[OOC] S.H.I.E.L.D Academy

[Winter Kitten]

@SheriffLlama

Oh! Lol. Sorry. XD I do that a lot too. (But there's a lot of ideas that sprout from that now)

And yeah you can go ahead and drop the both of them in the tab!

[FantasyChic]

@Winter Kitten Thanks! I learned from my last attempt at the Marvel Academy RP I was part of, where they didn't think my backstory matched how I portrayed my character. To be honest, I didn't get it, but they kept wanting me to change her somewhat abusive past and I didnt want to, because it made her how she is. So I am happy you are ok with it. I didn't want to go into detail, instead I left it open for people to interpret what happened. :)

[Winter Kitten]

@FantasyChic

That's awful to hear. As someone who suffers from depression (which is totally not comparable to abuse) I'm a very bright and cheery person on the outside. And even when I just wanna wallow, I do my absolute best to stay positive and think positive. So I can definitely relate to Charity on that spectrum (and like her even more because of it).

While I advocate getting medicated to help treat mental illness symptoms, I'm a firm believer that laughter can do a whole world of good in dark times.

(But like, on a writer's note: who the hell has any right to tell anyone how to play their character when it's not breaking the rules of the game? Pfffffff)

I really really love how diverse the cast is in terms of personality and abilities tho. (Even if I'm not helping on the diverse racial feature front ahaha *sweats* I got another white boy coming in hot WOOPS)

[FantasyChic]

@Winter Kitten I tend to have a positive outlook on life regardless of what I am feeling. There is already too much negativity in the world without me adding to it. Plus, nothing pisses off rude people more than being nice to them!

[Dead Cruiser]

Had a busy day of doing nothing. Very important business, that.

I'll try to post my CS sometime tomorrow.

[Winter Kitten]

@FantasyChic

Telling rude people to have a great day in a non-sarcastic tone is absolutely the best thing. Kill them with kindness.

@Dead Cruiser

I have those days way too often. Take your time, though, we aren't in a rush here!

[Winter Kitten]

Here you go, in its copy/paste glory! Probably needs retuning.

Light

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, 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. States that cause her to transform but deal no damage take her an exceptionally long time to regenerate from.

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 near immune to 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.
• 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.
• Light can adapt to extreme environments after while.
• 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.
If Light is in a state of quantom flux (She isn't viewed by any party), Light gains incredible speed until she is seen by something. Light can't gain this part of the ability for a short period after being seen.

ACME Magic Satchel: Light can store and pull various objects from her dress. Stored objects she can call upon at will, however objects she pulls from her dress without storing them first are completely random, are often cartoony or have a horrendous backfire effect, have an ACME logo, 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 or exit her holes.

Toon Touch/Reality Siphon: 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 of '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 reality over a short period. Until an object has fully regained their reality, they can't receive energy from outside sources. This power is always on and Light has no control over its intensity.

Weaknesses

• Light takes extra damage from attacks.
• 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... Duct Tape is especially bad. Most of the time Light needs outside aid to get out of this stuff.
• A vast majority of her 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 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 giving someone "A Bad Time."
• 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.
• 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.
• Light is unlucky, especially if the result will cause slapstick.

@Archmage MC

Sorry, I didn't feel I could write a sufficient reply on my phone, so this response had to wait a few hours until I got back from work. I'm home now and very able to use a keyboard.

Alright, so, as a preface: as is, I cannot accept this character.

It's less about her general ability to work cohesively with the RP at hand and more her power level. I can accept things like Telepathy and Precognition, even Clairvoyance, because those are things I can very well trust people with and know that I can work with them to make sure they get the best use out of their powers without godmodding or metagaming. This? I can't really do anything but rely on the fact that you won't abuse it. Even then, everything this character does is going to cross that line multiple times. I was iffy on the idea of accepting her when the mention of 'Deadpool like character' came into play. Works very well on its own, even lends a great comedic affect, while also leaving a heavy impact on the audience when it comes to emotional overtures. However, in a collaborative sense where I don't have direct control over the character? It just comes off as slightly too tedious and overbearing on the plot.

I don't mind the break in immersion here or the lack of realism. This is a Marvel RP. Realism doesn't mean much and often, when people try to put in rules to keep things 'realistic' it tends to hurt the RP more than aid it. So, the idea behind Toonforce, thematically, sits well with me. In a mechanical point of view, not so much. And while you have many weaknesses for her, most of her weaknesses require pre-knowledge to take advantage of. They're also too random to be considered hard weaknesses to the character. I, as a GM, would have to literally godmod in order to keep your character's power in check, while also relying on trusting you, as the player to allow that. I'm not keen on doing that. I have enough on my plate as is to have to make sure every villain in the RP and every event in the RP effects your character, as well as a multitude of other. You could say that's laziness on my part, but it's also very tedious to have to go, "Alright, so I have everything in place to make this challenging for our base characters. Now, what do I need to do to make this challenging for Light, as well?" and that's obviously giving the villains prior knowledge to take advantage of Light's weaknesses, so she can't just steam roll through everything. That's an exaggeration, but to an effect it hits pretty close, regardless.

It's going to take a lot of fine tuning to make this power anywhere near acceptable. I'm looking for potential for these characters and the only type of characters I can overlook that for are Inhumans and even then it's gotta be on par with everyone else's characters whether through lack of control or lack of general power. For Light, she's kind of already hit her ceiling and that's only addled by her own knowledge and her soft weaknesses. She really has no room to improve because her potential is boundless, but her current power level is also kind of boundless too.

If you can reduce everything and make it fit nicely while allowing your character to grow, then I'll be happy to accept. As of now, though, she's way too powerful and I won't be able to manage her without breaking my own rules, too.

[Chao]

Huh. Still accepting?

[Winter Kitten]

@Chaotic Chao

Yes sir/ma'am! ;D

[Chao]

@Winter Kitten So I heard about Deadpool type characters. That mean fourth wall breaking nad a stubborn healing factor?

[Chao]

@Winter Kitten I am totally interested.

[Chao]

@Winter Kitten What's funny, is that I know the character Light that Archmage posted. They put in my roleplay for superheroes, except they didn't have Toonforce powers. Is my roleplay that bad? :(

[knighthawk]

@Winter Kitten For what it is worth, I have played with @Archmage MC's Light before and enjoyed it. If I may suggest: IF @Archmage MC can pull up the old threads of light so you can get a feel for how she is played.

[Dethran]

Obviously they aren't going to be an intense focal point, but for those that do have mentors in Shield Academy that happen to be heroes, please tell me and I'll make sure they're available as teachers or well more like supervisors while I make a list of classes and the like.

@Winter Kitten

Well, Erik definitely looks up to Barton and Romanov, so if they ever come through for a marksmanship demonstration, or a lesson in infiltration, he'll be a happy little fanboy!

[Winter Kitten]

@Winter Kitten For what it is worth, I have played with @Archmage MC's Light before and enjoyed it. If I may suggest: IF @Archmage MC can pull up the old threads of light so you can get a feel for how she is played.

@knighthawk

That'd definitely assuage any doubts I have of the character's overall power. Maybe if it can be toned down to where it has more potential over initial power, I could be persuaded to allow it. Right now I'm not sure it's very cohesive with the other characters.

[FantasyChic]

@Winter Kitten Personally, I am on your side with that. I've made my peace with the idea of toonforce powers, but I am not the GM and I have no say in the matter. I think toning it down would be beneficial for all parties involved.

[Winter Kitten]

@Chaotic Chao

I'd rather powers with the potential for something amazing, rather than powers that are right off the bat amazing. Stubborn healing factor would be the peak of those powers, enhanced regeneration would likely be the weak side of that spectrum. While it is a superhero roleplay, it's still an Academy one, too, so I'm looking for characters with powers that can improve with training and self-awareness.

But, if you're inspired by Deadpool, I can't stop ya there. That type of humor is just really, really hard to pull off without looking cheesy and trying a little too hard to make situations funny. ;P Not gonna stop you, though.

But this dog will frown at you in disappointment. :(



@Dethran

Eheh, I was already planning on bringing them in. ;D Garret will help him get in their good graces. Or he'll fail miserably and they'll both plummet into self-loathing and utter disappointment. (but what's the fun without the risk?)

[Chao]

@Winter Kitten That dog makes me feel horrible...

I don't know what type of power I want to use...this is an issue.

[Winter Kitten]

@Chaotic Chao

Idea: the power to get up every morning feeling refreshed and renewed no matter how many hours of sleep you got.

I'm not projecting; you're projecting

Superpower Wiki is your friend, though. Kind of. I mostly spend time on that site clicking 'Random Page' and frowning at every result it gives me.

[Chao]

@Winter Kitten Plasma Manipulation? I really want to try something Deadpoolish, with a Deadpool mask and everything though.