Neutralize
| Neutralize | ||||||||||
| Player: @LeifBlade | ||||||||||
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| Archetype: |   
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| Security Level: | 50 | |||||||||
| Biographical Data | ||||||||||
| Real Name: | Pendrake Oswin Jameson | |||||||||
| Known Aliases: | See Multi-Identities below | |||||||||
| Age: | 28 | |||||||||
| Gender: | Male | |||||||||
| Species: | Human | |||||||||
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian | |||||||||
| Birthdate: | 21 March 1993 | |||||||||
| Birthplace: | Irondequoit, New York | |||||||||
| Relatives: | Alyssa Penelope Jameson (mother, deceased); Cameron Joel Jameson (father, deceased) | |||||||||
| Characteristics | ||||||||||
| Height: | 74 in / 188 cm | |||||||||
| Weight: | 190 lbs / 86 kg | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Storm Grey | |||||||||
| Hair: | Chocolate Blond | |||||||||
| Complexion: | fair | |||||||||
| Physical Build: | athletic/muscular | |||||||||
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Chaotic Good | |||||||||
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Reputable | |||||||||
| Identity: | Secret | |||||||||
| Years Active: | 2 (collectively) | |||||||||
| Base of Operations: | Founders Falls | |||||||||
| Citizenship: | American | |||||||||
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| Occupation: | I.T. Personnel for PCU, Founders Falls | |||||||||
| Marital Status: | Single | |||||||||
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| Equipment and Paraphernalia | ||||||||||
| invulnerable exosuit, tech staff, prototype-issue pistols, flexi-alloy rocket boots, hyper-smart spectacles | ||||||||||
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Neutralize (born Pendrake Oswin Jameson) is an American intermediate unregistered hero, minor technophile, and martial artist. Being born of tremendous privilege, he was the child of owners of a corporation that ended up in his hands due to a freak accident. After being emancipated, he later liquidated and sold the corporation for approximately 1.5 billion USD.
After leaving his hometown, he traveled approximately 400 miles east into Paragon City to go into hiding. However, despite being in a city full of superpowered people, he wouldn't find that it was very easy to hide.
Early Life and Education
Childhood
Neutralize was born as Pendrake "Drake" Oswin Jameson on 21 March 1993 in Irondequoit, New York. He is the only child of mother Alyssa Penelope Jameson (née West) and father Cameron Joel Jameson. Both were scientists and computer engineers and founded the start-up, StellarTech™, in 1995 when he was only two years old. Drake would grow up to be a promising individual, showing the same aptitude in sciences and engineering. Being pronounced a genius by his own parents, Drake was frequently in Rochester, attending the best schools in his early years and into his pre-teens.
However, he would become a victim to bullying. His mother realized that Drake was not gaining the social skills needed so he could get along with his peers. Due to this, his father enrolled him in martial arts at the age of 11 and promised to send him to school closer to home to enroll him in a public school going forward. However, his mother insisted that Drake take some extracurricular classes relating to their field so that when he becomes older, he too could be a prominent figure within StellarTech.
Adolescence
To the surprise of his parents, Drake was also ridiculously adept at martial arts. So much so that Drake asked to be enrolled into another art. As long as he kept up with his school and extracurricular studies, they agreed. Having already trained in Tae Kwon Do, he found a private master that taught the art of bojutsu. Drake struggled with this in the beginning but became quite adept at it after nine months of training.
Despite all the aptitude towards technology and the sciences involved and even taking language classes in the process, it was beginning to become clear that Drake wanted to go on his own path. As he started high school, he became more rebellious towards his parents. Because of this, he did a lot of things that made their lives a living hell. From "borrowing" tech prototypes without clearance or permission to learning how to hack into systems with varying levels of encryption, and even moving funds seemingly invisibly from one account to another.
However, his life would change in an instant. In the summer of 2009 after Drake finished the sophomore year of high school, a major accident took place in the east building of the StellarTech HQ where the entire four-story building went up in flames after an explosion took place, which seemed to have been caused by electric short-circuiting. This took the lives of everyone in that building, including his own parents. After initial investigation, forensic experts concluded that an outside source created the short circuiting. This only reinforced his suspicions of his parents making enemies.
The first thing he did was apply to be emancipated. He did not want to enter the foster care system and with all the finances now at his control, it was easy for him to convince authorities that he is capable of taking care of himself. He was, of course, granted emancipation. Because the parents' inheritance stated Drake as the next of kin, he acquired the entirety of StellarTech. He shut down operations that were taking place in the east wing and provided the families of the employees who died that day a settlement payment to avoid being taken to court that amounted to three years of their pay per employee.
Being an Adult
As Drake began his adult life after graduating high school with high honors, he gradually laid off StellarTech employees after contracts had either ended or negotiated under undisclosed terms. Once all contracts had been completed, he took inventory of all his assets, saved any and all that he deemed were important and shouldn't fall into the wrong hands, and liquidated the corporation. After collecting life insurance due to the deaths of his parents and paying severance to StellarTech's board members due to the liquidation, he found himself with a net worth of approximately 1.75 billion USD.
He then came to the realization that because he went and sold off assets of the corporation, someone was going to be angry despite the money they had been given. Not to mention, he was sure that his parents made enemies of their competitors that they may even have gone as far as to orchestrate the explosion, and their deaths. Drake knew that with everything he has and how much money he is worth, he needed to run and hide. Or at the very least, make sure the target on his back isn't so obvious. After doing some research, he realized that the best place for him to go was Paragon City. In his mind, superpowered people of all types means that he'll have a buffer for whomever these people were, and perhaps give him a playground for "testing" some prototypes that he took for himself after liquidating StellarTech.
Paragon City
After doing some "hacking magic", Drake was able to open an account within the financial infrastructure of Paragon City, transfer all of his funds to it, and delete his name and his parents' names from their previous institution to leave no trace of the transaction to make sure he wouldn't be found. He'd privately hire engineers, scientists, and even some artisans to make use of the tech that his parents had built. With their help and with his experiences being a martial artist, he decided to give the hero gig a try. When he realized that he needed to be registered to do it, he needed to make sure that he didn't do anything too suspicious and to make sure he kept collateral damage to a minimum since he refused to be registered.
As a safety precaution, he created three identities of himself to make sure he was never found. This included drivers' licenses and U.S. passports. He may introduce himself to people as Robert "Robbie" Mercer, Benjamin "Benji" Thurston, or Cedric Riordan.
He secretly operates as a hero, perhaps even bordering on vigilantism, under the codename "Neutralize." When asked why he gave himself that codename, he'd say that it's what every hero does every day to stop the bad guys. They are neutralized. He normally works alone but is not opposed to working in small groups, though he'd try to watch everyone else like a hawk for any wrongdoing.
Tropes
Tropes are conventions and devices that are found in creative works. Instead of describing Drake further, the following are tropes that give better context to his personality, background, and his entire being as a whole.
Appearance
- Dumb Blonde - Inverted. While it can be barely classified that Drake has (very) dark blond hair, he is anything but a dumb blonde. He took many extra-curricular classes while in high school, trained in two different types of martial arts, and can actually put together simpler contraptions and machines.
- Sharp Dressed Man - They say that clothes make the man, and the clothes he wears, especially during fancy events, can be considered snazzy. Even in public, he wears neat button-up shirts despite them being short-sleeved.
- The Rich Have White Stuff - In the Jameson residence where Drake grew up, it was true that a lot of things they owned were white. Curtains, sheets, table cloths, cabinets, perhaps even their kitchen countertops were white granite.
- The Aesthetics of Technology - They say that if something looks more advanced, it *is* more advanced. And this is completely the case with Drake. Oftentimes when he is in Pocket D as "Robbie", he wears his glasses on him, which is actually an advanced. The glasses have a HUD where he can browse the internet, calculate approximate mass and weight of any one given object or living person, identify items, objects, and other things.
Moral Compass
- The Golden Rule - It doesn't matter how old you are, how much you've accomplished in life, or your how high your social status is. If you are nice to Drake, he returns the kindness. If you're an ass to him, well... he's going to be an ass back.
- Pay Evil Unto Evil - Drake is of the mind that people will not fully understand what a person has just done unless it was done to them. He plays The Golden Rule quite straight, even when it means being a little bit evil in the process. Give them a taste of their own medicine is what someone older would say to this. And this is where his heroism becomes more like vigilantism.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! - If there is one thing that Drake doesn't have a high tolerance for, it's bureaucracy. Drake is willing to break laws here and there in order to set things right. He's more willing to do what's right than what's actually legal.
Personality
- The Charmer - There's a certain air of charm about Drake. There have been times where Drake has used his charisma to get what he wants. Thankfully, this usually involves materials, objects, even vehicles. And not people. Usually.
- Beware The Nice Ones - It's true that Drake is such a nice guy. Unfortunately, he is not a doormat and has actually no issues expressing displeasures. But once you get on his bad side, expect to stay in it. For a long time.
- Rich Bitch - Inverted. While Drake grew up being surrounded by a lot of money and now having his hands on the money himself, he isn't what you'd consider an authentic rich bitch. As stated in the above trope, he's actually a nice guy and will give you the time of day. Just don't ask him to borrow money, though.
- Jerkass - Subverted. While Drake can be a gigantic jerkwad, he can also be the nicest person you'll know. This is mainly played straight towards villains, rogues, selfish assholes, people who can't and won't learn their lesson, you get the idea.
Background
- Survivor's Guilt - When Drake was a teenager and decided to rebel against his parents after declaring wanting to be on his own path, a freak accident ended the lives of his parents. He still has not fully grieved over the loss, feeling that there had to have been something he could do to prevent their deaths from happening. Illogical, but... feelings.
- Cunning Linguist - As part of the extra-curricular activities he got himself into while in high school, he studied Japanese, Dutch, Korean, and Spanish. While he does not consider himself to be completely fluent in all of them, he is quite proficient that he can get around, ask for directions, know when people are talking shit, and knock some sense into someone. To a lesser degree, he can also speak Cantonese and Thai.
- Former Teen Rebel - Drake definitely grew out of his teen rebel phase, especially after he lost his parents and had to grow up fast. However, that doesn't mean he doesn't have his own rebellious streak.
- Technobabble - Drake tends to go on and on about something he's trying to put together or something he's getting made with a lot of technical detail. Around normal people, they will likely get lost. Around technology-inclined people, they might end up talking their head off for hours.
- Badass Bookworm - Given the extra-curricular classes he took during high school and the languages he studied and other technobabble-laden classes he took, there is also a natural physical prowess present with Drake with the martial arts he has taken and all the working out he does.
- The Cracker - One of the other things he has learned how to do, especially during his Teen Rebel phase, was to hack. Not only social media, shopping, and streaming accounts, but also how to hack into mainframes of governments (local, state, and federal) and other giant corporations. While this can be considered illegal and criminal, he uses it as a means to keep surveillance throughout Paragon City.
- Multiple Identity IDs - For his own safety and for precaution, Drake was able to create a few identities of himself and, thanks to the above trope, was able to procure government-issued documents with them. This includes passports and drivers' licenses. Because of these multiple identities, he is not a registered hero of Paragon City.
In-Combat
- Flight - Jet propulsion boots and repulsor rays allow Drake to take flight. It provides most of the thrust required to propel him at fast speeds.
- Spectacular Spinning - Years upon years of study in Tae Kwon Do means years upon years of perfecting the art, which mostly consists of spinning kicks. Even in boots, he is able to do a very-well placed backspinning kick to your face.
- Roundhouse Kick - Included in the years upon years of Tae Kwon Do study is the perfection of the Roundhouse Kick.
- Simple Staff - Years of study in bojutsu allowed him to be quite adept with the staff. This martial art even taught him how to have rhythm.
- Dual Wielding and Gun Fu - Something that also happened during his Teen Rebel years was he bought himself some pistols and taught himself how to use two of them at the same time. Let's just say his parents never found out that he was doing target practice on one of the buildings in StellarTech somewhere out of the watchful eyes of his parents.
- Combat Pragmatist - Many gangsters and other bad guys around Paragon City will tell you that Neutralize does not play fair. This is because he will do whatever it takes to get what he wants, even if he has to play dirty. Hellion won't let go of an artifact that someone wants retrieved? He'll just bust a cap. Skull won't put the gun down? He'll maneuver his staff in such a way that the Skull's wrist will get broken.
Multi-Identities
The following are the other identities he uses as a safety measure. He wants to make sure he is very difficult to track, especially those who might have a tie to his past and his parents. This also alleviates trust issues he has with the public, and keeps them at an arm's length. However, he does all that he can so he does not forget who he really is and never allows one "identity" to take over, so to speak
Robert 'Robbie' Mercer
Robbie is the default identity that he presents himself with to most people. His co-workers in PCU Founders' Falls, the people he talks shop with at any Exarch Industries retail store, and the people he meets in Pocket D will likely know him as this identity. This is also the identity that closely resembles the real Drake, as his appearance isn't much different, and neither is his personality.
Benjamin 'Benji' Thurston
As a tribute to his more rebellious side, especially during his teenage years, Drake created Benji as an outlet for it. Benji is outspoken, fun-loving, and perhaps even a bit of a daredevil. He speaks with an accent that can be found in the Bronx, and sports a somewhat electrifying hairstyle. These recent days, Benji has made appearances at a club called Joker's Wild in St. Martial.
Cedric Riordan
The more business-like persona from Drake is a man named Cedric Riordan. Cedric is from the expensive West Brompton area of London. Not very many people have met this persona and will likely claim the need to catch a flight.
Communications
Everyone has an opinion, right? The statements below are just that. Opinions.
What he says
If your character has met or come across Neutralize (or Drake), here is what he says about them.
- Mike Ramiro - "Mike's kind of like this nice, no-nonsense guy that everyone seems to flock to. I can see why. He and Mitch really like to do cavity-inducing things in public and my guilty pleasure is here for it. I like seeing those two happy. Maybe I should be their pseudo-bodyguard more often."
- Three Hundred - "It's almost like Mitch is the piece of the puzzle that makes Mike seem... complete, I guess you could say. Am I jealous of the two of them? A little bit. I can honestly say that Mitch and Mike are the realest people I know."
- Doctor Remy - "I don't know when it was when I just said 'fuck it' when he kept trying to be a dad to me but I guess that's how things are gonna be. He'll regret wanting to do that when he finds out how unruly I can get."
- Crash Velocity - "First person who approached me in Pocket D. He'd end up liking me... a helluva lot. Didn't think I'd end up liking him too but here we are. Unfortunately, I have issues to work out so I can't really commit. We, thankfully, are still close friends. Especially after being saved by him and Shane."
- Mendacium - "Who knew I'd end up meeting someone in Joker's Wild and get close really fast? The way we clicked and the way we got along and the way Rowen was so free of judgment... It's too bad he doesn't hang around more often. I guess that's the kind of life you live when you work both sides of the pond."
- Shieldborne - "I didn't think I'd ever be friends with someone I'd just call a himbo for being about six foot five and probably two thirty-two forty give or take. As I got to know Shane better, there was definitely more than just him being a himbo. I saw someone genuine. He always wants his friends to be well, so I suppose it's up to me to make sure he's well, too."
What they say
If your character has met or come across Neutralize (or Drake), here is what they say about him.
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