| “ | I'm not doing this out of hate. Or malice. Or anger or my ego or anything like that. No, this is for the betterment of the human race. So that the human race can prosper and evolve to be better. And if 50% of them have to die for the other 50% to flourish, then I think it's more than worth it | „ |
| ~ Liam describing his motives |
Summary[]
Liam Sternberg is a man that was born with the sollertia gene, a gene that gives humans extraordinary abilities. Liam's sollertia gave him an invisible forcefield that surrounds his skin at all times, with this forcefield massivley reducing the amount of damage he takes from attacks, allowing him to walk off incredibly powerful attacks without a hint of pain. This forcefield can be broken, but it does require a tremendous effort and heals itself back after some time.
After graduating from Green Haul Academy for The Sollertia as the 2nd smartest student to have ever attended the school, he moved on to becoming a professional hero, using his immense hand-to-hand fighting skill and intelligence to help better the world. After some time of being a professional hero, he eventually started developing the belief that humans born with the sollertia gene were objectivley better than those that weren't, and that those without the sellertia gene were holding back the human race from further evolving.
After adopting these beliefs, Liam went public with his beliefs, which caused him to get kicked off of his hero team. After getting kicked out, he started to attempt to convince people to join his side. After several years, he very slowly started to build up his own following of people with the sollertia gene who agreed with his beliefs. He then tried to use this following to kill the same hero team that kicked him out all those years ago. However, he realized that the people stopping his attacks weren't the team of professional heros, but instead were some of the students from Green Haul Academy.
After realizing this and realizing how powerful the students truly were, he ordered an attack on the school directly, and joined the fight himself. While here, he talked with an old classmate of his, Isaiah, and eventually faught toe-to-toe with Adam, who Liam saw as living proof of his own beliefs due to how powerful Adam was. Eventually, Liam would be defeated by Adam and would be forced to order his followers to retreat, claiming that he will come back stronger, and that he is far from defeated.
Later, Liam would gain an obsession with Adam due to his sheer power. Wanting to experience that power for himself, he came up with a possible way for him to copy his abilities. Due to having some of Adam's blood under his fingernails after the fight, he harvested the blood and had duplicator make numerous copies of ot for him to experiment and study on. He would attempt to give himself this sollertia many times to no avail due to diffrent blood types and genetic code, and figured that his best bet would be to find a way to temporarily copy his sollertia. After remembering a former villian he had thrown into jail, Copycat, and knowing that Copycat can copy other people's sollertia, he freed him as well as Master of Metal and Point Blank, other villians he had put into jail as a hero, from their prisons. After tricking the 3 into joining his side and getting Copycat to agree to letting him take his blood, and due to Copycat having a simular blood type and genetic makeup, Liam would eventually engineer a serum that would give him the ability to copy others sollertia, and all he would need is new irises in his eyes to use the ability, as Liam's current irises weren't capable of properly using the ability.
After killing Taylor by ripping out his head with the spine attached, he would rip out his irises and dip them in the serum before putting them in his own eyes, giving him Copycat's abilities. Using the samples of Adam's blood, Liam was able to copy his sollertia, and gain Adam's abilities, massivley increasing his strength and giving him kinetic energy absorbtion.
Personal Statistics[]
Name: Liam Sternberg
Origin: Hero's Oath
Classification: Human, Sollertia user
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Status: Alive
Combat Statistics[]
Tier: Low 7-C | 7-C, up to 7-B with enough energy, 7-A with enhanced punches
Key: Pre-Surgery | Post-Surgery
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Accelerated Development (People with the sollertia gene are capable of gaining muscle at incredibly fast rates)
- Master Martial Artist (Liam is known as one of the greatest fighters on the earth, having won countless martial arts tournaments and has studied various martial arts from around the planet, having complete mastery of all of them. Trained in "The 10 degrees of Sollertia fighting", which is 10 seperate martial arts meant to maximize the usage of a persons sollertia in a fight. Liam specifically trained in counter-attacking, allowing his sollertia to absorb the damage while he hits vital parts of an opponents body and cripples them too much for them to fight back. With his vast knowledge of martial arts, he can often predict matches far in advance and predict how the fight will go down and what fighting styles someone knows just by looking at their stance. He also taught all of his followers how to fight, allowing them to keep up with students from Green Haul Academy)
- Pressure Points & Paralysis Inducement (Can strike specific muscles on people that can make it so that they can't move that group of muscles. He can also cripple opponents by striking weak points on their body, causing severe pain and injury)
- Damage Reduction (Due to his sollertia, he has an invisible "forcefield" constantly around his skin that absorbs impacts and massivley reduces the damage of the impact taken by him. He can still somewhat do this even with the forcefield broken by moving his body in a way to minimise damage)
- Genius Intelligence
- Acrobatics (Can jump 30 stories high. Was trained in parkore)
- Analytical Prediction (Can predict what an opponent is going to do simply by looking at the fighting stance they take and predicting what fighting styles they know and what their first move is likely to be. Said to have "read Adam like a book" during their fight. Easily predicted where Charlotte was going to teleport and got the jump on her after only a minute of fighting)
- Social Influencing (Convinced a large amount of people into joining him and adopting his beliefs over an extended period of time, to the point of where people were willing to die for his cause. Gaslit and blackmailed people who hated him into joining his side. Has shown to be an excellent leader, creating complex strategies and have his followers execute them)
- High Pain Tolerance (Laughed off multiple punches from Adam, claiming to barely feel the pain of it)
All Previous Abilities,
- Power Mimicry (After giving himself the abilities of Copycat, Liam can scan someones entire genome and copy their sollertia, putting it into his own genome and giving himself their powers)
- Limited Power Absorption (Likely comparable to Copycat, who could absorb some of Henry's internal fire and make himself stronger)
- Kinetic Energy Absorption (Can absorb the kinetic energy of his opponents attacks)
- Superior Damage Reduction (By absorbing the kinetic energy of his opponents attacks, he can reduce the amount of damage they do to him. This, along with his already existing sollertia, makes it so that it's nearly impossible to do meaningful damage on him)
- Statistics Amplification (Can make himself stronger by absorbing kinetic energy)
- Energy Manipulation & Limited Biological Manipulation (By hitting a pressure point on a persons nerve, he can put energy into that nerve that blocks signals from the brain from talking to the collection of nerves, permanently paralysing that part of the persons body, even those that can control energy in their body such as Adam, with the only known counter being regeneration)
- Damage Boost (Can put stored up kinetic energy into his fists, massivley increasing his damage)
- Energy Projection (Can shoot beams of energy from his hands)
- Attack Reflection (Can reflect energy-based attacks)
- Forcefield Creation (Can create a powerful forcefield around him that can block incoming damage)
- Danmaku (Could spam a large amount of projectiles from his hands)
- Superior Analytical Prediction & Information Analysis (Gained a massive boost to his prediction abilities, claiming that it was like he "opened [his] eyes for the very first time." With his new abilities, he could predict an entire fight within a second, predict his opponents moveset just by glancing at them, and claimed that he could predict what every last cell of Adam's body was going to do during their fight. With this, he could keep up with Adam's precognition and even surpass it. He also claimed that he knew every single move every fighter was making around him, and that he could tell what their lives were like, what parent they got their sollertia from, and their favorite foods just by observing them fight for only seconds)
- Instinctive Action (Was able to instinctivley dodge and block attacks from his opponents)
- Resistance to Power Mimicry (Copycat's sollertia prevents others from mimicing his abilities)
Attack Potency: Small Town level+ (Destroyed a large portion of a skyscraper with a single punch. Threw around Stage 1 Adam and was shown to be stronger than him. Shook a city block with his punches) | Town level (Far stronger than before, to the point where it's stated that even in his base, he could effortlessly defeat and kill Stage 1 Adam. After getting Copycat's sollertia, it's implied that he was the same strength as him), up to City level with enough energy (With enough absorbed energy, he can activate his own Stage 1. In this form, he can fight with Stage 3 Adam, being equal to his strength and being able to harm him, with Adam surviving attacks from a full powered Henry. Implied to be on Inhuman Fist's level of power and claims that he could easily destroy modern civilization with his newfound strength), Mountain level with enhanced punches (While in stage 1, he can put stored up kinetic energy into his fist, making his punch strength 3 times stronger [150.59 Megatons])
Speed: Subsonic Travel Speed (Scalable to Oxen) with Relativistic Reaction and Combat Speed (Can react and kick this fast)
Lifting Strength: Class M (Equal to a Stage 1 Adam, who could lift part of a skyscraper. Lifted a 2 storey house with a single hand. Ripped off Taylor's head with the spine attached, which would require this much force) | Class M (Stronger than before. Likely scalable to Copycat), up to Class G with enough energy (Could compete with Stage 3 Adam)
Striking Strength: Small Town level | Town level, up to City level with enough energy
Durability: Small Town level+ (Can laugh off attacks from Stage 1 Adam), Town level via forcefield (Shook off enhanced attacks from Stage 1 Adam and required multiple hits from a Stage 2 Adam to break it) | Town level (Easily shook off Screamer's scream, which can generate this much energy), far higher via forcefield, up to City level with enough energy (Could survive hits from Stage 3 Adam), Mountain level via enhanced forcefield (HIs stage 1 forcefield could easily withstood attacks from Stage 3 Adam and protected him for a long time without being broken. Was able to stay intact after punches from Adam's enhanced punches. His energy generated forcefield is likely just as strong)
Range: Standard Melee Range
Standard Equipment: Cigarettes
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Is an incredibly intelligent and calculating villain, being able to convince thousands of people to join his side through his manipulation skills. He is stated to be the 2nd most intelligent student to have ever been at Green Haul Academy for The Sollertia, only being beaten out by Isaiah for the number one spot. Is considered one of the greatest hand-to-hand fighters on the planet, being able to read what an opponent is going to do as well as predict their knowledge and experience in fighting and what fighting styles they are trained in just by looking at their stance. Is an exceptional strategist, nearly coming up with a winning strategy against the Green Haul Academy students until Samantha came up with a counter-attack. Managed to reverse-engineer Copycat's blood to make it into a serum that gave him Copycat's sollertia, which is something that Copycat's sollertia activley defends against. Gave the eye surgery to himself and found a way to make himself recover extremley quickly. After his surgery, he was able to tell almost everything about someones life just by looking at them fight, and could think dozens of steps ahead with his prediction. Very quickly mastered Adam's sollertia and could use it on the same level as Adam, who had the ability for his entire life and had been training with it for years, and could even use it for creative uses Adam was never able to figure out. Has extensive knowledge on pressure points and the human body, knowing how to strike nerves to prevent them from recieving signals from the brain and knowing the best places to strike to cripple an opponent)
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Martial Arts Mastery: Liam has a massive amount of martial arts knowledge and skill. He spent a large chunk of his 20s exploring the world, learning various diffrent martial arts and techniques to use in a fight. He has managed to mix these martial arts into his own style, creating a large amalgamation of various fighting styles from across the planet. He also studied "The 10 degrees of Sollertia fighting", which is 10 seperate types of martial arts that allow one to use their Sollertia in combat and use it in conjunction with their skill to make a deadly combination of sollertia and fighting skill. With his immense training, he won various martial arts tournaments all across the world and was considered one of the greatest fighters on the planet. The Fighting 4 would eventually inlist his skill, with him using his immense skill to be a hero for several years until getting kicked off of the team by Inhuman Fist. His knowledge in martial arts is so extensive that he could teach all of his followers how to fight. Said followers were capable of competing with Green Haul Academy students in close quarters combat, which has extremley rigourous physical and martial training.
- Pressure Points: Has a large amount of knowledge on the human body. With this knowledge, he can strike nerve clusters of his opponents, causing the striked area to quit receiving signals from the brain, paralyzing that part of the body.
- Prediction: Due to Liam's vast knowledge in fighting, he can determine what type of fighting style an opponent knows simply by looking at their stance. He can use this knowledge to predict how they will fight and what they will open with, allowing him to avoid and dodge their attacks, as well as know what type of fighting techniques he should use to counter theirs and defeat them.
- Sollertia: Liam's sollertia gene gives him an invisible forcefield right above his skin that can absorb the energy from attacks, leaving him unharmed. This forcefield can eventually break, but will be regrown eventually and be at its full strength.
- Body Movements: If Liam ever finds his sollertia broken, he can move his body in a way to reduce damage done to him, allowing him to take attacks stronger than his normal durability.
- Persuasion & Charisma: Liam is a very charasmatic and persuasive person, talking hundreds of people into risking their own lives for his cause. He has also shown great leadership skills, having complete control over his followers and being able to stratigically organize them in a large scale battle.
- Kinetic Energy Absorption: After copying Adam's sollertia by scanning a peice of his blood, Liam gained his ability to absorb and store kinetic energy inside of his body and use the energy for a variaty of porposes.
- Superior Damage Reduction: Is capable of reducing how much kinetic energy he's hit with by absorbing a majority of it and storing it for later use. This plus his own sollertia makes it nearly impossible to injure him.
- Statistics Amplification: The more absorbed kinetic energy in his body, the stronger he becomes, allowing him to strike harder and lift more weight.
- Nerve Blockers: When he uses his pressure points, he is now capable of putting small masses of energy into the persons nerve cluster. When he does this, it makes it impossible for any signals from the brain to go to that part of the body, permenatly leaving it paralyzed, even for those that can control the nerves and energy inside of their body, such as Adam. However, powerful enough regeneration can break the blockers apart, allowing for electrical activity in that part of the body again.
- Stage 1: Simularly to Adam, if Liam absorbs enough kinetic energy, he can activate his own "Stage 1", which massively increases his power and gives him extra abilities.
- Enhanced Punches: Can put a large amount of kinetic energy into his hand and release it with a punch, making his punch 3x stronger.
- Energy Blasts: Can blast bolts of energy from his hands at an opponent.
- Forcefield: Can make a powerful energy forcefield in front of him.
- Attack Reflection: Simularly to Adam, Liam can absorb and reflect energy-based attacks right back at an opponent.
Weaknesses: Has an incredibly bad cigarette addiction and often stops in the middle of fights to have one, and experiences incredibly bad coughing fits frequently. Has a very high ego
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