Real Name:

• Leonardo Calaca

Current Alias:

• Leon

Aliases:

• Bolivar Cervantes (Fake I.D.)
• ''Concrete'' (Boxing Epithet)

Age:

• 24 y/o

Height:

• 5'9''

Weight:

• 194 lbs

Hair Color:

• Brown

Eye Color:

• Left: Hazel
• Right: Orange

Species:

• Homo Superior

Birthplace:

• Los Angeles, California

Base of Operations:

• Mobile

Alignment:

• Chaotic Good

Occupation:

• Mechanic;
• Businessman;
• Professional Burglar and Theif (formerly);
• Gangster (formerly);
• Occasional Super-hero.

Affiliation:

• None

History

Background

Leo was born in Los Angeles to Maria and Daniel Calaca, sadly his father died before Leo was born and his family lived in poverty due to his mother struggling to pay the bills alone, and Leo would often get into trouble to suppress his feelings. When Leo's older brother, Julian, was of age he immediately got a job as a tattoo artist so he could help pay the rent and Leo grew up idolising him. When Leo was 13 years old he saw his brother working with a local gang and because he wanted to prove himself to Jules he joined the gang. But Julian was not in the gang, he was merely doing some work for them and immediately tried to make Leo leave the gang. Julian succeded in making Leo leave the gang, but died in Leo's arms in a shootout between the gangs. Leo, still in his teens when it happened, felt something he never felt before. The need for vengeance, followed by rage and spite they shattered his fragile mind. Leo returned home and grabbed a Mac that he hid under his bed and on the way outside he locked his sight with his mother's who was staring out of the window, she knew what Leo would do from the blood on his hands and the tears on his face. She did not stop him, no, but her stare clearly shown that there is no way back home for Leo. He did not care, more than ever he had the drive to finish something he started. Taking his bike he rode for 2 hours to their hideout. It was at cold night but he did not tire, the chilling tears on his face reminded him of what needed to be done. He sneaked in and without even flinching he pulled the trigger, he had killed the gangsters in cold blood. Leo was only 15 and already wanted for a first degree homicide. He had to turn away from that life and never look back.

After that event Leo left the life of crime and sought to gain education so he can get a well paying job. He took up boxing on the side to let out some of the built up rage and became very good at it. After finishing his high school diplomas he left for a college from which he dropped out of in the last year. This was because he developed a drug addiction from recurring nightmares and could not pay up his debts.

A year later, Leo was leading a somewhat normal life. He was a mechanic at a small Body shop, but spent most of his money on drugs and bills. It was at that time, his brother's soul came to inhabit the same body as Leo thanks to a random chain of events and his life to a sharp turn. Jules helped his brother to get rid of the addiction and nursed him back to health. Not only was he clean, he gained awesome powers from his tattoos and he thought he gained a second chance. Well he did not, as a month later the rest of the enemy gang found him and tried to kill him. Scared for his life Leo awakened his x-gene and subdued the gang using concrete restraints and they were sentenced and jailed shortly afterwards.

Now he gained a second chance and he made damn sure to take it. By hard work at not only the Body shop but also some sleepless nights at part-time jobs, Leo made enough money to rent an old garage and loaned money for some repair equipment. And so his own business, Calaca's Paint and Repair, was born. First months were rough but they paid off in the long run as Leo had enough customers to pay back the dept and even hire some help. His shop became popular throughout LA and he was able to move it closer to the centre of the city. Not long after he did Leo opened his own bar near the Repair shop. Leonardo finally had the life he dreamed of and even reunited with his mother who now lives in the lower floor of his apartment building. He was happy at last. He was not only the patron of the neighborhood but also freed it from the grasp of gangs, either by taking over their territory with money...or force.

Personality

Leo never had an easy life, not at home or anywhere else. And as a result he was always a trouble maker. When he was a gangster he was very loud, arrogant and selfish. But his whole personality changed after his brother died. He became more silent, emotionless and calculating with an extremely short temper. His boxing somewhat helped him and he learned more self control. He held little value for his life and turned to drugs and prostitutes.

However now he got reunited with his brother and mother he feels whole again. He became much more calm and started fully enjoying life again. He even started to smile and crack jokes, well sarcastic ones, but still jokes non-the-less. Leo became a strictly moral person so that he would never fall so low as he was before, he would do anything to protect his family and friends or anyone whom he considers close. He says he has respect to any person but that is not true, he hates gangsters and even went as far as to clean his whole neighborhood from gang influence: buying propertly, cleaning hideouts or lending money to his neighbors so they can pay their debts. Due to this Leo became a patron of sorts to his neighbors and friends, something he acknowledges and keeps helping anyway he can.

Leo is very loyal and caring. He loves food, cars and pets. His biggest love have to be cars and he wanted to work on them since childhood. He even built a car of his own. He is also very positive and firmly supports human AND mutant rights and also homosexual marriage. He has good manners is very wellspoken.

Like all he also has his flaws. Despite his kind and calm demeanor, Leo is still a stubborn person with a short temper he has to keep in check. And sometimes actually struggles to suppress his feelings when in front of someone he despises, a prime example of such person would have to be @lucian_lebeau since they are both almost polar opposites.

Powers & Abilities

Powers

Concrete Manipulation: One-Two's main mutant power is the ability to absorb, project and manipulate concrete. He can affect it in virtually any way he sees fit. He can affect concrete from a distance, bending and twisting it to his will, his kinetic ability is yet limited to levitating only small amounts of concrete but in great numbers. However the radius seems to be quite small since he does not have much experience with his new power. So most of his power is expressed from up close, because unlike most forms of kinesis he can actually absorb concrete and store it in his body. This gives him the ability to use his power even where concrete is not naturally found but also defies logic, since the concrete is not inside his body but rather stored in extradimensional source. Possibly due to this storage, his power generates a illuminative field of orange energy whenever he uses his power. This energy forms glowing 'bonds' when more than one piece of is levitating near each other, Leo speculated that it is this energy field that accelerates his shrapnel when he launches it and also that his powers aren't at their full since concrete is a fairly limited resource. He will possibly develop into a full geo-kinetic as time goes on.

• Shrapnel Blast: Leo's speciality is launching high-speed concrete shrapnel from around his hands. The force with which the shrapnel hits is sufficiently strong to dent bricks. By moulding the 'bullet' he can achieve different effects, such as penetration or hollow-point. When cornered, Leo can release something akin to a omnidirectional blast.
  • Gliding: By projecting levitating concrete around his hands and rotating it incredibly quickly around his hands Leo can achieve a small upwards draft which allows him to slowly glide forward and somewhat slow his descent.
• Phase-Morphing: He can merge with earth-based material and travel through it anywhere it connects. This also gives him the ability to phase through the material by merging and then re-emerging on the other side.
• Concrete Shell Generation: Leo is capable of generating a thick concrete outer shell which encases his whole body. The shell does not hinder his movement and weights absolutely nothing to Leo. He also still has his normal reflexes, all while gaining superhuman resistance to damage, pressure and temperature extremes. It can withstand small caliber weaponry from up close and even heavy weapon fire if thick enough. The shell is only half an inch thick but can be thickened up to an inch and a half. Initially, Leo is left in a stature-like state until he starts moving, cracking the shell at joints. That is how articulation in the shell is achieved. It natually insulates electricity.
  • Superhuman Strength: While in this form, his physical strength is extremely augmented when compared to his normal self. In this form he can lift and press around 15-20 tons. He has managed to easily throw a mini-truck and even bend steel bars.
  • Superhuman Durability: The concrete that surrounds him renders him incredibly resilient to many forms of conventinal damage. He can withstand powerful impacts, deep pressure and being struck by superhumans. His heat tolerance is also incredible, being able to withstand temperatures from -70° to 800° Farnheit for up to an hour. The shell is weakest to explosives.

Enchanted Tattoos: As a part of the initiation process, Leo had to get a tat, any tat. At first it was a simple mexican gang sign M (for mexican mafia), which would later evolve into a full blown mayan tatau that now covers his whole left breast, shoulder and upper arm. Leo intentionall left out a blank circle in the middle of his breast so he could fill it with a special tattoo. And he did, after Jules died Leo got a spectacular crimson ''Santa Muerte'' tattoo in his memory. His tats very pretty much normal until Jules came to inhabit the same body as Leo. When he did, he enchanted his tattoos to ''Serve and protect Leo.'' and made them semi-sentient. His new tats gave Leo incredible luck and protection to almost any form of magic. They can also 'lash out' onto anyone they find dangerous to Leo. Due to the formed symbiotic relationship between Leo and the Tatau, they were inscribed onto his soul and cannot be removed.

• Accelerated Healing: The ''Santa Muerte'' tattoo gives Leo incredible regenerative and recuperative abilities. His body can quickly repair destroyed or damaged tissue in moments. He can heal from minor wounds in minutes but the greater the damage recieved the more it takes to fully mend the wound. He also gained an increased resistance to drugs and other foreign chemicals and somewhat an increased tolerance for alcohol. However his healing factor is limited and he cannot regrow limbs and can risk healing his body incorectly, deforming himself, if he is not cautios. An interesting ability this power grants is the ability to reattach severed limbs due to its magical origin. It grows in bright crimson light when in use.
  • Limb Replacement: Although done only once and temporarily, Leo can also use other limbs as a replacement in a Frankensteinian fashion. These limbs are more prone to decay and will rot quickly when exposed to air, if not somehow preserved. Leo may gain some benefits associated with the new limb, such as a particular skill or even a superpower.
• Magical Protection: The "Sic semper tyrannis'' tattoo, on the inside of his right forearm, grants him extremely powerful protections agains magic. These protections range from simple things such as immunity to spiritual disease and curses to the ability to be untracable by magic. This is easily Leo's most powerful defence as even high-tier mages struggle to affect him at all. His strongest defense is towards dark arts, where spells can even backfire on their casters.
  • Spiritual Ward Generation: When endangered Leo can generate a sort of 'magical force field' to put it blutly. He can surround himself inside an almost invisible bubble that repels magic fired against it. It can even throw nearby enemies off their feat upon its expansion. The "Sic semper tyrannis'' tattoo glows in bright blue color when used.
  • Possession Immunity: Due to the tattoo Leo is immune to most conventional types of magical possession, but he is also immune to some metahuman kinds of possession due to his brother already overshadowing Leo. Thus leading to a almost one sided battle of entities.
    • Exorcism: By touching a possessed being with his right hand, Leo can force out any intruding entities inside the person. This experience is sometimes painful to both Leo and the possesed.
  • Good Fortune: It seems that the Fate is always in Leo's favour. Ever since gaining the enchanted tattoos Leo's life took a drastic turn. He gained enough money to start his own business and when he did it was really successful and he was finally able to live the life he never could before.
• Corruption: Through the crossed out ''M'' tattoo Leo can invoke the ink inside his tattoos and spread it to other people and objects, cursing them to submit to his will or be face punishment. However Leo can transmit his ink only through himself and thus the cursed person cannot spread it. When invoked the ink has is more reminiscent to tar than to actual ink and sometimes defies logic due to it's magical nature. The tattoo glows in dark teal light when in use.
  • Pseudo-Mind Control: Through contact Leo can spread his ink onto other people, giving them tattoos of their own and subjecting them to his commands. This is not truly mind control since the victim has their free will but has to follow Leo's commands or they would be tormented by the tattoo. The torment can take on many forms but it usually causes the victim to cough out the tar-like ink. The victim is not able to speak about the curse or they would be punished.
  • Pseudo-Technokinesis: Leo can also spread his ink onto objects and technology. The marked machinery is controled by Leo's will until the curse is somehow broken. He can also use it to mark computer systems and take over them, similarily to a true technopath.
  • Ominous Aura: When enraged, the tatau gives Leo a sort of intimidating aura. It has different effects on nearby people, but the most common are the feeling of fear and intense sweating. When this happens the nearby atmosphere changes, the lights become dimmer and the air becomes more chilling. This gives Leo a very serious appearance.

Abilities

Gifted Intellect: Leo's intellect was always apparent. Even in school he had excellent grades despite never actually learning. He has a high school degrees from automotive and electronic engineering, he also attended college for a economics major but dropped out in the last year. However, he still continues to learn skills that he finds useful and loves to read books. He is highly intelligent for someone of his upbringing and is smarter than he lets on.

• Photographic Memory: He also has amazing memory, able to memorize almost anything after seeing it. This made him a brilliant student, because he always remembered his classes to the tiniest detail.
• Expert Mechanic and Machinesmith: His engineering skills are top-notch and coupled with his curious nature. He can disassemble virtually anything and put it back together and even upgrade it just as easily. Leo is particulary proud of his repairing skill, which was the main reason he got so many customers in his repair shop. He can fix up and make gadgets from scrap in moments.
• Expert Tactician and Strategist: Leo has an innately sharp tactical mind. He is able to formulate strategies on the fly, adjust them to changing conditions and execute them immediately afterwards. This skill allowed him to survive his early living style where even a small mistake in his daily routine could've cost him his life.
  • Successful Businessman: His tactical sense carried well into business and he managed to make a small fortune by propertly investing. It was just enough to start his own (successful) Repair shop and open his own bar not long afterwards. Due to this income he does not have to do manual labor anymore and rather tends to invest.
    • Funding: Over the past years, Leo managed to amass a fortune. While the money is not yet enough to live in luxury for the rest of his life and retire, he has enough money to essentially buy almost anything he sets his sight onto. He is also a patron of his neighborhood, meaning that he grants other inhabitants protection or loans them money.

Talented Combatant: Leo was regarded as a boxing prodigy during his teens, where he managed to gain the epithet of Leo ''Concrete'' Calaca, because his right hook alone was ''enough to send a grown man face-first onto concrete''. He was famous for his powerful strikes and quick footwork. He liked to end the fight as quickly as possible but tried to wear down stronger fighters. However, his fighting career started even before where fists-fights between warring gangs were the only way to settle things. These fights only managed to make him a better fighter and he became more aware of his surroundings.

• Experienced Marksman: He was a troublesome and rebellious kid, and became a gang member when he was 13. Over the years he naturally learned how to shoot from a pistol and even practiced shooting when he was bored. Leo turned out to be a proficient marksman and knows how to use most guns.

Theivery: What he called his hobby, was also his greatest dare. Because he lived a poor life he took up stealing. Be it cars, jewelry, credit cards or anything else, it did not matter to Leo since he just wanted the money. As he became better and better at stealing he turned to bigger heists like burglary and shop-lifting. His thefts became more stealthy and he would evoid almost every alarm he stumbled upon. Even today he still wears lockpicks with him at all times.

• Stealth: The life of a theif led Leo to develop substantial sneaking skills. He sneaked into enemy gang territory to steal cars by himself and was always successful. Another testament to his skill is that he managed to sneak onto high-end events, pickpocket the quests and leave without anyone noticing. He also has a fake I.D.
• Free-Runner: Well, even Leo had his bad days and when trouble hit the fan he knew how to make the run for it. He frequently had to outmaneuver police and their patrol cars by rooftops and as a result developed into a capable free-runner.

Criminal Connections: As a former gangster and theif, Leo has mixed benefits and access to certain resources and contacts through California. This gives him an insight into the criminal world and easy access to knowledge regarding gang relations, their movements and criminal recent activity.

Strength

Leo possesses a strength superior than that of an average man, he also engages in moderate regular exercise. As a result Leo struggles to lift up to twice his body weight, 388 lbs, with his exact upper limit not known. When encased in his concrete shell his strength increases exponentionally and he is able to lift around 15-20 tons.

Weaknesses

Shredding: When the shell is damaged, Leo has to either completely shred the shell and regrow a new one or shred the individual damaged limbs and regrow the shell around them.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Weapons

Ka-bar Knife

Not really used for fighting, this knife is more of a memento of Leo's father, a marine, who died before Leo was born.

The knife is kept sparp and features a sturdy 7 inch blade with a blood groove, a leather striped hilt ensures a firm grip onto the blade. It features a hollow hilt, meaning that there can be things store inside it. The knife is almost perfectly balanced.

Transportation

1969 Dodge Charger

Leo's first car, a black Dodge Charger with a chrome blower. It was custom built by him since getting the chasis from a scrapyard. It has a supercharged V8 engine with direct fuel intake. It is in perfect condition since Leo cares for it more than he does for himself.

Relationships

Julian Calaca

His deceased brother, an accomplished shaman and now a ghost stuck inhabiting the same body as Leo.

Jules was always the Superman for Leo, he looked up to him and wanted to be like him as much as he could. This was primarily the reason Leo joined the gang Jules was working for at the time. But in reality Jules despised gangs and tried to make Leo leave, which led to him accidentally getting shot and Leo leaving the gang. Jules died from bleeding out.

The reason Jules worked with the gank was because he was a shaman and they paid him to curse the enemy gang (which he could not do since cursing isnt part of shamanism). Anyway, Jules did not pass away. Not entirely. His soul was still on Earth and he became what he calls ''The Soul of the City'', or in other words it's Avatar. His shamanic powers rose exponentionally but he was still a ghost, unseen and undead. Jules went and tried to change the city and uring one of his 'saves' he wound up bound to Leo.

Now in one body, Leo struggles to keep his sanity and Jules tries to convince him to do what is right. Over time Jules learned how to leave Leo's body and interact with the physical realm. Some of his abilities, such as the connection to the city are also aviable to Leo.

Soul of the City:

• Spirit Sight:
  • Retrocognition:
• Glassworld Teleportation:
  • Remote Viewing:
• Power Augmentation:
• Telekinesis:
• Telepathy:
• Intagibility:
  • Possession:
• Invisibility:
• City Connection:

Brutus, the Destroyer

His familiar, pet corgi and most importantly a friend. (TBA)

Notes

• He has very thick -MANLY- eyebrows and his friends often make fun of it.
• Leo is ambidexterious.
• Jules wanted Leo to become a police officer.
• As a note, here all all his tats and their positions:
  • Santa Muerte (pic, left breast, inside a blank circle)

    • Surrounded by a Mayan tatau (left breast, up to forearm)

  • Tribal tatau (left forearm to wrist)

  • "Sic semper tyrannis'' [Death to tyrants] (simple, on the inside r forearm)

  • M gang sign (inside his right palm)
• Leo still has slightly bad habits even after the detox, for example: he still smokes marihuana to ease the migraines which stem from his connection to the city (The City constantly feeds him sensory information from all around itself, which his human brain has hard time processing.)