Heat

Background
Heat is a very secretive and quiet man. Apparently a practicing Bhuddist, he at one point ventured to TIbet to join the Order of the Dragon at Mt. Kailash. He found time to master various internal forms of kung fu, including ba gua, tai chi, and qigong. He never found time to catch up with technology, and makes no secret about his lack of computer prowess. What he lacks in technical skill, he makes up for in leadership and tactical ability.

Upon his return to his home town of Detroit a few months into the blackout riots of 2015, he found the city in utter chaos. Driving himself to exhaustion, he fought for nearly three days without rest, nonlethally disabling any and every criminal he could see with his thermokinetic powers and martial arts skill. Upon being surrounded at an intersection by multiple armed men, while suffering from tunnel vision and severe dehydration, he made a desperate effort to drive off his would be killers. A torrent of flame, visible even from Cleveland, shot out from his outstretched hands int the night sky. Dozens of good samaritans and soon to be heroes came to the pillar of fire as if it were some form of beacon. Heat lay unconsious in the street as the new arrivals dispatched the armed men, including some of those who would become the founding members of OASA, Blurr, and Cosmic Man.

He now leads OASA along with Franklin Quaid, the world's authority on eximitaxonomy.