilier, tout avait changé en blanc pur. Les gens à l'intérieur, leurs vêtements, et n'importe quel verre sont restés intacts. Le nouveau bâtiment avant eux est apparu presque surréaliste dans cet état vide, mais ce changement a en fait rendu cela beaucoup plus facile pour Chroma et Scarlet. Tout mouvement serait facile à voir. Il n'y avait aucun moyen de se cacher ou de se fondre. Cette toile blanche rendrait l'identification et le ciblage des ennemis beaucoup plus simple. "Très bien. Maintenant je peux faire un chef-d'œuvre de ce escroc." Un vilain smirk a pris le visage de Chroma alors qu'il marchait vers la rive, tenant la porte d'entrée ouverte pour le reste des civils à l'intérieur pour inonder avant que lui et Scarlet n'entrent. Son entrée ne passerait sûrement pas inaperçue par l'homme dans la chambre forte, car même là toutes les couleurs avaient changé. Il n'y avait pas de question de savoir si un cap se trouvait ou non dans la région. "Nous arrêterons ce criminel," a déclaré Chroma à Scarlet, "et nous le ferons avec style."
Real name:
Alex Rowland
Gender:
Male
Appearance:

Hero/Villian name:
Chroma
Affiliation:
Good, Ward
Biography:
A young American teenager born and raised in San Francisco. His father was an artist of varying fields and his mother was an impressionable accountant. Alex was raised in a very liberal household that valued his strengths and ignored his weaknesses, leading to an inflated ego from a young age. They were not a wealthy family, as the only source of income came from his mother's steady job. His father was doing something different every year. One year he is an actor, another he is a painter, but no matter what he's doing it doesn't make money. Alex initially resented that part about his father, but in time he would be indoctrinated by his charismatic old man. Art wasn't meant to make profit, it was meant to entertain. Art was a way of life, not a job.
Alex would receive both Trigger Events simultaneously when he was fifteen and attended his father's very first art show. A culmination of his old man's entire life's works put on display for the public to see. Only it was not well received. It would be an understatement to say the high-class establishment that funded and hosted his event were displeased with his paintings' "child-like" qualities. A crowd gathered to mock and harass the Rowland family. The humiliation didn't stop with the art show, as drunk patrons awaited the Rowland family as they left that night and assaulted them in the street. They would've only attacked Alex's father, but young Alex was quick to succumb to his rage and jumped in. This resulted in the beating of a lifetime, putting him in the hospital alongside his father.
He didn't realize his powers for almost a month after the event, when he was mostly healed from the fight and out of the hospital. An angry Alex was quick to abuse this, destroying the building that catered to the dramatic art show that stained his father's reputation and almost killed the two of them. This put him on the PRT's radar and they approached his family the next day. They were willing to overlook his crime in order to form him into a true hero that could wield his powers wisely and safely. Alex saw this as an opportunity to become famous like his father could not. He accepted the proposal without haste, though his father demanded he wouldn't be taken to the Los Angeles department out of prejudice. The PRT granted their wish and instead sent Alex all the way to Chicago, Illinois. He has since become a Ward for the PRT, donning the alias of Chroma for his superhero acts.
Personality:
Some may be believe Alex to be a genuine and upstanding citizen with impeccable morals and a capacity for empathy. They would be gravely mistaken. Alex Rowland isn't just sly and conniving but incredibly full of himself. An egomaniac that uses justice as a means to parade his greatness. Life is like one big show to him and he's none other than the leading role. He finds himself to be a gift from God and behaves in an accordingly eccentric and extravagant way that often brings up questions of his sexuality. Despite caring for himself above all else he does have some morals, finding it easy to injure but difficult to kill. One can also say that he has decent self-control, but only when he puts on his mask. His arrogance puts off many people, but somehow it is overlooked whenever he dons his superhero costume.
Residence:
PRT Building
Parental status:
Both are alive and well living in San Francisco, California.
Costume:
A white full-body suit with white boots and gloves alongside a black masquerade mask to cover a large part of Alex's face, all the while his hair is slicked back. The costume has no inherent protection value.
Power:
Chromatic Overload - Alex has the power to change the colors of everything around him in the world. Likewise he can "create" his own "colors" that appear to be floating blobs of paint that can have diverse effects when they come into contact with a target. He can then fling these masses of color at his opponents as a means of combat. RED would burn, BLUE would drench, YELLOW would electrify, etc. The effects cannot be interchanged between colors as they are unique to their individual coloring. While most of his powers revolve around "adding" color, Alex also has the ability to "subtract" color which will turn the affected object or person invisible. The effects of Chromatic Overload's color-changing aspect can be negated by Trump powers or by exiting Alex's range, but the color that is created can only be removed by Alex or Trump powers, making their effects possibly permanent.
Power range:
100m general range. Colors can only be created and manipulated less than 1m away from his hands, afterwards it is entirely based on momentum and can no longer be controlled, only erased. Thrown colors cannot exit the 100m range unless they land on something, at which point they can. Colors can be changed at the full 100m range, same with removing colors. Changed colors that go beyond the 100m range will naturally revert to their natural colors without any intervention. Any object that has had its colors removed will also return to normal once it passes the 100m range.
Power safeguards:
Alex has complete immunity to his own powers. He cannot change his own colors, he cannot apply colors to himself, and he cannot take colors away from himself. This only applies to his body directly, as he can still use Chromatic Overload on his clothes and equipment just fine.
PRT ranking:
Blaster: 6
Striker: 3
Changer: 5
Stranger: 3
Weapons:
Alex carries no weapons.