Deathwish

Deathwish is a sleazy High Epic working for The Dalles City Guard.

Biography
Before Calamity Deathwish was Edgar Hawk, a low-life criminal living in Lincoln City, Oregon. He managed to work his way up from petty theft to running drugs for a local gang, but squandered his chances for criminal success by sleeping with the gang leader's teenage daughter. He was forced to quit the gang and then to leave the city, moving from small town to small town peddling cheap drugs and stealing what he could.

Upon receiving powers, Deathwish killed several of the high school students he was selling drugs to in his Rending and began crossing Oregon in earnest, partaking in all the drugs, luxuries, and women his powers could afford him. He eventually came to The Dalles intending to take over, only to be thwarted and nearly killed by the City Guard there. He was given the ultimatum to either leave town or join the Guard--out of a stubborn desire to someday gain control of the city, Deathwish decided to stay and join.

Appearance
Deathwish is a tall man with greasy slicked-back hair and a sharp nose. He wears a black leather jacket left over from his gang days, and underneath that a T-shirt with an emblem of two winged pistols.

Powers and Abilities
The most powerful member of the City Guard, Deathwish possesses three abilities.

His first power is the ability to fly without any means of propulsion. He is capable of accelerating to 70 miles per hour in less than a minute, and does not have an altitude limit aside from his own oxygen requirements.

Secondly, he has enhanced eyesight, allowing him to forego the use of rifle scopes in most situations.

These powers are minimal compared to his prime invincibility, however. Deathwish possesses the unique power of damage reflection. Any attack that penetrates his skin instantly heals, appearing instead on the body of his attacker. Snipers attempting to kill him are thus killed by their own bullet wounds, and those who misguidedly attempt to stab him find their own bodies gauged by the knife wounds they inflicted. This makes him dangerous to attack, though this ability does not affect injuries that harm him without damaging his skin, such as blunt force trauma.

Personality and Behavior
Though the City Guard technically prohibits the casual usage of Epic powers, Deathwish has found that they mostly turn a blind eye to his doing so provided he remains loyal. He flies from location to location and uses his enhanced eyesight to win at darts, and spends much of his time at the Springfield club. He is sleazy and immoral, with no less than twenty-six official reprimands from the mayor's office on his record. He harasses his female colleagues relentlessly, and verbally abuses most of the men he works with. He is considered one of the least likable Epics in The Dalles.