[OOC] Tony Stark Academy

[Jones Sparrow]

Its been three years since the Battle of New York. Three years since the earth's greatest heroes cam and fought back an alien army. And 6 months after that, Tony Stark chose to leave his suit behind and live a time of piece... But only months after his retirement, he thought that he may not be fit for the job.. but others could. People who have shown more heroic deeds than he ever would have. So he created suits, took funds out of his billions of dollars from Stark Industries, and created a school to recruit these modern day heroes, and teach them everything about the suits, and how to operate them. There is only a selected few who have this honor, each giving their own talents and skills. Not one suit is the same. The students will not only learn how to fight, but fight as a team. They will be assigned groups, each with teams of their own. And at the end of their teachings, they can go out and save the world from anything in its way.


RULES:
1) You cannot be over powered. You can't have every ability. Just one
2) Don't be a jerk
3)No causing random explosions or attacks without asking me. Causing random stuff cuts off the story most of the time.
4) Everyone as a student will wear this shirt as a uniform. Uniform



FORM:

Name:
Age: You have to at least be 18
Appearance:
Suit Nickname:
Suit Appearance:
Years attended TSA: keep in mind TSA has only been up for 2 years...
Bio:
Skill/Ability:
Personality:
Relationship?: optional
Other:


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Name: Todd Reynolds
Age: 25
Appearance:

Todd Reynolds

Suit Nickname: Retro
Suit Appearance:

Retro

Years Attended TSA: 2 years, one of the first students
Bio: I was born into a military family. I was born in Fort Benning, so i was destined to be an Army Ranger. I always had leadership traits when i was little. I was captain of most sports teams i was one. Basketball, Football, Swimming, you name it. So i went to West Point at 18, and graduated as a captain. My squad and i deployed whenever we needed to be... one of the places was The Battle of New York... My squad and I went through the city, helping the Avengers take out most of the aliens... While my team was helping hostages escape, a squad of aliens came out of nowhere and ambushed us. Instead of telling them to retreat, i told them we leave when everyone is safe... I lost every one of my men. And in a mad frenzy, i killed off the aliens that remained from that ambush.

I woke up in a hospital, saying the aliens were gone, and what happened... I got a special visitor that day. Tony Stark made an apperance. He looked like he was a client as well. He had a weird look in his eye. I couldn't quite explain it. He told me what i did was impressive. And he didn't say that often.. A month later i went back to my family, it was only my mom and sister now. Often times i will wake up screaming, or in a cold sweat, or just crying... People who trusted me lost their lives because of my decisions... I would never forgive myself for that. A few months after that, Mr. Stark came to my home, inviting me to join a school meant to teach people how to use his creations. He said my leadership would be very much welcome at TSA... I was reluctant at first, but then accepted.

I was one of the first students to attend. But after a few months more showed up... I love it here. I love the people, the enviornment, and my suit. Retro was a prototype, it didnt really have any large advantage, but i connected with it immediately. The only upgrade that was added was an advanced computer to look over tactics, and to have a better connection to others that will be in my squad. I have been going here for two years. and ready for my third.

Skill/suit ability: I was enrolled as the leader. I use tactics, and my natural leadership traits to help others and to find a way to win a battle. My suit is all well balanced with everything, but has an advanced computer to show me a map of the area, other suit's statuses, and the ability to keep a better connection to the suit's communication systems.

Personality: Very humble and kind. Very afraid that he will lose more people under his leadership, but keeps a calm face. Gets very hesitant and awkward when someone brings up the Battle of New York. Is extremely loyal, and can keep a promise and secret. Hates bullies.

Relationship?: Anyone interested, let me know!

Other: Although Stark gave him this opportunity, Captain America is his idol.

[GrandDM2]

Character Sheet

Name: Jack West
Age: 22
Years at TSA: 2

Physical Description: About six foot three, Jack is lean and muscular, with short, caramel-coloured hair and grey eyes. When not in his armour, he tends to wear combat trousers, boots and a vest.

Abilities: Jack is an expert martial artist, holding black belts in four martial arts and has even developed his own style, "Iron Strike", for use in his armour. He is also an excellent mechanic, and often tinkers with his suit in his spare time. However, he is average or below on most other subjects.

Personality: Serious and dedicated when working, but when hanging out with friends he is lively and funny. He is loyal to the people he trusts, but doesn't trust very easily.

Backstory: Born to a poor family, Jack never really had anything. He was tall from a young age, which coupled with his tatty clothes and lack of whatever the latest cool thing was made him a natural victim for bullies all through his school years. Their constant taunting led him to train in martial arts, discovering a natural gift for combat. His lanky frame filled out with muscle, and when, in the first year of high school, the leader of the school gang got his arm broken trying to knife him, Jack was left alone. He quickly reached black belt level in Karate, Jujutsu, Kung-Fu and Eagle Claw.

Several years passed well enough, and he graduated with mostly decent results and a perfect score in Engineering, before moving on to university to study mechanics. During this time, he discovered the existence of a notorious local gang who dealt in drugs, murder and women. Over the course of his time at university, he studied in the day and at night went out to fight the gang. By the time he completed his degree (again with perfect results), the gang was all but decimated.

Tony Stark, on finding out about Jack, decided to offer him a place at the TSA. Honoured with a chance to work on some of the finest pieces of engineering in the world, while refining his martial arts, he accepted immediately.

Other: He has acquired the nickname "Jackie Chan" due to his martial arts prowess and his first name. While he resented it at first, he now finds it as amusing as everyone else.

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Armour Description:

Armour Abilities: This armour has many small manoeuvering thrusters originally designed for space flight. However, they are mainly used to provide extra power to Jack's blows or help him move quickly. Because it was designed for space missions, it has enhanced heat shielding and durability to cope with reentry. In addition, it can fly at much higher speeds than other armours, again because it was designed for space. However, when travelling at these speeds, it loses manoeuvrability and cannot decelerate quickly.

[Jones Sparrow]

Accepted!

[Forsythe]

Name: Jane Gold
Age: 20

Appearance

Suit Nickname: Recon

Suit Appearance

Years attended TSA: Fresh recruit

Bio:
Since her early age, Jane's parents realized their child was different. When she entered school age, they found out she possessed an eidetic memory. Being able to clearly recall something she seen or heard was of no small help in her studies, but at the age of 18, she was approached by S.H.I.E.L.D. to join them. Agreeing, she was trained as a spy and recon agent. When the academy opened, the organisation decided to take her training up a notch.

Her missions for shield usually consisted of scouting an area of interest before other agents were sent it, or recovering important documents, where her unusual skill came into the greatest use. Unfortunately for her superiors though, her mindset wasn't one that worked well in danger, and any protective gear that was commonly employed by the agency would not be acceptable for her kind of missions (Mingling among crowds of important people). When a place was made free at the academy, Stark was asked to solve the problem.

Skill/Ability:
She can recall (and can not forget) pretty much every moment of her life. This makes her an important asset on one hand as she is capable of mapping an area jsut by flying over or steal documents without the need for any camera. On the other hand, she is also one of the biggest security threats as she can not forget all the files and evidence she gathered over the years, hence why she was sent to train with an armored suit.

Her suit is customized for recon work and escape rather than combat and defense, boasting more maneuverability, superb computing power and most importantly, stealth systems. This comes at a price of reduced weaponry and sub-par protection compared to the other suits.

Personality:
Jane does not talk much, or in fact interacts with others in any way, trying not to flood her memory with unimportant conversations. The fact that she had reccomendations from "upstairs" rather than earning her place also makes others look at her differently, so she doesn't mind avoiding everyone.

[Experiment 249]

Do we need pictures for the suits or can we describe them?

[Jones Sparrow]

You can describe them if you want haha

[Experiment 249]

Bo Deliria

Name: Bo Deliria
Age: 19
Appearance:
Suit Nickname: Sparrow
Suit Appearance: A green suit that almost acts as a second skin. It is a slightly heavier suit compared to the original, and offers as much if not a little more protection as most other suits while coming loaded with jets on every appendage. It is green, with gold highlights and lacks a mouth slit.
Years attended TSA: New freshman
Bio: Living in the middle of a rundown city that the world seemed to have forgotten, Bo fit in perfectly. He was poor, had very little family, a gang he was part of and no job. The perfect place to become a thief. But sadly, Bo had these things called “morals” so he couldn’t JUST steal things. He’d steal and give the food or objects he stole to the starving kids that hung out around the city either because their parents left them or they died. Bo was a modern Robin Hood. He developed a system, however so he wasn’t actually stealing in his mind, when in reality he was. He’d replace anything he took with an item of greater or equal value. A shoe for an apple, some cocaine for a sandwich. Whatever worked out. Bo eventually cared for most of the kids in the city and had to steal more and more for them, but he couldn’t replace everything now. Time was running out and then a certain Mr. Stark showed up. He Told him of a school where his talents would be useful, and agreed to feed the kids for a year. Bo accepted immediately. As much as he cared for those kids, he needed to get out of the city.
Skill/Ability: A good thief in a bad neighborhood will usually get caught, so they need to learn how to run. Problem was, Bo wasn’t that fast, but he was great at moving. He could climb, dodge duck and dive his way through the city, out maneuvering anyone else. He could turn on a dime and not lose any momentum. He could move his upper body at ridiculous speeds, grabbing things in a blink of an eye and then twisting around to begin running away.
The suit has two small “cannons” on it’s wrists that shoot out grappling hooks to allow turning to be easier and keeping momentum a breeze. All of the jets are used to stop, turn, or accelerate quickly, but are not designed to be used as flight devices. They were originally intended for gliding, but malfunctioned during test runs of the suit. The feet of the Suit have three barbs, two on the toes and one on the heel, that stick about an inch under the actual sole of the boot, the same goes for each finger, which possess "talons". They are used to latch on to a surface once they extend, normally however they do not touch the ground. The suit can become extremely stiff while moving to prevent injury to Bo while it shifts directions and prevents whiplash. The suit is not made for speed, but momentum. It still has many of the normal weapons that the true Ironman suit has, with a few, such as the hand cannons, removed to be replaced with the jets.
Personality: Always overconfident, Bo loves to tell of his life. None of it is usually true, but you’d never know. Bo is a terrific liar, after all. He often touches things he shouldn’t and hates being told what to do unless he knows it will benefit him. His plans are always right, in his mind, so he may deviate from the plan a bit, but it’s easy to get him back on track.
Relationship?: Bo always talks about his “Girl back home.” So far, no evidence of her existence has been found.
Other: Bo is not a thief by choice, he is a thief because he had to be.

[RumikoOhara]

IRONMAIDEN

NAME : Penny Leta Baker

AGE : 21

YEARS AT TSA : 1

ARMOR TYPE/POWERS :

Damage Resistance/Absorbency; Penny's armor incorporates a complex structure of nano tubes that are filled with energy which allows them to reroute Kinetic and outside energy attacks to an internal storage matrix found in the structure of the suit. Once so captured this energy is either used to resist the force of other attacks as well as strengthen the structure of the suit or channeled to beam weapons systems or motive strength. (Doubling, Tripling and even Quadrupling her strength)
This ability is a direct result of her own research and prioritized at present for only her suit and that of Mr. Stark's

APPEANCE



ARMOR APPEARENCE :

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ARMOR NICKNAME :: Iron Maiden

BIO : Penny was born somewhere in Rochester New York though the exact day and place are unknown. A Fondling she was named Penny Baker and later chose to add the name Leta

At age 11 Penny won first prize at her school district's science fair for her work on memory metals. She might have taken state or nationals but didn't have the funds to attend.

At 13 Penny was advanced to high school where her intellect and curiosity still remained restlessly unfulfilled. It was there that she was seen by a young researcher tasked with attending a job fair who worked for Stark International. He was stunned when such a young girl was suddenly quizzing him on the nano structures of carbon tubes and he couldn't answer but half her questions.
He reported to his supervisor that he'd found a possible candidate for Stark's advanced scholarship but that she was only 13 years old.

Director Mitchell not the type to dismiss the findings of his subordinates arranged to meet with Penny at her school accompanied by her case worker. He expected her to be bright as his subordinate had said but when he asked her questions she was quick to answer them and he soon found himself being quizzed by her. Her hunger for knowledge was astounding and her ability to grasp theory and expand quickly on the subject staggering. He knew he'd definitely found a candidate for the program but he also knew that she was beyond any found that year or the previous years he'd over seen the program.

Stark International used it's corporate power to wrest control of Penny from the state and move her to the MIT campus as Dr. Mitchell's ward. Her testing scores were off the charts and she breezed thru the core courses in a little under 6 months.
Penny turned 14 the day she received her bachelor's in Applied Physics and Mathematics

By age 16 Penny was doing under graduate work on of Stark's many DARPA projects and at 17 had her own DARPA lab in Trenton New Jersey building cutting edge Nano factories some note intended for use outside of the company.

Dr. Mitchell was by now Penny's surrogate father and his lover Fred Wilson a pilot for Stark industries her uncle. They had both spent all their free time possible making sure that Penny grew up as normal as possible. They had watched as she blossomed from a tall gawky 13 year old to a young woman of devastating beauty. They had thought that. They'd need to comfort her through the pains of teen love but it never happened as Penny could never identify with kids her own age which kept boy and girls out of the picture.

At 19 they thought she'd finally discovered love when her wardrobe shifted from functional to well revealing. When Fred tried to get Penny to spill her love interests new name he was floored to find out that there was none and her clothing choices were picked for her by a professional shopper she'd hired as her hair was the choice of her hair dresser.

Penny admitted that she did enjoy on some levels the attention she now gathered from others but that till her project was finished she didn't have the time to pursue any course of romance with male or female.

When the attack went down in New York at the newly built Stark tower Dr. Mitchell was gravely injured by the alien forces and spent several months in hospital recovering. This near loss of her surrogate father changed Penny and when she heard that Stark was starting the Armor Corps she volunteered immediately. She was accepted of course but only if she continued on as one of the schools research scientists, she agreed.

Her entry was delayed by one year due to the necessity of finishing her last project in Trenton which was important to the Iron man project

PERSONALITY : Dedicated, Trustworthy, Loyal, Caring and Confident

OTHER :

[RumikoOhara]

Gads the IC button looks so forlorn an lonely as it has to watch the numbers roll up in the OOC. It's oh so tempting to press it and post an introduction so it doesn't feel left out

[Tachikoma]

@Jones Sparrow: When you say ability, what do you mean? Does it have to be a combat skill or can we have a superpower in addition to the suit? I was thinking of something along the lines of precognition (limited to 30 seconds into the future) or line-of-sight telepathy.

EDIT: If all characters are baseline humans, that's good too. I just want to know exactly what I have to work with before posting a CS.

[RumikoOhara]

In the original rp we were all human baseline
If we weren't why the suits?

[Jones Sparrow]

@Tachikoma: When i say skills/abilities its talents, and hobbies and stuff like that. The people being accepted into TSA in the RP are examples of extraordinary heroes that don't need powers to make a difference. Just like Stark. So i will have to say no to the mutations and super powers and stuff like that haha

[Experiment 249]

two things
1. Why are we unicorns now.
2. Are we accepted? (Rumiko and I)

[Jones Sparrow]

1) wait what are you talking abo-- OH MY GOD!!! hahaha

2) Yes, all are accepted!

[Gisk]

Name: Bruce Bailey
Age: 23

Appearance

Suit Nickname: Mark 40-B, "Blur"

Suit Appearance

Painted BMW blue, with white trim. "Mk40-B" is printed on the right shoulder. Bruce, being a stickler for stats, has data printed on the various parts of the machine. Force output on the arms, the maximum thrust from the boosters, that sort of thing.

Years attended TSA: 0, first year.
Bio: Bruce got a motorbike for his sixteenth birthday from his mechanic father. He immediately fell in with a rough crowd. Fighting, street racing, even petty theft and public intoxication were all under his belt by his eighteenth. He changed his tune when his best fiend wiped out and Bruce watched him die as they waited for the city's overtaxed paramedics to arrive.
Bruce turned over a new leaf, but his best skill was racing motorcycles. So he raised the money for an entry fee and put together a proper machine to try his hand at an organized track race. He won and has been doing that ever since. He donates every penny of his winnings to rescue organizations, and that is what attracted Tony Stark's attention.

Skill/Ability: His suit has the highest acceleration and top speed, both in flight and on foot. The Blur is a remodel of Stark's Hypervelocity suit, the Mark 40, or the "Shotgun." It's been slimmed down some, to reduce weight and drag in flight, at the cost of some of the weapon systems. The only weapons left are the repulsors, which are exceptionally strong on this model of armor, as they're used in its hyper velocity flight. The repulsors can get the Mk40-B up to Mach 6.2, but as soon as it reaches Mach 5, a pair of scramjets mounted on the back can take over. The scramjets are housed inside of the armor, and when the required velocity is met, they can be extended and activated to almost quadruple Blur's speed. The jets run off of an experimental hydrocarbon fuel developed by Stark Industries, which is housed in several tanks on various parts of the suit. This fuel is much more limited than the repulsors, and it must be used sparingly.
The spare processing power that isn't being used for targeting is now put to use as a flight guidance system. It gives advanced proximity and collision warnings, so that Bruce has enough time to react to things that he won't necessarily have enough time to actually see. When at full speed, Bruce relies more on chimes, whistles, and his heads-up-display than he does on his vision, which is basically, well, a blur.
With a top flight speed of Mach 24, the Blur rivals some of NASA's experimental aircraft.
When anywhere above Mach 1, the shockwave that follows in Blur's wake can be used as a weapon. Bruce just has to fly near something for the wave to hit it. The greater the speed, the more powerful the shockwave.

Personality: A real thrill seeking party boy. Kind of a daredevil, but he's confident in his abilities and they usually pull him through okay.
Relationship?: none yet.
Other:
A racer and a mechanic by trade, Bruce considers his position at Stark Academy to be the next step in both.

His baby

[RumikoOhara]

Jack an Bruce are going to be competitive I see

Penny looks forward to the data their suits differing approaches towards speed will provide

[Tachikoma]

RumikoOhara said
In the original rp we were all human baseline. If we weren't why the suits?

Wasn't here for that, and fair point although not all superhuman abilities improve durability / damage dealing. So, character time:

Name: James Van Demerwe

Age: 26

Appearance: 5' 7" Caucasian male with a wiry, almost skeletal build. Brown hair, slate grey eyes, somewhat ragged goatee.

Years in the SA: Two.

Callsign: Bloodhound.

Suit Discription: Externally appears similar to a standard Iron Man suit, but has less heavilly armored joints to allow better range of movement, most notably lacking shoulder pauldrons. Instead of the stock gold / titanium alloy plating and endoskeleton, the Bloodhound armor is constructed from matte black CNT based composites. This reduces the mass of the suit to a paltry 60 kg at no loss of structural integrity. While theoretically just as strong as standard suits, its lightweight construction means that it has less momentum and leverage, putting it at disadvantage when grappling. It's high strength to mass ratio does however allow it to run at 120 kilometers per hour and make vertical leaps of up to 80 meters without the aid of its repulsors.

The bloodhound armor has and extremely advance sensor package, including of an advanced ground penetrating radar capable of resolving images of objects as small as six centimeters across through ten kilometers of bedrock and an array of infrared cameras better suited to deepspace astranomy. It also has a state of the art communications and electronic warfare package, including the latest Stark Industries cryptography software.

These sensors and electronics consume a massive ammount of power, meaning that the bloodhound's arc reactor will deplete itself after a mere 90 seconds of powered flight and that its repulsor blasts are three times weaker than those of a standard suit. To compensate for the limited flight time, the armor has more control surfaces and manuevering thruster to aid in controlling and directing falls and jumps, as well as strategicly placed patches electro-static "hairs" (synthetic gecko skin) to allow it climb and hang from walls and ceilings with minimal effort.

To compensate for its weaker repulsors, James generally operates the Bloodhound armor with a double load of micro missiles and a pair each of smoke, teargas, flashbang, and frag grenades.

Overall, the Bloodhound Armor is both weaker and less mobile that every other suit save the Sparrow, but once its wearer has you in his sight, there is nowhere you can hide.

Biography: James is a native of South Africa who immigrated to America with his parents when he was three. Growing up in a poor neighborhood with a significant african american population, James soon learned that most people do not look up. He then taught himself through trial and error to climb quickly and quietly in order to avoid being beaten by gangs who falsely but understandably assumed that he and his family were racist because of their nation of origin. When he was a teenager, he began running a courier service for the local gangs, eventually earning enough money to go to college and earn his masters degree in electrical engineering with the aid of a partial scholarship.

James was out free running across the roofs of Manhattan when the Chitturi invaded. While he avoided the heart of the battle, he did hit several stragglers with molotov cocktails. One of these incidents was captured on video by a bystander's iphone and uploaded to the internet, earning him and invite to the SA.

Skill / Ability: James is a master of parkour.

Personality: James is a fairly stoic, quiet man, but on the rare occasions when he does speak beyond monosylabic replies he is surprisingly articulate. He tends to wear his armor nearly constantly, and has been known use the wallclimbing feature to drop behind people from the ceiling when they mention his name. He also has a habit of lurking, eaves dropping, and just generally being creepy for the hell of it which has been know to get him into trouble. That said, he doesn't actually bear his fellow students any ill intent, and does give good advice when asked. He is the designated snack guy on stakeouts and other longer assignments, partly because of his prior experience with running small packages, but mostly because no one else wanted the job.

Note: I'm open to editing the bio if the GM prefers. The bit about firebombing the Chitturi is a bit shaky, I'll admit. I'd also be willing to tone down the armor's sensor package somewhat.

[Kaalee]

Name: Katerina Petrova
Age: 24
Appearance:

Katerina Petrova

Suit Nickname: Sasha
Suit Appearance:

Sasha

Years attended TSA: 2
Bio: She grew up in Romania to a gypsy clan and had a relatively normal childhood but instead of playing baseball during her afternoons, she was learning how to speak nearly every language in Europe, how to make forged documents, and nearly every con in the book. She was pulling off a job when she got sloppy and SHIELD caught her. They offered her a deal...stay on with them for a couple of years until they are sure she had been rehabilitated and then go join Tony Starks academy. She, of course, said yes and here she is.
Skill/Ability: She's a con artist, she can slip anywhere into most any roll and almost never gets caught.
Personality: She, like any person, has a varying personality depending on her mood and who she's with but you can always count on her being sarcastic
Relationship?: Not right now
Other:

[Tachikoma]

Could we not call it the TSA? I don't want to be part of anything that uses that acronym, and it's grammaticly incorrect anyway in this case. I mean come on, does the phrase "the The Stark Academy" sound right to any of you?

If we need an acronym, let's just go with the SA. It's better english and doesn't conjure up images of gratuitous stripsearches of seventy year old men in the middle of a crowded airport with infants bawling at the top their lungs in the backround.

[Jones Sparrow]

... it stands for Tony Stark Academy haha... so it will be called as it is... TSA haha...