"I'll save the world... eventually."
Name: Seth McStorm
Race: Mutant
Aliases: The Shock, Lightspeed, Living Lightning, The Surgeon, The 'Ultimate Scout', a few other super cheesy names from the newspapers.
Identity: Public
Alignment: Lawful good.
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 160 lbs.
Age: 28
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Occupation: None. Is a freelance professor, however, with a Ph.D in human anatomy, and is a licensed surgeon in at least 25 different countries.
Birthplace: San Francisco, California
Powers
Somatosensory Control
As a few friends say, "One of the most bizarre powers", Seth was born with an uncanny ability. Control over the receptors throughout the body, and able to manipulate those in other bodies. The somatosensory system itself is a complex sensory system within the human body, responsible for sending different messages to the brain. The receptors that it is composed of are activated by movement, pressure, chemicals, and even by temperature, as different receptors are made to detect different things. However, Seth's ability completely scrambles what the receptors are able to detect- or, not detect.
For example, if a friend was in pain, by a cut in the arm. Seth's innate power allows him to pinpoint the receptors, and swiftly deactivate them- completely turning the arm numb and letting the friend rest peacefully, without pain. On the other hand, if there was an enemy with a cut on his arm, Seth could amplify how much the receptor would take- causing even greater amounts of pain than would normally be induced. Even if Seth's punches won't knock out the foe, the sheer pain can usually result in a knockout, if done correctly.
This is only the tip of the iceberg for Seth, however. Another key trait of his is the ability to control the receptors within himself, meaning that he can completely nullify pain throughout his body. The somatosensory system is not quite the same as the rest of the sensory systems, and thus does not actually disable him movement- when he nullifies his body he can still control it just fine, whereas if someone were to strike a nerve point they'd completely paralyze a certain area. Seth's skill can allow him to completely ignore blows in a fight, and let him keep fighting without flinching and leading up to a dastardly combo.
The receptors in Seth's body are capable of doing all of this because they are a special, hybrid type of receptor- dubbed by him, "omnireceptors". These omnireceptors are capable of feeling all of what normally triggers receptors at once, and can change at a whim- so, for example, if there was a chemical injury in his body, Seth may simply turn all of his receptors to mechanoreceptors, where pressure and movement would be the only things he felt. Granted, this means that pain would be more severe to him, but as he likes to boast- "Nothing can touch me."
Another skill he has learned to use with his control over the receptors, Seth can actually track down anything he comes into contact with. This is done by literally transferring receptors through skin contact, where he forces his receptors into the body of another object. This is useful for when an enemy manages to get away from him, or when something goes missing- he can find it with ease and track it down, something that goes hand in hand with the natural super speed of the McStorm family tree.
Superhuman Speed
The natural gift of the McStorms that just about all of them have, Seth was granted the ability of superhuman speed from his ancestral lineage. Entering the speedforce, he is capable of transcending the speed of light with general ease, and has accessed MTFL speeds before- the level of running being compared to literal teleportation. Seth is considered one of the fastest McStorms, as he was actually born with his abilities to access the speedforce whereas most others had to discover their powers throughout life, a very rare thing. However, he has one slight problem. Seth's speed is so hard to gauge and control that it actually has negative effects at times. While running in narrow spaces, for instance, it wouldn't be uncommon to see him run into a wall or bump around like a pinball. Because of this, fighting is not a specialty of his, as he tends to use the speed most often for 'long distance' running - for example, going across the globe.
The ability of super speed has several capabilities to it. One of which is the skill to vibrate through different objects, where he vibrates every single molecule in his body to lightning quick speeds and is able to pass through different objects so long as he keeps his body moving- the molecules squeezing through the molecules of whatever he chooses to advance through. This skill can also be used in combat, as Seth can vibrate a lone hand through actual human bodies and then stop vibrating it- making the hand solidify within the body and thus crushing whatever it had passed through.
Another way the McStorms can use this power is by what is dubbed a 'speed-steal' where Seth can touch a person and absorb the kinetic energy from him, the power being sucked into the speed force for the McStorm to use and leaving the opponent without any source of movement.
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