Strawman

Strawman (real name Billy Hillton) is a retired hero active in Handhi since 1991 until 2010.

Appearance
Billy Hilton is an old crippled man in his mid fifties.

Strawman used to wear a potato sack mask, a yellow straw hat and had straw sticking out of the neck hole of his loose denim costume, forming a large fur collar resembling structure. He wielded a large wooden stick.

Personality
His speech is very indirect and he seems to overthink things, coming to conclusions that are more speculation than truth.

Career
Strawman started his career when he was in his early thirties. Now it's known that he had manifested the ability in his teen years but didn't understand it well enough until much later in life.

He voluntarily approached the hero association and began his crime fighting career, specializing in combat.

In 2002 he fought and killed Dead of Night, ending his relentless rampage in the city's streets. The villain would later return as if nothing had happened.

Strawman kept fighting crime until he was 50, staying in a really good physical condition. Everything changed in 2010 when he fought Dead of Night again, this time being weaker (and the villain had grown significantly stronger than in their first fight). He was rescued by Scabbard who fended the villain off until reinforcements arrived to the scene and Dead of Night fled. Due to severe injuries Strawman had to retire.

After retirement he revealed his identity to the public and wrote a successful autobiography book, documenting his career as a hero and shedding light on some less prevalent aspects of Handhi's crime world (such as how extremely organized crime in Handhi is).

Powers
Strawman had the ability to redirect the effects of his actions elsewhere. It seemed as his power had no limits for range but its strength got reduced greatly if the distance of transmission increased. The effects of his actions had the same timing regardless of distance.

He'd often use this power in combat by attacking the surrounding objects and redirecting the impacts themselves to his opponents. However such attacks are much weaker and less precise. Another fighting technique utilized by him was his special move Counter. He'd wait for his opponent to attack and then strike their limb/weapon. This way he could transfer the impact from somewhere very close to the opponent's body, transferring blows with almost no loss in power. The impacts could be redirected to his opponents' outer body or vital organs.

Other uses for the power include remote communication, operation of gadgets over a distance.

He has to know the location really well in order to redirect the effects to it. He can't redirect effects to living things he can't see. To have enough strength carry over to press a keyboard key a few kilometers away he'd have to strike something with a lot of power.