Name: Carrie Martin

Alias: Justice Yellow

Age: 31

Current Appearance:


Costume: Yellow top with crossed black lightning bolts, a white skirt, yellow stockings, white boots, and a yellow cape with crossed black lightning bolts. She also carries a metal staff that doubles as a lightning rod. "I look like a battery ad, but it could have been worse..."

Powers: As one would expect from her costume, Carrie's powers are all themed around lightning and electricity.

Lightning Leap: More of a utility move than anything else, Carrie turns herself into a bolt of lightning that travels a short distance before she reforms. Basically a short-range teleportation.

Thunder Breath: Just what it sounds like.

Electric Explosion: An area of effect ability, Carrie summons a dome of electricity that slowly grows and damages all in its path.

Electric Pillar: Carrie conjures a ground-to-air lightning strike to hammer a single opponent.

Wrath Of The Storm: A barrage of lightning bolts strike Carrie's staff, charging it up before unleashing an electric wave motion gun effect. Her finisher.

Source: A pair of lightning bolt shaped earrings.

History with Justice Heart: Carrie was one of the original Justice Heart girls- in fact, though she cringes at it, she came up with the name. She was always in the thick of the fight, thinking that the best defense is an overwhelming offense. Naturally, this led to her getting a bit of a reputation as a hothead. Her friends didn't like it at first, and it led to some arguments between over how best to defeat monsters. However, when she charged after Katarina alone one dark night, the Dollmaster beat her badly, and if it wasn't for her friends intervening and driving the villain off, she probably would have died. This led to better relationships with her teammates, as well as a calmer attitude in fights. Still, she had a good heart, and was a valued member of the team.

History After Justice Heart: When Dollmaster was defeated there was no need for Justice Yellow anymore... but that was kept Carrie going through the day. She had major depressive episodes, and while her grades had never been stellar, they only slipped further. Health issues and bad luck only further crushed her once-indomitable spirit, and she now works as a food court grunt, living with her parents because she's unable to make ends meet on her own.

@Rabidporcupine I think I'm going to avoid magical guys for the sake of this roleplay. And yes, if two did the deed and one of them had a child, it would have been after the group split up.

And yes, @Flamelord already has the claim on the 'former enemy' type, sorry.

@RabidAnubis
Ok then, but non-magical boy is still on the table? Because even if I don't make Injustice, I'm still thinking of making a pair of siblings where one of them was a magical girl and the other is the guy who blundered into everything and practically has some minor form of PTSD. I mean, sorry if continuing to push that idea is getting annoying though. Just tell me if it is, and I'll stop.

@Rabidporcupine I mean, keep in mind the adventures 20 years ago were perfectly PG. There wouldn't really be 'PTSD' inducing stuff for the guy. I wouldn't mind a character having a brother as an NPCesque thing but I think your main character should certainly be the girl.

Oh, right, I'm honesty not sure why I said PTSD, because its not so much that. It's more that, because they were friends with his sister, and by proxy him, he was sure he knew the girls who saved him whenever the crazy shit started happening. But because he couldn't recognise them as his and his sisters friends, it began to really stress him out. That just increased once their appearances began to get way less common and started getting worried that something was happening to them.

And yeah, I'm thinking I might make his sister and play as both of them, but I'm thinking I'll probably play them both to the same level, just because I like making characters who are just normal people, suddenly find themselves way out of their depth, and have to try and make it through the situation with that handicap, you know? So yeah, would you want me to make separate apps for both the magical girl and her brother, or just try and work details of him and his story into her app?

@Rabidporcupine That's fine. Just make one app and include enough info on him that we have an idea about them.

@RabidAnubis
Alright, cool. I'll get started on it now.

Name: Vivian Everett, 'Justice Verdant'
Appearance:

Magical Girl Costume:

Powers: Gravity, chains, everything that represents Vivian's feelings of being held down and stuck in her life and expectations is something that she now brings to bear against her enemies.

Dark Pulse - Vivian launches a ball of intense gravity at a target, which captures and crushes whatever ends up inside of it under an immense gravitic pressure. Theoretically anyway, since some things can be tough enough to survive if they live long enough for it to dissipate.

Light as a Feather - Vivian is able to use her magic on herself to lessen the effect of gravity upon her, which while not giving her the ability to fly does allow her to leap great distances in a single bound.

Lockdown - This ability allows Vivian to manifest several sets of magical chains which can be used to hold a target in place or even serve as a makeshift barrier. She can only manifest a few strands before it takes serious effort to create more, limiting her ability.

Meteor Strike - Her signature move, Vivian alters the weight of her hammer, launching sky high before dropping it on them like a missile while altering the size to make the impact nigh inescapable if you aren't good at dodging. A big boom results.

Source: Vivian was given a 'trigger', which when said aloud or thought with serious enough intent, activates her powers

History with Justice Heart: Vivian was an eldest child, faced with the burdens and expectations that such a position meant. She did her best to live up to them, but soon began to buckle and crack under the pressure. She fell in with the wrong people, made some bad decisions, and was heading to a real problem when she was swept up in a magical trap set by the Dollmaster. Under Torture, magical influence, and mental manipulation she was changed and eventually recruited to become a loyal servant of the Dollmaster in her fight against Justice Heart.

Her first introduction to them was a trap she set, one she nearly succeeded in closing before they managed to retreat. She would clash with the team several times afterwards before the Dollmaster got tired of her failures and discarded her, in one last suicidal fight. Before she could be killed though she managed to find redemption through the power of friendship, joining Justice Heart as she tried to get revenge on the Dollmaster. Together they were able to defeat them, and save the city once and for all.

History after Justice Heart: With the crisis over, Vivian did her best to try and turn a new leaf. She went straight, made amends with her family, and generally tried to follow the example set by the others. It worked...for a time. Then the pressure turned back on and the support of her friends failed to materialize for one reason or another. She found herself crumbling again, and soon dropped out of college to pursue her own interests on her own. This also didn't really work out as her finances dwindled, until eventually she reconnected with the friends that she had made before her run in with the Dollmaster and the magical girl lifestyle.

So now she lives on her own in a small apartment, working at a convenience store when not running with her friends and doing more interesting things like riding motorbikes and loafing about. She's had some flings but hasn't found anyone to settle down with yet, and honestly isn't looking. She just wants the freedom to do whatever she wants, no matter how grimy and base it might be.

Most worrying, for the past several years Vivian has been having random blackouts, and she doesn't know what happens during them besides her waking up in random places that she wouldn't expect. She's seen a doctor about it but there's no explanation as of yet. But it couldn't be a problem, right?

Relationships:

Carrie is done except for relationships, and is open to anyone who wants to have one.

Still plan on getting IC up tomorrow.

@shagranoz I think ya need a bit more info there. What relationships does she have, and with who still? As for her past history, did she have a 'development arc' while with the Justice Hearts?

Name: Elise McGillis/Justice Bloom

Appearance:


Magical Girl Costume:

The sword she wields is named Morning Glory.

Powers: Morning Glory can project a large number of small, phantasmal golden flower petals. These petals can be manipulated using specific movements of the sword into a number of different abilities:

Promised Petal Blade
A relatively simple move, where the blade projects a small wave of petals during a slash, causing them to form an arc that flies from the sword into the target. This can be either blunt or sharp, depending on Elise's intent.

Projectile Petal/Torpedo Petal
Projectile Petal is a relatively simple ability, where Elise rapidly fires petals from the end of her sword as soon as she projects them. This is fairly weak however. Torpedo Petal is a somewhat stronger form of the attack, where she takes a moment to project more petals, shifts into a shape resembling an American football, and then fires that at an enemy.

(Number) Petal Barrier
Elise projects a number of petals and shifts them to form a large barrier, which takes the vague shape of a flower. The more petals are poured into the barrier, the more petals the 'flower' will appear to have, up to a maximum of ten, with each additional petal signifying a stronger barrier. However, the number of petals the flower will have must be specified during the initial casting of the barrier, otherwise it will collapse. More petals also cause the barrier to take longer to cast.

Petal Prison
A move where Elise manipulates the petals into the shapes of chains or rope emerging from the end of Morning Glory, with the intention of wrapping around the target and preventing their movement, allowing them to be captured without doing too much damage. That being said, it can also be used as a whip, so it isn't purely for easy captures.

Petal Platform
Petal Platform is fairly simple, being exactly what it sounds like it is. Elise simply forms some of the petals into a solid, cloud-like platform which she can stand on, or more usefully, use to redirect herself while in midair. These platforms can move with her on it, but it takes a significantly higher level of concentration to accomplish this than it does to just make multiple stationary platforms and run across them.

The Blade called Glory
Elise's strongest attack, leaps and bounds ahead of any of her other techniques when it comes to raw power. In essence, its similar to Promised Petal Blade, except for one glaring difference. The petal arc of this attack is enormous. Because of its size and ridiculous power, Elise has barely used it, as to do so within the city would cause absolute chaos and disaster, likely tearing through at least a couple of large buildings before it dissipates.

Source: A silver and gold necklace with a floral design at the centre.

History with Justice Heart:
Funnily enough, the only reason Elise was even introduced to Justice Heart came from a complete accident. One day while she was walking home from school, she found that her usual route home was undergoing roadworks, meaning that she couldn't get through unless she decided to try and walk on the road in the heavy traffic. Unfortunately, the next fastest route she knew was one of her brother Connors 'shortcuts', which meant that it was probably at least half an hour longer and would take her through a maze of alleys. Still, she was fast, and knew karate, so she thought she'd be fine. Little did she expect to encounter a large, dog-like monster deep in the alleyways... Ten minutes later, members of Justice Heart arrived, and were surprised to see that Elise, armed only with a small piece of rebar she found in the alley, had somehow managed to hold her own, and even get in a few well timed strikes at the monsters eyes. After they finished the monster off, they invited her to become one of them, an offer she accepted even before they'd finished speaking. After all, one of her dreams was to be a real hero, and save people! As Justice Bloom, she quickly proved herself as a more than capable fighter, often trying to take on the strongest enemies she could find all on her own. The thrill of fighting such a powerful opponent became a controlling factor of her life as a magical girl. However, despite managing to succeed a good chunk of the time, her blunt, boisterous personality mixed with her aggressive tendencies to make people think that she just didn't care about the rest of the team, or even something as simple as consequences in general. While this wasn't the case, she did tend to push people's buttons a lot, sometimes for amusement, but sometimes genuinely by accident. The fact that her brother somehow seemed to find himself involved in more of their fights than he didn't only seemed to make things worse. Miraculously though, by the time they fought Dollmaster for the last time, she'd managed to express just how much her teammates really meant to her, and she would stand by them to the ends of the earth.

History after Justice Heart:
As it turns out, Justice Heart ended long before the world did, and the friends she'd made were quickly torn away as she found herself in a school where barely any of her friends went other than Courtney Cartwright.
Alone, with few people to turn to, she eventually decided to make do with Connor and his friends, although she did do her best to drag Courtney into their group as well. She's pretty sure she succeeded... One thing she quickly began to notice was that something was wrong with him, which began to confuse her. Over the next year, she began to notice him staring at her friends, looking extremely troubled by something, and would occasionally catch him hyperventilating whenever she talked to them for too long. She had a theory about what might be causing it, but she was worried what might happen if she brought it up. She thought that maybe, just maybe, he was somehow managing to recognise them, as well as her, as the members of Justice Heart who he always used to try to fight beside. She realised this wasn't a conscious recognition, and that even he didn't realise that he was making the connection, but that almost seemed to make it worse.

By the time she was sixteen, Connor was having panic attacks pretty regularly, and it was beginning to affect his performance in school, making it look pretty unlikely that he'd be able to achieve his dream of joining the police force. This hurt her especially deeply, as only a few days after the final battle with Dollmaster, he had told her that it was only because he saw the way the members of Justice Heart never stopped fighting for what was right that he even decided on that dream. They were the ones who'd shown him what he wanted to dedicate his life to, and now, no matter whether they chose to or not, they were about to rip that dream away from him. She was about to destroy it. The way she saw it, there was only one way to help him now.

And so one day, she told him everything.

She showed him her transformation, her skills both as a magical girl and as a normal human, and he finally realised why the mere act of being around his sister had begun to terrify him. She didn't tell him which if her friends had also been magical girls, but she didn't need to. He only had to look at them to figure out which ones he must've known before. After this revelation, everything became clear to him, reminding him why he wanted to become a policeman in the first place. Unfortunately though, it turned out to be too late, his inability to properly pay attention in the previous years making it too difficult for him to catch up. Eventually he managed to find work as a bartender in a small place downtown, but the pay was never really great, and both he and Elise knew that entering the police force was well out of his reach. As could be expected, Elise felt terrible. This was her fault, especially considering that she made Courtney hang around with his friends as well. It was around that time though that Elise managed to reconnect with Emily Galbrett, one of the other members of Justice Heart she had felt closest too. For just that little while, she let herself believe that having her around might help her get over how horrible she felt, and she began to return to her normal, boisterous self over the next year.

And then Emily got pregnant with Connors kid, and Elise felt more betrayed than she even knew she could. How long where they together before that night? Were they even together before that night? Connor had mentioned that he was getting more and more depressed with his own situation... Did Emily decide to take advantage of that? Take advantage of the poor idiots minuscule self esteem for an easy screw? Or what, maybe he was actually fine! Maybe while she was being torn apart by the guilt, the two of them had been giggling and whispering sweet nothings to each other in secret! Letting her suffer and not even letting her know she didn't have to! And now she was pregnant! Hell, Elise may have been an irresponsible person, but Jesus fuckin Christ!

Nearly a full year passed before she even talked to Connor again, she felt so hurt. She threw herself into vigilanteism to try and deal with those feelings, getting through her emotional pain by dealing it to criminals physically. She quickly realised she was actually quite good at it, and it slowly evolved into her current job as a... 'private investigator'. Still, the only reason she even began talking to her brother again was when his depression got bad enough for him to start getting into some pretty brutal fights with random assholes around the city. Slowly, they managed to repair their relationship. However, Elise still despises Emily, now firmly under the belief that she took advantage of her brothers lack of self-worth to get what she wanted that night, despite his protests that that wasn't the case.

Relationships:

Connor McGillis
Connor is Elise's shyer, more awkward brother, older than her by a year. Although they are both constantly fighting, its pretty clear to most that they're basically best friends. Each one constantly sticks their heads into each others business, and they'll defend each other to the death. He works as a bartender in a smallish bar downtown. Their relationship did become pretty strained after he got Emily pregnant, but after noticing his personality spiralling into anger issues and vicious self loathing, they managed to reconnect, and he is now back to his old, composed yet nervous self.

Courtney Cartwright:
Courtney is probably the member of Justice Heart that Elise has remained closest with, being pretty much the only one that went to her highschool. In fact, she would probably call Courtney her best friend, and along with Connor they formed a pretty close crew. When she was hospitalised, Elise went into one of her rare serious phases, trying to stick around her through her time in hospital and rehab and, in a less healthy resolution, track down the bastard who did it and ruin him for life.

Isana Sieger:
If there was anyone Elise would ever consider a true rival, it would be Isana Sieger. Back in Justice Heart, the two were constantly butting heads, making jabs at each other and fighting. Elise likes to think they still saw each other as friends, but pissing the white haired girl off was just so much fun! Nowadays, they tend to run into each other every now and then while she's on a job. Whenever this happens, she'll drop everything and try to goad her into another fight for old times sake. She's pretty sure they're still frenemies, although she's not sure how invested Isana is in their rivalry anymore.

Emily Galbrett:
Scum. Goddamn manipulative scum. Connor was in a bad place, where he was vulnerable and needed support, and she took advantage of that. Elise doesn't know if Emily really cared about her when they reconnected anymore, and the mere fact that this doubt is even able to exist in her mind has convinced her that the old Emily, one of her closest confidants, is dead and gone. Now the result is a sixteen year old niece she's never talked to, and a sixteen year old grudge she's never gotten over.

Lily Galbrett:
At this point, the best way to describe Elise's relationship with Lily is 'drinking buddies'. Her relationship with the woman's sister coughscumcough notwithstanding, she tends to enjoy their little 'bonding sessions', which she's gone out of her way to make a thing ever since she realised Lily drank at the bar Connor worked at. These sessions usually involve Lily telling her to piss off and stop being so annoying or other similar insults, to which Elise responds with underage drinking jokes and giggling fits.

@Rabidporcupine Alright just a couple things.

Firstly, your brother AND your character going to the police force? There are other jobs in the world aside from crime-related work, and I think having 1 major NPC (your brother) and 3 PCs and several other NPCs be involved in that area is a bit much. Perhaps your character is fine with continuing their bend of fighting justice, but has an unrelated job?

Also, I doubt Connor, a mere mortal, would ever really ever be able to stand up in a swordfight with your character, unless your character specifically isn't using their powers to enhance their endurance/movement/ect. along with not using the petals. Truthfully, why would he bother learning how to use a sword than use a gun?

Otherwise, assuming you discussed the relationships with the others everything else is fine. Post it.

@Hero You still plan on posting your character?

Edit: Posted my character to the character sheet section, some minor changes given some of the other characters. IC will go up tonight, most likely.

@RabidAnubis
Yeah, I get what you're saying, but with Connor joining the police, I kinda got it in my head that he was inspired enough by them to want to become the closest thing to a hero of justice as an unpowered person like him could be. As for Elise becoming a private investigator, the way she does it, its about as far from the police as someone in that career path can possibly be. If I'm being completely honest though, its mostly because I watched that movie The Nice Guys that nobody remembers, and thought it might be fun to play her a bit like the magical girl version of Ryan Goslings character in it. Also, the way I've written her, she'd almost definitely be fired from any normal person job, because if she couldn't fight a bad guy, she'd probably just start picking fights with rude customers, and since she can't become a professional boxer or anything like that because she can't leave the city, this was the best I could really think of...

That being said, I also thought it would just be easier for her and Connor to be friends with the police crew if they were also involved in that career path somehow.

As for her and her fights with Connor, that's fine. I wasn't quite sure if the magical girl powers extended to superhuman physical abilities too or not, but didn't just want to assume. And he has learnt how to use a gun, but he and Elise just want to make sure he can be ready in just about any situation. He was the normal kid who joined in on the Justice Heart adventures, after all. He knows how a situation can make it so guns just don't hack it (accidentalswordpun). Also, as I'm sure has probably been noticed, I started... borrowing character traits from Fate ever since I used Saber and Mordred as character pictures, so he ended up pretty Shirou-ish, and I just couldn't stop him from liking swords after that!

Again though, I get what you're saying, so if you really want them to not be in law enforcement, I'll try to change it somehow.

@RabidAnubis

Edited the Justice Heart History section.

@Rabidporcupine Drop one of them from law enforcement. I still think it's a bit silly to have Connor learn how to use a sword with that justification - for any normal human, a sword is far less effective than a gun. The magical girls may use them as well, but they are magical girls and don't obey normal rules.

@shagranoz Post in the characters section!

@RabidAnubis
Yeah, I guess you've got a bit of a point there. Can I say the sword thing is just a hobby for him then? And I guess I can make Elise between jobs.

@Rabidporcupine Sure.

IC is up! The time is about 7:30pm, after most people have gotten off work and finished any activities that would happen immediately afterwards. Post what your character is doing, and be prepared!