Flint

Flint (full name: Flint Gladwell, a.k.a. Jet Saber and Paragon) is a male superhuman in the superverse. He is 62 years old at the start of the story, but appears to be in his mid-forties due to Evil Majjykks.

Appearance
Flint has tanned white skin and black hair, which he usually wears slicked back. He has calculating dark eyes. He looks very good for his age.

Behavior
Flint is basically a massive jerk to literally everyone and he has the biggest persecution complex in the entire world, forever.

History
Flint Gladwell is Jet Sabre: the tragic, dreamy Australian antihero that every teenage girl in the 60s and 70s had posters of. Or at least he usde to be Jet Sabre.

His popularity began to wane as he entered his 40s in the 1990s. The demographic was shifting, and "older" supers were no longer as popular as their young, sexy counterparts. Flint tried to regain popularity by doing anti-smoking PSAs in the 90s, but some argue that this was the extremely "uncool" final nail in his super career's coffin.

Flint had always been fascinated with the idea of slowing or even stopping aging-- ever since he discovered a baby in the Atlantean ruins on a 1973 research trip intended to gain insight into the origins of superpowers. He named the baby Titania after Shakespeare's fairy queen and raised her, which may also have led to the decline of his popularity in the 1990s.

When the baby he rescued from the ruins became an incredible intelligent young woman, Flint asked her to join his research. He started to experiment with Atlantean youth magic. Titania hadn't been able to tell him much about Atlantean magic-- she had been a baby when he'd rescued her, after all-- but her racial memory gave her mastery over magic (especially sea magic) regardless of how much she actually consciously knew about it. But Titania was also different from most Atlanteans: when she turned 19, she stopped physically aging.

Flint performed experiments to determine the source of her power, and, as expected, it was her connection to Atlantis. If he wanted the same power, he must harness the magic of Atlantis. But first, Titania could act as a go-between. He had her channel her powers into him so that his aging would be slowed. Their life forces became linked, and Flint did indeed begin to age more slowly.

The final step in his plan was, of course, to raise Atlantis and reap the full benefits of its magical power. But he would need two very important things: two supers who were not yet aware of their powers, which must be related to time and energy. With their help, willing or not, he would raise Atlantis. He would become its new king, forever youthful.

Flint Gladwell may have a bit of an ego.

Trivia

 * Flint and jet are both types of stone.