Created by: Jason Reeves, Greg Elysée
1st appearance: Stronghold #1, 2021
Nationality: American
Team Affiliations: the Tenth
Legal Status: Unknown
Height: 6’2 Weight: 260 lbs
Eye color: Purple Hair color: Blonde
Relatives: Alton Strong (father), Brittany Strong (Mother), Daisy (sister)
Skills and abilities: Unknown
Powers: Damian is a Keramat, a person born with extraordinary abilities. In Damian’s case, he possesses superhuman strength and durability.
Biography
All his life Damion was always taught to hide. As a kid, he hid from his older brothers’ wrathful hazing because he was the youngest boy. Living in a small bigoted town as a mixed-race kid where he and Daisy were forced by their parents to straighten their kinky hair so they could pass for white, Damian was raised to hide his Blackness. He hid his growing Keramat abilities from his family fearing that it would hurt his family’s image and as a young man coming into his own, hiding from his own sexuality. But soon there would come a reckoning, and Damian would have to face all the things that make him. In order to be the hero he could be, to become Stronghold, Damian will have to realize himself. Damian Strong AKA Stronghold is a hero. One part of the group of superhero organization the Tenth. Damian (and his twin sister Daisy) also have Albinism, defined as a lack of pigmentation in the eyes, skin, and/or hair. Damian grew up in rural Louisiana in a prosperous family of alligator hunters.
