Name: Erik Sweetwater

Superhero Name: Disruptor

DOB: 8 May 1980

POB: Minot, North Dakota

Age: 37

Species: Pronghorn antelope

Nationality: American

Height: 5'10” / 178 cm

Weight: 195 lb / 89 kg

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Black

Physical Appearance: Average, neither unusually handsome nor unusually plain. He is muscular, leaning more to a wiry runner's physique than brute strength. His hair is dark enough to go beyond mere black into indigo, and his eyes are a dark brown.

Occupation: Courier service director. (Capital Couriers is actually a front company for the Bureau's secret base in DC, in much the same way that the Dixie Diner works as a cover for Colmaton's. The nature of the business allows for large numbers of furs to be in and out of the building at all hours without rousing suspicion, and many of Capital Center's operatives are employed there.)

Areas of Operation: Washington Metro


Weapons/Items: Standard police kit, Bureau communicator, nunchuks.


Personal Transport: Motorcycle. He rarely operates solo; when on a mission, he generally rides along with any other operative who has a vehicle.


Powers: Disruptor's sole power is the ability to shut down other's superpowers. He naturally has a roughly ten foot sphere (precise measurement gives the radius as 10.62 feet / 3.237 m) around him in which superpowers and magic simply do not work, and he is also capable of projecting his ability as a beam to temporarily disable any super-being that he can hit with it. This has a variable effect on technological powers – it will sometimes affect them as well, if the technology in question has a superpowered basis or interface. In general, if a drain ray or collar works, so will his power.

Fighting Styles: He is trained in various martial arts and can if necessary use a pistol, as he is qualified as an expert marksman.

Strengths: Trained in martial arts, police procedures, and tactical driving. Villains who depend on their powers can find themselves at a serious disadvantage if they try to close with him or use their powers on him – only indirect effects will work. (Throwing something at him with super-strength is the most common effective attack.) He also seems to be immune to suppression effects himself – drain rays and similar things do not appear to affect his ability to suppress powers, and obviously do not affect any of his other abilities. He is physically a well-trained normal.

Weaknesses: He has no super-abilities of his own, and his disruption field applies to powers that would help him, as well as those that would harm him. Super-powered healing cannot work on him, and while he cannot have his mind read, he cannot coordinate with telepathy either. His hero outfit is a light kevlar weave, but he has no other protection.

Outfits: Superhero costume: Dark gray city-camo with a maroon circle-and-slash insignia (a darker variation of the international NOT sign.) Usually business casual in his civilian cover.

Bio: Erik's ancestry is Native American, but he is thoroughly westernized (Europeanized?) and doesn't pay much attention to it. He grew up on a ranch in rural North Dakota, third of five children, and joined the Air Force for a four-year tour of duty when he turned 18 in 1998. When he got out, he studied criminal law, attended the North Dakota Police Academy, and was hired on as a state trooper.

Since his power is extremely specialized, he did not realize he even -had- it until he was 27. A routine highway stop of a speeding vehicle put the rookie officer in a confrontation with the supervillain Static, which would probably have ended in disaster for anyone else – but the villain's electrical blasts died out a few feet in front of the patrol car as he pursued instead of disabling his vehicle, and he was able to stay in pursuit until Bureau agents could be summoned to assist. After Static was taken into custody, he approached the Bureau agents who had responded, intending to ask what had happened, and discovered -why- Static had been unable to hit his car...

He joined the Bureau shortly afterwards, and was assigned to DC to assist in protecting the government from mentalist and powered supervillains, since his simple presence can disrupt both powered attacks and mind control. His police training has been augmented by martial arts training with fellow Bureau operatives, and practice with controlling his own abilities. He learned that he could project his anti-power field, or draw it closer to allow other heroes to operate in close proximity to him, but he cannot turn it off completely – when he is unconscious, it reverts to the standard ten-foot radius sphere. He also assists in training of Bureau personnel to operate without their powers in situations where suppression effects have been used against them.

Personality: Disruptor is a fairly serious person most of the time, and still takes his military oath as his primary motivation (to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic). Due to the nature of his powers, many of his fellow operatives prefer not to associate with him off-duty, which he understands; he does have a few good friends, mainly among the gadgeteer and skilled heroes, whose abilities are immune to the effects of his power.