full name
dominic michael hunt
birthdate / age
july 30, 1984 / 36
hometown
cape cod, ma
residence
san francisco, ca
occupation
founder & ceo, apex
status
single

family
martin hunt (father, 62)
victoria hunt (mother, 58)
cassandra hunt (sister, 36)

education
bs mechanical engineering / bs statistics, ucla (2006)
mba, stanford (2008)

personality
entj-a, type 8, neutral good, more to come soon.

facts
  • most of his childhood was spent in cape cod, where his mother still owns and operates a farm-to-table bed and breakfast inn. he attended phillips academy from 1998 to 2002 where he was a member of the crew team and ran cross country.
  • he has lived in the bay area since 2006 except for a brief period between july 2019 and july 2020, when he was living and working in new york city. he now owns a house in the dolores heights neighborhood of san francisco.
  • originally started as an aerospace engineering firm in 2008, his company apex technologies now includes divisions in satellites, robotics, and artificial intelligence and includes a venture capital fund with a sizable portfolio of investments in the tech sector.
  • in july 2019, he and his sister became interim ceo's of hunt international, a multinational real estate development and luxury hotel management company. he served in the role for a year before his father returned as ceo. he no longer works for the company but holds a seat on the board of directors.
  • he enjoys running in his spare time and used to participate in races regularly, but after a car accident in 2019, he had to undergo months of physical therapy and still has issues with his knee.
  • he's careful with his finances and doesn't flaunt his wealth. his biggest splurge is an oyster 565 sailboat.


dominic michael hunt and his twin sister were born approximately nine months after victoria winston, a young aspiring chef from a nondescript little new england town, decided to put an end to her affair with martin hunt, a handsome and charismatic man who, unbeknownst to her at the time, was already married to another woman. martin was the sole heir to hunt international, a real estate development empire that began when his great-grandfather arrived in america at the turn of the 19th century and began buying up land and properties in what would eventually become the financial district of manhattan. over the years, his sons and grandsons continued to amass a vast portfolio of commercial and rental properties as well as several luxury hotels and resorts around the world.

victoria didn't expect martin to leave his wife for her when she informed him of the fact that he was going to be a father. she told him that he was free to be as involved as he wanted to be; she had a life and a career, and she was prepared to be a single mother and raise the child all on her own if she had to. martin saw it as an opportunity to get out of his convenient but loveless marriage, despite the scandal it would bring to the family. the long, drawn-out divorce that ensued wasn't finalized until after dominic and cassandra was born, but he was given the last name hunt even though another year would go by before victoria finally agreed to marry martin.

dominic was raised in his mother's hometown. victoria, who had no interest in moving into one of the hornes' glitzy penthouses in new york city, had been adamant on that point. she had inherited a farmhouse bed and breakfast inn from an elderly aunt and was committed to restoring it as a historical landmark. she had grown up there and wanted to raise her own family there as well. although martin expected that his son would follow in his footsteps and take over the family business when he was old enough, he didn't see the harm in letting victoria have her way for the time being.

he grew up with more of his mother's influence than his father's. martin spent what time he could with his new family, but as the head of the hunt family's company and its various other interests, his work frequently took him to new york and other parts of the world. dominic had a happy childhood, and as he grew older, it became clear that he took after his mother, sharing her love for nature and the outdoors. victoria taught him and his sister to sail, ski, and care for horses and livestock - all things that she loved about her own childhood that she had always wanted to share with her own children.

when dominic turned twelve, martin decided that it was time for him to start getting some exposure to the company that he would one day inherit. from then on, every summer was spent at the hunt international offices in new york city, where he shadowed employees in every department and sat in on meetings, read legal business contracts, and accompanied his father on business trips to various corners of the world, learning everything there was to learn about the ins and outs of the business. when it was time for him to go to college, stanford, which had been his father's and grandfather's alma mater, seemed a natural choice, but he instead chose to attend ucla.

he took to the change of atmosphere immediately. after having grown up primarily in new england, the southern california coast was a magical land of perpetual sunshine and boundless potential for adventure. he continued to break with tradition. rather than following the path of business or law that was expected, he pursued undergraduate degrees in engineering and statistics before obtaining his mba at stanford.

during his final year, he was officially offered a position working under his father at hunt enterprises upon graduation. although the offer was given more or less as a formality and everyone expected him to join the ranks at the company when his time allowed, dominic had come to realize that the path that had been carved out for him might not be the one he wanted for himself. in the end, he surprised them by turning the offer down in favor of pursuing his own path. he sold his shares in the family company and used the capital to fund the creation of apex technologies, an aerospace engineering venture with two friends from college. over the next few years, apex transformed from one small startup to a diversified portfolio of various companies in the technology sector. eventually, he was able to buy back his original stake in hunt international.

comicverse
  • lex luthor is the genius, ego-centered metropolis businessman who, with his company lexcorp and scientifically advanced warsuit, has acted as both an antagonist and ally to superman and the justice league.
  • point of canon follows the current primary continuity in dc comics but may occasionally pull details and characterizations from previous continuities.
  • tie-in's: both were born in small towns, both have sisters and a contentious relationship with their fathers, both are driven, scientifically minded individuals.

incentives

abilities
GENIUS LEVEL INTELLECT — CV
luthor's intelligence is nearly unrivaled, making him one of the smartest minds on earth. as the ceo of lexcorp, he has great business management skills as well as extensive knowledge of political science and science, particularly chemistry and robotic engineering.
HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT
lex is also trained in hand-to-hand combat, though his personal amazon fighting instructors consider him a sub-par combatant with poor form.
MULTILINGUALISM — CV & AU
lex can speak mandarin and korean fluently.
OMEGA EFFECT
after darkseid's death during the events of the darkseid war, luthor temporarily took up the mantle as leader of apokolips and obtained control of the omega effect.
MARTIAN PHYSIOLOGY
during the year of the villain, lex was given god-like powers by perpetua and was reborn as apex lex in an immortal hybrid martian/human body.
POWER ABSORPTION (EARTH 3)
alexander luthor of earth 3 has the ability to steal the powers of other super beings he's killed, including the original mazahs, hawkwing, johnny quick, deathstorm, and bizarro.
FIRESTORM MATRIX (EARTH 3)
includes density control, matrix memory recall, energy projection and absorption, superhuman vision, strength, and durability, self sustenance, psychic link, and phasing
SLEEP MANIPULATION (OFF-CANON) — AU

equipment
KRYPTONITE

WARSUIT — CV
luthor's current warsuit is constructed out of apokalyptian technology. its capabilities include energy projection, flight, superhuman strength, superhuman durability, and force fields.
MOTHERBOX — CV & AU

PYM PARTICLES (OFF-CANON) — CV