Name: Steve Lee

Gender: Male, bisexual

Age/DOB: ~15/2022

Origin: Repurposed Earth, Enrichment Center, Auburn Alabama

Family: Spliced, shares over half donors with Soo-Hyun, somewhat likely to be related to Isabella; has a spliced daughter with Gracie, Mara Jae

Other: With a number of other 'second generation' children, is a 'recreation' of one of the children that perished during the Events

Height: 5'7"

Weight: 130* Icarus treatment lightens mass, he's lean and muscular, lanky, with good upper body strength

Hair: Very dark brown, short, styled as shown, thick

Eyes: Reddish brown, almond shaped, kindly and curious eyebrows

Appearance: Medium yellowish tan skin, no visible blemishes or scars though boy he does seem to try getting hurt; quite typically 'Asian' in appearance, easily blends in with normal folks, until his powers go off... Has a gentle and quiet voice.

Genetic Abilities: While Bella is the consummate flier and telekinetic, Steve is able to produce truly gale-force winds and buffet an area with sheer force and pressure. He can use this to 'fly' but it's quite difficult to control, and as such he winds up with those holes in his clothes and a quick trip to the medic. His abilities are not really fully mastered, and at times when he's startled or excited, things will start fluttering around, rather like Graciella's when she was very young. He can lift quite a bit of weight using this wind, however it tends to get blasted to pieces if he's not careful. He can often use it to get himself out of trouble, or into it, shooting himself upwards and over buildings. Steve can at least control most of his landings, with a padding of pressure that he slowly reduces. Ideally he'll be able to use this pressure based power both ways: to reduce pressure in an area causing a vacuum or suck the toxic air out of a room to refill it with fresh. Also he'd like to work on fine manipulation of this power, but that has proven rather difficult and may never really 'get there'. Steve has minor empathic power at close range, and is easy to detect Vortally for purposes of others communicating to him.

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Icarus Processing: Yes, at age 3, the process lightened his bones and strengthened his tissues so that he is quite resiliant, also he's rather a lot faster than most folks, around 3x as quick on his feet than normal. It may have improved the potential for his pressure ability, but controlling it will be the tough part.
Skills or Profession: as with many of the Pantheon he did get skill and information downloads during his Icarus treatment phase. He was not artificially aged, so he enjoyed a long childhood among other children, where he effectively learned 'the hard way' most of the educational skills. However his specific downloaded ones include tactical use of three dimensional space: he knows his way around an area not just on the ground, but visualizing the insides of buildings, tops of roofs, freeway overpasses, that kind of thing comes very easy to him.
Personality: Though Steve looks a bit on the shy side, when you get him talking about something he enjoys he'll talk your ear off. He is interested in civil engineering and architecture, enjoys art and music, and really would love to try this 'ice cream' stuff some of the older folks talk about. He's the kind of guy you'd absolutely bring home to your folks for dinner without any hint of unease.

Events or History: Among a dozen or more children who had been part of the Paragon program early on, but were too young to survive the Events in 2006. All of these children had samples remaining, since all but three of them were spliced purposefully. That original Steve was not even one year old when the Events occurred. As a typical prodigy of the Enrichment Center's breeding and genetic engineering programs, however, this Steve is clearly an outstanding boy. His personality and nature are somewhat at odds with this quite forceful power he's got, but even the normal folks enjoy it when he starts getting animated - because even though there's now stuff flying through the air around him, it's because he's genuinely loving what he's doing or seeing.

Currently resides at the Rapture facility but tends to be on the surface at the lighthouse on Aerie Island. He gets a workout trying to focus his power up there, and since the structure is designed to withstand a lot of elements, he can't do much damage to it.

Dragon

Name: Acropora
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-Large 11'4" s / 40' l / 74' ws
Colors: Aqua grey-blue limbs and wingsail back, with dark mottled green on backs of limbs and toes (all), bright yellow-white with pale green flecks under wingsail, on belly scales from chin to mid-tail, medium green on back from neck to tail tip; markings on horns, body, and wing sails pale greyish blue; horns, claws ivory-yellow; webbing aqua blue with dark green mottling on edges, spines on chest and back web ridge bright yellow with dark green tips; eyes vibrant yellow with green edge; *markings are luminescent
Features: Seawing, four sturdy limbs with slightly webbed talon feet, sharp claws (normally 5 and 4 with heel claw and thumb); two leathery wings with 3 visible fingers underside only, prominent wrist thumb, all with long curved claws; body is high and long, tiny scales with larger armor on neck and back down entire body to tail tip, softer belly armor, webbed spined fin down entire back from head to tail tip and on neck and upper belly, head is boxy with beak shape mouth, dangling lure under chin, external ears, and two conical back pointing horns; body is reasonably blubbery, but quite muscular.
Powers: Winged Flight, Sea-Flight, the strength of Acropora's wings is quite amazing, and as such he is easily able to fly gracefully both in the water and above it. He prefers not to go too high in the air, but doesn't hesitate to dive very deeply into the ocean or seas. He can fly with tremendous stability in even the worst current or wind, and because Steve is able to manipulate those winds, they make a terrific team in the air (or even under the water). Though he's strong, at least in the air he doesn't have a lot of endurance to keep aloft. He does prefer to remain in the water, because there at least, he can just rest and not fall! One of his favored tactics in the ocean is to rapidly encircle a school of fish and suddenly bash his tail into them, stunning them for easy feeding. (And he does like little fish as a meal, rather than hunting much bigger ones for a large feast. He won't turn it down, but he's a 'light' eater.)
Communication, because most Seawings have the ability to flash luminescent patches* on their bodies, Acro likes to punctuate his English or Vort (or indeed, Draconic) with such bursts. He has a decent vocabulary in any language, and enjoys listening to classical Human music as well as the deeply thrumming Vortigese songs common to those in Rapture.
*Luminescent, for both communication and luring prey, Acro has pretty 'flame and dot' markings that he can use to reflect or even produce light at depths where there is little to no natural sunlight available. This light is visible to some animals from miles away, and he is learning which fish to try and lure based on the specific wavelengths they can see.
Water Manipulation, Attack, Tolerance; obviously as a deep-sea dragon, Acropora can breathe with gills hidden under his neck scales, as well as the use of air through his small nostrils. (He claims too that when he's above the sea it's a bit hard to breathe enough to maintain flight, it's so much easier under water where he doesn't even really need to think about it.) He can dive basically any depth and be unhindered by the pressure or chill of the water, and certainly enjoys the geothermal vents that Rapture is built on and near, as they act as both warmth and lift! He can use the water around him to sense motion - not just the currents for about 500 meters, but things that are moving within that range. A bit like sonar, he can sense large fish or other dragons with ease, and smaller ones like schools of fish that wind up 'looking like clouds' to his mental eye. Once they're within around 100 meters he can see them perfectly well, even in almost no light. His attack is usually in the form of his tail heavily beating side to side, often he'll curl into a C shape so he can face his prey and smack at it. This stirs up the water and he then manipulates it if needed, rather than a 'breath' weapon. He can also stir moisture above the water, but it does need to be significant amounts of it: like rain, hail, very heavy fog, or ocean spray. Above the surface of the water this looks like a sideways funnel, or even a narrow wall of water. Obviously, Steve likes to bat this back toward him - they both have grown quite strong with their abilities doing so!
Parentage: Unknown Seawings, pure blooded though possibly slightly mutated as his visible number of claws and wing fingers is different than a typical Seawing. Notably he has royal-marked offspring with the lovely Algaebloom, Dorado, who is bonded to Steve's daughter!
Origin: Original Adopt by Tsunami878 on Deviantart, lines by RayRiver, Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland
Other Info: Clever and usually happy, Acro isn't as energetic as some dragons around, but he more than makes up for it when things get serious. He feels like he can always be learning something - a new trick to catch food, a way to sense dangers, or how to dodge blasts of air coming from his little human friend. They make an incredibly good team, and he truly loves Steve, and will go to great lengths to protect him.