Introducing... Focus!

[kybearfuzz]

I was chatting online with Steve (rootbeer1) yesterday and he came up with the idea for a superhero with specific powers. Like usual, I got the costume colors, design ideas, etc., and sat down and drew out a superhero while watching TV last night (keeping Steve's good looks in mind for the hero, of course). Steve came up with the code-name "Focus" and together we settled on the final touches for the hero late last night. The toon and his power description are behind the cut due to size:


Introducing... Focus!

In an email, Steve described the powers much better than I could rehash, so here is the description:

"Bio: In my dreams I seem to have telekinesis as a matter of course, and it's always seemed odd that I didn't continue to have it when I woke up, so my superhero alter-ego has telekinesis. To make it different from the run-of-the-mill Marvel Girl-style power, I've limited it so that Focus can't lift more than his own weight and one other person -- no throwing around cars, lifting buildings or mountains, etc. But although he can't do extra-heavy lifting, he makes it up with superb control (and perception) of matter at the microscopic level. Using his telekinetic perception and ability, Focus can:

• Cause someone to black out, by squeezing capillaries and stopping blood from reaching the brain;
  
• keep a gun from firing, as well as change the direction and velocity of small- to medium-sized moving objects, like bullets;
  
• heal illnesses by killing specific germs and viruses in a body, and heal injuries by knitting bones and tissue;
  
• kill by causing a heart to stop beating, or causing any number of internal injuries;
  
• use ordinary telekinesis -- lifting, throwing, catching, moving, etc.-- and telekinetic perception, which is knowing the exact location of all objects around him (by sending out a constant stream of telekinetic 'pings')."

If this keeps up, I will have a "Legion of Super-Bears" :D

Comments

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I like that he limited his power to more subtle levels. When I create heroes, I try not to make them all-powerful, because if they are, then what kind of fight can they have that they couldn't win. A boring one. Those limits are what gives the battles realism and drama. :)

[rootbeer1.livejournal.com]

I like that this superpower is subtle, but powerful. What living or robotic foe couldn't Focus defeat by altering the foe's internal workings?

On the other hand, he wouldn't be so good in fighting floods, rescuing large amounts of people from sinking ships, fending off an asteroid about to hit the earth, etc. You can't have everything.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Well, some of the most popular heroes aren't all-powerful. Look at Captain America, Batman, even heroes like Spider Man and the Flash. While they are powerful in certain ways, they cannot stop every attack or every foe. And I think it's the possibility of being defeated or failing that makes their stories so good. :)

As much as I think Superman and Thor are great, they also have an amount of tedium to them because they are supposedly so untouchable.