>Name Solder

>Age 34

>Backstory

Born in a small town in the Trento province, Doriano Froio lived a modest life of ups and downs as a sculptor, getting new contracts for work to use and sneaking to the nearby junkyard to get scrap metal for his more interesting projects. On one such day, he narrowly misses a meteor strike, which held a red orb, which he decided to take with him once he found it cooled down enough to hold in a rag.

At his home workshop, he learned it had strange properties, where touching a metal object caused it to heat up and melt, and further practice allowed him to control the metal as he wished, getting more difficult as the metal cooled down. Using this new ability, he crafted a great deal of sculptures that impressed even the more veteran of the arts.

This also brought people less interested in it, particularly the Artic Nazi’s, who thought the orb that Doriano described would prove useful in their personal interests. So they decide to raid him and take it for themselves, but Doriano felt such a thing would happen, so he crafted a special type of metal armour and fought off against the intruders. He fought well, but a grenade would land in the wrong spot and cause him to collapse, dropping the orb on his chest and melting his entire body apart, sending him straight down the earth where no Artic Nazi could reach him.

Eventually waking up, he found himself stuck in a cave of sorts, with the only light coming from his body, and feeling the sting of flesh and metal mixing together in strange ways. Still he persisted on, looking for a way to escape the unknown tunnels, while his powers grew, he found that he could remotely heat up and control metal, along with his own body as well, though at a longer time and only so far respectively. For a month he was stuck there, creating sculptures and objects along the way until he had the strength to melt a blockage of rocks with his hands and escape, bent on getting back at those who put him there.

Taking the name Solder, he travelled the world and hunted down the ones responsible and getting his new name well known to the Artic Nazi’s, eventually finding the one responsible and ending his life. For a time he hid and ran, meeting new people along the way both good and bad by getting mixed into them. He eventually finds his new calling in life and settles down in the UK once his trail got cold enough.

From there he meets the female blacksmith Vulcan, after a stint that collapsed half of her workshop, the two eventually got together and formed a small shop called the hero’s forge, where all super human’s big and small could get their armour and mechs repaired to the best of their abilities, with solder providing the metal, and Vulcan providing the details and tech.

>Powers

- Can melt anything he wishes by touch, though it depends on the makeup of the item how fast he can do it.
- Minor shape shifting, usually just stretched arms or hammer hands, must stay a humanoid shape
- Can melt metal in a distance, but slower compared to touching it
- Can mould metal in a molten state how he likes, it becomes harder to do so if the metal cools down enough

>Appearance

Looks like a molten mess of metal and magma most of the time, has a mask that moulds to his normal face. Keeps shirtless, so with the red orb fused to his chest. When calm, he looks like a metal man that is fairly smooth and shiny. Gets red hot and a little spiky when in combat/mad.

>Alignment
Neutral Good

>Inspiration
- Molten man
-Italian sculptors


>Name Vulcan

>Age 29

>Backstory

Louise Howard lived in a fairly rich lifestyle in the UK, which with a massive amount of mechanical parts her father had at her disposal, lead her to be shown to be a gifted youngster when it was about robotics, making a fully functional mini robot at twelve once she had finished her schooling, Ikehara industries snatched her up to give her the opportunity of a lifetime to work on the robotics sector there.

After a while and a few robotic breakthroughs later, Louise felt a bit tired from the work she was doing and started having thoughts with going out and trying the whole superhero thing. So with that, she decided to cut back on hours and work on being a superhero. Sadly, things would not be so simple for her, with some failed rescues and such, and negligence to her actual job, she was eventually jobless. Accepting her fate, she decides to set up a small repair shop to pay the bills and work privately on her work on robotics and a form of nanotechnology.

On one particular day, she ends up meeting Solder, who after some misunderstandings, ends up fighting and losing half of her building in the process. Though he was nice enough to help fix it, the two would eventually grow close together over the years that they were together and set up a new shop called the hero’s forge, where all super human’s big and small could get their armour and mechs repaired to the best of their abilities, with solder providing the metal, and Vulcan providing the details and tech. Her research into nanotechnology still persists to this day, and some of her studies would lead the two to go on grand adventures together.

>Powers
- Highly smart
- Has a set of robots under her command, with varying levels of intelligence.
- Has batman inspired utility belt for special occasions when left alone.

>Appearance
Typical average looking girl, slightly toned through training and her helping out with blacksmithing. Usually wears a ponytail.
>Alignment Neutral good.