Hank Jones is a bit eccentric. If he were a villain he might be labled "crazy"; but as a decent, hardworking, and heroic man who just happens to think he's the living embodiment of the spirit of his home sate of oregon, Hank is eccentric. Born two middle class teachers in Eugene, Hank spent many a weekend travelling north to Corvallis with his OSU alumnist father to watch the Beavers play football, basketball, and baseball. To this day, Hank's dad calls him during the weekends to discuss OSU Sports. Hank grew into a large and powerfull young man, he got a football scholarship to OSU and played linebacker as a four year starter. His superhuman physical attributes were tested but their origins were never found and in the early 80's supherhuman testing hadn't really been "perfected". The fact that Hank's teams never posted a winning record, and he never seriously injured anyone led people to disregard the occasional claim of inhuman power. After graduation, Hank took a job in Corvallis, working for HP. Originally a laborer for CDI, he eventually applied for and got a job with HP proper. One afternoon after stopping at his favorite convenience store, Hank saw three masked men running out of the bank across the street. One of the men had a gun pointed to the head of a young woman, one of the tellers at the bank and they were screaming. The police had surrounded the area and the robbers had taken a hostage to facilitate escape. Hank put his groceries down and walked slowly towards the armed men, oblivious to the cries of the police around him. "Hey, let the girl go man, that's not cool." Hank said calmly. "F8ck you!" spit the robber, "We're getting out of here or this little girl's brains are going to be all over the sidewalk!" The other two gunmen looked nervously from eachother to their leader to the cops to Hank. "Look, let me be your hostage. The girl's scared out of her mind and could panic and start a gunfight, we don't want that; all three of you guys will be killed." The two lackeys began muttering under their breath, but the hostage taker simply ppointed his gun at the large man in front of him, "You think you're a hero big man? Well let's see you stop bullets!" With that he fired twice into Hank's chest, and Hank fell to the ground. He quickly returned the gun to the girl's head and angrily repeated his demands that the cops leave him and his friends alone. He didn't even notice Hank's hand reaching towards his own until it was too late. In seconds, Hank's vice-like grip had crushed the gunman's hand and his weapon, the hostage was on the ground and the gunman in the air, suspended by Hank at arms length. The other twom men dropped their weapons and raised their hands in surrender. Later... The emergency technicians shook their heads in disbelief, the bullets hand't pierced his skin. The two red welts where he had been shot were beginning to fade already. Hank left the ambulance under his own power. Later that week Beaverman made his first official action. He moved to Portland and operates in the Portland/Vancouver area. He has faced off against true criminals and while they derride him for his name and bever inspired costume, they often curse themselves for underestimating him. Hank wants to do good. His strength has grown steadily as he has aged and is at low-superhuman levels now. He also seems to have stopped aging. In his mid 40's now he looks just like he did when he was 20. He believed that he has been imbued with the collective spirit of his home state and that his powers are at their strongest in Oregon. This has kept him from relocating to the usuall superhero "Hotspots". "Be a Beaver Believer!" Straight up tough man stuff. He has a variety of low level brick tricks. Rather silly guy to use for comic relief in the northwest. If you want to make him a little more serious, advance him to his second incarnation as the Trailblazer, increase his STR to 40 and a similar increase in his strongman tricks. If he's too strong, drop some of his strongman tricks. A tall, muscular man with cropped brown hair and blue eyes. He wears an orange bodysuit with black boots, gloves, and a brown non functional beaver tail. His helmet looks alot like the "angry" Benny Beaver mascot for Oregon State.