[CHAR] The Other Guys

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Character Concept, for when you guys post:

Name: Lee Messerschmidt

Identity: Bacon!

Origin: Alter

Stats:

Fighting - Good (10) Some training and experience.
Agility - Excellent (20) Fairly accurate little bastich.
Strength - Good (10) Regular exercise.
Endurance - Excellent (20) Human maximum. The power of bacon compels.
Reason - Typical (6) Trivia aside, he's just ok.
Intuition - Typical (6) Average detail orientation at best.
Psyche - Good (10) Somewhat willful and a little stubborn.

Appearance:
Tall and slender, Bacon! is most easily noticed by the scent of smoked pork, like a very faint cologne. This is permanent. He has dark hair and eyes, and a perpetually goofy smile. His identity, Bacon!, was NOT his idea initially. He was going for a sheath of flame motif with his costume, but being absolutely rotten with color and fashion, it more resembles a strip of warm, meaty bacon.

Powers:
-Bacon! is very resistant to heat and fire, all but the hottest conditions do him no discomfort. Don't ask him to swim in lava or leap into the bowels of a nuclear reactor, though. He has his limits.
-At will, he can smoke profusely. No, I don't mean he's got a nicotine addiction, his body produces lots and lots of pork scented, obscuring smoke. He still hasn't figured out how to avoid the effects of it, himself, but is optimistic. Looks like Richard Pryor when he runs. (too soon?)
-At fairly short range, Bacon! can cause items to heat up and/or combust with the ferocity of a commercial oven. He can create an aura around him like this, or concentrate it at one target in his line of sight, up to 30 feet. He usually does so with the battle cry of "Sizzle, bitches!".

Talents:
-Cooking- particularly charcuterie and barbecue, but overall proficient
-Boxing- not amazing, but can handle himself
-Trivia- mostly involving movies, but is a safe bet in most game shows about seemingly useless crap that PROBABLY WON'T come up in gameplay. Or not.

Contacts:
-Officer O'Malley- Stereotypical Irish cop. Friend of the family, supports Bacon!'s career path in heroics
-JimBob Dougie- Owner and Proprietor of JimBob's House of Pig Ass. Was present at Bacon!'s accident that made him a Super. Formerly his boss.

Background:
(To be brief, I'll just go with origin of powers for right now.) There was a horrifying accident involving fatback and the tiny bit of uranium found in smoke detectors. It was keyed off by an errant bolt of lightning while he was holding a non-dairy creamer. Somehow, these components came to create the Almost Hero known as Bacon!, altering him at a genetic level, making him almost indistinguishable from a naturally occuring Metahuman.

At first, he took his role seriously as Fire Guy, but repeated jeers from passersby eventually made him go with it rather than get upset. Besides, bacon is awesome, so Bacon! must be, too.

NOTE: I know I didn't go for a thorough physical description, but you get the gist. Maybe later on.

[Silver Carrot]

Name: Elizabeth 'Liz' Haliday

Identity: Beamer

Origin: Relic

Stats:

Fighting - Excellent (20)

Agility - Good (10)

Strength - Typical (6)

Endurance - Good (10)

Reason - Excellent (20)

Intuition - Excellent (20)

Psyche - Excellent (20)

Appearance:
Liz is about average height and build. She has medium length brown hair, brown eyes and a face that's pretty though nothing that would catch your attention f you passed her in the street. She's usually seen in skinny jeans and an open maroon cardigan over a blue or yellow T-shirt.

In costume, she wears a white ensemble made from the silk of a hundred aquatic insects, giving it more strength and elasticity than ordinary silk, while still being more breathable than latex. The design is vaguely reminiscent of a medieval knight, though in place of armor, she wears a tan bullet proof vest. Her identity is kept secret by a hard metal cap, and aviator shades.

Background:
Liz was a History student studying at the University of the West of England, who constantly achieved A's. In between her third and final years, she took a gap year to go and travel around America. In her first three months, he made some new friends, and showed them how to party UK style. Four months in, she went swimming at a rock pool. Instead of swimming around the surface like you were supposed to do, she swam down to the bottom just to see if she could. There she found a blue seashell half buried in the sand and stones.

Upon returning to the surface, she cracked the shell, and appearing from it was the Lady of the Lake, of Arthurian Legend. As a thanks for freeing her, the Lady of the Lake gave her a very sturdy looking cricket back and proclaimed "Excalibur's taken, you I reward you with this instead. Behold, Excalibat! With this weapon, you are destined for greatness! With this weapon, you have the means to do great things and make a difference! Also, you're technically the rightful Queen of Kent. Good luck with whatever you decide to use this power for, and, um, if you ever need help, don't hesitate to seek me out, okay, cutie~?"

With a blush and a flirtatious wink, The Lady of the Lake was gone. Over the next few months, Liz gave up her studies to focus on making a positive difference the only way a Chris Hemsworth fan can; She became a superhero!

It was a complete disaster. She had the mystical weapon Excalibat, but no combat experience, and no protection of her body or identity save a pair of sunglasses and a hoodie. That's when the bat began sending her sarcastic messages, telling her correct cricket stances to take, the rules of both cricket and Arthurian chivalry. Slowly but surely teaching her how to become the hero she was destined to be.

The Lady of the Lake returned when she heard of Liz's intentions to fight crime, and fashioned her a new suit made from the silk of a hundred aquatic insects. When Liz asked why it had to be so tight and figure-flattering, the Lady of the Lake just giggled and blew her a kiss before dissapearing again.

With her tools, she set out to become a hero, and this time, was moderately more successful, but still has a long way to go.

Powers:
Liz possesses Excalibat, which is no ordinary block of wood. As well as slowly teaching her how to fight, it is also literally indestructable, which, combined with the bat's width, is handy for blocking bullets, lasers and other nasties. You can also hit people with it very hard.

Talents:
-Smooth talker - Liz has very good people skills finely honed from years of banter with mates, and weaseling her way out of deadlines.
-Intelligent with a good knowledge of history - She pays attention in lectures. Rare for a student.
-Tech literate - Liz has been raised on computers. Don't ask her to hack the FBI or anything, but if your PC's not working, she can probably fix it.

Contacts:
The Lady of The Lake - The mystical figure of Arthurian legend. Possesses unknown powers and has an unknown history. Has a crush on Liz.
Dr. Exposition - Liz's former History Lecturer. No matter what questions Liz has for him regarding history yet are strangely relevant in whatever crime she's stopping, he is guaranteed to have just finished reading a book on the subject.

[knighthawk]

Name: Sergi Ivanovich

Identity: "Captain" (Collateral Damage)

Origin: Altered

Stats:

Fighting - Typical (6)

Agility - Typical (6)

Strength - Remarable (30)

Endurance - Excellent (20)

Reason - Typical (6)

Intuition - Typical (6)

Psyche - Typical (6)

Appearance:
6'0" 150 Red hair black eyes. His costume is made from dozens of different sports padding to keep everyone safe from him.

Background:
You know Captain comet? Flies around with that 10 foot long silver cape and super strength? Apparently he works at a newspaper reporter and fills out his W-2 like everyone else. Want to know something else? Apparently he is only powerful with the cape on. Without it, he can get hurt just like everyone else. Well one time Captain comet got a papercut as he slipped on his cape to save the city, that cosmic energy charged the drop of blood on the paper that changed a dozen hands and finally cut the thumb of a lowly accountant. This cosmic responsibility got passed to this unsuspecting individual without an off switch.

Weeellllll...lets just say that a superhumans first time is always rough, moreso in the bottom floors of a scyscraper. Thankfully, the villain scapegoat claimed responsibility for the travesty after no one else did. He awoke several weeks later in a full body cast and accidentally broke it to bits trying to look around. They blamed it on a bad plaster batch but apparently his wounds were not too serious upon revision.

Now out of a job and too strong for his own good, he had to look for 'bad ways' to earn money. He went to his uncle, a slum lord and loan shark who thought of a great way for his nephew to earn money. Ivan would sick the boy on his competitors in other areas or have him destroy construction sites at night when no one could get hurt. And every time Sergi said no more, something innocent would happen to interrupt the cash flow and he would be back at his uncle doing another job to pay the rent.

In between the moments with his uncle, he was trying to do what was right and make up for his misdeeds by trying to be a hero, often times his heroics are just as damaging as they are for working for his uncle, but his heart is in the right place.

Powers:
Superhuman strength and endurance

Talents:
-Accountant, years of number crunching has him the best in town for getting your tax return, but then again that's like being the best square-dance caller in Tokyo
-Goth-LARPing, A game whose first rule is 'no physical contact' makes him much relieved to participate in as he plays rock-paper-scissors in order to be the best vampire he can. The Russian accent helps a lot.
-Weight lifting, To try and understand his powers, he has been going to a junkyard outside the coty to try and understand his limits better, besides, its junk, how much more can he bre-oops.

Contacts:
-Ivan Ivanovich: "Uncle Ivan" Is a loan shark with old county values. Which country is the old country? He wont say. But he is the first and last person you ever need to meet to stretch your paycheck. While he feels sad that he lost an accountant, he hopes he has won himself a new enforcer.

-Jean Dough: An ambulance chasing lawyer, he was both the first person who the captain saved from a runaway ambulance and the first person to sue FOR the captain as well. He lives and works his law firm above his parents bakery, correction, his parents live with HIM and he lets them run the bakery downstairs from his law firm.

[The Wanderer]

Name: Benjamin Stoker

Identity: Indestructi-Man

Origin: Metahuman

Stats:

Fighting - Typical (6)
Agility - Typical (6)
Strength - Good (10)
Endurance - Remarkable (30)
Reason - Good (10)
Intuition - Typical (6)
Psyche - Good (10)

Appearance:
5’ 10” and relatively fit, Ben’s figure strikes someone as athletic but not necessarily intimidating. He possesses short, dark (almost to black) auburn brown hair and deep blue eyes. The poor guy’s hair has enough curl to turn into an afro if he let it grow out, but the man keeps it relatively short and trained back. Ben’s skin tone is a light tan, tending towards pale in his less exposed areas, with sprinkling of freckles on his forearms.

During the day he prefers casual business attire, such as tastefully colored dress shirts and pants, leather shoes. If you are lucky you might catch him in gym clothing at home or on his way to a workout. One thing to note is he tends to wear a watch that- when activated- will buzz lightly when someone near him is speaking. It is annoying in the city, but handy enough in buildings, at work, and at home.

Powers:
Endurance: Specifically in the field of blunt trauma, Ben finds himself pretty much unfazed by most blows and impacts, though he hasn’t quite figured out the upper limits of this power yet, due to a relative lack of suicidal intentions.

Talents:
-Lip Reading- Ben read lips well enough to get past most accents, and can keep up with two or even three people at once if he strains himself. Anything past that he kinda just smiles and nods along.
-Feigning Ignorance- Pretty useful when he notices things he shouldn’t. Ben could possibly go out for a mediocre acting job. Helps that people act as if he is more handicapped than he actually is.
-Book Worm- He reads, a lot. It started with fiction when he was younger and progressed to studies and factual texts as he grew older. This has given him plenty of practically impractical knowledge to use at his pleasure.

Contacts:
-Amanda Lawrence- A fellow employee and friend. She tends to be one of the few reasons he socializes, often attempting to set him up with blind dates and dragging him to events. She knows of his powers purely by accident- the kind involving a stairwell and a particularly slippery section of freshly mopped tile.
-Matthew Harlow- A past neighbor and current friend, Matthew knows pretty much everything going on in Ben’s life. They tend to hit the gym together regularly and crash at Matt’s apartment whenever Ben needs to keep his head down for a bit.

Background:
Benjamin was pretty much a regular guy until- when he was ten- a villain flew through the airplane he was taking with his parents at supersonic speed. This of course, killed…. No one. But the proximity of the passage and the sudden change in air pressure destroyed Ben’s ability to hear and stole a portion of his life away permanently. It was a cruel joke when around twelve, he discovered that he himself wasn’t entirely human either. The same kind of powers that had taken his ears were in him as well.

It took a few years for him to become truly competent with lip reading and within that time Ben learned basic sign language, though he prefers lip reading over the alternative. He works as an architect to a company that specializes in building secret bases, and is fairly content with leaving things as they are, so long as they don’t worsen.

[Joegreenbeen]

Identity: Floppy Fist

Origin: Alter

Stats:

Fighting - Good (10) Ok combatant, got in some practice after his incident
Agility - Good (10) Slightly above average, floppy finger calisthenics
Strength - Good (10) In shape, but not spectacular
Endurance - Good (10) Ditto Strength, above
Reason - Good (10) Above average, representing sneaky guile
Intuition - Excellent (20) Very observant, takes nonstandard cues well
Psyche - Typical (6) Human average, not particularly stubborn or driven

Appearance: Cecil has darker tan skin and curly hair, with a very, hmm, European face. Although his family has lived in the states for a couple generations, he has the look of an immigrant. Cecil isn’t extremely tall or heavy, standing only at 5’ 10’’ and only weighing a small 145lb. The uniform he made is nothing fancy, a black sweatshirt or skin tight undershirt, depending on the season, on top, black sweat pants on bottom, a black balaclava, and some fingerless, black, gloves. Cecil looks a couple years younger than his age of 22.

Powers:
- Floppy Fists can extend his phalanges a good ten feet, becoming, well, floppy. Without bones or muscles in the extra parts of his fingers, Floppy can wing his fingers around at some good speeds, and could probably leave welts on bare skin, so watch out.
- Besides their length, Cecil’s fingers can become quite sticky. Upon discovering his abilities he has practiced using this to climb by wrapping his fingers around a high, horizontal bar and then extending his fingers for a ride up, though his wrists do not take kindly to this and it usually takes his fingers up to five minutes to become normal and to flop out again.
- Since he gained his floppy fighting fanatics, yay alliteration, Cecil has been able to shoot water out of his mouth pretty quickly with barely above average pressure. This has no use except for looking cool and making cash at parties.

Talents:
-Sneaking- Cecil has developed a proficiency at moving around quietly, but has no professional training.
- Jump Roping- He has always enjoyed jump roping, Cecil even won some competitions as a young boy, but has kept this to himself as an adult.
- Lying- Cecil has developed the ability to lie with shocking sincerity, and it has gained him many free days as a child, when he really deserved a grounding.

Contacts:
-Melvin Floyd - Cecil’s rich cousin who owns a real estate company that’s looking to move into The City. Melvin is generally an upstanding citizen, but may be willing to use dirty tactics to help business.
-Stacy Johnson- The married sister of Cecil and a stereotypical journalist. She has a knack for uncovering political and corporate corruption, leading to her being enlisted by a major newspaper company.

Background: Cecil has always been sneaky, this has more than once been employed while he was in school. Most notably to steal some tests off the teacher’s desk while she was in the back of the room scolding a student. Once they left for the principal's office, everyone revised their answers. What Cecil didn’t realize, was that the student teacher was still sitting in the back of the classroom, trying to suppress his laughter as the first graders fretted over their test on adding. Over his years in school, this had always given him a good rep among students, but the story followed him and his teachers never seemed to be fond of him being in their class. For this reason, Cecil never used his talents for rule breaking, or illegal activity, but spent a good amount of time spying in high school during a gossip craze. That adventure made him a good amount of money, but left all of the girls hating him.

Having all of the girls hate poor Cecil left him without a drive for success a love driven man does. Cecil never applied for college, always saying he will pursue a career, eventually. Nowadays, Cecil is a dedicated burger flipper who enjoys hanging with his bros. He has also been a successful wingman, employing several ways to spill drinks on the annoying friend.

Now, on to origin. The economy took a hard turn for people like Cecil, and he would look anywhere legal for the extra dollar(s) that would keep the lights of his apartment on. This led him to a University study that offered cash for the participants. This experiment involved sleeping pills, a magical octopus, and spending an entire day in a room full of soap boxes. After this, he was to report anything abnormal happening to him. When he discovered his fingers, instead of reporting them, he set up a website advertising a spy, who could lengthen his fingers into sticky ropes and would work for good, and cash. And so his super career began.