Hyperion
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| Hyperion (Scenesys ID: 86) | |||
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| "Truth without compromise, thought without error, all things for the betterment of the whole." | |||
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| Full Name: | Marcus Milton | ||
| Gender: | Male | ||
| Species: | Eternal | ||
| Theme: | Marvel (DFC) | ||
| Occupation: | Adventurer | ||
| Citizenship: | Dominion of Canada | ||
| Residence: | Starling City, Star City, Canada | ||
| Education: | High School Graduate | ||
| Status: | Active | ||
| Groups: | Alpha Flight | ||
| Other Information | |||
| Apparent Age: | 24 | Actual Age: | 24 |
| Date of Birth | 17 June 2001 | Actor: | |
| Height: | 193 cm (6'4") | Weight: | 209 kg (460 lbs.) |
| Hair Color: | Auburn | Eye Color: | Brown |
| Theme Song: | {{{Song}}} | ||
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Profile
The Canuck in a Cape, Hyperion is a relatively unknown hero who recently started working with Alpha Flight and has begun to step out of the shadows of government service. Prior to 2025, however, he appeared only a few times in raw footage, usually not in a soldier's uniform fighting side by side with Canadian forces overseas.
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Description
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Topping this young man's head is a classic and a bit dated hairstyle, his blonde hair lightly tousled but otherwise conservatively cut. Only recently has he begun to change it up, and even then his hair is still rather classically cut. His skin is fair and unblemished, but for the most part he is just evenly tanned. His eyes are some variation of blue, and he tends to have a rather alert look to him, even when he is otherwise at a state of ease. A strong jawline draws attention to a picture perfect smile, and a small amount of stubble he has likely let grow out for cosmetic reasons. The majority of the young man's facial features strike a fine line between "boyishly handsome" and "classic hero."
Several inches taller than the average person, his build is heavily muscled. Like he spent all day yesterday exercising, and is going back today, his muscles have muscles.
Wearing civilian garbs at the moment, the garments he wears are simple: a plain deep blue long sleeve shirt with three small buttons at the top, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. His legs are covered by a pair of plain unadorned khaki pants, neatly pressed and only faintly stained near his feet where he has been outside. Beneath the pants he wears some simple hiking boots, neatly laced up all the way.
Several inches taller than the average person, his build is heavily muscled. Like he spent all day yesterday exercising, and is going back today, his muscles have muscles.
Wearing civilian garbs at the moment, the garments he wears are simple: a plain deep blue long sleeve shirt with three small buttons at the top, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. His legs are covered by a pair of plain unadorned khaki pants, neatly pressed and only faintly stained near his feet where he has been outside. Beneath the pants he wears some simple hiking boots, neatly laced up all the way.
History
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CHILDHOOD:
In 2001 an Eternal ship crashed into the farmlands of western Canada bearing the child who would come to be known as Marcus Milton. Found originally by a middle-aged couple, they immediately saw the child they'd never had and intended to raise the boy. For the next few days, the fed and clothed the boy. Buying everything they would need to raise him, a stroller, a crib, they settled into the beginnings of a routine. Even growing to feel a certain initial fondness for the boy.
During that time, however, Department H, Canada's military intelligence wing had been tracking the ship's trajectory, and with every passing second grew closer. In truth, they were fairly certain where he'd been found on the first day.
But they hesitated. They didn't want to make a mistake and cause an incident by rushing, and they were still uncertain what had been in the ship. So they hauled it into their nearest facility and conducted the most tentative and quickest of tests. It was only then that they realized that the passenger had been a toddler.
THE MILTONS:
Not long after, the child Marcus was put into a faux family. 'The Miltons' consisted of John and Emily Milton, two agents of Department H. Not because they'd wanted to adopt, but because knowing their plans to eventually start a family, the director had assigned the boy to them. Knowing that he'd need a family of sorts to manage his behavior and teach him a sense of basic values.
They weren't happy about it, but they accepted. Uncertain of their new 'child' who they came to live with at Department H.
It was the Miltons who eventually, by the boy's first birthday were the ones who discovered the boy's powers. As he started to demonstrate incredible strength, and then in a tantrum, burned down his nursery with a blast of heat from his eyes.
YOUTH:
Growing up in Department H, Marcus was a strange boy. Learning of his powers from an early age, discovering that he could see through things if he focused enough, that he was stronger, faster, tougher, that he could burn things. These were all revelations that changed him as a boy, as he developed his powers early. It was more than that however, as an Eternal he was receptive to cosmic power. And often experienced intense feelings and growth spurts because of his connection to that power.
But his parents and teachers did their best to teach him to control himself, and he even received training in more than just schooling. He was taught to fight. Because while he was uncertain why he was different and what it meant, they were certain, and certain of what they could do with him.
In those early years, and continuing on almost until adult hood, he had seldom few friends, save when he eventually started being sent on extended missions. So friendship was and is a difficult concept for him.
That said, learning to disarm his teachers and parents with humor, humility and guarding the usage of his incredible power for training periods managed to make them at the least /friendly/ and that was best. So while he didn't learn to make friends, he did learn to make himself approachable and 'normal.'
But honestly, that's just an impression.
TEENAGE YEARS:
With the time of puberty approaching, and his powers reaching incredible levels, Marcus was moved to a secondary location along with the Miltons, the whole of 'Whispering Spring, CA' is in fact a front of a town that was created with the expressed purpose of watching and giving Marcus a place to be outside. They needed to develop in him not only a willingness to do what they asked, but a sense of what to avoid doing, to displease them.
This was mostly done by manipulating him into situations that caused him to misbehave, and then he would be deprived of the few things he craved. Friendly attention, a few small creature comforts he'd found over the years, and most of all, his family.
While his parents had started cold to the idea, over the years they'd all become as tight as a family could become, and when Department H needed to leverage Marcus, their best leverage was the Miltons.
Using their available tools, the department started sending the teenage boy into combat zones. Usually to make use of his long ranged abilities, blasting a target with heat vision after identifying it at range through a wall, and then flying away.
In time, this became more regular, and with time, he got better at it. Until it got to a point roughly five years ago, at the age of nineteen when he was sent against an entire enemy battalion, including tanks and air-support, and not a single soul survived.
GROWING UP:
While he became better at fighting Canada's enemies, he was also getting smarter. Not nearly reaching his full potential as an Eternal, but growing into his being as an Eternal, and that meant that he started to see the angles. Not just the ones they used to push him now, but the ones they'd used over the years. And when he finally spoke up, they took away his family.
Faced with a dilemma, he finally broke with protocol for the first serious time in his life, and 'found them' within an hour.
After a tearful breakdown, he began to question his actions, and really started questioning his position and how he was being used. What it meant, and the nature of family, what it meant to be right, what it meant to powerful and good. He started to change from a 'good boy' who had followed his orders without fail, to a good man. He now understood the value of an order, the value of family, but also the value of being able to look at oneself in the mirror and not feel regret.
He returned to base then.
There was a discussion then, in secret, held far away, about whether to exploit his known weakness and bring him to heel. But it was decided that once that move was made, they could not unmake it.
For the next two years, Marcus served tenuously. Now in his early twenties, he was making friends slightly more easily, and even managed to meet a nice woman in a non-com Canadian military position, who he had a short albeit fiery tryst with.
ALPHA FLIGHT:
With the appearance of Alpha Flight less than two years later, the period of tenuous action was finished, and Marcus put forth a request to be transferred from his current controlling officers to Alpha Flight proper. When they hesitated, he made it clear that he would either be transferred willingly, or they would have problems. He could either continue to serve Canada, or he could leave.
They hesitated again, but conceded. Thus beginning his tenure as a member of Beta Flight.
This would also signal the beginning of a somewhat 'normal life' for Marcus, who now, for the first time, was being given a paycheck and being expected to find his own housing somewhere.
In 2001 an Eternal ship crashed into the farmlands of western Canada bearing the child who would come to be known as Marcus Milton. Found originally by a middle-aged couple, they immediately saw the child they'd never had and intended to raise the boy. For the next few days, the fed and clothed the boy. Buying everything they would need to raise him, a stroller, a crib, they settled into the beginnings of a routine. Even growing to feel a certain initial fondness for the boy.
During that time, however, Department H, Canada's military intelligence wing had been tracking the ship's trajectory, and with every passing second grew closer. In truth, they were fairly certain where he'd been found on the first day.
But they hesitated. They didn't want to make a mistake and cause an incident by rushing, and they were still uncertain what had been in the ship. So they hauled it into their nearest facility and conducted the most tentative and quickest of tests. It was only then that they realized that the passenger had been a toddler.
THE MILTONS:
Not long after, the child Marcus was put into a faux family. 'The Miltons' consisted of John and Emily Milton, two agents of Department H. Not because they'd wanted to adopt, but because knowing their plans to eventually start a family, the director had assigned the boy to them. Knowing that he'd need a family of sorts to manage his behavior and teach him a sense of basic values.
They weren't happy about it, but they accepted. Uncertain of their new 'child' who they came to live with at Department H.
It was the Miltons who eventually, by the boy's first birthday were the ones who discovered the boy's powers. As he started to demonstrate incredible strength, and then in a tantrum, burned down his nursery with a blast of heat from his eyes.
YOUTH:
Growing up in Department H, Marcus was a strange boy. Learning of his powers from an early age, discovering that he could see through things if he focused enough, that he was stronger, faster, tougher, that he could burn things. These were all revelations that changed him as a boy, as he developed his powers early. It was more than that however, as an Eternal he was receptive to cosmic power. And often experienced intense feelings and growth spurts because of his connection to that power.
But his parents and teachers did their best to teach him to control himself, and he even received training in more than just schooling. He was taught to fight. Because while he was uncertain why he was different and what it meant, they were certain, and certain of what they could do with him.
In those early years, and continuing on almost until adult hood, he had seldom few friends, save when he eventually started being sent on extended missions. So friendship was and is a difficult concept for him.
That said, learning to disarm his teachers and parents with humor, humility and guarding the usage of his incredible power for training periods managed to make them at the least /friendly/ and that was best. So while he didn't learn to make friends, he did learn to make himself approachable and 'normal.'
But honestly, that's just an impression.
TEENAGE YEARS:
With the time of puberty approaching, and his powers reaching incredible levels, Marcus was moved to a secondary location along with the Miltons, the whole of 'Whispering Spring, CA' is in fact a front of a town that was created with the expressed purpose of watching and giving Marcus a place to be outside. They needed to develop in him not only a willingness to do what they asked, but a sense of what to avoid doing, to displease them.
This was mostly done by manipulating him into situations that caused him to misbehave, and then he would be deprived of the few things he craved. Friendly attention, a few small creature comforts he'd found over the years, and most of all, his family.
While his parents had started cold to the idea, over the years they'd all become as tight as a family could become, and when Department H needed to leverage Marcus, their best leverage was the Miltons.
Using their available tools, the department started sending the teenage boy into combat zones. Usually to make use of his long ranged abilities, blasting a target with heat vision after identifying it at range through a wall, and then flying away.
In time, this became more regular, and with time, he got better at it. Until it got to a point roughly five years ago, at the age of nineteen when he was sent against an entire enemy battalion, including tanks and air-support, and not a single soul survived.
GROWING UP:
While he became better at fighting Canada's enemies, he was also getting smarter. Not nearly reaching his full potential as an Eternal, but growing into his being as an Eternal, and that meant that he started to see the angles. Not just the ones they used to push him now, but the ones they'd used over the years. And when he finally spoke up, they took away his family.
Faced with a dilemma, he finally broke with protocol for the first serious time in his life, and 'found them' within an hour.
After a tearful breakdown, he began to question his actions, and really started questioning his position and how he was being used. What it meant, and the nature of family, what it meant to be right, what it meant to powerful and good. He started to change from a 'good boy' who had followed his orders without fail, to a good man. He now understood the value of an order, the value of family, but also the value of being able to look at oneself in the mirror and not feel regret.
He returned to base then.
There was a discussion then, in secret, held far away, about whether to exploit his known weakness and bring him to heel. But it was decided that once that move was made, they could not unmake it.
For the next two years, Marcus served tenuously. Now in his early twenties, he was making friends slightly more easily, and even managed to meet a nice woman in a non-com Canadian military position, who he had a short albeit fiery tryst with.
ALPHA FLIGHT:
With the appearance of Alpha Flight less than two years later, the period of tenuous action was finished, and Marcus put forth a request to be transferred from his current controlling officers to Alpha Flight proper. When they hesitated, he made it clear that he would either be transferred willingly, or they would have problems. He could either continue to serve Canada, or he could leave.
They hesitated again, but conceded. Thus beginning his tenure as a member of Beta Flight.
This would also signal the beginning of a somewhat 'normal life' for Marcus, who now, for the first time, was being given a paycheck and being expected to find his own housing somewhere.
Personality
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Raised by a faux-family of sorts, at least at first, Marcus has a very strange idea of what it means to be a friend. He feels love, he feels hate, he feels friendship, but it has a certain abstract quality to him. Alien. His off-kilter approach tends to stem from his lack of friends growing up, to the point that one might think that he acts a bit like 'a kid who was homeschooled' on his first day in public school. He understands all of the concepts, and he wants to fit in, but he's just a little off.
Sometimes that off-ness is in a good way. He's eager to be friendly, wants to make a good impression, loves to make people laugh, but the oddness comes in that what he thinks they'll find funny is seldom what he finds funny.
Among friends, he could be considered loyal, outgoing and kind. But weird.
Sometimes that off-ness is in a good way. He's eager to be friendly, wants to make a good impression, loves to make people laugh, but the oddness comes in that what he thinks they'll find funny is seldom what he finds funny.
Among friends, he could be considered loyal, outgoing and kind. But weird.
Abilities
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ATOMIC SENSES
With focus, Hyperion can magnify his senses to incredible levels, allowing him to see and hear things at great range and with great acuity.
ETERNAL PHYSIOLOGY
Hyperion's unique physiology is common among Eternals. His body collects cosmic radiation in the form of solar photons and operates in a process similar to nuclear fusion. In particular, this comes into play in that the more he focuses this energy into achieving goals with his abilities, he can shape his growth willingly in certain ways. It also allows him to channel it into certain physical purposes, like healing at an accelerated rate.
ETERNAL STAMINA
Hyperion's ability to absorb, manipulate and function on the power of cosmic power makes him nearly inexhaustible, able to function for days without rest. He does not need food, and can operate in vacuum without the need to breathe.
ETERNAL STRENGTH
Hyperion possesses incredible strength putting him among the strongest beings in creation. Lifting islands out of oceans and all of those other incredible feats that are typically sort of mythical in nature are in his wheelhouse, though his experience with them is somewhat limited at this point.
FLASH VISION
A manifestation of his atomic vision, Hyperion can focus energy through his eyes at around 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
FLIGHT
Hyperion has the ability to levitate himself and fly through the air at tremendous speeds by harnessing and manipulating anti-gravitons. At his peak, he is capable of achieving speeds faster than lightning, over 61 miles per second. Once in space, he is capable of reaching light speed.
INVULNERABILITY
Nigh invulnerable and all that jazz. He can take hits from all but the most powerful beings without flinching, and is truly one of the toughest beings out there. He also doesn't age, or at the least, ages very slowly.
SUPER-SPEED
Hyperion can run, move, and react at speeds that are far beyond the physical capabilities of even the finest human athlete; capable of moving faster than lightning, his top speed is beyond Mach 4 (3,700 miles per hour) within Earth's atmosphere. Once in space, he is capable of achieving multiples of the speed of light, for inter-stellar travel.
With focus, Hyperion can magnify his senses to incredible levels, allowing him to see and hear things at great range and with great acuity.
ETERNAL PHYSIOLOGY
Hyperion's unique physiology is common among Eternals. His body collects cosmic radiation in the form of solar photons and operates in a process similar to nuclear fusion. In particular, this comes into play in that the more he focuses this energy into achieving goals with his abilities, he can shape his growth willingly in certain ways. It also allows him to channel it into certain physical purposes, like healing at an accelerated rate.
ETERNAL STAMINA
Hyperion's ability to absorb, manipulate and function on the power of cosmic power makes him nearly inexhaustible, able to function for days without rest. He does not need food, and can operate in vacuum without the need to breathe.
ETERNAL STRENGTH
Hyperion possesses incredible strength putting him among the strongest beings in creation. Lifting islands out of oceans and all of those other incredible feats that are typically sort of mythical in nature are in his wheelhouse, though his experience with them is somewhat limited at this point.
FLASH VISION
A manifestation of his atomic vision, Hyperion can focus energy through his eyes at around 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
FLIGHT
Hyperion has the ability to levitate himself and fly through the air at tremendous speeds by harnessing and manipulating anti-gravitons. At his peak, he is capable of achieving speeds faster than lightning, over 61 miles per second. Once in space, he is capable of reaching light speed.
INVULNERABILITY
Nigh invulnerable and all that jazz. He can take hits from all but the most powerful beings without flinching, and is truly one of the toughest beings out there. He also doesn't age, or at the least, ages very slowly.
SUPER-SPEED
Hyperion can run, move, and react at speeds that are far beyond the physical capabilities of even the finest human athlete; capable of moving faster than lightning, his top speed is beyond Mach 4 (3,700 miles per hour) within Earth's atmosphere. Once in space, he is capable of achieving multiples of the speed of light, for inter-stellar travel.
Skills
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PUN-ISHER
Bad jokes and puns are one of the only skills that Marcus had to disarm others, and ingratiate with the agents of Department H. He tries to be friendly, and it comes out mostly in bad jokes.
TRAINED FIGHTER
While his training was far from extensive or intense, Hyperion has been trained since he was young to fight Canada's enemies. He has experience enough with fighting, in fact, more than he has with most of his actual physical stunts, that he could be said to be an experienced warrior.
Bad jokes and puns are one of the only skills that Marcus had to disarm others, and ingratiate with the agents of Department H. He tries to be friendly, and it comes out mostly in bad jokes.
TRAINED FIGHTER
While his training was far from extensive or intense, Hyperion has been trained since he was young to fight Canada's enemies. He has experience enough with fighting, in fact, more than he has with most of his actual physical stunts, that he could be said to be an experienced warrior.
Resources
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ALPHA FLIGHT
Alpha Flight and Department H are able to provide Marcus tentative support, but he is still new to Alpha Flight, and is on the outs with the Dept. so his support is mild at best at the moment.
Alpha Flight and Department H are able to provide Marcus tentative support, but he is still new to Alpha Flight, and is on the outs with the Dept. so his support is mild at best at the moment.
Weaknesses
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MAGIC
Hyperion is particularly susceptible to magic. Not quite bringing him down to human levels, but he has no particular ability to see through magic, and attack magic can be quite effective against him.
MILTON FAMILY
The Miltons are good people, and despite being agents for Department H, they are a source of leverage that can be used against him.
NAIVE
The oddity of his upbringing has made Hyperion susceptible to the ploys of a con. If they can tell a sob story, he is liable to take them utterly seriously.
SOLAR DEPRIVATION
Deprivation from solar radiation will slowly weaken Hyperion.
Hyperion is particularly susceptible to magic. Not quite bringing him down to human levels, but he has no particular ability to see through magic, and attack magic can be quite effective against him.
MILTON FAMILY
The Miltons are good people, and despite being agents for Department H, they are a source of leverage that can be used against him.
NAIVE
The oddity of his upbringing has made Hyperion susceptible to the ploys of a con. If they can tell a sob story, he is liable to take them utterly seriously.
SOLAR DEPRIVATION
Deprivation from solar radiation will slowly weaken Hyperion.
Logs
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| The Brave and the Bold | December 6th, 2023 | Skye and Hyperion meet by accident, but Skye knows a secret about his future! |
| The Heroes and their Coffee | November 15th, 2023 | Summary needed |
| Hey I know that guy... | November 12th, 2023 | Two old friends met for dinner. |
| Log 15791 | November 12th, 2023 | Hyperion and Spider-Woman fight the Abomination! Don't worry, Hyperion eventually catches him. |
| The Alien and the Spider | November 4th, 2023 | Hyperion and Spider-Woman meet...and despite a rather tense conversation, they work together to take out a villain named 'Sun Guy'. No, they did not ask him what his name was. |
| Chinese Food Rocks | August 5th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Meetings on Patrol | July 16th, 2019 | Two Kryptonians meet in mid-air. |
| Shake, Shudder and tumble. | October 31st, 2018 | Summary needed |
| An Embassy Visit | January 17th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Official Tours | January 2nd, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Diner Dash | December 18th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Fun with Fungus | December 15th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Alpha Flight Foodery | December 6th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Pizza Time | December 5th, 2017 | Pizza Chat does not prevent certain young justicekateers from hiring Jessica Jones |
| Canadian Morning Meet-Up | December 4th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Family Dinner | December 3rd, 2017 | Alpha Flight meets for dinner. Current events are discussed disagreements are had. |
Cutscenes
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Gallery
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