Super Hero Name:  Sandboy. 

 

I'm totally not happy with it.  I wanted to do Sandman, but there have been like five of them already.  I thought of Sandblaster, but he was that villain who killed all those people in Chicago back in like the seventies or whatever.  Sandstorm is that Egyptian terrorist dude.  Sandbag just sucks.  So I picked Sandboy, but I'm totally open to changing it if you have any better ideas.

(Optional)Secret Identity/Alternate Name:  Tyler James Chang

Ethnic Group/Species: Um...human?  I guess?  My mom is black and my dad is from Taiwan if that helps.

Place of Birth:  Sacramento, California
Date of Birth:  October 30, 1987


Question 1. How did you hear about Capes! Project? 

 

Funny thing, my doctor told me about it.  Not the like family doctor guy, but the guy I'm going to at UCLA to make sure my powers aren't going to kill me.  My last checkup, I was in there and he was like doing all the physical exam stuff and he was asking me what I'm doing with my powers, and I'm like, "I dunno, man" so he just like starts going through all the things I could be doing and one of them was this show.  I guess he heard about it from his brother's next door neighbor, who's like the producer or something.  It sounded pretty hot.


Question 2. What do you feel you can offer (Both in Super heroic powers/gifts and your knowledges) to the your team? 

 

I've got some cool powers.  I can turn myself into sand and like...get into places, like under doors and stuff.  I can fly and like make it so people can't see, and I can sting them up pretty bad.  And I'm totally hot so I can bring in the teenaged girls.

Question 3.

 

Why do you wish to participate in our show?  It sounds like fun, ya know, be on TV and stuff, and do all kinds of cool stuff.  I mean I can't go out and fight bad guys on my own, but with a group maybe I could do some good.  And there's like money and chicks and fame and stuff, and that rocks pretty good. 


Question 4.

 

Have you ever been on a super hero team before? If so, which one(s) and why are you no longer a member?  No, I haven't even had these powers that long.


Question 5. Are you a supervillain, govt agent, law enforcement official, media person, or anyone else who is attempting to infiltrate Capes? 

 

No.  I mean, I could pretend to be if that would help. 

Question 6: Do you have some disability, ailment, or other situation (Occasional Demonic possession, intense allergy to space rocks, etc) that our scientists, doctors, and mystics should take into account? 

 

 OK, this is gonna sound weird, and you're gonna totally think I'm blowing smoke up your...whatever, you know, but Vin Diesel is totally on my case.  Yeah, I'm serious.  It started like six months ago, right after I got my powers.  I was down in Tijuana with some of my buddies and I was walking down this street and I just BAM walked right into a guy and knocked him down, I didn't even see him.  But I look and like, damn, it's Vin Diesel!  So I try to help him up and he gets all pissed at me, and then he says I'm gonna try to blackmail him or something and I like have NO idea, you know?  But then I realized he'd just come out of one of those shows where chicks get nailed by donkeys.  And like, dude.  So anyway before I even know it he's yelling at me, and then he throws like five hundred dollars at me and has one of his goons push me down in the mud.  Fucked up.  So like, whatever.  Then the next month I was home, and this was when I was still working at Dominic's Pizza, it was dinner time and I'm taking orders and all of a sudden I hear some guy say, "Oh it's you, asshole."  And I look up and it's Vin Diesel, and he's like still pissed.  Now I don't like being called an asshole so I started arguing with him, and before I even know it we're yelling at each other and then I just like mentioned in passing about his liking to watch donkeys nail chicks, and all of a sudden he calls the manager and has be fired.  You believe that?  And then when I'm leaving, he has one of his goons push me down!  Now, whatever, right, but then a couple months later I'm sitting at a red light and this car rearends me, like KABAMM, right, KABAMM!  And it cranks my neck and totally totals my car, and I get out and look back and, yeah, Vin Diesel is driving, a whole car of his goons.  So, you know, shouting and whatever and then he has his goons start roughing me up, pushing me around and trying to hit me.  I only got away by turning to sand and flying away!  And then just like two weeks ago I'm playing frisbee in the park with my buddy and we see this big dog, like a...like a...what are they called, a ridgeback, a Rhodesian ridgeback.  And it's running around with this leash attached to its collar but there's nobody on the other end.  And me and my buddy figure it's like somebody's pet and it ran away and we're gonna be good guys and get it and see if it had a tag on the collar, call the owner and shit, you know?  So we tempt it over with a Three Musketeers bar and we're looking at the tag to see if there's a number and I hear shouting -- Vin Diesel!  And he comes running across the grass with his goons, telling me I'm trying to steal his dog.  Like what the fuck?  Like I'm gonna steal Vin Diesel's dog?  So we start shouting and then my buddy -- I mean I told my buddy all about Vin Diesel being an asshole -- my buddy kicks one of the goons in the balls and then there's this fight, a big fight, and I end up getting punched by Vin Diesel in the stomach.  You believe that?  Anyway.  So, yeah, Vin Diesel.

Question 7. What are your feelings on death and property damage?  

 

I am totally against that, dude.  I mean, I don't want to kill anybody and I totally don't want to die.  I see these super-fights on TV, and I guess some stuff always gets trashed when that goes down, but I think people should try to do as little trashing as possible.  Like, whenever there's a fight with a strong guy, he always throws a car.  And I'm always, like, dude, that is someone's CAR.  How are they gonna get to, like, the store now and stuff?  I think about that. 

Question 8. How may we contact you should we be interested in having you join? (Phone, mystic mirror, large signal, etc)  ...mystic mirror? 

 

SWEEEEEET!  If we join up do we get one of those?  Because that would...oh.  Well just call my 'rents' house.  I'm down in the basement for now.


Question 9. What are you superhuman abilities? 

 

 Like I mentioned before, I can totally turn myself into sand.  Fly, sting people, make it so they can't see, get into all kinds of places.  It's fun!

 Question 10 How did you acquire them? Are you a natural mutant or gifted in some other fashion? 

 

 It's weird, six months ago I was needing some money and I didn't have a job so I volunteered for one of those experiments at UCLA, like one of those medical deals?  It was weird, kind of a pain in the ass.  They shot me full of this experimental vaccine thing and then they kept shocking me with electricity!  I know, messed up, right?  They were like trying to find a way to immunize people against electrical shock, like whatever, I mean they paid me so it's totally whatever.  It didn't work.  But then on the way home I was walking to Burrito King, feeling all tingly, and there was this dumptruck collides with a city bus and it sprays this sand all over me.  Like, whatever, it's just sand, I mean I'm fine and everything but then it turns out that the sand was all full of toxic waste.  Something between that and the vaccine and the electricity...well, I dunno, either that or it was like a coincidence.  I don't know.  All of a sudden I can turn into sand.  So, cool.

Question 11 What are you interests outside of crime fighting? 

 

Um...I like to party.  Girls, you know.  Um...video games.  Ahhh...I'll think of more later.  Oh, I like to sleep.  Sleep is cool.

 

Question 12 Tell us about yourself: your likes, dislikes general personality and style. 

 

I'm pretty laid back.  I don't get too upset at nothing.  My mom calls me a slacker, but like that's totally unfair.  I'm not a slacker.  I just haven't figured out what I want to do yet.  And some things confuse me, like complicated stuff, so...well, you know, whatever.  But I'm not a slacker.  I do get along with almost everybody.  I don't like pushy people, but like I just try to avoid them or do what they say instead of fighting them.  I figure most pushy people, you do what they want and they just shut up and give you time to be by yourself.  Either that or I ignore them.  I don't really like a lot of conflict.  But like everybody likes me except Vin Diesel.

 Question 13  Do you have something you consider unique about yourself and your superhuman persona: a signature maneuver, catch phrase or battle cry?  

 

Oh yeah, I'm working on a battle cry.  I've come up with a few so far: "Sand away!" was the first one, but that was totally lame.  So then I thought of "Here's sand in your eye!" but...no, that blew.  So then I was watching "The Mummy" with some friends and we were totally ba...um...we were watching it and we started tossing around some stuff like "Behold the power of the desert!" and "Sands of time arise!" but those sound kind of gay.  They're the best I've come up with so far, but I'm working on it.

 Question 14: What is your normal life like? What is your occupation, relationship status and day to day lifestyle? 

 

I'm kinda between jobs right now.  I've been looking for something in like a restaurant or something, maybe thinking of going to vo tech for cooking.  That would be cool.  I don't have a lot of money so I kinda just hang out mostly, play video games and party when I can.  I've been seeing this girl, Tracy, she's going to school to be a nurse.  She's cool.  We ain't, like, serious or anything but we've been going out for a few months.  She's really fun, she likes to dance and stuff.

 Question 15 Do you have any significant religious views? 

 

 My 'rents are serious Catholics.  I was raised that way, I was in the youth group at church when I was in school and everything.  I still go to mass once or twice a month.  I'm not super-religious, but church is cool.  I like the music, the hymns and everything. 

 Question 16 What is your political stance?  I...don't know, I'm not really up on that stuff.  Do I need to be?  Because I can be if I need to.  

 

Question 17 What do you think is your best quality: physically, emotionally or spiritually? 

 

 Um...I...I...physical, I guess.  I'm pretty good looking.  A couple of people have said I ought to be a model, but, like, that just seems pointless.  If I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do something that matters, not just be like a walking clothes hanger.  So maybe you guys can give me something worth doing, you know?

 Question 18 What is your worst quality in those areas?  Well...I guess I gotta say something here, right?  I guess it would be that some people think I'm a slacker, which I totally don't get, but whatever, right? 

Question 19 What makes you a hero? What drives you? 

 

You know, I...to tell the truth, I'm totally not sure I even AM a hero.  But I've got these powers and I figure I need to use them for something.  Or else, like, why have them or whatever.  And I don't want to hurt people or steal money.  I'm not cut out to be some kind of a guy running around by himself fighting all these totally psycho guys or whatever.  But with a team, I can help people, and I can have help when I need it, and I can actually do something that's worth doing.  And shut my mom up about that slacker thing.  And piss off Vin Diesel.

 Question 20 What do you think you can bring to our production?  

 

Dude, a total sense of California style!

 

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