No worries. Life happens

Mercy is not finished yet. :) But I think she's ready to show a little.

Character you have created: Aurelia Fairchild
Alias: Mercy

Speech Color: Silver

Character Alignment: Villain

Identity: Secret

Character Personality: Aurelia Fairchild is shaped by trauma. Her parents tried to kill her as a little girl when her powers manifested for the first time and her uncle was a victim of the cruelty of society. She has no faith in society or the laws that guide it. Aurelia is very driven and will not hesitate to make any sacrifice necessary to heal the world and exorcise the cancer that is eating it alive.

Uniform/costume:

Mercy-
Mercy is an alternate form that Aurelia crafts her body into. As Mercy she has long red hair, red and gold robes that billow out from her body and a set of six red feathered wings that grow outwards from her back. Her wings are not made to fly and are part of the image of Mercy. The form was inspired by angels and the red color symbolizes the blood that she knows will be shed in curing the world’s sickness. Her eyes are also red as Mercy and her body and face are idealized.

Origin Info/Details: I don’t remember everything and my memory is not perfect no matter how much I wish it was. But I remember happiness and my family, kind faces that beamed down at me as I played with toys like any other normal child. But I wasn’t normal. My parents were devout and when my powers first manifested everything changed. The cries of hate from those I loved, “Demon, Monster, Abomination” still echo in my head and the darker moments that followed the cries still dance behind my eyes. The raised steak knife held in a hand that had once comforted me and the charred corpses that followed still haunt me.

The police eventually found me when a neighbor complained about the smell coming from our house. My parent’s deaths were ruled freak accidents and I was sent to live with my uncle. Uncle Richard, bless his soul was loving but oblivious and forgetful. I only learned later that he was suffering from Alzheimer’s. I spent 14 years with Uncle Richard in his house that always smelled of lemons and I discovered my love of healing. There was so much that was broken there, the dishes with cracks that I fixed with a thought, the old heating system, the rusty pipes, the rats with their legs caught in the traps he kept putting out. The world always needed healing, even the pieces that no one thinks about.

When Uncle Richard was taken away I was 17 and finally realizing there was something wrong with him, something I couldn’t fix. He had gone for a walk naked and in a delirium while I was at school and been picked up by the police. That was the first time I realized how sick the world really was, when my uncle who was struggling to keep his mind together was put on trial for what only a sick world would see as criminal. I didn’t know what the world was like though and I tried to work inside the system. I paid for my Uncle’s bail with money I made and then paid for the home where he went. Everyone believed it was his old savings that had paid for it but I knew the truth.

I was supposed to enroll in college and my grades were good enough but I was already sickened by the world around me. I wanted to help people and my gift could heal so I knew where to start but there was no opening that didn’t require me to touch the sickness in society. Faith healing was the first thing I tried but I had no faith in any God above or below and people don’t trust a faith healer without a faith. Besides I had started to realize that healing a person at a time would never heal the world. The world wasn’t just sick, it was putrid, rancid, and decaying as cancers ate at it. I have to act, I can bring healing to the world, and if it is too far gone, then I can bring it a final mercy.

Hero Type (Select one):
Other: Matter Manipulation.

Power Level:
D. Cosmic

Powers:

Matter Manipulation: Matter manipulation is often mistaken with reality manipulation but they are not the same, though there is a little overlap. Matter manipulation is the art of controlling and changing the structure of atoms and molecules to produce the desired outcome. Mercy can create and destroy things at the molecular level but she cannot change the laws of physics or create something that defies them. She could create a soda can by shaping matter and fill it with soda, but she cannot stick a person’s soul into the soda can or create a galaxy inside of it. Matter Manipulation cannot change magic or spiritual forces.

Attributes:

As Aurelia/ As Mercy

Strength Level: Normal Human/50+ tons

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Normal Human/30+ mph

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human/Physically Infinite, Mentally 3 hours

Agility: Normal Human/10X+

Intelligence: Above Average/Above Average

Fighting Skill: Untrained/Untrained

Resources: N/A

Weaknesses:
Mercy has to be able to focus to control matter and as she suffers mental fatigue making large changes becomes increasingly difficult. Detailed changes take even more focus and if she rushes there can be consequences and the changes can be unstable and break down. If she does not understand the change she is making it is harder and the changes are more often unstable.

Supporting Characters (Does your character have a significant other? A mother? Friend? Who are they, what do they have to do with your character?):

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards: Yes I do.

Sample Post:

The World is sick and slowly dying. Sometimes I used to wonder if I was the only one who could see how the strands of corruption twine through the fabric of the World, the dark and decaying patches in the structures that support it. Now I know that I am alone and that only I can see and touch the pieces.

Images flicker across the television screen as I stare at it with interest. The streak of silver and blue shoots into the sky to catch a falling space station in his hands and I find myself wondering if he too with his power can see how sick the world really is. Then I see him save a parasite, a node of the infection that saps life from the world and my hope for a kindred soul wilts inside of me.

I flick my wrist and the television goes blank. I stretch out and then stand up from the uncomfortable hotel chair with a faint popping sound as my back cracks. I know it is time for me to act but I still wonder if there is another way. I want to heal, not to kill and death will come to many because of me even if the World can still be purged of the cancer that eats at it. For a moment my conviction wavers even as my hands reach out to turn the handle and open the door and I leave the motel room.

But I remember pain and betrayal, the steak knife raised in my mother’s hand as love turned to hate, the way poor Uncle Richard was taken away as his mind failed him. The World is so far gone that it attacks itself, pieces of the World conspire to leave others to sicken and die. I will change this, I will heal this World.

The motel doors open for me and the bright light of the sun silhouettes me in the doorway as I walk out onto the streets of Lost Haven. Little Ulster, the part of Lost Haven that the cancer has corrupted and cut off. The parasites do not care because as long as the cancer festers away from their feeding grounds they are untouched and the weakened people become easy prey for them.

I know not if this is the right course, I must act. Why else would I have this power?

I call to the World and I hear it answer as billions of tiny threads and pieces become clear to me. A deep breath fills my lungs as I take a final moment to ready myself. Then I change myself. It takes practice to change, to know which threads to pull and which pieces to alter so that a change is stable and I have practiced this change many times. My body ripples as I change the structures and finally the aesthetics change too. Wings grow from my back, my hair grows and changes, I feel my bones and flesh shift and rearrange as my new clothing forms around me too, a raiment fit for she who will heal the World.

I hear gasps as people see the changes and I say goodbye to my old appearance and body, knowing that I can never return to it. People look at me in shock, a crimson angel emerging from an ordinary girl; I even see one bow out of the corner of my eyes.

The air solidifies beneath my feet as I step into it and with a thought I am lifted up into the sky. I spread flightless wings and pose for a moment above the city as I gaze down at it. A network of streets for people to travel upon, and a network of causeways through which the parasites feed and the cancer spreads.

The causeways are always the last part to fail, the cancer needs them to spread through the nodes of the city and the parasites use them to transport their ill-gotten gains. I do not know if fixing the decay in the buildings and infrastructure will cure the infection. Does the cancer follow the parasites or do the parasites follow the cancer? I can only learn by action. Even though the World made me so that I could heal it, it did not tell me how.

My hands rise and my wings curl around me while my vision distorts as I see the threads of the World and all the tiny building blocks that make the city below me. I imagine perfection below me as I hover over Little Ulster and with perfection in my mind I thrust my arms out and unfurl my wings. A wave of change sweeps out from me as I struggle to shape the change as I had imagined it.

Damaged buildings change as the air shivers and changes to patch holes seamlessly, potholes smooth over, graffiti is erased, and damage is undone. I am careful; the changes do not touch the people below, bending around them. But some buildings are not fixed and as the city shakes as if there is an earthquake many of the worst places in Little Ulster, the nodes of cancer and the lairs of petty parasites are dragged down into the earth. In their places I raise new structures, a park stands where once a gang infested tenement sprawled, fresh new apartments replace the slums, and derelict buildings are replaced with clean new ones.

I feel a pang of sorrow because no matter how careful I was to only unmake the world places there would still be innocents lost. The changes stop and I feel my head pound as I continue to stare down at the newly remade part of the city.

Hopefully I will have my application my next character sometime today.

@NMS: What program were you using to make the character name banners?

Think someone could whip up a character banner for Beesting..?

That'd be awesome!

Here it is. I just need to write a sample post. Also, if I knew how you did made the banners, I would also make one for my character, too (I used GIMP to change the colors on Raptor's banner).

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Create a Hero RPG Application

Character you have created: Christopher “Chris” Arthur III (CA3 – pronounced like RG3)
Alias: Iron Knight. Also known by: Daedalos Mk. 5, Project Theophonos (god-slayer)

Speech Color: I will pick a color when colors come back.

Character Alignment: Hero

Identity: Secret, except to certain officials in STRIKE.

Character Personality: As a playboy billionaire, Christopher beats his drums at his own tempo. He’s business by day, party by night, although he allows his leaned back nature bleed into his business affairs. Beyond his business life, Christopher enjoys Greek culture and history, utilizing his companies funds to support archaeological digs in search of new finds in this field, even though they are rare. He is also protective of his half-sister, since she is his only family left (see Origin Info/Details for more info).

Uniform/costume:
Due to his side interest in ancient Greece (and history in a lesser extent), his armor has some influences from these time periods. The helmet in the suit shows this influence the best, since it resembles the helmet of the classical Greek hoplite. His armor also has an energy-powered long sword, inspired by the knights from the Medieval period. He also has a weapon what he calls the “Energy Javelin”, which was inspired by both the Homeric combat in the Iliad, where the Heroes would first throw a spear at one another before they engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and the Roman Pila, which would break on contact so that an enemy could not revenge kill with it. His armor has other, more conventional weapons, but these are the “out of the box” ones.

At first, I kind of struggled with what I wanted Iron Knight’s armor to look like. I knew I didn’t want him to look just like Iron Man. Furthermore, I had an idea in my head what I wanted it to look like, but I could not put it down in words or even draw it out. After a little brainstorming, I remembered that I saw my brother and his friend either looking at or making a website about Gundam Wing (I cannot remember which, I was still fairly young). Although I found out that they were giant robots from doing some internet research (but it doesn’t’ surprise me, since it is a Japanese show), I still thought it gave the robotic feel I wanted. I just would have to scale it down to human size (i.e. like Iron Man in a way). Therefore, I placed a link to an image that I thought could be used as an inspiration for the suit (but obviously not an exact copy).

There are several changes I would make to the suit. First, the Greek hoplite inspired helmet (it would look like a hoplite helmet, but there would not be any openings in the front, and there would not be a plume). I would remove the wing-like attachments on the shoulders, and everything below the waist would resemble Ultimate Iron Man more than the sample image. I would probably make the breastplate more flat and all the joints would have to be made so that a man could fit inside the suit. Also, the color scheme would be different shades of gray.

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/20700000/Gundam-00-mobile-suit-gundam-00-20740671-750-1000.jpg

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/39027/926942-iron_man_ultimates_2005.png

Origin Info/Details:
Christopher Arthur III was born to Lexington Arthur II and Medea Arthur. The Arthurs were an extremely wealthy Virginian family, with its wealth tied both from inheritance from their ancestors and profit from the Arthur’s corporation, the Knight’s Corp. At age 16, Christopher graduated from MIT, specializing in Advanced Robotics and Electrical Engineering (he also picked up a minor in ancient Greek from a local college). Two years later, he received his Master’s. Christopher started to work in the Robotics Division at Knight’s Corp.

However, after his first graduation from college, Christopher’s life was turned upside down. His father had been involved in an affair for several years, which resulted in a child being born outside of wedlock. After Christopher received his Master’s degree, his father divorced his current wife and married his mistress. Five years later, a deranged Medea returned and killed herself along with Christopher’s father and his stepmother, leaving Christopher and his half-sister orphaned (who in their right mind would divorce someone by the name of Medea? That’s just asking for trouble). As a result of his father’s death, Christopher inherited both his family’s wealth along with his father’s company.

While Christopher did not have problem socializing with people through his life, he never allowed people to become extremely close to him, except for his childhood friend, Cynthia. While Christopher’s accelerated education robbed them of attending middle and high school together, they both continued to remain in contact. While Cynthia was by no means as intelligent as Christopher was, she was still quite smart for the average American student (top 5 in her graduating class) and she was a nice change of pace to talk to when you are constantly surrounded by super-geniuses. While Christopher desired that they became something more than just “friends”, but he did not want to risk ruining their current friendship if a romantic relationship did not work out. Even they went their separate ways, with Christopher running his father’s company and Cynthia becoming an Archaeologist, they still continued to find a way to keep in contact, even if it has to be emails and IM’s.

If someone asked him why he dubbed his armor “Daedalos”, he would give his usual response, that some terrorists in the Aegean held him up on an island and he created the suit to fly away, just as Daedalos fled from King Minos of Crete in Greek Mythology. However, this wasn’t the true story. Two years ago (from the beginning of this RP), his childhood friend developed a rare, but fatal and inoperative cancer. Christopher frantically developed his prototype robotic exoskeleton, designing it to keep her alive, while the chemotherapy, that would normally could not be used, destroyed the cancer. Christopher called the exoskeleton “Daedalos” because he hoped it would help free Cynthia from her cancer, just as Daedalos’s invention helped him escape Minos. However, Cynthia died before he could get his final product finished.

Shortly after his friend’s death, S.T.R.I.K.E. approached Christopher about his exoskeleton. They wanted Christopher to develop it into a mechanized armor that would allow normal humans to compete with the rising metahuman population, just in case something went out of hand. Since Christopher had already sunk a huge amount of his company’s resources into this project, he couldn’t say no.

Hero Type:
Power-Suit / Gray Matter (Super-Smart)

Power Level:
C. World Level (Ex. Flash, Superman)

Powers: Powers beyond the things listed in the “Attribute” (flight, strength, etc) will be listed here. Furthermore, Iron Knight can make revisions and updates to his armor to prepare the armor for different situations.
-Energy-based Sword
-Energy Pila
-Energy Shield: Iron Knight’s shielding must be activated to be used. Shielding must be lowered in order to use offensive weapons.
-Rockets and Missiles: Iron Knight has several different projectiles at his disposal to use against foes at a distance.

Attributes: Strength, Speed, Endurance, and Agility are at Normal Human levels when not in the Power Suit.

Strength Level: 100+ tons.

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 100+ MPH; Flight: Mach 10.

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Power Suit can remain powered for several hours. Due to the mechanical components associated with the power suit, the wearer of the suit does not have to expend as much physical energy as one normal person would if that person were doing the same activities. However, it still takes mental concentration to control the power suit.

Agility: 20X Human level.

Intelligence: Super-Genius

Fighting Skill: Untrained

Resources: Extreme

Weaknesses:
-Still a normal man under the suit.
-Armor can become overloaded if enough energy is pumped into the suit.
-Takes some time to prep suit for usage.

Supporting Characters (Does your character have a significant other? A mother? Friend? Who are they, what do they have to do with your character?):
-Veronica: Christopher’s half-sister. She is currently a freshman in high school.
-George: The Arthur family’s butler, helped raise both Christ and Veronica, especially the later when their parents died (“If Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark can have a butler, why can’t I?” ~CA3).

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: Yes (see last app).

Sample Post:



Summary

Looks good. I'll see what I can come up with for a banner, I actually have a couple of designs in mind

nitemare shape said
Looks good. I'll see what I can come up with for a banner, I actually have a couple of designs in mind

Could you pm me any information that I should know about STRIKE? I would like to portray them accurately in my sample post (and anytime afterwards).

Absolutely. I'm away from my computer atm, but I'll be on in about an hour. I'll do it then

nitemare shape said
Absolutely. I'm away from my computer atm, but I'll be on in about an hour. I'll do it then

Thanks!

The Fair Lady said
Mercy is not finished yet. :) But I think she's ready to show a little.Character you have created: Aurelia FairchildAlias: MercySpeech Color: SilverCharacter Alignment: Villain

Approved

so, nitemare. is lyger open for interaction yet?

ugh, you know, it's so annoying. I've got plenty of ideas for really interesting powers. but i can't for the life of me come up with any interesting characters to go with those powers.

Buio DiAngelo said
so, nitemare. is lyger open for interaction yet?

Not just yet, I'm finishing an arc with him now, but I'll be free after that. I should be finished tomorrow (I have the day off)

Iron Knight application complete with sample post.

@ NMS: Just out of curiosity, what are you using to create the character banners?

Dedonus said
Iron Knight application complete with sample post.@ NMS: Just out of curiosity, what are you using to create the character banners?

Approved, and I'll PM you in a bit

Prince Potter said
Think someone could whip up a character banner for Beesting..?That'd be awesome!

Yes, I'll do that tomorrow for you. Sorry, somehow I missed that.

Also, Proton Problem, I haven't forgotten about you. My next Icon post will deal with your message.

Ugh. That post didn't go at all like I wanted it to. It was just one of those times where nothing I was writing seemed to be going the way I wanted it to. I'll do better next time, I promise. ;A; I just couldn't play Epione quite right... so frustrating.

Also, sorry if it seems to end suddenly. I'm planning to continue it from Moxie's point of view, which will hopefully be more successful.

Prince Potter said
Think someone could whip up a character banner for Beesting..?That'd be awesome!

Prince Potter, check your PM's you have something waiting for you.

Beetsugar, no worries, it happens to all of us

Hey NMS and Emy (Fair Lady),

Do you think it would be alright if STRIKE would send the prototype armor that I mentioned in my 1st Iron Knight post out to investigate the events dealing with Icon and Mercy. If you agree, I could write something up (I don't expect the prototype to beat Mercy). Just let me know and I will write something up (I can pm you guys what I have before I post it in the IC).