HERO:Velocity
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Aram Khachaturian, AKA Velocity
Background:
Mister K. is what the kids all call him, at school. Which is fine; at least they're using 'mister'. The last decade or so have been hard to watch, hard to take. Too many youngsters disappearing, off to war, off to drugs, off to Canada. He doesn't blame them; the Great War left him with some pretty serious scars, and not all of them show as clearly as his shaking hands.
Aram remembers volunteering, of all the stupid things. The day that Pearl Harbor was bombed, he was 26, but he had students who were volunteering, and he didn't want to see the boys go off to war without a leader. College educated, he was inducted as an officer, 2nd Lieutenant Katchaturian, 2nd Platoon, Able Company, 45th Reconnaissance Troop, 45th Infantry Division. As a Recon soldier, he did scouting and intelligence work, earning recognition, and attention from the brass, and eventually a chance to be a "real patriot". He was to be part of the elite, a new breed of soldier, to match the SS Ubermenchen. And, for a time, he was. He passed the blood test, he passed the physical, he passed the screening...and he was given the serum, and like a few of his fellow soldiers, he became a member of the Special Weapons Division.
He was there for the fighting in North Africa and Italy. He helped break the Seigfried Line. And he was there when he and his fellow SWD members broke through the gates at Dachau. And he was there with the troops when Munich was taken.
And after the war? He went back to teaching. History and Civics and Home Economics, since the aftereffects of the serum made it dangerous for him to be anywhere near the shop. When Korea rolled around, he was tempted to re-up, until the Geneva Convention was updated to forbid "Special Weapons" on the battlefield. So instead he stayed home, teaching. And so as not to seem ungrateful, he worked with others with gifts, keeping the homefront safe.
Eventually, others filled the roles that he and his associates, his friends, tired of playing, and he went back to teaching full-time. And watching the young men in his classroom pass through his hands like smoke, fuel to the fires of war, and anger, and fear, and waste. Until now...
Personality:
Aram was naturally fidgety, impatient and prone to lecturing and tangential diversions, even before the serum that granted him his hypercharged movement. Even at 55, he still seems filled with nervous energy, though his "Parkinsons" seems to mask much of that impatience nowadays.
He tends to be quiet and dry, though when lecturing (especially to his students) his wit and humour are more prevalent -- he fancies himself at least a decent teacher, by dint of class participation if nothing else. In his old team, he tended to be involved most heavily in recon and intelligence-gathering, but his impatient nature also tended to be a factor in pushing the team to act, sometimes rashly.
