F Ex 20

A Ex 20

S Ex 20

E Rm 30

R Gd 10

I Gd 10

P Ex 20

Res Ty 6

Pop Gd +10*

Health: Karma:

100 40

* In his alter ego of Mark Todd, the Blazing Skull has Ty +5 Popularity.

Origin:

The Blazing Skull was Mark Todd, an ordinary man that was given a flaming skull mask that bonded to his body, and several other nifty powers by the mysterious Skull men, who told him that he was their emmisary in the world of flesh.

Known Powers:

Invisibility: One of Mark's primary abilities is his power to render himself invisible at will; he can do this at Excellent (20) rank. However, his is a special version of the standard invisibility power, as he can also make the light his flaming mask sheds invisible as well (which is a neat trick at parties).

Invulnerability to Fire and Heat Attacks: Mark's other superhuman oddity is that he is completely immune to the affects of fire and heat, having Class 1k resistance to such forms of energy. This is a good thing, especially since his skull mask has been pernamently bonded to his body...

Equipment:

Fiery Skull Mask: though this was simply another mystical artifact of the mysterious Skull men, this magic mask has completely bonded to Mark's body, making his head appear to be a flaming skull. The mask is of unknown material strength. Luckily, Mark can make it invisible while he's not adventuring...

However, the fire it generates is of Good (10) intensity, inflicting like SD En damage upon contact with it. It is unknown if Mark can make the Skull emit flames past his body, or increase the intensity of the flames the mask normally emits to any degree.

Quirks:

(none)

Talents:

Acrobatics: it is known that Mark can swing about on ropes and dive around tree branches as the Blazing Skull, so it is safe to assume that he has this talent, which adds +1 CS to FEAT rolls when Mark performs dodging, evading, and escaping maneuvers.

Detective / Espionage: a competent detective at heart, Mark can add +1 CS to all necessary FEAT rolls required for finding clues and connecting them together. Furthermore, he has one additional, as of yet unrevealed, contact in the law enforcement, espionage, or criminal underworld areas.

Journalism: Mark is a career journalist, or he was before his discovery of the mask that transformed him into the Blazing Skull. This gives him the benefit of at least two additional contacts, either in the media, a law enforcement agency, or the criminal underworld (still unnamed).

Martial Arts Type B: though a pacifist at heart, Mark knows how to handle himself in a fight, and as such, should add +1 CS to all unarmed melee attacks he rolls. Of course, should he get riled up enought, he's likely to forget all that pacifist stuff...

Pilot / Motorcycle: Mark has been known to be quite excellent in his motorcycle maneuvers, and as such, he can operate one without undue risk of personal injury (unless he performs any risky or dangerous stunts, that is). Any such stunts are made at +1 CS.

Contacts:

Mark Todd had contacts with his paper "The Daily Globe", his editor Alvin Schmidt, "Babs", the other star reporter, and some Newspaper kid named "Virg"... Along with any number of street, police and other sundry contacts from the Journalist corners. As the Blazing Skull he had contacts with the Invaders, Union Jack and the Destroyer.

Costume:

Blazing Skull wore a red body suit, with white bones criss-crossing the chest and a fiery skull mask. He had red gloves and boots, too.

Personality:

Mark Todd was serious about his job as a reporter and his mission as the Blazing Skull, but goes about doing both with a nasty streak of dark humor to him (his mission in his own words... "To stamp out the spread of tyranny, rekindle the flames of hope and fan the fires of freedom...").

Real Name: Mark Todd
Occupation: adventurer / journalist
Legal Status: American citizen with no known criminal record
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: none
Group Affiliation: none (but has worked with the Invaders on occasion)

Height: 5' 11"
Hair: blond
Eyes: brown
Weight: 185 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: well, aside from the fiery skull mask that is forever bonded to his face, none.

Story:

O.K... here is the secret of the Blazing Skull. Mark Todd went to China on his very first assignment, covering the second Sino-Japanese war, when he got caught right in the middle of the action (as opposed to his intended coverage away from danger). He was forced to take cover in an underground cave from both the elements and the shelling occurring where he was.

What he saw was incredible... he was taken in by subterranean Skull men with flaming heads. They proclaimed that the forces of destiny had brought him to them, and that he was to be their emissary in the world of Flesh, that he was to champion their cause (his mission) and was given his powers and a flaming mask which bonded with him.

Mark returned to New York and continued his work as a reporter, using it now to champion whatever causes the Blazing Skull got involved with, and fighting crime and Nazi tyranny wherever he found it. Mark even teamed up with the Invaders once after his return, and as they know his identity, one could presume that they worked together from time to time, or that the Skull even joined them later on.

His last known adventure was played out alongside Union Jack and the Destroyer, an adventure that brought him out of America and directly to Germany. He was there to stop a plot to destroy America via a missile attack, and he defeated the Iron Cross with the new tech the Nazis were using to guide the missiles, slamming one right into the armored fiend.

Using the Blazing Skull in other stories:

It's possible. Maybe the Skull mask made him age slow, or maybe it allowed him to keep his youth and vitality... Then again, maybe the Skull men could pick another emissary when Mark Todd Died... Although he looks like Ghost Rider (face wise with the mask on) he isn't, contrary to Marvel trying to make him the Ghost Rider of 1945...