#regular programming angst will resume tomorrow

[aspenthetwin]

Good. Don’t take too long. I don’t want the others to have to wait very long past usual

Hey guys, something happened by accident. It was my fault but also not.

Belphie and I have been body swapped, we both touched a forbidden book and now I guess we’re like this for a day…

Belphie is asleep right now but because I’m in Belphie’s body, I can try being on his Tumblr today :)

Feed me lots, okay?

~Beelzebub 🍔

[dc-earth53]

#0017 - Red Tornado (John Smith)

Age: 17 (actual age of Red Tornado persona), 73 (age of original body), 35 (assumed age of John Smith persona)

Occupation: Adventurer

Marital status: Married

Known relatives: T.O. Morrow (father/creator), Red Torpedo (brother, deceased), Red Inferno (sister, deceased), Red Volcano (brother, deceased), Tomorrow Woman (“sister”), Kathy Sutton (wife), Traya Sutton (adoptive daughter).

Group affiliation: Justice League of America, formerly Young Justice

Base of Operations: Happy Harbor, Rhode Island

Height: 6’1”

Weight: 325 lbs.

History:

1870 A.D.: The air elemental Ulthoon, also known as the Tornado Tyrant, is born on the planet Xalthor.

1947 A.D: T.O. Morrow creates the Red Tornado android as one of a set of elemental-powered androids to combat the Justice Society of America. The android is defeated by the JSA, and deactivated, held in the Justice Society’s Perisphere headquarters.

1951 A.D: The Perisphere is demolished, with the Red Tornado android being taken into government custody.

17 years ago:

Adam Strange defeats the Tornado Tyrant, inspiring it to turn over a new leaf. The newly rechristened Tornado Champion follows Strange back to Earth. Ulthoon comes across the inert body of the Red Tornado and comes to inhabit it. During the merging process, the Red Tornado short-circuits, and Ulthoon’s memory is erased.

T.O. Morrow, now in an android body of his own, senses that his creation has been re-activated, and seizes control of it, sending it against the Justice League, but Red Tornado rebels against his programming, helping the League defeat Morrow and afterwards becoming a member of the group.

16 years ago: The Red Tornado meets employment counselor Kathy Sutton in his human guise as John Smith, and the two fall in love.

15 years ago: Red Tornado is possessed by the electronic consciousness known as the Construct, but is freed with the assistance of the Justice League.

14 years ago: The Tornado and Sutton adopt the Bialyan orphan Traya as their own.

12 years ago: Red Tornado defeats the Construct in its attempt to take over the world via mass brainwashing.

11 years ago: 

Red Tornado seemingly perishes during the Anti-Monitor Crisis, having been turned into a living weapon by the Anti-Monitor and being destroyed by his fellow heroes. Attempts to reconstruct him lead to the detonation of a failsafe in his chest - an explosive that ends up destroying the Justice League’s satellite headquarters.

Red Tornado’s consciousness remains intact inside his head, and when he reboots, he becomes aware of Volthoom’s true nature as an air elemental.

10 years ago: Embracing his nature as an air elemental, Red Tornado enters into a war with Earth’s other elementals: Naiad, Firestorm, and Swamp Thing. Increasingly, he begins to distance himself from his humanity.

8 years ago: Feeling isolated from humanity, Red Tornado retreats to the Secret Sanctuary in Happy Harbor, Rhode Island, where he lay dormant until awoken by the members of Young Justice. He becomes a mentor to the young heroes.

7 years ago: Red Tornado attempts to reunite with Kathy and Traya, to partial success - he gains the privilege of regular visitations with Traya. Soon after, Red Tornado, as John Smith, and Kathy resume their relationship.

5 years ago:

Red Tornado is recruited by Jade to fight in the Rann-Thanagar War. During the war, he is struck by a passing Zeta Beam and destroyed.

His remains return to Earth, ending up in Australia, and are gathered by John Stewart, who brings them to Will Magnus to reassemble.

4 years ago: The Tornado rejoins the Justice League, fighting against his siblings and Amazo in a scheme masterminded by Solomon Grundy.

3 years ago: Red Tornado is destroyed yet again, demolished by the Injustice League, and his mind is placed into the League’s computer system while Magnus and John Henry Irons build him a new body. Meanwhile, Sutton agrees to marry him.

1 year ago: Red Tornado is taken over by the Construct in its bid to activate the Earth’s weapons of mass destruction.

Present day: Red Tornado remains a member of the Justice League in good standing, and has recently helped Oracle complete an upgrade to their computer system.

Commentary:

I don’t really have much to say about Red Tornado, except that I simplified his origin greatly, cutting out most of the Tornado Tyrant/Champion stuff, all the universe-hopping he did pre-Crisis, and about half the times his body was destroyed. This Red Tornado has finally found the proper balance between his humanity and artificial nature, and doesn’t suffer from the “am I man or machine?” angst that a lot of DC’s other robot characters do.

The choice of his costume was also very easy, he only really has had one lasting look, and for simplicity’s sake, I went with Young Justice’s version of that look.

Next: Amazo and then Plastic Man!