Obsidian

Okay, so, this one is actually for the Sky High Verse, during the '70's class timeline. (So, back when The Commander, etc. were attending Sky High)

So, the concept was, given the treatment of sidekicks and people with 'lesser' powers in that 'verse, what if a badass normal type tried to attend it? Mostly based on these things.

[quote] Sidekicks seem to be permanent assistants and gophers in this world. No-one thought that creating a caste-system based on perceived utility of superhuman powers might be a bad idea? High school can be difficult enough with normal kids, what's it like in a school where the kids are sorted based on "usefulness" (not anything they have control over) and are apparently ingrained with the Hero/Sidekick mentality? The Hero classes seem pretty normal but the cliqueishness of a normal school can get significantly more dangerous - or at least worse - when your bullies have superspeed and the like, not to mention teachers like Coach Boomer encouraging the divide if not the bullying; what we see of the Sidekick classes seems bent towards eliminating individuality, with the answer being "Let your Hero handle things" and hero careers being dependent on the Hero they're assigned... especially considering that you might fall by the wayside and be unable to separate from your sidekick persona, like All-American Boy.

And while it's clearly not intentional, Heroes who come away thinking that a person's worth is based on their superpowers may have issues once they leave school and have to deal with non-powered people.

Given the blind eye that many public schools turn towards the attitude of cliques of real world students towards the students that they as students deem lesser, let alone ones who are not fully supported by the system due to whatever reason, this is sadly all too believable.

Choosing who's a Hero and who's a Sidekick might be based more on durability and the flashiness of the power. In the film we see the heroes or, pardon the World of Warcraft analogy, the tanks fighting the big bads and distracting them while the sidekicks/hero support are doing the behind the scenes stuff like defusing the device that causes the flight mechanism to fail.
So you have heroes out there distracting the villian, taking the beating while their sidekicks are evacuating the area, or defusing the bomb, or finding the solution to the plague.
Hero-support is just that. Of course there's the stigma that sidekicks don't do anything because who looks more impressive crawling out of the wreckage? The banged up Commander they all just saw going toe to toe with the bad guy? or All-American Boy holding what's left of the control pad he'd just painstakingly decoded?

Mr. Boy knows how important everything the sidekicks do is but is resigned to the fact that he'll never get the credit for it. The Commander never recognized his contribution but surely there are other heroes out there who do otherwise they would do away with the sidekick classes and send those kids home after they learned power control. Hero-support is important. The movie is about recognizing that.

Why is there no class for being the Badass Normal for kids without powers? It seems like they would be natural targets for supervillains, especially in Roy's case as he has two superhero parents and probably had twice as many people gunning for him. The fact that there's no Badass Normal heroes at all is kind of annoying in and of itself. [/quote]

So, the idea is, yeah. A normal guy trying to make it in the school and prove himself in that kind of area and dealing with all that comes with it.

He fights with the other students off and on, loses more often than not, wins some, cheats in Save the Citizen (He sneaks in a blade or scissors and throws it at the rope just as the fight starts and cuts the rope, 'killing' the dummy.), answers 'wrong' on the Sidekick tests (wants to do everything himself instead of letting the Hero do it.), stuff like that.

About the only things he has going for him are karate skills, a sharp mind and willingness to cheat and cheat hard. Of course, he has his own flaws of course, a big one being his pride and envy. [quote]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatalFlaw http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pride http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreenEyedMonster [/quote]It's a double edged sword.

On the one hand, he will never give up, but on the other, he HAS to prove himself! He HAS to stand equal to or above them! He HAS to work himself to the bone to keep up with the others. He can't accept what he perceives as 'Pity' towards him. It also means he has a tendency to jump the gun. Using powers and unsupervised superheroing isn't allowed outside of the school, but since he doesn't have powers, he thinks he's exempt from the rule.

So, when he gets a tab on a gang of low level criminals, his pride and bullheadedness leads him to think he can handle this on his own with skills, surprise, gear and planning. So, he throws together his first costume and goes on the attack. It is a disaster. He learns a few harsh lessons that day. The first, is that plans don't always go according to plan. The second: "Body armor…always wear body armor when you do your superheroing." without the proper experience or training and badly outnumbered, he is badly battered and left laying broken and bloody in an alley.

 Eventually, he limps home and ends up bedridden for a few days. His parents want him to leave the superhero ideals behind if this is where it got him. When his friends do convince him to finally admit what happened, they go out and track the villains down to get payback. They are hailed as heroes by the media and him as 'that other guy'.

He does eventually resume classes at Sky High again but he's in bad shape for awhile, his pride is broken and the more arrogant and jerkish of the students using this as fresh material. Eventually, he picks himself up and starts devoting any free time he does have to training and honing his body like a lunatic, his friends even worry about him.

Around this time, there have been a growing series of disappearances that he's been trying to research, pulling all nighters on it, which along with his training regiment, leaves him exhausted in School. Once he finally figures it all out, he is planning on informing the heroes and police, his confidence still being shaky, but when his mother is abducted, he finally pulls himself together enough to go rescue her. He throws on his new costume

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And equips several weapons and goes on the attack.

Soon he tracks the
[a href="http://horrormoviesuncut.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/bloodvalley2.jpg"]kidnapper down[/a] and surprises him, but even with that, it's still a tough fight.

His friends finally look at his house to see what he's been obsessing over and find the string theory map and quickly deduce where he has gone. They track him down to find him laying in a corner with his back against the wall, exhausted, and the villain laying on the ground unconscious. He tiredly waves and asks them to get the people out of there. They freed the civilians and carry him out.

Now, once again he has broke one of the biggest rules at Sky High among everything else, but he did save civilians. So, a meeting is held by the instructors. Eventually, it is decided to let him stay on, but he must stay off of superheroing until he is recovered, gets further training and proper counseling.

 He becomes the first Badass Normal in Sky High History to graduate from Sidekick to Full Time Hero. Having finally proven his worth to the others and to himself, he agrees to stay away from it until his training his done. He focuses on criminology and the like.

Even after Gwen is expelled for a school wide prank, and smoking in the boys room, they still remain friends for awhile until she is driven to villainy by the future Baron Battle. After graduation, he split his time between college and superhero work before joining the military. Once his time was done, he signed on with the government.

 In current times, he has patched up his past and he's on good terms with the Commander and the others.

Fun Fact: The Scar on his face is from Baron Battle.

 Powers: None

 Skills
H2H Combat
Weapon Expert
Stealth Tactics
Military and Government Agent Training

Stats Peak of Physical Health