Jeff's dad, Jeffery Bernard Akimbro III was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and stationed at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, City of Tacayme, Condado de San Diego in Nueva California. Jeffery Bernard Akimbro IV was born in the City of Tacayme, and one year later, his dad was transferred to the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in République française.
In 2038, when Little Jeff was only two, the Great Reset began and changed their lives forever.
At the age of 18, he applied for and was accepted into the Légion étrangère as an engineer, specializing in underground structures. He also volunteered in the local Search & Rescue Squad that had sprung up when people kep disappearing in cave-ins and tunnels. Always a cave enthusiast, Jeff never turned down a challenge when it came to climbing things or going into caves and tunnels. Adventure was his calling.
It was at his graduation party, having finally finished all the training the Légion étrangère had to offer, that someone offered him a drink. At first he turned it down, but the person told him it was an extract of the ginko tree that reportedly gave natives the ability to "bend their bones". Thinking it couldn't hurt, Jeff drank the whole bottle...and immediately had a severe allergic reaction to it!
Falling to the floor and convulsing, the fellow trainees sprung into action to apply medical procedures in order to save his life. And that's when Jeff's meta-mutant gland activated and Jeff's whole body began to shift and melt and then re-form.
Right before the eyes of his bosses, his fellow graduates, and his family, Jeff began to stretch and flatten like a rubber band. He became Strung-Out.
Core Type: 6 (The Loyalist)
Wing: 5 (The Investigator)
**6w5 Key Traits:
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As his name suggests, Strung-Out can stretch his limbs and body to superhuman lengths and sizes. There seems to be no limit to how far or wide he can stretch but it is more difficult to control his ability the further he's stretched. Unlike Formis, his elasticity has limits to his physical form; as such, he can make rounded or straight basic shapes but he cannot, say, stretch into a car or tools.
Dexterity: Flowing: These stretching powers grant Strung-Out heightened balance enabling him flexibility and coordination that is beyond the natural limits of the human body.
Durability: Level 5: Strung-Out's powers also greatly augment his durability. He is largely able to withstand corrosives, punctures and concussions without sustaining injury. It has been demonstrated that he is resistant to high velocities that would kill an ordinary person and that he is also more resistant to blasts from energy weapons that would kill ordinary humans.
Contortionism: He can contort his body into various positions and sizes impossible for ordinary humans, such as being entirely flat to 1/2 inch so that he can slip under a door, or using his fingers to pick conventional locks.
Disguise: He can also use it for disguise by changing the shape of his face, although this is painful and difficult for him.
Investigation: Strung-Out is professionally trained as a detective and is highly skilled in deductive reasoning. Often considered one of the most brilliant detectives in the world (second only to Vigilante).
Chemistry:
Multilingualism: He is a native English speaker, but can also speak French. He can understand Themykandan well enough to translate.
Fighting: YondanLom: He has developed his own fighting style that he calls Origami-Fu. It is using Kung-Fu with his stretching contortions.
_____Boxing: He also has some training in Boxing.
Elastic Limitation: Jeff's physiology has greater physical limitations than Formis; there is a limit to how far he can stretch his finite bodily mass. His physiology is more like that of an ordinary human than Formis and as a result he does not share Formis's nigh invulnerability
Mysteries: Strung-Out has a penchant for "sniffing" out a good mystery. Whenever he becomes excited with the promise of some detective work, his nose begins wiggling.
Favorite: Strung-Out was "République française's favorite North American superhero", probably thanks to his efforts in returning to the surface. In République française he was known as "L'Homme des Cavernes".
Voice: If Amalgamated Chronicles were to become a cartoon, the voice of Strung-Out should be Babs Olusanmokun.