Beatdown (Original Creation.)

Backstory:

Even though the city is called Sunrise City, that doesn't mean that everything is sunshine and rainbows. For Vivo Mccray, it was hell. He grew up in an abusive family, where his father would beat his mother, and Vivo. He had to endure so much pain throughout his childhood. During that time, he would find his escape through music, where you can just lose yourself. He would forget about the real world, and just dance to the beat of the song. One day though, he decided enough was enough, and tried to run away from home. His father had different ideas, so he smashed Vivo's ipod, and pummelled Vivo. Vivo was able to break free, and run out onto the streets. He thought about going back to save his mother, but what could he do? While walking all night to find somewhere to live, Vivo came across a new ipod and headphones to go with it. He plugged the headphones in, and put them on. He scrolled through the music, and chose the first song that intrigued him. As soon as the first beat dropped, he felt different. He felt electricity flow through his veins. All of the sudden, he shot electricity out of his hands. "What the heck is going on?" he says, confused. He puts his hands out in front of him and feels the electricity. He shoots out another bolt. "How am I doing this? What's wrong with me?" He picks another song. That feeling of electricity fades away. "Phew, that was a close one!" But he then realizes, that he's on top of a rooftop that is across the street from where he was without even moving a muscle. "Ok, something is definitely wrong..." He then realizes that he may have extraordinary abilities. To test his theory, he scrolls through different genres of music and sees what happens. With Dubstep/house/electronic music, he gains control over Electricity. "Oh man, this is so cool." Next up, he listens to Classical music. He starts to say all these different things that he never knew before. Classical gives him Enhanced Intelligence. Earlier when he teleported, he was listening to some of the most popular music in the area. "Let's see what Rap/RNB has in store." He dances around trying to see what it will do. "Nothing... that can't be right." So he starts to walk across the rooftop, and starts to go faster, and faster. He's about to reach the end of the building, and he starts to panic. "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon," he says rapidly as he franticly switches genres. He starts to fall down to the ground, and as he selects the next song with that country twang, he stops falling. "What happened?" He looked below, and saw that he was 20 feet off the ground. He started to fly around, though in the excitement of it all, he skips to the next song. "Oh crap." He falls down to the ground. "ow!" He yelps, but realizes that it didn't hurt that much. "Thank you rock music." He sees a car on fire, with someone inside. He runs over, and tries to pry off the car door. He succeeds, with very little effort. "Ok cool, I'll probably need to write this all down somewhere though..." He grabs the girl inside. and runs away before the car is fully engulfed in flames.. "Tha'nk you, she says panting." "No worries!" Vivo says with a smile on his face. He realized he had taken off the headphones to hear what she had said. Nothing happened, no electricity, no teleport, no flying, nothing... He proceeds to put his headphones back on, with some blues playing now. All of the sudden he can hear all these different things, as if he can hear the thoughts of everyone around him. He decides from that day forward, that he would use these powers for good, and to stop scum like his father from ever hurting anyone ever again. He calls himself Beatdown.

 

Alright there's my first entry into the second week of Thomas' contest. Here's the summary of what genre gives him what just for reference. I didn't mention a couple of them in the backstory, cause there was a lot to fit in as it is. Also did not mention that his costume changes according to each genre as well. The fig you see here is in his Jazz outfit. Hope you all enjoyed reading about Beatdown, cause it was fun making him. I got the idea from reading reddit a couple months ago.

Dubstep/house/electronic: Electricity

Classical: Enhances intelligence

Pop: Teleportation

Rap/RNB: Super Speed

Rock/Metal/Screamo/Punk: Super Strength/hardened skin

Blues: Read Minds

Jazz: Enhanced Charisma, being able to charm people.

Country: Flying

Alternative: Shapeshifting

 

Now an entry to Dodg's contest in the original character category. #UniqueCustomsContest

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