A stupid idea I will never do anything with

[james_davis_nicoll]

Inspired by some bored Icons character generation:

Hugh Adams: Windscale, Man of the Atom.



Origin: Birthright

Prowess: 7
Coordination: 6
Strength: 7
Intelligence: 6
Awareness: 3
Willpower: 3

Powers 4
3 Resistance (physical)
9 Adaptation
5 Life Support
3 Absorption (radiation to health)

Skills:
Engineering 2

Qualities:
Here from the Government!
Here to Help!
This is a job for an engineer!


A seemingly unremarkable engineer at Britain's cutting edge Windscale atomic power plant, Hugh was on shift, 7 October 1957, which provided him with the opportunity to discover his prodigious resistance to environmental damage. Seeing a way to salvage some positive PR out of the debacle, the British government hired him to use his abilities in service of the state, as a "super-hero."

(He's a mutant, not transformed, but the PR guys thought the transformation angle was better)

Anyway, the idea is "1950s superheroes, all of whom are connected to nuclear power in some way": Radium Girl, who has two powers: the ability to turn the radium she drinks into intense heat, and enough regen to survive doing that, Ann Atomic, a brick (the only invulnerable part of her costume is the bikini she was wearing during her origin), this guy. Probably a political refugee from the Urals as well....

Comments

[pauldrye]

Alas, Anatoli Bugorski made his claim in the late 70s, so he's out of chronological range for this team.

[ross_smith]

Have you read "Action at a Distance", one of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London comics? There are ... certain parallels.

[james_davis_nicoll]

I have not.

[scott_sanford]

I had expected a guy called "Windscale" to unexpectedly burst into flames.