DC Universe: Anarchy

[TheUnknowable]

The original RP I'm trying to restart.

One and a half years ago a new Metahuman named "Anarchy" appeared, attacking government sites around the world. After each attack, he would post allegations against the government and site he attacked. This made him the enemy of the Justice League, who considered him to just be another super-villain who was trying to hurt people. He ended up working with various villains because of this and, one year ago, they attacked Cadmus, drawing the Justice League to them.

During that fight Anarchy tried to talk Superman into standing down and, when that didn't work, pulled a shotgun out. Thinking that it couldn't hurt him, Superman slowly flew towards him, and Anarchy fired. The Kryptonite shards the gun fired embedded themselves into him and, after Anarchy shot him again just to make sure, Luthor landed behind the Man of Steel and drew a ten inch Kryptonite blade and ran it through his back. Anarchy reminded him that no one else was to die, and Luthor scowled, but complied. After the battle, Anarchy burned the body along with the Kryptonite and buried the ashes at a memorial in Metropolis.

A week later Anarchy walked before all of the former Justice League members who were now being held in Belle Reve. "I held you here just to make sure you didn't try and stop us while we finished our mission. Every politician and military leader that refused to step down is now in prison awaiting trial for crimes against humanity. In order to guarantee that you can't secretly reinstall them into positions of power or continue to secretly rule the world from the shadows, every one of your secret identities is now public knowledge. Now, if you'll go through that door over there," he pointed to a door to his right, "your gear will be returned and your power-dampening collars removed. Welcome to the new world."

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Mark Patterson, CEO of Phoenix Security Services, formerly known as Anarchy, was in a meeting with his head of security operations, John Stewart. He looked up as Kevin Kirk, his assistant, opened the door. "Sir, there two men here to see you, Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen."

"Of course," he said, "send them in." After they entered, he greeted them. Neither looked too happy to see him, but they weren't openly hostile. "So, how's the the plan coming?"

"Not too good," said Queen, "Building a prison colony at the bottom of ocean isn't exactly easy, but Aquaman is letting us hire Atlantians to build and crew it."

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You can play as any kind of character you want. I'll make the script work for the characters.

The locations I've created so far are the Watchtower, now the Lunar Resort, which uses "Young Justice" Zeta tubes to get to it, and the Phoenix office, which could be in Gotham or Metropolis, depending on where we start.

Character Sheet

(Appearance here)
Name:

Super Name: (if you have one)

Powers: (Super-human abilities)

Technology: (Technology you usually carry with you)

Acquaintances: (friends, family)

Personality: (What kind of person are you?)

Bio: (What were you like before the collapse, and what do you do now?)

Anarchy

but with a yellow tie
Name: Mark Patterson

Super Name: Anarchy

Powers: He believes his powers are centered around his desire for freedom. As such, they are all tools with which he can either remove restrictions or defend against restrictions.

Amplification: Suppresses the limits on a person's powers or physical body, amplifying them. The more he amplifies a person's powers the faster it tires them and the more it physically harms them. He is able to suppress the negative effects in himself quite a bit, allowing him to safely amplify his own abilities far more than he could safely amplify another person's. If use on someone with dormant powers, it will let them access their powers, allowing him to give potential meta-humans powers.

Telepathy: Little more than Empathy unless amplified, he can feel another person's fears, concerns, and pain. If amplified he can speak telepathically, and if they allow it, can view another person's memories, though he can't alter memories or force his way into minds.

Telekinesis: He can shield himself from attacks, either with a skin-tight or a bubble shield, and can lift objects, whether touching them or not. He can also fly. If not amplified it is limited to a few hundred kilos of strength and a flight speed of 100kph. If amplified he can lift up to 100 tonnes and fly at up to mach 10.

Technopathy: He recently discovered that if he amplified his powers he could break electronic and computer based encryption and security. He is unable to access the files directly with this power, but he can break into them and download them or view them on the machine itself.

Technology: Railgun pistol, Nanotube Armor body suit, wrist computer

Acquaintances: Kevin Kirk (friend)

Personality: He wants to help people be free. What you do with your freedom is up to you, as long as you don't use it to hurt anyone.

Bio: As a child he was treated terribly but his drug addict parents, who rarely fed him but kept him at home to make him work constantly. When he was twelve he was locked in his home, desperate to get out, when the lock on the door broke and he ran away. He spent the next six years on the run, believing that the cops would lock him up if they caught him. While on the run, he learned to read and eventually learned enough to get his GED. He now realizes that he must have been boosting his intelligence with his powers, which would explain the headaches he kept getting. He also learned to use his powers and use them to his advantage.

He got a job working construction, using his powers to secretly help himself, while taking classes online. Eventually he learned enough about technology, chemistry, and biology to start inventing things and selling the patents. He used the money to start Phoenix Security Services and, as they were one of the few security companies that had the technology to take on super villains, they began guarding research facilities. This included research facilities belonging to Lexcorp, Wayne Enterprises, Star Labs, and others.

About two year ago he discovered that he could break computer security with his powers while investigating a stolen shipment of Lexcorp particle rifles. He found that the theft was ordered by a Us General Wade Eiling for use at a secret government facility in South America, and went there under the guise of a hero to get the shipment back. During the resulting battle, however, the base was destroyed and, when he told the press why he went there, they chose to say he was a terrorist. This got the Justice league involved and he had no choice but to side with the Legion of Doom for his own safety. He convinced them to follow him on the grounds that he would help them destroy the Justice League by amplifying them and their powers and, one year ago today they had their greatest battle ever.

During this battle one hero did die, Superman, when Lex Luthor ran a Kryptonite blade through his heart. Anarchy flew off with the body to see if the Ultrahumanite could save his life, but the man of steel died on the operating table. They cremated him, after taking scans and cell samples to verify that he was completely dead and not just in another healing trance, and Anarchy returned the ashes to Metropolis, where he commissioned a statue for the fallen hero.

After that he built up his Security force, hiring ex heroes and villains, as well as ordinary people, and set to work stabilizing the world by being a kind of police force that specialized in super villains. He hired Kevin Kirk about three weeks after the great battle, and the man became one of his best friends and his advisor.

Kevin Kirk

Name: Kevin Kirk

Super Name: none

Powers: Zero range telekinesis: He can fly at several times the speed of sound, simulate superhuman strength enough to bench-press buses, and defend against attacks.

Technology: communications equipment, wrist computer (with holographic display)

Acquaintances: Mark Patterson (Friend)

Personality: He wants to learn about people and this new society, but is very helpful to people. Doesn't resort to violence except in defense.

Bio: Just a city boy, born and raised in South Gotham. He took the midnight train going anywhere.
At least, that's what he tells people. He doesn't remember prior to the collapse, when a stray telephone pole caused him to hit the pavement too hard and gave him amnesia. He was out jogging at the time, and didn't have ID, but Mark found him and unlocked his powers fully. Then he got a job as Mark's assistant.
Lives in an apartment in Metropolis, as he hopes to run into someone who recognizes him.

[TheUnknowable]

@Double@Archmage MC@Pathfinder@Weird Tales@Skinner35@Queentze@Eviledd1984
I'm restarting DC Universe: Anarchy in case you want to rejoin.

[Taytay]

Okay coo I'm def down, can we use the same characters or would you like something new?

[TheUnknowable]

@QueentzeYeah, you can use the same character, though I'll be restarting the story.

[Burning Kitty]

So basically <insert hero> gets captured, the badguys win, and <insert hero> just says fuck it and joins them?

Do you even know who some of those heroes are? Batman would never help Anarchy no matter what.

[TheUnknowable]

@Burning KittyNo, Anarchy is an Anti-hero at worst. He doesn't like government, and the JL sided with the governments and went after him, so he had to help the bad guys. He kept them from killing people, though, as he was amping their powers and stronger than most of them.

Batman's reason is basically "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
Arrow just sees him as a misguided idealist, and works with him because crime is down since the collapse because he got most of the criminals to go straight because they make more money that way.

Neither are actually his ally, and would turn on him if he started hurting people.

[RumikoOhara]

I'm Tempted to offer Witness to this RP though on some levels her abilities are a nightmare for the powers that be

[TheUnknowable]

@RumikoOharaI'll try to work with you, as long as I can make them fit the world well enough.

[TheUnknowable]

Batman would never help Anarchy no matter what.

@Burning Kitty

If the Joker had info that could take down Lex Luthor, he might work with him on something that didn't hurt anyone, or pay him for it.
That's basically what he's doing here. He's not convinced that this isn't Anarchy's end game, so he's playing along in hopes of finding out what that is so he can stop it.

[RumikoOhara]

Sorry Guess I should have tagged her; Here's the Witness

@TheUnknowable

Witness

Name: Trinity Smith (No really it's Smith)
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Appearance: Black hair, Green eyes, 5’8” and like most Meta her figure and muscle tone perfect no matter what or how much she eats.
Powers: Retrocognitive, Omnilingualism , Probility Manipulation
Enhanced Physical Condition

Personality: Trinity is a strange young woman who can be very gentle and understanding one moment then turn cold and hard hearted if it is to get things the way she wants. Generous she helps people never pausing to calculate how she can write it off her taxes but because it appeals to her sense of justice. Determined she is like a Honey Badger once aroused; small but tenacious.
Bio: Born in Yellowknife in The Northwest Territories of Canada Trinity was always a curious child whose parents thought her inquisitive nature marked for the sciences and encouraged her to seek answers to her questions and cultivate a skill at research.

When she was only 11 Trinity happened to pick up a school friend’s coat by accident and was stunned by finding herself reliving an abusive beating her friend had undergone just that morning before school. She screamed for her friend’s father to stop beating her but found out she couldn’t be heard or seen and was just about to try anything she could to stop the man when she was shocked out of her fallback as she’s come to call them when her teacher shouted at her asking her name loudly.

Unable to explain to the school what she saw Trinity was sent to see the Board Psychologist and subjected to all sorts of screening and Diagnosed as a Schizophrenic and told that she was seeing things that weren’t there. Put on meds that made her sluggish Trinity looked to be damaged and had to attend a special school with other children like herself only they weren’t which she discovered after only three months and wished she never had.

It was while attending the special school that Trinity’s power bored through the medicinal haze showing her the life her fellow students lead when not at the school and she was horrified to see the things they suffered at the hands of the people that said they cared for them but was afraid to tell anyone what she was really seeing for fear of becoming institutionalized.

Only twelve years old there was little she could do that wouldn’t affect her in a negative way if she was found out so she put her abilities to use secretly gathering information about the abuse and printing the crimes in detail and sending it in a note to the abusers which actually put a dent into their activities and just to make sure that id did stop she began sending the Children's services copies.

Her school blew up in scandal when the RCMP dug deeper encouraged by the data they held and discovered a pattern of abuse in the staff along with coverups. It was this scandal that caused her parents to move to California and it was there that Trinity tired of how icky the meds made her feel and the classes designed more as daycare than school.

She gave her approach a great deal of thought and came up with a plan that was both entertaining to her parents; she did an object read on their car keys debit and credit cards and gave them an on the spot detailed description of what they had done that day. Naturally they thought it some sort of trick and her a clever girl but they also now had a bit of doubt and tried to prove it wasn’t possible but they quickly came around happy that she wasn’t a Schizo and then they felt guilty when the realized that they had allowed doctors to dope her up.

It seemed as if everything was coming up roses as Trinity discovered she held other talents such as the ability to understand whatever was said around her no matter what the language and grew close once more with her mom and dad.

It was the first time her cruel and capricious talent with probability revealed itself while visiting they were visiting Vegas. Her talent saved her by having her accused of theft and tossed into a holding cell, a holding cell that protected her from a raid by a gang who boldly but foolishly tried to spring their boss only to be felled by the cops when they stormed the jail. Her parents who had been trying to talk to the police were among the 23 dead but not the 65 wounded so she was alone.

Her parents dead and Trinity just 16 and loathing the idea of becoming the latest guest of Child Protection who’d likely find out her status as a Schizo and force her back on the meds which she couldn’t tolerate so she sued to become emancipated and won her case because she had by luck an insurance settlement and passed a screening for her former condition the doctors citing that she’d been wrongly diagnosed and was in their eyes capable of taking care of herself.

So two parents less Trinity now lives in the house her parents bought and manages her resources (1.4 million after paying off the house)

She graduated school early but didn’t go on to college realising she could make money finding things and translating papers for universities while indulging in her cause as a Witness

[Burning Kitty]

@TheUnknowableEverything you said only portrays Oliver and Bruce as mentally deficient imbecile who are the minions of evil.

They sided with the man who joined super villains, murdered Superman. By joining him no matter the good intention they have declared themselves the enemy of everything good and pure, and every action they have ever taken and will ever take is now permanently tainted as the actions of a super villain.

If you are willing to accept a character who will treat Bruce, Oliver, and any former hero who sided with Anarchy as the super villains they are. I'm game. If Damian exists he will get the same treatment because he is a member of the League of Assassins, plus he is just a rotten bastard of a person.

Who were the members of the JL when Superman died?

[TheUnknowable]

@Burning KittyI see them as pragmatists, but I can see why you'd think that.
If you want to play a character that hates them (and Green Lantern too) that's fine.

[Burning Kitty]

@Burning KittyI see them as pragmatists, but I can see why you'd think that.
If you want to play a character that hates them (and Green Lantern too) that's fine.

@TheUnknowable

If John is still a GL then the Guardians are doing a terrible job.

[RumikoOhara]

So Intense

[TheUnknowable]

@Burning KittyHe's still fighting villains in this sector, he's just working with one to facilitate it.

Besides, Sinestro was still one when he conquered his home world, so it's possible. Or I could have him go rogue and keep the ring if that doesn't make sense to anyone.

[Burning Kitty]

@Burning KittyHe's still fighting villains in this sector, he's just working with one to facilitate it.

Besides, Sinestro was still one when he conquered his home world, so it's possible. Or I could have him go rogue and keep the ring if that doesn't make sense to anyone.

@TheUnknowable

Sinestro was a genius who was able to hide it for years. Didn't help the Guardians ain't that bright and had blinders on when it came to their golden boy Sinestro.

John may be a great guy but he ain't as smart as Sinestro.

Villains fight each other all the time, doesn't make that action the action of a hero.

[RumikoOhara]

I for one don't care how crazy this ride gets; I am suspending Disbelief

[TheUnknowable]

@Burning Kittyif the others have a problem with it, I'll have him give his ring up, switch colors (maybe blue), or use a knock-off built by Phoenix.

[TheUnknowable]

@RumikoOharaI think its plausible enough that they'd work with Anarchy to fight other criminals that it's not that hard to accept.

[RumikoOhara]

I see this as a "What if?" style Universe

Who knows Maybe in this Universe Batman is openly Gay or the Joker's Turned Good Guy, who knows what's up?