Aquaman

Context

This character is an original creation. We often call these “homemades” or “homebrewed” – think home cooking or craft beer.

Many of these characters were created to take part in tabletop role-playing game sessions. Others were invented as a creative writing exercise, often as part of a community event.

This specific character is based on DC’s “Tangent” concept – sharing the name of a well-known DC characters but being a different person on a different world.

Background

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Powers and Abilities

Joan doesn’t still know the origin of his powers, but the fact is that he has many water related abilities. He can control water at will, and move under water like on dry land, with no breathing problems.

His own body also acquired liquid-like properties. He first thing he discovered is that he could, by transforming in a water-like being, elongate his body up to 50 meters. But he could usually be as equally damaged as before. Later he discovered that his water organism could resist most fatal blows without suffering much damage.

His latest discovery was the power to bring into existence great amounts of water through his hands. This is done either as a pouring or as a powerful blast (on his early days he could create some ice, but it was a fatiguing feat). Through investigation, Aquaman is searching for new applications of his water powers, and he could develop new ones.

Joan is also a competent, although inexperienced, TV and press journalist.

History

Joan Quent was adopted on the 30^th September, 1971, by Francesc Quent and Joana Borrull. That day is his birthday, for him, although he hasn’t been able to know who his birth parents were. He wasn’t a bright schoolboy, only excelling at sports. He loved swimming and make lots of contacts between the people at the swimming championships.

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When he was 18 he stopped competing and entered the Catalan TV, TV3, to earn money while he was at the university. He still works there. While he studied journalism he met Luisa Via, his eternal girlfriend, and his friends Daniel Casas and Marc Espenser.

But besides the normal life that Joan wanted to live, he wasn’t a normal man : he held great power over water. Perhaps the “H20 elixir” that was poured over him on a laboratory during his college days was related. The scientists insisted that it wouldn’t affect human beings and was only meant to make quantifying of water percentage in a given body easier.

But Joan began to see strange changes on him : or perhaps they had began before ? Perhaps he was as good a swimmer because he already had powers ?

It didn’t matter : he wasn’t normal, but he wanted to be. On the other hand, there were times were his abilities could be used to help others. So he improvised a first blue and yellow suit to not be regarded as Joan Quent if he ever had to use his powers in public.

The shape of water

He returned Barcelona after the summer holidays of 1998. He discovered he had been burgled, and his house was empty. While he was searching for a phone to call police, a woman commanding giant sea-weeds covered the port and began robbing the yachts and other ships there.

Joan Quent had never seen another powered being, but this was clearly evil. After chasing Eva Sporas (that was her name) and sending her to jail, he had won two things. The public’s attention and an arch-enemy for life.

But the day hadn’t finished. Aquaman had to battle some laser-firing robots that almost killed a man. The victim told him to search for others “like him” to protect “a princess”. He took the man to a hospital, but somebody broke in there and finished the patient.

Quent took the remains of a robot to cybernetics Professor Karl Konder. The academic said it hadn’t seen something similar in his whole life. The robot was a matter of either a genius… or an alien race.

Others like you

Searching for a new suit, Aquaman traveled to England to meet Sir Charles Ausworth Clarington. Clarington Enterprises was developing a new “insta-change” fabric. They revealed their identities to each other, as Sir Charles was also a powerful telepath… Superman.

Their new alliance had to run to arrive to the states as the New York City Hall was being attacked. See the (T) The Flash write-up for further information on the subject).

Aquaman got a new suit with some edge in his new crimefighting career with the League. He managed to be sent to Lyon by her boss, Laura Blanc, so he could cover his absence for a while.

On their journey to Egypt, during the League world-around travel to save Helena Wayne, he discovered a “T” like symbol that was familiar to him, as a past memory, inside the Proto-Alexandry Great Library. There he also tested the Zero Hour Machine, that transformed him into his present state, somehow heightening his powers.

He has accepted them and so became a faithful defender of good.

Description

His new Aqua-suit is blue grayish, with a dark blue drop on his chest. It’s skin-tight. It leaves the head uncovered, but includes grey shaded glasses.

Personality

Joan is active and nervous. He love to go out at night with Luisa, even if they don’t have too much time due to their journalist and lawyer jobs. He likes to write short stories for children and adults. Dislikes “yankies” and thinks that French are all a bunch of self-centered morons, but they’re really better than the stiff English.

He hates those who consider themselves heroes : “one has to do what one has to do”. When danger arises, on the other hand, all that is forgotten. If Aquaman must make a work, he does it.

Quotes

“Sometimes you have to be bold enough to look like a coward.”

By KalEl el Vigilant.

Helper(s): Sergio Cantos.

Source of Character: Homemade Tangent Universe.