Idea at a glance:

The story centers around a group of teenage heroes and villains who have been kidnapped from different universes by forces loyal to the Beyonder, an extra-dimensional entity who is hunting for someone known as the Cosmic Traveler. This person is said to have the power to cross the Multiverse without a Quantum Shift Drive, and it is theorized that the Beyonder must seek to use this ability to reach some location he can’t get to otherwise.

The Cosmic Traveler has unknowingly left behind remnants of their Traveler Aura upon people they were in close contact with, marked as Traveler Candidates by the Beyonder. Furthermore, when the Traveler first manifested their powers, it sent ripples through the Spacetime Continuum, an event which was detected by the Beyonder. Through this, he was able to deduce it was a young child tampering with the barriers between universes, and once he finally managed to gain corporeal form years later, he concluded the Traveler must now be in their late teens.

A variant of Ultron and his assimilated Sentinels loyal to the Beyonder have been commanded to seek out Candidates across the Multiverse within the specified age group (teenagers 15-19). They are captured and placed in cryogenic stasis aboard various prison ships made from the remnants of dead Celestials until an Inquisitor can perform a Soulgaze upon the Candidates.

Traveler Candidates who are discovered but fall outside the designated age group - or those who have been Soulgazed and shown to NOT be the Cosmic Traveler - are no longer considered Candidates and are sent to a place called Battleworld. Here, they are forced to participate in constant warfare while drones absorb Life Energy shed during the conflicts, which the Beyonder requires to maintain physical form in the Material Plane. It is theorized that the location he seeks has the key to attaining a permanent corporeal body.

A deeper dive:

So, to start, our teenage characters are aboard the Arishem-Exar (one of the prison ships made from remnants of dead Celestials), and they are released from cryogenic stasis to be ushered before one of the Beyonder's Inquisitors, who is arriving shortly. Then a variant of Doctor Strange (similar to Defender Strange from Multiverse of Madness) breaks into the ship and frees them, and they flee on a modified Quinjet equipped with a Quantum Shift Drive.

Strange explains the full scope of the situation to the confused teens, who only remember being pursued and captured by Sentinels before everything went dark. They hop to a distant universe and hide on a Dungeons & Dragons-like fantasy version of Earth, as the potent magical energies in the atmosphere will help mask their Traveler Auras. Unbeknownst to most of them, however, the actual Cosmic Traveler - America Chavez - is among their group. She suppressed her Aura to match the other Candidates when she was captured, and was hoping to fool the Inquisitor as well. She holds a deep-seeded guilt for everything her existence has wrought, but is terrified to reveal her true identity. For simplicity's sake, we'll say people were only touched by her Aura when she was younger, before she learned to properly control her powers. Thus, it's been a considerable amount of time since our characters encountered her, and at first glance they likely won't recognize some random girl they passed by a few years ago.

Doctor Strange discovers the truth relatively quickly and reveals it to our characters, and they pledge to defend America until the Beyonder can be defeated. They embark on a number of quests on this fantasy Earth to gather magical artifacts that can cloak their Auras off-world, with the ultimate goal of sneaking onto Battleworld. But, of course, events rarely go according to plan.

I’m not planning a rock-solid narrative for what happens, but rather going with the flow and seeing where it takes us. The road to Battleworld will be a long one, with many stops along the way. Once the characters have arrived there, the RP will enter its endgame, with a definitive conclusion following the final confrontation with the Beyonder. If there is interest and we’re still having fun, we could prolong the RP beyond the Secret Wars saga, but I don’t want to think about anything beyond it until we get close to the end.

I’d love to hear your ideas!

Characters Claimed

Doctor Strange: Played by me, as an NPC of sorts. He is pulled into the conflict when his apprentice is kidnapped by the Sentinels.


Teddy Altman/Kid Hulk: Played by me, a variant who is the son of Bruce Banner and Carol Danvers and received Skrull DNA from a blood magic healing spell when he was a toddler. His powers first appeared when he was 13, causing his skin, hair, and eyes to turn permanently green (similar to Beast Boy from Young Justice). He went to train with Doctor Strange, becoming his apprentice in the hopes of learning to control his powers. Upon pestering his mentor, he was given a glamour ring to look normal again when desired.




America Chavez: Played by me, very similar to her MCU counterpart.



Loki Laufeyson: Played by me, a teenage variant who aged like a human and thought he was one until very recently, when his sealed powers were released for the first time. He was raised in London but kept his birth name.



Wiccan: Played by Crimson Flame, details and images not yet solidified.

Speed: Played by Crimson Flame, details and images not yet solidified.

(Will update roster as new people join)

We’ll use colors for various character dialogues, with Khaki designated for all NPCs, including Doctor Strange. I'm claiming LimeGreen for Teddy, LightSteelBlue for America, and YellowGreen for Loki.

Billy Kaplan - Wiccan

Powers: Wiccan’s powers are extensive, unpredictable, powerful, possibly mutant, and most definitely magical. Typically, his abilities manifest as electrokinetic energy from his hands, which Wiccan can manipulate in numerous ways—both offensively and defensively. Wiccan can also teleport himself and his teammates over long distances, fly, create objects from thin air, levitate objects, project force, energy, ice, heat, and fire, and create force fields and other solid energy objects

The Avengers Vision and Scarlet Witch once had twin children. This was an extraordinary occurrence, considering Vision is a synthetic being and Scarlet Witch is a chaos magician. Unfortunately for the couple, the children were undone. Still they were eventually reincarnated as regular people.

Billy was born the eldest of 3 sons, to parents Jeff and Rebecca Kaplan. When he was young, Billy realized he was gay, and so took a lot of abuse from classmates. After getting into a fight with some bullies, Billy has an encounter with the Scarlet Witch. She heals him, and tells him to stand up for himself.

That’s exactly what he did the next time he had a run in with that same bully. Unluckily for him, the electrokinetic aspect of Billy’s powers manifested, and the bully was nearly killed.

After that incident, Billy began to practice his magic powers, and wished to find Wanda again, to whom he felt a special connection. He believes she may have activated something in him when she healed his injuries that day. Unfortunately for him, this was around the time the Avengers disbanded…



Tommy Shepherd - Speed

Powers: Tommy is a speedster. This means that he can run at speeds that a normal human would never achieve. His top speed is unknown, but he is fast enough to break the soundbarrier and run over water. His body is made in a way that allows him to endure frictions that would flail anyone else alive and bones that are made not to shatter in a collision at high speed. That doesn't mean he is invulnerable; a bullet at any speed could kill him.

Besides running fast, Tommy also functions incredibly fast. He can do things at speed nobody else can and has a brain to match them. His brain is made to function at incredible speeds that allow him to catch all the details during a run. This also means he can read a book in mere seconds and remember everything he has read.

A major setback to his powers is that all this has left Tommy with a skewed perception of time. What might be minutes for somebody is hours for him and it is both incredibly frustrating and lonely for him.

Tommy was born to Frank and Mary Shepherd in New Jersey. His parents divorced when he was barely four years old. Tommy lived mostly with his father after his mother rejected him, believing him not to be her son due to the fact that he barely resembled his parents with his striking white hair and green eyes. Tommy spent most of his childhood getting into trouble; he could barely sit still for longer than five minutes and was often bullied for this and his unnatural hair color. Frank got a girlfriend who was anti-mutant and felt Tommy was one and they often fought. Frank often took her side and disapproved of all Tommy's accomplishments or lack thereof.

He often got into trouble, and was in and out of juvenile hall for various things. His powers manifested when he was thirteen year old. He was in school when it happened and lost control over his powers instantly, blowing up the math class. Tommy was sent to a superjuvenile hall because of his record as troublemaker and the fact that he was a mutant.

Superjuvie was not a good time for Tommy. There was a lack of adherence to basic human rights. Tommy's parents never came for him, even though they were informed, leaving Tommy bitter and angry with parental figures. Scientists took an interest in a speedster with an ability to blow things up and Tommy was poked and prodded like an animal as they tried to turn him into a weapon. He had been there for months, before staging a jailbreak.

Neither Billy nor Tommy know they’re twins yet, nor their true parentage.

sounds interesting, count me in! i have a few ideas i'm thinking on—would you prefer us to create wholly original characters, or create successors to existing marvel characters, like you have with loki and kid hulk?

I want to be interested in this... but you have basically an entire RP's worth of plot written out already, as well as six characters. I feel like you're probably better off writing fanfiction at this point.

sounds interesting, count me in! i have a few ideas i'm thinking on—would you prefer us to create wholly original characters, or create successors to existing marvel characters, like you have with loki and kid hulk?

Welcome aboard! You can make OCs or rework existing Marvel characters, whatever works for you.

I want to be interested in this... but you have basically an entire RP's worth of plot written out already, as well as six characters. I feel like you're probably better off writing fanfiction at this point.

I really only detailed the opening story arc and the ultimate conclusion we're headed towards, everything inbetween is open. As stated in the original post, I haven't set anything in stone between the intro and the conclusion. Since the RP is based around Secret Wars, it's only fitting that we eventually aim for Battleworld and a final confrontation with the Beyonder, but how we get there will be determined by everyone as a group as we play XD.

And I'm not sure where you're getting "six characters" from, I am using Doctor Strange as a mentor/NPC and then I have three main ones - America is central to the plot, and then I have Kid Hulk as my hero and Loki as my villain, though the latter is nowhere near as villainous as his other counterparts.

If you were interested, what characters would you want to play?

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Welcome aboard! You can make OCs or rework existing Marvel characters, whatever works for you.

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I really only detailed the opening story arc and the ultimate conclusion we're headed towards, everything inbetween is open. As stated in the original post, I haven't set anything in stone between the intro and the conclusion. Since the RP is based around Secret Wars, it's only fitting that we eventually aim for Battleworld and a final confrontation with the Beyonder, but how we get there will be determined by everyone as a group as we play XD.

And I'm not sure where you're getting "six characters" from, I am using Doctor Strange as a mentor/NPC and then I have three main ones - America is central to the plot, and then I have Kid Hulk as my hero and Loki as my villain, though the latter is nowhere near as villainous as his other counterparts.

If you were interested, what characters would you want to play?

I think the point is more that as it comes to assembling an Avengers team, a child of Hulk and Captain Marvel, who is also learning magic fills multiple roles. It doesn’t really leave much open for others.

On an unrelated, and more positive note:

I present Eugene Bloodstone. Son of a Peter Parker and an Elsa Bloodstone variant. He was raised by his mother to be a monster Hunter to survive in a harsh universe overrun by creatures of the night.

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I think the point is more that as it comes to assembling an Avengers team, a child of Hulk and Captain Marvel, who is also learning magic fills multiple roles. It doesn’t really leave much open for others.

Ah, you make a good point there, I hadn't thought of that angle. I didn't actually list their powers in that intro post, but Kid Hulk won't be like some demigod or anything like that :). He is quite strong, but nowhere near that of his father. He only Hulks-Out slightly to keep his powers under control, similar to going Super Saiyan. He gained energy absorption and projection from his mother, in a manner not unlike DBZ/DBS. When he Hulks-Out, he generates a green aura, and manipulates green energy.

Despite being trained by Doctor Strange, his use of magic is actually very limited. I'll put more info in his bio, but most of the Avengers - including his parents - died during his universe's Infinity War when he was a toddler. He received a fatal wound from flying debris, and his nanny, a Skrull sorceress, was forced to use her DNA to fuel a blood magic healing spell to save him. Eventually that will give him some shapeshifting capabilities, but those have not surfaced yet and won't for some time.

He went to train with Strange primarily to learn how to control the energy within him, and since most of the other Avengers were dead, there weren't a lot of other people to teach him. He learned how to solidify the energy into blasts, balls, strings, and basic shapes like that, as well as unleash it in larger waves. Again, very similar to DBZ/DBS, lol. Most of his training consisted of meditation and visualizing the flow of energy inside himself, as well as physical movements derived from various martial arts. Any use of actual Sorcery is limited to a few intelligence-based techniques, such as defending his mind from psychic invaders, detecting magic, seeing through magical illusions, etc. Though, like his father, he does need to be mindful of his anger at all times, otherwise he could end up like Broly, lol.





Loki will have use of magic, but he only recently became aware of his true origins, so it will be limited to casting illusions and cryomancy from his Frost Giant physiology. America's powers in the beginning are primarily centered on her ability to open portals, both to other universes and within the same one she currently inhabits at any given time. However, Teddy will eventually pass onto her the same teachings Strange passed onto him to help expand her powerset to include enhanced strength, flight, and starbursts.

And I would also say to anyone else reading this, please don't worry about "roles" in regards to various powersets. There are plenty of superhero teams that have multiple characters with similar powers, just create the character you want XD. This is less about how we all fit into combat and more about us collectively telling an awesome story together. I will make sure to throw out plenty of baddies during any combat sequences so that everyone has a plethora of enemies to fight.

On an unrelated, and more positive note:

I present Eugene Bloodstone. Son of a Peter Parker and an Elsa Bloodstone variant. He was raised by his mother to be a monster Hunter to survive in a harsh universe overrun by creatures of the night.

Sounds awesome!

I mean Billy has magic…

I mean Billy has magic…

Yep, there is no limit on how many magic-users there can be on the team XD. I urge everyone to make the character you want and not worry about what other characters already have similar powersets. The characters are a random group of teenage Traveler Candidates who were rounded up by the Sentinels, and I doubt they made it a point to only put different power types in the same vessel. I'm not going to be anywhere near as strict as I was in past RPs, the most important thing is to just have fun XD.

I mean Billy has magic…

Billy doesn’t use magic, he controls it. Much more powerful.

Dropping my basic character idea here as others have done, I give you Jasper Morgans!



A stark contrast from the magic users currently on the team, Jasper's mutant powers are entirely based in his physical body: He possesses the ability of total anatomy manipulation. Jasper has complete control over just about every facet of his body, inside and out. This power possesses a wide variety of defensive, offensive and supportive capabilities, including:

-The ability to redistribute and control organic matter in his body, allowing him to reshape his form to give himself extra limbs, change around his anatomy, or repair damage taken.
-The ability to alter the properties of his body: For example, hardening the skin and bone in his fists, or making himself limber and elastic. He cannot change the state of his body, however, meaning he must remain solid rather than liquid or gaseous.
-Greatly increased speed, stamina, strength, reflexes and endurance that exceed those of even the fittest non-mutants.
-A total mind-body connection that allows him to detach his body parts and still have control over them: For example, taking out his eye and using it for surveillance, or puppeteering his hand Addams Family style.
-Control over his metabolism, allowing him to resist the effects of drugs and poisons or delay their effect.

And a few other things that are too niche or specific to mention.

I'll go more in depth in regards to his personality and motives when the OOC pops up and we get cracking on character sheets, but he should have an interesting dynamic with the others regardless :)

Dropping my basic character idea here as others have done, I give you Jasper Morgans!



A stark contrast from the magic users currently on the team, Jasper's mutant powers are entirely based in his physical body: He possesses the ability of total anatomy manipulation. Jasper has complete control over just about every facet of his body, inside and out. This power possesses a wide variety of defensive, offensive and supportive capabilities, including:

-The ability to redistribute and control organic matter in his body, allowing him to reshape his form to give himself extra limbs, change around his anatomy, or repair damage taken.
-The ability to alter the properties of his body: For example, hardening the skin and bone in his fists, or making himself limber and elastic. He cannot change the state of his body, however, meaning he must remain solid rather than liquid or gaseous.
-Greatly increased speed, stamina, strength, reflexes and endurance that exceed those of even the fittest non-mutants.
-A total mind-body connection that allows him to detach his body parts and still have control over them: For example, taking out his eye and using it for surveillance, or puppeteering his hand Addams Family style.
-Control over his metabolism, allowing him to resist the effects of drugs and poisons or delay their effect.

And a few other things that are too niche or specific to mention.

I'll go more in depth in regards to his personality and motives when the OOC pops up and we get cracking on character sheets, but he should have an interesting dynamic with the others regardless :)

Looks good! A cool power-up for him down the line could be to add extra, temporary matter to his form by absorbing it from his environment, and then releasing it when he's done. Almost like Majin Buu, he could throw off a chunk of his flesh, which wraps around an object like putty and then pulls the matter into his form, temporarily mutating to match his body and giving it extra mass. This could give him the ability to create full clones or grow in size, but I'll leave that up to you whether or not you want to incorporate anything like that. Just an idea XD.

Could I play a character that's from a non-Marvel property if they're still a superhero? Historically her universe and 616 has seen some crossover.

So I’m interested in this as well. One question I have is how many characters are we allowed to play. Right now I only have an idea for one character.

Basically he’s Peter Quill, but instead of his father being the King of Spartax or Ego the living planet, his father is Darkhawk, a member of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard. As a young teenager Peter was abducted from Earth by the Starjammers, pirates looking for his father. Peter ends up inheriting the Darkhawk amulet, allowing him to become the Darkhawk. Peter returns to Earth and becomes a superhero, helping form the super team the Guardians of the Earth.

So I’m interested in this as well. One question I have is how many characters are we allowed to play. Right now I only have an idea for one character.

Basically he’s Peter Quill, but instead of his father being the King of Spartax or Ego the living planet, his father is Darkhawk, a member of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard. As a young teenager Peter was abducted from Earth by the Starjammers, pirates looking for his father. Peter ends up inheriting the Darkhawk amulet, allowing him to become the Darkhawk. Peter returns to Earth and becomes a superhero, helping form the super team the Guardians of the Earth.

Hi, Martian!

My version of Billy and Tommy are coming from your RP. 😆

Hey Crimson Flame. It's cool to see you play Billy and Tommy in this, as my RP is on hold.

How does age work with universes that have time travel? Presumably most universes have a time stone. The TVA must exist, at least in some universes. Pocket Dimensions with differing time scales.

Could I play a character that's from a non-Marvel property if they're still a superhero? Historically her universe and 616 has seen some crossover.

Sure! Are you thinking of playing Invincible? Would be so cool if he eventually runs into a variant of Omni-Man on Battleworld, hehe.

So I’m interested in this as well. One question I have is how many characters are we allowed to play. Right now I only have an idea for one character.

Basically he’s Peter Quill, but instead of his father being the King of Spartax or Ego the living planet, his father is Darkhawk, a member of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard. As a young teenager Peter was abducted from Earth by the Starjammers, pirates looking for his father. Peter ends up inheriting the Darkhawk amulet, allowing him to become the Darkhawk. Peter returns to Earth and becomes a superhero, helping form the super team the Guardians of the Earth.

That character sounds awesome, and feel free to play as many as you think you can handle, though I think three at a time is probably a good limit.

How does age work with universes that have time travel? Presumably most universes have a time stone. The TVA must exist, at least in some universes. Pocket Dimensions with differing time scales.

Hmmm. I hadn't really thought about it, but I'd assume they'd probably go on biological age. For instance, my Loki variant is technically 17 years old, even though he was actually born many centuries ago. When he was a newborn, his mother sealed his powers, turned him into a human, and sent him over a thousand years into the future to escape the clutches of his universe's Odin, a ruthless tyrant who was hellbent on exterminating every single Frost Giant.

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Glad you like my character. I do have a second character in mind, basically the Jimmy Hudson Wolverine from Ultimate Marvel. I've wanted to play him for a while and this seems like the right RP for him.