Hellborn
In 2025, the first documented case of a hellborn was published in a whistleblowing operation on an unknown program dedicated to studying these new phenomenon. People who should have died, or had suffered through horrifying injuries that would have put them into vegetative states, somehow survived, often after showing all signs of death, and came back with strange powers. The first recorded incident was of a 29-year-old man who was impaled by falling scrap metal; two days later he had made a full recovery from hospital, although with a strange, cog-shaped symbol over the area where he had been impaled. Later, he was arrested by police after he had supposedly crushed a man with a car engine block.
This leak sparked global fear. Panic-buying spread across the world, and many people intentionally killed themselves in order to come back, although to no avail. These 'hellborn' became loathed and feared, and hellborn were subject to abuse, discrimination, and in more than one case, actual murder and even mob lynchings. Those that were born again covered up their abilities and held their heads low, trying to avoid being singled out.
These hellborn came from every walk of life, every gender, every minority... There was no difference when it came to them, however they were all characterised by a number of things:
1. They all died in non-natural, often violent ways.
2. The deaths left very little (if any) permanent mark on the person who died.
3. Every hellborn gained a unique scar, similar to a tattoo, that hinted at how they died and what their power was.
4. All hellborn had powers based upon how they died.
You take over one of these hellborn, who has discovered a small number of others (that'll be the other roleplayers,) and go through your life, dodging being taken in to be human experiments, attacks and discrimination and more. This will be a quite slow-paced RP, and it'll be a lot of character interaction; if that's not your cuppa tea, then this certainly won't be.
