BACKGROUND: He was always considered sickly as a child, due to his extreme pallor, inability to put on weight, and pale eyes.  Many doctors thought he had vitamin deficiencies or orgam problems, but all the tests came back negative.  By all accounts, he tested out to be a perfectly normal, healthy, intelligent boy.  Indeed, he was healthier than most, despite his gaunt apppearance.  Like many metahumans, his powers began to manifest in his teen years, and during a schoolyard brawl, his eyes began to glow... and have glowed ever since.

He somehow ended up on the Avant Guard gameshow, after several months of being a semi-local vigilante.  A friendly police officer put him in touch with the producers, and the rest became history.  He inexplcably placed highly in audience voting, and he became a symbol for the counter-culture Generation Y viewers, going up against hunky firemen, babes in spandex, ultra-strong Asians, and more.  After some time as a regular in superhero circles, he drifted out of the limelight, and due to his 'unique talents' got picked up as a black ops agent by the US government.  He had made public appearances since then, but usually in association with headlines like "Mafia Bosses Found Pummelled" or "Most Of Child Molester Found In Basement".

Xavious' current wherabouts are unknown to the public at large.

PERSONALITY:  Xavious is wry and sarcastic, and his sense of hope and wonderment has been all but destroyed by his ability to see the heart of many situations, and the things he's come accross in his life.  He was never what you'd call 'chipper', but he is virtually impossible to keep down.  While being tortured by super-powered Yakuza members, he kept his spirits up by cracking wise about the many secrets he gleaned from his insights into their bodies and habits, until the cavalry arrived.  When the need arises, he can be deadly serious, but uses his dry wit to keep everyone off guard, and keep himself from breaking down. He has never grown close to anyone, except maybe that kid with the robot dog.

POWERS/SKILLS: Xavious has unparalleled vision-related powers. He can see through nearly anything, filtering up and down the electromagnetic wavelengths to peer through stone, steel, human flesh, and nearly anything else.  He can locate weak points in armor, old scars and tattoos, the locations of lock tumblers, how many bullets are in a gun, how many bullets are in a person, writing on paper inside a lead-lined safe, and more.  This ability, while rarely fearsome, has found many unconventional uses.

He also has a 'Generally Enhanced Physiology', in that everything can be considered peak-level human.  He can lift nearly five hundred pounds (more than Rowan, who was twice his size), has near-perfect balance, and has on one occasion caught an arrow out of the air (he also missed several times, but that one time was really cool!) He is trained in several forms of martial arts, particularly joint manipulation, breaking strikes, and swordfighting.  He heals rapidly (maybe three or four times faster than normal) and is extremely tough and durable, though still on a human scale.  He has been shot and stabbed, wounds that would have killed a normal person, but anything too large (sniper round, speargun) can still pose a lethal threat, which is why he wears body armor.

EQUIPMENT:  His armored outfit consists of: bulky kevlar-weave cargo pants with thigh and crotch plating; a kevlar-weave sweater with heavy trauma plates on the torso, back, soft exposed sides, and from the elbows to his wrists; a heavy black double-layered leather trenchcoat with armored shoulders and upper arms (complementing the sweater) and neck region, and a solid steel plate facemask which also protects the top of his head.  His hat attaches to the mask, keeping it on even in the worst fighting conditions.  He has heavy steel-shod boots, as well (you never know where you'll get shot).

His weapons and gear now consist of:  Spiked and blunt brass knuckles (extra heavy), a magical black sword of as-yet-untested sharpness, climbing claws, between 12 and 24 knives and daggers, one Iridium cell phone with a direct line to his government handlers (Earth surface only), one encoded iPhone with extensive files on cryptography, language translation and Interpol Wanted Criminals databases and built-in camera, several pieces of radio equipment (short and long range), tiny magnetic tracking devices, two flat-packs of Duct tape, first aid kit, interrogation kit (with drugs!), two flares, two thermite 'lock picks' (basically slow-burning thermite bombs), one set of real lock picks, one forgery kit, and everything packed into pockets in the jacket and cargo pants (and most of it shock proof).  All in all, a fully-kitted out Xavious is carrying around 80 lbs of stuff.  A further 25 lbs is taken up by the Last Resort, an Armalite AR-50 fifty-calibre long-range armor-piercing rifle capable of penetrating 1/2 steel plate (equal to any conventional non-front-line armored vehicle in the world) at nearly two kilometers. Compared to his strength, it's roughly the same as a Navy SEAL's Full Engagement Kit on a normal Navy SEAL.

APPEARANCE: Typically, as a six-foot-four wide-shouldered maniac dressed in head-to-toe black leather and camo grays, wearing a steel hockey mask, wide black hat, two glowing eyes, and wielding a sword in one hand and a terrifyingly large rifle in the other.  If this doesn't scare people off, he shoots them.