Name: ???
Codename: Don Fantasma (Fantasma is spanish for ghost and gender-neutral)
Age: ????
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/country of origin: Spain
Appearance: A pale, tall, thin man whose face is perpetually hidden behind a white mask with a large, smiling mouth marked in black and big, black holes for eyeballs. It’s rather unsettling. His black hair, however, is visible and he keeps it short and perpetually slicked black. He usually dresses in an all-black suit with a white shirt, red tie and black gloves, shoes and a flat cap.
Rank: ?
Method of getting powers: Gene therapy?
Experiment or recruit?: Experiment?
Powers & their limits:
-Intangibility: By vibrating his molecules, Fantasma can phase through solid objects. It’s taken practice to learn how to do this while including his own clothes and small items he carries as well as maintaining proper grounding, and it takes conscious effort to extend the effect to anything larger than, say, a dictionary. Extending it to another person is quite trying, but doable for short periods of time. While phasing, Fantasma’s body becomes diffuse and he’s practically immune to all harm and impossible to harm through physical means. Of course, he’s unable to harm or interact with things in any meaningful way in return.
Since he can’t breathe while phasing through solids, there’s a limited amount of time Fantasma can stay within them and he can’t see through them while doing so. Extremely dense materials such as Aegium or Toramaru’s body are harder to phase through, requiring more effort. Phasing through a person is a rather uncomfortable experience for the “victim” and gives them a strange sensation not unlike a low power electric shock surging through their body. Machinery that is phased through will suffer small, momentary malfunctions. Extremely dense beings such as Toramaru will experience it not as a surge of electricity but as if they’re wading through water.
-Invisibility: By vibrating but differently, Fantasma can make himself invisible. It doesn’t cancel out any noises he might make and he can’t both be invisible and phase. Much like with his intangibility, he can extend this to others by touch, and it takes less effort in comparison.
-Vibroweapon: By using his vibrations in a different manner, he can enhance the effectiveness of his martial arts or extend the effect to a weapon made specifically to tolerate the vibrations, enhancing their effectiveness well beyond the limits of what he can do with his body alone. He can’t do this while phasing or becoming invisible, however.
-Vibrant mind: His powers have had two effects on his mind, they have greatly heightened his reflexes and response time and have made it quite difficult to contact him with telepathy. Unless great pains are taken both from the telepath and from Fantasma himself to smooth out communication, the only result will be a constant, dull buzzing noise.
-Supersoldier: Ostensibly a result of the gene therapy he was subjected to, Fantasma is deceptively athletic for a man his size, and he claims he received extensive spec-ops training, though of what nature he has never said. Nevertheless, he is an accomplished covert soldier.
Personality: An affable man, polite and soft spoken, who nevertheless has a very clear, idealistic idea of what a hero should be and do, though he recognizes the seriousness of the situation at hand and isn’t entirely against killing.
Backstory:
Nobody’s sure who or what Don Fantasma actually is, and they've tried to find out. There’s no records of him, no real name, no one’s ever seen his face. There’s a number of conflicting theories such as being an escaped secret weapon of Francoist Spain, an attempt to create a perfect genetic soldier by the military dictatorship of Francisco Franco and funded by numerous totalitarian movements and extremist cells across the world, or that he was in fact created by the ETA in opposition of Franco but he was considered too dangerous and unreliable and was thus kept frozen in storage until he was freed by a power failure during the alien invasion.
Some even say his origins stretch even further back, and that he was in fact some kind of spanish soldier, conquistador or nobleman of days past and that he was brought back to life by strange sorceries, but that’d be ridiculous. Now, his preserved body being experimented upon for being one to naturally manifest special abilities causing him to come back to life, or cloning the body to create a living superhuman, that’s only slightly less ridiculous. Whatever the case, he turned up one day after the world powers began recruiting those with powers, introducing himself, simply, as Don Fantasma, a superhero.
Equipment:
-Cane: A straight wooden cane, black and polished with silver caps top and bottom as well as a silver ring marking the “handle”. Made from rare Yekralam wood, which serves as a high quality natural conductor for Fantasma’s weaponized vibrations. Already an incredibly sturdy cane, when it is empowered by its wielder it becomes a surprisingly powerful bludgeon, capable of smashing through metals or knocking people away with ease, and it gains the ability to deflect all manners of assault.
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Navaja: A traditional spanish folding-blade fighting and utility knife. A mean thing, razor sharp and surprisingly large and long-bladed for what is essentially a pocket knife. When used to channel Fantasma’s weaponized vibrations it becomes capable of cleanly slicing through reinforced metals with a single stroke.
-Mask: A plain white mask with big round black dots for eyes and a pleasant smile marked in black for a face. It's rather offputting but not actively terrifying. It just won't come off.
Name: Myoto Hatsuki (family name first, like real Japanese people).
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/country of origin: Japanese/Japan
Rank: Colonel
Method of getting powers: Natural mutation
Experiment or Recruit?: Experiment
Powers & their limits: Telekinesis:
Crush: Surrounds an object in TK energy and pushes in. Can crush a tank.
Lift: Can lift an object. Has been known to throw cars over half a kilometer away.
Rip: Pulls part of an object in one direction, part in another. Has ripped a tank in half, though it exhausted her.
Levitation: Can fly at 30 kph. Prefers this to walking in dangerous situations.
Cocoon: TK shield that blocks incoming attacks. Known to stop machine gun fire and even an RPG.
Personality: Angry at everyone, as a result of the abuse she suffered as a child. She hates anyone who doesn't have powers, believing that they can't hope to understand what she went through. The only people she really likes, though, are her fellow Experiments and those that have chosen Gene Therapy.
Backstory: The government of Japan was searching for people with powers since WWII when they learned of them. To that end, they were scanning every child that was born at a major hospital. They found her in 1996, and a few months later they arranged for her to be kidnapped and sent to them at a research facility.
She was constantly tested from birth, having to retrieve her own bottle from nearby, or other things. Once she reached five years old they started her military training, teaching her to fight and survive, and when she got older, making her fight for her life against robots and other soldiers, though she couldn't kill the soldiers. In fact, when she was 14, they put her on an island by herself and made her survive being hunted for an entire year.
She was to be their secret weapon, the ultimate warrior to defend them should they be attacked, more powerful than the nuclear bomb that had once been dropped on them. Due to disciplinary problems, mainly the fact that she refused to listen to anyone without powers, they couldn't put her in the field, as their other super-powered warriors were to weak to force her to obey in really desperate situations. When the aliens appeared, though, they transferred her to the UN, where there were other experiments for her to be friends with.
Equipment: Kevlar Armor, Combat Knife, Katana
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Name: Mark Johanson
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/country of origin: Caucasian/USA
Rank: Lieutenant
Method of getting powers: Gene Therapy
Experiment or recruit?: Recruit
Powers & their limits: Telepathy:
Mind Speak: Send messages to people at a distance. Distance based on concentration.
Mind Link: Connects him to another mind. He can then alter perception or view their memories.
Mind Meld: Merges with their mind, so that he can relive their memories and alter them. Very short range.
Mind Sense: Can tell where other minds are around him.
Personality: Wants to learn as much as he can about technology and powers.
Backstory: When his apartment was destroyed in the initial invasion, he joined the recruits, despite not trusting the government. The threat was too serious for him not to join, he believed. He had been a mechanic in a factory before that, so he got trained as a technician for the military. There he chose Gene therapy for his powers, as they would give him the most control and wouldn't risk brain damage.
He trained his powers every day after that, and, when they discovered that the aliens use telepathy and can invade minds if you get too close, he started using his powers to train the others in mental defense, something which anyone could learn, even if they didn't have powers, though the powers made it easier.
When they started forming teams, he chose to join Hatsuki's team, as he was one of the few people she considered a friend because he had taught her to defend her mind almost as well as her powers let her defend her body.
Equipment: Kevlar armor, Shoto, 12 ga pistol grip shotgun with Magnesium shells, AK-47 with hardened rounds
Name: MAX
Age: built in 1957
Gender: neutral
Ethnicity/country of origin: American
Rank: Wisconsin Senator (by Write-In vote), Petty Officer 3rd Class
Method of getting powers: Engineering.
Experiment or recruit?: Experiment
Powers & their limits: MAX is a machine built for one thing: To survive the certainly-impending Nuclear Holocaust during the Cold War. To this end, he is constructed entirely of the superalloy Aegium. This then-experimental alloy is incredibly hard to make, its components are incredibly expensive, and most of the supply available during the 20th century went into the construction of this 6-foot-tall robot. Because of his creator's paranoia, MAX is also equipped with a forcefield that prevents incorporeal travel, and the parts of him involved with programming and personality are shielded by alloys that interfere with radiation, RADAR, and (according to the notes of his creator) magic. This renders him, essentially, indestructible- atomic bombs could not harm him during testing. However, invulnerability and enhanced robot strength are the full extent of his abilities, and he can not be modified- to do so would require disassembling him, and it's pretty hard to get through Aegium.
Personality: MAX is secure in the knowledge that he is the most advanced machine that 1965 has to offer. Devoid of emotion, he seeks to destroy aliens, alien technology, malfunctioning technology, machines that might be used for war, and the vile criminals known as "Commies." He is still bound to the three laws, but he is really good at finding loopholes. Despite his outdated technology, MAX has a fundamental understanding of most scientific principles as understood at the time of his creation. While his knowledge pool lacks more recent discoveries, he knows essentially every bit of minutia of every scientific and biological principle available as of his last update in November 1965.
Backstory:
MAX was created during the Cold War by an insane scientist. Not "They stood there and mocked me! THE WHOLE WORLD MOCKED ME!" insane. "Ants live in my skin, government microchips in my cornflakes" insane. Though his assertions on the coming apocalypse seemed to change by the hour ("The shapeshifting reptilian aliens in the houses of power will rise up and bombard the earth with radiation!" "Communist ghosts will possess our machines!" "An army of Wizard Hitler Clones will march against us!"), he was certain the world would be ending very soon. To this end, he created MAX. MAX thought at an unmatched speed of 2.5 Megabytes per second. MAX was named because he was, at the time, the absolute maximum of technology. Granted, that was in 1957. He was built to survive any of the delusional scientist's theoretical apocalypses, then share his expansive knowledge of science with the survivors. Of course, the apocalypse never came, and MAX was left in storage. In 1980, however, he was awakened by a lightning strike. Not recognizing any of the strange technology, he came to the conclusion that all of it was either 1) Communist Trickery or 2) Alien War Machines. This led to... unfortunate repercussions as the indestructible MAX rampaged across the world, destroying advanced technology. Though it was easy enough to capture him, reprogramming him proved to be impossible- the technology needed was either in museums or phased out of production completely. So, MAX was left in a hole. Until the invasion began, and the UN recognized that the dated robot was their best hope of survival.
Equipment: Nothing of note.
Name: Liam Brown
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/country of origin:Caucasian/Canadian
Rank: Private/Conscript
Method of getting powers: Surgery
Experiment or Recruit?: Experiment
Experiment Powers & their limits: Enhanced TK Senses
Pyrokinetic Vision: Depending on the time Liam takes to 'charge' before the release, it can either be a minor annoyance, to something capable of melting steel. Either way the process of generating heat in front of his eyes doesn't tend to be very 'comfortable'.
Sixth Sense: Liam's senses have been enhanced in such a way that he detects things beyond normal capability. The most enhanced of his senses, and the one he has the most control over is sight. The rest of the senses go off in an unpredictable manner, such as him smelling far more than he intended, or his hearing becoming more super-sensitive at seemingly a whim, among other strange ways. As a method of dealing with it he has rigorously tried to learn ways to turn his senses 'off'. His training has been, so-so in its effectiveness, but not as effective as just spending time in a sensory deprivation rig.
Personality: Liam Brown, before the operation was a soft spoken man. He wasn't too noticeable and was a rather bland and average individual. The only real special thing is the daily rituals he'd do, and having a mild case of synesthesia. After the procedure, he well still mostly the same, although he has become fairly unhinged, more inclined to strange and curious outbursts. And of course the synesthesia he had had become much more severe. Despite that he is typically more or less the same, a boring soft spoken man.
Backstory: Liam Brown was born in the Ontario Providence of Canada. He lived a mundane life, with nothing of note happening, until he was caught for embezzlement at the pharmaceutical company at which he was employed. And after that the divorce; Granted, he was going to divorce her soon anyway because his wife cheated on him with a Fisherman from Novia Scotia. For his White Collar crimes he was sent to the correctional institution where he served many months in, without anything notable happening. However, nearing the end of his sentence, armed forces came in taking fairly low-risk criminals in order to get soldiers for the war against the aliens. Liam had nothing really to lose, at least he thought, and went with the procedure. After the results showed that he had the powers, he was quickly taken by the UN to serve.
Equipment: A Mobile Sensory Deprivation Rig, a Colt Canada C7, and a Desert Eagle
Name: Pvt. Harry Abrams
Age: 33
Gender: M
Country of Origin: United States
Rank: Private
Method of getting powers: Surgical
Experiment or Recruit?: Recruit
Powers & their limits: 
