Are you serious?
Yes.

So are The Planeteers zombies, or what?
The Planeteers were killed in accidents set forth in motion through divine intervention by Gaia, and were resurrected after being offered their lives in exchange for being servants of Gaia. This explains why the parents of the teenagers we're playing aren't looking for them, and why a bunch of teenagers would agree to leave everything to risk their lives in the name of environmentalism.

How will The Planeteers get around?
Gaia is constantly teleporting them places to fix shit.

How powerful are the rings?
I couldn't give you a number out of 10, but the rings allow the wearer pretty standard elemental bending. The rings require that their element be present to work, so the air planeteer can't fight in a vacuum, the earth planeteer can't fight in a metal room, et cetera. The only exception I'll allow on this rule is fire, which will just require more air than the air planeteer to work, because reasons.

As mentioned, this iteration of Captain Planet and The Planeteers will be decidedly less cheesy than the originals. The most notable part of this change is the Captain himself, who is now less of an outdated mascot and more of a terrifying force of nature.

Using the mythology of Judaism/Christianity/Islam, Gaia is pretty much God, The Planeteers are her prophets, and Captain Planet is a vengeful archangel of sorts. God could cause plagues and floods to wipe out a problem, but lacked a corporeal form to deal directly with the subjects causing the problem. He could occasionally speak to humans, though this is only ever depicted through very abstract means (Burning bush/talking thunder), and in the same way, Gaia will only ever talk to our characters, The Planeteers, through visions. This leaves Captain with a less central role, as he is in many ways trapped in the rings as a nonhuman entity.

The Planeteers are the ambassador of Gaia first and foremost and are largely pacifistic in their initial approach, though there's a likely possibility throughout the story that we'll just devolve to ecoterrorism. Although The Planeteers are the voice of Gaia and can fight when they need to, it is an uncontested fact that her sword is Captain Planet. His powers in this RP extend further than the original canon's powers -- Instead of having run-of-the-mill elemental control, Captain Planet is a fearsome destructive force capable of creating tsunamis that cover islands, fires that burn as hot as the sun, winds that can reshape earth itself, and so on. His power is equivalent to anything you'd ascribe the phrase "Wrath of God" to, and if you find yourself wondering who would win in a fight between himself and another fictional character, unless the opponent in question is Sundipped Superman or Garbodor, the answer is probably Captain.

Bear in mind, Captain Planet is an extension of Gaia, though he still has his own free will. Whereas his Abrahamic counterparts (Azrael/Archangel Michael) relied on their largely Lawful Good religious beliefs as a scale to judge mankind by, Captain Planet lacks any code other than that of nature, which is pretty True Neutral about things. He's generally only summoned as a last resort, as the destruction he's capable of leaves too much of a risk for him to even exist outside of the rings. If The Planeteers choose to take down an enemy through force, a pollutant-filled factory gets blown up. If Captain Planet chooses to take an enemy down by force, the factory and everything within a thirty mile radius, schools, orphanages, hospitals and all, are reduced to a single, smoldering crater in a firestorm of biblical proportions. Captain Planet's main concern is the earth -- not mankind -- and when faced with a tough decision, will choose whatever is best for the earth in the long term.

It's worth mentioning that Captain Planet will always attempt to solve a situation diplomatically at first, though his tone and voice are decidedly less preachy than the original. He definitely isn't human, and this is most prominent in his detached view of humanity and willingness to kill for the planet. He knows that The Planeteers are helpful to his cause and are on his side, though as a being that exists only to be used as a divine mouthpiece or weapon, he and the group aren't exactly friends.

Although he is much more powerful than his original incarnation, he is not without weakness. Pollution significantly weakens him, and is generally as poison to him as Kryptonite would be to Superman. Aside from the usual pollutants, radioactive waste and manmade radioactive material are especially poisonous to him, to the point that it can be used to kill the otherwise immortal being. Keep in mind, though radiation is natural, it is harmful to animals and thus hated by Gaia, which in turn allows it to harm Captain Planet. Though this fact means that there is a thought process involved in whether or not Gaia dislikes something and if it is harmful to Captain Planet or not, just go with it.

In the show, Gaia lives on Hope Island, is the female counterpart of Captain Planet, and guards peace and harmony as the Spirit of Earth. Given that this is all hippie bullshit, the Gaia in this story will be a more primal entity. Instead of taking the form of a middle-aged woman, our Gaia is simply the consciousness of Earth, who speaks to The Planeteers in visions. Though Gaia is referred to by Captain Planet as "She", little is really known about Gaia other than her being the literal Earth, and her being the creator of the rings. The visions Gaia uses to speak to The Planeteers are infrequent but important, and are usually more intimate than the group-chat thing she had in the original series. Once again, think God->Prophet conversations. Booming voice, supernatural occurences, probably a nosebleed or two. In general, I plan for the descriptions of visions to be similar to the head rush you get from standing up too quick, combined with vague commands.

Her true form is so great that it is beyond comprehension, leaving most to see her with impossible features, such as those seen during DMT highs (Multiple faces and arms, translucency, auras of color, etc.) Her voice is equally so great that non-planeteers who hear it are deafened if she speaks above a whisper. She has cosmic-level reality warping powers, which Captain Planet only has a fraction of. She has full control of the earth's orbit, temperature, humidity, size, and shape. She can create matter in all forms, is omnipresent, and can probably time travel. That being said, she doesn't really use her powers, since Captain and The Planeteers do a lot of that for her. It is possible to speak with her through meditation, though otherwise her interactions with The Planeteers are few and far between.

James Okafor is a warlord, currently hiding in a compound in Liberia. He leads the North African Christian Front, or NACF, a terrorist organization based in Morocco. He is known for being exceptionally fearsome and cruel, going as far as to drink the blood of his killed enemies and personally kidnapping large portions of his child army. He has three pet hyenas that he feeds a steady diet of steroids and raw meat, and several dozen captured jaguars and baboons he frequently pits prisoners of war against in gladiatorial combat.



Bruce Sidley is the CEO and founder of Titan Oil. Though Titan supplies most of Eastern Canada with oil, they also lead the region's oil spills and fracking percentages, having been kept in business through generous donations to the fundraisers of Canadian politicians. Aside from this, Bruce is the subject of a longstanding investigation for Titan Oil's environmental crimes, which have mostly been covered up.

That's you! The Planeteers are humans chosen by Gaia to serve as protectors of earth and humanity. To do so, they are each given rings that allows them to control a specific element -- This is seemingly done to encourage teamwork and to enforce a respect and understanding of nature in Gaia's followers, though the true reason for this will be made clear in the plot I have in mind. It is Gaia's belief that in order to have a desire to protect humanity, the protectors of earth must feel compassion toward humans, and the only way of doing so is living among them. If the protector of earth was instead an all-powerful immortal being like Captain Planet, this protector would not have anything in common with ordinary people. Gaia also acknowledges that the protectors of earth must experience human life and emotions, such as sadness, anger, joy, and happiness, in order to learn how precious human life is and therefore understand the need to protect it. At the start of the RP, The Planeteers are all being summoned by Gaia, given rings, and sent to their new home, Hope Island.

As mentioned, I'd like a group of five, though I'd be willing to let in a sixth weird element (Either Wood, Metal, or Electricity) if there's enough demand to warrant a sixth player. Each role will correspond to a role in the show, though I'm drawing them more from the stock 'five-man-band' characters. By all means, that doesn't mean that your character should be a stereotype; since this is character based, I'm really hoping for characters who can come to life. However, I believe that it is important that the characters have different talents and personalities, and that having these vague roles already established is the best way to ensure that happens.

These characters are as follows: (I'm going by random genders, but any character can be any biological sex and gender identity. However, keep in mind I'll be playing a male planeteer, and I'll be trying to keep the genders even.

The Leader - Whether he likes it or not, this character is the type of person who people naturally gravitate to in times of crisis. His ability to keep a clear head under pressure and naturally strong leadership abilities are his best strengths, and characters will naturally fall in behind him when the going gets rough. Examples include Captain America, Aragorn, and Optimus Prime.

The Lancer - Where the leader is calm and in control, his lancer is often rash and impulsive. She can be the leader's best friend or worst rival but she is the second-in-command, first and foremost. Though her unpredictability can sometimes make her difficult to work with, her ability to think outside of the box and her extreme loyalty make her an asset to the team. Examples include Han Solo, Jack Sparrow, and Iron Man.

The Big Guy - While not necessarily the largest member of the team, physically, he's definitely the most aggressive. He could hold his own in a fight even before becoming a planeteer. He's almost always in favor of doing things in the most direct, preferably physical way possible. This trait may put him at odds with the rest of the team. Examples include The Heavy, Hulk, and Fezzik.

The Smart Guy - An extremely intelligent character who prefers to think things through before jumping into them. Exact area(s) of expertise are up to the player, but this should generally be the more logical character in the group. She generally prefers peace; or at least, not getting her ass kicked unnecessarily. Snarkiness requested but not required. Examples include Gandalf, Batman, and C3P0.

The Heart - The more emotional/artsy character, and the group's moral compass. She is the first one to speak up whenever it seems the group is going too far past that line that separates good from evil. This character has an excellent understanding of how people tick, and while she usually uses this gift for good, to help keep the group cohesive and take care of members emotionally and whatnot, she can also be an excellent manipulator. Examples include: Leia, Numbuh 3, and Turanga Leela.

Yashira "Momo" Momoko
Gender
Female
Age
19
Nationality
Japanese
Element
Heart
Role
Heart

Appearance
It's clear enough that Momo does and does not care what she looks like. She wears what she feels like, but she wants you know know she's wearing what she feels like. Punk in the 'I do what I want' sense of the word, she eschews the typical high-maintenance hairstyles and fashion decisions of the Harajuku 'punks' and is significantly more likely to be found dressed in a pair of broken-in pants and a tank top. She likes colors and patterns as much as she likes the lack of either, and it's a toss-up as to whether you'll catch her in a pair of two-sizes-too-big blue plaid slacks or a black yoga pants and a sweater. She dresses for comfort but wears it like gang colors, attitude forward. Immediately apparent as well are her piercings, of which she has several--her ears are lined with rings, her lips studded in snake-bites to hide a thin scar.

Phsyically, Momo is an almost textbook ectomorph. Long and willowy, lanky and lean, from her knife-sharp collar bones to her pianist fingers she looks like she needs nothing in this world more than a good sandwich. Really just a bit too thin for most people, including herself, at 6'1'' she's taller than most of the boys she knows and still about half their weight. Though reasonably toned after having spent some time trying to bulk up, her smoking hasn't helped her endurance.

Personality
More than anything, Momo is sick of being lied to.

A perceptive young woman, Momo has dealt with enough bullshit in her life to be able to smell it a mile away. Whether it's your white-boy-wanna-be-gangster or your celebutard-teenage-pop-princess, Momo has the unsettling and somewhat unpleasant knack of shearing away all the little things that people hide themselves with and getting to the heart of the matter, and enjoys doing so a bit more than she should. After so many years of pretending and stumbling through things herself she's more than a little bitter, and if she takes it out on other people, well...

That's just who she is. Deal with it.

A deeply caring and passionate individual, Momo's outward aggression is in direct response to the hypocrisy she sees what seems like everywhere. Her mother was a hypocrite, her step-father was a hypocrite, that asshole on the street is probably a hypocrite, and in the end so is she. More than anything, Momo would like to be 'nice'. She'd like to have friends who want to be around her, who laugh at her jokes, who she'll back up no matter what and who she never has to watch do all the awful, shitty things that people do, but she knows that won't happen. She knows exactly how mad and bitter and hurt she is, and all that crap just doesn't add up to a good person. Self-deprecating and venomously depressed, she wears it all on her sleeve so that no one else can 'out' her on it.

She's done giving people ammunition. Not like she's lacking targets.

Backstory
Momo's mother was a slut and everyone knew it. She always had been--mild-mannered and aloof, she was the kind of woman who was very fortunate to find the caring corporate lawyer that had been Momo's father. She was very fortunate that, when he passed away of an aneurysm at thirty in a shopping mall while out with his wife and then five year old daughter, she was close enough with his best friend to have sold the house and be sharing a room with him a two weeks later. She was similarly fortunate when, after said best friend was fired from his company two years later, the boss who she'd met at more than a few company outings was happy to let her move in even if it meant having her daughter underfoot. And so on and so forth--for most of Momo's young life, father figures came and went with such regularity that she eventually stopped looking at them.

Instead, Momo fixated on her mother. When the two were alone they were thick as thieves, marathoning stupid television shows on whatever couch happened to be present and working their way through mochi like it was going out of style. They were best friends in the way that only a mother and daughter could be, the only constants in each others' lives; it was them against the world. That, at least, was how Momo saw it. During most of school she was a reasonably bright, otherwise uninteresting girl who didn't make many friends thanks to juggling districts on a semi-regular basis. When she wasn't there--which was, in hindsight, frequently the case--it was easy to pretend that Momo's mother was just 'playing along' with whoever happened to be boning her at the time. Affairs became games, affection became a facade, and the wink her mother gave her before she left always made her feel like they were still playing on the same team.

Long story short, they weren't. Momo's mother's latest boytoy seemed, for the first time, to want to pay as much attention to Momo as her mother. He would insinuate himself into couch time, staying up too late with them so he could be with 'his girls'. He'd ask Momo how her day was, if her uniform fit alright, if she wanted to go shopping. He'd try to talk like he was her father (which she ignored) and rub her shoulders when he caught her sitting down. He set up a web-cam in her shower, at which point she'd had absolutely enough and confronted her mother with the issue and was shockingly and summarily dismissed. There was no outrage, no frustration, no repercussions, just a little frown and an 'I'll take care of it, sweetie' and the world kept on spinning.

Nothing changed. Things got worse. When they got worse enough, Momo called the cops; her mother was furious in a way that Momo had never seen before. It was the first and only fight they ever had, and it was enough to completely blow the pair of them apart. Had they, Momo wanted to know, ever been together to begin with? If her mother wasn't there when she really needed her, if she could be upset about this, had they ever really been on the same team?

It was a lot harder to be just Momo against the world.

Her mother's boyfriend got out of the charges; she had refused to testify. They sent Momo in for therapy and counseling and so she stayed away from home. Always a spiteful little thing, she fell in with a bad crowd and did enough bad things to earn her cred. Eventually she and her friends staked the house out one night and made sure that said jackhole would never look at little girls quite the same way ever again. Afterwards, though, when all was said and done, it didn't feel as good as she'd thought it would. Yeah, he was a creep, but could she really close her eyes, remember the quivering mess of what used to be a person before all the boots and chains and baseball bats and really say he deserved it? That she did the right thing?

A good, long look at her life put some things in stark contrast for her...so she moved on. Did what she had to do to get some money for a down payment, found a shitty temp job doing data entry, and became someone else.

Or tried.

Likes
Tonkatsu ramen.
Rain.
Plants.
3-D movies.
Dislikes
Scary movies.
Lord of the Rings.
Posers.
Conspiracy Theorists.