Aphid

Real Name: Matthew (Matt) Hayes
Membership: Alliance of Awesomeness
Relatives: none known
Place of Birth: Fargo, USA
Base of Operations: Ironhaven, USA
First Appearance: Alliance of Awesomeness #1
Background: Matt Hayes is an experimental scientist who was searching for a way to allow humans to photosynthesise like plants. Having experimented on hamsters and squirrels he thought he had managed to achieve his ambition. His next step was to replicate the process on a human, and decided to try it on himself. The process worked and Matt began to photosynthesise. This discovery would mean the end of world hunger.

Then his hamster exploded.

It's body could not cope with the amount of energy that it was creating. Matt calculated that he had a very short timespan to find a way to regulate energy creation. He built a regulating device that would enable him to siphon off excess power and shunt it into another dimension. Upon donning this device the shunt not only siphoned off energy, but 50% of Matt's mass. He shrunk to 3' in height. Unable to remove the device for fear that he would explode, Matt has been trapped in his shortened form ever since. However, he added to the design, and the regulator system allows him to tap into extra photo-synthesised energy and project it as energy beams from his gloves. He also found that the energy gave him enhanced strength.
Matt became a crime-fighter under the guise of the Aphid, and it was his idea to collect similar misfits to form the Alliance of Awesomeness.

Height: 90cm
Weight: 40kg
Strength: Aphid possesses the strength of an adult male twice his size who regularly engages in intensive exercise.
Powers and abilities: Aphid has implanted cells that enable him to photosynthesise directly in order to power his body. The process creates excess energy which means that Aphid needs to wear a regulator to keep himself in check, otherwise he might explode. A part of the process shunted Aphid's body mass into the other dimension as well.  The regulator shunts unwanted energy into a parallel dimension, and has the ability to shunt it back in large quantities that are emitted in the form of energy blasts from the gloves in his suit. It can also be channeled through the regulator to give Aphid enhanced strength, enabling him to have the same physical strength he had before his mass was shunted. This enables him to move quickly and leap further than most normal human beings.
If the regulator is removed, Aphid returns to his natural size, and energy begins to accumulate. It is unknown how long Aphid has before the energy accumulation becomes terminal. He has managed not to explode for 24 hours without his regulator, although he went into a coma after 12 hours.

CT stats: Aphid's abilities are: Science!, Ranged long, Power Blast, Agility
Move: 6", Close Combat: 3W, Ranged combat: 4W, Defence: 3W + 1 reroll.

Stats: R= red dice, W= white dice