| Diamond Ace
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| Player: @Pi-3Orionis
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| "Eureka!"
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| Biographical Data
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| Real Name:
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Unknown (see text)
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| Known Aliases:
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Ace, Lucky
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| Gender:
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Male
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| Species:
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Human
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| Ethnicity:
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Caucasian
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| Place of Birth:
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Unknown
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| Base of Operations:
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Millennium City
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| Relatives:
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Unknown
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| Characteristics
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| Age:
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32
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| Height:
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6'4"
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| Weight:
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230 lbs
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| Eyes:
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Blue
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| Hair:
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Brown and green
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| Complexion:
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Fair
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| Physical Build:
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Normal
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| Physical Features:
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Green bangs
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| Status
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| Fame:
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| ██
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██
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██
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██
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██
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██
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██
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██
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██
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Unknown
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| Alignment:
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| LG
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LN
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LE
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| NG
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TN
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NE
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| CG
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CN
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CE
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| Identity:
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Secret (see text)
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| Years Active:
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2
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| Citizenship:
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Unknown
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| Occupation:
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Superhero
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| Education:
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College-level
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| Marital Status:
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Single
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| Known Powers and Abilities
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| Probability control
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| Equipment and Paraphernalia
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| Tech gauntlets, multispectral goggles, rocket boots
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| Physical Attributes
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Strength
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Weapon
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Durability
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Armor
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Speed
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Reflexes
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Resistance
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Stamina
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Dexterity
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Agility
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Combat
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Regeneration
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| Non-Physical Attributes
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Energy
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Psionics
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Telepathy
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Willpower
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Sorcery
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Technology
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Intelligence
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Knowledge
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Charisma
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Bravery
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| MaekadaBox created by @Maekada
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Hero based in Millennium City whose inventions are supplemented by an innate power that grants him the ability to exert conscious and subconscious influence over luck itself. Normally chirpy and optimistic, Diamond Ace secretly struggles with the potentially catastrophic consequences of his powers as well as the his own doubts and regrets about whether he has really done the right thing with his abilities.
Diamond Ace bears a striking resemblance to both the supervillain Poker Face and private investigator and tech consultant Christian Pierce. They could possibly be the same person, although there is also evidence that suggests they are independent entities from one another.
Weapons and Gadgets
Ace possesses a diverse array of gadgetry, all of which has been extensively modified by him, and as far as he can tell originally built by him as well.
Multispectral Goggles
Ace rarely goes without this special pair of goggles. It is one of the most sophisticated yet unassuming gadget in Ace's arsenal.
- Passive Detection: Sensors that read virtually the entire range of the electromagnetic spectrum, translated into the holographic overlay. In practical terms, Ace can see heat signatures, electrical fields and many forms of radiation at the flick of a switch.
- Active Emission: Projection of electromagnetic wavelengths as coherent rays. This can be used to conduct a scan and analysis, but the goggles are capable of channeling enough energy to cause physical damage. At their highest output, the goggles generate a pair of microwave "eyebeams" that can set fires or arc-weld metal. Ace generally only uses it at sufficient intensity to stun living targets.
- Holographic Overlay: Internal display powered by a stereo-optic processor. Presents relevant information as augmented reality in the field of view.
- Commlink: A headset and comm transceiver are attached to the goggles, providing radio communication. Data or video streams can be routed to the holographic overlay in addition to audio.
Tech Gauntlets
These bulky gauntlets contain most of Ace's offensive and defensive technology. They are also insulated and shielded, effective at protecting his hands from temperatures up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit (and over a thousand degrees, for extremely brief periods), electric discharges in the kilovolt range and moderate amounts of radiation.
- Ionic Blasters: Auto-tracking micro-turrets that fire pulses of accelerated ions. Nonlethal, disruptive to electronics and highly energy efficient.
- Integrated Datalink: Microcomputer and data storage embedded in each gauntlet, with wireless transceivers for accessing nearby networks and terminals. They are directly interfaced with the holographic overlay in Ace's goggles.
- Multitool Probes: Tiny robotic armatures with built-in tool mounts. Useful for gadgeteering on the fly.
- Energy Shield Projector: Localized force barrier for deflecting and absorbing attacks. Covalent filaments in Ace's costume distribute the energy from the field to partially shield him on all sides as well. The shield can only operate intermittently due to power constraints, and operating it at full power requires Ace to shut off the other energy intensive functions of his equipment.
Rocket Boots
Originally intended to be jet flight boots, but ended up with too much thrust and not enough control. The boots are powered by rare, experimental fission-plasma hybrid cores, which Ace claims to have built himself from one of the few complete memories he possesses, based on technology from ARGENT's failed Project Eos. The boots not only provide propulsion, they are heavily armored, fitted with shock absorbers and generate primary power for his other devices.
Orbital Siege Cannon
Using his luck powers to decode the control sequences on an alien siege cannon abandoned in orbit, Ace has been able to commandeer it and take total control. The weapon platform's power source is apparently damaged, and the weapon can now only achieve relatively low intensity bursts on the planet below. Ace is judicious with using this weapon, which can fire either a particle beam or a warp cannon on his location.
Probability Control
Diamond Ace wields a power that allows him to skew probabilities, making improbable events more likely and forcing uncertainty onto sure bets. The most obvious use of this power is the projection of bolts of "pure luck." Ace can use these bursts of probability to weaken opponents, making them fall more quickly to conventional attacks or even knocking them out with a timely accident. Conversely, he can use this power on his allies in order to mitigate damage inflicted upon them, allowing them to fight longer before suffering a critical injury.
The power also manifests in subtle ways. Much of Ace's technology will not function except in proximity with him, because it is built to be dependent on the field of altered reality that surrounds him. He also has access to what appears to be a phenomenal intuition. Because his powers strip away unfavorable outcomes, Ace can literally walk up to keypads and press random buttons, and "guess" the combination on the first try.
Specific examples of applications of his power:
- With a moment of concentration, Ace can surround his allies and enemies in a persistent field of altered probability that pitch the odds of survival in his favor.
- With significant exertion, Ace can channel his power into a sustained burst of reality-warping energy. This bright stream of golden energy restores the capacity of his allies to fight on, while enemies find themselves suddenly vulnerable to even superficial damage.
- In desperation, Ace can stabilize his own injuries and transfer the "bad karma" to a nearby enemy by funneling entropy at the target, causing the entity to experience corruption in the form of physical, systemic disruption. If taken to extreme, this ability could theoretically kill a living being by inducing a stroke, heart attack or other random, fatal deterioration.
Ace researching technical schematics
Technical Expertise
Ace's natively genius-level intelligence and extraordinary luck both work in concert to give Ace a phenomenal touch for dealing with technology. Glitches rarely happen in equipment he interacts with (or happen a lot, if that's what he wants) and he can take experimental risks while using his powers as a safety net. He has a knack for conceptualizing technology and a voracious appetite for understanding new technology and scientific theories.
History
Early Memories and Amnesia
Diamond Ace remembers very little of his life before the Project Eos disaster. There may be some deliberate effort within him to suppress memories, but even telepathic scans of his memories reveal gaping holes in his recollection. What is there to be found in his memory are fleeting fragments, linked together with the tenuous coherence of a dream, of Ace being a young boy being told to keep a secret, the moments of latent power surfacing, the desire to share the bounty his powers could bring but the fear and the guilt of what it means to be so different from his family and friends. It is difficult to tell how many of these memories and impressions are real or imagined.
Project Eos
A little over two years ago, Project Eos was first taken online in a hidden ARGENT facility somewhere in South America. Employing a technology dubbed "fission-plasma hybrid," the reactor complex was the size of a city block and promised to "bring shining light to the darkness" by an providing incredible power output to reactor mass ratio. What was originally intended to be a reactor powerful enough to supply two or three large cities, turned out by the end of its testing phase to have the potential to power the entire planet at its current energy consumption rate.
Accounts of what happened at Project Eos shortly before it was destroyed are conflicting. Some reports indicate that VIPER was staging an attack on the facility, and another suggests that one or more heroes were present shortly before the reactor explosion. Diamond Ace has some coherent memories of being at Project Eos, of coming to the aid of a group of heroes intending to put a stop to ARGENT's scheme to turn the power source into an incredible weapon, but he can't remember why he was there in the first place. In any event, the reactor went critical, and the local area (let alone the whole planet) was spared from disaster only because the fearsome energy collapsed inward on itself in a quantum cascade effect that ultimately released enough energy to "only" reduce the facility to ruin, killing almost everyone within its walls.
Aftermath
Returning to consciousness in one of the surviving research labs, having almost no memory of his own identity, Diamond Ace's only clue to his identity was a journal in the lab, a profile of his abilities and diagrams of technical specifications for his equipment. He believed that ARGENT must have kidnapped him, hoping to use his powers to stabilize Project Eos, or possibly turn him into a living weapon under their control. Embracing the identity described in the journal, Ace took possession the incomplete gauntlet prototypes in the lab and departed for the surrounding wilderness.
He resurfaced several months later, in Millennium City. Having adventured his way through South and Central America, and then the United States, Diamond Ace had begun to make his name as a hero while completing the devices from the blueprints in the journal and expanding his command over his luck manipulation powers.
Weaknesses
Doubt and Guilt
Overall, Ace puts forth a cheerful, optimistic mood, but he secretly carries around a fair amount of negative emotions. Diamond Ace has no memory of the man he once was, before Project Eos. For all he really knows, he might have been a supervillain working with ARGENT. He embraces his new persona as a superhero but secretly fears his true nature, and what he might find if his past is uncovered. Furthermore, he has no memory of learning his technical skills, and the nature of his innate power makes it hard to determine where the line between skill and luck can be drawn in what he has accomplished so far. He also mourns the deaths of the ARGENT personnel that died with the reactor complex, and can't shake the persistent guilt that their deaths may very well have been the result of his actions.
Telepathic entities may well pick up on this undercurrent of thoughts, and villainous psychics would certainly have no compunctions against exploiting them against Ace.
Karmic Recompense
Ace's ability to change the flow of cause and effect around himself can have serious unintended consequences, if he isn't judicious in his application of his power. On one of his exploits while crossing the country, he briefly partnered up with a cyborg hero named Lady Titanium. They both took on an army of ARGENT robots who had gone haywire and waged war on the little town of Seeburg in Nebraska. Lady Titanium insisted upon leading the charge and drawing the robots to her, away from civilians and buying Ace time to hack into their neurolink control processors to shut them down. However, Ace's application of his luck power increased her capacity to tank but couldn't forestall the inevitable consequences. Lady Titanium fought beyond the limits of even her enhanced body to sustain damage. The two were successful at putting a stop to the robot rampage, but at the cost of her life.
Ace has a persistent fear that he might make the same mistake for more of his allies, and recognizes that flagrant use of his powers to, say, gamble or play the stock market could lead to adverse effects on many other people in order to gain him benefit. Worse, he fears what sort of terrible thing could be done with his powers by someone with no scruples at all, such as causing someone to "randomly" suffer a heart attack.
Qliphothic Resonance
Somewhat ominously, Diamond Ace's powers seem to resemble Qliphothic chaos energy to some degree. It isn't a precise match for Q-energy as it is normally encountered, but it has enough of the same characteristics to set off mystical warnings, especially when his powers are utilized in visibly blatant ways. Ace has been hesitant to investigate this aspect of himself, and generally discourages others from doing so when he can. He himself is deeply troubled by the implications of this feature of his powers.
