REQUEST TIME! TEAM-CAPTIN AVALON!

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1) Competence
2) White
3) Man-Month Prometheus
4) Tribbles Mantis Shrimp

Wish Granted!

GreatRedSpirit

Mantis Hood
Liver Regeneration, Incredible Swimming Speed, Limited Underwater Breathing, Genius-level Intelligence, Peak-human Agility, Carapice Construction.
Though born with an inability to ruin his liver, Tommy Tribble never found himself drawn to heavy drinking. Much to the dismay of his fellow fratmates. At the University of Avalon, Tommy attended for theorhetical physics, chemistry, and technology in a three-way major. To the bafflement of on-lookers, Tommy maintained a 90% average in all his classes, while still studying martial arts on his days off. When not finishing homework, or gaining his various black belts (as he was attending several different dojos), Tommy could be either found in the library pouring through a text book, or on his laptop computer building complex worm programs.
A pure genius through-and-through. When school came to a close, Tommy went to work in the military, hoping to have his research funded in animal-human gene enhancements. However, this radical claim was denied, based solely on the usual outcome of comic book super villains undergoing the same flawed experiments. Tommy, despite being scoffed at by the military research board of directors, turned to other lucrative corporations in search of funding. After 2 long years of searching, the Midas Touch Children's Aid foundation fronted the money. Hoping the animal-human gene splicing could help cure those with terminal or crippling deseases.
Near the end of his first year of research, Tommy Tribble found his research lab destroyed, and all his notes stolen from him. Moments after this revelation, five burly men in suits came to find out how Tommy's progress had come. 'Surprised' to find Tommy's lab in ruins, the five men continued to beat the scientist to a pulp--only to meet his well-trained fists. After defeating the thugs, Tommy uncovered from one of them that they had been sent by Gold Pin to take his research and send Tommy running. However, as Tommy knocked the squealing thug unconscious, he decided to take back what was his.
Ripping through Gold Pin's House of Dust in search of his prize, Tommy Tribble met with the clashing blades of Gold Pin himself. Unprepared for such an assault, Tommy was quickly defeated.
Gold Pin then had one of his own scientists to experiment with Tommy's wounded body. Splicing Tommy's genes with a lowly Mantis Shrimp, Gold Pin considered the research a great success. Gold Pin sent his thugs to dispose of the body in the Vita Merlini river. Stupidly considering his unconscious battered body to be dead, the thugs simply dumped Tommy in the water.
The following night, Tommy awoke to find himself at the bottom of the river. His body was incased in a hard carapice and he was quite alive.
On surfacing, the carapice disolved at his will. Later, while poking around his destroyed lab, Tommy decided to regain his papers, and put an end to this Midas Mafia. Remembering the gene-splicing of a Mantis Shrimp, and pulling on his old hoodie from university as a makeshift means of disguise, Tommy took on the name Mantis Hood. During his first mission, Mantis Hood discovered the information on the papers had already been distributed, and that the Midas Mafia was now only a small piece of the problem. In order to take back what was his, he would have to dive deep into the criminal world and take it back piece by piece.
Acquiring a barbed spear and club as weapons, and adapting himself to the use of his controllable carapice, Mantis Hood began his personal war on crime.