[OOC] Masks, A Tale of Heroes (CLOSED)

[Double]

The Rise of Meta-Humans

Plot Synopsis

In the coastal metropolis of Modern City, Georgia, a ship transporting a cargo of chemicals explodes just off the coast and sinks into the bay. This tragic disaster will give rise to a variety of people developing superhuman abilities. They are Meta-Humans, the first of their kind. But are they friend or foe? Hero... or villain?

Modern City, Georgia

Come one and all to the gorgeous epicenter of scientific and economic progress that is Modern City! What started as a simple colonial fishing village has, over the two-and-a-half centuries since it's founding become the greatest metropolitan city in the state of Georgia. Indeed, only the big names such as New York and Las Angeles seem to rival the southeastern coastal city. Within you will find wonders of the modern world. Skyscrapers touching the skies in the downtown district, each one home to a variety businesses and people running them. Need a wholesome place for your children's education? Look no further than Modern City Academy, a multi-structural school campus covering all the basic grades of public education! Graduated from the Academy but seeking a higher education? Modern City University and Modern City Tech welcomes you to apply yourself for a college education!

Modern City itself is run by its 4th-term mayor, family-man Rick Wellington, and let's not forget Ms. Claire Andrews, Modern City's icy, but sharp-eyed Deputy Mayor. But they're at the top of the ladder, perhaps you need someone a little lower down? There's always Police Commissioner Frank Garrick or his little brother Bill, the Chief of Police. No matter what public service you need, Modern City has the right people for the right job!

Feeling like you need a little music or sports to liven up your day? Head on over to Modern Stadium where the MCU Raptors is sure to play their hardest to win that touchdown and earn their Modern City pride! If sports isn't your thing, then you may enjoy a rousing concert or two performed by Modern City's very own Modern Day Kings.

Documents of Identification

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Rules

1. The GM's, or any assigned Co-GM's, word is law.
2. Standard site rules regarding flaming and the like.
3. When choosing a power, follow the rule of thumb that stronger powers should probably have stronger or more severe negative side effects.
4. Also on powers, to have a stronger power would mean having been closer to the chemical explosion and vice versa.
5. I've provided some traits of Modern City courtesy of suggestions by various people in the interest check, but feel free to make more suggestions. I want Modern City to almost be a character in its own right, with lots neat little tidbits and things to make it feel more organic and alive.

[Avanhelsing]

Working on mine now.

Name:Jack Williams

Age:23

Gender:Male
Ethnicity:Caucasian

Appearance

Jack

Confidential

Alias:The Living Weapon

Costume: Jack wears normal clothes for his suit. He wears a black tank top and black jeans since he can move easier in them. He has to keep his arms free to use his powers. He wears a mask to hide most of his face.

Meta-Human Power: Organic Constructs. As his name suggests, he can manipulate his own body to make weapons. In particular he can turn his right arm into a long sword. His entire arm turns into the sword. He is faster and stronger than the average person but he cannot lift a car or something like that. His other offensive weapon is that he can turn his hands into claws to fight. He can move by turning his arm into something like a whip. It can go a few feet in front of him (eight feet). He uses it to move quickly through the city.

Weaknesses or Side-Effects: Salt water is his main physical weakness. Since he uses his powers to manipulate his flesh the salt hurts him enough to stop him. That is not his only issue. His powers has created a side personality that Jack calls the Whisper. It causes him to not understand what else is going on around him. It can affect a lot more and makes Jack seem more of a monster than he is.

Personality: Jack is quite a nice guy when he is not using his powers. He is always joking and smiling. Jack is bisexual and will hit on anyone unless he is trying to say someone. He believes He has to save as many people as he can.

Background:Jack was born in Modern City and grew up there. So he has managed to get a rather thick Georgia accent.Jack went to the Modern City University for a degree in genetics. His parents both had similar degrees and so Jack had to get the degree. He was lucky to get a job at Wells Laboratory in the city. He was researching chimera bacteria the day of the explosion. He was walking in the park when the chemicals went through. He was near the middle of the group so he was not mutated as badly. Now he patrols the city as the Living Weapon.

Other:

[MonkeyBusiness]

WIP

Name: Angel Aarandin
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian

Appearance

Angel

Confidential

Alias: N/A

Costume: N/A

Meta-Human Power: Her entire body is made out of water. Angel is able to revert her entire body or just parts of her body into water at will. She is able to manipulate the water in her body to create weapons for example she can change her arm into a sword or shield and can even launch concentrated water in projectile form.

Weaknesses or Side-Effects: Since Angel's body is made of water she is vulnerable to extreme heat and extreme cold as the heat will cause her to start evaporating and cold will turn her into ice. She can sometimes become unstable and is not able to maintain her body causing her to become a puddle of water. A downside to turning into water is that she cannot change her clothes into water as well.

Personality: Angel is a kind person who likes to always make friends and does not like to be mean to anyone even if they are mean to her, which is why she can almost always be seen with a smile on her face. People would always describe her as a very down to earth person who would rather just relax with friends then work. After getting her powers she become a little more quiet and started to keep away from people because she feared that they would figure out what she was. She thought that they would judge her if they found out that her body was made out of water.

Background: Angel was raised in Long Beach, California and was raised with a love for the ocean and everything about it. She grew up with a normal childhood consisting of a lot of time at the beach and just going around town with her friends during her time in high school. Around her junior year she decided that she wanted to pursue a career with marine biology and started to look into Modern City Tech as a school for interest which would end up being the school that she would be attending.

On the day of the accident, she had been on the coast taking water samples and testing for contamination ironically. For a full week after she gained her powers she stayed holed up in her room as she struggled to get herself from liquefying every time she tried to walk. All she wants to do is live a normal life and make lots of friends in the process, but that dream seems to be getting farther away as more people with powers start to show up.

Other:

[RumikoOhara]

Name: Elliot Sinclair
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Cherokee

Appearance

Confidential

Alias: Retro

Costume: Black neoprene suit with black utility belt with 6 pouches a full hood and gloves

Front right pouch 8 filter masks
Right hip pouch night vision goggles
Right rear pouch Evidence bags and vials
Front left pouch UV flashlight and first aid kit
Left hip pouch Burner cell phone
Left rear pouch 24 Caltrops

Meta-Human Power:
Omnilingualism Elli can speak, write, understand and communicate in any language including computer codes, languages that have never been heard before, sign language (even lip-reading), illegible words, and backwards speech and writing:

Psychometry Elli obtains historical memories or sensations concerning beings and objects by touching them. With objects she gains the knowledge including the makers, users, and even those who have on passing used the object, and what has been done with it. With living beings or parts of the body she learns their general life-history, but doesn't gain anything of what they were thinking or feeling.

Weaknesses or Side-Effects:

Eli has trouble sometimes connecting with what she calls present time. When this happens her perception of the world isn't based on what is happening in real time but on what might have happened an hour, a day or a week ago. This usually only happens after prolonged use of her Psychometry ability.

Personality: Eli is a very friendly person who enjoys helping people in need. She is driven by a sense of justice that means she'll go the distance to see that those who commit injustice are brought to their due.

Background: Eli was born on Strange Island in the Okefenokee Swamp in the cabin her parents live in even now. Frank Sinclair her father is a game warden and her mother Elizabeth a herpetologist who specializes in taxonomy and physiology of the reptiles that live in the southeast of the United States.

It was from her parents that Eli learned her dedication to scholastic pursuits and right and wrong.

An excellent student Eli graduated from High School with a 4.0 average and a scholarship.

Shortly after graduation Eli began attending Modern Tech studying oceanology and marine science. It was while working on a project within the bay of Modern City that Eli was exposed to the chemicals of the event that caused the Meta Mutations. Her boat was swamped and she and her lab partner were dumped into the toxic waters.

She survived for five hours even being swept partly out the sea where she was found by a Coast Guard Rescue boat that was searching the area; her lab partner's body was never found.

Close to the epicenter of the event Eli wasn't affected as serverly as others who were as exposed. She is still a student at Modern Tech and has shifted her focus to Marine Genetics and Micro biology.

Other: Eli has always been an athletic girl competing in Gymnastics and Distance running so her physical condition flexibility and endurance are better than average.

She supplemented her scholarship before the accident working as a museum guide where she still works on her free days when not performing her school work.

[ScarlettWaters16]

Name:
Shadow Jones

Age:
21

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

Appearance:

Confidential

Alias:
Starlit
Costume:




Meta-Human Power:
Shadow, ironically enough, has the ability to control beams of light around her. She can produce light from her body. Light can have healing powers, which means that she can be a healer of a group. She is able to set things on fire as well, but it takes a lot of energy. She is able to produce orbs of light to light peoples' way and to light her way. She can also make herself glow. She also has the ability to write things in light or send messages through light. She can easily blind people or create cover for a quick getaway. She also has the ability to change the lights in an area, including solar lights. She can dim the sun as well as bright it, or she can dim the stars, which is where she got her name from.

Weaknesses or Side-Effects:
Her weakness is that light burns up her body. The more that she uses her power, the more she burns up from the inside. She is, technically, slowly dying the more she uses her powers. She is also weaker when darkness and shadows are forced upon her. If someone had shadow manipulation, they would be her counterpart because she cannot survive without sunlight itself, that's why she cannot stay in a dark place for too long.

Personality:
Shadow is a very quiet person. She does not talk to very many people. She prefers not to in fact. She is more of an introvert than an extrovert. She likes staying inside and reading rather than going on adventures. She is very smart and extremely clever. She is quick witted and also very mischievous. Just because you prefer to not really talk to anyone doesn't mean that you can't pull pranks. She is a very light hearted person and can be kind when she meets someone she likes. She hates posers and prefers not to associate herself with people who do evil. She may be mischievous, but she knows the boundaries.

Background:
Shadow grew up an orphan and thinking that she was the only one in her family. Most people think that this is the reason why she is so quiet because she is used to being alone. She was found on the doorstep of an orphanage, but unlike every other orphanage story, she was not resting in a box. She was out of a blanket and had no note and was sitting there, just wailing as loud as she could for someone to come and get her. And that is mostly where she grew up.

Shadow was different even before she gained her powers. She would sit and stare at a bug for hours, recording its movements, before going and eating the bug, like other children her age. She wouldn't go out and play like the other kids. She would stay inside and see what would happen if she dropped a glass bottle from the top of the stairs. This is how she got into her mischievous side. Though she had the quiet, scholarly girl, she also had the mischievous, devilly, Loki side of her which always caused her foster parents to bring her back to the orphanage. She didn't know how to control that side, but she knew she wanted to. She suppressed for many years, but her rep had already grown and she was never adopted.

When she was eighteen and legally an adult, she moved out of the orphanage and found her own place. She got her own job, working at a library near the ocean. She loved that spot. In fact, she was one of the closest people to the shoreline when the tanker exploded. She does not remember much after the tanker exploded. She does remember, though, waking up in her bed with a golden glow around her skin. This was when she discovered her abilities and how different she was. She has actually tried to hide her abilities and go back to her normal life, but that hasn't been working out too well for her...

Other:
She has a small white kitten named Moon and a small beagle named Pooch. She tends to have Moon with her wherever she goes because she is such a small kitten that Shadow sometimes just puts her in her purse. She also feels like Moon keeps her normal.

[Avanhelsing]

We need more guys. I am gonna add a few more weaknesses to my guy.

[Bornlucky]

A work in progress!

Name:
Railey White

Age:
28

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
Native American

Appearance

Confidential

Alias:
Ice Wolf

Costume + Mask:



Meta-Human Power:
Weak temperature manipulative capability,
Heighten sense of smell and hearing,
Heighten agility and strength,
Heighten Metabolism, which results in faster healing, and much less sleep,
Teeth and nails are longer and sharper,
Hair can grow on demand, and the color can change as well.

Weaknesses or Side-Effects:
Railey's heighten metabolism, means that she needs a constant supply of food and energy to keep up with her new abilities and if she doesn't eat within 3 hours her body will start to eat itself, while she has hasten healing but it is not fast enough to heal from extreme injury without assistance. Painkillers and medicine doesn't work on her. She has weak temperature manipulation, only controlling the heat around her body which in turn keeps the body cool enough to keep going without having a heat stroke, has no combative use.

Personality:
Railey is aggressive, fearless and dangerous. Yet she's social, open and kind of a attention seeker and is socially aware about many topics and controversies often debating about these topics and is extremely stubborn about her views and opinions and enjoys one-upping others. She is rebellious and is a rule breaker up to the point of being a thrill seeker as she is only comfortable in unfamiliar situations, this makes her adaptable yet reckless.

Background:

Born in a Utah reservation, Railey was born to a struggling family, often spending most of her time with her grandmother who was a civil rights activist, often protesting calling out the government on their treatment of minorities and especially of the treatment of native american

Other:

[Renny]

Name: Drust Royle
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: African-American

Appearance: Drust is a tall and lean young man of African descent. Due to this,his skin is dark or rather light in color. He has a sharp nose, large brown eyes, and full lips. Ontop of his head is soft, black hair, edged and cut close. He has a rather short face with semi-angular features and round cheeks. A unique trait of his is his eyebrows, as they are thick and wild. He always has a teardrop pendant around his necklace, tied with a pink, thick, string.

Confidential

Alias: King Thermal

Costume: None for now.

Meta-Human Power: As his name suggests, he has control over the two extremes of nature itself. In his right arm he holds the power of flames, red and terrible. In his left, he holds the power of ice, both cool and un-moving. In other words, Thermal Manipulation.

Weaknesses or Side-Effects: A mutation has taken root in him due to these powers, his entire right arm becomes charred over black in very suffocating black plates. On the other side, his left arm becomes black and near frozen when his powers are in affect. No one side is capable of being used without the other. Too much of his right side and he starts to burn up, too much of his left and he begins to freeze. This two powers in extended uses could very well lead to his death.

Personality: Not so dependable or trustworthy, Drust, like any other teen was content with living second to second. Though his mind was constantly plagued with the dreads of the future, he was always too complacent to deal with his immediate problems. He does however, carry a very free air about himself. Unrestrained and rather reckless, he's always felt a need to be in the center of the spotlight. A very dangerous trait when living in Modern City, Georgia.

Background: Besides the disappearance of his father, Drust had a rather average life. Living on the fringes of middle class America, he's been well for most of his life. However, around the age of 17, he rebelled against his strict mother and live-in uncle. The two of them was quick to toss him out onto the street. Normally, this would have been a terrifying experience. Which it was for the first two days but something, rather unremarkable happened on the third.

He saw a helpless kitten trapped in a metal trash can on a rainy night, its cries for help drew him from out a glass bus stop he took refuge in. When he reached it, he found himself capable of, without any lectures or hindrances, of saving the kitten. The following weak he spent his time tending for it and despite his best efforts of saving it, watched it die one night.

In his numbness he realized that he had the freedom or was unchained enough to save that kitten. To give it another week of life. Since, he's valued his freedom. And though he sought understanding from his mother and uncle, he respected them from then on.

Years later he found himself strolling along the streets to honor his freedom. One night, he took a cab near the docks, just to appreciate the scenery. But instead he was met with a horrific sight and scary outcome. A explosion that blinded him and sent him to the hospital for several days. It was bad, because though he was warned to not be so close, he took in hand his own freedom, and made a foolish mistake.

When he awoke from the explosion, the vista of his right arm being on fire and his left one, as cold and pale as ice sent him frantically into the streets. A car exploded soon afterwards. When he awoke again he was in the hospital. He spent several days there before being released. He was dodging school the day his powers emerged again. He still has yet to decide what to do with them.

Other: None for now

[Larfleeze]

Interested in this, but I'm about to go to bed. Just wondering if Proximity-based Animal Mimicry would be an acceptable power?

[DaDrummer676]

Name:
Jamie "James" Wolfe
Age:
22
Gender:
Male
Ethnicity:
Caucasian

Appearance

Confidential

Alias:
Beast

Costume:

Mask

Hoodie

Meta-Human Power:
Animal Mimicry: After the explosion, James showed the ability to mimic animals abilities. James cannot morph into animals, he can only take certain qualities like: a bear's strength, a cheetah's speed, a cat's balance, a dog's sense of smell, etc.

Weaknesses or Side-Effects:
-James cannot mimic more than one animal at a time
-James cannot morph into the animal he is mimicking, only copy its traits while staying in his human form
-James' hair turned blood red after the explosion for some reason, he doesn't know why, so he tells people he dyed his hair.
- It takes exactly 10 seconds to switch between animals, during this time he is more vulnerable because he has to concentrate.
- When mimicking an animal, he has the same weaknesses as said animal. (EX: If he was mimicking a turtle and was knocked onto his back, he wouldn't be able to get up.

Personality: James is a happy and laid-back kind of guy. He rarely gets worked up and loves to smile. He has a natural charm about him and is quite friendly. Jamie likes to make jokes to make people smile and is an all around nice guy.

James likes music, and singing, which he seems to be naturally good at. James started playing guitar when he was 13 and hasn't stopped since. He was caught singing in the shower by his sister when he was 16 and she told him his voice was amazing. He didn't believe her but even his friends said he was good at it. Once he gained confidence in his voice he began to write music and such.

James can get easily annoyed by dumb people or people with no common sense. But he's a good guy and just wants to do what is right.

Background: WIP

Other: James is allergic to shellfish, is left handed, and plays the guitar and sings.

[Rin]

Hope this is okay. ^^; If you need me to change anything let me know, okay? And I know the backstory is a bit halfassed but it at least gets the point across hopefully.

• Name: Malcolm Melvinson
• Age: 32
• Gender: Male
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Appearance Rough WIP sketch for now. ^^; He's about eight foot tall, has green skin and is practically made of muscle. Due to his deformations being so difficult to hide, he can't really have a secret identity.

Confidential

• Alias: Green Giant
• Costume: N/A. He doesn't really need a disguise, as his physical appearance is pretty distinctive.
• Meta-Human Power: Exposure to the chemicals has transformed Malcolm from just a regular guy into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength. As a result, his powers are two of the most basic superhuman powers of them all: he is strong enough to bend steel, toss cars around like toys and leap over entire city blocks in one bound, and his body is nigh-invulnerable. His invulnerability not only lets him withstand punishment that would reduce regular humans into red smears on the ground, but grants him immunity to poisons and disease; he also cannot get drunk or be chemically sedated. Somehow, the invulnerability extends to his mind as well, granting him great resistance to mind control, illusions and other mind tricks.
• Weaknesses or Side-Effects: Notably, Malcolm has been fully transformed into a freakish cyclopean green giant, which makes any attempt to hide his identity pretty much pointless. In addition, due to only having one eye he lacks depth perception. He's pretty much consigned to close-quarters fighting due to this, as even trying to throw things at his opponents will most likely result in collatoral damage due to him messing up his aim. Despite being able to shrug off things that would easily take down most humans, Malcolm possesses no special resistances to electricity and lightning, and thus will be affected by them in the same way normal humans would be.

• Personality: Despite his monstrous appearance, it's hard to think of a nicer guy than Malcolm. He's a sweet, loving guy who cares deeply for his family, his friends and the people of Modern City, and will try his hardest to protect their happiness and safety. Malcolm can be pretty jovial and has a habit of making bad puns and jokes to lighten the mood, even when things are supposed to be serious. Whilst he's willing to fight those who would ruin the peace of his beloved city, he is vehemently opposed to lethal force; not only will he refuse to use it but he will try his best to stop those who do. Those who would do harm to or even kill others are the thing he hates most in the world, and he will do whatever it takes to make them see the error of their ways... Even if he has to resort to a good old fashioned clobbering to get the point across.
• Background: Once, Malcolm was just your average guy. He grew up, did well at school, married his high school sweetheart and had a beautiful baby girl with her. Other than that, his life was pretty... Normal. Average. Uneventful. And then the accident happened. Unfortunately for Malcolm, he was rather close to the chemical explosion that led to the rise of meta-humans, and... Well, recieving such a high dose of chemicals wrecked havoc on his body. For a full week he was hospitalized as his body painfully warped and mutated, until eventually he was fully transformed into the freakish, green, hunchbacked cyclops he is now. Initially, he intended to hide away, fearing his new appearance was too hideous and that he wasn't even human anymore, but his wife managed to convince him that no matter how he looked, he was still human on the inside and would always be the man she fell in love with. With his spirit reignited, Malcolm decided that he would make the most of his new, freakish body, and try to protect the people and city he loved so dearly, as well as doing his best to prevent those who would abuse their newfound powers from harming others.
• Other: Malcolm's wife Misaki is a doctor who works at Modern City General Hospital, and their eight year old daughter Alicia attends Modern City Academy.

[SwarthyBard126]

Hider

Name: Gordon Fenway
Age: 30
Gender:Male
Ethnicity: American, Caucasian

Appearance:

Confidential

Alias: Nightmare

Costume: White tank to, blue jeans, sunglasses

Meta-Human Power:
Limited Clairvoyance: Can consume the eyeballs of others using his eye mouths to see their memories

Super Human physicality:
Super human strength, endurance, toughness, and senses

Weaknesses or Side-Effects: Blind, severely weakened in intense light, his clairvoyance works on the recently deceased (recently killed is best, 1-2 days can see most memories, 3-4 loses oldest memories, longer than that he can't see anything).

Personality: Gordon straddles the thin line between a hero and a villain, due to his unique power being dependent on having fresh corpses on hand. He places his freedom above all else, and anyone who attempts to control him are his enemies. He is both highly mercenary and strictly professional, offering his services to the highest bidder, and giving the requested goods as fast as possible.

Background: Born to a family of acrobats, Gordon was always a free-spirit. He was home-schooled until college, where he attended the Modern City community college to pursue a degree in the arts. He dropped out shortly afterwards and attained a dead end job as a menial laborer at the pier. He had stowed away on a ship that was leaving the harbor the same time the ship carrying the chemicals was coming in. When the ship exploded, he was thrown overboard by the force, and barely dragged himself to shore, only to find that his he was blind. When he had gone underwater, he had opened his eyes by accident, triggering his transformation. Now he works as an information broker, hiring himself out to find information by hunting down, and consuming the eyes of the sources.

Other: Currently homeless and declared dead, Gordon lives in the now vacanted area around ground zero of the explosion. He has offered his services to the authorities in exchange for immunity for his actions, but the city is still debating as the crime rate in the city grows.

[Teal]

Save me a spot, will you? I'm gonna throw in a CS, but later, after school.

[Double]

OK, most everyone is looking good so far. Though here a coupe of specific things I need to address:

@DaDrummer676 I don't really think that hair turning red is enough of a weakness. An ant's proportional strength is lifting 50 times its body weight, that would essentially mean you could easily throw cars around, but unless there's some legit negative side effects to counteract this, then I'm afraid I can't accept it yet.

@Renny OK, not gonna lie, loving the Ben Grimm vibe (seeing the word clobberin' seriously made my day), but I would personally tone down the invulnerability a bit since it sounds there's no feasible way to stop him should he ever go on a rampage, which is a bit balanced unless I'm missing something, in which case feel free to correct me.

@SwarthyBard126 Um... does his eye power and enhanced physical prowess somehow not count as "real powers"? 'Cause they seem pretty real to me.

Aside from those points, if you're character sheet is completed and I didn't address you for something above, then consider yourself accepted and post them over onto the character tab.

Oh, right, before I forget, my own character is complete so we all know.

[Heat]

(Scrapped.)

[Ves]

Jason Black

Name: Jason E. Black
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian

Appearance Jason's appearance is something you really wouldn't notice in a dark alley; and if you did, you'd wish you didn't really notice. He's not grotesque or ugly...just, his choice of apparel, and the foreboding way his hood shadows his face...well, yeah. Looks-wise, his skin is a bit on the pale side - a farcry to the tan he used to have quite a few months ago. His face is a bit boyish and handsome, seeing as he's still in his teenage years, and he was never an unattractive guy. His hair, however, is a deep, almost shadow-like black; and very shaggy. It's medium-length, going down his neck in raven-colored locks, and his bangs sweeps over his eyebrows. His eyes are obviously his most unusual feature.

Pure white, without any of the veins or yellowsih coloring you'd see in regular humans. Flat in the middle, is a small, pure-black dot. Another side-effect. Due to his powers allowing him to form his clothing at any time; although his clothing is pure, shadowy-black due to literally being congealed shadows - Jason just keeps to his shadow-hoodies, rugged shadow-jeans, and rugged-shadow-converse. Nothing out-of-place, and nothing you'd blink twice at. Except, his hood is constantly up, and never seems to come off, and it completely shadows his face. Completely. Like, you can't see any skin, since he keeps gloves on as well.

Confidential

Alias: N/A.

Costume: N/A.

Meta-Human Power: Darkness Manipulation;; The name itself is basically the whole shebang. Jason has absolute control over darkness, shadows, and things of that nature. This allows for a variety of different techniques and uses, from frivolous to lethal, all the way to destructive. An example is him enveloping his arm in shadows, creating a long, curling, inky black whip made of darkness. With a lash of the shoulder muscle, he can send the darkness whip curling through the air like a cobra, while his control over darkness naturally makes it razor-sharp and durable, allowing it to cut, pierce, and slice through objects, or wrap around objects to throw. That's one technique of the power. It could also be used for puddle-like portals of darkness, for teleportation or stealth, or even creating organic-like darkness to act as dermal armor and clothing at the same time.

Weaknesses or Side-Effects: A side-effect of his powers is his eyes - they are now all white with one pitch-black pupil in the middle; a rather obvious thing, and the reason why he wears a hood 24/7. It also turned his hair pitch-black and skin a bit pale, but that's not anything too bad. A weakness would, obviously, be light. However, since he isn't a vampire or anything, it doesn't hurt to be in light. Rather, concentrated amounts of light hurts and burns, and he can get sun-burned very, very easily. Fire is a bitch, so that's a weakness. Darkness doesn't like fire.

Personality: Can this be developed in the IC? He's going to be a pretty distant, yet chill guy...don't really like playing around with kids, but always has a dry, sarcastic wisecrack ready whenever necessary. Can come off as cold and unfeeling, but is decent enough at his heart, and dislikes crime due to some trouble in his past.

Background: Let's be real here; not everyone's life is very exciting...Jason's life is like this, as well. He grew up as a normal boy, living with his grandma and grandpa since his parents died when he was three. He played sports in school, got picked on until he hit his growth spurt and began hitting back, and got into a bit of trouble in his mid-teens. Got done with the trouble, got a job at a coffee shop, and moved out to begin college. It wasn't for him, and he dropped out, getting into becoming a freelance artist and journalist. This whole power thing took him by surprise, but as an adaptive guy, Jason rolled with it. The side-effects were hard to deal with at first, but then the whole 'hood' thing came into play, and he just began using his darkness to make hoodies; which hid his face in shade completely due to his powers. He wasn't into the whole superhero thing, with aliases and costumes; he found it geeky...but whenever he saw a crime going down, he had to help. With darkness being his clothing, he could easily just use it to disguise himself...so no harm, no foul.

Other: N/A

[Larfleeze]

Welp, there goes my character idea, I was even going to do a blood-related (hemorrhaging) side effect too.

[Masaki Haruna]

This is gonna be fun.

[Weird Tales]

I'm totally interested and my character will be very weird.

[DaDrummer676]

OK, most everyone is looking good so far. Though here a coupe of specific things I need to address:

@DaDrummer676 I don't really think that hair turning red is enough of a weakness. An ant's proportional strength is lifting 50 times its body weight, that would essentially mean you could easily throw cars around, but unless there's some legit negative side effects to counteract this, then I'm afraid I can't accept it yet.

@Renny OK, not gonna lie, loving the Ben Grimm vibe (seeing the word clobberin' seriously made my day), but I would personally tone down the invulnerability a bit since it sounds there's no feasible way to stop him should he ever go on a rampage, which is a bit balanced unless I'm missing something, in which case feel free to correct me.

@SwarthyBard126 Um... does his eye power and enhanced physical prowess somehow not count as "real powers"? 'Cause they seem pretty real to me.

Aside from those points, if you're character sheet is completed and I didn't address you for something above, then consider yourself accepted and post them over onto the character tab.

Oh, right, before I forget, my own character is complete so we all know.

@Double

@Double That section is for weaknesses and side effects, the hair change was a side effect. I will change his weaknesses though.