Hutch

The first crimefighter that Rumour met when she arrived in Lake City. More of a detective than a fighter, Hutch is glad to have others like Rumour and Redeye in the city to help him when he comes up against something big, and they are in turn glad to have the help of a brilliant detective.

His name really is Hutch. Mike Hutchens. He doesn't bother coming up with a code name because the only people he talks to on the job are other vigilantes or heroes, and he doesn't have anyone close that could be targeted by an enemy who could be bothered tracking him down. He holds down a job as a bus driver for a tourism company. It doesn't pay well, but it's easy work and gives him plenty of spare time.

He is a likeable man of about forty five years of age. Although he's much more intelligent than most people, you wouldn't guess it from the way he talks and acts.

He tends to collect lost children. They see him as someone who will protect them, and attach themselves to him. He once rescued a group of young super humans from a mad scientist, and two of them have stuck with him ever since; the shape shifter Toni and the agoraphobic technopath Galway.

Galway lives in his basement, where she has set up a small information gathering post and helps Hutch with case that involves computers.