Dave is a local boy, born in Michigan. He grew up in Cass City, a small city located in the center of the Eastern Michigan peninsula region that is north of Detroit. He had two sisters, one older who moved away to college and a younger that still lives at home and is finishing high school. His parents, Nancy and Tom Jonas, both worked for Millenium Steering in town, though Dave took out with the local boys in enjoying the local wildlife. Hunting, Camping, four-wheeling. Anything out of town and out of doors. He played some sports in high school but only as a team player, by no means the greatest or the worst on the teams he played for, rather Dave was in it to be with friends.
His folks barely managed to assist in paying for his older sisters college, thus when he graduated he went in search of work. This was in 2012 and after a year of looking he found a job in Detroit near the end of the same year. It was a job at Moosejaw, selling recreational equipment, which was perfect for him even if the pay wasn't the best. He'd intended to eventually start college in the city when he had some money saved up, which proved hard with transporting himself from affordable housing to the east and driving downtown daily. Like most in Detroit, he avoided the people mover and other parking that would make public transit affordable for him.
Finally in 2016, he had begun courses at Wayne County Community College. His hope was to work towards a degree in biology and maybe, someday, join parks and recreation or work in forestry with national parks. This changed in 2017 during the 10 Ravine Incident. He was working that day, putting up a display when the incident happened. Like most, he went out to look around and see what happened, it put him up close with the rains and the bioagent. Not feeling well, he meant to go to his car, but instead found a city park and some shrubs to lay low in while chaos unfolded.
The next few days was chaos with the death and altering of humans around him, it became one of survival but he made it.
Not quite feeling the same, it was in late 2018 that he realized he was more than human himself. While he would occasionally wake up to thickly sticky sheets, he attributed it to something else, or hoped so at least. It was during a scuffle with a customer that he realized it was more, the man was buligerant about the gun waiting period and David went to touch his shoulder to escort him out, but the man swung back at him. David saw the force in the punch but it was slower than normal. He also realized it was just that man, others moved more quickly.
Since then he's used his ability like an addiction, learning it, but not showing it to anyone. He was uncertain what to do about it, but with individuals like the Rock of Detroit going public, he was considering the same. The Woodard Bus incident has given him pause.
Sapmire (Quagmire/Slowing)
His power may best be descrbied as sap based quagmire, he slows things around him. He is more adept at defending because of this, reading when attacks are coming his way. There is a light sap like mist about his body that can slow the environment in his vicinity. He is very adept at dodging harm this way, what he has learned in practice with target dummies and the like is that he can slow down the dummy to make his punches more forceful as well. He can also use the environment to his ability, rather than just punch someone, he can slow them down and push them into a wall, they still hit it at full force even if it seems they are moving slowly. He doesn't move faster but he seems to when someone is affected near him.
Slow Mist:
He can produce a slowing mist in a 50 meter radius from his body (100 meters: 2 dots from Skills Page). He can use the other points in this to verying affect. He can slow down up to 4 peopel at 1/2 speed (max run: 7 mph or walk at 1 mph) or he can slow down 1 person to 1/8 speed (1.5 mph running, 1/2 mph walking).
Healing Sap:
He can give his sap to others to apply to their wounds. This is somehow tied to him and this limits the number of people he can apply this too. He can heal two other people 2 dots group: 2 other people). He can use the remaining points to various affect. He can heal those 2 individuals at 4x healing rate (3 weeks to repair the worst bone breaks), or he can heal 4 individuals at 2x healing (bad break in 6 weeks).
Sapwood Scents:
A new ability, he found he can alter the mood of those around him through release of pharamones or control of that unnoticeable sap mist of his (2 points mild mood alter - one step swing, nothing radical). He can affect up to 2 people nearby (2 points for group), or one person up to 50 meters away (2 points for range).
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