[OOC] Capes of Denver: A Worm RP

[yoshua171]

@Banana Welcome :)

[ProPro]

@yoshua171 Sweetness, Tulpa is all set to go! Slap her down in the CS tab my man!

@Banana Glad to hear! Still plenty of positions open, especially in the local villain team!

@Lugubrious Yo, any reason Margrave didn't get added to the CS tab?

[Lugubrious]

@yoshua171 Sweetness, Tulpa is all set to go! Slap her down in the CS tab my man!

@Banana Glad to hear! Still plenty of positions open, especially in the local villain team!

@Lugubrious Yo, any reason Margrave didn't get added to the CS tab?

@ProPro

Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Gardevoiran]

Prism

Prism

Drawn by me, apologies if it looks like crap.

Name: Kaiser Woods.
Alias: The Prism
Age: Barely 10
Alignment: Prism prefers to keep himself out of other's implications of who he is. He acts heroic commonly though.
Loyalty: He's an independent force.
Appearance: Prism is a very pale, bald kid standing at a rough 50 inches exact, and he is adorned with a white hoodie with an image of a prism on it, as a homage to his alias. He wears a pair of white shorts to accompany it, and to his happiness, the hoodie's sleeves do not reach all the way past his fingers.
History:
As a younger kid, Kaiser was always having fun and just being a happy-go-lucky kid. He never saw anyone as an enemy, rather as a soon-to-be friend, even if they were kicking him like a sack of dead puppies on a curb. He never did anything to hurt anyone and he always kept up a happy expression and a joyous attitude. That is, until the day of reckoning happened, where his life would be changed forever. A top-secret military group came to Kaiser's house one day to speak with the parents. The parents were informed that - based on DNA tests and observations of Kaiser - their son was a Parahuman of... unknown potential. The military demanded the containment and ownership of their son in order to further knowledge of what these parahumans were capable of.

Kaiser's parents tried to keep him safe, they truly did, but in the end 2 bullets was all it took in order to capture Kaiser. At the military's containment site, they proceeded to lock Kaiser in a cell, taking him out occasionally only to try and activate his trigger preemptively, allowing them to continue research and advance further into their goal of trying to figure out what made these parahumans so special. Due to the variety of the tests covering near every single known trigger on a spectrum they could, they named it after another spectrum, formed when light passes through an object.

They named it Project P.R.I.S.M. (Parahuman Research Initiative and Special Maintenance).

Weeks passed, as weeks turned into months, and as months turned into years, with no prevail on the preemptive trigger for Kaiser's parahuman abilities. Hopes were fading, as the kid's near-unbreakable spirit started to fade into a never-ending depression. Project PRISM continued to go on for near a year after, when suddenly, it clicked.

During one of the experiments for the parahuman-subtype, Thinker, scientists laid their eyes on a Parahuman who was capable of knowing near everything to mankind that could be learned. Scientists and testers unhooked Kaiser from the machine, and began to question him on how he felt, what he heard, how he thought, everything. However, only one answer came from Kaiser, in a monotone voice with a slight echo to it.

"Leave me be."

Scientists were baffled. How could a being with this much intelligence be so... so... unresponsive? Have these 4 years of effort all been wasted on a near-useless Parahuman? Determined to get an answer out of Kaiser, they subjected him to the Shaker subtype chamber, where they subjected him to countless waves of natural disasters and even shocked him with near fatal levels of electricity. Despite being near completely dead, Kaiser stared into the distance, with no expression on his face. These scientists overlooked one thing about Kaiser...

His mood was always happy. Through the years of countless torture and pushing towards their cause, the scientists never once took a look at how Kaiser acted, how he was always optimistic and happy despite being almost killed on many occasions. He wasn't a Thinker because of the amount of mental trauma he's been through from the tests given by these scientists, oh no. He was a Thinker because despite him having watched his parents die directly in front of him, him being severely beaten to near unconsciousness, and him always being treated as an object rather than a person, he was always smiling. That is, until the trigger.

The day after the beating, the scientists decided to have Kaiser just sit in his cell for the entire day, doing nothing but breathing. What they witnessed that day gave 3 of them heart-attacks. The child stood up, went over to the door of his cell, grabbed one bar of it, and pushed it clean off the hinges.

Prism was born, with the ability to understand how something worked from just being near it, with the power dreamed of by hundreds and thousands of people before him, and with his brain being so advanced, any type of mental or emotional weapon used against him becomes completely worthless to him, doing absolutely nothing.

The staff at the lab where Prism was contained tried to stop him, but later found out that he'd been watching and learning all about how everything in the lab worked, for his inevitable escape and pursuit of a true life.

Personality

Motivations: Prism wants to see an end to injustice, and a pursuit and hope of a free life.
Sexuality: Presumed Heterosexual
Likes:

• The Sun
• Being around people who actually care for his well being.
• Hugs.

Dislikes:

• Hearing or thinking about Project PRISM.
• Spiders
• Dead Parents.

Derangement: Any emotions expressed by Kaiser are simply attempted simulations of emotion. Through his optimism throughout all of his testing, he has completely lost any sort of mental capacity to display any emotions or feel any emotions from himself. He can sense others emotions, still. Maybe he still has a smile in there.

Parahumanism

Skills: Kaiser always looks at the bright side of life, and is an expert when it comes to perceiving any sort of threat.
Classification: Thinker/Trump
Details:
Thinker - Kaiser is one of the best Thinkers to ever exist on this version of Earth, to even the point where he has trained his own mind to become completely immune to any sort of outside mental/emotional force. He can sense when an immediate threat is very close by (talking like maybe a 4ft radius around him, generously speaking), feel when someone is distressed, and he can even hover, although it never has exceeded more than 18 inches off the ground.
Trump - As previously mentioned, Kaiser can know the gist of how something works from witnessing it, and this ties into how he acts as a potential Trump. Through getting hit by one power, he takes in the knowledge of how it works, and is then able to use it to his advantage for a period of time ranging from 5 seconds to upwards of 20 minutes, depending on how hard he is hit by a power. After that time is up, he completely forgets how it works until he's hit with it again.
Limitations: Kaiser cannot act in environments under extreme amounts of emotional or mental pressure, even if it isn't from him. His mind can be easily clouded if he can see anything that resembled a dead and innocent life in a close proximity to him, and he again is unable to express any sort of true emotion, rather relying on simulating it. He also uses a very large amount of brain activity every time he fights, eventually leading to him needing a long nap if any stretch of a tough fight is exchanged with him involved.
Equipment: His hoodie contains a modified PCE obtained from an unknown source, used for communications with potential allies. Otherwise he carries around a backpack, containing a pillow, blanket, and his favorite stuffed animal, Rupert the Snail.

Here's my application. Side note: I've always hated drawing hands, so the sleeves being too long was a bit of a copout.

Edit: First note taken and worked with.

[ProPro]

@Banana I only barely glanced through it, but there's some glaring things Ive got to bring up before I go into full judge mode. First off, the Wards are all full up now. There were only 5 spaces and all 5 have been taken. The local villain team and independents are available. Secondly, "instantly understanding anything he's seen" is extremely overpowered and not acceptable for the purposes of this game. I definitely would be happy to have a thinker, even a high end one, but not that high. In the story proper Tattletale is one of the most ridiculous parahumans around and her power is basically super deduction and observation, not instant understanding and expertise.

I'm sorry man, but it'll need to be heavily rewritten.

[Gardevoiran]

@ProPro
I'll tone down Prism and change him to an independent, I took a while to write that so probably in the middle the final slot was filled and I didn't notice. Would it be fine to change it so that Prism can know a knowledgeable amount of the subject at hand but only for that immediate time, and he cannot recall it unless it comes back up? Like if there was a cannon nearby, he'd know how to aim and shoot it, but once that cannon is out of sight, he completely forgets how a cannon works.

[ProPro]

@Banana Ok, I have had the time to look through the entire profile for a complete and thorough read through. You may not like what I have to say. All in all, this is a complete and total rewrite. I'll leave out the little nitpicks and focus only on the big issues here.

History: This is full of inconsistencies, flaws, and reads like you're trying to make something as dark and edgy as possible to the detriment of flow and believable character development. I will go ahead and assume that you haven't read the original story while I explain some things, so I apologize if you have and anything I say is something you already know. In terms of his parents being murdered and being abducted by the government, that's a tremendous no. There is an organization that could have abducted him to perform experiments (that being Cauldron) but no murder would be necessary and I can guarantee that he wouldn't remember much (if anything) of his escape. The government does nothing of the sort to anybody, one reason being if they did and the parahuman escaped it would completely destroy all faith the people have and cause a revolution. Another point is that you cannot scan someone's DNA to see if they have the potential to trigger. Anyone who is the child of a parahuman is known to be almost guaranteed to also have the ability to trigger, and certain individuals know about a portion of the brain they can look at, but in no way is it something you can scan for, at least not without invasive brain surgery. You are also not destined to be a certain classification of parahuman. There is a force that determines the generality of your powers, but the trigger itself defines the specifics of how it functions and manifests. So not only can you not predict who is has the potential to be a parahuman, you sure as Hell can't predict what sort of power they'll manifest.

Personality: So this kid, from the ages of 6-10, goes through what can only be described as a literal Hell, and he comes out of it with only some deadened emotions? I'm flabbergast he isn't dead from the shock of the trauma, or at the very least mentally crippled beyond help.

Parahumanism: So the very first thing I'll say is this: Nobody is supposed to be one of the biggest and baddest in the world, or even the country, with regards to their powers. So him being one of the highest rated thinkers is instantly a no go right off the bat. That being said, I would like more pure thinkers and this power can be reworked, but it'd need to be done so heavily. The floating thing bugs me a lot. Why levitation? What does that have to do with being a thinker? That's Mover or Breaker status (depending on the specifics of how it works). Thinker is not a catch all term for psychic powers, it's for powers that somehow augment your mental processes, so the levitation is completely unrelated. Then there's the sheer scope and power of this ability. He seems to be a precog, an empath, and have instant deductive understanding. Each of these are fine on their own (to a lesser extent that last one) but you're combining as many mind-based powers as you can hear, which isn't the point. The point is to make a creative power that works in a very specific way and seeing what you can do with it. Then there's the Trump portion.

Through getting hit by one power, he takes in the knowledge of how it works, and is then able to use it to his advantage for a period of time ranging from 5 seconds to upwards of 20 minutes, depending on how hard he is hit by a power.

How does he affect someone's power after he's been hit by it? Does he just think and he alters their power in some way? Increase its potency? Decrease it? Change their range or how it works? Does he just learn all about how it works then he can take physical action against it now that he's educated? If it's the former, you need to describe exactly what he does and how potent an effect it has. If it's the latter, that's not Trump at all, that's just applying information you learned (which is definitely Thinker, and certainly not a bad application of Thinker either, so kudos there).

Then there's the limitations, which seem to fly in the face of being "immune to any outside mental/emotional force." (I would definitely be declining that immunity, by the way, as a major major no no). You say that he's particularly weak to mental/emotional pressure in an area, including from others outside of himself, and his mind is easily clouded just by seeing someone dead. Fair enough, I can abide that sort of limitation, I'm just not sure you notice that you contradicted yourself there. Additionally though, you mention information overload requiring a nap. Ok, fair enough, but how does it affect him at the time? Does this distract him? Cause headaches or migraines? Details details details, they are always important.

So like I said before, it's a complete rewrite. I apologize if that's something of a bummer, but it is necessary. If you have any questions I'm always available to address them, and you can check the approved CSs for ideas and inspirations. I would definitely recommend doing that. I can't dictate to you how to redo the history, but I would like to give a few ideas on how you can rework his power set.

• He's a precog that can sense immediate danger (like Spiderman's spider sense), it only works on threats against him that are in the now and does not warn him against conspiracies to endanger him later.
• The opposite, he can sense long-term threats but not immediate in your face danger.
• Superhuman perception, he notices intricate details and can deduce information from them Sherlock Holmes style. This can also grant an insight into how others' powers work.
• He's a precog that can sense nearly any situation, be it a dangerous threat, the weather in Japan, the potential for a business venture to be profitable, or otherwise, but can only communicate his predictions to others in a strange code. "what's the status of our operations in Malay?"
  "Orange-Triangle-Pennywhistle-Nihilst"

Those are just some real general ideas off the top of my head, I'm sure it could be expanded to plenty more.

[BCTheEntity]

Raymond Haywood, A.K.A. "Headhunter"

Headhunter

Name: Raymond Haywood
Alias: Headhunter
Age: 34
Alignment: Villain
Loyalty: Local Villain Gang
Appearance: Raymond is white, 189 cm tall, very well-built in a manner akin to a soldier (and indeed possesses various scars that suggest a military past), and possesses wavy black hair cut short and solid green eyes, with a well-structured face that seems to be permanently set in a stern scowl. His usual outfit on the job is effectively standard urban military gear for the US army - largely Interceptor body armour patterned in grey camouflage, complete with various pouches and holders for ammunition and such, modified to cover his legs as well as his torso, plus an Advanced Combat Helmet with the same pattern. Accompanying this outfit are a grey facescarf and black wraparound sunglasses, so as to hide Raymond's face on the off-chance he's caught in a closer-range engagement; steel-toed dark grey boots extending up to his upper calf; three gun holsters at various points on his person (right hip PDW, left hip assault rifle, back holster sniper rifle); and two knife holsters (one on each hip). Off the job, he dresses in relatively standard civilian clothing, usually grey or black trousers and shoes accompanied by a t-shirt of whatever colour is available on any given day. Overall, depending on whether he is on or off the job, he seems to simply be either a relatively uninteresting and irrelevant man to the average person, maybe a model during the day, or a powerless soldier of no particular note to those capes who don't know about him, possibly a fighter in the PRT - exactly the impression he wants to give off.

History

Raymond was born to a lower-middle class family in Cincinnati, Ohio, who believed slightly too heavily in the hands-off approach to parenting. Therefore, Raymond was not particularly... friendly, even at a young age. He wasn't an out-and-out sociopath - that is to say, he never killed and dismantled any pets he was given, nor did he seem to reject interaction with his fellows entirely - but to a lot of people, he gave off the impression of being the kind of person who would eventually snap and shoot up his school at the time, and he didn't particularly mind letting people think that way about him. As it happened, he'd acquired a lot of his parent's better genes, something quite a few of his siblings did not, and so found his way into and through university in the late 80's and early 90's, and then enlisted into the armed forces.

This went well enough for a couple of years - he was motivated enough to do well on the ground, and possessed about the right mindset to avoid PTSD - but soon, he set his sights higher than a mere soldier. He wanted, surprisingly much, to become a sniper. Circumstances transpired that he found a place in the recently-founded United States Army Sniper School, and continued on to graduate as a full-blown sniper, soon enough requesting an additional skill identifier as a counter-sniper which he passed with flying colours, then spent the next few years serving the military in this capacity with gusto. Of course, he who snipes snipers risks being sniped himself: in June of 1996, what should have been a simple engagement for him ended when he caught an enemy sniper's bullet and barely survived, leading to his eventual honourable discharge, complete with Purple Heart medal. Even knowing the circumstances, he oddly found himself extremely resentful of the military and himself over the next several weeks. A Purple Heart? An honourable discharge? To him, that was as good as saying "you have failed", even though he'd done everything right. The cognitive dissonance became too much for him, and in a fit of impotent anger at the country he felt had abandoned him, he triggered.

He did not, at first, realise he'd triggered. It took another gun and a scope, in an effort to relive old times whilst recovering, for him to realise that, and the rest of his recovery period to figure out its exact strengths and weaknesses. Once the realisation took him, though, the thought struck hard: sure, he could use this power to help assist the country that abandoned him, maybe become a superhero even, but why the hell should he? He'd heard about the "unwritten code" the Capes held to, and there was no way in his mind that this power of his could be anything but lethal. They'd rip him apart, given the chance. So instead, why not work for himself? After all, there were plenty of targets out there who needed eliminating... and plenty of money to be made as a mercenary. A headhunter, if you will.

At first, he was fairly small-time. When he wasn't on the job, he continued to train his physique when it was needed, and taught himself how to dismantle and rebuild scopes, and then how to build them, integrate more and more comparatively advanced technology into them, and so on. Yet the hits he took, the hits he could acquire, were low-profile, comparatively low-pay (though enough to let him maintain the weapons and other equipment he possessed at the time, including a camera to record his kills as evidence), and though his power guaranteed a hit if a hit could be acquired, taking out a target to the desired specifications was sometimes impossible, and if he didn't do it right, his pay was often cut, or even entirely docked, by whoever hired him. However, he struck into the big leagues when he was asked to eliminate a fairly dangerous cape- an immigrant from Hyderabad after Leviathan's attack whose name roughly translated as "The Universe Warrior"- somewhere in Lyon, France. Specifically, the third of September 2003, the date of Behemoth's attack upon the city.

Though Raymond escaped the city alive and fortunately unharmed, mostly by running away from Behemoth as soon as he could and under no circumstances drawing its attention, his employer at the time threatened to take away his pay almost entirely, citing that the attached camera didn't prove he'd killed the right person, and the hero probably died to the Endbringer instead; this was turned around when Raymond presented one of the newest features of the scope he'd attached to the weapon, an integrated digital filming setup, with a maximum capacity of around a minute's worth of footage. Small, but enough to prove his worth when combined with the incumbent zoom capacity of the scope itself. With incontrovertible proof of his kill, and at the friendly encouragement of a couple of the man's bodyguards (and not-so-friendly encouragement of Raymond himself), Headhunter in fact acquired twice as much for the job as the already-hefty sum he'd been promised, money he used to begin upgrading his weapons to eventually reach his current setup.

After that, it was but a matter of time before word got out in certain circles about "the mercenary who took out the Universe Warrior", and by Autumn of 2004 he became the guy you went to when you wanted a parahuman dead. The man who avoided notice by killing targets before they ever knew they were threatened, and skipping town before the Thinkers could so much as triangulate his position; the man whose gun found itself capable of eliminating a shockingly large number of capes for its sheer raw power, being designed to destroy tanks rather than people; the man who seemingly existed as a ghost, if anything. The Headhunter. Ultimately, this led to current events: though it is in his mind somewhat beneath him, he has been offered a very substantial sum of money to join a new gang in Denver, with the promise of more to come as the gang grows larger and more powerful. Considering the barrier to entry presented by the Community, he believes that might take a while.

Personality

Motivations: Money, plain and simple. His presence in the gang is largely thanks to the idea that expanding the gang's presence will allow a lot of money to be made by him relatively quickly.
Sexuality: No particular preference for male or female so long as they are feminine, but rarely if ever entertains sexual thoughts outside of very secure holdings.
Likes:

• Guns
• Assassination
• Money
• Training
• Scope building

Dislikes:

• Being shot
• Being misled
• Plans going awry
• Distraction
• The US Army

Derangement: Raymond finds it very difficult to talk in a voice louder than a murmur, such that speaking at normal volume is the psychological (though not physiological) equivalent of shouting to him, and a notably raised voice is his equivalent of screaming at the top of his lungs.

Parahumanism

Skills: Even without his parahuman ability, Raymond is an expert mercenary and assassin, particularly in the field of long-distance kills. He is highly skilled with most projectile weapons and a wide variety of melee weapons, both using and maintaining them; trained in multiple forms of close-quarters combat; extremely fit as a consequence of his combat experience; and is quite skilful when it comes to tactical thinking, should he be forced into a situation that overrides his plan for any given hit. He is also very skilled when it comes to building scopes, having done enough research and practice to introduce surprisingly cutting-edge technology into them, to the point that many include a variable mounting rail that can attach securely to just about any gun he likes; due to this, those who know he is a parahuman at all often mistake him for being a hyperspecialised, even somewhat weak Tinker, even though his true power has nothing to do with that discipline. Lastly, though not an expert, he knows enough about human anatomy to have a rough idea of where to shoot to cause lethal and non-lethal damage alike, assisted by his parahumanism of course.
Classification: Thinker
Details: Raymond's power activates whenever he uses a weapon's scope with a particular target in mind, be it living or inanimate, so long as said target is in range from his current position. Whilst "scoped in", he essentially possesses perfect aim on the target he designates, his body automatically adjusting for every possible variable that might affect the bullet's flight path when fired at any given moment, including the target's own movement speed, wind drag, gravity, and even the need to reflect off of one or more solid surfaces and the effects of other parahuman powers if necessary, all but homing in on whatever Raymond has designated to get shot. Essentially, if Raymond wants to shoot you, you will be shot, in much the manner of a video game aimbot, and with enough precision that he can hit a specific area of your body if he so chooses. Under normal circumstances, he typically aims for either the head or torso depending on which is less armoured,
Limitations: Raymond's power has three major limitations. The first is an almost complete loss of sensory awareness outside the confines of a scope whilst his power is in use - you could walk up right beside him without being noticed, and even a tap on his shoulder might escape him if he's very far "in the zone", as it were, though a more solid hit upwards would likely catch his attention, if not his hearing.
Its second limitation is the fact that it will attempt to acquire a guaranteed hit on the target no matter what, even if that requires Raymond's body to contort itself in ways that severely damage him, send him off-balance, or otherwise take up a less-than-sturdy angle to shoot from; whilst not often a problem, an unexpected need to change angles drastically or a very fast Mover he's targeted coming past him could cause him to forcibly overextend himself unless he scopes back out, though if hitting the desired target with a bullet is in fact literally impossible for any reason, the power simply won't activate until a hit can be acquired.
Finally, just because he's guaranteed to hit a target doesn't mean he's guaranteed to kill or even necessarily damage them, regardless of how powerful his weapon is, with highly-durable and/or powerfully-regenerating Brutes in particular bearing a substantial advantage against such attacks, though a great many other parahumans have no reasonable defense against a high-caliber round passing through their skull from out of nowhere.
Equipment:

• Steyr IWS 2000 semi-automatic anti-materiel rifle and associated 5-round detachable box magazines of 15.2×169mm armor-piercing, fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) cartridges. The usual 10x telescopic sight has been replaced with one of Raymond's custom sights, letting him zoom up to 100x with red dot assistance, toggled infra-red or night vision as needed, and an internal camera to record his kills. This gun is designed to fire rounds that penetrate vehicle armour from two and a half kilometers away. The vast majority of human heads and most current building materials pose no such resistance.
• M16A4 assault rifle and associated 30-round detachable box magazines of 5.56×45mm NATO cartridges. The usual iron sights have been replaced with one of Raymond's custom sights, similar to what is described above. Intended for mid-long range engagements at medium power, though in a pinch this gun can hit a target from a farther distance than even the Steyr IWS 2000.
• FN P90 personal defense weapon and associated 50-round detachable box magazines of FN 5.7×28mm cartridges. The standard tritium-illuminated reflex sight and backup iron sights have been replaced with one of Raymond's custom sights, similar to what is described above, though the maximum zoom on this scope is 20x rather than 100x. Intended for relatively short-range engagements, but with a reasonably high maximum range nonetheless.
• Two USMC KA-BAR fighting knives and associated sheaths. When all else has failed, and he is drawn into melee combat, Raymond can always rely on stabbing people repeatedly, with both hands if needed.
• Custom scopes. A lot of them, of many different types. Most are left in his current holdings at any given moment, to be handed out to allies as needed, but he always has at least a couple on hand in case the unthinkable happens the the scope he is using breaks.
• Ballistic armour, as described in his appearance.

[Kafka Komedy]

VERY W.I.P., so uh, please be gentle.

Frank "Love Craft" Stein II

Love Craft

Name: Frank "Frankie" N. Stein II
Alias: Love Craft
Age: 15
Alignment: Villain
Loyalty: Local Villain Team
Appearance: Though Frankie changes faces and bodies often, they still have a prefered "public" form. Messy but fairly sensible dark brown hair, constantly windswept but stylish. His features are fairly average, if a bit round, the only thing standing out about his face being his red eyes. Oddly, his skin is not abnormally pale, leading most to thinking he wears contacts. He has a lean, not particularly muscular or fat build, though definitely taller than average. Finally, for an outfit, they wear a lab coat, as well as what they call a "straight sweater", basically a full body straight jacket remade to be comfortable and allow movement and mobility. A reference picture is here.

Frankie is much different on the job or around the base. White, long, flowing hair lightly gathered together in a bow frames their sharp, gaunt features. Further punctuating the "scary but beautiful" look is their bright red eyes, accented with slight eyeshadow. They look quite skinny and short for their age, almost girlish. This is further emphasized by their provocative clothing. A short leather jacket, bandages around the chest seemingly to bind the breasts, and short shorts with chaps.

History: Frankie never really knew their mother. All they truly knew was that a woman named May had sex with a man simply known as Doctor Stein. Stein was not expecting a child, but nevertheless was still appalled at May's thoughts of putting the child up for adoption, or worse, aborting them. May was in no position to bargain though, an ex-drug addict with no job, so for months, the two argued, both in possession of something the other wanted. Eventually, the child was born, and, the next time May threatened adoption, Stein pressed for child custody.

The courts miraculously awarded Stein custody, mostly because of May's previous offenses and Stein's lucrative job as a biologist working in league with the famous Willaim Manton, who had made a major breakthrough with his theory on what was called the Manton Effect, which Stein had helped with. About as soon as the court case was wrapped up though, Manton disappeared, leaving not much to his colleagues but the good name of being associated with the man named after one of the most important Parahuman theories. Luckily, Frankie was not without a home or anything. Even if there wasn't much research on Parahumans to be done after that, and he had been laid off, he was still the inheritor to a large sum of cash that his forefather had built up. With it, the two stayed afloat while Stein searched for a job.

Even at a young age, Frankie displayed great intelligence, particularly in relation to the sciences. Balancing this though, Frankie was quite odd. Very emotional and expressive, and didn't seem to gel well with the other kids. Stein decided to kill two birds with one stone, homeschooling his child with great tutors. While Frankie spent their time learning, Stein spent his time trying to find a job he genuinely enjoyed. His Biology PhD. allowed him a few positions, but nothing was as stimulating as research on parahumans to him. He even frequently showed Frankie his old discoveries, and they seemed to enjoy it as well. This pushed Stein to contact an old friend.

Stein managed to get a hold of Dr. Manton, asking him where he had gone, what he was doing now. Manton would reveal this to him, as long as he came to a certain location alone, and promised 100% to never reveal the information. Stein was a trustworthy man, never really lied that often, and so he accepted the deal. That's when he learned about Cauldron. Frankie was never given much info on the shadowy organization, but they apparently were making more parahumans, and this got Stein's mind pumping once again. Frankie's father began doing research once again, but after a while, was stopped, something about ethics Frankie was told. SAtein gave in, relenting to do his own research on the subject, but not before spending the family fortune on his kid's birthday present.

Frankie, on their 14th birthday, was finally taken to their father's workplace, something they had dreamed about ever since they had heard he was researching superheroes. Though the team seemed reluctant, ultimately they went through with it. Frankie was a success, able to mold their body in any shape or way they could imagine. With this, Stein and his progeny left, now searching for both funds, and a place to experiment.

Personality

Motivations: To help their father, and obtain lots of information regarding superheroes, particularly sharing their father's goal of finding another way of creating more Parahumans besides the Cauldron's vials.
Sexuality: Pansexual
Likes:

• Their Father
• Their Power
• Sweets

Dislikes:

• Ethics
• Being left in the dark
• Authority figures

Derangement: Frankie has become very... exaggerated. When they feel an emotion, they feel it hard, and their face morphs to a cartoonish version of said emotion in intense situation. Sad? Their face will physically droop. Happy? His eyes and smile will grow to unnatural proportions.

Parahumanism

Skills: Frankie is pretty smart, especially in the field of biology and parahuman studies.

Classification: Shifter/Brute/Stranger

Details: Frankie has the ability to mold, manipulate, harden, and soften their own flesh, bone, muscle, and even some organs. Frankie can use this ability in many ways. They can mold their flesh into blades only a cell thick, or shields as hard as a hippo's skin, or anything between. The could also use this ability to impersonate another person, shifting their face, physique, and even vocal cords to mimic someone efficiently. They can even buff themselves up, giving themselves more muscle or reduce their size and increase their lean leg muscle for more speed. Though they're bound by conservation of mass, they can control their own regeneration, making producing more cells a cinch.

Limitations:

• Disconnected cells retain none of their shape or hardness/softness upon leaving the body.
• Frankie can not manipulate their own heart or brain.
• When accelerating their regeneration, Frankie's metabolism skyrockets, with nutrition being a serious issue. They need calories to burn, after all.
• Frankie needs a close up of someone's face to replicate their face.

Equipment: The only thing Frankie carries on their person besides a disposable phone are some high carb sweets.

[ProPro]

Post here when you guys have finished up. In the meantime guys, I'm looking to get this started Saturday.

[Gardevoiran]

@ProPro
You bring up a lot of good points. Time to scrap and try something different. I'll probably have a better idea for what I can do with a character. I apologize for making a character that strong and having you read through it nitpicking it.

[Eklispe]

Good job responding maturely. Seen a lot of people with cs's that get hit like that and things start to get confrontational. Kuddos. I've read the source material, albeit a while ago, so if you wanna send me a rough draft or something I'd be willing to look it over before you post it.

[ProPro]

@ProPro
You bring up a lot of good points. Time to scrap and try something different. I'll probably have a better idea for what I can do with a character. I apologize for making a character that strong and having you read through it nitpicking it.

@Banana

You don't need to apologize, I'm just glad that you're able to take my criticism well and you're willing to try again. @Eklispe is right, you reacted far more maturely than a lot of people would. I tip my hat off to you. Just remember that I'm here for any and all questions. Most of the players have worked closely with me to determine the fine details of their characters and how they work, so don't be afraid to do the same thing.

[Gardevoiran]

@ProPro
I didn't know that people weren't that mature on this website. Then again I've never GM'd and reviewed character sheets.

I have another idea, similar in one way to Prism that he is a Thinker, and he is possibly just as intelligent as Prism (maybe moreso), but he can't actually fight or he'll probably die due to having one less leg because of cancer. He rather acts as a set of eyes behind the scenes, helping those who need assistance or hacking into shit. Any thoughts?

Also, he lives in a nuclear bunker away from society.

[ProPro]

@Banana That concept can work, but it would keep you away from all the action and make interacting with other characters considerably difficult. Plus you'd have to define what you mean by how intelligent he is, and define exactly how his power works. If you want to go the route of a thinker, let me get you some examples of actual thinkers in the story, since it's more than just being intelligent.

• Accord - Superhuman problem-solving, intellect scales with the complexity of the problem. The more complex and difficult, the better he is at handling it.
• Alexandria - Perfect eidetic memory, heightened cognitive speed and planning.
• Dinah - Can calculate the probability of any event to an exacting degree and express it as a percentage.
• Number Man - Complete mastery of numbers and probabilities. Just as good at guessing your safe combination as he is at using a pencil to kill a brute by applying the perfect pressure at the perfect angle.
• Tattletale - Can obtain information by making connections, essentially making superlatively good guesses that build on each other. (Intuition)
• Uber - Instant mastery of any one learnable skill as long as he concentrates on it.
• Short-duration 360-degree X-ray vision uninhibited by shadows, walls or skin.
• Coil - Can simulate 2 different timelines in which he makes different choices, then chooses which one to follow while discarding the other.

All of these are Thinker powers of varying potency, and as you can see they extend far far beyond simply being intelligent. Hopefully this helps you find some inspiration.

[Gardevoiran]

@ProPro
Here's what my idea is: He's a Thinker and semi-Master.

This new character gains a shitload of knowledge, evenly spread around to varying subjects in his mind. To simplify it, he knows a general good amount of shit about a lot of topics, excluding 2. He gained a large amount of knowledge based around Strategy and Hacking, so he has insane intelligence of tactics that can be used in another person's favor, and he can hack into a lot of things on his lonesome, but he cannot do it in person or act on it in person, rather relying on how he is a Master.

He has one reliable method of communicating with the outside world, which is basically a tiny flying camera that is very resilient. It has no combat potential other than distraction. He has a setup in his bunker (that has 2 sources of renewable energy powering it) that allows him to connect to this camera and see through it on a live feed. I categorized this as him being a Master as it took him a long time to make this, and it can probably be made by engineers and scientists. He also only has one of these cameras, considering in it's planning stage he almost lost another body part.

I'm still thinking of possible limitations for him but right now it's mainly dependent on having only one of these cameras.

tl;dr - Insanely strategic guy cannot fight or reliably get in harms way, so he uses a drone for his way into the outside world.

[Eklispe]

I think you could perhaps make it more interesting by making him dependent by what he sees through the camera. Like he can think up the best solution for anything he sees in the camera, but only factoring the things he sees in the camera. Food for thought. ^.^

[ProPro]

@Banana Ok, I like that idea. It definitely has good potential and possibility. It doesn't sound like he'd actually be a Master though, just that he's built a drone and uses computers/interfaces to work it.

[Gardevoiran]

@ProPro
The sheet is near done, so expect it in a few.

I also forgot to mention that the drone he uses can return to a home location quickly. That being said, it's not like it travels 62mph, rather maybe 10mph typically. It will go upwards of 15 if the situation is dire enough. That okay?

[ProPro]

Yeah, that sounds fine. A lot depends on the size, durability, and overall functionality of the drone, but those speeds don't sound bad at all. You could even stand to give them a little more speed, but try to keep them out of Tinker-level capability.