X-Men: United We Stand iCheck

[Omega Man]

Okay, once again guys.... BRIEF Bios should be BRIEF. Hence the all caps to show the importance of BRIEF. Couple small paragraphs tops!

Accepted of course, Hell.

~KL~

[Kalamadea]

Name: Laurie

Alias: Sage

Age: About 35

Power: Time Sense (not sure what else to call it)

Sage can see all possible futures, as well as all alternate pasts and presents. All of time is in her mind.

Weaknesses: She always sees all times simultaneously and is currently incapable of determining just which future will actually occur. As of right now, she has no control over her Time Sense, so she's constantly hit with everything at once.

How long at the Institute: About three years

Favorite subject: Quantum mechanics

Favorite teacher: Beast

Appearance:


BRIEF Bio: Laurie's time sense initially was not present. The gene was dormant until the age of 32. When the gene surfaced and she was hit with the full force of time, that's when Cerebro found her. Before the gene surfaced, her life was rather average and kind of dull. She spent time at Xavier's Academy learning more advanced subjects than most high schools teach as well as how to focus her time sense, but the sense was so powerful that, even with three years of rigorous training, little, if any, progress was made. It continually evaded all attempts at control and focusing it. And the attack on the mansion only served to reverse what little progress they had made. As such, due to the severity of her need, she was kept at the mansion, hiding out in the modified danger room with a select few others.

Notes: This is based on a Doctor Who OC I have, actually. She's based on a TARDIS.

[Endrance]

there are two shifters @_@

[Blackthorn]

Indeed there are. If KL decides to give preference to Hell of a Life because he was in the old RP, I will come up with new powers, but I did post my CS first.

[Nariata]

I will have my CS up by tonight at the earliest, tomorrow night at the latest. Glad to see this back up :)

[Endrance]

glad to see you back nari!

[Paingodsson]

NARI! welcome back!!!!!!! good to see the gang again!

[Solemn]

Name - Jeanvieve "Vivi" Monceux
Alias - Vanquish, aka "Vanq","V"
Age - 18
Power[s] - Microwave Manipulation - She can cause a bright flash of light to blind and escape, for the moment that's all. She is of a magical bloodline as well. She is supernaturally strong and agile, but couldn't take more bullets or any more damage than, say, a human in their physical peak. Her strength isn't that much enhanced, but enough to punch through a rib cage...it's somewhat relevant to magic that is bound to her family. She is the first mutant in the bloodline however. Her hearing and eye-sight is slightly enhanced as well, but not beyond that of a human in peak physical condition.

Weaknesses - She is weak to magical exploitations and certain things a baseline human, or even mutant, would not be. All of her incoming sensory data can be extremely overwhelming, as she hasn't been completely trained on how to master it like the rest of her family had been. Her morality is EXTREMELY black and white, good and evil. She does not see grey, she cannot allow grey in her family's line of work. She does not see herself as a person, but a tool - and is completely 100% okay with it. As a result she doesn't really understand the concepts of friendships outside of blood bonds and "battle siblings". "Hanging out" isn't in her vocabulary unless, you know, it's applied to vampires. Of course, she's coming around. Must be those Scooby Doo re-runs.

How long at the Institute - 7
Favorite subject - Tie between danger room drills and the art of combat strategy.
Favorite teacher - Wolverine

Appearance -

BRIEF Bio - Vivi was born, in France, to a family of monster hunters and paranormal soldiers. For centuries they'd fought against evil, after their progenitor had succumb to such evil by muddying his blood with a creature's to gain its power. Since then their family has been nothing but hunters, trained from birth until Vivi. She was trained as any other Monceux until the night of her power's fruition. She destroyed her room, completely burned and melted everything and walked out perfectly fine. Being acquaintances with Xavier after some misadventures, her grandfather knew exactly where to send her. Much to the chagrin of the rest of her family, and to Xavier's trepidation, she was taken in as a student. After so long she has become rather withdrawn and tried her very best to stick to her guns, so to speak. But is slowly coming around to that whole, you know, "friends and team work" thing.

Notes - She will murder you if you keep her from her pizza.

[Paingodsson]

I changed my classes, I didn't think we could be more specific, and i didn't know if everyone got "Gym" I like vivi she sounds awesome. But i'll be honest when i read "Her strength isn't that much enhanced, but enough to punch through a rib cage." My response was just, "Oh yeah break a through a rib cage..... no biggie." (in a joking way not like making fun of you way haha)

[Solemn]

I mean, I could explain that...but, you know...some things are best left unsaid.

[Assallya]

The Kid Lantern said
The Institute does have classes like a normal school, so you'd need to change all that.

I'll accept the statement and adjust accordingly, though I don't see how this is possible. I find it hard to believe since there are only about twenty bedrooms. It's a mansion, not a dormitory. That and with only a half dozen instructors, they couldn't possibly cover every subject a university would include or provide enough classes for several hundred students, let alone finding rooms large enough to house the desks. They have... maybe three such rooms?

Drop the level of TK strength to around one ton and limit his flying speed and he'd be ok. But being a Canadian criminal and sporting a cape and a buster sword has got to go. Bastion by itself works as an alias, IDK who would dub him the Last Bastion of Virtue cause if he did it himself he sounds pretentious. ~KL~

He dubbed himself, like Shadowcat called herself Ariel and then Sprite, before settling on the much more apt Shadowcat. Generally, Bastion, (Since most people are likely to refuse calling him by the full name he chose) is pretentious by nature. For example, he would arrive upon a scene, strike a pose and holler, "Hail Citizens! Please stand back! The X-Men have arrived and will contain these dastardly villains in the name of peace and love amongst all mankind!" I rather imagine his companions would likely cringe and cover their eyes at such moments. The Buster Sword is a tool and a prop, mostly to help match him up against the reach of other bricks who, standing often twice as tall as him, half arms twice his length. We can do without.

I also forgot to include Sebastian's "glow" when using his powers under weaknesses. This limits his ability to be stealthy or to use his abilities in a crowd without being identified. His powers are not subtle by any means.

Using multiple ID's would be superfluous as well since if it was the X-Men who rescued him from a Canadian dungeon they'd likely set him up one. It's cool if some shadowy Canadian government agency wants him dead to make him need to go into hiding with a new ID in the U.S. The powers as they are seem like too much [wall crawling AND flight, really?]. I don't need an amalgam of Wolverine's backstory with Jean Grey level 5 mutant TK. If tweaks like I mentioned could be made I wouldn't mind having somebody with TK, but it needs toned down a bit.

TK? I'm confused by several of the statements in the power section. Sebastian is a paragon/brick. I don't know why you're referencing Wolverine and Jean Grey. He has far more in common with Colossus, Hulk and Thor. (Though obviously without the lightning on that last) To use this telekinesis Sebastian must be in contact with the substance. He couldn't lift a glass of water a meter away from him if he was dying of thirst. According to some friends I've talked to, he has a lot in common with Superboy of DC Comics who also has no superhuman strength of his own and does so via tactile telekinesis. So effectively, with a one ton strength, we're talking about a brick that can get his arse handed to him by Moon Knight. That's rather humorous.

The "wallcrawling" and "flight" complaint? Any character that can hover in place effectively is a wall crawler. I decided to mention it because he likes to fly in that manner a fair bit. Flyers can easily float up against the ceiling and walk up the sides of buildings. You see a prime example of this in the first Superman movie where Kal-El apprehends a burglar climbing a skyscraper and yet... Superman technically doesn't have the wall crawling power.

[CrimsonWarrior55]

Our mansion is quite big.

[knighthawk]

Name -
John Smith (legally changed)

Alias -
Psy-clops or 'Odin'

Age -
45

Power[s] -
Far-seeing/remote viewing 100' radius,
Simple telekinesis (push/pull, no fine manipulation)

Weaknesses -
One arm, half blind, ptsd of car crash. refuses to ever drive.
How long at the Institute -
New arrival

Favorite subject -
Myth/legends

Favorite teacher -
Undecided

Appearance -

BRIEF Bio -
Former leader of a FoH (Friends of Humanity) cell for decades before encountering a mutant whose power was to boost others or else activate latent x-genes. His mutation didn't occur until he tried to drive away, the car flipped and pulverized his arm as well as pinning him in place as flames burned away half his face and good eye. That moment of absolute desperation activated his mutation in the form of T.K. in order to push the car away in all directions to free him from the wreck, the farsight was a natural compensation for loosing sight in his eye.

Now he was a mutant mutant-hater, every friend and social contact would never have anything to do with him. It took a year for him to blindly find the X-men and be brought in before all hell broke loose. Now he serves as janitor and mechanic until he gets a fill grasp of his powers like all the other children.

Notes -

[Silver Carrot]

Why is everybody going for super-sight and/or TK? Seriously, is it 'in this season'?

Be original, people!

[Omega Man]

My apologies, the last couple of games I've made it clear there was also a civilian staff and dorm rooms located on the property of the mansion. The shelter in Brooklyn can house 200, staff and students included mutant and non-mutant. So anywhere between 200-300 individuals make up the staff and classes. If it was like any school it'd be high school, since most mutants powers don't manifest until puberty. But the continued education on mutant history, powers, training your own abilities, becoming an X-Man.... yeah that's what makes the place awesome.

If it was JUST like Superboy, I'd have less a problem with it. Please note he doesn't stick to walls, glow, sport a cape or sword, or lift ten tons of water like a solid with a touch. His tactile TK basically just disassembled anything he touched [which was mostly mechanics, locked doors, etc]. I made the Wolverine comparison because of the ties to the Canadian government, the Jean Grey ties because of the extreme TK strength. Not being stealthy and glowing isn't much of a weakness when the guy's running around in a cape with a sword the size of a small person. It's too many powers, too extreme a personality, and just not what I'm looking for when complimenting the characters already in the game. Characters generally start weaker and you build them up, you don't just come in with a huge power set and be the best there is at what you do.

Knighthawk's Odin has been accepted as the janitor of the mansion. Solemn, V is also accepted!

I'll make the OOC/IC for this after work today [between 4 and 5 pm my time, it's currently 10:23 am].

~KL~

[Omega Man]

In Knighthawk's defense his is VERY limited, and with a guy with only one eye and one arm he's still at a disadvantage either way you look at it. Enhanced vision/sensory powers and physical attributes come and go in the X-Men, everybody knows that LOL

Kalamadea - Sage is also accepted!

~KL~

[Endrance]

*nags about ooc*
just read you said after work ok :P
don't forget to add in relationship sheets :D

[Solemn]

If it helps at all to add it, Assallya is a fantastic writer and it kinda sounds like we could use that sort of character given the seeming solemnity of everyone else.

[Blackthorn]

I'm just going to sit here and enjoy the irony of that post juxtaposed with your username...

Also, James is pretty extroverted and laid-back, and is a musician. So she won't be the only artsy character.

[FiroIV]

Hey! sorry about not noticing this earlier, but because I already have other RP's on my hands I can't join this one already. I'll keep watch though.