Franklin Hall
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| Name: | Franklin Hall | ||
| Superalias: | Graviton | ||
| Gender: | Male | ||
| Species: | Metahuman | ||
| Occupation: | Physicist | ||
| Citizenship: | Canada | ||
| Residence: | Alberta, Canada | ||
| Education: | PhD in Physics | ||
| Theme: | Marvel (VFC) | ||
| Groups: | Rogues Gallery | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 45 | Actual Age: | 45 |
| Date of Birth | 09 Jan 1977 | Played By | Adrian Pasdar |
| Height: | 6'1" | Weight: | 200 lbs |
| Hair Color: | Black with white temples | Eye Color: | Blue/Grey |
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| Theme Song: | "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse | ||
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Character Info
Profile
Dr. Franklin Hall is a well-known figure in the world of physics, particularly in the fields of gravity effects and teleportation. While undeniably skilled and brilliant, his somewhat arrogant attitude and willingness to take risks to achieve his goals have left a mixed view of his career.
Timeline
Timeline:
*1977: Franklin is born as the only son of the Hall family in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
*1995: Hall's natural intelligence earns him high grades, particularly in science and math, making him Valedictorian for his high school graduation.
*2007: Dr. Hall graduates near the top of his class at the University of Toronto, earning a PhD in Physics with a specialization in gravity.
*2008-2020: Dr. Hall ambitiously moves from academia to private research, creating steady breakthroughs but often overshadowed by metahuman scientists, which he becomes increasingly resentful of and frustrated over.
2020-2022: Hall is tapped by a private research firm working under contract SHIELD as the primary research lead for a project on creating a stable wormhole using gravitic lensing. Frustrated by slow progress, Hall takes increasing risks that result in an accident that destroys his lab as well as neighboring particle accelerators. The molecules of Hall's body are intermingled with sub-nuclear gravitons formed in the accelerators, giving Hall the ability to mentally control gravity. Initially, Hall keeps his newfound abilities secret.
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Personality
Ambitious:
Hall has always wanted the good life, where he is wealthy, respected, and admired for his knowledge and abilities. As such, he has often gone where he feels his experience and knowledge will net him the greatest rewards, rather than research to advance knowledge for its own sake. This has also led him to believe he deserves more than others in his field, something that causes him to resent more brilliant researchers who outshine him, particularly those with metahuman intelligence boosts.
Brilliant:
Hall has a great natural intellect, that has carried him through his life. His native intelligent allows him to quickly incorporate and see the possibilities of new information. He is particularly gifted in seeing connections between different fields.
Charismatic:
While Hall can be self-centered, he is equally capable of being charming and pleasant when it suits him. Years of academic rivalry and ambition have left him with the knowledge of how to best present himself. He is also a handsome man who uses his attractiveness to his advantage, and can be a very pleasant conversationalist, even seductive to a possible partner.
Open-Minded:
While Hall has a strong tendency to believe he's right over others, he has enough of a scientist's mind that he will change it if presented with facts and data that show his beliefs are incorrect. He can be stubborn about being convinced, but he is not entirely biased and incapable of accepting new ideas.
Self-Confident:
Hall has a great deal of confidence in his personal intelligence and ability. This means he does not shy away from a challenge, but that also that he can overestimate his reach and fall into arrogance.
Strong Willed:
Hall's confidence and intelligence mean that he cannot be easily swayed from what he believes to be the right path. It allows him to push himself through difficult moments to succeed, but it also means he can be difficult to persuade to change his mind.
Character Sheet
Powers
Flight:
By using his powers over gravity, Hall can simultaneously reduce the pull of planetary gravity to levitate while allowing him to maneuver and fly freely through the air by creating different gravity fields around him. This gives him a very high degree of maneuverability, as well as the ability to create a forcefield in front of him to reduce friction when at full speed. Theoretically, this allows him to fly at any speed or height as long as he is still able to breathe, which may require him to pull oxygenated air along with him inside a gravity bubble to go into an airless or low pressure environment.
Force Field:
Hall is capable of generating gravitic force fields to protect him from incoming attacks. Normally he simply radiates this effect from his skin, making him extremely durable, but he can project fields away from his body, shaping them as he sees fit within the limits of his control area, up to the equivalent of stopping 5000 tons of TNT in concussive force.
Gravitic Manipulation:
Hall is capable of exerting control over gravitons and anti-gravitons in roughly a hundred meters radius faround his body. He can increase or decrease gravity constants within that area. This allows effective telekinesis, picking up objects and moving them around as he wills. He can multitask when using his abilities and have several effects up at once without having to concentrate exclusively on one, effectively "locking" an effect in place until he ceases to exert his power on it. His primary limitation is a lack of experience in using his powers; therefore, his ability is very likely to grow rapidly as he gains increasing confidence and practice.
Gravitic Might:
While he is unable to actually increase his strength or manipulate his density, Hall is able to use gravity effects to give simulate superhuman strength, giving great power to his physical strikes, up to 50 tons of power.
Gravitokinesis:
Hall can simulate the effects of telekinesis with controlled application of gravity fields, allowing him to mentally lift, catch, or throw objects or attacks at in a 100 meter range, though he can throw objects outside of that range easily. Using his gravity sense, he does not necessarily need to see the object, as long as it has the mass to interact with the local gravity field. He can also alter the point of gravity around individuals, making it seem the floor is suddenly a wall or ceiling from their perspective, or moving them through the air in complex patterns with alternating fields.
Graviton Attraction:
Hall is capable of setting a gravity affect around an object or person, such as giving a rock its own powerful gravity field to pull everything around it closer, or imbuing a person with the ability to fly. This effect constantly drains a measure of power from Hall, which can weaken him if he has expended too much of his power to empower a constant gravity field.
Graviton Blast:
By focusing gravitons or anti-gravitons into a coherent beam, Hall can create powerful blasts of raw force power at ranges of 100 meters. These shockwaves can likewise be focused into a cone or spherical detonation around him, reaching destructive levels of up to 5000 tons of TNT at full power.
Gravity Forging:
With his knowledge of gravity effects and physics, Hall can use his abilities to create materials and alloys that are significantly stronger than normal, by imbuing them with gravitons or anti-gravitons. He primarily uses this to create useful tools or costuming. While durable, they can still be destroyed by sufficiently powerful attacks.
Gravity Sense:
Hall's powers allow him to detect gravity distortions, particularly extra-dimensional shifts, density phasing effects, or invisible objects by their interactions with Earth's gravity field. He can use his abilities to disrupt some of these effects, especially if they rely on gravity in some way.
Gravity Shackling:
By increasing the gravity beneath targets, Hall can slow them down or pin them to the ground by making them too heavy to move. This can be used to interfere with bodily functions, particularly the cardiovascular system, which can cause affected individuals to pass out from the g forcdes involved.
Skills
Academic:
Hall received a well-rounded education, giving him more than average awareness or knowledge of a variety of subjects beyond simple trivia.
Athletics:
Hall keeps himself in excellent shape, above average for a normal man of his age. This gives him the benefits of greater endurance and strength than normal.
Hard Sciences:
While physics is his primary focus, Hall has a good grasp of the hard sciences in general, enough that he is at least competent in his academic knowledge and ability to combine them into his experiments and research.
Leadership:
Hall has headed many research projects and grants over the years, and knows how to keep a group organized and effective. His natural charisma helps with keeping his minions effective and loyal.
Manipulation:
Hall knows how to be charming and charismatic when needed, and how to socially manipulate people to get what he wants.
Physics:
Hall is an accomplished and experienced physicist, with a particular specialization in gravity and teleportation.
Researcher:
Hall is a scholar trained in proper research and experimentation techniques. He believes that the scientific method is absolute, and that empirical data is needed, along with repetition of result, to prove a theory is likely to be true.
Style:
Hall has an excellent grasp on style and fashion, which he uses to show himself off to best effect. This translates into costumes or items that he creates, as he prefers an aesthetically pleasing rather than simply functional look.
Technician:
While not his primary field, given his ventures into cutting edge research such as teleportation and gravity effects, Hall is experienced in constructing and adjusting scientific apparatuses to accomplish a particular effect.
Resources
Connections:
Hall has formed quite a few connections with powerful companies and peers over the years - some for his benefit, some against due to his actions. He can often contact someone in the know to get things he wants, either politically or in terms of actual materials or equipment.
Laboratory:
Due to his connections and employers, Hall has access to advanced laboratories in which to conduct his research. This can include rare scientific equipment or materials.
Wealthy:
Hall's ambition and ability has led to him being correspondingly paid quite well. He is very comfortably well off, and capable of supporting a high end home and several vehicles without straining his resources.
Weaknesses
Egocentric:
Hall sometimes has a hard time understanding other people have different opinions than his own and that those viewpoints matter. He has not quite dipped into sociopathic tendencies, but it does cause him to act selfishly at times.
Impatient:
Hall often wants to jump straight to the reward without the necessary work between starting and finishing. This can cause him to take risks that blow up in his face, sometimes literally.
Insecure:
Deep down, Hall has a powerful need to be important, to be remembered, rather than simply forgotten after his death - for his life to matter. When his intelligence is overshadowed, his abilities eclipsed, when he fails, this fear comes to the forefront - that he isn't as confident as he projects himself to be, and that he is not as important as he thinks himself to be. He doesn't believe in an afterlife or religion, so he fears that he will be forgotten after his death, leading him to desire to be famous (or infamous) so that no one will forget he existed.
Lazy:
Hall grew up being flattered and celebrated for his natural intelligence, without the strong work ethic that would bolster his natural gifts. He is not above stealing the ideas of others to advance his own agenda, or manipulating others to make things easier for himself.
Self-Important:
Hall has an exaggerated idea of his own importance, often out of overbearing pride in his accomplishments and intelligence. This can be grating on his peers when he constantly thinks of himself as above them. At the same time, it is a blow to his ego when someone demonstrates superior ability or accomplishments he cannot match.
Vain:
Hall takes a great interest in maintaining his appearance and looks. He's aware he's handsome, but has held onto a look that better fits a younger man, refusing to acknowledge his aging gracefully.
Role-Play
Logs
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Franklin Hall has
7 finished logs.
| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| Counterweights | December 25th, 2023 | Gravity wells, gravitons, and black holes oh my! |
| The Crushing Weight of Betrayal | September 16th, 2022 | Dr. Hall's dark deeds are uncovered by Talia al Ghul....who promptly decides to mess with him and leave him hanging in the end. |
| Power vs Finesse | September 7th, 2022 | Roland and Graviton stop a runaway car with perhaps a bit more force than called for. |
| The Gravity of the Situation | August 10th, 2022 | Franklin Hall's first attempt at revenge on those whom have wronged him fails thanks to a particularly deft Huntress. |
| Anger Management | July 16th, 2022 | An angry and disguised Franklin Hall is discovered by a disguised Emma Frost, and conversation ensues. |
| Gravity of the Situation | July 9th, 2022 | Dr. Hall visits GIRL to try and recover his research data, only to receive an unexpected offer from the young scion of Pym Technologies. |
| Anything Powerful is Dangerous | June 17th, 2022 | A catastrophic lab accident at New Horizons Research Center in the Canadian Rockies brings together Black Widow, Wonder Man, Impulse, and Red Arrow to save the survivors, including Dr. Framklin Hall. Black Widow recovers a data drive with the experimental data that caused the accident. |
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