Ghost Rider
Real Name John “Johnny” Blaze

Prowess 6
Coordination 6
Strength 7
Intellect 3
Awareness 6
Willpower 7

Stamina 14

Powers
*Hellfire Projection – Blast 7 (Extra: These flames burn the soul rather than the flesh, bypassing conventional damage resistance)
*Penance Stare – Mental Blast 7 (If Ghost Rider locks eyes with a target, they relive every sin they’ve committed, overwhelming them with agony and guilt. (Rules: Power vs. Willpower test; if successful, the target is incapacitated by remorse or trauma.)
*Regeneration 6
*Immortality 5
*Life Support 6 (Breathing, Heat, Pressure, Radiation, Toxins, Vacuum)
*Damage Resistance – physical and energy attacks 6
*Damage Resistance – magic attacks 8
*Detect – Sins/Evil 8
*Emotion Control 4 (Limits: Projects fear only; Always-On)
*Mystic Chain – Strike 7 (Extras: Bind, Aura [can channel Hellfire through it], Reflection, Stretching, Shapeshifting – can alter form into shuriken, a sword, or other forms of edged weaponry)
*Hellcycle – Handling 8, Speed 9, Structure 8, Surface Speed 9, Teleportation 4 (Limit: can travel through flames only), Telepathy 8 (Limit: Responds to Ghost Rider’s mental commands only)

When Johnny is in his human form, his stats are: Prowess 3, Coordination 4, Strength 3, Intellect 3, Awareness 4, Willpower 6, Stamina 9

Specialties
Drive – Motorcycles (Master +3 bonus), Investigation, Martial Arts, Mental Resistance (Expert +2 bonus), Occult (Expert +2 bonus), Stealth, Weapons – Mystic Chain (Expert +2 bonus)

Qualities
*Spirit of Vengeance
*Haunted by the Past
*Natural Show-Off

Background: 

A motorcycle stunt driver turned spirit of vengeance after a fateful deal with the demon lord Mephisto, Ghost Rider defies his benefactor and rides his blazing motorcycle, dispensing vengeance to the souls of all those who would do the world harm.

Possessed by a demon named Zarathos, Johnny Blaze constantly craves vengeance against evil and is compelled to seek it out, using his supernatural hellfire and Penance Stare to burn the souls of the wicked. The human inside of Ghost Rider would like nothing more than to be free of his curse, but in the meantime, he’s going to make a lot of bad people suffer.

Johnny Blaze grew up in a family of stunt drivers. His father, Barton Blaze, raised Johnny and his siblings alone when Johnny’s mother, Naomi, left them. Barton later died in a stunt, and Johnny was adopted by fellow stunt drivers Crash and Mona Simpson. Johnny eventually grew to have romantic feelings for his adoptive sister, Roxanne.

When Johnny’s stepfather was dying of cancer, Johnny turned to the occult to try and cure the illness. Believing he had summoned the biblical Devil himself, Johnny in fact had summoned the demon lord Mephisto and bargained his soul away in exchange for Crash’s life.

The first rule is that the devil always lies. Crash was cured, momentarily, but then died shortly after in a stunt gone wrong. When Mephisto came to collect his soul, it was only the timely intervention of Johnny’s love, Roxanne, that temporarily drove Mephisto away.

As a final act of spite before fleeing, Mephisto cursed Johnny by bonding him with the demon Zarathos, transforming Johnny into the blazing spirit of vengeance, Ghost Rider.

Ghost Rider uses numerous mystical abilities to punish the guilty and save innocent lives. His chief weapon is called the Penance Stare, an ability picked up from his brother, Danny Ketch. By gazing into the soul of the guilty, Ghost Rider causes the affected party to relive all the harm they’ve done to anyone else over the years. This stare leaves its victim permanently catatonic.

Another element Blaze incorporates from Ketch as time goes on is a mystical, metal chain bathed in hellfire which can be used as both a weapon and to bind his enemies. Johnny can infuse any motorcycle with hellfire or even conjure up a vehicle from nothing. Whichever approach he takes, Ghost Rider lives up to his name.


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