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Rondo of Blood a horrible night to have a curse
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@Blackstripe Alright, cool! And how is Nth Metal going to be ruled? There's lots of stuff tied to it, so I was curious if there will be any limitations or set standards you're looking for.
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Would Clio be able to see Nocturne? I am fine with it, if she can.
She can probably see a decent outline of Nocturne when she's Makaya, then something far more hazy (like taking off your glasses) when she's Clio. She's becoming a resident of the Chaos realm slowly but surely!
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@Rondo of Blood In this setting, Nth Metal is merely a special alloy with anti-magical properties that the Thanagarian race discovered how to make after they were nearly conquered by a race magic-using aliens. It doesn't make you fly, nor does it reincarnate you repeatedly, or any of that bizarre insanity. :P
It can harm any magical-based entity, provided it is forged into a weapon. Mere contact with it does not cause harm, even to such beings, nor does it emit any kind of field that aversely affects them.
It does, however, have the ability to negate any spells it comes into contact with. So if a Mage tries to make a portal to absorb your attack, an Nth Metal weapon will tear straight through it.
It can harm any magical-based entity, provided it is forged into a weapon. Mere contact with it does not cause harm, even to such beings, nor does it emit any kind of field that aversely affects them.
It does, however, have the ability to negate any spells it comes into contact with. So if a Mage tries to make a portal to absorb your attack, an Nth Metal weapon will tear straight through it.
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Would you like me to add more detail to my character sheet regarding how curses take effect, and how they can be negated without Clio breaking them?
Would you like me to add more detail to my character sheet regarding how curses take effect, and how they can be negated without Clio breaking them?
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@MsMorningstar Considering how awesome your character sheet was the last time I read it, I wouldn't pass up the chance to read more! Go ahead!
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@Blackstripe Ahh cool, I was already considering being a mage-smacker, and this makes it a bit more fitting! That said I think I need a brief historical and physiological rundown on Thanagarians in this world then just so I don't mess things up ><
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I have a lot of things to write but work has been tiring me down. Tonight's the start of my weekend so I'll see if I can't get at least one of the CSes done. My Batman/Ironman hybrid or my alien invader.
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I guess I'll take this opportunity to repost my CS since it probably got lost, and I forgot to mention you. Here's Starfire. Let me know if there's anything I need to change, add, or remove!
I guess I'll take this opportunity to repost my CS since it probably got lost, and I forgot to mention you. Here's Starfire. Let me know if there's anything I need to change, add, or remove!
Basic Information
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Superhero/villain Name: Starfire
Civilian Name: Kory Anders
Origin city/Planet: Tamaran
Hometown: Gotham City
Sex: Female
Race: Tamaran
Height: 5'11
Weight: 130 lbs
Age: 190 (19 in Tamaran)
Birth Date: May 22nd, 1831
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Costumed Appearance:
Civilian Appearance: Starfire would wear street clothes if she was confident there would be no trouble, but given her striking and unique appearance she is never really anyone else other than Starfire.
Icon:
Costumed Personality: Starfire, despite her advanced age in human years, is quite naive. She has an interesting sense of humor that is mostly based on slapstick and punchline based jokes, but she is usually cheery and amiable. However, she takes combat very seriously, and will not mess around and become lazer focused on defeating the enemy, driven mostly by emotions of determination and passion to defeat her foes. This makes her reliable and trust worthy, but also makes her prone to reckless and dangerous actions. She has courage in spades, and does not fear death, but she is afraid of losing those she cares about, and the innocent masses at large.
Civilian Personality: Starfire is very rarely "off". Infact, her made up name, Kory Anders (a human version of Koriand'r, her real name) is very rarely used. She has adopted the Starfire persona entirely, and enjoys fighting the good fight. Starfire is trusting, gullible, and optimistic.
Super abilities:
-Skills: Tamaran Martial Arts
-Powers:
Solar Manipulation: Starfire is powered by the sun. Her species uses photosynthesis, in a way, to survive, though obviously Starfire is not a plant. Using this power, she can jump great distances, and a variety of other powers.
Starbolt: Her most common form of offense is the star bolt. She summons a sphere of energy about the size of a volleyboll around her hand. One formed, it solidifies, like a frozen waterballoon. This is called "Hard-Light." Upon release, they fly in an arc and shatter on the target, exploding into a concussive green flame. The longer the Starbolt is charged, the more powerful it is, and a half minute of charging can release in something like a C4 detpack, capable of destroying small buildings. She can also fire them very quickly, like machinegun fire with the force of a very large and very round bullet, though not nearly as fast. Most of the time, she picks a healthy middle, like a grenade.
Starpoint: She can concentrate much less volatile orbs of energy as well, and these are more utility than offense. They can float in the air, embed themselves in surfaces, or roll along the ground. Starfire can hook or latch any part of her body onto them and use them as platforms and grip points. A sheer surface be suddenly becoming like a climbing wall, with Starfire launching herself from Point to Point. They can float in the air for a short amount of time and be used like rungs on a horizontal ladder. Sometimes, she latches them onto her feet and uses them like floating rollerblades to increase her speed, take ramps, and look badass.
Starjump: Starfire's most iconic ability is the Starjump. A brief moment of focus can create a 2d circle beneath her feet or hands, popping her off it as if it were solid ground. She can use this to jump from place to place using nothing but the air. The longer she is in the air, the more powerful the Starjump is. Using Starpoints and Starjumps can increase her mobility exponentially. The Starjump is used to gracefully reposition and shifter Starfires momentum in the air. The sound a Starjump makes is as if someone hit a large pingpong ball extremely hard into an echoing abyss, with bassy crack and pop echoing through the air as Starfire jumps. Her people on her homeworld would use Starjumps as their way of space travel, gaining more and more momentum and speed, circling the entire planet and then focusing all their energy into a massive Starjump to burst from the planet's gravitational pull at half the speed of light. Once in space, they would be unconstrained, and get up to light speed. This process takes about a week of uninterrupted movement.
Starshield: Starfire can create a shield of Hard-Light around her body or to be held infront of her. It is resistant to small arms fire but breaks under too much extreme duress. If she continually focuses on it, it can protect her from a considerable amount of damage, but this requires a brief amount of charging and removes her mobility and offensive abilities completely.
Being of the Stars: Starfire does not need to eat, sleep, or go the bathroom. All she needs is access to direct sunlight or a UV light, or the light generated by a fellow Tamaran, at least once a week. If she does not get this sustenance, she will begin to die and experience symptoms much like severe dehydration. The longer she goes without contact with an appropriate light source, the weaker she becomes. She is completely immune to heat damage of any kind. She also regenerates faster. In order to heal, she must sleep. Depending on the severity of the wound sometimes she doesn't have a choice in the matter. If knocked unconscious by a grevious wound she will be out of it for about a week. If she is knocked out in a place with no light source, she'll not wake up at all until she dies of the wound or is brought back into the light. While her skin absorbs the light that allows her to live, she also needs to breathe it in. Not breathing in oxygen, but the light itself. So she can breathe in space, as long as there is a light source where the light can reach her.
Natural Durability: Starfire's skin and bones are naturally tough. She is naturally bulletproof, with bullets bouncing off her skin like well aimed punches. A shot to the head for example, will knock her out immediately. Sharp places can cut a little into her, and concussive stuns can hurt her. Usually, other enhanced individuals can create the force necessary to do real damage to her form, and a well trained and well coordinated contigent of normal people with better than average firearms have the potential to bring her down as well.
Language Learning through Lip Contact: One of Starfire's most bizarre ability is being able to learn languages through kissing, or making contact with whatever hole the language noise comes out of. It is not an inherent ability of her people, but rather an unorthodox application of it. It was developed long ago by her ancestors, when the Tamaran people were inter solar system peacemakers. It's been passed down since then. Unfortunately it does not allow her to read the language, only speak semi-crude mimicry of it.
-Gadgets: The Star Gem is what she wears on her breastplate. It allows her to more easily focus her power. Without it, she can still fight, but she will grow tired and potentially become overwhelmed by her own power. It also stores solar energy, allowing her to use it like a battery if she does have access to the sun. A true Tamaran warrior goes without a Star Gem. It is comparable to training wheels, as Starfire was not able to finish the long process of training and mastering her powers.
-Weapons: None. Starfire only uses her innate powers to fight.
Civilian Occupation: None. She is unemployed and spends most her time super-heroing around.
Biography---------
Character History/Origin: Starfire was next in line to be Empress of the Ko empire, the largest empire in her home world. It is a place of pride, strength, and abundant resources with a strict social code. It is a jewel of the galaxy, and one that draws great envy. As such, the planet of Tamaran is in a state of near continuos warfare with other alien races who seek to take it's riches. Starfire, named Koriand'r at the time, was being trained to continue the fight. She, and her youger sister, Kormand'r, was the opposite of Starfire in many ways. She was cold, calculating, intelligent, devious and ambitious. Kormand'r noticed the frontlines beginning to fail. She noticed the slow abandonment of their warrior race roots, and the growing contentment and apathy of her people. She saw that Starfire was obvlious to this. She sought out to fix this, and save her people. In many ways, Komand'r was heroic. Perhaps, in another life, things could have gone so much better. Being the younger sister, Koriand'r was pampered. Koriand'r was kind and sociable, she was not. Koriand'r was the more talented fighter, while Komand'r used her wits and devious tricks to gain victory, which was viewed as dishonorable. Koriand'r was well on her way to becoming a Starfire, an elite unit of fighters.
Komand'r was the underdog, and sought to upheave the status quo.
Komand'r sought out fundamentalists and extremists, those who would join her cause. Koriand'r was off training and participating in skirmishes, working her way up into becoming the Empress. She paid little mind to her little sister. Naive as she was, she had no idea of what was coming. Those around her grew suspicious, and tensions between the Ko Empire and Komand'r's growing discontent skyrocketed. Eventually, the enemies of Tamaran made a large push. Komand'r took this opportunity to stage her coup. She killed her own father, though the circumstances around this murder are murky at best. Her rebellion overpowered the loyalists. Koriand'r, blindsided and enraged, could not comprehend why her sister would do such a thing, which simply served to anger her sister even further. They fought, and through means Koriand'r did not expect, Komand'r proved victorious.
She enslaved her sister. Komand'r began reshaping the world in her new image. The council was undone, and Komand'r reigned supreme as an absolute monarch. A decade later, Koriand'r escaped. Besting the guards, she got the upperhand on Komand'r when she least expected, and Starjumped away. A few years later, in exile, she found her way to Earth. Particularly depleted after a long flight, she crash landed into the American midwest. Surprised by the hostility of the place, (who according to records was a safe planet), she managed to escape east into New York.
Optional information: Here, she will stay. Learning the plight of the people of Earth, she will try to make it a better place, and improve her ownself. One day, she intends to return to Tamaran and avenge her father and retake the planet. In the meantime, she will grow in strength and wisdom until she has what it takes to defeat her sister.
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Nemesis: Komand'r seeks her sister to this day, it being a matter of personal vengeance and vendetta, to prove she was right. Adopting the name Blackfire, her search is limited in resources due to the war, and her ongoing conquest.
Allies: None, yet.
Team: None yet.
Other: I'll ask around and see who will be willing to be one of Starfire's first friends on planet Earth.
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Superhero/villain Name: Starfire
Civilian Name: Kory Anders
Origin city/Planet: Tamaran
Hometown: Gotham City
Sex: Female
Race: Tamaran
Height: 5'11
Weight: 130 lbs
Age: 190 (19 in Tamaran)
Birth Date: May 22nd, 1831
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Costumed Appearance:
Civilian Appearance: Starfire would wear street clothes if she was confident there would be no trouble, but given her striking and unique appearance she is never really anyone else other than Starfire.
Icon:
Costumed Personality: Starfire, despite her advanced age in human years, is quite naive. She has an interesting sense of humor that is mostly based on slapstick and punchline based jokes, but she is usually cheery and amiable. However, she takes combat very seriously, and will not mess around and become lazer focused on defeating the enemy, driven mostly by emotions of determination and passion to defeat her foes. This makes her reliable and trust worthy, but also makes her prone to reckless and dangerous actions. She has courage in spades, and does not fear death, but she is afraid of losing those she cares about, and the innocent masses at large.
Civilian Personality: Starfire is very rarely "off". Infact, her made up name, Kory Anders (a human version of Koriand'r, her real name) is very rarely used. She has adopted the Starfire persona entirely, and enjoys fighting the good fight. Starfire is trusting, gullible, and optimistic.
Super abilities:
-Skills: Tamaran Martial Arts
-Powers:
Solar Manipulation: Starfire is powered by the sun. Her species uses photosynthesis, in a way, to survive, though obviously Starfire is not a plant. Using this power, she can jump great distances, and a variety of other powers.
Starbolt: Her most common form of offense is the star bolt. She summons a sphere of energy about the size of a volleyboll around her hand. One formed, it solidifies, like a frozen waterballoon. This is called "Hard-Light." Upon release, they fly in an arc and shatter on the target, exploding into a concussive green flame. The longer the Starbolt is charged, the more powerful it is, and a half minute of charging can release in something like a C4 detpack, capable of destroying small buildings. She can also fire them very quickly, like machinegun fire with the force of a very large and very round bullet, though not nearly as fast. Most of the time, she picks a healthy middle, like a grenade.
Starpoint: She can concentrate much less volatile orbs of energy as well, and these are more utility than offense. They can float in the air, embed themselves in surfaces, or roll along the ground. Starfire can hook or latch any part of her body onto them and use them as platforms and grip points. A sheer surface be suddenly becoming like a climbing wall, with Starfire launching herself from Point to Point. They can float in the air for a short amount of time and be used like rungs on a horizontal ladder. Sometimes, she latches them onto her feet and uses them like floating rollerblades to increase her speed, take ramps, and look badass.
Starjump: Starfire's most iconic ability is the Starjump. A brief moment of focus can create a 2d circle beneath her feet or hands, popping her off it as if it were solid ground. She can use this to jump from place to place using nothing but the air. The longer she is in the air, the more powerful the Starjump is. Using Starpoints and Starjumps can increase her mobility exponentially. The Starjump is used to gracefully reposition and shifter Starfires momentum in the air. The sound a Starjump makes is as if someone hit a large pingpong ball extremely hard into an echoing abyss, with bassy crack and pop echoing through the air as Starfire jumps. Her people on her homeworld would use Starjumps as their way of space travel, gaining more and more momentum and speed, circling the entire planet and then focusing all their energy into a massive Starjump to burst from the planet's gravitational pull at half the speed of light. Once in space, they would be unconstrained, and get up to light speed. This process takes about a week of uninterrupted movement.
Starshield: Starfire can create a shield of Hard-Light around her body or to be held infront of her. It is resistant to small arms fire but breaks under too much extreme duress. If she continually focuses on it, it can protect her from a considerable amount of damage, but this requires a brief amount of charging and removes her mobility and offensive abilities completely.
Being of the Stars: Starfire does not need to eat, sleep, or go the bathroom. All she needs is access to direct sunlight or a UV light, or the light generated by a fellow Tamaran, at least once a week. If she does not get this sustenance, she will begin to die and experience symptoms much like severe dehydration. The longer she goes without contact with an appropriate light source, the weaker she becomes. She is completely immune to heat damage of any kind. She also regenerates faster. In order to heal, she must sleep. Depending on the severity of the wound sometimes she doesn't have a choice in the matter. If knocked unconscious by a grevious wound she will be out of it for about a week. If she is knocked out in a place with no light source, she'll not wake up at all until she dies of the wound or is brought back into the light. While her skin absorbs the light that allows her to live, she also needs to breathe it in. Not breathing in oxygen, but the light itself. So she can breathe in space, as long as there is a light source where the light can reach her.
Natural Durability: Starfire's skin and bones are naturally tough. She is naturally bulletproof, with bullets bouncing off her skin like well aimed punches. A shot to the head for example, will knock her out immediately. Sharp places can cut a little into her, and concussive stuns can hurt her. Usually, other enhanced individuals can create the force necessary to do real damage to her form, and a well trained and well coordinated contigent of normal people with better than average firearms have the potential to bring her down as well.
Language Learning through Lip Contact: One of Starfire's most bizarre ability is being able to learn languages through kissing, or making contact with whatever hole the language noise comes out of. It is not an inherent ability of her people, but rather an unorthodox application of it. It was developed long ago by her ancestors, when the Tamaran people were inter solar system peacemakers. It's been passed down since then. Unfortunately it does not allow her to read the language, only speak semi-crude mimicry of it.
-Gadgets: The Star Gem is what she wears on her breastplate. It allows her to more easily focus her power. Without it, she can still fight, but she will grow tired and potentially become overwhelmed by her own power. It also stores solar energy, allowing her to use it like a battery if she does have access to the sun. A true Tamaran warrior goes without a Star Gem. It is comparable to training wheels, as Starfire was not able to finish the long process of training and mastering her powers.
-Weapons: None. Starfire only uses her innate powers to fight.
Civilian Occupation: None. She is unemployed and spends most her time super-heroing around.
Biography---------
Character History/Origin: Starfire was next in line to be Empress of the Ko empire, the largest empire in her home world. It is a place of pride, strength, and abundant resources with a strict social code. It is a jewel of the galaxy, and one that draws great envy. As such, the planet of Tamaran is in a state of near continuos warfare with other alien races who seek to take it's riches. Starfire, named Koriand'r at the time, was being trained to continue the fight. She, and her youger sister, Kormand'r, was the opposite of Starfire in many ways. She was cold, calculating, intelligent, devious and ambitious. Kormand'r noticed the frontlines beginning to fail. She noticed the slow abandonment of their warrior race roots, and the growing contentment and apathy of her people. She saw that Starfire was obvlious to this. She sought out to fix this, and save her people. In many ways, Komand'r was heroic. Perhaps, in another life, things could have gone so much better. Being the younger sister, Koriand'r was pampered. Koriand'r was kind and sociable, she was not. Koriand'r was the more talented fighter, while Komand'r used her wits and devious tricks to gain victory, which was viewed as dishonorable. Koriand'r was well on her way to becoming a Starfire, an elite unit of fighters.
Komand'r was the underdog, and sought to upheave the status quo.
Komand'r sought out fundamentalists and extremists, those who would join her cause. Koriand'r was off training and participating in skirmishes, working her way up into becoming the Empress. She paid little mind to her little sister. Naive as she was, she had no idea of what was coming. Those around her grew suspicious, and tensions between the Ko Empire and Komand'r's growing discontent skyrocketed. Eventually, the enemies of Tamaran made a large push. Komand'r took this opportunity to stage her coup. She killed her own father, though the circumstances around this murder are murky at best. Her rebellion overpowered the loyalists. Koriand'r, blindsided and enraged, could not comprehend why her sister would do such a thing, which simply served to anger her sister even further. They fought, and through means Koriand'r did not expect, Komand'r proved victorious.
She enslaved her sister. Komand'r began reshaping the world in her new image. The council was undone, and Komand'r reigned supreme as an absolute monarch. A decade later, Koriand'r escaped. Besting the guards, she got the upperhand on Komand'r when she least expected, and Starjumped away. A few years later, in exile, she found her way to Earth. Particularly depleted after a long flight, she crash landed into the American midwest. Surprised by the hostility of the place, (who according to records was a safe planet), she managed to escape east into New York.
Optional information: Here, she will stay. Learning the plight of the people of Earth, she will try to make it a better place, and improve her ownself. One day, she intends to return to Tamaran and avenge her father and retake the planet. In the meantime, she will grow in strength and wisdom until she has what it takes to defeat her sister.
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Nemesis: Komand'r seeks her sister to this day, it being a matter of personal vengeance and vendetta, to prove she was right. Adopting the name Blackfire, her search is limited in resources due to the war, and her ongoing conquest.
Allies: None, yet.
Team: None yet.
Other: I'll ask around and see who will be willing to be one of Starfire's first friends on planet Earth.
LokiLeo789 OGUNEATSFIRST
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@Blackstripe Any specific hero or villain archetypes you might want to have have filled? Have a lot of ideas just not really able to settle on one or the other.
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Will write out Zatara soon.
Added a buncha' more, detailed information to my character.
Also changed his icon to this.
Also changed his icon to this.
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And here she is, my take on Jynx! (Reading this will not put a Jinx on you. Promise!)
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Superhero/villain Name:
Jynx
Civilian Name:
Jean
Origin city/Planet:
Boston, Massachusetts
Hometown:
None. She moves between cities often.
Sex:
Female
Race:
Human
Height:
1.80m, or 5"9
Weight:
60kg, or 132 pounds
Age:
23
Birth Date:
30.03.1998
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Costumed Appearance:
While she doesn't have a proper costume, she will pull a hoodie over her head if she is out, practicing her abilities or trying to get a better grip over them in an effort to help others.
Civilian Appearance:
Jean has brunette hair, blue-brownish eyes and a slender body figure. While these features make her appealing, her dressing makes for the contrary. She will normally wear whatever she can get her hands on, which normally consist of grey clothes that either appear worn out, too big for her, or overall bad. The only good appearing wearable item she has is her hat, which always appears well taken care of, and almost appears as though it has been glued to Jean's head.
Icon:
She doesn't have any yet.
Costumed Personality:
While hooded, out and about, she will try and avoid civilians as much as possible, to the point of using her own ability to cause any kind of potential distraction to get out of talking to them. She will normally try and go further away from where she normally hangs around at, with thinking that the further out she goes, the better.
When it comes to fighting, Jynx will do her best to keep her head in the game. However, it is easy for her to get emotional over mere teasing of enemies, which often brings consequences of their own. When she does stay calm and focused, however, her fighting skills show the best of her, and why she won't back down without a fight.
Civilian Personality:
As Jean, she will mostly stay quiet and try to avoid the majority. Due to a past of mistrust in both herself and others, it is hard for her to become close to anyone else. It is also hard for her to start a conversation, and she could easily become flustered. When approached for a conversation, however, it will be easier for her, and she will often appear to enjoy conversations.
If someone is becoming emotional in a close proximity, she will normally turn away and try to leave until the emotions calmed down. Jean herself has some degree of difficulty maintain her own cool at many times, and could be seen breaking into tears over trivial things. She will also try to conceal her tears from others, so they won't try to approach her to comfort her.
Skills
~ Excellent Endurance ~
~ Good Agility ~
~ Skilled Freerunner ~
~ Skilled Baton Fighter ~
~ Expert Lock Picking ~
~ Good Safe Cracking ~
Powers
~ Probability Manipulation ~
Jynx's main power, and the one that caused her the most trouble throughout her life. With this power, Jynx can effectively 'sense' whats the likelihood of something to occur, and what needs to happen for that to occur. She can then affect the object needed in order to cause the chain of events that causes that to happen. She can also affect smaller animals to a degree, but she cannot affect other humans, demons, or anything that can resemble a humanoid being.
This power is also not one she has complete control over. If her emotions get the best of her, she can start affecting objects around her without even intending to. During her emotional outbursts, it appears as though her powers grow stronger and can affect multiple objects, or larger objects than the ones she would normally affect.
~ Telekinesis ~
A small side power Jynx discovered she had. She is capable of levitating objects, up to her own weight, and only within 10 meters of herself. No matter how much she tried, Jynx had been incapable of increasing the weight or distance of the objects she can levitate, making her believe this is the best will be able to use this ability to, no matter how much she tried to train it.
Gadgets
~ Lockpick set ~
Jynx "liberated" this from a pawn shop early in her days as a girl with no home, and has since been using and training with the set the best she could. Although it is missing one of the original picks, she managed to make do with a bunch of hair clips that serve as substitutes.
Weapons
~ Folding Baton ~
This Baton is also an item she found at a pawn shop. She received it as protection, paid by her brother. Since the moment she had it, she began practicing with it, giving her about 13 years to practice with it. The fact her older brother helped her train for a period certainly helped improve her skills.
Civilian Occupation:
Thief/Burglar
Character History/Origin:
Born as Jean Delice in Boston, Jean initially had a good childhood. Her first years in the world were filled with love and care, with having an older brother, David, that protected her, and parents that wanted to smother her with love. She had no real complaints, at least not until the age of 6.
When her brother, who was 18 at the time, didn't arrive in time to pick her up from her friend, Jean started to grow anxious and scared. Seeing David arrive and apologize for being late due to what she felt was a poor excuse, Jean's emotions made way to anger. She started to scream at him, shouting at how she thought something might've happened, until suddenly, one of the street lights fell right on top of David's old car. Both appeared shocked, but David decided it was karma at play. Jean, however, felt something was off, as she was just thinking on how she wanted him to feel hurt like she did.
From that moment on, every time Jean's emotions ran wild, something happened. Be it the curtains of the house suddenly catching fire, a tree toppling over, or even a bicycle that out of the blue appeared in front of the car Jean and her dad were in. Eventually, her parents realized the truth. Her mother noticed that right after Jean started to cry hard over how they wouldn't let her go have dinner with her friend, the chicken in the oven suddenly burned because a spring that held the temperature setting snapped. It seemed unlikely to happen, especially since it was a relatively new oven. Beginning to grow wary of their child, Jean started to see less of her parents. While they informed David of their discovery, he kept spending time with his sister, making sure she was never alone.
At the age of 8, however, came the biggest disaster. While spending time at a passing carnival with David, Jean suddenly noticed that she couldn't see David. She started to call out to her big brother, with her calls and cries only growing stronger. While others tried to come and help the child, Jean didn't notice them, and her cries, sadness and fear only grew stronger. Eventually, she started to think 'I wish this stupid carnival wasn't here. Then I wouldn't have lost my big brother'.
This thought led to what Jean considers to be the darkest moment in her life.
The main pole in the biggest tent collapsed down, after the pole gotten wet by a bucket dropping from a stool on its side. Apparently, this was all it took, as the pole was old already, and somewhat rotting. 200 Audience members got trapped inside the now fallen tent, along with 50 crew members and over a dozen animals. As if that wasn't enough, a juggler of torches suddenly slipped on a ball he misplaced, and one of the torches got thrown with a bit of force, landing on the tent.
There were over 100 casualties in that fire, and the carnival got shut down for good.
It was only then that Jean realized what really happened. Or rather, who happened. Finally, David found his sister, and immediately began dragging her home, not looking at her or speaking to her. His expression was extremely grim. He didn't take her home, but rather to his own apartment, and began explaining to her exactly what she was. What their parents believed she was, and what David had trouble believing until that moment. Knowing their parents would surely piece things together, he told her the truth. That they were scared, and were considering to send her to the government for experimentation. But since he didn't want that, he chose to disobey their parents wishes. After packing whatever clothes she had in his place, and some of his, David went and dropped her off in a bus station. He gave her a disposable phone, and told her to run. He will contact her in due time.
And so Jean ran. She got on the first bus she could, and only looked back to see David walk away. This began the homeless life for Jean. She was given some money from David, but due to not handling it well, she quickly went through it and ended up on the street, alone and cold. She started to try and pick pockets, but quickly realized she did not have the capabilities for that. Instead, however, she found she had a talent for picking locks, managing to open doors to locked, abandoned appearing buildings, and take some shelter in those from time to time. When it came to food, she had to make due with scraps people threw out.
At the age of 10, however, finally came the call from David. After hearing about where she currently was, he drove to meet her. It was then that he heard about the hardships she needed to go through since Jean ran on his orders. When Jean asked if she could come home, David told her that wasn't possible. Their parents had informed the government of her, so they would surely look for her there. He gave her more money, and also took her to a pawn shop to get her some kind of protection, which came in the form of an expandable baton. While she was there, Jean fancied a lock pick set, and as she and her brother walked out, the lock pick set had mysteriously vanished. David stayed with her for as long as he could, teaching her some basic moves with the baton that he knew thanks to his own training in the police academy, the place he was currently a part of. Once more, he needed to leave, but not before trying to reassure Jean that she will be fine, and advised she try and get a better grip of her powers.
Taking the advice into heart, Jean started to practice in abandoned buildings during the nights. During the days, she focused on surviving the best she could. After several months, however, she found out the local police had been attracted to strange noises from the building she was at, and realized she had to keep running. But without any money, she couldn't get far. She began breaking into apartments for things she could pawn off, and soon enough, had just barely what she needed to take a bus ride to her next destination.
As she began stealing from homes in order to be able to move locations, she eventually encountered a group of house burglars that came close to leaving her tied up for the police to find. Using her powers, Jane managed to force them to take her with them, and soon enough, they gave her a place among them, and helped her train in both lock picking and safe cracking. Just as she began trusting the others, she suddenly discovered that they still had plans to leave her behind on their next job, so the police will have a patsy while they move their operations elsewhere. Not willing to take the chance, Jane used the chance to take as much money as she could, before using her ability to trap them inside their hideout. As she walked out, she heard one of the other thieves shout at his friend, claiming that he jinxed them all. It was then she decided to take up the name Jynx. After this, she informed the police of where the thieves were, but being sure they would give her up too, she quickly made her way to the bus, once more travelling out of town.
It wasn't long after this that Jynx managed to get some news about Boston. There was a massive following of people that called to metahumans to register legally. And to her shock, she could see David standing alongside her parents on the stage, behind the one who was speaking. Thinking the worst of the situation, Jynx took the phone he gave her and smashed it into pieces, before beginning to think that she could trust no one. She could barely even trust herself, with the nature of her powers. She also chose to drop her last name, thus distancing herself from the family that clearly could not accept her.
When the world went to the 2 month war, Jynx thought she could do nothing to help, and so she hid. She kept living the life of a wandering thief, never staying more than three months in each city. Upon hearing of 'The Seven Wonders of the World', Jynx started to look up to them, wondering if perhaps she was feeling inspired to try and act in the betterment of the civilians. But how would anyone trust her with the kind of powers she had? It was clear she had no choice. Even if metahumans were beginning to be accepted following the war, Jynx couldn't feel like she could trust anyone.
Since then, Jynx has been on the road, never staying long, always trying to remain anonymous, always doing what she felt was needed to survive. From the age of 16, she began to try and help others since she felt she had better grasp of her powers, but she never allowed anyone to get close. Because getting close was clearly the way to her downfall. And the last thing she wanted was to fall down and never get back up.
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Nemesis:
None that she knows of.
Allies:
None.
Team:
No team yet.
Other:
~ Jynx has taken up playing the Harmonica, and is pretty decent at it. ~
~ When speaking of the Justice League, Jynx appears to have somewhat of a crush on the Emerald Knight. ~
~ Her civilian signature hat is the one item from her brother that she hadn't tossed away. ~
~ She has taken a liking to saying "Jinxed ya!" when she is successful in taking a bad guy down. ~
Basic Information
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Superhero/villain Name:
Jynx
Civilian Name:
Jean
Origin city/Planet:
Boston, Massachusetts
Hometown:
None. She moves between cities often.
Sex:
Female
Race:
Human
Height:
1.80m, or 5"9
Weight:
60kg, or 132 pounds
Age:
23
Birth Date:
30.03.1998
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Costumed Appearance:
While she doesn't have a proper costume, she will pull a hoodie over her head if she is out, practicing her abilities or trying to get a better grip over them in an effort to help others.
Civilian Appearance:
Jean has brunette hair, blue-brownish eyes and a slender body figure. While these features make her appealing, her dressing makes for the contrary. She will normally wear whatever she can get her hands on, which normally consist of grey clothes that either appear worn out, too big for her, or overall bad. The only good appearing wearable item she has is her hat, which always appears well taken care of, and almost appears as though it has been glued to Jean's head.
Icon:
She doesn't have any yet.
Costumed Personality:
While hooded, out and about, she will try and avoid civilians as much as possible, to the point of using her own ability to cause any kind of potential distraction to get out of talking to them. She will normally try and go further away from where she normally hangs around at, with thinking that the further out she goes, the better.
When it comes to fighting, Jynx will do her best to keep her head in the game. However, it is easy for her to get emotional over mere teasing of enemies, which often brings consequences of their own. When she does stay calm and focused, however, her fighting skills show the best of her, and why she won't back down without a fight.
Civilian Personality:
As Jean, she will mostly stay quiet and try to avoid the majority. Due to a past of mistrust in both herself and others, it is hard for her to become close to anyone else. It is also hard for her to start a conversation, and she could easily become flustered. When approached for a conversation, however, it will be easier for her, and she will often appear to enjoy conversations.
If someone is becoming emotional in a close proximity, she will normally turn away and try to leave until the emotions calmed down. Jean herself has some degree of difficulty maintain her own cool at many times, and could be seen breaking into tears over trivial things. She will also try to conceal her tears from others, so they won't try to approach her to comfort her.
Super abilities
Skills
~ Excellent Endurance ~
~ Good Agility ~
~ Skilled Freerunner ~
~ Skilled Baton Fighter ~
~ Expert Lock Picking ~
~ Good Safe Cracking ~
Powers
~ Probability Manipulation ~
Jynx's main power, and the one that caused her the most trouble throughout her life. With this power, Jynx can effectively 'sense' whats the likelihood of something to occur, and what needs to happen for that to occur. She can then affect the object needed in order to cause the chain of events that causes that to happen. She can also affect smaller animals to a degree, but she cannot affect other humans, demons, or anything that can resemble a humanoid being.
This power is also not one she has complete control over. If her emotions get the best of her, she can start affecting objects around her without even intending to. During her emotional outbursts, it appears as though her powers grow stronger and can affect multiple objects, or larger objects than the ones she would normally affect.
~ Telekinesis ~
A small side power Jynx discovered she had. She is capable of levitating objects, up to her own weight, and only within 10 meters of herself. No matter how much she tried, Jynx had been incapable of increasing the weight or distance of the objects she can levitate, making her believe this is the best will be able to use this ability to, no matter how much she tried to train it.
Gadgets
~ Lockpick set ~
Jynx "liberated" this from a pawn shop early in her days as a girl with no home, and has since been using and training with the set the best she could. Although it is missing one of the original picks, she managed to make do with a bunch of hair clips that serve as substitutes.
Weapons
~ Folding Baton ~
This Baton is also an item she found at a pawn shop. She received it as protection, paid by her brother. Since the moment she had it, she began practicing with it, giving her about 13 years to practice with it. The fact her older brother helped her train for a period certainly helped improve her skills.
Civilian Occupation:
Thief/Burglar
Biography
Character History/Origin:
Born as Jean Delice in Boston, Jean initially had a good childhood. Her first years in the world were filled with love and care, with having an older brother, David, that protected her, and parents that wanted to smother her with love. She had no real complaints, at least not until the age of 6.
When her brother, who was 18 at the time, didn't arrive in time to pick her up from her friend, Jean started to grow anxious and scared. Seeing David arrive and apologize for being late due to what she felt was a poor excuse, Jean's emotions made way to anger. She started to scream at him, shouting at how she thought something might've happened, until suddenly, one of the street lights fell right on top of David's old car. Both appeared shocked, but David decided it was karma at play. Jean, however, felt something was off, as she was just thinking on how she wanted him to feel hurt like she did.
From that moment on, every time Jean's emotions ran wild, something happened. Be it the curtains of the house suddenly catching fire, a tree toppling over, or even a bicycle that out of the blue appeared in front of the car Jean and her dad were in. Eventually, her parents realized the truth. Her mother noticed that right after Jean started to cry hard over how they wouldn't let her go have dinner with her friend, the chicken in the oven suddenly burned because a spring that held the temperature setting snapped. It seemed unlikely to happen, especially since it was a relatively new oven. Beginning to grow wary of their child, Jean started to see less of her parents. While they informed David of their discovery, he kept spending time with his sister, making sure she was never alone.
At the age of 8, however, came the biggest disaster. While spending time at a passing carnival with David, Jean suddenly noticed that she couldn't see David. She started to call out to her big brother, with her calls and cries only growing stronger. While others tried to come and help the child, Jean didn't notice them, and her cries, sadness and fear only grew stronger. Eventually, she started to think 'I wish this stupid carnival wasn't here. Then I wouldn't have lost my big brother'.
This thought led to what Jean considers to be the darkest moment in her life.
The main pole in the biggest tent collapsed down, after the pole gotten wet by a bucket dropping from a stool on its side. Apparently, this was all it took, as the pole was old already, and somewhat rotting. 200 Audience members got trapped inside the now fallen tent, along with 50 crew members and over a dozen animals. As if that wasn't enough, a juggler of torches suddenly slipped on a ball he misplaced, and one of the torches got thrown with a bit of force, landing on the tent.
There were over 100 casualties in that fire, and the carnival got shut down for good.
It was only then that Jean realized what really happened. Or rather, who happened. Finally, David found his sister, and immediately began dragging her home, not looking at her or speaking to her. His expression was extremely grim. He didn't take her home, but rather to his own apartment, and began explaining to her exactly what she was. What their parents believed she was, and what David had trouble believing until that moment. Knowing their parents would surely piece things together, he told her the truth. That they were scared, and were considering to send her to the government for experimentation. But since he didn't want that, he chose to disobey their parents wishes. After packing whatever clothes she had in his place, and some of his, David went and dropped her off in a bus station. He gave her a disposable phone, and told her to run. He will contact her in due time.
And so Jean ran. She got on the first bus she could, and only looked back to see David walk away. This began the homeless life for Jean. She was given some money from David, but due to not handling it well, she quickly went through it and ended up on the street, alone and cold. She started to try and pick pockets, but quickly realized she did not have the capabilities for that. Instead, however, she found she had a talent for picking locks, managing to open doors to locked, abandoned appearing buildings, and take some shelter in those from time to time. When it came to food, she had to make due with scraps people threw out.
At the age of 10, however, finally came the call from David. After hearing about where she currently was, he drove to meet her. It was then that he heard about the hardships she needed to go through since Jean ran on his orders. When Jean asked if she could come home, David told her that wasn't possible. Their parents had informed the government of her, so they would surely look for her there. He gave her more money, and also took her to a pawn shop to get her some kind of protection, which came in the form of an expandable baton. While she was there, Jean fancied a lock pick set, and as she and her brother walked out, the lock pick set had mysteriously vanished. David stayed with her for as long as he could, teaching her some basic moves with the baton that he knew thanks to his own training in the police academy, the place he was currently a part of. Once more, he needed to leave, but not before trying to reassure Jean that she will be fine, and advised she try and get a better grip of her powers.
Taking the advice into heart, Jean started to practice in abandoned buildings during the nights. During the days, she focused on surviving the best she could. After several months, however, she found out the local police had been attracted to strange noises from the building she was at, and realized she had to keep running. But without any money, she couldn't get far. She began breaking into apartments for things she could pawn off, and soon enough, had just barely what she needed to take a bus ride to her next destination.
As she began stealing from homes in order to be able to move locations, she eventually encountered a group of house burglars that came close to leaving her tied up for the police to find. Using her powers, Jane managed to force them to take her with them, and soon enough, they gave her a place among them, and helped her train in both lock picking and safe cracking. Just as she began trusting the others, she suddenly discovered that they still had plans to leave her behind on their next job, so the police will have a patsy while they move their operations elsewhere. Not willing to take the chance, Jane used the chance to take as much money as she could, before using her ability to trap them inside their hideout. As she walked out, she heard one of the other thieves shout at his friend, claiming that he jinxed them all. It was then she decided to take up the name Jynx. After this, she informed the police of where the thieves were, but being sure they would give her up too, she quickly made her way to the bus, once more travelling out of town.
It wasn't long after this that Jynx managed to get some news about Boston. There was a massive following of people that called to metahumans to register legally. And to her shock, she could see David standing alongside her parents on the stage, behind the one who was speaking. Thinking the worst of the situation, Jynx took the phone he gave her and smashed it into pieces, before beginning to think that she could trust no one. She could barely even trust herself, with the nature of her powers. She also chose to drop her last name, thus distancing herself from the family that clearly could not accept her.
When the world went to the 2 month war, Jynx thought she could do nothing to help, and so she hid. She kept living the life of a wandering thief, never staying more than three months in each city. Upon hearing of 'The Seven Wonders of the World', Jynx started to look up to them, wondering if perhaps she was feeling inspired to try and act in the betterment of the civilians. But how would anyone trust her with the kind of powers she had? It was clear she had no choice. Even if metahumans were beginning to be accepted following the war, Jynx couldn't feel like she could trust anyone.
Since then, Jynx has been on the road, never staying long, always trying to remain anonymous, always doing what she felt was needed to survive. From the age of 16, she began to try and help others since she felt she had better grasp of her powers, but she never allowed anyone to get close. Because getting close was clearly the way to her downfall. And the last thing she wanted was to fall down and never get back up.
Optional information
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Nemesis:
None that she knows of.
Allies:
None.
Team:
No team yet.
Other:
~ Jynx has taken up playing the Harmonica, and is pretty decent at it. ~
~ When speaking of the Justice League, Jynx appears to have somewhat of a crush on the Emerald Knight. ~
~ Her civilian signature hat is the one item from her brother that she hadn't tossed away. ~
~ She has taken a liking to saying "Jinxed ya!" when she is successful in taking a bad guy down. ~
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DELETED jdl3932 Sok Il-Seong / (Second Initiation)
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So this character history is kicking my ass, but I'll try to get it up before the day ends.
Dead Cruiser Dishonour Before Death / Better You Than Me
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A lot of magic characters. Here is my nuclear abomination. Forgive the lazy formatting.
Superhero Name: Zeka
Civilian Name: None, official scientific designation is NII-0302007.
Hometown: None, generally escapes into low orbit between sightings. Originally housed on Severny Island, Siberia, in the former Soviet Union.
Sex: None, though his humanoid form is male in appearance.
Race: Unknown, some form of energy being.
Height: 185 cm (humanoid form)
Weight: 634 kg (mass of corium body)
Age: Unknown
Birth Date: Unknown, first discovered 19 July, 1960.
Costumed Appearance: Zeka’s humanoid form is that of a robust and muscular human male, with the heroic and statuesque proportions typical of the Socialist Realism style of the post-World War Soviet Union. His facial features are strikingly aesthetic, subtly stylized, and his body gives a fit and powerful appearance, though he is not disproportionately nor ripplingly muscular. His hair is a completely static sculpture of a short and combed style.
The most obvious indicator of Zeka’s inhuman nature is that his entire body, including his hair and teeth, is composed of a glossy, black mineral substance (corium, a crystalline techno-alloy comprised of such substances as silicon, boron, graphite, lead, and uranium) that resembles volcanic glass. His eyes and the inside of his mouth both glow intensely with the white-yellow light of his reactor core. While Zeka can alter the material of his humanoid form to resemble whatever he wishes, he maintains this form at essentially all times due to psychological conditioning.
Civilian Appearance: Zeka has no secret identity, and as a result is essentially always “in costume.” His taste in clothing generally revolves around two or three piece suits, usually worn without ties. He may sometimes remove his shirt or strip down entirely if engaged in battle.
Icon: Zeka does not have an overt costume and as such does not have a sigil emblazoned on his chest, though he still identifies with the hammer and sickle of the CPSU.
Costumed Personality: Zeka’s inhuman mind has been shaped considerably by the psychological conditioning he went through while he was the captive of the Soviet Union. The resulting synthesis has created his “heroic” persona. Zeka can be described as empathetic, as he cares deeply about common people and their suffering, but at the same time he is a ruthless pragmatist; he cuts to the quick and does whatever is necessary to benefit the greater good. He prefers direct action whenever possible, and can be ruthless and devastating in its application. Zeka is not completely without mercy, kindness, and other humane qualities, but his confinement and the world he has emerged into have made him bitter and cynical. He still has some remaining hope for cooperation and a utopian future with a united mankind, but he knows that it cannot
Civilian Personality: As has been said, Zeka does not have a civilian persona, and so he treats with common people and metahumans in an identical manner. He is a creature without deception and artifice, and has nothing to hide from anyone.
Super Abilities
Skills: Zeka does not have much in the way of civilian skills. During his decades of captivity, he has achieved a mastery of such topics as nuclear physics, Marxist socio-economic theory, and the construction of antiquated late-Soviet era nuclear reactors. He speaks several languages, including most of those spoken by Warsaw Pact states.
Powers: Zeka’s obsidian body is a construction around his true form: he is essentially a sapient nuclear fusion reactor, in other words a living star. The vast majority of his abilities are derived from the controlled release of energy from his nuclear heart. His physical humanoid form is a byproduct of his ability to reshape and manipulate radiologically hyperactive material, and was constructed from the liquified materials that formed his Siberian prison. While it typically seals the heat and radiation his core produces, Zeka can choose to allow this energy to permeate his body and revert to the toxic nuclear lava his body originally resembled. Given that his body is merely the container of his true form, it is very difficult to physically harm him in any meaningful sense, and his strength is only limited by the energy output of his reactor.
By carefully allowing the energy of his core to be released, Zeka can attack with controlled bursts of heat, light and radiation. Just as he can release this energy, he can also absorb energy (typically radiation), which adds fuel to his internal reactor. As a result, his attacks that would normally contaminate an area can have their fallout reabsorbed by him if he so chooses, helping him avoid collateral damage from his abilities.
While Zeka’s nuclear energy generally acts according to how mankind understands it, it also has otherworldly properties that cannot be readily explained by modern science. His ability to transmute radioactive material can result in him taking surprising forms, and his radiation can interact strangely with living things, particularly insects and other arthropods.
Gadgets: Zeka does not carry any equipment with him; his natural radiation tends to interfere with electronics.
Weapons: See above.
Civilian Occupation: None.
Character History: Zeka’s origins are a mystery; whatever factual information may have existed about what he is or where he came from has been obscured by misinformation, intentional redaction of information, the disappearances of individuals involved, and the records lost following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This much is known: the being known as Zeka came into the possession of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the early 1960s, and was stored in a secret laboratory on a remote island off the northern coast of Siberia. Designated NII-0302007 by the Soviet Scientific Research Institute, once it became apparent that the being was in fact sapient and intelligent, it came to be informally referred to as “Zeka,” a Russian slang term meaning “prisoner.”
Zeka was initially hostile and combative to the researchers contaning and studying him, and briefly escaped in October 1961. However, the advanced interrogation and psychological conditioning procedures practiced by the KGB proved effective even on a truly inhuman being, and he became compliant and receptive. Zeka had little to express about his (he had adopted a male persona at this point despite his incorporeal form) past or his species, only remembering that he was “lured by natural urges.” He spent most of the 20th century in containment, being indoctrinated by his captors socialist theory, as well as helping them expand their understanding of nuclear energy, which they educated him in as well.
Following the Two-Months War, the Russian Federation, which had already neglected the funding for Zeka’s containment facility, allowed his prison to deteriorate to the point where he escaped. Unable to recapture both Zeka and deal with the fallout of the war, Zeka was able to escape into the wildlands and pursue his own mysterious agenda.
Civilian Name: None, official scientific designation is NII-0302007.
Hometown: None, generally escapes into low orbit between sightings. Originally housed on Severny Island, Siberia, in the former Soviet Union.
Sex: None, though his humanoid form is male in appearance.
Race: Unknown, some form of energy being.
Height: 185 cm (humanoid form)
Weight: 634 kg (mass of corium body)
Age: Unknown
Birth Date: Unknown, first discovered 19 July, 1960.
Costumed Appearance: Zeka’s humanoid form is that of a robust and muscular human male, with the heroic and statuesque proportions typical of the Socialist Realism style of the post-World War Soviet Union. His facial features are strikingly aesthetic, subtly stylized, and his body gives a fit and powerful appearance, though he is not disproportionately nor ripplingly muscular. His hair is a completely static sculpture of a short and combed style.
The most obvious indicator of Zeka’s inhuman nature is that his entire body, including his hair and teeth, is composed of a glossy, black mineral substance (corium, a crystalline techno-alloy comprised of such substances as silicon, boron, graphite, lead, and uranium) that resembles volcanic glass. His eyes and the inside of his mouth both glow intensely with the white-yellow light of his reactor core. While Zeka can alter the material of his humanoid form to resemble whatever he wishes, he maintains this form at essentially all times due to psychological conditioning.
Civilian Appearance: Zeka has no secret identity, and as a result is essentially always “in costume.” His taste in clothing generally revolves around two or three piece suits, usually worn without ties. He may sometimes remove his shirt or strip down entirely if engaged in battle.
Icon: Zeka does not have an overt costume and as such does not have a sigil emblazoned on his chest, though he still identifies with the hammer and sickle of the CPSU.
Costumed Personality: Zeka’s inhuman mind has been shaped considerably by the psychological conditioning he went through while he was the captive of the Soviet Union. The resulting synthesis has created his “heroic” persona. Zeka can be described as empathetic, as he cares deeply about common people and their suffering, but at the same time he is a ruthless pragmatist; he cuts to the quick and does whatever is necessary to benefit the greater good. He prefers direct action whenever possible, and can be ruthless and devastating in its application. Zeka is not completely without mercy, kindness, and other humane qualities, but his confinement and the world he has emerged into have made him bitter and cynical. He still has some remaining hope for cooperation and a utopian future with a united mankind, but he knows that it cannot
Civilian Personality: As has been said, Zeka does not have a civilian persona, and so he treats with common people and metahumans in an identical manner. He is a creature without deception and artifice, and has nothing to hide from anyone.
Super Abilities
Skills: Zeka does not have much in the way of civilian skills. During his decades of captivity, he has achieved a mastery of such topics as nuclear physics, Marxist socio-economic theory, and the construction of antiquated late-Soviet era nuclear reactors. He speaks several languages, including most of those spoken by Warsaw Pact states.
Powers: Zeka’s obsidian body is a construction around his true form: he is essentially a sapient nuclear fusion reactor, in other words a living star. The vast majority of his abilities are derived from the controlled release of energy from his nuclear heart. His physical humanoid form is a byproduct of his ability to reshape and manipulate radiologically hyperactive material, and was constructed from the liquified materials that formed his Siberian prison. While it typically seals the heat and radiation his core produces, Zeka can choose to allow this energy to permeate his body and revert to the toxic nuclear lava his body originally resembled. Given that his body is merely the container of his true form, it is very difficult to physically harm him in any meaningful sense, and his strength is only limited by the energy output of his reactor.
By carefully allowing the energy of his core to be released, Zeka can attack with controlled bursts of heat, light and radiation. Just as he can release this energy, he can also absorb energy (typically radiation), which adds fuel to his internal reactor. As a result, his attacks that would normally contaminate an area can have their fallout reabsorbed by him if he so chooses, helping him avoid collateral damage from his abilities.
While Zeka’s nuclear energy generally acts according to how mankind understands it, it also has otherworldly properties that cannot be readily explained by modern science. His ability to transmute radioactive material can result in him taking surprising forms, and his radiation can interact strangely with living things, particularly insects and other arthropods.
Gadgets: Zeka does not carry any equipment with him; his natural radiation tends to interfere with electronics.
Weapons: See above.
Civilian Occupation: None.
Character History: Zeka’s origins are a mystery; whatever factual information may have existed about what he is or where he came from has been obscured by misinformation, intentional redaction of information, the disappearances of individuals involved, and the records lost following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This much is known: the being known as Zeka came into the possession of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the early 1960s, and was stored in a secret laboratory on a remote island off the northern coast of Siberia. Designated NII-0302007 by the Soviet Scientific Research Institute, once it became apparent that the being was in fact sapient and intelligent, it came to be informally referred to as “Zeka,” a Russian slang term meaning “prisoner.”
Zeka was initially hostile and combative to the researchers contaning and studying him, and briefly escaped in October 1961. However, the advanced interrogation and psychological conditioning procedures practiced by the KGB proved effective even on a truly inhuman being, and he became compliant and receptive. Zeka had little to express about his (he had adopted a male persona at this point despite his incorporeal form) past or his species, only remembering that he was “lured by natural urges.” He spent most of the 20th century in containment, being indoctrinated by his captors socialist theory, as well as helping them expand their understanding of nuclear energy, which they educated him in as well.
Following the Two-Months War, the Russian Federation, which had already neglected the funding for Zeka’s containment facility, allowed his prison to deteriorate to the point where he escaped. Unable to recapture both Zeka and deal with the fallout of the war, Zeka was able to escape into the wildlands and pursue his own mysterious agenda.
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Alright, stating this so it'd be out in the open - I'll take the Identity of Static Shock, Virgil Hawkins, and essentially give him Icon's antimatter powers.
Ironically, his weakness would be electricity. XD
Ironically, his weakness would be electricity. XD
DELETED jdl3932 Sok Il-Seong / (Second Initiation)
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@Blackstripe
I know this may seem odd, but can I just flesh out my character's history IC through dialogue and the like? I feel like it would not only be more natural that way, but also help add to the overall creepiness factor of the character if no one knows how he became the way he is now. That and I kind of planned for this to be the start of his power stealing spree, not the middle or end of it.
I know this may seem odd, but can I just flesh out my character's history IC through dialogue and the like? I feel like it would not only be more natural that way, but also help add to the overall creepiness factor of the character if no one knows how he became the way he is now. That and I kind of planned for this to be the start of his power stealing spree, not the middle or end of it.
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@Blackstripe
I know this may seem odd, but can I just flesh out my character's history IC through dialogue and the like? I feel like it would not only be more natural that way, but also help add to the overall creepiness factor of the character if no one knows how he became the way he is now. That and I kind of planned for this to be the start of his power stealing spree, not the middle or end of it.
This is essentially what I'm doing.
I cleared the details of my character with Blackstripe in PM, but only put the basics that most people would be reasonably able to know.
His backstory and more important details of his character will be revealed over time In Character, not in an exposition dump posted beforehand.
Obviously if it becomes necessary I'll explain in more detail to relevant parties in a PM or something.
Excuse me while I show up unannounced and swipe @MsMorningstar's format at the same time.
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Origin City/Planet
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Age
Date of Birth
Sex
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Character History/Origin
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Basic Information
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Civilian Name
Eden Mendel
Origin City/Planet
Summerville, South Carolina
Hometown
New York City
Age
18
Date of Birth
March 16th, 2001
Appearance & Personality
Sex
Female
Race
Human
Height | Weight
5'2" | 106 lbs
Costumed Appearance
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Civilian Appearance
Eden owns few sets of clothes that she keeps in separate areas of the city in case of the need for a quick get away. Most are scavenged from donation bins, and of varying sizes and styles, though she has a noted preference for darker colours. Her hair can vary in its length but is always unevenly cut, unkempt and the same dark muddy brown colour. She has a wide, innocent face that when paired with her short statue and lean build lead many to assume she is much younger than she is.
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Costumed Personality
There are a few people whoa are able to seek Eden out, despite her efforts. 'Clients' as she sees them aren't really there to see her. While she is able to remain cordial with these strangers in comparison to her day-to-day attitude, she is far from warm or even sympathetic as she seeks out the souls of loved ones, or wandering meddlers.
Civillian Personality
As a habit, Eden keeps to herself. She dislikes being dependent on others, and likes it less still when people can't mind their own business; the dead bother her enough as is. The few people she interacts with regularly know her only though personal exchanges; her former dealer, and a some-times 'room-mate', not that the conditions of their friendship haven't left her feeling uncomfortably attached to them both. While her long-term contact with the dead has caused her sympathies for them to gradually wane, she does actively seek out those suffering from haunting, both physical or mental, and does her best to give them closure, for a modest price.
Civilian Occupation
None
Abilities
Skills
- Inconspicuous: Eden has spent a good many years trying not to be noticed. She's become an expert at hiding from those she doesn't wish to find her.
- City Layout Knowledge: In the few dozen blocks Eden has lived in since coming to New York lay shortcuts and hide-outs those who were less-familiar would never even notice.
Powers
- Spirit Guide: Acting as something like a bridge between the worlds of living and dead, Eden is able to communicate with the souls of those either still lingering on Earth, or the newly-dead, still caught in the place 'in between' before becoming something new.
- Soul Split: When necessary, Eden can separate her own soul from her body allowing her to travel as a spirit through the world. It's an uncomfortable undertaking, difficult to maintain, and mainly used only in dire circumstances. While separated, her body is completely vulnerable, and if killed, her soul would be called to the realm of the dead.
- Possession: While her spirit is apart from her physical body, Eden can inhabit the bodies of others for a time. The side effects of this vary greatly depending on the person, and their state of mind while being possessed. Some may go insane after severing the connection, while others may not even notice. A few are able to fight to maintain control of their bodies, it's unknown to Eden what would happen if she were to lose one of these battle of wills so she uses this ability most sparingly of all.
Gadgets
- Inverted Cross: A supposedly enchanted talisman, made under instruction of Wanda meant to keep himself and Eden in turn hidden from the Seeker.
Weapons
- Switch Blade: A knife she has little idea how to use effectively, but serves its purpose of warding away unwanted attention in the ignoble areas she typically resides.
Biography
Character History/Origin
Born to a devoutly protestant family, Eden's powers were never really an understood or welcome occurrence. As a child it was harmless enough; a small girl whispering to imaginary friends. It wasn't until adolescence creeped in that words like 'demons' and 'possession' started being muttered by her parents. When she began as her mother's father, a man Eden had never met, going to far as to repeat his final words to his daughter, and exorcist was called for.
Form the age of 11 to 13, Eden was forbidden from leaving her home. In fact the buck of that time was spent in her room in bed, while her mother presided over her with a bible. Naturally, over time her powers blossomed rather than dissipated, and she was able to flee the confines of her trapped body and release her spirit outside. It never became a comfortable enough sensation to form a habit, but it granted a much needed reprise from the often tiring and painful tribulations that came with trying to expel a demon from a young girl. It was towards the end of this time that Wanda found her.
For nearly a month, Eden began to agree with her parents that she had truly gone mad. Never before had so constant a voice echoed so deeply in her own mind. But eventually the dead witch made herself heard enough to instruct Eden on how to behave so she could be trusted to leave her room, and two months after her 13th birthday, Eden fled her small town home never to return.
Her family did search for her, for a time. But Eden had the help of a very old, very experienced witch on her side, and by the time she had traveled north enough to be free of both Carolina, it seemed the investigation for her had all but stopped. From there she seemed just another refugee from the Shattered Scar.
Being out in the open word left Eden somewhat shell-shocked for quite a while, especially in the larger cities in the north. There were a great deal of people, dead and alive, and with the added frustration of sharing her mind with another the sensory overload proved too much - so she sought ways to quiet it. She relied heavily on drugs her first few years in New York, aged 16. Typically she preferred some cocktail of cheap street heroin and oxycodone when she had money, alcohol when she had to steal. It dulled the voices, of course the only way she found to make money was to sell her services of speaking to the dead; the occurrence of which she was purposefully prohibiting with her use of drugs. For over a year she went through a constant tug-of-war between addiction, loneliness, money, and Wanda, who stubbornly remained regardless of what Eden did.
She eventually did hit rock bottom, something which lead her on wrong list for at least three known dealers and simultaneously to the discovery of her ability to possess other people. She went to ground after that, barely going outside, and having no contact with anyone. Until Casey Daniels nearly crushed her skull with his over-sized combat boots. For whatever reason, the refugee-turned-cyber-criminal pitied Eden enough to help her through the worst of her recovery just in time for her 18th birthday.
Form the age of 11 to 13, Eden was forbidden from leaving her home. In fact the buck of that time was spent in her room in bed, while her mother presided over her with a bible. Naturally, over time her powers blossomed rather than dissipated, and she was able to flee the confines of her trapped body and release her spirit outside. It never became a comfortable enough sensation to form a habit, but it granted a much needed reprise from the often tiring and painful tribulations that came with trying to expel a demon from a young girl. It was towards the end of this time that Wanda found her.
For nearly a month, Eden began to agree with her parents that she had truly gone mad. Never before had so constant a voice echoed so deeply in her own mind. But eventually the dead witch made herself heard enough to instruct Eden on how to behave so she could be trusted to leave her room, and two months after her 13th birthday, Eden fled her small town home never to return.
Her family did search for her, for a time. But Eden had the help of a very old, very experienced witch on her side, and by the time she had traveled north enough to be free of both Carolina, it seemed the investigation for her had all but stopped. From there she seemed just another refugee from the Shattered Scar.
Being out in the open word left Eden somewhat shell-shocked for quite a while, especially in the larger cities in the north. There were a great deal of people, dead and alive, and with the added frustration of sharing her mind with another the sensory overload proved too much - so she sought ways to quiet it. She relied heavily on drugs her first few years in New York, aged 16. Typically she preferred some cocktail of cheap street heroin and oxycodone when she had money, alcohol when she had to steal. It dulled the voices, of course the only way she found to make money was to sell her services of speaking to the dead; the occurrence of which she was purposefully prohibiting with her use of drugs. For over a year she went through a constant tug-of-war between addiction, loneliness, money, and Wanda, who stubbornly remained regardless of what Eden did.
She eventually did hit rock bottom, something which lead her on wrong list for at least three known dealers and simultaneously to the discovery of her ability to possess other people. She went to ground after that, barely going outside, and having no contact with anyone. Until Casey Daniels nearly crushed her skull with his over-sized combat boots. For whatever reason, the refugee-turned-cyber-criminal pitied Eden enough to help her through the worst of her recovery just in time for her 18th birthday.
Optional Information
Nemesis
- The Seeker: A being Eden knows little about. It devours souls to gain their knowledge, but she has no idea if it is a monster, demon, or a human, only that she should avoid crossing its path at all costs.
- Makaya: Someone in New York is disturbing the dead. Eden doesn't know who or why but it's beginning to heavily impact her sleep schedule.
Allies
- Wanda Randok: A dead witch that wormed her way into Eden's head as a child. She's been 'possessing' Eden for over six years and manages to be both grossly invasive and evasive to personal questions about her own life. All she tells Eden is to watch for the 'Seeker' and avoid whatever it is at all costs.
- Billy B: A long time friend of Eden since she moved to the city. A known dealer in the seedier parts of the city, and has been in the employ of a number of different gangs over the years. They're of an age, and while Eden's recovery from addiction has changed their friendship, they keep in touch.
- Casey Daniels:An expert in illegal tech that accidentally set up shop in one of Eden's smaller hidouts roughly a year ago. Neither has any understanding of what the other does, but they somehow have a complete and unspoken trust in one another.
Team
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Other
It should be worth noting that while not stupid, Eden never finished even middle school, and even then religion had been the main focus of her education. As such she is borderline illiterate and greatly lacks general knowledge of the world.
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