NuPerspective Black History Month: Day 17- AEGIS!

What's up peeps. In celebration of Black History Month we're re-releasing all of last year's Nu-Perspective revamped characters each day.

With these reposts you get the same full bio, art and our storyline concept, but also some behind the scenes thoughts on how and why Fabian (co-writer) and I went about doing what we did(go to the bottom).

Today's character cotinues the revamp of my all time favorite team The New Warriors. All from last year September. We previously revamped Night Thrasher and Debrii, and next up is AEGIS!

Seriously underutilized character. Check our update below

Real Name: Trey Jason Rollins

Current Alias: Aegis

Identity: Secret

Occupation: Superhero

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, NYC

Base of Operations: New Warriors headquarters

Affiliations: New Warriors

First Appearance: New Warriors Vol 2 #0 1999

Original Creators: Jay Faerber & Steve Scott

Story: Fascinated by Greek and Roman mythology since his youth, Trey was serendipitously gifted a mystical breastplate of Aegis by the goddess Athena herself, which rendered him virtually impervious. He kept the object and designed a costume to become the superhero Aegis. He began fighting small crimes, but soon found himself alongside the New Warriors against The Negative Zone's inhabitant Blastaar. After the heroes' victory, Aegis was rewarded with membership in the New Warriors. But tragedy would strike soon after the infamous Stamford incident which saw Aegis marked by the government. Later, tricked into leaping out a window by the Huntsman, and falling to his death, Trey was seemingly abandoned by his patron goddess Athena. Trey’s good deeds and connection to the Olympic pantheon would however eventually gain him favor to be allowed back to the mortal plane without his post-death memories. Now confronted by a world years after his death, Trey finds the Aegis breastplate fused to his body permanently, and again, by serendipity he is found by his old leader Nigh Thrasher, on a crusade to bring back the New Warriors to their former glory and purpose. With this new lease on life, Trey hopes to bring honor to his patron gods, unbeknownst he may in fact be their pawn.

Powers/Abilities: In his previous life Trey has no innate powers, in his resurrected form Trey’s new body is enhanced and is stronger, faster and more durable than the average human. All of his abilities come from the Aegis Breastplate, an enchanted armour piece that generates a virtually impregnable force field around its wearer, which can be enhanced by the wearer’s bravery, theoretically allowing it to take blows from the likes of the Hulk, Juggernaut and even Galactus. Using the Aegis breastplate his strength is increased to unknown levels. The armor can also absorb, redirect or reflect energy blasts as well. The force field can be consciously extended to encapsulate other objects/persons, the limits of which are still unknown. The Aegis also has an auxiliary ability to allow the wearer to instantly transport from the mortal plane to anywhere on Earth or within the extradimensional realm of Olympus, such as Mount Olympus itself or Hades.

Paraphernalia: The Aegis Breastplate, enchanted armour.