David Earl McFadden Jr. (Discord's Story)

Origin
David McFadden (also known as DJ) was born on December 5th, 2003, in Newark, New Jersey, despite his parents living in Paterson. Due to his mother's location when she went into labor, she was forced to have her baby in New Jersey's capital, rather than her hometown. DJ's first few years as a toddler were spent in the crime riddled city. Eventually, his family moved to Greenville, North Carolina. There, DJ's early childhood was developed. As his parents got new job opportunities, they eventually opted to move to Los Angeles, California. There, DJ experienced his later childhood and developed close bonds with his future teammates and had his morals molded by the urban environment.

Nobody knows for certain why DJ's powers waited to activate, nor did anyone truly know the source of his latent genes. The world only knows when. In late 2017, during DJ's cruise to Hawaii, the cruise boat was hijacked by a group of pirates. They opened fire on the crowds near the pool, massacring most. DJ's body, however, caused the bullets to flatten upon impact. Shortly after his discovery, he struck at one the helpless pirates, delivering enough force that his hand burst through their skull entirely and turned their brain into unrecognizable mush. Without hesitation, he put down the rest of the pirates and tested out his newfound strength by pushing the cruise ship to Hawaii, moving it for dozens of miles with no difficulty.

DJ was swarmed with press on his arrival to Hawaii, now being thrust into the spotlight. His name and face were plastered all over the media, the world now simultaneously terrified and in awe of its first superhuman. DJ tested out his new abilities, realizing that he had flight, heightened levels of vision, and superhuman speed given enough time to accelerate. He, through experience, quickly found out that he was invulnerably to modern weaponry as he patrolled the streets of Los Angeles on a daily basis. His newfound status as the first superhuman of Earth propelled humanity into a new age of brief peace, followed by a wave of turbulence that would shake the planet to its core.

American Greed
DJ's first interactions with the American government were generally unpleasant; they were cautious to his sudden arrival on the world scene as an international first responder. They invited him to a meeting at the White House eventually, where David was seated with the President for lunch. Due to DJ's status as a minor, he wasn't legally permitted to work for the American military. However, he and the President of the time came to an agreement, forging an uneasy alliance where DJ would coordinate his efforts with NATO as a whole when engaging in peacekeeping missions outside of America.

Tensions between the White House and DJ grew high when DJ refused to advance American interests in the Israeli-Palestine conflict. However, the political situation in the world had shifted tremendously now that Western society had an a nearly all-powerful ally; any hint that the dynamic no longer existed would weaken America's position as the world's hegemon. In interests of saving face and maintaining an alliance, the American government didn't attempt to pressure DJ into any operations that didn't align with his morals, giving him a dangerous amount of leeway. The CIA, however, was tasked with finding a weakness of the young her to exploit. The agency worked hard to try and establish some sort of contingency plan, coming to the inevitable conclusion that DJ's family should be used as hostages in the event that they need to leverage him on anything.

The Academy
By 2019, the world had gotten used to David's presence as a hero. He had stabilized much of America's more chaotic areas, most notably Compton, Paterson, Detroit, Chicago, New York, and other major cities that were rampant with crime. He didn't just stop crime; he actively made efforts to uplift communities by doing public works for free, such as constructing schools and drug rehabilitation centers free of charge in minutes. The communities were able to reinvest their funds into other programs more efficiently, as they didn't have to waste their budgets on the creation process. So, the world had grown quite fond of its resident superhuman.

Then others started gaining powers.

None of the new wave of superhumans had physical abilities on par with DJ, now dubbed 'Captain West' by the media. Instead, they were granted psychic abilities that the entire world was unused to. Several of these new superhumans were childhood friends of DJ; the sudden arrival of their powers scared and confused them, leading very public incidents were civilians were hurt by the superhumans' inability to control their powers. The American government was going to step in and detain them but DJ personally approached the executive branch, demanding they allow him to construct an academy of sorts to train these new individuals. Unwilling to deny their champion, the United States enabled DJ to do as he wished.

DJ, in the span of a single day, built a mansion structured like a massive boarding school. There are forty bedrooms, forty-one bathrooms, ten living rooms, and ten multi-purpose rooms for various training purposes. The hero set out and recruited the public superhumans, quickly coming to the conclusion that their latent genes were just now activating, seeing as they were around the same age he was when his own abilities appeared. He had already used American databases to learn as much information as possible in order to train them effectively. Although, he was already acquainted with several of the candidates; some of them were his childhood friends, the closest of his friends being Bradley Sehm, Madelin Ramirez, Olivia Kenney, David Peterson, Conner O'Dea, Toshiro Koizumi, and Rowan Canning. All of them had possessed super powers, except for Rowan who was simply incredibly intelligent. The group's link to DJ was a mystery for American officials and DJ himself to unravel, given that his friends coincidentally were gifted with powers like him.

DJ's childhood friends were easy enough to incorporate into the first wave of students at the academy. Although they had grown distant ever since DJ took on the mantle of the world's protector, now that he was regularly training them, the bond rekindled, with the dynamic altered slightly. DJ's ego had always been large; he even admitted he could be full of himself sometimes. His powers had only amplified that ego. He trained his students relentlessly, their training efficient but overwhelming at times. Their regular life had been extinguished, replaced with that of a violent one. The bond DJ formed with every team member was different. With Bradley, DJ established a brotherly relationship. With Madelin, DJ formed a brotherly-sisterly dynamic, despite their constant arguments, there was a familial love that permeated any disagreement between the two in the end. Despite DJ's reputation as humanity's savior, his friends got to see him up close, and saw that he wasn't completely infallible, at least mentally. Some of the students resented him for his arrogant demeanor but everyone in the academy ended up becoming friends, a family of sorts.

After six months of both physical and mental training, the students were determined to be skilled enough to handle their own in a fight against high-level combatants and skilled enough with their powers to not only prevent civilians from being hurt, but to also actively eliminate potential threats to civilization. DJ debuted his new superhero team in late 2019, the 25 individuals, including himself, taking on a terrorist group holding government officials hostage with near-perfect coordination. DJ held himself back in the attack to exhibit the handiwork of his tutelage, his friends impressing the world with their wide array of abilities and getting the job done without any casualties.

Galactic Awakening
The world welcomed its new heroes with open arms, referring to them as the Western Brigade. They all became the most famous individuals on Earth, beloved and feared by nearly all. A sense of invulnerability enraptured the group. As a result, they were completely caught off guard by the arrival of Xandians in 2021. The Xandians were a humanoid otherworldly civilization that detected the energy signature of Olivia's blood magic. They found its power irresistible and decided to attempt to harvest it, alongside the world. They launched a ground invasion immediately, Earth having no space navy to protect itself from extraterrestrial invasions.

The Xandians were far superior to the average human in terms of physicality; they were capable of ripping humans in half with their bare hands. Tens of thousands landed in major cities across the world, wreaking havoc. The "Western Brigade" sprung into action immediately, fighting first in California to liberate Los Angeles which had become a battlefield. The Xandians brought their mothership there, using it as a base of operations. DJ led an attack with a special squad from his academy on the Xandian headquarters, the attack long and bloody. Accompanying DJ was Bradley, Olivia, and Toshiro. Eventually, the battle ended with the Xandian high command slaughtered by DJ and his allies, the Xandian queen's head ripped from her body and put on display for all Xandian soldiers in Los Angeles to see.

The Xandians quickly retreated, spreading knowledge of Earth's newfound power to the galactic community. Earth, formerly an undiscovered world, was now a matter of galactic interest. As for the heroes of humanity, they were mostly shocked to encounter beings that could rival their strength. Now, they trained even harder under DJ's watch, their perception of him strained as he became much more egotistical. The Earth began to put their heroes on a pedestal, faith in the government waning as the people realized the Western Brigade was the only thing standing in the way of aliens enslaving humanity, as the US military was only capable of holding back Xandian forces temporarily.

Brief Golden Age
In the aftermath of the brief but violent war between the Xandians, humanity as a whole began to fall into the idea of globalism even more than before, at the cost of becoming slightly xenophobic and isolationist with foreign planets which attempted to broker trade agreements. Alliances between former warring states were established, resources conserved and even shared to develop infrastructure to defend against another alien attack. The world powers used the remains of Xandian technology to accelerate the process. Rowan Canning, a genius whose intellect bordered on the side of supernatural when it came to engineering, reverse-engineered Xandian technology to develop medical applications that could speed up healing processed by tenfold. Soon after his medical gadgets were distributed to public services, he developed spaceships for both military and civilian use, kickstarting the space industry that would lead to Earth harvesting the asteroid belt in its solar system, alongside other celestial resources on Earth. The average life expectancy, with groundbreaking technologies, skyrocketed and living standards were elevated as Earth entered a new economic boom.

During all of this, the "Western Brigade", redubbed as the "Wardens of Earth", strove to provide security and stability across the entire world, not just California. With Rowan's creation of teleporters, the Wardens of Earth were capable of responding to threats across the globe in moments.

Powers and Abilities

 * Godlike Strength: David possesses enough strength to move any manmade structure, deliver strikes equivalent in force to that of a supernova, and lower body strength that allows him to sprint at hundreds of millions of miles per hour. He is considered to be the most powerful mortal in the universe and the most powerful human to ever exist.
 * Godlike Reflexes: David has reflexes that are far superior to that of the finest Olympic athletes. His reflexes are fast for him to be able to react to all Earth-based projectiles with ease.
 * Godlike Speed: David, through both flight and running, can move thousands of times faster than speed of sound. His upper limit is currently unknown, but he has flown faster than lightning while in orbit of Earth.
 * Godlike Durability: David is capable of brushing off the entire arsenal of the American military, his durability matching his physical strength. He's only been harmed by a supernova's explosion whilst out in space, and even then, it only momentarily dazed him. The upper limits of his durability are unknown.
 * Altered Physiology: David is immune to the effects of harmful radiation, seemingly. He's capable of traveling through space with no harm done to his body. David's body is also denser than the average human, giving him a slim appearance but a very heavy skeletal and muscular system that's ultra compact. He weighs seven hundred pounds despite having a lean build.
 * Heightened Perception: David's senses are heightened to peak capacity for a human, enabling him to pick up on subtle things that most people wouldn't notice.
 * Hand-to-Hand Combat Training (Advanced): David has trained with the Navy Seals, becoming proficient in several martial arts. David has been trained by the most prominent warriors in the galaxy, the members of the Divine Council. They taught several fighting forms that mankind hadn't been introduced to yet, putting David through a rigorous training regimen that honed his body and mind. Even without his powers, David is one of the best fighters on planet Earth.
 * Military Knowledge: David has gone through extensive training with the Navy Seals, gaining enough skill that even powerless he's a formidable operative. David has been trained in the art of warfare by the Divine Council and because of that, he's capable of establishing strategies that are well-regarded enough to put him in the ranks of the world's finest generals.
 * Enhanced Intellect: David's brain's composition has been altered by his genetic mutations. He thinks far faster than any human can and possesses a higher level of intellect for an Earthly individual.
 * Physics Negation: David can, when he concentrates, bypasses the the light barrier while in space. In order to do so, he negates the laws of physics in his vicinity. While he does this, he cannot interact with the universe, he can only travel through it. Such an action is exhausting and drains him of enough energy to keep him at suboptimal capacity for the next 24 hours.
 * Charisma: David is a skilled orator, capable of convincing people to believe even the most nonsensical things when necessary. He's endeared himself to the world through both his actions and words.