[CHAR] Herculean Academy: Arc 1 - Welcome To The Academy

[Rune_Alchemist]

~INDEX~

~1~

~Current Cast/Players~

Hider

Username:
XxFellsingxX
Active Characters

• Cheol Akiyama/Yuugure
• Marina Schmidt

Username:
Rune_Alchemist
Active Characters

• Alexis Sinclair
• Meredith Hillard/Beiq'irq
• Ziska Sieghild

Username:
Zoldyck
Active Characters

• Anastasia Tepes
• Mishka Demidov
• Anouk
• Kara

Username:
Guilty Spark - Inactive
Active Characters

• Adam Brenton
• Hector Faust

Username:
Card Captor - Inactive
Active Characters

• Joel Jones
• David Barlow

Username:
Daxam
Active Characters

• Zacary Yoxall

Username:
Tiggas
Active Characters

• Tarquin Hayes

Username:
IrishAngelQueen
Active Characters

• Scorpios McRae

Username:
Vec
Active Characters

• Paul Ray

Username:
DFTBA
Active Characters

• Rebekah Green

Username:
Grandsword - Inactive
Active Characters

• Jaques Veilleur

Username:
Melkor
Active Characters

• Geoffry Burr

~2~

~Staff~

Hider

~Vice Principal~
Marina Schmidt
Or Nina Smith is the Vice Principle of Herculean Academy.
A magus, and a kind woman despite her reputation as a bit of an ice queen.

~Biology Teacher~
~Meredith Hillard/Beiq'irq~
An alien parasite who inhabits a now deceased body. Has the ability to absorb any organic matter and then use the energy gained to fuel drastic alterations to her body. Doesn't think that highly of humans despite her friendly and somewhat quirky personality. Why she has stuck around this long, is a mystery, as she simply views humans as a source of food...

~Geoffry Burr~
~Physics~
An easy going professor, who used to coach a debate team. Fairly easy in school, as long as you take notes.

~3~

~Students~

Hider

~Cheol Akiyama/Yuugure~
A seemingly kind young boy, with a lot of pent-up anger. Possess a magical mask which transforms him into a Youkai.

~Alexis Sinclair/Audiophile~
A girl with a bit of a chip on her shoulder. She doesn't like that many people, and would rather spend her days fighting, listening to music, or playing on a computer. She's a bit of a huge nerd, with even huger anger problems. Was once a human experiment. But we don't talk about that.

Can be friendly, if someone can put up with her long enough.

~Ziska Sieghild~
A German citizen who was sent to school at Herculean by her father. An Ice-queen who believes all rules are to be followed. She doesn't think that highly of non-supers or people who rely on little trinkets for their abilities. Family is rumored to have ties to old nazi-germany.

~Anastasia Tepes~
A vampire. Yep, Vampire. Curious about the world, as she has spent most of her life locked up in a castle. However, she does have a much darker side to her if she ever lets her hunger get the better of her.

~Mishka Demidov~
A brute of a woman who knows little restraint when it comes to showing her abilities. You want something wrecked? She can do it with a pinky finger.

~Adam Brenton/Grave~
An average kid who gained the ability of Astral Projection. He has so far attempted to suppress his powers, but an accident that left him dead, has made him more focused with himself as if he breaks something...he can't fix it.

~Joel Jones~
A compassionate, friendly boy. He can be a bit Naive, and it would be easy to take advantage of his generosity. Has the ability to absorb organic material and alter his body into anything organic.

~Zacary Yoxall~
A friendly boy, who can be a bit stubborn at times. Has the ability to harden his skin into a shield that is able to withstand quite a bit of punishment, and also enhance his strength.

~David Barlow~
A Cynical, somewhat cruel boy who grew up with the worst of humanity. Tends to think ill of other people and has trouble trusting them.

~Tarquin Hayes~
A quiet boy who keeps mostly to himself. He is generally a fairly happy person, and has the ability to summon various historical people and their inventions/armies from history. However, he doesn't control the figures, and can merely summon them.

Scorpios McRae
A relaxed, laid back teenager who doesn't really like picking fights. He has the ability to change into any poisonous animal and talk to them in some way.

Paul Ray
A bit lazy, but also laid back and generally friendly guy. Has the ability to manipulate earth

Rebekah Green
A quiet, mostly reserved girl who doesn't speak much, but when she does it's direct and to the point. Can teleport, and change the size of objects to an extent

~4~

Inactive Charcters

~5~

~Hall of Villainy~

~6~

~Dorm Assignments~

~Males~
Zacary Yoxall/Al Reyes
Adam Brenton/Joel Jones
Cheol/Paul
Tarquin Hayes/Kyle Anderson/Lukas Kunze
Scorpios McRae/David Barlow/Blake Reyes

~Females~
Ziska/Anastasia
Mishka/Alexis
Rebekah/Emily

~7~

~ZE CS!~

~PLEASE SEND ALL CS'S TO ALL GMS!~

Note: Due to the influx of magic using characters, we will no longer be accepting any. If you have already submitted your CS to us, do not worry, you're in the clear and we will get around to it as soon as possible~

CS

Real Name:

Superhero Alias: (if you're a first year or someone who has just transferred to the school, it's likely you won't have one of these yet)

Gender:

Age: (for kids, this would be between 11 and 18, but for teachers, it can be pretty much any age above 25)

Appearance: (pictures are allowed)

Power Set:

Other Skills: (e.g. martial arts, a good amount of knowledge on a particular topic or subject, cooking, photographic memory, good at reading and understanding people, able to speak another language etc etc.)

Weaknesses: (from emotional to physical. Of course, be logical about this. If your character's powers are fire-based, then they'd be weak against water. Of course, adding other weaknesses like a low self-esteem or an inability to work well with others is good too.)

Subject: (Teachers Only)

Personality:

Backstory: (should include: whether their parents have powers or not, whether their parents are heroes, villains or civilians, how your character got their powers, and what they were doing before the school found them)

Other: (e.g. voice actors, theme songs, any quirks or tidbits that weren't included above)

[Rune_Alchemist]

@XxFellsingxX's Currently Active Characters

Cheol Akiyama/Yuugure

Real Name
Cheol Akiyama

Superhero Alias
Technically not a real alias, but his transformed persona seems to refer to himself as Yuugure

Gender
Male

Age
13

Power Set
Cheol has no powers on his own, but possesses a magical Tengu mask which, when he puts it on and says the words "Kaa kaa!", which is the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound a crow makes, it turns him into a Karasu Tengu, a crow demon. He gains wings, which give him the ability to fly, and incredibly quickly at that, a very minor increase of strength, and enhanced senses. And while he can't telepathically communicate or talk to crows, they have a tendency to be attracted to him, and he has found a way to influence them into helping him sometimes in battle, though more as use of a distraction. He changes back to human form by saying his full name three times.

Other Skills:
- Has had two years of karate training.

Weaknesses
- Yuugure is somewhat of a 'glass cannon'. In exchanged for his flight and speed, he's got a light bone structure and is incredibly fragile. He'll bruise far easier than even a normal human while in Tengu form, and his bones are incredibly likely to break if given enough impact. And like any flying creature, strong winds or forces can push him back, even when he's not flying.

- As Yuugure, he can easily be carried away by his newly-found animal instincts, sometimes to the point that he may become feral, wild and even unable to speak. This usually passes in an hour, but sometimes he has to be pacified in some way before he can regain his senses. This usually happens when he's startled, incredibly enraged or, as he's technically a crow now, when he's around dead bodies or raw meat, as his hunger for the taste of carrion takes over.

- As mentioned previously, Yuugure is a bit of a daredevil and incredibly arrogant in his powers, and will often underestimate his opponents, which can cause him to get into a lot of trouble.

Appearance

Civilian Appearance

Mask

Transformed (Note: This picture is not by me.)

Personality
Cheol seems to have two sides to him. In his everyday life, he's come across as a shy, polite and relatively friendly boy. He doesn't talk much and is rarely the first to start a conversation, but he's a good listener, and if you tell him something, he's likely to remember it. However, when around him, you will occasionally get this feeling that he's not entirely relaxed or comfortable. It's minor, but if you focus long enough, you'll start to see that that small, shy smile on his face looks just a tad forced. Because deep beneath Cheol's kindly exterior, there is a well of built-up anger, slowly collecting over the days and desperately desiring to get out. Sometimes it does. Sometimes Cheol's facade slips and the rage comes out, he looses control, but it usually only last a minute before he manages to pull it back, only to excuse himself from any people who may be watching.

The only time this anger is ever properly let out is when Cheol is fighting crime as Yuugure, in which he seems to become a completely different person. It is unknown if this is a side-effect of the mask's power, a separate personality within the ask or simply Cheol free to show his real nature, but he changes from quiet and polite to raging and reckless. He's much more at ease and may be a bit of a thrill-seeker, feeling more happy for a fight if he feels the odds are a little more against him. He's also mischievous, often taunting his foes as he flies above them and even might use similar taunts on his own allies, albeit with a lot less maliciousness.

Backstory
Born and raised in Yokohama, Japan, Cheol grew up in fairly well-off family. His father was Japanese and a policeman, who always taught him to stand by his morals, and his mother was Korean and a business woman, who always taught him to aim high and be ambitious. They were loving parents who perhaps spoiled their son a little and may have sheltered him somewhat from dangers of the world, but they did care for him, and Cheol cared for them in turn. However, they were almost always busy work, which meant Cheol often came home to an empty house, and was the main reason they never noticed that, once Cheol reached junior high-school, he was being bullied.

Accused of being very 'feminine' and a bit of teacher's pet, Cheol was often teased by the older boys at his school. This started off mildly, but became worse and worse as time went on, and Cheol became a little more withdrawn with each day, and cut himself off from any chances of friendship. He became bitter, angry, and unsure of what to do. Worst of all, he started... fantasising about things. About hurting his classmates and all the terrible things he could do to them, and this made him worried. It got so bad, he started feigning illness so he didn't have to go to school, but after the first three times, his parents stopped listening to his excuses.

Then, one day, when his tormentors followed him from school, cornered him in an alley way and stuffed him into large dumpster and slamming the lid on him, Cheol found something in the dumpster. It was a mask, like the ones you found in Japanese theatre, which had been formed into the likeness of a crow. Once he finally got out of the dumpster and headed home, taking the mask with him, he decided to put it on for laughs, running around the house, pretending to be a bird and wishing he could just fly away. However, when he said the words 'Kaa kaa!', the sound a crow makes, he ended up activating the mask's magic and turned himself into a Tengu. At first, he was reasonably freaked out, but then, after he had calmed, he started to think it was kind of cool, and started practicing, trying to learn how to fly. It took all evening, but eventually, he managed to fly, though it was by no means graceful. He flew high above the city for a long time, before realising he would have to change back, though had no idea how. He landed in a alley near his house and tried to pull the mask off... which was more like pulling at his own face as that was what his mask had become. He did this again and again, but to little avail. Just as he was about to get incredibly frustrated, a mysterious figure appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, and told him that in order to change back, he had to say his name three times (surname first, by the way, as this is Japan). Cheol did as he was told and changed back. Relieved, he was about to thank the figure, only to find that he was gone. Confused, but too glad to ask questions, Cheol returned home.

After this, he started using the mask after school, once even using it to frighten his former bullies, who never bothered him again. He also used it to fight crime, as his father did and just like the superheroes in some of his comic books or like those he'd heard about that lived in America. He adopted the name 'Yuugure', meaning 'nightfall', as he felt it 'just sounded right'.

Recently, he has been invited to join the Herculean Academy for Superheroes and, after revealing to his parents the truth about the mask and the powers it gives him, they decided to let him attend, hoping it would keep him out of trouble.

Other: N/A

Marina Schmidt

Real Name:
Marina Schmidt (changed to Nina Smith when she moved to America)

Superhero Alias:
Mystic Magus

Gender:
Female

Age:
31

Appearance:

In her Mystic Magus costume

Disclaimer: This image is not mine. I did not draw it.

Power Set:
Nina is a magician who's source of power comes from the magical staff she possesses, which gives her the power to summon creatures called Will-O-Wisps, sometimes simply referred to as Wisps, which are beings made of quintessence and appear as little flying lights, which she summons from the crystal on her wand.

There are different types of Wisps, each a different colour:

- Yellow wisps, or Sprites, are the basic wisps, easiest to summon and control. They can't harm anyone, but Nina tends to use them to distract her enemies. She can also, if she gathers several Sprites and merges them together, can cause them to explode, creating a powerful flash that can momentarily blind her opponent.

- Blue wisps, or Radiants, are cool to the touch, and possess weak healing abilities that can heal minor injuries, and soothe the pain of more major ones. Each Radiant can only be used to heal or soothe a wound once, before fading. Radiants also feed of the natural life energy of those who cast them meaning that using their power too much can seriously weaken Nina.

- Green wisps, or Jacklanterns, are created from sunlight and can be used to accelerate the growth of plants and even heal withered ones. Like Radiants, each one can only be used once and feed directly from the caster's life energy.

- Red wisps, or Hinkypunks, are fuelled by the caster's rage and passion, and are boiling hot to touch. Because of this, they can used to attack an enemy, but will disintergrate upon touching their target. Afterwards, they dissolve. They feed off the caster's emotions, and using them too much can make Nina feel hollow and emotionally exhausted.

- White wisps, or Phantasms, are the most powerful of the wisps, but also the hardest to control. They can transform into any shape Nina desires, as long as she has piece or fragment of the object or person she wants to mimic. Trying to copy living or moving objects or creatures is more difficult than static ones, and they can quickly drain energy from Nina if she tries to hold them for too long. Sometimes, when mimicking a living creature, the Phantasm may gain a mind of its own and will start acting and transforming itself, with Nina unable to reel it in. However, the Phantasm will fade shortly after. While Nina can create multiples of any other types of wisp - though to many can drain her - she can only, at least at the moment, create and control one Phantasm at a time. Anything more is a great strain on her. Plus, she can't use or summon any other kind of wisps when she has a Phantasm active or for a long period of time after she has used a Phantasm.

Other Skills:
- Has an in-depth knowledge of both mythology and philosophy.
- Has a very good memory, able to remember and even specifically quote every book she's ever read.
- Incredibly patient, especially with children.
- Good at cooking. On special days, she will help prepare the food herself.
- Has a basic knowledge of hand-to-hand combat, though she rarely uses, preferring to rely on her magic.
- While she mostly uses the magic in her wand, she has also studied many books of magic, or Grimoires, and has a strong knowledge of other rites or magical rituals, though she had yet to practice these.

Weaknesses:
- As mentioned before, using too many of any other kind of wisp besides Sprites can severely drain Nina's emotions and strength, causing her to become irritable or depressed and sometimes even blackout. Because of this, she has become quite frail and less energetic over time. It is hinted that, because of her using her magic, she may have also shortened her lifespan.
- Her powers aren't very good for attacking, so she can only really act a support for other heroes.
- If one knocks her out, her wisps are immediately destroyed as she can no longer focus on them.
- Her powers come from her wand, which only responds to her. However, if she separated from it or it is destroyed, she'll be powerless.

Subject:
The Vice Principal, though she also acts as a teacher for Magic Arts and the Basic Occult.

Personality:
Nina has been described a little bit of an 'ice queen', as any emotion or words she expresses rarely come off as genuine. Her smiles rarely reach her eyes. Her tone, while can sometimes become very expressive when she is being dramatic, tend to fall into a bit of a monotone, and her rage seems cold and icy. She's not uncaring person, quite the contrary, and she feels incredibly love and care for all the students she had been put in charge of, and there are times where her students may even bring out a warm, motherly side to Nina's nature. However, Nina is painfully aware that the students are NOT her children, and she had to keep their relationship as that of a teacher to their students, and not a mother figure, as much as it upsets her to do so.

To her staff, she's a little more comfortable, yet also finds it easier to be professional. It's much easier to be so with adults and with children. Teachers are also probably much more used to her cold, angry side than the students are, as Nina displays amazing patience around children, constantly reminding herself that they are 'just children' and will learn and grow up. Adults, though, she can get incredibly frustrated with at times, especially if she ever finds them acting in an unprofessional manner in front of children.

As mentioned previously, when saving the day as a hero, introducing herself to new students or giving a lesson, she can occasionally become a little more dramatic, raising her voice, showing off with her Will-O-Wisps, and even being a little playful, trying to play up her persona as this powerful witch. It is unknown whether this is an act of sorts or if this is the real Nina showing her true colours. Either way, she often seems a little happier when she's doing this whole act. You may even get a genuine smile out of her if you play your cards right.

Backstory:
(To Be Revealed In The Roleplay)

Other:
N/A

Lonnie Lewis

Real Name:
Lonnie Lewis

Superhero Alias:
Moxy

Gender:
Female

Age:
17

Appearance:

Lonnie

Picture seen above, though also imagine her with a plaster on one cheek and her arm, 'cause she likes to get into fights.

Power Set:
- Lonnie has an interesting case of super-strength in that she becomes stronger the more hits she takes, absorbing the force of the blows against her and uses them to become more and more powerful. And the more damage she takes, the stronger she becomes. After about an hour or so of not receiving any physical damage, with her strength slowly diminishing as this time passes, her strength will finally leave and she'll have to sustain more damage in order to get her powers back.

- Due to the nature of her powers, Lonnie is pretty good at taking hits, and has the stamina to keep fighting when most will have keeled over. She's also hinted to have slightly quicker healing than a normal person, but the difference between the healing rate of a normal person and Lonnie is fairly small.

- If she focusses long enough, Lonnie finds she can block out the feeling of pain. However, doing this would weaken her super-strength and causes her reaction time to suffer, so she only does this if the pain is becoming unbearable.

- Lonnie can forego sleep for much longer than a regular human being, and actually doesn't need to eat as much either.

Other Skills:
- Due to her powers, she has no fear of danger. While this can be a bad thing, it means that in a bad situation, she'll always be ready to react and fight.

Weaknesses:
- Because of her powers strengthening her resilience, Lonnie tends to think of herself as invincible, and will often jump into danger without thinking of the consequences, and has become a bit of a thrillseeker. However, she's not invincible, not by a long shot. She's just more tolerant to pain. For example, a bullet to the head, a fall from a great height or an explosion will definitely kill her, super-powered resilience or no. Though, other than those restrictions mentioned, no one is entirely sure about how far her resilience goes. Either way, she will push herself to almost breaking point sometimes.

- In order to balance out her strong resilience and stamina, Lonnie has to take very long periods to sleep, which can last longer the more damage she takes and the longer she stays up for. She's also a heavy sleeper, so during these long sleeps, she is incredibly vulnerable. (She also has to binge eat once every few weeks to make up for lost strength.)

- She never took classes in combat, as she thought she didn't need them, so her fighting is messy and unskilled.

Personality:
Lonnie tries to embody the role of 'the tough girl'. When in the company of those younger than her, she acts like the cool big sister who will punch someone in the face if they mess with you. While in the company of those older, she acts like an rebellious brat who hates taking orders, because she feels she doesn't need them. However, no matter who she's with, one thing always remains the same: her arrogance. Due to the nature of her abilities, she thinks she's invincible, and is somewhat of an adrenaline junkie. Wherever there's danger, expect her to be rushing into it head-first, and actually enjoys fighting others, always under the belief that no matter what, she'll win.

However, despite how strong she seem physically, emotionally, she's a bit of a mess, and has difficulty controlling her temper. She gets upset easily, and though she'll try to hide it, it's always obvious. She gets into arguments (and fights) often, rarely backs down and hates apologising, mainly because she's rarely able to realise when she's done something wrong. Even if she did realise, it's unlikely she'd admit it. She's far too proud, so despite seeming so loud and energetic, she has ultimately made herself a loner, and can be difficult to reach out to.

Backstory:
Lonnie comes from a family of superhumans. Her mother, known by her superhero alias as Impact, possessed superstrength, while her father, known by the alias Deathseeker, possessed the ability to regenerate. Given their powers, great things were expected of their children, Lonnie and her younger brother Ellis. However, for most of their childhood, neither Lonnie nor Ellis showed any superhuman traits.

It was only when Lonnie reached age 13 and developed a bit of an... attitude, that something finally happened. See, Lonnie became very fiery and confrontational, and started getting into little fights with boys, usually being the one to throw the first punch. One day, at age 15, when coming home from school, she got jumped by a group of bullies and huge fight ensued. However, instead of being overpowered, every hit Lonnie took, Lonnie found herself striking back twice as hard, and managed to throw off the group before running home. Upon returning home, her parents were shocked to find her severely injured, but when she told them about what happened. they started to wonder if she truly did have powers. After running some tests and doing some training, they discovered that Lonnie's unusual superstrength abilities, and decided to send her to HA, where Lonnie's mother had previously been a student.

Lonnie's first year had several, err, hiccups, with her having more reasons to start fights, and the Vice Principal has become used to seeing her for detention. Now, Lonnie is a second year, and has come back to school even more aggressive than before.

[Rune_Alchemist]

@Rune_Alchemist's Currently Active Characters

Alexis Sinclair/Audiophile

Real Name:
Alexis Sinclair

Superhero Alias:
Nothing official - but she has gave her the self title of 'Audiophile'

Gender:
Female

Age:
16

Appearance:
Alexis is fairly tall for a girl her age, usually a few inches taller than others her age. Her looks are average at best. She has black hair, that has light blue streaks in it. She normally wears a light jacket or shirt, with rough and torn jeans. She is a bit on the pale side, and has bright blue eyes. She is never caught without her headphones, which often play some form of rock or electronic music.

Power Set:
~Sound manipulation~
She has the ability to absorb outside sources of sound, and use her own body as a sort of amplification device to direct them towards a target. She doesn't exactly have fine control of this versatile ability at the moment. She tends to go more towards 'power' over 'finesse'. That said, if forced to she could probably get creative. There is a slight delay in the time between she absorbs sound, and the time she uses it.

Current abilities:

~Passive Abilities~
Sound Absorption - She can absorb any incoming soundwave, effectively rendering any sound based attack on her useless. And by 'incoming', it means she can't use her own voice as a weapon. Of course, its not an absolute thing and someone more skilled than her in the area would still probably cause some damage. She then converts the sound into offensive or defensive abilities using sound. The more she alters the sound, the more 'charge' time she needs.

Sound Perception - She can literally see soundwaves. The appearance of the wave varies on the source of the sound. Music, will have a more flowing appearance depending on the genre. Explosions and other harsh noises will usually have a more jagged appearance.

~Offensive Abilities~

Sonic Wave - After absorbing a sound wave, she can direct it to her hands, making the output a highly destructive blast or wave. Usually in a conical shape that radiates outwards.

Sonic Fist - If she punches or hits something hard enough for it to make an audible noise, she can focus that noise on her fist, increasing the amount of power behind it even if she's not that physically strong. She could potentially send someone flying into a wall once she becomes more refined in her abilities.

Sonic Scream - Probably her currently most powerful ability. Focuses sound waves into her mouth, and she unleashes it in the form of a powerful, destructive shout. Basically a more powerful version of Sonic wave, with more range and more destructive force.

~Defensive/non-combat abilities~
N/A, for now.

-Other Skills-
- Fairly good martial skills with hand to hand combat. The people at the Illegal program made sure that she could handle herself in many situations.

- Knows her computers well. She spends most of her off time either playing on one, or doing some sort of computer programmy stuff. A skill she picked up in the year after being rescued from the program. She dabbles in hacking a bit.

-Weaknesses-
While she doesn't really have any physical limitations, she suffers from quite a few emotional troubles.
- Doesn't really work well with others.
- Aggressive, and tends to fight first and ask questions later.
- Numb to a lot of forms of pain. A psychological side effect.
- She must have external sources of sound for her abilities to work. She can only amplify existing sound, not make her own from nothing, yet.

Personality:
Alexis, is a bit on the wild side. Following rules and listening to the teachers is not her strong suit. She'd rather day dream/listen to her music, or play video games. Yes, she's a bit of a geek and would rather spend her days slaying dragons in Dark Souls or some other playing mario kart or pokemon, rather than sports or studying. Also tends to 'party hard' too, and takes an 'I don't give a crap' attitude to everything.

Socially wise, she's...well, inept at best. She's a bit of a shut in and doesn't really engage in conversation with people she doesn't know that well. People usually have to approach her first if they want to be her friend. Unfortunately, she tends to come off as a bit of a sarcastic ass to people she's first meeting.

She has a very violent side to her towards people she doesn't like. Unfortunately, she tends to dislike people more than like them. She loves fighting, and proving that she's the best at everything. Highly competitive, she absolutely loathes losing, and isn't above 'cheating' to win. Of course, she says that there is no such thing as 'cheating' as long as someone wins, since all is fair in a competition.

Backstory:
Alexis was born and raised in good 'ole new york city. Her father, was a wealthy club owner, and her mother was a 'business woman'. Of course, that's what they told her when she was a kid, and she believed them. They gave her a good life, and growing up a bit she may have been a bit spoiled. However, more often than not her mother was away from home for work, leaving her with her father to care for her.

Not that Alexis really mattered. She had a father who was one of the 'cool' dads. Laser tag, video games, you name it. Not to mention she was quite popular at school, and was practically a little diva. The other girls was jealous, and the boys of course, thought she was icky as all boys do. Save for one, her best friend by the name of Kenneth, or Ken for short.

Unfortunately around the time she was 10, she was waiting on her father to pick her up from school when someone kidnapped her. That was the last time for 3 years she saw her parents. At the time, she didn't entirely know what or why, but the men in the labcoats said that her mother was a...unique, individual, and that she should have some 'unique' abilities. Not really know what was going on, there was little a ten year old girl could do but to obey the adults around her. And what did they tell her to do? Well, they told her that if she wanted to not be punished, then she would succeed and be good. She complied with them, soon after discovering her abilities to manipulate and see soundwaves.

Three years later, she was rescued from the program, by none other than her own mother. Apparently she was a rather famous - or infamous 'Super Villain'. Needless to say, her mother made sure none of the people who so much as touched her, lived to see another day. She doesn't talk much about that time, but for the three years following her rescue, she was...different to say the least. She was quiet, and didn't talk much, rather spending her time on computers and videogames.

When she turned 16, her mom decided to send her to the school. She had long sense stopped her days of super-villaining, so she didn't have much of a problem getting her daughter in, hoping it would be good for her.

Other:
Always carries some headphones on her.

One of her favorite pieces.

Meredith Hillard

Real Name:
Beiq'irq, was the name she recalls upon gaining sentience.
To humans though, she tells them her name is Meredith Hillard - a name given to her by a man she had attacked shortly before gaining sentience.

Superhero Alias:
As a 'Supervillain' she was simply known as the 'Devourer', due to her beast-like nature and lack of any seeming intelligence, and the fact she devoured/destroyed everything she got her hands on. She doesn't really have an alias as of now, though. Superheroing isn't her thing.

Gender:
Female (though, she could switch genders easily if she ever wanted too.)

Age:
Easily old enough to be your Grand mum. But she tells everyone she's at a young, mature age of 30.

Appearance:
Meredith, has a two appearances she is most known for. Her first, is her common everyday appearance she uses before the students and other people.



Blond hair, brown eyes with black boots and long stockings. Petite, but beautifully pale skin and tall, but not lanky or unattractive. Usually carries a bag of various items in it.

Her other form is the 'You seriously done fucked up' form. Also what she actually looks like - her natural grown form if you will. After being a parasite, and living off of another living creature for a long time, most of her kind shed that skin and return to their natural forms, but Meredith rather likes her human form and has decided to stay in it, until the actual parasite grows to big for the host body.



Soft, squishy, a bit damp to the touch, and whatever you do, do not call her 'squid lady'. She stands around 7 feet, normally, but could easily change her size should she need to. Instead of walking, she moves more fluidly, thanks to the tentacles that replace her legs.

Do not be fooled by her bodies soft appearance and feeling, it is a rather durable organic material that causes most attacks to simply be absorbed, but if she needed to, she could harden it to some sort of red-blood looking armor. The more bio-matter she stores and consumes, the larger her form becomes. There are members of her species as big as the empire state building, but they typically live deep in the ocean or deep underground, on her home planet.

Power Set:
Self Bio Manipulation/Absorption.

She has control over her own body and can make her body do whatever she wants. Mostly used through some form of grotesque bone/skin/blood manipulation. Such as hardening the bones in her body to extreme levels, hardening her skin into nigh-impenetrable armor, and even using her own blood as projectiles. If its part of her body, she can manipulate it - even regenerate limbs or make new ones if she has enough energy. She could even change her appearance on a whim.

Of course, the greater the change she makes, the more energy and strain on her body it uses.

And to accomplish such feats, she has to absorb organic matter. As in, she literally must absorb outside organic materials. Plants, animals...humans. Any organic, fleshy matter she can absorb to some extent, and then use the energy she gains from it to alter her body in extreme ways.

Other Skills:
- Excellent at Melee combat with a variety of weapons, which she easily has access to a lot of since most of the time an amalgamation of her bones and flesh is what she uses for weapons.

- Highly intelligent. Logical thinking and puzzle solving is something she is so good at, some consider it another superhuman feat of hers. Untrue, as she thinks at the same rate as other humans. She simply learns things fairly easily and likes learning.

- Despite her small size, she is quite strong - inhumanly so. She could easily punch a car and send it flying.

- Speaks and reads a variety of languages. Dead and even some obscure alien languages.

- She is actually able to telepathically communicate on some level to others of her kind. Not actual talking per se, but feelings and emotions, and general ideas.

- Tends to think very logically, and not creatively. As such, creative solutions are not her thing. She'd rather do something the tried and true way, than improvise. (Also a bit of a weakness)

Weaknesses:

- Ranged attacks. Since her body relies mostly on itself in some form to fight, ranged fights are quite difficult for her.

- Any part of her she modifies...well, she still feels pain should any new appendage be damaged in some way.

- Could be fairly vulnerable while restructuring her form. Depends on how big and how complicated the change is.

- Extreme heat and cold. While she is able to control her body, it is still flesh, blood, and bone fundamentally. She can change its natural hardness by making her bones out of pure carbon, changing the strength of her skin, and her muscle mass, it is all still fundamentally that. She burns rather easily, and extreme cold would make her sluggish and give her hypotermia, just as any human or other fleshy creature would.

- Energy gained from absorbing organic matter can only be stored a few days, as such she tends to eat constantly.

Subject:
Biology. Anything dealing with the human body, bodies of animals, and other things she's a pro at.

Personality:

Honestly? Meredith isn't entirely all there. She's one of those people who always seems to be entirely 'too happy', with a smile on her face and a pleasant attitude to most things. She's often caught talking to herself, and actually having conversations with herself. And odd quirk, to be sure, and some question her sanity because of this.

Other than that, Meredith is usually quite the friendly person. She's a bit on the hyperactive side - or possibly insane side, take your pick. Especially right after she absorbs some organic matter. More often than not, she acts like a kid rather than someone who's been around long enough to be some of their grandmas. She would rather hang out with the kids, than with the stupid adults and heroes, which annoys some of her co-workers to no end.

She has a bit of a superiority complex, and does have the tendency to think she's the best thing on...erhm, two or three legs. Or no legs. Some days she has fun imitating a snail. Also tends to think she's the best looking thing too. Anyone who thinks their better than she is, is just one of the few ways to piss her off.

Of course, under that friendly exterior, is the parasite 'Beiq'irq. While not exactly hostile, it is extremely violent and sadistic once it starts getting aggressive. While she does tend to avoid fights and conflicts, once she does fight...well, lets just say she thoroughly enjoys it. This, is the true personality of the parasite. It likes nothing more than to just devour and assimilate everything into her own biomass. Being eaten/absorbed by her, is not a pleasant way to go.

Her people are a race of creatures that live and thrive off of absorbing other organic matter, and if given the choice they will always chose their own growth over other sentient beings. One must always keep that in mind - however, she is an oddity in that she actually cares to communicate with humans. Since they are the only sentient species on their planet, most use other animals as hosts, leading themselves to become a bit feral in the process.

Backstory

Beiq'irq, is actually a parasitic being from the far reaches of deep space. Hatched - yes, hatched, on some swampy sea planet that orbited a bright red star. At least, that's about as much as she can remember about her home world. A group of alien biologists stumbled upon the planet and the curious organisms that lived there. She, was supposed to be sent back to their home world for testing.

Well, she had other ideas. She wasn't sure what happened exactly, but some time during the flight, something went wrong. She was ejected out the airlock - and ended up in an earth graveyard in the early 1900's. She had intended to latch onto a human, and she did - but unfortunately, it was a recently deceased human which made the process go a bit...haywire.

Instead of completely overriding the humans will and replacing it with her own, there was nothing to replace. The brain had already died, and since she was still a baby, a hatchling, she had no control over her own abilities yet. Infesting a dead body was a bit of a taboo back on her home world, at least for young ones. This caused a bit of a...problem, if you will. Since she couldn't assimilate the dead body, she had to do the best she could and unfortunately lost whatever semblance of 'sentience' she had in the process.

Yep, she was essentially what some might call a 'zombie' for her first few years on the earth. A seemingly mindless creature with a desire to eat human flesh. As she consumed more, she started looking like something out of a Lovecraftian horror story. This continued for at least fifty or so years, with her staying out of the highly populated areas and eating on whatever unfortunate traveler that came her way. Somewhere along the way, the superheroes became aware of her presence, and labeled her as a threat.

It wasn't until the 1980's did she finally gain sentience. After a fight with the superheroes in which she was almost completely incinerated, a scientist researching a way to combat cancer found a tiny little bit of her that wasn't incinerated. Curious, about the strange, grey goop that he found, he took it home with him.

He was surprised, the next morning when he found that it had grown to almost double its original size, and now sported several grotesque eyes, tentacles, and a mouth. It seemed docile, for the most part, and the eyes followed him curiously around the room. After running a few tests on it, he found the curious little parasite that lived in the center of the creature.

It wasn't until his own daughter was dying from cancer did he attempt to remove the creature and implant it into his daughter, in hopes of using its abilities to fight the cancer. It went horribly, horribly wrong. Finally free, she lashed out at the scientist. After a struggle, the scientist had removed the parasite from the fleshy mass, and did succeed in implanting it in his daughter. He didn't exactly get the result he was hoping for, but by the time Beiq'irq was conscious again, the scientist had expired.

Beiq'irq, felt terrible about the things she had done after she had regained her sentience. For a time, she just disappeared off the face of the planet. Went off the grid, as they say. Of course, the superheroes all believed her to be dead from their last confrontation, so it was easy enough to assume the identity of Meredith Hillard. Who, became a pretty successful Biologist in the time.

On a whim, she decided she wanted to be a teacher at the school, thinking enough time had passed that she could easily get in without too much trouble. She doesn't hide her identity, if asked, but she doesn't exactly like talking about it either.

Dear god this thing got long.

Other:
Tends to eat a lot of raw vegetables.
Might get uncomfortably close to people sometimes. No sense of personal space.
She likes touching things and people.
Also, when she says she has eyes in the back of her head...she usually means it.
By her peoples standards, she's still just a kid, which is probably why she still acts like one a bit. Even if she's technically nearing a century in human years, and has the knowledge, experience, and position to back that up, she's still a teenager when compared to others of her species, meaning she still has a lot of skills to develop.

For a kinda brief example of her powers, think of her as a Necromporph from Deadspace xP

yeah...for when the parasite finally loses it's patience :P

Ziska Sieghild

Real Name:
Ziska Sieghild
(That means Battle Victory, to you filthy uncultured swine.)

Superhero Alias:
N/A

Gender:
Female

Age:
17

Appearance:

Ziska

Ziska stands at approximately 168.5cm (that is 5'6", you insufferable American louts.) She has long, raven black hair with extremely pale skin, and her visible eye is a red color. Most would find her to be quite attractive.

On her right eye, is an eye patch. She tells most people she lost the eye in an accident. Not a total, lie, but not the whole truth either. If she were to remove the eyepatch, they would find that she still has a quite functional eye...except, the sclera is pitch black in color and the Iris is a frosty blue that glows slightly in the dark. This eye, is the source of her abilities.

She normally wears a black tight-fitting military uniform with black tights and combat boots. She wears white gloves, as she obviously can't dirty her own hands, can she? She doesn't hide the fact she has a rather large distaste for non-supers or those that rely on trinkets and other objects for their abilities.

Some might find her fashion sense a little...eccentric, but coming from a military family with a long history of service, its standard attire for her. The cap, is purely ceremonial and she only wears it for appearances.

Power Set:
Ziskas abilities, at first would seem to be a form of a highly trained Attack Prediction. She can, in fact, sense any sort of danger in the immediate area to herself, and if physically possible for her, she can flawlessly counter any physical attack, or dodge any non-physical attack as long as there is a slimmest chance for her to.

This power is not absolute, however. The power can only work on attacks she can actually see, or physically stop or dodge. If she is physically unable to dodge/counter/attack, then the power can only minimize the damage at best, or at worse not work at all. Attacks from behind, are also effective since she has no defensive powers that could activate automatically. Surprise attacks are also effective.

In reality, this is just a constant side effect of her actual ability...which she tries, for the most part not to let the rest of the student body know about. She never uses her actual ability in public unless absolutely necessary.

Eye of Deimos

Fear Manipulation

Now, whether this is the actual eye of the ancient Greek God of Terror/Battle is a mystery shrouded in an enigma and wrapped in a paradox. There is nothing in the old texts about Deimos being able to control fear, however the eye lets her do just that. All that is really known about this powerful artifact, is that once the user acquires it, it is forever bound to them and grants them the ability of the ancient god.

The eye gives her two abilities. The passive ability she calls her 'Battle Sense', which is explained above and the ability to control and sense fear on some level.

The former ability, she has mastered just about as well as she can in her current state. The latter...well, she doesn't like using it for multiple reasons that will be listed in the weaknesses section below.

Simply put, the eye allows her to control the emotion of fear. She could kill a weak minded person simply from giving them a fear induced heart attack. For her foes, she could scare them into a catatonic state, if they are weak of mind. For her allies, she could absorb their fears, and turn them into berserker soldiers that fear neither death, injury, or anything else while making her own self stronger. Or, she could achieve the same effect by making them more afraid of her than death or injury. Increasing someones strength and abilities through sheer fear - which would also increase her strength as she fed off of the fear.

Currently, the most devastating thing she can do with her power, is send someone into a never ending nightmare of their own worst fears. She has no control over what someone sees, she can only start the events in motion. If they fall for the trick, they are rendered catatonic until they manage to break free from the fear. During this state, the victim becomes a battery to fuel her own powers.

This, is the worst case scenario for someone fighting her. The more fear there is for her to feed on, the more powerful she herself becomes.

she can sense fear, as well. Useful...for keeping track of people near her.

Other Skills:
Aside from her abilities, she has been trained in swordplay. Her Battle Sense abilities make her quite good at it as well. She wields a simple, yet elegant sword. They actually came in a pair, but for now she only uses one. One is silver/black, the other is gold/black. A gift from her father before she was sent to the school to study.

Sword

was also trained in physical defense, and has a basic understanding of martial arts and use of rifles/guns.

Weaknesses:

The powers most obvious flaw, is that it will not work on people without fear. Of course, all people have fears, correct? So then theoretically this weakness shouldn't exist...

Aside from that, her powers need fear to fuel them. Either fear from the surrounding area and others, or fuel from herself.

Emotionally, despite her ice-queen exterior, she's quite a bit on the troubled side. If only from her constant fear of not being good enough, failing, and need to be perfect. It is more than enough to fuel the eyes basic abilities.

The eye also causes the user to suffer from chronic nightmares themselves, as such, she has conditioned herself to sleep very little unless she absolutely needs it.

...needless to say, the Eye, is not a toy just anyone should mess with.

Personality:
Ziska is a seemingly harsh girl with an even harsher outlook on life. She has a strong belief in order, following the rules and making sure others do so as well. After all, without rules there would simply be chaos, and chaos is...undesirable. She regularly makes sure that students aren't breaking the rules, and if someone is caught cheating on a test or something, she will make sure they know that such a thing is...unwelcome.

She is a no-nonsense woman with a bit of a superiority complex and who does not put up with a lot of shenanigans. If you have time to be slacking off, you have time to be bettering yourself. At least, that is what she believes. She practices this herself, as she can often be found studying, training her swordsmanship, or trying to develop her other powers further. Though the latter can be a bit difficult...to find a willing subject for.

Needless to say, she's not going to be winning any popularity contests. While she follows all the rules, doesn't break any, and for her record is clean for the most part, the way she treats the other students keeps her from being anywhere on the popularity scale.

If someone actually took the painstaking time to get to know her on some level, or actually simply just started a small conversation with her, they'd find that she's actually quite amicable and friendly - as long as they behaved themselves in her presence. And by that, I mean show her what some might call an unreasonable amount of respect.

Under her ice-queen exterior though, is a very troubled girl who is constantly obsessed with being the best at almost everything. The fear of not living up to her fathers expectations is what drives her, and is the main source of fuel for her abilities.

However, she does have an intense...dislike, for non-supers. A belief that has been driven into her by both her father and mother, and is quite vocal about her opinions on them, and people who rely on silly, easily broken trinkets for their abilities.

Backstory:

Ziska Sieghild was born on a cold winter day in January. Born to a rather well off old German family in Brandenburg with ties to old Nazi Germany in WW2. She was the fourth, and last child of the Sieghilds'. Both of her parents were supers, and her three siblings also had abilities as well. Little Ziska though...did not, much to her parents dismay as they both...thought very little of those without abilities.

Still, they thought of her as their own daughter...and if she wasn't going to have abilities, then she would simply have to use her natural talents in other ways. From the day she could walk, her parents made her undergo strict training and studies so that she, as a normal person without abilities would be able to stand even the slimmest chance against those with abilities.

She eagerly applied herself, wanting little more than to please her parents. It didn't leave her much time for a social life, or for really playing or getting along with her other siblings, aside from her oldest brother who often got the both of them into quite a bit of trouble.

As she got older, her parents trained her in sword play, marksmanship with various guns, and other martial pursuits. She was a quick study, and easily picked up on things. However, no matter how hard she applied herself, she was never...good enough for either of her parents or even came close to comparing herself to her siblings.

This...eventually led her to search for a way to get better...to acquire powers of her own. Not exactly an easy test, or a sure-fire process. Genetic enhancements, cybernetics...radiation. She all looked at with scrutiny. However, none were an exact process, and most could lead to...disastrous results.

At the age of 13, she was sent to study abroad at a relatives house in Greece.

The relative seeing that she was obsessed with gaining powers, suggested that perhaps she would find what she is looking for there. After a series of backroom deals and dealing with rather...questionable merchants and sources of information, she finally found something that suited her needs.

Magic.

Or at least...a form, of it. She had never held much stock in gods and such, but when presented with what could be a potentially life changing experience, and grant her abilities on par with those of her siblings...she eagerly leaped at the chance. Through a bit of information gathering, she found a person, secluded in an ancient part of Greece...someone who called herself an Oracle, who might possibly be able to help her.

The oracle explained there was one way she could gain...superhuman abilities. Drinking the 'blood of a god' could possibly yield the results she was looking for. After spending a few days weighing the pros and cons, she took the oracles offer.

It was easy enough, drinking the concoction the oracle presented her with, but that was the easy part. To this day, she won't exactly say what happened since she swore an oath to not tell anyone about what transpired, but she came out a changed girl, with the 'Eye of Deimos', and the ability to manipulate a persons fear.

After returning home, two years later and spending most of the rest of her years honing her abilities, she presented herself and her new abilities to her father, who was quite surprised at this development. When asked...she told the only lie she ever told her father.

She was born with the abilities, but they were not able to manifest in such a controlled environment. Both of her parents, were thrilled - for once...she finally felt like she was part of the family.

However, with that, also comes with the responsibilities. When she was 16, she enrolled to her first year of Herculean Academy. She was sent mainly to learn, and as a boarding school just like all of her siblings. However, her father also asked her to...tell her of the superhero school. She simply assumed he wanted to know more about it.

This is her second year here, and she is looking forward to it.

Other:
(e.g. voice actors, theme songs, any quirks or tidbits that weren't included above)

Adal

~Adal Siegheild~

Super Alias:
Frostbite

Gender: Male

Age: 23

Adal

Adal has messy dark brown hair, and always has an overall scruffy appearance to him. He normally wears a big military styled jacket, with gloves and loose jeans. He's obviously not the most serious of people, and seems to care little about his overall appearance. He has amber colored eyes, and a tattoo of a dragon circling his left arm.

He stands around 6'3. His weight?...not that big of a deal.

~Powers~

Adal, is basically a living chunk of Ice. He can turn his body into organic ice, and withstand the harshest of below freezing temperatures quite easily. Additionally, he can control the temperature around him in the immediate area, effectively making areas reach below freezing temperatures easily enough, as long as no one is effectively trying to heat up the place. Of course, such a feat would take awhile, and would not happen instantly.

Aside from that, he has some limited control over any ice he touches, and can form chunks of ice as long as there is water in the air. While he mostly uses it for physical weaponry and enhancements, he can use it for ranged attacks, such as firing off spikes of ice at someone.

Other skills:
Other skills? Nah, he's to lazy to learn anything else other than the basics. He'll wing everything else.

Physical weapons, such as swords and such have a bit of a hard time hurting him, as he is a big chunk of compact ice essentially. They'd injure him,sure....and then he'd freeze their weapons firmly to his body. Blunt weapons work best for their shattering abilities.

He's pretty strong, and while doesn't really do a whole lot of combat training, he punches you in the face, you now have a broken face.

While fire will effect him eventually, one should note they would at first have to heat up his body temperature for the ice to melt.

Pretty good with his hands.

Weaknesses:
-Lazy. You could not get him to do anything. Especially physical labor. No. If he doesn't have to do it, he won't.

- Gets hot easily. Doesn't like fire, since they melt his coolness. Though, its not really much of a physical danger since he could just coat his arms in ice, but prolonged exposure will have an adverse effect on him.

- Not the most observant of people. He likes a direct approach, and doesn't like needlessly complicated things. Just tell him what to do, and he will.

- Any sufficient force could easily shatter him into tiny pieces. That said, his body is stronger than normal ice due to him being able to control the density of it.

~Personality~

Adal, is probably the most well adjusted of the Sieghild siblings. He's quite friendly, and would rather spend his days sleeping under the sun rather than...doing whatever it is his siblings do. In fact, he's pretty much the black sheep of the family. He doesn't care for his parents beliefs, which is why he doesn't have much to do with family affairs at the moment. In fact, the only one he keeps in touch with, is Ziska, despite her giving him the cold shoulder frequently, and labeling him as 'a worthless Popsicle'

He doesn't like needlessly complicated things, and prefers to take things one step at a time. Or not do them at all, preferably. Though, if he does do them he would like to do them in the quickest and least amount of time as possible.

While not exactly a hard worker, he's not a slacker either. If he puts his mind to doing something, one can find he has an almost tenacious stubbornness and cleverness that runs in all of the Seighild children. He'll do anything he's tasked with until its done, and done so well he won't have to do it again for a month.

Has a tendency to flirt a bit with girls, though...and has a thing for red-heads.

Backstory:
Like Ziska, he was born into the Seighild family. As the first child, he received a lot of special treatment when he was a kid. Now...some might take this and become a spoiled brat like his kid brother Gerald, who is 21. He, however, turned out quite differently. It was clear from quite early on that he didn't have much of a work ethic, or even really cared much for his parents beliefs about super humans and normal people.

That said, as the only child until Gerald was born, he received pretty special treatment, which he found incredibly annoying. When Gerald was born, and he became his parents favorites, he was quite happy to be out of the spotlight and be able to nap most of the day. By the time he was ten, he was pretty much able to do whatever he wanted to as long as he didn't get in his parents way and stayed relatively quiet.

When he was Six, Ziska was born. The last of the Sieghild children, and the only one born without any powers. He took a liking, to his little sister. Mostly because unlike Gerald and Velda, she was shunned a bit like he was simply because she had no natural abilities. To the sieghild family, that was nothing but a bad omen, and while they didn't mistreat her, she received pretty much the same cold shoulder he did after Gerald was born.

However, unlike him, she wanted to prove herself to the family, and spent hours upon hours improving herself and studying so she wouldn't be 'useless' as her father said. Every once in awhile, he could drag her out and the two behaved just as normal kids would. When he wasn't up to shenanigans with her, he usually sneaked out of the house and into town to get up to other mischief, or just generally be lazy.

So, he sneaked out of his parents house a lot, and ended up looking around town more or less by himself. That's where he spent most of his time, either in town or outside just snoozing under a tree or something. Sometimes, he could convince Ziska to get out and do stuff to. Well, until she turned 13 and went to study abroad. He was left pretty much alone to his own devices when he was 19, although that wasn't anything new.

two years later, when he was 21 Ziska returned, and returned with quite a bit surprise. She now had superpowers. Well, for someone who was considered to not even blink when someone fires a gun at him, he was honestly surprised. He didn't pay too much attention to it, though he was slightly worried that she would end up like Gerald or Velda, if she kept trying so hard.

Soon though, she was shipped off to study in Herculean Academy. Two years later, he is also going there....to work as a maintenance/Security man.

theme :D

...what? xP
I kid, I kid xD

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Anastasia Tepes

Real Name: Anastasia Tepes

Superhero Alias: None yet

Gender: Female

Age: 18

background

Daughter of a powerfull vampire by the name of Alucard Tepes and the human Elisabeth Gladstone. She grew up in the castle of her father which was situated in England. Here her father trained her to become his successor. To his dismay he discovered that she did not inheret all of his vampiric skills. She made up for this however by being very determined to make her father proud.

She was completly isolated from the rest of the world and her training was harsh, sometimes leaving her on the brink of death. She overcame these obstacles however and continued to become stronger. The older she got the more curious she became of the world around her. Her father however didnt allow her to either visit her mother or leave the castle.

She was eventually allowed to own some objects from the outside world. One of her favorite things from the outside was music, especially metal. It helped her in her training and it became her favorite way to spend her free time. That and anything considered geeky in the outside world.

But eventhough she would get any object she desired from her father, there was always one thing she wanted more then anything and that was a real friend. She was always so lonely and has actually never met anyone who doesnt work for her father.

Now she has recieved a letter from the Herculean Academy and she was very excited to hear that her father allowed her to join this new school. What she doesnt know is that her father planned to have her join this school just to see how Anastasia would perform against other superpowered beings.

But Anastasia doesnt care for that, all she cares for is to be amoung other people who are around her age and she hopes that she can finally make some friends.

appearance

Image

Anastasia is 6’3 and has an athletic physique. Being a vampire she has the trademark vampire fangs. She also has very long hair which is so light blonde it nearly seems white and has blood red eyes with slit pupils.

presonality

(Everything written here is how the character is BEFORE the RP begins. Things might change the more the RP progresses and the character grows.)

She was locked up from birth in a castle and trained to be the successor of one of the greatest vampire lords who ever lived… Ofcourse she is proud of this but she is also very afraid of disappointing her father. Since she never left the castle before now she is very curious about the outside world to the point of naivity. She is very cheerfull for someone with a history like her and tries to be kind and gentle to everyone.

However, when she is pushed her vampire instinct will take over and she will not listen to reason. She becomes very unpredictable and sadistic in this state. This will only happen when extremly pushed however, like when her friends or loved ones are being treatened.

powers, skills and weaknesses

powers

Anastasia is a vampire born from one of the strongest vampires who ever lived. However due to her mother being a “mere” human she does not have all the powers which are inherent to being a vampire. She is much stronger, tougher, faster and agile then a human and she has hightened senses, making her able to see, smell, hear and taste things others would not be able to. But that isnt to say that she is rediculously strong or fast. She is not able to lift a car or break the sound barrier for instance.

Some of the powers she is missing due to her human genes are the ability to transform, hypnotise people, turn other people into vampires/ghouls or fly. She can however jump very high and survive a fall from a building without a scratch.

skills

From her birth Anastasia has been trained by her father in many forms of combat. She is trained in several martial arts and enjoys hunting, her definition of hunting might be different then yours though. She is also trained in etiquete but she preffers to just be herself.

Her other interests are in almost all stuff considered geeky. She is hopeless in cooking and keeping things tidy however.

weaknesses

She ofcourse has the basic vampire weaknesses: Silver, holy water, garlic, holy symbols, stake through the heart, decapitation… All would kill or gravely injure her. She is however not killed by sunlight. Instead she is only weakened during daylight hours, though not at midday (at which time of day she becomes stronger).

She is a vampire and that means she requires blood to keep her up to full strength. Donor blood is enough to keep her at full strength but she is very tempted by the sweet aroma of fresh human blood.

She has next to no experience with interacting with people. This makes her unable to easily communicate with other people.

Mishka Demidov

Gender: Female

Age: 17

Appearance:

Imagine this, but with normal clothes

Standing at an awe inspiring 6'11/211cm Mishka is rediculously tall. Yet her length isnt the only striking thing about her as she is, for lack of better words, a beast. She has broad shoulders and is overall really muscular. Some other striking features are her white-blue eyes and her bright red hair, which is usually hanging loosly and reaches up to the lower part of her shoulderblades. Her face is certainly not ugly though there is a large scar running over her left eye. Speaking about scars, she has alot of them on the rest of her body. She usually wears practical clothing.

Power Set:

-Superhuman Strength. Need I say more? Ooh alright then. At her current strength she is able to lift a 60 ton tank and crush it in her hands.

-Superhuman Durability. Well this seems like a no-brainer. She is able to survive anything she can dish out. So that pretty much means that any basic kinetic attack, be it fists, bullets, swords or what not, is ineffective, not immume to it, but it will barely harm her. Ofcourse if they are made of a certain special item or empowered by some magic or technology then she might have some problems with it.
Also, this does not make her immume to soundblasts, drowning, gas, vacums or mental attacks, to which she is still as vulnerable as another super.

-Berserker Rage. You thought that she was already big enough? Well then you better not piss her off, cause boy are you in some trouble then. Not only does she grow in length and mass by 25%, she also amplifies her strength and durability by 50%. So imagine if her power ceiling was 100 tons, now it’s 150. The downside to this effect is… Well, she kinda loses her, already lacking, sanity and goes in a full on rampage. Though on the plus side, for anyone on the recieving end, this rage will only last for a very limited amount of seconds as it is a real drain on Mishka’s stamina. 5 minutes in this state would equal a full week without sleep. So after her stamina gets completely drained she will revert back into her original form, though with slightly torn up clothes, and euhm… Well, probably collapse and sleep instantly.
As she gets more control over her powers she will eventually be able to control this ability, triggering it on command and being able to keep to her senses and even control the extend of her growth. Also, as she gets stronger she will ofcourse be able to remain longer in this state.

Other Skills:

-Close combat specialist. Mishka is one of the greatest fighters ever to be trained by her father, Dimitri Demidov, who was an advisor for a certain Spetznaz branch. This would mean that even without her super powers Mishka would have been deadly.
Most of these skills wont be applied to her own fighting style though, as she has developed a more… Aggressive system.

-Intelligent. Mishka is very intelligent. She might look like a dimwitted brute but she is actually a skilled tactician aswell as a grade-A student.

-Resourceful. As stated above, Mishka is smart. But not just in the classroom or on the battlefield. She is a great survivalist and is able to quickly think of fast ways to get out of trouble.

-Is an excellent marksman but doesnt like to use long range weaponry.

Weaknesses:

-OVERCONFIDENT. Now, overconfidence is always a weakness, but with Mishka it’s even more so. Mishka literally believes herself to be superiour to any other human, be they super or not. This makes her reckless as she is always sure that whatever obstacle she will be facing, she’ll triumph over it. Reality though, might not agree with her.

-Any non phisical attack will do the trick, though ofcourse it’s not an instant win. Also, Mishka might be super durable to phisical attack, that doesnt mean she is invulnerable to any phisical attack… You just have to hit her really really really hard… And a warhammer wont do.

-Insane. Now, here comes the problem. You see, Mishka isnt what you would classify as… sane. Sure, she might look sane at first glance. But say one wrong word and she might try to crush your skull in her hand. This makes her unpredictable, both to enemies aswel as to allies. And she might be a very intelligent girl, she loves fighting and most of her solutions to problems end up with, well, fights. She is also quite sadistic, preffering to maim her opponents and let them suffer for a period before she kills them. She also has some odd dietary preferences.

Personality:

At first glance Mishka might look like a brute with no feelings. This is partly correct. Mishka truely believes herself to be superiour to most humans, both normal aswell as supers. She is quick to anger but does not immediatly phyiscaly attack someone who insults her, she has some restraint. Mishka likes to keep people at a distance and there’s a good reason for it, she doesnt know how to deal with them. She has litterally never had friends and doesnt have any memory of a loving family. In other words, she has never experienced what it means to be loved. Compasion, carring… Mishka does not know what these words mean. Atleast, she never experienced it. Deep down she knows she wants to experience love and friendship, but she tries her best to hide it.

Backstory:

This is a mini version of the backstory, the GMs already know the whole story. If you want to discover it yourself… You’ve gotta RP with Mishka! :P
Mishka Demidov was born on the 7th of October in 2007 in Yakutsk, Russia. She doesnt know how she got her powers, she was probably born with them. Mishka wasnt liked by the other kids because of her powers, but she didnt mind. She though of herself as superiour to them and she liked to remind the other children of their inferiority to her.

At the age of 16 her parents died and she was send to a Russian school for super humans. She remained here for one year before she was moved to HA in an exchange program. So she’s new in HA and looking for some excitement. Who knows, maybe she’ll get friendly with someone… Or not.

Quirks:

-Mishka actually loves singing and has a great singing voice… Yeah, didnt expect that one did you?
-Mishka loves nature and is totally in her element when she is in cold, snowy mountain forests. She also absolutely adores bears.
-Mishka is really into military hardware for some reason. She can name almost any weapon and it’s specs out of the top of her head.
-Mishka hates bugs. She is not scared of them, she is just disgusted by them and anything resembeling a bug… Well, that’s gonna get squashed.
-Mishka has an alcohol problem and tends to light a sigarette atleast once every three hours.

Anouk

Real Name: Anouk Dijkstra

Gender: Female

Age: 15

Appearance:

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Standing at 5’8, Anouk is just below the Dutch average height for women. Anouk has a lean body built, fitting of an athlete and she has a little tan going on. Anouk has “boring” light brown hair which she usually styles it in a mohawk. (As portrayed in the image) To make her hair “more awesome” she added in some red streaks in her hair. When she doesnt have her hair styled in a mohawk, it falls low enough to cover her eyes. Anouk naturally has green eyes but her eyes are usually coloured blue. This is due to her electric powers. When her eyes are a piercing blue it means that she is fully charged, though over the course of the day and with her expending more of her energy her eyes will eventually revert to being green, which means she is drained.

Anouk’s clothingstyle is more or less what you would expect of someone like her and she has quite the extensive wardrobe. So much so that naming them all would take far too long. Overall she will probably wear something along the lines of a t-shirt, a shortish skirt and a pair of boots.

Power Set:

Control over electricity.

Anouk has the ability to control electricity. She is basically a walking battery, the more rested and fed she is, the more energy she has. When her energy is lowering her abilities will become less potent.

Her most notable power ofcourse are her lightning bolts… Which are god awefull. At their highest strenght they will cause skin irritation. That’s it. They usually tickle abit. And that’s when she’s going all Sith on you. It might look impressive, she’s got a knack for making a show out of things, but in reality it’s more of a bluff. She does have a very high control over her lightning though, as she can do some precision shooting which might cause some bad hairdays for certain people.

Anouk’s best offensive ability she’s got at the moment is probably her “Thunder Punch” ability. What she basically does is channeling alot of her energy into her palm and when it makes contact with the opponent all this energy is released unto him/her. It’s basically at the strenght level of a low intensity taser at the moment, but once it get’s stronger it might be more akin to an electric chair… Or worse.

Her real ace up her sleve though is that her entire body is a conductor for electrical pulses. Considering the brain gives off electrical pulses aswell this gives her a very high reaction speed, bypassing her nerves system as the pulses from the brain go straight to the required muscle. This makes her fast, really fast. At her current power level she can accelerate from 0-60mph in 10 seconds. Her topspeed at the moment is capped at said 60mph. However, she can not keep this top speed up for long. If she keeps running at her topspeed she might be able to keep on running for 20 minutes before she completely runs out of energy and collapses.

What should also be noted is that Anouk has the ability to turn any item that conducts into electricity into a weapon. (Aslong as she can hold unto it ofcourse, so water doesnt apply) She can conduct the energy through say, a metal pipe, and with that create an electrically charged weapon.

Other Skills:

-Is great with her guitar. Need I say more? Well, her best styles are probably the older rock, hard rock and punk songs. Although she can also play some heavy metal. Word of advice: Dont touch the guitar without premission… She wont appreciate it.

-Loves sports. Overal Anouk loves sports and this is reflected by her past time. She is especially loving football and kickboxing. There is nothing that beats playing her guitar though.

-Football, the proper kind. You know, that one game you play by kicking a ball with your foot! Growing up in the Netherlands there is no way you can not come into contact with football. And thus Anouk joined a local football club and ever since that time she has been in love with it. She used to be really good at it too, obviously because she had great skill and not because she was using her powers to cheat… Nooooo, not at all.

-Kickboxing, Dutch style which is inspired by Japanese martial arts and revolves more about kicking then punching. What better way for a child to blow off some steam then by punching and kicking something? Anouk is a star in kickboxing, she just loves how fast paced it is as opposed to alot of other martial arts.

Weaknesses:

-Concentration? What’s concentration? Anouk suffers from ADHD. This means she has some issues with focussing on important matters and she tends to get distracted by… Well, everything.

-Alot of water. Water conducts electricty, that’s a well known fact. The problem with water in Anouk’s case is that the water drains all of her energy in a very short amount of time. This is not only dangerous for her but also for those who are in the same body of water as her, considering a mini energy plant just released all of it’s power at once.

This only happens with large bodies of water though and not with small amounts like taking a shower.

-Insuficient power. Anouk needs to keep her energy level in check. Everything she does burns up energy and as we already established, if she has less energy her abilities are less powerfull.

There are 3 ways for her to regain energy. 1 is sleeping, duh. 2 is eating, hence why she has a huge appetite. And 3 is sapping away electricity from objects which use or generate electricity.

Personality:

Anouk is a hyperactive cheerfull girl who gets excited about… everything. Anouk is very cheerfull and upbeat, you really need to try your best to bring her mood down. She is not a person to hold grudges, unless you harm her guitar, then you’re gonna be on her murder death list of pain. Anouk also loves to participate in contests and competitions, be it kickboxing or eating, she joins all of them. Winning is ofcourse great but for Anouk it’s the game and the excitement that ultimately counts, not the victory… That being said, she will ofcourse give everything she has to win. Anouk usually is kind harted to people but she also likes to tease others. She is also sort of a tomboy, disliking anything considered “girly”.

Backstory:

Born in 2006 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Anouk was the child of two superpowered humans. It already became apparent at a very young age that Anouk had some sort of superpower involving electricity. Everytime she touched a lamp for instance the light exploded due to an electrical overload. Her parents started training her, helping her control her abilities. This resulted in Anouk getting a remarkable control over her ability, but she was not allowed to make her powers stronger. Atleast, not without a proper schooling.

Already at a young age her parents noticed that she was not able to sit still. She was always moving, always running, always yelling. So they did what every responsible parent would do; They searched distractions for her. First thing was her guitar. She had always shown an interest in music and now she was going to be able to make music by herself… Boy did they regret that mistake. Her music wasnt bad, just really really loud. So, off to plan B, sports! Being Dutch and being a girl, the first choice her parents went to was obvious ofcourse… Can you guess what sport it was?

Did you guess football?

If you did, you’re wrong. Field hockey was the way to go! It was THE sport for girls… And boy did she hate it. Shortly there after she tried football, a sport usually only for men. And she was great at it! She seemed to be faster and more agile then anyone else. A few years later she also picked up kickboxing, considering she always loved to watch those matches on the TV.

Anouk and her parents moved to the States, Austin Texas to be exact, once she finished elementary school at the age of 13. Her she lived an overal normal life without anything exciting happening. She got kind of bored after 2 years and started practicing with growing her powers. She made some progress in this period, but not nearly as much as she would have had with a proper tutor. Luckily that is exactly when she got her invitation to Herculean Academy.

And now she’s here, at Herculean Acadamy, ready to kick ass an- is that a butterfly?

Quirks:

-Treats her guitar like it’s her everything
-Has a huge appetite for any sort of food
-Is, rightfully, terrified of large bodies of water
-Will look very presentable to the outside world, but to all those who thread her dorm… We salute your bravery.
-She might get excited about everything, but that excitement can turn really quickly to boredom if something is not what she expected from it. She might try to make said thing more fun though...
-Due to her concentration issues she has abit of trouble keeping up in class.

Kára Raskstål

Real Name: Kára Raskstål

Gender: Female

Age: 16

Appearance:

Kára is standing tall at 6’1. She was trained to be a warrior, so that is reflected on her physique. This means that she is not like the average girl interms of her muscle tone. That being said, she doesnt have a massive bulk either. She’s strong and you’ll instantly see that, but it’s not like you’re looking at a bodybuilder or anything like that. Kára has blonde, nearly golden hair which she almost always braids with alot of effort put into it. A very striking feature are Kára’s bright blue eyes and because of the colour they almost seem like two sapphires. A final striking feature are the Norse styled tattoos along Kára’s back, arms and legs.

Kára does not have alot of clothing which she brought from home so she usually tends to wear stuff which originates from Midgard. That being said, she does have a limited wardrobe with her “own” clothes. These are mostly either based around animal furs, leather or just cloth. She does like her fur skirt alot though. Although it’s not really that fashionable… But she doesnt care about that.

Power Set:

-Superstrength, max load: 1500kg. A big car. Nothing more to say about it to be honest.

-Flight. Kára grows forth large white eagle-like wings from her back. With these she can propel herself into the sky and fly at high speeds, though she wont be able to even come close to the sound barrier. These wings are very strong and pretty heavy, essentially making them weapons on their own. They’re also rather thick, so they’ll be able to be used as a shield to protect Kára from harm.

-Himinnskjöld. Himinnskjöld is the name of Kára’s shield. It was crafted Brokkr and his brother to provide Kára with great protection. It is said to be unbreakable and able to absorb any force thrown at it. This is not completely true. Although the shield will atleast absorb the shock of most attacks, some will be able to get through. Largely radiation based attacks and mental attacks. And the shield is ofcourse completely reliant on it’s wielder. Weighing in at 100kg it’s not really something you’d call light and it’s magic will only work when carried by Kára, to anyone else it’ll just be a normal, really heavy, shield.
As a side note: Kára’s other weapons are also crafted by Brokkr and his brother. However, besides looking really nice and never becoming dull, they dont have any special properties. They also just weigh the same as their steel equivalants.

-Alfrigg. Alfrigg is a raven following Kára where ever she goes. He was send with Kára by her mother to make sure that she would have a guide and protector on Midgard. Alfrigg also serves as a messenger between Kára and her home. He is also the only one with access to her armour, though retrieving it might take a while, thus it’s not usefull when Kára is already in a fight.

Other Skills:

-Great fighter. Since birth Kára has been trained by her mother and aquaintances for armed combat, considering what her future role would have been she would have needed alot of expertise in this field. Her shield is a central part of her way of fighting, usually acompanied by a long-bearded axe or a viking sword, sometimes even a dane axe, though she does not have that with her to the academy.
She is also adapt with a bow and arrow, though she is not a great marksman with it. If the target’s big enough or sits still she’ll hit it, but is it small and moving… Well, that’s a wasted arrow.

-Glíma. Kára is an expert in glíma which makes her quite adept at handling herself, even when unarmed.

-Skilled survivalist. Kára is well known in how to survive in hostile environments, especially in arctic enviroments. She is able to quickly set up shelters and also able to hunt effectively. Her cooking skills are… average at best though.

-Has a great historical knowledge.

Weaknesses:

-Mere human. Ignoring the superstrenght and the wings, Kára’s body is just the same as that of normal humans. She does not have any heightened durability or anything along those lines. This means that a cut from a blade does the same to her as with anyone else for instance. She also cant function without sleep or food, just like a normal human.

-Not the most educated. Although she has a great knowledge about history and sagas aswell as with combat methods, that’s pretty much the extend of her knowledge. Math, biology, physics… They’re all gonna be hard for her to get around to do.

Personality:

Kára is a girl driven by a lust for glory and fame, but also of curiosity and a thirst for knowledge. All of which makes her a fearsome warrior who is dedicated to her cause. However, she will always think before she acts and will almost never go in head first.

Kára is deeply religous, often asking the gods for guidance and strength. When she achieves something great she will always thank the gods, for it was through their aid that she was able to achieve it. Kára also embodies the grim fatalism of her people, in that she fully believes and submits to the will of the gods and to the fate that was spun for her. As a result, Kára will often go into battle without second-thought, for her fate is already decided.

Kára abides by the Nordic ideals of courage, as well. She is brave in battle, and respectful to worthy adversaries. Kára also keeps to her word without fail, even when it would disadvantage her. She is also very protective to anyone who has earned her respect or friendship and is willing to lay down her life to protect them.

Backstory:

Born a long time ago in a place far from Midgard, Kára Raskstål did not have an easy childhood. Originally born as Kára Herjasdatter, she never knew her father and all she knows about him is that he was a great warrior once. Kára did not really miss her father that much though, as she got more then enough attention from her mother Herja.

Herja wanted her daughter to follow into her footsteps. This required Kára to be drilled mercilessly into martial combat from her birth. But she did not just get combat training, she was also taught of the Æsir and the Vanir and the sagas surrounding them, aswell as being taught of Yggrdrasil and it’s great importance in the universe.

It wasnt all just boring seriousness however, as Kára was also allowed to feast in the great halls where her mother sometimes brought guests from Midgard. Although she was still very young, it did not matter much and she was liked amoung the people there for her curiosity and fiery spirit.

During Kára’s training people noticed how fast her swings were. People could barely follow the blade of the axe she wielded. As a result people started to call her “Raskstål”, or fast steel. It was clear that she had inherited her parents’ martial skills. But dont mistake her for just being good with a sword or an axe. She was also one of the best glíma students of her class, being able to overpower a great amount of the other students while also remaining mobile enough to dodge counter attacks.

She remained humble through all of this however. She did not care for honours or glory. Well, that’s not exactly true. Her curiosity about Midgard overshadowed it greatly however. She had heard beautifull stories about the place. And not only that, she was 50% Midgardian herself, as her father came from it. She felt a burning desire to venture to it and explore that world.

Her mother was initially against this. She thought her daughter to be too young to venture out on her own. But Alfrigg, an ancient friend of her, said that he would guide the Kára through it all aswell as protect her against the dangers lurking on Midgard. Herja was still not satisfied. The people of Midgard had been strongly againt their kind for the last couple of centuries. She feared that they would shun and persecute her daughter, as the people of Midgard had always done to things they dont understand. Alfrigg pointed out however that a new age had dawned in Midgard. An age of beings more powerfull then mere humans. They were revered as “superheroes” and acording to him Kára would fit in with them without any problem.

Herja finally accepted. But on several conditions. Kára had to be trained another 4 years before she was allowed to go to Midgard. Herja also ordered equipment for her daughter by some of the greatest smiths of all the dwarfs. Brokkr did not dissapoint as he and his brother created a mighty shield which would stop any attack and made weapons which would never blunt or break.

For the next 4 years Kára trained with these weapons under the guidance of Alfrigg and Herja. When she finally reached the age of 16 Kára was finally allowed to leave. As promised, Alfrigg would always be by her side. As part of a spell cast on him centuries ago Alfrigg would only appear as a raven when he was on Midgard. Though he was still able to communicate in normal tongue.

After she left the rainbow bridge and entered Midgard she tried to communicate with the people there. There only was a slight complication… Kára wore full battle armour and her weapons with her. All the while she was drenched in animal blood, as this was poured over her in a ceremony to wish her a safe journey. Absolutely normal for Kára, not so much for the poor people she came across. And to make matters even worse, Kára did not understand the language these people spoke. Alfrigg tried to act as a translator but… Yeah, a talking raven didnt really improve anything.

This immediately made the autorities aware of a “homicidal, blooddrenched, insane” girl with a talking raven. After taking her in custody and getting an expert in old mythologies Kára was able to tell her story to the autorities. The next few months she was taught basic English by Alfrigg as she was awaiting what the autorities would do. She kept up her martial training while being secluded and was fairly well liked by her custodians.

Finally she recieved word that there had been made arangements for her to go to a place where her powers would be nurtured and where she would be given education about this world that the people here called “Earth”.

What was this place? A school called Herculean Academy.

Quirks:

-Tends to missunderstand things said to her due to only being taught English for a couple of months.

-Is deeply devoted to her gods and will practise her religion openly.

-Can sing really well, though she only sings in Norse.

-Has a horrible handwriting.

Themesong:

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@Guilty Spark's Characters
Currently Inactive. Dropped the RP~

Adam Brenton/Grave

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"Gaunt, grey and cold as a corpse. Because he is."

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Real Name: Adam Brenton

Superhero Alias: Grave

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Power Set:
Astral Projection: Adam's soul can leave his body, it's been able to do that since he was alive. He can travel unseen by normal eyes and can even interact with the material world if he concentrates, but the longer he's out the more thin he begins to feel. If he stays out of his body too long he fears he'll fade away entirely.

Other Skills:
Dead: Adam has been killed, but because his soul was always under his control he is allowed to keep playing the game on hard mode. This time, however, he doesn't have to eat, sleep or feel pain.
Analytical: He observes his surroundings very well, and can pick up on any information around him which might prove useful. He can also find the best hiding spot.
Empathetic: He can pick up on people's emotions very easily.

Weaknesses:
Dead: Adam is dead. While this has its advantages, his body no longer heals on its own and without outside assistance every bit of damage he takes is a permanent addition to his slowly eroding vessel. Broke his arm? It'll stay that way. Forever.
Afraid of Dying: Adam has already died once, and he didn't like it. Want him to rush in and save you? He may, but not without a lot of hesitating and weighing his options. Some think of this as cowardice, because it is.

Personality: When he was alive, Adam wasn’t a particularly sociable kid, but he wasn’t a loner either. He was a friendly kid and never seemed to get on anyone’s bad side, which was mainly because of his empathy, he always seemed to understand what was wrong and be there to listen. People liked hanging around him because he was easy to talk to. He was also that lazy sort of intelligent which makes a kid indecisive about what it is they want to do, but he thought he had all the time in the world to figure that out.

Being dead hasn’t really changed that, but it has made him more distant and harder to get close to. It’s also added a lot more fear to the optimistic boy he once was. Now, instead of being ready to jump into the trenches alongside you when you need a hand, he’s more concerned about breaking something he can’t fix, or being caught by some freak accident.

Backstory: Adam was born in a small town in Maine, and his childhood started off fairly normal. Two parents who worked hard to keep their family comfortable, an older brother and younger sister. Friends, school, it was all perfectly normal. At least it started that way. When he was in third grade he began to have ‘episodes,’ the teachers called them. He would simply pass out, and nobody could wake him up. They started off short, and when he came too he seemed to have no recollection of anything being wrong. He was taken to the doctor, but nothing was diagnosed. As far as they could tell, he was perfectly normal. The episodes began to get longer, and when they were over he would say he was dreaming.

Other kids began to make fun of him, or be afraid of him, for being weird. He was put in special classes for children with medical disabilities; it didn’t make any sense to him, and he couldn’t understand what was wrong. Eventually, his mother decided to home school him. After several more months of watching her son go in and out of consciousness, she finally sat down to talk to him. She told him about his grandmother, a woman with strange powers that she herself had never believed in. It was called astral projection, and it meant her soul could leave her body. She told him she didn’t know how to help, but he needed to learn how to control this or one day he would drift away from his body and never come back.

Naturally, that terrified him. He began to stay focused on keeping his powers in check, on keeping his soul firmly housed within his body, and it worked. He stopped drifting away and everything returned to normal. He even made it in time for the next school year. Years passed, and he always kept it in the back of his mind that his soul needed to stay in his body. He went so long without an incident that sometimes he thought it had never happened, just the imagined events of a child. Then, partway through high school, he died.

It wasn’t a natural death, it was a sudden and violent end. He was on his way home from school when he saw a fight breaking out in a parking lot, youthfully confident in his invulnerability he tried to stop it, he didn’t see the gun. One bullet through the heart and he was lying on his back, it wasn’t much longer before the ruined organ stopped beating entirely. However, a funny thing happened. He had been struggling to keep his soul in his body for so long that it had strengthened like a muscle, until even death couldn’t pull it away. That said, he had forgotten what he could do. For a long time he stood beside his dead body, watching its progress to the grave. Nobody could see or hear him. It wasn’t until he had witnessed his own embalming that he began to fear being alone, unnoticed for the rest of eternity. He began to remember what he had been doing when he was a child, controlling his soul, and he’d always been able to walk back into his body. Why should this be any different?

While it was still on the table, he stepped into his own corpse and walked off shakily. His parents were shocked to see him, his father fainted immediately, but his mother was more prepared for something like that occurring. She knew that in a small town she could never explain why her son was still alive, there was no place left for him in Maine. While they were struggling to find out what to do, a mysterious letter arrived in the mail which led him to Herculean Academy.

Other:

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Hector Faust

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"Tread lightly or be consumed."

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Real Name: Hector Faust

Superhero Alias: Goetia

Gender: Male

Age: 34

Power Set: Summoning Magic - Faust can bring forth shapeless entities from another realm and give them a physical form of his own creation, which is why they appear to be beings from religious mythology. In reality they are something that even he doesn't fully understand. He can only control one of these entities at a time, and it's a taxing process. Currently, there are only three entities he can summon, but he's always researching.

What can he summon? Well...that's been classified by the god of the CS's.

Other Skills:
Arcane Knowledge - Faust is familiar with a variety of arcane texts and their contents, known and unknown.
Mythological Knowledge - Faust's research has made him familiar with a variety of different mythologies.
Agility - Although not especially so, Faust is fairly agile and has good reflexes, he can easily dodge careless or novice attacks and stay on his feet.
Memorization - Remembering arcane lore when using magic is incredibly important, so while he can't recall everything he's ever read he is very good at memorizing what he needs.

Weaknesses:
Limited Summoning - Once he has chosen an invocation, he's stuck with it for the duration of the battle.
Squishy - Outside of his magic, he's a normal human being and not capable of anything physically superhuman. This renders him particularly vulnerable in combat, and is only narrowly mitigated by his reflexes.
Incantation - He has to perform a ritual to summon an entity. Although this ritual isn't too long, unless he is supported or has a chivalrous enemy he is not likely to finish it before they can strike.

Subject: History

Personality: When he was younger, Hector was a little shit. He was self-aggrandizing, stubborn, impatient and overconfident. He valued knowledge more than experience, and power more than wisdom. He didn’t see where that path would lead him until walking it had cost him dearly. Now, tempered by his experiences, he has become devoted to using his power to benefit others. Using his experience as a lesson for others seemed like the best way to do that, which is why he became a teacher.

Backstory:
~ Also Classified by ze god of the CS's~

Other: High volume! Theme Song

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@Card Captor's Characters
Hasn't been seen since the RP started

Joel Jones

Real Name: Joel Jones

Superhero Alias: None

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Appearance:

Power Set: Body Alteration. Joel is able to alter any organic part of his body into any other kind of organic matter found on earth (ie turning his skin into tree bark, or his hand into the head of an animal). However he can not create or destroy matter, so if he want's to make something that has more mass then he's willing to trade, he can use another aspect of his power; Organic Absorption. With this, he can temporarily absorb foreign organic matter (dead or alive) to supply the mass needed for larger alterations, and eject it from his body when he reverts the change. Something to note however is that any damage taken to an altered body part will transfer to whatever extra organic matter he used for his change (if any), or his own body (if he didn't use any foreign matter). Through experimentation, he was able to discover that he could absorb foreign organic matter to heal himself, by having it replace any broken or missing pieces of his body. Something else of note is that the larger the foreign organic matter is, the longer it takes to absorb it

Other Skills: Is a skilled boxer. He also has an interest in marine biology

Weaknesses: His powers rely heavily on having nearby organic matter, so if there isn't any usable nearby, then he becomes severly limited in what he can do

Personality: Joel is a very compassionate and generous boy, he makes an effort to reach out to other and tries to see the good in everyone. However he can also be easily blinded by his compassion, to the point of it becoming naivete. Coupled with his difficulty reading people, and it makes it easy to take advantage of his generosity.

That being said; if he has no choice but to fight, he will fight, even if it puts him at risk. While he has no problem getting rough with his opponents, he does his best to avoid crippling or lethal blows

Backstory: Joel Jones was born into a wealthy English family, with two loving parents. His early days of life were rather simple and carefree when compared to his later life. None the less, his life was relatively normal until he turned 6 and got a new little brother in the form of one 4 year old named David Barlow. As it turned out, Joel's father's life had been saved years ago by a poor man. Out of gratitude, he offered the man a favor. David was this man's son. As it turns out, he was calling in his favor to have David raised in the Jones home.

Joel was excited to finally have have a boy his age around to play with, but David didn't seem to share his enthusiasm. David was cold and distant, far too much for any 4 year old. While he managed to hid it well enough around Joel's parents, he didn't bother keeping up the act. This continued for a few years until David's 7 birthday.

After all the guests had left and things were winding down for the night, David was still outside, playing with some of his birthday toys, when a strange dog attacked him. It's eyes were blood red, and it had actual horns on it's head. David ran for his life to the nearest tree (as the monster dog was in between him and the mansion) and climb up it like his life depended on it. This didn't deter the dog, as even with David up on a branch, it was still trying to jump up the tree. Just as David was starting to catch his breath, the branch he was on snapped and he fell to the ground. The impact broke his leg, and he could escape from the beast any longer. Right before the monster dog lept on him to tear out his through however, Joel tackled it to the ground. As they soon discovered however, it had much more physical strength then a normal dog, so it was starting to get out of Joel's grip. In that moment, David grabbed the nearby fallen branch and whacked the monster in the head over and over again until it stopped moving. Once the adrenaline was cleared out of both of their systems, David asked Joel

"...Why?"

To which Joel responded

"Because you're my brother"

Those words broke a floodgate of emotions inside of David, and he sobbed in Joel's chest. Things changed between them from then on

However as it turned out, upon it's death, the monster dog had irradiated the two of them, and they eventually developed super powers

Other: He carries around a pouch filled with grass. Zodiac; Dragon. Blood Type; O

David Barlow

Real Name: David Barlow

Superhero Alias: None yet

Gender: Male

Age: 15

Appearance:

Power Set: Within The Shadows. David has the power to make anything inside of a shadow, or in the dark completely invisible to the entire light spectrum. He can only make part of something invisible too if he wants. Anyone completely under it's effects will be able to see other things and people made invisible with his power, but to differentiation them from objects not under his power, they will appear transparent and extremely faded. He also posses excellent night vision

Other Skills: David is a clever boy, he tries to win his fight out thinking his opponents rather then over powering them. He's also proven adapt at physiological warfare, using his words to get under the skin of his foes (although his time with him has granted Joel Jones an immunity to this). He's also an amazing actor, having developed a persona he uses in fights

Weaknesses: Light. Since his powers can only be used on people or things in darkness, if he's in a location that has too much light, it becomes unusable

Personality: David is a very jade boy. Due to having grown up drowning in the worst of humanity, he's quick to find the worst in other people, and has trouble trusting others. His alternate persona; DAVID (which he insists is in all caps) is cruel and condescending to his foes, openly mocking them while occasionally even laughing at them. However in reality, David is a scared and insecure boy. Having seen such evil so soon in his life has left him paranoid of other people. For him, DAVID is a crutch that he made from his memories of people he knew before living with the Jones'. Without that crutch, he just doesn't know how to interact with others...

Backstory:

The beginning of David's life wasn't a really great introduction to the world; He was born to an alcoholic father, and a mother who took up smoking not long after his birth. They lived in what could be easily called slums...it wasn't a safe neighborhood. Although his time with them was short, he picked up more then his fair share of nightmares. However things soon turned around for David; seeking to get rid of him without having to do anything, David's biological father sent him to the Jones mansion to call in a favor the head of the house owed him. Truthfully, he didn't expect the man to follow through on his word, since he doubted that he really believed that he saved his life when he was really just about to rob what he thought was a corpse. When David didn't return, he assumed that the boy had been killed along the way

Life at the Jones mansion was radically different. Not only was he now eating three meals a day, but he was eating his fill for all three of them, he had his own room with an actual bed, and he had clothes that didn't have holes in them. For David it was too good to be true...literally. David couldn't believe that these people would just take him into their home just like that without some ulterior motive. Especially his new brother; Joel Jones. David had just intruded on his territory, there was no way anyone would really be as okay with that as Joel seemed to be. However...his point of view drastically changed on his 7th birthday

After all the guests had left and things were winding down for the night, David was still outside, playing with some of his birthday toys, when a strange dog attacked him. It's eyes were blood red, and it had actual horns on it's head. David ran for his life to the nearest tree (as the monster dog was in between him and the mansion) and climb up it like his life depended on it. This didn't deter the dog, as even with David up on a branch, it was still trying to jump up the tree. Just as David was starting to catch his breath, the branch he was on snapped and he fell to the ground. The impact broke his leg, and he could escape from the beast any longer. Right before the monster dog lept on him to tear out his through however, Joel tackled it to the ground. As they soon discovered however, it had much more physical strength then a normal dog, so it was starting to get out of Joel's grip. In that moment, David grabbed the nearby fallen branch and whacked the monster in the head over and over again until it stopped moving. Once the adrenaline was cleared out of both of their systems, David asked Joel

"...Why?"

To which Joel responded

"Because you're my brother"

Those words broke a floodgate of emotions inside of David, and he sobbed in Joel's chest. Things changed between them from then on

However as it turned out, upon it's death, the monster dog had irradiated the two of them, and they eventually developed super powers

Other: His voice is normally very gentle sounding, however he developed a deeper and harsher one to use in his DAVID persona. Zodiac; Snake. Blood Type; AB

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@Daxam's Currently Active Characters

Zacary Yoxall

Real Name: Zacary Yoxall

Superhero Alias: N/A

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Appearance:

Zac

Power Set:

Carbon Shell: Zac's skin turns black and hardens to the point where he can easily deflect most attacks with his bare hands. Also used to augment his fighting proficiency and can protect himself from most attacks

Enhanced strength

Other Skills: Skilled martial artist, excellent cook, and decent artist

Weaknesses: Will gladly put himself in harm's way to save someone, no matter how dire the situation; Blunt weapons: while he can deflect blades easily, blunt weapons (like baseball bats, hammers, even brass knuckles) can still damage or destroy his shell, provided he's hit hard enough; Has little to no sense of direction

Personality: Zac is your average, happy-go-lucky kind of guy. He loves to generally be friends to anyone and everyone. Generally well-liked in return, one would find it incredibly difficult to have something bad to say about him, though he isn't without his faults, as well. He can tend to be stubborn, especially when a life is on the line.

Backstory: Zac comes from a normal family. Neither his parents, nor his two sisters, have any powers, though his parents would hazard a guess to say that he got his abilities from his grandparents. Anyway, when Zac had first discovered his powers, he was fifteen years old and making dinner for his family when the knife he was using missed the carrot he had been cutting. Instead of taking his finger off, his skin had blackened and stopped the blade dead in its tracks.

At first, he had freaked out. After all, every other time he had cooked and hit his finger, there had been blood. A lot of blood. But when the initial shock wore off, he realized it was actually a pretty neat ability. For the next year, he practiced on honing his power and can now cover his entire body in the black shell.

About a month after his seventeenth birthday, Zac had been walking home from school. The sun was low in the sky, resulting in long, dark shadows and alleys. He had been about to cross the street when he heard a scream. In one of the dark alleyways, a group of drunk men had surrounded a woman. Before he knew what he was doing, Zac's shell had appeared, covering his body and turning it as dark as the shadows. A few moments later, the thugs that were still conscious had run away, screaming about a monster in the darkness. A few days later, a letter had arrived in the mailbox...

Other: He loves dogs :3
Also stole a hot plate. Loves cooking in his room.

[Rune_Alchemist]

@Tiggas's Current Active Characters

Tarquin Hayes

Real Name: Tarquin Hayes

Superhero Alias: Undecided between The Legioneer or The Strategist.

Gender: Male

Age: 13 (his birthday will be 5 days after he joins, if you don't mind)

Power Set: Tarquin is able to make historical figures be inside his head, three at the time, and summon their inventions an armies, each summon lasts 10 minutes, he can only sustain 2 at a time and doesn't control them the historical figures do. Currently they are:

Julius Caeser

A serious and reserved man doesn't talk a lot unless asked about something.
Summon:
- Legio VIII Augusta (summons the eight roman legion)

Sun Tzu

Wise and likes to give his opinion about everything and usually quotes Art of War.
Summon:
- The 180 Concubines (summons Sun Tzu's army of 180 Concubines)

Arquimedes

Arquimedes: Humoristic and creative allways enjoys a good challenge.
Summon:
- Steam Cannon (summons Arquimedes steam cannons, they are automatically operated)

Napoleon

Napoleon: selfish and egocentric and allways talking about himself and how his plan was better.
Summon:
- Le Grande Armée (summons Napoleon's Great Army)

Other Skills: Tarquin is fluent in portuguese, knows alot about History, is a rather fast reader and the since figures can understand and read the languages they spoke translate them for him if they want.

Weaknesses: Tarquin is physically weak he is also really bad at reading people and socializing in general.

Personality: When you meet Tarquin, well probably your the one that started the conversation since he rarely talks to anyone and when he does hes usually overly polite and quiet rarely gives his opinion. When you get to know it and become friends what you will find under that shy person will probably surprise you, a happy person, a rather complex character since he had little to no interaction with other people making him unable to show emotions most of the time.

Backstory: Tarquin was born in Newark, New Jersey, his mother a portuguese immigrant and hotel manager his father an american businessman. Tarquin spent most of his time reading books, using toy soldiers to recreate historical battles and playing videogames (mostly 4hex strategy and rougelikes), he was surprised when it happened, one day while recreating the battle of Munda he heard a voice inside his head "Actually we wrecked them harder than that" Tarquin was surprised but at the same time he knew he wasn't crazy, actually he knew what happened, why it happened and how to do it again, not sure where the knowledge of how to use his powers came from Tarquin decided to hide them. That until the day when the letter from the academy came and he had to explain everything to his parents, after the confusion of showing his powers they finally acepted his son's powers and sent him to the Herculean Academy.

Other: Says what his thinking way too much specially when talking to the historical figures and he's not a big fan of chocolate or sweet food in general. Electra.

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Scorpios McRae

Real Name: Scorpios McRae

Superhero Alias: He would like to be called Fangsong

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Power Set: Scorpio has the ability to change into animals that are poisonous in some way and he can talk to them in their own language. He can also hum a tune that will render the listener immobile, like when a scorpion strikes it's prey. His favorite form is the King Cobra.

Other Skills: Scorpio has been taking street fighting lessons from the older kids in his neighborhood since he was old enough to kick someone in the shins. He can also handle guns and blades like a master.

Weaknesses: Sometimes Scorpio has trouble shifting back into a human or switching back to English. It's all very frustrating for him. He also has trouble controlling his anger and how he deals with it.

Personality: Most of the time, Scorpio is very laid back and relaxed, very rarely does he pick a fight, unless he strongly believes in what he is fighting about. He is also very protective of his mother and little sister, he loves them more than he can express and gets very angry when someone talks about his mother or his sister the wrong way. One time, he broke a man's nose for saying disgusting, rude things about his mother. Daredevil

Backstory: Scorpio's dad left his family when Scorpio was just seven years old, leaving him and his pregnant mother to fend for themselves. They had a rough time being able to afford food to put on the table until he was twelve, when one of the neighborhood kids started paying him to walk his dog everyday. It helped everything go just a little bit more smoothly.

Then the same kid, Ivan, started to teach him how to defend himself. They quickly became friends and Ivan helped Scorpio and his mom out a lot, especially when Scorpio's mom needed someone to look after his little sister, Valerica. By the time Scorpio was Sixteen, Ivan was nineteen and in college. They were still friends until the day Ivan was killed by a drunk driver on his way home.

Scorpio was heartbroken and blamed himself. He could barely keep his tears in check when his family went to Ivan's funeral. After that he bottled up his anger at the drunk driver who had taken away his best friend. He still looked after his mom and his sister, who was nine years old by now. One day, he'd been having a bad day at work, when he accidentally immobilized his boss when he told him to shut up. He went home a bit shaken, to find a letter waiting for him. It goes from there.

Other: Scorpio's entire family is Irish and Scorpio tends to indulge in a little Irish Whiskey on happy occasions, but not enough to get drunk. Ivan's death prevented that from ever happening. He also wears black mascara because his eyelashes are so bright you can hardly see them. He wears eyeliner just cause he finds some sort of weird humor in it.

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Paolo Ray

PERSONAL INFORMATION

NAME: Paolo Marchelo Ray
NICKNAME/ALIAS: Paul, Quake
AGE: 18
GENDER: Male
NATIONALITY: Greek-Italian
PERSONALITY: Paul is that one laid-back guy that always gets on others nerves for being lazy and not more active. Although most people don't know this, he was quite obstinate and reckless when he was younger, but over time, he has attained a more cautious attitude towards life and now deals with problems carefully. He is very concerned about the people close to him but does tends to trash talk every now and then. Although not the romantic type, he does have a soft spot for women which does gets him into trouble some times.
History: TBR IC

SUPERPOWERS/ABILITIES

- TERRA IMPERIUM
The power to manipulate earth, including sand, stone, rock, lava, dirt, glass, metal and other naturally and artificially created minerals, is one of the four main Elemental Powers. Despite being the least used of the classical elemental powers, ("earth" powers usually manifest nurturing and proactive powers, capable of healing etc) there are many things one can do with earth. Earth-users may be able to cause earthquakes, rockslides or split the earth itself and crush their opponent between two slabs of crust or drop their opponent into a fissure; use sand, rock, or mud as an extension of their body to create tentacles or other objects, encase themselves in a rock shield to avoid attack and many other possibilities.

Users of this power can also generate, control and manipulate naturally occuring magnetism (planetary, solar, lunar, stellar, magnetosphere, magnetic materials/ferromagnetism, etc.). User can affect any matter that is magnetic (iron, nickel, cobalt and their alloys, some rare earth metals, naturally-occurring minerals such as lodestone) manipulating and controlling them as they will and indirectly use them to manipulate other things.

STRENGTHS:
-He can pretty much use anything that has some connection to the Earth to his advantage.
WEAKNESSES:
-He detests flying and anything that has to do with flying.
-His worst possible opponent would be someone who has control over the element of wind or someone with psychic powers as both render Pauls powers useless, the former by just flying away from his reach/blowing away any rocks he sends flying at them and the latter because people with psychic powers tend to mess with their opponents minds and Paul isn't very fond of someone screwing with his brain.
-Although powerful, Paul tends to be a lone wolf and as such, doesn't cooperate very well when placed in a group. He will try but don't count on it.

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@DFTBA's Active Characters

Rebekah Green

Real Name: Rebekah Green

Superhero Alias: None as yet. She’s not a big fan of nicknames in general.

Gender: Female

Age: 16



Appearance: Rebekah Green is most often seen around the Herculean Academy wearing jeans and a t-shirt. It is simple, comfortable, practical clothing, which suits her just fine. She is a smidge above average height, with blue eyes, light skin and mid-length blonde hair she keeps tied back in a pony-tail. She sometimes wonders if her nose isn't a bit too long.

Personality: Rebekah is quiet and reserved in most situations, preferring to listen and observe than to speak. When she does speak, it is usually in direct answer to a problem that needs solving or to suggest an action. She doesn't do well with small-talk and doesn't share her emotions easily, except with those she is closest to and trusts without exception. On the other hand, she will happily go on and on about an interesting idea and enjoys being challenged in this way.

She tries to view the world as rationally as possible, and solve problems using logic and reason. She values knowledge and curiosity and holds tightly to the idea that the best superhero is not the one with the strongest power, but the one who knows when and how to apply their abilities to get the best result.

Her personality would be an I-N-T-J on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

Power Set: She can change the size of things around her and teleport within visual range.

Backstory: Rebekah comes from a family of non-supers, so far as she can tell. Her great-grandmother might have been where she got the magical genes, but the stories about her are pretty murky and often don't agree.

She grew up in New Zealand, in a smallish town near to a national park. Early on in life, she developed a love of books and reading, devouring both fact and fiction alike. A little later on, when she entered her teenage years, she continued with this, though the books gained a rival - the outdoors. Mountain biking, kayaking and walking all held strong appeal for her, leading to a few exciting trips to lakes, mountains and rivers.

Rebekah's powers first manifested shortly before her 15th birthday, while walking the last section of the Tongariro crossing. The school group were all tired, hungry, getting damp from the grey mist that had descended over the mountain and generally ready for the day's exertion to be over. Coming over the last rise and getting a view of the shuttle waiting at the end of the track, Rebekah suddenly disappeared from among the group to find herself standing up against the white van's windows. Shocked at this sudden transition, she jumped, yelled and tripped over backwards. Her fall would have landed her head on a large rock, but it shrunk down to the size of a pebble underneath her, leading to a much more gentle landing. By the time the rest of the group had caught up, it became clear what had happened and Rebekah was outed as a superhuman.

At the beginning of the next year, Rebekah travelled to Super School, the equivalent institution to the Herculean Academy for superhumans from Oceania. The school is hidden away from the rest of the world on a small volcanic island out in the Pacific Ocean. Here, students are grouped into small teams with complementary abilities in order to teach teamwork and cooperation, emphasise that all abilities have a valuable place and, most importantly, give young supers a tight-knit group of friends to belong to and support each other from the start of their training.

This turned out really well for Rebekah, and, together with her team, she learned to control her powers and make use of them in a wide variety of situations. She particularly enjoyed lessons from Dr. Arcturus, a self-transmuting super-scientist. Thanks to his tutelage and their own hard work, the team was able to gain third place in Super School's Tournament of Heroes at the end of their first year.

Around half way into her second year, Rebekah had a day off from classes and was using the time to explore the wilder parts of the island. The volcano itself hadn't been active for a long time, but past activity had left a large network of tunnels and caves reaching beneath much of the island.

On this particular day, Rebekah was well into the cave system when she noticed something she hadn't before: a small gap in the rock, not much wider than her finger. Curiosity piqued, she entered the cave on the other side and followed it down for a long way. As she went, she began to see signs that these caves were not entirely natural - there were signs of human use. The caves ended in a vertical shaft, with a narrow steel ladder set into the bare rock. She followed it down, and found herself in a dim, square room. Set into the far wall was a single stasis tube with a man inside, with electrodes strapped all over his body over the remains of an old, torn super suit.

Naturally, she freed the trapped man. As he emerged from the tank and began to tear the wires away from his skin, the room's one lightbulb guttered out and arc of lightning leapt from his body, shattering the stasis tube. As more and more of the electrodes fell away, the lightning storm around the man grew stronger, until it seemed he was a living arc of electricity. A bolt jumped towards Rebekah, and she blacked out.

The man she had freed was Power Surge, an insane villain who had been captured a century ago, but in order to keep him contained, it had been necessary to continuously draw off the electricity from his body. In order to kill two birds with one stone, the founder of Super School had decided to use him as the power source for their island.

Now freed, he blasted his way up and out of the mountain, and began to attack the school, which was reeling from the sudden blackout of all of their equipment. Power surge caused a great deal of destruction before Dr. Arcturus rallied a gang of students to defeat the villain, though the professor was badly wounded in the process.

In the wake of all this, Rebekah Green was found to be responsible for unleashing Power Surge upon the school. Since her actions had been very ill-advised but not ultimately malicious, she was spared the usual penalties for freeing a supervillain and causing widespread destruction.

Still, many students had been hurt or had property destroyed in the attack, and teenagers are rarely so kind and forgiving. Rebekah was bullied mercilessly in the days after the attack, and for this reason and others it was decided that she would be expelled from Super School for tampering with its power source. She would, however, be afforded the opportunity to apply to a different institution to continue training as a superhero.

This led her to a move across the world, and to the Herculean Academy, where she will be starting at the beginning of the new year.

Other Skills: Rebekah has some pretty good skills in the outdoors, and has good fitness and endurance to go with them. She is reasonably proficient in self-defence, but unlike some of her fellow students, her talent is nothing special.

Where she does excell physically is in her reflexes and reactions, based on her senses which are pretty sharp as well, when she cares to pay attention.

Rebekah has always enjoyed school and done well in her non-super education, so she has a solid grounding in a number of subject areas, particularly the sciences.

Weaknesses: Rebekah can get hurt just as easily as a normal human being. Her abilities don’t give her any extra toughness, strength, resistances or healing or anything like that. Her teleportation is only within her line of sight, which limits its usefulness when it’s dark or her vision is otherwise obscured. She can take one other person with her or an equivalent amount of material, but no more.

She really beats herself up over the Power Surge incident. It was a big hit to her confidence and she really misses the close friends she made at Super School.

She wishes she could play a musical instrument, but has never learned.

Other: Rebekah’s name is Rebekah, and she would prefer it if others didn’t insist on shortening it to Bekky, Bekka, Bex or any other variation they might come up with. It’s a perfectly good name already, and it doesn’t need shortening, thank you very much! It is something of a pet peeve for her.

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@Vec

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Dropped the RP~

Jacques Veilleur

Real Name: Jacques Veilleur

Superhero Alias: (if you're a first year or someone who has just transferred to the school, it's likely you won't have one of these yet)

Gender:male

Age: Appears 60, but due to the nature of the curse keeping him alive, is actually much older

Appearance: fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/347/e/..

Power Set: Jacques is a master of many magics, in particular, adept in the fields of gravity and lightning.
However, his most renowned fields of skill lie in runes and gem based magic. Utilizing runes, he can apply a multitude of effects, ranging from elemental mines, to magical locks, and even if given enough time to carve it, control over an area's very gravity. However his main runes are as follows
Sowilo : the rune of fire. A smaller rune, intended as a magical bonfire, but utilized by jacques as proximity alert mines by the telltale “whoosh” of their activation. (think like the fire rune from skyrim)

Thurisaz: the rune of force. A large rune, utilized as an enhancer to other magics. As suggested by it’s moniker, it increases the power and force of magic used in it’s area. Jacques uses this when he knows he will be in combat to insure he holds advantage, though due to it’s size, it’s only practical use is as a preemptive measure.

Nauthiz: the rune of binding. A mid-sized rune, and the antithesis of Thurisaz. Where as it enhances magic, Nauthiz weakens it. jacques uses it for two main purposes. One, in his training rooms to keep students magic at manageable levels in case of mishaps. And two, to hide his own magical energy via engraved stones kept on his person.

Kenaz: the rune of Sight. This rune is unique, as amongst his others, it not used for offense or “traps” but rather an enhancement of a direct attribute of whatever is in it’s range. Namely ,capability of sight, to the point where the non physical, the ethereal can be gazed upon. Normally, it is a mid-sized rune, carved into occulary objects to enhance their ability, But in Jacques’s case, due to the inability to use the gem lodged in his empty eye socket as he would other gems, he painstakingly carved a miniature variation of kenaz into it, turning the powerless gem into an eye of ethereal sight.

However, he must carve these runes, and thus it is a laborious, if not effective art.

They also cannot be directly applied against a foe, and thus rely upon enemies wandering into their range of effect.

The gems on the other hand, work on a more personal level. By charging them with his will and magic, the gems can effect the body in various manners.
Healing, a short range explosion, increased speed, or strength. Such physical effects are but a glimpse of gemcraft. Unlike runes, the gems can be charged near instantly, and can be moved once active. The drawback is that a gem can only be charged towards one purpose and once fully drained, crumble to pieces, whereas runes will stay effective so long as they are unmarred. They also can only effect one person at once, whereas runes can effect a large area.
His main gems are
Rubies: charged to cause cherry bomb style explosions for disorientation/distraction
Azurite: charged for freezing effects, mainly in tandem with the thurisaz rune to freeze foes solid.
Onyx: charged to provide hardening effects on clothing, effectively able to turn cloth to armor.
Diamond: charged to heal wounds, effects vary on the size of the stone
Quartz crystal: charged to absorb and reflect offensive magic like a shield

Other Skills: due to his long life, and his studies, Jacques is well versed in knowledge of most magics, even if he he prefers to specialize in his chosen fields. Having dealt with his body’s suffering , he also indifferent to almost all but the direst pain.

Weaknesses: despite his unaging body, his body’s age at the time of the curse was already old, so it is subject to the failings of human wear and tear. In addition, he is not immortal. Merely unable to perish from age. Powerful enough enemies or even a gunshot if he were unprepared would kill him the same as any other human.
Subject: unconventional magics and their uses
Personality: His personality is very contradicting. While he is thoroughly pragmatic and nihilistic, he is at the same time devoted and protective. He doesn't lie, but he does keep secrets and withhold the truth. He means well and is known for fondness of others, but often ends up being sarcastic, especially so when he gives advice.
due to the lessons learned in his life, and the mercy given to him at the hands of others, Jacques will not stand those that needlessly harm others, doggedly condemning such action, and refusing to ally with such people.
And yet, his positive traits are overshadowed by his obsession with the losses he had suffered in his life, an obsession which combined with the curse upon him, plunges him frequently into a deep depression.

Backstory: Born an orphan in the year 2100 to uncertain, but apparently magically inclined parents, the man who would become known as omega grew up a thief on the streets of France, stealing to survive.
For ten years, he did so, until he made the mistake of stealing a jewel from a member of the veilleur mage family. in this time, magic was rarer than it had ever been.

strictly confined to such families. He was caught, but despite calls to have him imprisoned, the family's patriarch; a user of magic that measures the potential mana within one's magic pathways, saw immense potential in the boy. And thus, took him in. Under the banner of the veilleur family, Jacques grew into an outstanding young mage, specializing in counter magic, and ironically Jewel Magic. Eventually, his skill led to him not only taking a commanding role In the local mage’s guild, but being granted the status of becoming the family's next head. It was upon his fifty fifth year however that his life would change forever. The mage he had chosen to succeed him in the guild had turned rouge, investigating dangerous and unethical methods of transferring magical energy, having taken the energy of countless others to bolster his own power.

Thus warranting a warrant of demise upon him.

Further more, when confronted by Jacques's adopted father on these charges, the rouge mage killed him without a second thought, and burned out Jacques left eye when he tried to intervene. Feeling guilty for not seeing his apprentice's madness beforehand, and seeking vengeance;Jacques personally pursued the man for five long years, until finally catching him upon the fields bearing his family name. fatally wounding him with use of his trademark jewel magic, combined with.

But as he prepared to end it, using the very jewel he had attempted to steal all those years before from the man he had come to call his father, kept as a prized reminder of his life's journey; the rouge mage revealed he had been gathering mana for a final act of defiance, to disperse his stolen energy as a virus, and cause chaos by giving magic to the masses.

But before that, in a last gasp of murderous intent the rouge gouged Jacques's beloved jewel into the husk of the eye he had destroyed years before. And using half the stolen mana, cursed Jacques with an unaging, yet constantly suffering body. Then committed the fateful act that began a new age of history in his timeline. Jacques however slowly faded from memory.

Shamed by his failures, and loathing his continued existence. he thus sought to end it. Though he despised the curse upon him, he realized the opportunity it gave. pouring his time into research, Jacques created a one way portal through time. he went back, intending to pass his knowledge to those before his time’s fateful events, in attempt to stop them before they would come to pass. And in the process, hopefully erasing his curse from being inflicted so he could perish in peace.

Other: theme: youtube.com/watch?v=NWAjEQBOMZc voice actor: Anthony Warlow
The gem in his eye:

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Geoffrey

Real Name: Geoffrey Burr

Superhero Alias: Ventus

Gender: Male

Age: 33

Appearance:

Power Set: Air manipulation. He has the ability to create air constructs by condensing air into shields, platforms, blades and anything else he can think of. He can expand air, sending his opponents and objects flying. He can move objects by controlling the air around it. He is known for his sphere of protection - he condenses air around him in a large sphere which he uses to block all attacks, he can focus part of the sphere if needed, to block a larger attack. He can also compress air so much that it becomes plasma.

Other Skills:
- Burr speaks English, Spanish, German, Japanese and French. English was his first language. He learned spanish from his grandmother, who only spoke the language. Geoffrey learned German and French from a friend, they are his least proficient languages. He also knows a fair amount of Japanese, he learned this while studying sword fighting in Japan.
- He can handle himself with a sword, but is by no means a master.
- He is a former debate coach.

Weaknesses:
- He is useless in a vacuum.
- He cannot keep his sphere of protection up for long because it will begin melting everything, within a few feet, around it. The pressure from condensing the air into an ultimate shield causes it to super heat.
- He becomes too confident in his own abilities.

Subject: Physics.

Personality: Burr is the type of teacher that lectures for an hour and only uses student’s notes for their homework. He’s relatively easy going, but if you set him off, just remember, he used to coach debate. He likes to make friends with his students, but doesn’t allow it to corrupt their grades.

Backstory: Geoffrey was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father worked as a detective in a large building, Geoff never learned much about it besides that, all he really knew(This was later on), was that they had stopped many threats to the nation and world. His mother taught at a local elementary school.

He didn’t learn of his powers until he was nine. He was incredibly angry and, briefly, removed the air from another child’s lungs, choking the other kid. Not long after that, his parents found out because a letter had arrived at their home, inviting him to a school for children with powers. He attended, graduated and now teaches physics at the Herculean Academy.

After he graduated, he went on to obtain his masters degree in applied physics. He fought crime, while taking his classes, he joined the group of superheroes called Company of Justice. During this time, he also coached debate in a local high school. After he received his degree, he applied to teach at Herculean Academy and was accepted.

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Blake Reyes

Real Name: Blake Reyes

Superhero Alias: N/A

Gender: Male

Age: 14

Appearance:

Power Set: Manipulation of light - Blake can manipulate the light around him by redirecting the flow of it, increasing the intensity of it, or by giving it a physical form that he can use offensively or defensively.

Light is physically manifested in the form of thin walls or barriers that he can freely toss around. The stronger they are, the more energy it eats up. So where a weak wall or barrier that can block an ordinary little punch will barely make him blink, a strong wall or barrier that can block a speeding bullet is gonna wind him pretty hard.

He can affect and manipulate light up to ten feet around him.

Other Skills: He’s a very fast runner and can run for a fairly long time before he tires out.

Weakness: Blake is at his strongest during the day, since light is everywhere and he’s free to pick at it as he chooses. At night and in the dark, however, he’s constrained to manipulating whatever’s producing light at the time. He’s also just a squishy (albeit athletic) human, so he’s not as particularly resilient without his powers. He doesn’t like being called weird, even if it’s as a joke. In some cases it will infuriate him, and in other cases he’ll just get very defensive about it.

Personality: Blake is an energetic and friendly young man that often acts before thinking and says what comes to mind first. He’s not a fan of sitting around and idling time away with nothing, he likes to occupy his time by doing something active, be it indoors, or outdoors. He also idolizes superheroes and wants to be one that can help and protect everyone. This has shaped his sense of justice into one that doesn’t turn a blind eye to troubles or crime. He’ll jump in fists blazing if he sees trouble afoot. Though if the situation is just a bit too delicate for fists, he's willing to give that talking thing a try. Blake believes in doing what’s morally right, even if it requires stepping outside the bounds of the law.

Backstory: Blake and his brother were born to a normal Filipino couple in the southwestern United States. Their parents honestly weren’t born with any powers. Their father is an average joe businessman that works hard to support his family while their mother is a comic artist that primarily draws super robot based comics. They hadn’t a clue where their boys’ powers popped up from, but after reviewing the family history, it seemed that the boys had inherited their great grandparents’ powers. Funny how genes work, huh?

Growing up, Blake was surrounded by superhero media. Superhero comics, superhero news, superhero stories, he had this phase as a kid where he was religiously into superheroes. He was brought back down to Earth eventually, but he was still intensely interested in them because he had people he could relate to.

Blake was caught at the age of 5 using his powers to make a foostool to reach something just out of reach of his little hands. After a stern lecture over not touching mommy’s one of a kind figures, she and her husband eventually came to a decision to support Blake’s use of his powers and to encourage him to use them responsibly. To this end, they used superheroes to help give him a proper idea of how he should use them. Thus giving him his superhero fixation, idolization, and aspiration.

He didn’t have a full grasp over his powers until he was 12, but it was well known that he had superpowers via the good ol’ rumor mill. He was thought of as weird for it, unfortunately, but his brother always had his back, and they eventually made a small, but tight knit group of friends over the years.

Midway through middle school, Blake and Albert received their letters for Herculean Academy. Despite how inviting it seemed, they didn’t want to just drop everything and everyone they knew out of the blue, and held off on going to attend until they were through with it.

Other:

• Blake has a girlfriend back home. Sort of. He spilled his guts to her before he left and she returned them, but neither of them quite know how they’ll make the relationship work.
• Blake does not know how to ride a bike.
• Blake likes to collect superhero merchandise, but doesn’t really tell anyone since he doesn't want to look weird.
• Blake carries a small flashlight on him if he knows he'll be out late, just in case.
• Blake does not carry a modern phone and opts for a less advanced flip phone, insisting that's all he needs.

Al Reyes

Real Name: Albert “Al” Reyes

Superhero Alias: N/A

Gender: Male

Age: 14

Appearance:

Power Set: Manipulation of darkness - Al can manipulate the darkness around him by changing the shapes of shadows, increasing how dark they are, or by giving it a physical form that he can use offensively or defensively.

Albert gives darkness a physical form by pulling shadows out from the ground. Shadows appear as thin sheets that he can reshape from there to make them thicker, sharper, etc. Bigger shadows literally take more energy to pull out, and he can’t mitigate this by pulling smaller pieces out a time.

He can remotely control pulled out shadows, as well as unpulled ones in a ten feet radius around him. Pulled shadows automatically return to the object they belong to when he’s done with them.

Other Skills: He’s very good at working patiently and precisely, and is decently fluent in Tagalog.

Weaknesses: Albert is at his strongest at night, what with the whole “darkness all around you” thing. During the day and under the light, he has much less to work with, obviously. Especially if you diminish nearby shadows, including his own, to barely anything. Squishy ordinary human status applies to him as well without his superpowers. Being called weird doesn’t affect Albert as badly as it does Blake, but it does noticeably tick him off and break his focus.

Personality: Albert contrasts with his brother by being the quieter type that thinks before he acts. He’s also a bit lazy and tends to lay about or do little things that Blake wouldn’t have the patience to do. He has more fun staying indoors than outdoors most of the time. He idolizes superheroes as well, and thus believes in doing what’s right too. However, he’s a bit reluctant to act outside the law, as he doesn’t want to do deal with all the problems that could arise from that. At the end of the day, he’s more likely to try talking someone down with force being his last resort.

Backstory: Albert and his brother were born to a normal Filipino couple in the southwestern United States. Their parents honestly weren’t born with any powers. Their father is an average joe businessman that works hard to support his family while their mother is a comic artist that primarily draws robot or mecha based comics. They hadn’t a clue where their boys’ powers popped up from, but after reviewing the family history, it seemed that the boys had inherited their great grandparents’ powers. Funny how genes work, huh?

Growing up, Albert was exposed to the same amount of superhero media that Blake was, but wasn’t as wildly enticed by them. He was, instead, more interested in the works that his mother did, and developed a shared interest in the super robot genre. His interest in it didn’t get as wildly bad as Blake’s, but it did make him aspire to be a super robot pilot. After all, in a world with superheroes, it was only a matter of time before they were possible, right?

Instead, he discovered his actual superpower at the age of 9, after accidentally making shadow puppets that aren’t possible at all on a camping trip with his friends. He received the same support as Blake did from his parents and decided to roll with it since being a superhero is the next best thing to being a robot pilot.

Albert had an easier time getting accustomed to his powers than Blake since its main use was more straightforward than Blake’s. He initially kept it to himself since he didn’t want to get labeled just as weird, but by the time middle school started, everyone knew. Despite being labelled as “the weird twins,” Blake and Al powered through it thanks to each other and the few friends they made over the years.

Midway through middle school, Blake and Albert received their letters for Herculean Academy. Despite how inviting it seemed, they didn’t want to just drop everything and everyone they knew out of the blue, and held off on going to attend until they were through with it.

Other:

• Al is an avid collector of super robot merchandise, and likes to build small figures by himself.
• Al cannot ride a bike either, but he secretly taught himself how to ride a skateboard.
• Al likes to act out scenes from his favorite super robot series when he’s alone. Blake has caught him doing it once and it was awkward for the both of them.
• Al carries an umbrella on him if he can during the day, purely for the sake of extending his shadow.
• Al has a modern phone and frequently insists Blake go for the upgrade on his already.

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Kyle Anderson

“How do you not stare in to the Abyss when it’s all you can see when you close your eyes?”

.:Real Name:.
Kyle Anderson

.:Superhero Alias:.
Nothing yet

.:Gender:.
Male

.:Age:.
17

.:Appearance:.
On his better days.
On his less better days

Existence

.:Power Set:.

.:Eldritch Existence:.
Kyle is slowly turning in to something Alien, something outside the constraints of Physical laws and needs, something outside normal reality. What he is turning in to holds vast, powerful potential, but Kyle is frightened to learn what he can do, because every new thing he learns strips away another small piece of what humanity he has left and stains his sanity just that much more.

.:Eldritch Physiology:.
Since the awaking of his powers Kyle’s basic physiology has been altered, and while he is still figuring out all that he can now do, there are a few things he has noticed.
-He now only needs about 3 hours of sleep every other night.

- He heals at an accelerated rate, healing bones in days, minor bruises and cuts in hours, he even can regrow lost limbs though this take a rather long time. In addition his body has become more resistant to damage and the elements.

-His dietary needs have become an utter mystery as he has found that nearly nothing satisfies him, his appetite has also increased dramatically, yet hasn’t really figured out a way to satiated it. He can eat and digest nearly anything at the moment, but hasn’t found anything that fulfills his hunger.

-none of his organs, save for his brain, seem to be required for sustaining his life.

.:Eldritch Mind:.
Kyle’s mind no longer functions as a normal humans mind does, it sees things according to a set of alien realities. This is both a boon and curse however. His alien mind is structured differently than normal people so mental assaults are doomed to fail unless the attacker is aware of how Kyle’s mind is set up, but Kyle but is slowly losing what it means to be human.

To Compound matters, Kyle is no longer the only thing inhabiting his mind, the second presence is benign but is also a true Eldritch entity, currently it is content to watch Kyle grown and whispers hints to Kyle in the deep recesses of his unconscious.

.:Eldritch Corruption:.
The most potent ability that Kyle has is one he is not even actively aware of, He has the ability to inflict his Eldritch taint on to the world and then manipulate anything so tainted as if it was his own body. It is a slow process, one that requires constant contact with Kyle over the course of weeks for the Corruption to fully take hold, for everything fights against its influence. With knowledge of this capability he would be able to speed up the process but it will still take time.

Upon something being corrupted it is turned in to the same organic compound that currently makes up Kyle’s entire body, from there it can be molded the same ways that his body can. He can even permanently add this new mass to his person, for otherwise it will rot away within a day.

Even when he learns of this power he will have to be wary of its limitations, He is incapable of effecting other living being, regardless of their origin.There is also a limit of how much he can control before either his abilities run rampant outside of his influence or his brain cracks. Corrupted matter rampaging outside of his control rots within an hour.

Currently only his own clothes have been such affected, but no one has noticed yet.

.:Eldritch Body:.
The most obvious ability Kyle has learned is that his body is very malleable, it can bend and twist and change at his whim growing new limbs or removing vital organs, changing density or elasticity. He is a giant ball of organic clay that theoretically he can do anything with, but due to his limited knowledge and understanding he tends to just listen to his “instincts”, leaving him to be rather basic, albeit alien, often with tentacles, excessive amounts of eyes, large amounts spines and quite a few extra mouths, in his morphablity. The full extent of this ability has not been discovered due to a simple fear he has regarding his the loss of his sense of self, as he feels both more and less himself with each change. Thus he rarely transforms his whole body, normally only one of his arms, or both of his legs if required, and even then he is hesitant.

Additionally while transformed, even partially, his physical attributes are enhanced to top human potential, but only for the parts of him that are no long transformed. It should also be noted that none of the transformations are permanent, and will reverse upon unconsciousness if not changed back by Kyle beforehand.

Another application of his changeable nature of is the modifying of his blood. To date he has only learned two applications of this. One allows him to temporary impart his increased healing aspect to another person. Allowing them to swiftly heal from wounds, it is a delicate process however and not one he can perform in combat as it takes a lot of concentration to modify his blood in such a way.

He can also mold his blood in to a highly acidic substance that affects most every organic thing, though he is immune to this acid blood. It is easier to turn his blood to acid as well opening it up for use in combat.

.:Other Skills:.

- Kyle is and always has been a talented Artist, focusing mainly on Sculpting.

- Kyle always had a good memory, since his powers woke it has only gotten sharper, though there are some of his earlier memories that have been lost or twisted due to his powers.

- Due to how his mind now processes information Kyle has found that he can quickly gain a fair understanding of all languages just by listening to people talk in them for a bit.

- An innate grasp of Biology, recently developed

.:Weaknesses:.

- First and foremost, Kyle is scared of getting more skilled with his powers.

- Standard maths and sciences. While weak at the moment his "instinctive" understanding of eldritch truths makes understanding the laws of physics difficult.

- Animals. Kyle’s presence tends to trigger animals fight or flight instincts immediately.

- Cold iron. A rare, magical, variant of Iron useful in destabilizing arcane energy. Kyle has, what is best described as, a severe acute allergic reaction to this material.

- Kyle suffers from a fair amount of dissonance due to his powers. His body and mind seem alien to each other most of the time, only when he is in full swing of his powers does he feel normal, but that fact scares him as well.

- Kyle has only had active awareness his powers for a few months so he is very inexperienced with them.

- Kyle is sorely lacking combat experience.

.:Personality:.

Kyle is a socialite, easily capable of moving from group to group, and was the most popular kid in his school back when he was attending normal school systems. He tries to be a good person, friendly, open, and polite, but he was part of the popular cliques so is more than capable of being heartless intentionally or otherwise.
He doesn’t seem to get angry or even upset, neither does he get downtrodden or depressed, an almost constant smile on his face (sometime two or three if he’s not paying attention) though his taste for humor has certainly darkened. He sympathizes well with others that are either afraid or un-wanting of their powers.

He appears optimistic always trying again never letting his failures get him down the thing is he knows that there is something wrong with him, he just has no idea what the hell is going on with him. He is hiding behind a cocky grin and an air of open nonchalance, hiding all the cracks and faults he can desperately trying to keep himself from falling to pieces as his sanity twist slowly out of his grasp.

But he won’t go down silently, he will fight till the bitter end, and maybe he will figure out something that he can leave behind in case someone else ends up needing a hand with his same problem.

.:Backstory:.

Once he was an average student, living the popular life in high school, coming from an upper middle class family he had money, looks and charisma to be living every students dream. He was also talented in the arts skilled at sketching; painting, sculpting, even dabbled in acting for a time.

His parents, well he knew that one was a scientist of some sort, his father if he remembers right. His mother, he wasn’t sure if she had a job. He and his parents never really got along; they would always compare him to his older brother, a person that Kyle has never met, always away on vacations or work leaving him by himself more often than not. What he never learned was how a scientist could make enough to live in relative luxury, and take two or three vacations a year, yet not be front page news. The reason? His parents weren’t as morally upstanding as they appeared. They were both moderately successful villains, both steeped in dark arcane ways, with just a touch of mad science.

The last day of being normal started like any other. The same morning routine before he headed off to school, but instead of taking the tests that the day had, rather than chatting with his peers, the worlds of so many students came within a hair’s breadth of crashing down around them, for this day another student had finally had enough with being bullied.

Who the student was Kyle doesn’t know they were on opposite ends of the totem pole, but this lonely hurt and pained student had finally had enough with how his life a school was and decided to change things forever with backpack full of ammo and a 9mm pistol.

The student never got far along with his plans however as he only got off two shots before Kyle tried to tackle him and wrestle the gun away from him. After this point Kyle only remembers a few things with any clarity, one was that he had been shot at some point, and the second was a mind numbing terror that had spread through him.

When he had next woken up he was being held in the hospital with an armed guard, but nothing seemed to fit right in his head, he panicked, screaming for help, as his arm grew in the a bladed tendril of flesh and blinked at him, or was it smiling? It didn’t take long for Herculean academy to learn about Kyle, it took even less time for Kyle to agree to go to the school, he was scared by what was happening to him, and they were telling him they could help. They also wanted to keep an eye on Kyle; he was much older than most are when they first show qualities of their powers, and his were more alien then most are comfortable with.

.:Other:.
-He doesn't actually need the glasses he wares, he wares them because he thinks they look good on him.

-He is 6'1"

-His tattoos are in fact due to his ability to change his body, and he often will change them at a whim. It's the only part of his new found abilities that he enjoys.

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Emily

"Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you."

Real Name: Emily

Superhero Alias: None

Gender: Female

Age: 16

Appearance

Standing at around 5'4, the blonde can be a confusing sight to some due to her blood red eyes that burn like the dying embers of a fire. Either that or it's the way she looks at people with said eyes. She has a lithe frame and is about as light as a particularly lofty feather. In terms of clothing, Emily has a more... natural aspect of things. Social rules are viewed as aliens in her mind leading Emily to take very little notice when she's, say, going outside of her dorm room with nothing but a pair of socks on. She doesn't particularly understand why people find it so uncomfortable but she's doing research into the field.

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Power Set:
Pamnesia:
Emily remembers everything. She could tell you the obscured conversations of her mother while she was in the womb. She could perfectly describe to you how it felt taking that first gulp of air which kicked her lungs into action. She could tell you the precise date she took her first step and spoke her first word. Every single touch, taste, smell or sight that Emily has ever experienced can be called upon at any moment. Every substance she's ever touched could be described accurately, every meal she's ever eaten can be recalled, every smell aired through her consciousness and every last sight splayed out before her like her life has been acutely splattered into a picture book. More importantly, Emily is physically incapable of forgetting a thought.

The science behind it is rather complicated but studies have shown that her brain will simply compress neural synapses to contain it all, allowing her to absorb nearly endless amounts of information without fearing the loss of running out of space. For all intents and purposes, Emily is the personification of human perfection with the ability to experience and adapt at a speed never seen before.

Except she is in no way perfect by human standards. Her ability to progress vast swathes of information is overshadowed by the fact that most emotions or traits that can characteristically be defined as "human" have been eviscerated from her mind; almost as if their very presence is an inefficiency, leading to the failure to reach perfection. Emily only experiences emotions necessary for her continued survival and learning - namely, fear and curiosity.

Memory Leeching:
Upon physical contact, Emily is capable of dragging the memories of others into her own head. With little to no concentration, it'll only call up rather mundane memories that don't seem to have any significance but as she increases her effort and her powers better themselves, her ability to steal the memories of others will only bolster. Currently, she's capable of accessing and reading deep memories such as first kisses, past romances or family figures but she's still incapable of getting access to deeper memories such as tragedies, regrets and general important moments in someone's life.

Memory Manipulation:
This power is one of the main reasons why the authorities are worried about her and the potential destruction she can sow when older. Upon access of memories, Emily can alter them depending on the mental strength of her target. Superhumans, who typically have increased mental resistances, are harder to mess with and at her current power level, she can only change the simple or mundane things in their minds. The threat of this power lies in baseline humans and their relatively low mental resistances. Given a normal human, Emily could change their whole life in an hour or two. She could make them forget loved ones or change their perceptions on the world but the most dangerous aspect lies in her ability to wipe memories clean.

On more than one occasion, Emily has lashed out, reducing her victim to mental infancy in an extreme spike of power. Her abilities cut so deep that even muscle memory can be caught up in the flood and wiped clean, literally leaving her targets incapable of controlling their own bodies before they learn to use it again.

The fear is that as her powers grow paired with her lack of morals, Emily will be able to strike much faster and in much larger quantities. Her potential to steal state secrets is one that's also been noted. It's down to this ability that Emily was even sent to Herculean Academy - it's believed that if she's surrounded by teenagers like her then a gentle idea of morality could possibly form in her mind. Of course, she'll never exactly be a functioning member of society but if she was able to tell right from wrong, it would be considerably easier to regulate her abilities.

Other Skills:

• A genius in some regards and an absolute idiot in others. Emily could probably butt minds with some of the smartest people in the world and if she wanted to, she could make a massive difference in the world of science. However, anything that could be described as common sense evades her completely. It's so bad that it's basically impossible for her to function independently as basic principles of living are lost on her. For example, although told many times, Emily still hasn't copped on that taking the hairdryer into the bath isn't a good idea.
• Fluent in several different languages. Could learn most human dialects in a few years but she doesn't. Laziness suspected.

Weaknesses:
The better question is what is Emily not weak to? The answer to that would be emotional or mental attacks. Apart from those two, Emily is one of the few "superheroes" to be completely and utterly useless in combat. And even if she was, say, in the heat of combat, chances are she would just stand about and do nothing simply due to the fact that she doesn't understand what it is to dislike someone enough to harm them. Plus exercise is a weird concept to her making her about as dangerous as a particularly perplexed sheep.

Her abilities to read other superhumans' memories and potentially alter them is quite variable depending on the strength of her target's mind. For example, a strong-minded person could subconsciously prevent her from accessing deeper memories while a weak-minded person would be relatively simple to read and influence.

Personality:
Conversely, what personalises Emily is her very lack of a personality. The young girl seems to operate on survival and learning with very little else in between. Even if she was capable of holding emotions that could bring her into the more human spectrum of things, she would still be incapable of expressing them. Although she is able to hold other emotions that wander away from her norm, she can very rarely output them and even just holding them is enough to cause her pain or to retreat in on herself. The primary factor for this is that Emily simply doesn't understand any feelings that do arise and thus she chooses to austerize them from her own mind, fearing what she doesn't understand.

On the outside, Emily seems to be a quiet idiot (or eccentric). She doesn't say a lot and regularly has some sort of book in her hands but that doesn't mean she's an introvert. As already mentioned, emotions such as embarrassment don't seem to affect her and it takes a lot to actually scare her so there is not a lot that she won't do. Mix that with her lack of care for social rules and you have a rather dangerous concoction. Nudity doesn't bother her, nor does inappropriate or unwelcome romantic gestures and questions that really shouldn't be asked by a sixteen year old girl.

The main description of Emily would be her curiosity - everything from the simple to the complicated intrigues her and she values them just as equally; whether it be the proton decay or her roommate's secret stash of rowdy underwear.

Backstory:
Not a lot is known about Emily. Although she knows everything that has happened to her, she's always refused to tell anyone about it leading to others filling in the gaps. It's believed that she was born to a single mother and although there are no documents to prove her country of birth, it's thought that she was born in one of the Scandinavian countries. The name Emily was the only part she ever revealed from her early childhood as it was the name her mother gave to her.

The family that adopted Emily were two German doctors. They noticed something different about her almost immediately. Although she distanced herself from other children and displayed classic symptoms of normal mental illnesses, they were convinced that there was something more than that. It was only after she revealed information from their childhoods (information she didn't have any prior knowledge of) that they finally picked up on the beginnings of her powers. Nevertheless, they hid it awfully well and diagnosed her with mental disorders so as to cover up her abilities. Even from a young age, it was clear that Emily was miles away from normal. She was a genius in most regards and could ponder things other eight year olds couldn't even imagine.

Her powers were relatively easy to hide but they reared their ugly heads when their home was raided by the police after she hacked into Interpol's network. It took her parents some time to convince them that it was a ten year old who hacked the well-guarded system but her skills had already attracted the attention of those who were higher up. She was taken in for questioning on her abilities and seeing no need to lie, Emily told them everything. Instantly, she was deemed a risk to public health and, under a nice smokescreen, she was removed from the two who had adopted her.

Emily was brought to a research facility located in Eastern Europe. Although the project was in no way barbaric, its only intentions was to test the capabilities of its subjects and if they would have a use in military ventures. Emily was regularly used as a poster child for the rich benefactors of the project as she showed a simple uncaring nature towards the experiments and the tests. Plus she was believed to have had the most potential in terms of intelligence-gathering. A lot of people were interested in her powers and how useful they could be to various organisations or institutions. Emily didn't particularly care about the whole thing - they let her learn in peace.

Eventually, the project was exposed and publicly damned by governments who were previously funding them. Emily was extracted from the facility and returned to Germany where she had almost constant contact with her two German parents but was also subject to so-called counselling to overcome any burdens from the project. It was there that they picked up on Emily's lack of care for anything, really, and it was there that they realised that she was actually a major threat now that she had figured out her abilities. Hoping some form of contact with other superhumans would help her case, it was requested that Emily be sent to Herculean Academy and only a few weeks later, a formal invitation was extended to her family.

Other:

• Has a strange fascination with erotic literature.
• Has briefly pondered if she is, in fact, God.

[Rune_Alchemist]

@Savo's active Characters

Lukas Kunze

Real Name:
Lukas Kunze

Superhero Alias:
Der Fuchs

Gender:
Male

Age:
17

Appearance:

Regular Attire

Superhero Attire

Mask

Suit

Lukas is a young man standing boldly at around 193cm, with a weight of 86.7kg. His skin is of a argent complexion, however there are signs of a little bit of tan hue emerging. He also possesses quite an athletic build,

He also sports short brown hair that is rather unkempt at times and even on the brink of being out of control distinct hue of red as the newest color for his eyes due to his power, the former being hazel.

The boy also dons a loose white shirt with his usual attire consisting of a black jacket over it, along with some sabled pants along with some standard grayish-white sneakers. The boy also displays the use of myriads of different ties, the ones being used most of the time black or red.

Power Set:
Telekinesis

Lukas has the ability to easily manipulate objects within a matter of seconds all thanks to his mind being stronger than matter. He can use this to his advantage as he can control many objects with little ease, either stopping something from flying towards him in it's tracks or even altering the way an object a person tosses by a little margin to make it look like they performed an unwitting mistake. Problem is he can only go so far as to control two things at a time with his mind, leaving him rather weakened for right now. This causes him to focus more on planning ahead strategically at times rather than the force of flinging random objects at a person as quick as he can.

**Note - Need permission from the other user to affect their character through Telekinesis to avoid power-gaming. The way they are altered is through the objects they have. Marked abilities also depend on the users mental ability versus the opponents physical ability. This also applies to the items they are holding. This also adds a hidden weakness which makes him unable to use his Telekinesis for a small to medium duration of time.

**Telekinetic Grip - He has the ability to keep an object firmly stuck in one place; however, depending on the users physical strength and mental(limited to telekinesis users), it may be easy or difficult for a person looking to fight him with a melee weapon, or just any objects in particular. It can also keep things of importance from flowing away or certain objects from shattering.

**Levitation - Lukas can make an object simply float upwards into the air such as a bed, table, water bottle, you name it. However, doing this uses up one of his "slots" so until he removes his influence on the object, he can only lift one more thing with his mind. Also levitating liquids is... rather difficult to pull off due to the molecular structure and how it leaves a peculiar goop like feeling in his mind.

**Telekinetic Projection/Maneuver - He has the ability to also alter an objects direction in which they are traveling or pick up an object and throw it somewhere else, or at a living person. Once thrown/moved, he doesn't exactly need to exert his force over it and just let's it move onwards at a specific speed. This gives him room to free up his mind for throwing more objects at a person with little to no consequences... depending.

Unarmed Combat - Lukas can pick up objects and keep his grasp on certain objects as if he possessed an extra limb or two. Through this, he can gain an edge in melee combat by staying out of harms way, or he can delve deep into combat, causing much more pressure for the opponent either way. If he uses a gun with his extra "appendages", that will cause him to use up both of his inconspicuous arms due to him holding the weapon with one of his hands and pulling the trigger with the other in part to how his telekinesis works. He is rather ok with wielding weapons, but he needs a "little" more practice to be able to use them at his level.

Spatial Sense - Focusing intently, this ability allows him to pick up on any body in the area around him, however telling if they are dead or alive is another. Despite picking up on the bodies around him he can't tell if such a person is deceased,living, or undead which can make for problems. This gives leeway to a hope spot for people before utterly devastating them, or a chance at saving a person who appears dead who will become lifeless if not acted upon. It also has a range, just like his telekinesis, where he can see people/feel them before having an inability to detect them.

Other Skills:

Under the careful watch of his step-mother, not only has he trained to use swords with his mind, but physically too. This makes him rather difficult to fight within close range in combat, whether he is dual wielding swords, armed with one, or all four. However, he is much more comfortable with using two, rather than one... even though he would be better off using one currently.

Since he is unable to use more than two items with the power of telekinesis, Lukas has to often be quick on his feet and devise plans on how to counter someone attacking him with projectiles, melee, etc. Split second thinking is a double edged sword as he can move on from one target to the next, stopping all of the momentum, force, speed, you name it physics fans, behind an item of interest.

Over his time training with his step-mother, she has forced him to wear weights and perform other ridiculous tasks. This was all to mainly build him up so he could always have a backup like her if she lost her tools, had nothing to use with her mind, etc. His skills in defending himself while staying on the offensive are becoming refined, but it will take a few more years of training to truly make him shine.

Lukas can comprehend some German, but speaking in the language has been more or less a challenge since he currently speaks a bit of broken German and a few phrases. He is currently working hard to overcome this boundary, but for now he averts speaking German and sticks to just using the English language.

Weaknesses:

Trying to lift up over two objects at once will cause Lukas to get a massive headache which temporarily disables him from using his Telekinetic powers. He will need some practice to overcome this, but other than that he shouldn't try to lift more than two objects.

Using specific abilities will leave him vulnerable in many ways as stated above, rendering him immobile or disabled from using his acquired powers temporarily. The latter makes him rely on his innate skills more which could make for a few problems.

Performing things in a split second succession isn't usually the smartest way to go at things and can leave him to having his own tools defiled and used against him in an ironic fashion.

He makes himself appear more or less like an ace at many things, but in reality it is generally the telekinesis talking. As an example, in sports, he has never been able to keep up properly, causing him to have low self-esteem when his hypocrisy is pointed out... that or he may just burst...

People with a stronger control over themselves can move through Lukas' Telekinetic powers, whether it be moving at slower pace to being unaffected completely. In his current state, superior Telekinesis users can break through this with ease, negating his control.

The only way he can really use his Telekinesis if he sees or knows the object he wishes to control is in a specific area. For example, he wants his katana and he remembers leaving it in his room. However it has been moved to another room without his knowledge, therefore he can't retrieve it unless told by another or seen by him.

Personality:

Lukas is a bit of a hardworking individual who is much more lax than given credit for. Even though he is rather prone to pushing himself and others to rather cacophonous standards, he does it for improvement to the point of perfection. Even with such a severe undertone, his actions, mainly emotions make him almost appear quite sadistic despite not being hostile in a genuine sense. His true colors really lie when you get him in a relaxing situation or cause him to nerd out a tinge bit, making him a rather approachable individual. His bright attitude and sympathy towards others make him the sort of person to lend an ear to you when in need of aid. Lukas will also warn against someone pushing themselves too much if he does bring himself to befriend the person. He also sometimes question his harsh procedures when pushing himself, along with others when they are on the brink of expiration.

Not all things are truly puppies and rainbows for him; even when having the appearance of a somewhat perverse, happy-go-lucky person he shows signs of being completely serious for the most part. He can discern when the time comes for fun and amusing each other, along with himself from where the line is drawn and when all jokes have to end. To him, this isn't just some game people can toy around in and expect to make it through unscathed. He expects a person to fight each battle as if it were their last. Lukas understands that there are hidden depths to each person and frankly would prefer not taking chances unless they have a semblance about how the select person, parasite, etc. tick. To be precise, don't dick off in battle and you will live long enough to see another day, unless said person is rather inept and cannot really perform an action that is worthwhile enough to make a dent.

His perfectionism makes for a little bit of a fatal flaw for him at times and may sometimes make him perceived as a hypocritical cheat. He somewhat dislikes this, but he can't dismiss the fact that it's through and bitterly acknowledges it himself. Despite it just being in sports, it mainly stems from an unrealistic expectation of himself, sometimes seeing those athletic pastimes as something equating to reality and works to the point where he won't have to rely on his powers. He is no better in fights, even as being completely flexible. At first, he will start off rigid, going in with a plan stubbornly and trying to make it work to the point where this trait is sort of an unhealthy passion. Even when winging it, he becomes extremely frustrated and might be slightly irritable after a task and may just want to leave the whole thing alone temporarily. Error to him is as if it's life or death.

Backstory:

Lukas was born within the bustling city of New York City to a German father and American mother, a few minutes older than his younger sister. Due to some problems in the operation, the two children were unfortunately left with only a father to care for them. Neither mother or father were supers at all, and like them never inherited any powers from either parent due to being normals. Even with the ability to live like a regular person, their live was far from being ordinary. The duo during most of their childhood weren't around their father due to his demanding job, which left them in the hands of a caretaker. Eventually, the children were heralded with a new woman strolling into their lives. She was of Asian descent, and appeared rather exotic to the eye since she was somewhat unfamiliar. The woman's name was Mei from what the toddlers could recollect at a young age, and she filled a peculiar gap which was vacant for almost the whole three years of their life. They felt whole, well, other than the times when she had to leave the home on a whim, only to return after a few hours. It was just a regular life...

To an extent.

They never knew about their step-mothers identity as a superhero with a rather simple name, known as Calista. Lukas and his sister, Mary, often took note of her amazing abilities and often played cops and robbers with their other friends around the neighborhood, mimicking the fascinating woman. They even went as far as to imagine some of the women caring for their family as Calista, even their own mother. The woman felt no need to reveal herself to anyone but her husband, the government, and any other person of interest. Even without the innate abilities of supers, she still raised them with differentiating interests, such as kendo and boxing. In a sense, this also kept herself sharpened, enabling her to hone her skills while spending time with her step-son and step-daughter which she cherished dearly.

It wasn't until they were six years of age, when they were caught in a hostage situation at a large mall by a group of cultists looking for sanguine fluid of heightened proportions. Despite it being completely outrageous, they demanded for the blood of a few specific supers or else they would use the blood of the innocent instead to satisfy their vile sacrilegious ideals. They called a few supers "demi-gods" and their leader was told by the gods about needing the blood of lesser beings. Their father understood the situation quite well, knowing that they were out for the blood of humans blessed with incredible abilities for the sole reason of possibly becoming like them too... well, that's what he believed as they had the place on a strict lock-down. The children were scared, but kept asking for their hero to come save them.

The hero, Calista eventually appeared after learning of what happened, and she was furious of what she came to saw. With her powers, she managed to disarm most of the cultists, even taking some risks to secure the safety of everyone. The problem is that no one is perfect as she didn't come to expect a back-up to come and was caught off-guard. The woman was severely wounded in the process and was forced to keep them from getting their way in a sign of desperation which lead to one of her biggest mistakes - He step-son was harmed like a few other people in the crossfire. This left her with a horrifying image as she rushed to clean up the mess she made and quickly took the boy to the hospital. Due to the high amount of blood loss, they would need a blood transfusion of specific A alleles to save the boy. Problem was that they were waiting for an influx of blood due to a couple of blood bank raids by said cult.

On that very day, Lukas gained the abilities of his own mother in part to her frantic attempt to mend what she caused, even while being in no condition to help him. Regardless, she took the risk, but she was left incapacitated for quite sometime. Lukas saw his mother in another light after learning of her own sacrifice. Lukas eventually began to experience nauseous headaches, along with some outlandish things going on in their house. Items that floated for no apparent reason, things in places they shouldn't be in, and a whole lot of vomit and sobbing emanating from Lukas' room. After a week in the confinement of the hospital, Mei returned home to finding her step-son with the same abilities as her, along with a few familiar problems. Mei had to calm down the young, rash six year old who was experiencing a lot of pain before discretely deciding to teach him how to use his powers that she bestowed onto him.

From there on, Lukas grew up as a regular boy, well, almost. With the new blood of a hero running through his veins, his mother had to keep him on lock down at times and used her wiles to get a job as a teacher at the school he was attending since she quit her job in being a woman of business. There were easier ways to keep a look out for abnormalities, but Lukas never questioned why. As the boy kept growing, he always wondered what peculiar tingling sensation was going on in his mind. Lukas' began to question why this was transpiring, and began to ask questions or devote his time to looking up knowledge on this instead of playing with his friends in futbol or Pokemon. Upon reaching the age of ten, he was shown the path that he had to go down by his own mother as she apologized profusely.

The boy was ecstatic, in a good way. He understood with his mind, he could safeguard the general populace and was eager to learn and use his uncovered power. The road he was put on was rocky at times as he struggled to lift more than one object, becoming frustrated. Sometimes his mother questioned if this was the right path for him, to which he acknowledged her with a determined yes. There was a fire in his eye, not know that he was forsaking his social life. Lukas grew closer to his mother while becoming almost remote to his friends. In the future as he became more skilled, he learned to balance out these two perspectives and ever began to learn that being a hero wasn't one of silver-lining.

His own family could only remind the boy that he was human.

When reaching the age of fourteen, he was leading the same normal life again and wondered which path to truly traverse down. The training was getting harsher and harsher, but yet he didn't back down. Yet, he found interest in other jobs rather than having the pure view of being a hero 24/7. Some heroes lead normal lives just as he and his mother demonstrated and being one certainly wouldn't pay exactly. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos were the three items that kept him going between the two spectrum's before combining both. With the powers and resolve, he began to mold himself a little bit more, causing a metamorphosis within his personality trends. The boy began to try and make himself the best, starting off with his kendo training with his mother in which he became much more fearsome. This trait extended to other activities such as his schools sports. The boy started as another face in the crowd to the coaches, but over time he evolved in part to abusing his powers to fuel his own unrealistic idea of perfection. You had to not make a slight error, lest you hinder another persons fate or yours for the worse as he saw it.

This eventually crossed into most of his life, worrying his family as he was going a bit too far. They had the most influence on him, mostly his mom thanks to the time spent training. Her bond with her step-son made the boy question his whole reasoning, making him remember why he wanted to become a hero in the first place.

After enough time passed, he was enrolled into the Herculean Academy for his first year, expanding his own mind through training and algorithms. It was an enjoyable first year, but rapidly he found himself in his second year at the Herculean Academy.

He is certainly excited for this new year; with an eagerness implanted deep within, his second year at the Academy starts.

(should include: whether their parents have powers or not, whether their parents are heroes, villains or civilians, how your character got their powers, and what they were doing before the school found them)

Other:

Lukas is pretty geeky for the most part, so he may just nerd out at the most inconceivable times if he finds reference to something that he is familiar with. Don't expect him to remember everything though.

Current Items

Four Diamond Katanas transmuted by his step-mother

Other sets of clothes!

Just ignore the weird red cape xP

[Rune_Alchemist]

@Ogobrogo's Active Character

Graham

Real Name: Graham Gavin Turner

Superhero Alias: N/A

Gender: Male

Age: 15

Appearance: That small fry would be Graham. Short for his age, and small in size to boot, Graham doesn’t stand out all that much. He hides his scalp under a messy mop of orangish-red locks and his green eyes behind a pair of green framed glasses.

The kid prefers his clothes somewhat baggy. He’ll mainly wear T-shirts, usually throwing on a button-up flannel over that should it be a bit cold, coupled mainly with khaki cargo pants or jeans. No shorts for this lad. As for shoes, just a pair of grey and blue tennis shoes will do.

Power Set: Biological Manipulation: Graham possesses the ability to control all aspects of a living creature's biological make-up. This includes, but is not limited to:

-Physical distortion/augmentations: From increasing the subject’s hair length to growing additional limbs, Graham is your one-stop shop for a true “total makeover.” Of course, the larger the change, the more energy is required on Graham’s part. Regrowing a friend’s arm after losing an arm-wrestling match with a super-strengthed behemoth, while possible, is not something that Mr. Turner is able to do at his current level.

-Healing: Graham can dramatically boost a person’s natural healing. As of the moment, he has only succeeded in healing minor wounds, anything more rapidly drains him of his energy. As such, he is unable to revive the dead. Not that he’d want to, anyway. Sometimes dead is better.

-Disease: Similar to his healing, Graham is able to switch gears, so to speak, and empower diseases present in a subject, increasing their resistances to the host body, multiplying diseased cells, the whole nine yards. He unable to create diseases from nothing, though. Should he want to give someone a case of the superflu, he’d better hope they’re battling the sniffles. All a moot point, however. The disease portion of his ability is something Graham would like to avoid.

-Biological functions: Graham can affect the body at almost every level. It is not out of reach for Graham to be able to increase/decrease a subject’s metabolism, growth rate, muscle growth, so on and so forth. However, he can’t simply will it to be. Such changes require incredible concentration and intimate knowledge of the human body and how it works. Graham is sorely lacking on both fronts.

Or rather, Graham possesses the potential of such abilities. His abilities all require him to touch the subject to take affect. It is able to affect through clothing, however hard padding or metal will block any such attempts. As stated before, manipulation is very demanding on Graham’s body. He is prone to fatigue after using it. Major changes, while theoretically possible, are dangerous to Graham at his current stage. And try as he might, Graham cannot affect himself with his ability. No healing, no changing, nada. Physician, heal thyself.

Other Skills: While not the brightest kid on the block, and unable to fight his way out of a paper bag, Graham does have a great ear for music. He is quite proficient at the piano and guitar. He was quickly learning to play the sax, but somebody stole the beast, likely to hawk it for some nefarious means.

Weaknesses: As hinted at a few times, Graham is rather frail and, as the universe is fond of playing cruel jokes on us all, has a poor immune system. He is frequently sick, which compounds his current stamina issues with his powers. More likely to be curled up next to a book or a game pad, Graham is, understandably so, not very athletic. He’s very quick to trust people, which leads to him being used or misled easily. Not that he’s horribly gullible, he just likes to see everybody as inherently good.

As he’s a pacifist, Graham isn’t much help should a physical confrontation break out. He doesn’t exactly know how to fight, and his small stature isn’t about to overpower anybody anytime soon.

Personality: Some people are content to bask in silence, pondering the nature of the universe and one’s self. Graham would not be one of those people. A loud-mouth hothead with a silver tongue and a rather low boiling point resides in the frail outer shell. Graham is one to find something to talk about with anyone. He hasn’t met a stranger yet. Not to say that he is beloved by one and all. He’s a pretty blunt guy, saying what comes to mind be it cruel or otherwise. Not that he means to be rude, he just doesn’t like to lie. If one can get past that, they see that Graham is a loyal, protective guy.

He also loves order. Rules, law, there is always a way things are to be done, and Graham sticks to that closely. When he does inevitably fly off the handle, Graham is quick to try to resolve the issue and return things back to pristine order.

Graham considers himself a pacifist, though he does (barely) support physical violence for emergency defence of self or others, although never in lethal ways. As such, the boy can’t fight and quite frankly, doesn’t want to. He’d rather give out a mighty tongue lashing than a roundhouse kick. Also, Graham is unable to perform roundhouse kicks.

Backstory: Reared by a coal miner and factory worker in a one-stoplight town in Eastern Kentucky, Graham had a pretty average childhood. His parents made enough to get by without worrying about ending up in a soupline down at the shelter. Neither of which displayed any signs of abnormality beyond a fondness for cheesy movies, puns, and all things KISS, thus making Graham a first generation mutant.

His powers didn’t start awakening until around his twelfth birthday. Maxie, the aging, hard-of-hearing family dog , had urged Graham into another game of “Throw the stick, and I’ll bring it back. Forever. Seriously, don’t stop” right in the front lawn. The Turner boy, more preoccupied with thoughts of video games, TV, and that babelicious fox called Heather that sat two seats up and one over from him in class. Maybe he was caught up in one of his fantasies when he threw the stick just a little too hard and it landed in the road. Maxie saw it land and his ancestral wolf blood began to boil. The hunt was on. He launched forward with all the strength of a dog half his age. Perhaps if he were half his age, he would have hear Graham calling him to stop. He wasn’t and he didn’t, though. Just as Maxie triumphantly retrieved the stick, he was clipped by a red Ford going twenty over the limit. And no, the driver didn’t stop. Didn’t even tap the brakes afterwards.

Graham rushed to the dog, tears flooding his face. Maxie was a mess. His legs in angles they shouldn’t be, blood dripping from his mouth. Probably only a few steps from the Great Dog Park In the Sky when Graham pulled him closer, begging him not to go. Then the blooding stopped. And after a few moments, the dog got up and licked his face, eager to continue the game. The dying pooch looked as if nothing at all had happened. Graham could have even swore he saw the dog’s ears twitch when he called it’s name.

Many similar events occurred in the passing days, months, and years. He never spoke a word of it to his parents. Didn’t speak a word of it to anyone, actually. And then he received a letter in the mail. Perhaps a bit vague, and omitting any and all obvious mentions of superpowers, but Graham got the message. Someone somehow had noticed what he could do. And that someone or someones was now offering to help him learn about this...thing. How could he refused. His parents took some work to convince, especially with his health issues, but he won in the end. Enthusiasm always wins in the end.

Other: Graham is prone to “verbal diarrhea” when too excited. The more worked up he gets, the more likely for his sentences to become just long words.

Tabitha Turner

Tabitha

Real Name:
Tabitha Hannah Turner

Superhero Alias:
n/a

Gender:
Female

Age:
15

Appearance:

“Y’know, you’d look REEEAAALLY swell in black an’ blue.”

Tabitha

And in this corner, wearing the green trunks, standing at five foot seven and weighing in at a hundred and twenty-two pounds, “Terrible” Tabby Turner!

Tabitha is of a more athletic build than her siblings, though she hasn’t been able to escape the trademark pale skin, red locks and green eyes that haunts the entirety of the Turner brood. Her hair is closer to Ted’s than Gracie’s or Graham’s. Oh well. Slap a little sunscreen on, trim that hair down shortish, don a hat and some sunglasses then everything’s hunky-dory.

The feisty redhead isn’t much for fancy clothing. The really nice stuff is either too restrictive, too expensive, or too stupid. And just too much work. Seriously. Just keep it simple, stupid. Much like her brother, Tabitha’s content with just a band tee and some jeans. Not that she’s copying him, though. The little dweeb hijacked her style. At least, that’s her story and she’s sticking to it. Anyone who says otherwise gets a couple of black eyes, on the house.

She does have a little more variety than the tiniest Turner. If it’s hot, there shall be sweaters. If it’s not, shorts off the port. Though athletic wear is king in her eyes. Comfy, breathable, breezy, why that’s everything to make for a happy Tabby. Really, about the only fashion statement she makes is a small blue star she paints on her face under her left eye every morning. Why? Because she likes stars. Got a problem with it? Well fuck you too, buddy. Let’s go, right here, right now.

Power Set:

“What? Twenty hands are better than two, duh.”

Tabitha

Self-Duplication
It’s likely that at some point in one’s life, one will ponder the possibilities of having a clone to boss around and with which to get into hilarious hijinks and shenanigans. For most, that will sadly never be.

Tabitha, however, is living the dream. She is able to create a perfect replica of herself at will. The replica is identical to Tabitha in every conceivable way, sharing all of her memories, her feelings, her hopes, her dreams, her biological makeup, her clothing, you name it. The replica will always cooperate with Tabitha. Whether that be due to an effect of the power itself or Tabitha’s deep love for herself, is a question for another day.

At the moment, she is capable of creating and maintaining up to ten clones of herself. Any more and she quickly finds that she runs out of stamina and becomes quite exhausted physically and mentally. There is also distance to consider. Thirty meters, or about 98.4 feet, is her absolute maximum range, and her clones are likely to massively drop in quality. Time may be a factor, but Tabitha isn’t sure. She’s never had a single clone out longer than three hours. In most cases when using her ability, she tends to stick to a happy medium: five clones at fifteen meters, only using more when absolutely required.

As long as Tabitha is conscious and in a relatively healthy, she is able to create her clones instantly. They appear almost as an afterimage, that is to say, they appear in the space Tabitha previously inhabited then quickly move to their own. So long as she can move a limb, she should be able to create a clone. Dissipating them requires just a thought, then poof, bye bye clone.

Other Skills:

Boxing Background - Starting boxing at a local gym at age ten. Has had some moderate success in tournaments, but hasn’t really achieved anything of note. Fights in the southpaw stance in a swarmer style.

Slappin Da Bass, Mon - She picked up the bass at twelve. She hasn’t looked back since.

Can I Be Like Mike? - Tabitha loves basketball. More importantly, Tabitha is GOOD at basketball. It’s not uncommon to see her playing her clones on the court.

Weaknesses:

TILT! - She doesn’t work well from behind. If she starts losing, she’s likely to make more mistakes or lose morale quicker.

What a Klutz - She’s rather clumsy. Not likely to have much of a future in waitressing.

Au Contraire - Tabitha, cannot resist proving herself to others. If told she cannot do something, she’ll do it or die trying.

Jackass - She’s stubborn as a mule. She’s right. You’re not. Facts be damned. Deal with it.

My Glasses - Her eyesight isn’t the best, but she refuses to wear glasses.

Just Don’t Move for the Next Three Hours - Is actually pretty talented with a makeup brush.

Personality

“Mama said knock you out.”

Tabitha

Duuuh, Tabby smash small pudgy man. Tabitha is yet another in a long line of sarcastic Turner children. While she’s not horribly cruel, she isn’t afraid to speak her mind. And she’s more than willing to back up her words with actions. Tabitha is an impulsive, rash, stubborn mule of a woman who enjoys the simple things in life. Like, y’know, running. Or jumping. Or punching. She likes competition, or more accurately, likes winning competitions. Losing isn’t exactly one of her strong points. She’s actually rather emotional and quite prone to tears when excited, sad, what have you. Mocking it probably wouldn’t be the wisest action. She’s got a burning, hair-trigger temper and once this top is popped, there is no stop til somebody gets bopped.

Fun is the hyperactive, overly energetic chica’s top priority. It dictates most of her actions. If something seems fun, she’ll do it. If not, she won’t. Nice and simple, yeah? Studying, sadly, isn’t exactly what she would call the most riveting activity, and as such her grades aren’t exactly the best. But that’s not a cause for concern for her. Tabitha lives in the moment, in the now. Cause she can go with the flow, ya dig?

Despite the negatives, Tabby can be pleasant to be around. She’s pretty laid back when not competing. She’ll laugh at just about anything and more or less tries to get along with people. Just, y’know, don’t complain when she decides she doesn’t like you and then starts the harassment/pranks. It’s just business.

Backstory:

“Yeah yeah yeah, I know, but just hear me out. This is going to be fuckin’ hilarious.”

Tabitha

Technically the youngest of the Turner children, Tabitha popped out of Mrs. Turner ten minutes after her fraternal twin, Gracie. Her ability developed rather early, about the time she hit three months she was already creating full clones in the crib. A bit of a shocker for the parents, but we all learn to adapt. Tabitha ended up having a relatively normal childhood. Her parents, fearing what trouble her ability may bring to the child, made sure that she knew to keep the cloning thing secret.

So she did.

She was an active child, having plenty of friends and involved in sports galore. Basketball was the big one, though she did play softball for a couple years. As of late, boxing has become a big part of her life. That is, until…

Her letter arrived shortly before Graham’s. She was ecstatic. To attend a place where she could freely use her gift? Hell yeah, she was down. Her parents took a lot of convincing though. They weren’t keen on their child being taken to some far off place to be molded into a tool...but they caved. Tabby convinced them to give the OK. They opted to keep her invitation a secret from Graham, not wanting to burden the fragile child with his sister’s hefty secret. So when Graham’s letter came, they were surprised. Tabitha yet again got her way, convincing them not to tell Graham that she was going as well. Why? Because she wanted to surprise him/give him a heart attack. And if one thing was guaranteed in the Turner household, it was that pranks were sacred.

Onwards for laughs.

Other:

-Terrified of bears.
+Terrified of spiders.
-Terrified of rats.
+Fuck wildlife, like seriously.
-She’s the best singer of the Turner trio.
+Has never kissed anybody.
-Graham is often the subject of her torture.
+Gracie, however, is Tabitha’s idol.
-Is the midpoint between Graham’s slobbiness and Gracie’s obsessive cleanliness
+Fucking hates Country music. Just die.

Gracie Turner

Gracie

Real Name:
Gracie Hannah Turner

Superhero Alias:
n/a

Gender:
Female

Age:
15

Appearance:

“Ugh...could you try NOT looking like a cavewoman for once? I swear, Tabby, there’s no hope for you.”

Gracie

Appearances are important and first impressions are everything. As such, Gracie is diligent in keeping herself prim and proper at all times. One never knows when one might have to make an unexpected appearance after all, and to be tardy is inexcusable.

Gracie stands about five foot nine and no, she’ll not be announcing her weight anytime soon. She has a very slim build. As with the others, she’s been cursed with red hair and green eyes. Her locks are more in line with Graham’s than Tabby’s or Ted’s. She applies light makeup. Subtlety says the most.

Gracie prefers dressier clothing. Dresses, skirts, anything with an air of class about it. Her favorite and most worn outfit is a dark blazer with a pair of jeans. She frequently wears newsboy caps. If it gets cold, her scarf collection finally gets some use. Joyous day.

Power Set:
Psionic Materialization
Gracie is gifted with the ability to give form to the objects in her imagination using psychic energy. Gracie can use her mental energy to create objects, though they are not permanent by any means. They’ll only exist so long as Gracie focuses on them. Given the the means to create, how does Gracie choose to utilize her tool? Why weaponry, of course.

While not a master by any means, Gracie employs an arsenal of psychic weapons in combat. Spears, swords, mauls, bows. The constructs mimics the weight and properties of the actual weapons, though this can be altered by Gracie on the fly. She prefers to keep things as realistic as possible though. She’s not limited to offense, however. She’s capable of producing shields and actual armor for herself as well. There is a bit of a risk to using her ability defensively. Her constructs are made of her own psychic energy, and should they be destroyed, Gracie suffers a bit of backlash. Depending on how much energy she had in the construct, the backlash can range from anything as small as a headache or slight discomfort to loss of consciousness or even death in the most extreme cases.

Having the weapons available to her does not necessarily mean that Gracie is proficient in their use. Rather, she is horribly inexperienced in most. The only exception being the bow. She is a rather good shot. Her arrows can usually hold integrity up to 75m, but as a rule of thumb, she doesn’t feel comfortable taking shots longer than 50m.

Her constructs, when used offensively, do mental damage, rather than physical, despite still existing on the physical plane. The cuts, bludgeons, and stabs still hurt like hell, but one’s not going to die to them. Her weaponry can be deflected, blocked, destroyed, what have you, just like the arms she's imitating.

As for nonweaponry, should Gracie decide to make something else, she is rather limited. She is, at this moment, unable to create anything larger than a large wooden wardrobe. But hey, size doesn't matter.

Other Skills:

Feel the Rhythm in Your Bones - Gracie is a slave to the beat and a follower of the ways of the drumstick.

Bullseye! - Gracie is a very good shot with a bow. She’s been shooting since she could hold a bow, thanks to Papa Turner.

What Rhymes With Orange? ...Doorhinge? - Gracie writes songs rather often. She’s not likely to share them though.

And They All Lived Happily Ever After… And Then A Dragon Ate Them - Writes fanfiction of her favorite books/television shows/etc.

Weaknesses:

Don’t Blink. Blink and You’re Dead - Loss of focus will cause her constructs to dissipate.

Something Seems...Off - Gracie’s constructs are purple. She cannot change the color of them.

Mother Duck - Gracie is quite protective over her siblings. She won’t do anything that may put them in danger.

Keep It Simple Stupid - Gracie overthinks things, often failing to take action due to considering every possible outcome of a certain action.

JackassLite - Can be incredibly hardheaded, though she’s not as bad as her sister.

Respect Your Elders - Easily submits to people in positions of authority.

Glass Jaw - Without her powers augmenting her, Gracie isn’t much for physical combat. A good hit’s going to send her off to Mr. Sandman.

You’re Beneath Me, Peon - Often comes across as condescending. Not on purpose, but it is what it is.

Personality:

“The shirts are separated my brand, country of origin, fabric type, color, then size. Seriously, people, how’s that hard to follow?”

Gracie

Gracie is an agent of order sent to stabilize the chaotic energies of the other Turner children. She seems to be failing. She’s a friendly, polite girl, just as outgoing as any of her siblings, and although she did inherit the same explosive temper as her siblings, her outbursts are internal rather than external. Granted, the trade-off seems to be her rage rants tend to be much more cruel than the others.

She’s a fairly normal acting chick. She loves movies, books, most genres of music, the whole shebang. She does have a bit of a nerdy side, but that part is kept locked away tightly in her private place. She’s rather secretive about herself, preferring to deflect questions back to others, steering conversations away from herself. Knowledge is power and she’s not keep on others having power over her.

Under her generally sweet demeanor is a bit of a control junkie. She likes getting her way and isn’t too pleased when she does. Perfection must be achieved, no matter the cost. While she is rather easy going, she can be rather vindictive when crossed and prefers for her revenge to cut deep. When on a quest for vengeance, she’s willing to use anything or anyone being as manipulative or cold as she needs to be as long as it means her justice shall be delivered.

She’s tends to think things through to the point of overthinking. Logic over emotion at all times. Even when seeking justice, should she see herself going past what is logical, she’ll end her quest.

Temporarily.

“And for fuck’s sake, keep it clean you filthy pigs. Act civilized and pick up after yourselves.”

Gracie

Backstory:

Gracie is the third child of the Turners, and was the youngest for a full ten minutes before her fraternal sister Tabitha decided to join the world. Oh well, such is life. Karma for doing the same thing to Graham, albeit he had eleven months of being the youngest. Whatever. Having a little sister was well worth it in Gracie’s eyes.

Gracie’s childhood was...quiet. Her powers didn’t manifest as quickly as Tabitha’s did, nor did they wait as long as that potato Graham. She found her abilities about the time she turned five. It started while watching a cartoon movie. One of the Disney ones. One moment there was just a little ginger girl watching a television, then there was a little ginger girl watching a television with a purple candelabra dancing about beside her. The Turners were at least vaguely familiar with such experiences however, and dealt with it. Gracie was not to use the powers around other people.

The little girl understood.

Gracie threw herself into her studies and achieved glorious grades across the board because of it. She did the whole cheerleading thing for a couple years, but didn’t stick to it. She preferred her books to her pompoms. Go figure. She had plenty of friends, though few were close. Tabitha, her sister, is about as close a friend as she’s ever had.

Her letter was the first to arrive of the Turner Trio. She asked the parents if she could go. They said no. She asked again. They said no. So no it was. That was, until Tabitha got a letter as well. She didn’t seem too excited about the idea at first, but Gracie got her fired up about it. Then Gracie unleashed the baby upon the parents. It worked like a charm. They broke down and agreed to allow Gracie and Tabitha to attend Herculean Academy. And Graham later, as well, but for the life of her, Gracie couldn’t figure out how he got an invitation. He was a potato.

Well, starchy roots aside, Gracie was excited for the future that awaited her at this new school. What doors could it open for the future?

Other:
+Loves animals.
-She’s obsessed with fantasy stories.
+Writes often. She’s a terrible writer.
-Secretly wants nothing more than to be a fairy tale hero.
+Terrified of the dark.
-Cannot pronounce the word digital correctly.
+Tends to pantomime when speaking

Theodore Turner

Real Name:
Theodore Troy Turner
Goes by Ted.

Superhero Alias:
Boomer

Gender:
Male

Age:
18

Appearance:

“So it’s got a few stains, big whoop. At least it doesn’t stink...too much.”

Ted

Height? One-ninety six centimeters. Weight? Ninety-three kilograms. Ted’s got an athletic build. His hair is similar to his little sister Tabitha, and he shares the same eyes as the others from the Turner brood. He keeps his face shaved tight except for his goatee. And yes, it’s completely due to his inability to grow a full beard. Thanks, pops.

His wardrobe is pretty simple. He doesn’t really have a set style. If it’s cleanish, than he’ll wear it. If it’s not...well he still might if there’s nothing else available. Whatever works. He usually goes for light clothes year round. Shorts in winter? Sure, why not?

Power Set:
Fire Manipulation

“So...I guess you’re waiting for some kind of fire pun, eh?”

Ted

So Ted was given dominion over flame by the cosmic force that deemed him worthy. He is able to generate, shape and manipulate fire. Not to say that he is able to simply engulf the world in fire or bend the stars to his will. No, his is rather limited. Generating flames from nothing is by far the most taxing of his abilities. He uses his own energy stores as fuel for the flames, meaning the larger a fire he wants to make, the more tired he’ll end up being. The most practical sized flame he can make without just passing out with be one about as dense as a basketball. That is, the flame is devoid of anything else to feed upon, only Ted’s energy. Once the flame spreads, well, it will act like any normal flame. So long as it has something to eat and some oxygen, it’ll burn to its fiery heart’s content.

Ted’s next aspect is shaping fire. He is able to bend the flames of the fire to take whatever shape he desires through merely his will alone. This is a rather easily ability for Ted and doesn’t take much to do. Of course, unless he is willing to generate more flames, Ted is limited to the size of fire. He couldn’t quite make a minivan out of a campfire for example.

Manipulating fire is the final part of the fiery trinity. Ted can fiddle with the temperature, intensity, and size of the flame using this aspect. This is the middleground of Ted’s ability. Anything that increases the potency of the flame costs Ted valuable energy. Decreasing it is free then, right? WRONG! Manipulating the fire in any way eats away at the man’s stamina. With this is mind, Ted uses his ability sparingly, and tends to avoid creating flames, preferring to use already existing sources instead. Which is one of the reasons why he usually carries some sort of lighter.

Ted’s fire is bound to the natural limits of fire. He cannot create flames burning anywhere near the temperature of the sun. Think of him as a sort of human bunsen burner to get a more accurate read on his abilities. He can only affect fire within his sight, and the flames he generates originate at his hands. So no, he cannot set some mook on fire just by looking at him. He would have to create some fire at his hands then either touch the mook or just lob the fireball at him.

Ted does have a higher resistance to heat and can interact with his own fire without getting burned. Fire he is not actively manipulating or concentrating on will return to normal flames and burn his ass something fierce.

Other Skills:

Boxing Background - Started boxing at around age eight. Very successful in tournaments he’s competed in so far and has plans on entering the Golden Gloves upon graduation. Fights southpaw as a slugger.

Run, Forest, Run! - Used to run track as a sprinter. Has some decent stamina for distance, but really shines in his short bursts.

Angels in the Outfield - Ted likes baseball. Ted has a helluva pitching arm. Ted is lefthanded. Put the three together and you have Ted’s favorite pastime.

Shot Through the Heart - Is a pretty decent shot with handguns.

Weaknesses:

Must Construct Additional Effort - Ted is just too lazy. Most of the time he halfasses whatever he’s trying to do.

I’m Just Going to Lose Anyway - Ted makes all kinds of excuses to get out of his responsibilities.

Kick With Your Hands - Ted cannot swim and has a general dislike of water altogether.

Wishy-Washy - He constantly flips back and forth on his options. He’s not likely to make a decision, preferring instead others to make them for him.

Don’t Lay A Finger On Them - Incredibly protective of his family. Tends to get tunnel vision if they end up in danger.

Personality:

“Ahh...doesn’t matter. I’d probably be late anyway.”

Ted

Ever taken time out to stop and smell the roses? Theodore Turner sure has. Except, uh...Ted never really got moving again after that. The eldest Turner child takes life slowly, enjoying each and every minute he gets. Never in a rush and never taking things too seriously, Ted is the embodiment of laid back. He’s rather kind, not one to sling an insult or a harsh word, and while he does fall prey to the occasional snark or two, he’s never mean spirited about it. He’s not one to really worry about others’ perception of him. Why sweat the small stuff?

Ted’s actually pretty competent if he puts his mind to something...he just doesn’t do that often. And despite a history of winning, Ted is incredibly humble. So much so, that one would begin to doubt if Ted was aware of his own talents. But don’t worry, he’s incredibly confident in what he can do. He knows his limits better than anyone else. He just likes building up the confidence of those around them, to try to allow them to see their own potential.

He prefers to get his work out of the way as quickly as possible. KO in boxing, strikeout in baseball. If it means having less work, Ted’s on board. Schoolwork, however, tends to not receive the same treatment. He’ll put it off until the last possible second. Or...y’know, later. What are grades in the grand scheme of things? About the only time Ted will actually get things together is if it seems like somebody is in danger. Despite his inherent slothness, Ted’s got a bit of a hero in him. The weak, the innocent, Ted can’t stand to see anyone taken advantage of in any way.

Evil really burns him up.

Backstory:

“Doesn’t really matter how we got here, does it? I’m still me and you’re still you. Can’t really change what we’ve already done, so why worry about it?”

Ted

Theodore Troy Turner was the first of the four. He was only around for a couple years before Graham popped out and the twins shortly after. As such, it’s always been laid on him that he had to lookout for the little ones. And he did. Their entire childhood, Ted always made sure that Graham and the girls weren’t picked on by any of the neighborhood kids, that they were having fun, that they had everything they needed. He’d give his birthday or holiday gifts to the little ones, because it made them smile, which made him happy. He didn’t really need or want much and giving felt much better in his opinion.

He was a rather active kid, playing sports every chance he had. He got really into baseball and later boxing, and eventually started running track in middle school in order to be in better shape for the other sports. And he was good. He ended up being a starting pitcher for his school team, won many of his bouts at the gym, and brought home the gold usually at meets. He might have even stuck with that if things worked out.

But they usually don’t.

Rough times hit the Turners. Mr. Turner lost his job in the mines. Money was rather tight with four children...so Ted offered to drop out and get a job to help support the family. His parents were against it completely, so Ted looked into alternative means…

Which was when he got involved with a local gang.

Ted had some connections through school and used them to get noticed. One thing led to another and Ted ended up on the corner slinging weight. He was making a pretty penny with his lucrative new part-time job and used the profits to get his siblings what they wanted. His parents asked where the money was coming from of course, but he told them he found a job he could keep while in school and they didn’t push further. Eventually Mr. Turner got another job and things were alright…

But Ted didn’t stop. The money was just too good. His grades slipped and his performance in sports dropped. He gave up most of his extracurriculars in favor of his job. And business was booming.

Until he got caught.

Ted ended up in the midst of a bust one day while hanging with a few of his buddies in the gang. He wasn’t even selling that day, but there were drugs in the house. He went down with the others.

Or would have.

Ted panicked. He didn’t want to live with the shame. He didn’t think he could look his family in the eyes if they knew what he did. And at that time, his powers awoke. Ted’s friend’s girl just so happened to be cooking something on the stove at the time of the bust. Unfortunately for the police present, Ted’s panicked state caused the flames to grow rapidly...which caused him to panic even more. They went out of control and started spreading...and spreading...until the entire building was enveloped in flames. Ted’s two buddies and their girls burned that day. As did five state policemen. And the family in the apartment upstairs. Ted was the only survivor.

He fled the building in the inferno and ran home.

He didn’t even have time to fully adjust or understand what had happened before he received a letter from Herculean Academy. Fearing that he might be caught for what had happened should he stay, Ted decided to accept the invitation and was gone within a week.

At the school, Ted managed to learn how to properly control his ability, and eventually came to terms with what he had done, rather than let it consume him. While still unsure of the future, a more mellow Ted sets his sights on a more heroic path, hoping to atone for his past mistakes and perhaps make the world a safer place for all.

Other:
+Smokes cigarettes whenever he gets a chance.
-Absolutely abhors drugs.
+Loves movies, particularly Quentin Tarantino films.
-Loves Country music.
+Used to fantasize of being a cowboy.
-Just as much of a slob as Graham.
+Pretty much tone deaf.
-Carries around lighters for aforementioned smoking habit and to provide flames for his abilities.
+Absolutely, 100% refuses to kill anyone or even entertain the thought of it.

[NarcissisticPotato]

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