[OOC] Young Justice 2020: Zero Year

[An Outsider]

Not sure who to bring over back here, if Blacksam is gone does that mean the Outsiders are no more?

@Damo021

Indeed. Outsiders is done I'm afraid Damo.

[twave]

Sad face. Well guess I'll have to find another place for that character then.

[An Outsider]

Sad face. Well guess I'll have to find another place for that character then.

@t2wave

I'm sure that wont be too hard, she's a good character.

[twave]

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I'm sure that wont be too hard, she's a good character.

@BlackSam3091

The harder part would be finding a RP that would lend well to her history.

[Damo021]

It appears I have the same problem for Veracruz now also. I have two characters in Limbo now, Starbolt and Veracruz.

[TheUnknowable]

Here's my previous guy in the CS form of this RP.

Hider

Name: Lin Sian

Alias: Photon

Age: 19

Sponsor: Dr. Light

Personality: Greedy, Cunning, Caring

Powers: Light manipulation: Can generate and absorb electromagnetic waves, though the further they are from the visual spectrum the harder they are to work with. While this ability is generally fairly weak, he also has the ability to bend, focus, and redirect light, which is remarkably strong, and can even be used to keep industrial lasers and laser weapons from hitting him. This ability also works on hard light constructs, such as holograms and Lantern constructs, due to Dr. Light's training. He has been known to focus the ambient light into laser beams when need be, but they are generally weak due to the small amount of light in them.

Weaknesses: Darkness. Without light he has to rely on the small amount generated by his suit or the small amount he can generate.

Appearance:

Brief Bio: He doesn't remember his parents, just growing up in an orphanage on the outskirts of Gotham. The adults there were cruel, only caring about the money they got off of the kids, not the kids themselves. When he started exhibiting powers at the age of seven the people there saw him as a gold mine. With a metahuman working for them they could make huge amounts of money. They quickly pulled him out of school and started his grueling training, with one of the workers there teaching him karate via the "if you'd learn to dodge you wouldn't get hit" technique. They'd then make him exercise, followed by using his powers. When he became too tired to keep practicing, they'd beat him until he started practicing again.
One day he decided he'd had enough of this and, when they tried to beat him, he blinded them with a burst of light. He ran away and never came back. He learned to live on his own, being taught by the beggars, thieves, and general low-lifes how to make a quick dollar when you needed to. He even learned to read and write due to the teachings of one of the homeless men in the area. The man was an ex scientist who'd let alcohol ruin his life, but he was more than happy to teach a child about math and science. From his teachings Lin learned about how you could cloak something by bending the light around it, and found that he could do the same thing with his powers.
When he grew up he went to look for a more reliable way of making money and came across Dr. Light. The Doctor agreed to build training devices for him, and help him to learn to use his powers as long as he would steal things the Doctor needed in his research. One year ago, however, the Justice League caught Dr. Light and locked him up. Lin decided to strike out on his own, but when, a few weeks later, he found a young girl living on the streets in Metropolis's China town district he got an apartment nearby and adopted her, though not officially. He now steals things for whoever is willing to pay.

What's Changed: N/A

Notes: Skills: Stealth, Parquor, lock picking, hacking, studied several martial arts forms

Sample Post: Photon lowered himself through the skylight and onto a walkway. He had hidden himself from view so that he could close in. Dr. Light had asked him to come here to discuss a job, but he couldn't be too cautious. A console below beeped and the Doctor looked up. "You can show yourself, Photon. My security system already found you. I can help with that, though."
"How?" Photon asked.
"You didn't hide yourself completely on the low frequency infrared. I can teach you to do better though, and help you out in other ways. All I need is for you to do a few jobs for me." He pushed a button on the console and a wall lowered, revealing a black suit with glowing strips on it. "This suit stores light for later use, absorbing it from the ambient light in the area, though I suspect that can be enhanced with your powers. It's yours if you get a special computer for me from a Lexcorp warehouse near here."
Photon walked over to it and looked over the suit. Far better than the outfit I put together, and the light storage will let me function better in stealth. "Give me the details," he said, "I'm in."

[Damo021]

Okay I can't resist it, Starbolt is returning in 2020, just need to edit a little bit of info on the CS and will post it up.

[LostDestiny]

@The Kid Lantern

I have no clue how to change my CS... Ugh I am gunna have to change the whole thing...

[Damo021]

Is that to do with the smoke Manipulation?

[LostDestiny]

I may have to change my entire character. I have a couple things up my sleeve.

[LostDestiny]

Here is the edited version of my character.

Name - James Natchgale
Alias - Scourge
Age - 20
Sponsor - Red Tornado
Personality - Kind, Charismatic, Happy
Powers - Smoke manipulation. James can condense to molecules in smoke and turn the gaseous substance into semi-solid forms, taking on the forms of both weapons and animals. He can also move the smoke as he wants and produce it out of almost nothing. This allows him to create large smoke screens and move the smoke to where his opponent will be forced to breath it in.
Weaknesses - He is still human. Anything that can kill a human can kill him. Though his lungs and protected from any smoke like substance.
Appearance -
BRIEF Bio - James grew up in a normal home. An only child and a genius in all things (though he doesn't show it often) James lived a simple life. His powers began developing when he was 14. Often times he would sit in class and if he began to concentrate too hard, or let himself space out his body would smoke. James ended up homeschooled after that. He finished his schooling at the age of 16 during which time he spent his free time teaching himself to control his ability and got a job soon after he was fully in control. Interested in helping people he began searching for a career where he could be useful. Eventually settling on being a fire man. He trained until the age of 18 to build himself physically to do what he wanted to do and by the time he was 19 he started his work as a fireman.
Sample Post - It was a normal day at the fire station, a couple small house fires but nothing that one or two men couldn't handle. Those at the station had settle down into a game of Texas Hold-em. Either that or they were idly chatting on the sofas around the lounge area. Nothing to interesting had happened in the past week or so, giving the men and women who worked at the station a nice break.

The calm of the station lasted until about half past midnight. It was then the alarms sounded, signaling an all hands fire. The once calm station burst into a bustle of bodies and noise as they set to the tasks they were assigned to. The loud speaker blared announcing what they were dealing with. A lab fire on the outskirts of town. It seemed the fire had started from a small burner being knocked over but with the amount of chemicals that had been used in the room, everything caught quicker than they could stop it.

The preparations ended and they headed out to the lab. They arrived there quickly and they unloaded, quickly getting to work. They found that several people had been trapped in the building so a team was assigned to go in a get them. Within this team was James.

Heading into the building he and two other men split up to find those trapped inside. James found a pair of researchers in a matter of minutes. He turned to head out of the room with them but the ceiling collapsed in front of them. James, being in the front, took the brunt of the flames that shot up at them from the falling debris. Taking no notice to the flames that burned his suit and some of his flesh, he turned to look for the closest exit, this being a window, though only the two small researchers could fit through it, he was a little to big to get through. Smashing the window he prompted the two to exit, and only after that had gone did he start using his ability. He gathered as much of the smoke as he could and condensed it into a ball, hurling it at the debris that blocked his way out.

He exited the room only to find one of this fellow firemen with another researcher standing in shock. Shaking his head he said that he would explain later and the three exited the building.

James as well as some of the researchers had been hospitalized due to excessive burning and smoke clogged lungs. When the doctors discovered that his kings were in perfect shape they figured it was from the mask the other firemen wore. However they found out from the man who had seen him use his ability that he could control smoke.

After vigorous questioning he was brought to the attention of the Justice League, where Red Tornado had decided to sponsor him, though at first James had little knowledge of this. It wasn't until a week or so later that the Tornado himself came to speak to him. Explaining the situation, and how he was now sponsored by him.

[Enarr]

Hey yall. I saw this a long time ago, but I kinda missed the boat. So I may sign up for this one.

[Enarr]

Name: Raymond Tyler
Alias: Time Bomb
Age: 17
Sponsor: Blue Beetle

Personality: Snarky, Opportunistic, and Goal-Oriented

Powers As a result of his forefathers ingesting so much Miraclo, he was born with a fraction of its effects, such as superior strength, speed, stamina, and agility. This does not diminish or nullify the benefit of using the improved formula of the drug himself. When on Miraclo, his strength, speed, stamina, agility, and thinking abilities are improved. His perception of time is even slowed. And the effects begin to weaken, depending on how much he exerts himself, around an hour after ingestion. His homemade gadgetry includes: Flash-bombs, smoke canisters, Miraclo dispensers, lock-picks, a pocket knife, & hand-cuffs,.

Weaknesses Unsurprisingly, he has a secret addiction to Miraclo, which his predecessors hadn't shared their experiences with. The withdrawal is brutal, causing agonizing headaches and random blackouts along with general physical weakness.

Appearance As Raymond he generally wears hooded jackets, cargo pants, and running shoes. He has short brown hair, Caucasian skin, brown eyes, a round nose and box-shaped face. He stands roughly 5'11" and has very visible musculature.

As Time Bomb he wears black fatigues with an insulated bulletproof/stabproof vest over his chest with a large yellow hourglass logo on his chest's center. Sleeves cover his arms, offering little protection, but keeping the visual theme. And a hooded cape drapes over his head and shoulders, fitted eyeholes allowing his vision to be clear despite the hood. The inside of his cape is colored yellow and, besides the logo, is the only colored feature.

BRIEF Bio: Rex Tyler was a pharmaceutical engineer hired to reverse-engineer a tribal formula that gave the users superhuman fitness. His biggest hang up was that his employers were the military. Unwilling to allow the blend to be applied to widespread murder, he purposefully sabotaged the project before being relieved of his position. Once dismissed, he moved to Appleton City to join their police force, putting Miraclo, as he called it, to good use. Later on, his son Rick took a similar course. In his lifetime, Rick refined the formula and optimized its effects.

Raymond 'Ray' Tyler was born in the summer of 2003 to Rick Tyler, the second person to develop Miraclo, and biological son of the original. He long admired their records of service on the police department. Naturally, he aspired to follow in their footsteps, seeing it as his heritage to become a policeman aided by Miraclo. At eight years old, he was constantly being bullied, so he fought back, injuring them unintentionally and being withdrawn from the public school system.

The family moved to Metropolis in 2016, causing Ray to lose touch with all of his friends and causing him to grow socially awkward. His own emotions betrayed him and he needed something to take the edge off, and neither of his forefathers seemed too keen on giving him a supply of Miraclo. So he started crimefighting in the style of Batman, purchasing and designing his own gadgets, outfits, and accessories.

It didn't take the world's greatest detective to figure out what Ray was doing, so Rick decided to allow his son to experience the life of a superhero. Between the two of them, he was jokingly referred to as a ticking Time-Bomb before it became completely obvious that he was in it for the long haul. When he turned sixteen, Rick taught his son how to manufacture Miraclo from a special blend of rare vitamins and common substances.

After a year had passed by and Rick officially gave Ray his blessing as Time Bomb, providing him with his own costume.

Notes: None yet

Sample Post:
A river of thick smoke pressed down an alleyway, suffocating a trio of armed thieves that were caught entirely off guard. They gagged and sputtered, struggling to take in a breath, but fell to their knees. One of them managed to reach for their gun, but wasn't able to prepare himself for the bumble-bee striped blur that bounced on him, smacking the thug's head into the concrete they'd stood on.

"Excellent work," the voice of the Blue Beetle broke the silence that Ray had built.

"Oh, hello there," Ray answered, slightly spooked. Stating the obvious, he said "I didn't realize you'd tagged along. I guess you still got it."

"More or less," the elder hero shrugged his shoulders. "But I watched you tonight, and after the last few days you've had, I think Hourman is ready to hit the big leagues."

"Really!" Ray's eyes opened like the Red Sea.

"Of course. There's a new project. Of course I can't offer you full League membership, yet, but I can fast track you."

"I'm listening."

"Join a group of other rising teens to help out on a wider scale. I won't be on top of you, and as annoying as the people you're going to meet may be, it'll be a lot like the actual League."

[Omega Man]

@TheUnknowable Make Photon 20 years old or younger and he's good. So long as his mentor is the heroic Dr. Light LOL

@LostDestiny Scourge is accepted, though don't get too crazy with the smoke constructs and animals.

@Nightrunner I LOVE me some Hourman, but the Golden Age heroes won't exist here. You could say Rex Tyler was a pharmaceutical engineer and developed Miraclo in the 60's and 70's but it was rejected by the military or whomever he was working on it for. His grandson could find it later after his papaw passes away and become Hourman I.

Looking good so far guys and gals!

~KL~

[Enarr]

It's revised. Made Rex and Rick cops instead of capes, and had Blue Beetle sponsor him.

[LostDestiny]

@The Kid Lantern
Don't worry, I won't, I know how to keep characters with completly OP powers from being OP so this should be a piece of cake.

[XxFellsingxX]

Yo guys...

Erm, I know I've been pretty quiet on both YJ and Outsiders but if you still want me around, roleplaying old Cassie - or maybe someone else, as I wouldn't mind a different character either - I'd be honoured.

[Omega Man]

Course you're welcome here Fells!

~KL~

[XxFellsingxX]

Course you're welcome here Fells!

~KL~

@The Kid Lantern

Thanks. I'll get to work on that CS. Might change a few things about Cassie. Who knows.

[Omega Man]

She was already perfect IMHO. One of the best well rounded newer addition we had...

~KL~