Overdrive

Played by Kevin

Dave Collins’ earliest memories are of being on the move. His mother, Lauryn Collins, was a real-estate agent who frequently relocated along the East Coast – Dave did not realize in childhood there was a darker reason for that. She feared that if Dave should manifest his father’s powers, Death Race may come looking for them.

The Collins family moved to Freedom City when Dave was eight; Lauryn felt as though the best place to conceal a young metahuman would be in a city of heroes. Five years passed before Dave began to manifest his father’s speed powers. After a year of trying to coax Dave to not use his powers, an invitation to meet with the headmaster of the Claremont Academy convinced Ms. Collins that Dave might as well learn to control his powers from an institution geared to guide young metahumans.

Dave’s first day was traumatic; he met the new iteration of the Liberty League just in time for the young heroes to lose Seven to the Underworld. It is during these adventures that Dave created his Overdrive persona; or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that he becomes aware of it (temporal anomalies lead to confusion). The emotional turmoil of this overshadows the League, and the older students quickly depart to their own pursuits. Feeling abandoned, Dave takes his super hero career to the West Coast for four years, staying regular Dave to attend college at Emerald City University.

In college, Dave meets pre-med student Tracy Appleton, and Dave settles into his first long-term relationship. Things were relatively stable through Dave’s college years, but the ghosts of the past are soon to reassert themselves.

A stirring in the Nexus brings the Liberty League members back together, and after an awkward reunion the childhood friends Overdrive, Resonant and Mortis team with an otherworldly version of Centuria and the Bowman of Earth-Prime to form the Freedom League Dark.

Complicating Dave’s personal life, the alternate Centuria had a deep relationship in her reality. Tracy quickly picks up on the emotional bond Overdrive is forming with his teammate and trouble rears its ugly head.

As the saying goes, it never rains but it pours. Dave’s father Death Race is masterminding an attempt to usurp the Wellspring of Velocity in attempt to fight off the cancer that is killing him. One of the unexpected side effects of Death Race’s little game is that only Overdrive can currently access the Wellspring.

With all his relationships crumbling, Dave is struggling to find his way as the last speedster of Earth-Prime and stop Una’s mad plans to conquer the Underworld and all reality.