[OOC] Baybridge™: Era of the Old/New Gods™ [COMPLETED]

[Keksalot]

@Mr Allen J
I think i am done, tell me if i need to add something else. Or if shit's too op.

Gutmadder

Basic Information

Name: Basilio Amadi Wright-Liselotte
Nickname/Alias/Etc: Gutmadder - a stupid name that he received during his time as a gang doctor. It stuck.
Gender: Male, originally
Age: 31
Height: Varies, Most Often In Range Of 5'3 to 7'
Weight: About 350 Pounds Due To Incredible Density Of Flesh
Home District: Hedgemount

Appearance

Hair Color:

Silver-white, most of the time.

Eye Color:

Amber, most of the time.

Ethnicity:

Indeterminable as of now.

Physical Appearance:

Whenever he doesn't need to keep up a low profile, Gutmadder takes up an apperance of a grotesque paragon of physical fitness - standing at exactly seven feet tall, with perfect and unblemished white skin stretched tautly over a horribly overdeveloped frame - each muscle known to modern human anatomy and a lot of new ones that are not all clearly visible, bulging and tense, filled with vital power and encircled with thick, pulsating veins. Upon a thick, bull-like neck sits the head with a visage of a youthful androgynous person with flowing silver hair, small ears, thin lips, burning amber eyes and sharp aquiline nose, standing out very unnervingly among the masses of overdeveloped flesh. His arms are thick like wine barrels, his legs are like mighty pillars of a greek temple, yet he moves with sinuous grace and incredible ease.

Attire:

Whenever not showing off his mighty physique, at which times he wears only enough clothing to not be arrested for indecency, Gutmadder dresses in simple and functional clothes, favoruing old-fashioned and formal attire and colours black and white. Top hat is optional, but is present on his person quite often nevertheless.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

Outwardly, Gutmadder is friendly, if a bit distanced, to all living things - as long as his own goals don't warrant being very, very unfriendly with them. Though he behaves like a civilized and empathetic being with other people, he is ruthlessly determined, vicious, progressive, unrestraine by morals and filled with purpose.
That purpose is to better oneself, to overcome and to improve in order to one day achieve total enlightenment and undergo a transformation into an ultimate being that is hindered neither by mortal toils nor metahuman urges and weaknesses and is the sole creature alone on the top of the world. Gutmadder sees the world and everything in it as a riddle to be solved - and afterwards taken apart to be studied and examined. A man with a sharp eye can learn a great deal about a person just by looking at them - but a man with sharp eye and an even sharper knife can look not only at a person, but inside them, into every nook and cranny - and if one adds sharp mind and some... highly specialized equipment to that list, one can even gain access into the person's thoughts and desires, the very innermost secrets and longings and beliefs and neural impulses that make them tick.

That said, Gutmadder is not merely a machine set on taking apart all secrets of the universe. He is, for now, still a metahuman, before that a mortal man and before that still a lowly ape. He relishes not only in discovery and progress but also in more mundane pleasures - good food, thrill of combat, domination over his foes, basking in begrudging respect of his peers and fear of his lessers, playing games and dedicating time to his manifold hobbies and objects of interest - all those things he does just like any normal person - if on a much higher level - but without ever forgetting about his true purpose and goal.

In some sense, Gutmadder can be called a nihilist - he believes that there is nothing of value in the world, both in physical and in spiritual sense, except what we make of it, and even if there is, we can't truly know what it is. There are as many points of view in the world as there are sentient beings and there are equal chances for each of them to be correct or false. Kreslav though does not bother himself with things that are "right" or "wrong", instead simply doing what he "Wants" with jolly determination and sense of self-made purpose. Along with right and wrong, Gutmadder does not believes in the concept of "failure" - there is no such thing. You fail only when you are by no means able to ever try again, and that will only ever happen in case of one's absolute spiritual and physical demise. Without that, any difficulties one might encounter are merely temporary setbacks on the road to one's goal.

Hobbies/Interests:

ADVANCED medical and biological sciences, psychoanalysis martial arts, writing incredibly shitty poetry and impromptu rap battles - though he feels quite awkward about sharing that particular interest of his.

Skills/Talents:

In addition to his power, Gutmadder posesses considerable knowledge in many different scientific fields including but not limited to inorganic chemistry, psychology, physics and mathematics. Except for the actual sciences he also posesses a number of more practical skills and knowledges useful in everyday tasks such as doing taxes or fixing bicycles. Thanks to his great physical condition and incredible reaction times, he also makes for a very formidable hand-to-hand fighter able to often literally dodge bullets - whenever he doesn't just soak them up with his flesh. Most importantly, though, Gutmadder knows A LOT about Metahumans, the nature of their Energy, statistics of their awakenings, kinds of their powers and all other Metahuman-related things, from changes in physiology and psychology to the long-term effects of residual Energy on the systems of unpowered people.

Goals/Motivation:

The main goal of Gutmadder is, obviously, to overcome all limitations of Metahumans, find a way to jailbreak the Metahuman Energy in order to unlock his full potential without any sort of negative consequences for it and to eventually become the greatest being in the world. He is not particularily hungry for fame, though, so he will be completely okay with being the Ultimate Life Form without anyone else being aware of it.

History/Bio:

There's really not much to talk about. He was a pretty average, if a bit mellow and... sentinemtal med student from a medium-income family, suffered though a horrible depression once due to doing very bad on an exam in high school but otherwise was pretty unremarkable. Once after a very hard drinking session with his fellows he attempted to return home on his own but accidentaly stumbled into a very bad neighborhood, where a couple of fellas who were up to no good attempted to stick him up - succesfully. His powers sparked into being as he lied in a dark anney with some very serious knife wounds and a shard of glass in his eye and he dragged himself to a dumpster and then succesfully operated himself to full health with a fish bone instad of a needle and a little bit of liquor as a disinfectant. After this, Basilio was terrified to no end. Convincing himself that his mom would absolutely hate him now, he actually seriously ran away from home and lived on the streets in an unspecified slum for quite some time before getting into a big gang due to a strange and hardly plausible series of events, becoming their in-house doctor and discovering the full extent of his powers by saving people that were literally torn apart or long-dead when they were presented to him. Time went by, years passed and at some point Gutmadder managed to accept his nature and power - or maybe simply go crazy from it, at which point his personal career as an independent metahuman researcher and a seeker of perfection began.

Relationships

Family:

Actually seriously none - even now, being adult and at peace with himself, Gutmadder doesn't like to think back on the time he ran away from his family and certainly doesn't want to reconcile with them, both out of some deep subconscious fear that he can't defeat and out of pity for his parents - what would he say? "Hi mom, i am a supersurgeon metahuman now, sorry for leaving you for ten and then some years?"

Dynamics:

| Not yet sure about any, if somebody wants to discuss it then please knock in the PM|

HBB - Hedge Bad Boyz organized crime gang, in which Gutmadder still provides medical services at times, due to some deep ingrained feeling of loyalty.

DOVE&RAVEN - Gutmadder is aware of the power the organisations wield, the benefit that co-working with them may bring to his research and the consequences that may come for angering them. As such, he attempts to stay on their good side, answers their beckoning whenever a need in his cooperation arises and makes absolute sure that anything he does that might be perceived as a wrongdoing by them goes unnoticed.

Abilities

Power Class:

Cerebral/Super-System/Other

Power:

Gutmadder's ability consists of no-nonsense absolute, complete and perfect knowledge and understanding of all things biological and all biology/biochemistry-derived processes in all living beings and ability to manipulate and change these processes with ease bordering on supernatural. Transplanting a heart from one person to another is a thing that Gutmadder will do with childish glee, using only two fingers of his left hand to go through the whole operation - and this is the most basic application of his ability. Gutmadder is intuitively a master of biochemistry and neuroanatomy, able to create incredibly potent drugs, horrible poisons and hormonal concoctions that can completely change people who ingest them, tailor-grow new organs or even biological constructs, reanimate the dead even after most horrid maimings, control other people through cerebral parasites or direct nerve induction, generate enough bioelectricity to shock a grown man to death and do many other wondrously horrible things - the main and most important amongst which is the ability to manipulate the bodily processes responsible for the generation of Metahuman Energy responsible for their powers. He very rarely tries it on other metahumans, but has experimented extensively on himself, achieving such feats as temporarily stopping it's generation, kicking it into overdrive without any outside circumstances warranting it, controlling the distribution of the energy in the body and even transferring it to a non-metahuman person through implantation of his own cells into them - though the results vary wildldy and are often quite gruesome. Gutmadder has also used this power to significantly upgrade his own body, making it all-but-immune to pain, fatigue, toxins and poisons, filling it with superdense bones and muscles capable of tearing steel, redundant and additional organs, armouring his tissues and drastically increasing his brain activity, which results in incredible sensory acucity, faster-than-lightning reaction times and many other bodily improvements. His body also contains several glands secreting incredibly toxic poisons, powerful stimulants, hallucinogens and pheromones which he may secrete through the skin, spit out or even spray over large areas. As a last resort and deterrence weapon, he has a sack of especially virulent toxin that is more potent than even the VX nerve agent stowed deeply within his bowels that will spread over the most of the city in case his vital functions ever cease - he makes sure that everyone knows about that in case somebody thinks of fighting him to death for some unknown and probably stupid reason.

[TheWizardLizard]

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Let's consult the character tab! \( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)/

@Mr Allen J

Welp, I see I crit-failed my spot check. Goodness, it's literally in giant red letters. :P

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Keksalot Okay, this sheet's gonna need a little bit of work.

1). Literally the first thing I thought while reading the sheet is that there's a loooooooooooooot of run-on sentences. I mean, seriously, use periods more instead of commas because a lot of the sentences drags on, and on, and on and it looks really unprofessional. Look up a few grammar guides about it.

2). How in the hell can he dodge bullets? Even with the quickest reaction timing, it won't mean shit if you don't have the speed to move your body. And even that sounds sketchy.

3). Okay, I really think that you went overboard with the power. For starters, I think you gave him waaaaaaaaaay too many abilities under the pretense of "lol master scientist." You pretty much told me he can do anything he wants, and is pretty much unkillable. None of his power follows any thematic, and I don't really get how he can even do half the things he can (Even under the "master scientist" pretense, not too much of it makes sense). Not to mention the fact that you gave him zero weaknesses and limits.

[Keksalot]

@Mr Allen J
1) Noted, will edit.

2) Dodging bullets sounds retarded in the retrospect, yes.

3) His power is literally "Supernatural understanding and manipulation of biology". His powers do follow a theme, which is well, things that you can do with biology and all things that he can do stem from him surgically altering his body in accordance to his desires, being able to do so thanks to his almost better-than-perfect understanding of all things that directly relate to living creatures and processes in their bodies. I guess i should've actually noted the major weakness he has, which is the fact that new organs don't appear instantly and invasive surgeries don't happen in a blink of an eye - though of course for him they DO take much less time than for any modern doctor or scientist. As such, needs time and some equipment for the truly outrageous exploits. The analogy can be drawn with the Iron Man, for example. Tony Stark is a genius engineer, who makes himself into a wondrously powerful flying brick thanks to the power armours and it's gadgets that he crafted. Same thing here, only instead of making a powered armour with electrically-stimulated myomer bundles Gutmadder grows and grafts to himself incredibly dense and powerful muscle.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Keksalot But, you're missing the part where I'm saying it's incredible overpowered. Let's put this in perspective for you: he essentially has biokinesis (Can control all aspects of the human body), can control people (which is a banned power), reanimate the dead, generate bioelectricity, control metahuman energy such as taking away powers, enhancing them, and giving them to unpowered people (Which goes into a whole new powerset altogether), he can make himself immune to contaminants, impervious to pain, give himself super strength, and super durability, faster than light reflexes, can produce poisons/drugs/etc and has a last resort super poison that will kill everyone in the city (Which is a big no).

The other characters can control glass, turn intangible, teleport, etc.

You've essentially given him every form of superpower out there, and a lot of these abilities would be strong enough on their own. Even under the idea that he has a perfect understanding of science; how is he able to do any of this? Understanding science, and preforming the feats that you have listed, are two separate things. Because a lot of these aren't "understanding" anything, they're just superpowers. Even if he needs "time and equipment," that honestly isn't a major weakness at all - it's a limit (Not even a good one - let's be real here, when will that ever come into play...?).

I already got a few complaints from the other players about how it's super OP.

Just give some of the other characters a look if you want an idea of the powerlevel.

[Keksalot]

Even under the idea that he has a perfect understanding of science; how is he able to do any of this? Understanding science, and preforming the feats that you have listed, are two separate things

@Mr Allen J

His understanding of biology as i envisioned it is explicitly supernatural - beyond what even the best minds of modern science know at the moment. For example, you know how the middle-schoolers are taught about the recessive and dominant genes, alleles, mutant carriers and genetic "wild cards" because this is literally the only good and understandable GUESS that we have on how genetics work? Gutmadder knows how genes work EXACTLY, even though he probably can't explain it to others due to the natural limitations of human understanding and language. Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic yadda-yadda.

But yes, i guess i've seriously overestimated the general powerlevel and really did make Bonesaw 2.0 OP as fuck. Sorry for like, doing this bullshit.

If i am still allowed to try again, i'd like to revert to Janwar - his power is syphoning heat from the enviroment at great speed in order to use the gained energy to speed up his natural regeneration or giving himself short boosts of superspeed/strength/stamina.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Keksalot Yes, you may make another character.

You weren't rejected or anything, just that Gutmadder needed a lot of work.

[TheWizardLizard]

Nick, The Hive

Basic Information

Name:

Nicholas O'Connor

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

The Hive - nickname given by his DOVE caseworkers

Gender:

Male

Age:

25

Height:

6ft 1

Weight:

245 lbs.

Home District:

Edgemont – Springtown

Appearance

Hair Color:

Brown

Eye Color:

Brown

Ethnicity:

Caucasian

Physical Appearance:

Nick is a big, broad-shouldered guy, with a thick but muscular physique and hands like hams. He keeps his brown hair short in a military crew cut, and his face is completely clean shaven. His white skin is slightly tanned from an upbringing spent running around outside with the other kids, though the more internal life he has been leading lately has caused a good deal of paleness to return to him.

Nick’s face is mostly smooth and rounded, lending an almost dopey, doughy look to his otherwise intimidating physique. In the bridge of his nose there is a very slight bend, a remnant from his days getting his nose broken all the time. On the top of his scalp there’s a long, white scar that runs from the middle of his forehead all the way to one ear. His back, if one were to see it without a shirt, is likewise an absolute tapestry of scars and markings, holdovers from the abuse he suffered before coming to Baybridge.

Attire:

Nick usually wears some combination of t-shirt, hoodie, track pants and battered sneakers, fashion not really being a concern of his.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

Outwardly, Nick is an incredibly drawn, reserved, and wary person. He doesn’t really rush to make close connections with anyone, Metahuman or not, and while he’s not exactly cold in intrapersonal conversation, a good deal of his friendliness has been overtaken by caution, given that he is very aware of the effect his ‘powers’ tend to have on people (screaming, running, oh-god-what-the-fuck-is-that). He’s very paranoid, not in the crazy, twitchy, ‘the government is out to get us’ way, but more in the sense that he’s hyper aware of the fact that any situation could go wrong at any moment, and acts accordingly.

Growing up, Nick had a reputation as being not the sharpest tool in the shed, and it’s not entirely unfounded. He doesn’t always think things through and has a lot of trouble getting ‘book smarts’ into his head, and as a result he used to be a fairly gullible person and still is to some extent, though it’s balanced by acquired habit of nervousness around people.

One exception to his general lack of warmth is his treatment of his ‘pets’ – he’s not repulsed by them at all, often picking a few favorites and doting on them like an old spinster with a house full of cats – though he’s not exactly beyond sending whole droves of the little guys to their deaths should an emergency require it.

Hobbies/Interests:

Nick is still a fitness nut – his local gym is one of the few places he goes regularly outside his home, and he’s even got a small hive located in the vents. He also regularly practices his boxing talent, though he hasn’t had a fight since he came to Baybridge.

Skills/Talents:

Nick was a very promising boxer before his abilities manifested, and he hasn’t lost his edge, making him very capable in a fist-fight. He’s also an excellent driver, as you pretty much have to be if you want to make a living driving a taxi in a big city.

Goals/Motivation

As a person, Nick can be characterized almost by a staggering lack of ambition – if asked what he wanted from his life, he’d probably have trouble giving you a concrete answer besides ‘stay alive, make enough money to feed me and my pets and live quietly and undisturbed’.

History/Bio:

Nick was born in a small town in Iowa, a sleepy, rural place where very little ever happened. Growing up, he was athletic, handsome, and friendly, three things that were the key to becoming the most popular kid in school. From a young age, his parents encouraged his talent and his passion for fighting into the (sort of) healthy outlet of boxing, and the young man quickly proved to be very good at it. He was happy, he had friends, he had a dream he wanted to pursue. Life was good.

He was 17 when his powers manifested. At first, he didn’t even know it was him doing it – his parent’s house, almost overnight, become home to a swarm of huge, terrifying insects that menaced his family and threatened to overtake his neighborhood. It was only after he realized that he could command them that what he was became apparent. The Saviors held a lot of sway in his town, and immediately he was shunned – he was a metahuman, after all, and a downright terrifying one at that. His grades slumped even further and his prospects of higher education quickly disappeared, and that was before the Verthaven disaster.

Anti-meta sentiment, especially among the community that had raised him, was at an all-time high. Nick continued to live in a small shack in the town he’d grown up in for several years, protected by a horde of his pets but often a target of violence by PURE extremists. One day he decided he’d had enough and ran away, drawn inevitably to a faraway city where others of his kind were congregating; Baybridge.

Since arriving in Baybridge, Nick has managed to get a job driving a taxi around the city as well as a truly shitty apartment in Edmonton’s Springtown, where he lives quietly with only his pets for company. Due to his background and the high potential threat-level of his powers to the civilian populace, DOVE has taken a special interest in him, and generally send a caseworker to visit him once a week to ‘make sure he’s holding up’, a nice way of saying ‘check that he’s not about to become a terrorist’.

Relationships

Family:

Things are difficult between Nick and his parents, to say the least. Though they were a very loving family in his youth, a combination of meta-phobia and the stress of living with a horde of giant bugs ultimately resulted in their throwing him out of the house – they haven’t spoken since he came to Baybridge.

Dynamics: (None yet, so I'll just leave this open!)

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Abilities

Power Class:

Other

Power:

The cells of Nick’s skin contain dozens of miniscule eggs that are undetectable to the normal eye. When shed as dead skin, these eggs rapidly grow in size before hatching into a member of a unique species of insect. These insects live in colonies, breed explosively, eat just about anything edible, and come in four distinct types.

Insect Types

The most numerous, making up roughly 70% of the eggs laid, are the ones that Nick refers to as the ‘workers’. They are quadrupeds about the size of mice, with dark brown exoskeletons and heads that resemble those of ants, with significantly larger eyes and small mouths comprised of four pincers. The workers are the ones responsible for gathering food for the colony, as well as producing the firm, greyish substance that their hives and structures are made of (Nick doesn’t know where it comes from, and prefers not to think about it). They’re not much good in a fight, but their pincers could do some damage if they managed to attack in a horde.

The second most numerous, at 20%, are the ‘soldiers’. These are a full foot long, with six spider-like legs all tipped in spikes. Their bodies are black and spiny, with a small head set in the front like a cockroach – their pincers, however, are about three inches long and easily capable of slicing flesh. They can also spray a weak acid up to two feet in front of them capable of burning exposed skin. These are the bugs that protect the hive and make up the bulk of Nick’s forces in case of conflict.

Roughly 9% of the eggs hatch into the monstrosities Nick refers to as ‘Drones’ – a full foot and a half-long, with lobster-like claws and enormous wings that let them buzz around like giant bees. Their tails possess a stinger that causes terrible pain to anyone stung, much like a bullet ant. They’re easily the fastest and most threatening of Nick’s pets, and, when left to their own devices, the most aggressive.

One in every 200 eggs will hatch into the fourth subspecies – a Queen. These large, bloated bugs exist solely to pump out more eggs and produce even more insects for the reinforcement of the colony. When the Queens get set up is generally the stage where a Nick-festation truly takes off – they’re capable of producing an absolute horde of servants, including more Queens to perpetuate the cycle.

The insects respond to verbal commands from Nick, and have a limited ability to understand his intentions – they can’t read his mind, but they do understand metaphor and don’t carry out his orders completely literally.

Limits:

He needs to be able to speak to the insects in order to command them – if they can’t hear him, they can’t do as he says. His powers also stop working within a range – once he leaves a five mile radius of a colony, the insects abandon all standing orders and become listless and idle, finally curling up and dying after 24 hours and quickly decomposing. They also need to eat, a lot – insects can only go one day without food, which, when there’s a lot of them, can be a real problem.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

For starters, when left without orders the insects behave, essentially, like wild animals, protecting themselves and attacking anyone they perceive as a threat, and while they’ll never hurt him, the same can’t be said for anyone close to him. They’re also very fragile – a hard stomp will kill a worker or a soldier, while even a drone can be handled with a good swing from a tennis racket. Finally, they’re intensely vulnerable to fluctuations in temperature; intense cold makes them lethargic and slow, while they and all their structures are highly flammable. As a result, the insects are completely terrified of fire and refuse to go near it, a phobia that has somewhat rubbed off on Nick.

Other:

[*Currently, his apartment is an absolute mess of hives and colonies and insects that is pretty disturbing to look at. He has one hive in the air ducts of his local gym, and he keeps one soldier ant in the glove compartment of his taxi, ‘just in case’.]

Alright, here he is. Balancing the power was tricky, but I think I hit a pretty good balance of 'high ceiling, low floor'. I could be wrong, though.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@TheWizardLizard Pretty interesting power, the sheet could use a little bit of spacing in between paragraphs to make it easier.

[TheWizardLizard]

Noted, I'll try and edit that in. I had to do an enormous amount of wrestling with the format to get the hider to work for some reason, so it's probably a bit ugly.

EDIT: I did it, and it didn't even explode a little! Look at that.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@TheWizardLizard Good, he's accepted.

[TheWizardLizard]

Thanks mate. I'll get working on my second character in a little bit.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Here is character six, I breezed through him in my spare time. I kind of like him. Though, I always feel bad if I make more than two really nice characters, than my usual brand. lol

Malik Jakane

Basic Information

Name:

Malik Jakane

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

The Storm
The Tourist

Gender:

Male

Age:

25

Height:

6'2 ft

Weight:

181

Home District:

From outta town, but its staying in Oakdell Harbor in a nice hotel.

Appearance

Hair Color:

Black

Eye Color:

Brown

Ethnicity:

Nigerian, Sudanese, Kenyan, & Egyptian

Physical Appearance:

Malik is a spry, adventurous young man. He's physically fit, and has just has the look of someone who's been to a lot of different places. Not only is Malik obviously a foreigner, anyone can tell from his thick French Accent. Malik has a kind, easygoing look on his face, as he goes about his life. Like he's constantly having a good time. However, his body movements are always quick, and erratic, almost like he can't hold still, and has to constantly be on the move. Which doesn't imply he has a disorder. Almost like he's excited. Almost child-like.

Now, Malik is African - not African-American because he isn't an American citizen - but he's a man who was born in Africa with several different races flowing through his blood. He's Nigerian, Kenyan, Sudanese, and Egyptian - his father was a pureblooded Nigerian, while his mother brought the other races. So, Malik look a bit more Nigerian than the other nationalities, but they do alter his facial features a bit. He has rather squared facial features, consistent with Africans. Starting off, he has that African skullshape, and thick bones. He has a square-shaped face/head, that is a generally blocky. He has a strong jaw, and a rather blocky chin that almost looks disproportionate to his thick lips. Speaking of his lips, like other African people, he's got some pretty thick lips. However, his jaw blends into the rest of his face pretty well, actually. His jaw ends, where his medium-sized ears end. Which have a crescent shape. Malik's eyes have a roundish-almond shape, and are quite large and pronounced. Especially with his dark brown eyes. Malik's nose is droopy in shape, and is medium sized. Finally, Malik has an African accent whenever he speaks.

Malik's body shape is generally a bit stand out. Due to all the workout and exercise he gets, he's a fair bit muscular. He's got that runner's build from all the parkour he does, mostly it's in his legs because you get to see how built they are. He's still pretty skinny, I'd say he's lithe, and waif. Though, he's got a rather standout body shape. He's six-two feet tall, and that makes him a little easier to see in a crowd. He has a wide chest, and wide shoulders, along with some rather thick legs. Though, he still has a good build from all the exercising he does, you can see the abs growing on his torso area. He doesn't appear to have too much body-fat, and what little does pads his body.

Like it's been stated before, Malik is African. His dark-brown skintone is certainly a dead give away. He's pretty dark due to his Sudanese heritage, the fact that he spends a lot of time in the sun also helps. His skin... has a few scars on it. During his parkour training, he got injured a lot. He has a scar on his face, on his chin, from a time he hilarious fell face first on the ground and had to get surgery to fix his jaw. The surgical scar remains... and so does the shame. He also has a scar on his leg from the time he was running from a dog, and scraped his leg on the top of the fence he was escaping on. And the list of retarded injuries go on and on.

Finally, Malik's hair is a black color, and has an afro texture. He keeps it in a stylish low-mohawk fade. The hair on the sides is heavily faded.

Attire:

Malik dresses fancily. Due to being a rich boy, he's got a lot of access to different kinds of clothes. When he wants to make an impression, and wow people, he comes in wearing an expensive suit. He loves a nice looking suit... but, he rarely wears them. Other times, he just dresses much more casually. He has a hip-hop inspired style, where he wears shirts with rap logos, and other urban details on it. Depending on whether or not he wants to stand out dictates his outfit. He'll go from something simple, to something much more fancy. However, if he wants to do parkour, he tends to dress loosely, and give himself lots of freedom of movement.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

A kind and easygoing kind of guy.

Malik's a generally kind, and easy going kind of person. One who isn't afraid of interacting with other people, and doesn't have any prejudice. Which makes it easy for Malik to make friends with people. He's very loud, and stand out, and tends to attract attention to himself. Through his exaggerated and energetic body movements, and his loud speech. He has a smile on his face most of the time. Whenever he interacts with people, he definitely is laid back, and easy going. He often jokes, and tells stories of his many adventures throughout the world (Whether or not they're true is up to debate). He isn't the kind of person who gets worked up, or angry easily. He takes life through the easy route. Oddly enough, he keeps well composed at all times. He seemingly has a way with people, and tends to be quite charming. He just likes befriending people.

Though, he comes off as a bit goofy sometimes, bumbling at worst. Making careless mistakes, and often making a fool of himself at the worst possible moments. Along with his attitude, he tends to be ignored by other, more serious-minded, people as nothing more than background noise. That annoys him a bit, but it certainly doesn't cause. What doesn't help this goofy character trait is that he tends to say things that can be misinterpreted, and that causes him problems when more aggressive people confront him. When he has the best interests at heart.

When dealing with confrontation, the very first thing that Malik does is talk his way out of things. He doesn't like violence, or fighting people. Worst comes to worse, then Malik will just cut tail and run for it. Good luck catching him. Because, while he isn't too good at fighting, he's fast as hell. He prefers peace, but if he's left with little choice, then Malik will fight. He doesn't have any real fighting experience, other than a few confrontations he got into with other Metahumans. Malik doesn't like to fight women even less, but if he's forced to do it, then he has no choice but to.

Malik has a pretty solid moral compass. He has a good heart, and won't harm anyone innocent. Because his goal in life isn't to oppress, it's to simply enjoy it. That's why he'll always lend a helping hand to someone who needs it. Especially if it's a damsel in distress. That isn't to say he goes out of his way to look for people, but if he ever comes across someone in his travels that needs it, he'll be there. Though, he'll come at it in a less roundabout way.

Speaking of romance and sexuality, Malik is heterosexual, but he isn't particularly interested in sex. He can be swayed if he's attracted to someone enough, but he is more interested in romance than having sex with someone. Since Malik was always a guy that was about interpersonal connections, and friendship, than boning every female in sight. He is quite flirty, however, if he sees a girl that adheres to his brand of tastes. Though, he isn't persistence, or weird about it. If he's turned down, then, hell, he isn't going to lose his mind and murder someone. He'll take a kind lady's friendship if they'll give it to him, and keep it completely platonic.

If it comes down to it, Malik is incredibly determined once he's set on a goal, and won't give up on it even if people constantly shoot him down. In fact, that motivates him. This shows in his goal to find his missing friend, and how he dropped everything he was doing to get up and go find her. He'll keep looking for his goals, even if it seems absolutely hopeless. Yeah, he's that kind of guy.

Though, certain acts can certainly bring out the rage in Malik. A hotblooded passion that'll make him lose that nice guy attitude, and replace it with a fierce, vengeful side. However, while he's quite vengeful, he won't be ruthless.

Hobbies/Interests:

Malik is a tourist at heart, and has a great love and appreciation for the world, and the many things within the world. He's been from one part of the world, to another. He's been in the Netherlands, to Germany, to Japan, to Dubai. He also has a lot of trinkets. He aspires to continue traveling the world after he's done with his personal mission to find his friend. Malik also has an affinity for technology, and social media. He has like a social media account on every single form (Instragram being his favorite). He fills these social media accounts with pictures from his adventures. He also has a few games on his phone - nothing like a system, since he's always on the move.

Skills/Talents:

The one thing that Malik uses to wow people is his impressive parkour skills. Starting from when he was sixteen, Malik trained by some of the best in parkour, and that shows whenever he pulls off jaw dropping stunts. He has an impressive acrobatic array of tricks, and stunts that makes it trivial for him to climb up objects, and do flips. Though, in case he needs it, he'll only be using the practical stunts. Because of this, Malik is pretty quick on his feet, and can certainly haul ass if he needs it. The other major skill that Malik has is that he's multilingual. Because he's been traveling all over the world, it's only natural that he picks up a few languages. First, he's pretty damn good at speaking English because it's a major language spoken in Nigeria. He can also speak Arabic because of his times in Dubai. The other language he's really good at is French, because he's spent a lot of time there. He can also speak a little bit of Japanese, German, Swahili, Portuguese, and Spanish - but those are limited to phrases because his knowledge in those languages are awful.

Goals/Motivation

Malik's main goal in Baybridge is find a close and personal friend of his that has gone missing within Baybridge. Eventually, he'll come to blows with the mysterious Founding Family, and join the battle against them. His other objective is to locate a Metahuman with a powerful enough healing ability to heal his father back to full health. No matter the cost.

History/Bio:

The Tourist

Malik was born very well off. He's the first son of a profitable Nigerian businessman, who has a load of money at his disposal, and a lot of influence in Africa and beyond. Malik himself lived in a mansion, and went to school where he had everything handed to him at a young age. However, the boy and his family traveled around a lot due to his father's business. Mostly spending a lot of time in Dubai, and Nairobi.

However, once Malik was old enough, he was sent away to an expensive boarding school in Paris, France. The sudden transition wasn't the best, but he made the best of it. Malik was already a kind, fun loving boy, and that was enough to make him friends with the French kids that weren't racist. However, it wasn't long before Malik got bored of just sitting around, playing games, and studying. He wanted to do something cool. He could pick up sports, since Malik was a bit tall... but the only sport that he had in mind was parkour.

Just to satisfy his sun, his father got Malik the best parkour training you can get in Paris. From the start, Malik didn't exactly do too well, since he was incredibly clumsy while doing it, and got ridiculed by his fellow trainees (and his teacher). This ridicule only motivated Malik to succeed further. Even though he failed a lot more, it wasn't long before Malik started getting good. And when he got good, oh boy, he got good. Almost called one of the best among his class. He was on the road to becoming a parkour master.

At his school, he bonded with a girl that he knew named Marelle Marrou. She was a French/African mixed girl that he got along with pretty well. Malik and her became fairly close friends throughout the years - despite the fact that their relationship never became romantic, or sexual. Only platonic. Malik was barely eighteen when he graduated from school, and prepared to go on a world tour. While Marelle Marrou joined the French Directorate-General For Meta-Human Security. Malik and Marelle kept in close contact as he went all over the world. Malik spent a few years on this journey, and traveled from Japan to Oaxaca.

Tragedy struck Malik's family... his precious father was injured by a Metahuman who was seeking to kidnap him for his wealth. His father was saved from the kidnapping from his bodyguards... but was horribly injured in the process. To the point where he was declared comatose, and braindead. His family had the money to keep him on life support - but should they was the question. However, during one passionate conversation in his room, Malik declared that he was going find help for his father, and look for someone to help.

The first thing that came to mind was a Metahuman with a strong enough healing ability.

Malik went from country to country, searching for a Metahuman that would be strong enough to heal his father's injuries... but, with the persecution against Metahumans, that was hard. The few he could find weren't strong enough to heal his father. It's been years since he started his journey, and wasn't any closer.

However, Malik was brought to America because a friend of his went missing, that friend was Marelle Marrou... who was in America on a foreign exchange program between the DGMHS, and RAVEN. She sent him a bizarre message that implied something about a "Founding Family," and told him that she wasn't going to see him for awhile, and not to look for her. Well, that just motivated Malik to go straight to America to go find her.

Little did he know, things are going to get very complicated.

Relationships

Family:

Okay, I'll do this later.

Imamu Jakane - Father

Boipelo Jakane - Mother

Jaheem Jakane - Brother

Faraji Jakane - Brother

Jojo Jakane - Brother

Ekua Jakane - Sister

Dynamics:

~TBA~

Abilities

Power Class:

Elemental: Mimicry

Power:
Storm-Mimicry.

Malik is the storm. He has the ability to shed his human form, and become living storm cloud. This cloud form takes the appearance of, well, a cloud that's shaped like Malik. It's white, and constantly flowing, and whenever Malik moves, the storm follows behind him in a trail that will disappear in a few seconds. Becoming a cloud gives Malik a few abilities that would be natural, such as changing his shape, and flight. Oddly enough, he is still tangible. He can still be touched, and touch other objects. However, that isn't the ability of subject. Since Malik is a storm cloud, he can essentially summon any phenomena from his body. Rain/snow, wind, hail, lightning, snow, fog, and a subconscious control over temperatures. Due to this ability, it's pretty much weather generation. This gives him a lot of abilities, offensively, and defensively. He can shoot rain from his body to extinguish a fire, summon a mighty wind from his body to knock over a foe, or shoot a mighty bolt of lightning from his hands. This form has a lot of capabilities, and whatnot due to the fluidness of being a storm elemental.

While in his human form, he also has a weaker form of weather manipulation. He can summon a small cloud in his area that he can control, and summon mini weather effects from. Such as rain, or electricity. He likes to have fun with this ability.

Limits:

First, he doesn't exactly have control over weather effects like you'd expect. He can only summon them in various intensities, but not control them like an elemental type. Once it's out, he can't do anything with it - which means he can easily be overpowered by an elemental type dedicated in that element. His abilities also have a relatively short range, he can't throw weather effects a million feet away, but the most he can accomplish would be fifteen feet. He also has a hard time controlling his abilities, mostly directing them where he wants to go. For example, he can't shoot lightning at someone, but there's little guarantee he'll hit them directly. His power is much like blanketing an area with a weather effect, than one solid target. Also, he needs to be in his storm form to access the full capabilities of his power.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

Whenever Malik goes into his storm form, he has a glowing hole in his chest that emanates a light like the eye of a storm. This "eye of the storm" serves as Malik's weakpoint. If he is struck in this area, then he will immediately be forced back into his human form, and will be rattled for a little bit. Once he shifts into storm form, his vision will also fade a little bit, and it'll be very hard for Malik to see objects from far away because his eyes will be covered in a "fog." Summoning weather effects also has detrimental effects on his body. Summoning water cools down his body, shooting lightning blinds him for a few seconds, and blows out his hearing for a few seconds, and wind makes it harder for Malik to breath.

Other:

[Zombiedude101]

Posted my chars, thank god - that formatting is a fucking nightmare.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Posted my chars, thank god - that formatting is a fucking nightmare.

@Zombiedude101

I aim to please. :)

[Keksalot]

Z-z-zing.
I want to maybe change his name to "Transsib(erian Railway)" because he is really good at very quickly transporting you to very, very cold places.

January

Basic Information

Name:

Boban Bogdanovich Repka

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

January/Vorkutarmsman

Gender:

Male

Age:

43

Height:

6'1''

Weight:

242

Home District:

White Coast, The Docks

Appearance

Hair Color:

Dark Brown

Eye Color:

Hazel

Ethnicity:

Croatian

Physical Appearance:

A brawny, solidly built man with powerful muscles all over his sturdy frame, even though they are somewhat concealed by certain amounts of fat. His powerful ape-like arms are noticeably longer than usual and his left hand lacks one-third of his middle finger. His head bears a moderately horrible scarring directly under the jaw and at the right temple, where shrapnel pierced and exited his head. Despite rarely smiling, the gaze of his deep-seated eyes has a kind and benevolent quality to it.

Attire:

Boban mostly wears khaki - after the military service this color simply crawled into his brain and forced him to love it regardless of any previous opinion he held regarding it. Standard attire includes heavy jackboots, jumpsuit with a light kevlar vest underneath and, whenever the circumstances call for it(i.e. he feels like a vigilante), a harness with a gun, heavy stun baton and several pairs of extremely sturdy manacles.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

Boban really likes living. After awakening from the coma he entered as a result of July Fiends attack when a piece of metal jammed itself in his head, and discovering within himself the awesome power that returned him his life, Boban rejoiced greatly. Despite his quite advanced age, he worked his way through the basic academy courses and set off into his freshly reacquired life with glee and joy. He is, by his nature, a nice person, though this fact sometimes goes unnoticed due to his temper. Despite his best attempts to control himself, Boban is quick to anger and is generally easily agitated - but just as quick to calm down and recognize his mistakes.

Hobbies/Interests:

Weightlifting, literature, game of Tables, woodcarving.

Skills/Talents:

During days in the Special Operations Battalion Boban participated in a couple of actual peacekeeping operations nd posesses all of the military skills ingrained into him during the training as well as brief but still existing firsthand experience of war and it's realities. After being quietly discharged after a most freakish off-duty drink-and-drive accident, Boban found further uses for his talents in a private military contractor company, participating in several conflicts around the globe and honing his warmaking skills before using his recently-acquired connections to quietly settle down in Baybridge, where he worked as an apprentice mechanic-repairman, in the process learning all the skills needed for the trade.

Goals/Motivation

The biggest dream that reborn Boban has at the moment is to somehow enter the ranks of RAVEN, to which end he writes them letter after letter after letter and attempts to prove himself an exemplary Metahuman to the Baybridge community.

History/Bio:

Was born in Croatia, couldn't manage to enter a university so he picked military service. There he proved himself a capable soldier and after some time managed to enter the ranks of SBR, from which he was later removed due to undisclosed failings. After a brief period of depression and several broken vows of sobriety, Boban found a new calling as a PMC. After many a successful tour of duty he made enough of a profit to quietly retire, picking Baybridge as a place to quietly live in. He even found himself a wife - a woman almost as ugly and brutish as he was, but they were kind to each other nevertheless - and have unsuccesfully tried for a child for several months before the Fiends' attack. There was a fire, an explosion, and then Boban has lost consciousness. With a shard of metal in his skull, he remained in coma in one of the city's hospitals for quite some time, but his sleep came to an end when after a district-wide blackout his life support failed. Moments before death, Boban's power has awakened and he flash-froze his ward (luckily empty at the time) and used the syphoned energy to expel the shard and heal the damage.
After this miraculous occasion, Boban resumed his life with glee, attempting to get the most ouf ot the second chance he has - after a brief period of celebration and making it through the basic Academy courses, he tries to put his powers to good use regardless of his less-than-perfect past.

Relationships

Family:

Mother and father already passed away. He is dimly aware of the existence of his sister, who is some kinds of scientist in Russia, but does not care much save for an occasional letter. Death of his wife during the time he was in coma, however, struck him quite hard - he regularily visits her grave and gave an oath to not start any new relationships for at least a year in order to honor his darling girl Logan, God bless her soul, now she is unloading cargo ships in heaven.

Dynamics: (Relations with other characters - You don't have to put relation with family here.)

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DOVE&RAVEN:

Constantly pesters any member of the organisation within his reach in order to give him a chance to prove his worth in order to be accepted.

Abilities

Power Class:

Super-System(Biological)/Elemental(Energy)

Power:

Boban's power is twofold in nature. His first power is the ability to syphon heat and energy from his enviroment at astonishing speeds - on a warm and sunny day, with his power being in effect, the temperature in the radius of about a dozen meters around him will fall below the zero in the matter of several seconds, to -60 after a minute and to -90 after two. Things that he touches directly tend to flash-freeze and often shatter in a spectacular fashion, as does blood of people he touches. Theoretically, there is no limit to how low the temperature may go and it might be that after ENOUGH time, January's power can bring it down to absolute zero, but the speed with which the energy is syphoned is proportionate to how low the current temperature is - it takes two minutes to go down to -90, but another ten to go below the hundred and several hours to reach the 120 mark in the radius of several meters around - and after that Boban can hardly maintain the power for much longer even in the most appropriate conditions.
The second half of his power is the ability to absorb and redistribute the great amounts of heat in order to buff himself through some crude form of biomancy - amounts of energy spent are incredibly vast, but the returns quickly diminish. After a minute or so of activity, Boban's body almost ceases to age, swells with vital power and it's physical capabilities peak out at the marks slightly shy of superhuman. Afterwards, all of the excess energy is stored within January's body through unknown means, rising his bodily temperature to roughly 70 degrees celsius and protecting him from both death from overheating and the freezing effects of his powers - and then, Boban may expend it for further improvements to his abilities, providing himself with powerful regenerative capabilities and short bursts of superstrength, speed and stamina - they last for roughly ten or twenty seconds, but activate almost reflexively and without any actual concentration. When Boban strikes a blow, his body pulses great heat and the power of his punch is multiplied, when a blade or a bullet touch his flesh, it expels another wave of vented enery and his tissues harden to protect him.

Limits&Weaknesses:

One of the greatest problems Boban faces is collateral damage. His power is quite potent, but it requires external source of energy to work - after standing in one place for a short while when actively using his "biomancy" Boban expends most of the energy of that location and his powers, quickly wane - so he has to alwas continue moving into warmer locations in order to siphon heat from them in order to keep functioning at a superhuman level, possibly risking greatly damaging property or people that got accidentaly caught in his immediate zone of influence. In his tread, asphalt covers with anicy carapace, water and even gasoline inside of cars freeze solid, air burns the mouth and eyes with horrible cold, glass freezes and shatters, thick hoarfrost covers the walls.
Another weakness his power has is that it is always, always active, if on a very low level. Temperature literally drops when January enters a room, even though not as drastically as when he uses it consciously. Boban himself is always warm, pink and blushing with health, but his touch is startlingly cold and draws heat from others and peoples' breath is always visible in the air when they speak near January. He can't even hold a drink in his hand for more than ten minutes without it freezing. He always has his beer frosty though, so it's not all bad.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Keksalot Hmmmm...

1). Those weaknesses aren't really that, well, debilitating (If anything, they're weaknesses... for everyone around him lol). I mean, collateral damage is a weakness if he works in a team, but if he's pretty much immune to cold, then I don't see how they're really weaknesses - especially with the high power level he has. Possibly, you can say that his power wreaks havoc on his immune system/metabolism, or he can be cooled down (Which is logical). I'll come up with some more.

2). The Fiends attack took place in another city (Verthaven). lol

3). There are a few run-on sentences, but w/e. lol

He's still a step up power-wise and character-wise from your other character, so that's good. Just make a few adjustments.

[tsukune]

@Keksalot This is only my two-cents, in response to J's first point:

First off, besides area and time limitation, what about body limitation, such as a cap of how much heat he can absorb before he literally burns himself to ash? He's still a flesh and blood human being, not a humanoid inferno (for example, those with fire/lava/magma physiology). Also, absorbing heat doesn't make him immune to cold - in fact, it's quite the opposite: he has to keep absorbing heat to keep himself warm - which is to avoid cold, so as J has said it's logical for him to be weak against Metahumans with water- or ice-type abilities who are capable of cooling him down and make him lose those "stolen" heat. In a way, he's somewhat similar to pyrokinetics that he's more resistant to heat but weak against cold, not immune - like, there's no way he won't get burned by a pyrokinetic spamming him with a barrage of lava-hot fireballs (he can't possibly absorb the heat that fast enough).

Sure, the whole absolute zero thing sounds cool and all, but for him to be able to perform such a feat is a suicide move - overexertion/overuse of ability will lead to ashing, which is death to any Metahumans regardless of their power. Yes, I saw the "theoretically" word, but heat is constantly generated in nature as long as the particles are vibrating and interacting with one another. In science, so far absolute zero can only be achieved under controlled environment, so realistically it's extremely difficult to do that in an open place like our daily surroundings where heat energy can travel around freely.

I'm not sure what scale you're using for the temperature figures, but if it's -90°F (-68°C) and able to absorb so much heat to reach that low in only a couple of minutes is kinda stretching the limit. I mean, imagine going from a normal room temperature of, say, 77°F (25°C) to -90°F in a matter of 2 minutes... Can you imagine how much heat energy your character has just absorbed into his human body?

Ok, maybe you can argue that he uses these absorbed energy to augment his body, but again, he is a human, not a freaking god. Meaning, if you want him to be able to absorb heat that fast enough, then vice versa it's logical for him to lose that heat energy at a fast rate also in order to maintain his body temperature from overheating. Also, tissues can harden but they are still living cells not kelvar, so his enhancement doesn't make him bulletproof, just that a pistol shot won't be as painful as a snipe shot, for example.

Personally I feel that it's redundant (illogical) to have a "pocket dimension" to store the heat he has absorbed because you mentioned that his power is always active, always absorbing heat from around him but just that when he's passive it's at a slower rate than when he's actively taking in the heat. If you seriously want the pocket dimension idea, then you'll have to ditch the "always active" point. Either, or. You can't have both just because you need a backup plan in case he can't absorb heat that well in places with lower temperature (you even stated in your sheet that he has to always move to warmer places to maintain his power). See the irony there?

[Keksalot]

Sure, the whole absolute zero thing sounds cool

@tsukune

He specifically can't reach the absolute zero as of now due to not being able to sustain his power for so long.

a cap of how much heat he can absorb before he literally burns himself to ash

@tsukune

I thought there would be no cap at all? This is a part of his power, gradually absorbing all of the heat into himself, all of it. And then, letting out no energy before he uses it to fuel his buffing powers. This particular type of heat just doesn't hurt him due to [metahuman energy shenanigans], like some firebenders can spew fire from their mouth or create intense and most horrible heat in very close proximity to themselves without getting burned. Either that, or all of heat that he siphons is simply converted into the metahuman energy at a VERY uneven exchange rate.

there's no way he won't get burned by a pyrokinetic spamming him with a barrage of lava-hot fireballs

@tsukune

He will be burned indeed, though the heat WILL be reduced to some degree and the damage will be further mitigated if he expends some of his energy towards the activation of a burst of super-durability.

[Keksalot]

@Mr Allen J @tsukune
Actually, how about this variant:

He syphons heat the same way as before, but instead of being stored within him as-is, it is indeed turned into metahuman energy that, in turn, is expended towards giving him the typical "brick-man" powerset of mediocre regeneration and one of superstrength, superspeed or superdurability which he has to switch around. Trick is that if he draws in too much heat to be converted, his power automatically kicks into the ashing-inducing and exhausting "overdrive" and if he draws in too little, gets strongly cooled or remains too long (but much less than a normal person needs to freeze to death) in a very cold enviroment where it is hard for him to syphon any meaningful amount of energy, his own temperature will begin to fall and his body will begin to fail because due to the damage that brought him into coma his brain is unable to regulate his body heat automatically, as it happens with healthy humans. That, and without drawing outside energy in order to convert it, he does not produce enough metahuman energy for anything except syphoning heat.
Oh, and also due to his power always being on, even if on a very low level, he might be unable to spend a lot of time inactive, sleeping or otherwise resting, because in that case the slowly accumulated metahuman energy will make him ash sooner or later - so the guy has to constantly move, run, lift weights, train or expend his energy on something else to somewhat even out the income and expenditure of energy lest he wants bad things to happen.
Also i'll change his alias to "Redliner"