You could go with 'fleshcrafting' - human form plus hulking size and a modified flesh mask. Another option might be ninja-esque powers - cloak of shadows and spider walk. Then there are the various types of sponsored magics, worldwalking powers, simple boosts like speed or recovery and more obvious ones like shapechange powers or wings.
The real question is, what did your character need to do to protect people and who taught him?
To answer the question....think of it like Maggie LeFay. He trafficked with a lot of different powers, and made a lot of pacts to gain/learn powers. I plan on making a couple of those into aspects, so I need to have something make sense. That's why I used the Black Court-Domination example.
As far as the why, in seperate incidences, he lost both his wife, and his daughter, to seperate supernatural predators, and wasn't around to protect them. His daughter was slain by a loup-garou( one of Macfinn's ancestors), and his wife was taken as a thrall by the White Court. Both times, when he pleaded to the local Warden, he was told there was nothing that could be done, as the loup-garou had dissappeared( little did he know that it had actually been slain) and that there weren't enough Wardens to spare to assault a White Court "base" (as they were dealing with their first killing of Kemmler), so while he didn't know the circumstances, all he knew was that his wife and daughter were to go unavenged, and the Council seemed not to care.