Boy, doesn't he look good. And no, that top isn't just to make him look swarthy, it's shaped to fit over his wings.

John, originally from Manchester, was blind from birth. He managed to live a reasonably ordinary life despite this and complete a Bachelor of Arts before his life changed.

Over a few painful days, he grew wings. The eyes he had never used rotted from their sockets, leaving dark, jagged holes behind.
Once the pain had cleared, he noticed that he could perceive things more clearly than before. It wasn't long before he figured out it was the perceptions of those around him and that he was picking them up.

He shut himself away, far more afraid of people's revulsion than he had ever been as a mere "cripple". But he could only stand to keep himself closetted for a while. So, from night to night, he would fly...

He was pulled from his hermitude by the soon-to-be founders of Super Solutions and taken to Sydney, where he remains the religious adviser for Super Solutions.