Johnny Do: Heatseeker

Strength        Agility         Intellect       Willpower
5x              4x              3x              6x

Hand Size:      3 (17)
Edge:           1

Origin:

Johnny is a paranormal, a sort of altered human who gained his powers during the White Event, a bizarre astronomical phenomenon that forever set his world apart from our standard, generally more mundane reality. His pyrokinetic powers are psionic in nature.

Powers:

Natural Psionics (Psikinetic Powers):

Energy Generation (a) (a): Johnny's natural psionic power is the ability to generate flames. He can do this by psionically igniting air molecules around him. He can generate fire with intensity 14 ability, inflicting similar SD energy damage with each fiery attack.

Energy Control (t) (i): Johnny can manipulate the shape of the flames he generates, and likely other flames as well, at intensity 12. He can use this energy to produce an energy shield as well, providing himself like (or at least +3) protection from attack.

Flight (t) (a): While his energy shield is active, Johnny Do can fly - more or less. He does so rather slowly, may nonetheless do so. He flies at intensity 1 speed, or 15 mph, which may actually seem more like levitation than telekinesis, but he can move horizontally as well as vertically.

Natural Psionics (Metapsi Powers):

Invulnerability to Fire and Heat Attacks (a) (s): Johnny has total resistance to these two types of energies, allowing him to avoid inadvertently damaging himself with his flames, which is a good thing, considering how he casts them about willy-nilly.

Hindrances:

Naive: Johnny Do is really quite trusting, and can be easily taken advantage of by someone smart enough to try. Furthermore, he makes and defends against surprise attacks as if his Strength and Agility scores were zero, usually being caught flat-footed by such assaults.

Skills:

(none)

Contacts:

Johnny is a member of Psi-Force, and can probably rely on any team member for whatever help he could need. The Medusa Web should also be considered a reliable contact, as they went to great lengths to recruit the Psi-Force, and would not like to lose them.

Calling:

Youthful Exuberance: Johnny Do, after being awoken to the world by Thomas Boyd's care, has embraced his super heroic life with a truly youthful vigor. He goes through his adventures with a glee that his cynical teammates cannot come close to matching.

Costume:

Johnny isn't really into the covert, subversive style of adventuring that his team-mates favor. While in action, he simply wears a black pair of pants, a black 'muscle' shirt with a stylized red hawk on the front, a red headband, and of course, a pair of sneakers.

Personality:

Johnny Do has been in mental institutions for most of his life, thanks to the Soviet government. With his eventual liberation at the hands of Psi-Force and the Medusa Web, Johnny's started to evolve as a person, and sees Psi-Force as his family.

Real Name: unknown
Occupation: vigilante, former test subject
Legal Status: Soviet citizen wanted by most authorities
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: Dehman Doosha ('the Demon Within'), Heatseeker
Group Affiliation: Psi-Force, the Medusa Web, former would-be member of Crasniye Solleetsi

Height: 5' 2"
Hair: sandy blond
Eyes: blue
Weight: 95 lbs.
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: none

Story:

Johnny Do lived in Russian mental institutions for most of his life, until he manifested terrifying pyrokinetic powers in the wake of the White Event. He was shipped out to the Siberian Project after this occurred, where the Soviets began studying his powers.

Their ultimate goal was to add Johnny to a Soviet paranormal hit squad, called Crasniye Solleetsi (translated as 'Red Sun'). However, his limited mental state was a deterrent to this goal, and the Siberian Project scientists took to binding Johnny in an asbestos suit to control him.

They nonetheless let him loose so he could participate in Red Sun's quashing of the Afghanistani rebellion against Soviet rule. Of course, he went absolutely wild upon being set free, and Red Sun had to put him down in addition to the rebels, before dragging him back to the Project.

Once he was 'home', Johnny was about to be lobotomized (he kept burning things uncontrollably), when Thomas Boyd, a recent Project capture, discovered his presence and scheduled fate. Not liking this idea, he went to save Johnny, and he took charge of his care.

Boyd began to bring the child back to life, mentally speaking, trying to give him the desire to learn how to take care of himself. He did this until the Medusa Web broke Psi-Force out of the Project, and Johnny Do followed his newly found 'father' to freedom.

Mind you, the paranormals had to defeat Rodstvow first. Johnny Do joined Psi-Force, the Medusa Web, Justice, and Red Sun (what was left of them, anyway) to do this, and after a grim battle, the mad Russian was finally defeated.

After this mess, Psi-Force journeyed to France, and joined up with the Medusa Web on a contract basis. They continued working for the subversive organization at least throughout the War (which was the 'end' of the New Universe line of comics).

Chronology:  Psi-Force #23 (one panel), Psi-Force #25 (one panel), Psi-Force #27, Psi-Force #28, Psi-Force #29, Psi-Force #30, Psi-Force #31, Psi-Force #32.