Forest Bastion

Forest Bastion
Player: @Dr. Altair
Origin:	Magic
Archetype:	Corruptor
Security Level:	50
Personal Data
Real Name:	(Refuses to share, says it's abandoned)
Known Aliases:	"Bastion"
Species:	Human
Age:	Unknown, seems to be in his late 20's to early 30's
Height:	6'4"
Weight:	200 lbs
Eye Color:	Completely green irises and scleras, milky white pupils (normally hidden behind a blindfold)
Hair Color:	Brown with streaks that change from green to yellow to red to brown depending on his mood and the ambient temperature
Biographical Data
Nationality:	Praetorian
Occupation:	Full-time hero
Place of Birth:	Praetoria
Base of Operations:	Paragon City
Marital Status:	Single
Known Relatives:	(Refuses to identify any)
Known Powers
Natural ability to use life magic
Known Abilities
Keen senses, survivalist
Equipment
None

From the notes of Dr. Hector P. Moroz.

Forest Bastion is a Fire Blast/Nature Affinity Corruptor originating from Praetoria. He is currently a vigilante.

History

Bastion has only shared a handful of details about his youth. The limited information he has shared, his behavior during these discussions, and his tenancy to suppress his emotions indicate serious childhood trauma. I will not inquire further.

Bastion was born to a relatively elite family that resided in the Imperial City.

When he was a young child, he suffered a serious illness that has still not been identified. The disease left him permanently blind.

He was given a comprehensive health examination after he was found on Primal Earth. No pathogens known to cause blindness were found. Actually, they didn't find any disease-causing pathogens at all, not even mild ones.

Bastion apparently adapted quickly to his blindness and didn't suffer any distress over losing his eyesight. However, his parents were devastated by the loss of their "normal" son. His behavior was tightly controlled even from a young age. The one detail he gave before inquiries about this time were stopped was that his mother once found him practicing echolocation and yelled at him for "making weird noises."

This is where he starts to become sullen and withdrawn and I tell him I'm dropping the topic of his parents forever and go get both of us strong drinks.

The details of how Bastion ended up in the wilds around Praetoria are unclear, even to him. He only knows that he heard something calling to him in the night and he was outside of the sonic barriers by the following morning. He soon discovered his strong affinity for life magic and used it to make the wilds into his home. He did experience hostility from the Hamidon's monsters, but all of their attempts to kill, infect, or otherwise remove him failed.

Bastion lived by himself in the wilds for at least a decade, but at some point he chose to return to Praetoria. He came to the realization that the price he paid for his freedom was loneliness and he missed being around other people.

Unfortunately, he only ran into new problems when he returned to Praetoria. Instead of finding community, he wandered into a media circus. Everyone had to learn about the strange blind man who lived in the wilds for years. He had to be shown on every TV channel, interviewed by every magazine and newspaper, go to every ceremony and gala, on and on for weeks.

Bastion could have let his 15 minutes of fame run out, but the psychological toll from being a spectacle turned him into a powder keg. That was when a radical faction of the Resistance found him and changed him from a curiosity to a terrorist. He rocked the Imperial City with a series of bombings and kidnappings over the next few months. His reign of terror ended when he was sent to Primal Earth to recruit fighters to support the Resistance.

That was ostensibly Bastion's mission but the truth of the situation was that the Resistance wanted to get rid of him. He was becoming more uncontrollable and violent. Bastion himself realized as much a few weeks later, but he doesn't blame them.