[CHAR] Power Play

Fringe

Name: Jin Zhou

Alias: Fringe, formerly The Fringed Spider

Appearance:

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Hometown: Shanghai, China

Biography:

the story of a spider

From her early days back home in China, Jin always knew she would rise above the ranks and take the world by storm with her scientific ideas and inquiries. A lone daughter, Jin understood stress and how the people around her viewed her, but she wasn't going to let anything stop her form reaching the top.

Jin majored in mechanical engineering, and soon found a job with the Shanghai branch of Aprico, testing and developing equipment that would help further humanity.

However, unlike the rest of the world, her story started before The Boom. Among technological advancements, Aprico is also heavily invested in genetic work as well. The smallest animals had the most potential while also having the lowest risk in the event anything happened. Fringe was unlucky enough to have been bitten by one of Aprico's genetically modified test subjects, A Portia Fimbriata - The Fringed Spider. Since her bite, Jin was sharper than ever. Her mind was more flexible than she ever thought possible, and her vision was enhanced so much she needed such a thick prescription in order to not get a headache from information overload.

These powers could not go to waste, she told herself. Every advantage she was given, she would use to the fullest extent. She couldn't, wouldn't let herself sit idly by while people were getting hurt out in the streets, so she took to vigilantism in the hours she was not at work. She had no name, no face. Simply a do-gooder who helped protect the people of Shanghai.

And then it happened. Aprico asked her to move to their founding establishment in Bell Reach California. How could she say no? This was the step up in life she was waiting for. To finally be in the biggest league of them all and to change the future in ways that her masked counterpart could not. She could show her face, she could get recognition for her efforts.

Unfortunately, you don't get a lot of praise when you're a shut-in.

Moving to America was a massive change for Jin. Half way around the world and there was nothing there that her advanced mind could predict. She spent all of her time at the lab or at home, but this pattern of work and seclusion caught the eye of a family living in the same building as her.

Cliff Riley, an electrician and maintenance adviser, lived just down the hall from Jin. He had seen her go to and from work nearly every day without so much as a word to her new neighbors, but respected her enough to keep his distance. As days turned into weeks, and Jin seemed more stressed with every passing day, Cliff, his wife May, and their surrogate son Peter decided to be the welcome wagon.

The three helped her out of her shell and become more acclimated to her new surroundings. Young Peter was just entering high school and needed a tutor. What time she once spent at her own home, was now spent with the Rileys. As much as she loved the Riley family, she could not tell her about her burden, her past. The Riley family was remarkable in the fact that none of them seemed to have developed powers, but Jin was ahead of the curve. In a city of heroes, she wanted to lay low.

About a year in, tragedy struck. Cliff Riley was murdered in a mugging, leaving behind his wife and nephew. It hit Jin hard, to lose such a kind and welcoming man, but she could only imagine how hard it was for May and Peter. Soon, all of her time was once again consumed by work, but in a different sense.

Jin began developing technology using Aprico equipment. Special technology, that would allow her to ascend beyond her already sturdy power set. Inspired by the spider that started this path, she embodied it, and swore that she would protect the People of Bell Reach in any way that she could. Fringe was born. They Rileys were and would always be a priority, but now there was even less free time for her. Work, patrolling, and helping May and Peter took up all of her time.

And she couldn't be happier.

Personality: Almost quippy to a fault, Jin considers herself a master of conversation. She will always push to do more, to push her limits farther and farther every day. Despite all of her quips, her tone doesn't have a lot of snark. In fact, she speaks quite genuinely. Fringe has been known to speak highly of her villains and how they've progressed since the last time she fought them. However, she can be quite stubborn when things get to her. Her focus tunnels, and her interest becomes obsession until she can put the problem in front of her to rest.

Skillset: Mechanical engineering whiz - Jin displays a wide base of knowledge about the sciences in general, but mechanical engineering is her core subject. Science is always a helpful tool to have when you're moving at breakneck speeds around the city.
Bilingual - Learning English was hard, but she did it. She speaks the language with relative ease, and can translate back and fourth between Chinese and English at will.

Athleticism and martial arts training - She might be a woman of science, but Jin was never one to refuse a challange of any sort. Even before her powers, Jin was quite athletic, and her spider bite helped her keep in shape despite a long period of rest when transitioning from China to America. Those skills have only increased since getting her powers, and combined with her intense focus, little can get past her.

Powers: Adhesion - Like a spider, Jin has the ability to cling to walls and nearly all surfaces. Her ability to cling is like a muscle, so she isn't just stuck on everything she touches.

Adaptive mind - A unique feature of the Fringed Spider is how quick and adaptive it is to new situations. Her brain was once a TI-82 calculator, and now runs more like a supercomputer, however, this does not mean she isn't immune to information overload.

Peerless vision - another feature of her spider is ti's incredible vision, which paired with it's complex and adaptive mind allows for Jin to see impossibly far away and take in almost microscopic details with only her eyes. However, in her normal day, she is required to wear thick glasses to dampen her vision to a level that won't give her a headache.

Spider Sense - A sort of enhanced instinct that reveals to Jin any signs of immediate danger. There are ways to circumvent this, and the sense can be ignored, but it is tied strongly to reflexes, forcing jin to often move entirely on instinct.

Tools and Equipment: Fringe Suit - Modeled after a Qipao and martial arts garb, the lose appearance of her costume hide's thick padding and gadgets of her own design. The helmet is also heavily padded on the inside, and the lenses are made out of a variable material not unlike an LCD screen which filters heavier and lighter for different degrees of vision.

Web shooters - what kind of spider can't shoot webs? Even though the Fringed Spider isn't know for impressive web making, Using webs to swing around Bell Reach has given her an advantage that wouldn't have been accessible without somehow getting more powers.
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Tritus

Name: Trent Folley
Alias: Tritus
Appearance:
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Hometown: Bell Reach, California
Biography: Young Trent Folley, former surf-dog of Hewlis Highschool right in the heart og Bell Reach. Born to a family of realty agents making just the biggest bank on a booming supercity. Despite living rather comfortably, Trent was never home. Scraping by in school, but excelling in sports, Trent knew that his home would always be his home. School wasn't his place, neither was an office. He needed to be out, living life.

The waves were always his home. Out at the beach, riding waves from dawn till dusk, Trent found work helping people move their beach equipment for a few bucks before he could work legally, and started as a lifeguard the day he turned sixteen. The day his awakening happened was a day he would never forget. At the ripe age of sixteen and working at the lifeguard stand, there was an emergency for someone who had been caught by the tide and was swept out far. As soon as the bell sounded, Trent grabbed his board and headed out. He never paddled so hard in his life, but that was because it wasn't the paddling them kept him moving. Trent was gifted with the ability to manipulate water, but it did come with a few catches. Heroes started popping up, but Trent knew his place. The beach was his home, and he would protect everyone there.

Now, nineteen, Trent works multiple jobs at Bell Reach Beach. Lifeguarding, managing surf shacks, even teaching surf and swim classes to anyone who was interested. This was his life, and he wouldn't have it any other ways.
Personality: Pretty stereotypical and average as far as californian surfers go. Peace loving and wanting nothing more than to solve everyone's problems with a good wave and a lovely sunset, though he understands the dangers of his surroundings. He's surprisingly keen and sensible despite his most obvious features, and shows a great deal of love for both the people and animals that make his beach their playground. The Nickname Tritus came from mashing Triton, the herald of the sea, and Titus, the famed emperor. Despite starting low, any regulars to the beach know that Trent is in charge, but a kind and just watcher of the waves.
Skillset: EMT Medical training - Trent went above and beyond when it came to prepping to be a lifeguard. Didn't stop at just the weekend red-cross classes, he took the ladder all the way to the top to make sure he could help anyone and everyone that came his way.
Knowledge of marine and coastal animals - another perk of living where the land meets the sea, Trent knows how to handle and take care of any animals that get too close to the shore safely and humanely
Powers: Water Manipulation - Trent can manipulate water by extending his consciousness through it, though this requires a physical connection to the water in order to work. When in the ocean, Trent is king, moving and making waves as he wants, but out on land, his use of his powers becomes much more limited.
Aquatic Physiology - his connection to water doesn't simply stop at being able to move it around as he wishes. Trent was also gifted with a number of abilities that allow him to thrive in the water.
Tools and Equipment: Smartphone - of course, no way to know the world than without the use of a phone.
Surf board - carved by himself and a friend, Trent never steps into the water without his board
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David West

Name: David West.

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Alias: Chronarch.

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Everyday Appearance

Hider

Standing at an average height of 5'9 inches, with a relatively muscular build thanks to his time spent outdoors, and an average weight of 198.2 pounds, David is a ruggedly handsome looking man with a short, well kept, beard and wavy locks of dirty blond hair.

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Costume

Hider

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Age: 35.

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Gender: Male.

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Hometown: Prattville Alabama.

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Biography: Born in 1985 to Valerie and James West, David grew up in a small yet busy two story home in Prattville Alabama with his sister Ashley and his older brother Damian. His childhood was pretty much the same as everyone else's. He was enrolled in local school, made friends, and got into fights with bullies. Basically the standard childhood of any boy born at that time.

After he made it out of elementary school along with his brother Damian, David ended up in a local high school and from there worked his way into a nearby community college. It's here that he and his brother worked to earn their Bachelor's degrees in their chosen fields of study. It's also here that their powers to control time first awoke during a dorm party in which a fight had broken out between three other student's in the room right before everything besides them ground to a halt. After figuring out what had happened, the two brother's broke up the fight and left the party a few minutes later, their mind's blown by what they had just witnessed and done.

While they were a bit concerned about what the other students at the party might say, they each reasoned that everyone there was probably too plastered to remember something as significant as two twenty something's seemingly teleporting around the room to break up a fight.

Upon returning to their shared dorm, Damian and David both agreed to swear an oath of secrecy about their power's, lest someone found out and attempted to use them or their newfound powers for malicious purposes. They also set their minds to discovering the exact limits and capabilities of their abilities so they didn't accidentally harm themselves or other's.

Once they had earned their Bachelor's degrees, David's in computer science and Damian's in business management, the pair graduated from college and got matching hourglass tattoos to commemorate their trip through "Hell" as they called it. After this they went their separate ways and took up jobs a various places.

Only a year had passed before they saw each other again. This time under much darker circumstances.

They found out that their sister had been murdered. Having received word from their parent's, both Damian and David made their way back to Prattville where the funeral was being held. The service seemed to stretch on for an eternity before her casket was finally lowered into the ground. Both David and Damian looked on in silence for a long time as a light rain began to fall on the area.

Finally Damian left, leaving his brother standing, alone, over his sister's grave.

And that was the last time David saw him. He searched high and low, on the internet and in Damian's workplace, but came up with nothing. Absolutely nothing. He even hired a private detective and still couldn't find him. It was as though his brother had vanished from off the face of the Earth. After six months of non-stop searching, David grudgingly accepted the fact that he wouldn't see his brother again and did his best to move forward past the loneliness and heartbreak.

He moved from place to place over the year's working as a freelance web developer, until he eventually moved to the California supercity of Bell Reach in early 2020 where people with powers, or metahumans as they were also known, lived in droves. While he moved there mainly to honor a contract he had with a client, David also made the move out of the faint hope that his brother Damian had somehow ended up in the city as well.

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Personality: Having grown up in a small two story house with two other siblings, David learned patience, tolerance, and respect at a very young age. While his brother and sister would throw tantrums when they didn't get their way, David would calmly wait until his parents decided upon the right time to give him what he'd asked for and if they said no, he simply accepted it and went about his businesses playing with his toys or climbing the large walnut tree in their small backyard while his siblings would run off to their rooms and sulk.

Aside from those traits, David also developed good social skills and found himself most at ease when surrounded by his friends at school. During his school years he also found that he had an intense hatred for bullying and those who preyed on people who weren't able to defend themselves. This hatred ended up getting him into many fights with other boys along with many visits to the principal's office.

While his disgust and hatred for bullies-as well as his grief over his brother's disappearance and his sister's murder-have slowly subsided over the year's, his desire to help other's and do what's right has not and he will not hesitate to use his powers to aid those in need around him.

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Skillset: As a senior full stack developer, David is good with tech and coding, something he found he had a knack for in his college days, and is relatively skilled in hand-to-hand combat as well as hunting and the handling of a firearm thanks to his families keen interest in the outdoors and outdoor activities.

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Powers: Chronokinesis - This incredibly powerful ability allows some of its most skilled user's to affect the fourth dimension, and by extension the universe or possibly multiverse (if such a thing exists), in unimaginable ways. Luckily for humanity, normal and metahuman alike, this power is extremely rare and comes with many lethal side effects if overused such as brain hemorrhages, strokes, and accidental lobotomy just to name a few. Less powerful or skilled time controllers must also consciously focus on keeping time stopped, slowed, etc. unlike the most powerful and skilled of manipulators, who can control time as easily as one flips a light switch on and off.

Errors in time can occur as well if the user doesn't know what their doing and if they aren't careful, then they could find find themselves reliving the same moment over and over again, get frozen in time, get erased from existence entirely, or possibly end up stranded in an alternate timeline, again if such a thing exists, where the world is ruled over by a tyrannical regime of sentient hamsters. As such, this power must be used with the utmost caution and care since one slip up could end life, as we at least, know it.

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Tools and Equipment: The most current model of IPhone, a black backpack, a-licensed-9mm Glock, an Alien Ware PC, and a fixed blade hunting knife.

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Additional Information: David has an elaborate hourglass tattoo that covers most of his upper back. He got it after he and his brother's graduation from college to commemorate what they jokingly referred to as their journey through "hell".

Before his sudden disappearance after the funeral, David's older brother Damian also had a matching tattoo on his left inner forearm that he often covered up with a long sleeve coat or shirt of some kind after their sister's murder five months after graduation. It was as though the very sight of it had become a constant and jarring reminder of his inability to protect her instead of the lighthearted and fun thing it was supposed to have been originally.

[Jareth]

Walter Campbell

Name:
Walter Campbell

Alias:
[Currently does not have one]

Appearance:
Image

Age:
72

Gender:
Male

Hometown:
London, Ontario, Canada

Biography:

Detailed Background

Walter was born in 1948 as one of the first of the Boom Babies, children born in the years after the second world war. Walter was the firstborn of Lee Campbell, a pilot, and Alice Campbell, a nurse, and would grow up in London. In his early years he would be joined by siblings Charles and Diane as his family moved to Toronto for his father’s new job with a Canadian aerospace company.

It was while in Toronto that Walter came of age and graduated high school. From there he enrolled at the University of Toronto to pursue his doctorate in medicine, and proposed to his high school sweetheart Norah Bishop. They would initially say that they would wait until after they were done with school to get married but that didn’t happen as they would go off and elope exactly one year to the day that Walter had proposed.

The first few years of the marriage was golden as the two of them finished up with their schooling. The now Dr. Walter Campbell decided to move back to London to set up a practise as a general physician. Soon the topic of children came up as both of their parents were asking about grandchildren. The Campbell family spent a year trying to conceive during which time his younger sister Diane had her first child.

An associate of Walter suggested seeing a fertility doctor for assistance. It would eventually be revealed that a genetic condition had left Norah infertile. She was devastated but Walter was there for her. He told her that he still loved her and nothing could change that.

After a few years the couple decided to adopt. Soon twins Chelsea and Iris joined the family. Their home in London finally felt whole, the family enjoying many years together. Eventually the daughters moved out of the home and started their own lives.

Seven years later Norah was diagnosed with an advanced stage of cancer. The battle was brief, leaving Walter alone. His brother Charles had Walter move in with him during this trying time. It was then that Walter learnt why his brother had never got married. He was gay.

Walter had a hard time accepting this and decided to move out west to Vancouver to be near his daughter Iris and her new family. He opened a new practise in the city but soon began acting strangely. Concerned, Iris took him to a professional where he was diagnosed with dementia.

This was a blow to the family, Iris having him move in with her and her family. Slowly he began to forget everything, becoming a shell of a person. Iris decided to take him to one of the world’s premier dementia medical care facility in Bell Reach, California.

A year into living in this new facility everything changed for Walter. The Boom happened, changing people across the globe, including Walter. He found his memories returning to him as well as having a clearer mind. Within a month he was discharged from the facility.

Walter embraced this second chance at life, trying to live it to its fullest potential. He repaired his relationships with his family, most notably accepting his brother Charles. From there he decided to become a better person.

He got himself in amazing shape for his age. He began learning everything that he could, finding it so easy now. He travelled the world to just experience life. It was during this time that he realized that his mind was literally expanding. He figured it had to be the Boom that caused this.

He decided to return to Bell Reach to be near his family. Having plenty of free time because he was retired Walter has taken an interest in the Bastion, the local heroes of Bell Reach. While he has no dreams of joining the team he would like to work with them. He wants to do good with his new life.

Personality:
Walter is a very pleasant man, if a bit old fashioned. Growing up in the 1950s shaped Walter’s views on family and society as he lived through the worst of the cold war. These trials led him to valuing and cherishing those around him as he was aware how quickly things could go bad. That valuing of the common man could best be seen when Walter was a doctor. To this day he still feels the need to help people, albeit on a smaller scale, more like what a doctor would do than that of a superhero.

His second chance at life has inspired him to be a better person. Part of that is facing the antiquated views of his youth. Although he may involuntarily recoil when faced with some of the realities of modern society he is still making an effort to accept. His optimistic view of the world also extends to superheroes, as they remind him of the science fiction stories of his youth. Walter truly believes the advent of superpowers will be a good thing for the world.

Skill Set:
Medical Knowledge - Walter spent his career as a general physician and as such is well versed in general medicine. His powers have allowed him to go into more fields of study.

Programming - Since gaining powers Walter has done all he can to understand computers and modernize himself. This includes mastering programming.

Perception - Walter can notice minute details around him, such as changes in the environment or a change in someone’s breathing.

Deduction and Problem Solving - Walter is good at making connections and figuring out different ways to use his knowledge.

Multilingual - Walter reads, writes, and speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malay, and Punjabi.

Vast Assortment of other knowledge - Walter has acquired vast knowledge in many other categories such as history, science, math, and various trivia. While he doesn’t actively use this knowledge, it it still there.

Powers:
Expanding Mental Faculties - Upon gaining his powers Walter’s brain kicked into overdrive, new connections being formed that allows him to rapidly process data. Because of this Walter can learn new skills easily, remember things with amazing detail, and is starting to gain new uses for his brain beyond that of a regular human.

Intuitive Skill Learning - Walter can learn things at a much faster pace than those without this power. As such he can become proficient in skills with ease.

Hyperlingualism - Walter’s brain is wired to decode languages at a base level, allowing him to understand a new language quickly.

Hyper Focused Senses - Walter can notice minuscule details that the average human senses would miss. Combined with his intuitive mind he can find patterns easily.

Astral Projection - The newest of Walter’s powers, his brain has unlocked the function of separating his mind from his body and explore the world as an ethereal being. He currently has no control and is unaware of it as it only happens when he is asleep and he does not remember it after he returns to his body.

Tools and Equipment:
Walter mostly carries around a messenger bag with various electronics, laptop, tablet, e-reader, a notebook and pen, and his arthritis medicine. In his pants’ pocket he has his phone, keys, and a wallet with pictures of his family inside.

Additional Information:
Regarding Walter’s powers his brain is increasing in activity as he ages. If this power had started in a teenager it might grow to become limitless in scope. However Walter is an old man and will not live long enough to see his power reach that crazy stage.

[Bluetommy]

Paper Ninja

Name: Annie Jarvis

Alias: Papernik the Paper Ninja. (Papernik works just fine thanks)

General Appearence:

Hider

Costumed Appearence: As Papernik, Annie wears a simple black jumpsuit, loose around the body and legs but tight around the wrists and ankles, where it is secured with metal braces. Overtop of the jumpsuit is an absurd amount of paper, heavily concentrated atop the metal braces, which are also meant to be easy to roll paper on top of, but also present around the waist. Her lower face is covered by a paper fabric scarf that extends down the back into five tails, all of which she is capable of manipulating with her powers. A large number of blank sheets of paper are bound underneath the lines that serve as a belt, and a number of pieces are stuck to her chest, back, and stomach by static electricity.

Age: 18

Hometown: Portland, Oregon

Powers:

- Paper Manipulation:

Annie is capable of manipulating paper as if holding it without touching it. She can alter the trajectory of paper planes, wrap paper around objects, cause paper to hang in the air indefinitely, and her most commonly demonstrated ability, control the movement of paper strips as if they were her own limbs.

- Paper Stiffening:

Annie can cause paper to stiffen, going from an easily folded and manipulated object to something as hard as steel. This enables her to either use the object as a blunt striking weapon, or a cutting weapon, now able to cut far more deeper than a normal paper-cut.

Skills:

- Origami Expert:

By necessity, Annie has learned the ancient art of origami. It's become almost second nature to her at this point, and she is capable of making a flight-capable paper plane with one hand while the other is buried up to the elbow in a bag of Cheetoes.

- Semi-Trained Martial Artist:

Annie has some training in martial arts, enough to allow her to understand proper form when throwing a punch or kick. Taking lessons were pretty much the only exercise she got, and she recently dropped out of the courses.

Biography:
Annie was born in Seattle Washington to a pair of boring and regular people in a neighborhood of boring and regular people, she later moved to Portland Oregon, in a neighborhood of also boring and regular people. Is it any surprise that Annie ended up becoming the exact opposite? Annie grew up a slacker, dropping out of high school after finishing grade eleven, and never really attempting to make much of herself. She went through several relationships, never sticking with anyone in specific. Annie seemed destined to never amount to anything.

Well, until she woke up one morning wrapped in toilet paper and with her room covered in confetti. She struggled to understand what had occurred to her, but as more and more of things such as these continued to happen, she managed to make sense of her sudden new ability. Reading about the new city of Bell Reach, where people like her would be all over the place. Maybe then she'd understand what the hell had happened. Well, she's been and she's seen the superheroics going on, and, thinking that pretty badass, she has decided to take up that role herself.

Personality:
Annie is a hedonist and a delinquent, she's lazy and low-key, but can be a riot if she's in the right mood, which isn't exactly rare considering that her main goal in life is to have fun. She is definitely an enabler and isn't really one to condemn anyone for their life choices, considering her own haven't exactly been the best.

She can also be described as a bit of a horndog at times, often looking over any guy/gal she finds cute at least once, sometimes more. She can sometimes be described as going a bit overboard, but she doesn't really notice herself. As a friend she can best be described as unreliable, and doesn't put much stock in responsibility. She means well, however, and does value her friends, even if she's not the best at showing it. She isn't exactly a heroic soul, but she does think superheroes are pretty cool so she's at least trying to behave like one.

Likes: Smoking, sleeping, caffeine, pizza, dogs, cats, money, cute boys.

Dislikes: Going to sleep, working, weed, cooking.

Additional Information:

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Erika Prince

Name: Erika Prince

Alias: Obsidian

Appearance: Short, black shaggy hair that comes up to right below her ears and has a bang that half covers her left eye. She has big dark-brown, almost black, eyes, and there is a small scar on the right side of her nose(only about 6mm long). She isn’t the curviest person in the world, but she does have a figure. She is 5'8 tall and weighs about 145lbs.

Piercings/tattoos: Only her ears are pierced, and her preferred earrings of choice are two small silver studs.

Clothes: Prefers to wear graphic t-shirts when she can get away with it, an old worn leather-jacket, dark jeans and combat boots, but when the situation(aka, having to appear as a responsible/functioning adult in front of others) calls for it, she’ll wear tops/sweaters(mostly in darker colours) and semi-formal flats.

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Hometown: Detroit Michigan

Biography: Erika had a more or less normal childhood. Two loving parents, a total nerd for a baby brother as well as two dogs and two cats. Frankly, apart from having to share a bathroom, there wasn’t much she would change about her life.

Growing up, she was always more than a little reckless, when someone insinuated that she cant do something, or when something just seems like a really cool idea, she’ll do it regardless of the consequences. Trying to escape school by jumping out of the second story window onto a flimsy tree-branch and sliding down every dang stair-railing she sees are only a few examples…needless to say she also had her fair share of injuries as a child.

Luckily as she got older, she became a little less of a reckless idiot and her regular visits to the E.R became significantly less frequent, mostly due to the fact that her parents decided to help channel all of her reckless energy by signing her up for various after-school activities like kickboxing, paintball and gymnastics.

After graduating high school, Erica went to a nice college a few towns over to get a degree. She worked hard, continued with kickboxing and gymnastics, and was reasonably popular with other college students who liked to do dangerous stuff too and had no complaints when challenged to a paintball duel, so it was safe to say that college was a good time for her.

When she was 22, she came home for the holidays. Her brother, Frankie, who was 13 at the time was annoying the life out of their mother by interrupting her frenzied attempts of preparing the house for the relatives that would be coming over by begging her to take him to a new comic-book store that just opened. As a gesture of goodwill, to shut the boy up and as an early Christmas present to her mother, Erika volunteered to take him.

The walk there hadn’t been a problem, bar her bro’s constant chattering they got there in one piece, the walk back, however, was more than a little problematic considering the sweaty hand that yanked them inside an empty alley and the shaky gun demanding that they hand over the money.

Erica refused, his trigger-finger activated, she ducked in front of her brother in order to shield him from the bullets coming their way and apparently the sucker had really bad aim, because both of them was still alive by the time his bullets ran out and she decided to put her kickboxing lessons to good use.

She didn’t notice until after the man had managed to run away(not before she got a couple of good kicks in though) and her brother started yelling and fussing over her all panicked, that all six of the bullets that used to be in the guy’s gun left six small holes in her jacket, and after she pulled it off and started frantically patting her back to feel for the inevitable blood that’ll be pouring out, she found six tiny flattened bullets that fell to the ground as well as not as much as a scratch on her.

After calming down, stumbling home and getting over the shock, the two of them spent an embarrassing amount of time nerding out over her new abilities before immediately jumping headfirst into several experiments to see just how far her newfound powers go.

Now three years, a lot of training, completing her degree and several long discussions with her bro about a cool super-hero name later and she was moving into her new home in Bell Reach, hoping to make a name for herself in the hero-community while working part-time as a kickboxing instructor.

Personality: She’s a very funny, entertaining and outgoing individual, who loves the adrenaline rush she gets when doing something dangerous. That, coupled with her extreme stubbornness and determination proved to be a dangerous combination when growing up.

She absolutely adores physical activities and working with her body, if she does nothing for too long she gets fidgety and extremely bored, which can lead to trouble in the long run. She just has to be moving around or doing something to keep busy. Her worst fear is boredom.

She is very close with her brother, having babysat the guy ever since she was old enough to be left alone with him. She’s very protective of him and also the reason he’s so into anything super-hero related(she’s been corrupting him since birth).

Many hours spent reading comics with her brother and rooting for the good guy during movie nights also succeeded in installing a strong sense of justice in her as well as a desire to be able to make a difference in the world.

Though she can be more than a little reckless at times when it comes down to her own personal safety, she usually succeeds in getting the job done.

Skillset:

• Kickboxing
• Really agile
• Physically fit
• Stamina
• Great with guns
• Good aim
• Running headfirst into danger
• Parkour
• Sliding down long staircases on serving trays

Powers:

• The outer layer of her skin is basically undamageable, almost all physical attacks basically don’t leave a scratch on her. This also comes with the drawback that she is no longer able to get shots from a doctor(not really a drawback if you ask her, but flu season is going to be awful) or be able to have any surgical procedures(again, she aint complaining).
• She also got a small strength boost, not enough to pick up a truck but she can now open jars with no problems.(meaning that she's about twice as strong as she used to be)

Weaknesses:

• Her internal systems are still that of a normal human's and will act as such
• Though her skin will remain unaffected, she can still feel extreme temperatures and will respond to them like any other person would, e.g. feeling woozy from too much heat, heatstroke, ect.
• Illnesses, poisons, toxic fumes, teeny villains that hides in heroes' food and take them out from the inside after being ingested, basically anything that can hurt her insides and can get pass her protective outer layer.

Tools and Equipment:

• Brass knuckles
• Hunting knife
• A Glock 17 with a 33-round high capacity magazine
• Cell phone
• Small first aid kit
• Reinforced customized backpack
• A motorcycle with a built in police-radio(one of her college buds is a mechanic and didn’t ask any questions)

Uniform:

hider

Additional Information:

• She’s left-handed
• Doctors, hospitals(yes, kinda ironic when you think of all the times she accidentally landed herself in one) and clowns creep her out
• Sucks with computers(only knows the bare minimum)
• She has a weakness for fried chicken
• She really wants a grappling hook and is in the process of saving up for it.
• She is also a horrible cook, the things she makes in the kitchen…I wouldn’t feed them to my worst enemy…
• She and her brother were playing Minecraft while bickering about what the perfect name would be, when they came across some obsidian and her brother started going on about how he's going to build an impenetrable fortress with it, and, well...she was inspired and refused to listen to her brother when he tried to tell her that obsidian was actually really fragile, stating that she's going to use the name ironically.

[Kidd]

Vivian Vanbrooke | 26 | ♀

about

APPEARANCE

Her round face and golden brown eyes; and her dark hair falls straight, stopping just short of her chin. She uses makeup to accent her eyes: the black eyeliner is thick, the eye shadow gold, and the mascara volumizing. Much of her strength is in her toned legs as she's always on the move. Her clothing of choice is mostly neutral colors: browns, blacks, and greys. She wears fashion inspired by post apocalyptic fiction with a sprinkle of goth. Her jewelry tends to be gold in color and is often decorated by skulls. However, the intimidation she was going for is easily lost to her size: she stands no taller than 5'2" and weighs in at only about 105 lbs. Other notable characteristics are the many earrings, piercings on the side of her nose and belly button, and the tattoos that start on her upper arm and extends to her back.

PERSONALITY

As a child, Vivian was--to put it bluntly--creepy: she was a quiet kid with an intelligent and perceptive gaze, and she hasn't grown out of this. There is still a knowing gleam in her eyes, but its often accompanied by a smirk nowadays. She likes chit chat and has a broad sense of humor, finding almost anything funny. Because of this, she is extremely charismatic and has a natural gravity: people tend to be drawn to her despite her edgier appearance. She certainly stands out even in personality. She's snarky and sarcastic, and it's usually charming, but she can definitely take it too far into mean territory, giving further insight into her personality: she is not nice. As quirky and fun Vivian can be, she cares little for other people and has much more fun being antagonistic than she does friendly. Her personal interests include comic books and anime, inspiring the impracticality of her alter ego.

HOMETOWN

East London, England

BIOGRAPHY

Vivian was born across the Atlantic to a pair of dentists. All her youth, she was pushed toward education and tradition when all she wanted was to explore and experience the world. Instead of continuing to higher education, she skipped out and followed her at-the-time boyfriend's band to America. However, the band broke up, then they broke up, and Vivian was alone in a foreign country. For a few years, she bounced between jobs trying to make a living--often jobs that paid too little for too much work, off the books so she wouldn't have to return to England.

When her powers developed, all that changed: she took what she wanted and no longer worried about where her next paycheck or meal was coming from. Super Heroes are on the rise, however, and she needs a villainous persona to carry out her deeds.

SKILLS

- Pick pocket: Vivian came to America as a tourist, but now she preys on them. Her powers developing have only increased her success rate--or at least, her escape rate.
- (Novice) Combat: now that she risks tangling with superheroes and she has the ability to flee, she wants to develop her ability to fight. She's taking kick boxing classes twice a week to improve her athleticism.

The Reaper

POWER

Teleportation. Vivian is limited to teleporting how far she can clearly perceive. At her skill level, that means she's limited to as far as she can see. This is a distinct weakness for her because if it's dark or if she's blinded in some way, she's not going anywhere.

TOOLS

- Supervillain outfit: in order to conceal her identity, Vivian wears a gasmask and hood. With her boyish figure and cloak, as well, it's not easy to tell it's a woman under the clothes. People are generally unsure of The Reaper's gender.
- Supervillain weapon: a scythe, unused (for now). Vivian is one for theatrics, and while the scythe is an impractical weapon, it serves to define her motif of death. It's ultimately for the aesthetic and she doesn't know how to fight.

EXTRA

She does try to limit using her powers when she's dressed for the part, but she's also rather impulsive. In addition, while Vivian is rather talkative, the Reaper is ominously silent--truth is, her accent would be too recognizable if she engaged in conversation as the Reaper.

[Simple Unicycle]

VOIDED

[Stern Algorithm]

Interference

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Interference

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Name:

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Dr. Eileen Fang (Fang Ai Ling)

Alias:

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Interference, or Dr. Fang

Appearance:

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Eileen is not petite, but is certainly unassuming, and easily overlooked. She does not have heroic proportions by any means, and is a bit on the short side with a small frame. She usually wears her dark, shoulder-blade-length hair in a small ponytail, and wears glasses for purely cosmetic reasons.

Eileen dresses very casually, usually sufficing with a T-shirt and a skirt, since she will almost always have a white lab coat draped over the ensemble. She is so casual in fact, that she even often wears flip-flops and sandals in the lab (Gasp! A safety violation!) but since she is usually master of her own lab, there is no one to punish her for this infraction.

Age:

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35

Gender:

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Female

Hometown:

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Boston, Massachusetts

Biography:

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Eileen went through her incident-free life as an obedient, model citizen. She was disciplined to achieve success and perfection in her studies through tough parenting. Despite that, she seems well-adjusted enough. At a young age, Eileen demonstrated a knack for complex mathematics and, by extension, physics. Complacently and blindly, Eileen powered through her education, gaining multiple honors and advanced degrees. Though praised as a prodigy, Eileen remained humble and reserved. Her intellect allowed her to achieve a high profile academic career and she eventually found herself working in government laboratories, developing cutting-edge technology. Her research is in optronics: using photons instead of electrons for data storage and transfer. Optronics will be significantly faster and more powerful than electronics, so Eileen plans to make artificial intelligence based on optronic hardware. Mostly her work has been in weapons development, creating efficient laser weapons and sensor technology for the military, as well as various surveillance applications for internal policing and espionage.

However, to harness light and sound in this way, Eileen relies on special piezoelectric crystals. While trying to deduce the refractive and acoustic properties of the crystals in order to create devices to harness them, her proximity to the crystals awoke some hidden power in Eileen, causing her to acquire a mastery over the wave phenomena the crystals exhibited. With a keener understanding of sound and light coupled with her mathematical genius, Eileen dove deeper into her research, though she now had a new goal: to use her research and her powers for the betterment of mankind. Leveraging her research position and her overall compliant nature, she has been vocally promoting the partnership between the government and so-called vigilante superhero organizations, ultimately leading to the creation of the Superheroics Support Division, and now Eileen is a support scientist, aiding the members of Bastion as a government liaison, providing them with investigative resources, as well as the manufacture of support equipment.

Early in her life, due to her intelligence, she saw the governments of the world as inherently broken, but she did not succumb to angst and rebellion. She sees super-powered individuals as the catalyst necessary to subjugate the old conflicting governments and create a new united utopia for Earth. Her intentions are pure, but her methods may be a little extreme as she has no qualms with 'sterilizing', cleansing or purging the world of the 'old order' as she sees necessary.

Personality:

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Eileen is soft-spoken and big-sisterly, often displaying cute, ditzy mannerisms. She can get excited when talking about technology or research, but is quite subdued most of the time. Yet her slow, quiet speech is accompanied with a certain gravity. She is very nurturing to her teammates, motherly as she takes care of their needs while also pushing them to challenge themselves and improve. Her quietness, at times, seems forlorn and determined as she stares off into some brave new future that she knows will one day come.

On the other hand, her personality slightly changes when she engages as a superhero. Half of her powers being based off sound, Eileen understands the value of being loud, and often utilizes shock-and-awe tactics. In combat, she can be exacting, precise, and relentless, with a flair for the grandiose. Control defines her, whether that is mastery over herself or the battlefield. She is determined to push onward and use the most optimum method to get the job done.

Skillset:

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• Genius-level intellect - Blessed with a very high intelligence, Eileen can solve mathematical wave equations quickly and easily in her head, as well as send, receive, and process vast quantities of data. The fact that the entire surface area of her skin can now send and receive light, means that given the proper equipment, she can turn her body into a supercomputer. her access to cutting-edge laboratories also means that she has the resources and the know-how to manufacture specialized equipment for herself or her allies.
• Government backing - Eileen is by-the-book, and has made great strides in legitimizing the idea of superheroes to the government. With a government lab at her disposal and the trust of high-ranking officials, Eileen is the go-to for any superpowered individual seeking amnesty and legitimacy.

Powers:

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Eileen has acquired the ability to emit, detect, and absorb phenomena that exhibit mathematical wave behavior: sound and light. She uses technology to augment her abilities, relying on harmonics. The light and sound is emitted from her body (skin).

• Sound Wave Emission/Reception - Eileen can emit as well as absorb/hear audible sound as well as sound outside the audible range, allowing her to mimic voices, make herself completely silent, send out shockwaves, fire disorienting beams of ultrasound, produce the brown note, have superhearing, tell when people are lying, etc.
• EM Wave Emission/Reception - Eileen can emit and absorb/see visible light as well as light outside the visible spectrum allowing her to fire microwaves, create flashbangs, camouflage, have x-ray vision, night-vision, eavesdrop on radio communications, etc.

Tools and Equipment(If any):

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Interference

Interference wears a caped, white enamel androgynous power suit that is easily mistaken for a robot. It looks something like the following image.

But the head has a single red camera in the center like the following image.

• Power suit - Provides minor protection, mainly used to focus or augment her sound and light abilities, gives her control of her 'locusts'. The inside of the suit is lined with fiber optics, allowing her to send information to the suit and receive information from the suit.
• Surveillance Swarm - a swarm of microrobot drones in the form of beetles/locusts used mainly for spying and eavesdropping, though Eileen can also use them offensively by laying them around in intricate patterns that amplify the harmonics of an area, augmenting her powers.
• Blast Bludgeon - a long, bat-like triangular rod that functions like a tuning fork. Eileen uses this to triangulate the harmonic frequencies of objects she strikes with it. After several strikes, she is able to determine the vibrational frequency that is most destructive to the particular material she is striking. She already knows what frequency works best for concrete and bone-through-flesh.
• Mythos Biblios Omniac - Omniac is Eileen's custom AI. It occupies an optronic supercomputer in her lab and communicates with most of her gadgets. it can do the 'thinking' when she is otherwise preoccupied.

Themes:

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Musical Themes

Here's something heroic:



And here's something a little more...contradictory and noisy:

[Blazion]

Grim

Name

Zoey Kasimir

Alias

Grim

Age

23

Gender

Female

Hometown

Bell Reach, California.

Appearance

Standing at 6’3’’ Zoey is a surprisingly tall woman, but thankfully her active lifestyle leaves a fair amount of muscle packed onto her body to keep from appearing like a beanpole. Her red hair is such a light shade that it almost appears to be orange, the strands falling straight down to her mid back, though more often than not she has bangs falling into her face. Said face has rather elegant, if harsh looking features made up of sharp, hard lines with high cheekbones and brows near constantly furrowed above her grey-blue eyes. Sadly this all adds up to Zoey having a natural ‘resting bitch face’, often appearing to be judging everything about you with a single glance.

Due to her upbringing nothing she wears makes her more approachable either, her casual wear often consisting of slacks and button up shirts or high brand sleeveless tops, and sunglasses she probably spent too much on. Her outfits are never below the triple digits, if not more. Zoey probably doesn’t even own a pair of jeans.

Well… except one pair. Grim’s vigilante costume is made purely to be as inconspicuous as possible, made up of simple loose jeans, gloves, and an oversized hoodie, all in black to match the theme of course. There’s only two things that stand out in a crowd at all; the silver canine head insignia on the belt, and beneath the hood Grim is always wearing the voice changer and a full head balaclava with only two eye holes for openings – though even then her eyes are constantly blacked over anyway. No skin is on show, Zoey’s chest is bound, and with the voice changer she’s been passing off as male the whole time.

Personality

Zoey’s initial impressions often end up with her coming off as cold, aloof, and perhaps even a bitch. Despite trying to appear more elegant than she probably is, she has a bit of bite to her words that’s not helped by an impassive visage. Yet even with her efforts to put off a certain bearing, she can be quick to fluster or anger if the right buttons are pressed. When it all comes together Zoey can come off as a bit of a bully, but truth be told it’s rather accidental, as Zoey is too preoccupied with her own problems to care about harassing others.

It’s difficult for Zoey to shed the mask she’s built, too. While she may go as far as being a touch flirty, getting a real crack at it can be difficult - usually though it’s from getting her to geek out about her current projects, be it cars or her research (read: fangirling) over heroes. Further, she has a real passion for helping others even if it’s difficult to show - but, Zoey’s a bit dull and doesn’t have a great grasp of real world economics. To her, helping others in the mask she dons is the best use of her resources.

In-costume Grim is a vicious thing, and an equally dirty fighter. Since he’s often in mid to close combat he doesn’t hesitate to use cheap tricks to seal a victory, and often relies on surprise and brute strength to end a confrontation before it can truly begin. He strikes hard, fast, leaving little opportunity for someone to respond… at least criminals. It’s rather common to have Grim stop and drop a compliment or flirty line - due to often feeling like she has to be something she’s not, and being quite in the closet as she’s her family’s only child, Zoey takes the anonymity of being behind Grim’s mask to ‘let loose’ in more ways than just flexing her abilities. She has quite the repertoire of cheesy one-liners, actually. Further, due to cultivating the image of Grim being a man Zoey’s quite talented at switching her mannerisms and actions to be masculine, down to her very walk.

Biography

As the first and only child to the Kasimir family, Zoey was the pride of her parents’ life - and with their social status never had to want for anything. While both her parents came from upper class families, her father in particular had made a name for himself outside his family name. He was a talented surgeon that was highly sought after, having an incredibly high survivability on his performances due to the least kept secret in his medical ward - Dr. Kasimir wasn’t a normal human.

It was within days after her birth that it became apparent Zoey took after her father, and his mother before him, in more ways than just the Kasimir’s sharp features. For back in the 1800’s when one of Zoey’s ancestors received this strange power and became one of the first superheroes of the time, it did something odd compared to others - it became inherited, as only one generation of Kasimirs was passed in receiving it. Zaden Kasimir was of course overjoyed his little girl received this gift as well, and Zoey started learning even before she could walk how to use her powers, identical to his. Her mother was often playfully exasperated with her father, but for years they were a happy little family unit. It was only when Zoey started school did she start to realize her life wasn’t as perfect as she thought. She was seven when the exasperation was no longer playful, and the affectionate whispers her parents shared with upturned lips turned to harsh accusations and clenched teeth. Though they held on as long as they could to their marriage, at least for the sake of their daughter, the escalating disgust was coming to its very inevitable conclusion.

Yet it never came.

It was around when the ‘divorce’ word was finally being vocalized that the route was violently derailed. Zoey’s mother had been out shopping when an accident occurred - a slip, a fall, a speeding bus. She didn’t even make it to her husband’s operating table. While Dr. Kasimir was briefly looked at due to their known impending divorce, it was obvious he wasn’t a part of it - it was just an accident.

Following her mother’s subsequent funeral Zoey withdrew into herself, much to her father’s concern. It’s what prompted him to reduce his hours to fall back on their fortune in order to spend more time at home with his little joy, his work no longer centerfold to his day. Zoey learned more about her powers with her father’s guiding hand, and was filled with even more stories of their great ancestor who once donned a costume to help humanity. Just like when she was younger, there was always an underlying note of caution however; even a family as influential as theirs couldn’t let anyone else know, not when no one else seemed to be able to inherit these powers from another time.

When it came time for her to start high school Dr. Kasimir finally returned to being a surgeon, and hired a personal bodyguard to teach Zoey various methods on how to defend herself. His worry knew no bounds, he wanted his little girl to be able to take care of herself. He even got her to carry mace – something she let him know she found useless. They had powers, Dad. But he insisted, and she relented.

There was always the temptation, for Zoey. Maybe it was all the stories, latched onto after her mother’s death. Maybe it was in her blood. Maybe it was just pure idealism that wanted to burst out everytime she had to muffle her excitement behind an aloof facade. Yet when others began appearing, others like her with powers that should have only been home to the inside of a comic book, the temptation to finally use these abilities and help others just like her blood sang to her to do was overwhelming. Everyday there was more and more news on those who began showing these powers, and Zoey soaked it up like a sponge - and was all too happy to share it with her father.

Others, like them. Like her.

It started off merely as fangirling over those who began appearing, but It took very little time for Zoey to start venturing out herself, drawn to the conflict like a moth to flame. In her eyes, those who were granted these precious abilities and chose to use them for selfish gain and destruction had to be shown there’s always bigger fish in the sea. For three years she’s been donning the mask of Grim, through rough patches and losing some of the spark in her eyes. With her family’s high profile Zoey has been very careful to beat a hasty trail away from anything too dangerous - after all, The Bastion seemed to have a handle on those - and kept to street crimes. It was obvious she couldn’t be found out, after all - just like anyone else who did this. On top of that University has been keeping her busy of course, so her escapades have been on and off, and yet … Zoey can’t help but find her mind constantly drawn back to how she could be out there doing more. Should be doing more.

And that maybe it was time for Grim to step out of the shadows.

Skillset

Money.
Medical knowledge, beyond normal first aid but certainly less than a trained doctor.
Has had training in multiple fighting styles (master of none), favors boxing and grapples.
Trained in the use of rifles.
Some trapping from yearly hunting trips.
Can laugh at her own jokes and not feel self-conscious.

Powers

Darkness: Zoey is for all intents and purposes a shadow elemental, with a specialization is the ability to solidify shadows to create things as needed. Her ‘signature’ is claws made of darkness – stronger than her grip and farther than her reach if not attached, or solidified shadows across her arms. However she can also form them into other things, such as barriers that would be too weak to do more than slow a bullet but would solidly stop a body if she’s fast enough. Her father as another example, as he can use a shadow as thin as a needle to perform minute details his hands were too large for.

Zoey can also perform a ‘shadowstep’ of short distances by stepping into or forming a large enough shadow to disappear into them to another. Obviously this power set is most useful at night when there’s less light sending her power source scurrying, but it’s not impossible to use them in the sunshine and light – just weaker. Even her own shadow can be used to an extent.

The last useful piece of her powers is that when concentrating, particularly in the heat of battle, Zoey feels no pain – which isn’t always a good thing as she’s as delicate as a normal human. Only her own logic at seeing her wounds would let her know when the time to retreat is, and leaves her paranoid of her back in particular.

Visually, as an elemental darkness tends to react around her. Sometimes her shadow tends to ‘wisp’ little tendrils of smoky black up and curl around her legs when she’s idle, or her eyes can be darkened to hide their color.

Tools and Equipment

Mace – Yep, a bottle of ordinary mace. Zoey tends to forget about it since she’s so reliant upon her powers however.

Kevlar Vest - A concealed bulletproof vest underneath Grim’s hoodie, along with being practical it also adds to the chest bindings to give a more solidly masculine build.

Voice Changer - Top of the line, it wraps snugly around the lower face and comes out as a deep, masculine voice with only a slight, unnoticeable amount of roboticism.

First Aid Kit, including a mirror! – Because Zoey can’t feel pain until a scuffle is already over she always comes prepared in case she misses any deeper wounds, hiding a small first aid kit within the confines of her hoodie. It comes with a small make-up mirror stashed inside to check the extent of damage to her back when necessary. It’s better than wondering later on ‘why does my shoulder blade feel like dust?’

Additional Information

[L4dyH4wke]

Name: Samantha-Katherine Haskill (Sam)

Alias: CopyKat, Hoss

Appearance: Brownish hair, usually braided to keep it out of the way. They have a red bandanna from their Dad, it is always in a pocket or around their neck. They are fairly small, but sturdy build. Typically dresses in rodeo casual, Jeans and a white tshirt with either a flannel or a denim jacket. Always wears boots. Belt buckles are a thing. Carries work gloves, but cuts the fingertips out of them

Age: 25

Gender: NonBinary, They/them

Hometown: Amarillo, Texas

Biography: Born in a tiny ass town on the border of Texas and Oklahoma, Sam has seen their fair share of hard work and hardships. Used to farmwork, fair enough at learning, not so good at fitting in. Consistently bullied for being "too much of a tomboy", Sam grabbed hold of any chance they could to get the heck outta dodge, so to speak. This came in the form of the rodeo circuts. Sam hired on originally as an assistant to the veterinarian, and when the crew traveled, so did they. Sam is a quick study, and used their time on the road to learn about the ins and outs of a number of animals, both stock and wild. A few years into the circuit, though, Sam was unable to save the bronco of the rodeo boss who decided that the only way to recoup from the loss was for Sam to use their travels to work in his side business: human trafficking. Sam ran like hell from this idea, and in their running, discovered the innate ability to "shift" into animal forms. Knowing little about their powers, but sure of the need to put some distance in between them and their former boss, Sam wanders her way across the country to a spot where they hear people like them gather.....

Personality: Sam is fairly quiet but the epitome of Southern Hospitality. Always quick with a "yes Ma'am" or a "no Sir". Sam tends to enjoy being around animals more than the people, but is decent at smalltalk and will give the shirt off their back to help out someone in need. Good at deflecting, never wants to spend too much time on theirself

Skillset: Animal Handling, Farm work, Chorin', cookin', basic survival skills. Decent in a fight but doesn't like to

Powers: animal shapeshifting, partial animal shapeshifting. Sam can't shift into anything she doesn't have a good knowledge of, so unless they spends time learning the ins and outs of a critter it might not go well. Can only shift within their own mass, to a point. so no whales or anythin huge. Calorie consumption is also a major factor. If Sam wants to shift into a larger animal than they are capable of normally, or one that is specialized like a bird, they would have to consume a good amount of food before and after. As such, Sam is always snackin.

Tools and Equipment: a rucksack, a sleeping bag, a set of Various tools of the trade for a Large animal Veterinarian, Several sets of clothes, a Stetson, a foldable pocketknife, a length of rope (lasso), a mess kit, and space in the rucksack for snacks

Additional Information: theme song:
youtube.com/watch?v=L8mhajaxo1E

face claim:
imgur.com/a/y2Jaxnk

[KrischKrisch]

Nathan Malu aka. Shade

Name:
Nathan Malu

Alias:
He hasn't come up with one for himself yet so for now he adapted his great great grandfathers hero alias Shade

Age:
17

Gender:
Male

Hometown:
A log cabin in an uncivilized part of the Hawaiian forests

Appearance:
Nathan is 1.7m tall and weighs about 80kg, making him rather small and stout in appearance. Having been born and raised on the Hawaiian islands, his skin tone is comparable to a dull bronze or a soft golden-brown-ish color. His black hair reaches down to his shoulders and becomes increasingly curly the longer it gets. He usually wears it openly and tucks one side behind his ear, although sometimes he ties it into a short ponytail so it doesn't get in the way. Nathan's face is round but not chubby and his bright light-brown eyes sit atop an unremarkable ever-smiling face.

He usually wears an open hoodie jacket over plain t-shirts, that usually have some quip or joke printed on them. He likes to wear shorts, since they are comfy and easy to wear. Especially cargo shorts, because he likes to have a lot of pockets on them for a bunch random things, like a flashlight, his phone and a pair of sunglasses. Nathan also prefers comfortable off brand running shoes over expensive, flashy sports branded ones, probably due to their short life span on his feet.
(Picture in the works as well)

Biography:

In 1870 two brothers, Kahananui and Kimo Malu, stood on the edge of the forest clearing they called home. The clearing had a small log cabin and a field with homegrown vegetables in it, as well as a small chicken coop and a tool shed. Kimo, the younger brother, had just turned 26 and after their mother died, he had decided to leave the island for the mainland. Kahananui, the older brother, understood his brothers desire for freedom, but would not leave with him. He was 30 at the time, but looked like a 12 year old, due to his strange abilities. They hugged each other once, said there farewells and a second later Kimo was gone, slipping into the long sunset shadows and disappearing from his brothers view.

About 140 years later Kahananui stumbled upon a small confused boy near his cabin in the woods and took him in. He hadn't noticed the boy at first, and would probably have ignored him if it wasn't for the child's bright yellow eyes, that stared at the old man through the shadowy forest. Recognizing the eyes from over a century ago, Kahananui was overjoyed for a moment and ran towards the yellow glint in the bushes, startling the child. Realizing his mistake, the man calmed down and took the crying child to his home, where he explained that he thought, that at long last his brother had returned and apologized to the boy. The boy however wouldn't speak to the kind man for an entire week before introducing himself as Nathan Malu. Kahananui was again overjoyed when hearing that name and exclaimed that the boy must be his great-great-grandnephew. He pulled up a necklace from under his shirt and showed it to Nathan, who had a pendant of his own, that he had received from his father. His resembled a full moon, with a weird structure on the back of it. His uncle gave Nathan the other pendant, who studied it for a second. The old man's pendant resembled a ring of fire, like he had seen in depictions of the sun. Withing the ring was a hollow circle, that had the perfect size for his moon to fit in it. Nathan combined the 2 halves and showed it to his uncle, who, overwhelmed by emotions, started crying and hugged his nephew.

From that day forward Nathan would learn everything Kahananui could teach him. From reading and writing, to farming and woodcutting. His uncle also told Nathan everything about his brothers legacy that the boy might have inherited. He revealed to him, that his parents, his brother and him were part of the old superhero generation back before the 20th century. His parents had lived a life of crime-fighting before they decided to settle down and start a family. They went to a remote location to keep their children safe and Kahananui had lived there ever since. He explained that he had been born with an ability he presumed to be immortality at first. His wounds would always heal almost instantly and he aged at a snail's pace, however through the years he realized, that it's more of a turtle aspect situation. He could communicate with the shelled creatures down at the beach and his life was only prolonged, not eternal. He always thought that he might one day grow a shell of his own, but there were no indications for that so far. He then started to tell Nathan about his brother, who had had the ability to control and manipulate shadows, he was a genius, molding them to his will and even solidifying them and using them as blades or shooting spikes from them. He practically vibrated with pride talking about him. He told Nathan, that their mother had given them the pendant on her deathbed and that he knew, that the other half would one day return to him. Then Kahananui went on and taught Nathan everything about the history he had lived through and observed throughout his live. During his long life Kahananui had started to practice martial arts as a means of meditation and after realizing the enormous physical capacities of his nephew he started teaching him everything he knew about them as well.

A total of 9 years Nathan spent learning and training on the island, without ever seeing anyone besides his great-great-granduncle and the only person who knew they were up there, a village elder called Kahili from the opposite side of the island. Kahili supplied them with news, emergency supplies and batteries for their crude electrical equipment. An old radio, a bunch of flashlights and an electrical razor, that Kahananui said, was the best thing to ever be invented. But then, in 2018, something terrible happened. While Nathan was fast asleep from a group of strangers had broken into the log cabin and, after losing 3 members of their team, managed to catch the old turtle hermit off guard with a sneak attack using one of their member's powers. They restrained him and cut off his arms to put them into an icebox before breaking both of his knees and running away into the night. Kahananui, feeling his life coming to an end, managed to drag himself into Nathan's room to wake him up. Nathan opened his eyes feeling slightly dazed and finding it difficult to wake up at all, like he was fighting against some sleeping medicine, but when he turned his head and saw his mutilated uncle sitting in his doorway he was immediately wide awake. He jumped out of his bed and ran to get their emergency first-aid kit, but Kahananui stopped him. Being glad that the boy was unharmed he started to explain what happened and that his time was running out. He told Nathan, that those guys had had powers, just like in the olden days and that he thought another era of superheroes was afoot. His best guess for the intrusion was, that someone had found out about his existence and wanted to experiment on the original hero DNA, but he didn't understand how they knew or how they got here without him noticing. All throughout his uncle's explanation Nathan was hugging him, hyperventilating and sobbing. His uncle comforted him, saying that he lived a long and peaceful live and then told him to take both parts of the necklace. His final words were, “That way you will always have me and my brother's hearts with you.” and with a last toothy grin he had passed away. Nathan was completely shaken by this and, after taking his uncles pendant and combining the two parts once more, he laid his uncle's body on his bed and covered it with a white blanket.

The following two weeks Nathan just said on a chair next to the bed with an empty expression on his face. He still cared for the crops and chickens, but he only did so on autopilot, never losing his empty stare. After said two weeks Kahili showed up for her monthly visit and saw that the door was open. Confused she stepped into the cabin to see three dead bodies in Kahananui's old room and a sleeping Nathan on a chair next to his occupied bed. Walking over to the teenager, she hugged him tightly, waking him in the process. Nathan was startled for a second then embraced the old woman and cried for the first time since his uncle had died. For a long time they just sat there and cried, but when the tears stopped flowing Nathan told Kahili, that he wanted to leave for the mainland and find out who had done this to his beloved foster parent. Kahili nodded understandingly and over a course of 7 days they buried Kahananui by the turtle beach and prepared everything for Nathan's journey. Kahili gave Nathan a smartphone, a backpack, which he filled with everything he had, and about 200 dollars to help him on the other side. After a very sentimental good-bye Nathan left his home with the bi-annual ferry to uncover the reason for his uncle's murder.

It didn't take Nathan long to learn, that he'd find the most valuable information in Bell Reach. However getting there would take him much longer than he thought. For starters, he had gotten of the ferry in the very far north of California before finding out about Bell Reach and facepalming at the realization, that he could've easily told the ferryman to land further south, seeing as he was the only passenger on the boat. However after a week of traveling south by foot and sleeping in a tent he had bought he stumbled upon a skate park in the outskirts of a small town. Fascinated by the skaters, their boards and the music he heard he asked them if he could try it once and his natural talent kicked in once more, astounding everyone present and prompting him to hang around the area for a while. The other kids and teens thought he was a bit strange, but his cheerful demeanor and trustworthy exterior made him rather popular in a short amount of time. He even bought himself a skate board of his own and earned some money on the side with small scale competitions. He eventually did continue his southward journey, but whenever he'd meet another group of skaters he'd hang around the area for a while to get to know them and save their contacts on his phone, which in the beginning someone had explained to him over the course of a very frustrating week. He eventually got it however and now added just about any song he'd hear and like to his library. After about half a year he started to encounter more and more people with powers in the skate parks and subsequently heard about many problems caused by power wielders. Slowing his journey down even more he started solving such problems, whenever he could, to help his new friends and through some of these excursions made some friends and foes in the underworld of some of the bigger cities he traveled through. Throughout these excursions, battles and small adventures Nathan noticed something weird happening to him. He had always known about his eye's weird yellow properties when stepping into shadows, however lately he had started to be able to see much better whenever they'd glow, as well as physically feel the presence of his enemies around him, even when he wasn't punching or kicking them. He started experimenting around and realized that he had actual powers of his own and to his delight they were even shadow related.

After being on the road for about a year and a half, Nathan had developed a decent understanding of his abilities, although he felt like he had room for improvement, he was very proud of his shadow walking. Using and training these abilities in addition to his small scale fame he was gathering led some of his friends to suggest, that he should get a costume to hide his identity like the heroes in the comics did and Nathan thought this to be a pretty smart idea as well.
He remembered how his uncle had told him about his great great grandfathers plans to become a superhero and help people and at that moment he could really feel his forefather's ideals within himself. With this feeling in him he set up camp in a friend's garden, borrowed a bunch of comics and started imagining himself as a superhero. From what he had gathered they had always been popular, but ever since the power wielder boom it seemed to actually become somewhat of a needed profession, especially in Bell Reach, since quite a few people starting acting out their villainous tendencies with their newfound powers. However Nathan soon realized, that he had no idea what he should call himself. He was no Batman or Dare Devil from the comics, at most he was a Nightcrawler but just stealing someone else's name, fictional or not, didn't seem right to him. He thought back to what his uncle had told him and decided that, until he found a proper name for himself, he could always just take up his legacy as a descendant of Shade, the shadow hero. Even if he wasn't quite the same Shade his great great grandfather was, he figured than no one remembered the original Shade anyway, so no one would notice, that Nathan wasn't actually a master shadow manipulator and genius, but instead just a shadow chameleon in a way. He then started playing around with costume ideas. However after about 2 days of going nowhere he had to admit, that he simply wasn't creative enough to come up with something on his own. Settling for an old horror movie mask his friend, who had called it “Ghostface”, had laying around, he packed up his stuff and left for Bell Reach, to potentially meet some Hero outfitters to help him with his costume. A goal he reached after another half year of making friends and discovering his love for everything ice-cream related.

Personality:
Nathan is a very easy-going, care-free boy with a witty sense of humor. He tends to always have a stupid quip ready, even if it doesn't add anything to a conversation. He has a very kind heart and trusts people from the very beginning, which has caused him some trouble in the past, but has generally been a quality, that helped him make lots of friends. Having lost the only people he had in his life also made him very protective of said friends and he will hold the people close to him above anyone else. His social skills around women are basically non-existent however and he treads a fine line between treating them like dudes and stammering like an idiot, depending on the woman/girl in question.

Additionally due to his growing up on a farm he has learned the value of physical labor and, even though he can be lazy at times, he will not procrastinate things that need to be done. He loves listening to music on his phone while doing just about anything and can't keep himself from singing or rapping along at times. He has also become a really good skater and spends a lot of time on his board with his earbuds in his ears.

Nathan loves ice-cream, music and hanging around skate-parks or high-schools to meet new people and hear about the local problem and news. More than everything else however he hates ignorant, stuck up people that think their better than the “common folk”. He also hates carrots.

Skill-set:

- Extensive combat training: His great great granduncle taught him a number of techniques and styles over the course of the 8 years they spent together, including Karate, Judo, Jiu-Jitsu and Taek-Won-do

- Survivalist: After a fight with his great great grand uncle Nathan stormed out into the woods once and survived a year in the woods by himself, proving his mastery of hunting and foraging. He had even build himself a crude little tree-house, but eventually they missed each other too much and bumped into each other, while being on their respective way to apologize to the other one.

- Physical strength: Nathan has enormous upper body strength and stamina due to a very strict regimen his “uncle” used to enforce upon him.

- Street smarts: Due to the 2 years he spent traveling across the US before reaching Bell Reach, Nathan has gathered some knowledge on the how too stay out of trouble on the streets. He even managed to gain some small fame by helping out some “friends” he had made there. In addition he picked up some fighting experience and training along the way, picking up street fighting, boxing, kick boxing and knife fighting from a number of less optimal encounters.

- Network of friends: Not so much a skill, but an asset he build up over his travels. Nathan has build a network of information within the youth-culture of the western US. He has a bunch of favors left to collect and a few very knowledgeable shady characters in his phone's contacts. At the same time they contact him whenever they are in nee of help as well, a call he'd never refuse due to his strong sense of trust and friendship.
Powers:

- Physical Genius: Nathan might not be the smartest person by any means, but he is incredibly skilled in learning and adapting new fighting styles for himself. It might take more than one fight to get it down perfectly, but after a being exposed to a certain style for a while, will most likely lead to him becoming pretty good at it. This also had the strange side-effect of teaching him how to ride a skate-board, a bike, a surfboard and even a unicycle in record time, and made him a nightmare to play against in any sport. This didn't help him with his singing sadly, but he is convinced, that it's only a matter of time before he cracks that one as well.

- Shadow walking: A power, that Nathan manifested after the Boom. It enables Nathan to move in and out of shadows as if they were water. He can travel across shadows very quickly and soundlessly, however his eyes will shine yellow whenever he uses any aspect of his shadow powers. Besides his eyes however he is completely invisible and physically impervious to harm, the only drawback being, that he can only harm others in this state if he materializes, for example, his arms for a short instance. This sort of minute control can be hard for Nathan though, making it more of a stealth/ambush tool than a prolonged fighting strategy. Lastly, Nathan can shroud objects, clothes and even a person in shadow with him, but the more he takes with him the faster it drains him and it also significantly cuts down on the traveling speed he can muster.

- Shadow vision: A rather paradoxical name that Nathan came up with by himself to describe his ability to basically have perfect night vision while being in his yellow-eyed state.

- Shadow sense: Similar to Toph's tremor sense (avatar the last airbender), Nathan can feel and locate movement within the shadows he's connected to, making it a fantastic ability at night, when lights are dim and many shadows connect with eachother.

- Shadow control: The last shadow power, that Nathan just recently discovered and is pretty bad at using properly, allows him to change the shape of shadows he's currently connected to, making him able to connect them via small bridges or scouting ahead to cover an area for his shadow sense. This ability becomes increasingly difficult to use the more light the shadow would need to “travel” through.

Tools and Equipment:

- A Smartphone he carries around to be available at all times and earbud headphones to listen to go with it
- A backpack with clothes, food and a tent to sleep in
- A Skateboard he usually carried around on the side of his backpack, ready for quick deployment
- The Pendant around his neck resembling a full moon with sun-rays around it

Additional Information:
Nathan has a base level of education taught to him by his great great granduncle. He can read, write and do math, but had no proper understanding of modern sciences and technology until he came to the US-mainland 2 years ago.

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Name: Emma Jo Anderson
Alias: orbit (idk why I like this one)
Appearance: is slim and a couple of inches shorter than average (but not that much). she has light blonde hair and blueish brown eyes.
transformation:

My Hider

Age:24
Gender: female
Hometown: Seattle
Biography:
job: works in biogenetic research (mostly focuses on genetic disorders)
house: lives in a small flat close to Pike Place Market which she walks through to get to work)
backstory: one day Emma was working in her lab. her three lab coworkers were out, Kiki was sick, Ashanti had family visiting and had taken the day off, and Lena was on vacation and would return tomorrow. she was walking over to put a test vial into a DNA scanner which was near the window. she tripped when she got there and the vial flew out the window, she leaned out the window and tried to grab it and something shot out of her hand like a black, goopy, rope. it grabbed the vial like a chamelion tongue and she retracted it back into her hand which, to her shock was black now. she put the vial down and walked to a mirror in the supplies closet. and thats how she learned she had powers, easy to control but strange all the same. the next day she told her three friends about what happened and they encouraged her to try heroing (seattle was oddly hero deprived) and she hesitantly said yes. as a hero she mostly only works at night and trys to keep very undercover and not attract press or attention which so far she has managed to do pretty well.

and then she got the request. she and her small group of researchers (her 3 close friends, the only people who know what REALLY happened to her that day in the lab) were requested by the research center to move to someplace called Bell Reach where they could do some more research with the aid of the major tech companies there. the request was met with a certain lack of enthusiasm by Emma, she liked her current live very much and was not excited to leave Seattle where she had spent all her life even if it was only for a year or so nevertheless she wasn't going to turn it down just because she didn't want to leave, it was important to her research. so she got her friend Adam to watch her apartment, packed up her stuff, said goodbye and left.

Personality: very friendly and extremely nice. shes a good talker, listener, and advice giver as well as being easygoing, she has a good sense of humor and is the kind of person you would want on a road trip (trust me on this one even if it confuses you im not going to explain it).Skillset:
is very intelligent
Parkour!
combat
Powers:
all the time(including transformations):
enhanced strength, speed, durability, agility, stamina, reflexes/reactions, coordination, balance and endurance
Ability to cling to most surfaces
when transformed:
Limited shapeshifting and camouflage (think venom), accelerated healing, environmental adaptability
The ability to shoot a black substance out of her hand that can act sort of like webbing but not. It can be used to travel Spider-Man style, can be sticky, and can be hardened into use for a weapon or tool. Has a limited range though.
Tools and Equipment:
her suit which looks like a completely black version of spider-gwens suit with dark grey Seattle native American designs on it. matching black satchel
a USB drive
lock picking kit
whatever she thought might be useful
Additional Information: idk, possibly to be added later????