"What the hell is going on?! Whe-where am I?"
Name: Alphonse "Al" Garrett
Age: 21
Job: Grocery Clerk
Appearance: Al stands at about 5 foot, 8 inches and is pretty lean for his age and height. His only truly distinguishable features include a set of small scars on his forehead produced by clumsiness as a child, and a strangely shaped birthmark that resembles Italy that rests on his left thigh. He always seems to carry himself with a slouch of complacency and a rather bored-looking expression. He also has green eyes (despite the picture) and shaggy brown hair that just barely covers his forehead.
Personality: Once upon a time Al was a buoyant, fun-loving kid with a carefree attitude and an imaginative personality. Now... not so much. Life has handed him some rough cards and that twinkle that once shined in his eyes has faded. He is rather quiet, to say the least. He shows glimpses of childlike spectacle only with close friends of whom he feels more comfortable around. He is still a nice person, but he fears personable interactions outside of professional environments so his kindness is something of an enigma to others around him. His psyche has simply been shocked by past experience, filling him with both a longing for connection, and yet a social anxiety he just can't shake to save his life. A classic case of introversion, if you ask me.
Aside from the more chilling details of his personality, Al's lighter side still has some charm. He loves spending free time reading books and manga, as well as watching the latest anime series. He also enjoys cooking... like a lot... like it actually puts a goofy smile on his dumb face. And it is something he can proudly say he's good at. He dislikes the typical things his generation generally enjoys, such as parties and drinking and going to night clubs. His quiet nature doesn't really translate well to those particular social scenes (as we have already discussed). At work he is regarded as being one of the politest employees, however he is also pretty lazy and complacent. All in all, Alphonse is your typical 21-year old introvert with a kind heart and a severe lack of social skills. The end.
History: It all started with conception. A hot and passionate affair that made "50 Shades of Grey" look like a children's book. Al's mother and father entered the bedroom with fiery passion and embraced before finding the bed. And then [CENSORED]. Around nine months later, Alphonse Garrett was brought into the world. As a young child, Al was adventurous and often got into all kinds of mischief. Two of these instances lead to him falling from various heights onto his head and gashing it open. After lots of crying during two separate hospital visits, Al wound up with two distinct scars on his forehead that took on a whitish color over the years. As he grew older, he found that he enjoyed many "nerdy" pastimes like reading manga and keeping up with various anime. He even started a club for for anime lovers with several classmates in school. However, this happy lifestyle didn't last long for the worst had yet to come.
Al was forced to move around with his family all too often, due to his father being in the military. This obviously affected his ability to make and maintain friends, and not in a positive way. He became more and more reclusive as he aged, now knowing he had to distance himself from others to protect his own feelings. Then at 16, Al had moved again but this time with his mother only. His parents decided upon a divorce in their late age which devastated Al. For the next couple years, he became a sullen character who stayed to himself and began slipping in school. In his senior year of high school, he met two people that would impact his life significantly; Jackie Langley and Ryan Tours. Jackie was a foreign exchange student from Germany who first initiated their friendship and Ryan was her best friend that followed her into the ordeal. The three of them shared a lot in common and became pretty close. And now Al wouldn't be moving because of the divorce, so he felt a little better about his life. His friends urged him to pull up his grades, and he did. At least up enough to graduate. And now he is that introverted, slightly awkward young adult we discussed earlier. He has a job at the local grocery store and tries to see his two friends as much as possible, despite the fact that they are now in college further away. He lives a simple, everyday life making above minimum wage and still living with his mother, who still treats him like he is five years old... something that he hates of course. But at the end of the day, things are okay. For now...
Power: Particle Manipulation (Seemingly telekinesis, but not a mental ability)
Description: The ability to manipulate anatomical particles in the air to move objects or even solidify particles and "walk on air". A minor ability would be to move a coin or pen by rearranging and solidifying particles around/underneath the object. A major ability would be lifting a large item, walking on the air by solidifying particles, or sending a blast/ripple through the air to knock people down.
Ultimate move: (God-Mode Challenge Accepted) The ability to rearrange the particles of the human body and reduce the person to their base atoms... thus, like, destroying them and stuff.
*(I hope this doesn't seem too powerful. The way I plan to play the character and the limitations brought on by the rules of the campaign would severely limit this ability. It is just a more scientific and experimental RP power I've always wanted to try out. And this seems like a good place for it... I think. Obviously, just let me know if it sounds too OP)*
[I am not on acid at the moment, am I?]
Name: Raphael "Killer Rose" Pilkvist
Age: 32.
Job: Swedish Death Metal band's "Death and Decay" guitarist
Appearance: Various tattoos acquired during his tours. Tribal bands on his shoulders, and a red thorned rose on his chest.
Personality: Raphael's #1 trait is his brutal honestly. He will always speak his mind, never considering the consequences, which has gotten him into a lot of trouble. He is also hot-tempered, impulsive and uses drugs quite liberally, though still being a bit careful not to get addicted. Due to his rather traumatic childhood accident, he has an irrational fear of red thorned roses, which he chose to embrace. Otherwise, Raphael has a rather broad number interests, and is easy to talk to about various topics, as long as your views don't conflict too much. Raphael also hates hip-hop and pop music, and he never forgets to remind everyone that they can't be considered music. Thankfully, he is quite humble, considering he's a rather big star, at least in Sweden.
History: Raphael childhood was quite average and uneventful, except accidentally when he fell into a patch of red, thorny roses at the age of 4 when visiting his grandparents. They had quite a massive garden, and while playing around, he slipped and fell straight into them. While he was wounded quite badly, no permanent scars remained, and his body healed. His mind, however, did not. He would often have nightmares of being constricted and cut by the roses, with no ability to escape.
At school Raphael was just as average, not failing nor excelling at anything, except the music class. Sensing potential talent, teachers signed him up for the school band. For his instrument, he chose the guitar, and quickly learned to play it and play it well. Also during his teenage years, going through regular teenage phases, he acquired a taste for the metal genre, and irrational hate towards his school band's choice of music, which he quit. Instead, he practiced the guitar by himself, trying to learn how to play various metal songs.
Eventually he joined a music academy, where he met like-minded individuals. They started practicing together, and attending various minor events, where they've found a lot of success. Eventually, they we're famous in the campus, then the town, eventually, whole Sweden knew their name and wanted to hear them. Their tours garnered great success, they started releasing albums, and gaining fame world wide.
And this was to be their biggest tour yet: USA, Brazil, England, Russia, Germany, Italy... All the big places... Though the nightmares have not been an issue for many years, due to copious amounts spent on therapy, they were replaced by strange dreams with this strange girl named Sera. Straight in the middle of their big, worldwide tour.
Power: Rosebloom
Description: Ability to call forth thorny vines from the ground, wrapping around and constricting the object the mind is being focused on. The vine's tip blooms into a rose when it's done wrapping around something.
Minor - A thin, short vine tries to ensnare something, only long enough to try and constrict someone's leg. It's thorns can't penetrate the human skin, and are more of a nuisance than anything.
Major - Durable enough to easily constrict a physically fit grown adult, their thorns are razor sharps, and vines themselves have a red tint, similar to the color of blood. A strong enough individual could break out of these vines, but not without heavy bleeding and major cuts all over the body.
Ultimate - Everything in 30 meter radius not considered friendly by Raphael is engulfed by vines, powerful enough to hold smaller cars in place and cut through their hull. The vines will automatically move out of Raphael's way.
"We'll worry about that when the time comes, for now I'm gonna drink this wine and relax."
Name: Lucius Jones
Age: 24
Job: University Student - Studies Oceanography with a focus on Marine Biology
Appearance: Lucius stands at a height of 6"2 with, mesomorphic body frame. He is in pretty good shape, having the appearance of a person who regularly exercises and his skin and hair has a fairly healthy glow, due to his strict diet. He has facial hair that lines his jaw line, and a neatly cut goatee, and his hair is cut into a very small afro. His eyes are a of a dark brown hue, and he has a very small scar on the right side of his top lip from a fishing accident involving a hook.
Personality: He is naturally carefree, almost to a fault, as he tends to ignore things that probably need his immediate attention. He is the type of man to often say, "why do today, what you can do tomorrow". Lucius could be described as a fairly gregarious and bemused individual. He feels comfortable in most social situations, even if thrust a situation or event in which he is unfamiliar or knows no one attending. He has little attention to spare to things that do not interest him thought, and his mind will often wander off onto something else entirely. Lucius thinks quite highly of himself, and has been called narcissistic or even egoistical on a few occasions. He doesn't particularly care about the specifics on how most people view him. While he gets along with most people, he never considers himself to be part of a collective, viewing himself as a man set apart from most.
History: Lucius Jones was born in Padre Island Texas. He was the middle child of three, having an one older brother and a younger sister. His father owned a very successful chain of Hotels, putting his family squarely in the upper class. Lucius's early childhood was one of no worries or strife, his only cause of concern being the vast body of water known as the Gulf of Mexico that surrounded his family's home. The ocean proved to be an entity that inspired the then young Lucius with feelings of both awe and fear, though in unequal measure in favor of the latter emotion. This inequality was due to several occurrences of bad encounters with jellyfish and instances in which his then meager swimming ability failed him and he nearly drowned if it were not for his father or older brother.As Lucius grew older his fascination with the sea grew as his fear of it diminished
Around the time in which he and his siblings entered their teen aged years, Lucius distinguished himself as the dreamy eyed slacker of three kids. He developed a rather care free and chill attitude, which allowed him to fit in with just about any of the various social groups that formed within his high school. While he had many friends he always felt he was apart from everyone .Lucius had little interest in extra curricular activities, preferring to loaf around the beach looking for interesting creatures that often wash up on the beach, or reading various books on biology and history of the great explorers of the world. He soon found that he had a very great interest oceanography as well as anthropology. He became obsessed with learning about the ways in which ancient humans adapted to life on the sea and coast lines, going so far as to emulate old fishing techniques and methods. He adopted what he called a "Modern paleolithic lifestyle" which consisted of eating non processed foods and exercising in a way that would emulate the physical demands older groups of humans would encounter in daily life.
As graduation grew near, Lucius found himself yearning for adventure, for novelty. The oceans of the world were the final frontiers, the unspoiled conquests still ripe for discovery. To this end Lucius enrolled into a University to study the thing which had been his muse since his early childhood. College life suited him well, as it seemed to him to be an unending supply of new experiences and people in which to interact with. He now finds himself at the precipice of yet another end to an era of his life, and the birth of a new one.
Power: Call of the Deep (Hyrdokinesis)
Description: The ability to generate and manipulate liquid using the mind. Lucius is able to manipulate this liquid in a telekinetic like way. Lucius is also able to use this ability to shape this water like liquid into a limited set of “constructs”. These constructs include spheres, columns, streams and waves, as well as the appendages of various marine life, most notably squids and octopi. Lucius is also able to control the surface tension, color, and pressure of the liquid. While the liquid resembles and behaves in a similar manner as water, it is not actually water and thus does not share all of its properties. (Also Lucius can only manipulate the "water" he generates, all other liquids are unaffected by him.)
Minor manifestation – Able to generate a small amount of liquid within space of an arm’s reach around himself. Able to shape the liquid into simple constructs such as spheres, streams, and waves, as well as simple tentacles and barbs resembling that of jellyfish.
Major Manifestation – Able to generate a medium amount of liquid within the radius of around 12-15 feet around himself. Able to shape the liquid into more complex constructs, such as a lobster’s claw, octopus tentacles, or a shark’s jaws. (constructs are not sized to the scale of the animal they are mimicking, but to the amount of liquid he can generate)
Ultimate move – Generating a large amount of liquid within a 25 foot radius and using said liquid to create to create several large tentacles or some other such construct.