Drake Carter(Heroes Uprising)

"Were All Connected, Unification is the first step in Perfection."
-Drake Carter

Name: Drake Carter
Codename: Collective
Alias: Dre
Age: 41
Height: 6'1
Weight: 217 lbs
Alignment: Good
Identity: Public
Species: Homo-Sapien
Race: African American
Known Relatives: Father, Mother, Whitney Carter(Wife), Diana Carter(Daughter), and Raven Carter(Daughter.)

Allies: New World Order

Enemies: Shadow X Men, Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D, FBI

Occupation: Damage Control Director
Religion: Christian
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Personality: Drake is a religious family man who cares deeply for the fate of his species, and other World issues, believing the world needs to be changed, and unified. He hates racism, and other similar issues, supporting ideas such as equality, but he's known to be an extremist when it comes to his ideals, even leading him into violent confrontations. He hates anyone who challenges his beliefs, and often uses them to brainwash others, and lead them into his cause. He has a love for the Superhero Community, as due there constant conflict he's become rich, and supports heroism as well, he cares for his family above all, including his occupation. He's an active chruchgoer, and intends to use his abilities to do whatever he wants.

Skills:
Drake is a skilled with organization, and is able to organizable situation, and groups with ease. He's a man with extreme leadership skills, able to gather teams together, and quell disputes within teams. He believes in team work, and is skilled at organizing teams.

He's taken self defense for several wars, and is skilled in Kung Fu, and has some basic knowledge of Ta K won Do as well. He's also a capable of musician, specializing in Gospel, and Hip Hop.

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Powers:
Drake is an Omega Mutant with the ability of Hive Manipulation. He has the ability to psychically manipulate groups of one type of subject, living, dead or inanimate. Examples mean he may be able to take control of guns, controlling them as if they were living creatures, or command legions of undead, or even target a specific type of people such as religious or from a particular occupation, or even race, and classification. His ability can even extend to other subjects such as souls, or an environmental factor such as air or snow. Their movement, senses, abilities and metabolism are in Drake's full control.

Another asset of his ability is the connection of one's thought patterns to the thought patterns of another, usually a group. The Linked beings shares the same emotions, thoughts, memories and abilities as the rest of the hive mind. This group-mind is in constant communication and capable of thinking independently only when separated far enough from the other members of the hive mind. However, sometimes Drake may even assimilate others into the hive consciousness.

History:
Drake Carter was born in a home with two brothers, and two sisters raised by his parents, raised in the Projects of Brooklyn New York. His father was often working, and his mother worked hard. Born into his family he was raised a hard worker, unlike his brothers who were into sports, he developed an interest in writing, and helping others. While his family was more interested in sports, he became active in his community despite his poor financial status he would share with the less fortunate in the neighborhood, and worked in community service, and made straight A's. He was overlooked by his family, and got a scholarship to NYU, for education ,and for music, as he'd been taking piano lessons back at home, he studied wanting to become a Public Relations Officer. He took courses in Physiology, and such, after garduating frmo High school, two of his bothers lives changed one died, and the other Chris went on to join the NFL.

He became a Public Relationship Officer, managing to start his own company after stopping a rich man from committing suicide. The man helped him get his company together, and he began helping many people ranging from suicidal men to celebrities dealing with harmful rumors, helping them getting there lives together, and getting there lives together, he eventually married a woman he met in college named Whitney a Criminal Defense Attourney, and they started a nice and successful life getting married int here younger twenties, and this was when Drake's business began to suffer, and his abilities of Hive Manipulation began to manifest, allowing him to retain business, his situation changed as the SXM came into play, practically replacing him, and during the Symbiote invasion he's home was destroyed, and his family became homeless, due to a technopathic mutant named Dimitri.

Drake's family moved in with Chris, and Drake got a low paying job as a Construction worker, and called in a favor from the first person he saved, as he talked to his fellow workers, after the construction company was ended, he started Damage Control using his speaking skills, and the group began to clean up after massive fights, and over a few months they became an ally to SHIELD, and alter the World Government, as Drake grew in money, recruiting people he helped, and due to the constant conflict he became a powerful fighter, influencing people with his power, he remained off of the Government's radar due to the nature of his powers. After his family was drawn into conflict with MRD agents, he murdered the agents, and made his way into MRD managing o get rid of the files on his family, even causing Sindus to believe a mutant with aura absorption named Ian was his brother, and gave them a fake past, using Ian to manipulate Sindus, and protect his family. When Jogran became President, and put together his group he had Ian join, using him as in Inside Man for information.

Drake became a millionaire by this time, moving to DC a hot spot for conflict, with his family, often using Ian to protect his family, and he began helping several mutants, now working as a part time Public Relationship officer. He grew tired of mutants horrible fate, and wanted to make a stand still running Damage Control, going to his family to tell them about his internal struggle. After the SXM took over Genosha, making a safe haven, he worked with Zane and many former SHIELD Agents,and random Civilians to put together the Assistants, secretly connecting to Ikon with his ability, and began dealing with how the Monitoring Act was effecting people, and decided to work with Zane and the Assistants to alter the way people viewed Heroes. After the restoration of SHIELD, he began murdering people who hated mutants, and called himself Collective.