Byrd Man

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

Figure I ought to throw this out there before sitting down and making the character sheet, the character I plan on playing out of the three I was deciding between, The Faceless Hunter (aka Chun Yull), is a very weird alien villain from the Silver Age. I don't plan on making him very goofy (he's a pretty serious character, just has that silver age corniness about him), and I definitely don't intend to be comic relief, but he is a bit of an odd character as a default.

So question @Byrd Man: is that going to go against the tone you're looking for? I'd definitely be able to make him more serious than he's originally portrayed, but I can totally understand if a faceless alien warlord from the silver age isn't a good fit.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I'd also be reducing how many powers he has, since he was a prime example of the early Silver Age mindset of "give the villain whatever powers he needs for the story to work."

@GubGar

Yeah I'd recommend going a slightly different route.

Also, Vertigo, Onomatopoeia, and Grifter are approved.

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

G R I F T E R

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^{_{Cole Cash♦ Ex-Soldier and Freedom Fighter ♦ 31 ♦ Chicago}}

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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^{"I play with knives. I work with a gun."}

Cole is a disgraced Army Ranger who was faced with a dishonorable discharge after he ended up fighting his superiors in the field, refusing orders and putting his squad in harms way to do what he thought was right. Including punching his commanding officer in the face. After the military spit him out he went back to his criminal ways, trading in pickpocketing for the art of grifting, becoming a fierce conman before his life took an even more unfortunate turn. Aliens.
The Daemonites gave him their psychic powers, making Cole a low-level telepath and telekinetic. But, more importantly it allowed him to sense them despite their shapeshifting abilities and it allowed him to mount a one man war against a unseen threat. Seven years ago, Cole Cash aka The Grifter was Interpol's most wanted for his world-wide killing spree. Including an attempteded hits on Green Arrow, Black Canary and Martian Manhunter. Cole surrendered after he killed the leader of the Daemonite invasion force, the one that had replaced his own brother, Max. He's spent five years in prison for 22 murders, no one believes that he did it to protect the planet.

A B I L I T I E S:

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"The Most Dangerous Man Alive": Cole is a world-class gunslinger, demolitions expert and general military badass. There's very few things he can't figure out how to kill someone with if he so decides. The moniker 'world's most dangerous' was something he earned after the authorities that tried to stop his Alien murdering-spree ended up unsuccessful and he killed the alien that posed as a special agent with the FBI.

Conman: You can't bullshit a bullshitter, and there's few that can bullshit Cole Cash.

Psychic powers: Granted the psychic abilities of a race of evil dominators of societies seems like a bit of a burden to bear for anyone. It's not become much easier with time, especially not after Cole ended up being their most wanted and he managed to fight back the deamonite invasion with the help of some friends. Now he's stuck with being able to hear people's stray thoughts and lift small objects with his mind. He's no manhunter, but being able to sense someone's inclinations makes a standoff a lot less likely to turn to shit. The same shit that's gonna blow his psychic brains out also allows Waller to neutralize his powers whenever she or whoever's in charge at any given time to do so. A mind reader's no fun if your brain is classified.

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

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I like Cole's story because he's a raving lunatic, or at least that's the way he ends up being percieved. He's fighting a bloody crusade against a threat only he can seem to perceive. He's classically not a villain, and frankly he's barely an anti-hero but that's because his story's rarely taken out of it's very narrow context. Cole's crusade leads to him killing senators, police chiefs and millionaires, it doesn't matter that he's right if he can't really prove it, and he'd end up in jail for that eventually. Putting him on the Suicide Squad gives him a chance to get back to his own personal roots of being a soldier and doing what he's told, and hopefully making the world a better place. Once he works off his multiple life sentences with the squad, he wishes to retire to a quiet hunting cabin in the mountains and just live as far away from anyone else and their thoughts as possible.

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Weapon Caches: Cole went on a 14 month rampage across the U.S. And during which he setup multiple weapon caches inside of the country. He also used to be part of the black ops team 7, and therefor knows of their caches in areas where he did missions back in his army days. Guy'll be armed pretty much all of the time with anything from a .45 to a bazooka.

Cole has very little issue with Waller or Flag turning off his powers. He appreciates the peace and quiet. He doesn't appreciate the bomb that comes with the off-switch, though.

Cole's very excited to kill neo-nazis.

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TBA

@Hillan

Finally our first sheet.

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

Also, synopsis for the first mission is up in the second post. Hopefully that will get some creative juices flowing.

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

What's The Fred movie?

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

Looks pretty interesting mate, read through the interest check and you said you wanted canon DC villains. That canon for the Suicide Squad or can they just be from DC? How much can we change about the characters from the source anyway? We need to keep the powers exactly the same or are we allowed to make them a bit more unique?

@Carbonatter

DC villains for sure. But honestly when it comes to changing the character up, it's going to depend on the person and how well I know them/worked with them in the past, I'm gonna be more strict on people I don't know quite yet than people I know well. So in your case tweak here and there but keep the character pretty much the same baseline and the same powers.

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

OOC here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/185839-lov…

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

TEAM ROSTER

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ADMINISTRATION

Dr. Amanda Waller
Task Force X Director
"Whatever exists without my knowledge, exists without my consent."

Sarge Steel
Deputy Director & Intelligence Liaison
"The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal."

Noah Kuttler aka "The Calculator"
Technical Support
"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find an Apple user to show you how it's done."

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OPERATIONS

Col. Rick Flag
Field Leader
"You gotta hit 'em to hurt 'em."

Count Vertigo
@webboysurf
Sommelier
"You bureaucrats are too idiotic to understand diplomatic immunity, but smart enough to know who can get the job done."

Grifter
@Hillan
Bullshitter
"I play with knives. I work with a gun."

Onomatopoeia
@Morden Man
Foley Artist
"Snap."

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

MISSION HISTORY

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MISSION #1:
"White Riot"

The codeword Broken Arrow whispers through the US Department of Defense after a convoy carrying a nuclear warhead goes missing in the mountains of Montana. The likely suspects behind the disappearance: The Silent Majority, a white supremacist militia nestled in the Absarokas. This sort of blatant aggression would normally draw the full wrath of the US government. These type of domestic terrorists would have the US law enforcement and paramilitary apparatus raining hellfire upon them. Instead, the FBI, ATF, NSA, and the rest of the Alphabet Boys are told to stand down and standby. While the White House deals with the "political considerations" of Neo-Nazis, Task Force X is sent in to actually deal with the mission. As Flag and the Squad parachute in to the Rocky Mountains, Amanda Waller and Sarge Steel being to unravel the truth behind the bureaucratic resistance of the Executive Branch

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

Welcome to Belle Reve Federal Prison, located in the ass-end of Northern Louisiana bayou. Swamplands stretch for miles beyond the prison gates, swamps filled with quicksand and gators the size of VW Beetles. Contained within Belle Reve's walls are the worst of the worst the US prison industrial complex has to offer. Mobsters, serial killers, terrorists, and -- worst of all -- supervillains, are just among some of the notable residents that occupy prison cells here.

Belle Reve is also the perfect headquarters for Task Force X. Hidden within the bureaucratic doublespeak of the US government's budget, Task Force X is listed on paper as an agricultural development program. In reality Task Force X exists as one of the many black secrets at the government's disposal. When heroes aren't the answer to every problem, extreme situations require extreme measures. Measures like creating a team of super-villains, assembled by Amanda Waller, to undertake high-risk covert operations and in exchange for commuted prison sentences. And we do mean high-risk. Regardless of abilities and talent, every member of the task force is expendable—it’s expected that many will not return. As expendable assets, all members are fitted with an explosive device in their neck to assure obedience. Retreat is not an option for the members of the task force, neither is escape, and with success a slim guarantee is it any wonder they call Task Force X...

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CHARACTER SHEET

CS

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

A L I A S

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^{_{B I R T H N A M E ♦ G E N D E R ♦ A G E ♦ B I R T H P L A C E}}

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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^{"Witty Quote"}

This is where you outline your vision for the character This should be a short summary that provides insight into where the character is in terms of their overall progress and development.

A B I L I T I E S:

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What does your character do? Both powers and skills go here.

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

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Why do you want to play this character, what is the driving motivation behind both this desire and the character themselves. What do you hope to accomplish and where do you want the character's story/stories to go? What kind of role do you think your character can fit on the team? Why is your character a hero and not a civilian?

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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Any additional notes you want to put either for yourself, the GM or other players to help clarify your vision or additions to the DC-Mythos. Equipment or signature gear, like your cool boomerangs or sick car goes here. Info about any relationships to canon heroes should go here.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S:

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Short summary of your characters thoughts, feelings and regards for the rest of the cast. Optional and can be added to whenever.

Love Will Keep Us Together: A Suicide Squad RPG

That's fine. I'll figure out if we need to do a complimentary roster of NPCs to fill out the team as sheets roll in as well