Paco Ramone, also known as Vibe, is an incredibly agile, able dancer specializing in breaking, otherwise known as breakdance. He operates as a member of the Justice League after being recruited through a renewed initiative to find and train young, independent heroes.
Background
Francisco Ramone, or Paco as he prefers to be called, was born into an average enough family in Detroit. He grew up with multiple siblings, closest to his brother Armando and sister Rosita, and became involved with the unfortunately named gang El Lobos. His powers gave him a significant advantage in fights that came up and earning respect among the Lobos, and inevitably, Paco became the leader.
His first act as leader was to change the name to Los Lobos.
Then he worked on trying to influence the members of the gang into becoming a more positive force. He did not, as a rule, hesitate to use his powers to give him a great advantage in every circumstance, but he didn't use them indiscriminately, working on his focus and finesse. The gang wars that had previously pervaded the city were, at least for the moment, greatly reduced.
When the Justice League implemented a new initiative to identify and train young heroes, Paco was one of the first invited to join them. Initially, he turned them down due to concerns about affiliation with authorities and concern that they did not understand the circumstances of the common people he grew up around, but a personal appeal and coming together to help his brother won him over. Tentatively at first, he joined the Justice League and sought to better himself and, through that, better the lives of all those who believed in him.
SIGNATURE ABILITY
Good Vibrations
If circumstances allow and Paco pushes himself hard, he can potentially vibrate through dimensional barriers, to other universes. This is extremely dangerous, and anything less than tremendous focus can lead to disaster, or even a potential mystery tour of alternate Earths. He can potentially take a small group with him, but no more than a half-dozen people at once. The more people other than himself he has to try and take along, the more can go wrong and the more demanding it is on him.
After doing this, Vibe will need some hours to fully recover. Anything but the most fundamental usage of his powers can be exhausting, and he may not be able to reach for his limits during his recovery time. Further overextension can cause injury or even exhaust him into extended unconsciousness.
SKILLS
Vibe can dust up with the best of them, but the majority of his fighting style is based around brawling and street fighting. He typically leans pretty heavily on his powers to give him an advantage. Training he has received in the Justice League has helped him to refine his ability to engage with opponents and broaden his fighting style.
Paco is a world-class dancer. If there's a rhythm, he can create an extremely impressive dance on the spot. His ability to perform extemporaneously sets him even further above most of his peers; he's not only a dancer, but an on-the-fly choreographer. Though his specialty does not extend to every type of dance, he is one of the greatest b-boys in the world, and quite possibly the universe. His style is most heavily influenced by street dance, but he understands even more standardized forms of dance and choreography. His understanding of dance as an expression of art is superlative.
Fashion - Competent Level
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Paco is actually really gifted in cutting-edge, daring, bold street fashion. Not everyone can appreciate his tastes, but those in the know can probably at least see the art in it.
Paco has a bit of an inborn gift for science, but he hasn't cultivated much of that as a skill yet. Since he didn't have the opportunity to pursue education past high school, he's had to learn on his own. He's a lot smarter than he lets on, especially in the field of physics, but it will undoubtedly take him years to develop his knowledge, now that he has the opportunity and the resources in his hands.
Though Paco's humble circumstances have meant that he never pursued higher education, he has been able to learn a lot over the years. He's just starting to apply his knowledge, which can be very valuable in such a tech-filled world. He can easily understand how to operate most basic technology, though some does elude him. He has the foundation of greater understanding of more complex tech, and he's learning more every day. Or maybe week. He's a busy guy.
ABILITIES
Power: Future Vibes - Basic Level
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Sometimes, Paco can receive impressions of potential futures for people. While he can try to bring this about, it's more than a little random and may or may not work at all if he tries to force the issue. The way this power functions is that he sometimes attunes to the vibration of a potential alternate future; typically, when this happens, he has recognized that it is because he and thus the dimension he is occupying at the time are vibrating on the wavelength where that progression of events is most likely. He is working to develop this ability, but it remains fairly new to him.
Power: Vibration - Supreme Level
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Vibe's metahuman power is the ability to generate shockwaves of vibration and, furthermore, to be attuned to vibrations in a larger, more cosmic sense. Typically, he uses his hands or arms to focus the direction of these waves, though he can generate them without the need to gesture; if he does not direct them physically, he must focus his mind on what he intends to accomplish, or they might simply ripple out from his body in all directions.
Vibe typically uses low-level vibration to throw opponents off, though he can highly focus his vibrational powers to literally shake things apart or to destroy a smaller component of a larger object. He has learned exceptional subtlety in the application of his abilities through lifelong use. At his strongest application of power without exceptional strain, Paco could shake a multi-floor building to dust, including solid steel used in construction. Destroying substances harder than steel, such as diamond, is still possible, but it would require more care used to crystalline resonances and vibration similar to, but more complex than, shattering glass.
Vibe can apply his power to slow his descent, though he isn't able to fly conventionally. It's very helpful if he ever finds himself in a free fall situation! This can also be used to slow the speed of things, especially projectiles or thrown weapons, or anything of the sort. In using pulses of vibration waves, he may even knock things like bullets out of the air before they could ever reach him or anyone he intends to protect. He can also create a wall of vibration, or even a dome of protection around himself and a small group of other people, which should protect them especially from physical weapons and attacks as long as Vibe can concentrate on maintaining it.
Vibe can vibrate himself, though he rarely does so. In doing this, he may be able to phase through solid matter and even dimensional barriers, but it takes tremendous concentration and focus, or it could go horribly wrong and seriously injure him, or he could be lost between dimensions or in some random alternate universe. More usually, he maintains a vibrational field around his body to protect him from projectiles or unexpected assault. Naturally, his powers give Vibe immunity to vibration used against him, including most sonic attacks.
ADVANTAGES
Paco has a number of contacts from his days as a street dancer. Everything from the rich street culture, to street fashion houses, to gang members, Paco could still call upon some of these people to find out something he needs or, in a really tight spot, even possibly lean on them to help him out or put him up for a while...or as a disguise. Paco can go into deep cover, as long as it's something he knows.
As a member of the Justice League, Vibe is able to call upon other heroes and be reasonably sure they will try to help him if needed, most especially other members of the League. He also has a Justice League communicator and access to all of their teleporters, making travel much easier and more efficient. Furthermore, Vibe has access to the various advanced technology and informational resources that the League does, including a good relationship with STAR Labs.
WEAKNESSES
Paco's past has not been entirely on the up and up, so that can come back to haunt him sometimes. He's not ashamed of it, but that doesn't stop people resenting his success and prominence, especially if they were never that fond of him to begin with.
Paco keeps speech affectations and a macho persona of bravado, unless and until someone gets to know him better. Most people will never get a true glimpse of his personality, though this can be useful at times. It can, however, also make things worse with others' reactions to the mask Paco wears to present to the world.
This boy is really not the refined teatime type. He's not going to impress anyone at a high society event, and people caught up in that kind of thing will probably be put off by his very down-to-earth manner.
Unfortunately, Paco does have a terrible temper. He's quick to anger, but he's also pretty quick to let it go. Still, it can lead to some unhappy situations between him and other people, and if they are the type to hold a grudge, might have a bad effect on the situation.
