BLACKOUT
REAL NAME : Kirkland
HEIGHT :
WEIGHT :
OCCUPATION : ex military
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CITY OF RESIDENCE : Canada
MARTIAL STATUS : Married
HAIR : Black
EYES : Blue
FIRST APPEARANCE : Insecto #7
KNOWN RELATIVES : Wife, Daughter
HISTORY
Kirkland was born into a fairly normal family his childhood was that of any normal kid. The thing that fascinate Kirkland from an early age was the military. So as soon as he could he joining cadets then when he was 18 joined the Canadian armed forces. Over time he came the best in his division and right. With this achievement he was asked to join the ranks of the special forces. Again he excelled and in turn rose in their ranks quickly. By the time he reached the rank of major he was an expert in all forms of combat the military teachers and in strategy as well. One day while on leave he was out with his wife whom he had married some years earlier and his daughter of 5 years. They had gone to the bank to do some banking business and were in line waiting to get to a teller. When suddenly 2 guys ahead of them pulled out guns and demanded money from the Tellers and for everyone to remain calm and no one would get hurt. Kirk’s daughter starts to get impatient and starts pestering and crying to her mom. This gets on one of the robbers nerves any he proceeds to waive his gun in Kirk’s wife’s face and saying shut the kid up or I’ll shut her up for you. This enrages Kirk and he takes action taking down the two guys within seconds. Everyone cheers and he wipes his hands arrogantly as to say that takes care of that. When suddenly he receives a blow to the back of the head from a third robber he had not noticed. This gave the police the time they needed to come and take out the third robber with a sniper. Kirkland is declared a hero by the crowd but that means nothing to him for the blow to the back of his head caused him to go permanently blind.
After he is given an honorable discharge from the army Kirk goes into therapy to help learn how to live with his blindness. In his therapy classes he excels for he sees it as nothing more than training as if he were still in the military. When finishing the classes here is no need of a cane or a seeing eye dog.
Now having to live life on unchallenged save for every day things Kirk is dissatisfied. One night while listening to the news Kirk hears of all the costumed heroes appearing and combating crime this gives Kirk an idea of the own. Kirk then starts to train his 4 remaining senses to near meta human levels. Finally Kirk shares his decision with his wife. Though she strongly disagrees she sees her husband needs this challenge in his life and he probably would do it with or without her help and she figure’s it’s better to be in the forefront of this then in the background. Together they come up with a costume design and a name for him. With all this done he begins his war on crime with lethal force during the night. Shortly after he and his wife are invited out to an event where Joni Earekson Tadi is speaking. At the end of the evening they both accept Christ as lord and savior. After accepting Christ he continues to fight crimes however he now gives God all the glory and he does it with less lethal force.
POWERS AND SKILLS
Kirk is fully trained in all forms of military combat thus making his body a lethal weapon. He is also trained to use a wide variety of weapons. However now that he is blind he will probably never use most of them. Due to his blindness he has trained his four other senses to almost meta human levels. It has become that he can sense a person approaching him from about 20 feet away.