Codename: Green Goblin II
Name: Harold Osborn
Known Aliases: Harry (to his father and friends)
Age: 17
Affiliation: Neutral
Powers: Will eventually be given an experimental super-soldier serum developed by his father (the "Goblin Serum") and obtain heightened reflexes, agility, strength, endurance, and speed along with a regenerative healing factor and enhanced physical durability, hampered by an unstable personality as a result.
Note: History is based primarily around the Ultimate universe (Earth-1610).
Son to a billionaire scientist, Harry basically had everything a boy could want. The latest tech, both home and advanced, the newest video game systems before they had even gotten out onto the public market, four cars that he barely drove by the time he was sixteen, motorcycles...basically all the best, most expensive "toys" were at his disposal. All he had to do was show a vague interest in something and he would get it within a day to a few hours, depending. Placed in the best private and boarding schools, Harry was on the fast track to becoming exactly like his father.
Of course this realization, around the time he was fourteen, caused him to start lashing out at school and become lax in his studies. He was expelled or flunked out of every private school in the area until his father had no choice but to enroll him in a public school at the age of sixteen. It was here that Harry met Peter Parker, and the two quickly became best friends in spite of social and intellectual differences. Harry kept Peter free from bullying, Peter helped Harry keep his grades up (usually with consistent nagging when Harry's attention drifted), and things seemed to have come to a point of contentment for the "boy who had everything and nothing".
Eventually though, things were bound to change.
Peter began growing distant, always preoccupied and tired, his free time eaten up by God only knew what when the boy wasn't with Mary Jane Watson. Not long after, Spider-Man began appearing all over the news. Shortly after that, his father began acting strangely, also tired and even more preoccupied and distant that usual, his temper dangerously short and often violent to the point of Harry being taken away to stay with his uncle for a few months. His uncle was killed when a maniac calling himself the Green Goblin attacked the house, burning it to the ground. Harry, badly injured, spent four months in hospital before finally returning to school.
With graduation on the horizon, Harry is just trying to keep it together while everyone he'd ever cared about leaves him behind. It's only a matter of time before he finally puts the pieces together and learns the truth, but in the meantime...Harry lives in fear of his own father.
(not relevant to anything in this RP)
To say that Harry was on-edge in a room full of people who either wanted his head on a platter or could easily oblige anyone that did but had any sort of qualms against killing would have been putting the situation lightly. The man currently wearing the colors of the Green Goblin was nervously gnawing at the inside of his cheek, eyes darting around the room to each of the faces as they looked him over in-turn. He was far from the most dangerous being in the room, but he was certain he felt the most disgusting at that moment, especially with Peter and Mary Jane glaring at him as if he were animal excrement on a boot. He honestly couldn’t blame them, given what he and his father had put them both through over the years. He couldn’t blame them in the slightest.
That didn’t mean he had to like it.
Scowling, Harry crossed his arms over his chest and turned away, barely listening to the droning voices discussing…whatever the hell this was supposed to be about. A truce? What good would a truce do any of them? Even fully aware of his own mental defects, Harry knew that there was no way any of them would be able to come to a decent compromise. Some people just weren’t meant to be heroes. Some had the evil driven into them by pain or by their upbringing, and no amount of pretty words or “group hugs” would ever change them.
Besides…what good are heroes without villains to make them look good in the public eye?
“This is a pathetic waste of time,” he grumbled, moving to the far end of the room to where it felt less crowded and claustrophobic. “I’d sooner be back in a padded cell instead of listening to this chummy campfire song crap…” He spoke up a bit. “What, we supposed to hold hands in a big circle and sing Kumbayah now?”
Harry was fairly certain someone was yelling at him by that point, and then the group broke and everyone was yelling at one another. Whatever. It wasn’t any of his concern. He just wanted to go home and resume running a floundering business that he hadn’t even wanted. Let the rest of the freak tear one another apart. Had he been wearing his Goblin gear, his opinion on the situation would have likely been a bit more explosive.
Additional Character Information: Harry is a privileged young wreck oft neglected by his billionaire genius father, and as a result walks the Earth with a major chip on his shoulder. He's bitter toward his mother for abandoning him knowing his father wasn't emotionally available. He wants love, but isn't sure what love is.
Depending on the circumstances, he will either become Hobgoblin or the second Green Goblin. This could either develop as a second personality with Harry still basically being "himself" outside of the mask, or it can consume him completely. It all depends on how things go in-game.
Comparable to Lex Luthor from "Smallville"
Suggestions on How They Could Be Introduced?: Harry uncovers some information about his father's involvement with the inhibitor collars and the chemical darts that nullify mutant powers. He will either go to the X-Men or to the Avengers with this information.
