Jack Endradon

Basic
Jack is a young Atlantean man with somewhat messy black hair, a respectable beard, & pale yellow eyes that glow slightly in the dark. He has the legs of an olympic sprinter, but slightly below average muscle mass in his arms. Overall,he is built for speed, not strength, & the rest of his build reflects that. He is generally described as looking a bit weird, but that's more because of his clothing choices than anything else.

Casual
Jack doesn't really care about looks unless it's for a special occasion, so his casual outfits rarely match, & when they do, it's only because of random chance. He tends to go for functionality first, comfort second & doesn't usually consider aesthetics much at all. He also always wears his utility gauntlets & speedster shoes (these are optimized for running at extreme speeds, allowing for ideal traction without wearing down to his foot after a single run. A pair of these shoes tends to last about 2 months before needing replaced)

Formal
Jack has a grand total of 4 formal shirts, 3 of which are some shade of green, 2 pairs of formal pants, both of them black, one pair of black formal shoes, & one black formal jacket. He only wears this stuff when he absolutely has to, & even then, only wears the parts that he has to.

It is also worth noting that he has made a sort of undercoat that he wears under his main formal coat so that he can pick how warm he wants it to be.

Battle Armor
During battle, & when otherwise working in his official capacity as a Dragon of the Force, Jack wears his Dragon Suit. This is a heavily modified version of the Mk5 Dragon Suit armor. The rigid parts are made of varying shades of green Karponium, & flexible parts are made of light green Endradium. He opted to not wear a cape because it causes unnecessary drag.


 * Rigid parts:
 * shoulder pads
 * chestplate
 * utility gauntlets
 * battle pack (used in place of back plaiting)
 * shoes
 * belt segments
 * Flexible parts:
 * upper arms
 * legs
 * midsection

General
Generally, Jack is a very introverted person. He Doesn't tend to seek out social interaction & prefers to spend large amounts of his time by himself. The only real exception to this is Sofie. he is always willing to spend time with her, regardless of what mood he's in. He is naturally curious, and loves learning new things about the world around him. He is always looking for scientific explanations for things, and prides himself on the vast library of random science facts that he has accumulated over the years. He is the type of person who sees a new piece of technology, and just HAS to find out how it works. He enjoys art, science, & engineering along with pretty much anything that allows him to express his creativity or learn about how things work. He also enjoys playing video games.

Social
Jack will almost never initiate conversation with someone he doesn't know, and when he does, it is always done awkwardly. Sometimes he has trouble picking up on social cues, especially when romance is involved. This is not due to some disorder or anything, he simply isn't very interested in social things, so he never bothered to become well versed in social cues. He is pretty capable of carrying on coherent conversations, he's just not good at starting them.

Special Cases
There is one big exception to Jack's social awkwardness, & that is when he's either acting as Velocity (during his time as a vigilante & Atlantis) or as Hyperspeed (after joining the DAGF). In these situations, he comes across as more cocky than anything else. He seems like a completely different person in these situations, but still has all of the trouble with certain social cues, & his overall incompetence with social matters is also still present

Perfect Storm Intellectual
Jack is an anomaly as far as human intelligence is concerned. He has a perfect storm of genetic traits that make his mind incredibly powerful. His iq is 568, which is more than twice the highest recorded real world iq. He also has a rare trait commonly known as a perfect memory. This is exclusive to Atlantis as it is a rare byproduct of the past genetic modification Atlantis went through. This trait basically makes it so that a person is completely incapable of forgetting information once it is stored in long or short term memory everything in short term memory will eventually be moved to long term. The reason this trait is so rare is because in most cases it is actually a disability. When this trait exists by itself, a person's long term memory has a high chance of completely filling up with a bunch of useless information before a person has time to reproduce, & has therefore been made less common via natural selection. This presents as Severe short term memory loss once all available space is used up. Jack is lucky, because he actually has both of the traits that were created to counteract this problem back when the human gene editing was being done. The first of the two traits simply quadruples the amount of long term memory storage, but the second trait is much more useful because it changes the way that the brain stores information to make it hundreds of times more efficient. This trait actually does double duty because it also gives the brain the ability to choose not to save redundant information to long term memory, making another massive reduction in storage use. Together, these two traits can handle so much memory storage that Jack will not even come close to running out of space even with his Omega Field enhanced lifespan (approximately 1,120 Earth years), & the massive increase in memory volume that comes with being a speedster. The only negative side effect that all of this has is that the social part of his brain is a bit smaller, (hence the reason he's such an introvert & has such a massive lack of interest in social concepts that aren't directly quantifiable by facts & logic)

(just worth noting, the perfect memory trait does not help with remembering to do something at a specific time. in that case, it would prevent you from forgetting what you are supposed to be doing at any given time, but when that time actually comes, it will not automatically bring that task to mind)

Talents & Skills
Jack is obviously talented in basically anything that involves only intelligence, so I'm not going to bother listing too many examples here, but some of the big ones that are less obvious are:


 * learning languages: Jack is as fluent as a native speaker in Atlantean, all major surface dweller languages, Vimish (galactic basic), & all Sol System languages that are not from Earth. He is also fluent to a lesser extent in Barrow, Kaparido, Tyranasien, & all major Agodarian languages. On top of all of that, he can engage in basic conversation in Karadoso despite the fact that the Karrans actively try to prevent other species from learning their language.
 * Deductive reasoning
 * High level mathematics

as for things that require more than just a big brain, Jack is extremely talented in:


 * Several varieties of art
 * Crafting basically anything
 * Fixing things
 * catching & throwing things

Super Speed
Jack's most utilized power by far is his super speed. He relies heavily on his speed both in combat & in everyday life, & although he has not yet unlocked any of the other powers that can come come from his varmium base power, he has developed a vast array of creative applications of his speed that he has integrated seamlessly into his normal fighting style.

These include:


 * clapping at incredibly high speeds right next to someone's ears, rendering them permanently deaf
 * using speed to line up the perfect shot with projectile weapons
 * throwing projectiles at higher speeds than traditional weapons can fire them
 * canceling sounds by vibrating his arm at specific frequencies, he tends to use this to confuse people by making everything suddenly go silent. This is a favorite opening battlefield tactic of his
 * using his varmium streak as a flashlight by vibrating his arm
 * using speed to increase the effective mass behind his punches (again done via vibration)
 * testing possible conversation starters at speeds so fast that nobody else can perceive so that he can avoid being awkward
 * Running back & fourth at specific speeds in order to use the Varmium streak to provide a sort of large area light.
 * tactical sonic booms
 * taking weapons away from opponents before they can react. (Jack usually follows this up by disassembling the weapon for dramatic effect if it has more than one part)

Other common ways Jack uses his speed:


 * dodging attacks
 * tactical retreats
 * speed thinking

Without using the Omega Field to enhance his speed, Jack can run at up to Mach 7 for hours at a time, but with Omega enhancement he can break Mach 20 & maintain that speed for up to 72 hrs. (3 Earth days) straight.

Beginning
Jack is the oldest child of Eric & Martha Endradon, & has one younger sister, Maddie. The Endradons are a middle class family living in the suburbs of Atlantis City. He grew up in Atlantis City, & occasionally took vacations to other parts of Atlantis. His favorite of these places was the Kamoran Memorial at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico (known to Atlanteans as "Ber Scafremolo" which means "The Hypercrater" in Atlantean).

Meeting Sofie
As a kid, Jack attended the Atlantean equivalent of elementary school where he met his best friend, & future girlfriend, Sofie Earwood. They first met on the playground on the first day of school. Jack had been playing by himself in a corner because he was, and still is, very much an introvert, & had not made any friends yet. He was trying to make a small village out of rocks, & using his Omega Field telekinesis to make the process a bit easier. Jack was a bit of a prodigy when it came to the Omega Field, & had known about his powers since before he could walk. At this point in his life, he'd never even heard of any other Omega Wielders that were currently alive, let alone met them. When Sofie saw him playing alone that day, she came over to investigate. Sofie is the kind of person who hates to see people being left out, so she would often try to befriend the people this happened to so that they'd at least have one friend. After she saw that some of the rocks in front of him were levitating, she decided to break the ice by asking how to do that. Jack awkwardly told her that he didn't know of anyone else who could do it & didn't think she'd understand the full explanation, because at the time he didn't even fully understand it. She introduced herself, & asked him to give her a chance to try. He was right, she didn't get most of it, but she did understand more than most other people he'd tried to explain it to. The two of them quickly became very close friends, mostly because Sofie found Jack's intelligence extremely interesting, & enjoyed listening to him talk about random science facts, & rabbit hole subjects that he'd been down. By the time they made it to the Atlantean equivalent of middle school, they were inseparable.

Sofie's Boyfriends
During middle school Sofie, being extremely fun to be around & also very pretty, ended up dating a few guys. This is relevant to Jack because by the time she started dating the first one, he had already developed a slight crush on her. Apparently her boyfriend, a boy named Sarmo, picked up on this, because he threatened to break up with her if she spent too much time with Jack. He claimed that it wouldn't be a problem if Sofie didn't seem like she also had a crush on him. Jack thought that this was absurd, she was way out of his league after all, he was just lucky to get to be her friend. Despite this, almost all of Sofie's later boyfriends shared Sarmo's view on Jack's friendship with her, but some were less strict about limiting their interaction. Still, he tried to keep his distance whenever she was dating, & always yielded to her boyfriend on matters involving them.

Bob
During Bob had actually been friends with Jack before he even met Sofie, & would've never met her if he hadn't been friends with Jack. Bob didn't just allow Jack & Sofie to spend time together, he would sometimes even invite Jack to hang with them himself. Bob even came to be one of the few people to know that Jack & Sofie were the heroes Velocity & Giantess after they got their powers a few years later.

Bob did eventually come to the same conclusion about as Sofie's previous boyfriends regarding how she felt about Jack, but he knew that Jack was definitely not going to build up the courage to ask her out, especially when she already had a boyfriend, & that Sofie was the kind of girl that would stay in a relationship with one person even if she knew she'd be far happier with someone else, just to avoid hurting her current partner. He didn't know why she hadn't asked him out yet while she was single, but when it became clear to Bob that her heart already belonged to Jack, he decided to break up with her to free her up to be with him as long as she promised to ask Jack out because he was completely oblivious to the fact that she was interested, & both of them knew that Jack was never going to make the first move. Bob would remain close friends with both of them, but it would be awkward for a little while. Anyway, Sofie did go along with this, but she didn't have a chance to follow through on this promise before the the start of the story

Trivia
The Main line of Dragon's Crusade books are canonically written by Jack.