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[R31GN]

So as far as archetypes are concerned, what are you looking for in the wildcard archetype? Any examples you could give?

[Weird Tales]

Archetype: The Insect
Name: Stuart Jones
Alias: Yellow Jacket
Age: 25
Powers: Stuart's powers come from the symbiotic primordial ooze that is within his body and also is what his costume is made out of.

High speed flight: Yellow Jacket uses large wasp wings that allow him to fly at a top speed of 300 mph. What makes him different from many other flying heroes is that his aerial maneuverability is incredible and is extremely hard to catch. Trying to knock him out of the air is like trying to swat a fly with only one hand and while his wings are not tough they will regenerate if they are destroyed.

Sting Bolt: Stuart is able to shoot sharp barbs out of his body and these stingers have stunning effect to them when they pierce an enemy's body.

Stingers: His body makes barbs extend out of his body and have the same stunning effect of his sting bolts.

Sting Blades: Stuart creates two long stingers that he wields like swords and used almost exclusively for jabbing and thrusting in a style similiar to fencing. The Sting Blades are very sharp and can pierce metal, but they are quite vulnerable and can break easily when being used to block powerful attacks.

Superhuman senses: Stuart's sense of smell is ten times stronger than a bloodhound and thus allows him to smell things from far away. This also makes him able to fight enemies in the dark by smelling their position. His eye sight allows him to have a 360 degree field of vision, which makes it hard to sneak up on him in daylight.

Superhuman agility: Stuart is very agile and has agility greater than twelve men.

Enhanced durability: his symbiotic suit is made up of a material that is as hard as bone and allows to take powerful blows, but it cannot protect him from gunfire and extremely strong hits.

Way of The Yellow Jacket: Stuart has developed a martial art that utilizes his superhuman senses and agility to their potential and allows him battle multiple enemies is fast hand to hand combat. The martial art focuses on speed and agility of power and relies on quick strikes and jabs as well as using the surrounding environment to his advantage.

Weaknesses: Insect killer is incredibly toxic to him and will severely weaken him and can kill him if exposed to too much of it. Insect repellent creates a very awful smell, to put it simply someone wearing bug spray smells like pure shit to Stuart and his superhuman senses make it almost unbearable. aside from his suit's protective armor Stuart has the same weaknesses as a human.
Alignment: hero
Personality: loyal, honest, funny, determined and fearful.
Appearance: Stuart is about five feet and ten inches tall. He has bright red hair and dark green eyes. He has an athletic body that is fit for a martial artists. His suit is yellow and black and has a color design themed off of a Yellow Jacket insect. The suit is bio organic and has pads made of hard bone like substances.
BRIEF Bio: Stuart was never a man without fear or born with parents that had a great destiny for him. Ever since he was young Stuart had a fear of wasps after an unfortunate incident as six year old involving a wasp nest being dropped on him as a prank. The large amounts of stings caused him to be hospitalized and he developed Spheksophobia otherwise known as a fear of wasps. This fear caused him problems at school and in everyday life when it was warm and the insects were flying around.

As he grew older he had to learn to deal with his fears in order to try and live life as an adult. That's when he came across the primordial ooze. It said by some that all life came out of it eons ago and every creature on earth is connected to it. One day while hiking through the wild in his home state of Maine, Stuart came across a pool of the primordial ooze in a mysterious cave. The ooze seemed to almost call out to him and upon getting closer to inspect, the ooze reached out and latched onto Stuart. The ooze merged with him and in a panic Stuart ran out of the cave and unknowingly close to a wasps nest.

A wasp stung him and the primordial ooze inside of him reacted to it and Stuart felt himself change as he began to feel the wasp's fear and what it was like to be one. It was in that moment that Stuart understood that there was nothing to be afraid of and he finally understood the insects. The ooze was able form a biological suit and granted him incredible powers. The ooze inside became one with him like symbiot of some sort and with his new powers Stuart sought to use them for the greater good of humanity.
Storylines: his first story line will be him trying to see if he is ready for the challenge of heroics and the consequences that come with them.
Notes: [anything else you need to tell us?]

[Omega Man]

So as far as archetypes are concerned, what are you looking for in the wildcard archetype? Any examples you could give?

@R31GN

Technically @Weird Tales' guy would also be a Wildcard since I didn't wanna get super specific with some themes. But it's basically anything not already on the list or more of a combo of several.

~KL~

[Omega Man]

Just need to find that one spark that'll tie all my disparate ideas together I guess. ^^; I mean all else fails I can just dig up something old that I haven't used in a while and go with that instead, but I like to try new things so yeah. Hmmm.

@Rin

If you're going with the Capt. marvel type hero still just send me what ideas you've got and we can brainstorm.

~KL~

[malmshodes]

So I've got an idea for a wild card villain, but just the very basic premise so far. First and foremost I'd like to know if an idea would be allowed and maybe get some advice on this one issue I'm having. Basically, his ability is he "levels up" when he faces an opponent, or some kind of major obstacle and when he does he gets access to new abilities he selects from a "Level tree". After every battle, he'll have the level for a predetermined amount of time, shorter for higher levels and vice versa, before he goes back down to zero. The biggest thing I have, and I know this can't really be answered since there's no knowledge of what the abilities are but I'm going to ask anyway, is when does he level up? Should it be simply based on the amount of movements during a confrontation, the strength of the enemy (which would involve a whole other system of categorization ), the amount of attacks he takes, etc, etc?

[R31GN]

Hollow

ARCHETYPE
Wildcard II

NAME
Hans Schmidt

ALIAS
Hollow

AGE
24

POWERS
Insanely powerful telekinesis, able to exert extreme force with ridiculous precision. He also possesses clairvoyance, the ability to perceive everything as though he was constantly watching from any distance or angle.

WEAKNESSES
Hollow cannot extend his power beyond about 3 feet, just beyond his arms reach. As a side effect of his power, Hollow's vision is also greatly reduced outside of his influence. He is not blind, but looking outside of his circle of influence is like looking through a fogged window.

ALIGNMENT
Walking the Line

PERSONALITY
Instigator
Quiet
Patient
Lover of melodrama
Confident

APPEARANCE
In costume, Hollow wears a pure white hoodie beneath a black leather vest. He wears black combat boots and jeans. His face is obscured by a simple metal mask that only goes up to the top of his nose.

BIO
Born to parents immigrating in from Germany, Hans was raised on a strange amalgamation of both German and American culture. As he grew, Hans sought out a career in the musical industry, believing that he could truly make it big. However, his labors ended up being for naught as he was, in all truth, terrible at his craft. Instead, he turned to the musical theatre to express himself. Over the years, he slowly developed his power from a source he refuses to reveal (mostly because he himself doesn't know the source). A more noble man would have used his power for good, stopping villains. A more ambitious man would have used his power for personal gain, becoming a villain. Hans was neither of these things -rather content to roam the world, hunting down any superhero on supervillain conflict and amplifying it in whatever way he could.

STORYLINES
To find and amplify any conflict he possibly can -tipping the scales away from the winning side.

NOTES
-/-

Got the CS filled out. Let me know what you think Scratch that, sorry. I'm gonna have to drop this RP, another one higher on my priorities just got kickstarted, and I don't think I'll have time for this. Sorry for the bait and switch there, haha

[Marik]

So here’s something fucked up, AKA employee gets Mr. potato head’ed by her psychopathic boyfriend and comes out messed up from the experience.

Only without the eye implant and the tech on her head.

Archetype: Advanced techno

Name: Maria Annette “Mary-Ann” Legrand

Alias: Marionette

Age: 29

Powers: Marionette is a double arm and leg amputee with state of the art cybernetic prosthetics. These limbs are superior to their flesh and blood counterparts in every way; they’re made from a durable alloy that hits as hard as a sledgehammer while also providing great endurance and flexibility. The arms and legs are filled with various metal wires and she mostly uses the former limbs for grappling; Maria can essentially shoot these spike tipped wires from holes located at the top of her wrists, letting her swing around on whatever she can connect with.

Weaknesses: Weak where her metal isn’t, Maria equates to a normal human on most of her body, and can bleed like the rest of us. A strong enough force could crush and disable her metallic limbs, and something like a sawblade or another super sharp object could cut the wires she uses. She hates when people bring up how she was before her “upgrades”, because she very much believes that as Marionette, she is vastly superior to simple old Maria.

Alignment: Villain

Personality: Intelligent, obsessive, traumatized, megalomaniac, sadistic

BRIEF Bio: Maria Legrand worked in research and development for Kane Corp, owned by the enigmatic billionaire Darius Kane. She was assigned to a team that was tasked with creating improved prosthetics for injured military veterans, a project she was hoping to nab in order to build a new set of legs for her brother after he lost them in the war. The project was led by one Nathanial Bell; who was a very strange but intelligent man. The team would work long hours and in that time Maria and Bell grew very close. Mary-Ann gave out plentiful information about her life; background, interests, and even spoke of grievances, such as that one ex who just wouldn’t leave her alone. Maria didn’t seem to mind that she’d been presenting her life to Nathanial and he never seemed to offer any information in return, it seemed that his intellect was enough of a draw.

Months would pass and the team eventually crafted what was to be the future in artificial limbs. Only one thing was left, a test subject, and as project lead it was Bell’s choice on who to pick. He was given countless dossiers of military heroes that could use this technology to become productive members of society again, but Bell wasn’t interested in them. No, he wanted to “improve” his partner, and drugged Maria when she visited his home for a dinner date.

When Maria woke, she was hanging by wrist cords that extended from two metal arms she didn’t have before, and she was terrified to look down at her legs, as they felt off. From their locale, which seemed to be a theatre of some sorts, to her lab partner sitting in the front row with a grin on his face and a device in his hands, as well as what looked like her ex bound on the other side of the stage… that whole situation was a lot to take in. She still has dreams about it, about Bell telling her that he was going to make her do what she previously thought she couldn’t and get that pesky ex out of her hair. She still remembers the gleam of a knife in a palm that she couldn’t seem to open, and if she concentrates, she can hear the sound of a motor starting up above her and being forced forward by the device she hung from to face her former lover. Was it Bell that puppeteered Maria to stab her ex repeatedly, or did she do it of her own free will? She doesn’t remember that part so well, but she’ll always remember doing it, as Bell had filmed the act and projected it on the theatre screen for Maria to watch over, and over, and over. Bell left after that, saying that he would return, but he never did. Maria was found the next day by the horrified manager of the establishment, just gazing at the screen and muttering Bell’s last words over the recording before it started again, “My Marionette.”

She was found innocent for the murder but was to undergo study to observe her health and mind at an island research base owned by Kane Corp. She was studied for a year before it was decided that she could be used as a resource to further Kane Corp’s plans, and was thereby considered property of the company as she had so much of their technology keeping her standing. She was then planted with a chip that could disable her prosthetics if she crossed a line that the corporation didn’t approve of, and was shipped to New Athens to protect Darius Kane’s assets in the city.

Storylines: Escape the Clutches of Kane- Marionette hates her job and wants to ditch her captors for good.

Ringing Up Bell- Marionette wishes to reunite with her long lost lover find out why he left and what his plans are.

Pulling the Strings- Marionette wants to establish a team of some sort to pursue greater criminal ventures.

Notes: Maria is fucked up. Seriously, her mind got melted by a psychopath. She sincerely believes that Bell changed her life for the better and that she’s stronger than she ever was. That the whole situation was the little push she needed to get her to do everything she had been afraid to do before. She’s deluded. She only has the drive to fuck shit up now. She will never be able to be swayed into helping further society again. She should be imprisoned and the key should be thrown away.

[Archmage MC]

yeah @The Kid Lantern I'mma have to play Light or I'll prob lose interest eventually.

[Omega Man]

So I've got an idea for a wild card villain, but just the very basic premise so far. First and foremost I'd like to know if an idea would be allowed and maybe get some advice on this one issue I'm having. Basically, his ability is he "levels up" when he faces an opponent, or some kind of major obstacle and when he does he gets access to new abilities he selects from a "Level tree". After every battle, he'll have the level for a predetermined amount of time, shorter for higher levels and vice versa, before he goes back down to zero. The biggest thing I have, and I know this can't really be answered since there's no knowledge of what the abilities are but I'm going to ask anyway, is when does he level up? Should it be simply based on the amount of movements during a confrontation, the strength of the enemy (which would involve a whole other system of categorization ), the amount of attacks he takes, etc, etc?

@malmshodes

Sounds like this could be something similar to Marvel's Squirrel Girl. IDK quite how her powers work exactly, but the longer she faces enemies the stronger she gets or the weaker they become. Can't remember which... I can dig it though.

~KL~

[Gisk]

Is that what Squirrel Girl's power is?

Anyway, I'm going a completely different direction, working on something for the Vigilante archetype.

[Rin]

@GiskI have no idea how KL is getting that idea, since it's... Not. ^^;

[R31GN]

I was under the impression that Squirrel Girl's power was talking to squirrels, but then again...

[Rin]

Well, they are least try to justify her being able to defeat powerful opponents in her solo series... Mostly it's that she has a well-rounded powerset and is very good at thinking outside the box. That added to that fact that she's a bit less serious and more comedic than other characters means that yeah, she totally can beat Galactus by befriending him. :D

[Lmpkio]

So when do we start this RP exactly?

[Aro]

The Reaper

Archetype: Sharpshooter

Name:

Alias: The Reaper

Age:

Powers:

Weaknesses:

Alignment: Walking the Line/Villain

Personality: [5 words best describing your character]

Appearance:

BRIEF Bio:

Storylines: [What do you have in mind for your character?]

Notes: [anything else you need to tell us?]

I'll finish this in a bit, having some internet issues right now.

[malmshodes]

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Sounds like this could be something similar to Marvel's Squirrel Girl. IDK quite how her powers work exactly, but the longer she faces enemies the stronger she gets or the weaker they become. Can't remember which... I can dig it though.

~KL~

@The Kid Lantern

Sweet! A little confused where you got squirrel girl from, but I'll get started on an OC after I get off of work tomorrow :)

[Archmage MC]

Archetype: Wildcard

Name: Light

Alias: Toon Girl

Age: 24

Powers:

Toonforce

Toonforce
Light has the powers, physics, ext... of a toon as well as its weaknesses.

Toon Regeneration: Its said that its nearly impossible to kill a toon, and thats true in the case of Light. While she still takes damage as normal and can be knocked out like normal (and sometimes even easier than most people), she can regenerate from any aliment, including being vaporized, her mind shattered or erased, her spirit taken out of her body, ext... She regenerates by 'popping' back to her normal state after a bit of taking no damage, sometimes having bandages or something on her that indicates what she was last hit by. While she can regenerate from pretty much any state, more extreme states or supernatural states take her more time to regenerate from, especially nonlethal states such as being turned into a kid, ext... She can probably still be killed by cosmic forces though.

Toon Physics: Physics affect Light differently since she is a cartoon. This means...

• Light's body 'stretches', usually in moments of rapid acceleration or if she is being pulled on from two sides. Her normal movements look cartoony as well. Her body can stretch and grow to hit something, but she can't stretch more than 1/5th of a meter in this way.
• If Light walks off a high point, such as a cliff, but is unaware that she is walking off of an edge, she will continue to walk on air as if it was ground. When she realizes she is no longer on solid ground, she will fall like normal.
• While falling, Light can stop when approaching the ground to readjust where she will land, before continuing to fall at the rate she was falling before she stopped.
• Injuries affect her differently than normal. For example, being caught up in an explosive causes her to appear ash covered before possibly breaking apart into a pile of ash, or being crushed causing her to become a pancake, ext...
• Light can't bleed.
• If Light is hit by a sharp object or a hot object on her backside, she'll be propelled away from the object, usually on fire if it was a hot object.
• If Light places her finger inside the barrel of a gun, she will cause the gun to misfire.
• Eating very spicy things will let Light breath fire, while also running around wildly looking for water.
• If stuck in hostile environments for long periods, Light will adapt to the environment and be able to function in it like normal.
• For some reason, her eyeballs are far, far more durable than the rest of her body.
• Light can pick up enchanted/DNA objects that other people usually wouldn't be allowed to pick up. However she will not gain the benefit from said objects unless she herself would fit the criteria for the enchantment/lock.
• Light can parkour on walls for extended periods before falling.
• Light has full control over her body pieces if she is chopped up. Sometimes she will form into tiny versions of herself is she is smashed or shattered, reforming after a bit of time running around.
• Light herself is extremely resistant to other forms of reality changing attacks.
• Its very obvious to those around her when Light is dizzy, confused, knocked out, stunned, has an idea, ext.. due to various things appearing over her head depending on the state.
• Things get confusing if Light is chased into a hallway with many doors...
• If chasing something that is taking off from the ground, Light can step on the air for a time in order to chase them, but will eventually fall.
• Light can additionally stall an impending fall by flapping or flailing her arms for a few seconds.
• Can dress up in a disguise to fool the weak minded.
• You REALLY don't wanna eat her unless you want her walking around inside your head freely.
• A Shadow of Impending Doom appears below Light when an object is falling on her.
• Light leaves an imprint of herself if she impacts the ground from a high height. Ditto if she runs through a wall.
• Entering alternate dimensions or worlds that have something similar to what Light can do will often have Light take on that appearance. Or if a dimension calls for a certain kind of thing, IE its all underwater life or all anthropomorphic animals or something.
• Among other nuances I might have forgotten.

Toon Strength: Light can exhibit enormous strength for her small frame. This strength is tied to her emotions, and if shes sad, she loses a massive amount of strength.

Toon Speed: Light exhibits short bursts of speed, using it to either dodge attacks or run at decent speeds. While she can dodge bullets with no problems with this, actual running speed Light is notably faster, but not anywhere near speedster territory (not that much faster than a top speed car). She can only dodge a few attacks every so often, and only if shes aware of the attacks. Outside of this, Light isn't very fast at all.

ACME Magic Satchel: Light can store and pull various objects from her dress. Stored objects are placed in an 'inventory' of sorts (Limit 5) and she can call upon them at will by pulling them out of her dress. She can additonally pull objects from her dress without storing them first. These items are adorned with an ACME logo and are completely random, are often cartoony or have a horrendous backfire effect, and as the name suggests, usually (But not always) explode in her face if held too long, even non lethal things such as pies! Storing a random object doesn't allow her to call it at will, and she can only pull a few random objects every 10 minutes, the cooldown reduced by her putting back said random objects. Light can't store living objects.

Portable Hole: Light can pull a black circular hole from her dress, allowing her to teleport to anywhere within her sightlines upon placing and entering it. The entrance and exit holes can be placed on anything, including air or space, but there is a noticable delay of her coming out of the exit hole if its not located on a surface. Only Light and objects stored in her Magic Satchel can go inside her holes.

Toon Touch: Being a toon, Light reacts to normal reality strangely and tends to bring things to her state of reality. When touching something, it is unable to receive energy from outside sources. This gives her touch some sort slight of a 'creepy' feeling. Additionally if shes in constant contact with something for extremely extended periods it will start to go through the stages of turning into a toon with no beneficial powers, and eventually fade from reality altogether (A massive amount of time. Probably a few weeks.), maybe going to a different dimension entirely? If Light stops touching the object at any point, it will regain its energy at its normal rate and basically reset their reality back to normal after a very short amount of time if it didn't disappear. Until its reality is restored, it can't gain energy from outside sources. This power is always on and Light has no control over its intensity.

Weaknesses:

• Light takes extra damage from attacks due to her cartoon physics.
• Light is weak to gas, poison, ext type attacks, and it doesn't take much of a substance to have an effect on her.
• Light has an exceptionally difficult time breaking herself free of anything that binds her movement. Being encased in ice, tied down, stuck in a net, ext...
• TDLR: Light is very easy to incapacitate for a time
• A vast majority of her toon powers are tied to her emotional state, and most of them don't work well if she is feeling sad or depressed.
• Light plays with her opponents instead of fights them seriously unless they make her extremely angry. If she is annoyed with someone she'll start showing Genre Savvy type of playful fighting however.
• Light is very gullible due to her silly/playful/lazy persona, especially if she doesn't know or think poorly of someone. Shes not easy to directly turn on her friends though. She is also easy to talk down from a fight unless she is really angry.
• Light often tries to be friends with her opponents if she thinks she can.
• Light is unable to use Energy based weapons due to Cartoon physics, and ballistic based weapons have less power and speed if used by her. Bombs still have their full power, but a drastically reduced blast radius.
• Light is very easily distracted by music or other fun things unless she is really angry.
• Objects falling tend to home in slightly on Light, showing their Shadows of Impending Doom under her. Likewise occasionally Light will be hit by a falling anvil, safe, or piano out of nowhere. It probably came from a plane, probably.
• Light is on the wrong end of the luck spectrum, and often is seen as having 'bad luck' that only affects her, especially if its bad luck that leads to slapstick.

Alignment: Hero (gullible)

Personality: Fun Loving, Playful, Lax, Intelligent, Honest.

Appearance: Appearance: Light is a 1.6 meter tall pure white humanoid figure. Her head is a large spherical shape with no nose, very large black and orange eyes, short blue hair, fin like ears, and a very very skinny neck. She has a noticeable hourglass shape to her due to her hips and chest. She has skinny biceps with large forearms and hands with pointed fingers. She wears a white dress with blue trim and a blue tanktop, the dress having an 'M' cut pattern in the front to reveal her legs, which look normal besides the bottom leg ending at a sharp point where her foot would be.

BRIEF Bio: Its not know where Light came from, but shes obviously not from this world! Although appearing in a world of superheroes was probably for the best, as she could pass herself off as some sort of mutant or alien or something and her toon-like powers weren't too outrageous. Learning this and the dynamic of the world she found herself in (As well as watching a bit too much television), Light made her way to be a hero. After all, when your on the right side of the law, your given quite a lot of freedom. Plus being able to do pretty much any non lethal thing to a baddie is pretty fun too, after all, they all need hugs! Even if those hugs sometimes break bones! Or playing wrestler, thats fun too!

Storylines: Dimensional travel, The Void, Eldridge Abominations, Toon World, but mostly shes just there for the ride.

Notes: Light is great for slapstick routines. Use her for them if you want!

[Omega Man]

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Sweet! A little confused where you got squirrel girl from, but I'll get started on an OC after I get off of work tomorrow :)

@malmshodes

When her powers were explained to me, it was "basically her chances of defeating an enemy go up exponentially the longer she fights them. Along with the additional squirrel shit." He never told me HOW her chances increased, or if it was a luck power of some kind, just that she had the potential to beat Thanos, Dr. Doom, etc..

I think I'm going to move my techno snake riding guy from Advanced Techno to the Atlantian spot and make him some traveling hero from Atlantis. Sea Snake...

~KL~

[Rin]

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When her powers were explained to me, it was "basically her chances of defeating an enemy go up exponentially the longer she fights them. Along with the additional squirrel shit." He never told me HOW her chances increased, or if it was a luck power of some kind, just that she had the potential to beat Thanos, Dr. Doom, etc..

@The Kid Lantern

As I mentioned, that's not true at all, has no basis whatsoever in anything and whoever told you that was, uh, basically talking bullshit. ^^;

[Lmpkio]

Also @The Kid Lantern, there seems to be two more profiles in need of acceptance. One coming from Aro, and another coming from Marik. Just wanted to make sure that you're aware of their presences.