Legal Name: Oran Jackson
Codename: Strawman
Metahuman Abilities: Energy Redirection, Energy Absorbtion, Power Mimicry, Magic
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Supersuit: Royal purple and gold blazer, harlequin mask, clawed gloves
Story: Oran Jackson has had a hard life. He was born in the darker parts of New York City, to an unwed mother who died during childbirth. He hadn’t any family, so he simply had to survive on his own. He fought every day so that he wouldn’t go to bed starving. For these hardships, his metahuman abilities developed much sooner than most. Jackson was running away from street thugs when they cornered him to an electric fence. Jackson was pushed up against the fence and absorbed all the power inside of it like a battery. All charged up, he fought. He killed all three of his attackers without mercy. Over the years, he experimented with this ability. He could absorb any kind of energy. Kinetic, potential, electric. He could even take the momentum from one object and transfer it to another immediately.
After he legally became an adult, he moved to New Orleans and sought to make an empire for himself in the slums and swamps of the city. However, he ran into trouble when he encroached on the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans’s territory. Clarisse de la Croix had no desire for competition but Jackson also had no desire to be competition. They came to an agreement. Jackson would work for her as one of her generals in the city and in return, she would instruct him in her magical ways, in addition to not killing him. Even though Oran was not inherently magical, due to his abilities with energy, he was able to absorb enough magical energy in his this period, that he could now wield like any sorcerer.
Currently, Strawman has used his skills to get into the political game and influence as many lives as he can, the way he sees fit, for better or worse.