Chase Stein

Chase Stein's home life was not the best he grew up in an abusive household. Chase was an average student who brings home Cs for most of his classes but for his father that was not good enough. His father physically and verbally abuses him for years. This left him bitter to his mother and father and gives him a low point of view of himself.

Background

 * Chase's home life was not the best he grew up in an abusive household. Chase was an average student who brings home Cs for most of his classes but for his father that was not good enough. His father physically and verbally abuses him for years. This left him bitter to his mother and father and gives him a low point of view of himself.
 * Chases parents invented a device to remove stickers from CDs, or that was their cover story. In truth Chase's parents were inventors and members of the villainous Pride. The Pride works for a group of evil gods by the name of Gibborim. The Gibborim require the pride to sacrifice an innocent soul to them yearly to feed them. For these rituals the Pride gather together bringing their kids on a holiday weekend each year. While the kids are together the pride slips away to do the ritual. It was during this time that Chase and the other kids (All but Molly and Karolina) witness the ritual through a hidden passage way they discovered. He fled along with the Prides other children and formed the Runaways.
 * The goals of the Runaways were to stop the Pride and stop the evil they were doing. Chase leads the Runaways to a sunken hotel in a cave. They make this there base for a while. They soon discover that Karolina is an alien called Majesdanian, that Gertrude's family are time travelers who had a genetic engineered dinosaur made for her which she names Old Lace, and that Molly is a mutant. They discover that the pride frame them for the murder of the girl they sacrificed to the Gibborim.
 * After a few months on their own the Runaways face the pride during another ritual. A battle between the two groups happens but in the end it is the Gibborim that kills the pride. In the events Chase ends up drowning and it is Gertrude who saves his life by preforming CPR on him. Chase saves the rest of them by taken the prides amphibious vehicle, the Leapfrog.
 * After the Runaways get to shore they are taken to foster homes by the governor's request. Chase lied about his age convincing the case workers he is 18. Chase takes the months following this to locate the Leapfrog and Old Lace. When Karolina called a meeting at the James Dean statue, Chase shows up surprising everyone. He leads them to rescue Old Lace and the Leapfrog. Chase becomes the pilot of the Leapfrog and becomes the getaway man for the team. Chase drops his codename "Talkback" and goes by Chase. Chase and Gertrude enter a relationship.
 * Later Chase and the rest of the team run into an older Gertrude, who warns them about Victor Mancha. Seems Victor is going to grow up to be the world's most powerful super-villain. They found Victor in modern day but he is just a teen and innocent of any crimes he might do later on. It is discovered that Victor is not human but a cyborg that was programmed with false memories of a normal childhood. It turns out Victor is the son of Ultron. The Runaways and Victor face off against Ultron and in the end defeat him. The Runaways welcome Victor to the team but Chase does not trust him after what he did to the future Gertrude.
 * Soon a super skrull known as Xavin comes to Earth and it is then that Chase discovers Karolina is into girls. This leads Chase to make jokes and act in an immature way to this fact. After Xavin and Karolina leave Chase misses Karolina as much as any other member on the team. When she and Xavin returns he is glad to see her.
 * When the new pride attacked the Runaways Gertrude dies protecting Chase from a blast meant for him, after the new pride was defeated Gertrude transfers ownership of Old Lace to Chase before she dies. Since then Old Lace and Chase have a mental bond with each other.
 * Chase and the other Runaways defend LA from small-time super villains after the power vacuum left by killing the Pride. This is when the Marriage of the Worlds event happens. After this the team is on the run in the leapfrog again.

Personality

 * Depressed/Heartbroken: Chase has taken the death of his girlfriend (Gertrude Yorkers) hard. He blames himself for her death on some level. He had never let anyone get as close to his heart as he let her, so he felt her loss more than anyone or anything before. Since it is his first love and first loss he had trouble coping with it falling into a deep depression.
 * Free Spirit: By free spirit I don't mean he is flighty and flaky like many think of when they hear that term. By this I mean he enjoys his freedom over everything else. He enjoys being able to come and go as he pleases and do as he wants. When you try to suppress him with rules he will fight and rebel against them tooth and nail.
 * Adrenaline Junkie: Chase loves the rush of going fast and doing reckless things (like driving a rocket power VW). This is also shown in combat doing reckless things like ripping off the laser from the Leapfrog to use manually against Ultron.
 * Immature: While Chase is the oldest member of the runaways he has kept some of his boyish behavior, making stupid puns and jokes whenever he can. Sometimes supposedly cool stuff for early teens is enough reasoning for him, even if the action resulting might seem lunatic. This bleeds into everything he does be it fighting evil, talking with team mates, or just shopping for food.
 * Jock: Thanks to his past and family history Chase puts on a tough guy attitude. His father's verbal abuse has convinced Chase that he's intellect is lower than it really is. Because of this he acts without thinking most times doing dumb things as a result.
 * Dark Side: Chase has a dark side the scares him. He believes to have killed before and he is troubled by this. He is quite sure that he killed his uncle, even if he never got buried and was declared missing. He relies on his friends/teammates to keep him from falling into that darkness again. He struggles with it daily even if he normally hides it except when under a lot of mental distress.
 * Loyal: Chase is very loyal to his friends and love ones. In combat he will throw himself into danger to rescue them even if unarmed. If he has to he will trade his own life for them.