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Name: Angel Cruz
Eyes: Dark Green
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 250 Lbs.
Birth Country: Puerto Rico
Birth City: San Juan
Occupation:  ATV Tour Business
Owner
Group Affiliation: ANGEL Corps
Base of Operations: The Synidome
Character:  Angel is a good-
natured, happy-go-lucky, wise-
cracking fellow who loves the
outdoors and natural world. He's
street smart and tries not to get in
people's faces.
Origins:  Angel and his two
brothers run a thriving business  
hosting All Terrain vehicle tours of
the El Yunque Rain Forest. They
had been approached recently by
a criminal element looking to tap
into their profits by asking for
money in exchange for protection.
This was the week in which the
global event referred to as
"The
Neogen Flux"
occurred. They
defied the extortion attempts
resulting in a goon squad visiting
them in the middle of the night.
The brothers however, are avid
gun collectors and skilled
marksmen and they held off the
criminals ably without suffering
injuries and only minor property
damage. With the criminals issuing
threats to return, the brothers
dismissed them, refusing to be
intimidated. That same night while
drinking shots of rum around the
table, Angel began experiencing
the genetic changes randomly
triggered by
"The Neogen Flux"
when his hair lengthened and
turned white, one his hands
became a lion's paw. Through
active practice, and occasional
shots of rum, Angel figured out
how to change not just body parts
into various animal adaptations
but also his entire body into
various animals. All three brothers
were delighted and thought only
of the additional money the
business could make if they could
factor in guaranteed sightings of
exotic rain forest animals. .When
the criminals returned, it was with
a more sophisticated squad of  
enforcers. The three brothers did
their best to hold them off but
Angel's two brothers became
wounded and captured. Angel,
alone, used his powers to rescue
his brothers, hide them away, and
proceeded to take out the
criminals one by one. After
introspection about his condition,
Angel and the brothers agreed
that he should go to the UN to
take advantage of the research
into his condition.
Powers:  Angel is a shapeshifter
with the ability to shift any or all
parts of his body into the
adaptations enjoyed by the animal
kingdom, for instance he can  
incorporate proportionately large
lion's paws and  a gorilla's
musculature while adding a hawk's
eyes, eagle's wings,  and sets of
tentacles from his torso. By
packing his body with fortified
layers of thick nerveless cartilage
or blubber and chitinous or
enamel-like armor, Angel can
render the efficacy of bullets
useless. Angel's body seems to be
packed with the DNA codes for all
creatures on the planet at the time
of
"The Neogen Flux." He has
pored over volumes of animal
data to give himself knowledge of
the endless arsenal of adaptations
such as venoms, senses and
natural offensive and defensive  
weapons, so that he can deploy
them at a proportionately large
human-sized configuration.
Helping Angel is an H13 healing
factor which can completely
restore the worst types of damage
in 12 to 30 minutes. Angel is not
yet aware that he is able to absorb
new animal DNA codes by touch.
Strength Level Unassisted:
Class 1-A Baseline Human Range.
Level 6.
Can press 600 Lbs.
Strength Level Power-Assisted:
Class 2-B. Extrahuman Range.
Level 12.
Can press 5 Tons.    
Arsenal:  Angel prefers animal
adaptations for attacking but is
well-versed on most styles of
pistols, rifles and automatic
weapons, as well as bowed
weapons, and is considered an
expert marksman.
Fighting Prowess: Prior to training
by ANGEL Corps in various martial
arts disciplines, Angel's fighting
skills came from the streets of San
Juan and his two brothers. His
reflexes are Class 4, the
Suprahuman range, reacting to
startle stimuli around 3 to 4 times
as fast as normal humans or 11 to
14 milliseconds (human average =
30 to 50 ms) so this is likely to give
him a reaction time edge during
fights.
Gear:
Standard Nanotech Armored
Protection Gear (SNAP-Gear),
lightweight uniforming system
equipped with onboard computer
array, variable feed power
sources, life-support, networking
and armored protection. A voice-
activated onboard computer ties
into tactical local and wide-area
networks using a “heads-up”
holographic transparent 17-inch
display panel while it monitors its
wearer’s physiology. A shield
mode provides operatives head-
to-toe protection.   
Adairian Adaptive memory
molecules enable SNAP-GEAR
uniforms to adapt to a host’s
application of wide arrays of
energies. SNAP-Gear is able to
transform into a small inventory of
various non-combat outfits pre-
loaded by its user.  
ANGEL Com (Communications
Device), a neural transceiver
implant that responds to basic
cybernetic commands. The device
utilizes ultra- sophisticated
cerebellinguistic algorithm codes
to translate human languages.
Once set, the device automatically
translates and feeds languages or
dialects in one’s native tongue
directly into the ear with an
average translatability percentage
ratio of 94.6% for all known
language patterns.
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