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Ça se rapprochait de cette heure de la journée. L'heure du jour où les Wards recevraient leurs horaires pour leurs fonctions de protecteurs para-humains. Mais c'était la partie la moins préférée d'Alex. Il ne voudrait rien d'autre que d'avoir la liberté illimitée de patrouiller et de poursuivre les criminels comme il le veut, quelque chose qu'il abuserait pour maximiser son « temps de spectacle » s'il le lui laissait. Mais au lieu de cela, il y avait une responsabilité beaucoup plus pondérée pour l'adolescent Wards. On leur a donné des règles, des règlements, des ordres, des horaires. C'était une douleur, surtout pour Alex en raison de son statut de probation actuel, mais c'était le prix à payer s'il voulait jouer sur la scène mondiale. S'il n'était pas avec le PRT, les "bons gars", alors c'était un mauvais gars. Et Alex ne pouvait pas être le méchant. Il bat les méchants.
Et donc ici, il est habillé de son costume qui va avec son alias super-héros, Chroma, se dirigeant vers son dortoir après un jour de cours. Apparemment, le PRT valorise l'éducation. Un des hommes en charge, un gars qui avait à peine 20 ans, quittait les dortoirs de Ward à l'entrée d'Alex. Ses yeux regardaient Nathan pendant qu'ils passaient, attendant qu'il montre un signe de reconnaissance. Mais ça n'est jamais venu. L'adolescent s'arrêta et se retourna, regardant le dos de Nathan quand il partit. – Comme c'est grossier, murmura-t-il à haute voix, laissant un soupir et secouant la tête. "Je suppose que ces fonctionnaires ne sont pas amicaux en aucune circonstance après tout." Alors qu'il entre dans la salle de loisirs principale de la dortoir hexagonale, Alex enlève le masque de mascarade de son visage et le retient de sa main gauche. "Voyons qui sera mon ami aujourd'hui..."
Une fois à l'intérieur de sa chambre, il était prompt à poser son masque et à ramasser la feuille de papier qui détaillait ses instructions pour la journée. "Quatre trente, hein. Heures de circulation. C'est du Bor-ring! Mais il semble que Phoebe va venir. Je suppose que je devrais l'appeler Scarlet, en fait. Mais cela pourrait être un problème », a continué Alex à se parler, assis sur le lit alors qu'il continuait à regarder sur le papier dans ses mains. "Elle n'est pas du genre à être sidekick. Si quelque chose arrive, elle pourrait essayer de me voler mon tonnerre. Sans oublier qu'elle aura plus d'attention que moi pour être une fille. Les gens aiment les héroïnes. Que faire, que faire... » L'adolescent a commencé à taper rythmiquement son pied gauche sur le sol alors qu'il envisageait comment il orchestrerait la patrouille d'aujourd'hui. « Je suppose que ma seule option est d'être vigilante et enthousiaste. Je dois juste la surperformer si le besoin se fait sentir."
"Mais nous allons regarder la circulation des heures de pointe... Rien ne va se passer..."
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.