The alarm goes off — the city is in trouble. What do you do first?

Get between the danger and anyone who can't protect themselves.Pull up a plan before anybody else has even moved.Look for the weakness that nobody else has noticed yet.Head straight in. The direct approach works.

Pick a power you would actually want:

Speed. Everywhere at once, always first, never late again.Whatever keeps a whole people safe, not just one street.The one that makes people tell the truth, yourself included.Any of them, if it came with being able to be held.

What is your fighting style?

Defensive. Protect first, strike second.Unpredictable. Confuse them, then win.Faster than the decision. It is over before it starts.Head on and honest, and you say why you are doing it.

Pick a team role:

The one who calls every move before it happens.The one who ends the fight fastest.The one who has to answer for all of it afterwards.The one who works alone and turns up when it counts.

Pick a signature move:

Shielding somebody at the very last second.One enormous, decisive hit.Being behind them before they have finished turning.Taking their strength and using it on them.

Pick the villain you would want to face:

One with an actual, complicated plan.One who thinks they are cleverer than you.One who wants the thing you were trusted to protect.One who lies extremely well, and gets believed.

What is your weakness?

You take too many hits that were meant for other people.You overthink it instead of simply acting.You cannot be still, and it costs you the quiet things.You carry a duty nobody ever asked whether you wanted.

How do you make the final call in a crisis?

Whatever throws them off balance.Whatever ends it fastest.Whatever you could explain afterwards without flinching.Whatever costs only you.

After the fight is over, what are you doing?

Checking that everybody else got out all right.Resting. That took a lot out of you, and it was worth it.Going home to be answerable to people who knew you before.Sitting with the one who lost, because somebody should.

The mask comes off. Who gets to know?

Nobody. It is safer for every one of them.The people you'd be lost without, and they worry about it.Everyone, eventually. You are bad at secrets and fast at talking.Nobody has ever asked. That is the part that gets you.

What does your origin story sound like?

You couldn't protect someone once, and never wanted that again.You saw the pattern everybody else missed, and it changed you.You got out of a bad spot on your wits, and found you liked it.You found strength nobody, including you, knew you had.

What would actually break you?

Arriving one second late. Once.Failing the people who were counting on your name.Finding out you had been lied to by somebody you believed.Realising that the distance is permanent.