Rodstvow ('Kinship', deceased)

Strength 12x

Agility 6x

Intellect 4x

Willpower 12d

Hand Size: Edge:

5 (30) 3

Powers:

Fire / Heat Generation and Absorption (i): Rodstvow is possessed of truly frightening energy-based powers, in that he can generate a searing hot form of energy at will. This energy is of intensity 15 power, and he can either fire it at an opponent or make a sheath of sorts out of it, causing people that strike him (or people he strikes) to take like energy damage per assault.

Additionally, it has been documented that Rodstvow can absorb energies similar to the searing heat he generates, and he likely does so at the same intensity (that being 15), though this doesn't explain how the paranormal Johnny Do was able to destroy him with his own fire-based powers; perhaps this little conundrum is a tale for another day...

Flight (a): in addition to his teleportation powers, Rodstvow has the ability to raise his body off the ground, and move about in three full dimensions without any apparent source of locomotion. He can do this at intensity 6, allowing him to move himself around at approximately 120 miles per hour; he only uses this power for relatively short trips, however.

Light Generation / Illusion (i): a finer application of his energy manipulation abilities, this power allows Rodstvow to construct insubstantial holograms in the air around him. He can do this with intensity 8 skill, though specific details in a given hologram truly shine through thanks to Rodstvow's artistic skills. Of course, when he produces an image from one's mind, it's downright creepy...

Molecular Manipulation (i): one of Rodstvow's more dangerous powers is his ability to affect matter itself in various ways, most of which aren't very constructive when you get down to it. He hasn't truly developed this power set to its full potential, otherwise he'd be even more trouble than he's already demonstrated. To date, he's used these molecular effects:

* Combustion (i): his main power to alter molecular structures, this ability allows Rodstvow to infuse matter with his own, volatile energies, causing it to detonate in a column of fiery energy. Rodstvow uses this power at intensity 10, and it has been hinted that he gains sustenance of some sort by doing this to living folks, though this has yet to be verified.

* Molding (i): reflecting his artistic side, this secondary molecular power allows Rodstvow to alter the very form of inanimate objects. Most often used on his space age plastic casing, this power works at intensity 10, allowing him to repair holes, rents, and tears in the device, thus maintaining his very existence. He can use this power on other objects, but rarely bothers.

Resistance to Psionic Attack (s): an odd side-effect of his slow transformation into an energy form is that Rodstvow is somewhat resistant to telepathic powers of all kinds. This incompatibility, generated by the very energy that he's slowly transforming into, grants him this power at +5 effectiveness, causing telepaths who try to read his mind to hear nothing but a static-like buzz.

Telepathy (w): Rodstvow has demonstrated the ability to read at least the surface thoughts of others on numerous occasions, drawing forth either words or images from a target's mind. He can do this with intensity 8 skill, allowing him to read the minds of mere mortals rather easily, but still giving him problems against a powerful telepath, like Wayne Tucker.

Teleportation (a): Rodstvow can teleport with intensity 1 ability, allowing him to cross about a mile in a single jump. He can use this power to cross vast distances over time, though this drains his power reserves severely; he once made a series of jumps from Siberia to San Francisco, though the transit time occupied several weeks of Rodstvow's life.

Equipment:

Space Age Plastic Casing (s): in order to contain his dangerous, roiling energies, the Siberian Project has encased bits of Rodstvow (and later, all of him) in a special casing devised for the Soviet space program. This casing is essentially an object with a material strength of 20, and it offers the man serious (+4) resistance to both physical and energy attacks.

Hindrances:

Monstrous: Rodstvow is obviously a paranormal - one can tell just by looking at him - and has no qualms about using his powers on anyone near him. As such, any zero (0) edge characters that encounter him will typically flee on sight of his menacing visage, and he is at zero (0) Willpower to prevent them from doing so. Not that he would bother to try, of course...

Overconfident: Rodstvow is more than just confident in his super human abilities, he's convinced that he is a god of some sort. As such, he takes unnecessary risks - especially in combat - and will battle any number of foes. Any card with a value of seven (or up) he plays is treated as a zero card until he is reduced to two cards of health, and he cannot trump until his health drops to this point.

Skills:

Art (w): the one documented talent he possessed before his transformation forever shattered his happy little life, this skill represents Rodstvow's rather creative side. The man mostly concentrates on his wooden carvings, but he can reasonably create any traditional form of art; his understanding of computer graphics, on the other hand, is non-existent.

Calling:

Demolisher: having lost touch with the rational world, Rodstvow lives only to impose his insane sensibilities on the hapless people of earth. To this end, he acts without regard to others, and leaves a trail of carnage and mayhem in his wake. The man wouldn't have it any other way, either, for he is destruction incarnate, and wishes nothing but death towards others.

Costume:

Rodstvow doesn't really make use of a costume, per se, for he is above such menial things as uniforms - or even clothing. His only real modesty maker is his space age plastic containment suit, which gradually expanded from covering just his eyes and lower left arm to contain his entire body. The plastic is transparent, and allows Rodstvow's roiling energies to be seen underneath.

Personality:

You have to ask? Rodstvow is a criminally insane madman bent on destroying all life around him! He wasn't always this way, however, but his gradual transformation into an unknown form of energy has slowly created within him an intense disdain and loathing for the human race in general, and paranormals in particular. He feels that he is above them all, and fit to destroy all that get in his way!

Real Name: unrevealed
Occupation: would-be destroyer, paranormal soldier, former sculptor
Legal Status: citizen of the Soviet Union with no criminal record
Marital Status: widower
Alias(es), if any: the People's Hero
Group Affiliation: Crasniye Solleetsi (when it suits him)

Height: 6' 4"
Hair: blonde, later inapplicable
Eyes: unknown, later inapplicable
Weight: 175 lbs, later inapplicable
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: when his paranormal powers surfaced, they destroyed both of Rodstvow's eyes and part of his left arm; the energy discharge from these wounds was fixed by containing the lost bits with a special plastic casing developed for the Soviet space program. As he uses more of his power, Rodstvow requires more of this casing to contain himself - until he's all out of flesh, that is.

Story:

The monster that would become Rodstvow didn't begin as a madman bent on destroying the earth. His life was a rather peaceful one, actually - he was a sculptor, a peaceful man content to raise his family in tranquility in the Russian wastes. Fate was not kind to him, however, for while chopping wood outside his Siberian home, the so-called White Event occurred, and it changed him drastically!

Seconds after the light faded, Rodstvow's eyes exploded with power, and his lower left arm was consumed by the raging, roiling energies manifesting within him. Watching her husband burn, Rodstvow's wife attempted to help the man, but she was consumed by the overwhelming power within him. Seconds later, the man inadvertently burned his own children with his uncontrollable power.

Overwhelmed with grief over his actions, and overflowing with deadly power, he who would become Rodstvow slowly began to lose his mind. However, he knew he could be helped by the Soviet military complex, as it must have the technology required to contain the energies spraying forth from the parts of his body destroyed by his nascent power. As such, he hooked up with the Siberian Project.

Having studied paranormals for months, and angry about the loss of their prize specimen, one Anastasia Inyushin, the Project was more than happy to take Rodstvow in, for he presented an unparalleled opportunity for study. They patched him up with a special plastic casing developed for the space program, and began to poke and prod at the man in order to see what made him tick.

The Siberian Project's scientists quickly discovered the error of their decision, however, when it became frightfully apparent that Rodstvow - who had taken his new name, Kinship, for his apparent belief that he was kin with God and the Devil, with Life and Death itself, was quite insane. They couldn't contain the man, and he kept killing the scientific staff when it amused him to do so.

As such, the Project's overseer, Serge Vladimiroff, decided to give Rodstvow something to do - he wanted the super powerful paranormal to apprehend Inyushin in the United States - along with her paranormal pals in the so-called Psi-Force. Rodstvow didn't want to capture them, however, he wanted to kill them... especially their gestalt creation, the Psi-Hawk, which he saw as his only equal.

So, with that goal in mind, Rodstvow began to teleport from the Siberian Project to San Francisco. He can only manage short hops with his teleportation power, however, so it took him several weeks to get there. Once he had, though, he determined that the trip had severely weakened him, and as such, decided to kill the Psi-Hawk in the most expedient way - by slaying his component parts.

To this end, Rodstvow destroyed the Sanctuary, the current home of the Psi-Force teenagers, along with everybody inside. This failed to destroy the Psi-Force, however, instead scattering its battered and bruised membership across the country. Returning home, Rodstvow arrived in time to hook up with the Siberian Project's new paranormal strike force, Crasniye Solleetsi.

Once he'd recovered enough of his power, Rodstvow went with them into Afghanistan, in order to help the Soviet military destroy the Mujahedin rebel forces once and for all. This mission was a success, though it did drain Rodstvow's energies once more, depleting his remaining flesh even more. After he'd recovered yet again, he decided to go after the Psi-Hawk a second time.

Journeying to Washington D.C., Rodstvow began destroying various monuments, and other items of American significance in order to draw his foe out. His actions inadvertently caused one member of Psi-Force to be slain by the American military, who overreacted to them in the wake of his own actions in the area. This angered the Psi-Force youths severely, and they formed their Psi-Hawk to gain revenge!

That's when the havoc really began, for Rodstvow and the Psi-Hawk did extensive battle over the streets of D.C., causing billions of dollars in damage, and killing innumerable innocent bystanders. Rodstvow ultimately won this confrontation, however, and apparently slew the Psi-Hawk outright - for the whole world to see on television. He then collected the Psi-Force teens and went back to the Project.

Once he got there, Rodstvow required much more plastic casing to contain his power, as he'd expended enough energy to consume almost all of his flesh; only his skeleton remained. This took several months to fashion, which was fine to Rodstvow, as he needed plenty of time to recover from the overwhelming power drain he'd just suffered from. When he had done so, though, Rodstvow was completely mad.

Having decided that all life on earth was his to destroy, Rodstvow decided to go on a genocidal killing spree, and went after both the Medusa Web and Psi-Force as they fled from the Siberian Project. Realizing that he was too dangerous to live, those two paranormal groups were joined by Rodstvow's remaining Crasniye Solleetsi teammates, as well as Justice, who was present for his own reasons.

Though he'd inflicted severe damage to his opposition, the assembled group of paranormals proved to be Rodstvow's match, and they destroyed the casing keeping him in one piece. With it gone, only his flaming skeleton remained to menace the heroes (and not-so heroes) before him, the last chunk of his body that simply refused to believe it was dead, until it too was blown to bits - by Dehman Doosha.

Since he had transformed into an energy-based intelligence, it is presumably possible that Rodstvow could somehow reintegrate himself, and then cause more problems to the paranormals of earth. However, this seems highly unlikely, considering the relative finality of the battle in which he - or rather, it - was destroyed. You never know, though, since variant earth analogs of himself have been spotted...

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