Name: Quentin Abernathy
Codename: Gravitas
Age: 33 (appears 25, the age he was at eruption)

Physical Description: Quentin is a post-chrysalis second stage Portent. His body is outwardly still quite human. His hair is dark and he appears to be a Caucasian male in his late 20's. He stands 5'10" and is in peak-human physical condition. He has become somewhat off-putting for baselines. Though all agree that he's certainly more handsome than any baseline competition, he doesn't have the same gaggle of fans that other mega-attractive novas seem to gather. Due to the events during the climax of the Colombian Conflict, Quentin lost most of the fingers on his right hand and his left leg below the knee. These have since been replaced by cybernetic prosthetics of his own design.

Quentin has always noted that his powers appear to be just a little too vast for his physical shell to contain, and it is these powers that were augmented by the metamorphosis he underwent in his Chrysalis - with several visible side-effects. While Quentin's eyes were previously a flat black that seemed to absorb all light, they now appear to be star fields in miniature; tiny flickering lights sparkle in the otherwise black expanse of his gaze. Quentin has emitted gravitic waves since his eruption which cause a visible ripple in space and enhances his personal gravitational field such that he is attractive to small objects. Since chrysalis, he is also orbited by tiny wisps of white light. These wisps orbit perpendicular to the length of his body, regardless of his orientation. The exact number and which part of his length they orbit (curiously, they never orbit directly in front of his eyes) changes as they wink or fade out only to be replaced or joined by others. Each orbits at its own speed and distance from him. When he sits in a chair or lies down the orbits of the lights will tend to expand to encompass whatever furniture he uses. They are otherwise insubstantial and of little use for anything beyond weak illumination.

Quentin is unable to wear natural eufiber. His quantum signature (possibly due to his imperfect control of his own abilities) is toxic to the substance. Because he is unable to wear natural eufiber, Quentin wears more conventional clothing, preferring a 'business casual' level of style much of the time.

History: Quentin Abernathy was an physics grad student. His earlier life had been punctuated by a number of accomplishments: valedictorian in high school, finishing his undergrad degree with honors, post-grad work with well known scientists in his field. Despite these accomplishments, and being on track to finish his PhD, he was starting to run into a wall. He had decided, finally, to take something of a risk. He had decided to devote the research he would be doing for his degree to trying to work out many of the problems involved in the Alcubierre metric (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_metric). Many others discount the viability of such an area of the field, but Quentin was largely neutral - any research that could further prove OR disprove aspects of the theory would prove beneficial.

But then there was a wall. He sat in the tiny office (almost a closet, really) set aside for graduate students near their lab and stared at equations he'd scrawled upon a whiteboard. Most of it was the basics of the metric. He'd randomly filled in some values in a fit of frustration. He stared, for a long time, until enlightenment blossomed in his mind. Enlightenment and pain. He had erupted, and now he had a splitting headache. He rapidly jotted down some solutions to the problem he'd been staring at and hurried out of the office, pursued by a small swarm of loose objects that his developing gravitational abilities were attracting.

Being no fool, Quentin knew what had happened to him and immediately contacted Project Utopia, seeing it as the best option for emerging novas. His developing abilities had an obviously strong focus on gravitation with some peripherally related effects, based mostly on Quinten's now-transcendental understanding of the physical universe. He rapidly published a paper refuting any claims that antigravity could exist. He insists that his ability to fly is not based on antigravity but the generation and manipulation of gravitational fields. He's demonstrated the ability to both manipulate and create gravitational fields and is now working to prove the existence of the graviton, among other projects.