Owen "Lurker" Folger

Owen Folger
Portrayed By	Justin Kornmann
Gender	Male
Date of Birth	03/31/91
Age	18
Zodiac Sign	Ares
Aliases	Lurker
Place of Birth	Fulton, Tennessee
Current Location	Xavier Institue
Occupation	Student
Known Relatives	Unnamed Large Family
Significant Other	None
Identity	Secret
Known Abilities	Dark Force Connection
First Appearance	Like Powers

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History

Owen Folger was the fourth child of Joeseph and Edna Folger. Part of a relatively large family, Owen grew up on a farm in Tennesee that mostly cared for animals and primarily grew peppers. His life was a normal one. He went to school, hung out with his friends, helped out around the farm, and got along well with his family. It was a pleasant and mostly uneventful life. Around age twelve, something bad happened.

Owen was just out playing football with his brothers, cousins, and some of the other guys. It started to rain but no one really minded because rain and mud were no big deal. Then, when Owen was going to catch the ball he caught something else instead. A bolt of lightning. The young man was hospitalized for a long while to recover, developing a fear of thunderstorms and large scale electrical discharges (crackling electricity from an electrokinetic, etc.). While he was slightly traumatized, Owen did recover and get on with his life. He continued to go to school and hang out with his friends. He even got a spot on the football team and was rising in the ranks pretty fast.

As Owen grew, he earned a nickname from his friends. They started calling him 'Lurker' due to his tendency to follow quietly and stick to the darker areas of paths and such. It started around age fourteen when Owen’s mutation manifested during a barn fire. He teleported himself to safety along with a horse. Despite his usual attitudes, he didn’t want anyone to find out so he tried not to draw too much attention to himself so people wouldn’t notice those times when he was partially fuzzy. He continued this for two years, secretly working on his powers in the woods near the farm. It was around age sixteen that Owen’s first transformation into ‘the Bat’ occurred. This resulted in the loss of some livestock and local fear. Owen was left very confused and frightened himself. Two weeks later when a local man was attacked (The Bat repelled by police), people saw Owen transform back but not his face. While a mob formed to hunt down the ‘mutant kid’, Owen hid in an old hotel. It was there that he was contacted by a recruiter from the Xavier School. After a long telepathic conversation (over a phone from Owen’s perspective), a meeting with Owen’s family was arranged. After the meeting, it was agreed Owen would head up to attend the school in two weeks as Owen’s mother wanted him to stay for his younger brother’s birthday.

When the time came to leave, Owen packed up his stuff and boarded a train up to New York. He should be arriving soon…

Themesongs

• Yui - Rolling Star

Powers

Dark Force Blast

Dark Force Blast - Owen’s able to fire blasts of DarkForce energy. His strongest blasts have about 15 tons of pressure behind them. The blasts are something he’s not got a lot of control over. Often he’ll fire a blast much weaker or stronger than intended and sometimes won’t even be able to fire a blast at all. Other times, he’ll accidentally fire a blast when not meaning to. His ‘Bat’ form has significantly better control of this power-stunt.

Dark Force Emission

Dark Force Emission - Owen is able to release DarkForce from himself to cause a bit of a ‘black out’ area. Currently, he’s only able to fill a 10 by 10 by 10 room with Dark Force or a sphere of equivalent size outside a room. This causes a cold area or darkness that makes it difficult for others to see in. Normal lights can provide some illumination within but only half as much as usual. Any Living Light will cut right through this field and banish what it cuts through.

Teleportation

Teleportation - The power Owen likes best is also the one he’s most skilled in out of all his powers. By concentrating on a destination he’s already been to or can see, Owen is able to engulf himself in Dark Force and teleport to that location. At the moment, he’s able to bring one or two other people with him for the teleport but it often leaves his passengers feeling ‘cold’ or a little unsettled. Owen may have good control of his teleportation but still sometimes teleports accidentally (in his sleep usually) or leaving things behind he meant to take with him like clothes or carried items under stress.

Cold Resistance

Cold Resistance - Owen’s able to withstand temperatures down to -20 degrees Farenheight thanks to the DarkForce. He’s not immune to freezing or ice, just more resistant to cold thanks to his powers.

The Changes

The Changes - When Owen uses his powers, his body takes on a few changes. Most visibly, he becomes covered in a short coat of red-brown fur (similar in length to Nightcrawler’s fur). His canine teeth become sharper to fangs and his eyes start to glow completely green. In this form, Owen’s got perfect night vision and is able to see in the darkness and DarkForce as clearly as he would in the middle of the day. These changes manifest near-instantaneously but slowly fade away depending on how much power Owen used or how long he used them. With time and training, he may he able to control the transformation back better but for now it’s a matter of waiting.

Enhanced Agility

Enhanced Agility - Thanks to his powers, Owen’s a lot more agile than most people. He can’t dodge bullets or anything like that but he can move enough to keep vital areas safe. He’s about twice as fast as a normal person and has very good agility.

Enhanced Strength

Enhanced Strength - The DarkForce flowing through Owen’s body enhances his strength somewhat. Normally he can lift around 700lbs but his strength increases to the two ton range when he’s close to transforming.

The Bat

The Bat - A very negative side effect of a DarkForce overcharge. Unless he can somehow expend the DarkForce building up in him, Owen will undergo a second transformation once every two weeks or so. This takes him from a human mutant the form of a giant, anthropomorphic bat. This creature is intelligent and uses Owen’s knowledge despite him having no memories of its exact activities. The beast has one primary motivation; seek out life to drain life-force from with its bite. This often proves fatal for the victim. The creature will attack animals and humans, even Owen’s friends and family. It seems to prefer mutants and other powered individuals though. The only ways to get Owen to transform back are through sufficient absorption of Life Force (at least six adult male mundanes or three metahumans/mutants), inflicting enough harm to render him unconscious, or burning off the DarkForce energy through Living Light exposure. When in this form, Owen gains several abilities. His sense of hearing and smell increase greatly and he gets the ability to use echolocation. In this form, he’s strong enough to lift, press, and hit with about six tons and his talons and teeth are able to tear through solid steel. He’s capable of flights up to 110mph in this form. Despite the strengths it gives, he gains sensitivity to bright lights and loud noises and seems to lack the mental ability to use the teleportation power despite using the others. The transformation is a painful one in both directions and Owen is often left incapacitated when returning to his human form and has little to no memory of what he did.

Timeline

• What's happened since you've been approved?

Quotes

• "I said it!"

Trivia

• Owen still sometimes teleports in his sleep, ending up in odd places.
• When Owen teleports, he still sometimes loses held items or clothing.
• In his fuzzy form, Owen's fur is surprisingly soft

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