Triton Albeck

Triton Albeck, or Reinforcement, is one of Lellorium's more notable heroes, and leader of the hero team Battalion.

Personality
Triton has a goofy personality for a hero, struggling to really understand the weight of most situations at hand. The best example was the time he once attempted to order honey for training his new puppy while narrowly escaping the Snakes and their rat explosives. A risk-taker, his sense of self-preservation only kicking in when he’s aware that he’s overusing his abilities. He still has a passion for hero work and living up to the expectations of those around him.

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Appearance
Triton has a lean build, average muscle mass, enough to activate his power and reinforce. Two web-like scars across the right side of his chest and left lower torso, from severe injuries sustained post-power. Triton has a sharp appearance, with a very rigid jaw and nose. His curly hair gives it a messy appearance, only occasionally having a sort of clear style in mind. Lastly, he has a dark blue almond shaped eyes that always seem to be interested in whatever they look at. When activating his ability bands of faintly glowing red and green wrap around whatever area is affected. When at full power the bands shift around and are no longer straight, more like the look of light in pool water.

Base Capabilities
Triton is capable of reinforcing limb skeletal muscles and minor smooth muscle tissue (i.e. organ tissue, vocal chords) in a way that superpowers them, allowing them to go beyond their limits. He can amplify his voice by manipulating vocal chords and improve his speed to approx. 50 miles per hour, mobility, and jump height to roughly four stories by reinforcing the legs to go beyond, among other logical applications. When reinforcing the arms he can bench approx. 1.5 tons. The effects wear off after 10 min. if prolonged, or can be used for up to 20 min. if used in bursts. Triton receives a quarter of the physical damage he would have taken had he been in a normal state once the reinforcement is removed/wears off. If the abilities are pushed beyond their limits, it can often result in damage to the body as well. Only two limbs can be reinforced at a time. When reverting back, any of the remaining damage’s pain is spread throughout the body and almost totally immobilizes him for next 10 minutes, and his nervous system malfunctions until he gets sleep, resulting in spasms, loss of touch, and dizzy spells.

Full Capabilities
Triton can reinforce his entire body to reduce damage to a tenth of what he would normally take and give minor burn/heat resistance, and even further improve muscle functions. The reduced damage is stored inside him and can be released collectively in the same manner it was dealt by physical contact, i.e. a grenade blast is stored and then can be released directly through a punch/kick/whatever. At max he can store up to 20 tons and 2000 degrees for 10 seconds. He can deliver a punch with 15 tons of force behind it at a speed of 100MPH, lift 9-10 tons depending on the type of lift, run up to 150MPH, and leap up to 10 building stories. Reduced damage is still spread across his body when he leaves the state and will result in nervous system malfunction and damage without runes, and slowed movement to immobilization depending on the level of damage still received.

Method 1
Triton requires an equilibrium between mind and body in order to maintain this state, as well as a heightened level of focus that can be thrown off if he does not have a clear goal in mind while in the state. In essence, he has to have a need in order to maintain his enhancement.

Method 2
If Triton has an extreme spike in emotion, i.e. extreme rage or anguish, he can enter this state however loses all self control and has no inhibitions about collateral damage and what will happen to his opponent.

The Beginning
Few know the true backstory of everyone’s favorite overly-nerfed Enhancer, because he’s never found it important to tell you. So I will. Born late in the afternoon like all the worst children are, Triton was born and raised in Kelton by two starving artists not even out of college,  irresponsible enough to believe it was a good idea to add children onto their plate. His father was a meta with the ability to memorize art and his mother powerless, so expectations for Triton to bloom into anything special weren’t high, especially not being born with a power. Raised on the idea that he was destined to be an artist of some kind, Triton hoped and prayed from the moment he could that he’d someday trigger an ability and be able to make a name for himself unlike his parents had. Triton never really had the idea of being a hero as a child, more having a power that would allow him to stand out and pursue a profitable future. At about 3 he would also have a sister.

Upbringing
Triton didn’t have a terrible upbringing, though his parents were frankly not prepared for a child and they had very little money considering paying both for him and their student debt. Projecting the idea that it was better to pursue a safe future like art, his ability to be independent dwindled and he developed into a shy and withdrawn middle schooler, watching other people from the sidelines and trudging through school.

The Trigger
At the beginning of 8th grade, Triton began to loosen up and his parents urged him to become more social after watching him exist in a shell for so long. Making more friends, he began to gain some popularity at school and in his age group, though in his newfound life he was introduced to more complex problems. Toward the end of the year, Triton had begun to take a liking to a girl in his homeroom. The two barely interacted, such would be Triton’s downfall,  but eventually he decided to make his move. In events too embarrassing for even me to conceive and right down, Triton discovered the girl was taken and a fight broke out in the school courtyard later that day, something Triton had never even considered he’d be a part of. That shit hurt. It was a one sided fight, Triton finding himself quite easily beaten. It lasted for what felt like hours, the blows and pain blurring together, even though it had only been a few minutes long. Eventually Triton blanked, only hearing about what happened after the next day. According to his mother’s secondhand account, his arm had lit up and he’d caught the other kid’s hand, crushing it in his fist by accident. Perhaps not irreparably, but he wouldn’t be swinging that arm for a while.

Using Your Power
Fast forward seven years. You find Triton in a totally different setting, going to university in Kelton. It had been a struggle to get there, a lot of work to be done in order to afford his tuition. He had made it his first year without much difficulty, but as he moved into his sophomore year of college, it was clear that it wouldn’t just work out, there wasn’t enough money to survive both the next two years and the debt that would arise after. So after the first semester, Triton dropped out and considered doing something he’d never thought he’d be doing. He saw the money heroes had, and how popular and successful the greats were. Somewhere inside Triton he saw potential, and a way to fulfill his childhood dream of standing out. And well, he could pay off student loans.

Applying
Triton prepared himself for the work he was sure he’d have ahead of him, preparing himself a hero costume like all the heroes had. It was a very formal sort of costume, worth four-thousand dollars with a cape and everything, something was fitting for the more elegant and complex hero. Of course, he’d spent the money and at the time it seemed like it was the coolest thing he’d ever owned. (It was a terrible idea, if one couldn’t infer that.) Leaving Kelton and heading for the LPD Headquarters in Downtown, Triton’s success at registration would mark the beginning of a life he could never have imagined.

The Broken
Triton’s first days as a hero didn’t turn out well. After trying and failing to take on a woman in a nightclub who could enslave people through song and nearly dying to a demon man in the streets of Downtown three days later, Triton began to see that paying off his student loan debt wasn’t the last obstacle he’d face now that he was a hero. Fast forward a month, exactly that, from his registration. Triton had acquired his new, skin-tight suit more designed for him to do what his power made him do best. After several days of reports on the nearing threat of the broken Tyrannus, it finally hit. The destruction and chaos was unlike anything Triton had ever seen, and it was the first insight he’d get into what this life was really about. After a long back and forth of rescuing civilians from buildings and getting them to the various safe zones set up away from the attack, Triton found himself caught in direct combat with Tyrannus like the others, delivering a monstrous uppercut (That got him #7 on the top 10 coolest Tyrannus moments montage) to the Broken before he was out of commission for the fight.

A Team
Fast forward a solid two or so years to May 2nd, 2020. Triton entered the LPD Headquarters to work on setting up a hero team, meeting Komori Tsubasa and founding Battalion, a new hero team aimed at representing heroes and assisting them to better operate as individuals. Along with Yugo Yushite, Ivy Sinclair, and a little robot named BALL, they uh, really haven’t accomplished much. A couple weeks after the team’s formation and their moving into a penthouse together, Triton left for the US for a trip to see his brother, that would turn into a several month hiatus.

Quotes
"Something tells me this meeting just got more urgent than we thought it was."

"I'm strong and fast and durable, that's it."

“Leave my Yakuza posters out of this, Ice Bitch."

"I said the same thing and I think I was crying for about 15 minutes after that."

"I’m gonna lose sleep over this."

“I think you're right, heroes don't hurt people. I'm not always the best hero, but I promised to be one. And so I promised not to hurt people."