#this is like 75% abt his abilities bc im a superhero media nerd

[genshoomf]

i made a konni oc purely for gf and i's the boys au hi ✌ name: jason jacob taylor, gold rush

age: 32 (d.o.b july 1th, 1991) - graduated godU/contracted 2012 - 'retired' 2020, joins konni 2021 gender: cis man from: long beach, california personality: fairly easygoing and relaxed, social and active. far from stupid but a little naive and easily trusting. long fuse temper-wise and not super confrontational, but had a mean competitive streak beaten into him while at godolkin and from childhood competitions. easily stressed at the idea of not 'winning' or not living up to expectations but also easily mollified by praise/friendly behavior in others. a little spoiled from so much hero treatment i.e missing a lot of practical life skills. surprisingly deep well of metallurgy knowledge beyond just using his abilities. description: 6’2", white tanned/freckled, shaggy curly blonde with a lot of sun/ocean bleaching, blue-green eyes. pretty type handsome, big eyes, high cheekbones and pointed nose.

history: 

powers manifested young, parents branded & marketed him before double digits but dad divorced and left ~10 due to no longer agreeing with the dosing and seeing his son be sold as a commodity. lots of kids surf competitions to solidify the cali boy thing. teen group + some early heroics put him on the map and made him recognizable.

went to godolkin on a scholarship at 18 and maintained a top 5 ranking after freshman year, and a top 3 until graduation. partied a decent bit but passed up more than a few social opportunities to actually maintain his crimefighting grades.

immediately contracted to his home city long beach and rebranded as 'gold rush'. used for typical vought branding on many things but mainly energy drinks, surfboards, and jewelry lines. relative to other supes he remained decently on the straight and narrow, enjoyed the fame and movies etc but lamented not having much time to actually surf anymore. 

good public ratings for most of his career, actual good rescue stats/low collateral, bought pretty hard into the Being Heroes part of vought because he'd given them nearly his entire life and it was all he knew. 

had two notable public relationships during his time as a contracted supe. first girlfriend from when he was 21-23, weather manipulator, made a lot of mistakes due to being young stupid and blinded by the fame

second gf from 25-28, plant manipulator, did a lot better with her to the point of planning on proposing but was dumped before his 29th birthday after being told he was fun but not husband material. deeply in his feelings about it for a while

2020, was told he should 'retire' because long beach wanted to contract a fresh godolkin graduate just like they'd done for him because he was getting "old". felt intensely betrayed by this but was strong-armed into leaving with grace or else vought would make his life very difficult, so he shut up and went through his farewell fame despite becoming violently disillusioned with vought during it.

turned quickly to resentment and was contacted by someone in konni's inner circle with the typical 'aren't you tired of being nice. don't you want to go apeshit' and joined soon after. part of the team that extracted makarov from vought confinement

abilities: flight (peak human lung capacity, aerial adaptation), metal manipulation (matter surfing, metal constructs, platform manipulation), enhanced condition (strength, reflexes, stamina, senses)

flight is it’s own ability and classified as pure gravity defiance - jason is essentially choosing at all times when to be affected by gravitational pull, which allows him to fly but also hover and walk on vertical surfaces just as easily as the ground. he’s capable of carrying anything within his capacity while in flight but they remain affected by gravity

maximum speed of flight clocks in at around 700 mph, subsonic. he’s unable to break the sound barrier but is faster than commercial jets

to withstand the effects of his flight, jason has an increased lung capacity, able to hold his breath for 30 minutes as high as the troposphere, and vastly decreased incriments past that - with the highest he can fly being the edge of the stratosphere with 1 minute of lung capacity

his body further adapts to high and low air pressure passively, allowing him to stay conscious and unharmed as long as he can still breathe. he’s also immune to the effects of g-force when under his own gravity defiance

jason’s control of metal is absolute - any metallic element, any alloy, any state of matter - and telekinetic based, aka coming from mental strength instead of physical. he can’t create matter from nothing but is capable of both ‘stretching’ a base material far past what could be done with it traditionally and turning raw materials (such as iron sand) into a solid mass to manipulate

this extends into being able to create his own unique alloys and change the chemical makeup of any lump metal into another, i.e classic lead into gold. he has complete control over the properties of such metals - alloys that are ultrahard but flexible, altering the color and reflective properties, conductivity, magnetism, solid/liquid state, temperature - and can store these arrangements of alloys to recreate in the future by simple memory

he can manipulate by touch, gesture, and telekinesis. touch allows for extremely intricate detail and fine control, thin wire, meshing etc. jason defaults to gestural which feels the most 'natural' but telekinetic control functions the same. this telekinetic control is fully usable on metal jason cannot see, but he can always ‘feel’ the shape and visualize it mentally

while capable of flight on his own, jason can carry himself or anything on metal constructs or platforms, and can reshape metal to allow himself to ‘skate’ or slide on his feet, along with using constructs to throw matter long distances

trying to manipulate weight beyond his capabilities puts immediate stress on his body, manifesting as immense pressure down his spine

with konni, jason further trains to control the trace metals as they appear in nearly everything, primarily the iron in blood, calcium in bones, and the potassium and sodium in cells. he’s also capable of shifting them into toxic metals alchemically, namely arsenic, lead, or mercury, to poison someone from the inside out

when given the time and focus, he can essentially control the human body like a puppet, but can’t replicate very dexterous tasks like writing or small buttons, etc

jason can interface with and manipulate most technology by triggering impulses in the mechanics like card readers, locks, and computers. he’s also capable of firing guns with telekinetic control, and can stop or redirect bullets if already fired

secondary/passive abilities: peak human durability, peak immune system, peak human regeneration, peak human reflexes, metal detection, advanced level “telekinesis” (usage of metal manipulation)

jason isn’t bulletproof and his skin is only marginally tougher than the average human but his bones, tissue, and organs are highly resistant. he can withstand falls/throws up to 200ft, getting hit by heavy cars, and having medium sized buildings collapse on top of him without breaking bones or suffering internal damage

higher resistance to cold and heat but weak to high voltage electricity

immune/highly resistant to most bloodborne pathogens and viruses, essentially anything that is contagious or can be caught, but still susceptible to things like cancers and organ failure

immune to the adverse effects of his own abilities or things caused by metals, i.e heavy metal poisoning, hemochromatosis, hyperkalemia, hypercalcemia, etc

jason’s regenerative healing factor is slightly quicker than the average supes, and if a wound manages to get past his durability he typically isn’t out of commission long. bone fractures heal within a week or two, and skin-level injuries like burns or large wounds within a few days. these wounds heal completely smooth and leave no scar tissue.

when aware, jason’s reflexes are quick enough that he can catch nearly anything thrown in his direction - including bullets, both physically or with his abilities. his reaction speed while fighting is very high and works in conjunction with manipulating the metal on his person, like shifting into spiked knuckles mid-punch or creating thicker protection against parts of his body to defend himself. it is very, very hard to sneak up on him or catch him unaware

at resting state, jason is aware of every trace of metal within 250ft of him at all times. jewelry, loose change, clothing zips/buckles, devices that contain metal, etc. he compares this sense to hearing, i.e that you hear everything around you always but most mundane noise fades to the background. he can ‘push’ this sense further to a maximum of 500ft, in any direction, with focus - to detect metals deeper underground or into buildings he isn’t in. he intrinsically knows the type of metal when sensing it and can ‘feel’ the shape like a sort of mental image

jason’s manipulation of metal is classified as telekinetic/psionic, coming from mental effort instead of physical (though can be used in conjunction) and therefor has a different lifting strength classification - class 50 compared to his physical class 10. this lifting strength can be anything from one very heavy object or up to 50 tons spread across multiple different constructs. the highly precise control means he can manipulate objects up to his weight limit but also extremely fine molecular-level traces. with extra focus and being ‘gentler’ he can manipulate anything attached to a metal as well. for example while he’s only actually controlling the traces of iron in blood, he can manipulate an entire organ by moving the metals as a whole, like a yolk suspended in the whites of an egg