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[Hansa]

@The Mad Hatter Villain ideas go in the Titanpad. They will be used by us GMs at our leisure in the RP. To put it differently, it's a great help to us if you make villains, but you won't get to play them. They will be NPCs in this RP.

[The Mad Hatter]

Great. That's what I was hoping for.

Working on some Villains as well as my Hero

[Mr_pink]

My app is finished on page 1.

[JELDare]

Gonna post a CS tonight.

[Defacto]

How far powers can go? Once I made a illusion manipulation character that could put people in "dreams" and everything that happened in the dream could become reality.

[Hansa]

@Defacto Thus far, I have been very unrestrictive with power-levels. I believe that even a very powerful character can become interesting because they then must handle the responsibility that comes with that power. However, the power you are describing - creating dreams where anything can happen, and then turning it into reality - is just another way of saying "can make anything happen". In other words, God. This doesn't sound at all interesting to me, unless the character has a major flaw that keeps him in check.

I give everyone creative freedom, but I demand interesting characters.

[Hansa]

@Dirty Dan Character looks good, feel free to post him in the Characters-section.

@Mr_pink I forgot to tell you I added "Weaknesses" as a part of the CS, right under Powers. Totally my fault, sorry.

[Defacto]

@Defacto Thus far, I have been very unrestrictive with power-levels. I believe that even a very powerful character can become interesting because they then must handle the responsibility that comes with that power. However, the power you are describing - creating dreams where anything can happen, and then turning it into reality - is just another way of saying "can make anything happen". In other words, God. This doesn't sound at all interesting to me, unless the character has a major flaw that keeps him in check.

I give everyone creative freedom, but I demand interesting characters.

@Hansa

I see. I left a gap in the description of my character's power but, in short:

Through her gaze, she can send powerful brainwaves to those who look at her, creating powerful "true illusions". These mental illusions depend on the target field of view, while him is staring at Medusa, she has full control over his mind. And if the illusion is powerful enough, it can literally convince the brain to copy anything that happens to the victim within the illusion, making it possible to kill or hurt the target with illusions.

My character was an adaptation of Medusa.

I'll think on something and start my CS today. :D

[Hansa]

@Defacto Definitely cool character idea, I just don't love the illusion-reality transition.

[Mr_pink]

Added it

[Hansa]

@Mr_pink Looks good, feel free to post in the Characters-section!

[JELDare]

Alias: The Magi
Real name: Jude Zairos
Age: 17
Gender: Male

Appearance: (avatar) 6ft 2in. Brown hair swept it above his left eye, this turns blue when he uses his powers. He weres a blue robe with intricate black patterns. He has blue eyes. He is very skinny looking with a thin build, but is quite flexible and strong.

Personality: He is always happy and loves to be able to help others. He hates those who belittle others, which is one reason he enjoys being a hero.

Bio: He found a glowing blue stone embedded within a tree. Once he grabbed it it began to glow extremely bright and burn into his left hand. He worked out, after a while, he could use magic. His parents took no notice of him going out at night because of his age.

Powers: Ability to use magic, without incantations. When he uses fire it's a navy blue.
Equipment: He found a vender who got him a sword hilt that molds his magic into a broadsword.

Weakness: His powers don't stop him from being human. Magic nullification.

Full bio

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Fun facts: Left handed. Hates when heroism gets in the way of his social life.

@Hansa

[Hansa]

@JELDare The character shows promise, but I'll be honest - the CS doesn't have the level of quality we're looking for here. I ask for full paragraphs in all the sections, and two lines doesn't cover that. Some starting points on what to add can be facial appearance and casual attire in appearance, more layers of personality, reason for becoming a superhero in biography, specific descriptions and limitations of his magic.

Also remember that this is the casual roleplay section, meaning I will be expecting a moderate literary level in posts, including full paragraphs and proper grammar.

I hope this helps, I would be otherwise thrilled to have you join this RP!

[GentlemanRogue]

Probably gonna post a CS later in the day. Probably a Shapeshifter.

[Hansa]

@GentlemanRogue Sounds good! A heroic shapeshifter sounds intriguing!

[Hansa]

By popular demand, here's my WIP character!

GODSMITH

Alias: Godsmith
Real name: Hephaestus, now goes by Hyde Sideros
Age: Eternal
Gender: Male

Appearance: (Artwork in the making)
Godsmith is a large man, 6'2'' tall (1.87 m) and very muscular. His complexion is tan with an olive hue, and his skin has a certain metallic shine to it. His face is broad with a particularly sharp jaw and a nose which is straight and regal, but a bit large. His eyes are a soft brown and his hair a pearly white. On his head, his hair is cut very short, in a soldier's style. His beard, on the other hand, is glorious, long as a fist is wide down from his chin and around his mouth, curling as it hides his jaw.

As the average mechanic Hyde Sideros, he wears crude jeans, tough boots, some sort of shirt or sweater and always the same old cap, proudly showing off the logo of Sideros Auto Repair. When he changes into Godsmith, he wears a skintight uniform which is mostly an orange-red hue, but a band of white around his chest and down his arms. A cape is thrown around his shoulders and fastened to the left side of his chest with a golden medallion, featuring the Olympian olive wreath. Around his wrists and shins are steel plates, and a traditional Greek helmet is worn on his head. He releases the flames of his inner forge from his eyes, making them glow with bright flames and further obscuring his face.

Personality:
Godsmith is a god humbled by his life among mortals. He sees us humans, and he sees a passion for life, for success and for meaningfulness that does not exist among the Olympians. Because of this, he has developed a true love for humanity. He is very protective and concerned about people surrounding him. However, Godsmith has problems with the concept of individual freedom. As a god he always reigned over man, and so he thinks people’s right to do whatever they want, even if they hurt themselves, is problematic.

Of course, with a god’s mercy comes a god’s wrath. If anything or anyone threatens the mortals he swears to protect, he will not hold back. Taste the blazing steel of Hephaestus!

Short Biography:
It had been a long time since the Olympians had been worshiped. A damned shame it was, and the Olympians had grown weary. Zeus no longer threw his bolts of lightning with a godly rage, Apollo had no passion while riding the sun across the sky. And Aphrodite was ever the cheating bitch, much to her husband Hephaestus' dismay. One day, Aphrodite had laid her eyes on Poseidon, god of the seas, and he gave into her seduction. Hephaestus was mad, and burst open the door and swung his hammer, Pelekys, across Poseidon's face. At once, the two gods' rage burst into each other, and only the king of gods, Zeus, could stop it. Zeus naturally sided with his brother, and cast Hephaestus down to the mortal realm as punishment. This ended up being no punishment at all, as Hephastus found new joy in his new home, and started his life among them, simultaneously becoming their sworn protector.

Powers, Skills & Equipment:
Hephaestus is the ancient Greek god of metal, fire and smithing. As such, even if he is banished to the realm of mortals, Godsmith has still retained his powers. Firstly, being an Olympian, his physique is in peak condition, being beyond what is attainable by the mortal men. Secondly, his skin is not like that of humans - it is as durable as steel and warm to the touch from his inner forge. But now, without further ado, what makes a god a true Olympian is of course his legendary artifacts.

Pelekys is Godsmith’s two-sided hammer, traditionally used alongside the Olympian forge, but it is also suited for battle. Although he usually keeps it in the shape of a hammer, Godsmith can manipulate its form into any traditional weapon at will. While in the shape of the blacksmith’s hammer, Pelekys can also reforge metals by simply touching them, warming the metal and manipulating it freely.

Tsimpida are Godsmith’s tongs. This is also usually used in the godly forge, but can also prove useful in battle. And projectiles without a solid state, such as lasers or fireballs, can be grabbed by these legendary tongs and can be deflected however Godsmith wishes.

Amoni is Godsmith’s anvil, usually beside the forge. In battle it has a niche use in that it is truly indestructible and also heavier than any object known to man. It can be used in conjunction with the two other tools to create metal from nothingness, something which is truly magnificent.

Additionally, Godsmith wears a tight suit and cape to battle, wanting to be instantly recognizable in order to redirect any threats onto him rather than innocent bystanders. Around his wrists and his shins, He has pieces of steel plating for protection and deflection, but also to have some steel ready to smith. His helmet is of ancient Greek design, made of godly steel.

Weakness:
Being the god of fire, Godsmith is naturally weak to water. It puts out his inner forge, severely weakening him and making him unable to call his artifacts to battle. In the same sense, aquamarine is the gemstone of Poseidon and the sea, and so will penetrate his skin easy as steel through a man.

Full Biography:
WIP

Fun facts:

• Godsmith still loves wine, as always, but he has discovered a love for South African wines after growing tired of the Greek ones.
• Once in a while he walks around in his home in a toga, missing the comfort it provides.
• His diet is almost entirely based on fruity desserts, food fit for a god!
• He loves old rock music, such as Elvis Prestley and Jimi Hendrix.

[GentlemanRogue]

Here is my WIP CS. I haven't properly edited any of it yet, and a lot of it is subject to change. Just thought I'd post it so people know what kind of character I'm going to play.

Sweet Dream

Alias: Sweet Dream
Real Name: Eliza (sort-of)
Age: 14 (sort-of)
Gender: Female (sort-of)

Appearance: Sweet Dreams’ natural shape is only vaguely humanoid. Her skin is a mottled green, and her flesh has a consistency like hard plastic, but possesses the same sort of give that foam has. She generally stands at about 6ft tall. A cluster of five tentacles hang from the top of her head like hair. Her eyes are stark white, with jagged black spirals in place of pupils and sclera. Her fingers and toes are fat and exaggerated, like frog toes. She is very large and chubby, with a gut that distends about a foot in front of her body. While she possesses a few stereotypically feminine body traits (curved shoulders, wide hips, a soft not-quite hourglass figure), she possesses no sexual characteristics of any kind.

Sweet Dream has only perfectly memorized one other form, and it’s the only other form that her body settles into as well as it does her natural shape; that of her creator, Eliza Larkholme. Eliza is a seven year-old freckle-faced caucasian girl. Eliza’s hair is long, straight and black. Sweet Dream is easily able to manifest the clothes Eliza wore at the time of her passing. Her parents, in their attempt to create a perfectly regimented daughter, dressed her up like a student from a private school, with small blue blazer, black pleated skirt, and shiny buckled black shoes.

Personality: Sweet Dream is a staunch idealist, unwilling to believe that any one person is 100% bad. She is kind and bubbly, often getting excited at the prospect of using her powers. Whether combating criminals, disaster or corruption, she sees her Superheroics as an opportunity to show off her artistic sense and creativity, traits that she inherited from her creator. She also has a small contemplative side to her as well. She sometimes enters into a daze and starts staring into space as she thinks about and internalizes the things that she learns about people. Her memory isn’t passive; she has to actively try to internalize things and ensure that she remembers them.

Short Biography: Eliza Larkholme was the stereotypical young prodigy. She was always surrounded by instructors from a young age, making sure her every movement, thought and feeling was calculated and measured to perfection. Her parents, while hardly laissez-faire, tended to leave her in the hands of her instructors and teachers, leaving her to her own devices while she was in her (admittedly short) downtime. She developed immense creativity and imagination, seeking an escape from her hectic and busy schedule. She imagined many and varied wondrous people and monsters, often thinking about them and wondering what they would be like and sometimes even talking to them as though they were right beside her. This threatened to change when her parents found her talking to herself one morning, as she was looking through a thick sketchbook filled with her designs. They immediately scheduled a session for her with the family therapist, and left as quickly as possible. In their haste, her Father drove off with her and her Mother without fixing and adjusting the mirrors on their car.

This led to tragedy, when her Father accidentally backed up into the path of a speeding car. In her final moments, as she lay bleeding against her car door, she thought not of her home, her instructors of even her parents, but of all the wondrous beings she was leaving behind. As she expired, her latent psychic powers kicked in, a little bit too late to save her. They responded to her thoughts, bringing to life her very last idea: a mighty creature, born of her imagination. This creature, which would later take on the name Sweet Dream, absorbed Eliza’s memories. It immediately jumped into action, extricating Eliza’s living but unconscious and bleeding parents from the Car, doing the same for the occupants in the other vehicle. In memory of Eliza, the creator it never knew, it decided to do what it would’ve thought she would want it to do, save and protect the innocent people of her city. Seven years after her death, it is still at work, fighting criminals, saving lives, and trying to learn how to be human, without the benefit of actually possessing a human mind (only its memories).

Powers, Skills & Equipment
Subjective Anatomy: Sweet Dream technically isn’t a living being, lacking any sort of traditional anatomy or biology. Her body is composed of a soft but exceedingly flexible shell, filled with a sort of viscous purple smoke, which leaks out whenever an attack manages to pierce her body. She doesn’t need to breathe or sleep, she doesn’t feel pain, she doesn’t get sick, and poison finds no purchase within her body. Given time, she can eventually regenerate any injury, even when reduced to a head or an arm. Her powerful regeneration is driven by her mental state, waxing and waning depending upon her confidence and her perception of herself.

In addition, by channeling her psychic energy, she can modify her body and imbue it with a variety of effects. Her flesh can be hardened like iron, her smoky innards can become liquid fire, and other stranger more exotic effects. She can also clench parts of her body to hold their shape, allowing her to assume a wide variety of forms. She cannot form organ systems within her body.

Weaknesses: WIP

Full Biography: WIP

Fun facts: WIP

Edit: Added in Personality and Appearance. They need a little bit of touching up and such, but they are basically good.

[Defacto]

Roulette

Alias: Roulette
Real name: Claire Jacquier
Age: 19 but her appearance is mostly in her middle 30s.
Gender: Female

Appearance: Claire's appearance also changes completely while she sleeps and she never looks the same twice. Apparently even her fingerprints change, so there is no way to identify Roulette physically. While sometimes her appearance is totally human, Claire's transformations sometimes include some non-human traits.

When Claire's body allows her to use uniform, she uses a red jumpsuit with a a roulette symbol in the chest. If not, she wears a armband with her symbol.

Personality: Clayre usually is a lovable woman with a charming, down-to-earth attitude and a disarming sense of humor. She is capable of violence and she will not hesitate to badly hurt those who deserve it. She has adopted a deadpan attitude to all the strangeness that is her life. Her greatest fear is going to sleep—meaning yet another unpredictable physical change—and she is afraid of dying during one of her comas.

Sometimes, to postpone going to sleep, Claire uses drugs. When she is far gone into amphetamines, Claire ceases to be a friendly woman and gradually becomes a raging paranoid. She is more prone to acts of extreme violence and believes everyone is against her.

Short Biography: Claire's strangers powers manifested when she accidentally knocked a breaker full gas in her father laboratory. After waking from a one month coma Claire founded that she was different and no one could explain why. She couldn't sleep and when she finally managed, she woke up invisible—and in the following sleep the power was gone. Somehow Claire was earning powers while sleeping. The next week she found she not only could gain power but also change her body. In a month sleep her body was gone through a metamorphosis to grow wings and leave her bones hollow. Thus Roulette was born, a heroine with an endless arsenal of powers that even she couldn't control.

Powers, Skills & Equipment: Roulette powers are unpredictable. She can sleep for weeks, sometimes months, lapsing into a sort of hibernation. While she sleeps, her body slowly transforms, and she wakes up with new powers and sometimes new appearance related to the power. Sometimes she wakes up powerful superheroine, sometimes with no power at all. When she has powers, they seem to depend on the emotional state and subconscious desires she had when she last went to sleep—and sometimes accompanied by drastic changes in her appearance. For instance, if she goes to sleep feeling cold, next time she can wake up with heat powers to compensate. If she desires to fly, she can develop flying abilities next or even wings. If she goes to sleep in a very rotten mood, she can wake up with no powers or different appearance. So, when she wakes up, Roulette usually isn't sure what her powers are this time around, and must perform several little experiments to discover them. Usually she always feature or superhuman strength, or endurance, or speed with others random powers.

While she sleeps, Roulette's body regenerates, so that she heals from any wounds, even regrowing amputated body parts. A side-effect of this regeneration is that she doesn't age. And while her sleep periods can last months, she also can stay awake for a much longer time than an ordinary human. At least one week, sometimes much longer. Claire can't be affected by alcohol, since her metabolism while she is awake is much quicker than a normal human's. Her appetite is also superhuman, and Claire must consume enormous quantities of food, particularly right after waking up.

She also can absorb information and knowledge while she sleeps. Claire usually sleeps with a radio turned on, so that she wakes up with a subconscious knowledge of news and events that have transpired while she slept.

Claire is a expert acrobat and knows several styles of unarmed combat.

Weakness: Roulette is limited to the powers she has while awake and she can not change them freely without going through deep sleep and she also can't keep the same power for two consecutive sleeps. Because of the randomness of her powers, Roulette can have super strength today and, after sleeping find that she can create bubbles or speak with butterflies. With the vast arsenal of powers also comes weaknesses. Each of the powers she randomizes has its own weaknesses—she can become a powerful human torch but she can lose her powers to the slightest rainfall or worse, she can have fire powers but without vulnerability to it, or even need to scratch the skin to generate the flame.

Full Biography:

Background

Francis and Agnès were delighted when they learned the baby was a girl. Claire Jacquier was her name, like Agnès's favorite flower, a playful slim girl with a friendly smile joined by long brown hair that always seemed to play around with the wind. And Claire grew as a peculiar girl, nerd by nature she grew up with her father, a scientist who worked in their house. Likewise, while others girls preferred to play double-dutch or with dolls she would rather play cops and robbers or soccer with her brother; no matter the situation, the little girl loved to run around. As a consequence, over the years her long brown-haired curls lost the shine due to carelessness and was soon replaced by a short cut that required less care by Claire.

Claire enjoyed the school—even with the casual tomboy bully—but nevertheless she soon became her brother partner in crime. Louis and her whenever they could skipped class to play soccer or watch movies. To her him was the hero and all those showing up in TV or flying around was lies. The ups and downs of the two lasted until high school, when Louis moved to college—in end was not a total disaster, in the end he broke up with the ugly girlfriend, putting an end to the bloody feud between her and Claire.

Claire's next step in high school was football. She got a place as wide receiver and even dated the handsome quarterback of the school. Nothing could stop the skinny girl—or at least nothing could until the third game when she was hit by a boy the size of a train with at least seven times the size of her. Not bad for a girl, she had a not so decent retirement but still was dating the handsome guy. Well, until she discovered that he was cheating. Claire was the kind of fiery girl who would not end a relationship with him easily. She planned a vengeance and, however ridiculous it seemed she wanted to "amaze" her boyfriend and the entire school. While still in relationship she spent a month convincing the most beautiful cheerleader that she and her had that "chemistry"—the rest are stories told in the half between the Hillview Wallabies and Sierra Rams.

Claire graduated from high school as "that french chick who make out with the cheerleader in the locker room" and perhaps the most popular girl in school. Claire was planning moving to Grimmarsh, rent a house, start college and perhaps lose her tomboy looks and become more beautiful—she really didn't want to lose her girlfriend. Everything changed when she was cleaning her father's lab and accidentally knocked a beaker. The gas quickly filled the room, and even after she turning on the guarentena fans she had been infected.

Claire spent one month in a coma. Incredibly she spent the month aware of what happened around her as she knew that Lauren had stayed with her all the time and remembers her father talking with others about the situation. In the same way she remembers one distinct voice, slightly modified somehow, with a certain air of authoritarian concern talking to her father. "Your daughter, Francis... what was her mental profile like?" he said, "What sort of girl is, or... well, possibly was, she?" The man would continue, "I know this is odd coming from me, but we're simply concerned 'bout her. We'll try to help her... condition, as much as we can, but I'm here for... well, her threat levels I'm afraid. Just my job, I'm sorry."

Claire woke, she called for her family but no one was in the house. She took a shower and when she looked herself in the mirror she realized she was different.She was half feet higher, no longer skinny, her hair was different, looking 10 years older and more attractive. She was scared and amazed at the same time and didn't want to anyone see her like that. She faded. She covered herself in the wet washcloth but that also faded. She wished to reappear and she gradually faded in. She had super powers in which neither her father could explain how.

She couldn't sleep for a week. And when finally tired she slept for another month. This time, her bones became hollow and she grew beautiful white wings on her back, she knew how to fly and had super strength. She then started training, soon becoming a vigilant. The college would have to wait.

Two weeks later she slept again but this time she had nothing besides the same enormous hunger.

Fun facts:

• Claire is bisexual.
• Her favorite food is cheese.
• Claire's father keeps her profile in IASDCOM always updated. So even if she is different IASDCOM agents knows where to look and her psychological profile.
• Once she tried to use uniform but when she woke up of the following sleep she was taller and not so slender. Since then it's a problem to her.
• She has a habit of smoking.
• She enjoys watching movies.

[Mr_pink]

Added another villain and a few NPC's to the titanpad.

[Sagittarius]

I'm considering either having super powerful farts or the ability to create superpower-nullifying zones. Any thoughts on either?