John Tashiro is a Japanese-American man in his mid 20's. Often dressed casually, and looks very much like a science nerd. Thin, awkward, and he even wears glasses.

Doctor Zero on the other hand seems to be someone in lab clothes who has frozen to death. Expect he moves, speaks, and has glowing orbs for eyes. Even his jumpsuit, gloves, boots, goggles, and labcoat seem frozen to his body. Worse is the constant aura of cold that gets more intense the closer you get.

Background

John and Emily actually work for the military police state that runs the city. As they have access to actual technology, they need scientists and engineers to fix their gear. Emily and John grew up in families that lived in the richer sections of the city. Those families are allowed privileges that the rest of the people don't get access to. However, both John and Emily met in a secret resistance enclave.

Given how they where both key members of the rulers tyrannical machine, they both could steal small parts of technology to help the underground resistance. Emily knew the cause would need tech to survive, so she was a genius who figured out how to access Zero point energy. The man who runs the supplies for the city, Richard Charny, had tasked Emily to experiment with her research for his purposes in secret. After all, the supervillains who really run the world do not want limitless energy for everyone, just them. If they found out what Charny was doing, they would get rid of him. Emily used this to her advantage, and got the parts needed for John, her engineer boyfriend, to put together. Charny held power via his goon squad of enforcere called the Blackriver corps.

The plan was working well, and it looked like the Zero point reactor was going to be a full success. However, the enforcers had gotten wind of the resistance's hidden lair, and moved in to take the place down. John forced Emily into the secrets passage with the others, but he had to stay behind to destroy the reactor. In doing so, the enforces shot the device, causing it to malfunction.

The reactor went off, and John was transformed into what the enforcers called 'Doctor Zero'. John managed to discover later how to change back, but he soon realized he could not stay human forever. Not without some sort of treatment with technology Emily and he had no access to...