Toby Turnblad

"I know things look bad now, but we're all together, right? We're a team - heck, we're practically a family at this point. Nothing can mess us up as long as we stick together and give it our all until the very last man is standing."

Tobias 'Toby' Julian Turnblad is a superhuman specialising in volatile constructs and the manipulation of explosives, former member of the Outcasts and currently holds one of the chairs of ARK's board of operatives.

Born to two former industry superheroes - Alexis Turnblad, the electrokinetic Stormstress; and Tyson Turnblad, the pyrokinetic Firestorm (who graciously gave their old base to the Outcasts) - Toby's entire family are superhumans, and so he grew up without any prejudices or fears of his own powers and a love of the industry heroes written about in comic books. His incredibly unpredictable and powerful abilities have taken him years to control and perfect, and he claims he still hasn't fully curbed them yet.

Alongside his former teammate and wife, Melody, Toby has always pressed for peace and equality between humans and superhumans. He stepped up this role during the Human/Super War by helping the operatives of ARK set up bases unbeknownst to the government officials hunting them down and acting as the voice of the Outcasts to the press during the period. ARK would eventually go on to make him a member of their board of operatives.

Thanks to both his parents and his own good-heartedness, Toby has friends in many high places of both the industrial and indie aspects of the superhero world - he uses these strings to earn his teammate &#x20;Fabian Francis a position at NYAS during a particularly bad patch in the man's life - this, and his rationality, have even earned him the allegiance of SCARECROW's Ellery Crawley.