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Name: Sean O'Leary
Superhero Name: Teragauss
DOB: 7 June 1978
POB: Braintree, Massachusetts
Age: 39
Species: Rabbit
Nationality: American, but proud of his Irish heritage.
Height: 5'10” / 178 cm (not counting ears)
Weight: 195 pounds / 89 kg
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Brick red, fading to gray at temples
Physical Appearance: A rather ordinary rabbit male in his civilian identity aside from the obviously Irish coloration. He's kept himself in shape by practicing martial arts, in common with many supers, but age is starting to catch up to him.
Occupation: Certified Public Accountant. He runs his own small private practice, but his primary client is BoS Eastern Division.
Areas of Operation: Boston and New England, Maritime Canada.
Weapons/Items: Bureau communicator (hardened), zip-tie cuffs, flashlight. Ball bearings which he can use as rail-gun ammunition if the situation calls for it.
Personal Transport: Flight as Teragauss. Public transportation or car in civilian ID.
Powers: Magnetokinetic. He is capable of sensing, controlling and interacting with magnetic fields, and can produce quite a number of effects with them. By interacting with Earth's natural field, he can hover or fly at speeds up to one hundred miles per hour (limited by his ability to withstand the wind pressure). Using generated fields, he can manipulate ferrous metals directly and other conductive metals and substances indirectly in what is effectively telekinesis. (Weight limit twenty tons ferrous, one ton non-ferrous). He uses rapidly cycling fields to generate electric current in conductors which are capable of heating most such substances to their melting point. He uses similar fields to shield himself against bullets. He can also generate an electromagnetic pulse to disable or destroy unshielded electronics.
Fighting Styles: He prefers to stay aloft and use ranged attacks. If forced to fight hand-to-hand, he uses tae kwan do.
Strengths: Magnetic powers allow him to use metal objects as projectile weapons or to electrify or melt conductive materials. The ability to fly allows him to stay out of reach of many but not all opponents. Since few can detect magnetic fields, use of his power is effectively invisible unless he is manipulating physical objects with them.
Weaknesses: He has no special senses outside of his magnetic manipulation (though that does give him a perfect sense of direction). His magnetic deflection defenses do not work against wood or plastic, nor can he affect such materials directly (he can lift large chunks of concrete with rebar, but not unreinforced concrete, stone or wood unless he can use metal to pick it up.)
His force field defense depends on his concentration – it is not active if he is taken by surprise or is knocked unconscious. He is effectively a trained normal in strength and reaction time.
Outfits: Generally wears a suit in his civilian ID.
His costume conceals his hair and eyes. It is a relatively tight bodysuit, black leggings, gloves and headpiece, red chest, arms, and thighs. His logo is a stylized magnetic field, reversed and forward capital D's back-to-back, each made of several nested loops, in black.
Bio: Like many supers with natural powers, his gradually came in during puberty, just one more body change to deal with. He started operating as a superhero in the late '90's while he was in college, and had good relations with the local police department – unlike many pre-Bureau and unregistered heroes, he tended to be more of a disaster relief worker than a vigilante. Over the years he saved two airliners in trouble near Boston, managed to keep a five-hundred-thousand ton oil tanker afloat with minimal spillage by manipulating the damaged hull and patch-welding the hole shut, and rescued fifteen workers when the Big Dig subway upgrade suffered a tunnel collapse. Less well known is his role in identifying a political corruption scandal – he used his powers to access the ringleader's office and make copies of his records. After that, it was just a matter of auditing the accounts in question, and in the end it was CPA O'Leary who got the credit rather than Teragauss.
Initially suspicious of the SRA, he stopped operating for the most part after it was passed. (One of his two airliner saves occurred in this period – the authorities, airline officials, witnesses and passengers were understandably uncooperative with the BoS in the aftermath (and to be fair the Bureau didn't look for him all that hard, either). He married his college girlfriend Teresa (nee Chambers) in early 2001; she had learned his secret identity while dating him and after their marriage, persuaded him to come out of his brief retirement and register with the Bureau six months later. They are still happily married and have four kids; Sean Jr, fourteen; Brigid, eleven; and identical twins Michael and Patrick, seven.
Personality: A devoted father and husband, he treats his powers as something that allows him to help other furs in emergencies. He patrols occasionally, but is more often seen when a disaster threatens his home region. He has occasionally been called on to do hostage rescues; he has an abiding hatred for such fursons, and his ability to disable guns invisibly from a distance has saved quite a number of furs being threatened by thugs.
For some reason, he is a devoted Bruins, Celtics, and Patriots fan, but his baseball loyalty lies with the Baltimore Orioles.
Superhero Name: Teragauss
DOB: 7 June 1978
POB: Braintree, Massachusetts
Age: 39
Species: Rabbit
Nationality: American, but proud of his Irish heritage.
Height: 5'10” / 178 cm (not counting ears)
Weight: 195 pounds / 89 kg
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Brick red, fading to gray at temples
Physical Appearance: A rather ordinary rabbit male in his civilian identity aside from the obviously Irish coloration. He's kept himself in shape by practicing martial arts, in common with many supers, but age is starting to catch up to him.
Occupation: Certified Public Accountant. He runs his own small private practice, but his primary client is BoS Eastern Division.
Areas of Operation: Boston and New England, Maritime Canada.
Weapons/Items: Bureau communicator (hardened), zip-tie cuffs, flashlight. Ball bearings which he can use as rail-gun ammunition if the situation calls for it.
Personal Transport: Flight as Teragauss. Public transportation or car in civilian ID.
Powers: Magnetokinetic. He is capable of sensing, controlling and interacting with magnetic fields, and can produce quite a number of effects with them. By interacting with Earth's natural field, he can hover or fly at speeds up to one hundred miles per hour (limited by his ability to withstand the wind pressure). Using generated fields, he can manipulate ferrous metals directly and other conductive metals and substances indirectly in what is effectively telekinesis. (Weight limit twenty tons ferrous, one ton non-ferrous). He uses rapidly cycling fields to generate electric current in conductors which are capable of heating most such substances to their melting point. He uses similar fields to shield himself against bullets. He can also generate an electromagnetic pulse to disable or destroy unshielded electronics.
Fighting Styles: He prefers to stay aloft and use ranged attacks. If forced to fight hand-to-hand, he uses tae kwan do.
Strengths: Magnetic powers allow him to use metal objects as projectile weapons or to electrify or melt conductive materials. The ability to fly allows him to stay out of reach of many but not all opponents. Since few can detect magnetic fields, use of his power is effectively invisible unless he is manipulating physical objects with them.
Weaknesses: He has no special senses outside of his magnetic manipulation (though that does give him a perfect sense of direction). His magnetic deflection defenses do not work against wood or plastic, nor can he affect such materials directly (he can lift large chunks of concrete with rebar, but not unreinforced concrete, stone or wood unless he can use metal to pick it up.)
His force field defense depends on his concentration – it is not active if he is taken by surprise or is knocked unconscious. He is effectively a trained normal in strength and reaction time.
Outfits: Generally wears a suit in his civilian ID.
His costume conceals his hair and eyes. It is a relatively tight bodysuit, black leggings, gloves and headpiece, red chest, arms, and thighs. His logo is a stylized magnetic field, reversed and forward capital D's back-to-back, each made of several nested loops, in black.
Bio: Like many supers with natural powers, his gradually came in during puberty, just one more body change to deal with. He started operating as a superhero in the late '90's while he was in college, and had good relations with the local police department – unlike many pre-Bureau and unregistered heroes, he tended to be more of a disaster relief worker than a vigilante. Over the years he saved two airliners in trouble near Boston, managed to keep a five-hundred-thousand ton oil tanker afloat with minimal spillage by manipulating the damaged hull and patch-welding the hole shut, and rescued fifteen workers when the Big Dig subway upgrade suffered a tunnel collapse. Less well known is his role in identifying a political corruption scandal – he used his powers to access the ringleader's office and make copies of his records. After that, it was just a matter of auditing the accounts in question, and in the end it was CPA O'Leary who got the credit rather than Teragauss.
Initially suspicious of the SRA, he stopped operating for the most part after it was passed. (One of his two airliner saves occurred in this period – the authorities, airline officials, witnesses and passengers were understandably uncooperative with the BoS in the aftermath (and to be fair the Bureau didn't look for him all that hard, either). He married his college girlfriend Teresa (nee Chambers) in early 2001; she had learned his secret identity while dating him and after their marriage, persuaded him to come out of his brief retirement and register with the Bureau six months later. They are still happily married and have four kids; Sean Jr, fourteen; Brigid, eleven; and identical twins Michael and Patrick, seven.
Personality: A devoted father and husband, he treats his powers as something that allows him to help other furs in emergencies. He patrols occasionally, but is more often seen when a disaster threatens his home region. He has occasionally been called on to do hostage rescues; he has an abiding hatred for such fursons, and his ability to disable guns invisibly from a distance has saved quite a number of furs being threatened by thugs.
For some reason, he is a devoted Bruins, Celtics, and Patriots fan, but his baseball loyalty lies with the Baltimore Orioles.
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Ah. Even though I was the epitome of the good-field/bad-hit Little League player, and my eyesight can be Magoo-like if I'm not wearing my glasses, I adore baseball. (My brother even more so -- he writes scholarly articles for the Society for American Baseball Research.) Should you need to know useless information, merely ask!
Well, don't hesitate to ask...!
One of the more interesting World Series stories I've seen is the one Rex Stout wrote in the Nero Wolfe series. Called, not surprisingly, "The World Series Murder." (a/k/a "This Will Kill You") The Red Sox are facing the New York Giants in the deciding Game 7 at the Polo Grounds...and the Giants are absolutely terrible. Why? Furthermore, a corpse turns up in the locker room...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Won't_Kill_You Note the illustration of Wolfe (the 1/4 ton man) trying to fit in a Polo Grounds seat. A very, very rare outing for the big man, who normally hated to leave his brownstone.
While the Red Sox' "Curse of the Bambino" (1919-2004) was famous, at the time the story first appeared (September, 1952), the Red Sox were still a very good team, having been in the World Series in 1946, and having just barely lost pennant races in 1948 and 1949. In reality, the Red Sox did relatively poorly in 1952 (their star, Ted Williams, was in the USMC as a fighter pilot), and the Red Sox' refusal to hire a black player until much later doomed them to terrible finishes until they were next in the Series in 1967.
Also in reality, the New York Giants left New York after the end of the 1957 season. The Polo Grounds, however, stood for some years yet, as the New York Mets moved in there until their new stadium, Shea Stadium, was completed in 1964. The Polo Grounds by that time had become very run down. Manager Casey Stengel, who by this time was an old and irascible man, once confronted Tracy Stallard, a pitcher who one afternoon was getting bombarded by the opposing team.
"Y'know," Casey said, "they're gonna tear down this joint at the end of the season." He then pointed to where a number of home runs had gone that afternoon, courtesy of Stallard's pitches. "But at the rate you're going, part of the bleachers will be gone already."
You might recall that "Baseball Bugs" is actually set at the Polo Grounds.
One of the more interesting World Series stories I've seen is the one Rex Stout wrote in the Nero Wolfe series. Called, not surprisingly, "The World Series Murder." (a/k/a "This Will Kill You") The Red Sox are facing the New York Giants in the deciding Game 7 at the Polo Grounds...and the Giants are absolutely terrible. Why? Furthermore, a corpse turns up in the locker room...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Won't_Kill_You Note the illustration of Wolfe (the 1/4 ton man) trying to fit in a Polo Grounds seat. A very, very rare outing for the big man, who normally hated to leave his brownstone.
While the Red Sox' "Curse of the Bambino" (1919-2004) was famous, at the time the story first appeared (September, 1952), the Red Sox were still a very good team, having been in the World Series in 1946, and having just barely lost pennant races in 1948 and 1949. In reality, the Red Sox did relatively poorly in 1952 (their star, Ted Williams, was in the USMC as a fighter pilot), and the Red Sox' refusal to hire a black player until much later doomed them to terrible finishes until they were next in the Series in 1967.
Also in reality, the New York Giants left New York after the end of the 1957 season. The Polo Grounds, however, stood for some years yet, as the New York Mets moved in there until their new stadium, Shea Stadium, was completed in 1964. The Polo Grounds by that time had become very run down. Manager Casey Stengel, who by this time was an old and irascible man, once confronted Tracy Stallard, a pitcher who one afternoon was getting bombarded by the opposing team.
"Y'know," Casey said, "they're gonna tear down this joint at the end of the season." He then pointed to where a number of home runs had gone that afternoon, courtesy of Stallard's pitches. "But at the rate you're going, part of the bleachers will be gone already."
You might recall that "Baseball Bugs" is actually set at the Polo Grounds.
And I might not, but I assumed it was a real field that predated my limited knowledge.
I wouldn't object to baseball more than other sports, except my earliest memories involving it are basically 'catch the ball!' 'What ball?' OUCH! Pain makes a poor incentive to continue with a pasttime...
I wouldn't object to baseball more than other sports, except my earliest memories involving it are basically 'catch the ball!' 'What ball?' OUCH! Pain makes a poor incentive to continue with a pasttime...
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