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= Charles Clark =

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Distinctions

 * Not all there
 * Mind over matter
 * True focus

+1 PP or

Phase Shift

 * Intangibility [[File:d10.png]]
 * Railgun (Flight/Speed) [[File:d8.png]]
 * SFX: Reactive Power - Phase Ally
 * Limits: Conscious Action

Anti-Matter

 * Transmutation [[File:d8.png]]
 * Enhanced Senses [[File:d8.png]]
 * SFX
 * Focus
 * Unleash


 * Limits: Exhausted

Specialties

 * Psych [[File:d8.png]]
 * Science [[File:d10.png]]

History
Charles Clark is a theoretical physicists in the esoteric field of string theory. Always lost in thought, wandering in a universe of sub-sub-atomic particles, Clark had little time for social niceties. All but for the love of his life, Jane Barbara McPherson. He fell in love with her in the way only a theoretical physicists can. He understood nothing about the way love should work, but he was going to take his best crack at it. For her part, she loved Charles just as deeply, and he found a fulfillment in her appreciation for his work unlike anything he'd felt before.

Married only 4 years, Jane fell ill and was diagnosed with late stage metastasized pulmonary carcinoma. Charles spent 3 months at her bedside wishing there were some way to take the cancer from her ever weakening body. He fell asleep most nights with one hand below Jane's left breast, were he knew, just inches from his fingertips, lay his beloved's killer. He imagined those thoughtless rouge cells multiplying uncontrollably within her. Feeding on her strength and beauty. Taking her life ever so slowly, at the speed of light.

Charles awoke with a start when the monitors began to sound the inevitable alarm. He gasped awake and called out to his wife, a nurse, whatever god there might be. She lay peacefully there as the machine blared on and his heart screamed in pain. His hand pressed down upon the spot, willing her killer out, away, anywhere but inside her. The alarm settled to single piercing blast as he felt her life slip away. Sobbing, he lay his head upon his hand, upon her chest, upon the tumor that took her life.

"no.", he whimpered pitifully, with no effort. No strength. "no."

He felt himself falling, moving, into nothing, into blackness.

He awoke on the floor beneath the hospital bed. Nurses and Doctors were clamoring into the room, too late to do anything for his wife. Some was pulling at him, telling him to stand, helping him into a chair, cleaning blood from his hand.

Something jerked at his consciousness. He was awash in loss. Saturated by it. But his hand was covered in blood. A nurse has wiped something away and left him sitting stunned in a chair. The bed were his wife lay was surrounded now by hurrying medical practitioners. He knew she was gone. Somehow he knew more certainly then anything else. But, the blood. His hand was smeared with red. He could see it on the floor too. There were patches and streaks leading from where he sat toward the bed were he must have landed when he passed out.

The hasty effort surrounding the bed abated at some point. The doctor on duty pronounced the death quietly.

Personality
Charles is a man who has seen all the pain there is to see and found himself a match for it. Unflappable and sometimes enigmatic, he has difficulty seeing other in pain or crisis. He is driven to help those in need.

Abilities and Resources
Charles has the ability to phase matter through the folds that make up elementary particles. These folds make up the fabric of space-time and all the matter in it. Charles can fold all of the particles he can hold or sense in his mind into a quantum-fluid state. This state allows the phased particles to pass by unphased particles, or to exert force upon them. The exertion of force is much like the pull of gravity.

He is fully visible in a phased state as photons react on both folded and normal matter. Gravity has the same effect as well. If an object were merely phased, it would travel toward the greatest gravitational force and make it's way at friction-less speeds to it's center. Exerting force on unphased matter, Charles can overcome the pull of Earths gravity by a factor of 3 to 4. Given that amount of force, he can "fly" through solid objects and even launch himself into the air at great speeds.

Gravity exerts about 690 newtons on Charles' body. Charles can exert about 2300 newtons of force when fully immersed in a solid.

Organic matter and liquids are easier to phase than solids, while solids are easier to phase through and exert force upon. Caveats; Liquids require an excessive amount of concentration to keep "hold" of when phased. They tend to dissipate and fall with gravitational forces, getting out of control and eventually unphasing. Solid metals are exceedingly simple to pass through and exert force on. Charles can bring a knife into his body and propel it at great speed by accelerating it down the length of his arm. Unfortunately, exerting force in multiple directions is a bit challenging. Keeping oneself from phasing into the ground while trying to aim a knife through your arm makes hitting your target nearly impossible. But, he's been practicing. It is far more effective to phase himself, with or without the knife, and propel himself at the target with great force.

The power lends itself to disappearing quickly, but also to stunning acrobatics. Charles enjoys launching himself high into the air and scaling walls by phasing one hand and one foot into a wall and exerting force to rise up the wall like Errol Flinn.

Air tends not phase, and that includes the air in your lungs. The first thing one practices when phasing is to hold the capacity of your lungs with you. Otherwise, suffocation would happen almost immediately after phasing the lungs. Air is also difficult to phase through. Wind resistance is a factor when launching. As it is, Charles can only remain submerged as long as he can hold his breath. About 2-2.5 minutes.

Phased matter can be left submerged inside normal matter, effectively occupying the same space. Without a will to keep it that way, it will dissipate at the molecular level back into phase. It may fall to the center of the earth before doing so. The more dense the matter, the slower the process. Water, for example, will dissipate almost immediately, simply saturating whatever material is is phased into.

Charles can disrupt the molecular structure of objects by weakening the structural bonds or through friction and vibration. He can make solid, homogeneous materials like stone and metal explode melt, or crumble to sand or dust. Most materials can be made to release energy in an explosive way. Fusion and fission are not possible or advisable.