Namor

Aliases: Avenging Son, “Subby,”
Date of Birth: May 10, 1921
Place of Birth: The Imperial City of Neptune, Atlantis Under, the Atlantic Ocean near Antartica
Age: 26
Known Family: Leonard Mckenzie(father, deceased), Fen (mother), Thakkor (maternal grandfather), Korra (maternal grandmother), Zarina (maternal aunt), Aquaria (maternal cousin), Byrrah (maternal cousin), Dorma (maternal cousin), the extended Atlantean Royal Family (material cousins)



Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue-Grey
Height: 1.8 meters
Weight: 128 kg
Legal Status: Adult
Affiliation: Hero and Villain

Occupation: Adventurer, Royalty, Public Figure

Powers:

Human-Atlantean Mutation - Namor is more than just a hybrid of Humans and Atlanteans, he is also one of the first mutants to exist. His active X-Gene grants him abilities above and beyond the standard Atlantean or the standard Human. It increases his strength, speed, senses; and also grants him the powers of flight and a special mutant ability unknown to Humans or Atlanteans.

Underwater Adaptation - Namor’s lungs convert salt water into oxygen. His body is capable of taking the extreme pressure of the deepest depths of the ocean. He is invulnerable to temperate variances up to -10 Celsius.

Invulnerability - Due to his adaptation to the deep pressure of the Ocean, Namor is virtually invulnerable to even the strongest attacks posed to him. Bullets, mortar shells, explosives and the like do no damage to him at all. Only attacks based on heat or specifically designed to hurt him can actually damage his skin.

Super-Strength - Namor is one of the strongest beings on the planet due to both his hybrid-nature and his mutation. He is capable of lifting 50 tons, having lifted a German battleship with little effort in the past.

Super-Speed - Do to his immense strength and endurance Namor can reach speeds of 300 knots when in water, and out of water he can move so quickly that the human eye can not see. While not super-speed in the normal sense; it comes from the concept that Namor is used to nearly 20 times the pressure of the surface.

Super-Senses - As a denizen of the ocean and the Surface, Namor’s senses are refined to a superhuman level. He can see in what humans would consider pure darkness and can hear a pin drop from nearly 100 meters away. His body has acclimated to these senses and dull themselves to avoid sensory overload in all but the most extreme circumstances.

Super-Sonic Flight - Namor is capable of flying at nearly the speed of 12 km/s. Just above the escape velocity of the planet. Though capable of breaking the planet’s gravity he is not capable of surviving in a vacuum and would die quickly if he attempted it. However Namor’s flight speed does allow him to break the speed barrier and create sonic booms when he travels that fast. When not trying to travel fast, Namor can hover in place.

Bio-Electricity - As a mutant Namor has abilities beyond what a normal Human-Atlantean Hybrid is capable of. Namor also absorbs the static electricity in a similar way as an electric eel. This grants him a minor immunity to electricity (he simply absorbs it) and also allows him to make his body “go live” and shock anyone who is touch him.

Abilities:

Expert Combatant - Namor has been trained in three-dimensional fighting since he was old enough to hold a weapon. Due to his own ability to fly and hover when outside of the water he is one of the few combatants who views personal combat as being a three-dimensional affair.

Tactics and Strategy - Fighting in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II, as well as fighting alongside Captain America, Namor has a good grasp of the nuances of squad and battalion combat and can devise strategy and tactics. He can also pick out some bad tactics and strategies used against him.

Polyglot - Namor has something of an ear (pun intended) for languages. As he has spent time on the surface he has learned many of the languages he’s been exposed to. While not completely conversational in all of them, it can be assumed that he has at least a basic grasp of the major languages used during World War II.

Natural Charisma - There is something about the Atlantean Prince that in captivating. Despite his pride and his occasionally off-putting nature, the Sub-Mariner has a aura of leadership and charm to him that cannot be denied. Though he can, and has pushed people away with his own personality flaws, he still draws in others as only a true Prince can.

Weapons: Namor occasionally uses a Trident made of orichalcum, a metal native to Atlantis. It is as strong as titanium and holds an edge better than steel.e they good at.)
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Personality: Three traits rule Namor’s personality more than any other. Pride. Loyalty. Passionate.

The Pride part is the most obvious. He is the height of arrogance and hubris. He believes himself to be superior to nearly everyone he encounters. He has very rarely ever met his intellectual or physical match, and even rarer, his superior. As such he doesn’t just believe that he is better than those around him. He knows.

Loyalty extends beyond just to his people, but to the comrades he considers true friends. When Namor has decided that you are worthy (there is that pride thing again) of his friendship you will find that very few things he would not do for you. Extend this to his nation and his people as a whole, there are very little things he would not do for the safety and happiness of his people.

Passion rules his core to the strongest degree. It is what fuels his pride and his loyalty. It gives him his drive for combat, his loyalty to those that have earned it, his superiority complex and his penchant for the fairer sex. It is why he so easily flies into a rage. Why he throws himself at a woman he is interested in. Why he is willing to sacrifice all for those he cares for. Without his passion, Namor would not be the same person he is today.

History: He is Namor. Prince of Atlantis. First of His Name. The Avenging Son. Scourge of the Seven Seas. One of Captain America’s Invaders and both a hero and a adversary to the surface world he visits; Namor’s beginning started as a possible ray of hope that the undersea Atlanteans and the people of the surface could find peace with each other.

Leonard McKenzie was a ship captain heading to the Antarctic Circle in search of the most precious of metals, Vibranium. A previous expedition in the area had given reports that the wonder metal could be found in the area but had gone missing. Leonard never found the Vibranium but instead found the Atlantean Princess Fen, who had surfaced to investigate the explosions created by the speculative mining of the area. They fell in love, and though their time together was brief their liaison produced the child who would become Namor.

King Thakkor, worried about his daughter sent an elite squad of Atlantean soldiers to rescue her. The rescue was unwanted, unneeded and ended in the seeming death of Leonard McKenzie. Princess Fen was returned to Atlantis and despite the fears of miscegenation by the Royal Family, she birthed her love child, and named him Namor, a name that meant “the Avenging Son,” a name that she intended one way, and her father took another.

Despite all of this, Namor grew up under the waves with his extend family in relative peace. His grandfather pushed him hard towards the role of King that he would one day fill. As such Namor was tutored in the arts of combat on both a personal and large scale, diplomacy and etiquette, the secrets of the technology and magic of the Atlantean people and the various languages both of the under sea denizens and of the surface world that was increasingly becoming relevant to the isolationist undersea nation.

His formative years weren’t all training and studies however. He had spent much time forming relationships with those around him. His best friend Merrano, and his cousins Aquaria, Dorma and Byrrah, were near constant companions as he grew up. He however did not see that the special treatment he received from his grandfather was forming a wedge between him and two from his circle of friends. Namor never noticed how he could be alienating his childhood friend, bathed in adoration and expectation. He was after all to be the Avenging Son of the Atlantean People. To be the greatest of them all. Why wouldn’t any love him as much as his mother, his grandfather and his people did.

As World War 2 was plaguing the nation-states of the surface, Atlantis was content in it’s isolation. A few of the submersible ships that were lost inexplicably during the war was the result of them traveling too close to Atlantean cities or outposts, much like in World War 1. But for the most part Atlantis stayed hidden not wanting to be part of the petty squabbles the Surface World engaged in. That changed when a small group of deep sea divers discovered an Atlantean outpost and escaped to report it to their superiors.

Namor was dispatched to the surface, to the “obvious source of the threat” the largest populated Surface Dweller city, New York City. There he battled a group of Nazi smugglers and found out that things on the Surface were much more complicated than Atlantis thought. He reported his discovery to King Thakkor, who told him to stay out of it, that the problems of the Surface were their problems. Namor disagreed and went off on his own, joining with the Allied powers and being sent to help Captain America and his Invaders.

In Captain America, Namor met a surface dweller that he could truly respect. He felt they were built of the same cloth. Both men were considered the paragons of their respective cultures. Both men were willing to fight for what their people believe in. And neither men were willing to compromise their beliefs for the sake of those in power above them. Thus Namor was willing to follow Captain America into the worst of battles, knowing that they would be victorious.

Tragedy would strike Namor in the battles of World War 2 when his best friend, Merrano became Nazi Germany’s answer to the Atlantean Prince that fought with the Allied Powers. And while this “U-Man” would prove not real match to the Sub-Mariner’s might, it did form a conflict of interests for the Atlantean. What was more important to him? His own people, his own friend, or the cause he had pledged himself to join. He once again went against his grandfather, turning the U-Man over to the Allies instead of an Atlantean tribunal.

Then Captain America died. Namor was distraught, the Invaders had always relied on Steve’s leadership. Namor considered taking over a leadership role for the Invaders, but knew he could never equal the guidance of the man before him. He always thought of Atlantis first, while Steve had considered all people of all nations first, himself second.

He considered retreating back to the ocean depths, to never consider his friend and his other comrades among the Invaders again. He knew that Steve would want him to return to the surface, to be a hero to Surface World . So that is what Namor did. He fought after Captain America’s death, after V-E day, and changed directions to fight in the Pacific Theater. And after the war ended he left the surface...

Then the doubts came. Not Namor’s doubts, he knew what he did and none could tell him other wise. But as he listened to the the constant doubts of the Surface Dwellers about if Captain America, Steve Rogers, was real or if he was some sort of propaganda cooked up to keep the American people excited; he morned more than when Steve had actually passed.

Namor lamented this and wondered if Union Jack, Spitfire, Whizzer, Human Torch, the Vision and others would be as quickly dismissed. And as a new set of “super heroes” began to emerge he wondered... would they care on Steve’s vision of a future of equality and understanding? Or would they use power as a means to an ends?

Would they battle for ideals? Or just for fun? He decided he could not stand by and listen... he had to be a part of it.

Against his grandfather’s wishes he now walks the surface again. The Sub-Mariner might become the super man of the surface that Steve had always hoped he would.



Other:

Dehydration - Namor’s speed and strength are tied to the hydration of the cells of his body. The longer he is away the weaker he becomes. However even at his weakest he is still stronger than the strongest Atlantean and thus the strongest human. Namor’s abilities begin to wane after he’s been out of salt or brackish water for 1 day, after that in continues to decline until he is at his weakest on the third day.

Notoriety - Namor was a decently large part of World War II, including being part of some of those newsreels that showcased Captain America and his Invaders. Also, Before the United States entered the war he attacked New York City and had a rather public battle with the Human Torch. Since the War ended As such, even if they believe him to just be a made up, many people know of the Sub Mariner and his part of the Captain America extended lore.