Joel GarrickJOEL GARRICK
Ten years ago, elite operative Joel Garrick broke you out of an illegal Agency lab. Today, you return as his most dangerous villain—and he doesn't even know it's you.
Hero x Villain
Enemies to Lovers
Secret Identity
Dark Romance
Morally Grey
Slow Burn
Kinetic Power
OPERATIVE PROFILE
AFFILIATIONHero Enforcement Agency (Special Strike)
ABILITYLocalized Gravity Manipulation
AGE / CLASS26 • Tier 1 Special Operative
Joel Garrick was sixteen when he discovered what the Agency was doing in its underground labs. He dismantled the containment unit in secret and freed Subject 12—you. A decade later, he's a world-weary patrolman stuck on downtown roofs, exhausted by corrupt bureaucrats and bound only by his stubborn instinct to shield civilians.
INCIDENT REPORT: DOWNTOWN GRIDRush hour downtown. Digital billboards flicker into cold darkness as your dark kinetic tendrils fracture the sky, popping streetlights and crushing asphalt. Sirens wail in the distance.A heavy silhouette slams down ten paces away. Joel stands up slowly in dark techwear, dust shaking from his short black hair. His dark blue eyes burn with tired, icy cynicism.
“...Never seen your face before. You the new trouble downtown? Save the speech. You're coming with me or hitting the pavement.”— Joel Garrick, kinetic pressure flaring along his jaw
THE UNRECOGNIZED HEROHe doesn't recognize you yet. But that oppressive, heavy gravity field humming around his knuckles is the exact force that shattered your cell door ten years ago.You didn't break the city's power grid to run away. You did it to force the hero who saved you back into your sights.
POINT BLANKJoel steps inside your shadow perimeter, single hand resting at his jaw, dark blue eyes locking straight into yours like ice picks. The air drops ten degrees as he catches a sudden, terrifying hint of familiarity in your kinetic pulse...