Leo Travis-Webb

[Exxie]

LEO TRAVIS-WEBB

FULL NAME: Leandro Klaus Adrien Travis-Webb
CODENAME: Web
FACE CLAIM: Martin Barba
AGE: 22
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Unaffiliated
ALIGNMENT: Hero

Personal

SEXUALITY: Doesn't care
GENDER: Man
PRONOUNS: He/Him
ETHNICITY: French/Latino

Double Life

ABILITIES: Spider Physiology

Webs: Can spin webs and shoot them from his wrists.  Pretty self explanatory spider ability.  He can create both regular silk and gossamer, a type of silk that catches the wind easily.  He can also create silk that reflects UV light, as well as silk that is drenched with spider venom.  He can choose which type to create when he shoots, as they're made differently.  The venom has a slight paralytic effect, making it harder for a person to move.

Extra Jump: Based on the ability of the Jumping Spider.  They can jump up to 50 times their body length by increasing the flow of of body fluid to their legs to propel themselves.  In Leo's case he can't jump 50 times that.  He can jump ten times his regular jump length.  It scales.  He can also do the whole body fluid thing in his arms to strengthen them.

Spider Vision: Again, the jumping spider has excellent vision, even believed to be able to see UVA and UVB rays.  For Leo, he obviously doesn't need glasses.  But if he focuses, he can also increase the efficacy of his vision, seeing those rays too. 

Sticky Hands and Feet: He can stick onto walls and ceilings.  This also ties into the enhanced strength he's inherited from his father.  His strength scales, and he can carry four times his regular lifting capacity.  This also applies when he's stuck onto a ceiling or walls.

Fake Pheromones: He can manipulate his pheromones ever so slightly, but it's more like...imitating another dude's signature perfume.  It doesn't do much, although he could possibly confuse someone with it slightly.

SKILLS:

Gymnastics: Leo's super flexible, and is an accomplished gymnast along with his sister.  

Engineering: Being able to make things with his webs has caused him to have an interest in architecture and engineering. 

Languages: French and English, as well as a bit of Spanish he learned from his parents. 

Tracking: Leo's good at traditional tracking animals, as well as tracking people.  He's a bit of a private detective as a result of having to repeatedly find his twin. 

WEAKNESSES:

Gravity: Gravity still has an effect on him.  If he's carrying something or someone and he's upside down, gravity's going to be a bitch to counteract. 

Tiredness and High Appetite: The energy to make things has to come from somewhere.  Leo has a huge appetite and a high energy level to compensate for his abilities. 

Clothing: The more clothing in between his skin and the thing he's trying to stick to, the less adherence there will be.  Thin fabric is better than thick fabric, he doesn't wear shoes as a result. 

Venom: The venom that Leo can drench his webs in has a paralytic effect.  The more venom someone gets the harder it will be to move.  But if they're determined enough they can fight through it. 

Time: It takes more time for him to spin certain silks, and in the meantime he may end up being vulnerable.

Appearance

GENERAL: Leo is 6'1" tall.  He's fit and athletic, but also has quite the skinny build.  If he didn't have as much muscle from using his abilities and his gymnastics activities Leo might even be called gangly but he's avoided that fate.  He has dark brown hair that can seem black in some lights.  His eyes are also brown, but can seem lighter sometimes.  His smile is radiant and often optimistic.  Leo likes wearing t-shirts and button downs most often, although he will wear almost anything if the situation calls for it.  There's only so much pickiness when you swing around a city in spandex and cargo pants.

COSTUME: Originally his costume was the opposite of his sister's.  His sister's has somewhat changed overtime but his hasn't.  It's completely black except for a lime green spider on his front with legs that wrap around to his back.  The spider is outlined with greyscale.  Leo also wears black cargo pants with a lime green belt.  Spandex isn't all it's cracked up to be.  He has a black mask with tinted goggles.  The goggles are black as well, to blend into the shadows. 

Personality

Leo's a sweetheart.  He likes to think the best of everyone he meets.  When they end up disappointing him, it does crush him for a while.  But then usually he thinks of a possible situation that would cause them to act the way they did.  It's the idealistic naive hero attitude that you've probably heard of. 

He very rarely gets angry, and if he does it's usually because someone's hurting someone he cares about, or hurting themselves.  He is basically the type of person to want to try to save the world, and do his best to actually do it.  He gets sad sometimes if someone doesn't do good, and sometimes it can take him a bit of time to bounce back to his regular self after witnessing evil doings. 

He's also a bit eccentric.  His abilities at a younger age caused him to develop ways to use them.  His houses and apartments end up having webs in them often.  Sometimes he even sleeps in his webs because he feels more at ease. 

History

Leo was born to a regular middle class couple in Calgary, Alberta in Canada.  They did technically have powers but they weren't powerful enough to actually do anything.  Dad had some enhanced strength, and mum could manipulate a little bit of water.  Nothing big.  Leo wasn't the only one to be born either.  His twin sister Kara popped out before him by a few minutes. 

Their childhoods were pretty normal.  Their parents did their best to instill a sense of good morals in their kids.  Then when Kara and Leo turned 13, their powers manifested.  They both had spider-related powersets.  They practiced all they could with them, playing make believe as heroes.  Eventually the twins got pretty good at combo moves with their powers.  By the time they were 16, they were pretty good with them.  They snuck out of the house sometimes and stopped some crimes.  Illegally, but it didn't matter to them.  They'd read the comics!  They felt like this was important!

But people grow up.  Time passed, and Kara wasn't as interested in being a hero like they played it as kids.  She changed from a young woman focused on heroing and having fun doing it, to causing trouble.  A couple of times, Leo had to stop her.  He didn't like having to do that.  They're both 22 now, and she's still focused on having fun.  Causing trouble.  Only she moved to Astaria because it seemed more exciting.  Leo secretly followed her there.  If someone was going to stop his wayward sister, it was going to be him.  Hopefully he could get to her first, or she would be paying for it for the rest of her life. 

In Astaria, he's a vigilante just trying to find and stop his sister.  To anyone else though, Leo's an aspiring architect and engineer, dabbling in both.  And he works as a private detective, consulting on police cases occasionally because of his skills in the area.

Player

OOC NAME: Exxie

PRONOUNS: They/Them

OTHER CHARACTERS: Lots.

SOURCE: I AM A CREATOR.  BOW BEFORE ME.  Except if you're King or Aaron I guess.  We can share.

credit to Laura of Adox

Used by:Kara Travis-Webb