Wilbur "Willie" Simons

Wilbur "Willie" Simons is a character from the XP4 Heroes Coalition series of fics.

Willie is a member of the Heroes Coalitions as a trainee.

Background
Willie was the son of William and Hannah Simons, brilliant scientists who both died in an accident concerning an experiment, leaving him in the care of his grandma Carol Simons who's a retired scientist. Carol taught Willie everything he currently knows about science and Willie dreamed of becoming a brilliant scientist like his parents before. When he discovered his mind reading powers, his grandmother told him that it's a power inherited from her, his father didn't inherit that power but it was inherited to him instead, skipping 1 generation. His grandmother told him that his power must not be used lightly, for it might lead to great consequences and so Willie's grandma helped him focus his powers and in time Willie managed to take control of his powers and during his high school days, he became top of his class and thanks to his mind reading powers, he's able to avoid getting bullied but he did remember his word to his grandma never to use his powers to cheat his way to graduate. During his college days, when he 1st attended, he befriended Scottish transferee Flannery Faulkner and Chester Blakely, young CEO of Blakely Enterprises who were also his college dorm roommates. They bonded well together while in college and they became more than just friends, they became brothers and they made that official commitment one night. After college, they went their separate ways but they vowed that they'll meet again someday. Willie then returned to Canada, where he worked at a science lab in one of Canada's cities and he made a lot of wacky inventions for himself but he also made necessary inventions that will help a lot with the community. One day, the place where he worked got shutdown, thus losing his job and it was hard for him and he had a hard time looking for a new job and worse, his grandma passed away after turning 20. One day, he got a surprise visit from Flannery and he explained that he's been recruited to join an organization called the Heroes Coalition and he wants him and Chester to join and Willie accepted his brother's proposal without a single beat. After getting Chester to join, they arrived at the Heroes Coalition, where they started their lives together as brothers as well as heroes.

Currently in the Coalition, Willie spends his spare time in the tech garage making wacky inventions or testing them and sometimes taking peaceful walks around the camp.

Appearance
A young adult an inch shorter than Flannery with short dirty blonde hair, lean build, pale skin and black eyes. He wears a white long sleeve shirt under a gray pull over sweater, black trousers, a dark blue fanny pack around his waist, white socks, gray snow boots, a white lab coat and a pair of square framed glasses that he wears on top of his head and he'd sometimes put them over his eyes when working or on missions. On missions, his glasses are replaced with a pair of sports goggles for when in combat.

Personality
Willie is extremely giddy, funny and enthusiastic. He's also optimistic, very intelligent and he's easily entertained by the smallest of events such as demonstrations of equipment, simple sparring fights, etc. Although he sometimes tends to be a bit dumb whenever he gets disoriented and it usually happens when he gets knocked over, thus hitting his head a bit. He also tends to ask the silliest of questions such as why some people look so different or why it's spelled like this or not spelled like that or others. He's a scientist and he loves doing experiments, commonly on chemicals but he is cautious. He also likes inventing, commonly weapons and gadgets in disguise and he's also cautious with those as well, even when testing them. He tends to say "Woo hoo!" whenever he's successful in creating something new after a few errors or when he gets exited. Whenever he runs away from something scary or dangerous or when he and his friends retreat, whether if it's ordered by him or someone else, he'd always say "Splee!" and everyone will know that something bad is gonna happen. He gets startled sometimes whenever he's focused on something, whether if it's a simple sudden "Hello" or someone touching his shoulder in greeting, he'd scream in surprise and it would lead to some small trouble. He also knows how to cook because to him, cooking is like inventing and he's mostly good at making sandwiches. He'd often end up in unfortunate situations, mostly becoming a victum of either pranks or accidentally getting hit by someone. Willie also tends to get all jumpy whenever someone jolts him awake from his little naps and the first thing he'd do is either backhand slap them or punch them and he'd apologize after composing himself.

Abilities
Willie has the ability to read people's minds, he's able to hear what they're thinking and he can also hear other peoples fears and deepest darkest secrets.

Other Abilities: Willie is an expert in martial arts such as Karate, Aikido, Kyusho Jutsu, Hapkido and a Taekwondo. He's also good at using wacky gadgets that he created and he's also a very fast Runner, even faster than Flannery.

Equipment
Elemental Blaster - Willie's main gadget. It looks like Megamind's De-Gun, only its color scheme is gray and dark blue and the "DE" is replaced with a "More than" symbol and on the revolver like chamber sides are "Less than" symbols with words on them depicting modes of what element and what type it shoots out and it comes in 6 settings. Willie made it primarily to be a freeze ray. He keeps it within the left side front of his lab coat's inside pocket.

Settings

 * Freeze Ray - Willie's main setting. When in this setting, the glass becomes icy blue and it will release icy blue beams that'll encase anything in ice and if it freezes someone, they're still alive even when encased in ice.
 * Mud Spray - When in this setting, the glass becomes color tan and it'll spray out mud and it can be used for long distance or close ranged to distract the enemy.
 * Water Jet - When in this setting, the glass becomes aqua blue and it sprays out a torrent of water either as strong as a waterfall or as a fauset. Willie can use this setting to put out fires or send people back with a strong torrent.
 * Wind Spinner - When in this setting, the glass becomes green and it sends out a pillar of air or a cyclone pillar. Willie can use this setting to fly or send people flying.
 * Flamethrower - When in this setting, the glass becomes orange and it releases torrents of fire or fireballs. Willie can use this setting to... well... burn stuff, either at close range or from afar. It can also emit a concentrated blue flame, making it like a blow torch.
 * Shock Blaster - When in this setting, the glass becomes yellow and it shoots out lightning orbs or beams of lightning. Willie often uses this for combating enemies.
 * Super Bat - Willie's main melee gadget. It takes the form of a metal baseball bat that's painted to look like a wooden baseball bat. It has 4 separate modes with the 1st default mode being the baseball bat. Willie keeps it within his lab coat.

Other Modes of Super Bat:
Signature Stance - Axe Stance
 * Axe Mode - In this mode, it takes the form of a double headed battle axe with the axe heads coming out of the top sides of the bat.
 * Super Detector Mode - In this mode, it can turn into a special detector (similar appearance to a Statesman Mine Sweeper) that comes in 4 different detector modes, which are metal detector, mine detector, radiation detector and hostile and friendly radar.
 * Chopper Mode - In this mode, a helicopter propeller comes out of the top, and it allows Willie to fly in the air, although hilariously he'll look like Mary Poppins while flying.
 * Balloon Gum - Strips of gum that can make very big balloons that can cushon some people's landing or block out enemies paths. It can also put the one who blew the gum inside the balloon, making it a bouncing vehicle and the only way to get out is to pop it with a pointy object such as a needle. It can also trap enemies as well by getting them trapped in popped gum. Willie keeps it in a pack inside his fanny pack.
 * Laser Pen - A pen that can shoot a laser beam and it can also act as a hacking device. Willie keeps it in his lab coat pocket.
 * Mega Ball - Willie's secret weapon. It looks like a baseball sized pinball and it's capable of knocking out about an army of enemies by hitting and bouncing off of them like a pinball and it's launched by hitting it like a baseball and after hitting all it's targets, it returns to the one who launched it. Willie keeps it in his fanny pack.

Companions
Filbert, Louis and Frankie - Willie's pet Newts. They look like Waffle's newts from Catscratch but they have different eye colors, Filbert's is orange, Louis is green and Frankie is blue and they were given the ability to talk. Filbert is the somewhat smart science guy, making him Willie's lab assistant, Louis is the fearless tough guy, making him the 1st guy to charge in for an attack and Frankie is the cool, easy-going, upbeat and funny kind of guy making him the one who remains calm, cool and collected during tight or under pressure situations.

Powers: Before he joined the Coalition, Willie bought his 3 pet newts and aside from the ability to talk, Willie gave them special powers. Filbert has Super Intelligence and Fire powers, Louis has Super Strength and Air powers and Frankie has Invisibility and Ice powers.

Trivia

 * Willie is an OC of AuraBolter.
 * According to AuraBolter, his ideal voice actor for Willie are Kevin McDonald (Waffle from Catscratch) and Gai Ikari (Gokai Silver from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger).