Pariah (Superhuman RP)

[Smike]

@Eclektik, What power levels are you willing to permit for a Variant?

I have an idea for an OC but he might be too powerful for the RP.

@Letter Bee

“Class 5 Variants are not allowed”
So nothing that’s a National threat

[Teyao]

This looks like a lot of fun

[Eclektik]

@Letter Bee ^ This ^

As far as 'power' goes, I'm pretty open to what capabilities that your Variant would have. Just use your best judgement and I'll let you know if you need to adjust things.

[Blizz]

I got a question about notoriety

My guy keeps his civilian identity a closely guarded secret, but as a vigilante he's also very public for lack of a better term. He's almost always out on the streets in bone mode, and people even take pictures with him sometimes.

Would he count as indistinct or watched?

for reference he walks around dressed in this

[Eclektik]

@Blizz
Since his skeletal form can't readily be matched up with his human form, his skeletal form would be Indistinct and he would have no notoriety as a human. Watched Variants are those identifiable in their natural human state.

Basically, if a N.O.V.A. drone can scan someone without a disguise and can identify them as a Variant, then they're Watched.

[Blizz]

@Eclektik

Gotcha. He doesn't mind being approached by NOVA agents when he's out and about, and they're free to ask him whatever they need, as long as it isn't personal information.

[Letter Bee]

@Letter Bee ^ This ^

As far as 'power' goes, I'm pretty open to what capabilities that your Variant would have. Just use your best judgement and I'll let you know if you need to adjust things.

@Eclektik

Would this power be all right? Note that I am willing to accept a serious nerf, reducing the number of powers or even their potency, if you think this would allow my OC or anyone who allies with him to skip large portions of your plans...

Hope Manipulation (Trump/Shaker/Master 8) - Andrew/Hope draws from his own Hope and the ambient hope of everyone within 50 meters of him in order to create a number of effects that cover every other Class of Power, including energy blasts, force-fields, energy constructs, flight, cellular regeneration, and material alteration.

The Drawback of this? This is Worm we're talking about; the world is crapsack and his teammates have strong traumas and the mental issues those cause, meaning that they might not be interested in hoping for a better future. Also, prolonged use (1 to 2 hours) depletes his hope and the hope of others, eventually sapping their will to live and rendering them catatonic and zombie-like if they don't commit suicide.

Lack of hope and excessive use of his powers can shorten this period further.

Sub Powers: These classifications assume an average level of hope in the affected area.

• Energy Blasts (Blaster 6): Blue energy blasts of manually variable power capable of knocking a person off their feet and inflicting mild burns or blasting through unprotected flesh and punching straight through steel. These can be thrown as simple blasts or sustained beams.
• Energy Shields (Shaker 6): Semi-transparent energy shields capable of halting a speeding car in its tracks with only moderate strain. Though, something as heavy and solid as a speeding armored truck will likely shatter them. Shields can be formed up to 2 meters away from himself, large enough to englobe him and anyone close enough to fit inside as well. The shields can be shaped somewhat but are always spheroid or semi-spheroid.
• Energy Constructs (Master 2-?): Energy that can be shaped into tools, weapons, or small structures like miniature bridges that are as durable as titanium alloy unless specified otherwise. Can be as small as a screw or as large as a truck. However, the major caveat is that he must actually know how to physically build what he summons. For every object, he must have the theoretical blueprints for dedicated to memory. Technically, he could make anything, but advanced electronics and Tinkertech are far outside his reach. The more complicated the object, the more energy and concentration are required to create it. The most complicated thing he has managed to make with it so far is a wheelbarrow, but this power will only grow in utility and menace with time and study.
• Flight (Mover 4/Breaker 1): Andrew can fly up to the speed of a small civilian helicopter, and his body is protected from the air resistance and friction of moving by his own power.
• Cellular Regeneration (Brute/Striker 5): Andrew can heal his own injuries, even loss of limbs, and heal the same in others as well. He can also purge poisons and diseases and even rewrite another person's genetic disorders out of their DNA. However, he needs to touch the person being healed, concentrate his attention on them, and it costs a lot of energy.
• Material Alteration (Striker/Changer/Stranger 2): Andrew can change the color, shape, and appearance of his clothing and any items he directly touches, but he cannot increase their durability; this means that he needs normal armor to protect his body, which The Wards provide. The changes are permanent but can only target inorganic or dead material (like his hair or clothing fibers). He can target something as small as a singular hair. He can alter an object's size to match that of something with equal weight. Effectively, mass is generally conserved.
• Hope Sensing (Thinker 1): This allows him to sense the ambient emotion of hope in living creatures within 50 meters of him. This sense is incredibly broad, so he is unable to determine the number of people in the range or identify specific people. Within 5 meters of himself, however, he can apply greater focus to uncover hidden people, able to foil some Strangers or find trapped victims under rubble and the like.

[Lewascan2]

Unreasonable temptation to throw hat into the ring: Growing.

[RBYDark]

Sorry I've been quiet - been on vacation. I'll work on a sheet for a psychic vigilante whose powers are reliant on his mental state, and a mook-for-hire who's decently powerful and absolutely awful at being evil.

[Blizz]

Lol

All of my partners in crime are descending upon this thread like crows to a dead raccoon

[Smike]

yeah I think I'm gonna go with a speedster type, just something very fun about going fast. Probably strength, speed durability, basically all the stuff required to not turn into paste when they run. hopefully have part the sheet done over the weekend

[Blizz]

I've got most of my dude's sheet done

Also, you got any plans for a discord server for us to chat back and forth in?

[Expendable]

Remy the Rat

(insert photo here)

Name | Remy Doe (Last name assigned, unknown)
Alias | The Rat
Age | 15?
Gender | Male
Appearance | This shifty looking teen has large brown eyes that are like two discs of wood. His fine, greasy brown hair is unkempt and constantly in need of a trim. He's very short and thin build, with long fingers. His skin is pale. He has high cheekbones. His wardrobe looks like it came mostly from Goodwill.
Notoriety | Petty thief & escape artist, some street art (he's no Banksy)
Danger Level/Variant Type | Class 1 Distortionist
Abilities | Space/time displacement.
- Random objects appear in his pockets when their owners bump into him - keys, wallets, smart phones, etc. Sometimes while they're being held.
- Objects of moderate size and mass that he stares at long enough, as long as he has a line of sight to them, can also wind up in his pockets or messenger bag.
- Objects known to him, if lost or taken, return to him.
- If he goes to sleep in a jail cell, he wakes up on his pallet in the basement of an empty townhouse.
- If threatened, he may disappear, reappearing randomly near by.

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[Gear]
Attire | black watch cap, army jacket, green commando sweater, blue hawaiian shirt, jeans, long multicolored scarf, belt with suspenders, black tube socks (wears two on each foot), cheap canvas sneakers, khaki paint-splattered messenger bag. Most of it looks too big for him and could use a wash.
Armament/Equipment |
Swiss Army knife, pen light, brass zippo lighter, a fork whose metal handle is styled like bamboo, a large serving spoon, a green wristwatch with a woven band, khaki paint-splattered messenger bag, toothbrush. Can summon a 9mm Beretta from a police officer who arrested him once. Other items as needed.

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[Temperament & Lifestyle]
Affiliation | Pariah Underground connections.
Personality/Habits | Skittish around people, especially large, muscular clean-shaven men. Very quiet, tends to skulk while keeping a wary eye out for people.
Occupation/Trade | Petty thief, street artist
Skills/Talents | Moderate street tagger. Can speak French, Spanish, Russian, and Italian. Clearly has some education.
Family | Unknown, claims to have woken up in some basement wearing a lot of bandages, with no memory of who he was or how he got there.
Background | Met some kids on the streets and when they asked him his name, he said without thinking about it, "Remy". One of the kids laughed and said, "Like the rat in Ratatouille?" He had no idea of what they were talking about, but "the rat" stuck.

It wasn't long before bodega owners noticed how small things would disappear around him and began chasing him out of their shops. A few arrests for pickpocketing, shoplifting. Spends a lot of time at the library, it's warm and he can wash himself in their restroom.

The empty townhouse he lives in has a reputation in the neighborhood for being haunted by the former owners, John and Mary Remington, who died after their town car was smashed into by a van and shot up by masked gunmen. Their son in the back seat was the only survivor, spent a couple of months in the hospital in a coma, only to vanish one night in what the police and FBI believe was a kidnapping.

The household goods were moved into storage by the extended family within a week of the house being released by the police. Water and electricity remain on, heat pump keeps house in the 40's in winter, 70's in summer.

[Eclektik]

@Blizz
The more the merrier! And there will absolutely be a Discord.

@Letter Bee
Ok, not gonna lie...this is a lot. I'm trying to understand what the overall concept of this character is...because (in my own mind, of course) I can split him up into three or four different Variants with each of them being quite powerful on their own. I'm not sure how to direct you with so much going on with him. It almost feels like he was created for something much bigger than this.

[Letter Bee]

@Blizz
The more the merrier! And there will absolutely be a Discord.

@Letter Bee
Ok, not gonna lie...this is a lot. I'm trying to understand what the overall concept of this character is...because (in my own mind, of course) I can split him up into three or four different Variants with each of them being quite powerful on their own. I'm not sure how to direct you with so much going on with him. It almost feels like he was created for something much bigger than this.

@Eclektik

It's more like he was created for an RP whose scope I mistook. Let's just say that the powers eventually raised issues after two months of him already being approved.

That said, the concept behind him can be simplified to "My kid siphons hope and willpower from people and uses it to create constructs of energy (the other stuff, like flight and healing, are optional)."

...Actually, I'll withdraw the concept and replace him with another one.

Is it okay to have someone whose ability is to reflect powers back at their user or some other target, but it only works with powers and not mundane bullets?

[Eclektik]

...Actually, I'll withdraw the concept and replace him with another one.

Is it okay to have someone whose ability is to reflect powers back at their user or some other target, but it only works with powers and not mundane bullets?

@Letter Bee

Absolutely...that sounds a lot more manageable.

[Letter Bee]

<Snipped quote by Letter Bee>

Absolutely...that sounds a lot more manageable.

@Eclektik

Thanks!

[Eclektik]

@Expendable

I like this guy. It's like he's not a thief...on purpose...at first...but then after that he's definitely a thief.

One question: is he known to be a Variant or do the cops just think he's super slippery somehow? Cause he's apparently been to jail before.

[Expendable]

@Expendable

I like this guy. It's like he's not a thief...on purpose...at first...but then after that he's definitely a thief.

One question: is he known to be a Variant or do the cops just think he's super slippery somehow? Cause he's apparently been to jail before.

@Eclektik

Kid's gotta eat. The police don't know that Remy's a variant. In their view, if he was a variant who could take whatever he wanted, he wouldn't look (and smell) like a homeless street kid.

He's been tagged in a few surveillance pictures with suspected & known members of the Pariah Underground, however, and anyone who digs into his police record will notice that he somehow manages to escape from the group cell he's usually put in.

He knows he's different, however, since the first time he stared into the window of a fast food restaurant to watch as a sandwich was put into a bag, then found the sandwich had somehow wound up in his coat pocket.

[Blizz]

Behold. The Newport Monk. The Cancer Crusader. The man, the myth, the legend.

RATTLE ME BONES!!!!

🎶"I-I-I got this feeling in my soul, go ahead and throw your stones, 'cause there's magic in my bones!"🎶

Name | Shawn Raymond

Alias | Grassbones

Age | Late 20s, allegedly

Gender | Male - He/Him

Appearance | No one has seen the face behind the mask... Not that he actually wears a mask, because he doesn't need to. Grassbones is a skeleton that emits smoke from the surface of his body, and seeps through the clothes he wears. He looks to be on the short side. Despite the fact that Grassbones doesn’t have eyes, you can tell when he’s staring right through you. And despite not having any facial muscles, he somehow manages to articulate emotions as if he still looked like a living person. It’s… unsettling. Due to the fact that no one has ever seen Grassbones wearing skin, some people have theorized that he's just a particularly unlucky Variant who was born without it.

Notoriety | Indistinct

Danger Level / Variant Type | Class 3 / Metamorphic, Brute, and Agile

Abilities | Grassbones transforms into a skeleton using smoke he has inhaled. His lungs are essentially a gas tank that store the fumes of anything that burns, such as a burning building or a cigarette. In this state, his body becomes absurdly durable, to the point that he could fall from the top of a skyscraper and land like a cloud. In his skeletal state, Grassbones also demonstrates a degree of super strength, enough that he could lift a car over his head. A side effect of this is that Grassbones has a natural inclination to bursts of agility capable of propelling him over rooftops. Grassbones uses these combined powers to throw himself directly into the line of fire of a dangerous situation with little regard for his own safety. He is exceptionally skilled at fighting with his hands and feet in a way that allows him to stay in constant motion. A backflip done by Grassbones could quickly turn into a kick to the ribs followed by a punch to the face without stopping the motion. This is how he fights, but a strange quirk of his powers is that Grassbones has no idea how to recreate these moves outside of his skeletal form. Even when he has skin and muscles, he doesn't have the muscle memory to pull it off.

The trick to dealing with Grassbones is fighting him at range and limiting his movement. Grassbones' powers do nothing to let him fight someone from a distance without closing the gap, and if he can't move, then he can't throw a punch. A simple way of exploiting this is to constantly hit him with some sort of blow that shoves him in one direction, such as a telekinetic blast or an explosion. While these wouldn't harm him, they keep him from moving freely, therefore limiting what he could do to fight back.

[Gear]
Attire | Outside of the vigilante life, Shawn is always wearing something baggy, like a hoodie or cargo pants... He's very fashionable.

Armament / Equipment | Grassbones' hero costume looks like something the average individual would wear on a walk down the street. The pockets of his vest contain more than one lighter and more than a few packs of cigarettes. He doesn't need a mask or any kind of weapon because his power transforms him into something that fills the need for both.

[Temperament & Lifestyle]

Affiliation | Independent

Personality/Habits | The free-spirited vigilante always has a cool and level attitude. Grassbones likes to take the path of least resistance, to the point of almost being outright lazy, but just enough that problems are don't stem from a lack of a serious attitude. Anyone who interacts with him knows he can be somewhat flighty, and acts like his head is in the clouds. Grassbones is always a very mellow guy to be around, and it’s easy to mistake Grassbones for just a helpless vigilante who has no idea what he’s doing, and isn’t taking the role seriously, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. What he lacks in decorum, Grassbones makes up for in comfortable, deadly levels of competency.

Grassbones gets along with others easily. Having been a vigilante for as long as he has, he has found himself in a lot of situations where he's been able to talk others down from doing something drastic. Despite having a power that lets him lay an ungodly smackdown on people, he prefers not to hurt people, so he pulls his punches out of sympathy for the ones he has to come to blows against. There has never been a reported incident where Grassbones killed someone or even deliberately threatened their life. When out on the job, he goes out of his way to do nice things for people, even if those things don't necessarily involved busting up a bad guy. Sometimes, he even takes picture with the occasional person who finds him particularly cool.

Occupation/Trade | Vigilante

Skills / Talents

• Close-quarters combat
• Parkour
• Basic first aid
• Good with people

Family | None currently.

Background | Shawn came from a past full of bad choices and severed connections. He grew up in a family that had often struggled to make ends meet, and so he fell in with bad crowds to support them. Bad crowds, of course, means he found work with bad people, doing illicit odd jobs such as a getaway driver, gunman and money launderer. It was bad work that often left Shawn it was bad work that paid well, and that was all he cared about. His family needed all the money they could get, and it was enough that they were able to move into a better part of the city. They weren't exactly well off, but they got by.

One particular job involved a shooting, in which Shawn got his hands dirtier than he cared for. He realized he was in too deep, and tried to make himself scarce. It didn't matter, though. His family found out, and they abandoned him. They had no evidence to confirm that he killed anybody other than the sight of blood on his clothes and the gun he tried to get rid of, so there was nothing they could do to report him to the police. Shawn ran off and never showed his face to his family again. He spent months alone, running amok among the bad guys to try and make something of himself, but no one would take him in. He was a nobody, and had nothing to offer. Months of rage, isolation, and abandonment pushed him to a dark place. He never cared much for smoking, but he needed something to take the edge off one day, and suddenly his flesh was evaporating off of his bones.

Many months later, a vigilante named Grassbones appeared in New Haven, and quickly made a name for himself when he took down and rounded up the same crooks he used to work for. None of them recognized the skeletal face when he dragged them into the N.O.V.A. HQ, declining all requests and pressure for his personal information. A few years have gone by since his first appearance, and he has built up a reputation as a public, above-board vigilante with an aversion to working in what N.O.V.A. considers an official capacity. He has never been known to endanger the lives of anyone he faces, or break any laws, but his staunch insistence on remaining independent has turned more than a few heads, especially when it doesn’t fit with his regular attitude.