Name - Bert Hughes

Alias - Quicksilver

Powers - Mercury Mimicry (can become like liquid mercury, can hit with force, can expel bullets and things made of iron)

Weakness - Very heavy/dense and sinks in water, prolonged exposure can poison people.

Experience - Doesn't have much experience apart from stopping some environmentally unfriendly corporations.

Appearance -

When not on patrol, Bert has a shaved and shined head and no facial hair. He has an emaciated look, with good musculature under skin that ends up resembling sweaters in a vacuum bag. When he goes out to fight crime or perform espionage, Quicksilver wears a set of resistant black pants and a pair of black steel toed boots. He wears a black glove on his left hand, which helps keep the weighted punching hand intact when hitting something or someone hard. On his torso, he creates the alchemical symbol for mercury on his chest like an emblem with his mimicry powers so that it stands out in dark silver. Similarly he manipulates mercury to cover his lower face with something that resembles a mask of silver mercury and manipulates his eyes in the same way.

Age - 25

Brief Bio - Bert was raised and lived in a landlocked city surrounded by fields upon fields of crops. He worked at a law firm that specialized in environmental issues, and when a food corporation known for its use of GMOs set up shop at a local farm, he went out to snap some photos and see if anything was being done illegally. He was horrified to learn that they were using a good portion of their land as a landfill and a facility. In the pursuit of truth and justice, he slipped into the underground facility to find a complex in which there were a large number of seemingly different experiments being performed. When an alarm went off, he quickly darted into a room to hide, but ended up exposed to a variety of chemicals and energies in an experiment room, which lead to his powers. After draining through a floor grate, he reintegrated and woke up outside and naked -- and confused -- but soon learned the extent of his abilities and used to it pursue a combination of revenge and environmental justice. He came to Millennium City after hearing that the same corporation who was operating in his home city opened an office there.

Commitment - At least once a day, with only a slight hiccup once I get a job again.

Name: Natalie Addison

Alias: Penumbra

Powers: Umbrakinesis, the ability to manipulate shadows and darkness. The capabilities of this power are as follows:
- Natalie can hide in other people's shadows or large shaded areas, make her body intangible and absorbing herself into them.
- Natalie can shape shadows, changing their forms to whatever she desires.
- Natalie has superb night vision, allowing her to see in near-complete darkness.
- While in an intangible state, Natalie can also phase through solid objects.
- Can heal any physical wounds she has by spending time in dark areas.
In addition, Natalie can also levitate at very low heights.

Weakness: Sunlight, or any other light source, can be particularly harmful to Natalie, making her feel weak or drowsy in small dosages and making her physical form less solid. If there is too much light, it can make her very weak, and it is theorized that it may kill her, causing her body to disintegrate and never reform.

Experience: Natalie has had no experience in fighting whatsoever, and has only recently gotten a handle on her powers during her first year in the modern world.

Appearance: The best way to describe Natalie's appearance is that she appears to be a three-dimensional silhouette of a woman. Her entire body, skin and hair, are all pitch black, making most details of her appearance difficult to describe. The only real notable thing is that her hair seems to be just past shoulder length, her eyes which glow a distinctive white, and several white glowing markings, tattoos of a sort, on her arms and legs. At night, her body is solid, but during the day, her form is more ghostly, almost smoke-like, like this. Her eyes and tattoos cannot be seen during the day, and her body is less solid, making it difficult for her to touch people or pick up objects.

Age: Unknown. Her body hasn't really matured all that much since age 14, when she supposedly "died". However, if her story is correct, that makes her over 80 years old.

Brief Bio: If one were to ask Natalie about who she is, where she comes from or, more pointedly, WHAT she is, expect a complicated answer as Natalie's memories of her past are somewhat skewed and even the few bits she CAN remember are difficult to swallow. She claims to have been human at one point, living in the England in the 30s. At a young age, she kept seeing things that no one believed, like her shadow moving all by itself, areas suddenly getting very dark at strange times, and, even more worryingly, she would feel drowsy or lightheaded when in bright sunlight. For a while, her parents simply thought she was pretending. Then, one day, when Natalie was age 12, she went mysteriously missing for three days, and when she returned, she claimed to have no memory about what had happened or where she had been.

After that, Natalie started having nightmares. Her family would be woken up each night to her screaming, would run to her room to wake her up, and would find her lying somewhere different from where she had previously slept and find she was unable to remember what her dream had been about. When Natalie was aged 14, Natalie's parents admitted their daughter to a mental institution. Natalie is unable to recall anything clearly after that point, only mentioning that she felt "a lot of pain, then nothingness".

Skip to present day, Natalie wakes up to find herself lying on the streets of modern day Millenium City with no idea where she is or how she got there, and now transformed into her current shadow-y form. For the first few weeks, she lived on the streets, befriending several of the homeless who were able to tell her about the modern world. After discovering and mastering her strange new abilities, Natalie has come to the conclusion that she died at some point during her treatment and that she has come back as some sort of ghost or wraith, possibly to try and resolve some "unfinished business", though she has no clue what that may be. For now, she has a tendency to stay at random peoples' homes, "haunting" the house for a while until the residents start to become suspicious and then moving onto the next place.

Notes:
- Due to her experiences, Natalie has a deep fear of hospitals.
- Despite everything that has happened her, Natalie is a fairly upbeat and cheerful individual, albeit somewhat wistful of her loss of humanity. Still, she can't help but feel grateful for her powers.

Commitment: I can certainly at least make the 2 post per-week, if not more. If the story was progressing at a reasonable pace, I'd definitely be able to make one post per-day if I needed to.

Name: Chad Yoshida

Alias: Ronin

Powers: Athleticism from martial arts training. Kendo expert. Enhanced strength and fighting prowess, but only while armored. Possesses a family katana capable of donning him in powerful samurai armor.

Weakness: Much of his strength and skill and granted by his sword and armor. Remove those, and you remove much of what makes him super.

Experience: While he's been practicing Kendo and Judo most of his life, Chad is still new to the armor and its abilities.

Appearance:
Normal
Armored

Age: 27

Brief Bio: Chad's grandparents immigrated to America from Nagasaki in 1939, just before the Second World War. From Japan, they brought with them a sword passed down in the family for generations. The sword, called Ryuuken, was the blade wielded by Ryuunosuke Yoshida, a samurai of the early 12th century and ancestor of the Yoshida's. They settled in New York, eventually having a son named Katsuo. When he grew up, Katsuo left New York for Millennium City, where he eventually married Chad's mother, Ellen Eriksen. When he was born, Katsuo honored Ellen's request to name their son after her late father, Major Chad Eriksen, a US Army Officer who was killed in action during the war, specifically the Invasion of Normandy.

Having grown up in Millennium City, Chad grew to know the streets and districts like the back of his hand. He also grew up pretty well off, his father having started a successful business empire known as YoshidaCorp, which specialized in medical research in response to the rise of people with superhuman abilities. Katsuo had made it his passion to study these individuals and use that knowledge to push the boundaries of medical science. Chad had been pressured into following his father's footsteps, but found himself more interested in his ancestral history, spending many weekends and summer vacations in New York where his grandparents told him many stories of Ryuunosuke Yoshida, and even teaching him the same martial arts styles Ryuunosuke had been famous for. When they passed away, the Ryuuken was left to Chad, whom they described as "a more suitable holder for the sword". Chad's father grew mysteriously more distant after this, though Chad never could figure out why. He soon got his answers.

One night while handling the Ryuuken, the sword to glow with an eerie light. Chad then heard a voice in his mind, "You who wield the Ryuuken, do you accept its power?" the voice seemed to emanate from the blade itself. Bewildered, Chad said the first thing that popped into his head, "Yes..." he responded, and with that the blade flashed a brilliant light, and Chad suddenly found himself wearing the armor of a samurai. Once this happened, the voice from the sword became more clear. It was Ryuunosuke, or rather his spirit, that he said had been sealed into the sword long ago. He explained to Chad that he once wielded his sword in the name of justice, and that he believed Chad to be a worthy successor to his power. Chad also realized that this must have been the cause of his father's change. Katsuo must have known about the sword's power and wanted it himself, only for Chad to get it instead. Chad took up the sword, and has since used it to fight crime and evil as a masked warrior called Ronin.

Notes: Chad is a decent fighter, but is by no means a master. If the situation is bad enough, Ryuunosuke's spirit can temporarily take control of Chad's body to fight in his place, though this apparently is a costly maneuver, as the sword becomes temporarily depowered after the act is finished and mush recharge before the armor can be donned again.

Commitment: I'm willing to post as often as needed to keep the RP going.

Name - Justine Wright
Alias - Darkstalker
Age - 25
Experience - couple months
Powers - Ability to sap the life force through touch causing Euphoria in the victim. Able to heal quickly, and others although not as quickly. Flight. Demonic forearms and agility [ala Voodoo]
Weaknesses - Standard human weaknesses but without a regular supply of life force, becomes weak. Holy Grounds [can't walk into a church w/o bursting into flames]
Appearance -
Brief Bio - When Justine was only sixteen years old, she accidentally killed her first love in a steamy makeout session. After being assured it she was just in deep mourning and that the coroner had ruled it as a heart attack, Justine thought things would go back to normal but she kept noticing disturbing differences in her skin and having dreams she was turning into a monster. The following month when her family tried to take her along to church for the weekly scripture, it felt like someone had lit her on fire as pain erupted through her body. Her wings erupted from her body and she flew straight through a window and as far from her hometown as possible. Since then she has been bouncing around from town to town (since she tends to make enemies when she's craving "food") until she finally settled in Millennium City, putting her curse to good use whenever possible and working as a bartender.
Notes - Very Guarded of her past (including before she moved to millennium City), but is definitely not an introvert. She's bisexual and if there's anything besides life force that she craves then it'd be chocolate.
Commitment - Ummm... probably once a week at least.