[OOC] Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed) (Page 49)

Okay folks, I built a character for this RP. She's supposed to be a spy for a nation I'm still building and saving for later, but as such, her personal interests (and employer's interests) coincide with destroying the Hounds. I am very willing to work out collaborations, as well as adding to arcs and stuff. Due to my confusion and the fact that I'm still getting over a 1.5 year gap, I'm gonna need time before I find out where to place Cipher and who I should play with. Feel free to PM me or hit me up on Discord if you wanna ease me into this~! 

Maya Hammond





"Rex Colt" by Power Glove

Full Name
Maya Hammond | Aurélie Butore

Callsign
Cipher

Speech Color
FF3333

Character Alignment 
Walking the Line / Neutral

Identity
Secret

Uniform 
She normally wears street clothes that suit her environment, but when push comes to shove and she's on raid duty, she simply just dons a tactical vest to carry ammunition for her weapons, some protective gear and goes to work. Said tactical gear looks somewhat like this. 

Character Personality
Maya is a woman who is serious, but to a degree. Due to her being born in [REDACTED] and learn English as a second language, she is still in the process of grasping metaphors and such. She understands sarcasm pretty well, and uses it alot for when she talks to her AI Eagle Eye. However, she speaks English fluently, and is a pretty friendly individual who's willing to make friends for the time being. However, knowing her job, she gets assigned to all kinds of different places and loses contact with the people she meets (sometimes having to kill a few), so she doesn't really get attached to the poeple she meets. However, while she may do evil deeds, she doesn't have evil intentions. She's simply serving her country in exchange for full citizenship and full rights for herself and her family, so if she ever tells someone that it's Not Personal, she means it. She's normally calm under pressure, and tries to make an effort of keeping innocents out of the game whenever she's doing her work. However, while she may be a spy and assassin, she has a strong distaste for those who target innocent people, as well as those who sell out others for just greed. She's not as nationalistic as one would seem, and while she's proud of her country and would stand up for any of the good people in it, she feels that they could do a better job at running things, and regrets having to be in the US while she could be home helping her family out. 

Origin Info / Details
Aurélie was born into a very destitute and poor family in [REDACTED], and had grown up most of her life scavenging across the lands with her parents, living life from the crumbs on the floor. However, when the [REDACTED] arrived to her country, she was excited at the prospect of change, and things indeed started changing for the better. Schools were built, hospitals significantly improved, and agricultural yield skyrocketed, and people were brought out of poverty. However, the [REDACTED] soon took over the [REDACTED] government, and established a new nation under their rule, retaining the original name of [REDACTED]. While things did indeed change for the better, normal humans were considered second-class citizens under this new metahuman government, and Aurélie grew up with poor treatment from government forces, witnessing human rights violations. While the nation was far worse off beforehand, it didn't get that much better for the humans like Aurélie.

However, thanks to the high economic yield this new government granted, they significantly increased their military power in order to keep surrounding countries from invasion. The [REDACTED] had created new programs in order to grant normal humans full citizenship in the country, most of them being military related. In order to become full citizens, most must either join the military or go through transformative processes in order to join the ranks of the elite in the country. Aurélie, having been very poorly educated, figured that if she did both, she and her family would be treated far better under the government's new rule. When she turned 18, she enlisted with the [REDACTED] Army, and was put through the [REDACTED] Program. The transition was long, painful, and almost torturous, but after a year of development and testing, she was converted into one of [REDACTED] many Cybersoldiers. At this point, she was part of the second generation of Cybersoldiers that made up the nation's army, and after proving herself quite worthy with training and combat through the various skirmishes that Aurélie participated in, she was admitted into the [REDACTED] at 20 years old. 

The [REDACTED] had a very grueling training process, and in that process, she had gone through various training therapies in order to create a perfect agent for their need and ends. In that time, however, her CyberChip implant had been upgraded to allow one of the [REDACTED] AIs to operate with her. This AI, callsign Eagle Eye, functioned as a military intelligence AI that would assist her in the field. Over time, Eagle Eye and Aurélie improved to fit the [REDACTED] standards. After passing all of their tests, Aurélie was christened as a full agent of the [REDACTED], and was given her warname that will be used to address her at all times. She was given the name Maya Hammond, and with enough fake documents to help smuggle her to the US. She was given the fake backstory of a joint Sierra-Leonian and Canadian cybernetics project, and was given citizenship in the US. At the time of her being shipped out, [REDACTED] didn't have a way to conceal her cybernetics. However, with many cybernetics programs going on all around with world, and with metahumans and supernaturals becoming commonplace, [REDACTED] didn't think Maya would get any trouble getting into the United States. From there, she did wetwork all over the US and the world, going to places like France, Italy, the United Kingdom, China and Russia. By the time she turned 23, she was back in the US, and she had finally arrived at [REDACTED],  collecting intel and completing wetwork for [REDACTED] until she is activated for more missions. 

Hero Type
Cyborg (Other)

Power Level
City Level

Powers 
Active Powers
Cyber Intelligence
Maya is a cyborg, no question about it. With most of her body consisting of artificial superblood, with her bones replaced with titanium alloy, she possesses many latent abilities. However, one ability she actively has to use is her Cyber Intelligence, which is essentially a mind-computer interface that allows her to gather intelligence much quicker than a normal human with any other tool. Her Gen 2 Cyber-Eye (pictured) allows her to see incredibly far distances, as well as act as a targeting computer for any weapon she uses. It also can scan enemies and relay information to any internet port she desires. Thanks to her mind being implanted with a CyberChip that allows her to control her robotic limbs and connect her brain to her cyber-eye, she also possesses an AI that assists her on her tasks and helps keep track of things that her very capable but limited human mind can't. This AI goes by the name of Eagle Eye, which is one of many AIs safely housed in Maya's home country. 

Passive Powers
Super Strength
Due to her bones and muscles being mostly synthetic and far more durable and strong than that of a normal human's, her cybernetic enhancements allow her to lift and carry far more than a human should. The maximum she could do, however, is flip over a light APC or a semi truck, but she can also use her weight and strength to slowly pull tanks as well. Taking her on hand-to-hand with her would be paramount to suicide for anyone without the proper ability to even the odds.

Super Speed
Her cybernetic limbs allow her unparalleled speed in running. However, while it is often dwarfed by dedicated speedsters, she could run far faster than normal humans and can jump higher than most normal humans as well, and still not break a sweat. Her cybernetic legs allow her to run fast and for incredibly long distances. Thanks to almost all of her supporting bones being replaced by titanium alloy, she could fall from five-story buildings and take no damage. 

Damage Resistance
Due to Maya being mostly Cybernetic, she can take a whole lot of punishment, whether it would be from blunt force trauma, stab wounds, explosions, fire, gunshots or just about anything else that isn't electricity. Her titanium skull allows her to resist headshots from most firearms, and she can shake off just about any kind of damage that she can take her way. However, she isn't entirely invincible, as explained in the Weaknesses section.

Steady Limbs
Her cybernetic arms allow her to aim and use any weapon with the upmost strength and the upmost accuracy. This, along with her targeting AI, allows her to be an unparalleled shot. Noise suppression technology and stealth soles allow her to be incredibly good at stealth, and with the ability to stand absolutely still at any time, with the proper camoflauge she could easily hide from lazy eyes. 

Attributes
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 320 lbs.
Strength Level: 20 Tons
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 40 MPH
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 10 Hours
Agility: 2X Normal Human Level
Intelligence: Above Average (Maya), Genius (Eagle Eye)
Fighting Skill: Trained+ / Experienced
Resources: Average (Maya) / Large (Eagle Eye)

Resources 
Maya is only in control of a small safehouse situated in [REDACTED], where she resides as a plant for the [REDACTED]. However, while her resources consists of a decent sum of cash, a small stash of Israeli Weapons (she carries a Jericho 941 (.45 ACP) with her at all times), and two Chevy Suburbans, Eagle Eye can get much more for her if needed. Due to being an advanced AI that keeps track of all data she recieves, it also has the ability to hack into just about anything that isn't at upmost security (ranging from anything from bank accounts to predator drones), getting her any support that's needed for the mission, making her into quite a flexible spy. However, she has several combat bots that Eagle Eye can control upon if she needs tactical support. Said bots possess similar abilities to her, but are entirely robotic and can only be controlled by Eagle Eye. They are often armed with powerful Galil .308 rifles. 
 
Weaknesses
Her sealed cybernetics are waterproof to any pressure, but she is incredibly vulnerable to electric attacks
Targeting her CyberChip (which resides protected in her brain) would put her in a coma, and if done well, could kill her instantly
She possesses a very powerful battery that is charged whenever she sleeps. While it lasts for long periods of time due to it being powered from the rest of her body and normal food consumption, removing it would severely cripple her, and would make her unable to move. She has several spares in case if that happens.

Supporting Characters
Eagle Eye - An isolated military intelligence program developed in the United Kingdom, upgraded in [REDACTED] with a mobile mainframe currently stationed in [REDACTED], this program speaks in a male voice and is pretty much one of Maya's only friends. Being neurally connected to her, and monitoring every statistic (including seeing and hearing everything she does), Eagle Eye could keep track of Maya's surroundings, and point out targets to her. This intelligence is almost Sentient to a degree, with the ability to hack just about anything that doesn't have the upmost security. Despite being only a robotic intelligence, Maya considers Eagle Eye a good friend of hers. Thanks to this isolation, Eagle Eye can act on its own without the oversight of [REDACTED], and can act on its own will. Its intelligence and abilities far exceeded that of [REDACTED] predictions due to its isolated system, and while Eagle Eye has locked [REDACTED] out of itself so he won't be tampered with, he still acts in the interest of Maya, who is in turn currently working in the interests of [REDACTED]. 

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Edit 9001: Added an Edit History, and added Eagle Eye under "Supporting Characters" list.

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Character you have created: Subject BPE-45A / "Riley'
Alias: Voyager
Speech Color (Actually say what you're using):MediumOrchid
Character Alignment: Hero
Identity: N/A 
Character Personality: Even for an artificial extraterrestrial life form, you'll have a hard time finding someone with as much heart as Riley, alien or otherwise. Facing whatever life throws at her with cheerful optimism, a warm smile, and an arsenal of sci-fi references, her friendly personality and quirky sense of humor is almost infectious and she likes to see the best in everyone she encounters, good or evil. Life's an adventure to her, and she absolutely loves meeting and befriending new people thanks to her natural empathy and sociability, as well as discovering new and interesting things to interact with. Her cheerfulness can be grating at times, and sometimes she can be a bit naive about serious issues, but when the chips are down and she's pushed too far, her anger and sadness can be just as powerful and aggressive as her happiness.

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(art by Su-Pra, commissioned by Vatrou, thanks again man! ^_^)

Being an alien, Riley also notably has three-fingered webbed hands (like a Salarian) and three-toed feet, and for the rare instances when she is not in costume she prefers to be in a casual jeans and T-shirt combo.


Origin Info/Details: Shortly before the events in Lost Haven began, ESA satellites detected an unknown object crash into the Mediterranean a few miles off the coast of Corsica. After the initial team sent to observe the area mysteriously vanished, the French government deployed an elite GIGN division to secure the crash site. The unknown object was discovered to be an extraterrestrial spacecraft piloted by a humanoid alien life form. The alien attempted to fight off the GIGN unit using a strange purple energy source, but GIGN managed to subdue the alien and capture its spacecraft in the brutal firefight only to discover that the alien was already dead, probably killed long before the spacecraft reached Earth. Perplexed by how a dead creature could slaughter their initial recovery team and hold its own against an elite spec ops unit, the French government put the alien cadaver in cold storage and quietly covered up the incident until they had the means to uncover the source of the alien's mysterious abilities. 

The situation changed after a portal opened up and unleashed an army of demons on an American city known as Lost Haven. Realizing that they were incredibly unsuited to dealing with a similar attack, the French government along with other NATO members spearheaded new military and technology projects that would hopefully better prepare them for similar threats like Lost Haven's D-Day. The mysterious energy that the alien had used to cheat death and defend itself at Corsica was brought up as a possible defensive measure, and after much debate the alien corpse was handed over to Darrow Engineering, a London-based high-technology corporation and defense contractor specializing in the biological and chemical sciences, for further research. Darrow pooled together every resource they had into unlocking the secret behind the alien's abilities, even drawing the CEO's interest in the research, until they began to draw a detailed picture of the capabilities of this mysterious power source, dubbed "psionic energy". It was progress, but unfortunately without a living source of this psionic energy it would be impossible to study the capabilities of this energy any further, let alone harness it. Publicly, Darrow Engineering declared that the project had hit a stalemate, while behind closed doors the creation of a being that could harness this energy was discussed. Many ideas were brought forth, but the most radical was the brainchild of Dr. Alaric Gaster, who proposed the creation of a human-alien hybrid that could harness psionic energy and serve as a prototype for future generations of psionic-wielding beings. Despite heated objections and a few unfriendly comparisons to one Dr. Frankenstein, the CEO of the company privately gave his approval to the creation of this new life form, classified under the name Project Forethought. Secretly delivered the alien cadaver and several samples of human DNA, Gaster took his experiment and settled in Molotov Point, a secret Darrow research facility in Siberia, to begin work on what would become his greatest creation.

The project went on for months, with little communication from the staff at Molotov Point, good or otherwise. Gaster's haphazard reports ambiguously detailed his efforts to breed new half-alien lifeforms, while regular staff reports were unusually lax during this time, almost as if they had been stopped from heading out. The last transmission from Molotov Point came when Gaster reported the successful creation of what he called "BPE-45A" shortly before an unusually powerful blizzard descended on the research facility, cutting it off from outside contact. During the storm, Russian weather outposts reported unusual atmospheric conditions in the area where the facility was located, and after the storm cleared Molotov Point remained quiet. After a scouting party was sent to investigate, Darrow immediately declared the facility to be decommissioned and scrubbed everything to do with Project Forethought from their official records. Gaster and the rest of the research staff have been missing ever since the storm rolled in.

Before the facility went dark, however, one of Gaster's staff (someone by the name of Zhanya) gave the order for an unusually large package to be delivered to a former Darrow Engineering staff member, Jordan Fletcher, currently working for Poseidon Energy as security under Dr. Alexander Martel. Much to her surprise, it turned out to be a cryogenic pod containing BPE-45A, who introduced herself as 'Riley' to a dumbstruck Fletcher. After the initial shock wore off, she managed to get 'Riley' to her boss Dr. Martel, who was more then happy to help the half-alien girl discover more about the unusual energy source that she was able to tap into and maybe put it to some good use in the meantime.

The shenanigan potential is nigh.

Hero Type (Select one): Energy (Psionic)
Power Level (Select one below): City (Currently)
Powers (Be Specific):

Riley's half-alien genomes allow her to wield and manipulate a mysterious alien energy source known as psionic energy, which manifests in the form of purple energy discharges and electrical arcs. As powerful as it is unknown and dangerous, Riley is able to tap into a seemingly endless reservoir of psionic energy, hampered only by her relative inexperience with the substance. Some of her uses for psionic energy currently include:

Psiblast: Riley is able to fire fast-moving concussive energy blasts from her hands of varying size and strength. She can also prevent a blast from immediately exploding, allowing her to cancel it out or manipulate it like a ball of light, or concentrate it into a powerful beam of energy. Simple, effective, and one of her favorite abilities to use. 

Psiforce: Riley can charge her own body with psionic energy for a burst of strength, indicated by a glowing aura. She can use this on her arms to land an extra strong punch, her legs to jump high into the air and land safely, or even her skin to protect against an attack. She has to time it correctly for it to work, however, since she can't hold a Psiforce ability for more then a few seconds.

Psibeam: Riley can focus her Psiblast into an empowered beam attack, primarily through her eyes, that can melt and punch through solid objects with variable precision.

PsiLift: Riley uses her psionic energy to propel herself in the air, effectively granting her sustained fight.

In addition to her psionic powers, her outfit gives her some moderate defense without sacrificing her mobility, and her learning speed and reaction time have been artificially enhanced by the experiment that created her. She is also able to converse fluently in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Klingon.

Attributes (Select one at each category):
Strength Level: ~60 Tons for burst damage, slightly above normal human for sustained.
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Peak human speed, 50 MPH reaction time
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 3 Hours
Agility: 10x
Intelligence: High 
Fighting Skill: Trained

Resources: High
Weaknesses: Riley's biggest weakness is essentially the infinite amount of Psionic energy she can draw on turning her into a glass cannon. She can handle sustained use of her powers as long as it's controlled well, but if she pushes beyond her limits her body can start to break down from the intense amount of energy she is channeling, making her more vulnerable or even causing physical harm if she pushes her abilities too far.

Supporting Characters:
Jordan Fletcher: The newest member of the security staff at a Poseidon Laboratory in Pacific Point, a fiery Irishwoman with an aggressive personality who becomes the unwitting recipient of a half-alien superheroine thanks to her past employment at Darrow.
Dr. Alexander Martel: An aging but sharp-witted scientist employed by Poseidon who specializes in unusual energy sources. Despite his English origin and fondness for wry humor, he gets along famously well with the newest member of his security team.
'Zhanya': Unknown Darrow Engineering employee, believed to be the sender of BPE-45A.
Sinclair Adams: Riley's fellow Pacific Point superhero and one of her best friends, both of them having cut their teeth as superheroes fighting against the Hounds of Humanity.

(More to come)

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Gonna have posts coming soon. Got one ready mostly to post just need to check in with FDeviant which I haven't been able to as I'm disconnected from Discord while at work. Then Eva's adventures in Birbsitting continue. After I have time tonight that is.

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You know I wonder how much force would the Finger of God inflict. And of course heat. But mostly the force. Could Icon say stop the beam with his bare hands? Would Briley shield the Ageis way back in season one be able to stop it? Could Excalibur take the blast without breaking? Question questions. I'm pretty sure we don't want to find out again.

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You know I wonder how much force would the Finger of God inflict. And of course heat. But mostly the force. Could Icon say stop the beam with his bare hands? Would Briley shield the Ageis way back in season one be able to stop it? Could Excalibur take the blast without breaking? Question questions. I'm pretty sure we don't want to find out again.@VATROU

I wonder a similar sort of thing for The Wanderer's barrier psionics. Sure, it stopped multiple rounds and can more than likely stop a tank round, but the Finger of God? Things to make you go 'hmmm', I guess.

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I wonder a similar sort of thing for The Wanderer's barrier psionics. Sure, it stopped multiple rounds and can more than likely stop a tank round, but the Finger of God? Things to make you go 'hmmm', I guess.@Mercinus3

Give anything enough plot armor and I suppose you could easily stop it. But that's not the angle I'm going here. If say already defined powers or items could withstand that kind of force. But I guess we might never know.

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Well snap. First Wally and Legate which dang. And now Nicky. I think that's a lot of writing, maybe I should get busy.

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Here for Uskriss, @Athinar

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Character you have created: Leanna Young
Alias: Blacklight
Speech Color: Medium Violet Red c71585
Character Alignment: Hero
Identity: Secret except for a few comrades


Character Personality: 
Leanna is a warm, caring person, though she likes to be left to her own devices. She enjoys being out in nature, helping the community, and is generally the sort of neighbour you'd love to have around.

Blacklight is all business. She draws a hard line on crime, though she doesn't seek to punish criminals and villains, as that is the courts job. She will apprehend anyone she can, even modulating her beams as much as she can to avoid doing lethal damage. However, should innocents be in danger, she has no problems putting someone down. When dealing with other heroes, she has anecdotes for almost every occasion about past battles, but stays quiet when a fight is on.

Uniform/costume: She wear a full black bodysuit, crisscrossed with many lines of the same rainbow of colours her energy beams create as they break light, in a pattern reminiscent of a broken mirror. A full size black domino mask covers her cheekbones, bridge of nose, eyebrows, and everything between them, leaving her eyes exposed.

Origin Info/Details: Back in college, Leanna Young was a promising physics student, the kind with a bright future. Going to Syracuse University in New York, she had excellent grades and was in line to be part of the top percentile of her graduating class of 2005. A good home life and middle class upbringing left her well balanced mentally and physically. All of that changed in August 2004.

A villain going by Overlord broke into the physics lab during a late night experiment with a theoretical beam projector, intent on stealing the device. Young, two grad students, and two professors were in the lab at the time. During the raid, Young and one of Overlord's minions toppled into the path of the beam at the same moment one of the professors set it to overload in order to prevent it falling into the villain's hands. The resulting explosion took out half of the building, killing everyone inside except Young, who was found unconscious in the wreckage. There was no sign of Overlord, though many of his minions were also slain.

After two months in a coma, Leanna woke up feeling better than she ever had. Within another week, she had found her powers working at full tilt. Several accidents ensued, but after some wise words from her parents and a helpful trip to the government, “Blacklight” was working with STRIKE by February of 2005.

Over the course of a decade with the organization, Blacklight has dealt with a number of villains, fighting toe-to-toe with several monstrous ones as well as the more normal types, and fended off threats from the street-level on up. However, in 2016, during a pitched battle with a terrorist group, an explosion slammed her against the wall nearby and broke her spine. During her recovery, she decided she had had enough of the fighting, and at thirty four, retired to a farm outside of Syracuse, NY. She finished her degree, finally, and has been living off the land and enjoying the peaceful life since then. 

However, those who have worked with her before have her phone number, should anything come up where they might need her assistance. And, of course, she can't really help but fly around when she can. After all, when you can, why wouldn't you? So the residents of Syracuse know that Blacklight is still around.

Hero Type: Flying artillery
Power Level: World
Powers:
Energy Manipulation: Blacklight creates and controls a unique type of energy not seen anywhere else. While it registers to human eyes, it's not actually light, but a tearing of the visible spectrum in its path that people see. This manifests as a core of utter blackness, edged by a scintillating rainbow effect that scatters beams of visible light in all directions. She can fire this in beams, flat planes, abstract shapes, and more, though the shapes do not take on any properties except the energy itself.
It has fairly strong kinetic properties, though it seems unaffected by gravity or air friction. It also displays slight magnetism and electrical conductivity along it's edges when hit with lightning. Beams fired travel at faster than more than 100,000 meters per second and hit with the force of a jet engine, and also burns with the energy of a 5 exa-watt laser, yet those standing near the beam when it passes report the air feeling “ice cold”. It has shown no radioactive properties that are dangerous to humans, and physicists have yet to come up with a satisfying explanation as to where it comes from, though the prevailing hypothesis is another dimension. The beam power can be modulated, but only so far. Her minimum force of impact is around the equivalent of getting hit with a car moving at fifteen miles an hour, and burns like a ten gigawatt laser beam.

She can fire these beams from her hands or eyes, but she can also cover herself head to toe in the stuff, forming a sort of armor. One of her favourite tricks is to arrest people with “manacles” made of the stuff, since it's impossible to break and burns when you try.

Flight: Blacklight can fly at Mach 2, using "feathered" wings of her energy. These leave a trail in the sky that lasts for several moments after she passes overhead.

Physicality: Blacklight has superhuman strength, endurance, agility, and speed on the ground. She can take hits from some of the strongest and still get up.

Mental Toughness: Extreme iron will, intelligence, and training from psychic types in the past have left Blacklight with extremely tough mental barriers against both mind reading and control.


Attributes (Select one at each category):
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 142
Strength Level: 100+ tons
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 200 mph/equivalent reaction time
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 3 hours fighting, 48 hours flight only
Agility: 10x normal
Intelligence: Well above average, but not a genius
Fighting Skill: Mastered; Veteran of many metahuman battles
Resources:
 Fairly small, given her length of service and breadth of experience, but she has a good amount in savings, and ready assistance from a number of old compatriots should she need it.

Weaknesses: Exposure to more than 1mSv/h radiation (the equivalent of a high radiation area in a nuclear plant) shuts down all of Leanna's powers, including her enhanced strength and toughness, until she has been outside of it for at least an hour, at which point they come back gradually over the course of three hours.

While she is supernaturally tough, anyone with a comparable strength to hers can knock her around pretty well. Gunshots still hurt her, though not as much as they might a normal human. Inside her skull, her brain is as vulnerable as anyone else's, so concussions are a real danger. Her bones are definitely capable of breaking, burns can happen from anything higher than a few hundred degrees C, and she is still as vulnerable as a normal person to cold, electricity, asphyxiation, pressure, starvation, and poisons.

Some of her previous injuries have left her with weak spots, including her spine, her left hip, both shoulders, her neck, and a worrisome chronic migraine problem. These act up even worse in combat.

Supporting Characters:
Ambrose Smith, MD: A doctor in Syracuse who knows about Blacklight's past, in order to better understand how to treat any issues.

Rebecca and Henry Young: Leanna's parents, both knowing of her powers and very relieved to see her retired. Also extremely proud of her.

She did have contacts at STRIKE, but they have all been killed.

Springheel: A speedster Blacklight has worked with on several occasions, and who stops by to visit regularly.

Denier: A man with incredible gravity and forcefield powers who specialises in area control during fights. Also stops by regularly to visit.

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Character you have created: Leanna Young
Alias: Blacklight
Speech Color: Medium Violet Red c71585
Character Alignment: Hero
Identity: Secret except for a few comrades


Character Personality: 
Leanna is a warm, caring person, though she likes to be left to her own devices. She enjoys being out in nature, helping the community, and is generally the sort of neighbour you'd love to have around.

Blacklight is all business. She draws a hard line on crime, though she doesn't seek to punish criminals and villains, as that is the courts job. She will apprehend anyone she can, even modulating her beams as much as she can to avoid doing lethal damage. However, should innocents be in danger, she has no problems putting someone down. When dealing with other heroes, she has anecdotes for almost every occasion about past battles, but stays quiet when a fight is on.

Uniform/costume: She wear a full black bodysuit, crisscrossed with many lines of the same rainbow of colours her energy beams create as they break light, in a pattern reminiscent of a broken mirror. A full size black domino mask covers her cheekbones, bridge of nose, eyebrows, and everything between them, leaving her eyes exposed.

Origin Info/Details: Back in college, Leanna Young was a promising physics student, the kind with a bright future. Going to Syracuse University in New York, she had excellent grades and was in line to be part of the top percentile of her graduating class of 2005. A good home life and middle class upbringing left her well balanced mentally and physically. All of that changed in August 2004.

A villain going by Overlord broke into the physics lab during a late night experiment with a theoretical beam projector, intent on stealing the device. Young, two grad students, and two professors were in the lab at the time. During the raid, Young and one of Overlord's minions toppled into the path of the beam at the same moment one of the professors set it to overload in order to prevent it falling into the villain's hands. The resulting explosion took out half of the building, killing everyone inside except Young, who was found unconscious in the wreckage. There was no sign of Overlord, though many of his minions were also slain.

After two months in a coma, Leanna woke up feeling better than she ever had. Within another week, she had found her powers working at full tilt. Several accidents ensued, but after some wise words from her parents and a helpful trip to the government, “Blacklight” was working with STRIKE by February of 2005.

Over the course of a decade with the organization, Blacklight has dealt with a number of villains, fighting toe-to-toe with several monstrous ones as well as the more normal types, and fended off threats from the street-level on up. However, in 2016, during a pitched battle with a terrorist group, an explosion slammed her against the wall nearby and broke her spine. During her recovery, she decided she had had enough of the fighting, and at thirty four, retired to a farm outside of Syracuse, NY. She finished her degree, finally, and has been living off the land and enjoying the peaceful life since then. 

However, those who have worked with her before have her phone number, should anything come up where they might need her assistance. And, of course, she can't really help but fly around when she can. After all, when you can, why wouldn't you? So the residents of Syracuse know that Blacklight is still around.

Hero Type: Flying artillery
Power Level: World
Powers:
Energy Manipulation: Blacklight creates and controls a unique type of energy not seen anywhere else. While it registers to human eyes, it's not actually light, but a tearing of the visible spectrum in its path that people see. This manifests as a core of utter blackness, edged by a scintillating rainbow effect that scatters beams of visible light in all directions. She can fire this in beams, flat planes, abstract shapes, and more, though the shapes do not take on any properties except the energy itself.
It has fairly strong kinetic properties, though it seems unaffected by gravity or air friction. It also displays slight magnetism and electrical conductivity along it's edges when hit with lightning. Beams fired travel at faster than more than 100,000 meters per second and hit with the force of a jet engine, and also burns with the energy of a 5 exa-watt laser, yet those standing near the beam when it passes report the air feeling “ice cold”. It has shown no radioactive properties that are dangerous to humans, and physicists have yet to come up with a satisfying explanation as to where it comes from, though the prevailing hypothesis is another dimension. The beam power can be modulated, but only so far. Her minimum force of impact is around the equivalent of getting hit with a car moving at fifteen miles an hour, and burns like a ten gigawatt laser beam.

She can fire these beams from her hands or eyes, but she can also cover herself head to toe in the stuff, forming a sort of armor. One of her favourite tricks is to arrest people with “manacles” made of the stuff, since it's impossible to break and burns when you try.

Flight: Blacklight can fly at Mach 2, using "feathered" wings of her energy. These leave a trail in the sky that lasts for several moments after she passes overhead.

Physicality: Blacklight has superhuman strength, endurance, agility, and speed on the ground. She can take hits from some of the strongest and still get up.

Mental Toughness: Extreme iron will, intelligence, and training from psychic types in the past have left Blacklight with extremely tough mental barriers against both mind reading and control.


Attributes (Select one at each category):
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 142
Strength Level: 100+ tons
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 200 mph/equivalent reaction time
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 3 hours fighting, 48 hours flight only
Agility: 10x normal
Intelligence: Well above average, but not a genius
Fighting Skill: Mastered; Veteran of many metahuman battles
Resources:
 Fairly small, given her length of service and breadth of experience, but she has a good amount in savings, and ready assistance from a number of old compatriots should she need it.

Weaknesses: Exposure to more than 1mSv/h radiation (the equivalent of a high radiation area in a nuclear plant) shuts down all of Leanna's powers, including her enhanced strength and toughness, until she has been outside of it for at least an hour, at which point they come back gradually over the course of three hours.

While she is supernaturally tough, anyone with a comparable strength to hers can knock her around pretty well. Gunshots still hurt her, though not as much as they might a normal human. Inside her skull, her brain is as vulnerable as anyone else's, so concussions are a real danger. Her bones are definitely capable of breaking, burns can happen from anything higher than a few hundred degrees C, and she is still as vulnerable as a normal person to cold, electricity, asphyxiation, pressure, starvation, and poisons.

Some of her previous injuries have left her with weak spots, including her spine, her left hip, both shoulders, her neck, and a worrisome chronic migraine problem. These act up even worse in combat.

Supporting Characters:
Ambrose Smith, MD: A doctor in Syracuse who knows about Blacklight's past, in order to better understand how to treat any issues.

Rebecca and Henry Young: Leanna's parents, both knowing of her powers and very relieved to see her retired. Also extremely proud of her.

She did have contacts at STRIKE, but they have all been killed.

Springheel: A speedster Blacklight has worked with on several occasions, and who stops by to visit regularly.

Denier: A man with incredible gravity and forcefield powers who specialises in area control during fights. Also stops by regularly to visit.

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— JAI HALE —

ALIAS: Warbringer
SPEECH COLOR: e1a900
CHARACTER ALIGNMENT: Walking the Line
IDENTITY: Secret, but doesn't care if it becomes known.

          P E R S O N A L I T Y

More often indifferent than any other kind of characteristic, he is a soldier at heart and that makes it difficult for him to open up to people. He usually analyzes those he meets first from their physical appearance to their body language and immediately gains an understanding of them from a glance. In a way, he resembles Sherlock Holmes for his memory and first-time impressions of those he meets and is observant of his surroundings given his upbringing in the military.
          Otherwise, to those he considers comrades and brothers-in-arms, he is quite the individual with a knack for tinkering with a variety of toys, gadgets, and guns for his friends. Sometimes, his rather loner personality has him working in the garage from a variety of cars whether it is the classic 1976 Cobra Mustang to the brand new and age sports car of the 2015 Ferarri FF. Sometimes, if not cars, he works on motorcycles. Because of his interest in motor vehicles, he often makes friends by means of possible frustration toward putting together a car or figuring out the problems a car/motorcycle may have.
          However, he is loyal to a fault and is willing to fight for those he considers worthy. (Like his comrades.) He values friendship and in turn, is kind, thoughtful, and considerate to those he deems friends. He is extremely honorable and respectful of those he meets, formalities and all. Because of how he reads a person at their initial meeting, this can change his behavior toward those he meets. He likes helping people and feels he is giving a little back when he does.
          Romantically, he is one that is very much for subtle touches and expressions. He is awkward when expressing his feelings and does so in the form of physical affection as a way of making up for his lack of words. As a man who is in action, he believes actions is the best way to speak. He has been in love before and takes the actions of what one does to the heart.

UNIFORM:
Wears a simplistic helmet that encompasses all of his head of a sleek carbon-fiber-like material with subtle amber lighting around certain sections of the helmet. Otherwise, he doesn't really mind what he wears besides the mask and changes his clothes intermittently and as needed. The helmet itself has its own technical uses in terms of technology, able to help further analyze and read a situation without difficulty. The helmet itself is near indestructible, made of a material that is not of the planet, and is laced with traces of the mystic arts.



          O R I G I N

When he turned 18 in the early months of 1942, he immediately enlisted in the United States Navy to try and put his troubled childhood and [PAST REDACTED] behind him. From there, it seemed simple enough as he was trained, the regimen giving the troubled teen a sense of comfort as his father and his grandparents had once done the same.
          A year into training, he was selected by the higher up for the potential to succeed in a series of experiments that would help end the war. With nothing left to lose, Jai accepted.
          Since then, the teen vanished off the planet as the government kept his history tightly under wraps. All they knew was that he was handed off to do many black op missions and always returned harder than before. He disappeared again and no one had heard a word from him since. However, some files had turned up that they had lost him altogether and was unable to be found for some time.
          Now fast forward to present day, the soldier had resurfaced appearing slightly different, and yet looked the same as he did back then just shortly after his enlistment. And this time, his mission is the same as it always had been, but just like before, his lips are tightly sealed as to what the actual mission is. The one difference between then and now was that Jai had come back with what seemed to be enhancements that they've never seen before. There were some that could not be explained until they brought in his present-day partner, Leila. After that, Jai's information regarding his augmentations were all rumors.
          Some say that he was knighted by the Queen and others said that he had met with Merlin, a person of mystery that they have been investigating. Others say that he had been blessed by the Fae and was greatly favored, despite the tech that had modified him. Due to his disappearance from any record (and perhaps even the planet), some say he was even abducted by aliens.
          Whatever the case may be, Jai's time from the year he disappeared in 1945 to the present day where he appeared now had remained under heavy lock and key and no one was allowed to look… aside from a few select people.

HERO TYPE:
Brick / SOLDIER.

A modified human who had undergone experimentation and very specific modifications to be made as a super soldier.

POWER LEVEL:
C. World Level

          P O W E R S

■ Genetic Makeup - Due to Jai being modified and generally played with in terms of genetics, his body was pushed to the extreme and beyond of its current normal human capabilities. Needless to say, his body adapted and grew from said modifications.
■ Enhanced Hearing and Smell - To be able to detect any dangerous of gas and surprise attacks, Jai has been modified to have enhanced hearing and smell. The range is extremely overwhelming to an ordinary human, but for Jai, it is anything within a two-mile radius. He is able to adjust his senses accordingly and rifle through the "white noise" to find sources of danger or points of interest.
■ Incredible Durability and Stamina - With the experiments and specific body modifications, Jai is extremely durable and powerful in terms of his durability. He is able to take quite a bit of damage without flinching and is able to keep up, if not surpass, even the toughest of warriors. In fact, he is able to even be on par with quite a vast variety of supernaturals. He's also very resilient to fatigue and exhaustion and doesn't show signs of it after long and an ardous amount of time and stress.
■ Inhuman Strength - His strength is rather undefined as no one really knows his limits. It is perhaps near limitless given the tech and the body modifications that had been done to his genetics.

■ Rapid Regeneration - The regeneration speed is rapid and efficient enough that a gunshot wound of a typical 9mm pistol would heal within seconds of penetrating the skin.
■ Robotic Eye - His blue eye has the capabilities of monitoring and observing those in his general vicinity of his own selection. With a conscious thought and a blink, he can switch between his vision from "normal" view to infared, night vision, thermal, distance magnification of 80x, x-ray, and facial recognition. There's an interface that only he can see that catalogues (each expression and minute detail of their face and person) and monitors the people he is interacting with: their heart rate (thanks to his excellent hearing), physical attributes of what they're wearing, body sizes and measurements, inflections, and body language.
■ Superior Intellect - An intuitive and knowledgeable "young" man, he's extremely observant of those he finds to be of interest with photographic memory. Conversations and various topics have him quite proficient in it, and is eager to talk if the need arises. He also is able to glance through anything once and have apt knowledge and application of it.
■ Parkour - Due to his capabilities of quick agility, he's able to scale buildings and jump around (sometimes even over) them with no trouble. If it means getting to the location at hand over the rooftops than the streets, then he would.
■ Military Training - Due to his enlistment, Jai is trained to be a well-rounded soldier in all manners of combat whether it's close-range or distance.
■ Gun Handling, Use & Knowledge
■ Hand-to-Hand Combat
■ Gathering Intel
■ Espionage
■ Infiltration
■ Battle Warfare, Tactics, & Strategy
■ On-Field First Aid


          A T T R I B U T E S

HEIGHT: 6'4" / 193 cm.
WEIGHT: 215 lbs. / 97.8 kg.
STRENGTH LEVEL: 100+ tons.
SPEED/REACTION TIMING LEVEL: 100+ MPH when he's hyper focused.
ENDURANCE AT MAXIMUM EFFORT: 5 hours.
AGILITY: 20X Human level.
INTELLIGENCE: Genius.
FIGHTING SKILL: Mastered.
RESOURCES: Large.


          W E A K N E S S E S

■ Magic - This ranges for spells cast from to the type of magic used. On Jai's person, there is a certain amount of defensive spells that would only activate when his life is in danger or at risk of death. Once activated, the spells do not come back until the next day or after a night's rest. Otherwise, he's susceptible to the elements magic.
■ Bullets / Knives - Shoot him enough times, and he'll actually die. Bullets can still hurt and penetrate him and injuries caused by any sort of sharp edge of a knife or dagger would still cut him.
■ Electrical Magnetic Pulse (EMP's) - While this would be specific to the type of tech Jai has, it would make his robotic eye and other electric-based weapons on hand that he has to cease functioning. This would force him to rely on his instincts and training. This would also render the technology in his helmet and his eye to become obsolete until he can get it fixed or about an hour has passed since the initial EMP blast.


          S U P P O R T I N G  C H A R A C T E R S

■ Leila Taylor - His go-to partner when he's on missions. Ever since he's resurfaced from wherever he had disappeared to, Leila was his assigned partner. However, she's mostly referred to as his backup, given his abilities and often uses her latent abilities as a Mystic to help Jai offensively from a distance. She also provides Jai with his tech, gear, and upgrades whenever he goes on missions. Sometimes, she might just be nice enough to help him with computer tech and hacking if need be.
■ Leo Hale - Jai's only remaining family relative and his younger brother. Currently missing and Jai has yet to discover his existence.
■ R - The person in charge that Jai and Leila report to.


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          S A M P L E  P O S T

The yellow Manila folder slid across the sleek and black wooden table to a devastatingly handsome man of his late twenties. At least, it can be assumed so when he made a confident smirk with most of his face shrouded in darkness. The only thing that could be almost seen was the piercing bright cerulean irises that seemed to gleam in the dark. He leaned back and picked up the folder, revealing a headshot picture of a young man with olive colored skin and dual-colored irises: one a deep sky blue and the other a burning amber. Another photo shifted underneath the initial picture, the young man appearing to be in the middle of training and the gun he held pointed at whatever his target was at the moment.
          "This is Jai Hale." The one who had slid the folder to the man in the suit clarified. "He's the soldier."
          The man tapped a finger to his chin, his sharp gaze perusing the neatly put together papers that addressed the particulars of how Jai himself was structured. There was more research documentation regarding the parts of the soldier question. Unknown parts, modifications, and fascinating scientific annotations regarding the work done to him was observed and sketched. There was still too many questions that was to be investigated, but a higher-up had ordered a cease-and-desist on the investigation of the soldier "project" that was once theirs.
          "What you hold in your hand there is the only physical copy of his entire file, unredacted," the other man continued to explain.
          The man shifted the folder again and a slim, slender rectangular black shape slid into view and dropped into his lap.
          Without prompting, the other man spoke again. "It's all of the remaining digital copies of the soldier, sir."
          Long and slender fingers lifted the sleek flash drive to his eye-level, looking it over with scrutiny as it twirled lightly. "And I'll assume that this is truly all of his information?" His voice was deep, a silky smooth tone that spoke briskly, and without inflection. "You understand that if there is anything wrong or I find out that there are other copies, that this would be the end for you?"
          The man—dressed in a pressed suit of stark black and white shades compared to the seated man's monochromatic shades of greys and blacks—began to sweat nervously, a cold sweat perspiring visibly on his forehead. He dabbed it with a handkerchief that he pulled from his breast pocket and stuffed the sad grey thing back into its place.
          "Y-Yes, sir," he managed to respond. To further emphasize his subservience to the man seated, he bowed. "That is all of the documentation of the soldier."
          There was a lingering and stifling pause that hung in the air while the man waited for the response.
          "Good."
~ o — o — o — o ~

Bang, bang!
          The shots fired rang in the empty shooting range and the soldier adjusted his stance when the buzzer went off, signaling the end of the initial round of shooting. Setting down the gun, he greeted the silently approaching partner of his.
"Good afternoon, Leila."
          Her brow lifted, no longer seemingly surprised by his awareness of her approach. "Afternoon, Jai." She crossed her arms. "I take it you read the files?"
          He made a minute nod and reached forward for the target paper that showed his shots. "We're going to Lost Haven to investigate the activity there."
          Leila nodded. Still, her brow remained raised. "Are you ready?"
          His lidded gaze looked over his results before setting it neatly down on the table in front of him and displaying a gaping hole in the spot where it should have had a head and a chest. "Always."

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Character you have created: Everett Williams

Alias: Mansa

Speech Color:#9f7d2e - Gentle Gold

Character Alignment: Wishes to be a Hero; Much more prone to Walking the Line.

Identity: He tries to keep his real identity hidden, but was forced to flee the UK when exposed by the Metropolitan Police as part of a larger manhunt involving a string of murders in London that perfectly framed him as the main suspect. The one or two people he had told about his powers have since been taken into custody and their situation is unknown - he has no allies left.

Character Personality: A quiet and uncertain young man, Everett was determined in his school years to keep a low profile, knuckle down and study. He had few friends due to his anxiety and lack of conviction regarding what he wanted out of life in the long-term, in a world ruled by luck - after all, it seemed like those with all of the power had either been born into it, were lucky enough to receive it from circumstance and mystery, or had taken it from others by force and cruelty.

He is generally bad at maintaining eye contact and gets nervous in high pressure environments, but when taking on the persona of 'Mansa', he has found it easier to get 'into character' and reveals an inner confidence that tends to throw those who know him well off guard. He has his suspicions that the persona of 'Mansa' somehow links him to the Golden Spider from his dreams, and that leaves him nervous about the possibility that his confidence and cunning are not really 'his' - this, along with the constant fear of being killed, caught or being forced to his powers to harm others leaves him nervous and pessimistic about the future and his role in the world.

Uniform/costume: N/A; Everett did briefly consider the idea of trying to create his own costume based on sketches he'd drawn as a kid, but quickly realized that his powers were better used from a distance or while blending into a crowd.

In his daily life Everett has no particular 'style', but especially since being on the run he mainly just wears practical, cheap clothing - jeans, bland T-shirts or button-up shirts and simple padded coats or hoodies. When he can get away with it though, he prefers to wear tight, smart brown trousers and elegant, long-sleeved shirts, usually with flower or abstract patterns. When possible, he also wears thick or woolly gloves to limit his powers from accidentally triggering if he gets nervous.

Origin Info/Details: Born to Ghanian parents shortly after they moved to London, Everett often felt uncertain of his place in the world growing up. His parents loved him and his older brother Thursday a great deal, but there was a constant sense of being torn between two very different worlds. He seems to have faded into the background, especially when his younger brother was born and he was hit extremely hard with middle child syndrome.

Never-the-less, there was one small certainty throughout everything - the world was unfair, deeply so, and his family seemed to suffer the brunt of it. In a world of heroes, London - and the wider UK in general - had famously low numbers of heroes relative to its population, and a growing lack of confidence in the work of ordinary police had gradually been eroding their public support; when a series of attacks by the villain Scattershot left dozens dead in the London Underground, the UK government began to implement much more... severe measures, for tackling crime. The new funding and paranoia, however, were a noxious mix that soon helped breed corruption and personal vendettas at the highest level.

In a society rife with propaganda and growing tyranny, Everett grew up increasingly pessimistic about the world, feeling he had to do something - perhaps through studying hard and getting a good education? Perhaps through politics? Perhaps through charity? - to make it better, but every system he turned to had inevitably failed the common people.

And then, when his family had hit rock bottom, he had a dream. A tiny golden spider, drifting in the darkness from a single golden strand.

"The world is wounded, yes?"

"Yes."

"Then take the Light of the Earth, and bind those wounds."

He awoke to something powerful, deep within his bones. On some deep, instinctive level, he knew what the spider had given him - and when his thoughts turned out to be based in truth, that he now held a power able to hold the balance of prosperity and ruin, life and death, with a snap of his fingers...

He knew that he had to do something. With such great power, there was now a great responsibility - to change the world forever.

Hero Type: Elemental/Mystic

Power Level: Usually an A, but Everett could potentially achieve B or even C level with sufficient preparation, support and set up.

Powers: Everett possesses something called the 'Light of the Earth', the ability to instantly turn any inorganic matter he wishes into gold with a snap of his fingers. This can theoretically work on objects of almost any size or complexity, though he's never tried anything larger than a full three piece suit or anything more complex than an iPhone. This is tremendously powerful, but abides by very specific limitations that he strictly cannot break, as follows:
--- Line of Sight: Everett must be able to see the matter he is 'converting' clearly enough that he can perceive it as 'that thing' - this means his effective range is much greater so long as he wears his glasses, but it does not work through electronic devices.
--- No Magic Mass for Me: The targets of Everett's power do not magically 'gain mass' - gold is a heavy metal with a high particle density to its atoms, so most materials and objects will essentially 'compress' as they are converted, the atoms quietly but suddenly 'melting together'. Thus, the vast majority of targets will quite literally shrink or even 'melt' as the individual chemical elements making up the target slowly shrink and push together into a single mass of gold. Perfect golden statues these are not.
----- Despite this change in atomic structure, there is no actual release of energy from such a change - as far as Everett or anyone else is aware, he doesn't have the power to create nuclear fission on a whim or to turn objects into miniature nuclear bombs.
--- Snap of the Fingers: Everett must snap his fingers to trigger the ability - he's attempted to use his power without the finger snap, and consistently nothing happens. There's no specific pose or other action required mind you, but he usually likes to be dramatic about it when he can get away with it. And yes, this does mean he's basically powerless if his fingers or hands are broken.
--- No Focus Necessary: Despite this, Everett doesn't need to actively 'concentrate' to use his power - so long as he's looking at something, he can snap his fingers to trigger it instantly. The problem is that without focusing on the 'target' in question, the effect will simply latch onto whatever 'target' he's dwelling on at the time - a lapse in judgement of this sort is the straw that broke the camel's back and led to him being tracked down by the UK authorities, forcing him on the run.
----- That said, concentration does also provide him greater control - with proper focus, he can 'delay' the effect, starting the process of turning something to gold on a sort of 'timer' where it slowly turns to gold from the outside in. The longest he was able to delay such a target was forty seconds before his concentration was broken by the arrival of police and the conversion immediately finished.
--- Golden Retriever: Technically not a limitation but rather a passive secondary power that he gained simultaneously, he appears to be able to sense the presence of gold around him in a small area, about 20 feet at the furthest. This is described as a 'tingling' that rises up his limbs. The sensation is stronger towards gold that he himself has 'created', and the range extends as far as 50 feet at his last calculation.

As a secondary note, something Everett isn't yet certain of is if there is a way for him to reverse the transformation. A comment the golden spider made to him once ("One who changes the world can often change it back") has led him to believe that he could, but he's not yet been able to successfully do so.

Attributes (Select one at each category):
Height: 6"2.
Weight: 81 kilos.
Strength Level: Normal Human.
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Normal Human.
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human.
Agility: Normal Human.
Intelligence: Slightly above average.
Fighting Skill: Untrained.
Resources: Minimal, but hypothetically could become Extreme given sufficient secrecy/protection and resources to work with.

Weaknesses: Primarily, his main weakness is that, without his power he's just a weedy, physically frail nerd caught between anxiety and a theoretical god-complex that worries those who know of him. Nothing about him is particularly noteworthy, and so if anything were to happen to his hands, or he was caught off guard?

Well, he wouldn't exactly last long.

Supporting Characters:IN PROGRESS
--- Thursday Williams: His older brother, a well-adjusted and law-abiding man who he used to confide in about everything. Thursday was ultimately the one who reported him after he accidentally killed a local business man.
--- The Golden Spider: A mysterious entity that appeared in his dreams and seems to have given him his powers. It appears occasionally to offer cryptic advice, but he cannot seem to question its quiet confidence. He fears that the slight changes in his personality when he gets 'In-Character' as Mansa may actually be the influence or control of the Spider.
--- Velu Anand: A successful business-man and old family friend with something of a rebellious streak from his younger days, he was disgusted at Jeremy's betrayal and has helped provide Everett safe and secret passage out of the UK. "Family first," he always says.

Face Claim: Lakeith Stanfield

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Deep beneath that vast steel cage, he could feel the lifeblood of the world, vast and alien and terrifying. His stomach struggled to rest, the world still spinning - it occurred to him that this was not technically the first time he'd been on a boat. Last time he'd journeyed across the world for a new home, he'd been a zygote, the barest trace of a nothing...

Would I be here if they'd stayed? Or would this... purpose, have only been stronger?

The troubles of Britain were his catalyst, after all. Would he still be the same person if they'd stayed? Would he still even be Everett? Or perhaps he would have been Saturday, just like his grandfather?

No fear, whispered the spider, his focus wandering, adrift in the twilight that surrounded every aspect of the voyage, No worries.

...

He was awoken from his hazy half dreams by a tap on his shoulder. The sound of the tense fingers surrounding and rippling the polyester of his coat was almost as noticeable to him as the firm but gentle grip.

"Everett, we are arriving soon. How are you?"

He smiled, a soft and distant smile as he turned to the last of those who could be called his allies, and the brown suitcase that he'd placed onto the ground. An old friend - the oldest.

"I'm... I'm okay. Just... tired. Thinking a lot. Thanks again for all of this though, Velu."

"Oh, no fear boy. You were always good, a good boy, and if Allu was here, I think he'd have been right alongside you. What's become of this country..."

The gentle crevices of Velu's face went taut as he spat on the ground, sneering at the spot just like he'd sneered at the TV the day Everett had come to him for help. Everett couldn't help but smile a little at that - to see the polite, well-mannered business man display his disgust so straight.

They stood in the soft darkness of the ship's hold for some time. Honestly, time had felt less and less meaningful a concept those last few days - what did it matter, when the chase was eternal?

Velu's brown eyes went wide, and he patted down the pockets of his well-tailored brown suit. Then, with a slight sigh of relief, he reached into the inner pocket and pulled out a small silver stop-watch. He held Everett's hand tightly, resting it in his palm.

"Take it, as a memento. The time is always changing, always ticking, but it never stops going. That watch has been with me for four generations, and well... you take it now, okay?"

Everett stepped back, his feet suddenly uneasy.

"But, you... you've already done so much, I don't, I-"

"Just take it, alright? I only ask that you don't turn it into gold. The memories of my family are more precious than that. It's never needed to be retuned, and if you break that record..."

He smiled again, though something in his eyes - the shimmer and echo of a tear? - told Everett he was serious.

"... then my ghost, my father's ghost, and my grandfather's ghost will haunt you from across the Atlantic. You'll never be able to escape!"

Everett nodded, wiping his brow with his right hand in as exaggerated way as he could muster, given the circumstances.

"The ghosts of Anand. Like... the saddest version of a Christmas Carol ever, with curry?"

"Hah, sad? Angry, more like! And you'd wish my wife's cooking was there!"

They laughed, and cried, and hugged - for the first time in a long, long while, Everett didn't feel so awkward about it.

...

An hour later, and Everett walked into the early evening darkness, the 'helper' Velu had hired to get him away from the dockyards. The big apple, the so-called greatest city on Earth, awaited him. He had two thousand dollars, the clothes on his back, a suitcase full of memories.

On the horizon behind him, there stood a flame of liberty, a bearer of justice. In this world of chaos and lies, where everything could change like a snap of the fingers...

The clock kept ticking.

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You know Lady Hex just made Hound Dog more powerful. Wind, rain lighting. That's like begging him to kill as many Hounds as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if Lighting becomes sparse as he starts gathering it.

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The initial NPC antagonists of Everett's first arc


 Marcus "Delta Ghost" Toome 

Male, 34 | Project Ghost; Field Agent/Black Ops | B-Level Metahuman; Brick/Shapeshifter

"You grow up with expectations, you know? They define you. And when they don't match, go up in smoke? Well... heh, it's not like it'd matter if everything else did, too."

A straight-faced and often ruthless figure, Marcus has never been one to avoid a fight or to back down. Instead, he welcomes conflict and often got in trouble for picking fights over the smallest of slights. His dishonourable discharge seems to have solidified his attitude towards authority, but something prevents him from directly disobeying the orders he receives from command.
While he has no personally defined moral code other than 'get the job done', he is not a sadist and has no interest in getting civilians or people he perceives as 'weaker' drawn into conflict needlessly. Ultimately, he seems to have little respect for anyone - least of all himself.


Artwork by zonked on opengameart.org


Powers: After the experiments performed on him as part of Project Ghost, Marcus's consciousness was transferred into a stable and isolated server network, where it was then overlaid with an in-progress military AI designed to control and coordinate swarms of nanomachines. With his mind 'backed up' in the UK, the instance of Marcus engaged in the current manhunt for Everett resides within one of the prototype 'swarm carriers', a highly advanced modular exoskeleton that houses roughly 90,000 'bugs' - although each is little over a centimetre long, he has full control of them and they can rapidly break down and reconstruct physical matter that he touches. Working in tandem, they can fuse together at the molecular level to form a highly durable bond, allowing him to withstand continuous gunfire and explosives with ease.
--- This also grants him great agility and potential for stealth, as the swarm can operate autonomously from the exoskeleton for days at a time in 'recon' mode, slipping through ventilation or miniscule gaps and temporarily forming into a 'shadow form' - this lacks the greatly enhanced strength and durability of the full exoskeleton, but has proven useful for assassinations and data collection.

Attributes (Select one at each category):
Height: 5"1 (compressed) - 7"2 (at full)
Weight: 400 pounds (compressed) - 300 pounds ('free', with the entire swarm released)
Strength Level: 15 tons
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 24 MPH
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 5 hours
Agility: Normal human (compressed) - shapeless, though not able to travel through air or water-tight seals ('free')
Intelligence: Average
Fighting Skill: Mastered
Resources: His inability to function in normal human society leaves him only with the resources granted by his powers or the needs of any given mission, but he can rapidly build what's needed at any given moment, assuming he has sufficient materials.


FC: Jean-Claude Van Damme


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 Sarah "Beholder" Blackwater 

Female, 41 | Project Ghost; Field Agent/Researcher | A-Level Metahuman; Mystic/Acrobat/Grey Matter

"Mmm, excuse me, the adults were talking? No manners at all."

An often frightening woman with little concern for the opinions of others, Sarah's powers have left her with little tolerance for the tiniest and most frustrating of failings in others, their subtlest faults and fears and tells being magnified to her a hundredfold. As one of those chosen by the golden spider, she thinks of herself as wholly unique, even in a world of heroes, and far above the concerns of others.

So far, she hasn't encountered anyone else with a gift from the golden spider, but would probably find the idea of it amusing.

Powers: For the most part, Sarah has just been given access to extensive training, but the golden spider gifted her with the 'Light of the Wind'. With this, her eyes and mind are altered to superhuman levels - able to see within the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums (or even deeper into the wavelengths of light with proper concentration), her photographic memory and superhuman reflexes and reaction times allow her to discern the truth and subtlety of every human motion, social situation, or cunning trick. Few traps can evade her sight, for her vision even stretches into the spectrums beyond our physical universe, given further practice. 
--- On top of this, she is a trained and accomplished marksman with all firearms, but has a fondness for rifles - minus the scope, of course. It's more dramatic and flattering that way.

Attributes (Select one at each category):
Height: 5"9
Weight: 170 pounds
Strength Level: Normal human
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 35 MPH
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal human
Agility: 15X human level
Intelligence: Above average
Fighting Skill: Mastered
Resources: Minimal, but an expert at using her environment to her advantage

FC: Cate Blanchett

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