I apoligize for any redundancy but I've been thinking about how to do this all week and I spent the last few hours working on it. So without further interruptions, I present you The Flash! Oh one more interruption, I'm looking for some opinions, particularly from Byrd since he played Flash for so long.
Character you wish to portray: Barry Allen, AKA The Flash
Hero, villain, or walking the line?: Walking The Line
Powers and physical attributes: His ring is a matrix for The Speed Force, which is the trickiest thing that I'm going to explain. To the outside world, The Speed Force gives someone with access to it Super Speed, enhanced physique, a lightning trail behind him, protection from electric shock, superior stamina, and offers the user protection from other aspects of physics.
Now for the complicated side (I don't know if this belongs under Backstory or not). The Speed Force is contained inside the ring. It is a world created by the force of a hundred colliding electrons. There are two powerful entities that live in The Speed Force, Flash and Zoom. Flash's attributes are benevolence, patience, and the color red. Zoom's attributes are Malevolence and chaos, Impatience, and the color yellow. At any time that Barry turns into The Flash, he is becoming a host for one of the entities, influencing him and his thinking. Flash and Zoom are constantly struggling for dominance, though Flash had been able to maintain dominance until Barry had leaked some of Flash's power off to Wally's ring. Now Zoom (Think Venom from Spider-Man) is able to be in control about as often as Flash. When Flash is dominant, the costume is red with yellow features, same goes for Zoom. (He still goes by the name The Flash, like how black Spidey went by Spider-Man still)
The space inside the Speed Force is a whole other world. It has animals, hills and grassy plains, then there's a mountain with a temple on top. In this temple is where Flash and Zoom do battle. But the other spaces aren't only inhabited by the realm's animals, it is a heaven for speedsters. And The Flash is definitely not the first speedster to have ever existed.
Origin and backstory (as you see it):
In 1987 a blonde baby boy was born to a couple in Central City. The father, Jay Garrick Allen, worked at a race track as a member of a pit crew. While the mother, Jessica Quick, was a pizza delivery woman. The two worked hard at their full time jobs to make enough to support themselves and their child. Money was never an issue, they aren't rich, but they always had enough to live on.
Throughout his childhood, Barry was always at the race track. At an early age, Barry was taught how to repair cars. As he grew older, he began to lust for speed. He couldn't get his mind off of it, whether it be making his dad's cars go faster, or improving the wifi, he loved it. But no matter what he did, he couldn't be satisfied. So he was conflicted through High School.
He was the great track star of the school, the school's hero. Everyone worshipped the ground he walked on for a bit. But then, after the fast cars and fast girls, he was going nowhere fast, just in time for college. On the night before he left, his father gave him a ring, a golden ring. It had been passed through the family's firstborns for eight generations. So it was of the utmost importance that he take care of it.
So he wore the ring at all times. But on a fateful day, Barry went to his physics professor, who happened to have a project involving harnessing the force of electrons as a power source. His name was Professor Eobard Thawn, he was a man said to have been raised by Russian drunks. But he was also one of the most brilliant men that Barry knew. His experiment was simple, use a machine he built to create a collision of several hundred electrons. The odds of that happening naturally are astronomical, but it worked.
The collision made a giant electric burst that spread into two bolts. One red, one yellow. They both struck Barry's ring. Barry was taken to the hospital after being knocked out. He was electrocuted, though unharmed. The only change was his ring, which now had a yellow lightning bolt engraved in it surrounded by two red ones.
He returned to school and continued his studies, despite feeling differently about Professor Thawn. In his time out of school he was working in a garage as a mechanic to support himself so that his parents wouldn't have to. But he was studying to be a CSI investigator. After he finished his college education, he continued to work at the garage he'd been working at. One day he was brought the hardest repair he'd ever seen, it belonged to a rather well off woman named Iris West. Barry repaired the car and then went on a couple dates with Iris. After he learned that she worked as a CSI investigator, the deal was sealed. He immediately went and got a job for the CSI team.
One day he was investigating a bank robbery in which the doors were never opened, the vault wasn't forced open. The thief had walked in without a door, without setting off any alarms, and he'd walked right into the vault while the guards had opened it, taken the money, and vanished. But while investigating the scene, Barry saw a man appear and walk out the door carrying the money.
Barry decided to take off after him, he noticed that the thief teleported several times to appear further ahead of him. So Barry started sprinting behind him. It'd been a while since Barry had gone his absolute fastest, being he was naturally very brisk, but once he peaked, there was a flash of light.
In an instant, Barry was transformed into the fastest man alive. He was covered in a bright red costume with a gold lightning bolt on his chest as well as golden features like gloves and boots. He was catching up to the man with almost no effort at all. He caught the man and realized that he had been gifted with incredible power. He dropped the teleporting man off at the police station and then embraced and explored his power.
In the next few weeks he was publicly known as The Flash, Central City's Scarlet Speedster. He put his life on the line countless times after he was settled in. And he made many super criminal enemies such as: Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd, Girder, The Pied Piper, and Captain Boomerang. The Flash's heroics even lead to his induction to the Justice League where he fought against the alien threat Star'ro. Which, in the downtime, had him teaming up with The Atom, and Superboy, a young Kryptonian whom he couldn't help but enjoy being around.
But a year ago, the man whom The Flash had captured, escaped and took the name "Mirror Master." He went on a rampage and displayed abilities like: Teleporting, Cloning, disappearing into Mirrors, and even Brilliance. When The Flash followed one of Mirror Master's clones, he was lead to a high school, the same one that Iris's nephew, Wally, went to.
Wally was in metal shop when Flash followed Mirror Master into the school. In metal shop, Wally was crafting his own ring made of chemically treated silver. But the Flash came inside and some of his Speed Force energy was absorbed by the ring. As The Flash battled Mirror Master, Wally watched in admiration. The Flash quickly left the school in order to ensure that the bystanders would not be harmed.
After the long day, The Flash finally came out on top by carrying Mirror Master while running at a speed that the Mirror Master couldn't breathe at. Despite suffering shock and suffocation, the monster was allowed to live. But given the severity of the injuries he'd given out, he resigned from the Justice League. But darker days lied ahead.
The Flash began to grow more aggressive in his crime fighting. He was more violent, sadistic, condescending and unrelenting when it comes to catching criminals. Even J-Walkers are subject to The Flash's aggression, let alone the supervillains. Though Barry has been able to resist the urge to kill.
In order to hold back, Barry has decided to become The Flash less and less, because the Red Flash is the one he is becoming less and less.
The burning question - Why this character?: So many reasons. Let me think about this. Okay, and here we go. First off, The Flash and Wonder Woman are currently empty NPCs despite their importance. I was considering Wonder Woman, but I'll leave her for someone that is actually good to pick up. Second Reason, I also wanted to do KF, in fact, I really wanted to. But I already have a teen hero and a teen line-walker. Plus there is no continuity for Kid Flash to exist off of without a Flash, so I've laid the groundwork for a Kid Flash. Third Reason, The Flash has one of the richest Rogues Galleries in comics. Fourth Reason, I've got a Street Level and a Cosmic Level character, now I'd snag me a city leveler. Fifth Reason, I love'd The Flash in the Justice League cartoon as well as Young Justice and Geoff Johns entire run.
How will this version of your character differ from others? How will it be Ultimate?: First off, there's the whole Yellow Flash thing. Then there's the fact that Jay Garrick is his father and Barry is a skilled mechanic. So speed is a huge part of his story.
What do you believe you can bring to the RPG?: A new version of The Flash with an excuse for his absence from the game and hopefully I can do some actual quality writing.
Provide a short sample post as your desired character, in three paragraphs or more:
The Roads, Central City
7:00 PM, Months Ago
Faster than a speeding internet connection
More powerful than a loco automotive salesman
Mightier than an olympic athlete.
Crashing through the street, flinging past the cars and vehicles, zipping around the city. The Flash was a blur of color and energy, light and sound. He was sprinting between different spots in the city like a pinball smacked against bumpers. It was all to search for one man, a mere man who had several aliases, a unique motif, and an ability to kill a target from anywhere.
But he's only one man on one mission, it's not like he's the first hitman to hide in a city. The police could pick him up in a few hours if they tried hard enough, but there was a single gaping hole in that solution. The only problem was that the man had twenty-six seemingly random, working class people.
This hero was determined, no hellbent, on finding Captain Boomerang and proving that not a single person is fast enough to escape The Wrath of The Flash!
As The Flash checked inside of an arcade, he looked for the owner, Martin Ivanson. Ivanson was the third man on the list, he was an honest, long-suffering, working class hero.
Flash had entered and looked between half the aisles in a fraction of a second, and in that time, the door had snapped shut. Neon lights on the games began to take turns flashing, and eight bit music began to play. A disco ball dropped from the ceiling and placed multi-colored lights that swung around the room in a dizzying rainbow.
Flash barked,
"Where are you, Boomerang! You're not walking out of here without needing a hospital."
"Back at ya' Flash," a voice spoke in the dark.
Then a trio of neon flashing boomerangs circled The Flash and began emitting a high-pitched howl that was intended and proven to drive a man insane. The Flash kneeled over and threw his head down as he cupped his ears.
Captain Boomerang then snuck up behind The Flash as he drew his leg back and punted forward. After the flash was flipped onto his back like a pancake, Captain Boomerang began to stomp on him like a rabid dog or a man desperate to stamp out a cigarette with his shoe.
Then the Flash's eyes snapped wide open and began to glow. His body jittered and convulsed like a hex bug. As the motion grew faster and his eyes lit up like skylights, releasing a beam described only as the most frightening thing in the world.
At the peak of the acceleration, the Yellow Flash spoke with a ghoulishly raspy voice
,"Surrender, before I make you."
Captain Boomerang did not concede.
"Perfect"
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Originally Posted by nightrunner
I apoligize for any redundancy but I've been thinking about how to do this all week and I spent the last few hours working on it. So without further interruptions, I present you The Flash! Oh one more interruption, I'm looking for some opinions, particularly from Byrd since he played Flash for so long.
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