The League - First Blood (Persistent World Superhero Sci Fi and Fantasy, Always Open)

[Archmage MC]

Just a quick note, I prefer to flesh out the characters via the RP, its boring if you give all they are in their bios.

Light

Name: Light Void

Codename: Light

Age: '24'

Gender: Female

Place of Birth Unknown / The Void

Affiliations: None

Occupation: None/Explorer

Appearance: Humanoid shape, pure white skin, large ball like head, large black and orange eyes, no nose, large fin-like ears, short blue hair, very thin neck, broad chest with proportionate medium breasts, thin muscular arms ending in large feather/clawlike fingers with forearms to match. A blue tanktop with her gills underneath it, a dress attached to her body with the front open while the back goes down to her ankles, the front having a triangle tabard going down to he kneecaps. The dress is blue with white fringes, while the inside is pure black. her legs are muscular, ending at points where her feet would be

Powers:
Regeneration Due to her biology Light can regenerate any injury, including critical ones such as a missing head or organs, and is extremely hard to kill. She does feel the pain and is temporarily affected by the effects of said injury, so blowing her head clean off will put her down until she regenerates a new one for example. She can attach severed body parts to drastically speed up the regeneration process. This also makes her highly resistant to chemicals, asphyxiation, and the like. No getting drunk for her.

Atrophy Anything constantly physically touching Light gets dragged into the Void over the course of a few weeks, Energy and magic get dragged into the void at a much more accelerated rate. Objects that stop touching Light, if they haven't fully faded, will fade back into existence over time. Anything originally from the void is unaffected.

Super Strength Light is super strong, thanks to her physiology.

Kinetic Charge Light can dash in a straight line at very high speeds for a short while.

Fusion Punch A devastating strong punch that Light must stand still to use / can't use Kinetic Charge or air leap while using it, but she keeps her aerial momentum. Has a long windup but is very devastating.

Air Leap Light can jump off the air a couple of times, making small platforms out of void energy.

Water Breathing Being part fish, Light can breath water. Though due to regeneration this is sort of moot.

Skills: Hand to Hand fighting, General intelligence, Observant

Equipment/Resources: NA

Weaknesses: Incapable of a ranged attack aside from throwing things.
Starts off slow
Isn't durable
Has to use weapons found on the battlefield as Atrophy means she can't carry equipment with her.
Atrophy being annoying and limiting at times.
Slightly insane
Usually has a hard time taking situations seriously
Easily persuaded

Psychological Profile:Light seeks to bring balance and freedom to the world, but doesn't really care too much how she goes about it as long as she enjoys it, and she doesn't step on the freedom of others, assuming they have done nothing to her. She likes anything that can entertain her, dancing, and fighting. Due to being from the void, as well as her innate psuedo immortality from her regeneration, she has a hard time taking situations seriously, and will more often than naught find something to entertain herself, weather it be mocking the enemy or what have you. Since her goals are so broad and open ended, she is easily persuaded by others, so long as she enjoys it. This does not mean however that she is stupid, as she is very observant of the world around her and is quite intelligent, but most of the time shes just looking for a way to kill her boredom. She is friendly towards everyone, until they've wronged her without good reason, at which point, well... if your very friendly to your friends, what would be the balanced thing to do to your opponents?

Biography: A creature from a different realm, Light was summoned into the world by some newly awakened mages attempting to gain greater power. Their spell backfired however, and Light was dragged into a new world along with another void creature who she travels with on occasion. Fascinated by it, Light spends most of her time exploring or finding things to entertain herself, and this means that she gets into fights with other super powered beings from time to time, often villains as they usually take away the freedom of others, something that she hates with a passion. Her appearance freaks out some people, but others seem to ignore it, being used to all the super powered people going around after The Awakening. While having no real set direction other than just having fun, she was easily recruited into the league, as the various fights were entertaining and she could go to places that would be difficult for her to go to otherwise.

MC

Name: MC

Codename: MC

Age: Unknown

Gender: 'Male'

Place of Birth The Void

Affiliations: NA

Occupation: NA

Appearance: Ball like head, glowing blue energy for skin, no hair, no mouth, no nose, no ears, large green blind eyes, wears a faceguard that also gives him a jacobs ladder crown without the electricity. His body is one long robe with arms, one arm with its sleeve torn off that ends in a large crystal with a large crystal hand orbiting around his body. while the other arm is normal. His feet can't be seen from under his blue robes, but are birdlike in appearance. He has a long staff on his back that ends in an orb that can't decide what color or shape it wants to be.

Powers: Omni Magic MC can study the traces of magic or energy left behind of the last spell or ability used by his opponent, and copy that spell or ability temporarily. For abilities, MC makes a spell similar to the ability, using his staff if said ability also requires a weapon. This is temporary.

Arcane Magic While he can technically use all forms of energy due to his omni magic, his base method of attacking people is various blasts of Arcane magic.

Magic Armor MC's void energies gives him resistances to energy and magical abilities.

Chaos Magic Chaos spells have some charge time and are unruly and weak, but can't be redirected and Pierce most defenses and leave a temporary lingering negative effect on whatever they hit, including himself. (Whoever is hit comes up with the effect. It can be ANYTHING, from sneezing, turning that part of the body to diamond or cheese, maybe make you more attractive to flies, whatever.) The only way to not be affected by chaos magic is to not be hit by it in the first place, but those negative effects could always turn into a positive one if whoever is hit is clever enough...

Illusion masks MC can create very fragile masks that grant an illusion to whoever wears them, and of course Combat is very strainous...

Forceful Teleport MC can teleport a set distance at will, freeing himself of anything that binds him in the process. This is jarring, and does need some time to recover before he can teleport again however.

Portals With a bit of concentration, MC can conjure portals that link two spots in space. MC can only conjure portals to locations hes been to, and they can be anywhere from one and one half his size downwards.

Conjuration MC can conjure small objects out of thin air. Most of the time though these are used for comedic effect, but they can be sometimes used for combat.

True Sight MC uses energy to see, and is blind to the physical plane. This allows him to see through illusions, invisibility, secret identities (after all, costumes dont' change your energy signature), and other such things ,but of course he can't see whats on a screen, colors, or anything of that sort.

Banishment Upon defeat, MC is not actually killed, but banished and leaves behind a void crystal. If this crystal is not destroyed, MC can resummon himself after a few days or weeks. If it is destroyed, he must be resummoned using a ritual.

Levitation Due to having no actual mass to speak of, MC can easily levitate using almost no energy.

Made of Energy Being made of energy, MC has no need for food, oxygen, or any of those things, and has no set form or gender, and can change his appearance at a whim, though appearances hes not comfortable with drain his energy faster than normal and his energy colors don't change. Due to being made of Void and Chaos energy, siphoning his energy away from him could cause you to have massive instability or weaken you outright, as well as making him mad.

Skills: Extensive magical knowledge, Great combat sense

Equipment/Resources: A long staff on his back with an orb that can't decide what shape or color to be. This is often used in more powerful magic.

Weaknesses:
Fragile
His attacks drain his energy
Slow
Very poor physical combat skills or strength
Insane
Easily persuaded

Psychological Profile: Being a Void and Chaos energy being, MC is prone to various moodswings and can either be very apathetic or very random. This leads to a strange bout of insanity from time to time, which is often accompanied by some sort of small prop conjured out of nowhere. MC strives for balance and to learn more about magic, but is mostly just there to have fun and has no real set goal. His insanity makes him a bit of a prankster, but it also gives him great insight and intelligence from time to time. While insane MC does have some semblance of sanity, especially when his energies are more balanced towards Void, in the fact that he can remember people, places, and information rather well, and can control his insanity if asked, at least usually. He is very friendly, and if you mean him no harm, he'll often offer you tea or something. In combat, MC is very unpredictable, and has insightful ways of making a few seemingly unimportant or weak spells or blasts turn into something extremely devastating.

Biography: a creature from a different dimension. MC was summoned when some awakened mages decided to conduct a ritual to gain more power. They were wiped out in the backlash, and while another void being was conjured as the physical side of the ritual, MC was conjured up as the magical side. Both void creatures travel together from time to time, but also split off on occasion. MC himself is a chaos/void energy creature from the void, and is often either floating around doing nothing, or causing harmless mischief or attempting to make people laugh or what have you, depending on the balance of his energy at the time. His magic comes from his own energy, and is not tied to any diety or other such higher power, although he does gain a big chunk of his energy from the void.

[TheBiddz]

Emmanuel Liheart

Codename: The Flashbolt Acolyte

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Place of Birth: America, more specifically Cleveland Ohio. He lives in New York City, where power is plentiful and easy for him to procure.

Affiliations: Unless you count being beloved by his local community, none. He gets along with pretty much everyone, most of the time, though he absolutely despises people trying to force him to do something or join something that he does not want to do. Which has lead to some rather tense situations involving the government, as he didn't take kindly to a proposition that they tried pressuring him into. Something dealing with being a superweapon overseas.

Occupation: Full Time Superhero, Part time WORLD CLASS COBBLER. I mean it too. World class. Emmanuel makes some of the greatest shoes in the entire world. Hand crafted, home made leather, treated with a special process to make it incredibly durable, but soft and flexible. He can make shoes look however the customer wants, with all the bells and whistles that one could desire. Auto Lacing? Sure thing. Light up? Yeah you got it. Emmanuel's Shoes have a reputation for being the only pair of shoes you'll ever need to buy. One pair can last an adventurous man his entire lifetime, easily. He sells them based on customer as well. Each pair is hand tailored for the person's foot and he only begins working on it once someone actually requests it. No mass produced shoes here. If someone doesn't have the money for a super expensive pair, he'll lower the price to match too, because ruining someone's rent payment or food budget for the month over a pair of shoes is stupid, he thinks. That being said, he makes more than enough money from his wealthy clientele, with his shoes being sold to multi millionaires everywhere from 100k and up. He comes from a long line of cobblers as well, which is why a 23 year old man has world class shoe making skills.

Appearance: Emmanuel is a relatively normal looking man. He stands 6 foot tall, and is very skinny and lean actually. However, hidden in that lean frame is tightly packed muscle, far more than it would appear. He has old Egyptian blood in him, giving him dark olive skin, and a gloriously well tamed and kept goatee framing his jawline. The rest of his body is impeccably smooth. Everywhere besides his eyebrows, hair, and goatee, he is perfectly hairless. His hair follicles were actually fried during his Awakening, losing his ability to grow more hair, meaning the hair he has stays as long as it is. His skin is very fair, but not perfect. During his Awakening and the unlocking of his powers, his entire body was marked with heavy Lichtenburg figures, scaring him from head to toe in electrical markings, like he has lightning running all over his body. Fittingly, he decided to get them all filled in by his tattoo artist buddy, leaving him covered in blue and yellow electrical marks, which begin to glow when he really gets into power mode. The tattoos are specially formulated to only appear in correspondence to electrical impulse, so when he's not fighting or using his powers, only his scars are visible, not the tattoos. He think it gives an added sort of flair.

Zappy Zappy

Emmanuel's power is that of electricity creation, storage, and manipulation. His body itself produces an exponentially greater amount of electrical impulses than an normal human, turning him into a living generator, and an incredibly powerful one at that. His main electrical manipulation ability is the formation of electric tethers that attach and bury into all objects, metallic or otherwise, which can then be used to move either himself or the object. If the object is not attached to anything, he can swing around the object as he pleases, the speed of which depends on the object's weight of course. The tethers take the appearance of thick, pulsating chains of electrical current that attach themselves to whatever Emmanuel directs them towards. I say form, but its actually more akin to them being shot out of his body at a speed of 100 miles per hour. They can come out of any part of his body, but the main areas he uses are his waist, hands, and feet. Once formed, Emmanuel can move them at speeds of up to 300 miles per hour, with a maximum distance of 75 feet. These chains do actually have quite a bit of mass to them, and at 300 miles per hour, basically turn into heavily electrified, sharp, whips, and getting hit by one is bad news, as they individually are able to do a fairly good job of tearing up asphalt. Emmanuel can have 15 active at once. They take low amounts of power to form and use. When multiple chains are in close proximity to each other, a powerful electrical current runs between them.
Emmanuel stores massive quantities of electricity inside his body. I mean, huge. At full power and storage, this dude can sustain enough power to make the entire city of NYC go for a whole day. However, he does not ever expel it all at once because if he uses a full storage in one go his body will practically annihilate itself. This electricity comes from many different places. Like a normal human, he can actually produce his own electrical impulses for storage, but its the slowest method for replenishment. He also naturally absorbs it from the electricity in the air, which is slightly faster than his own body producing it. These two, put together, aren't honestly bad sources of power. He can also, rather obviously, suck energy right out of any and all things powered by electricity, including other humans and animals. However, that ends up being straight murder, so he doesn't do that.
His fighting style lives by the phrase his father hammered into him as a child. “Don't half ass two things, whole ass one.” He channels the power at his disposal into himself, using his heavy electrical impulses and energy to boost his muscle functions exponentially beyond a human's most wild dreams, becoming the ultimate melee fighter.

Physical Boosters

Emmanuel's enhanced physical capabilities are as follows.
Superhuman strength. Emmanuel can dead lift about 500 pounds. With effort, he can shove up to a ton of weight around, but it ain't easy.
Monstrous Speed: Emmanuel focuses on fighting like his namesake, the Bolt. He prioritizes quick movements and fluid motion over anything else, and boy does he do it. His acceleration skills are the envy of all Formula Racers, and his top speed breaks the sound barrier at Mach One. He uses a barrier of electric energy in front of him to divert wind and make it so that his skin isn't torn off from sheer force. The usage of speed that breaks the sound barrier isn't the easiest thing in the world for Emmanuel's muscles. They're strong, but they're still getting used to dealing with working this hard. Even when surged with electricity, extended periods of running at full spring will cause him to tire very quickly.
Insane Reflexes: Logically, Emmanuel's reflexes are also boosted to superhuman levels to properly deal with his awesome speed.

That's pretty much it for all of his normal abilities. Obviously, he's also immune to pretty much any type of electrical attack or hazard as well.

The Electric Halo

Emmanuel's fighting style involves lots of thrusting/stabbing strikes infused with electricity and his own personal weapon, which he's dubbed “The Electric Halo.” After the Awakening, Emmanuel continuously hears the voice of what he refers to as His God, the being he believes granted him his powers. Whether true or not, that is what he believes, and he believes it WHOLE heartedly. As such, when this voice tells him about a plan for a weapon that will help bring out his full power in times of need, you bet he got this thing made. The Halo is comprised of eight seperate chakrams, all made of boron steel, lending them an incredible durability and sharpness. They are also very good at conducting electricity. Each one is about six inches in diameter. Emmanuel does not have to hold onto them in order to use them, they are actually controlled by his electric field. In an area of up to seven feet away, Emmanuel can have full orbitting motion and 3D control over the halo, turning him into what looks like a sort of very bright, very sharp atom when all eight are in use at once. They also have a second, more intensive purpose.

Acolyte Form

The Electric Halo is the key to unlocking Emmanuel's full power, or at least getting as close as he can. Using the Halo, he can force his body to use more electricity than normal. By overcharging, Emmanuel can show off the true speed of his name, the Flashbolt. His speed becomes that of lightning itself, and his strikes explode with electricity whenever he hits. The power surging through him also superheats the air around him. However, this great power comes with a hefty price. Emmanuel's muscles and body, even with his supernatural build, cannot take so much power all at once. The process is heavily exhausting at the least, and he can currently only hold it safely for about a minute, after which his body starts to deteriorate. If this happens, he will be put out of commission for a long while, as his body will have to rebuild his muscles from the ground up. In Acolyte mode, the scars on Emmanuel's body do more than just glow, they begin to course with electricity, giving him the appearance of being made out of electricity itself.

Skills: Emmanuel is an expert crafter. Not limited to just shoes, if he can think of something, and has the materials to build it, it can probably be built. He is also a pretty talented electrician, but thats due entirely to his powers of manipulation rather than him knowing what he's actually doing. He's also trained as an EMT since highschool, and is an expert in first aid.

Equipment:
Emmanuel always has the Halo on his person, at all times. No exceptions.
He also always has a first aid kit on him, packed to the brim with bandages, splints, medicine, you name it.

Weaknesses:
Emmanuel is strong and fast, but he's not the toughest. He relies on speed and reflexes. He does a good job of dodging bullets most of the time, he's certainly fast enough, but if he gets it, it's gonna hurt. A lot.
Water makes him uncomfortable. It doesn't short him out, because his power is based entirely inside him, but it makes him really tingly all over, so he avoids it whenever possible.
His way of fighting is exhaustive.

Psychological Profile:

Emmanuel is a chill dude. Making shoes all day has developed a true appreciation for peace and quiet, and he's more than happy to be left alone with his thoughts. He's very friendly and very easy to get along with, if you can stand him making horrible puns literally whenever possible. He values his freedom above all else, and the freedom of those around him second to that. He's also very vocal about standing up for others, making him a local favorite downtown. If anyone has a problem with a robbery or something, everyone has Emmanuel on speed-dial. He charges absolutely nothing for hero work, and gives freely to shelters and charities, having more than enough money from his shoe business.

Emmanuel is a religious man. He worships a god named Samuel, though whether Samuel actually exists or is a figment produced by his brain being overloaded during the Awakening, there's no telling. He is respectful of other peoples' beliefs, he knows theres more than one god out there, and he is also very unspoken about his religion, for he knows that most people A: Don't care and B: Won't believe him anyway. However, that being said. He is VERY faithful to Samuel and believes in him one hundred percent. If he hears a voice from Samuel, he will do what it says, no questions. Unless its something stupid. Then he'll argue. Samuel is a very relaxed god (Apparently), so Emmanuel has conversations with him just like a best friend/ bar buddy.

Biography:

Emmanuel led a pretty normal life up through highschool. Born into a family of master shoecrafters, he was raised with the sort of work ethics that every true blooded 'Murcian family would want for their child; Hard work is above all else, give freely to others, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, yada yada. He always applied himself to the best of his ability in all he did, school, sports, you name it. He took EMT classes and training starting in his sophomore year, as his parents thought it would be a good idea to have him learn how to help people in need on the fly. He found he actually really liked the feeling it gave him, being able to help people, so he continued doing them all through highschool and continues to do them in the present so that he can stay up to date on the most recent techniques.

It was when the Awakening took place that his life really took a turn. He still lived in Cleveland a this point, and he was in his home, making a pair of shoes for the local pastor of his family's church. While he did not go to church, the pastor was a good friend of theirs and he needed some new shoes, so Emmanuel took the job for free. Not important. What IS important is that when the Awakening occurred, Emmanuel passed the hell out. His vision went entirely white and he collapsed. During his state of unconsciousness, he was approached by a figure. A very large, very imposing figure that looked like a lion crossed with a man, that radiated power the likes of which have never been seen. The figure would introduce himself as Samuel and explain to Emmanuel that this event, whatever it may be, has given him a connection to him. He goes on to say that he is in fact a god, and would gladly use this connection to give Emmanuel power the likes of which he could have never dreamed before. No catch either, just do good things with it. Of course Emmanuel accepted. Shaking Samuel's hand, Emmanuel was filled with power and a bit of searing, unfathomable pain as electricity coursed through and over his body, scarring him from head to toe. A small price to pay for the things he's been given. Ever since, Samuel and Emmanuel talk on a daily bases, about all sorts of things.

After getting his powers, Emmanuel moved to a place where he had access to a way larger power grid to take advantage of, New York City, though he never actually used his powers before moving, though he knew how to use them thanks to Samuel's helpful explanations. Once moved into the Bronx, he had a run in with his first criminal. Nothing big, a dude with super strength was fighting off cops and throwing cars. Emmanuel leaped into action. Pushing off of the ground with a jolt and a sonic boom, he thrust his electrified hands into the jacked dudes arms and before the villian could even recognize what was happening, Emmanuel used electrical manipulation to make the man's muscles useless. Needless to say, he was apprehended and safely trucked off. Since then, his neighborhood has experienced a steadily decreasing crime rate, because only the cockiest villains want to tangle with someone who can move faster than the average human can think. His neighborhood eventually got done to zero crime rate, and his new family pressured him into joining the League, to make them proud. He did, of course, and is now a member.

[TheBiddz]

-Character Removed for the Time being-

[MrDidact]

Archmage, I like the sheets mostly and I said before that there were transdimensional beings like this. But In-Universe it'd be kinda freaky having two extradimensional abominations running around like that. Likely some mystical force would have tried to kill them. And like I said before Supernatural creatures need some sort of connection to humanity otherwise why would they fight for them and why would the League trust them?

Maybe you could have it that two humans were mutated this way or that these creatures formed a symbiotic relationship with humans like Abaddon's character. The main point is that their presence, the fact that they are wholly crossed over from outside our reality has greater implications that would be a bit much this early in the story. If you read the Codex, summoning a horror like that is a violation of the Fellowship's laws and the Magus would trip over themselves to try and slay the two of them. Plus reaching across the very boundary of our reality and plucking something out is a major working that requires massive skill, power, experience, preparation, and luck. No group of amateurs should be able to do it.

There's also a few issues with powers but those aren't as important. The main thing is that Light's powers lack specificity and explanation for the how hell they work and how strong can she be? Atrophy is also a little wonky. That implies that she's taking energy and matter from the universe. Energy and matter that can't be created or destroyed. She's literally subtracting from the Universe and that's a little much, also there's really no explanation for how that even happens. Also if she can regenerate from having no head what can kill her?

As for MC the only issues are that Omni-Magic is overpowered. Every Sorcerer's spell is different. There is no universal standard for how to make a fireball. Being able to figure out how any wizard does anything with a look is too much. And the other thing is that Chaos Magic pierces everything which i said in the guidelines you can't have for your powers. A sufficiently strong ward should be able to block it. Also there's already an Archmage and he'd be pretty pissed if some beastie went around using the name :P

Anyway those are my issues with the sheet and I want to hear your thoughts on it.

Biddz, Emanuel was already a character so he's in. But on second reading I think perhaps you should reduce the numbers of tendrils he has to like two. Otherwise he's an unstoppable electric octopus :P

And Maxwell is way too powerful. 5000 degrees is really, frickin hot. That much heat would kill someone just by standing a sufficient anywhere near him. That power needs to be cut down drastically, like to the hundreds or something. Turn Evil should protect him from demonic forces to a degree not just wipe them out just like that. Unbreakable wielder should have some kind of short time limit if that's to be balanced and his armor and shield have to be cut down considerably too. He already has super-durability with armor and shield as durable as him he's basically unstoppable. The shield can keep it's magical diffusion abilities but it's size has to be reduced. Shields are not the size of the whole warrior. Also his armor being 1500 pounds of steel is a bit much too especially since it covers everything. Armor that covers everything allows for basically zero mobility.

The Average Main Battle tank is 60-70 tons. That should be the upper limit of his strength even if he's supercharging. Also 300 miles is way too fast, especially if he's already that strong and tough. He could be a good long-distance runner but he shouldn't be any faster than most people to preserve balance. He could probably jump pretty long though. Also being really frickin' big and heavy makes it seem very odd for him to have great reflexes too. Maxwell seems like a Glacier. Giving a Glacier lightning speed is too much. His density should mean that attacks such as rockets or grenades should hurt him somewhat.

In fact if he has the Golden Flame why not make it so that he is regularly only as strong as a ten-foot Goliath would be and using the Flame he can get stronger? Using more flame results in higher tier powers but comes with a tax on his stamina. How about that?

[Falconi]

I will work on my CS tonight.

[An Outsider]

The Lightning-Slinger cometh.

Hi-Voltage

Name:
Thomas Springsteen

Codename:
Hi-Voltage, but goes by Volt for short.

Age:
22

Gender:
Male

Place of Birth:
Inverness, Scotland

Affiliations:
He has a good working relationship with Britain's police force, who seem to embrace him as their 'superpowered' backup, despite him technically being a vigilante. Clara Lord, his ex-girlfriend, is a fully trained nurse, and has patched him up on more than one occasion. Szymon Glowski, an IT consultant he once saved from a mugging, provides him with 'cyber' back up, such as hacking, tracking and even setting up a Hi-Voltage fansite. As far as superpowered allies go he has been involved in a few team-ups but seems content to work alone for the most part, making his acceptance of the Leagues invitations surprising. He and vigilante Strix have worked together in the past. Has been with the League for six months.

Occupation:
Electrical engineer.

Appearance:
Tommy stands at 6'3", with what appears to be a slight build. This is misleading however, as his body is covered in lean muscle. His shoulder length blonde hair is a constant wavy mess, due to a mixture of his hi-octane antics and general lack of presentation. He usually has either blonde stubble or a beard, depending if he has bothered to shave or not. His face is not the typical one expected of a hero, all sharp lines and hard angles, his cheek bones a little too high and his chin too sharp to be designated 'friendly'. His smile is infectious however, serving to brighten his demeanour greatly, and his summer blue eyes generate a friendly warmth.

Hi-Voltage's supersuit is composed of a dark blue, form fitting jumpsuit, zipped up the front. He usually leaves the zipper, a decorative lightening bolt, open just below the throat. The suit is decorated with two lighter blue lightening bolts that go from his chest are, arching over his shoulders, then reaching down to the small of his back. Another bolt wraps around his waist, like a stylised belt. His calf-high military boots and paramilitary gloves are the same shade of blue as the lightening on his suit. His identity is concealed by a pair of aviator style motorcycle goggles with reflecting lenses that he wears over a broad domino mask.

Powers:
Tommy has the ability to create and manipulate electrical energy. Since the Awakening his body has become a biological 'electrical generator' of sorts. As his body metabolises food it also creates vast quantity's of electrical energy. He can use the energy in his body for a variety of things, most commonly using it to fire bolts of electricity, but also being able to give off EMP's and have low level control over the forces of magnetism.

His supercharged body gives him low levels of super-strength, speed and endurance, and incredibly high reaction times.

Tommy can drain the charge from electrical equipment to replenish his own supply of energy. He can drain outside sources of electricity to replenish his stamina, and can even use it to speed up his recovery from injuries. He can naturally sense if an area is rich in electrical energy or not. The more electricity his body has stored the more powerful he becomes, though after a certain point storing the energy can become quite a strain, and like filling a water balloon with too much water he is in danger of bursting.

For some reason beyond his or Clara's ability to understand he no longer requires sleep. This has proved incredibly useful in keeping up with his double life. Clara has suggested seeking more professional help to explain this phenomenon, but Tommy is hesitant to allow anyone else to discover his secret.

After a battle with the mental manipulator 'Pied Piper' Volt has come to realise he is extraordinarily resistant to psionic attacks. He attributes this to his brains unique electrical impulses.

Skills:
Is an extraordinary electrician, though some might say that should be a given. Tommy has an easy going personality, which leads him to making friends and allies with ease, despite him being a solo act thus far. Being in the hero game for as long as he has helps you become quite a quick thinker. Tommy has become adapt at coming up with off the wall solutions to his problems on the fly. As Hi-Voltage he has developed a skill in acrobatics and free-running. This, coupled with his natural speed and reflex's, help him avoid any serious damage in fights. Szymon has taught him to speak some Polish.

Equipment/Resources:
His supersuit. Earns a good pay from his work, but is by no means wealthy. Szymon has helped him develop a shortwave radio that allows him to listen to the police and emergency services line. He also has a small in-ear communicator that allows him to keep in contact with Szymon at all time.

Weaknesses:
Being doused in water can short out Tommys powers, and being completely submerged can cause him to loose consciousness'. If he uses more energy than he can generate or drain from his environment then he can die.

His control over magnetism is extremely limited, if only because he finds the concentration necessary is prohibitive. He once managed to budge a bus, but he suffered migraines for days afterwards.

Has never had any formal training in how to fight. He's picked up a few tricks since he started, and knows how to throw a punch, but he's by no means an expert. A master martial artist could probably beat him in a straight up fight, even with Tommy's physical advantages.

Psychological Profile:
Tommy's crusade is fuelled by his guilt at what he allowed to happen to Daniel. He feels if he had been there then he could have saved his friend from a tragic end, so now he fights to protect those that he can save.

He hasn't completely bought into the Superhero mind-set, and feels like a fraud wearing a costume, believing it to be a deliberate power trip for some people. However he realises the thought of someone as powerful as he is a troublesome idea for some people, but has come to find that many people's fears are put at ease when he wears a super-suit, perhaps because the idea that heroes should be wearing colourful getups.

As Hi-Voltage he is arguably Britain's most well known and visible superhero, though he tries to act as laid back about his fame as possible, despite feeling that the pressure is liable to make him crack if he thinks about it to long.

Since Daniels death he has had trouble really letting people in, feeling that he will let them down. This is one of the main factors in his and Clara's breakup, and why he has never joined a super-group in the past.

Tommy enjoys rock music, and he got his name from the AC/DC song. It was between Hi-Voltage and Thunderstruck, which he ultimately decided would be misleading.

Biography:
Tommy grew up in Scotland, in the countryside outside of the small city of Inverness, the eldest son in his family. His best friend growing up was Daniel Mackay, the two boys nearly inseparable from day one. Whether it was riding their bikes, playing video games or just plain mucking around, they were joined at the hip. The only thing they disagreed on was Daniels love of superhero comic books, which Tommy could just never get into.

As they got older they began to make plans to move to London together, Tommy to pursue a career in music and Daniel to join the Metropolitan police. Those plans were disrupted by the Awakening, when Tommy first received his powers. Not knowing what to do, Tommy turned to the only person he could trust, Daniel. His best friend was ecstatic, thrilled that his friend had become a superhuman. He began to make new plans for London, plans for Tommy to fight crime like the costumed heroes in Daniels comicbooks.

Tommy was terrified by this turn of events, and desperate for things not to spiral out of control any further told Daniel he was no longer going to London. The two got into a furious argument over what Tommy's new responsibilities were that ended with the friends parting ways, Daniel going on to London and Tommy staying at home. It was the last time they would see each other.

Two months later Daniel was killed when the villain know as Obsidian rampaged through London. When Tommy found out he was inconsolable, knowing that he could have saved his friend if he had just listened. His pain intensified when he received boxes and boxes filled with Daniels old comics, a stinging reminder of the responsibilities he had shirked. Tommy spent days reading the comics, trying to absorb the lessons that Daniel had meant to teach him. Finally, after almost a week locked in isolation, Tommy had come to a decision. He would travel to London and honour Daniel's memory by becoming the hero his friend had known he could be.

Years later Tommy has earned respect and admiration as the costumed hero 'Hi-Voltage'. The going has been tough, facing villains like The Highwayman, Dr Whitechapel, The Iron Lady, St George and Springheel-Jack, but he has always triumphed. He has also made allies, Clara Lord, his one time girlfriend, and Szymon Glowski, a truly brilliant IT technician who is also a world class hacker working under the alias Silvertongue.

His true constant though it all though, the man who challenges Tommy at every step, is that man who started it all - Obsidian. Each time the two have clashed the villain has managed to escape. Hi-Voltage has, until now, worked alone, but has recently received an invite to join 'The League'. At the same time he has received reports from his ally Strix that Obsidian has been sighted in America. Thinking to kill two birds with one stone Tommy packs his bags. If he can't catch Obsidian on his own, then he can use the League to catch his nemesis for him. Either way, Obsidian's going down. . .

[Yog Sothoth]

Ocean Warrior

Name: Finn Morrison

Codename: Ocean Warrior

Age: 28

Gender: male

Place of Birth: Numanor

Affiliations: The ocean, and sea life.

Occupation: fisherman and protector of the oceans, part time superhero

Appearance: Finn is very well built and tall, he stands at six feet and four inches. His hair is a bright shade of red and his skin is almost a palish gray in complexion. His costume is armor like in appearance with a fish scales like design and its colors are green and blue. On the forearms of his costume are shark teeth and he also them lining the forelegs. His eyes are are a sea blue and his teeth are sharper than ordinary humans. Finally he has gills on the sides of his neck and fish like side fins on the sides of his face as well as his forehead.

Powers:
Water breathing
telepathic communication with sea life: This ability allows Finn to communicate and command telepathic with all forms of merine life.
Partial transformation: This ability grants him the power to transform parts of his body into those of an aquatic life form such as having the head of a shark or the arms and pincers of a crab, but he can only partially transform into one creature at a time
super swimming: Finn is able to swim in water at mach 1 and doesn't experience the same type of drag as regular humans do.
Superhuman strength: Because he can move underwater at superhuman speeds and doesn't feel any of the drag in water, Finn is incredible strong and is able to lift a max of 15 tons, he also can leap half a mile into the air.
Superhuman durability: Because his bodily structure and density Finn is able to dive down to the deepest parts of the ocean where the underwater pressure is strong enough crush metal, this allows him to withstand good amounts of damage.

Skills:

Equipment/Resources: He has a mystical trident that allows him to control the flow and temperature of water and ocean currents. It also can shoot a beam of powerful magical energy that he can make ether incredibly hot or freezing cold. These abilities can only be used when he is wielding the trident.

Weaknesses: Intense heat can cause his body to dehydrate and severely weaken him. Because of his marine like physiology, Finn's body requires to be hydrated more than a normal humans which is why very hot environments with little to no water can be very dangerous to him. Oil is also another weakness since it pollutes water and can be toxic to aquatic life.

Psychological Profile: Many would call Finn an outcast of two worlds since he was ordered to die when he was born in Numanor, and the fact he was never seen as normal on the surface world. He many times questioned where he belonged in the world and for most of his childhood, he was unsure of who or what he was. One thing he was sure about was that the he felt calm and comforted when he was in and by the sea, but his adopted parents never allowed him to swim in the ocean. Because of his inhuman appearance, Finn has never gone to school and had to be home-schooled by his adopted parents. He spent a good amount of his adolescence reading stories about the heroes of myth and adventures on the high seas. He especially loved stories where the hero was unsure of their place in their world and had to take a leap of faith in doing the right thing. It was these stories that inspired him to become a hero. When he was told about his origins and the fate of his mother, his sadness at not knowing who or what he was and where he came from, was replaced by the sorrow of knowing that he was the survivor of a terrible genocide. After the initial shock he was determined to fight against those thought it was their right to murder and slaughter all in the name of purity. Finn despises polluters and tries to encourage his fellow fishermen to try and keep a respectable relationship with them and the ocean.


Biography: To fully understand Finn's origin, the origin of Numanor must also be told. Numanor was the home to a powerful underwater civilization of humanoids known as the Numanoreans. The Numanoreans were amphibious humans that evolved to live in the sea and built the great city of Numanor many millennia ago, starting their golden age of expansion. Thousands of years ago, the Numanoreans lived in peace with the surface world and both prospered through trade, but eventually the seeds of war became planted through ignorance and bigotry. Numanor evenly secluded into isolation after several wars with the surface world, and even cut off ties with the powerful city of Atlantis. And so for thousands of years, the world slowly forgot about the existence of the great civilization and the name Numanor became a part of myth. In their isolation, Numanor developed several social problems and one of which was the condemnation and persecution of the mutant Numanoreans who had mutated to have inhuman fish like physical features and the ability to communicate with fish as well as partial transformations.

Numanoreans looked exactly human in appearance and were able to breath underwater and survive under the pressure do to their magic power. Mutants on the other hand had gills and dense which allowed them to live underwater naturally, and because of their appearance they were hated and seen as abominations to the Numanorean race. First it was verbal and violent assaults that done against them, but soon the leaders of the kingdom as well as reigning king saw that more mutants were being born and decreed that they had to cut away the folly in their bloodlines by killing the newborn mutant children, and soon began to kill the adults as well.

This is where Finn's tragic story begins, the king had a beautiful daughter named Arya who had fallen in love with a mutant named Finnix and they'd kept their relationship hidden from her father. That was until she had become pregnant with the mutant's child, and she knew that if her father found out then he would kill her. She fled the palace in secret and went into hiding with Finnix and married him. Her father the king was furious when he found out from a servant at the castle that she had taken a mutant as a lover and married him. He was even more disgusted when he had learned that she was pregnant with a halfbreed and ordered her, Finnix and their unborn child's death. Not wanting to see his wife and son die, Finnix rallied the surviving mutants and fought back. They fought hard but they were quickly overwhelmed, and Finnix gave his life to give his beloved wife and unborn son enough time to escape. But before he could, Arya's father speared her in the back just as she was escaping and badly wounded her. Her father would have went in for the kill had Finnix not stepped and fought him away from her. Using the last of her magic, Arya flew through the water towards the surface world and emerged barely alive on a beach on the northeast coast of America.

She was gravely wounded and would not last long, she was found by a fisherman and his wife walking along the beach. They were surprised at first and then wanted to quickly rush her to a hospital, but she stopped them and told them that she going to give birth to her son before she died. The couple helped her give birth on the beach and they looked on with shock at the infant's almost inhuman like appearance. Arya in her last moments of life told them about who Finn was and where came from, as well name him Finn after his father. She asked them if they would take care of her child and the couple answered yes. Arya gave them a parchment that she instructed them to give Finn when they believed he was ready to know the truth, and with one last breath she was Arya closed her eyes and died on the beach.

Finn's life had begun just as his mother's life had ended and with the intention of trying to spare him the pain of the truth, his adopted parents would not tell until he was older. His adopted parents were named Justin and Maria Kurtis, and they loved him like he was really their own son. During his toddler and very early childhood years, Finn was naive of his inhuman like appearance but his Justin and Maria never let play with other children out of fear of him being shunned by society for his how he looked. As he grew older he became more self aware of how unnatural his appearance was, but he wanted to know why he looked nothing like his parents. Finn had guessed that he must have been adopted but whenever he asked his parents about the subject they just changed it and wouldn't answer him. They also wouldn't allow him to swim in the sea as they feared that he would drown despite the fact that he could breath underwater and swim really well. But they still didn't answer him when he questioned him about their fear of him being in the ocean, and so he a spent most of his childhood years lonely, constantly questioning whether or not he simply a freak of nature and wondering where he would find answers.

When Finn turned twelve, his parents decided that they couldn't keep the secret from him any longer and he deserved to know the truth. They gave him the parchment that his mother had written before she had died, it was in a strange language but Finn was surprised when he found that he could read it. It told him everything about who he was and where he came from as well as told why his real parents had to sacrifice themselves to let him live and how he was a hybrid of a Numanorean and a mutant. It also told him about how the Numanoreans had committed genocide of the mutants and that he would never be safe if the Numanoreans found him. After reading the parchment his mother had left with him when she died, Finn felt a horrible sorrow of knowing that even his parents' home would never accept or welcome him, they would kill him. He questioned where his place in the world was and when he became an adult, he wasn't really sure of what to do with his life. After a while of being on his own, Finn decided to brave the seas and see if Numanor was real and if his kind was still alive or were all dead.

He found the city and even after so many years, Numanor was still incredibly prejudice against the mutants and they chased him away. The king still swore that he would hunt him down and kill. While Finn fled, he came across a cave in a strange part of the ocean and entered it to get away from the royal guards that hunted him. Once in the cave, he found what remained of the mutants and told them who he was. At first they shouted hateful curses towards for being the halfbreed son of the princess whose father they hated intensely. Finn understood their hatred and told them that his mother had given up her life to save him and so had his father and other mutants. He promised to help them in their struggle to survive, and the mutant elder believed in his vow. He told Finn about the legend of Degon's trident, and how it was an amazing weapon. The elder then led him to an altar where the mystical trident was embedded in the stone. He told him to pull the weapon out of the altar and Finn did. Immediately he felt the great power of the weapon and the elder told him that he was worthy of it because of his good heart. The other mutants looked on in awe and from then on, Finn would fight for justice and freedom. He took on the name Ocean Warrior and became fighter for both the land and the sea. After several years of fighting against crime and the Numanorean king, Finn has been asked to join the League of Superheroes and he has accepted because he hopes that by joining the league, it might help with the plight of his people.

[TJByrum]

I want to make a character, but I want to run it by you first. My character has no superpowers, but he has an indomitable will, and in a way you can consider that a superpower. It's sort like Tony Stark; he has no superpowers, but you can assume his intellect is technically his superpower. Let's call this character Will for now.

So this character is a crimefighter. He has no superpowers, he's never actually been taught to fight, he isn't trained to use weapons effectively, and he doesn't even consider himself a superhero, just some guy trying to stop crime in his city.

I have been wondering if it would be okay for Will to always get his ass kicked. Like, he tries to fight, and he may get some punches in, but he's more or less just cannon fodder who gets his ass beat in every confrontation throughout the roleplay. He might get better later, but his theme is that he always get his ass beat.

He has an indomitable will (his name, Will, is a play on this). This means he refuses to give up, it's against his nature. You can beat him to a pulp, shoot him, stab him, break his bones, gouge his eye out, throw him off a building, but he won't stop trying to do what's right. He'll get up and keep fighting, even if it means he's just going to get his ass whooped again. The only way to stop Will is to either knock him unconscious or kill him.

That same indomitable will means he can resist any sort of mind manipulation, he can withstand intense amounts of pain, and he is relentless in his objectives.

[Krein]

Seriously, were like males the only people affected by the Awakening? OP says to have a blance of male and female characters, but literally every application is a male.

[An Outsider]

Let's bring the pain.

Furious

Name:

Daryl Redman

Codename:

Furious

Age:

18

Gender:

Male

Place of Birth:

Los Angeles, California

Affiliations:

Daryl considers himself a lone wolf, and would deny having any affiliations with anyone if asked. He's managed to botch two LAPD investigations, so his relationship with the law is strained at best. He's had very limited interactions with the rest of the superhero movement, other than those that he deem 'the posers from Hollywood'. Anti-Meta movements consider him a prime target, and proof that meta's are dangerous, untrained and irresponsible. The People's Meta Defence Front, PMDF, are especially critical of him, though he's not got very many nice things to say in return.

Occupation:

N/A

Appearance:

Daryl is a well built teen, taller than most full grown men at 6 foot, with an impressive breadth of shoulders. Although muscled he doesn't look to heavy, built for a combination of strength and speed. His looks favour his father, having his movie star, swarthy good looks. Disdainful of 'fashionable facial hair' or stubble he tries to always be clean shaven, though he has trouble keeping his 5'0 clock shadow in check. His eyes are a deep brown, so dark that they can appear black. He usually dresses in loose fitting, comfortable old clothes, and a tattered old leather jacket that once belonged to his maternal grandfather.

His 'outfit' consists of black padded motor cycle boots, black wrestling tights with the word 'Furious', printed up the outside of the right leg in red writing, a loose black and red sleeveless hoodie, white cotton wrist wraps and a full face red mask to conceal his identity.

Powers:

Daryl's body has the ability to convert physical pain into theoretically limitless super-strength, speed, durability and regeneration. (I know it sounds like a game breaking concept, but let me try to explain myself!)

Daryl's resting rate, the level of strength he has before suffering any pain, is no more than the average for a boy of his size and weight who regularly engages in physical exercise. After that his powers will increase relative to the trauma he suffers. For example if he accidentally stubs his toe then the gain would only be slight, however if he was to be punched in the face by a champion boxer then his gain would be greater. This doesn't mean he does the most painful things to get stronger faster though, as at his resting rate he is no more durable than anyone else. If he was to be hit by a tank shell at resting then he would be blown apart just like anyone else. How ever, theoretically he could build his powers up to be able to withstand a tank shell.

His strength, speed and durability is fuelled by the energy his body builds while receiving pain. This means that although he gets more powerful, his time with that power is finite, having only until he has burned through his stored energy before returning to his resting rate. The harder he hits, the faster he moves, the more punches he takes, this all uses precious energy.

A downside to his increase in durability is that eventually things that powered him before will stop hurting, failing to give him any more power. To go back to the previous example, if the boxer was to punch him once then his increase would be great. The second time the boxer punches him then the increase wouldn't be as great, as Daryl's durability would have increase, negating the boxer's ability to hurt him. If the boxer continued to hit him eventually his strikes would have no effect whatsoever, except to hurt the boxers fist. This means if Daryl wants to build himself to Zenith level power then he has to constantly find more threatening foes.

Daryl's resting rate regeneration is actually higher than normal -Surface cuts and the like will heal over in the space of seconds- it has similar setbacks to his durability. Although having the ability to heal is useful to someone who routinely goes out of his way to get hurt it also means that the harder his body is working to offset the pain he's receiving then the less return he's seeing for it.

Daryl's pain tolerance is astronomically high, likely a secondary effect of his powers. Even at his resting he can take hits that would knock other men out and still keep on fighting. However he can still be 'overloaded' and knocked out. Too much trauma and his nervous system will shut its self down, a defence measure that even his superhuman body can't resist.

Skills:

Daryl is a talented fist fighter, athlete and wrestler, having competed in high school.

Other than that he was a gifted student, evident from the numerous awards he received for academics, though he plays the role of the brainless bruiser while under the guise of Furious to lure his foes into making mistakes.

Daryl's greatest skill is his ability to keep moving forward despite whatever hits he takes, physical or metaphorical. His self belief, determination and willpower sees him rising to any challenge.

Equipment/Resources:

Although they don't appear to be close he has access to vast wealth due to his fathers career. The one thing his father never seen him short for was money.

That said Daryl is very proud of his powers, preferring to try and utilise them rather than use any other means to solve his problems.

Weaknesses:

Daryl's power is only activated by physical pain, so spiritual, mental or emotional pain will NOT give him any increase.

His nervous system can be overloaded much like anyone else’s. Electrical attacks will lock his muscles, intense burns will knock him out, gases and poisons at resting rate will have near full effect. (His healing factor will help him deal with the toxins more effectively)

Daryl is headstrong, eager to take on all challenges and conquer them. He has more than once bitten off more than he can chew, though rarely learns his lesson.

Daryl has severe father issues. If a strong male figure was to offer him any sort of positive praise then Daryl would become very easy to influence.

Psychological Profile:

Daryl can appear to be no more than a typical teen. Arrogant, angry at the world, self obsessed yet desperate to show everyone what he's got to offer. Desperate to prove himself, he will go out of his way to earn respect, respect he will then claim to never have wanted.

Daryl has severe issues with his father. He has long been desperate to earn the old man's praise, throwing himself at several different challenges in the hope that his father would take notice of him. After years of fruitless endeavours Daryl claims to no longer want or need his father, but the truth is that he now does what he does just to get noticed.

Daryl has been raised in the lap of luxury, though has still suffered his share of hardships. This upbringing has coloured his attitudes and personality. He has very little 'street smarts', though his recent experiences have given him an admirable crash course.

Biography:

Born Diego Dominguez, the first and only son of famed, multiple Academy Award winning actor Miguel Domínguez and his supermodel/philanthropist wife, Sofira Redman, Diego's early life was the sort that most people dream about. Raised alongside the bright and the beautiful of Hollywood, Diego wanted for nothing. Very little went wrong for him, so there was very little to write about, until, that is, his tenth year on this planet.

His family had been at a charity function that his mother had been running. She had so many that most can't even remember what this fundraiser was actually for anymore. Needless to say the night went perfectly, with many a contribution made before the end of the night. It was about half eleven when Dominguez family decided to call it a night, Miguel carrying the sleeping Diego out in his arms. The young boy had no idea how much that night would change his life until he heard the screams and the screeching of tires. His father handed him to the nearest friend then ran into the street, skidding to a halt next to the prone form of Sofira. It wasn't until much later that Diego would find out that his mother had been hit by a drunk driver, who then raced from the scene. She died, but she didn't die easy, suffering nearly sixteen hours of agony before passing. Miguel, always an intense yet emotionally reserved man, retreated into himself. Right when Diego needed his father the most he couldn't find him, receiving only stony silence whenever he asked him for anything.

The driver was caught two weeks later, but was given a very lenient punishment by the courts. Miguel, appalled by this turn of events, left the acting world and entered politics with plans to eliminate such things from ever happening again. His skills at oration, passion and stone cold conviction propelled him into the spotlight, were he garnered masses of support for his platform on harsher punishments for potentially fatal irresponsibility's.

Diego was raised by a succession of harridan like nannies during this time, Miguel believing that it was time for the boy to grow up, and to coddle him to be a mistake. Diego, swiftly realising that life was never going to be the same again, tried to forge on under his new circumstances. He took up several athletic and academic endeavours, showing a keen intellect and competitive spirit at a young age, all in a desperate need to get some sort of acknowledgement from his father. Miguel never showed much response, but Diego was not to be deterred.

Then, five years ago, the awakening struck. Hundreds of super powered beings populated the earth, most untrained and irresponsible. Miguel had less time than ever for his son, fronting several anti-meta organisations. His political clout swelled, as the fearful rallied behind him. Diego still struggled against his father's indifference, heedless of the seeming impossibility of the task. It was during a boxing sparring match that his powers first manifested, Diego's durability and strength increasing until he accidentally punched his opponent clear out of the ring. His father, fearing the worst, got his son to the best, and most discrete, Meta specialist in the county. It was a bitter sort of irony, one of the county's biggest Meta critics the father of one himself.

The doctors studies revealed the worst, that Diego had the ability to convert physical trauma into potentially unlimited super strength, durability, stamina, speed and regeneration. Miguel made his son promise to give up all his extra curricular activities and withdrew him from school, instead hiring a string of tutors to teach the youth. None were allowed to find out the Dominguez's secret. For the first time Diego felt like he had no more to give. How could his existence possibly become more lonely. In his despondency he began to wander the empty rooms of the Dominguez mansion, eventually coming across the one time belongings of his maternal grandfather, Daryl Redman, including a diary. Daryl had been a soldier during the Vietnam war, eventually coming home after years of savage combat to a country that had more use for him. Battling against the indifference and sometimes hostility of his home Daryl managed to provide a good life for his family through sheer determination, eventually even helping other veteran's adjust to life back on home soil. Diego couldn't help but feel a kinship with the Grandfather he had never met, his own sense of alienation due to being a Meta seemingly mirroring Daryl's story. Diego realised however that despite his gifts he wasn't utilising them nearly as well as Daryl had, wallowing in his on defeat as he was. From then on Daryl vowed that he would live a life his mother and grandfather would be proud of, and stop trying to please his own father.

Taking a few belongings, including his grandfathers leather jacket, and renaming himself Daryl Redman to distance himself from his father, he took to the streets. The beginnings of his one man war on crime were disatourous, botching a police investigation that had been on going for months, though he has redeemed himself somewhat after foiling a recent super villain prison break. Nevertheless his desire to help and to further the pro-Meta cause are as fierce as ever, and with word spreading of a league of like-minded individuals being formed he is eager to join.

Notes:

He has called himself Furious as a misdirection. His foes will think his powers increase with how angry he becomes, rather than how hurt he is. It has proved useful with a recent battle with the robotic Pillbox.

Miguel Dominguez suspects that it is his son under Furious's mask, and so halts any investigations into the hero's true identity. Whether this is to protect himself or his son is anyone's guess.

[An Outsider]

Krein said
Seriously, were like males the only people affected by the Awakening? OP says to have a blance of male and female characters, but literally every application is a male.

Uh, both of my guys have been pulled from the last RP, hard to change em to women now. . .

[TJByrum]

I may be able to make a woman character, cause Will is probably better suited for my other superhero RP I may join.

She'd be a sort of martial artist type of woman. I don't want her to be a carbon copy of Black Widow. Might name her Red Velvet.. or Red... something. Something with Red in it. Red will be her trademark color. Long red hair, pale white skin, bright blue eyes, red suit... may use swords, not sure yet. I don't get to superhero-y with my superheroes.

[Luminous Beings]

Name:

Cordelia "Delly" Holmes. Has gone by Cord, but uses "Delly" when she's going for that sweet and innocent look.

Codename:

Whisper

Age:

19

Gender:

Female

Place of Birth:

Anchorage. Spent a few years there before winding up in the lower 48.

Affiliations:

She has functioned as a small time dealer and drug runner for a Chicago gang, far enough to be considered a member of the gang. Delly doesn't have too many other ties.

Occupation:

Former drug runner/dealer. Occasionally, she does a bit of criminal work for money.

Appearance:

She's around 5'7, with dark brown hair and light blue eyes. Delly has light, somewhat pale skin and features that seem vaguely Eastern European. She's got a round face with something of a pointed chin, and a few freckles on each cheek. She normally uses purple eyeshadow and dark mascara, which contrasts with her pale skin nicely. Her lips are thin and typically chapped, and her face is often windburnt or a bit scratched up. She prefers to walk with her hands crossed over her chest in a sort of protective gesture, and her eyes normally flicker around her nervously, as if watching for someone coming up out of her peripheral vision. There's usually an irritated scowl of sorts on Delly's face, and her default expression is one of sarcasm and annoyance. Her ears are a little small and tucked back close to her head, and she frequently pulls her back over them to keep it tied back in a ponytail or bun. She rarely lets it down, but when she does, her lovely black tresses can reach to her shoulders. Delly's not exactly rockin' the hourglass figure, and is instead rail thin, perhaps alarmingly so. Her ribs just barely poke at her skin beneath her shirt. To cover some of this, she usually wears several layers of clothing, avoiding a lot of form-fitting stuff. Delly walks quickly and briskly, and casts a shadow that always seem to be a little darker than it should be-and sometimes, it seems to dance and move ahead of her, as if it's predicting what she's going to do. She normally has a backpack slung over her shoulders, a small yet functional thing that is held together by silver duct tape in a couple places and has a few of her mementos tacked to the outside. Her sneakers are battered but reliable, and have endured many, many miles. Her hands are callused and her knuckles scarred. There are several tattooes on her body, ranging from gang markings up and down her right arm (normally concealed by long sleeves) and an intricate design down her back.

Powers:

Delly has an affinity for shadows. I say affinity and not manipulation of because she's not very refined, and couldn't actively command darkness to do what she wanted. However, Delly's shadow can certainly command her. The shadow that follows her everywhere she goes is less of a silhouette and more of a sentient being: and it employs everything at its disposal to protect Delly. The shadow is very powerful and essentially indestructible: after all, you can't get rid of a shadow. You can shine some light on it and make it go away, but it comes back when you turn the light off. Her shadow is, however, very reactive in nature. Delly is aware of its nature as her guardian angel, protector, and advisor, but she can't command it do things. Instead, it acts as a silent bodyguard, always waiting, always watching. The shadow's perception of the world around it is quite good, because it's in tune with the shadows around it. It knows of the person sneaking up behind Delly because of the shadow that person casts; it knows of the gun trained on her because of the darkness within the barrel. When Delly is threatened, her shadow will defend her in one of two ways. The first way is the "2-D" way, the "flat stanley" defense. In this form, her shadow doesn't leave the ground-it stays on the ground and merely lunges out at whoever's around her. If it grabs hold of the shadow of whoever's threatening Delly, it can cause rather severe phantom pain. In this form, it isn't capable of much physical damage: it can offer token resistance to Delly's attackers, mostly in the form of the phantom pain (and the rather eerie, dissonant feeling it causes when it passes over you-like a chill running down your back times a hundred). The second form is more potent, the "3-D" form. In this form, Delly's shadow rips up off the ground and takes actual form, that of a misshapen, arms-and-legs-that-are-too-long, demonic...thing. It's quite powerful, and capable of altering its form at will. Perhaps it's a dog, to draw less attention. Perhaps it's an eldritch-looking abomination that terrifies whatever mugger pulled a knife on her. Perhaps it's just an amorphous blob that isn't very intimidating, but serves well as a bulletproof shield. In this form, Delly's shadow is far more dangerous: it's capable of inflicting physical harm upon its opponents, and is more powerful depending on the darkness around it. In a pitch black room, it would be an extremely dangerous adversary; in broad daylight, it's a threat, but nowhere near its full capability. Delly's shadow, however, is not merely physical; it is psychological. Just as her body creates a place where the light cannot go, so does her mind. Memories that Delly has repressed, trauma she's witnessed, or darker things she's learned funnel into the shadow. It's sentient, and while it can't separate from its mistress, it can aid her with advice from darker experiences Delly's had.

Delly's shadow can also assist her in terms of sneaking about. In dark areas, it can't render her invisible, but it can darken and deepen the shadows a bit to make Delly a bit harder to see. This effect also reduces the efficacy of lights shined upon her.

Skills:

For starters, she's tough. No, not tough as in "can totally take you in a fight" tough, but rather in the hardiness and mental durability that results from years of rough living. She's a survivor, and is quite street smart. While she's a bit on the malnourished side, she's spent most of her life walking, running, and otherwise straining her body, and is capable of really and truly hauling ass if the need arises. She's also quite street smart, and very familiar with Chicago: if she can get about fifty or sixty feet away from someone, barring any supernatural speed on their part, she's got a damned good chance of evading them entirely, as she knows the back alleys and side streets of the city intuitively. Delly's also familiar with both her former gang and its rivals, and is generally good at handling those situations. She's fairly skilled with a variety of illegal activities, ranging from lockpicking, to breaking into a car without setting off the alarm, to pickpocketing, to being a fly on the wall when a cop drives by. Delly's got a decent knowledge of improvised weaponry, and while she doesn't have any martial arts training, she's been in her fair share of street fights before, and she fights dirty. Biting, clawing at the eyes, sucker punches to the kidneys and groin. Delly may not be packing much muscle, but she can make somebody bleed. Delly's also pretty good with a knife, both in terms of handling it and being naturally dexterous. She doesn't have much formal education but she's sharp, and can spot a scam or a scheme a mile away. While she'd never call it such, she's decent at parkour, given that she's done a fair bit of bounding over dumpsters and jumping from rooftop to rooftop evading certain law enforcement officers/pissed off junkies before. She's also very skilled at sneaking about.

Equipment/Resources :

Her backpack, which contains a few tools she's found useful throughout the years. There's a small set of wire cutters, a roll of duct tape, a bottle of vodka, a spare set of clothes, a few pill bottles which contain prescription medications that Delly does not have a prescription for, two belts, a prepaid cell phone, and a small lockpicking set. Delly also has a switchblade which she generally keeps tucked away somewhere on her person. She also has a .45 in her backpack, but she honestly doesn't know how to use that well and generally prefers to leave it as a last resort.

Weaknesses:

First and foremost, her shadow is only capable of reaching within the length of Delly's normal shadow, give or take a bit. So if you're beyond four or five feet from her, you're pretty much in the clear (assuming it doesn't pick something up and throw it at you). As a result, her shadow's powers are mostly limited to defending Delly from threats-trying to use her power offensively is tricky, as she has a very limited range to work with, and getting up that close is tough. Rather, she prefers to let her shadow ward off any ranged attacks coming her way while she hauls ass away from a dangerous situation-she hasn't lived as long as she has by getting into fights she can't win. Second, her power is weakened by both literal and metaphorical light. Literal light will dampen its abilities a bit, but unless you have a truly overwhelming amount of light, it can't dispel her abilities entirely (and even if it does, the shadow will still be a whisper in her ear, telling Delly where to run to be safe). Metaphorical light messes with it additionally: people with truly idealistic intentions and a genuine desire to help are harder for the shadow to damage, but those people are extremely rare in this world. Most superheroes are doing what they do to stroke their egos, so the shadow's been coping just fine so far. Finally, the really dramatic stuff drains Delly's stamina, of which she doesn't have a whole lot-if it rears up to truly fight, she's going to be woozy afterwards, and probably want nothing more than to find someplace secluded, curl up, and sleep. Delly also can't actively control the shadow's offensive effects: she can ask it for advice or small favors, but she doesn't have the finesse to manipulate darkness quite yet. Hence why her subconscious handles it for her.

Psychological Profile:

Delly's bitter at the entire world, and perhaps with good cause. She's not really buying into the League, not really drinking the Kool Aid of heroism. She figures that it's a matter of time until the Feds shut them down, so she's ready to jump ship if the going gets tough. Delly's primary interest is looking out for herself, which is understandable. She's had a fairly rough life and has learned rather harshly that relying on handouts and charity gets you nowhere. To survive, you have to take what you need, and Delly hasn't missed a night of sleep over it. She would leave her life of crime were she able, but sadly, clawing up the rungs of society isn't quite that easy. She figures she could sign on with the League, make some serious change, and then disappear somewhere, but she considers it a generally bad idea. There are a lot of people gunning for those guys, and she's not particularly interested in that much attention. Delly, fittingly, prefers to operate from the shadows. She doesn't like straight fights, she doesn't like direct confrontations. If she talks to someone, she prefers to know something about them ahead of time; if she fights someone, she prefers to get the first hit in and make it good. Delly's not one to fight fair, and is brutally pragmatic when she must fight. If somebody was coming after her, she'd be totally fine letting the gas leak in her house (assuming she has a house in this scenario), waiting outside, and hurling a Molotov in through the window once her assailant stepped inside. She's learned that things like altruism, sticking your neck out for others, and trust, only get you stabbed in the back. As a result, Delly watches out for herself first and foremost, and doesn't bother too much helping others, unless it directly benefits herself. She has a soft spot for children-especially young girls-but otherwise isn't one to show a whole lot of kindness. She has a fair amount of disdain for the superheroes of the League, who seem to enjoy spending more money on fancy suits and planes rather than helping people, and, while she's not dumb enough to take them on, would certainly look the other way if she heard about a plan to do so.

Biography:

It's fitting that Delly was born in a place where shadows cover everything for so many months of the year: she has vague memories of the Aurora Borealis dancing across the sky, whispering softly to her, but not much else of Alaska. One day, she plans on returning back there, but for now, has to settle with Chicago. The circumstances of her arriving in Chicago are somewhat murky to her. Delly's early years are very fuzzy to her, which is mostly a coping mechanism. She has vague memories of flashes of light, being in pain, and being uncomfortable and alone, but not much else. Her running theory is that she was abducted, but she has nothing to back this up with, and the orphanage she spent a few years at after coming to Chicago knew nothing about her origins. Regardless, Delly quickly found that she didn't fit in with the other kids. She was behind on education, starting kindergarten a year and a half late, and never seemed to be able to make up the difference. After a short while, the orphanage began to face some budgetary problems and issues with being overcrowded: around age nine, Delly decided things weren't working out for her. She helped herself to some food from the pantry, a few goods lying around, and took off on her own.

Miraculously (depending on your definition of miraculously), she was taken in by a man named Darryl, who, despite being pretty heavily involved with a gang, felt kinda bad for the little girl. While they searched for her, Delly wasn't located. She considered going back, but Darryl had hot food, Darryl let her sleep on the couch (which was much more comfortable than her old bed) and Darryl, after a short period of time, actually seemed to give a damn about her. There was no going back. Unfortunately, a nine year old who's not in school gets into trouble very quickly, and Darryl found she'd been surreptitiously tailing him, wanting to be more and more like her adoptive father. As she grew older, despite his attempts to keep her out of that lifestyle, she wound up getting caught into it: and, despite the slight gender barriers that exist in the gang world, Delly proved herself more than capable. Her yearning for approval, desire to do better, and somewhat hollow childhood resulted in a very dangerous little girl, one who was being exposed to a lot of things little girls should not be exposed to. Such life experiences would go on to fuel her shadow a good many years later.

Eventually, inevitably, Darryl got his ass torn to shreds in a little misunderstanding over a couple of ounces of heroin. Vowing revenge for what was essentially the only family she'd known, Delly set about identifying and hunting down his killers. It was surprisingly easy: they were largely unconcerned with going unknown, and Darryl's friends (now her friends-she was running drugs and guns for them on a regular basis, easily avoiding suspicion as a thirteen year old white girl) helped point her in the right direction. There were three of them, and Delly killed them. She can't remember quite how (since the development of her powers, her memory comes and goes, the darker things lost to her), but she remembers walking out of a house, hands covered in blood, shaking unbelievably. It wasn't too much longer that she got arrested-while she managed to avoid apprehension for the murders, she did get caught with the drugs, and did a stint in juvy. With a fair bit of PTSD, guilt, and tremendous amounts of rage, any hope for a normal life was pretty much over. She became a full member of the gang and, for a while, found a replacement family of sorts. Other outcasts, other people who had endured pain and lost people. While they were people who were ordering her to beat the shit out of people, to run felony quantities of cocaine across the city, to break into people's homes and rob them blind, she had people who gave a damn about her. She became a valuable member of the group, quickly proving both an adept thief and competent smuggler. Delly-who went by Cord or Whisper, she uses "Delly" now because it sounds a little more innocent-did a lot of things she's neither proud or ashamed of. It was life. She did what had to be done.

And then came the day she got her powers. At first, she thought she'd finally cracked-her shadow was fucking talking to her, dancing along the wall behind her. But it offered to take away some of the pain. To hide some of the horrible things she'd seen. It made them go away-which was a blessing not even her newfound friends could bestow upon her. While she stayed with the gang a while longer, she felt that since the development of her powers, she'd been somewhat alienated-and, not wanting to risk outright watching her relationships die around her, Delly left, using the superhuman registration acts as a plausible cover-she didn't want the Feds to find out about them through her, and the gang let her leave more or less freely. Since then, she's wandered the streets, occasionally keeping in touch with her old friends, but mostly pickpocketing and stealing to get by.

[MrDidact]

TJ, Maybe she could be a Red Riding Hood Expy with kickass blades? Just call her Red Hood?

Or maybe Red Sun? And if you want a character with less power, the RP could use somebody who just have a super-charged brain or is an inventor type.

HWWB, It's a very good sheet. But her cynicism of the League is a little misplaced. Most of the League are working-class joes, all the money goes to operation costs and charities. Though there certainly are a fair load of gloryhounds and super-celebrities. Then again that can just be personal bias coloring her perception.

I'm guessing you plan on her to join the League later? All the characters need to be connected to it somehow.

Accepted.

[Luminous Beings]

If she's Red Riding Hood, we gotta fight some wolves at some point.

Also, she'll probably pay lip service to "let's fight evildoers!" and join up for a chance to make some money. Even if the League doesn't pay, being that close to the scene of drug busts and whatnot could provide her with a bit of money.

Can animals that were affected be playable characters?

[MrDidact]

It's obligatory yes.

Being in the League pays a decent amount but it's no luxury job. Sure she could skim off of busts but she wouldn't want to get caught.

Awakened Animals are rare, but it's not uncommon for people to be mutated into animalistic appearances. However In-Universe there is some evidence that the Awakening has affected a few animals. These would be animals close to humanity in intelligence such as primates or in a metaphysical sense such as dogs and cats. Or they could just be bigger animals such as bears or big cats. They wouldn't get superpowers but they'd probably gain human level sentience and intelligence.

They'd just need a good reason to get involved in human affairs.

[Luminous Beings]

Gotcha. I figured Delly having a falcon or something could be kinda interesting, but now that I think it over it wouldn't really make much sense for her to have that. No other characters are coming to mind at the moment but I may make another one if I think of something

[MrDidact]

Well we could use more characters in support roles or who just fill different niches. Telepaths, technopaths, people who turn invisible, phasers, light controllers, elementals, energy controllers, mutants, super-intelligent geniuses, teleporters, flyers, elastic people, size changers, shapeshifters, inventors, healers, the list is endless really.

[TJByrum]

At a glance:
Red Lace (Lacey Lee): Long flowing red hair, pale skin, bright blue eyes, red skirt, red shirt, and long red ribbons tied around her wrists. Wielding two katanas, Red Lace delivers a relentless, furious assault as she whirls, twirls, and moves at lightning-fast speeds to shred her enemies into pieces. Her signature red ribbons on her wrists flow in the air, displaying an elegant and beautiful side to the fierce and deadly strikes she delivers with her weapons. An experienced acrobat, improviser, and martial artist, there are few who could match the cunning of this dangerous redhead.

Does that sound original or have you guys ever heard of someone like her? Expect a bio soon. May not be my actual character, but I like her enough it may be.

[MrDidact]

It looks good. But like I've said before, I'd prefer melee characters with something besides katanas. Rapiers or sabers maybe but something different. Also we could have her be a strategist as well as a fighter.