Steadfast



52 year old Malcolm Wilkins was once the hero of Britain. One of those flag-wearing nationalist superhero types, the London Superman draped his massive frame in the Union Jack and kept Fair Blighty safe from all manner of superpowered threats, in the name of Queen and Country, in his two decades of patrolling its shores. He was a beloved celebrity and the hero of the people... that all came crashing down when he and his family became embroiled in a scandal involving a certain trio of reality hopping demigods - whom he tried and failed to annihilate - After that debacle, he divorced and left Britain in shame, for the greener pastures of the United States of America, initially settling in Connecticut.

Of course, those pastures provided him new archenemies like the shapeshifting thief and mob enforcer called Draconis - aka Donald Wyndham. After Steadfast defeated Draconis and sent him to prison, the Brit hero fell for the villain's civilian wife, Marjorie, who was unaware of her husbands more 'colorful' antics, and, after a whirlwind romance, got married - much to the utter contempt and disgust of Donald and Marjorie's daughter, Skylar.

Having parted with his own family - former wife, Valerie, son, John and daughter, Daphne - Malcolm was bound and determined to keep a tighter grip on his new family. Though he and Marjorie love one another, Malcolm was married to Valerie for almost thirty years before she was unfaithful to him with the demigod, Quinn Anansi. He feels that his son and daughter had also gone astray due to his not being able to devote as much time and attention as he'd have liked to them while patrolling London. He is dead set on being a better husband and father to his new family than he was to his old.

Though he is in his early fifties, the extradimensional ionic energies flowing through his system keep him strong and vital. Still, he daily contemplates permanently retiring from the superhero life. Unfortunately, Chicago and the surrounding Great Lakes areas are far more populated with rogue metahumans and outright villains than the British isles were. Plus, he missed being a beloved celebrity, helping the masses and putting his ionic might to good use. In his mind, he honestly tried to be a good stepfather to Marjorie's daughter, Skylar, but, the young girl was extremely loyal to her father, and wanted nothing to do with Malcolm. It wasn't long before he slid into the stern and disapproving, strict adult role out of habit. He and Skylar have been at odds ever since, with Marjorie caught in the middle.

Neither Malcolm nor Marjorie know that Skylar has powers, or that she is secretly the teenaged villain known as Serpentyne, but, they know that she isn't happy about her new family arrangement. They just think that she's "in need of structure", which Malcolm has taken it upon himself to provide.