Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

However, after two years of boredom, he put
on the suit and joined the Freedom Five as a
reluctantly cold-wielding combatant. Becoming a
hero took a lot longer, but as the years rolled by he
grew more accepting of who he had become, and
even began to think of the team as his family. When
the rest of the team voted to move to teaching, he
didn’t hesitate to volunteer.
Capabilities and Motivations
Despite initial appearances, Absolute Zero does
not actually “make ice.” It’s actually a complex
thermodynamic reaction in which the comparatively
warm air is exposed to his seemingly impossibly
cold skin, which in turn creates a backblast of
super-chilled air into the surrounding environment
that, upon contact with normal temperature
moisture in the air, flash-freezes into ice that he
can shape and channel. In theory, he should be less
effective in extremely dry or cold areas, but the
suit has a lot of failsafes and redundancies that can
compensate to keep him at peak ice-producing
proficiency. How he actually functions (which he
shouldn’t), and why fire “acts weird” around him
(which it does) is a subject of endless fascination
for Tachyon. Absolute Zero goes along with her
tests and experimentations out of friendship,
though he doesn’t expect to learn much, nor
seem to care about the things she does learn
about his unique system. This fatalistic attitude
tends to make him a bit of a downer, but a solid
anchor for the team. No matter what terrible
thing happens, Absolute Zero has seen worse
and knows they’ll get through it.
Personal Life
Absolute Zero teaches ethics and
philosophy at the Freedom Academy,
with an extremely varied curriculum.
The life of a costumed hero can be
perilous, and Absolute Zero wants
to make sure that the students are
prepared for the ethical and moral
dilemmas that they inevitably face. Every
student who wants more than to just control
their powers needs to understand why they
want to help the world. They also need to
understand the risks, and a substantial part
of his curriculum is talking about how to
keep going when everything seems lost. He
is in a unique position to talk to some of the
students who, like Muerto, have been through
trauma that cause them to question whether
or not they are even people. He also devotes
a lot of time in his classes to discussions about
what exactly constitutes a person: is it their mind?
Their body? Something more ephemeral? Robots,
bodiless AI’s, ghosts, cyborgs, immortal popsicles in
cans… he wants his students to understand that
people come in all forms, and that they are no less
people because they can’t do something or are
limited in some way.
When he isn’t teaching, he’s been making a space
for himself in this world. He’ll see a show with
Tachyon, take students to a basement jazz concert,
or even go solo to a poetry slam at the cafe around
the corner. The other Sentinels are very supportive
of his efforts. He’s finally started to think of himself
as human again, and Tachyon is ready to help with
tech adaptations that can help him feel more at
home, like a way to play vinyl records in a subzero
environment!
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Intro
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Creating
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