Daniel Seeklaw

Daniel "Dan" Seeklaw is a metahuman in service to the Federal Office of the Abnormal. Gifted with the ability to sense people's fears, and bring said fears to life, he is able to manifest them into physical reality. Currently, he is mistakenly classified by Argus, FOAs subdivision, as a Delta level threat, as the full extent of his powers have not been put on display.

Early Life
Dan Seeklaw was born to a lovely pair of parents (who are as of yet unnamed, due to only appearing in this backstory so far) who just happened to be FOA agents. At a young age, he was dosed with the I-3 formula, with all the promises that it contained. Besides that, he lived a fairly regular life, learning right from wrong, his manners, how to deal with important government officials, how to talk to people, and all that. So, naturally, everything started going wrong when his superpowers started to manifest. Random swarms of everything from angry wasps to venomous snakes started showing up around the (thankfully carefully monitored and heavily guarded) Seeklaw residence. When they found out the source - Dan and his family weren’t exactly thrilled. Still, superpowers are superpowers, and Dan started training immediately, mostly to ensure he wouldn’t be plagued by nightmare manifestations wherever he went. He was moved to Day Care, for the proximity to trained and capable superhumans who could withstand the manifestations and get Dan some training.

Adulthood
Dan’s adult life, soon as it was, was occupied first by his various studies - first as a cover, second so he doesn’t rely on fear sense to make a living - and jumping between the Day Care and various other spots for… well… let me explain this. Dan, like all government-employed superhumans, is expected to aid the government in some way. His suggestion for doing so was simple: Vigilante recruitment. The idea is, they send Dan (with some superhuman backup) to an area rumored to house at least one superhuman vigilante of interest that the government is interested in recruiting. Every so often, Dan summons something scary but not too dangerous, like an oversized crab monstrosity to roam its way around the place, looking threatening. The vigilante shows up and the government can use their specialist crew to track them down and find out their contact info, and eventually offer them a job. So yeah. Dan’s reluctant to use his power since nightmares tend to be really dangerous, but he’s been training and practicing and learning, and moving from place to place. He’s got some experience working as a librarian, which he uses as a cover - and when he’s in a safe spot, to help out with organizing information.

Abilities
Metahuman Physiology: Dan possesses a number of superhuman abilities derived from his exposure to the I-3 ichor formula, rendering him superior to any ordinary human. Whilst Argus classifies him as a Delta Level Threat, Dan has yet to unleash the full extent of his abilities, and is in actuality equivalent to a Beta Level Threat.
 * Telepathy: Dan's base power is telepathy. He is able to read surface thoughts and scan memories, as well as project his own thoughts into the minds of others for the purpose of psychic communication.
 * Illusion: Dan is able to psychically distort the perceptions and senses of those he is able to make telepathic contact with. Dan's illusions are extremely advanced, and he is able to completely fool all five senses, distorting a target's image of their environment or conjuring creatures and objects within their view. He is even able to accurately simulate pain from all manner of source.
 * Psychic Energy Consumption: Dan is able to feed on the psychic energy which is produced in the minds of living creatures, specifically, the energy of fear, within his telepathic range. He is most effectively able to consume power from fear that is directed towards himself, but any ambient fear will do.
 * Physical Empowerment: Dan is able to draw upon the energy of fear to strengthen his body. The more power he is able to draw upon, the further the potency of his augmentations.
 * Regeneration: Through an effort of will, Dan is able to concentrate fear based psychic energy and use it to repair damage to his body. If he is able to call upon enough, such healing can take place automatically.
 * Super Durability: By draining psychic energy from fear, Dan can toughen his own body against harm.
 * Super Strength: Dan is able to enhance his physical prowess through the absorption of psychic energy, allowing him to exert inhuman levels of force.
 * Psychic Empowerment: By absorbing energies from psychic fear, Dan is able to strengthen the range and potency of his psychic abilities, allowing him to contact more minds and invade thoughts with greater ease and expediency.
 * Psychic Manifestation: With access to sufficient levels of fear, Dan is able to grant his illusory conjurations true substance. Any illusion he makes can be substantiated, and he can even create entire environments if he has sufficient power to draw upon (though he is unable to remove physical environments that are already present. It is easiest for Dan to manifest things that are either feared throughout the subconscious of living beings, such as fire or predators, or things that a specific individual fears. Dan's psychic manifestations continue to persists only for so long as he continues to maintain them, and has access to sufficient fear levels to do so. Said manifestations remain completely under his control, and any creatures he creates have no true consciousness.

Skills
Dan Seeklaw has an excellent head for numbers, letters, sorting systems, and making sure everything is where it's supposed to be.