Justin Hammer:I'd be open to working with you on the Justin Hammer material as it could give a nice potential conflict Tony Stark has to deal with down the road.
Fantastic Four:I'm curious of your ideas given what has been put into motion in the timeline.
Don't have an opinion about the other two... EE, Wraith?
I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion. . .
| Identity |Theodore 'Ted' Grant
Wildcat
The Snyder Street Sensation
Gutter Grant
| Origin & Backstory |Theodore 'Ted' Grant was born in Gotham, long before there was a Batman keeping the streets safe. Back then a man had to know how to take care of himself, so to that end Henry Grant taught his son how to box. Young Ted took to the sport like a duck takes to water. In fact all his boxing training had the adverse effect of what his father had hoped for, that instead of keeping him out of trouble it was getting him into it. Ted had it in his mind that he had to prove he was the toughest kid on the block, eagerly jumping into any scrap he could find, regardless of the cause.
He eventually fell in with a gang of street toughs who called themselves the Wildcats. The group of late teen, young adult men dealt in petty crimes usually, while occasionally committing the odd stick-up job, all while having regular brawls with other youth gangs, hoping that they could catch the eyes of some of the cities Made Men, and make their way up to the big leagues of organised crime. While Ted didn't really care for becoming a full-time criminal, he did enjoy the respect he received for becoming one of Gotham's most effective bruisers.
Henry, worried about the direction his sons life was taking, figured he needed a more respectable outlet for his more violent urges, and so signed him up for an amateur boxing tournament. Ted demolished the competition, and in the doing he discovered what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. He wanted to be a boxer. However he wasn't keen to just abandon his old friends in the Wildcats, so while he wasn't in the ring he'd usually accompany them on whatever jobs they had lined up.
Things change though, and as the boxing demanded more and more of Ted's time he found he had less to give his gang. After all, this was a time when heavyweight boxing was dominated by some of the best names to ever grace the sport, men like Joe Fraiser, George Foreman, and of course Muhammed Ali after his forced exile. Ted couldn't afford to divide his attention. Things came to a head when he found out he had earned a chance at a title shot. He told the Wildcats he wanted out. The Wildcats, unsurprisingly perhaps, weren't best pleased. Ted was their muscle, their ace in the hole against the other gangs, and they didn't want to lose him. So they concocted a plan, one were they sent a crew round to Henry Grant's house, to beat Ted's father mercilessly and make it look like the work of one of the rival gangs. However Ted came home early that night, caught the men in the act, and reacted unsurprisingly, beating the crew in kind, even accidentally killing one man, John Travis.
Ted was defended under the Castle Doctrine, though he received a five year ban from boxing. Small punishment to his mind, for taking a man's life. He quit the Wildcats then, and became obsessed with making amends. At first he tried to pay back Travis' family, but they refused to speak to him at all, or accept any of his help, so he turned his efforts to charity. He tried his hand at anything he could find, church work, volunteering in soup kitchens, trying and failing to find something that might help him feel absolved of some of the guilt that was trying to crush him.
His salvation came one afternoon when he was loading boxes at the docks and a bunch of hood-rats arrived with the intention of squeezing some protection money from the dock-master. Ted was just thinking about intervening when none other than Green Lantern, member of the Justice Society, came floating down. The hero made short work of the villains, and left Ted with the knowledge of what he had to do.
He was to become a vigilante.
He would use his fighting skills to protect the little guys, to give back to society a little of what he had taken. With a makeshift costume costume and an Indian Scout motorcycle he took on the guise of the vigilante Wildcat. With his old ties to the underworld he knew just where to hit the criminals to make it hurt, and it wasn't long until he'd made some big waves. If boxing had been his career, then vigilantism had become Ted's passion.It wasn't long before Ted caught the eye's of the other heroes of the day, and was offered a preliminary place on the Justice Society. While at first he was overjoyed to be thought worthy enough to stand among the likes of Green Lantern, the Flash, and Starman, he quickly discovered his roughshod approach to vigilantism didn't quite mesh with the groups clean-cut aesthetic.
It was with the Society that Ted received his first bite of 'super-crime', facing the likes of the Fourth Reich, Blackbriar Thorn, the Psycho Pirate, Solomon Grundy, and Johnny Sorrow. Although he was just a man with a talent for punching, and by all rights should have been unbelievably outmatched in all those encounters, Ted kept his head cool and triumphed, proving you didn't need a magic ring, super speed, or fantastic gadgets to be a hero. After that the other members of the Society grew to accept him as one of their own.
It couldn't last though, and by the late seventies it seemed that America was tiring of the Justice Society. When Senator Arthur Reeves claimed they were nothing but narcissistic vigilantes who needed to be ‘registered’ with the government Ted insisted that the team march on Washington and tell the government where they could stick their 'registration', but he was the minority voice. The group decided to vote on their future, and whether or not they should disband. Wildcat voted against it, arguing that America still needed them, even if the country refused to believe it. He couldn't sway the others though, and in 1979 the Justice Society was no more.Lost and angry, Wildcat returned to solo vigilantism for a time, though was forced to quit in 1982 when he realized that his heart just wasn't in it anymore. The disbandment of the Society had taken from him his drive to protect others, and without it he was afraid that he was just using the Wildcat guise to take his anger out on others, a path that he knew led nowhere good.
After his suspension was over he returned to boxing, it being the only other life he had ever known. Ted was a revelation to boxing audiences, a stoic, enigmatic, brilliant gladiator who dispensed with the pre-match theatrics and opponent baiting practiced by his contempories to instead allow his actions to speak for him. Described as a 'flickering flame in the ring, delighting in the dance and destined to burn all foolish enough to challenge him', boxing fans were eager to accept him as a potential ambassador of the sport to the rest of the world, a spot left vacant since Muhammed Ali's departure in 1981. It seemed he could do no wrong in the ring.
His personal life, however, was going to hell in a hand-basket. Drinking, drugs, loose women and hard nights, this new age without the Justice Society was hurting Ted deep. This suited the media, who we're treating the boxer as their latest golden goose. Hardly a week went by where he wasn't in some tabloid or other.
Ted cemented his place in the Boxing hall of fame when he united the heavyweight championship in 1989, after a grueling match with Mike Tyson, who was at the time considered Grant's greatest threat. He was also declared Lineal Champion, considered by many (Ted among them) a much greater accolade than the actual official titles.
Things changed when in 1990 Buster Douglas, a 42 to 1 underdog, upsets Grant by going the 12 round distance Tokyo, even managing to knock Ted to the canvas twice. The media was quick to report that it should have been an easy win for Grant, that his hard living had obviously interfered with his training, though that maybe it was time for the old warhorse to throw in the towel. Despite their heckling Grant kept boxing, and though he did manage several successful title defenses in the following years, he never did regain the dizzy heights of his hey-day. He retired in 1997 with a professional record of 47 fights, 47 wins.
Ted opened his own gym in Gotham, deciding that it was time for him to pass on his skills and knowledge to the next generation. To his surprise he found he had a knack for teaching, and would later wonder why he never quit the boxing and take up coaching earlier. Many aspiring young fighters come through his doors, and at one point he even had the pleasure of teaching Bruce Wayne, Gotham's favored son.
Then in December 2003 everything changed for him again when he found out he had a son.It's fair to say when social services contacted Ted to tell him about the son, Thomas Bronson, he never knew he had that he was knocked for a loop. He could barely even remember the boys recently deceased mother, a one night stand who had insisted she was related to African royalty. She had never tried to contact him to tell him about their son to his knowledge.
Grant dropped everything and traveled to New York to take custody of the boy, though if he had hoped for an emotional reunion then he was sorely disappointed. The two were complete strangers, and while there was no resentment from Tommy for his years of missing out on a father, neither was he particularly thrilled to meet Ted.
Ted re-opened his gym in New York while trying to connect with his son, to little success, while fully expecting to live out his golden years in peace.
How wrong he was.
| Attributes |Hand-to-hand combatTed Grant is a master combatant, easily ranking among the best in the world even at his age. His favorite, foremost and first learned combat skill was and always will be boxing, and he is considered by man to be the greatest boxer to ever live, though he has mastered several other styles such as Krav Maga, Muay Thai, Hapkaido, and Capoeira. Ted has in shown the ability to read body movement and predict and know where his opponent will strike before they do allowing himself to defend against it.
Physical conditioningTed is in excellent physical condition, stronger, faster and tougher than most men half his age. However the constraints of time are starting to slow him down, regardless of how little he wishes to acknowledge them.
IntelligentWhile being the first to admit that he isn't the smartest of me, Ted does have street smarts in abundance, while also possessing a certain kind of animal cunning. He's also always had an understanding of people, and what makes them tick. He imagines this is in some way linked to his ability to read opponents.
| Character Notes |Thomas 'Tommy' Bronson - Ted's only son, who he knew nothing about until recently. The two have only recently connected after the death of Tommy's mother, and are still unsure as to how to act around each other. Goes to school with Peter Parker.
Mark 'Sock' Muldoon - The son of Ted's first promoter, and Ted's oldest friend. Works in Grant's gym, running the accounts.
Veronica 'Roulette' Sinclair - A young business woman who's shown some interest in Ted, though for what reason he isn't sure.
Claudio 'Clawhammer' Volpe - Amateur boxer who trains at Grant's gym. Struggles with anger issues. Older brother has ties to organised crime.
The Justice Society - Ted's old team. Emphasis on the old. While most of them are retired they do still keep in touch.To be expanded upon during the RPGrant's Gym - The gym owned by Ted, where he trains young boxers.
Roulette's - A small chain of upscale sports bars run by Veronica Sinclair. Sinclair is a self-proclaimed fight fan, and has instructed all staff at her four different establishments that Ted Grant is to drink for free. There is some talk of Roulette's serving as a haven for mafiosi types, and housing underground fighting events, but as of the moment that's all it is; talk.
| Character Goals |To write a character who's really got something to prove, who's determined to show everyone that he's still got a place in this new world. I'd love to get a lot of character interaction on with Ted, as I feel he really shines when he' working with other, younger heroes. At the same time I have more than a few solo adventures in mind for him.
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Was kinda hoping from the different ideas with F4, Secret Warriors, Hammer and Winter Guard you guys would prefer one over the others :P
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It's not really our call, ha. In the end of the day you need to pick the character you want to play.
That being said, of the one's you've suggested I'd personally be most interested reading your interpretations of the Fantastic Four or Winter Guard. But you do you, man.
Thor CS incoming!| Identity |
Name: Thor Goddess of Thunder
Alias: Tara Olsen (a human name if she is on the DL), Tarene (birth name), Thor Girl (previous title), Hammer Girl.| Origin & Backstory |
Humble Beginnings
Born with a predetermined destiny, Tarene believed her life was perfectly scripted out for her and all she had to do was play her part. A future seer declared that she would become a great hero and save many world's from darkness. What she did not know was that even a prescripted destiny was hard to follow.
A Hero is Born
At first, she was subject to much ridicule and scorn from the larger, older and more battle-hardened Asgardian men whom didn't believe a young girl such as Tarene could hold her own in battle. Although disappointed at first, she wasn't dissuaded and fought to convince the nay-sayers that she was just as capable as they were. Thor Odinson noticed the young girls enthusiasm and determination and encouraged her to train harder, his encouragement, along with that of the Lady Sif whom was also making a name on the battlefield for herself, allowed Tarene to get her first taste of battle on the cold wastes of Jotunheim.
Out in the frosts, Thor Odinson noticed that Tarene was indeed a brave warrior, and so he allowed her to fight alongside him in future conflicts. He bestowed unto her many tips and stories to aid her growth as a warrior. She learned to use a variety of weapons before finally settling on a golden hammer, thus earning her the nickname Thor Girl as she fought alongside Thor Odinson using a hammer, much like he did with his Mjolnir.
Over time Tarene became a powerful goddess in her own right, proving herself to be a formidable Asgardian warrior, comparable to the Lady Sif. She earned the respect and admiration of her peers, yet despite her many courageous feats, she often appeared as little more than a sidekick to Thor Odinson. Although she greatly admired and respected her mentor, Tarene wanted to live out her own destiny and not spend her days living in the shadow of her mentor. She loyally served under the All Father Odin, and later under Thor following his coronation as King of Asgard.
Brother Dearest
Loki, adopted brother of Thor, often wrought havoc in Asgard and across a number of the 9 Realms. Despite having more than one opportunity to kill Loki, Thor could never bring himself to slay his brother, and despite Tarene's protests, he would not allow her to slay Loki either. Sparing Loki would later prove to be Thor's greatest mistake as Ruler of Asgard. Tarene, reluctant to commit treason and betray her King, stayed her hand, though she was reluctant to spare Loki's life. Loki was committed to prison but even locked in a cage, Loki could not be stopped.
When Heroes Fall: Ragnarok
Loki, bitter and vengeful, allied himself with the Fire Demon Surtur so that he could escape his prison and destroy Asgard, the events that transpired culminated in Ragnarok, a war which would destroy the Asgardians and the entire realm of Asgard.
When Ragnarok (the end of days) struck her precious realm of Asgard, Tarene took up arms to face off against the End itself. During the fight, an evil clone of Thor appeared and attacked her she believed she had been betrayed by her greatest ally. She sought out Loki to fight him head on and kill him once and for all but despite her years of battle, Loki proved to be a more formidable opponent, catching her out with tricks and sorcery. Moments before Loki, alongside the evil Thor-clone could deliver what would have been a fatal blow, the real Thor Odinson appeared and saved her. Thor Odinson had lost one of his arms, but in the other arm, he clung onto Mjolnir. He told her to fall back, to take the Bifrost to Vanaheim before it was destroyed.
While Asgard crumbled around her and became consumed by fire, death and destruction, she managed to make her escape, under Odinson's orders and reached Vanaheim where the Vanir used their magic to heal her. During her escape and subsequent recuperation, Asgard fell and the Asgardian's were killed in the war.
The Aftermath
Dreadfully depressed about what she believed to be her failure to stop the end and save the realm she loved so dearly Tarene began to roam the 9 realms in search of Thor Odinson and in search of answers. SHe believed that Thor Odinson was so strong that he could not possibly have perished.
Her spirit broken by what she believed was her utter failure to live up to her destiny, she wandered the world like a lost soul for many years, digging through the wreckage of Asgard and discovering only ashes and bones.
A Hero Reborn
Tarene's life would take an interesting new course when she found Mjolnir, Thor's legendary hammer. With nothing left of Asgard, Tarene wound up on Midgard (Earth), a realm which Thor Odinson had always held a great fondness for. She adopted the alias "Tara Olsen" to blend in with Midgardian society, but it was largely a struggle and she found herself living a nomadic lifestyle travelling with caravaners across the United States. In the wilds of Oklahoma she discovered Mjolnir lying abandoned in a desert crater. To her own disbelief, she was able to lift the hammer and thus she acquired Thor's powers. Believing her own destiny was a lost cause she took up the mantle of Thor taking his name and his legacy and seeking to right the wrongs that had befallen Asgard.
The discovery of Mjolnir abandoned on Midgard was both a comfort, and also distressing. With Mjolnir on Midgard instead of Asgard, she believed perhaps Odinson had escaped, however, Odinson would never part with his hammer willingly, which led Tarene to believe perhaps something untoward had happened to her former King.
Regardless of Odinson's fate, Tarene became "Thor, Goddess of Thunder" and vowed to remedy the wrongs that had befallen Asgard and protect Odinson's precious Earth Realm. She made her way out of the desert to begin her new life. Armed with Mjolnir, but no idea what Midgardian life and culture consisted of, she had a shaky start. The city is a whole other world compared to the desert wilds or the pristine uninhabited mountains, still new to this world, the new Thor has to learn who her friends and enemies are, and also how to use a cell phone.
Does History Repeat Itself?
A deep seeded self-loathing, and an unstable lust for revenge against those who played a role in Ragnarok (namely Loki Laufeyson) mean that she walks along a thin line between saving the world, and destroying it herself.
Will she become the hero she was meant to be or will she end up causing more destruction than Ragnarok unleashed upon her world?| Attributes |
Strenghts:
Mjolnir: mythical hammer only those deemed worthy if it's power shall lift it and with the hammer she possesses the powers of Thor. The hammer can be called "telepathically" (for lack of a better word) to fly into her hand whenever she needs it. Forged from Uru it is virtually indestructible and packs a mean punch.
Powers of Thor: with the hammer comes Thor Odinsons powers, aka possessing the power of the God of Thunder. She can manipulate thunder and lightning and create dangerous storms and even tornados with a little help from Mjolnir.
Flight: Thor can use Mjolnir to fly, in a pinch it can be used for interdimensional travel so she can traverse between realms which is great since travelling between realms is tricky since the Bifrost was destroyed.
Asgardian: as she is an Asgardian she is immune to all human illnesses and possesses extreme longevity and a pretty impressive healing factor. Superior strength, speed and stamina and damn good reflexes.
Years of training have resulted in her being a formidable opponent in hand to hand combat as well as being able to use a variety of weapons although Mjolnir is always her trusted weapon of choice.
Asgardian armour: forged by dwarves her armour can take quite a beating, as the Thunder Goddess, she can generate scale-maile armour made of lightning energy itself to protect her arms.
Weaknesses:
Technologically incompetent. She cannot utilise any modern technology.
Unworthy? If Mjolnir no longer deems her worthy she loses the ability to wield the hammer and the perks that come with it thus leaving her in a weakened but not entirely useless state. Without Mjolnir, she still possesses the abilities of a battle hardened Asgardian.
Ignorance is bliss: Thor doesn't know much about earth or its customs, she's also prone to act first and think later so strategizing is not a strong point. On a super hero scale her intelligence is below average but she possesses incredible strength to compensate.
Destiny unbound: with her "failed" destiny as Tarene, she now has a whole new destiny as Thor however this destiny could take her down the wrong path.
Ghosts of the past: she is haunted by her past and believes she failed Odinson and failed Asgard. Her lack of self confidence in Tarene is a weak point and her confidence as the "new Thor" is built on shaky foundations leaving her open to emotional manipulation. She also gets homesick and lonely for good company which means she's likely to hang around with the wrong crowd if they appear inviting.
Ragnarok PTSD: She experiences flashbacks of unimaginable horrors, sometimes reliving what happened on Asgard during Ragnarok. She can react violently and unpredictably.| Character Notes |Supporting Casts & Rogues
Thor Odinson: THE God of Thunder and former wielder of Mjolnir. He has been MiA, presumed KiA, following Ragnarok, no traces of him have yet been found thus he cannot be officially declared dead, however given how long it has been without any sign of him, its presumed he perished on Asgard. (SThor will mention him a lot possibly, but I'm not going to touch this chararcter, in case someone wants to jump in and play Odinson, it would be cool for the two to meet in the future and see how that pans out!)
Jane Foster: Former love interest of Thor Odinson, Foster, and fellow physicist Dr Erik Selvig, were good friends of Odinson's. Given that a total stranger is going to shope up around town swinging a hammer and declaring to be the "God of Thunder" when she is certainly not the Odinson Selvig and Foster are familiar with, they will be displeased with whats going on.
Erik Selvig: (See Jane Foster)
Loki Laufeyson: Thor's greatest enemy, and Odinson's adopted brother. Thor would tear the 9 Realms to shreds if it would reveal Loki's location so she could proceed to tear him limb from limb. The Trickster, Loki is the God of Lies and played a large role to say the least, when it came to bringing about the events of Ragnarok.
Lady Sif and the Warriors Three (Hogun, Volstagg and Fandral): Asgardian warriors and dear friends of Thor's, all presumed dead after the events of Ragnarok, though like Odinson, it is difficult to confirm.Locations
Bifrost:The bridge between realms, Thor used it to escape Asgard but it has since been destroyed and she has relied on powerful magic or other means of travel to get from place to place.
Asgard: Her former home, this realm was destroyed and all that remains is death and rubble.
Jotunheim: Realm of the Frost Giants, a barren, ice cold world where Tarene once fought alongside Thor Odinson.
Vanaheim: A realm of healers and magicians, Thor spent some time here recovering after escaping Asgard.
Midgard: Basically Earth though in Asgard it is referred to as Midgard.
Oklahoma: This is where Tarene discovered Mjolnir lying in a crater and she became Thor.
| Character Goals |
Thor is evil but has good intentions. She is an anti-villain, a villain who does not want to be a villain or is not aware she is a villain.
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She is at risk of becoming unworthy of Mjolnir, as her desire for revenge and the horrors of her past threaten to send her down a dark path.
Destiny doomed to fail: Thor winds up allying with the bad guys believing they are the good guys. She's generally their muscle and does what they say with minimal questions. Running from her past eventually things catch up with her and she realises she is going down the wrong path. Perhaps it's too late and she loses the hammer she hold dear and has to make peace wirh herself in order to become worthy again (of the hammer and/or of being a hero) and fix her mistakes before its too late. Perhaps it will be too late and in her despair and grief she only turns darker and more dangerous and destructive regardless of Mjolnir.
I've played Thor and SThor before in a few different styles and scenarios, while Loki is my babe, I think that my strength lies in playing Thor/SThor when it comes to RP-ing Asgardians. -Loki is still my #1 MCU character though and I love him so much omg-
I want to explore Thor unworthy or evil Thor themes, and also Thor's identity crisis and inability to accept her past mistakes.
| References |
(Comic RP reference)
#3 - Sample Post: SThor Threatens Stark Towers, Marvel Group RP
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I totally didn't see that coming. :P
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Can't help it man, Thor is my Babe ;P
Edit: I want to make her more evil though, I reckon she'll redeem herself in Marvel Mundus, but here ... could be no holds barred evilness buwahaha
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Can't help it man, Thor is my Babe ;P
Edit: I want to make her more evil though, I reckon she'll redeem herself in Marvel Mundus, but here ... could be no holds barred evilness buwahaha
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I guess Ursu Major will be getting the Hammer :P
Anyone else having trouble with the site? I'm having to "retry for a live version" every time I try to do anything.
