Dr Tyler Jamison
The Vigil's resident speedster and a practicing doctor, Tyler Jamison walks a difficult line between his desire to help the good and to punish the wicked. While unintended, Transonic has caused the Vigil some trouble with his somewhat loose sense of self-control and powers that make it very easy for him to cause serious injury.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Tyler is extremely fit, owing mostly to the extra energy expended to keep his body chemistry working at high speed. Because of this, he needs to intake a higher quantity of raw calories than the average man, often supplementing his diet with calorie-rich powders and gels.
Special abilities
Transonic's superhuman abilities focus primarily around sound and the speed thereof. His primary ability is to move at speeds approaching and occasionally surpassing the speed of sound allowing him to travel great distances in moments. This speed isn't limited to large, repetitive movements however, as Tyler also has a highly efficient nervous system and a brain capable of receiving, processing and acting upon information at an accelerated rate comparable to his movements, giving him a slowed down perception of time.
Aside from the speed, Transonic also has a few powers related to sound itself, including the ability to use his voice to mimic nearly any sound and if needed produce volumes and frequencies that far exceed those possible by other humans, allowing him to perform sonic attacks or sabotage machinery with the right frequencies. His hearing is also enhanced, but is a lot more active in its use. He can potentially hear sounds from great distances or even frequencies not usually audible to living creatures, but he must concentrate on this ability, focusing his hearing on exactly what he wants to hear at the time.
Specialized Equipment
Transonic's helmet is a custom designed, super strong protective piece that, with a click of a button near the ear the bottom of the visor, will open up to allow him to utilise his sonic scream abilities without having to remove it.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Tyler was always a gifted child. Awakening to his powers at a fairly young age, he was able to use his secondary gift of increased cognitive speed to excel at any challenge put forth, his upper-class upbringing brought him nearly anything he could desire, and not one bully would touch him while he brazenly showed off his power wherever he went.
For many this would be a near-perfect existence, but Tyler was bored. The downside of perceiving the world at a higher speed was that everything else felt so slow, and he soon found himself craving new experiences and more dangerous thrills. He always felt he was too intelligent to get hooked on drugs, but a string of petty crimes began to follow in his wake.
He started small, a little vandalism and shoplifting, nothing anyone would care that much, but the thrill didn't last, there was still something missing. It wasn't until he witnessed a mugging in progress that he finally found what he was really craving.
After dispatching the muggers, barely breaking a sweat, he finally felt the rush he'd been looking for and decided to dedicate himself to helping the good and hurting the bad. From that point his delinquency had more of a Robin Hood-esque character. He donned a set of black and blue motorcycle leathers and became the politically-charged hero "Bolt," using this new identity to harass and steal from those He saw as evil while protecting and helping those He saw as good.
Soon enough though, the wrong people got wind of the controversial new hero taking the law into his own hands and an agent from the Schurk industries paramilitary branch was dispatched to capture or kill him.
Education
Tyler is a doctor of medicine, having done two years of college and four of medical school. During this time, he also picked up extra qualifications in pharmaceutical science and biochemistry, making him a well-rounded centre for all sorts of biological and medical knowledge.
Employment
Tyler is currently a locum accident and emergency specialist working at the Bathala City Hospital, the same place he did many of his placements during medical school.
Personality Characteristics
Likes & Dislikes
Likes: Motorcycles, energy drinks, puzzles, rap music, keeping busy, sleeping.
Dislikes: Boredom, injustice, movies.
Virtues & Personality perks
Medical Knowledge: Transonic, being a medical doctor is well equipped to triage and diagnose casualties of supervillain attacks or disasters in a fraction of the time that it would take emergency services to arrive at a scene.
Acute Awareness: Transonic has also made a habit of routinely scanning his surroundings with his enhanced hearing, allowing him to become quickly aware of developing situations as they are happening and respond quickly.
Vices & Personality flaws
Anger issues: Tyler is quickly enraged by things he sees as unjust and would quite happily step into the fray to face these problems head-on. However, given the potentially disastrous consequences of a villain taking a punch delivered at Mach 3 and Tyler's seemingly limited self-control when stressed, the Vigil has decided to keep him on rescue and support duties while out in the field.
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