User blog comment:Regular Guy/Young Justice: Character Creation!/@comment-4105484-20120605004938

Voltage (real name is Tate Sparks)

'Character Bio: 'Tate Sparks was originally born as Tate Goodman. His father, Rob was a scientist while his mother, Cara was also a scientist. When Tate was 13 his father was at work building one of his inventions which would be able to manipulate electricity. He finished and invited Tate and Cara to come see it. The show when horribly wrong as Cara was put into an everlasting coma and Tate suffered a concussion. Tate woke up and learned he had the powers to manipulate electicity. His father trained him, but when Tate was 15 his father was killed by a villain known as Punk Rock. Tate was orphaned, but eventually was raised by Victor Jordan. Tate learned that Victor was the superhero known as Electivolt. Tate became his sidekick and took up the name Volt. Victor treated Tate right, but when Tate was 19 he took up the name of Voltage and started being an independent hero. He also changed his name to Tate Sparks. One month after going solo, Voltage met a villain known as Hornet, a swift thief with the ability to shoot stingers out of his palms. Voltage chased Hornet until Hornet led him to a warehouse and blew it up. Voltage lost his arm and had to get a new arm. Not only did he lose his arm, but he lost his power. A month later, Dr. Frank Simmons came up to Tate and said they can repair Tate so he can have his powers and a flesh arm again. Simmons used a machine on Tate that returned his old arm and his powers. His powers were giving an upgrade with Tate now being able to do much more electric based abilities. He was driven mad by the machine, but Victor helped Tate regain his sanity. He retired for one year, but eventually joined back in the superhero identity when Electivolt was hospitalized. Voltage joined the Team known as Young Justice. He was able to establish he was a good and firm superhero. After the current team leader, Arrowhead retired for a while Voltage stepped in as leader. Voltage started a relationship with recent new superhero known as Inferno. Voltage is best friends with Blue Beetle, Nightwing, Herald, and Superboy. He wears a domino mask and a dark yellow and black costume.

Powers:


 * Able to manipulate electricity


 * Able to turn into a being made of volts


 * Able to hear any source of elctricity


 * Able to control anything electronic


 * Flight

Abilities:


 * Mulilingual


 * Hand-to-Hand Combat


 * Technological Genius


 * Fast Runner


 * Stealthy