Hero the 1st... sorta

Titanium Slash

Slash is a man without a past.  At least Slash is what he thinks his name is.  Every once in a while he'll see a fleeting glimpse in his mind's eye.  Sometimes a beautiful blue-eyed blond who's name can't quite reach the tip of his tongue.  Sometimes the image of clouds below him or mountains flashing past.  But what Slash does know is Crey did this to him.

He wakes up in a stasis tube.  It's dark, almost pitch black.  His arms feel... asleep.  He reflexively stretches his hands and tries to shake the ants off only to hear a sickening *SNIKT* followed by the screeching tearing of metal.  The stasis tube starts to collapse as he struggles his way out.  Once free a euphoric feeling overwhelms him.  "Free" he thinks out loud, as if it was something important.  He stumbles around the dark room, his legs feeling weak, his heart racing.  He navigates through rooms and hallways, flickering lights leading his way, an occasional EXIT sign driving him towards his goal.

After what seemed like hours but could be minutes or days, Slash sees a light at the end of the tunnel.  Quite literally.  A warm light shines through two large glass doors.  When he tries to grab  the handle, the glass shatters!  Squinting into the sunlight, he finally looks at his hands.  The metallic sheen strikes him as unnatural.  And those claws!  Should he have claws?  He turns around and looks at his surroundings.  A greenish-brown moat surrounds the building.  Rusted catwalks criss-cross up its sides.  And a large blue sign hangs above his head.  "Crey".  Reading it sends shivers up his spine.  "Crey... did... THIS... to me..."  The words are hard to form, but they make sense.  Not knowing where to go, he starts to run.  And vengeance is what he seeks.

Titanium Slash: Claws / Super Reflexes Scrapper

Titanium Slash is pretty much my first City of Heroes character.  There were a few before him, but they were mostly experiments with the character creator.  I started playing CoH around the 1 year anniversary.  I actually had the Celebrant badge on Slash.  "Had?" you might ask.  Well the original Slash was a Claws/Regeneration Wolverine rip-off.  He got up to around level 20 before Issue 5 went live and I rolled a sonic blaster who took up most of my play time before City of Villains went live.  Slash was the unfortunate victim of a combination of altitis (the compulsive need to create new characters), the 12 character slot limit and sharing the account with my wife.  He was deleted to make room for a new villain.

Not Wolverine.  Really!  (Original pre-deletion costume)

Back around when we were given the 2 extra pages of character slots, but before Brutes got Super Reflexes, I decided I wanted to make a speedster, both in run speed and recharge rate.  So I picked the fastest primary set for scrappers, Claws, and Super Reflexes, the one secondary power set that not only had a nice speed bonus power (Quickness) but could also easily slot Luck of the Gambler: Defense/+Recharge and Gift of the Ancients: Defense/+Run Speed.  I also duo'd him up to 50 alongside my wife's remake of her old Empath who was stuck on my account.  

Slash's unwritten backstory is that he was originally a USAF fighter pilot who volunteered for cybernetic augmentation.  What he didn't know was that after he was inducted into the project, Crey "killed" him.  On paper.  They told the Air Force that he'd died on the operating table, when the surgery was actually successful.  He was placed in stasis and his DNA was used to augment the Protector program, since he was found to easily accept cybernetic implants and had incredibly high reflexes that were also easily augmented through gene therapy.

I never did complete his build, and I've lost the original Mids' build I'd created but I've provided his Titan Sentinel extract for your viewing pleasure.

Til next time!
Alpha-One

Fast as fast can be you can't catch me!

Mids' Build

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