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[NinaDivine]

@Dead Cruiser Just in case you didn't see it in the original post, there isn't a 'Bat-Family' currently in the history of this game.

[Dead Cruiser]

@NinaDivine Is there a Nightwing? "Successor to Batman" is close enough for my needs.

[NinaDivine]

@Dead Cruiser

Crime’s gonna be on the rise in Gotham as well with a broken Batman and no sidekicks in our history to protect the city.

@Omega Man

I can't speak for the GM, but I'd take this to mean there was never a Robin so there was never a Nightwing.

[Dead Cruiser]

@NinaDivine Hrmmm... This is really weird alternate history. It's like it's set in the future, but the past is full of nothing. There's not much space that's already taken up, but at the same time there's nothing to build off of.

[Weird Tales]

I'm stuck between either going with a stretching hero or a quarterback hero

[The Angry Goat]

I should post in here

[Omega Man]

@NinaDivine Hrmmm... This is really weird alternate history. It's like it's set in the future, but the past is full of nothing. There's not much space that's already taken up, but at the same time there's nothing to build off of.

@Dead Cruiser

I should've posted this earlier but here's what history we have universe wise...

Founding Five Justice Leaguers

Superman - He's the first superhero. The reason it's even called a super-hero. His career seemingly began in the 1970's, however reports indicate he may have been active as far back as WWII. Same basic powers of Superman. He makes everybody in the room wanna stand a little bit taller. A big blue boyscout to this day, he has a line he'll never cross and ALWAYS finds another way. He's pretty much the big gun of the metahuman/alien archetypes. He's only been Clark Kent the last twenty-five years or so of his life on Earth. He obviously ages slower in the universe than past incarnations. Recently killed fighting the monstrous Doomsday. - Deceased

Batman - Same billionaire playboy philanthropist, his career just began in the late 90's and has lasted nearly two decades. He is to the gadgeteers and standard human heroes what Superman is to metas and aliens. The big gun. Basically picture Ben Afleck's Batman here just with more gray hair. Like gray haired Bruce in the veeeery first episode of Batman Beyond. Currently Bruce has a broken back after the fight with Doomsday that will take some time to recover from. - Active Mentor

Green Lantern - Alan Scott is the resident GL, and the ONLY GL in this universe. I'm staying away from the GLC and all the rainbow brigade Corps. His career stretches over the last decade or so and a few years back he absorbed the energies of his magic ring internalizing his power. He's the big gun of the supernatural/magic archetypes. He was based in Gotham and mostly patrolled during the day when Batman wasn't being Batman. Green Lantern retired after finding out his reformed enemy turned fiancée Thorn was pregnant with twins. Moved upstate to Jump City. - Retired/Reserve

Robotman - Cliff Steele was once a racecar driver and adrenaline junkie. He jumped out of planes, served two years in the military, and was even a bouncer on a cruise ship for several months. It was to no surprise to anyone when he finally went too far and crashed an experimental NHRA racing car. His body was near completely destroyed, which is when his friends at STAR Labs Dr. Niles Caulder and Silas Stone put his brain into the body of a machine. Still ever the enthusiast he decided superheroics were in his future and took the alias Robotman [he wasn't very original]. He was a hero of Midway for several years before joining the other founding five in the Justice League. - Active Mentor

Wonder Woman - Princess Diana as well as many other young Amazons lost to the dark skinned Naomi when a contest was held to send a champion out into man's world. Naomi was christened the 'Eagle of the Amazons' but at some point during her early career in WWII she was dubbed Wonder Woman by the papers in Europe. She was one of only a dozen or so active superhumans fighting for the allies before they were shut down by the governments for various reasons. She joined Batman and Superman originally forming a superhero trinity in the early 2000's before also teaming with Robotman and Green Lantern to form the JL. - Active Mentor

[Chain]

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I use Alan Scott as the sole GL in our universe to get away from the OP'ed nature of the ring bearers of the last ten years [Reds, Blues, Greens, etc..]. If you liked his shapeshifting Vuldarian stuff though you could use that version of him...

- Ω

@Omega Man

Ah right, no worries. Still thinking of a character anyways. Would it be possible to use the character of Guy Gardner, but completely reimagine his powers? As in like, the same character, but with nothing to do with the red/green lanterns?

[Dead Cruiser]

I'm thinking maybe then a Martian Manhunter type? Originally a sleeper agent sent to conquer Earth, but his programming never kicked in because the Martians killed themselves with civil war.

[Omega Man]

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Ah right, no worries. Still thinking of a character anyways. Would it be possible to use the character of Guy Gardner, but completely reimagine his powers? As in like, the same character, but with nothing to do with the red/green lanterns?

@Chain

Just depends on what's in the CS.

I'm thinking maybe then a Martian Manhunter type? Originally a sleeper agent sent to conquer Earth, but his programming never kicked in because the Martians killed themselves with civil war.

@Dead Cruiser

That has a lot of potential. I'd love to see this.

- Ω

[Unknown100]

I'm juggling the idea of a daughter of Darkseid who's hiding in exile on Earth from her father. Though she was born to become a worthy heir, she has chosen to become human, and live a life of fighting crime on street level.
Of course, it's going to escalate to world changing events, however it's going to start out very low level. I think that might have a lot of possibilities.

[Omega Man]

@Bluetommy Accepted BTW.

Anybody else got a CS reworked for this game from the previous roster? @Simple Unicycle, @NecroKnight, @rocketrobie2, etc.?

If this game doesn't make it to an IC/OOC then I'll likely make an original universe superhero RP. With this JLU/DCU RP series being the only thing I've done for the last year, maybe I need to change it up a bit and do something with the Avengers or the X-Men universe...

- Ω

[NinaDivine]

@Omega Man
I was thinking of maybe either creating an Aquagirl/woman character as a primary and using my Red Arrow from the previous version as a secondary, or aging up Red Arrow so she could be a member of the JLU and then coming up with a different secondary character (perhaps one of the H Dial holders).

[Simple Unicycle]

@Omega Man

Currently in the process of writing middle-aged Q, I'll try to get him up before the week is out.

[Dead Cruiser]

CS template?

[Simple Unicycle]

CS template?

@Dead Cruiser

Here you go.

[Weird Tales]

Polymer

Player Name: Weird Tales

Primary Character:
Polymer

Secret Identity:
Jack Alworth

Status:
JLU

Age:
23

City:
Metropolis

Day Job: Jack works as an engineer for a car company

Powers:
Superhuman elasticity/plasticity, malleability: Jack can make his body become a rubber-like substance and can stretch all parts of it to insanely long lengths. This can range from limbs to fingers, feet and neck. This ability also allows him to squeeze through extremely tiny spaces such as cracks in walls and floors. He can also expand his body like a balloon for the purpose of catching falling people or absorbing hits from larger opponents. This power grants him very strong resistance to bludgeoning and piercing damage.

In combat Jack's main method for battle is restraining his opponents by wrapping around them like a snake and constricting them. He can also throw elongated punches and kicks to hit foes from a distance. Jack can also perform some shape-changing such as shifting his form to resemble inanimate objects and changing his appearance.

Weaknesses: he is very weak to heat and cold attacks.

Skills: He is very skilled in the field of chemistry and engineering. He likes to be more hands on than sitting in a study room reading a book.

Appearance:


BRIEF Bio: Jack was born to a working class family in the Midwestern city of Buckeye Ohio. His dad worked in a printing factory, which wasn't the greatest job, but it kept food on the table and paid the bills. Though take your kid to workday was rather boring for Jack. His early childhood years were a little lonely since he had trouble socializing with other kids thanks to have anxiety.

While he was in elementary school Jack was a bit of an outcast and only had one friend who was a boy named Charlie. The two hanged out, but Charlie was more of the studying hard type while Jack was the curious and experimental kind of boy who liked to test theories of his.

Things got a little better when he went to high school and he had fixed most of his anxiety problems and found it easier to socialize. One of his tricks was being a bit of a joker, which for him was good at defusing anxiety building up inside him. It was also in high school where developed his skill in chemistry and engineering.

However it was high school where his life would change permanently. About three months into his freshmen year at George Washington High, Jack's metahuman powers activated and he discovered that he had the power to stretch and bend his body like it was rubber.

at first he used his new found gifts for practical jokes and pranks, but eventually he realized that he could use these powers for good and he created a costume and took on the name Polymer. He now is trying to fight crime with his powers all the while hoping to keep it a secret from his parents.

Eventually his dad got a job in the city of Metropolis and he transferred to a school in their new home. It some time getting use to and he missed his old friends and schoolmates, but he would manage. Also Metropolis meant that he would get a chance to meet other heroes like himself and maybe learn some things about fighting crime.

After he went to college and graduated he found a job as an engineer and it wasn't too long after some heroics in the city that he was discovered by the group of heroes known as the Justice League. He was excited to be a part of the team and get the chance to really see how well he could develop his powers.

Supporting Characters:
Aside from his mother and dad and a couple of friends, Jack is pretty on his own when not fighting crime with the league.

Secondary Character:
none at the moment.

Additional Notes:
Anything else you think we should know?

[Omega Man]

SIDEWAYS

⫸ Player Name: ⫷
Omega Man

⫸ Primary Character: ⫷
SIDEWAYS

⫸ Secret Identity: ⫷
Derek James

⫸ Status: ⫷
Titan

⫸ Age: ⫷
19

⫸ City: ⫷
He’s from Gotham, rifts just about anywhere as a hero. He also operates in San Francisco with the Titans.

⫸ Day Job: ⫷
Student at East Gotham Technical Institute

⫸ Powers: ⫷

Strength - he can lift 7-10 tons [roughly 20k pounds max].

Speed/Agility - also above average, but also due to being a parkour enthusiast.

Rifting – Derek can create rifts in space/time and teleport anywhere he can think of as well as cross into the Multiverse, Dark Multiverse, and the spaces in between.

⫸ Weaknesses: ⫷

He can be physically overpowered and is vulnerable to the same things as any human would be in a light body armor suit. Outside of his suit, smaller arms fire doesn’t bother him as much as anything high powered and knives can still do damage. He’s meant to be flawed somewhat in the same ways as Spider-man. He’s human and vulnerable.

⫸ Skills: ⫷

He’s good with computers and most modern tech. Knows waaaay too much about tv and movies as well as music. His powers make him stealthy when it’s needed. Anything else he just Google’s or watches a YouView video on it.

⫸ Appearance: ⫷

⫸ ⫸ BRIEF Bio: ⫷

During the Justice League’s discovery of the Dark Multiverse some years earlier, 16 year old Derek James fell into an opening into the space between universes. Four days later he woke up with powers allowing him to teleport anywhere he could think of. After coming into contact with the Fuginauts, Derek learned of the Multiverse, the Dark Multiverse, and the space in between called the Hypertime Membrane. Derek would face a dark matter creature from the Dark Multiverse similar in a way to Marvel’s Venom symbiote, however it would consume and manipulate half of Darkstar Science’s staff including their CEO. After a war with Sideways, Batman, and other allies from Gotham the Fuginauts stepped in to help eliminate the Dark Matter’s presence, or so they thought.

After the Dark Matter managed to corrupt one Fuginaut it took nearly all of them and began destroying worlds in the Multiverse and Dark Multiverse. Now only Tempus remains after Sideways cornered them in a dark universe that Tempus destroyed.

Now after having the weight of two Multiverses thrust onto his shoulders in a three year period, Derek focuses on getting grounded back in his universe and joins the Titans after Batman offers him a steady income while attending school.

⫸ Supporting Characters: ⫷

Batman, cause Derek lives in Gotham and he’s also a member of the Titans.

Ernestine Edgars, at 19 years old she’s become the Edna Mode of the DCU and creates looks for several heroes now. Still a potential love interest for Derek but she’s become her own shining star thanks to Sideways.

Replicant, Derek’s first metahuman enemy now also powered by the Dark Matter.

⫸ Secondary Character: ⫷

Unknown ATM

⫸ Additional Notes: ⫷

My secondary will likely be a solo or on the JLU.

- Ω

[Dead Cruiser]

John Jones

Player Name:
Dead Cruiser

Primary Character:
"Martian Manhunter" (Not his superhero identity, merely the inspiration character.)

Secret Identity:
Jonathan "Jay" Jones

Status:
Titan

Age:
17 (Years spent on Earth)

City:
San Fransisco

Day Job:
Student

Powers:
Jay has numerous abilities, nearly all of which are tied into his extraterrestrial physiology. A shapeshifter, Jay has complete control over his own physiology, and it is malleable enough to assume the form of nearly any biological substance or construct. Utterly adaptable, Jay can reform himself to have the musculature needed to fight fist-to-fist with a Kryptonian, armor harder than diamonds, and can even alter himself to be able to fly or become completely invisible and intangible. Naturally, this makes Jay exceptionally difficult to wound, as he can merely shapeshift to regenerate even grievous injuries. Any form that requires an increase in mass forces Jay to consume the required elements from his environment. However, Jay's control over these powers is limited at best, as anything more drastic than a moderate change of certain body parts he cannot perform willingly. He might take on more drastic changes in times of duress, or out of reflex, but as a whole most of them seem "locked away" to him. His "base form" is that of a human with moderately superhuman physiology, and an advanced regenerative ability.

Rather than the measly human five, Jay has no less than nine senses, all of which are tuned beyond that which a human is capable of. Even his sight, common enough to humans, can see across various wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. His more esoteric senses are tuned to his psychic abilities, which are prodigious. Jay is an advanced telepath, capable of reading minds and detecting thoughts, as well as communicating mentally, and manipulating the minds of others in various ways, such as illusions and false memories. In addition, he can create powerful mental barriers for both himself and others, protecting against similar psychic attacks. These are merely the abilities that he has the most reliable access to, as more advanced powers seem similar "locked." Given the malleability of his body, "brain matter" is an irrelevant concept, therefore making every cell of his body a psychic resonator, and suggesting that his powers have the potential to increase in magnitude dramatically. He is also a telekine, capable of creating very basic telekinetic blasts and shields, though again their potential power seems artificially limited.

Weaknesses:
Jay is highly sensitive to extreme heat, generally that produced by a fire or greater. If his flesh is exposed to it, he loses control of the biochemical bonds that allow him to shapeshift, literally melting him until his component parts recover from the shock of the heat, which could take minutes to hours depending on exposure.

Skills:
Jay has a number of niche talents and hobbies, such as playing the bass guitar, DIY tailoring, and extensive knowledge of cultural topics (video games, music and comics in particular) from the mid-80s to late 90s. That aside, he can be surprisingly charismatic when in the company of other "misfits and outcasts," and is adept at thinking on his feet in stressful situations.

Appearance:
Jay stands a bit over six feet tall, and has a wiry, muscular build. His features are somewhat heavy and brutish, giving him a visage resembling a bulldog. His eye and hair color vary depending on his mood, but they are usually some bright, outlandish color somewhere in the spectrum between blue, purple or pink. His hair is worn in an undercut that is sometimes styled into a tall, spiky mohawk, and he typically dresses in degraded and distressed leathers and denims, usually black and adorned with badges and slogans typical of the punk subculture, as well as various rings, chains and wristbands. When operating in his "superhero" persona, he will accessorize with such items as ornamental goggles or gas masks.

BRIEF Bio:
Jonathan Jones, who prefers to go by the nickname of "Jay," was taken in as a foundling by an orphanage in Southern California. Given the lack of identification with him, the orphanage gave him his alliterative name based on the month he was found in, January. For much of his infancy and early childhood, Jay was a sickly child, prone to infections and seizures. While his health seemed to level out by the time he was about eight, he was still an outcast among the other children, who avoided him based on his strange aura and mannerisms. Jay had a lonely adolescence, drifting between whatever foster homes would take him in, and grew into niche interests and social groups in a desire for belonging.

As he aged, though, he superhuman abilities began to make themselves known. His body would transform seemingly at random times, or he would be suddenly plagued by the deluge of thoughts surrounding him. These made him continue to act out, isolating himself, and reacting violently to forced socialization. While he has generally grasped him powers at this point, by his late teens the damage had been done, and the only social group that would accept him were fringe outcasts and petty criminals. While robbing a convenience store with some of his "friends," Jay was caught, and due to an outburst of his powers, he hospitalized a police officer. He was detained as a super-criminal, and was about to be sentenced and imprisoned as such, until the intervention of Batman. After reviewing his files and determining that his potential was enormous, Batman offered to vouch for him and keep him out of prison, as long as he joined the Titans. Seeing little choice, Jay has done so, though approaches the concept of superheroism with great suspicion and trepidation.

Supporting Characters:
NA

Secondary Character:
NA

Additional Notes:
While Batman is reasonably sure that Jay is some sort of alien, bases on genetic testing that he (begrudgingly) consented to, there is still no idea what his origins are. Human DNA markers were found among his incredibly complex genetic code, which combined with his extremely convincing human "disguise" (Jay passes for human even under an MRI), Batman theorizes that Jay is some sort of "infiltrator" organism meant to pass as a human. To what end, he can only guess.

Even as advanced as Jay's human form is, he is still adapting to Earth's biochemicals, and sometimes has strange reactions to common substances. For instance, he has developed an addictive reaction to chocolate, the formula in Oreo-brand chocolate cookies in particular.

[NinaDivine]

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