[OOC] Legion of Heroes

[Shard]

I have a character in mind. Thought him up yesterday so it’s funny I found this right after. We’ll see if he’s an acceptable addition.

[DClassified]

Possible super martial artist inbound.

[Shard]

- Moved to CS tab.

[Martian]

Finally figured out a character concept, so here it is.

Crystalis

Name:

Jasper Reid

Superhero name:

Crystalis

Gender:

Male

Race:

Modified Human

Age:

24

Appearance:

Jasper is a tall and lanky individual, standing at six feet with a very thing build. Jasper’s skin is very pale, almost corpse like, as he has spent a long time hidden underground. A notable part of his face is his pale blue eyes which seem to pierce through things with his gaze. These eyes are accented by long blond hair which goes down to Jasper’s shoulders. While not visible, Jasper does have many scars and other reminders of wounds. Living in an apocalyptic world has left Jasper with cuts along his chest, arms, and legs.

The clothing that Jasper wears as a superhero is what he brought from his home dimension. This includes a blue one piece suit, black boots and fingerless gloves, a bullet proof vest, and a gas mask. When he is trying to remain incognito, Jasper wears simple t-shirts, pants, and sweaters. Most of his clothing is bought from thrift stores as that was all he could afford when he first came to this dimension. Jasper prefers solid, simple colors as opposed to gaudy, vibrant clothing.

Personality:

Jasper was once an idealistic individual, imagining a bright future for himself and the world. He was easy to get along with, always having a smile and a joke ready. He also seemed to genuinely care about others and their emotions and problems, being quite empathic. Jasper is also adventurous, always wanting to try new things, and as such has many hobbies that lead him to meeting many new people and encountering new ideas.

But these ways were changed by the literal apocalypse. Jasper now has great anxiety, and can be triggered easily. He also spent a long time away from other humans, causing him to regress a little bit when it comes to social cues and picking up on emotions. His mind is also jaded as when he does make a joke, it is often cruel or sarcastic.

But since coming to this dimension, Jasper’s mood has started to improve. He is less nihilistic and actually looks forward to things. He also is around other people regularly, and now will occasionally smile. He is also very protective of human life after witnessing so much loss of it. Jasper feels responsible for his neighborhood and its safety, wanting to genuinely help everyone.

Power:

Jasper’s DNA was modified by the Pandora Virus, giving him the ability to generate gems from his skin. He can do this by secreting a liquid from his skin that turns into a red gem when exposed to oxygen. Using this, Jasper can do things like fire shards of gems or coat his skin in a gem armor. These gems are quite durable and get resist large amounts of force, including gun fire. With firing gems at enemies, Jasper is able to shoot them at the relative speed of a bullet.

Limitations:

Jasper is still getting used to his powers. Right now the amount of gem liquid he can secrete is limited as it requires a great physical toll on his body to produce it. He also has trouble creating complex gem constructs, only really being able to consistently create shards to shoot or to coat his body in a layer of gemstone. Also, Jasper sometimes generates the gems by accident when is mind wanders, causing some awkward situations.

Flaws/weaknesses:

The main drawback of using his powers is that it requires a lot of physical effort. As it is not a natural human process, secreting the gem liquid requires a lot of focus and using it too much can result in pain in Jasper’s body. And while the gemstones are quite durable they can still be shattered by sufficient force. Also the gemstones will naturally dissolve within ten minutes of being created. A surefire way to prevent the creation of the gemstones is to either keep Jasper tired or unable to focus for some reason.

Skills/Talents:

Jasper is quite the skilled artist, having attended a High School for the Arts, focusing on digital art. This led him to pursue a career in video game creation, working for an independent game studio. At the studio he had many roles, meaning he learned how to do a lot of things with a computer. Besides his professional skills, Jasper is also a skilled dancer and soccer player.

Background/Bio:

Born twenty-four years ago in Woodhaven, a nicer neighborhood in Grailham City, Jasper was the second child of a pair of business professionals. From a young age, Jasper and his older brother were encouraged to pursue different interests and to do their best. For his brother, it was succeeding academically, while Jasper favored art, language classes, and sports. Jasper’s parents quickly realized that he was a skilled artist and decided to nurture that skill.

As a youth, Jasper would attend many different art programs offered at community centers in Grailham, where he would work on his skills. His ability was proficient enough to grant him a spot at the local High School for the Arts. It would be hear that Jasper fine tune his abilities. It was around this time Jasper began doing art commissions online, helping him acquire some money. When Jasper graduated high school, he decided to go straight into the workforce.

Thanks to his presence online, Jasper had made some contacts, finding a job at a local game studio. While it was a small independent studio, Jasper was really impressed with what they managed to produce. Jasper would quickly become one of their top artists, giving a spot on the team for their main game. For several years things were good for Jasper, as he became a fully functioning adult.

However, things weren’t going good for the city of Grailham as a new villain named Terminus had shown up. The local heroes had not been able to stop this mysterious villain or even figure out what his plan was. That was until it was too late. Standing in the center of downtown Grailham, Terminus released the Pandora Virus. Everyone in the city would immediately be infected with it, before it spread out to the further world.

Once infected with the Pandora Virus, after one week, one of three things would happen. You transform into a mindless monster, gain superpowers, or simply die. The virus instantly wiped out civilization as most of the population was either dead or now a beast. For Jasper, he had been visiting his family in Woodhaven when the virus was released. After they were infected, Jasper would elect to remain at the house while they hoped the CDC could treat the virus. But after that first week, everything changed.

Within hours of each other, both of Jasper’s parents died. But before he could even mourn them, Jasper was attacked by his brother who had become a monster. While defending himself, Jasper first created a gemstone construct, as he shot a shard at his brother. It was enough to scare off the beast as Jasper fled the house. Jasper would end up in a CDC camp with the other people who gained powers. But that only lasted a few weeks before the camp was overrun by the newly created monsters.

Jasper would escape the slaughter, hiding in the tunnels underneath Grailham City. He would spend several months below ground, scavenging whatever he could find. Then, after weeks without seeing another human being, Jasper encountered a group who were trying to find all the survivors in the city. Jasper went with them when they revealed that they had a plan to escape the Pandora Virus.

Jasper was taken to an old superhero lab, where they had been working on a dimensional gate. Apparently some survivors had found it and managed to repair it. So the plan was to send the survivors to another dimension where they could live in peace and safety. But before preparations could be finished, the monsters tracked them to the lab. They quickly overtook the lab, forcing the rash decision to just jump into the gate.

Jasper ended up in a new universe, but he was alone. What he didn’t know was that the gate had malfunctioned and sent everyone who went in to a separate dimension. While alone, Jasper was happy to have escaped the Pandora Virus. He would immediately try and integrate with this new world, getting a job as IT support and an apartment in a seedy part of town.

Jasper was also still trying to master his powers, and found a good way to do that was to fight crime. Donning his gas mask and taking the name Crystalis, Jasper would attempt to clean up the part of town he lived in.

Extra:

Theme Song is Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door by Guns N’ Roses.

[Lurking Shadow]

@Shard@Martian both are good to put in character tab.

[Unkown58]

Alright, I finally finished updating my guy. Let me know if anything needs to be changed! (＾▽＾)

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[Lurking Shadow]

@Unkown58 no, it looks good to put in the character tab.

and don't forget about the discord if you want to join it, seems most of us are on there. link can be found at the bottom of the first OOC post.

[Vega7285]

Shield Maiden

Name: Miria

Superhero name: Shield Maiden

Gender: Female

Race: Custodian Network (alien machine intelligence)

A race of machine lifeforms created by an ancient species as a proxy army and peacekeeping force. They outlived their creators, and have been forced to develop on their own as a result.

Age: Appears to be in her mid 20s.

Appearance:

Power: Force field generation

The force field Miria employs for offense and defense is standard issue for her kind. It functions by shunting the energy of attacks into a dimensional fold, to be released later in any arbitrary direction. When struck, the field tends to light up in a hexagonal pattern. While usually around her in a spherical form if she’s just defending herself, she can extend her force fields to form barriers, and can also shrink the coverage to a smaller area.

Offensively, she can use the same force fields to capture or otherwise contain someone or something, extend one in such a way as to hit someone with it and shove them around, or even create a local warp in space that would damage or destroy the objects occupying the same space.

Her force fields are safe to stand on if you’re brave enough.

Racial Traits

The Custodians are a machine intelligence and the last legacy of their creators. Initially built as a proxy military force, after aiding their creators in a period of imperial expansion, the machine intelligence that would eventually become the custodians were repurposed as a peacekeeping force. In the distant past, their creators died out, but the custodians remained, continuing to be produced and serviced by automatic shipyards. When asked, the custodians are adamant that they did not kill off their masters, and instead their empire fractured and fell to infighting, with the modern custodians being one remnant who survived the war and are still looking out for the enemy who brought their creators low.

Essentially inheriting an empire in their own right (and with new organic species to protect and work with evolving within it), the Custodians are part of the galactic community. They’ve evolved and adapted since their creators disappeared, and operate as a sort of network within the territory they occupy, keeping the peace as they always have and coexisting with other species. Owing to their nature as a peacekeeping force, many custodians join up with the Galactic Alliance police.

Custodian bodies are based on a nanotmaterial basis, and run off an advanced, miniaturized power source. They are generally a “soft” sort of body, although they lack organs as such. The body’s construction does make one stronger and faster than an ordinary human, but they’ll lose out to a superhuman who specializes in any category. Her inorganic physiology is less susceptible to extremes in temperature or pressure, and completely unbothered by diseases or poisons. There is an actual core that her AI runs on embedded in her body that acts like the human central nervous system. Galactic speculation has it that the Custodians are actually their ships, and the bodies they use to interact with other species are just a manufactured extension.

Custodians do not need to breathe or eat, although they certainly can ingest (and digest) food. They do need sleep, for similar reasons as organic life: a period of low activity to process memory and other systems, and repair damage.

Miria weighs significantly more than a human of the same size, due to her construction. If injured, she’ll need to repair herself, instead of healing naturally. She can enact field repairs by moving around her available nanomaterial, but major repairs or replacement of lost material require a visit to her ship.

Acids are as effective against her as they are on anything else, as is ionizing radiation.

Limitations:
Miria has certain programmed orders that are things she can’t ignore or countermand. She is to protect and rescue civilians whenever possible (and anyone in distress in space), and cannot kill (and can’t torture someone with things that they can survive, either). She also follows a continuum of force, and will match her response to the threat presented.

Due to the current advancement of Earth, technology protection protocols have Miria operating at a very low overall output.

Flaws/weaknesses:
Miria’s force fields do have a limit to the energy they can absorb before they are saturated and collapse. She can dissipate the energy over time when not under fire, so sustained fire or very powerful single attacks are the most effective.

She needs to repair herself with additional nanomaterial when injured, and her only supply is her ship, so if she doesn’t have access to it, she’ll just have to wait.

Skills/Talents:
Knowledge of the greater galaxy, its culture, laws, etc.
Astrogation
Hacking - As one might expect, an AI running on a quantum computer has little difficulty cracking into most electronic security on Earth.
Makes electronic music as a hobby.

Personality:
Miria is focused, composed, and confident. Even in the toughest situations, she’ll push through with sheer grit and determination. She can tend toward being aggressive or defensive, particularly to hide her own emotional vulnerabilities. She can get a bit overzealous when it comes to pursuing her job, but most of her activities on Earth don’t count for that.

She tends to come off as either very curious, or completely unsurprised, depending on the situation and how well she already understands it. Anything involving aliens or advanced technology is already quaint, anything involving human culture is fascinating. She is particularly intrigued by music, and composes some of her own, in her spare time, as a way to understand humanity better.

She tends to fight with efficiency and precision, avoiding collateral damage whenever possible.

Background/bio:
Miria is a law enforcement officer of the Galactic Alliance, assigned to the Sol system. While the Alliance would usually consider such a planet something of an unimportant backwater, the increase in superhumans has piqued their interest. They also suspect that various criminals may be using the planet as a place to lay low.

Her mission is to search for any fugitives possibly hiding out on the planet, and to assess the Earth’s cultural and technological advancement for possible invitation to join the Alliance. She arrived and has set herself up with a civilian identity. Miria’s cover identity is a reporter working for one of the larger news agencies in Grailham city. The location is an excellent one for reasons of both being a major city full of all manner of industry, and for the large number of heroes and villains present, making it a good case study for the rest of the Earth. Her job was chosen mostly because it allows her a certain amount of freedom in gathering information.

With all the supervillains running around, she did eventually have to step in and defend herself and others, and has made something of a name for herself as a hero. The “Shield Maiden” moniker is one given to her by the news, but she’s stuck with it for now. She’s kept her origins a secret, of course, and people seem to really love lines like “I just can’t help myself,” for reasons to stop people breaking the law or acting to protect others. Never mind that to do otherwise would go against her programming. She is the sort to drop villains off with the police or otherwise ensure they are handed over to custody of the proper authorities, usually with as little harm to them as possible.

[Lurking Shadow]

@Vega7285 its good to put in character tab

[Silver Carrot]

I am so down for this! CS coming soon

[Lurking Shadow]

@Silver Carrot all right, you'll be the last person lest this RP get too bloated with characters, for now at least. unfortunately one person is unable to contribute to this for their own reasons so we have a spot to fill anyway. let me know if there are any questions.

[Silver Carrot]

Ratboy

Name: Tobias Reber

Superhero name: Ratboy

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Age: 17

Appearance:

Tobias

Personality: Tobias is a tenacious hard worker, unwise yet very intelligent, and compassionate almost to a fault. He likes to joke around and make people smile despite not being that funny. Still, he hopes his effort will itself be enough to raise the spirits of his friends. He is very passionate on issues of class and economics, and strongly believes in the idea of community.

Power: Ratboy's main powers are enhanced reflexes and movement, allowing a wide array of acrobatics, and the ability to scurry up surfaces like a squirrel as long as there's *some* purchase, as well as the ability to communicate with rodents. He also possesses enhanced potential for strength, and a mild healing factor (it won't be visible or have a tangible effect during a fight but there's not much he won't have recovered from after a good night's sleep or two), as well as super smell.

Limitations: Ratboy's powers only grant him the potential for things. He couldn't suddenly do a somersault after getting his powers. He had to learn to do one. He wasn't immediately granted the ability to break brick with his bare fists but trained himself to that level much easier and faster than a regular human could. He could understand rats but had to learn their language in order to talk back, etc. As such, he is inexperienced, far below his true potential and his healing factor won't give him any edge during a fight. He is just as easy to kill as anyone else provided you can finish him off.

Flaws/weaknesses: Ratboy tends to get in over his head and despite his wily nature and quickness on his feet, he can be outclassed by most supervillains or henchmen that actually have powers. His sense of smell could also easily be overpowered by strong smells normal people could choose to ignore, greatly distracting him.

Skills/Talants: Parkour, some gymnastics. Knows how to cook, clean and sew. Is fluent in German, English and Dutch with a little bit of French. Can also speak semi-fluent Rodent.

Background/Bio: Born in Bremen, Germany, Tobias grew up in an underfunded orphanage. He was constantly surrounded by cold, suffering children, and he liked to do kind things to make them smile. He enjoyed school (partly because there was heating) and stayed there to study for as long as he could, turning him into a very bright child. When he turned 12, he started working in a kitchen as a potwasher, and saved as much money as he possibly could. He wanted to give it back to the orphanage. They refused, as that was his money he'd earned.

One day, on a school trip to a laboratory, he got lost looking for the toilet. Panicking, he tried to get back to his group, only getting lost further and further into prohibited rooms. One room was very dark, and as he fumbled for a light switch, his foot hit nothing but air and he tumbled into a plastic 'coffin', full of test subject rats. He screamed as they bit and scratched him until some of the security there heard him and rescued him. He was too young to persecute for trespassing and they couldn't do so anyway without revealing the nature of their experiments, so they cleaned him up, bribed him with goodies and cash, and took him back to his group.

Since that day, he noticed things. Hard feats that only gymnasts and bodybuilders on TV could do, he could kind of do!" He could climb a tree like a squirrel and just as fast. He started showing off with parkour. Doing these things were incredibly fun, so he did them more and more. The feats themselves were incentive to constantly train his body. By the time he was 16, he had developed quite the muscular frame.

Tobias would see on the news, the increasing intensity the superpowered battles between Heroes and Villains were tearing apart the lives of the regular residents of Grailham City, including it's poorest and most vulnerable. So he made the decision to hitchhike from Germany to the USA, to Grailham City, and start life as a Hero, because it clearly needed more Heroes who focused on protecting the little guy.

[Lurking Shadow]

@Silver Carrot I see you finally got a chance to use ratboy, slap that CS right into the character tab and join the discord, link on the first ooc post should still be working, let me know if it does not.