FULL NAME: humberto lopez
NICKNAME(S): beto, berto
ALIAS: reptil
SPECIES: human ( fused with a fossilized amulet that allows him to shift into a dinosaur! )
OCCUPATION: currently ... chillin
TEAM AFFILIATIONS: avengers academy ( disbanded )
ALLIES: former members of avengers academy ( besties for the resties ), anybody who’s nice to him!!
ENEMIES: arcade :/ the forces of evil :/
STATS
** based on transformation
INTELLIGENCE: ◉ ◉ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯
STRENGTH: ◉ ◉ ◉ ◉ ◯ ◯ ◯
SPEED: ◉ ◉ ◉ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯
DURABILITY: ◉ ◉ ◉ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯
ENERGY PROJECTION: ◉ ◉ ◉ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯
FIGHTING SKILLS: ◉ ◉ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯
PREHISTORIC ANIMAL METAMORPHOSIS: mighty morphin dino time!! early in his superhero journey, he could only transform certain parts of his body but has since learned to fully transform into any dinosaur. the downside is that when he’s fully transformed, uh oh. he’s a little bit liable to lose control to his more feral instinct.
EMPATHETIC PREHISTORIC ANIMAL CONNECTION: humberto can sense the presence and emotional state of nearby dinosaurs!!
SIZE ALTERATION: with the help of pym particles, beto is able to be teeny teeny tiny or extra extra large!!
ACCELERATED HEALING: only in effect when he’s in a dino-state!
MORAL ALIGNMENT: lawful good. holds themselves to the same standards that they hold everyone else. they very rarely, if ever, break the rules. if they do break the rules they will feel extremely uncomfortable doing so.
MYERS BRIGGS: isfj -- the defender. the universal helpers, sharing their knowledge, experience, time and energy with anyone who needs it, and all the more so with friends and family. people with this personality type strive for win-win situations, choosing empathy over judgment whenever possible.
ENNEAGRAM: type 2 -- the helper. well-meaning and driven to be close to others, but can slip into doing things for others in order to be needed.
FOUR TEMPERAMENTS: phlegmatic. phlegmatic individuals are good at generalizing ideas or problems to the world and making compromises.
as a kid, humberto was a big superhero fan!! his dream was to grow up and be an avenger, but his parents had hopes of him following in their footsteps and becoming a paleontologist like them.
during a dig, the family uncovered a fossilized amulet that would eventually become beto’s, granting him the power to transform into a dino! but, not before his parents disappeared and were presumed dead on another dig. humberto then moved to nevada to live with his grandfather.
he registered under the 50 state initiative during the skrull invasion!! he wasn’t brought in for training or field work, though, until stegron started using dinosaurs to do evil dinosaur crime. but, it wasn’t truly evil dinosaur crime. it was a poorly executed dinosaur rescue mission and humberto insisted that it be fully carried out! dino rights!!!
in news of evil things that were actually evil, he was lured into a trap by norman osborn and was tortured and experimented on for several months. booooo.
during the torture, his special dinosaur fossil embedded itself in his chest, but there was really too much going on to address that at the time.
he was able to escape before hammer was able to fully wipe their ugly crimes off the map and joined the avengers academy! yaaaaay!
who’s the unanimously elected class leader of the avengers academy?? reptil’s the unanimously elected class leader of the avengers academy!!!
he’s also having struggles. he can’t fully transform and he’s worried he’s a bad leader and his gf who isn’t his gf doesn’t want to be his gf. and there’s a fossil in his chest. god somebody needs to do something about the fossil in his chest.
oh. and the school picked him and his friends because they have the biggest potential to become evil super villains? that did little for morale.
there was a point ... where he transformed into an adult version of himself and simply did not revert back for a while. insecurities kept him old. the power of friendship brought him back into his normal body, though. good stuff.
training and learning and fighting. all in a (smudged measurement of time on the back of marvel’s hand)’s work!
then they close the academy so the kids don’t do ... war crimes? i think?
but these kids don’t care they love to party and the want to have the option to do some war crimes, so there’s no better place for a boy to go than florida. just for a sec, to learn about his special dino amulet!! then he goes to new york and there’s a whole depowering kerfuffle that humberto helps with! all is well.
this part is only part of the canon if u want it to be... because it’s sad and WEIRD. reptil got kidnapped!! and sent to murderworld to do murders. but, he didn’t even do any murders, he just collected more trauma and several life threatening wounds all because arcade is a shit host. fuck arcade.
during the events of king in black, humberto went back to new york city!! this time to help those who were trapped and helpless against the gooey dragons in the sky. he teamed up with spider-man and had an amazing day!
he took a break from the hero scene after kamala’s law was put into effect!!
currently, humberto is staying in los angeles with family, but he can fly out to help people in need at the drop of a hat!!