Original-Flavour Steve (eureka_bell)

Steve Bell is a twenty-ish, intellectually brilliant, emotionally immature guy from a world of superheroes. When we say he's a genius, what we mean is: see that jet? See that personal antigravity device? He didn't exactly pick them up at a thrift store, and for the former he only had scrap metal in a post-apocalyptic world to work from. He has a tendency to latch onto interesting new ideas and, occasionally, people like a hungry lamprey, regardless of whether or not they are strictly advisable company, and he just has this thing against being referred to as a "mad scientist". Naturally, his sister teases him about this without mercy.

Give him the slightest chance and he will technobabble at you until your ears fall off -- just don't tell him that most of it is brightly-coloured phlebotinic comic-book science. Hey, it's always worked for him.

Steve, his twin sister Val and their friend Marley were amongst those catapulted into the Shatterverse.

Emphatically not to be confused with Steven Juster.

Future Steve (wrecking_bell)

This Steve Bell is just as smart, just as short and just as ginger as his past self, though what we have here is an AU version who was never Shattered. About nine or ten years ago, his world began to suffer horrible floods, along with all the unpleasantness that this implies; five years ago, when things had gotten really bad, he struck out from his native Toronto in the hope of finding fellow posthumans willing to form some kind of concerted group to help out. That's how he ended up stuck in Johnstown with Chips and Lu, fighting the rule of mind-controlling big bad Insinuous.

Going with the theme of codenames, his superhero title is (to his mild embarrassment) Doctor Velocity, an exercise in why your alter-ego should never start off as a joke. It's okay, though: his friends are especially cruel and choose to call him Floss instead.

When a hovercraft he was dicking about with decided to explode, he gained a lot of lovely burn scars and lost his right arm. The answer: one of Lu's spares, with Chips growing the muscle through the metal so that Steve could actually use it, and a whole lot of internal rearrangement to allow him to do all those fun things like actually carry its weight without his shoulder coming away. It's left him with a tiny stomach and slightly squashed-up lungs to make way for all the odd-shaped metal bits bracing his torso -- but hey, at least he still has all four limbs (kinda).