Push

NAME: Kirby Powers
AGE: 25
BIRTHPLACE: Paragon City, RI
Occupation: Barista, Superhero
POWERS:

• Gravity control
• Flight

Kirby Powers was a 27-year-old barista in Paragon City, working the morning shift at a downtown café called The Daily Grind frequented by low-tier heroes and wannabes. He never had delusions of grandeur—he liked comics, sure, but was more interested in people than powers. An easy smile, a good ear, and a knack for making perfect pour-overs made him well-liked.

But deep down, Kirby felt... stuck. Like gravity itself was pressing down on his life, holding him in place. While heroes soared through Paragon’s skies and villains cracked the earth beneath them, Kirby clocked in, clocked out, and wandered home to a studio apartment with thin walls and a ceiling leak.

One rainy night, after closing shop, Kirby took a shortcut through a back alley behind the old University Archives—a forgotten wing of Paragon State University, long since gutted by budget cuts and a mysterious fire a decade prior. Lightning struck, briefly illuminating an open window. Driven by some mix of boredom and curiosity, Kirby climbed in. Inside, buried beneath ash and time, he found a ruined study filled with strange notes, arcane physics formulas, and a partially-burned journal belonging to a fringe physicist named Dr. Verity Kaas—a researcher obsessed with theoretical gravitational constants and higher-dimensional interfaces. Her life's work was centered on something called The Terminus Equation.

Against his better judgment, Kirby took the journal home.

Kirby, who had never passed Algebra II, didn’t understand it. But he read it. All of it. Cover to cover.

That was the moment.

The second he finished, reality twisted. His apartment blurred. For 12 minutes and 41 seconds, Kirby was suspended outside of space-time—his body pulled through an invisible tunnel of fluctuating density, his mind subjected to what he later called “gravitational dreams.”

When he woke, he was lying on his floor, his coffee table hovering three inches above the ground.

Over the next few days, Kirby discovered that he could:

• Increase or decrease the gravitational pull on objects or people, allowing him to crush or launch them.
• Create localized gravitational fields—invisible "push" or "pull" zones.
• Briefly alter gravity around himself, allowing him to walk on walls, fly, or slam downward with meteor-like force.

He couldn’t explain how he was doing it—it just responded to his intent, almost like a second set of muscles he never knew he had.

One of his egghead friends at university later hypothesized that his brain had uniquely interfaced with the mathematical structure of The Terminus Equation, rewiring his neural pathways to manipulate gravitational fields at will. Essentially, Kirby became a living embodiment of gravity control — not because he studied it, but because his accidental exposure unlocked a latent ability encoded in the fabric of space-time itself.

Now, as Push, Kirby struggles to balance his work life and learning to control his new powers while working to understand the mysterious Terminus Equation’s full potential — all while navigating Paragon City’s complex superhero landscape.

Kirby wields what theoretical physicists have dubbed 'The Terminus Equation', a mathematical formula that grants the being who learns it total control over the forces of gravity.

Gravity Control - Kirby possesses the ability to mentally manipulate gravitons (that carry the attractive, gravitational force between atomic nuclei), enabling him to control gravity. He can surround any object or person, including himself, with gravitons, thus increasing or decreasing the pull of gravity upon it, making objects as heavy or as light as he chooses. Kirby often uses this ability to simulate super strength and telekinesis by attracting or repelling objects.

Force Field Generation - While they're not 'force fields' in the traditional sense, Kirby is able to create a thin wall of space where gravity is so high that objects or projectiles (like bullets or knives) that enter said space are forcefully pulled to the ground before they're able to strike him. By forming these fields within objects and expanding the field, Kirby can sometimes cause them to explode.

Flight - By decreasing the pull of gravity around him and increasing it in a specific direction, Kirby is able to simulate controlled, directional flight.

• Save The Princess - Kirby's number one priority is rescuing his girlfriend Yuki from whatever danger she's gotten herself into, so much so that he'll often drop whatever he's doing if/when he gets a lead on her current whereabouts.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome - Kirby's got a bad case of the "I have to save everyone" affliction, in which he'll often go out of his way to help whoever he can, even at great detriment to himself or his personal life.
• Brilliant, But Lazy - Kirby's often mischaracterized by those close to him as apathetic and careless, but it's only because he's got more important things on his mind. Like saving the world.