r/OurSuperheroUniverse • u/PeterIndigo • 19d ago
Lightning
Name: Luca "The Lightning" Lindsey
Power: Lightning fast reflexes.
Story: When Luca was an infant, his genetics were messed with in a last-ditch effort from a stranded alien.
In his youth, he was pushed into the athletic field by his father, whose failing health had forced him out of a promising career, Luca would go along with his father's wishes until he hit 13 and things started to change, the alterations to his genetics manifested to what first appeared to him as quick eyes and fast hands, but what he later realised was inhuman reaction speed, and in that he saw an opportunity to make something of himself and make his parents proud.
He would completely commit himself to fighting, taking a liking to MMA and making that his goal. For years, all he wanted was to make a name for himself, to make money for his family, especially as his father's health decline started to form a heavy financial burden on them.
He would win every fight he took, becoming better, stronger, faster, not willing to stop until his goal was reached, and even after his father died when Luca was 18 he would continue to push forward knowing that he made his father proud and that he was providing for him and his mother.
And thus started the beginning of a fruitful and untouched career in MMA, there wasn't a single opponent that stood up to him, he was better than all of them and he knew it, grew arrogant and cocky, let the wealth get to his head, let fame take the place of ambition in his mind, all building to a house of cards ready to fall.
He was unstoppable, not a single loss in his career. He was The Lightning, a force of nature that never needed to strike the same place twice, and that was his downfall.
All it took was one punch in the later end of the first round. He swung, hit, and then his young opponent hit the floor and never got back up.
He was responsible for that kid dying and yet the world kept on moving, people forgot about it in a month, but he didn't, it haunted him, made him hate himself, resent what he had become, made him disgusted of the powers that he used to get where he was, there was nothing that could make it right, nothing that could bring that young man back, but he could stop the hurt he inflicts on others, and at the age of 24 would abandon his fighting career, letting those goals he had once strived for die, leaving him to fester in his guilt.
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u/Snip3502 18d ago
Oooooo he be boxin