Putnam

Josiah Putnam
Player: @Stormfall
Character Build
Origin:	Mutation
Archetype:	Arachnos Widow
Security Level:	47
Biographical Data
Real Name:	Silver Dathaniel Põder
Known Aliases:	Putnam, Night Widow Putnam, Operative Putnam, The Jumping Spider/Kelly Simmons, Daniel Liverpool (Bodyguard), Roger Garies (Longbow Guardian), Jimmy Blacklock-Smith, Tyler Kaprusiak, etc.
Age:	28
Gender:	Male
Species:	Human Mutant
Ethnicity:	Estonian and British-Indian (Punjabi)
Birthdate:	August 7th
Birthplace:	Toronto
Relatives:	Unnamed father and mother (deceased), Timo (Uncle, deceased), Unknown cousin (not identified)
Characteristics
Height:	6'1
Weight:	-
Eyes:	Gray
Hair:	Lilac, traces of Dark Brown (Formerly dark brown)
Complexion:	Healthy
Physical Build:	Toned
Physical Features:	Lilac Hair duh
Status
Alignment:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Lawful Evil
Reputation:	██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ Big-time
Identity:	Secret
Years Active:	12
Base of Operations:	Mobile
Citizenship:	-
Education:	Graduate
Occupation:	Assassin, Arachnos Operative
Marital Status:	Never Married
Known Powers and Abilities
Superhuman Leg Strength and Durability; Telepathy, Psychic Network, Mental Resistance; Enhanced Agility; Reinforced Skeleton; Honed Reflexes, Balance, Coordination, Stamina and Recovery
Equipment and Paraphernalia
Protective Wear, Extendable Barbs, Smoke Grenades, Image Inducer, Communications Tech, miscellaneous, etc.

Attributes
	Strength	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Endurance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Agility	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Speed	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Fighting	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Projectiles	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Durability	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Resistance	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intelligence	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Psyche	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Intuition	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Charisma	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
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(HEAVY WIP - TO BE EDITED - MIND THE CLUMSINESS/MESSINESS!)

Background

Once Upon a Time

Born in Toronto on August 7th 1996, Silver Põder spent the first few years of his life in relative happiness. His common law mother and Estonian-immigrant father managed to do well before deciding to have a child, and Silver was privileged to live in a condominium in the city that was small for its price even by 90s standards. His father particularly made it a habit to speak his own first language in the home for his son to learn organically, and maintain a touch of his culture in general. Just as quickly the events of life told a promising future, they changed for the worse and took everything away from Silver.

The six year old boy lost his parents in a fire the night he was at a friend's for a sleepover, which also claimed the lives of three others and hospitalized a dozen more. With no prospective local, or even national relatives able to take custody of Silver, arrangements were made for him to be sent to his uncle Timo - an immigrant with an address in Paragon City, despite never even knowing of his existence. The reason why his father and uncle were deeply estranged didn't come to light until after the first few honeymoon months of Silver's new life.

At first his uncle seemed nice, though this soon morphed the instant they relocated to the Rogue Isles and Timo's ties to Arachnos were no longer obscure. Signs of emotional and mental abuse began, which snowballed into verbal expressions and physical acts. Through all sorts of dubious means and connections, his Uncle Timo successfully erased what little past Silver had in place of a new identity: Josiah Putnam (playing on a moniker of a late friend). In a cruel twist of fortune for those who didn't deserve any good of it, Putnam started to exhibit various early signs of psychic potential at the age of nine, in which Timo was already experienced in determining to some degree.

This prompted his uncle to immediately hand over Putnam to Arachnos for a little remuneration, and suffer the same twisting of the mind all other early victims of the terrorist army suffer. As a product of the times that stagnated boys and girls into specific Spider and Widow lanes, with an even more pronounced psychic split of Bane Spiders and Fortunatas, Putnam was educated as such... doomed to be linked into the network of self oppression.

Widowmaker

Blooming into the start of his teenage years, the early onset of some puberty features such as the strange change in hair colour didn't amount to any particular success in the psychic development department. Putnam was failing to show adequate results during early conditioning, even through the intensive program that tested his limits. This was especially disappointing while confirmed to have the mutant gene. Worst still, he also carried the burden of ridicule and torment involving the first discoveries of his sexuality; from minders and other victims alike, from those first few years in the program. His lack of interest in the opposite sex, the inability to relate to his peers, growing fascination with Ghost Widow and the insistence of wanting her to aspire to in whichever way alienated him.

However, as one door closed, another opened. The true latent nature of his mutation manifested over a night of restless leg syndrome, which caused an obscene amount of damage to his cell. Through initial intrigue over anger the nature of this occurrence was explored, and Putnam started to finally impress superiors with powerful and durable feats. He was encouraged to channel his anger and resentment against others through combat, and soon delighted in kicking the shit out of his former bullies (and in a couple of cases, killing them).

This newfound and increasing confidence started to have a positive effect on his mind and psychic aspects, despite his circumstances - his psyche long twisted and shaped to come to terms and survive his inescapable trajectory, though also adapting and solidifying his individualistic tendencies. He became more focused and relished in education. Putnam's protests and determination, sometimes physically expressed, then came with perfect timing. The dawn of a more modern Arachnos saw the mixing of sexes and genders into various roles that were otherwise almost exclusively set in stone, and Putnam was chosen from his program to be inducted into the Widow-oriented world he wanted to be a part of from the very beginning.

"This is my true Faction. I can feel it in my legs."

This suited his most prominent skills and interests much better and made him a particularly promising asset with his semi-unique mutation. Consistent impressing and apparent shows of obedience earned him various freedoms and perks, in which he took advantage of to connect better with the normal teen-hood that passed him by and get what he wanted: specific magazines, discovering specific shows, music artists, pop culture oddities, game consoles, fashionable clothing and even brushing up and continuing the study of Estonian to at least have one anchor into the past he couldn't even recall anymore.

By 2012, at the age of sixteen, he graduated into the equally harsh outerweb of Arachnos as one of the first male Blood Widows of his particular age group. Putnam became a rather irregular element in the Arachnos ranks from the start; he teetered on the edge of being despised like a Destined One or a potentially stand-alone villain with his mutation that made him exceptional in his role (compared to his common comrades). And yet, he insisted on excelling as a Widow with head down and obedient when necessary while injecting his unique methods and personality into his work when superior eyes weren't upon him. A year into his occupation saw him gain a reputation for his eye-catching combat prowess, and particularly social and intimate methods of getting close to his intended targets while taking missions with increasing complexity.

It became common for him to kill by "leg asphyxiation" opposed to other usual methods of assassination, and much in the same way he leapt over his comrades and enemies, so too did he leap over the competition and climb his way up quickly, successfully and efficiently. This, paired with his desire and willingness to further his professional training and craft in espionage and infiltration tactics, even in his free time, enabled him to grasp onto the Night Widow's leg that he worked so hard to reach... sooner rather than later.

Operation: Rainbow Spider

The years only increased Putnam's skill, efficiency, reputation and social leadership capabilities. Some named heroes would've feared him if they even knew who he was, and his resume grew longer and longer with the higher profile individuals and organizations he successfully managed to terminate and/or exploit. One of these higher profile missions resulted in the opportunity to become a more unique operative among the ranks, or more specifically an opportunity he finally accepted - Operation: Rainbow Spider. Putnam became the overseer of Arachnos's first major twofold infiltration and propaganda operation involving the LGBTQ+ community. Rainbow Spider officially launched in 2017, which aimed to: develop and initiate a campaign to drastically increase the recruitment rates of those within its various communities, establish relationships with and infiltrate various LGBTQ+ specific organizations and registered "super groups", and identify and develop a database of closeted individuals from substantial enterprises and avenues, while gathering consistent intelligence via audio and video for potential exploitation and blackmail.

The operation yielded satisfying results over a five year period alone, where Putnam also took advantage of his position to increase LGBTQ+ protections and education within the Arachnos youth conditioning programs, much to the dismay of many pigheads. In 2022, Putnam relinquished his position to promote a comrade he grew very fond of during their time together in Rainbow Spider, opting to remain an adaptive operative while also still being quite involved in the operation (and to indulge more in his personal interests, too). Up until 2024 once a specific opportunity crossed his fate, he spent the majority of his time building important relationships, committing to a handful of missions with no choice in the matter, taking up ballroom dancing, and destroying the lives of phobes through very illegal means.

Personality Profile

Putnam is a man that blends his masculinity perfectly with the icing that is his more "feminine interests", and makes no apologies for loving what he does. He is a comfortably social and sensual creature that has been described as mild-mannered and difficult to legitimately piss off. Even when he's throwing out sassy zingers or snarky remarks, he's always prepared to deal with the results.

At times his tolerances can come off as eccentric, though he lacks the crippling self-consciousness he suffered from prior to coming into his own. Putnam is a firm believer of being kind and sympathetic, even to his potential future victims, and ensures that his deadly actions hold with them a merit of pizzazz and grace.

The fact that his "good" qualities seem to have no bearing on his terrifying efficiency can come off as eerie to many. As a leader, Putnam offers those under him the "three strikes you're out" rule. He also isn't anywhere near cold-blooded or cutthroat as some of the other desperate edge lord sycophants of the Arachnos numbers, and unless specifically ordered, ensures his victims are dealt a swift death. Messy torture makes his eyes roll.

Like many of those involved with the spiders, his past is marked with tragedy and abuse... but you wouldn't know it upon first impression. Beyond all the fun in games, Putnam is planted in reliable common sense, and whatever trauma his being is holding onto is locked away deep inside. It is very rare, though he possesses a few specific triggers that cast a glimpse into this part of him. He is generous, but fair. Curious, but focused. A kind heart, but conditioned mind.

Affiliations

Organizations

• Arachnos

-> *Orbweaver Syndicate

Capabilities

Powers

Superhuman Legs - The primary and defining feature of Putnam's mutation is his superhuman leg strength and durability. His leg muscles are capable of lifting/supporting up to 50 tons of weight with maximum effort (20-40 on average), enable him to leap incredible heights and distances, and possess superhuman durability from the skin to the bone. To biologically compensate his advanced leg muscles, other parts of his body including but not limited to his bones, are naturally reinforced enough to prevent self injury, albeit not to the same magnitude of the lower half of his body. This indirectly also grants him enhanced agility compared to the average man.

Psionic - Putnam is also a formidable psychic capable of telepathic communication, mind scanning, the projection of mental bolts, mental reinforcement of his own mind, and the minds of others, and limited perception manipulation and precognition. Connection to the network and general Arachnos conditioning all throughout his early years have played a key role in the development of these psychic gifts and the state of his psyche.

Abilities

Physical Conditioning - Intense physical training has rendered Putnam in virtually peak physical health. This is maintained through consistent cardio, toning, healthy eating (though cheat days are a thing) and limiting the consumption of toxic substances.

Combat Training - Putnam combines and builds upon the basic combat training from the earliest days of his Arachnos excursion, which incorporates basic offensive, defensive and evasive techniques. Across his development over a period of several years, his skills in combat have drastically improved and remain unique in their combination of stealth tactics, acrobatics and superhuman leg strength. The concentrated attacks of his legs have shown to be able to shatter stone and steel.

Weapons/Equipment

Uniforms - Putnam's protective Night Widow uniform, from voice-distorting helmet to extractable/projectile barb claws to toe, is slightly (but subtly) modified from the standard male version. The Widowform can also retract into the rear spider badge for easy removal and recovering. In addition, he also possesses at least two other permanent unique uniforms with differing levels of armor and utility depending on the situation: His "Jumping Spider" vigilante costume, and an Arachnos marked armorsuit.

Gadgets - Putnam makes use of various standard and situational gadgets and utilities, including but not limited to image inducers, smoke grenades and cloaking devices that work in unison with his perception masking abilities to achieve disguise, camouflage or complete stealth.

Communications - Equipped with standard and situational/specialized communications technology of varying origin and purpose, and the support of such.

Other Skills/Talents

Espionage and Infiltration - As a Night Widow Putnam has acquired extensive training and practiced application in various aspects of espionage and infiltration, both short-term and long-term. He is adept in adapting different identities , and specializes in "positive social infiltration and subterfuge" - establishing and maintaining social connections with both individuals and entire organizations for his, and by extension Arachnos's benefit.

Technology and Computing - Putnam is trained in basic practical computing, and hacking capabilities. He can also effectively utilize and understand most modern technologies.

Medical Training - Basic knowledge of first aid and field medics, resuscitation, Heimlich!, etc.

Multilingualism - Putnam can communicate fluently in English, Estonian and French. After a recent Arachnos-supplied ancestry kit came back with his results, he discovered (or confirmed, really) the Indian of his mother's side, and has decided to start learning Punjabi as his next language of interest.

Ballroom Dancing - After only two years of really getting into it, it turns out he has a coordination talent beyond the work world. This has also recently encouraged him to explore other styles of the art.

MISC

Disclaimers

• Currently, most information contained within this profile is for OOC purposes/situational IC access only and is not common knowledge. Please interact accordingly.

Trivia

• His favourite colour family is orange.
• His favourite comfort meal is spaghetti and milk.
• His favourite queens are Ghost Widow, Kylie Minogue and Bjork.
• His absolute favourite music artist is Carly Rae Jepsen. She is also in fourth queen place.
• He has a huge crush on Luke Thompson, and is a big Bridgerton fan.