Colin Jovanka-Ward

Colin Jovanka-Ward (born 01/13/99) is a high school senior at the Arcadia Heights High School in Jericho Oregon, he is the son of retired EAGLE operative Greg Ward and Science Fiction/Travel author Tegan Jovanka. He is otherwise known, in secret, as the metahuman adventurer known as The Manticore who often operates in the city of Jericho.

Early Life:
Colin was born Colin Adric Jovanka-Ward, the second child of four to Greg and Tegan Jovanka-Ward and was born two years after his older sister Caitlin in Monument City Hawaii. Greg's father was often on assignment for the Earth Guardian League or "EAGLE" organization, but his mother would often tell him and his siblings fantastic stories that would eventually wind up in some of her books over the years. The family was joined by his younger sisters Nyssa and Vanessa in the years following his father's semi-retirement from full field work.

Colin's childhood was fairly normal for someone living in a city nicknamed the "City of Titans" due to its long standing history with metahumans, namely the internationally renown Shadow Rangers team of super heroes that had retired in the decade prior to his birth. He played soccer and surfed in his free time while also being a top student in school, Colin was also close to the children of the friends of his parents such as Jacob Striker, Jessica Marie Slayton, Cerise Hall, Marcus J. Owens, and several others. He also briefly dated his childhood friend Amanda Becker shortly before his family moved from Monument City to Jericho Oregon.

When he was 13, Colin's family moved due to how dangerous Monument City was slowly becoming in the years since the Shadow Rangers had retired and how much the city had grown with his family picking Jericho Oregon for various reasons that his parents really didn't go into.

Awakenings & First Times:
When he was fifteen years old, Colin started having issues with mood swings that would hit him suddenly at the oddest times and it was during one of these times that he was hiking in the woods near his home that one of these "mood swings" hit him and he started to attack a tree that was near-by as he felt enraged at something, it turned out that the "emotions" that he was feeling was in fact something much more as two sets of metal claws extended from his left and right hands at which point Colin understood even less than he did before.

Deciding to try and discover why he was a metahuman or something, he went digging through some of the old materials in his family's attic which is when he came across several sealed containers inside of one was a costume and set of gear that was somewhat familiar to Colin as the costume of a member of the Shadow Rangers, Arsenal.