[OOC] Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

[KaiserElectric]

@nitemare shape *gulp*

D-duly noted.

[Tearstone]

@FacePunch - Mind replying to my latest PM?

[FacePunch]

@Tearstone Lemme give it a look.

[VATROU]

I wonder if @Dedonus has seen Eva's response to Iron Knight..

[Blue Demon]

@nitemare shape@Hound55@Dedonus
Hey hey hey. What is this? Did I finish one of my characters? Indeed I did.

Christine Wilson

_{Theme: Turnin' by Young Rising Sons}

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Character you have created:

Christine "Chris" Wilson

Alias:

Gargoyle

Speech Color:

Grey Goose, D1D0CE

Character Alignment:

Hero

Identity:

Secret

Character Personality:

Chris is typically a very happy person. She likes to look on the bright side of things. Her first instinct was to see the good in people. Not the bad. Nor did she like to be a serial doubter. However that doesn't meant that Chris is happy all the time. She has her ups and downs like anyone else. She's stuck in a dead-end job that she doesn't enjoy very much. It doesn't pay enough but she can't find another one. She's also just come out of a long term relationship that ended badly. But she's trying her best not to let those things hold her down.

Chris loves the finer things in life. She likes designer clothes and accessories. Whenever she can afford it she buys the better quality things. She also loves spending time outdoors. Some of her favorite pastimes are outdoor sports such as Skiing in the winter and hiking in the summer. She also loves to go fishing with her family during summer vacations.

Chris is a very moral person. She's not religious like her mother. She's more agnostic like her father. She doesn't disbelieve but doesn't believe in an all knowing God. Or any deities for that matter. Though that's never stopped her from deciding on her own moral code.

Chris is also very much a family oriented person. She loves her parents and her siblings. One day she hopes to start a family of her own. But she hasn't had much luck in that department.

Uniform/costume:

Chris repurposed some of her skiing body armor into her crime fighting uniform. The top and bottom doesn't quite match, since it's made to be worn under other clothing such as jackets and ski pants. The steel toed boots she bought just for the purpose of crime fighting. One day she hopes to be able to make her slapdash uniform into something cooler looking, but she just doesn't have the sewing skills or the courage to ask someone to do it for her.

Images

Origin Info/Details:

Chris is the youngest of four children. She has three older siblings. She has two older brothers and one older sister. Her eldest sibling, Mark, is seven years older than her. Chris and her siblings were raised Catholic like their mother. They were baptized and christened. Devon is the only child who still practices. As far as Chris knows Mark is atheist and a firm disbeliever. And Whitney is a Holiday only observer. She only goes to church on the two major holidays. As for herself she's agnostic. She doesn't have a problem with religion. She just doesn't believe in God or any other deities.

As a young girl growing up Chris was spoiled being the youngest. She was able to get away with most everything. Luckily for her parents she seemed to come pre-installed with a fierce sense of right and wrong. Even as a little girl she found it hard to lie or to deceive her family. A trait that made her older siblings very protective of her. And surprisingly the only thing that Chris has misused. When she was young, very young, Chris found out about her particular ability to turn into stone.

Chris remembers the day vividly still. She had been playing outside and had fallen out of tree. She wasn't supposed to be climbing the big oak in back, but she had done it anyways. But she had climbed too high and lost her balance. She should have been seriously injured or dead. Instead she was fine. She remembered watching as grey covered her body. She remembers the child sized hole in the ground. She remembers the horror she felt as the grey retreated leaving her normal. But she wasn't normal.

Chris knew from all the days at church that people with powers were bad. God didn't give people powers like she had. So she kept them a secret because she didn't want to be a bad person. As Chris grew up she realized however that her powers weren't evil. They just were. It was up to her to use them for good or evil. Of course by that time she had come to the realization she was a teenager and far more interested in sex and dating than she was in her powers. Those were just annoying and something to keep secret. Boys and girls on the other hand...

Chris got good grades in High School despite the fact she spent most of her time chasing tail. At the age of eighteen she was accepted into a local college. She ended up dropping out after her first year much to her family's disappointment. But school just wasn't for her. She ended up working as a receptionist at a local furnace repair store. There she stayed for the next few years. She became very proficient at her job, but she wasn't happy. However despite that she was unable to find another job that would make her happy. Everything just kind of went down hill from there. She was dumped by her girlfriend, Lily, of three years. It was because of Chris' "lack of ambition".

The accusation hit Chris hard and knocked her into a depression. The dark mindset threatened to devour her whole and leave a stranger in it's wake. Until Chris began to follow the news coming out of New Haven. The first time she had watched the news from Lost Haven was about an event called D-Day where heroes, super powered people, saved the world from demons. After that there were news stories about those heroes as they foiled crime waves, robberies, anything.

And then the entire world was dragged into it when a cosmic entity tried to devour the Earth. Chris remembered huddling in her apartment with Lily thinking they were going to die. That they couldn't possibly survive. But they did. Thanks to those heroes in Lost Haven. Shortly after Lily had dumped Chris. All Chris had wanted was for the two to be safe.

Beer bottle in hand Chris found herself back watching the news weeks later. A mad scientist was trying to turn the world into metahumans. Chris had snorted at the screen dismissively. The man was a fool. There were metahumans here already. They were just like Chris. Deadend bums. No ambition. No drive. But she could be like those heroes. She could have drive. She used to. Back when she was young she wanted to save the world.

The idea slowly took hold and soon it became a goal. Chris cobbled together some old skiing gear and set it aside. She even went so far as to move to Lost Haven. Then finally, somehow, the courage to step out her door and become something set in.

Hero Type:

Brick/Muscle / Shape Shifter

Power Level:

City Level

Powers:

Gargoyle Form

Chris has the ability to turn herself into stone at will.

• Stone skin
  • When Chris transforms into stone she literally changes her skin into stone. This means her innards are still normal and not stone. When she talks about her ability she says she turns into stone, but that's not completely accurate.
• Stone Manipulation
  • Chris can take stone from existing statues or formations and add it to her body while she's in her Gargoyle form. She's able to dictate where it goes and what shape it will take. (See bullet point below)
• Morphing capabilities
  • While stone Chris can add more stone onto herself and use that stone to change her appearance. This can happen either by adding stone items such as arms, wings, armaments, etc. Or by making the stone make her look like someone else.
    Another way to think of it is that the new stone acts as a sort of second layer that she can manipulate at will within about a three to five foot radius (The radius is kind of malleable. EX: If she makes herself wings that can extend up to ten feet on each side she can maintain them even though they technically extend outside her radius. However in order to do so she'd have to sacrifice all her other additional stone to just concentrate on the wings.
• Increased Strength
  • While in her Gargoyle form Chris' strength is increased. She hasn't tested her upper limits but it appears to be about twice the normal human capacity. She can lift cars and hit hard enough to crack concrete.
• Increased resistance to injury
  • Chris can take a lot more damage than normal people while as Gargoyle. She's far more resistant to physical attacks and some magical attacks. However due to her squishy innards, anything that can pierce her stone skin is just as dangerous to her and normal humans. Also Chris doesn't have any healing factor. If she gets damaged, the damage remains even when she returns to her human form. She cannot use other stone to repair damage done. She can give the illusion it does (but it really doesn't do anything for her). EG: Chris loses an arm, she can make herself a new one, but when she drops the stone she still is missing an arm.

Attributes:

Strength Level

Normal Human/ 20 tons

Speed/Reaction Timing Level

Normal Human/ Normal Human

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort

Normal Human/ Normal Human

Agility

Normal Human/ Normal Human or slower depending

Intelligence

Average/ Average

Fighting Skill

Untrained

Resources:

Minimal

Weaknesses:

Gargoyle Form

Weakness in her Gargoyle form

• Stone skin
  • Her innards are still normal and not stone. If there's an attack that can penetrate her stone skin it will do damage to her.
• Stone Manipulation
  • Chris can only work within a certain radius (3-5 feet) without sacrificing stone for showing off. Also the more bulk she adds on the less maneuverable she will be.
• Increased resistance to injury
  • Chris doesn't have any healing factor as Gargoyle. If she gets damaged, the damage remains even when she returns to her human form. She cannot use other stone to repair damage done. She can give the illusion it does (but it really doesn't do anything for her). EG: Chris loses an arm, she can make herself a new one, but when she drops the stone she still is missing an arm. And will most likely bleed to death unless she seeks immediate medical attention.

Human Form

Weakness in her Human form

• Only Human
  • She's just a normal squishy human with all the weakness that come with it. You know what those are!

Supporting Characters:

-Mother, 51, Clara
-Father, 53, Lewis
-Brother Eldest, 33, Mark
-Brother Older, 30, Devon
-Sister Older, 28, Whitney
-Ex, 25, Lily
-Friend, TBA
-Friend, TBA

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?:

Sample Post:

It All Comes Tumbling Down

^{Something That Could Be}

Chris could feel a sharp pain erupt in her chest. She staggered back a foot or two and looked down in horror. Bright red blood was leaking through a small hole in her chest. It was like the stone wasn't even there. Chris tried to gulp in a breath but failed. Her grey stone eyes widened as stone crumbled around her.

Away went her disguise. Away with her stone mace. Away went her fake face. Away went her armor of stone. All crumbled on the ground. Until all that was left was Christine. Her stone skin slowly disappeared back into her. As it receded color returned to her slight form. Her skin turned brown. Her eyes black. Her naturally curly hair began to move in the wind.

Knees hit the ground. Her body twisted awkwardly as stone got in the way. She ended up sprawled on top of jagged shards of it. Stone that had once protected her now causing her more pain. Chris's eyes began to flutter closed but she forced them open as foot steps moved closer. She tried to turn her head to look but failed.

A boot nudged her over and sky rushed into view. The villain she had been fighting leaned over her. The woman's long blond hair draped around her face like a halo. Her left eye was blackened but other than that the woman was beautiful.

"Just a little girl." The villainess murmured looking down at Chris. She knelt down gracefully next to the fallen hero. The woman shouldered the gun that had been used to kill Chris and placed it on the ground.

"Just a girl." The woman repeated. She brushed a feminine hand over Chris's face and looked almost in shock at the fact she had wiped away tears.

Chris's entire body was screaming for breath. For air. For the pain to go away. But there was no relief. Not until her vision began to darken. The darkness was soft and painless. Chris found it easy to embrace it. Far easier than anything in her life had been. The last thing she heard as she spiraled down into death was the villainess.

"I'm sorry."

No need to be nice. If there is anything wrong do point it out. (Seriously. Like if I misspelled something, please let me know. I try to catch all my errors but sometimes they still slip through)

[VATROU]

@Blue Demon I think her Parents could be a little older. They would have been in their teens for their oldest child. Still plausible. I always try to add twenty years to my characters if I get around to parents. Since they'll be at least that much older than the character. Then I'll give a slight buffer. Other than that it's up to the GMs.

[Blue Demon]

@VATROUShe was 18 when she had her oldest. Doesn't seem too young to me? I know lots of people who had kids right out of high school (pretty much all my friends. lol.) But I guess if the GMs have an issue with it I'll age them up. Doesn't bother me much.

[VATROU]

@Blue Demon Sure it's more than possible. But It's up to you on that.

[Fallenreaper]

@Blue Demon I think her Parents could be a little older. They would have been in their teens for their oldest child. Still plausible. I always try to add twenty years to my characters if I get around to parents. Since they'll be at least that much older than the character. Then I'll give a slight buffer. Other than that it's up to the GMs.

@VATROU

I don't see any issues with that, my sister knows a few girls who were preggers when they were in highschool and were far enough along to have the bump. I usually determine how old the parents were when they had my PC, then add my PC's years to them. Pretty simple to me.

[VATROU]

I don't really put an importance to ages until they become relevant. Background characters who'll never made an appearance proper besides a quick one and done scene don't really need it. But those who will be more frequently used like Parental figures or Friends of course should have ages. And perhaps it's because I have a different upbringing that my ages regarding parents are different in the general sense unless it's specific to a certain character that is.

[Dedonus]

I wonder if @Dedonus has seen Eva's response to Iron Knight..

@VATROU

Yes I have. I plan on getting a post up tomorrow.

[VATROU]

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Yes I have. I plan on getting a post up tomorrow.

@Dedonus

Muhaahwahwa!! I'm a terrible person. You gotta admit, if none of them were superheroes. Any normal person would think them weirdos in odd costumes. Even without the Metanimals.

[Dedonus]

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Muhaahwahwa!! I'm a terrible person. You gotta admit, if none of them were superheroes. Any normal person would think them weirdos in odd costumes. Even without the Metanimals.

@VATROU

Or they're really into cosplay.

[Fallenreaper]

@Blue Demon and rest who are making pcs for S2: What cities are you all going to? Namely as it helps me with determining any connections with Ben, who's the DA's son, in New York.

[Blue Demon]

@FallenreaperI'm not sure at this point. I'm kind of doing it in reverse. I'm making characters then finding out which city they'll be located in. Highly unhelpful I know.

EDIT: Though after thinking about Chris. I think she'd move to Lost Haven. It'd make sense with her life story.

[Fallenreaper]

@FallenreaperI'm not sure at this point. I'm kind of doing it in reverse. I'm making characters then finding out which city they'll be located in. Highly unhelpful I know.

@Blue Demon

I usually find that leaves you with many PCs. :p

[VATROU]

So I was watching Green Arrow's Horrible Special Arrows | The Desk of DEATH BATTLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3f3uJA4qZY And it got me thinking. Why the hell do archers put everything on a stick? I mean respirator arrows really!? What you can't carry a utility belt or would that rip Batman off. Or maybe just maybe, have pockets.

[KaiserElectric]

Branding, probably. Same reason why everything Batman uses is shaped like or named after a Bat. :P

[VATROU]

Branding, probably. Same reason why everything Batman uses is shaped like or named after a Bat. :P

@KaiserElectric

You might be right, but still pockets. I mean Archers have arrows for a reason, they're not utility items that reveal the Arrow Phone, or Arrow Pillow. If they're made for toy sales in mind that's dumb. But what can you do.

[MelonHead]

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You might be right, but still pockets. I mean Archers have arrows for a reason, they're not utility items that reveal the Arrow Phone, or Arrow Pillow. If they're made for toy sales in mind that's dumb. But what can you do.

@VATROU

Well, usually archers have a massive bag on their back that can only hold long thin objects, so if you want to make the most of that massive bag...