Epic Name: Aganju
Old Name: Jaden Porrador
Primary Ability: Sand Manipulation
Secondary Ability: Shrinking
Weakness: U.S Soldier Dogtags (PTSD)
Personality: Ruthless
Gender: Male
Weaponry: Gravitron Sledgehammer, Uzi, Laptop Bag of Sand
Appearance: Severe burn across the side of his face,
Age: 34
Height: 5'9
Weight: 179
Ethnicity: Persian, Polish, American
Hair: Black and Gray
Eyes: Brown
Jaden fought in the Iraq War as a U.S soldier and a Captain. He reached fifty-six confirmed kills before being sent back with heavy PTSD. He suffered in a VA bed with constant therapy sessions as he attempted to get used to having half of his face burned with the blast of a grenade. It was only months before Calamity when people stopped visiting due to his whimpering and sadness at every moment, generally just hell to be around. When the Red Star rose the pain stopped and his PTSD was pushed to the back of his skull. As most epics did when Calamity hit, they killed those that knew them. Jaden was gifted the ability to fully manipulate the sand around him and multiply it with time, along with the ability to shrink to the size of a grain of sand. He left New Orleans for two days and came back in a Sandstorm, his family and the hospital he was admitted to were destroyed.
Jaden took the name of Aganju, the God of Volcanoes and Deserts in African Mythos. Once abandoning New Orleans in a thin layer of sand for a temporary legacy he headed to Pittsburgh during a high rise of Epics attempting to train their new found powers on each other, to the death. Aganju grinded from epics with the source ability of being able to not blink to epics with the power to blow a man's head to smithereens with a punch. During this set of training Aganju had combined his shrinking with a sandstorm to generally ride on a grain of sand to finally enlarge with a strike to the head, generally using this to play an extreme knockout game with citizens on the training streets of Pittsburgh.
It was only recently after years in Pittsburgh did Aganju do so in a particular order. Steal a scooter and drive until it broke outside Columbus, walk the railway tracks to Cincinatti. Buy a ticket for a bus to Newcago, attempt to work as one of Steelheart's lackeys but hightail it to St. Louis. Caravan to Kansas city and bee line to the wreckage of Dallas. Board a train to San Diego and stay far the hell away from LA. Once Aganju reached the Mojave he simply sprinted across miles of sand from Nevada to Oregon and eventually slamming into Astoria. Aganju settled himself in Astoria soon after running out of sand.