Hey, whaddaya know, it's me. Hoping to make a Street level guy.
Nicholas Church
Alias: NovemberSpeech Color: MediumSlateBlueCharacter Alignment: Hero/Walking the Line
Identity: Known to the LHPD and S.T.R.I.K.E., as well as the US Navy and the criminal underworld.
Character Personality: Soft-spoken and friendly, normally, but when riled, becomes gruff and terse.
Uniform/costume: He wears suits.
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Origin Info/Details: Nicholas Church was an all-American kid. Played football in the backyard with his friends, learned to shoot from his father, and joined the Boy Scouts as soon as he could. Born to Lionel Church and Tabitha Ferguson-Church in 1981, in the suburban town of Whitechapel, Pennsylvania, he had a happy life.
Getting scholarships, he went to Penn State for football, and graduated
cum laude in his class. Then, September 11th came. After that fateful day, Nick Church was caught up in the patriotic fervor sweeping the nation, and joined the Navy SEALs.
Going on covert missions of all stripes, Nick finished his tour, and came back home, proud to have served his country. Settling down, he joined the LHPD, and in Lost Haven, he met the love of his life, Carol Winters.
She was an EMT, and they first met at the Lost Haven Emergency Services Christmas Gala. It was less than a year before they were married. Living happily for several years, they had Abigail in 2005, and everything seemed fine, until November of the same year.
One fateful day, Nick got the call that his wife was hospitalized. She was making a deposit at the bank, and a masked man held up the place, with strange powers. Carol tried to stop him, and the man blasted her with fire. She was badly burned, but the robber was horrified, and gave himself up. Rushing to the hospital, Nick came in just in time to see her die on the operating table.
Nick was crushed, but he tried to stay strong for their daughter. Quitting the force, he became a bounty hunter, giving him more time to spend with his daughter. When she was six, he began to notice something strange. She was stronger, and tougher than any six-year-old had any right to be. Testing this out carefully, he soon learned that she was super-strong, and insanely resistant to damage. Abigail, quite frankly, was delighted when she found out. She was a superhero! But her father less happy. This would make people come after her. Bad people.
Keeping her abilities secret, he tried to keep up their normal life, but when she reported to him that she saw a suited man with black sunglasses following her home from school, he knew that the game was up. Quitting his job, again, and breaking out the old equipment, he prepared for what he knew was coming.
A storm was on its' way. But he would protect his little girl from anything. No matter what he had to do.
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Hero Type:Normal/Gunman
Power Level: Street
Powers: (Unknown to him) Minor Healing Factor: Nick has a minor healing factor that works slowly, comparative to other heroes with more powerful healing factors. This allows him to take slightly more damage than a normal human would be able to, and be ready for action quicker after injuring himself.
Attributes:Age: 36
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 178 lb.
Strength Level: Athletic Normal Human
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Quick Normal Human
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 2 Hours due to training
Agility: Agile Normal Human
Intelligence: Average
Fighting Skill: Mastered
Resources: Large (Mostly weapons, but quite a bit of cash left over from his pay as a SEAL.)
Weaknesses: He's just a man, albeit a deadly one.
Supporting Characters: Abigail Church: His 13-year old daughter. Is a powerful metahuman, with super-strength and superhuman durability.
Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: Yep.
Sample Post:
1:05 AM "This the place?"
In a car, two men in black clothing sit, staring at a darkened two-story house. The lawn is manicured, and a winding concrete path leads to the front door. At the end of the path, a white door waits, surrounded by brick. A metal plate at eye-height, to the right of the door marks the house as 4359 Sunset Avenue.
The passenger, a wiry man with a wispy pencil mustache squints, looking at the address, and nods. "Yeah, we're here. Pretty ritzy place."
Putting on gloves and a balaclava, the driver, a thick-jawed man with a buzz cut and five-o-clock shadow, grunts. "Yeah, yeah, it's nice. Bet it has some good shit, too. You know why the boss wants us to break in?"
The second man nods. "Some girl. Probably a meta, with all this weird crap going on, recently." Pulling on a matching balaclava and gloves, the passenger steps out of the car. "To be honest, I couldn't care about the situation. We're getting paid a lot, we take the job."
Chuckling, the driver steps out of the car, shutting the door behind him quietly. "That's good. Wouldn't want ya to go chickenshit on me, now."
Creeping around the back, the two burglars tread quietly across the lawn, heading to a sliding glass door around back. Hefting a tire iron he brought from the car, the bigger man smashes the window, and reaching inside, unlocks the glass door, sliding it open.
Looking to his companion, who raises a handgun and nods, the big man creeps inside, taking the lead.
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Glass shatters, somewhere. A break in. Nicholas wakes with a start, rolling out of bed quickly. Opening his night-stand's drawer, he pulls a handgun from within. Rushing to his bedroom's door, he opens it slightly, peeking out into the upstairs hallway.
Two shadowy figures, one bulky, one lanky. Both headed down the hall, to Abigail's room.
They're coming to take her. Nostrils flaring, Nick grimaces with anger. He won't let that happen.
Stepping out into the hallway, he creeps behind the men, stepping softly. As they reach the door to his daughter's room, he is upon them. Grabbing the scrawny one, and pulling him into a chokehold, he aims his gun at the bigger man.
"Unless you want a bullet between your eyes, drop the weapon, and get on the ground." Turning around slowly, the big man drops the tire iron. Raising his hands in the air, he looks at Nick, glaring. His friend flailing in Nick's grip, he can do nothing but comply, getting on his knees, hands behind his head.
[WRITING PAUSED]