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Background: Born in the early 1950's, Jonathan Wilde was always fascinated with reading and telling stories. When he went to college, he majored in English and Literature with a goal of being a writer. It took him a few years to get his first novel published but, by his late twenties, he had racked up a few best selling espionage novels under his belt. While travelling some of the literary circuits, he met a young woman named Victoria Farnham and the two were married within a year. Life was good.
It was in 1980, while driving cross-country in the midwest late one evening, that his life took a different turn. He saw some lights in the sky, thought it was a plane making an emergency landing on the stretch of highway, and swerved his car. The car ran off the road, turning over a number of times. Wilde blacked out. When he came to, he was somewhere unexplainable. He was strapped to a surgical bed and bathed in bright lights. He could barely make out the outlines of those around him, but they were clearly not of Earth. When Wilde next awoke, he was recovering from some surgical procedures. The aliens who identified themselves as the Kara-To had replaced much of his bone structure with light-weight metal. Further, they informed him that he was now their servant, to act as a collector of sorts for intergalactic studies. They would have him retrieve specimens from alien worlds for study and gladiatorial competitions. A collar forced Wilde to do their wicked bidding. It took him nearly a decade to find a way to escape and to return to his homeworld. Once home, Jonathan Wilde found that his wife had assumed he was either dead or he had left her. When he tried to explain himself, she took his tale for some out of this world fabrication. She sent him packing and told him that she wasn't going to let him hurt her again like he had when he "vanished" ten years prior. Jonathan honored her wishes, moved East and tried to restart his professional career after cashing in some bonds and securities that his wife knew nothing about. At the same time, he felt a need to use the abilities the Kara-To had given him to correct the wrongs he had done in the previous decade. He took up a second identity as the costumed hero Phaedrus the Wolf. After moving to Baltimore and encountering the Sinster Spectrum, Phaedrus joined other heroes as a member of the team known as Rough Justice. Motivation: Phaedrus is the type of person who wants to learn all he can before jumping into a situation. He would rather try to solve situations peacefully using reasoning, but he will turn to his powers when others are threatened or if there is little other recourse. Having spent so many years with no one to turn to, he tends to do things on his own when possible. Still, he appreciates his friends and will stand by them no matter what the threat they face. |
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