Mouthpiece

Mouthpiece

Dex: 05	Str: 03	Bod: 05	Motivation: Power Lust
Int: 07	Wil: 04	Min: 05	Occupation: Spokesperson, Gang Representative
Inf: 07	Aur: 07	Spi: 05	Resources {or Wealth}: 008
Init: 018		HP: 030

Powers: Hypnosis: 6, Sonar: 8, Sonic Beam: 9, Sound Nullify: 6

Bonuses and Limitations: Sonic Beam can also be used as a Diminishing Area Effect; When used as an Area Effect, Sonic Beam works at -4 APs; victim must be able to hear Mouthpiece for Hypnosis to work

Skills: Charisma: 14, Detective (law, legwork): 6

Bonuses and Limitations: Charisma works as a Power, and can be effected by other powers (such as Neutralize or Scramble) that can effect other Powers

Advantages: Area Knowledge (Q-Zone); Gift of Gab; Leadership; Omni-Connection; Rich Friends; Scholar (business, oil industry)

Connections: The Great Question (high), Antagonist (high), Crime (low), Mr. Mayor’s Cabinet (low), OPEC (low), Street (high)

Drawbacks: Debt (to Antagonist); Enemy (Jack Flash); Forced Exile (Egypt); MIF of The Everyman; Minor Psychological Instability

Background:

Real name: Fareed Mahfour
Marital status: Legally seperated
Known relatives: Rachel (wife, seperated), 2 unnamed sons
Group affiliation: The Great Question
Base Of Operations: The Q-Zone district of The Divide
Height: 5'11" Weight: 175 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Black

Powers and Abilities:
Mouthpiece can project sonic waves to a variety of effects from an implant located in the vertebrae at the back of his neck. He can use these to a variety of effects, including Sonar, a beam of sonic force, and voice modulation to create a hypnotic effect. Additionally, Mouthpiece possesses a metahuman knack for talking, and he has often used this power to convince people to see things his way. This “super-charisma” is his key usefulness to The Great Question.

History:
Born Fareed Mahfour in Cairo, Egypt, Mouthpiece was the heir to a vast fortune in oil. His father died under mysterious circumstances on the family yacht during an excursion with the then 12 year old Fareed. Though the death was suspicious, Fareed was never charged. Using his innate metahuman powers, he instead found himself running his father’s company within two years.

He continued his education during his early days as CEO and graduated with a Masters in Business by age twenty-one. He quickly became known in the business world for his shrewd and often cruel tactics, and he expanded the family fortune several times over.

At twenty-two he married Rachel Tanner, an English woman living in Egypt. She quickly bore Fareed two sons while Fareed continued to use his powers to expand his empire. But Rachel had her own plans for the future of the company, and none of them included her husband. Shortly after, Fareed&8217;s thirtieth birthday, her plan went in to action, as she hired a hitman to murder the Chief Operating Officer of the company and frame Fareed for the murder.

With every sign pointed to him, Fareed could not bribe his way out of a trial. He quickly found himself thrown in to jail and much of his personal fortune torn away from him by Rachel when she seperated from him. Using his last ten million, he bribed a judge to commute his sentence to time served and quickly fled the country to avoid his wife’s hit squads. Rachel would quickly align herself with the coup presented by Ozymandias and take control of Egypt south of the Valley of the Kings, renaming the country the Thirteenth Dynasty.

Still fearing for his life, Fareed traveled to eastern Europe, where he paid doctors to implant an experimental device on his vertebrae that granted him sonic powers. With his wife’s hitmen still on his trail, he moved to The Divide. The city-state was the only power in the world to have recognized the Dynasty as a country. The non-aggression treaty between the two rogue states forced Rachel to call off her agents and left Mouthpiece free to act within the limited radius of The Divide.

Seeing his chance for power limited within Mr. Mayor’s Cabinet, Mouthpiece quickly aligned himself with the metahuman gang known as The Great Question and their leader, the enigmatic Antagonist. His abilities and natural drive for power quickly brought him to the fore front of the group, and he now serves as their spokesperson, negotiator, and regular public face.

Personality:
Mouthpiece is soft-spoken in private, but in public quickly becomes a master orater. He can convince anyone of just about anything and, given time, has been known to make friends of hated enemies. Mouthpiece yearns for unlimited power, but is willing to wait for it, even as Antagonist controls the whole of Divide. His patience allows him to bide his time as he waits for the right time to pull a coup on Antagonist and Conundrum and become the true force behind the Great Question and supreme ruler of The Divide.