Personality
Gar, on the surface, is a pretty light-hearted guy. Quick with a joke, a lover of puns, he tries not to take things too seriously. He's always looking to lighten the mood and make things easier for the people around him. He can annoy some people with his pursuit of humor, but those who know him well understand where it comes from. If he dwells too much on the bad things that have happened to him, he can sink into melancholy and depression. Plus, the truth is, being a superhero can be pretty fun, if you allow it. Beyond that, Gar is brave, loyal, compassionate, truthful and generally a heck of a good guy.
Background
Garfield Logan grew up in Africa, the son of a pair of research zoologists. He spent his childhood playing with wild animals, living on the veldt and experiencing the wonde of the world. Home-schooled by his brilliant parents, they lived off the family fortune and seemed to have blessed lives. Gar, however, grew quite ill shortly after reaching puberty.
Realizing their son had contracted a strange and unforeseen infection, his parents, finding conventional medicine insufficient, devised a cure of their own. The device they invented worked to use their knowledge of animal DNA to enhanced his immune system. The device worked but, to their great surprise, it also changed him. Gar turned green from head to toe and soon manifested the superhuman ability to take the shape of any animal he chose.
Gar and his parents lived together for a few more happy years before a boating accident took their lives and left him an orphan. He eventually came back to the states to live as a ward, only to discover the man who was meant to help guide his fortune was a criminal and a thief. After he helped law enforcement foil his would-be guardian, the newly liberated Gar decided to become a superhero. Taking the name Beast Boy, he's become a force for justice in the world - and, despite some of the darkness in his background, has become a light and lovable young man.
SKILLS
ACROBATICS - Competent: Gar is a skilled acrobat and tumbler, enhanced by his superhuman agility, although he's not at the level of your circus people.
SCIENCE - Competent: Gar was raised by scientists and was trained in science from a young age. While he's not a genius in this area, he's more than capable of keeping up with your average scientific conversation and, for all his joking, he's actually pretty good at this stuff.
POWERS
PHYSIQUE - Enhanced: Gar's physical abilities are naturally enhanced. He's about ten times as strong, fast and agile as an ordinary human and has incredible stamina that allows him to be athletic for long periods of time without growing tired.
REGENERATION - Enhanced: Gar has the ability to heal much faster than an ordinary human, letting him take damage and injury but recover with remarkable rapidity. While it's not as potent as some, his healing powers are such that he can come back from harm much faster than normal and allows him to stabilize quickly when he's wounded severely.
SHAPESHIFTING - Enhanced: Gar possesses the ability to shapeshift himself into any animal, past or present, that exists. He can gain or lose size and acquires any abilities such animals naturally possess, be they claws, great strength, great durability or incredible speed and agility. He can transform at a moment's notice and even shift rapidly from one shape to another.
ADVANTAGES
HEIR Gar inherited a rather substantial fortune from his parents and, through his trust fund, has a few million dollars at his disposal to keep him comfortable and help him pursue his life of superherodom.
WEAKNESSES
GREEN No matter what shape he takes, Gar is green. He's green in his normal form, green as an elephant, green as an eel. Green from head to toe to tail.
LIMITS Gar can only take the shapes of animals. He cannot become inanimate objects, turn invisible. He can become quite enormous or tiny, but he cannot become truly gargantuan (a blue whale would be too much) or microscopic (he couldn't become a paramecium).
ORPHAN Gar's parents died just a few years ago and he feels the weight of their demise very keenly. Underneath his silly exterior, there is a core of sorrow, regret and sadness that he has never been able to escape...and that some people may exploit.
UNDERESTIMATED People don't tend to give Gar much credit. He's small, he's bright-eyed, he tends to be something of a jokester. When trying to get people to take him seriously or treat him as a threat, he rarely gets much in the way of respect. It's frustrating.
