My post assumes that what happened in Eklispe's post doesn't change in any way as the result of Wisp's actions, and that she was able to roll out of the whirlwind beneath it.
@solokolos@Lugubrious@BCTheEntity@The Wild West@Eklispe@floodtalon@Banana
First judgement day, everyone. The above users have not updated their main team characters since I updated 7 days ago. Much as I hate doing these things, each one is on your 5 day probationary watchlist. If there's something going on, I'm more than happy to work with you, but I need communication. Lugs, I assume you're still on your overseas trip? Please confirm if this is the case.
"... while someone sneaks in and grabs Wisp,"
Okay, this is not complete at all (I'm missing history and equipment for major parts) but I wanted to hear your thoughts before I get into the hard part.
I've currently have him circumventing the Manton Effect, I hope that's okay. If not I'll very happily change that.
It's also 1am and I just can't concentrate anymore.Thunderbolt
Name: Jason Rowly
Alias: Thunderbolt
Age: 24
Alignment: Villain
Loyalty: the Jacks
Appearance: Jason is an abnormally large man. Standing at just under seven feet (6' 10" to be exact) Jason towers over most everyone else. Having a large physique on top of his height and Jason cuts an intimidating sight. Jason weighs around 240 pounds, and the vast majority of that weight is visibly muscle. Jason spouts white hair, which is dyed.
Jason's normal clothing is comfortable, as there is no way to be truly inconspicuous given his physique. He wears a nice long sleeve shirt, relatively tight with the sleeves rolled up to near his elbows. His pants are black slacks, comfortable enough to run in if needed. Meanwhile, to anyone who would actually notice, Jason wears grey running shoes.
His costume, in contrast, is meant to strike concern in his foes. While similar to a black suit, there is obviously a layer of armor over most of his body. He wears a helmet, very similar in appearance to a skull, that protects his head from harm and helps minimize sounds. A lightning bolt is emblazed upon the front of his helmet and the back of his armor.
History:Personality
Motivations: Jason is motivated by money and the opportunity to prove himself in a fight. However those get achieved, preferably together, Jason doesn't mind.
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Likes:
- Fighting
- Money
- Owning nice things
- Innuendos
- Freedom
Dislikes:
- Guns
- Do-gooders types
- Holier than though types
- Lazy people
- Laws
Derangement: Jason has become extremely violent since his trigger, and beyond that he has a hard time knowing when to quit. When he gets running, so to speak, he just continues to ramp up until the problem is solved by being destroyed.Parahumanism
Skills: Non-power based abilities you have. The things you know and things you can do, like great memory, martial arts talent, video gaming, etc.
Classification: Brute / Striker
Details: When Jason touches anything, he can make the conscious choice to reduce that objects mass factor to near zero. So while his strength stays the same (albeit still incredible compared to normal levels), his punches after initial contact become incredibly dangerous, allowing him to smash through things.
Limitations: Jason's abilities require at least 10 seconds of continuous contact to activate, and require his focus to even start activating.
Equipment:
None
Name: Chris Lange
Alias: None
Age: 15
Alignment: Villain
Loyalty: Independent
Appearance: Chris has long, thick, red hair, somewhere between wavy and straight. It rests just above her lower back when not tied up. She normally keeps it in a ponytail, if its even visible within the dark green hoodie she normally wears. Chris is pretty short, standing at 5' 2", with a very young face befitting her age. Her normal expression around strangers is obvious discomfort, and she has a hard time warming up to people. She is only touchy with people she wants to manipulate, of whom the number is expanding. Chrissie is noticeably thinner than most girls her age.
History: Chris grew up in a middle class family in Denver her entire life, with a caring father and a mother. Though her father very rarely talked about it, he was in fact a super powered individual, though his power was fairly innocuous. The basic set of better sight, balance and the rest. He never had any aspirations of being a cape, and didn't so much settle for mediocrity but preferred it. The expression of his power was found in the minutest details, such as pointing out owls that were very hard to make out in a cold night, or catching a jar of jelly Chris accidentally bumped off the table.
Her mother on the other hand was not super powered in the slightest (through Chris's comments about her being super bitchy could be misinterpreted). Her mother was a drinker, but not in the fun party kind of way, but in the not so fun, drinks and abuses the gentle giant that is Chris's 6' 4" father. In this way, Chris's father's gentle nature got the best of both him and his daughter, forcing her to grow up in a less than ideal situation. At the point where panic attacks becoming a major issue for Chris, her father divorced Chris's mother. Too little too late, though Chris would never admit it.
Schooling went rather poorly for Chris as she never applied herself, or found within herself the motivation to succeed though she did keep high enough grades to pass her classes if just barely. Slowly Chris developed a tight knit group of friends that she could enjoy the presence of. They'd always see her as the outsider of the group, and she didn't seem to mind.
Beginning around January of 2005, when Chris's mother started 'stalking' her. The disgruntled parent ended up kidnapping Chris. causing her to trigger. The direct personal relationship, mixed with the direct nature of the threat greatly influenced the expression of her father's power. Where enhancement of physical and mental prowess was the name of the game for her father, Chris's power revolved around manipulating others senses, and changing their perception of the world, After Chris's trigger, she got a hand on her mother and forced her to crash the vehicle, killing her mother on impact, and leaving herself (fortunately unharmed).
The adaption to home life after her trigger event was hard, and she didn't find herself confiding in her father like she thought she would. Instead she kept it a secret, and started rebelling more in general, putting undue pressure on her father.Personality
Motivations: Chris takes part in her villainous ways as a sort of catharsis, using the heinous (and less than heinous) acts as an outlet for her stress.
Sexuality: Chris hasn't quite developed her sexuality fully. She is experimental right now.
Likes:
- Scary movies
- Socializing with close friends
- Traditional hip-hop
- The Beatles
Dislikes:
- School
- 'Fake' friends
- Disingenuous people
- Jocks
Derangement: Chris sometimes has a hard time grasping what is real and what isn't. This can vary in intensity from becoming a little off balance to full grown panic attacks. This is mixed with, in an ironic fashion, hallucinations of her own. Chris takes Xanax every morning to try to combat this, and carries a couple extras just in case she feels a panic attack coming on.Parahumanism
Skills: Chris has fairly decent memory, and has gotten pretty good at deceiving people. She has been practicing her sleight of hand, and is able to easily socially engineer most people into letting her touch them, even if it's only the slightest brush.
Classification: Stranger and striker
Details: Chris can, upon creating physical contact with a person's clothes or body, make them hallucinate. These hallucinations are precise, and can be molded to fit what Chris wants to achieve. She can force one to experience touch, vision, kinesthetic, and auditorial hallucinations with pin point accuracy to their real life counter parts. Once she touches you, unless you know what is coming, she has hijacked your brain for her insane joyride. Chris can also remove sensations, making it seem like she stopped touching the person, or remove the pain from a bullet wound.
Limitations: Although Chris goes to agonizing lengths to ensure her hallucinations are accurate, she is severely limited in terms of control. She can't literally force someone to move, speak, or anything of that sort. At best she inspires reactions, and doesn't create them. Chris's hallucinations also immediately stop once contact ends, with practically zero time between.
These limitations mean that once she starts making someone hallucinate something complex or especially dangerous, she has to get a very good grip on them, and be prepared for them to fall. Though it may seem to the person she is touching that they have been pushed back thirty feet into a wall, in reality they're flailing around on the ground.
Chris also has a hard time creating things from scratch. She can choose to make a feeling persist (like the sensation of her victim standing on their feet looking down a corridor not going away while their being handcuffed), she can't make the feeling of being shot with a laser perfectly accurate.
Equipment: Straight razor, and a garrote she made out of piano wire and two pieces of wood.
All feedback is appreciated.
Small thing, she'll probably go by Chrissie.
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@ProPro
Forgot to mention you originally.
Also had a question spring to mind in regards to the limitation I had set up. Changed the time, which is seen in this quoted version and not the one two posts up. Any other limitations suggestions, if deemed needed, would be appreciated.
Kinda want to get what I have down solidifies before I design the rest, as what I've got is what is fueling the rest in my head.
I definitely like it so far! The first incarnation with the activation time being 30 seconds was definitely waaaaay too much, he'd get the crap beaten out of him before he was able to use his powers. 10 seconds is still pretty high though. I'd recommend dropping to 5. That way it's fast enough to still be useful, but slow enough that he can't steamroll everyone and everything he comes across. This additional limitation is also enough for me to agree to lifting the Manton Effect for this power.
Side note, I'd laugh so hard to see him get into a fight with Alexandria, physically the most powerful hero in the world, only to knock her into the stratosphere. She wouldn't actually get hurt, but it'd be hilarious to see this titan get bitchslapped by someone with ostensibly normal strength.