"IF YOU GIVE UP... THEN WHAT WERE YOU EVEN FIGHTING FOR?"
Ryan Torm didn’t grow up in a world worth saving.
School was survival, bullies around every corner, teachers who looked the other way. Home wasn’t much better. His mother worked double shifts just to keep the lights on, and his father, a retired soldier broken by the world, found comfort at the bottom of a bottle. When he wasn’t absent, he was angry. Violent. Loud. So Ryan spent most of his childhood in silence. No friends. No help. Just waiting for the noise to stop.
Then came the sky.
He was only thirteen when it fell. An unknown object crashing from space and erupting in a wave of transparent energy that swept through the city. The government tried to cover it up, but there was no hiding what came next. People got sick. Some died. Some changed. The world called it a virus. Scientists called it a cosmic anomaly. Survivors called it something else: the birth of Powerhumans.
Ryan was one of the infected. For years he lived with symptoms no one could explain. Pain, fevers, visions. Then, one day, it stopped. He didn’t get weaker. He got stronger. Faster. He could feel the world around him shift. He could hear things others couldn’t. See through walls. Fly. Heal. Endure. And for the first time in his life… he felt like he could do something about the pain.
He didn’t become a hero for fame. He did it because he knows what it feels like to be alone. Powerless. In pain. He doesn't want anyone to feel that way if he had the power to stop it.
But not all Powerhumans agreed with that vision. Ryan very quickly went from wanting to help to needing to help. So he put on the suit. He took the name.
And Vise City got its first real protector. Titanium – The Valiant Guardian.
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Flight & Super Speed
He soars at supersonic speeds, able to break the sound barrier in bursts. His flight leaves behind a faint cobalt-blue blur across the sky. While not a speedster like Swift, he can move faster than a bullet, dodge attacks mid-air, and cross a city in seconds.
Limitless Strength (Energy-Augmented)
Titanium starts at godly strength, capable of lifting mountains, leveling buildings, and crushing steel like paper.
Invulnerability
No bullet, blade, or blast has pierced his skin. His body is a fortress, resistant to physical trauma, radiation, extreme temperatures, and even direct explosions. Physically… unbroken.
Super Senses
Titanium can hear cries for help miles away, smells of suspicion and see through solid materials. These senses overwhelm him at times, but he tries to stay always aware.
Energy Absorption
His defining ability. Titanium can absorb energy from any source: physical impact, solar radiation, heat, even magical or alien. This absorbed power temporarily boosts all his abilities until he uses it up. Once depleted, he returns to his already god-tier base.
Surge Stage
While charged, he can translate the energy to thermal energy through heat vision or through kinetic energy like lightning.
Ryan Torm is charismatic, lighthearted, and undeniably powerful, but never above the people he protects. He meets chaos with calm, humor and sarcasm, not to show off, but to keep hope alive in those around him and in himself. He believes in doing the right thing simply because it’s right. He’s humble, grounded, and never looks away from someone in need. Whether it’s a collapsing building or a quiet cry for help, he shows up. He never tries to be the biggest presence in the room, even though he always is. His power is staggering, but it’s his empathy that defines him.
Still, for all that strength, for all the lives he saves, there are always the ones he couldn’t. People still get hurt. Still die. And those moments lingers and haunts him. Behind every rescue, behind every moment of lightness, Ryan carries the weight of not being enough. Not strong enough. Not powerful enough. Not present when it mattered most. It doesn’t stop him, but it lives inside him. And it’s that guilt, not his powers, that keeps him grounded. Because the day he stops caring about those he couldn’t save is the day he’s no longer Titanium.
While indestructible, he still have weaknesses. The same alien entity that gave him his powers, is the only thing that make Powerhumans more... humans. Despite that, it's not the most dangerous part for Ryan.
He can’t be pierced… but he can be broken. Ryan still thinks like a human, and the emotional, mental, and moral strain of his powers is his most dangerous flaw.
