Backlash
Real Name Marc Slayton

Prowess 7
Coordination 6
Strength 4
Intellect 4
Awareness 5
Willpower 6

Stamina 10

Powers
*Extra-Body Parts – Psionic Tendrils 7 (Extras: Affliction, Stretching, Binding): Backlash can generate energy whips from his hands. These tendrils can stun or incapacitate opponents by overwhelming their nervous systems.
*Regeneration 4
*Misting (Alternate Form – Gaseous 6)
*Immortality 1
*Life Support 2 (Toxins & Disease)

Specialties
Martial Arts (Expert +2 bonus), Military (Expert +2 bonus), Weapons – Guns & Edged

Qualities
*Haunted by the Past
*Intense loyalty to Taboo and his daughter, Jodi.
*Kherubim Heritage

Background

Marc Slayton was born in Atlantis about three thousand years ago, the son of a human mother and Lord S’ylton, an enhanced Kherubim lord of the alien colony Atlantis. When his father sacrificed his life to imprison one-time allies the D’rahn, a race of hostile aliens whose attack led to the sinking of Atlantis, young Marc was spirited away by Ferrian, his father’s former adviser. Ferrian raised the child to adulthood, tutoring him in fighting skills for his protection. Once Marc was old enough to look after himself, Ferrian dropped out of sight and left him to fend for himself.

Marc spent the next three thousand years traveling around the world, living a life of adventure. He has only fragmented memories of his long life. At one point he was a ninja, at another a medieval knight. In World War II, he was recruited for a mission as an intelligence specialist for Team Zero. No rank was seen until the 1960s when he was an Air Force Colonel, working as part of the extra-terrestrial threats squad Team One. Later he joined Team 7, a special ops unit which was deliberately exposed to a mutagenic chemical called the Gen-Factor. All of the members developed superhuman powers—in Marc’s case some of these were the result of his alien heritage being fully activated. Team 7 finished their final mission and then went AWOL, but Marc made a deal with I.O.’s Director Miles Craven, brokering his (and John Lynch’s and Michael Cray’s) services in return for the rest of the squad and their families being left alone.

Backlash was then assigned to join and spy on Stormwatch, the U.N.’s Crisis Intervention superteam. He worked as the group’s field leader and instructor until he lost several members of the first team (later dubbed Stormwatch Prime) during a mission in Kuwait. After this tragedy he switched to being the full time instructor. When a Daemonite called S’ryn put Marc’s girlfriend, Major Diane LaSalle into a coma, he deserted StormWatch to track her down, breaking a Cabal agent, Amanda Reed aka Taboo, out of prison to help him on his quest. While he eventually caught his prey and revived Diane, he and Taboo become lovers, and both became fugitives. Together they participated in the major events of Wildstorm Rising where Backlash fought Helspont one on one, and Fires From Heaven.

Subsequent to this, Marc discovered he had fathered twin children—a girl named Jodi Morinaka and a boy known only as Aries—by an old girlfriend from Japan. He learned this when Jodi tracked him down after her mother’s death. Like her father, Jodi’s alien genes gave her superhuman powers, and she took the identity of Jet so she could adventure with him. Backlash and Taboo arranged a pardon for their crimes in return for working for the United States’ Department PSI (PSI). Marc made friends with the animal-faced adventurer Dingo, who helped him out on more then one case. It was around this point Marc finally learned of his Kherubim ancestry—for reasons best known to himself, Ferrian had never told Marc.

After joining Dept. PSI, Marc and Amanda built the team Wildcore. He fought the Kindred a second time and combated Dinosaurs while on vacation. Wildcore was slaughtered while preventing a prison break at the Purgatory Max facility, leaving only Marc (missing a leg) and Taboo alive. Marc survived thanks to the assistance of former DV8 member Evo who had been imprisoned for the murder of an N.Y.P.D. officer.

According to his daughter, Marc gave up the name “Backlash”; seeking, as she put it, to keep it in the family, Jodi used it herself. Marc Slayton since became a plainclothes agent of Department PSI with the rank of Commander, and had been involved with John Lynch in the events surrounding Holden Carver and Tao’s Syndicate organization.