[OOC] X-men: Order of Heracles

[TheUnknowable]

the Interest check explains it all.

*Days of Future Past Spoilers* (If you haven't seen it, you need to. It was an awesome movie.
Named for their founder, and one of the most famous Mutants ever, they have manipulated events for thousands of years to get humans ready to live peaceably with Mutants. In the past the humans either idolized you, as prophets, gods, or demi-gods, or hated you, believing you were a demon. The Order, however, was founded on the idea that humans will learn to accept mutants as equals, leading to true coexistence for both groups. They have done their best to remain hidden from the world, from both mutants and non-mutants, and did their best to keep the existence of mutants from being common knowledge. After WWII they started to wonder if humans might be ready to learn of the existence of mutants, but they didn't have to wonder long, as in 1973 mutants were caught on camera at the treaty signing in Paris, and days later the same mutants were caught trying to murder President Nixon. When one of them saved his life, however, the first link in the chain of trust was struck. Humans began to see that mutants weren't evil, that they could be quite good.
The peace wasn't easy won, though. The Order must work constantly to maintain this peace, and when so many lives hang in the balance, there are few things that are considered "going too far."
When, occasionally, someone discovers the existence of the Order, they are given a choice. Join, or be given amnesia so that you are no longer a threat.

I want Mutants, but in an organization like this, normal humans would be useful as well. It occurs in the new timeline from the end of XM:DOFP, and as such, XMO:W, XMFC, and the history and alternate future from XM:DOFP are the only cannon parts from the films. We can make up the rest. Such as:
Mystique is now Senator Raven Darkholme from NY. After saving the president's life, she worked for the CIA as a covert operative until the end of the Cold War. She then went to law school and got a job with the ACLU specializing in mutant rights. When she ran for the Senate 7 years ago she got 61% of the vote, bipartisan support because she ran as an independent.

Accepted Characters:
me: Robert Sinclair (Mindbender), weaker telepath who can make people act out their subconscious desires.
Bweoti: Stephen Chance (El Tee), Supersoldier
Ravens Exile: Topenga Stark (Iron Man), Female version of Tony Stark, known to the team only as a robot with an advanced AI.
A Rainmaker: Remei Lucía Quintana (Earth Mover), Geokinetic
Winter: Annabelle Stephens (Diamond), nicer version of Emma Frost with super strength in diamond form.
Kaalee: Catia Belikova (Lucky), Probability alteration. She makes herself lucky and others unlucky.
Shadowcatcher: Jia-li Jin (Void), black hole creation
Battleshovel: Russel Sparrow (Techno), Technopath
Nicias Askni: Xyl Page (IN), mind control and portals

[Metronome]

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[TheUnknowable]

No one's done it yet, so go ahead.

[Automaton]

I'm up for it. Can I call dibs on a character who can control rocks?

[Metronome]

On second thought, I can't really come up with anything creative at the moment.

I'll withdrawal my dibs :3

[A Rainmaker]

Automaton said
I'm up for it. Can I call dibs on a character who can control rocks?

I already claimed geokinesis. =x

Repost our character sheets here or no?

[Winter]

Are you still accepting?

[TheUnknowable]

A Rainmaker said
Repost our character sheets here or no?

yeah, let's do that for the newcomers.

Winter said
Are you still accepting?

yep. I'm going to post the CS layout and my character's CS so you have an idea what to post.

Edit:
CS:
Name:
Codename:
Gender:
Age:
Position/duties:
Race: (human, mutant)
Powers?:
Personality:
Why did you join?:
Preferred method of using powers:
History:

Sample CS:
Name: Robert Sinclair
Codename: Mindbender
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Position/duties: Field agent/ Eraser
Race: Mutant, Caucasian
Powers: telepathy (read surface thoughts, freeze people, shutdown higher thought (makes them just stand there like an idiot, unable to respond until he stops), inhibition release (gets people to act on their subconscious thoughts. Won't do things they wouldn't normally consider,doing. Emotional appeals make it stronger.), memory blocking (when he doesn't like a memory they are currently accessing, he blocks them from accessing it again. This is why he's an Eraser (amnesia specialist) for the Order.
Personality: Manipulative. Likes to make people his way, even other mutants.
Why did you join?: I was a threat to them. A wild card. It was either join, which sounded like it might be fine, or die. There was no amnesia option for me. So I joined.
Preferred method of using powers: As music is designed to appeal to emotions, he carries around an I-phone to play music to people while influencing them. While the specific song changes based on what he's trying to get them to do, he prefers 70s and 80s Rock music, though some more modern songs are used.
History: A runaway teen, he doesn't like to talk about his parents or his life before, though sometimes (such as when he's drunk) things will slip out. He was using his powers to make others help him more than they normally would when the order found him. They gave him a choice, and he chose to go with them. He's been with them for eight years.

[A Rainmaker]

Name: Remei Lucía Quintana

Codename: Earth Mover

Gender: Female

Age: 26

Position/duties: Translator, diplomatic relations, field.

Race: Mutant

Powers: Geokinesis - can manipulate earth with her mind, which includes such things as lava, dirt, minerals, sand, stone, rock. Remei cannot simply create from thin air, but she can form weapons from a handful of dust, combine pebbles until she has a boulder. She can shape, manipulate, and compress earth. In terms of how powerful she is, Remei can create small local earthquakes or similar, though her goal is to one day manipulate the tectonic plates on a grander scale than ever before seen. With geokinesis, Remei has a bond with the earth: through it she can sense far-off movements, the health of the environment, and absorb surrounding energy from the earth. Though she can cause earthquakes, it's extremely tiring and requires a deep enough connection that, if upset or broken, could cause death. The larger her manipulation aspirations are, the harder it gets.

Personality: Remei wields that utter pragmatism of the mountain people, though she can sometimes get her head lost in the clouds. She mimics the earth in being a solid, steady type with an unshakable foundation. Her temper is seldom seen, but when finally roused is rather ugly. She has little care for the smaller, inconsequential details of a person and therefore becomes lost in the overly emotional state of politics - but when she does become involved, she can get quite impassioned. Although she has a sense of humor, Remei can be terribly serious and literal enough to miss even obvious jokes. She can be painfully polite and has a smooth, easy way of behaving among others that often lowers their guards around her.

Why did you join?: Wrong place, wrong time, and nobody is meddling with my mind.

Preferred method of using powers: Remei doesn't use her powers often and less so while among others, but she has spent time making shields from compressed rock and manipulating them to move around her. She can create veritable forcefields of lifted, spinning earth matter round and round her until she's not clearly visible. Being able to remove and guide specific items from such chaos took a while to master and is something she's only ever done while utterly alone. Among others, it's smaller manipulation with rocks or pebbles more than anything else.

History: Born to a Navarrese mother and Aragonese father, Remei was raised in her father's home among the foothills of the Pyrenean mountains with several siblings. Their village, too small to be of note, seemed to exist in its own tidy vacuum sometimes. Though they traded with other villages and sometimes visited Zaragoza, Remei was nonetheless raised in relative seclusion. Despite that, she was educated, agriculture taking the upper hand. When she turned seven, Remei exhibited her first signs of abnormality: she turned aside a rock meant for her skull when she threw up her arms in defense. The altered flight of the rock was seen by her brother, who forgot it briefly while bloodying the other boy, only to bring it up with their father later.

From then on, Remei's abilities only grew - she could hide from others in the woods, sensing their movements through the ground and rapidly helding away. Tantrums, mixed with raw and untrained power, causing rocks to fly wild or boulders to split asunder and, occasionally, buildings to shake and shudder. The isolation available higher up in the Pyrenean mountains gave Remei's father the chance to hide her and try to help her, teaching her meditation in hopes of finding a way to control it. Eventually it was sufficient for her family to feel safe from prying eyes and became a boon when it came time to work the fields.

Remei was given a knack for languages: her mind was a sticky piece of paper and other languages tended to get stuck there and, if she pursued them, rapidly flourish towards fluency. Although Spanish was the official language and her first, Remei became fluent in Catalan and quickly became proficient, if not quite fluent, in Basque and Aragonese. A passing traveler taught her a handful of French, but without more exposure and no offered classes, Remei didn't have the opportunity to learn much more. When she turned 10, her mother began taking Remei and two of her brothers to Zaragoza to learn English. Sensing that this new language could be a way out of the mountains, Remei studied harder than her siblings and her knack for languages helped her along. Listening to another language, especially one with similarities to those she knew, was a talent Remei had discovered early on. Her ears caught the words and clung to them and her mind was quick to study and understand, easily training a graceful tongue into mimicking and later knowing the language.

Upon turning 16, Remei grew restless. She had moved in with an aunt on her father's side in Zaragoza and attended her aunt's classes and others for the next three years. Living in Zaragoza was like being in a new world, shucking the rustic fleece for a more silken garb. One day a woman from her own mountains in America came through, painting pictures of Colorado sunsets and similar seasons. Intrigued, Remei eventually followed the woman through a visa that allowed her to enter as a student.

Having been living in America for nearly six years, Remei has sought naturalization and taken up residence in the Colorado mountains.

How I imagine her:

Remei

[Winter]

CS:

Appearance

Name: Annabelle Stephens
Codename: Diamond
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Position/duties: Field Agent / Bodyguard
Race: Mutant
Powers:

Capable of shapeshifting into a solid diamond form which grants her superhuman strength and durability as well as increased weight. While in this form she becomes immune to forms of mind control and may chose to block telepathy. She does also carry a very basic skill set of psyche abilities such as Telepathy and therefore mind reading, however this skill tends to take a backseat to her main and most obvious ability. Her weaknesses are overwhelming physical damage which will require her to shift back to her human form till enough time has passed and her mutated cells have repaired.

Personality:

Annabelle is a kind and caring individual who comes across as confident and positive in how she conducts herself. She enjoys deep conversations about philosophy and wont hesitate to voice her opinion on a subject which interests her. Like most normal girls of her age she shows an interest in fashion and the other gender. However, when she is involved in work revolving around the Order she quickly becomes focused, collected and always on task. Her attention to detail and perception is incredibly sharp and she appears to take pride in her work. She does carry a sense of humor but again this will not often be seen while on duty. Last to note, Annabelle does carry the capacity for a temper, however it appears to be very tame and well controlled. Following a possible temper outbreak, Annabelle will often walk away to cool down, seeming to favor isolation over confrontation. This does not apply to combat and field based scenarios.

Why did you join?:

She was offered a position after having been discovered to possess powers which would prove useful in the defense of the Order. Being an individual who can take quite allot of damage as well as being immune to mind based attacks, she was selected to protect important figure heads within the Order. Sometimes she is put forward for offensive work, but only when the work requires her skill sets.

Preferred method of using powers:

Annabelle very much enjoys her position as a defensive and support field agent. She never kills unless she absolutely has to and will usually be seen to incapacitate her opponents with heavy singular blows or attempt reason through telepathic and verbal communication. She will often also mind read in order to gain advantage for what the opponent intends to do which also helps in her role as a defender and protector of important individuals. Annabelle will also occasionally stack up her powers with other mutants. For example: if another agent is strong enough to throw her, she will ask them to throw her at a group of enemies as the landing wont harm her and she'll be able to intercept opposing enemies faster.

History:

Anabelle discovered her powers at a young age after having nearly been run over by a car at the age of ten. Her body became a solid mineral, the car smashing against her doing considerable damage to her while leaving her without a scratch. It was a one in a million stroke of luck which saved her life. As she grew she began to advance with her powers, discovering she could do more with them like fall from great heights without taking physical damage, or being able to wield superhuman strength. Her psyche abilities came allot latter and she seemed to struggle allot in advancing them further. She isn't sure what is holding her back, but without an expert to examine her it'll always remain a mystery.

She joined the Order after receiving a call requesting that she be interviewed for a job. Being unemployed she decided to jump at the opportunity before discovering the job wasn't quite what she thought. She was offered a place within the Order after having been observed by a field recruitment agent, being told her skills would prove invaluable in helping them to maintain peace between human and mutants. At first she was hesitant as it wasn't the type of job she'd ever considered and from what they were asking from her the potential danger was evident. However she eventually agreed and ever since then she's served with the Order, pushing her skills and trying to be as best as she can be.

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I may expand on that history. But as it is I can't seem to think of anything to add.

[iSuspect]

I call dibs on Atmokinesis!! Haha.

[TheUnknowable]

Winter: Seems like a much nicer Emma Frost. Very good. Any relation? Approved.
Suspect: Like Storm? Could come in handy for stealth.

[Shadowcatcher]

i'll be posting my CS soon.

[Ultimate Spidey]

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[iSuspect]

@TheUnknowable: Yes, like Storm. Haha.

[Winter]

Yay! ^^

Maybe some relation. Stay tuned to find out! lol

[Kaalee]

Catia Belikova

Name: Catia Belikova
Codename: Lucky
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Position/duties: Field Agent
Race: Mutant
Powers?: She has the ability to subliminally and psionically initiate random telekinetic acts that affect probability in her favor by making improbable (but not impossible) things to occur within her line of sight, thus causing her to have "good luck" and her opponents to have "bad luck." This phenomenon can be anything from an enemy's equipment failure to hitting just the right switch with a stray shot to shut down an overloading nuclear reactor.
Personality: She is a bit of a wild card, depending on how she's feeling that day. Some days she's really quiet and polite and some days she just let's it all out.
Why did you join?: She was offered a position as a field agent in light of her ability to help situations go their way.
Preferred method of using powers: She doesn't fight very much, instead she let's others fight while she helps to make sure they stay alive but if push comes to shove, she's not afraid of killing if it is necessary.
History: She grew up in America, with first generation parents from Russia. She grew up home schooled, learning how to field strip a gun in addition to her addition. Her father was ex-KGB and he wanted his daughter to be prepared in case that caught up with him post cold war, as he was originally in America as a sleeper agent. Although this never happened, it was better to be safe than sorry.

She noticed her mutant powers start to come in when she was about 13..although it wasn't obvious. She had been rather unlucky in the past but then for some reason her luck changed. Drastically. When she was about 18 or so she decided to look into it, having some interest in chemistry and flirting her way into connections she figured out that she did have the x-gene and then she decided to have some fun. She made a bit of a name for herself when they called and asked her if she wanted the position. She figured she had, had her fun, now it was time for something knew

[TheUnknowable]

Kaalee: Interesting concept. Approved.

All: I'll try to post an IC tomorrow.

[Winter]

We need more males :S

Don't we have like, five girls and two guys as it is. Or something.. my math isn't great.

[iSuspect]

I might make a male character this time around. :D