[OOC] Maximum Comics: Dawn of Justice | REBRANDING - PLEASE STAY TUNED

[Strawberry425]

Oops, I wasn't to include that snippet of acquaintances. Um, forget that small list. Still not actually sure what I'm going to definitively put down there, 'cept for Batsy.

[Gowi]

Noted! Looking forward to progress throughout the next few days.

[Ruby]

NOTHINGTOSEEHERE

Identity:

According to our team that ran into her (and paid for it) she introduced herself formally as Princess Diana, Defender of the Amazons, Shield of Themyscira, Goddess of War.

Her last known (fake) passport reads: Diana Prince.

SHIELD has simply come to call her...Wonder Woman.

Origin/Backstory:

First, let me start off with what we know:

You don't want to corner her. A force recon team tried it in Istanbul in the mid-80s, and it didn't work well for the force recon team. Every single commando in the team was left sipping from a straw for a few months. Worse, she was able to get men trained for over two decades on how not to talk to give her everything we had on her, and then some.

The mid-80s? She's old. We do believe we're dealing with the same woman, not a mantle passed down through the generations. This isn't Zorro, folks. The Historian theorizes she may be thousands of years old; although the oldest possible hit on her we have is from a photograph taken just after World War One. Of course we can't be certain it's her, but we're certain it's her. Again, from the Historian:

"It's quite fascinating, but I do believe we have evidence of this individual dating as far back as the Ancient Greeks themselves. In 1978 a Hydra think tank was discovered and secured in the Bavarian Alps; an old mine turned Nazi conclave during the Second Wolrd War turned Hydra facility after the Second War World. In the catalog of the facility's contents was bits of an ancient text believed written by Polybius (c. 208-116 BC), an ancient Greek who was captured by Romans and turned historian in his captivity. He makes note of a daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta that stands apart from Olympus, hidden by Zeus along with her place of birth, though for what reason Polybius fails to state. The most intriguing thing is that while Polybius refers to Zeus as Jupiter in the Roman style, he refers to the daughter as αρτεμης--Attic Greek for "safe", but not the word most commonly used for the Greek goddess Artemis (that is αρταμος, "the butcher", a more fitting word for a Goddess of hunting). I must assume if Polybius meant the goddess Artemis he would have used the latter, but as the Roman name for Artemis is Diana, it seems reasonable to deduce that (writing to a largely Roman audience), Polybius did this to differentiate between two separate figures. That Polybius was revealing a mysterious figure previously unknown to the Romans. The Nazis, in their quest for the mythological, zeroed in on this figure in hopes Zeus' hiding her meant she remained in the mortal plane, and even believed to have a photograph of her from just ater the First World War also cataloged among the facility's contents. The Germans named her the Amazon; quite fitting if this is in fact the daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons according to myth. Though why an Amazon Princess would be wearing a tiara as in the photo is unknown, so prehaps the photo is of just a mortal woman of impressive stature. An interesting story, all the same. "

The force recon team reported the woman that they cornered in the Mid-80s was, you guessed it, wearing the same tiara in the photo and looked exactly like the woman from the photo found in the Hydra lab. As it's not the strangest thing in the SHIELD archives, we believe the Historian didn't just stumble onto proof an ancient Greek was telling the Romans about an interesting story, but an actual super weapon they could use, that Polybius was bargaining with this information. Lucky for the Romans, they never found her, and never got the chance to corner her.

Secondly, what we think:

Mentions of such a woman pop up, again and again and again, and always when things in the world get violent. A figure matching the description is mentioned rescuing German women from Russian troops in the twilight of World War Two. If you don't know what the standard practice was when a member of the Red Army found a German woman, I'll let you look that up on your own, but it wasn't pretty. Another description shows up in the Greek Civil War around 1948; again saving a group of women from men that had other than honorable intentions. Again, in the Korean War, saving a group of American nurses from a MASH unit from enemy fire. The Six-Day War. The Ethiopian Civil War. The Troubles. Soviet war in Afhganistan. The Falklands. Every time she swoops in, saves people, disables all beligerients in the area, and zooms out.

This is a do-gooder, with a soft spot for other women; makes sense if she's really an Amazon. The profilers think she's a warrior that grew restless on the place of her birth that Zeus supposedly hid from the world to protect her, and started wandering. While her spurts of activity due correlate to conflict zones, she doesn't appear at all conflicts, leading them to suspect she has a life outside of wandering do-gooder, or that she isn't supposed to be wandering off too much. But if she really is living on a hidden Themyscira from myth, and really is a/the Goddess of War, then her odd periods of activity tend to make more logical sense. She'd have things to tend to from time to time.

But now that the world's really started to change from the emergence of metahumans left and right, does this mean the table's set for this restless goddess to finally become truly active? Depends on who you ask. One of our agents got a strange tip from an English "magic" user (putting it politely) that a God of Dreams and a Goddess of War were going to have a sit-down somewhere in London; wanting to exchange the location for information on some demon. Our agent disregarded it, and maybe that was to our detriment, because that was only a year ago.

Satellites and cell phone hacking have produced no less than a dozen images of this woman in the last year; most recently in Washington, DC, of all places. That was a month ago. She's getting active, and she's doing it without hiding so much. More importantly, doing it outside of open warzones. We think she's finally coming out to play with the other metahumans.

Update: Agent Steve Trevor has been dispatched with Drone Recon Squadron 5 to a small Greek airbase secretly used by the CIA, and us. If she's really out there on some inland, we'll find her. Goddess or not, Amazon or not, we're absolutely certain of one thing: this is a Wonder Woman, and we need to find her before Hydra does.

[Morden Man]

Fuckoffyounopeeking

WIP Wonder Woman CS goes hurr

...also, made ya look! muwahahaha

@Ruby

You temptress.

[Ruby]

[Enarr]

I'm pulling my hat out of the race for Thor, there's another character fitting what I'm looking for better. However, I'll still post a completed and SHAZAM-free sheet here later since I put "so much work" into it. I'm not talking Kyle.

@Hillan@ErsatzEmperor I hate to compete for Kyle Rayner against friends, but I would like to anyways.

[Sloth]

@Hillan@ErsatzEmperor I hate to compete for Kyle Rayner against friends, but I would like to anyways.

@Nightrunner

Hillan has friends?

[lydyn]

@Gowi - I'm blaming @Ruby for me being here... she promised me the romance, so...

Edit: Done.

Hawk Girl

Shayera Sanders

Alias: Hawkgirl

Race: Thanagarian // Gender: Female
Height: 5'5" // Weight: 123 lbs
Age: 24 // Hair: Red // Eyes: Blue
Affiliations: None
Occupation: Exile

Color Code: Sheyera Sander's Speech Color.

Backstory
Shayera was like any other Thanagarian child. She was given as much of her childhood as possible before throwing her to the wolves at the age of five. Beaten down with introduction to hand-to-hand combat, it didn't seem she was very gifted. In fact, many of her peers and instructors thought her as one of the weaker ones because of her more sensitive nature. However despite her more emotional state, she found a surprising inner strength that would often shock her peers time and again, while still somehow keeping hold of a somewhat more gentle aura.

As she continue to progress into teenage years, they were given a chance to finally learn melee weaponry after mastering hand-to-hand combat as best as one could by that age. Since Shayera had been somewhat lacking in the past and despite her will to push through, no one expected her natural talent for melee combat. So when she started to exceed her peers, she got reactions that ranged from praise when it came to the instructors, but contempt and jealousy when it came to her peers. This left her feeling alone and abandoned and if it weren't enough for a teenager, the fact that she had an eye for women also painted another target on her back for being ignored and teased.

Still, she pushed onwards because she had to. For those falling behind, they were exiled outside the cities no matter how much parents, family, or friends loved them - it was law. Yet the hardest part was to come towards her late teenage years. It was called mental training where you'd be subjugated to all forms of attacks: verbal, fear, anger, sadness, suggestions, manipulation, brain-washing, and even trained mind magic wielders. It was without say that this stage is where most students would fall out, however this was also the only stage you had a second chance to pass due to it's hardship and the fact that everyone was proven skilled and ready for combat.

It was not enough to say Shayera had passed with excellence. Instead, she was often praised as one of the truly gifted in being able to keep out outside influences - passing with flying colors at every turn. By this point and with given training before the tests, she had enough will to pull through anything and create barriers as if by second nature. Though some saw this as a double-edged sword when it came to her loyalty to the Empire, the Empire still saw potential in her.

At graduation (age 20), agents practically dragged Shayera away from her parents to attend special training. This was not training however and instead to proved to be previously 'illegal' experiments performed by the very same people that banned it's use. By using the most strong-willed students, for only they'd survive such an ordeal, they attempted to infuse Nth metal with Thanagarians. They did this by the use of nanobots and liquifying the semi-sentient, magical metal and hoping that one of the student's bodies might actually accept the transfusion.

By some miracle or perhaps fate, Shayera was one of the very few select to survive the process, it having secretly killed off hundreds of students due to rejections. What the Empire refused to acknowledge though was that Shayera's strong will was a double-edged sword that turned to cut it's master. With the use of her new found powers, she forced her way to an escape pod and launched out of their reach before they knew what had happened. The utter quickness of her escape was shocking and by the time they made it to the tracking program, she had already disabled the beacons on the pod.

Eventually the pod found it's way to Earth at the year 2005 and crashed a mere forty miles off of the coast of Themyscira. The isolated nature of Diana's island and protective magic net over it kept Shayera's pod from being read across the world as a potential threat. Though the world may have been largely ignorant of the Thanagarian's arrival, the Amazons saw this intrusion of their waters as a threat, giving Hawk Girl little chance to recover from the wreckage before being attacked.

Abilities
• Enhanced Strength: As a Thanagarian, she possesses naturally higher strength than any human. Though this isn't at the level of super strength. (Note: A later ability will augment this down the list.)
• Flight: All Thanagarians are winged creatures born from the subtleties of magic. Therefore can they not only fly as you might expect, but they may also sustain flight for long periods of time without flapping their wings.
• Minor Magical Resistance: Being born from small traces of magic, Thanagarians can resist minor spells easily, but are still subject to more powerful ones like many creatures.
• Enhanced Endurance: Thanagarians can take quite a beating compared to most mortals, but a sword will still cut through their skin, it just makes a noticeably less impact.
• Enhanced Sight: Seemingly Thanagarians take on the image of hawk-people and that isn't that far-fetched as they also have the eyesight of a hawk. This is up to 8 times sharper than a human, or having 20/2.5 vision (in other words, seeing something at 20 feet that a normal human has to be 2.5 feet away to see). Though this is more of a magical nature, seeing as their pupils don't grow larger to zoom in, but is rather aided by an innate magic.
• Nth Metal Infusion: Due to Shayera's unique condition, her body has been enhanced by an infusion of Nth Metal, a magically charged native metal of Thanagar. This allows her the use of super-strength (lesser than Wonder Woman and Superman), super-endurance/invulnerability (also lesser), regeneration, and tolerance to extreme temperatures.

Skills
• Melee Combat Mastery: Trained like many Thanagarians at the age of five, she has nearly mastered all forms of melee combat to where she is comfortable with any sort of given weapon. Even if the weapon is alien to her, she can quickly understand it's shape, size, and weight effectively. She prefers, however, a mace.
• Hand-to-Hand Journeymen: By mastering melee combat, she has sacrificed part of her usual training but is never-the-less skilled with hand-to-hand combat, at least enough to hold off an attacker until she can get another weapon in her hand.
• Advanced Battlefield Knowledge: Having grown up in a combat-focused culture, she has learned and been drilled in various warfare tactics, able to think quickly on the field as well as analyze her opponents movements.
• Iron Will: Shayera was especially gifted in the arts of locking one's mind from external influences and thus has a consistent defense against any mentally-charged attacks or even subtle attempts at breaking in. Even mind magic usually has a fair bit of trouble breaking through these walls.

Weapons
• Modified Nth Mace: From Thanagarian culture, it is a basic mace that has been modified to have more weight at it's top. However from other view points, it's surface has also been lined with Nth Metal, making it stronger, lighter (only to hold, does not effect impact), almost impossible to break, and magically charged.
• Nth Dagger: A basic dagger that's been lined with Nth Metal, giving it the same qualities as above as well as making it sharper. With effort (or enough strength) you could cut through other metals like steel.
• Nth Short Sword: Same as the dagger, but with a longer reach.

Character Goals
My character goals aren't complicated as of right now, but mostly speaking, I want to explore an interesting combination of having Diana and Shayera together. Beyond that very exclusive interaction, I want to explore Shayera's exile into an alien world, her coming to terms with her new infusion, and generally trying to find her place in the world. Potentially at a later time, it would be nice to explore the Thanagarian military coming to collect their 'property' as it were and possible reactions from other heroes at this point (hopefully she'd be a somewhat welcomed member in some way). Though these goals leave a lot of opportunity to 'go with the flow,' I think exploring important questions like this will be fun.

References
• Legend by Fire
• In Murky Waters

[Morden Man]

This was my reaction when I thought you'd posted as Stephanie in the IC thread, realised it was a Hellboy post, and then read said Hellboy post and realised it was awesome. @HenryJonesJr

[Sloth]

@Morden Man

Surprise sighting of Alonzo Mourning in an RPG thread. This is madness.

[Morden Man]

Surprise sighting of Alonzo Mourning in an RPG thread. This is madness.

@Sloth

From a Bulls fan too. The sky is falling.

[Ruby]

[Sloth]

[Hexaflexagon]

[Morden Man]

[Sloth]

[Ruby]

Holy crap, so much Rockets love here!

I approve.

[Morden Man]

Holy crap, so much Rockets love here!

I approve.

@Ruby

[Sloth]

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@Morden Man

Jesus man are you trying to give her post traumatic stress flashbacks?

[Ruby]

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@Morden Man