[General Information]
Name: Derek Williams
Nicknames: none
Titles: Blue Lantern
Age: 21
Birthday: Feb. 23
Star sign: Picses
Gender: male
Race: human
Alliance: Good
Personality: he has a get up and go type attitude when he’s doing anything he needs to, having a up beat spirit anytime he has to go through a major event in his life. He doesn't really care if the people are rude to him, so long as he can try to make some people happy, he's fine with his accommodations. This was seen with his actions while abducted up to the point he met the blue lantern.
[Personal Information]
Height: 5’4"
Weight: 135
Occupation: College Student, Handyman (odd jobs, fixing things)
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Likes: people, justice, music, puns, jokes, awkward moments
Dreams: his dreams, and hopes, are to aid in the rebuilding of the Justice League on Earth, and to possibly join their ranks when it is restored
Dislikes: spiders
Fears: in losing his hope in people making a better future
Darkest Secret: what he has gone through during his abduction overseas
Favourite Food: Pizza
Favourite Drink: Water
Least Favourite Food: Olives
Least Favourite Drink: Pepsi
Loyalties: to his corps, to the heroes of his world, and to the people
Intelligence Level: though he doesn’t act like it, his mind is among the brightest in tactics and investigation, along with math and reading. He’s also able to read into more than he lets on, but keeps his persona going to give a far lighter mood for people
Dominant Hand: Right
Strengths: strong hope, quick thinker, sense of honor, a love of peace, tendency to make puns or jokes while fighting that makes his enemies underestimate him, good motivational speaker when needed.
Weaknesses: quick to give second chances, could act too easy on opponents
Cherished Items:
The Blue Power Ring that was given to him by the Blue Lantern Corps to signify his joining into their ranks.
Philosophical/social viewpoint: he believes that even in the darkest times, hope can find a way to light the hearts of those who have none, or can’t find a way through. His social viewpoint is the same, believing that if people tried to do something, they could make a great change in things. Along with this, he holds a high sense of justice and believes that there could be resolutions that last in peace. From his time training on Odym, this has only grown stronger, if anything else.
Religious viewpoint: he believes in the existence of a creator, but doesn’t want to add any more to it from all the spectacles people have.
Romantic viewpoint: he believes a relationship should be real in order for it to work, and be made after a time of being friends or from working together for a long time.
Biography
Born to a doctor and a nurse in Coast City, Derek had an easy life growing up. He ended up in good schools and learned a lot in each, and though he didn't make friends, he still made it so that people were at least happy all around through his actions, and that bit always gave him hope during his time in school that things could get better than they were out in the real world. During his time at school, he did fairly well in math and in requirements needed for investigations, and his imaginations and ideas were endless. Because of his constant daydreaming, though, he didn't have that many friends. However, when he did get up and move about, people couldn't help but smile at his attitude to things. He had a way about him that calmed people down, even when he was faced with bullies early in life.
Skip forwards a few years to where he was eighteen and over seas on a trip through Egypt. During one day where the tourists were heading towards one of the pyramids, and a group of men stopped their vehicle, carrying guns, and telling Derek and the passengers to have their heads down and give them their valuables. During this time the police force was coming in at speed, someone managing to dial for help while they had and one of the men starts to grab one of the tourists, an old man, before Derek stood up, asking to take him in their place. The men, running low on time as the police arrive, agree and toss the man back into the group, taking Derek instead as leverage. However, instead of releasing him immediately, they kept him for three months with their group, using him as a form of worker to do trivial tasks they needed in their base, a small facility in the desert. Derek, though his surroundings and settings were far different, still kept his mind on his hopes of eventually being released and kept his up beat spirit, despite how they treated him. Though most of the men seemed amused at his way of thinking, there were some that actually started to feel regrets for him being kept around this long.
By the end of the third month, he had amazingly kept his up beat personality, though not having been fed as much as he should've been made his body look otherwise. However, he had gained a good deal of strength, and still held his hopes on eventually being free. One day during his daily routines, one of the men had finally had pity on him for too long and handed him keys to a car, telling him of the quickest way to leave, which completely took Derek by surprise. He thanked the man greatly and drove off in the direction they had said, and by the time the men realize he had escaped, a sandstorm had hit the area, leaving them no way of finding him. As Derek drove, he ended up getting lost within the storm, forcing him to stop after getting a good distance away from the area he was captive in. By the time the sand storm settled, however, he found that he had ended up stranded in the center of a great amount of sand dunes. So, with no idea on where to go, and with the sun already setting to give signal of the night, he ended up staying in the car to wait for morning.
However, during the middle of the night as he gazed into the stars, he noticed a blue light coming down from the sky, approaching an area close by to him. Derek, curious on what it could be, turned on the car and started driving towards it in search of what it could've been. When he had reached the source of the light, he found it to be an alien that wore blue attire with a symbol he thought was similar to what he saw on images of the Green Lantern's suit, and got out of the car to approach them. The alien noticed him, but was sitting within the air as if trying to sense something around it. When Derek finally asked who they were and if they needed help in anything, the blue clad alien looked to him and asked what had happened to the green lanterns of this world. When he responded with how they had vanished, the blue figure had begun to turn back to the stars before Derek shouted to wait, asking if they knew what had happened, and if there was any way he could help in fixing what caused this. The alien decided to ask Derek his name, and when he had answered, the being said that it's name was Sister Sercey, and if he truly wished to help find out what had happened, then he would need to be evaluated by her. He simply replied with if it would be okay if they moved out of this area first and towards where the lanterns used to reside on the planet, which Sercey agreed to and flew him to his hometown.
When they made it she took the form of a human police officer, and took him home to meet his parents, who were over joyed to see their son returned, which he returned in full. The next day, however, he began talking to Sercey on things about him and of what she belonged to, of the Blue Lantern Corps and of the other six Lanterns Corps of the universe. Sercey began this by talking to him on what his character was, evaluating him while they talked, and from how he acted outside of these times when he was out and about, returning to his habit of helping out people he needed to. After three days, Sercey deemed him worthy to come with her to Odym to become a Blue Lantern, which Derek agreed to before he was given time to say a momentary good bye to his family, saying he was going away for awhile. They were devastated that he was leaving so soon after the event, and he honestly was just as devastated, so Sercey allowed him one more week at home to explain what he was about to go through, and would wait for him to be ready.
After the one week passed, his parents knew now of the blue lanterns. Though they were afraid for their son, they agreed for him to go and do what he believed he needed to, and Sister Sercey took him off to Odym. When they had arrived, he was taken to Saint Walker to be told of the requirements of being a Blue Lantern, of how it is a responsibility to give one's self to the universe, and also that he would learn his ultimate destiny. Without further ado, Saint Walker gave him a Blue Power Ring, and Derek saw a future where the Justice League was back on its feet, him aiding them where they needed it most. For the next two years after this, he trained with Saint Walker on his abilities, and learned of their strengths and weaknesses. After he had finished his training, he headed off to Earth, becoming the Blue Lantern for Sector 2814 by Saint Walker's order because of his familiarity with the system, along with the fact of Disappearances of the Green Lanterns in the sector.
For the last week he's been back in the Solar system to take a break from his roaming the sector, searching for a new initiate he could bring in from earth, though he also lives on the road in the U.S. in order to keep tabs on the planet after the loss of heroes, people soon talking of a blue light flying through the sky, others of a man in blue aiding people who were in trouble and had no way of escape.
[Relationship information]
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[Weapon information]
○ Blue Lantern Ring: This is the ring that is the trademark item for the blue lanterns, empowered by the hope of those who wear them.
[Other item information]
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[Ability information]
○ Blue Energy Conduit: The rings use Blue energy, supplied by a Power Battery which in most cases takes the form of blue light. The Blue energy of hope has an infallible connection to the universe. Hope is the most powerful of light, and thus the universe speaks through it. A Blue Power ring is one of the most powerful weapons in the universe, and has the ability to affect and use fundamental forces of the universe, including electromagnetic energies such as gravity, radiation, heat, light, and powerful blasts of concussive force. The ring can also create fields of force formed from an unknown energy that was bound by the users' will. The limitations of such use are the skill, knowledge and imagination of the user.
○ Animating: A Blue Lantern can will things to move how he wants.
○ Artificial Intelligence: Every ring has a connection to the Main Battery on Odym, which taps into an artificial intelligence. It acts as an "on-board computer," telling the wearer what they need to know. It can either respond out loud, or silently directly to the wearer's mind. The AI contains a large database of information that may be crucial to a Lantern's success. The ring also translates nearly every language to and from the wearer (though they have difficulty translating profanity), which is why the Corps can communicate with each other. When the bearer of a Blue Lantern ring dies, the ring will seek out a suitable replacement for their sector. The AI can be used to play a holographic playback sequence complete with colors across the spectrum based on information in memory banks. The ring can dictate when to pause or stop the playback should an interruption arise where the Lanterns undivided attention is needed. The AI can also alert the wielder of incoming threats or of attempts to manipulate the wielders construct by an outside party.
○ Communicator: The ring can act as a personal communicator between Lanterns. They have also been seen connected to telephones.
○ Costumes: The wearer of the ring may create any costume they choose, based on their personal preferences, whenever they choose. The ring projects the costume over any clothes already worn at the time. It is unknown if the Blue Lanterns have any protocol over costume choices though probably not has long as they display the Blue Lantern symbol.
○ Energy Projection: The rings can also project beams, form protective bubbles and force fields, and fire destructive blasts. For Blue Lanterns to be effective they require a nearby Green Lantern.
○ Energy Constructs: The constructs of a Blue Lantern are often not directly created by the Lantern himself/herself and are often a representation of the hope the target genuinely feels. Example when used against John Stewart he say his dead wife Katma Tui and when used against Arkillo he saw his former leader Sinestro. Blue Lanterns are capable of using more traditional constructs in the presence of a Green Lantern.
○ Energy Charging: The Blue ring can charge any other powering to twice its usual capacity if the Blue Lantern wishes it.
○ Energy Draining: The Blue Lantern Ring can negativly impact the rings on the opposite side of the spectrum. Sinestro Corps powers steadily drain, Blue Rings can counter the negative aspects of the red power ring, and the blue ring and quench the hunger of the orange light of avarice.
○ Flight: The ring allows the wearer to fly in atmosphere or in space, and can achieve incredible speeds, moving from planet to planet in a matter of hours.
○ Hope Empowerment & Manipulation: When a different Lantern is near the aura of a Blue Lantern, their ring will be charged up to maximum capacity and will remain so as long as that Blue Lantern "hopes for [his or her] well-being". The constant empowerment has a tendency to cause a form interference to other power sources. Blue Lanterns feed off of hope and can utilize its energy for a variety of effects, bypassing using the rings energy. For example, Saints Walker and Warth use the hope of a planet's billions of alien beings to reverse the age of a dying sun 8.6 billion years.
○ Invisibility: The ring can make the wearer or anything else invisible..
○ Mirages: The Ring can create mirages/illusions.
○ Phasing: The ring allows the user to go through walls. This ability however required great concentration on the bearer of the ring
○ Recharging: The Blue Rings are powered and fueled by hope, so there is no need to recharge them with a battery.
○ Ring Duplication: Each ring can duplicate itself, creating a second ring which may be given to another as a backup, for protection, or to help the lantern in times of great need. This duplicate ring is exactly like a normal ring.
○ Temperature Control: The Ring can increase or decrease the temperature of anything, even something as large as stars, or even create bubbles of intense heat or cold, even down to Absolute Zero. This could be seen in the recent Sinestro Corps War when Sallak used his ring to incase an enemy in a force bubble an incinerate him.
○ Electro-magnetic scanning: The ring can allow(through the use of x rays) the user to see through walls, without the people on the other side knowing. it can also scan along the Electromagnetic spectrum.
○ Wormhole/Warps: The ring can open wormholes to cut down on distance.
○ Healing: Apparently, Blue Rings can heal physical, spiritual, and mental wounds. The Blue Light is also the only known thing that can extinguish the fire produced by Red Lanterns.
○ Pocket dimension: Within the ring is a pocket dimension which can altered to the wielders specification. It can be used to contain opponents.
○ Sub-routines: The power rings have inner programmings or mechanisms which can executed without the users permission. One such sub-routine is the autoshield. This shield automatically protects a wielder from external harm and has been proven to be capable of protecting the wielder from planetary level attacks.
○ X-ray: The ring can allow the user to see through walls, without the people on the other side knowing.
○ Cancels out Red Power Rings: The Blue Rings are also capable of destroying The Red Rings if one is placed on a Red Lantern. Whether this unusual process can be reversed is not yet known.
○ Universal Translator: Keeping in mind the myriad of worlds, life forms, and cultures throughout the cosmos, it is understandable why Guardians of Hope added a translation system to the power ring.
○ Material Alteration: The Blue Lantern's uniform is not made out of fabric. It is created by the Power Ring whenever the wearer wills to wear it. It automatically appears over the wearer's normal clothing, and vanishes when the wearer wills to return to their civilian attire. Most Blue Lantern wear similar uniforms that are programmed into the ring by default. However, each Blue Lantern is able to adjust their uniform to fit their own needs, personalities and whims.
○ Precognition: Upon receiving the ring, Blue Lanterns will experience a moment of the future by the Blue Light, directly related to the wielder and with the express purpose of lifting their hopes. For Derek, it was a future where the Justice League was rebuilt and him in a place where he could aid them as much as needed.
○ Fear Depletion: As fear is the belief of imminent demise, hope is the belief of imminent success. As such, Blue Lantern Rings are capable of depleting the energy of Qwardian Power Rings.
○ Rage Removal: If a subject has been infected with the red light of rage, a Blue Power Ring can create a vision of the subject's greatest hope to calm and heal them. In the case of John Stewart, it showed him a vision of being reunited with his dead wife Katma Tui. The process behind the removal is part spiritual and part medical. The infected goes through a cellular cleansing while the spiritual levels are analyzed and antitoxins are then administrated. When the spiritual connection is connected the blood production begins to increase. The end result releases those infected.
○ Avarice Immunity: A blue ring is not vulnerable to the Orange Lantern Corps' favored tactic of draining energy from other Corps' rings. The reason of this is that while Avarice erodes Will, it can't consume Hope, thus rendering Avarice useless against Hope.
○ Parkour: since he was eleven he's been self training himself in parkour by climbing over walls and running along them, sometimes falling but eventually getting the hang of it, soon being able to climb over roofs and run along tiled houses. By the time he was eighteen he could do this at ease, and probably might have escaped his captivity if it weren't for his lack of knowledge on where the hell he was.
○ Hand to hand (decent): along with his training of his blue lantern abilities by Saint Walker, he was also taught on how to fight without his ring through the knowledge in it, pondering it's knowledge and learning what he could on some of the fighting arts known to his ring's A.I. interface. It's nowhere near the same type of training for someone that's lived with it, but the strength he gained is enough for him to at least defend himself. Along with this, his time being abducted has allowed his muscles and bones to strengthen to the point that he can deal the same kind of damage as a regular fighter, as well as take a hit.
[Weakness information]
○ Energy Interface: As the continuing power of the ring's connection of "universal hope", it has a tendency to cause a form of interference to other power sources.
○ Willpower Symbiosis: The Blue Light of Hope has but one weakness, one that Atrocitus is also aware of. Hope is useless without the Willpower to enact it, and, as such, without an active member of the Green Lantern Corps nearby, a Blue Power Ring is rendered nearly powerless, and is left only with limited flight (though obviously enough to still fly to other planets), limited energy projection and constructs, and protection from the vacuum of space.
○ Lack of Hope: If the wielder of the ring loses hope, the power ring will cease to work
