Luis Perez

Luis Perez is a Syndicate Tech for the American Syndicate of Heroes and a member of the Dover City Team. Due to a shortage of heroes on the team, he serves part-time as the hero Clockatoo, using his inventions to enhance his abilities.

History
Luis Perez comes from a long line of superheroes. He has three older brothers, all with super powers. He is the only member of his family without any powers. This gave him an inferiority complex as a child where he felt incompetent compared to his brothers. This caused him to take an interest in inventing where he made device that would allow him to "keep up" with his brothers. His inventions from his youth were somewhat chaotic and unsuccessful, and only isolated him more from his family. This is when Luis began to collect birds, becoming mildly obsessed with them and keeping many as pets.

As he grew older, realizing he'd never be a hero, Luis opted for what he considered the next best thing and joined the engineering tech program at A.S.H.. Here me met and befriended Ember de la Cruz, who was in his training class at the New York HQ. Luis developed a strong crush on Ember, but after their training ended, the two were assigned to different cities.

Luis began working at Dover City for the Dover City Team. He continued to develop his inventions there but the mostly when unused as his work was mostly fixing the operating systems as well as vehicles owned by the DCT. However, after the excommunication of DCT member Hummingbird, the DCT's funding slipped and more heroes left the team. Over time, all that was left was Silver Bullet and the techs, Safiya Abdella and Luis.

Facing dissolvement, Safiya finds a loophole that claims that if the team's techs can fulfill the duty of a hero, they can be a stand in for the absent heroes. Luis then is able to use his inventions to help the team but providing them for both Safiya and himself. With his mechanical devices, Luis and Safiya can perform as heroes, preventing the team from being destroyed.