Bryan didn’t just walk places anymore. He trudged. He had been doing it every day for the past four years, since his wife’s death, and had gotten pretty damn good at it. With his shoulders hunched and his hands thrust deep into the pockets of his denim jacket, he looked like someone who had the entire weight of the world on his shoulders.

And sometimes he felt like he did. Memories of life with Sarah were pushed to the far back of his mind these days, what with trying to cope with his addiction and one of the newest additions to his life.

It was those weird powers he had. He almost hadn’t noticed them at first, but he remembered the day he had stepped out of the shower of his new place. He had reached for the towel and had put it against his already dry body. And there were the times he had gone walking around in the rain without his umbrella and found that his clothes were barely wet or were dry as soon as he stepped under a tarp or awning. He had tried an experiment one day and was able to move a few droplets of water around on the table in his apartment. The same experiment with a fork had not been as successful, which led him to the conclusion that he only could control the water.

‘Kind of neat, actually,’ he had thought at the time.

Those thoughts were also pushed out of his mind as he came closer to his destination. The streets and buildings became familiar and soon he was at his dealer’s corner.

“Usual,” he grunts, his Yorkshirean accent as barely audible as his voice. He hands the money to the dealer with his left hand, the gold of his wedding ring glinting on a beam of light from the street, and takes the dose in his right hand, pocketing it and walking away.

He knows he shouldn’t be using it, but he can’t help himself. Like almost everything else in his life, he can’t control himself.

Name: Bryan Kent
Age: 27
Profession: Candy striper at Our Lady of Angeles Hospital
Location: Los Angeles
Zodiac Sign/Chinese New Year Sign: Sagittarius/Ram. December 2, 1979.
Hair Color: Brown with some scattered blonde streaks, in the right light.
Eye Color: Dark brown
Appearance: He is around 5'11 tall with a bit of a hefty build, from eating too much home cooking. At times he is clean shaven but he usually goes around with a small scruffy beard, neatly trimmed so that he doesn’t give off a hobo vibe. He still wears his wedding ring and has not taken it off since his wife’s death.
Personality: He has a sarcastic sense of humour and is a bit of a prankster, though he can be a bit moody at times, especially if he thinks about his late wife. Lately, he is more moody, while he copes with the reality of his own life and his newly emerging powers.
Backstory/Family: Bryan was born and grew up in Yorkshire, England. He married a girl named Sarah when they were 23. They were happily married until she was killed by a drunk driver coming home from the school she taught at, only a year after they were married. Bryan was devastated by her death and turned to a lifestyle of drugs and alcohol to escape from the pain of losing her. It was during this, that he discovered the drug Invincible. He was reluctant to try it at first, because he had never heard about it, but once he had tried it, became a regular user. After two years of this lifestyle, Bryan began to grow sick of it. The pain of his wife’s death was gradually beginning to fade and he wanted his old life back. He moved away from England to try and start over, moving to San Francisco, and getting a job as a candy striper at the local hospital. Even though he had tried to stay away from it, he got back into his old life when one of the patients, a known drug dealer, gave him some Invincible in exchange for getting him out of the hospital. Bryan was almost fired over that, but as it was his only infraction, he was put on probation from his job for a month. That was fine with him as he was then able to resume his reawakened addiction. It was during this, that he got mixed up with some of the gangs around the local strip club, where his new “friends” frequented. One night, he did not have enough money for his usual dose of Invincible, so he stole it. He was caught by one of the gang leaders, who decided to make an example of him. They took him to a nearby pool, in one of the more upscale places {upscale being a relative word} and attempted to drown him, but not before beating him severely. They would have succeeded too, had it not been for a policeman who happened to be patrolling by, only seconds after the dealers left him for dead.

Bryan was taken to the hospital, his heart stopping on the way there, and was treated for the beating he had sustained at the hands of the dealers, as well as his addiction. After getting fired from the hospital, he moved to Los Angeles and got a job as a candy striper, this time at Our Lady of Angeles Hospital. He told himself that he was clean but the truth was that he still uses from time to time, getting it from his dealer, the same one he let out of the hospital, Brandon Drass.

He supports himself and his habit by using the money from his wife's life insurance policy, which he gets every month.

--Mutant--
How did your character come into contact with Invincible?: He was introduced to it by his friend Matthew, when he was still living in England. He continued using it until he moved to the States and then picked it back up once he arrived, still struggling with his addiction to this day.
How did your character come to have a near death experience?: The beating and drowning by the dealers, back in San Francisco.
What is your Character's Mutation?: Hydrokinesis, the ability to manipulate water.