Untitled Zombie: April 2011

Name: Liam Hertz

Alias: Cadence

Age: 19

Height: 5’9

Weight: 157 lbs

Powers: Sound Manipulation; ability to transform sound waves in to physically masses.

Weaknesses: Constant headaches due to sensitivity eardrums and absolutely silence.

Personality/ background: Liam is extremely socially awkward. The majority of the time he is out in public he adorns a frown across his face, not because of the displeasure of company but of the pain he is experiencing in his head, constantly. He has a difficult time with massive amounts of people, mostly because of his sound sensitivity with a combination of isolation from society that he experience through the majority of his youth. Liam’s powers come from genetic mutation resulting from dangerous experimental exposure while he was still developing inside his mother; which she herself was unaware of. Both of his parents are lab researchers and are active around and among many dangerous lab experiments. As a baby he would spend days and nights on end crying, until eventually he passed out from exhaustion, for what appeared to be no logical explanation. It was not until later that his parents discovered the cause of Liam’s mysterious pains were centralized in his brain; to eventually be the source of his power. To protect their son they created a “green house” like dome structure that was completely soundproof creating almost a cage for where he could live in for the rest of his existence in peace. During his life inside his parents provided him with the necessities of a “normal” life, everything but contact with the outside world. Despite the construction of the dome his parents continued to search for a solution to their son’s condition. They called upon various different research based groups and as a result Liam became the test subject for multiple experimentations. During their search and due to constant previous exposures Liam’s dad eventually passed away from a mysterious form of cancer leaving his mother alone to continue the research. Meanwhile Liam grew impatient. He desperate wished to be outside, not yet knowing exactly the effect that the noise level would have on him. The only amount of sound he had received in his life had been controlled at a level that wouldn’t harm him. That being said he was also unaware of the magnitude of his abilities. One day a professor and an old colleague of his mother

came and visited Liam. The professor focus of study was on different processes of the brain and it’s receptors. Over both time and multiple screenings he was able to centralize and discover the main source of Liam’s mutation. Eventually over time he was able to construct a device that allow Liam the ability to control these waves, but it never completely diminished the noise inside his head.

Likes: Rice Pudding, The Tyra Show, Jane Austin- Pride and Prejudice

Dislikes: Crowds/massive amounts of sound