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Character Name: Jeremy "Jerry" Boltiansky

Character LJ (if applicable): dreadbolt

Physical description (face, build, weight): 6'1, relatively muscular build, dirty blonde hair, blue eyes

Age: 22

Birthday: September 22

Codename (if using one): Dreadbolt

PB: (If using one.): Garrett Hedlund

Abilities:

Jeremy's abilities come from his suit rather than any actual powers of his own. It's modelled after his father's and brother's with only slight changes for convenience but the powers remain the same. It grants him all the same abilities: flight, teleportation, and energy projection.

(this part mostly from comicvine) The energy projection attacks appear to be electrical in nature and can be fired from his hands like bolts of artificial lightning or condensed in his fists for hand-to-hand combat.  Dreadbolt can control the strength and voltage of these attacks so they can either stun or kill his enemies, even reduce them to charred skeletons.  Dreadbolt's suit is presumably insulated/protected from his own electrical attacks.

Jerry learnt from both his father and (mostly) his brother a lot about electrical engineering and other skills needed to run the family's special effects business. While Larry was off being the bolt, Jerry would help his older brother run the business, and eventually when Terry became Dreadbolt, the responsibility was left to him. Jerry is good with electronics, fixing odds and ends with whatever is available. He's not a hacker, he'll short circuit stuff if that's what you're asking for, and your gadgets will be in good hands with him. He's talented at it, the business and tech side, and was later responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of his brother's Dreadbolt suit, along with working on it to streamline things. So by the time he put on the suit himself, he knew the ins and outs of it, and how to do last minute repairs using day to day things for temporary patch ups.

He's got basic combat training, a lot from his brother (who was trained by ravager for a short time), but his fighting style mostly relies on teleporting and the energy projection attacks. Though he's a good street brawler without the suit.
 

Weaknesses and flaws:

While Dreadbolt's suit is insulated from his own attacks, he can be harmed by electricity from outside sources. As for his teleporting, he cannot bring other people with him. Well...it's possible, but it's a messy end for the person involved (see: Terry kills their father using teleporting).

Jeremy is has some abandonment issues and is rather paranoid about betrayal. It's not hard to see why really. In his mind his father 'betrayed' him and his brother by leaving them to their own devices and always off on his life of crime and adventure. Yes, they'd sometimes see the benefits of it, but most of it went to suit maintenance and the business, leaving the brothers to deal with both and to take care of themselves. Then when his brother left and signed up with the Terror Titans, he heard how the team maker Clock King had betrayed them and left them at the mercy of a horde of heroes. If that wasn't enough, the same man had previously made his loyal brother kill their father. Even though he wasn't fond of Larry, it still felt like a betrayal by his brother, even if the death clearly hit Terry hard, and led their relationship to hit the rocks for a few years after, it's still a sore spot for the Boltiansky brothers. Given that he lost his mother early, his father left them for the life of crime and his brother left for the Terror Titans, Jerry understandably has some abandonment issues surrounding the people in his life, though his brother returned eventually. But it says something that even the person he considers the most loyal and reliable person in his life has left and betrayed him in some way.  

Character location/Home: Hometown = Boston, but mostly mobile

Alignment (villain, hero etc): Most would say villain, but he doesn't really care

Team: Suicide Squad

Relatives (living/dead?): Larry Boltiansky (father/deceased), Terry Boltiansky (brother/alive)

Backstory: (Extreme apologies about the length)
 

Jerry's mother passed away early on so he didn't remember much of her, only that it left them all in a worse position and was no help to a father who was already having a bit of a breakdown regarding that new technician in town that was twice as good as he was. After accidentally electrocuting the town, a furious and bitter Larry found a new focus in life, one the brothers saw unfold, from the first design of the Bolt suit and onward. Jerry was too young to really understand the meaning of it at the time, all he knew was that his father was always working on other things and never around, leaving his brother Terry to essentially raise him. They both picked up the tools of the trade over the years by working with and observing their father who gradually spent more and more time as Bolt and less dealing with the family special effects business. While his brother tried to emulate their father, only to be viewed as too soft and a wuss, Jerry, seeing the treatment his brother got, focused more on learning the special effects business and didn't expect much from his father, nor particularly looked up to him. After all, it was Terry who was always around and there for him, who was more a father than his father was, and he looked up to Terry. His father's various stints with the Suicide Squad, Secret Society of Super Villians, etc, along with his multiple almost miraculous ressurections really just meant that as he hit his teen years, all Jerry saw of his father was the money that came in to support the business and the times the brother's would work on their father's suit to fix and improve the old ones. But with Bolt's memberships to the groups and being on the run from authorities then off on who knows what planet being trapped...funds weren't coming in as much anymore. So soon they'd need to find other options, or for one of them to turn to the other family business of supervillainy.

When Terry was approached by clock king to become Dreadbolt, the brothers worked on improving their father's suit for Terry and their father's continued absence in their lives meant that Jerry took over at being the repairman to his brother's Dreadbolt. While he had only cared slightly about his father's exploits as Bolt, he followed what he could of his brother's with extra zeal. If only to make up for the fact that now he was alone and didn't want to consider the idea that'd he'd been abandoned on all sides. So instead he focused on doing what he could for the family business, and finishing school. But after losing his emotional support, and only seeing Terry occassionally even if he did talk over the phone often, was taking its toll and Jerry found himself getting into more and more fights at school, was suspended a couple of times, and generally becoming more introverted. When he heard about the Clock King betraying his brother he wanted to put on a suit himself and find the guy and get revenge for what fate he'd left his brother to. Luckily Terry escaped custody but still, between what he viewed as a betrayal by his father for leaving them to their own devices, and now hearing of the guy who started Terry on the supervillain path betraying him...it did nothing to help the trust issues Jerry had been developing his whole life.

Jerry had no illusions about the type of people his family were. But he didn't consider them villains, opportunists that looked out for themselves fit better he thought. He saw his father as too preoccuppied with and full of himself. But Terry was the level headed one, who had his back no matter what but wouldn't hold back against people that crossed him or his brother. Coldbloodedness had its place and that was for enemies. Which only made Terry's murder of Larry that much harder to stomach. Sure, he wasn't fond of his father, but the man was still blood, and of all the people to kill him...Terry had been the last person he expected. After all, his brother spent so much of his life looking up to their father. That betrayal drove a wedge between the brothers, and Jerry's hurt and anger prevented him from speaking to his brother for the longest time. They eventually reconciled but it's still a sore spot for them.

Jerry went back to being the man behind the scenes for his brother, the new Bolt, and through Terry's heists they managed to keep themselves afloat and get new tech to keep up the business and the suits. Most of their father's accounts had been frozen by now so it was partly out of necessity. Occassionally Jerry would don the suit to pull off a heist while his brother was busy, or do it to act as a decoy or give Terry an alibi. But their activity, though generally under the radar, was still enough to get noticed by Checkmate who was putting together a new Suicide Squad. And with their father's former membership on it, the brothers were all that much more noticeable to the organization. They caught Terry and took him into custody, citing mostly old Terror Titans related charges (the heist ones were harder to prove, they'd been more discrete), but the main purpose was to blackmail the younger brother into the team. If they'd taken Terry for it he could've contacted his brother for help somehow, this way they had one under lock and key and leverage over the younger one who knew the suit better and could do his own repairs. Jerry might still be hurt and mad over Terry's betrayal, but it wasn't enough to abandon the brother he once, and still sort of did, look up to. So Jerry was recruited to the squad.

How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: He's been blackmailed into the Suicide Squad in order to help reduce his brother's charges (most of which are old).

What are you planning to do with this character? Suicide squad stuff, maybe some freelance work on the side for heroes to run into if they want

What do you want to see happen with this character?: Again suicide squad stuff, get exposed to different types of 'villains', learn how to work in a team (Though trust issues aren't going to go away on a team like this), and figure out how far he's willing to go for things. He already knows that's pretty far, but every man has his limit.

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