[OOC] Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 3- Shattered Dimensions

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Hound55....................Editor
Dedonus....................Editor
Fallenreaper...........Co-OP Designer

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Catch up on the events of Season 1:
and now Season 2

Character Post Index: courtesy of Dedonus
Season 1
Season 2 (under construction)
Season 3

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Current Month: July

Current C-A-H World Arcs

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Rules and Expectations

* Stay true to the personality and abilities of the character, such as no Cyclops moving planets with his optic blasts, Dazzler defeating Galactus, or Aunt May as Galatus's new Herald...

* Do NOT rip off existing heroes in comic universes. Come up with your own creation. If your character is too similar to one in Marvel, DC, or other comic companies, you will be asked to change it or come up with a new character.

* Before starting a game wide event, check with the GM to ensure it will not conflict with ongoing plans. Such events should NOT be your introductory arc.

* Gods and other deities are not allowed. However, characters such as Darkseid and Odin, who may have been worshiped as such; are. Any "gods" such as the Olympians, will be as regarded as The New Gods or Asgardians in DC and Marvel.

* Mind control, reality warping, and cartoon physics and other such powers are not allowed.

* Do NOT criticize another poster’s character. We are not all Stan Lee or Shakespeare. Constructive criticism is okay as long as it is not offensive. This rule applies even if a poster asks for feedback.

* Your character should make sense. Wolverine doesn’t dance in the flowers. If you have a meek character, they shouldn’t be smacking other characters around.

* NPC's can be an important part of this game. Do not kill or otherwise compromise another player's NPC's without permission from the player who controls them. If the player does not consent to what you want to do, you cannot do it.

* Communicate with others in your arc. This is key to the fun. It doesn’t matter how many fights you win, it matters if the fights were written well.

* If you are collaborating with another player and you do not hear from them for 1 week, and they have not let us know of an absence either in the OOC or through PM's either directly to you or the GM's, feel free to move on without them.

* The Game Masters have the final say in matters of character acceptance. You are welcome to alter the character to make it less powerful or more creative, but arguing with the Game Masters is not allowed. This is a game, let it be fun.

* You are allowed up to four characters. However, if you are new to the game we recommend starting off with one. You can always add another character later.

* This is a working environment, so you can travel to different places using your powers or vehicles. Don't miraculously pop up unless you're a teleporter or such.

* If you are new to the RPG, your first arc should be your origin arc. There are NO pre-established characters in this RPG.

* You can reside in any place in the New Universe. Note, however, that the main city is Lost Haven, Maine. This is where a lot of the action will take place. You can also travel off-planet.

* Don't do anything RANDOM like chopping off board user's heads or what not, unless you're a villain chopping off NPC victims heads, then whatever, go with it, as long as it's not technically RANDOM.

* Don't be killing people without reason. You know your weaknesses and strengths, what you can do or can't. Dazzler will lose against Thanos one on one, but may be able to use her allies to help her out or she can run away.

* If you want to take part in this, just fill out an app and your name and character will appear on the roster, pending approval.

* You can form super villain gangs, superhero teams, alliances, the works.

* There can be a number of stories going on at once, using different people.

* Act like your characters; ASSUME their traits and personalities.

* There are endless places to go and endless things to do: ENDLESS possibilities so get creative.

* This game is essentially a PG-13 game. Use your discretion for cussing and swearing in posts. Some swearing is okay, but don't overdue it. Please don't make me amend this down the line.

* No obscene topics! NO exceptions will be made for the RPG.

* People who disobey these rules, some more major than the others, will get BOOTED by the Game Masters.

*If violate the rules and manage to get yourself banned from this game (or the discord chat), we reserve the right to write your character out of the game in any way that we as GM's see fit.

* I made most (if not all) of the character banners in this game. If you join and would like one, feel free to ask.

* This game has OPEN ENROLLMENT. There are no limits on the number of players who can join. Feel free to fill out a CS and join the fun!

Characters

Current Active PCS
Heroes

• Aquilifer - Dennis Connolly Hound55
• Arachne - Aubrey Adkins Dedonus
• Blacklight - Leanna Young Indy Cooper
• Benjamin Reeves - --- Fallenreaper
• Hound Dog - Sinclair Adams VATROU
• Icon - Scott Hunter NiteMare Shape
• Iron Knight - Christopher Arthur III Dedonus
• Lyger - Kyle Porter NiteMare Shape
• Mal'Ahk - Dr. Jacob Harding Reagan Gallows
• Miss Megaton - April Newton Eddie Brock
• Pendragon - Eva Walsh VATROU
• Raptor - Zac Wilson Dedonus
• Roadblock - Detective Richard Hunter Alternax
• Terra Firma - Dr. David Anderson JonesAlternax
• Vigilante - Isaac Fontaine Hound55
• The Wanderer - unknown Mercinus3

Walking the Line

• Abigail Cho - --- Indy Cooper
• Agent 4 - Shou Hanamura Liseran Thistle
• Cadence - Louisa Perse
• Fletch - Kayla Mason Mercinus3
• Hecate - --- Fdeviant
• Lady Hex - Madalena Hawthorne Fdeviant
• Muerte - Alejandro Grange Klumsykrow357
• Nemesis - Racheli Desdemona Fallenreaper
• White Witch - Marie Elizabeth Heartford Fdeviant
• Winter - Briseann Indy Cooper

Villains

• Barron - Barron Vanderbilt VATROU
• Dullahan - --- Mercinus3
• Ruin - --- Indy Cooper
• Verge - Milliard Leigher Dezeul

Important NPC's

• The Psionic Nexus - --- [Walking the Line] Mercinus3

World

Need to Know Events:

-Pax Metahumana: Doctor Diplodoc, a scientist, who had invented a serum that could imbue metahuman powers onto regular people, planted several devices hidden in Lost Haven and several other cities that would create a sort of energy dome that would progressively transform the population of the world into metahumans. He claims that, due to recent events, humanity needs to 'evolve' in order to survive and his plan would do just that. While the heroes were able to dispose of the device in Lost Haven (it was dropped in the Atlantic Ocean), the devices in the other cities detonated. A coalition of heroes rallied together to storm Doctor Diplodoc's base and deactivate the domes. While most people exposed to the domes were cured afterwards, those who developed powers at the onset of the crisis were stuck with them. Locations affected: Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles/Pacific Point, Philadelphia (RIP), and Seattle.
-The Hounds of Humanity:
Locations affected: Philadelphia, Nautican Island, Paris, TX. (all destroyed to a variety of degrees), Lost Haven, Pacific Point (attacks only)

Lost Haven

Map of Maine

Map of Lost Haven

Robert D. Sherman Airport IATA code = LHX

US Map

Charonia

Maps made by @Eddie Brock, @Dedonus, and @nitemare shape

Terraria

World Fact Book

Location: Roughly in the same place as New Caledonia – Pacific Island Nation

Capital: Georgetown

Official language: English

Demonym: Terrarians

Government: Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy (Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II)

Area: 242,059km2 (93459.5 sq mi)
Puts it between the U.K. and Uganda in size/area (or between Michigan and Minnesota)

Population: 9,242,830 (Density: 38.18/km2 98.90/sq mi)
90th in population in the world (between Benin and Azerbaijan).
75th in population density between (Afghanistan, Madagascar and U.S.A).

GDP Nominal: Roughly $380 billion (Per capita: $41,112.95)
GDP PPP: Roughly $645.5 billion (Per Capita: $69,837.92)

Currency: Terrarian Dollar

Time zone: UTC+11

Major cities:

• Grenville (over 4 million population)
• Georgetown (Capital) (roughly 2 million population)
• Portsmouth (roughly 1.75 million population)
• Cooktown (roughly 1 million population)

Character Sheet

Create a Hero RPG Application
Interested? Fill Out This Application:

Character you have created: Character's Real Name

Alias: Name other than their real name

Speech Color (Actually say what you're using, don't go "Like this", or what not): See either the "Formatting Cheatsheet" (for convenience during posting) or the Guild's Color Guide (for a preview of what the colors will look like in a post) for possible colors, see CSes to note what's currently in use and what is still available.

Character Alignment: Three different alignments.

-Hero- Enjoy helping others, following the rules, and preventing the suffering of innocents? Ex: (Superman, Spider-Man, Iron Man)
-Walking the Line- Liking keeping a distinct balance between good and evil by living by your own set of morals, never answering to anyone but your sense of right? Ex: (Punisher, Deadpool)
-Villain- Want to create some havoc, live for only your morals and needs, and take what you want or have while enjoying the fall from the aftermath? Ex: (Joker, Green Goblin, Magneto)

Identity: Is your real name a Secret or Known to the public?

Character Personality: Give information on how your character acts, what they believe in, how they handle situations, how they socialize and more.

Uniform/costume: Briefly describe or post a picture of what your character's costume looks like.

Origin Info/Details: How did they gain their powers, where did they originate and end up where they are now? What experiences do they have and events in life turned them into the people they are today?

Season 1 Summary: Please describe what your character has done and in what events they have participated in the prior seasons of this game. If you character is new to this season, please omit this section.

Hero Type (Select one):

Normal- Average human or Non-powered characters
Brick/Muscle- Strongman or Brute type character
Elemental- Select: Water, Wind, or Earth.
Energy-What kind of energy? Ex. Electricity, Fire, Spirit, etc.
Psychic- Use your mind to toss or bend items, read minds, or even just cast illusions to make people think they're crazy!
Acrobat- Balance on great heights, twist into interesting ways and always land on your feet.
Speedster- Duck and weave, you can't catch me because I'm too fast for you.
Gray Matter- Who needs fancy powers or extreme weapons when I fully can and will out smart you.
Shape Shifter- I was a little lady once, then a young boy, and now a supermodel. What shape next, I wonder, should I take?
Mystic- Spell casters and magic users, if you're using any sort of magic then it goes here.
Supernatural- Divine agents, vampires, werewolves, zombies, angels, demons, and the list goes on...
Other- if you managed, somehow, to create something that doesn't belong in any of the above list then please put it here.

Power Level (Select one below):

A. Street Level (Ex. Punisher, Daredevil)
B. City Level (Ex. Spider-Man, Cyclops)
C. World Level (Ex. Flash, Superman)
D. Cosmic (Ex. Silver Surfer, Green Lantern)

Powers (Be Specific):

Attributes (Please provide a short description for each category):

Height:
Weight:
Strength: How strong is your character? You may represent this attribute with tons, if your character's strength is superhuman.
Mobility: How fast can your character travel on their own? This is not just limited to running (e.g. swimming, flying, etc.).
Intelligence: How intelligent is your character? This could be education level, street smarts, or pure natural intelligence.
Fighting Skill: Has your character been training in fighting styles? If so, how proficient are they?
Resources: What resources does your character have access to?

Weaknesses:

Supporting Characters: Does your character have a significant other? A mother? Friend? Who are they, what do they have to do with your character?

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?:

Sample Post (Minimum Four paragraphs containing dialogue. As this is an Advanced Level game, Sample must also meet the RPG forum's minimum requirement of 12 lines. Only for first time applicants.)

Character Sheet Template

[b]Character you have created:[/b]
[b]Alias:[/b]
[b]Speech Color:[/b]
[b]Character Alignment:[/b]
[b]Identity:[/b]
[b]Character Personality[/b]:
[b]Uniform/costume:[/b]
[b]Origin Info/Details:[/b]
[b]Season 1/2 Summary:[/b]
[b]Hero Type:[/b]
[b]Power Level:[/b]
[b]Powers:[/b]
[b]Attributes (Select one at each category):[/b]
[indent]
Height:
Weight:
Strength:
Mobility:
Intelligence:
Fighting Skill:
Resources:[/indent]
[b]Weaknesses:[/b]
[b]Supporting Characters:[/b]
[b]Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?:[/b]
[b]Sample Post:[/b]

Most Importantly:
HAVE FUN!
(Or Else!)

[nitemare shape]

Here is the Season 3 thread. If you had an active character in Season 2, you do not have to reapply, just go ahead and post your character in the Character Tab

[WaywardK]

Just saw the new IntChk so I wanted to go ahead and let the glorious GMs know a humble man such as myself may be looking into drafting a character for joining sometime soon uwu

[nitemare shape]

Just saw the new IntChk so I wanted to go ahead and let the glorious GMs know a humble man such as myself may be looking into drafting a character for joining sometime soon uwu

@WaywardK

Awesome! We look forward to having you

[Klumsykrow357]

Hey I was interested in making a character but I need some clarification on my concept, who would I talk to about crunchy details?

[nitemare shape]

Hey I was interested in making a character but I need some clarification on my concept, who would I talk to about crunchy details?

@Klumsykrow357

you can PM me here or on the discord if you like.

[Indy Cooper]

Join the discord and you can get the whole peanut gallery to pitch in! We don't bite, we swear.

[nitemare shape]

Join the discord and you can get the whole peanut gallery to pitch in! We don't bite, we swear.

@Indy Cooper

Well...much. ;)

But yeah, join the discord. Everyone's happy to help out with ideas

[Klumsykrow357]

Alright, where do I find the Discord? I have a Discord, but I'm kind of new to this.

[Hound55]

Join us in our CAH Chatroom

Catch up on the events of Season 1:
and now Season 2

@nitemare shape

[Alternax]

21 character tab posts already? Jeez..

[Liseran Thistle]

Shou Hanamura

Character you have created: Shou Hanamura

Alias: Agent 4, or just 4

Speech Color: Steelblue

Character Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Identity: Secret

Character Personality: Shou is a very soft spoken man who can seem cold and distant to people he’s just met. In actuality he has a large heart, and truly does empathize with other people, he just has an incredibly hard time showing it. Shou often masks his emotions and how he really feels from people constantly, and while he tells himself it's because he wants to make sure his own feelings don’t influence a vulnerable civilian in a panicked state, it’s more because he feels that is a particular weakness of his. Shou will do what he’s told very dutifully, and isn’t known to act out against his superiors. He prefers finding new ways to follow the mission, rather than breaking Code, and possibly endangering his position.

Uniform/costume: A dark suit jacket with a white under shirt, and green tie. He has a moth shaped silver pin on his left breast pocket, and wears dark pressed pants. This is the uniform all Agents wear.

Origin Info/Details: Shou Hanamura was born to two very distant parents, people who wanted him to grow up to be more of a symbol of their heritage, rather than their son. They treated his sister the same way as well, but she arguably didn’t turn out quite like Shou did. The Hanamura family are renowned in the underworld as some of the best assassins to hire for a quick and easy job. They’re a well kept secret from the general public even, who see them as nothing more than a normal Japanese family. Shou’s family never sought after power in the seedy underbellies of the world, however. His father and mother were obsessed with the status they carried as assassins, rather than the power they held in the Yakuza or Mob.

They lived in Okinawa for a few years, and Shou’s parents were the ones to do the “dirty work” that paid their bills, until Shou and his sister Aiko became old enough in their eyes to start learning the family “Art’s”. From a very young age, Shou was taught various ways to kill people, and how to do it effectively and with perfection. Shou became a natural at it, his sister however did not, and his parents shamed her repeatedly for not measuring up to their expectations. He would defend her, though, no matter how his parents berated the two of them for it.

More years passed, and Shou and his sister had become adults. Their parents disowned Aiko, and sent her away from their family home, refusing to ever speak to her again. They expected Shou to follow the path they had led for him in taking over the family business and becoming the next Hanamura assassin in the family, however he proved faithful to his sister and followed her all the way to America. He continued his Assassin work there in order to make a living, while his sister pursued her passion for mechanical engineering. Soon, however, his parents began to here word of his deeds in America, and were angry with him for continuing the family Art with their name.
To prove a horrible point of just how much they disliked both of their children, the two parents began to send other assassins after them. Of course, they knew these assassins would fail miserably at the hands of Shou, but they sent them anyway in the hopes that maybe one day his sister would be caught in the cross fires of a botched attempt. They wanted to try to hurt them in any way they could, and decided the bond they shared would be enough.

Shou spent days watching over his sister, exhausted from having to deal with poor excuses for assassins. It wasn’t so much that they were particularly skilled, it was the sheer volume of assassins his parents had hired. The siblings soon found themselves at an impossible impasse, where one was needlessly dealing with threats every other day, and the other was trying to get her brother to rest for once.

One day, they received a visitor they weren’t expecting. It was a young woman in a nicely tailored suit, and a neat silver moth shaped pin on her chest. She introduced herself as Leila Motley, a leader of a secret organization known as PARADOX that was bent on helping people in need who found themselves in unsavory situations with people from the underworld. She told them that she employed people of all kinds, from normal every day humans, to superhumans with incredible abilities. And she had heard through the grapevine of numerous dead assassins popping up that two Hanamura’s were in town.

She offered to help them shake the trail of their parents forever, if they agreed to become Paradox Agents, and work for her. Aiko agreed immediately, but Shou was apprehensive. He didn’t completely trust Leila at all, thinking that she could perhaps be a trap that his parents had laid out for them. But Aiko insisted, and thus they both began to work at the underground HQ in Houston.

Aiko worked as an Weaponsmith of sorts, creating more and more unique machines to help advance the powers and abilities of the Supers who worked at the Agency, and Shou worked on the field, helping people with the skills he had gained over the years. He soon rose up in the ranks, and took the title “Agent 4” when he successfully completed his 100th mission with no mistakes made.

He now works to help people in the midst of a disaster that has struck the planet as a whole seemingly out of nowhere and it’ll take a lot more than just himself to get through something like this.

Hero Type: Normal

Power Level: Street level

Powers: None

Attributes (Select one at each category):

Height:5”7
Weight:145 Lbs
Strength: Is not particularly strong in any way that's extraordinary.
Mobility: is incredibly fast and agile, his ability to parkour his way across a concrete jungle makes him far faster than more people.
Intelligence: Is very smart, but not a genius. He’s far better at reading people then he is at reading books.
Fighting Skill: Is very skilled in hand to hand combat,gun training and knives.
Resources:

Has access to a variety of weapons at HQ, as well as the various high end guns his sister creates. HQ also houses a library, both physical and digital.

Weaknesses:
-Has weak skin, isn’t impervious to being stabbed or shot
-Has low stamina and tires quickly.
-Is not very strong, can only lift a certain amount before hurting himself.
-Is not very skilled against an opponent with a sword or long blade. Only knows how to fight with a dagger or small knife.

Supporting Characters:
-Aiko Hanamura: Shou’s only sister, and Paradox’s official weaponsmith. (Agent 43)
-Leila Motley: Shou’s boss, and the leader of Paradox.
-Conner Ashlen: Shou’s Paradox partner who helps him on various assignments. (Agent 5)
Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: yes

[nitemare shape]

Shou Hanamura

Character you have created: Shou Hanamura

Alias: Agent 4, or just 4

Speech Color: Steelblue

Character Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Identity: Secret

Character Personality: Shou is a very soft spoken man who can seem cold and distant to people he’s just met. In actuality he has a large heart, and truly does empathize with other people, he just has an incredibly hard time showing it. Shou often masks his emotions and how he really feels from people constantly, and while he tells himself it's because he wants to make sure his own feelings don’t influence a vulnerable civilian in a panicked state, it’s more because he feels that is a particular weakness of his. Shou will do what he’s told very dutifully, and isn’t known to act out against his superiors. He prefers finding new ways to follow the mission, rather than breaking Code, and possibly endangering his position.

Uniform/costume: A dark suit jacket with a white under shirt, and green tie. He has a moth shaped silver pin on his left breast pocket, and wears dark pressed pants. This is the uniform all Agents wear.

Origin Info/Details: Shou Hanamura was born to two very distant parents, people who wanted him to grow up to be more of a symbol of their heritage, rather than their son. They treated his sister the same way as well, but she arguably didn’t turn out quite like Shou did. The Hanamura family are renowned in the underworld as some of the best assassins to hire for a quick and easy job. They’re a well kept secret from the general public even, who see them as nothing more than a normal Japanese family. Shou’s family never sought after power in the seedy underbellies of the world, however. His father and mother were obsessed with the status they carried as assassins, rather than the power they held in the Yakuza or Mob.

They lived in Okinawa for a few years, and Shou’s parents were the ones to do the “dirty work” that paid their bills, until Shou and his sister Aiko became old enough in their eyes to start learning the family “Art’s”. From a very young age, Shou was taught various ways to kill people, and how to do it effectively and with perfection. Shou became a natural at it, his sister however did not, and his parents shamed her repeatedly for not measuring up to their expectations. He would defend her, though, no matter how his parents berated the two of them for it.

More years passed, and Shou and his sister had become adults. Their parents disowned Aiko, and sent her away from their family home, refusing to ever speak to her again. They expected Shou to follow the path they had led for him in taking over the family business and becoming the next Hanamura assassin in the family, however he proved faithful to his sister and followed her all the way to America. He continued his Assassin work there in order to make a living, while his sister pursued her passion for mechanical engineering. Soon, however, his parents began to here word of his deeds in America, and were angry with him for continuing the family Art with their name.
To prove a horrible point of just how much they disliked both of their children, the two parents began to send other assassins after them. Of course, they knew these assassins would fail miserably at the hands of Shou, but they sent them anyway in the hopes that maybe one day his sister would be caught in the cross fires of a botched attempt. They wanted to try to hurt them in any way they could, and decided the bond they shared would be enough.

Shou spent days watching over his sister, exhausted from having to deal with poor excuses for assassins. It wasn’t so much that they were particularly skilled, it was the sheer volume of assassins his parents had hired. The siblings soon found themselves at an impossible impasse, where one was needlessly dealing with threats every other day, and the other was trying to get her brother to rest for once.

One day, they received a visitor they weren’t expecting. It was a young woman in a nicely tailored suit, and a neat silver moth shaped pin on her chest. She introduced herself as Leila Motley, a leader of a secret organization known as PARADOX that was bent on helping people in need who found themselves in unsavory situations with people from the underworld. She told them that she employed people of all kinds, from normal every day humans, to superhumans with incredible abilities. And she had heard through the grapevine of numerous dead assassins popping up that two Hanamura’s were in town.

She offered to help them shake the trail of their parents forever, if they agreed to become Paradox Agents, and work for her. Aiko agreed immediately, but Shou was apprehensive. He didn’t completely trust Leila at all, thinking that she could perhaps be a trap that his parents had laid out for them. But Aiko insisted, and thus they both began to work at the underground HQ in Houston.

Aiko worked as an Weaponsmith of sorts, creating more and more unique machines to help advance the powers and abilities of the Supers who worked at the Agency, and Shou worked on the field, helping people with the skills he had gained over the years. He soon rose up in the ranks, and took the title “Agent 4” when he successfully completed his 100th mission with no mistakes made.

He now works to help people in the midst of a disaster that has struck the planet as a whole seemingly out of nowhere and it’ll take a lot more than just himself to get through something like this.

Hero Type: Normal

Power Level: Street level

Powers: None

Attributes (Select one at each category):

Height:5”7
Weight:145 Lbs
Strength: Is not particularly strong in any way that's extraordinary.
Mobility: is incredibly fast and agile, his ability to parkour his way across a concrete jungle makes him far faster than more people.
Intelligence: Is very smart, but not a genius. He’s far better at reading people then he is at reading books.
Fighting Skill: Is very skilled in hand to hand combat,gun training and knives.
Resources:

Has access to a variety of weapons at HQ, as well as the various high end guns his sister creates. HQ also houses a library, both physical and digital.

Weaknesses:
-Has weak skin, isn’t impervious to being stabbed or shot
-Has low stamina and tires quickly.
-Is not very strong, can only lift a certain amount before hurting himself.
-Is not very skilled against an opponent with a sword or long blade. Only knows how to fight with a dagger or small knife.

Supporting Characters:
-Aiko Hanamura: Shou’s only sister, and Paradox’s official weaponsmith. (Agent 43)
-Leila Motley: Shou’s boss, and the leader of Paradox.
-Conner Ashlen: Shou’s Paradox partner who helps him on various assignments. (Agent 5)
Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: yes

@Liseran Thistle

Approved, welcome back

[Mercinus3]

Just as a heads up that I'm retconning the last Wanderer post from Season 2.

[Afro Samurai]

hot

[Afro Samurai]

Runner V

_{PERSONAL INFORMATION}

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Character you have created
Jamar Chambers

ALIAS: Runner V
SPEECH COLOR: Plum
CHARACTER ALIGNMENT: WTL
IDENTITY: Secret to all who are not part of the network of runners.

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Jamar is an optimist and an idealist. He believes in the good of all people but holds no reservations about the inconsistencies of that goodness. Unafraid to speak his mind and defiant of authority, Jamar finds himself at odds with villains and law-abiding heroes alike. Loyal to his causes and the immediate people around him, he prioritizes them above everyone and everything else.

When he was younger he was quite temperamental: prone to fighting, quick to anger, believing he was always right and distancing himself from those who disagreed. With age--though not much--and experiences few in similar positions possess, Jamar has what his callousness gets him. He’s seen how it hurts people and how what he once believed was brave: being the first to act, treating all tact and necessary caution with abandon, not listening to those wiser than himself, he now knows all these things make him not only a terrible hero but a terrible man.

He has not lost all his fire, but it has been tempered by the world and he is beginning to understand how to use his temper and his powers as tools instead of allowing them to devour him.

UNIFORM A collection of hoodies, makeshift masks--usually homemade half coverings that leave only the eyes exposed--bandanas, jeans, and whatever the newest shoes are. He mixes and matches according to the task at hand. Or--what is more likely--how well he feels his outfit coordinates.

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Santana and Shanice Chambers fled Apartheid in the early 80s and made their way to the United States in the mid 90s after staying with their grandparents in Cuba for much of the preceding decade. Relocating to St. Louis’ eastside not long after giving birth to Jamar and his sister Camille, the two became activists in the local community.

It is through their ground work they learn of their other history: they are both the children of former Runners: A worldwide syndicate of African, African-American, Native, and Indigenous couriers who, since some time in the 16th century, delivered food, weapons, money, and provided general protection to and for disenfranchised and disinvested marginal communities.

Their children, like so many others in their city and the nation at large, spend their childhoods in various parts of the world: Kaliningrad, Osaka, Benin, Beirut, Jaipur, Lampang. They are taught the intricacies of what their superiors term “the network”: when Jamar and Camille are of age--no later than their 21st birthday--they are inducted as official members and given a callsign, then stationed in a specific part of the U.S. Camille found herself in Chicago and Jamar, given recent events within the city, is tasked with building a new branch of runners in Lost Haven, Maine.

SEASON 1 & 2 SUMMARY None.
HERO TYPE Acrobat
POWER LEVEL Street/Cosmic

POWERS

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AN OVERVIEW It is speculated all Runners are powered in some form. The specific origins of Jamal’s powers are unknown, but he tells the story in the mode of dream: while kids in Benin, Jamar and Camille were playing in the forests and wandered too deep. Bark turned black, etchings of a great spider embedded the face of every tree. The sky above pitched from day to dark, a brood swarm and a creature 80 feet tall with eyes white as clouds towered above them. He said his name was Anansi. He wanted to tell them a story about mischievous children and evil adults. A deep sleep came over them and when they woke, they were paralyzed, bitten, and the Great Spider said only this before he vanished: Ai ghi mi’eve kevb’obalọ. No one evil will prevail.

• PLANEWALKING: Jamar can transverse any surface--no matter its state--as though it is solid. Air, water, magic surfaces, low density surfaces, etc. This does not mean he is immune to the effects of said surface; lava would still eat his flesh, a primarily electric surface would still shock him, so on and so forth.
• DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL: Jamar can transition between interplanar spaces and return himself to this dimension. He usually only uses this ability only when he has to deliver something to interdimensional beings. He needs a physical tether for this ability and if something happened to this tether he would be trapped in whatever plane he was in forever unless he could establish another.
• FLOW: Anansi’s blessings give him supernatural dexterity. He can bend, twist, leap, flip, roll, dodge, slide, and contort his body in ways most humans and many superhumans cannot. This ability to chain his body’s mechanisms together so effortlessly makes him incredibly hard to hit, but does not give him supernatural speed.
• MARTIAL ARTS: He is a skilled combatant, though no master of any styles. Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Aikido, and freestyle wrestling comprise his martial ability and he is most practiced in kickboxing and aikido.

_ATTRIBUTES

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HEIGHT: 6’3
WEIGHT: 210
STRENGTH He has above average strength for a human thanks to his profession but it does not allow him to perform abnormal feats of might. Most of his physical vigor is used to keep himself hanging onto or leaping across discordant surfaces without injuring himself.
MOBILITY Superhuman. His body’s muscular chain sequence is never rigid and he progresses through and connects movements well above the world’s greatest gymnasts or athletes.
INTELLIGENCE -1 INT modifier. He is far better at improvisation than he is at formal thinking skills like mathematics or physics.
FIGHTING SKILL Practiced. He has knowledge of many schools but is a steady practitioner of four and has profound skill in just two.
RESOURCES The Wreck: A collection of safehouses across the world where Runners can meet, exchange packages, rest, or resupply.
Twin katanas: Standard Japanese cutting swords.
Twin mambele: Curved blades from Central and Southern Africa designed to catch, pull, and parry opposing shields, swords, and chained weapons. Excellent at not only cutting but also controlling and disabling limbs with the curve of the sword.

WEAKNESSES Despite his gifts, he is still human. He can be injured or killed in any way a regular human can. He still has to eat, sleep, breathe, etc. The dangerous nature of his job means he is always in peril and a few broken bones in the right places could mean the end of his career.

_{SUPPORTING CHARACTERS}

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Len “Uncle” Woo: An elderly Chinese man and one of the first American Runners; beloved in the local north Asian community in New York and Baltimore. He and several other elders form the unofficial leadership structure of the Runners’ American network. Stubborn, prone to much drunken storytelling, still believes he is 21 in body and mind.

Camille Chambers: Jamar’s older sister and closest confidant. Calm, confident, and always sure of herself, she and Jamar are opposites in this respect. She has garnered a reputation for herself as a Runner on Chicago’s west side and amassed a level of folklore around herself as her Parklawn neighborhood’s protector. It is a fame she accepts proudly and mentions whenever she can. With the recent passing of the Chambers’ parents, the two have grown much closer.

Quentin “Major” Simms: A middle aged Black American man who is Jamar’s op partner and field mentor. He was the first Runner to train Jamar and Camille in the conduct, tenets, and laws of the network and the first person to teach the siblings how to free run, proper stealth technique, and an untold number of other things. The closest thing to a father figure the two have had in the wake of their biological father’s death.

Mama St. Clair: A Hatian woman and successor to the fabled Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Leveau, she is the oldest Runner alive though few know her age. It is speculated she is just under three hundred years old. Secretive but no shadow, she presides over the supernatural affairs of the Runner network from her base of operations in New Orleans’ French Quarter and her connections span all 50 states. A supremely powerful mystic, she is feared by many, respected by all who know her, and revered with godlike reverence among Black communities nationwide.

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_{SAMPLE POST}

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Steps silent, still pulsing violent against rooftop concrete. White and red shozoku leapt and rolled like water. Only feet ahead was a breathless kid, heart and head gongs against their cages, a butter baritone leaking from his left side,

“I told you this wasn’t what you thought it was, youngin!” the Major’s confidence buoyed his own settled fear,
”I damn sure didn’t think it was this!” one hand pressed down and his body horizontal when Jamar vaulted over a railing,
“Nobody does! Jump on three!”
”I know we not making it to three!”
“You’re right!” one gathering step, two, and both men pushed off the edge and soared across a crevice whose abyss below was concrete and likely worse than an actual void. Voids didn’t break bones, at least.
”They still ain’t stopping!” Jamar decried the obvious; Major craned his head around at their pursuers who moved as one. Like lilies and lilacs.

“Well, tired of running?” Major spoke through haunched breaths
”As hell!” he grabbed hold of Jamal’s shoulders,
“Time to make that thing you do, do what it does!” Major’s superior strength forced them both off the next ledge and then down--down so far in a fall so long Jamar wasn’t sure they would hit the ground. They bounced and rolled on pockets of solidified air; Major broke the landing without any recognizable injury. He pushed Jamal off and stood,
“Get up, rookie. We just got started!”
”Fuck you mean ‘just got started’? We been running for hours.”
“Uh huh.”
”Uh huh? UH HUH? Where is this thing supposed to go again?”
“Alaska.” he deadpanned,
”ALASKA? Nah, nah. Call Uncle Woo right now!”
“Relax, youngin, just to Chicago.”
”We in Baltimore!”
“Better get that ass to running then, huh?” Major smiled and snatched the package from Jamar’s hands. He took off into the night,
”Aye, hold up! You just gone leave me?”
“We’re going to the same place, so leaving is subjective. I like to think of it as you losing to an old man. Double time, young fella!” and Major bounded across a set of monkey bars in a park before his silhouette was awash in distant street lights.

Jamar followed suit, pulling the black bandana and black hood over his face and head respectively. Welcome to the show, Mr. Chambers. Your death certificate is on the left.

organization cs coming soon

[nitemare shape]

Runner V

_{PERSONAL INFORMATION}

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Character you have created
Jamar Chambers

ALIAS: Runner V
SPEECH COLOR: Plum
CHARACTER ALIGNMENT: WTL
IDENTITY: Secret to all who are not part of the network of runners.

_{CHARACTER PERSONALITY}

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Jamar is an optimist and an idealist. He believes in the good of all people but holds no reservations about the inconsistencies of that goodness. Unafraid to speak his mind and defiant of authority, Jamar finds himself at odds with villains and law-abiding heroes alike. Loyal to his causes and the immediate people around him, he prioritizes them above everyone and everything else.

When he was younger he was quite temperamental: prone to fighting, quick to anger, believing he was always right and distancing himself from those who disagreed. With age--though not much--and experiences few in similar positions possess, Jamar has what his callousness gets him. He’s seen how it hurts people and how what he once believed was brave: being the first to act, treating all tact and necessary caution with abandon, not listening to those wiser than himself, he now knows all these things make him not only a terrible hero but a terrible man.

He has not lost all his fire, but it has been tempered by the world and he is beginning to understand how to use his temper and his powers as tools instead of allowing them to devour him.

UNIFORM A collection of hoodies, makeshift masks--usually homemade half coverings that leave only the eyes exposed--bandanas, jeans, and whatever the newest shoes are. He mixes and matches according to the task at hand. Or--what is more likely--how well he feels his outfit coordinates.

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_ORIGIN

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Santana and Shanice Chambers fled Apartheid in the early 80s and made their way to the United States in the mid 90s after staying with their grandparents in Cuba for much of the preceding decade. Relocating to St. Louis’ eastside not long after giving birth to Jamar and his sister Camille, the two became activists in the local community.

It is through their ground work they learn of their other history: they are both the children of former Runners: A worldwide syndicate of African, African-American, Native, and Indigenous couriers who, since some time in the 16th century, delivered food, weapons, money, and provided general protection to and for disenfranchised and disinvested marginal communities.

Their children, like so many others in their city and the nation at large, spend their childhoods in various parts of the world: Kaliningrad, Osaka, Benin, Beirut, Jaipur, Lampang. They are taught the intricacies of what their superiors term “the network”: when Jamar and Camille are of age--no later than their 21st birthday--they are inducted as official members and given a callsign, then stationed in a specific part of the U.S. Camille found herself in Chicago and Jamar, given recent events within the city, is tasked with building a new branch of runners in Lost Haven, Maine.

SEASON 1 & 2 SUMMARY None.
HERO TYPE Acrobat
POWER LEVEL Street/Cosmic

POWERS

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AN OVERVIEW It is speculated all Runners are powered in some form. The specific origins of Jamal’s powers are unknown, but he tells the story in the mode of dream: while kids in Benin, Jamar and Camille were playing in the forests and wandered too deep. Bark turned black, etchings of a great spider embedded the face of every tree. The sky above pitched from day to dark, a brood swarm and a creature 80 feet tall with eyes white as clouds towered above them. He said his name was Anansi. He wanted to tell them a story about mischievous children and evil adults. A deep sleep came over them and when they woke, they were paralyzed, bitten, and the Great Spider said only this before he vanished: Ai ghi mi’eve kevb’obalọ. No one evil will prevail.

• PLANEWALKING: Jamar can transverse any surface--no matter its state--as though it is solid. Air, water, magic surfaces, low density surfaces, etc. This does not mean he is immune to the effects of said surface; lava would still eat his flesh, a primarily electric surface would still shock him, so on and so forth.
• DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL: Jamar can transition between interplanar spaces and return himself to this dimension. He usually only uses this ability only when he has to deliver something to interdimensional beings. He needs a physical tether for this ability and if something happened to this tether he would be trapped in whatever plane he was in forever unless he could establish another.
• FLOW: Anansi’s blessings give him supernatural dexterity. He can bend, twist, leap, flip, roll, dodge, slide, and contort his body in ways most humans and many superhumans cannot. This ability to chain his body’s mechanisms together so effortlessly makes him incredibly hard to hit, but does not give him supernatural speed.
• MARTIAL ARTS: He is a skilled combatant, though no master of any styles. Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Aikido, and freestyle wrestling comprise his martial ability and he is most practiced in kickboxing and aikido.

_ATTRIBUTES

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HEIGHT: 6’3
WEIGHT: 210
STRENGTH He has above average strength for a human thanks to his profession but it does not allow him to perform abnormal feats of might. Most of his physical vigor is used to keep himself hanging onto or leaping across discordant surfaces without injuring himself.
MOBILITY Superhuman. His body’s muscular chain sequence is never rigid and he progresses through and connects movements well above the world’s greatest gymnasts or athletes.
INTELLIGENCE -1 INT modifier. He is far better at improvisation than he is at formal thinking skills like mathematics or physics.
FIGHTING SKILL Practiced. He has knowledge of many schools but is a steady practitioner of four and has profound skill in just two.
RESOURCES The Wreck: A collection of safehouses across the world where Runners can meet, exchange packages, rest, or resupply.
Twin katanas: Standard Japanese cutting swords.
Twin mambele: Curved blades from Central and Southern Africa designed to catch, pull, and parry opposing shields, swords, and chained weapons. Excellent at not only cutting but also controlling and disabling limbs with the curve of the sword.

WEAKNESSES Despite his gifts, he is still human. He can be injured or killed in any way a regular human can. He still has to eat, sleep, breathe, etc. The dangerous nature of his job means he is always in peril and a few broken bones in the right places could mean the end of his career.

_{SUPPORTING CHARACTERS}

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Len “Uncle” Woo: An elderly Chinese man and one of the first American Runners; beloved in the local north Asian community in New York and Baltimore. He and several other elders form the unofficial leadership structure of the Runners’ American network. Stubborn, prone to much drunken storytelling, still believes he is 21 in body and mind.

Camille Chambers: Jamar’s older sister and closest confidant. Calm, confident, and always sure of herself, she and Jamar are opposites in this respect. She has garnered a reputation for herself as a Runner on Chicago’s west side and amassed a level of folklore around herself as her Parklawn neighborhood’s protector. It is a fame she accepts proudly and mentions whenever she can. With the recent passing of the Chambers’ parents, the two have grown much closer.

Quentin “Major” Simms: A middle aged Black American man who is Jamar’s op partner and field mentor. He was the first Runner to train Jamar and Camille in the conduct, tenets, and laws of the network and the first person to teach the siblings how to free run, proper stealth technique, and an untold number of other things. The closest thing to a father figure the two have had in the wake of their biological father’s death.

Mama St. Clair: A Hatian woman and successor to the fabled Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Leveau, she is the oldest Runner alive though few know her age. It is speculated she is just under three hundred years old. Secretive but no shadow, she presides over the supernatural affairs of the Runner network from her base of operations in New Orleans’ French Quarter and her connections span all 50 states. A supremely powerful mystic, she is feared by many, respected by all who know her, and revered with godlike reverence among Black communities nationwide.

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_{SAMPLE POST}

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Steps silent, still pulsing violent against rooftop concrete. White and red shozoku leapt and rolled like water. Only feet ahead was a breathless kid, heart and head gongs against their cages, a butter baritone leaking from his left side,

“I told you this wasn’t what you thought it was, youngin!” the Major’s confidence buoyed his own settled fear,
”I damn sure didn’t think it was this!” one hand pressed down and his body horizontal when Jamar vaulted over a railing,
“Nobody does! Jump on three!”
”I know we not making it to three!”
“You’re right!” one gathering step, two, and both men pushed off the edge and soared across a crevice whose abyss below was concrete and likely worse than an actual void. Voids didn’t break bones, at least.
”They still ain’t stopping!” Jamar decried the obvious; Major craned his head around at their pursuers who moved as one. Like lilies and lilacs.

“Well, tired of running?” Major spoke through haunched breaths
”As hell!” he grabbed hold of Jamal’s shoulders,
“Time to make that thing you do, do what it does!” Major’s superior strength forced them both off the next ledge and then down--down so far in a fall so long Jamar wasn’t sure they would hit the ground. They bounced and rolled on pockets of solidified air; Major broke the landing without any recognizable injury. He pushed Jamal off and stood,
“Get up, rookie. We just got started!”
”Fuck you mean ‘just got started’? We been running for hours.”
“Uh huh.”
”Uh huh? UH HUH? Where is this thing supposed to go again?”
“Alaska.” he deadpanned,
”ALASKA? Nah, nah. Call Uncle Woo right now!”
“Relax, youngin, just to Chicago.”
”We in Baltimore!”
“Better get that ass to running then, huh?” Major smiled and snatched the package from Jamar’s hands. He took off into the night,
”Aye, hold up! You just gone leave me?”
“We’re going to the same place, so leaving is subjective. I like to think of it as you losing to an old man. Double time, young fella!” and Major bounded across a set of monkey bars in a park before his silhouette was awash in distant street lights.

Jamar followed suit, pulling the black bandana and black hood over his face and head respectively. Welcome to the show, Mr. Chambers. Your death certificate is on the left.

organization cs coming soon

@Afro Samurai

Approved

[Sade Kingfisher]

Long night under the cold star sent adrift in space lost to the void and awoken by fire.

Character you have created: Koisma
Alias: "Long night under the cold star sent adrift in space lost to the void and awoken by fire." or just "Long Night"
Speech Color: Frost
Character Alignment: Villain
Identity: Unknown
Character Personality: A lost soul, no mind to speak of yet. Simply hunger to reclaim the energy that it has lost from being adrift in space for an uncountable number of years. A starved body and mind that seeks sustenance before it could even begin to consider its own personality or feelings.
Uniform/costume: An ovoid crystal of chemically pure sapphire, opaque except for two pairs of crossed transparent lines. These lines are her eyes. To the sides of this ovoid crystal are a pair of rounded discs of white diamond that border both sides of the head. These are her ears. A pair of flat discs floats just below her head and are composed of obsidian, this is her mouth. Floating loosely above a hexagonal crystal of the same makeup, totally opaque in form. Below the hexagonal shoulders are twelve equal length series of crystalline tendrils made of interlocking crystals rather than individually free floating pieces. These are tri tipped tendrils, each of the three tips at the ends of these are the manipulating fingers with which she manipulates the world around her.

She has a veil of free floating space dust and frost that loosely resembles a cloak with a wide collar. It resembles black opal and hangs the full enormous length of her body. It gives the illusion of humanoid form with her wide "shoulders" propping the cloak up beneath her head.
Origin Info/Details: The last surviving member of an unimaginably ancient race whose star died of old age, her planet and people were blown away in a supernova. Their own hubris made them refuse to leave. She in her fear ran from the imminence of her demise. Sent careening into the void of space, she used her phenominal powers to freeze herself solid and enter a state of suspended animation. An entire solar system emerged from the nebula formed from the supernova and she was drawn into orbit in the asteroid belt around the star. Suddenly she was hurtled towards Earth by the artifices of an alien race, and her arrival is largely unnoticed by the residents who were more concerned with the ongoing invasion.
Season 1/2 Summary: Frozen in space.
Hero Type: Energy.
Power Level: World Level
Powers:
Energy Absorption: A passive consumption of all energy in an area of effect around her body. The radius is her height, and it is a perfect sphere with the center being her head. This energy absorption is incredibly potent. Able to suck the heat from the air and freeze water in her wake, leaving a sheen of frost on the ground as she moves. She is able to extend this absorption and control its shape. She can also absorb information straight from computers, as they are stored in an energetic state. If she concentrates it to a single point in front of her head she has no upward limit on the energy she can absorb. She could be dropped into a reactor and drain it in minutes if she concentrates it this way.

This concentrated absorption can be weaponized by placing at the end of one of her manipulator limbs it can be used to "erase" matter in its tracks. What is really happening is she is instantly converting matter to energy and absorbing it, but it operates like a blade that can cut through any barrier. No material, no energetic barrier, no protection can resist being consumed this way.

By dividing it up to each of her manipulator limbs she can reduce the effectiveness but raise the number of threats. On contact with any material it is gradually consumed layer by layer. Skin is dissolved, muscle is shredded, bone is eroded leaving nothingness in its wake.

Energy Manipulation: All of the energy that is absorbed has to go somewhere, and she is able to finely manipulate it and give energy to matter around her. Simple to explain, but exceptionally potent in execution. She is able to give any form of energy to any non-living matter around her. Including but not limited to:

-Energizing air into a superheated beam by giving it kinetic and heat energy.
-Stopping or blowing away objects in motion by giving the air in front of her kinetic energy equal to or greater than the mass of the object.
-Sending objects flying by giving them large volumes of kinetic energy.
-Effectively telekinesis on objects that are not living.

Attributes:

Length: 12 feet 7 inches
Weight: 1036.8 lbs
Strength: Multiple Tens of Tons, two tons per manipulating arm. Can be raised by applying energy to the object she is trying to move.
Mobility: Complete control over mobility on all three axes. Can break the sound barrier passively, but when she pushes herself to her absolute limits she can reach mach 4.
Intelligence: Comparatively simple minded. Very quick to learn and adapt. She learns at an absurd rate, absorbing information directly from machinery.
Fighting Skill: Untrained
Resources: None to speak of.

Weaknesses: Body made of crystal means if a part of her is broken it has to be replaced, rather than healed properly.
Supporting Characters: None to speak of.
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Sample Post:
As the alien ships launched down their volley of asteroids towards the planet a small rocky object was caught in the gravity wake of their assault. Colliding with the celestial body and bouncing off course she was launched towards the planet at an odd angle. Heat and light after eons of darkness suddenly awoke her to the world again. Life! Life! Life! She could feel, she could think, and she suddenly felt the immeasurable hunger of a billion billion lifetimes strike her with an almost lethal blow of agony.

The pain of entry into a planet whose gravity was far less than her own was less than that of her own insatiable hunger, her mind broke under the strain, for the few moments that she could remember herself she was terrified. Now she could feel no emotion other than the need to feed.

At the moment of collision her body extended her numerous limbs out like a kite, spreading the cloak across their surface and raising the tension so that she suddenly and abruptly stopped. Only the ends of her manipulator arms touched the ground as she halted her descent. There was a moment of pause as she took stock of her surroundings and her aura of energy absorption began to rapidly convert the air around her into nourishment.

It was not, however, enough for her and she began scuttling across the ground like some perverse crystalline arachnid. Where she stumbled upon a couple who was hiding in fear from the events of the invasion. They were terrified, and had no clue that the lifeform that suddenly appeared before them was not part of the very same invasion.

Neither did she. They were mutually unaware of the truth of the situation, and the only thing that mattered was that these soft fleshy lifeforms had a lot of warmth. Plenty of energy to begin satisfying the hunger within her.

She leapt upon them, and held them in place while their bodies decomposed into their basic components and gradually turned into raw energy.

This too was not enough, and she desperately needed more.

Too inhuman to gain traction, I'm working on another character.

[Eventua]

Character in progress.

Character you have created: Kayiphan
Alias: N/A
Speech Color: "This will suffice. It is the thought that matters."
Character Alignment: Villain, but convinced it's other peoples fault.
Identity: Unknown - he is soon to awaken on Earth.

Character Personality: Slow and ponderous, Kayiphan cares mainly about information - how systems of matter, energy, biology and society interact. He generally avoids speaking unless spoken to, content to listen and observe in social situations - especially since his arrival on Earth, a place that works so differently from the worlds he was used too. His nervous habits, of nail biting and hair twirling, often become apparent when he is in a moment of great concentration.
That said, Kayiphan is also arrogant, and sometimes dangerously so - his interest in other people primarily stems from what he can learn from them or how else they can be useful, or at least "different". In truth, he is obsessed with the concept of "value" as it applies to things - whether that be physical objects, animals, phenomena, nations, or individuals - whereby "value" is defined as "the degree to which a thing benefits or improves the status or efficiency of other components to the system(s) it is a part of". It is little wonder, then, that he felt so little guilt about his experiments on the Thirty Two Spheres. After all, what are a few lives or personalities - so easily written off by him as forgettable and ordinary - in the face of discovery? Of connecting worlds yet unconnected?

Uniform/costume: Kayiphan has no separate costume or 'secret identity', since he is not native to Earth and originated on a world with separate norms. However, his regular clothes from the Thirty Two Spheres stand out from the norm, consisting of a multi-layered toga in several shades of black, blue and lilac, with highlighted patterns of silver and red. Around his wrist is a golden bracelet that contrasts sharply against his pale blue skin, a token of appreciation from a long lost friend and the reminder of his need to return home. The black sandals he wears are tightly bound to his legs, while the tattoos etched down the bridge of his nose, lips and chest are a hold over of his branding and exile from his home sphere, the Thirteenth.

Origin Info/Details:

Season 1/2 Summary: Trapped in a mirror within mirrors, and then the upper most mirror was hurled into a colourless abyss for an unknowable length of time.
Hero Type: Other
Power Level: In his current state, he is merely at A level. However, given time to build up his resources and sufficient sapient beings to draw upon, he could become a C level or even D level threat.

Powers

Stepping through reflections: Kayiphan achieved his unique position by the development of a rare skill on the Thirty Two Spheres - "inverting". A mirrored surface is a key way to change our perception of ourselves and our surroundings, and those who learn to see beyond the surface and to 'cut off' or 'embrace' new perspectives can step through their reflections to visit other possible locations linked to a reflective surface. This power doesn't work for him on Earth in the way he is used to - he can't use it to step between worlds or long distances, instead being limited to roughly 100 feet.
Tracing from virtue: A far more prominent and dangerous ability unique to Kayiphan - or at least, that he uniquely was willing to develop - was the idea of extracting virtue. By touching a living creature or an object with sentimental and abstract associations to those who handle it, Kayiphan can temporarily manifest matter from the Thirty Two Spheres that matches the relevant virtue (or "colour"). This matter can take countless forms - from fields of colourful energy with unusual properties, to replicas of objects and technology he is familiar with, to temporary replicas - "echoes" - of people or living creatures that obey Kayiphan's will. Fortunately for the creatures of Earth, the fact that the five virtues are largely abstract qualities means that the harm caused by this extraction is greatly diminished, and the more accurate term while on Earth is tracing. While the process is still unpleasant - a subject whose tenacity is traced, for example, will find themselves suddenly losing their sense of determination for a brief period of time - it is not permanent and causes no physical harm other than a brief sense of nausea and a mild headache.
The five virtues of Kayiphan's home that he can interact with and trace are:
--- Novelty, Black, the First Virtue. A form of 'smart matter', a sort of naturally occurring swarm of microbial entities that can form into a variety of simple tools or patterns, and even mimic the other four virtues or colours to a lesser degree, albeit with greater effort. Tracing black from an object causes it to shrink and 'simplify', losing extraneous or distinctive details such as colouration, patterns, or small components. Tracing it from a living creature strips it of imagination or curiosity for a time, and can cause brief periods of insomnia.
--- Reason, Blue, the Second Virtue. A sort of 'quantum entanglement' on a macro-level canvas. Blue matter and energy is always created in pairs that perfectly mimic and reflect each other - a disc of blue matter that is shaped into a small pyramid, for example, will cause another equal amount of its "mirror half" to shape into an inverted pyramid. Tracing blue from an object causes it to rise in temperature, while a living creature traced of its blue will find itself struggling with long term thinking or concentration while the effect lasts.
--- Fairness, Silver, the Third Virtue. Increases the rate of entropy in its influence and can project fields that 'perfectly distribute' energy and motion within all areas of the field simultaneously. Grows exponentially stronger in response to heightened energy - such a field can be slowly walked through with ease, for example, but would stop a guided missile in its tracks. Tracing silver from an object weakens its structural integrity, while tracing it from a living creature saps it's sense of awareness and patience for a time.
--- Warmth, Gold, the Fourth Virtue. Supports the growth and health of living matter within its influence and lights, allowing living things to survive for extended periods in relative comfort - even without access to all of their physical needs (food, water, air, sleep etc.). In concentrated amounts, it rapidly regenerates systems of matter and energy in a way the observer perceives as 'correct' - usually medical, but in theory this could also be used to accelerate the rate at which a machine, for example, decays or breaks down. Tracing gold from an object sterilizes it of microbial life or nutrients, while tracing it from a living creature dampens a its sense of empathy or compassion for a time, and slows the rate of its natural processes.
--- Tenacity, Red, the Fifth Virtue. Generates and stores energy at over 100% efficiency, but highly volatile - like all of the colours it is organic and mildly empathic in nature, and so requires to be in close proximity to someone or something with a strong will to direct it and prevent it exploding from any sharp increases in heat or pressure. Can thus be detonated with little effort, or used to fuel living creatures or machines to supernormal levels. Tracing red from an object drains it of energy and motion, while tracing it from a living creature causes it to lose any sense of momentum, desire or willpower temporarily.

Attributes (Select one at each category):

Height: 6"4
Weight: 230lb
Strength: Kayiphan is not a very physically strong individual - barely able to lift about 60 pounds at a real push. Were he to fuel himself on traced tenacity first, however, he could push into just past peak human levels - a little bit over 500 pounds.
Mobility: Likewise, Kayiphan is sluggish, needing to stop for breath even after a short sprint. With traced tenacity, he could potentially hit a dead sprint of roughly 25mph, and keep it going until the effect wore off in an hour or so - though he would probably pass out afterwards from the strain.
Intelligence: Above average, experienced with life on many worlds and a keen scholar of numerous scientific and cosmological fields - albeit ones that were very different from earth. It will take him time to adjust his knowledge and skill set to earth.
Fighting Skill: Kayiphan has always disliked physical conflict and has little practice, but he has received some training in close quarters fighting from his former friends and other inverters. His style is very improvised, making use of the terrain and random objects.
Resources: Kayiphan currently lacks any resources except the mirror he was sealed in, and the dark blue robes he wears.

Weaknesses: Aside from the fact that Kayiphan is fundamentally mortal - and thus is vulnerable to injury and exhaustion as much as anyone else - there is also the fact that he is unused to technology on Earth. This extends beyond merely a need for practice, as he is used to technology and artifacts on worlds which are fueled by and work on the principles of the five virtues. Earthly technology works by principles that are alien to him. More broadly, of course, his strangely imposing physical appearance and his anti-social persona, as well as his ignorance on Earth history, art, and culture.

Supporting Characters:

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"Hmph. A simple question - yes, I do know how. In exchange, I'll ask you a stranger question: is a creature worthy without virtue?"

Sample Post (in progress)

He sometimes wondered if pain was a virtue. It was certainly prolific enough.

"W-why?" whispered the old man, his breath tired from both age and the last few rounds of screaming.

An excellent question, as if the man had read his mind... but one that there was sadly little point in answering. There was too much history to it, after all, and history was wasted on those who would not live to make use of its lessons.

[nitemare shape]

Long night under the cold star sent adrift in space lost to the void and awoken by fire.

Character you have created: Koisma
Alias: "Long night under the cold star sent adrift in space lost to the void and awoken by fire." or just "Long Night"
Speech Color: Frost
Character Alignment: Villain
Identity: Unknown
Character Personality: A lost soul, no mind to speak of yet. Simply hunger to reclaim the energy that it has lost from being adrift in space for an uncountable number of years. A starved body and mind that seeks sustenance before it could even begin to consider its own personality or feelings.
Uniform/costume: An ovoid crystal of chemically pure sapphire, opaque except for two pairs of crossed transparent lines. These lines are her eyes. To the sides of this ovoid crystal are a pair of rounded discs of white diamond that border both sides of the head. These are her ears. A pair of flat discs floats just below her head and are composed of obsidian, this is her mouth. Floating loosely above a hexagonal crystal of the same makeup, totally opaque in form. Below the hexagonal shoulders are twelve equal length series of crystalline tendrils made of interlocking crystals rather than individually free floating pieces. These are tri tipped tendrils, each of the three tips at the ends of these are the manipulating fingers with which she manipulates the world around her.

She has a veil of free floating space dust and frost that loosely resembles a cloak with a wide collar. It resembles black opal and hangs the full enormous length of her body. It gives the illusion of humanoid form with her wide "shoulders" propping the cloak up beneath her head.
Origin Info/Details: The last surviving member of an unimaginably ancient race whose star died of old age, her planet and people were blown away in a supernova. Their own hubris made them refuse to leave. She in her fear ran from the imminence of her demise. Sent careening into the void of space, she used her phenominal powers to freeze herself solid and enter a state of suspended animation. An entire solar system emerged from the nebula formed from the supernova and she was drawn into orbit in the asteroid belt around the star. Suddenly she was hurtled towards Earth by the artifices of an alien race, and her arrival is largely unnoticed by the residents who were more concerned with the ongoing invasion.
Season 1/2 Summary: Frozen in space.
Hero Type: Energy.
Power Level: World Level
Powers:
Energy Absorption: A passive consumption of all energy in an area of effect around her body. The radius is her height, and it is a perfect sphere with the center being her head. This energy absorption is incredibly potent. Able to suck the heat from the air and freeze water in her wake, leaving a sheen of frost on the ground as she moves. She is able to extend this absorption and control its shape. She can also absorb information straight from computers, as they are stored in an energetic state. If she concentrates it to a single point in front of her head she has no upward limit on the energy she can absorb. She could be dropped into a reactor and drain it in minutes if she concentrates it this way.

This concentrated absorption can be weaponized by placing at the end of one of her manipulator limbs it can be used to "erase" matter in its tracks. What is really happening is she is instantly converting matter to energy and absorbing it, but it operates like a blade that can cut through any barrier. No material, no energetic barrier, no protection can resist being consumed this way.

By dividing it up to each of her manipulator limbs she can reduce the effectiveness but raise the number of threats. On contact with any material it is gradually consumed layer by layer. Skin is dissolved, muscle is shredded, bone is eroded leaving nothingness in its wake.

Energy Manipulation: All of the energy that is absorbed has to go somewhere, and she is able to finely manipulate it and give energy to matter around her. Simple to explain, but exceptionally potent in execution. She is able to give any form of energy to any non-living matter around her. Including but not limited to:

-Energizing air into a superheated beam by giving it kinetic and heat energy.
-Stopping or blowing away objects in motion by giving the air in front of her kinetic energy equal to or greater than the mass of the object.
-Sending objects flying by giving them large volumes of kinetic energy.
-Effectively telekinesis on objects that are not living.

Attributes:

Length: 12 feet 7 inches
Weight: 1036.8 lbs
Strength: Multiple Tens of Tons, two tons per manipulating arm. Can be raised by applying energy to the object she is trying to move.
Mobility: Complete control over mobility on all three axes. Can break the sound barrier passively, but when she pushes herself to her absolute limits she can reach mach 4.
Intelligence: Comparatively simple minded. Very quick to learn and adapt. She learns at an absurd rate, absorbing information directly from machinery.
Fighting Skill: Untrained
Resources: None to speak of.

Weaknesses: Body made of crystal means if a part of her is broken it has to be replaced, rather than healed properly.
Supporting Characters: None to speak of.
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Sample Post:
As the alien ships launched down their volley of asteroids towards the planet a small rocky object was caught in the gravity wake of their assault. Colliding with the celestial body and bouncing off course she was launched towards the planet at an odd angle. Heat and light after eons of darkness suddenly awoke her to the world again. Life! Life! Life! She could feel, she could think, and she suddenly felt the immeasurable hunger of a billion billion lifetimes strike her with an almost lethal blow of agony.

The pain of entry into a planet whose gravity was far less than her own was less than that of her own insatiable hunger, her mind broke under the strain, for the few moments that she could remember herself she was terrified. Now she could feel no emotion other than the need to feed.

At the moment of collision her body extended her numerous limbs out like a kite, spreading the cloak across their surface and raising the tension so that she suddenly and abruptly stopped. Only the ends of her manipulator arms touched the ground as she halted her descent. There was a moment of pause as she took stock of her surroundings and her aura of energy absorption began to rapidly convert the air around her into nourishment.

It was not, however, enough for her and she began scuttling across the ground like some perverse crystalline arachnid. Where she stumbled upon a couple who was hiding in fear from the events of the invasion. They were terrified, and had no clue that the lifeform that suddenly appeared before them was not part of the very same invasion.

Neither did she. They were mutually unaware of the truth of the situation, and the only thing that mattered was that these soft fleshy lifeforms had a lot of warmth. Plenty of energy to begin satisfying the hunger within her.

She leapt upon them, and held them in place while their bodies decomposed into their basic components and gradually turned into raw energy.

This too was not enough, and she desperately needed more.

@Sade Kingfisher

Approved

[Kaithas]

"Hey, I'm trying my best here. That's what matters, right?"

Name: Ricardo “Rick” Martinez

Alias: Hometown Hero or Collateral.

Speech Color (Actually say what you're using, don't go "Like this", or what not): Goldenrod: DAA520

Character Alignment: Hero. He tries.

Identity: Secret. Thank God.

Character Personality:
Rick is a good guy, bless his heart. He’s honestly in this to be a hero, and he enjoys helping people. He’s a joker, in his opinion, but his jokes are usually those only his dad would find funny. He’s not the smartest, not the most clever--he tends to deal with social situations the same way he deals with fights--charge straight through, hoping his earnestness, determination, and thick skull make up for a lack of tact and skill.

Despite all his flaws, Rick has a heart that’s as big as his biceps. He loves protecting people, and willingly throws himself into harm’s way over and over even to save just one person. Most of his time not spent heroing is repairing the damage he did, though as he’s learned how to control his powers this has decreased.

Uniform/costume:
He doesn’t have a costume outside of a mask and street clothes. Things get too damaged around him to spend money on something fancy.

Outside of costume:


Origin Info/Details:
Rick’s early life was a fairly normal one. The son of third generation immigrants, born in the heart of football country, Rick grew up on a more than healthy helping of the American dream. He read comics and watched superhero movies as a kid, longing to be the sort of person who saved lives with a smile on their face. Best he could do in real life, with no powers of his own, was to target being a firefighter or soldier--something his strong, capable frame made him ideal for, and somewhere he could do serious good on his own.

All that changed when he was waiting in the subway station while on vacation in New York. A little girl fell into the tracks, and without even realizing what he was doing he dove to get her out, tossing her up from below before a train came pounding through the station.

He should’ve died.

But as he turned to the train and braced for impact, he felt power flow through his body, strengthening him beyond anything a human would be capable of. His hands contacted the front of the train, and as his feet dug in, it stopped-- but before he could appreciate the miracle of his continued existence, his foot brushed against the fabled third rail. Even through the rubber of his soles and newfound power, he went out like a light.

Waking up in the hospital a few hours later, he was told the train had flung him forward and by some miracle hadn’t killed him. Discovering he couldn’t even pick up a glass without shattering it was hard to cover up, but he left quickly. Control came slowly, mostly through training by his sister, but he finally managed to get there. For the most part, he’s spent his time defending his hometown of San Antonio, but given the recent struggles in Lost Haven he’s made his way there.

Maybe he’ll finally manage to shed the Collateral nickname.

Maybe.

Hero Type (Select one):
Brick/Muscle Boy howdy, is he a brick.

Power Level (Select one below):
City level, for reasons. See powers for more specifics.

Powers (Be Specific):
Rick is strong. Really strong. That’s about it, really, though it comes with a few required secondaries. Before we get started, it’s worthwhile to note that his strength would put him on a world level status if it wasn’t for having… pretty much nothing else to go with that, whether it be far ranging abilities, adaptation, or equipment. He’s dangerous on a city level, but running away from him is too easy and he doesn’t have a wide range of effectiveness.

First and as previously stated, Rick’s strength is absolutely insane. He’s not really run into anything he can’t lift, and blasting through buildings is something he can generally fairly easily (and accidentally) do, much to the consternation of his original hometown. This strength lies in everything he does, and only through careful control has he stopped breaking bikes, phones, desks… most everything he touches. He can jump extremely high, launch himself forward with a forward spring and wicked jab, and pull off stunts through brute strength that most would find beyond them even with better agility--like walljumping--though it tends to do major structural damage in the process.
His primary required secondary is nigh invulnerability to physical damage. Suffocation, poison (once it gets past his skin), acid… All of that can still hurt him, though it’s reduced quite a bit. But try to punch him, slash him, crush him… not happening. If he can throw a punch as hard as what he was just hit with--and he probably can--he can pretty much no sell it. This is a natural consequence of his body’s ability to resist the fantastic forces his muscles expose it to, and something he’s eternally grateful for. Whether from a thick skull, nothing to manipulate, or some ridiculous amount of confidence, he’s also mostly immune to psychic influences.

“I’m telling ya, second time someone shouts “boo” and you leap through a building, you sure are glad your head’s a helmet.”

Attributes (Please provide a short description for each category):

Height: 6’2”
Weight: 249
Strength Level: 100+ tons. It’s his shtick. He’s good at it.
Mobility: Depends. He can launch himself at massive speeds by jumping, but has no mobility once he does so. Probably 5x a regular person’s at running.
Intelligence: ….Average. Definitely average.
Fighting Skill: Trained to Mastered. Part of what makes Rick good at fighting is that he’s actually bothered to get good at hand to hand rather than just relying on his killer right hook to settle things for him.
Resources: What a regular 20 something would have access to in Lost Haven.

Weaknesses: For whatever reason, he has almost no resistance to electricity. His intelligence when it comes to fighting is high, but when it comes to everything else it’s average at best. Rick also can’t turn his powers off, just bring them down from a peak that crushes objects to normal human rates. It takes focus, however, and can't be done passively.

Supporting Characters:
Tobias and Maria Martinez, his parents. They’re relatively supportive of his hero work, and know about it--but they’re a little bothered by how much time their son avoids talking to them to avoid endangering them.
Teresa Martinez, his sister. She wanted to be his partner for a while, and was disappointed when she didn’t develop powers.

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: Yes. See above.

Sample post skipped due to acceptance in Season 2.