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Complications: Wrong Place, Right Time - Ham is a do-gooder living in a gang-infested part of the city. Relationships - Ham lives with his Mama (Laverne), his grandparents (Martha and Red) and five younger siblings (Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and Washington) -- there are plenty of relationship issues. Social Limitations - Ham's family is poor and his Mama is unwed which leads to various social problems. Doppelgänger - Ham has met an alternate dimension version of himself. It was strange to be around another Ham Mulligan who was white and gay, especially when the guy grabbed his butt. Hero Worship - For a brief period of time, Colonel Victory had died. In honor of him, Ham took the name Mister Victory, and even adopting a costume based on the Colonel's. |
Known Background: In 1943, a storm tossed military transport vessel in the northern Pacific was bathed in an unknown form of energy via an unexplained phenomenon. An emotionally distraught nurse, out on deck, despite the storm, was unshielded, and after she discovered the exposure had given her the ability to channel energy into a variety of paranormal abilities, she became Lady America. As no one else from the crew or personel aboard showed signs of powers, her belief was that the hull of the ship had prevented them from being exposed. She was only partially correct. Every man and woman - soldier, sailor, WAC and WAVe was affected to some small degree - but generally not enough to be noticed. But enough that it got into their genes. The personnel being transported included a "coloured" unit (in the days before the military was integrated) out of New Orleans. Some of these men survived the war, and came home to New Orleans, married and had children.
Hamilton Mulligan grew up in New Orleans. He knows his two maternal great-grandfathers served in the same unit in World War II. It was their friendship continuing after the war that led to his maternal granparents meeting and hooking up that led to the birth of his mother. Conversley, Ham never knew his father, or any of his paternal relatives. Ham has no idea that his paternal granparents lived in New Orleans but had moved away in the 1970s. His father, returned to the Big Easy in the mid-1980s, but skipped town after knocking-up Ham's mother, who was a high school student at the time. Ham has been told that his father joined the army and died in the Gulf War. |
All four of Hamilton Mulligan's great-grandfathers were on that military transport in 1943. Each of them had had their genetic code altered by the phenomonon. Some of that altered code got into some of their progeny. Hamilton Mulligan was the one out of around 256 potential births that received enough of the alterations needed so that he was born with powers not dissimilar to Lady America's. He is unaware of the whys and hows of this. He just grew up stronger, faster and tougher than his peers. At first, he considered this a good thing. Then, while playing dodgeball in his eighth grade gym class, he nearly crippled a classmate. This wasn't cool. He threw himself into being as much of a good student as he could be; enough of a bookworm that no one expected him to be a jock and yet stong enough and confident enough that he wasn't a nerd. In recent years, he's discovered his "mutation" is more extensive than he thought. He's discovered he can focus the energy in his body into specific tasks and perform even more impressive feats of strength and speed - or emit the energy out of his eyes in violent bursts. All the same, it never occurred to him to be a super-hero. He and his mother still have to make money to pay the rent and to take care of his five younger brothers and sisters. He tries his best to keep them out of trouble. Though some of them are faster or stronger, it isn't the way he is. He may be a neighborhood do-gooder, but a super hero? No. At least that's what he said up until a few years ago. |
Ham Mulligan was created, designed, and played by Ken Hallaron.
© Copyright 1992, 2024 - Kenneth G. Hallaron
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