[OOC] Heroes Reborn - A DCAU Roleplay (Always open!)

[Menhir]

This game needs more comic books. Don't worry though, I'm here to help.

Basic Information
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Superhero/Villain Name: Various
Civilian Name: Dialman
Origin: Dimension Z
Hometown: Danny The Park
Sex: None
Race: Benign Independent Thoughtform
Height: Pretty Tall
Weight: Pretty Light
Age: ?? Birth Date: ??
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Costumed Appearance: That of his current persona, but with the addition of the Dial embedded in the back of their head.

Civilian Appearance

Icon: Varies, but Dialman has his H-E-R-O, which is the only part of him that can't change tone.

Costumed Personality: More stable than the vanilla untransformed Dialman, but at the same time in a constant mental battle between the original Dialman's mind vs. the personality and ethical principles of his current persona.

Civilian Personality: Dialman's mind is a hazy, jumbled mess of conflicting information from a hundred thousand worlds and times. He doesn't know who he is or where he came from but he's pretty sure that he's meant to fight a terrible looming threat that is even now drawing closer, even if he can't actually articulate what it is.

Super abilities:
-Powers: Unique Physiology: Dialman isn't real. He's not alive, not in the same way people are. He breathes different. Sees different. Bleeds different. He's got waxy smooth skin and staples down his spine and he leaches colors and words and thoughts right up into his own self and back out through him. Imagination is his lifeblood.

-Gadgets: Dial: A functioning Dial, though the exact model is unknown. Embedded in the back of Dialman's head. By using the buttons, he can reach through hypertime and become someone else. Be careful, though, because becoming someone else means giving up yourself, staining you with little drops of other people's hopes and dreams forever until you can't tell who you were before you were yourself.

-Weaknesses: Acetone, ethanol, citric acid, criticism

Civilian Occupation: Hobo

Biography
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I was just a boy on Krypton when my parents were ambushed in a blind alley by a man with a hook for a hand, who stabbed them both with a dagger forged from Nth Metal and merged them into one superpowered being. Just as he was about to come after me, too, a stray transmitter beam hit me, teleporting me to Oa. There, I swore revenge and received cybernetic implants that made me the perfect fusion of man and machine. When I reached adulthood, I left Paradise Island as an envoy to the world of men.

But that can't be right.

Can it?

Hello, operator?

I think I'm sick...

Optional information
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Nemesis: Everyone
Allies: Anyone
Team: All of them

[Korkoa]

Medium Ultra Tier

Superhero/villain Name: Green Lantern Sinestro

Civilian Name: Thaal Sinestro

Origin city/Planet: Korugar

Hometown: Oa

Sex: Male

Race:Korugan

Height: 6'7"

Weight: 205 lbs

Age: 36

Birth Date: April 16, 1984 (According to Earth timekeeping)

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Costumed Appearance: Sinestro wears the green and black suit of the Green Lanterns, a construction of energy made into matter by the power of the Green Ring technology and his own willpower.

Costume reference

Civilian Appearance: Sinestro proudly wears the colors of the Green Corps at all times, unless a mission requires him to go undercover.

Icon: The standard symbol of the Green Lantern Corps.

Symbol reference

Costumed Personality: Sinestro is a man of contradictions. He puts on a mask of cool, calculated intellect in most situations, preferring to stand back and observe until he is sure of the details of any given situation. However if one were to break through the mask and threaten the well-being of his friends or family, they would find a much different Sinestro. Still calculating and brilliant, but suddenly driven by passion and hell-bent on protecting his loved ones. Sinestro would do anything to defend the people he calls his family, and is not afraid to let those who would do them harm know that. After all, fear can be a powerful tool if wielded correctly...

Sinestro is fiercely loyal to the Green Lantern Corps and to the ideals put forth by the Guardians. Though he may harbor secret doubts about some of their methods, and hold concerns about their ways of doing things, he would never speak of those out loud; except to his most trusted friends. He would do anything to help strengthen the Corps, and has volunteered for many dangerous missions in his quest to keep other Lanterns safe.

Civilian Personality: Sinestro has no disconnect between his Lantern personality and his normal one, Sinestro is simply Sinestro.

Super abilities:

-Skills:
--Indomitable Will: Sinestro has the strongest will of any non-Godlike being in the universe, making him the literal perfect candidate for a Green Power Ring.
--Leadership: Sinestro has a naturally ability to make others respect him, making him a natural leader. This has only been enhanced by the governing over a sector of space given to him by the Guardians.
--Genius-Level Intellect: Sinestro's mind is a steel trap, able to plan and improvise on the fly. He can see small details others might miss and work out how or if they relate to situations at hand. Sinestro has a plan for nearly everything.
--Hand-To-Hand Combat: Sinestro has trained with the other members of the Lantern Corps to gain at least a basic understand of many different forms of martial arts, hailing from dozens of different worlds.
--Fear Understanding: Sinestro has one ability no other Green Lanterns have: The ability to understand fear on a basic level. He understands that sometimes it is not enough to simply react and overpower foes with your will, and that sometimes they must be taught not to cross you again. While his Ring is still affected by the yellow weakness, Sinestro himself is unaffected by the crippling effect fear has on other Green Lanterns.

-Powers:

-Gadgets:
--Green Lantern Power Battery: Sinestro keeps a standard-issue power battery for his Ring at him home, allowing him to recharge the Ring when it runs out of power.

-Weapons:
--Green Lantern Power Ring: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Lantern_Ring (That's a big list-o'-stuff.)

Civilian Occupation: None

Biography---------

Character History/Origin: Thaal Sinestro was born on the planet Korugar to a high-born family. He was given the best of everything as a child, from entertainment to education. He took to his schoolwork like a fish to water, and quickly proved himself to be a prodigy among his people. Perhaps fearing that their child would be unable to defend himself from bullies, his parents made sure to give their son an education in self-defense and conflict management as he got older. Though these skills were never as developed as his keen mind, Thaal showed an aptitude for those lessons as well.

As he got older, Thaal was inundated with offers and promises of scholarships, research grants, anything he wanted. Eventually however, the young man decided to pursue a career in the Korugan military, helping his people devise battle strategies and options while taking care to make sure his plans would always minimize the number of casualties. Thaal's plans worked incredibly well in simulations, and the few skirmishes the Korugan military got into always turned out better when they adopted his unorthodox strategies. Even when questioned by his superiors, Thaal would always defend himself and his plans with an air of confidence and certainty. This eventually attracted the attention of the Guardians of Oa, who were looking for a new Lantern to patrol the Korugar sector.

Upon being brought to Oa and meeting with the Guardians, they found that Thaal Sinestro had an incredibly strong will, allowing for his sureness of mind and heart that he had shown his whole life. Therefore, he was considered the perfect candidate for a Green Lantern Ring. Thaal took to the Ring and the power it provided even better than the other challenges he had been given in life, quickly proving himself as a powerful Green Lantern. Soon he had completed his training and was sent back to Korugar with a new mission: The defense and safety of every man, woman, and child in the sector. During these early days with the Green Lanterns, Thaal met Abin Sur, and the two would grow to become fast friends over the years.

Thaal governed the Korugar sector with wisdom and a strong hand, as he believed the Guardians wanted him and the other Lanterns to do. Under his watchful eye, crime and violence in the sector dropped drastically, and peace began to settle in to his home. This was when his friend Abin Sur contacted Thaal, telling him of a prophecy; revealing details of an event called The Blackest Night. Abin Sur was worried that the prophecy would come to pass, and that it was in fact on its way, but Sinestro was unconvinced. Abin vowed to find out more of this mysterious prophecy, and promised to contact his friend with the information. That was the last time Thaal and Abin ever spoke.

Abin Sur disappeared during his hunt for the Blackest Night prophecy, leaving Sinestro worried and confused about what could have happened to his friend, and a powerful Green Lantern. Since then, he has begun to dedicate time to improving the Green Lantern Corps itself, offering to train its members and beginning to mentor promising rookies. No Green Lantern will disappear again, not if he has anything to say about it...

Optional information
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Nemesis:
Allies: The Green Lantern Corps
Team:

[Blackstripe]

@KorkoaExcellent! Welcome aboard!

[Menhir]

Right, forgot to tag. I've really got to get out of this mindset that people read of their own volition.
@Blackstripe

Basic Information
=========
Superhero/Villain Name: Various
Civilian Name: Dialman
Origin: Dimension Z
Hometown: Danny The Park
Sex: None
Race: Benign Independent Thoughtform
Height: Pretty Tall
Weight: Pretty Light
Age: ?? Birth Date: ??
--------
Costumed Appearance: That of his current persona, but with the addition of the Dial embedded in the back of their head.

Civilian Appearance

Icon: Varies, but Dialman has his H-E-R-O, which is the only part of him that can't change tone.

Costumed Personality: More stable than the vanilla untransformed Dialman, but at the same time in a constant mental battle between the original Dialman's mind vs. the personality and ethical principles of his current persona.

Civilian Personality: Dialman's mind is a hazy, jumbled mess of conflicting information from a hundred thousand worlds and times. He doesn't know who he is or where he came from but he's pretty sure that he's meant to fight a terrible looming threat that is even now drawing closer, even if he can't actually articulate what it is.

Super abilities:
-Powers: Unique Physiology: Dialman isn't real. He's not alive, not in the same way people are. He breathes different. Sees different. Bleeds different. He's got waxy smooth skin and staples down his spine and he leaches colors and words and thoughts right up into his own self and back out through him. Imagination is his lifeblood.

-Gadgets: Dial: A functioning Dial, though the exact model is unknown. Embedded in the back of Dialman's head. By using the buttons, he can reach through hypertime and become someone else. Be careful, though, because becoming someone else means giving up yourself, staining you with little drops of other people's hopes and dreams forever until you can't tell who you were before you were yourself.

-Weaknesses: Acetone, ethanol, citric acid, criticism

Civilian Occupation: Hobo

Biography
-------------
I was just a boy on Krypton when my parents were ambushed in a blind alley by a man with a hook for a hand, who stabbed them both with a dagger forged from Nth Metal and merged them into one superpowered being. Just as he was about to come after me, too, a stray transmitter beam hit me, teleporting me to Oa. There, I swore revenge and received cybernetic implants that made me the perfect fusion of man and machine. When I reached adulthood, I left Paradise Island as an envoy to the world of men.

But that can't be right.

Can it?

Hello, operator?

I think I'm sick...

Optional information
----------
Nemesis: Everyone
Allies: Anyone
Team: All of them

[Blackstripe]

@MenhirNo, I saw it the first time. I just...had no idea how to respond to it. Your profile is both very bare bones and potentially broken (not to mention bizarre), given that your H-Dial lets your character basically turn into anyone at will (unlike the "broken" ones which give a random hero). Honestly, I'm gonna have to say no.

[Menhir]

@Blackstripe
Actually, all forms of Dial give a randomized result in every continuity. The concept of a "broken" Dial was actually introduced in the 2012 Dial H run, with the primary difference being that a defective Dial steals identities rather than copying them. The only way to "game" a Dial's outcome is the ability to reverse time like Centipede did with his Q-Dial, which was kind of like savescumming until he got a good result. You could see this when the Operator, despite creating and perfecting the D-Dial himself, still had times when he dialed useless events and couldn't actually effect which outcome the dial bunch got.

But this actually isn't that Dial but a pastiche of the negative effects of the 4th generation H/S/Q-Dials and the overall powerset of the 3rd generation Dial from the 90's H-E-R-O run, though without the residual effects.

I'd suggest reading both they're very good comics.

[Blackstripe]

@MenhirI gave your post history a glance over, and you seem like a pretty good RPer. I suppose with everything you just said you deserve the benefit of the doubt, assuming that you've read the history of this RP's setting and are familiar with it? It's not a typical DC world and has its own history, rules, conventions and lore.

[Menhir]

@Blackstripe
You mean that textwall at the beginning? I'll admit it's a little tangled up in places and has some minor issues with not actually fitting into the current DC cosmology, but we can cross that bridge when we come to it. I mean, you basically just want Miracleman with a coat of paint, right? I can do a pretty good Miracleman, though honestly I'm more of a Morrison guy.

[Blackstripe]

@MenhirIt doesn't fit within the current DC Cosmology at all and that isn't an issue, that's how I want it.

[Menhir]

@Blackstripe
How's it a DC roleplay if it's not supposed to have anything to do with DC, though?

[Blackstripe]

@MenhirIt is inspired by DC, has some of the same analogues and concepts (Captain Marvel, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, etc), but they're under no obligation to follow DC Canon. It exists entirely in a separate multiverse from the main DCU.

[Menhir]

@Blackstripe
The metaphysical ramifications of having more than one of an idea that encompasses all things that exist, have existed, or will ever exist aside, even the DC multiverse doesn't consistently have analogues to those people. In fact, even within the post-Flashpoint Orrery of Worlds, the only multiversal constant is The Atom for reasons nobody entirely understands. It stands to reason that a separate multiverse wouldn't have any analogues to DC stuff except by pure coincidence, right? So if we go by those rules then, for example, Lady Arcana would just be a version of Lady Arcana that superficially resembles Captain Marvel, rather than the other way around, right?

So why are you centering this on DC when you've got a setting all your own right there in the opening post?

I wouldn't say it's a bad setting, all told. If you just had a little confidence in what you could do this could easily stand on it's own. All you'd have to do is drop those weird forced references to "Earth-1" because, I'll be straight with you, it's very misleading when there's already an Earth-1.

So why don't you give it a try? Just, you know... drop all this bait and switch stuff. "Heroes Reborn - A Blackstripe Universe Roleplay", or something. Maybe that's a little narcissistic, I dunno. But it can't be any fun being on the defensive like this all the time, right?

[Alfhedil]

@Menhir With anything there's usually a decent enough bit of give and take, and Blackstripe was willing to work with you after the first back and forth between you. Personally, I find the idea unique, but inherently in need of some tweaking. All of which I be more than happy to work out with you, so long as we stop this little game we're playing here. Blackstripe is the GM, and you're right about it not being any fun being on the defensive like this. That's where I step in.

I will work with you, should you choose to accept my help, but my flexibility only goes so far. This setting will not break in order to cater to what your idea of the RP should be, nor should it. If that is your intention, to come into this RP and make declarations and try to shoehorn your character in come hell or high water, then I feel you know what time it is. No one is pulling a bait and switch on you. You chose to make a CS for this RP, and that meant that you chose to subject yourself to the mercies of the GMs of this RP. We do not have to accept any person that just happens into the RP and decides to make a CS. We have an obligation to maintain the consistency of the universe that was created for us to RP in, and everyone before you that is actively participating in this thread has read the background for the setting and agreed to the terms of it.

Now, I leave you with this decision:

Either accept a compromise and work with us on making a character more fitting for this DC RP
Or accept that this conversation is finished and let us go our separate ways.

Your choice, you can contact me either through this thread or via PMs.

[Menhir]

@Alfhedil
Who are you, then?

[Dblade26]

...seriously? There's a Co-GM label right next to Alf's name. You're talking to a Co-GM for the game.

[Menhir]

@Dblade26
So he's not the GM?

[pyroman]

@Menhirone of the three GM's we have. Please treat them all with the same level of respect, instead of discrediting them because there's a CO in front of that GM

[Menhir]

@pyroman
Oh, is this some kind of round robin game? I just have to keep playing until it rotates back to the real deal, right?

Don't worry, I'm really good at games.

[Blackstripe]

@MenhirSo, let's go over all the wonderful things you've displayed in your quest to gain entry into this RP.

1) Barebones profile: generally not a good idea, but hey maybe I can let it slide if the person seems cool.

2) Disparaging the premise of RP and its setting: always a class move. Always endearing. You apparently believe diverging from DC Canon means it shouldn't be called a DC RP...despite it having the Green Lantern Corps, The Question, Superman, Shazam, Aquaman, etc...uh-huh.

3) Disrespecting my CO-GMs: oh boy, do you know how to make an impression! Everyone here thinks you're very powerful now.

4) Overall dismissive and disrespectful attitude: and doesn't this just clinch it? Man, you practically make my job too easy for me. How could I possibly give you any other response but...

hider

Go fuck yourself!

[Menhir]

@Blackstripe
I think Blazion's turn was next, actually.
You have to wait your turn even if you're the GM, okay?