Lets brainstorm Superheroes!
The Union Jack
aka Jacques Dreux
Description
The Union Jack stands an intimidating 6'1 tall with a heavy muscular frame. He has piercing grey eyes and blonde hair, and dresses in vestments coloured similar to the flag of the United Kingdom called 'Union Jack'. He has a deep booming voice with a heavy vaguely British accent.
As Jacques, the Jack stands only a lanky 5'7 tall with a skinny frame and a skin with unhealthy paleness of a cancer victim. He retains the grey eyes and blonde hair, but his features are much less pronounced and he completely lacks the sheer charisma of his alter ego.
Background
Jacques Dreux was born in Jersey on the Channel Islands between Britain and France to a family of French immigrants. Thanks to being both poor and of poor health, Jacques rarely spent much time outside, instead reading comics, books and, playing video games. As a result he had very few friends even in school, and got the less than affectionate name la Petit Jack (Little Jack) and was often bullied.
As he grew older, he was thrust deeper and deeper into the mythos of imagination, immersing himself fully in the stories of his heroes and villains. In those stories he could be more than the Little Jack off he was, and as a result he became more and more reclusive and withdrawn, even from his parents.
One day, on his 16th birthday he began to cough heavily, a hacking, bloodied cough that did not seem to go away no matter how much tea he drank, or how many medicines he downed. In a matter of weeks it had gotten so bad that his parents took him for a doctors visit, and the worried doctor referred them to a specialist in London. After a long and exhaustive study, the doctors results came in: Jacques had stage 3 cancer.
What resulted was months and months long battle where Jacques parents exhausted their few resources in trying to save their dying son, but to no avail. Despite chemo and other treatments, Jacques cancer became terminal at stage 4, and on a snowy day in February at the age of only 18, Jacques Dreux died on his hospital bed.
As his body lay there cooling, Jacques soul was freed. He traveled the multiverse, seeing both time and space as he sought his final resting place, but even as he was about to nestle in the warm embrace of death, he felt a sudden yank... and then another. Something was happening to his body.
Someone was resuscitating him.
And he awoke with a bloodied, hacking cough. A Doctor Amir Al-Andaluci had found him and desperate to save the young man had done emergency surgery, removing as much of the cancer as he could, and then awoken the young man. He was saved.
Except he wasn't. The hack of a doctor had merely cut at him, and as he lay there dying again, this time from blood loss he cursed the man and waved his arm to will him away.
To his surprise Doctor Amir was thrown against a nearby wall, as if by some invisible force. Shocked and confused, Jacques once again wished for something... to be healed, and strangely the wounds on his body closed and he no longer coughed. Suffering from blood loss and heavy drugging, he again wished for something...
To be a hero, like in one of the stories of his youth that had kept him alive.
Powers
Jacques Dreux is a reality warper of untold power. Thanks to his sentience during time of death he knows far more of the underlying power of the multiverse than even he can understand, and as such has created an entire mythos of his 'new self' in a moment of confusion. He in essence changed history and reality itself to allow himself be the hero.
The Union Jack is not truly aware of the existence of Jacques. He is a war hero, super-soldier and general Captain America archetype. He is brave, selfless and stubborn, but his powers are rather mundane. He is stronger, faster, tougher than a Man, with an animals senses that allow him to pinpoint his enemies and fight even when blinded.
What makes him stand out however is the fact that he is a creation of someones imagination. Due to him in the end being a highly differentiated version of Jacques, he can at times tap into Jacques more extensive powers, and can at times have an ass pull of 'powers as the plot demands'. In essence if the story calls for a hero to be able to fly... the Jack will suddenly gain that ability.
However, Jacques being a reality warper with an overactive imagination extends his powers far beyond the person of the Jack. As a hero, Jack must obviously be a great one, and great heroes need great villains and drama. As such, Jacques tends to change reality itself to accommodate his need for a story.
That two bit drunk at Peckingham? He's now a deadly assassin with a grudge against Jack.
The Ukrainian immigrant cab driver that was once mean to Jacques? The Jack's deadly nemesis Marshal Communism.
Everyone that The Jack meets MUST have a deeper meaning to them, with deep links to the Jack and his story.
The one and only way to truly beat the Jack is to beat Jacques, and that involves mind games. Jacques is still there, somewhere in the Jacks mind... asleep he might be, but he too can be awakened by making him question the new reality he has created. Should Jacques ever 'wake' and realize who he really is, the Jack will disappear, along with all his other creations.