God look at the two of them back there

Name: Charles (Chuck) Rock

Powers: Is just a skeleton with telekinetic control over their cells (allowing flight), vision across a broad spectrum of light (UV through infrared), enhanced hearing (given lack of insulating flesh), sustained by solar energy, can digest bones to make repairs, owns an organic flesh suit to blend in with others

Profession: Former COPS agent, now the owner of a community theater

When Chuck Rock was first captured by The Conservation Of Physics Society, they were eager for a chance to use the power that they had found, so it was particularly easy to convince them to work for COPS. During Chuck’s time with COPS, they honed their control over their individual bones and over their senses. They discovered that their optical nerve was still intact, which, when trained, captured electromagnetic waves from a different range from normal people, increasing their total senses to like 3ish (enhanced hearing, feeling, and low level sight).

Chuck deposited the soldiers in Otis Black’s lab when they had developed their universal vaccine. Chuck used two to three bones per soldier using a specially designed harness to carry each soldier to their places before the strike.

Chuck also participated in the defense of the COPS lab containing The Burning Striker, protecting the floor beneath that of the cat dragon soon to be known as Drake. This encounter with The Burning Striker, however gave them a new perspective on what they were doing and created the spark that drove Chuck Rock to become a hero.

This spark grew into a flame of righteous anger that led Chuck to destroy the lab they were assigned to and release the captives of said lab and begin a new wave of heroes in the world above.

More about that later!

Charles (Chuck) Rock (see, I think this is a funny name because bones are like rocks and Chuck essentially chucks their bones at their enemies, hence Chuck Rock) was born to Cassandra Rock, a scientist developing artificial skin to aid in skin grafts. During their birth, a breaking point occurred just outside the room their Cassandra was in, so when the infant with their incomplete bones and mind were walked out of the room and into the breaking point, those were all that remained, becoming inextricably linked. This gave them the power to control their bones telepathically, and since they don’t have eyes, they primarily rely on vibrations (which are no longer dampened by their flesh) in the materials they touch to sense the world around them. In fact the only sense they retained was hearing, since that is bones and brain, the two things they have.

Naturally panic occurred for the midwife who had just witnessed a baby lose all of its fleshy bits and the same for the mother who just heard the person carrying her new baby out of the room screaming.

This naturally whipped the infant into a frenzy, creating a telekinetic tornado of baby bones that injured pretty much everyone between them and their mother. When Miss Rock saw her baby still alive despite being bones, as frightened as she was, she was determined to give this pile of bones a proper chance at life.

She immediately began working through how to create a suit from her artificial skin to make her son look and hopefully feel more normal, but as the child aged, they simply felt hindered by their skin, and their mother had lost sight of why she gave Chuck skin and rather than being a means to an end, wearing the skin became the end, creating an unhealthy relationship between young Chuck and his mother, Cassandra.

It all snapped a hen Chuck was 14 years old, and they decided to run away from home, leaving their skin behind, using their telekinetic control over their bones to fly and explore the world.

Unfortunately for Chuck, this caught the attention of COPS, who captured them and coaxed them into working as an agent to apprehend other broken individuals.

More on that later! I wasn’t super clear on what all Chuck could do, so I’ll elaborate on that in the next post!