Thomas Fugit

First off, a disclaimer.  A Google search shows several time-traveling adventurers named “Thomas Fugit”. This Tom is in no way associated or inspired by any of these others, the pun is just too good to pass up.  The combination of electricity-based power (Thomas Edison) and time travel, or fleeing through time, a spin on the phrase Tempus Fugit.  It really works well for this concept.

Thomas Fugit is an electrokinetic.  That is, he controls the eletrical by thought alone.  He doesn’t actually create electricity whole cloth per se, but rather controls the eletricity around him.  This source can be static electricity, 60Hz mains currents, or even the eletrical fields generated by living organisms.

But that’s not even the cool part.

Fugit is also a time traveller.  His ability to skip through time is enabled through a device he recieved from Nikola Tesla– the Temporal Capacitor.  The TC is composed of two pieces– a pocket-watch item of incredible complexity that detects weak points in space/time known as rifts, and an iron-core copper rod nicknamed the Lighting Rod that amplifies Fugit’s power and focuses it into a rift in order to blast it open.  This process is not subtle.  Tesla was unable to make the Capacitor practical, as it requires a ridiculous amount of electrical power to operate.  Being a human dynamo, Thomas Fugit is capable of using the Temporal Capacitor.

Fugit is an adventurer, meaning essentially that he is equal parts thief, crime-fighter, conman, and explorer.  He dresses as one might expect a time traveler to dress– an amalgum of clothes from different eras.  He’s currently quite fond of slim, custom, two-button suits in gray or blue, embroidered waistcoats, Doc Martins, and a snap-brim fedora.