Titans Beyond (DCAU Roleplay) Interest Check

[Lady Seraphina]

Titans Beyond

It always begins with a Robin. Matthew McGinnis, after the revelation that his older brother was Batman also discovered that an illicit program called Project Batman Beyond had result in Terry and Matt being the biological sons of the original Batman, Bruce Wayne. To Matt there was little doubt what his next step was. As a legacy of the first Batman and brother of the current one Matt would take on the mantle of Robin and become a protector of the city. This idea though was dashed by Terry. He didn't want his brother in that kind of danger. Bitter and angry Matt vowed that no matter what Terry thought he would prove his worth. Matt stormed from his brother's apartment with his Robin uniform determined to show that he could be just as effective as Batman. Like Robins of the past Matt knew what he must do. To be able to measure up to the caliber of hero that Batman was he'd need a team. Matt set out to form the Teen Titans for this era.

Matt sought out other amateur heroes, ones with strange abilities that they used to help as best they could whether they be metahuman or mutation. To his cause the latest Robin recruited six heroes who ranged from legacies of the Golden Age to high school students, to those with nothing left but their cause. During their first mission they ran afoul of Batman. The clashing of the Titans with Batman resulted in their target escaping. Furious with each other the fight between the brothers came to blows. Matt had no chance of taking on the more experienced Batman or his suit, but when the other young heroes came to Matt's aid it truly became a brawl. Though the result saw Batman disable each of the Titans in turn their skills and powers in some small way earned his grudging respect, though he'd never admit as much to Matt.

Just two weeks after they came together as a team a blow was struck at the very heart of the Titans. A horribly mutated woman capable of shifting into liquid form, Inque was a brutal mercenary willing to do any job for the right price. Paid by an unseen force who knew the secret of the Batman, she killed Matthew McGinnis and left his body, bloody and lifeless for Terry to find. Terry was enraged and grief stricken. He had tried to keep Matt out of this life for fear that this day would come. That he would lose Matt completely. At the insistence of Bruce Wayne whose health in recent years had started to fail Terry contacted the young heroes of his brother's team. To honor him, Terry took it upon himself to train these new Titans.

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Here's how it is... this was an established RP that only got about ten posts into the IC before due to certain circumstances we lost our GM and the RPer who basically functioned as CoGM. Those of us that remained didn't want to let the idea go but that means that we're only looking for two, perhaps three people to fill missing spots. Any and all applications are welcome but the spots are severely limited so acceptance will be based on creativity and/or quality. While I put up the Interest Check @Demon Shinobi is actually our GM, I merely assist where necessary as CoGM as I have more free time.

Anybody affiliated with the Teen Titans or Young Justice can be reimagined for this or you could take the sons or daughters of today's heroes (the RP takes place around 2043). If that doesn't appeal to you you are more than welcome to create an original character for the setting. We'll take applications for a week to ten days (depending on interest) then pick the appropriate characters to round out the squad. As we have a number of established character their powers are not available for use by applicants. These include intangibility/phasing, enhanced senses, Superspeed/Speed Force related powers, and gravity manipulation. In addition the role of powerless superhero is unavailable as it is being filled by Batman. CS requirements include but are not limited to:

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Name:
Alias:
Experience: [Anywhere from twenty-eight days to ninety days, but you had to have been a hero on Matt McGinnis' radar and now we've been training together at least a month or so plan accordingly.]
Hometown: [Options include: Gotham, Bludhaven, or Hub City.]
Age: [15-20 years old]
Powers:
Weaknesses:
Reason for joining Robin?: [This can simply be because you wanted to be a hero, or a power/responsibility or great tragedy moment occurred. Whatever you like.]
Appearance:
Personality:
BRIEF Bio:
Notes:

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We're only accepting two (possibly three) more people. Since it's a small cast we're not expecting dropouts early on, as we hope everyone is ready to go into this with a bang and excited to develop something like this in the future DCAU Beyond setting. Everybody who posts a CS won't make the cut. We will primarily be using the DC Animated Universe as a basis for lore and a timeline though elements from other DC properties can easily be worked in as well. While we each may live in one of the three cities we'll meet twice a week for training in Gotham and Batman will have set up a bunker HQ to use as a main setting and for housing if any of our applicants want to have a homeless hero. We'll face other enemies of Batman's and any suggestions for other more Titans or Young Justice themed villains are more than welcome.

Those currently involved are:
@Demon Shinobi - Red Arrow - Heightened Senses
@Prince of Seraphs - Phantom Girl - Intangibility/Phasing
@ProPro - Accel - Speed Force Abilities
@Skwint - G-Man - Gravity Manipulation.

[Pathfinder]

@Prince of Seraphs
Would you like me to post the CS here or message it to you?

[Lady Seraphina]

Posting here would be better so everyone can have a look.

[Thecrash20]

I made one for something like this awhile back. I'll just add it here.

Achilles

Achilles Todd

"Achilles "

Experience:
2 1/2 Months

Hometown:
Gotham

Age:
17

Powers:

-Advanced Hand to Hand combat and Martial arts

-Technologically inclined: Whether its building a computer or hacking into a government mainframe, if it runs off of binary Achilles knows the insides and outs.

-Criminology: A term used to describe Achilles's ability to use his knowledge of criminals or of how criminals function in order to apply his skills to the situation.

-Amazonian Blood: The only two trait passed on by his mother. If Achilles can reach a speed and fall from a high enough distance, he can begin to take flight. It isn't the expected level flight as his mother, his father more accurately coined it "Falling with style". The second trait would prove his increased resilience to most forms of damage and much quicker recovery than humans.

-Acrobat

-Investigation: The use of deductive reasoning to come to a conclusion. In most cases, this skill is applied to the arena of criminal investigation or easily finding clues.

-Weapon Proficiency: Achilles has been trained in a multitude of weapons weather it is the Blade or pistol.

Weaknesses:

-Rage: Achilles has a short temper which can lead to him going into an all out rage. Sometimes it can be a blessing, but more times than not its a curse. Putting him in situations that he eventually would regret.

-Overexertion: While he possess his mothers superhuman blood, he is still human. Occasionally he will push himself farther than his natural human body can handle. He will not notice the damage until its too late and he collapses on the floor from something usually trivial to his mothers kind such as a heat stroke or multiple muscles torn.

Reason for joining Robin?:
Achilles wasn't a fan of joining and didn't want anything to do with Heroes, but his Father felt different and forced his son to join the Titans. Hopefully it would change him for the better and give him a sense of responsibility.

Appearance::
Achilles is as shorter man of about 65 inches. He has long black hair which he gels back giving him a very 'Greaser' look. His fair skin really highlight his black hair and dark brown eyes. He is a slimmer build, but athletic, looking almost like an exact clone of his father.
His costume is almost prehistoric, being the original costume his Father used so long ago. A tattered brown Motorcycle leather jacket composed by Kevlar and lined with titanium and his Fathers old "Red Hood" helmet. Besides those key items he usually wearing some kind of 'tactical' jeans of his creation and some sort of Rock band shirt.


BRIEF Bio:
Born in the Gothem slums with just his Mother and his younger Brother, right where his Father left him. Just like his Father Achilles grew up as a street urchin most of his younger and pre-teens life. It wasn't until the age of 16 he met his Father, appropriately sucker punching Achilles in the face for trying to mug him. Jason was disappointed in himself and how he basically lead his son through the same life he did so many years ago. Making up for lost time Jason Taught him skills and trained him a little in the ways he didn't know possible. His final training for his son was forcing him to be apart of the Titans. While Achilles could want nothing else less, he reluctantly followed his Father's instructions.

Notes:

-His weapon of choice is a gift from his Mother. An ancient Golden rod that is only about 5 inches, but the user if gone through the right rituals can expand the rod to a total of Ten feet.

[Pathfinder]

Dazzler

Name
Jude Rayford

Alias
Dazzler

Experience
72 days

Hometown
Star City

Age
18

Powers
Jude's metagene grants him superhuman physical abilities and is tied with his emotions, specifically determination. In optimal conditions, Jude is able to lift twenty-five tons, leap thirty-eight feet from a standing position, and take small arms fire like it was little more than rubber bands. However these are not static limits and Jude has broken past them on at least one occasion involving a collapsing building and a trapped child. It isn't known if it's apart of his power or just his mentality but it has been shown that Jude is able to push past a considerable amount of pain until he isn't needed. As a footnote, Jude emits small glowing lights from his body while he uses his powers, nothing groundbreaking but they can give a nice ambient light if it's needed.

Weaknesses
In practical terms, Jude's powers are only activated when he wants them to be and anyone who can catch him off guard will be able to get a good couple of free hits or even incapacitate him. In addition to this, while Jude's strength, speed, and durability are increased, his reflexes are not. This has led him to trip over his own feet and misjudge a punch or kick on multiple occasions. On a more psychological level, Jude's powers are completely dependant on his mental state, feeding off of determination and other strong emotions in order to function. Understandably, with the death of someone he respected and viewed as untouchable, he isn't in the best head space right now and that has a negative impact on his abilities. Until he can regain his self-confidence Jude's abilities will be in flux, waxing and waning from mission to mission until he can shrug off the funk. On another side note, the lights emitted by his powers could easily give away his position should he try to be quiet.

Reason for joining Robin?
Jude became Dazzler because he has the power to protect people and his dad would be rolling in his grave if he turned a blind eye to people in need of a helping hand.

Appearance
Jude is an interesting case of clashing aesthetics, wearing the harsh, dark clothing of a punk with also putting on soft pastels and bedazzled leather. The young man inside those clothes is no better, standing at an even six foot with a skeleton girded with lean muscles. An unholy mop of wild pink hair sits atop his head, which is usually pulled into a short ponytail. However, these choices in dress only accentuate his already odd body. To put it plainly, Jude is pink.

His skin is a light shade of pink, his irises are a very dark shade of pink, and his body emits little shimmering lights when his powers flare up. It's something that's been a blessing and a curse his entire life but in general, it does little more than just setting him apart from others. In fact, his unnatural pigmentation is the only thing that really sets him apart as he's fairly plain otherwise, with an unremarkable face halfway in between cute and handsome, leaving him at the crossroads of "Eh, it's a face,".

Jude's superhero outfit is little more than whatever he was wearing that day, a leather jacket with his hero name embroidered on the back with some cheap gems set in it for flair, a pair of motorcycle gloves, a pair of sunglasses, a black trucker hat, and a bandana he wears over his mouth.

Personality
Jude is, first and foremost, a teenager who's just entered the realm of adulthood. He's a straightforward kid, unable to tell a convincing lie and keeps all of his emotions firmly on his sleeves where everyone can see them. He's a bit naive and fairly gullible to things outside of his realm of knowledge, but his convictions are set in stone and he puts the safety of others highly above his own. Ultimately, Jude is just a kid with too much power and is admittedly not prepared for the responsibility, but he will suck it up and bare because it's the hand fate dealt him and he'll be damned if he sits back and watches when he has the power to actually do something to help.

BRIEF Bio
Jude's life began in Star City, born to a one David and Willow Rayford. David was a street level hero called "The Dazzler" who had much of the same powers that his son had. For many years the family lived in relative peace, the only hiccup being transferring Jude to homeschool when his powers manifested and he couldn't safely contain them around the other children. Things were good until a group of villains took Star City by storm, a storm that eventually took the life of David.

For what it was worth David went down swinging, subduing the group and calling the police before passing away from wounds he sustained from the battle, leaving a fifteen-year-old Jude and a widowed Willow to look out for themselves as they navigated the twisting road of grief. Soon after the event, Willow moved in with her sister after their money dried up, finding new residence in the city of Gotham. The two moved on.

It's only been in recent months that Jude has decided to move out and do something with the power he inherited from his father. Doing much of the same as the old man before picking up the attention of Robin, the boy wonder easily persuading the nascent hero to joining his budding team. Jude quickly came to respect Robin for his skills as both a fighter and a leader, getting himself swept up in Robin's ideas of a team of protectors. However, Robins death has shocked Jude back to the fifteen-year-old kid who found himself sans a dad and has planted seeds of doubt in the young man. Still, as troubled as he is, Jude is determined to persist and become the hero that his role models believed he could be.

Notes

• Jude is bisexual.
• He only has a highschool diploma to his name and most technobabble will go over his head.
• However he is an excellent cook, with a wide array of dishes to his personal cookbook.
• On another note, Jude is proficient at sewing and embroidery. Skills that are essential for a rough and tumble kid low on money.
• Passes time between training, missions, and domestic stuff by fiddling around with an old, beat up electric guitar.
  [*Besides his power, Jude is just a normal kid with a tragedy under his belt. He wasn't trained from infancy to fight, he can't fix a car, and his knowledge about the arcane goes about as far as "Magic is pretty dope." Yet he's got a lot of heart and when he sets that heart to something there are few forces in the universe that can stop him.

[Dead Cruiser]

"Enhanced senses" is a pretty vague and strange limitation.

EDIT: Ah, I do see that it's reserved by another character, but it still does come off as quite vague and arbitrarily restrictive.

[ProPro]

"Enhanced senses" is a pretty vague and strange limitation.

@Dead Cruiser

Our Red Arrow basically has the standard increased hearing and acute visual perception. We just want to make sure there's variety and no crossover in character strengths.

[Dead Cruiser]

@ProPro Edited my last post. The point I wanna make is that if someone wanted to include, say, a Kryptonian, "enhanced senses" are part of the package. Or even if someone wanted night vision, that could be loosely considered as such.

[ProPro]

Yes, well, why have a team dynamic with complimenting strengths and weaknesses when you can just have one kryptonian do everything?

[Dead Cruiser]

Really not my point. I'm saying that it's an overly vague and broad restriction, particularly in comparison to the other powers that have been reserved.

[ProPro]

I think you're taking things a bit too literal, my compatriot. By no means does having someone with acute hearing and vision mean any extrasensory abulities are strictly forbidden.

[Dead Cruiser]

That itself is vastly better just because it's more specific. The initial description was just too vague.

[Lady Seraphina]

@Dead Cruiser This is Red Arrow's powers as described by their creator.

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Powers: Jonathan developed the following powers:

• Enhanced Vision – Jonathan can see with amazing clarity/detail, distance, and color. Up to this point he has displayed instances of telescopic and microscopic vision and almost perfect vision in even the darkest or brightest environments. His eyes seem to adjust as needed, though it is not instantaneous.
• Enhanced Hearing – Jon’s ears are enhanced to hear with amazing clarity, distance, and possibly even on frequencies outside of the normal range. In theory, his ears can pick up every single sound, can decipher layer upon layer of differing sounds/conversations, locate the source of noise or pick up a sound from a mile away in a busy city. Of course, due to his rookie hero status and his lack of control he cannot hope to come close to such amazing feats.
• Enhanced Smell – He can detect specific persons, objects, substances or even places, locate their origin and track targets with nothing but his nose. However, due to his inexperience he cannot hope to do this with complete accuracy. Still, with time and training he may even be able to detect lying, sicknesses, or tumors by which hormones/smells a target excretes.

[Pathfinder]

It might be important to note that Jude is an original character and isn't affiliated with any other hero in the DCU. Also feel free to poke holes in my character, ain't going to make them any better with only my opinion.

[TTP]

I am very interested in this, are you full at the moment or are you still looking for spots to fill?

[ProPro]

It's not first come first serve, we're discussing the merits of individual characters, so you're welcome to throw something down and try for one of the available spots!

[Sanctus Spooki]

Is there room for a character with magic-based powers in this RP, or are you guys leaning more towards conventional powers/technology? I ask because I realize that despite magic existing in the DCAU, it may not exactly fit with a sci-fi setting.

[CallSignCorsair]

Every Teen Titans team needs a sexy Tamaranean, right? Jokes aside, here's my submission. I hope you enjoy, and if you have any questions or concerns feel free to ask!

Solfire

Name: Dorand'r
Alias: Solfire
Experience: 40 days
Hometown: Gotham
Age: 16
Powers: Dorand'r is gifted with superhero abilities due to his Tamaran Physiology. This also provides him with moderately enhanced strength and durability, but nothing beyond what a contemporary exo-suit might provide.

Energy Absorption - The fuel for his powers, Dorand'r passively absorbs ambient ultraviolet radiation to fuel his superhuman abilities.

Flight - Inherited from his mother's altered physiology, Dorand'r is able to will himself into the air and slip free Eath's surly bonds. This ability is far less effective than those originally altered by the Psion's experiments, like his mother and her famous sister, and as such Dorand'r can by no means achieve the feats of which his relatives were capable. Interstellar flight by his power alone is something that Dorand'r is not able to achieve. Like the rest of his family, an illusory trail of flame follows Dorand'r as he streaks across the sky.

Starbolts - A less powerful version than the one's classically available to the Tamaran royal family, his starbolts still pack a punch comparable to your contemporary energy weapon. The more ultraviolet light he is exposed to, the more powerful his starbolts become.

Linguistic Absorption - As with all Tamaraneans, Dorand'r is capable of absorbing other languages throw lip-to-lip contact.

Weaknesses: Light Deprivation - As with all solar based extraterrestrials, deprivation of ultraviolet radiation can have serious side-effects to the alien's abilities and psyche. Beyond a few days without exposure to ultraviolet light, Dorand'r will begin to de-power and experience what is known on Tamaran as "Deprivation Syndrome". This mental disorder can lead to depression, paranoia, and eventually, severe, life-threatening panic attacks.

Claustrophobia - Dorand'r has a severe fear of enclosed spaces. If cooped up for too long or imprisoned, he will become gripped with fear and begin the initial stages of an anxiety attack.

Reason for joining Robin?: Dorand'r saw in Robin an opportunity to serve Earth as not just an envoy to Tamaran, but also as a protector of his adoptive people. He understood the boy's passion to prove himself worthy, and hoped the two of them would become as great of teammates as he knew the original Starfire and Robin were.

Appearance: Dorand'r, like many of his people, is considered extremely physically attractive by Earth standards. He stands at six feet tall, and bears with him the athletic build deserving of one trained in Tamaranean combat. His skin carries a light orange hue, complimented by the dark red of his hair and the emerald green of his eyes. He has an angular face; high cheekbones and pointed chin marking him as more effeminate looking than one might expect of a alien warrior.

Dorand'r clothes himself in traditional Tamaranean garb, which is to he doesn't wear much at all. Light, lilac colored gauntlets cling to his forearms and hands, and a similarly colored mantle rests easily on his slender shoulders. Each piece of separate armor is set with a brilliant, deep red ruby in its center to remind the warrior of the home he serves while on earth. Dorand'r stands in dark purple boots, and his lower body is clad in skin tight pants as is traditional of a true-born Tamaranean warrior.



Personality: Dorand'r takes much more after his aunt than he does his mother, a fact that Koriand'r loves and Kommand'r loathes. He is a jubilant, sunny soul who wishes nothing more than to dedicate his life to the service of the people. He approaches problems with a relentlessly optimistic attitude, believing that there is no situation that cannot be overcome through cooperation and sheer force of will. Like his aunt, Dorand'r values freedom and friendship above all other things. He is quick to make to a friend, and quick to forgive the transgressions others have committed against him. Unfortunately, Dorand'r also has his mothers temper and her military cunning. Should one get Dorand'r angry, there is little that would stop him from eking out what he classifies as an "equivalent punishment".

Dorand'r feels most alive in the midst of battle, but can lose himself in the midst of violence. He can be excessively bullheaded, and often leap into the thick of combat before thinking about a proper strategy of engagement. He can also be quick to classify who the "good guys" and "bad guys" are before doing any actual observation of the situation, leading him to oversimplify often very complex conflicts into a fight of good versus bad. He is aware logically that the world in which he operates in often does not comply to simple definitions of "right" and "wrong", and more often than not falls somewhere in the middle. However, being raised off the stories of his aunt's, and occasionally his mother's, heroics and having a deep desire to emulate them, Dorand'r's focus narrows in the heat of conflict into the classical definitions he knows by heart.

Being a sort of bridge between Tamaranean and Earth culture, Dorand'r is much more well adapted to modern day living than his predecessors. He still carries his Tamaranean roots with pride, but knows Earth traditions well enough not to be surprised or mystified by them. As Tamaranean culture is sensuous in nature, Dorand'r can come off as excessively flirty, but he sees flirtation as just a more fun form of talking. He rarely holds any qualms about openly discussing sexuality, and though he understands why humans do, he can't help but find it amusing when Earthers act so scandalized by talking about such matters.

BRIEF Bio: Dorand'r was born to his mother Kommand'r and his father Dor'ion out of wedlock on the planet of Tammaran. Being not of wholly royal line, Dorand'r was forbidden by law to be raised in his mother's court. Had his father attempted to reveal himself and raise the child, the man would have been stripped of his military rank and forced into civilian life. None of proper rank would attempt to raise the infant as their own, and so Kommand'r, desperate as only a mother could be, she smuggled the child to her long estranged sister Koriand'r. Begging like she had never thought she would be capable of, the Queen of Tamaran left the fate of her firstborn child in the hands of the woman she had exiled personally. Thankfully, Koriand'r was of a nobler stock than her sister, and took the child in on the condition that Kommand'r visit once every few years so that the boy might know his real mother. Kommand'r agreed, and so the child brought about a slow reconciliation between the two Tamaranean sisters.

The child grew happy and healthy for most of its life, Koriand'r taking to raising the child joyfully while Kommand'r grew saddened in how different her son seemed to her. He learned of his homeworld's culture, their fighting styles, and of the traditions which bound him to those who came before him. He delighted in visits to the Tamaranean embassy, glad to show off how much he knew of both Earth and Tamaran to the desk clerk and the rare ambassador who filtered through the doors. He was given the best private tutors his birth mother could buy, and soon he grew to master the various social intricacies that weaved themselves in both Tamaran and Earth society. As he grew, he decided that, while the warrior's life called to him, he would dedicate himself to being an envoy between the world that had raised him and the world that had birthed him. Attaching himself to the embassy in Gotham, Dorand'r served as an interplanetary intern when his studies allowed it.

An attack outside the embassy is what galvanized the start of Dorand'r's career as Solfire. A gang of anarchists had wreaked havoc on the district just a few lanes down from the embassy, but none of the Tamaranean warriors broke ranks in order to aid the civilians trapped in the area. The embassy was worried about infringing on the local city's sovereignty and causing a diplomatic incident, so they ordered their soldiers to hold back and let the police do their job. Dorand'r was only worried about the innocents being hurt. Shooting out of the embassy, Dorand'r launched himself into the fray. It proved a hard-fought battle, but with aid from law-enforcement, Dorand'r helped turn the tide against the gang and force them form the district. When asked the name of the young man who aided them, Dorand'r remembered his aunt's own stories about her adventures in her youth. He told them to call him Solfire, in honor of the greatest hero he had ever known.
Notes: None as of posting

[Lady Seraphina]

@Sanctus Spooki For Magic as with an power it is fine as long as it's capabilities and limits are defined and it doesn't become a fix all for any problem the team may face.

[Demon Shinobi]

Hey all!
First, I wanna thank anybody who had submitted or is planning to submit an application. As you all know, or should know there are limited positions and we are not running on a first come first serve basis. We are taking time to consider each candidate. However, it is also important to note that we have set a cut off date. And and all cses should be submitted and complete by this coming Wednesday. After that, we will deliberate and make our decision as is needed.
Once again, thank you so much for the time and effort you're all putting into character creation.