BRASS (Power Level 8)

STR 16 [20] (+5), DEX 10, CON 18 (+4), INT 12 (+1), WIS 16 (+3), CHA 14 (+2)

SKILLS: Diplomacy 4 (+8), Intimidate 4 (+6), Knowledge (theology and philosophy) 4 (+5), Medicine 6 (+9), Language 3 (American Sign Language, English [base], French, Lao), Perform (wind instruments [khaem]) 3 (+5), Sense Motive 4 (+7)

FEATS: All-out Attack, Attack Focus (melee) 4, Chokehold, Crushing Pin, Equipment, Improved Grab, Improved Pin, Power Attack, Sneak Attack, Startle, Stunning Attack, Takedown Attack

POWERS: Container 8 (Density 2, Leaping 2, Protection 7 [Extras: Impervious {+1}], Speed 2, Super-Strength 7 [Power Feats: Bracing, Groundstrike]; Drawbacks: Weak Point [-1 point])

Equipment: comm. link, Vindicators Uniform (+2 Toughness, Immunity 2 [cold and heat])

COMBAT: Attack +0 (+4 melee), Grapple +16, Damage +5, Defense +4 (+2 flat-footed), Knockback -10, Initiative +0

SAVES: Toughness +12 (+8 Impervious), Fortitude +6, Reflex +2, Will +9

COMPLICATIONS: Honor (religion), Prejudice (Neo-Sapien), Responsibility (hometown), Reputation (Sclera’s friend)

Abilities 26 + Skills 7 (28 ranks) + Feats 15 + Powers 39 + Combat 8 + Saves 10 = 105 points

Real Name: Michael Luom

Height / Weight: 6’4” / 192 lbs.

Hair / Eyes: Brown / Green

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana (May 14, 1990)

First Appearance: New Vindicators #6

Biography: When Makina Luom left her homeland to study in America, she never expected to find herself swept off her feet by the roguish gentleman Donald Donnohue. The week they spent together was like something from a fairytale… but without the happy-ever-after.

He was long gone before she learned she was pregnant and as she died in child birth, so did his chances of ever learning of his son’s existence. In a plantation-turned-hospital in New Orleans, Michael Luom was born. The boy was raised in an orphanage in the bayou- where a incident involving an alligator had the powers Michael inherited from his father manifest. Capable of turning his appendages into synthetic brass, the boy discovered that in his quasi-armored state he had enhanced strength, as well as the natural protection one would expect to come with metallic limbs. It was an ability he knew would mark him as more of an outsider… and one he kept hidden for many years.

The boy was well into his eighth year when his maternal grandparents found him and brought him back to the homeland of his mother’s ancestry. There, in a small Laotian village, his grandparents acted as the only doctors. Rather than go to school, he followed them- learning the holistic medicines they used to cure their people. Never truly learning to be a doctor- he was on his way to become a great medicine man…

It was during a monsoon that a fourteen-year-old Michael used his powers to brace against floodwaters- protecting his grandparents when a dam broke. Finally unable to escape that his destiny was greater than doling out remedies in the landlocked country, Michael headed for Tokyo, joining the New Vindicators Academy. His sensitivity, approachableness and level-headed manner make him friend and confidant to almost everyone at the school- including the cold and distant Sclera. Modest to a fault, Micheal fails to mention that he is one of the top students in his year and a likely candidate to be promoted to the ranks of the Vindicators…