Characters for the Epic City: Starburst RP
character I played
NPC's I created
character I played
Name: Steve Ross (I swear I found out about the real Steve Ross after I thought of this name. I google my RP names sometimes to check if I'm not accidentally referring to something I don't want. But this guy is cool, you should check him out: youtube.com/watch?v=KFouile2gDk )
Epic Identity: The Giant
Age: 28
Faction: Epic, neutral
Ability: Super size. In giant form, Steve stands a solid 20 meters tall. With everything else in proportion. This comes with being a lot stronger and somewhat slower than the averge human. His skin is proportionally thicker so it's harder to pierce, but not impenetrable.
Weakness: Sitting (yes really): when both of his legs have at least a 90 degree angle at both the knee and the hip, he shrinks to a normal human size of 1,80 meters. He only stays small while he remains in this position. It's also his only way to control his size. So if he doesn't squat or sit or crouch, he is automatialy giant.
Personality: On the surface, Steve has a mild personality. He is calm, rational and empathic. But underneath he is always feeling uneasy. Mainly because he feels disabled, while he is actually very able. He feels that being his true self could cause harm to others and would make him unwanted. When he sees strong men showing of their manlyness and competing, he wants to stand up and show them he is even bigger and stronger. But he doesn't. Because that would be a bad thing to do.
Appearance: Most noticable about steve is the wheelchair he uses to move around while remaining seated. He only gets out when he does want to turn giant, which is rarely. Next to that, Steve is a slender white guy with messy brown hair and any dark monocolor shirt. His dark blue pants are also a little quirky: Very baggy and made from stretch material. It took him a while to find something that would grow with him to cover his butt and genitals. While giant they function as his boxershort. Although a little tight at that size, it's the only clothing that is not destroyed when he grows. (The Naked Giant is now a thing of the past, as far as the genital area is concerned. Can you imagine people calling names to a guy that big?)
Background: Leaving fetal position, Steve started growing as he was being born, killing his mother in the process. The weeks after were very hard for everybody, as they had a giant baby who has covered in pieces of his mother's dead body, who wanted to be fed, but was at te same time, quite dangerous to be around. Going hungry, Steve ate the remains of his mother. After three weeks they figured out what it was that made him shrink every now and then. It was then they decided to tie him to a chair for the rest of his life. His father was heavily traumatised and didn't want to hear of Steve's ambition to walk. Once steve reached his teenage years, this was the cause of a lot of arguments. Also, the tight ropes were now replaced by locked steel mechanisms to which only his father held the key. The key which his father had molten into a medallion with a picture of Steve's mother, which he had given to him, to hopefully chain him emotionally as well. (Rumor has it, that Steve's dad secretly turned to the kryptonites for advice) Steve was indeed very chained to his wheelchair, but had learned to sleep like that. Also, the chair had another mechanism which helped him go to the bathroom without too much trouble.
In highschool Steve was the nerdy wheelchair guy without much friends. But as his longing for freedom grew he eventually made friends with an epic guy that could melt steel beams. This guy would later be known as Jet Fuel.
They went out to an open field and melted Steve's chains. Steve tried to stand up but had never used his legs before so he fell flat on his face. He grew though. After a year of training intensively, Steve was finally able to stand and walk. His dad feared him, but they found a way to deal with each other. For a lot of practical purposes, Steve still uses his wheelchair to -ironically- be able to participate in normal life. His giant size hinders entrance to most places, is not conveniant for socialization, plus: it requires him to eat more than he can afford. He had some rough years, living in the sewers with the freaks for a while, spending some time at his dad's place feeling unwanted, and at his friend Jet's parents place. But now, the dust has settled and he lives in an appartment in a nice neighbourhood, together with his friend Jet Fuel.
Epic Identity: The Giant
Age: 28
Faction: Epic, neutral
Ability: Super size. In giant form, Steve stands a solid 20 meters tall. With everything else in proportion. This comes with being a lot stronger and somewhat slower than the averge human. His skin is proportionally thicker so it's harder to pierce, but not impenetrable.
Weakness: Sitting (yes really): when both of his legs have at least a 90 degree angle at both the knee and the hip, he shrinks to a normal human size of 1,80 meters. He only stays small while he remains in this position. It's also his only way to control his size. So if he doesn't squat or sit or crouch, he is automatialy giant.
Personality: On the surface, Steve has a mild personality. He is calm, rational and empathic. But underneath he is always feeling uneasy. Mainly because he feels disabled, while he is actually very able. He feels that being his true self could cause harm to others and would make him unwanted. When he sees strong men showing of their manlyness and competing, he wants to stand up and show them he is even bigger and stronger. But he doesn't. Because that would be a bad thing to do.
Appearance: Most noticable about steve is the wheelchair he uses to move around while remaining seated. He only gets out when he does want to turn giant, which is rarely. Next to that, Steve is a slender white guy with messy brown hair and any dark monocolor shirt. His dark blue pants are also a little quirky: Very baggy and made from stretch material. It took him a while to find something that would grow with him to cover his butt and genitals. While giant they function as his boxershort. Although a little tight at that size, it's the only clothing that is not destroyed when he grows. (The Naked Giant is now a thing of the past, as far as the genital area is concerned. Can you imagine people calling names to a guy that big?)
Background: Leaving fetal position, Steve started growing as he was being born, killing his mother in the process. The weeks after were very hard for everybody, as they had a giant baby who has covered in pieces of his mother's dead body, who wanted to be fed, but was at te same time, quite dangerous to be around. Going hungry, Steve ate the remains of his mother. After three weeks they figured out what it was that made him shrink every now and then. It was then they decided to tie him to a chair for the rest of his life. His father was heavily traumatised and didn't want to hear of Steve's ambition to walk. Once steve reached his teenage years, this was the cause of a lot of arguments. Also, the tight ropes were now replaced by locked steel mechanisms to which only his father held the key. The key which his father had molten into a medallion with a picture of Steve's mother, which he had given to him, to hopefully chain him emotionally as well. (Rumor has it, that Steve's dad secretly turned to the kryptonites for advice) Steve was indeed very chained to his wheelchair, but had learned to sleep like that. Also, the chair had another mechanism which helped him go to the bathroom without too much trouble.
In highschool Steve was the nerdy wheelchair guy without much friends. But as his longing for freedom grew he eventually made friends with an epic guy that could melt steel beams. This guy would later be known as Jet Fuel.
They went out to an open field and melted Steve's chains. Steve tried to stand up but had never used his legs before so he fell flat on his face. He grew though. After a year of training intensively, Steve was finally able to stand and walk. His dad feared him, but they found a way to deal with each other. For a lot of practical purposes, Steve still uses his wheelchair to -ironically- be able to participate in normal life. His giant size hinders entrance to most places, is not conveniant for socialization, plus: it requires him to eat more than he can afford. He had some rough years, living in the sewers with the freaks for a while, spending some time at his dad's place feeling unwanted, and at his friend Jet's parents place. But now, the dust has settled and he lives in an appartment in a nice neighbourhood, together with his friend Jet Fuel.
NPC's I created
Name: Robert Malloy
Epic Identity: Jet Fuel
Age: 27
Faction: Epic, Hero
Ability: Melting! With his mind, he can melt anything within a range of 10 meters, that he concentrates on, as long as he can see it or touch it. (including steel beams) This could be a specific thing, or things in a specific area. Living and nonliving matter. In a matter of seconds he can melt off your ear. Alternatively, if he takes half a minute, he can melt an entire person. Things that he melts, become warmer but not hot. Unmeltable things (according to science) turn out to melt after all! He even claims he can melt abstract concepts. But so far no proof has been provided.
Weakness: Ironically, the only thing he hasn't been able to melt so far, is ice (frozen water specifically). If a subject he wants to melt is in contact with ice, it doesn't work. If one would press an icecube to his neck, Jet Fuel wouldn't be able to harm him. If one would press an icecube on Jet Fuel's neck, the hero wouldn't be able to use his power at all.
Personality: With fairly matching suits, come somwhat matching personalities. Think spiderman homecoming for enthousiastic end eager to be a hero. But older and beaten with experience, so with more sarcastic remarks. With all the wisecracking, you wouldn't notice right away, but Robert/Jet Fuel has his heart in the right place, and wants to do the right thing. Intention isn't everything though. Maybe it's the ADHD that helps him fucking things up.
Appearance: Red Spandex suit, that still needs something. Suit details and logo sketches are lying all around his room. When not being a superhero, Robert wears his basic blue jeans, brown shoes and brown jacket. His face is small and long with short blonde hair. His body toned but nothing impressive. He stands about 1,70 meters.
Background: Robert shares an apartment with Steve. They have been friends since highschool and Robert freed Steve from the wheelchair of smallness. After highschool, they went to university together. In this time Robert developed his alter ego: Meltman. This was later changed to Jet Fuel. After university he pursued the hero path even more. He became an active member of VEST (Volunteer Emergency Service Tech) and has been trying to become famous ever since. At the same time he strives for classic hero values, like courage, honesty, justice, honor etc. etc. His dream is to fight alongside the major heroes of Epic City.
Epic Identity: Jet Fuel
Age: 27
Faction: Epic, Hero
Ability: Melting! With his mind, he can melt anything within a range of 10 meters, that he concentrates on, as long as he can see it or touch it. (including steel beams) This could be a specific thing, or things in a specific area. Living and nonliving matter. In a matter of seconds he can melt off your ear. Alternatively, if he takes half a minute, he can melt an entire person. Things that he melts, become warmer but not hot. Unmeltable things (according to science) turn out to melt after all! He even claims he can melt abstract concepts. But so far no proof has been provided.
Weakness: Ironically, the only thing he hasn't been able to melt so far, is ice (frozen water specifically). If a subject he wants to melt is in contact with ice, it doesn't work. If one would press an icecube to his neck, Jet Fuel wouldn't be able to harm him. If one would press an icecube on Jet Fuel's neck, the hero wouldn't be able to use his power at all.
Personality: With fairly matching suits, come somwhat matching personalities. Think spiderman homecoming for enthousiastic end eager to be a hero. But older and beaten with experience, so with more sarcastic remarks. With all the wisecracking, you wouldn't notice right away, but Robert/Jet Fuel has his heart in the right place, and wants to do the right thing. Intention isn't everything though. Maybe it's the ADHD that helps him fucking things up.
Appearance: Red Spandex suit, that still needs something. Suit details and logo sketches are lying all around his room. When not being a superhero, Robert wears his basic blue jeans, brown shoes and brown jacket. His face is small and long with short blonde hair. His body toned but nothing impressive. He stands about 1,70 meters.
Background: Robert shares an apartment with Steve. They have been friends since highschool and Robert freed Steve from the wheelchair of smallness. After highschool, they went to university together. In this time Robert developed his alter ego: Meltman. This was later changed to Jet Fuel. After university he pursued the hero path even more. He became an active member of VEST (Volunteer Emergency Service Tech) and has been trying to become famous ever since. At the same time he strives for classic hero values, like courage, honesty, justice, honor etc. etc. His dream is to fight alongside the major heroes of Epic City.
Name: Leonard Birch (But nobody knows)
Freak Label: Spiderhead / Fate Spider
Age: 30
Faction: Freak
Ability: Spiderhead has two juices he can inject when biting: 1) superhealing juice, gives the bitten person the effect of wolverines almost instant healing ability for about ten minutes. Cures anything except for death.
2) supervenom, does the opposite of superhealing and kills you within ten minutes as you find that all harm that ever befell you and that already healed, comes back tenfold. (imagine that papercut you had on your finger a few days ago and that has already healed, coming back and growing until your finger falls off)
These blessing and curse are heavily intertwined as they affect his own health. When spiderhead kills somebody, he gains the superhealing ability himself. It's stored on himself until he decides to heal somebody. When he heals somebody without having the charge gained from killing anyone, he has to kill someone within 24 hours or die himself.
Mutation: instead of a normal human head, Spiderhead has the giant head of a spider, about three times the size of a normal human head. This gives him Pincers which he can use to bite people and to break things. Spiderhead has normal human intelligence, but has trouble speaking normally, because he lacks a human mouth. He can talk, but it always sounds sort of raspy.
Weakness: Armor, his pincers are strong but can't pierce through metal armor. Also, if you would somehow cut of his pincers, he would lose his power unless he has one healing charge stored, then they will regrow.
Personality: Quiet, contemplative, accomodating. Initially mild natured, but hardened due to the nature of his ability and people who want to use him for their own gain.
Appearance: Spiderhead wears a black blouse (as no shirt would fit over his head), black skinny jeans and Big brown boots that don't match the rest of his outfit. He wears a necklace with a yin-yang symbol. And ofcourse, he has a big spider head.
Background: imaginably, spiderhead doesn't have an easy time socializing. He lives underground with the rest of the freaks. He claims to have met the high venom in person and feels highly related to her. People from both under and upperground seek out the help of spiderhead for his healing ability. He wants to help people, but every healing comes at the price of a death, so that has to be provided. Also spiderhead often finds himself caught up in the plans of freaks who are up to no good and cause mayhem upperground. He tries to be as good a person as his situation allows him to. But it's a very shadey area. He tells himself that for every life he takes, he can save someone.
Freak Label: Spiderhead / Fate Spider
Age: 30
Faction: Freak
Ability: Spiderhead has two juices he can inject when biting: 1) superhealing juice, gives the bitten person the effect of wolverines almost instant healing ability for about ten minutes. Cures anything except for death.
2) supervenom, does the opposite of superhealing and kills you within ten minutes as you find that all harm that ever befell you and that already healed, comes back tenfold. (imagine that papercut you had on your finger a few days ago and that has already healed, coming back and growing until your finger falls off)
These blessing and curse are heavily intertwined as they affect his own health. When spiderhead kills somebody, he gains the superhealing ability himself. It's stored on himself until he decides to heal somebody. When he heals somebody without having the charge gained from killing anyone, he has to kill someone within 24 hours or die himself.
Mutation: instead of a normal human head, Spiderhead has the giant head of a spider, about three times the size of a normal human head. This gives him Pincers which he can use to bite people and to break things. Spiderhead has normal human intelligence, but has trouble speaking normally, because he lacks a human mouth. He can talk, but it always sounds sort of raspy.
Weakness: Armor, his pincers are strong but can't pierce through metal armor. Also, if you would somehow cut of his pincers, he would lose his power unless he has one healing charge stored, then they will regrow.
Personality: Quiet, contemplative, accomodating. Initially mild natured, but hardened due to the nature of his ability and people who want to use him for their own gain.
Appearance: Spiderhead wears a black blouse (as no shirt would fit over his head), black skinny jeans and Big brown boots that don't match the rest of his outfit. He wears a necklace with a yin-yang symbol. And ofcourse, he has a big spider head.
Background: imaginably, spiderhead doesn't have an easy time socializing. He lives underground with the rest of the freaks. He claims to have met the high venom in person and feels highly related to her. People from both under and upperground seek out the help of spiderhead for his healing ability. He wants to help people, but every healing comes at the price of a death, so that has to be provided. Also spiderhead often finds himself caught up in the plans of freaks who are up to no good and cause mayhem upperground. He tries to be as good a person as his situation allows him to. But it's a very shadey area. He tells himself that for every life he takes, he can save someone.
