CloudyBlueDay

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

Everyone's posting so fast x_X, I suggest an internet relay chat of some sort :]
So we don't clog the ooc too much.

@Inertia

Skype, perhaps? Or Discord? I'm all for either!

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

well, already got plans for my first post. Gonna have Aurora in a public riding arena in the city to start with if anyone wants to work off that :)

@CloseEnough

Not so fast! People will be meeting with Ditch first post, actually. :3 We jump right to business! But don't worry. Everyone will have a chance to show their normal lifestyle.

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

Writer's block is a pain but at least today I managed to put something together. Figured making a nice big spearhead for the group would work nicely.

Girard Babcock

Name: Girard Babcock.
Quote: Buddy I'd like to see you try.
Alias: Tank.
Age: 23.
Gender: Male
Family:
Mother-Ellen; Father-Deckard; Younger sister- May; Younger brother- Jeremiah.

Occupation: Construction and Demolition, he prefers the latter.

Appearance:

Hider

Girard stands at 6'8" and weighs upwards of 400lbs thanks to his power. He tends to wear whatever is comfortable normally whether
it be short sleeves and jeans or some other combo. When he becomes Tank a dark green bomber jacket, a black shirt underneath, with grey camo pants are his preference, tough/comfortable and plenty of storage, including a large military helmet with a face cover.

Method of Operation: Girard's method can be described as hit them fast and hit them hard or occasionally take everything they have on the chin and keep going. He has the patience to wait for the right time to charge in like an angry comet dispensing explosives if and when necessary. Once his controlled havoc has been unleashed he makes sure his target is down for the count before getting out.

Superpower:
Girard got the alias Tank from the supernaturally dense tissue in his body. He is easily capable of shrugging off most conventional weaponry and even plenty of non-conventional means of attack. He is also far stronger and heavier than he appears making him difficult to contend with in most situations. However, all this extra weight and size makes him quite slow most of the time and when he does get moving quickly he is very much at the mercy of his own momentum. While he might be practically invulnerable to a conventional attack, even a few powered as well, he still has a battery of things that can effect him like electricity, poison, and mental powers come to thought. His weight overpowers his strength to an extent making jumping or upwards motion far more difficult not to mention going through weak floors because of it. He tends to avoid large bodies of water really not wanting to sink like a rock before even trying to swim. Lastly, it often takes him awhile to lick his wounds if he gets particularly hurt because he has a lot more to hurt than most.

Skills: Girard knows how to take care of home life well enough, maybe not perfectly but it'll do. He has an engineering degree but enjoys getting his hands dirty working but he knows buildings well and if there were a structural weakness he would be the one to notice it. Explosives help in this endeavor and he has taken quite the shine to making his own for his escapades though he is very careful with them. He doesn't have any sort of combat training but he is a big man with more than his share of weight to throw around and he has gotten good at it.

Equipment: He brings multiple different homemade explosives and his get up but other than that he can improvise a weapon if he so needs it.

Personality: Girard tends to be a rather friendly guy mostly carefree. He will talk to anyone who will listen provided he has something to say or will listen to anyone if the subject is good. He tends to be careful and relatively peaceful but he is no gentle giant and if someone starts something it won't take him long to step in and give them what they have coming though he tends to hold back for their sake if it gets physical. He is far more concerned with other people than himself trying to help out where he can with a smile on his face mostly because he can. He is more than willing to work with other vigilantes though his forward style doesn't always mesh. He might have looked up to heroes at one point but to him its people like him and others who are willing to go further that really keep the criminals on edge.

Criminals are one of the few things that Girard detests and cleaning up the city one gang at a time is his way of dealing with it. He doesn't always expect much out of them but he fully expects them to try and surprise crime fighters so he values patience for keeping him out of trouble. For him there are no restrictions on what kind of activity to stop though some warrant less force than others which he is keenly aware of. Despite his approach to the bad element serious collateral damage is something he avoids whenever possible, no need to make it harder on the people and families who live in the city like him. He intends to protect and clean up the city to make it better for him, his family, and every good hearted person left in it.

Biography: Girard's parents met at a local diner in the city and had a few arguments before they really got talking but it was uphill from there and the two have been inseparable since. They managed to carve out a nice life by the time their first son was born and they were amazed when he was. While Girard wouldn't have fully developed powers until he was well into his teens they had an impact on his size from day one. He had a rather good life never much to complain about, his father also being quite a big guy and a short temper with troublemakers, warding off plenty of trouble with his siblings only making it better. If his parents weren't there he was looking after them and would continue to do so through his life seeing his family as the most important thing he had. His parents actually bought the diner and it did good for a while but continually less people came when some local gang members started targeting it driving people away as well as making life harder for the family. Girard now with some years under his belt found out most of them were around his age and being the guy he was intervened once roughing a couple of them up in the process to which they stopped coming for a bit but it wouldn't last.

The leader had taken particular offense to it, his cousin having taken a beating in the intervention, came back and put several shots through the diner's front hitting a couple patrons as well as his brother also grazing his sister who was nearby. It was one of the few moments Girard couldn't recall because he rushed out after them in a rage having no intention of them getting away. He probably should have know it would be a trap but there was little thought running through his mind when he walked into an opening in-between finding seven vengeful aggressors though only the leader had a gun. Girard admits he remembers very little of what happened but it ended very badly for the seven who tried with everything they had to bring him down only to find they couldn't because he was shrugging off pipes, chains, hell even the leader's pistol barely left a mark on him with repeated shots. After he reined himself in he got out of there to go and check on his family who were glad to see him alive after his pursuit. It was part of the reason he would later become Tank but for some years it calmed down.

His brother and sister recovered, his brother lost some range of motion in his left arm but he lived, but thing got back to being more normal if not more close between the family. It had occurred more than ever that Girard was something special and they told him that it was his choice how to handle his 'gift'. Of course he did his best to conceal if not so much hide it for a time not sure what to do but he would eventually seeing more and worse crimes as he got older. He couldn't let the horror that happened to his family just go on or show up else where especially not after one of his best friends nearly got mugged among other continued attempts on people he cared about or around him. Since then he has done his best to keep a good balance between being him and being Tank who is far less forgiving than him and has put more than a little fear into the cities criminal population. His efforts haven't been appreciated by all but even people who denounce the vigilantes have no bearing on him enough to make him stop. When he got the letter from Ditch he couldn't help but see the use in working together to take on someone possibly more powerful than all of them and he made his choice then.

Theme Song: Thinking on it.

Relationships: TBD.

Extra: We are not normal.

@General Scales

Every super team needs a good tank! Accepted.

If anyone else has shown interest and still plans to put up a CS, speak now or forever hold your peace. Those people have a spot reserved, otherwise, we are closed. First IC post is coming soon.

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

Wraith

Name: Kara Banks

Quote: “Real justice leaves nothing behind.”

Alias: Wraith

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Family: Older brother, Steven Banks Father, Carl Banks. Mother, Georgia Banks, Deceased

Occupation: Student

Appearance: Kara is shorter than average for her age, and has the lean, muscular build of a gymnast. Her facial features are slightly unremarkable, but she could be described as mildly attractive, with pale grey eyes and a light dusting of freckles across her nose. She has medium-length brownish-blonde hair, which she ties back into a ponytail whenever possible.

During her daily life, Kara almost always dresses casually in jeans, battered old sneakers and tank tops or t-shirts. She owns an embarrassing amount of hero themed t-shirts, most of them given to her by her brother every time her birthday or Christmas rolled around, or just whenever he wanted an excuse to annoy her. Secretly, she is quite fond of them, even the ones with the cheesy slogans, which could explain why she wears them so much.

When operating as ‘Wraith’, Kara wears a silver eye mask that covers the top half of her face, along with a dark grey jacket and black trousers loose enough for her to be able to move quickly. She always wears a pair of thick black gloves wrapped in barbed wire, designed to be completely waterproof due to the nature of her fighting style.

Method of Operation: Her fighting style is based on provoking her enemies into aggression, forcing them to lower their guard and leave openings for her to attack. Once her opponent is vulnerable, she can use her ability to directly attack their vital organs and end the fight before it properly begins.

If forced into a fight, she uses her ability to alter her density to be lighter than air, allowing her to take flight and making her a fast-moving, unpredictable target. When striking her opponent, she heightens the density of her fists as they hit her opponent, giving every impact much more force behind it.

Superpower: Kara can control the density of her body, allowing her to walk through walls, become lighter than air, or give her punches the force of sledgehammer blows. In combat, she uses her power to phase into opponents bodies and destroy their vital organs, or hit them with strikes that have a huge amount of power.

Her power has drawbacks, though. While increasing her density can allow her to become stronger and withstand more blows, her body can only take the strain for a limited time before she risks permanent bone or muscle damage. This also applies to reducing her density, as the strain put on her organs could lead to health problems or falling unconscious if used for long periods of time. This means she must use her power in short bursts to avoid being damaged.

Skills: Kara is a skilled actor, and does not hesitate to lie when the situation calls for it, and is able to be a very convincing diplomat. She is also a skilled gymnast, which lends her some strength and agility that she would otherwise lack and has gotten her out of a few sticky situations.

Equipment: Barbed gloves, designed to do maximum damage to internal organs. Small vial of poison that can be used on more durable enemies. Backpack to carry equipment and hide obvious evidence after fights.

Personality: To the outside world, Kara has a friendly, outgoing personality. She surrounds herself with people who are kind and caring, making friendships easily with a hug and a beaming smile. She is, for all intents and purposes, a model student, the type of person that you would expect to make it out in the world and live a happy, normal life. She seeks out others like her, who are held up on a pedestal to others and surrounds herself with them. However, if they are seen as doing wrong, or harming someone else, then they tend to disappear.

In reality, behind the façade of warmth and friendliness that she puts on, Kara has an obsession with justice, whatever the cost. No matter how small a grievance, how petty the crime, if she witnesses someone doing wrong, then she marks them in her mind and obsessively tracks them down to deal out her version of ‘justice’. Still, she seems to almost enjoy it, always thinking that she is in the right, no matter what the circumstances.

She dislikes heroes, and the way that they attempt to save the day by bringing villains to justice. As far as she is concerned, if the villain responsible lives, then justice has not been done.

Biography: As a child, Kara was always liked by those around her. She grew up in a happy family of normal people, completely unaware of her powers, and was closer to her mother than anyone else in the world. They would sing and dance in the park, go to the theatre, and she would be supportive of everything Kara did. The first time she decided to try out at the local theatre, her mother was the last person to count her out and the first person to give her a shoulder to cry on when she was rejected.

For sixteen years, she lived an ideal life. Her dad would come home, beaming after a good days work or excitedly waving a bonus and declaring that they’d be going on a holiday or buying a new car. Her brother, two years older, would smile and laugh and they’d sit and chat together, less like siblings and more like old friends. Sadly for Kara, it all came tumbling down. Her mother was murdered, with her the only witness. She was only able to survive because her powers activated, allowing the bullet fired at her to simply bounce off. Not understanding what was going on, she ran away.

After the murder, she was racked with guilt over what happened, over not being able to help. Her father and brother tried to help her, but it just didn’t seem to work. She recalled the way she had withstood the bullet, and realised that she had some kind of power. She began to train, and this was where she developed her obsession, vowing never to rest until every single person like this was brought to justice. At eighteen, two years of training later, this obsession drove her to buying a mask, and taking to the streets of the city as Wraith.

Theme Song: Can’t think of one yet.

Relationships: Not discussed

Extra: Who’s not normal? We’re not normal.

@Lasrever

Looks good, accepted!

I think we've got enough players to start, no? I'll accept I think maybe two more people maximum, but the intro post should be up soon, since you guys are all here and excited. XD

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

Well here is mine, is her powers and backstory ok? I will do proper formatting if she is accepted.

Ah, also, there are other people who also have an "evil scientific corporation" in their backstory right? Maybe this could be used to tie a few ends together.

Anyway, my overall idea with this girl was to take a new look at the "Bestial hero" formula that so many heroes and villains use while also using inspiration from a cool time period that is often forgotten thanks to dinosaurs. Instead of bulky and strong I went for a "RPG rogue" style with her. Plus, no super audition/vision/smell because mate, if you are regressing your DNA those will only get worse, not super good.

Isabel Cohen

Name:
Isabel Cohen

Quote:
“In any extinction the biggest and strongest is the first to die”

Alias:
Gorgon Eyes (Due to her bright yellow eyes when she is transformed)

Age:
23

Gender:
Female

Family:
Tabatha (super) - Mother
Marcelo (normal) - Father
Miranda (super) - Sister

Occupation:
Student, Paleontologist

Appearance:
(I’m making an image that I will upload later)
She has an athletic and slim body shape, sometimes described as “tomboyish”, her skin is a light tanned brown. She keeps her messy dark brown hair at shoulder height. She usually has no casual dress code, as long as it is loose and featureless she is wearing it, when working she wears more fitting clothes, usually jeans with a shirt and a jacket. She likes some accessories like necklaces and wristbands as long as they are made from fiber or wood. She has problems with her vision which often forces her to wear glasses, which contrast a lot with her overall “wild” look.

When out as a vigilante she usually wears a hoodie with track pants, usually grey ones if she is in a city and camo if she is in a wild area. If the battle gets a bit intense and she needs to use all of her power her transformation will usually require that she rips off those clothes, because of that she always carry a backpack with a spare outfit.

Her “Feral” look is an odd mix of her human form with reptile and mammal features, to be more specific, she acquires features of a Therapsid, creatures who ruled the earth before the Dinosaurs, and who almost disappeared in all the massive extinctions that lead to the Jurassic period, the exception being a little branch that one day would be called Mammalia. (For reference on Therapsids)

Method of Operation:
Hit and run. She prefers fast interventions that end as quickly and as quietly as possible. She picks her targets at random as she strolls trough the streets at night, any crime is enough for her start a pursue. When in town she usually stays non-lethal, in the wild however she is more “trigger happy” as there is no consequence. She tries to stay hidden and most of the talks about her are seen as urban legends and rumours.

Superpower:
“Devolution”

This DNA power makes recessive and ancestral genes flourish. She never loses her human shape but some features change. The skill works chronologically, however early stages are useless to her, primates just makes her more agile and small mammals just make her nails and teeth sharper. The real deal is when she reaches the Permian era when the Mammal’s ancestors ruled the earth, giving her speed, stamina and very sharp claws.

It’s possible for her to go further than that into reptile and amphibian territory, theoretically even beyond, however it’s unpractical because of the downside of her power: Her senses change as she “devolves”, getting more and more simple the further back she goes, anything past Therapsid starts to get very confusing, by the amphibian point her brain can’t properly connect anymore and she goes blind and deaf.

Skills:
She is athletic due to her training as a teenager. Being a college student she knows a lot not only about paleontology but general geography and biology.

Equipment:
--

Personality:
Distant but not cold. Isabel usually drifts off in her own thoughts and studies but isn’t particularly annoyed by others, on the contrary, she likes to talk, however only a few can endure her almost nihilistic behaviour, almost because she loves life and her status as a human, but she can’t ignore the fact of how much of a small and accidental thing her species is.

She feels very mixed about supers, on one side she fears that Earth might see its sixth great extinction, on the other, she is amazed by how mankind evolved such powers. Either way, one kind of people that will always be on her bad side are “bullies” as in, people who think might is right and only the strong should survive, when a quick look on animals of today and the past reveals the contrary, the strong often die as they get too big and too comfortable with their position on the apex.

Biography:
Her mother was Tabatha, a well known super who protected the city with her “magical” powers on her silly witch outfit. Due to that both Isabel and her sister Miranda grew on a wealthy yet isolated home, which wasn’t much of a trouble as her parents were always present and affectionate.

Until the powers started to show up, that is. Miranda started to showcase powers similar to her mother, energy manipulation that is referred to as “magic”, quickly making her mom proud. Isabel however got some sort of wild and unrefined power, and her parents, while clearly not being angry at her, stopped with the plan to train her as her power was much more unpredictable and “ugly” if compared to her sister’s and her mother’s. Even so Isabel kept exploring her skills in secret.

One day a maid “left by accident” a ladder near the wall that surrounded their mansion, needless to say always curious Isabel took the chance to explore the outside. Unfortunately for her it was an ambush. The maid was an agent of a group that abused supers to help with work and research, and while at first she was there to scout Miranda she found Isabel’s powers to be much more useful.

She was sent to a lab in a tropical jungle where scientists started to study her powers to see if it could be used to revive extinct animals. At first the tests were rough, she was exposed to extreme cold and heat, forced to exercise until she couldn’t move anymore and they would constantly collect her blood. Then they started to leave her alone in the jungle, no food, no clothes, to see what she would do to survive.

Then an odd thing started to happen, maybe it was Stockholm Syndrome, but Isabel and the scientists started to develop some sort of friendship. The tests started to get softer, she started to donate her blood willingly, they started to tell her about the project and about the creatures it could bring back and she was amazed by that possibility. Furthermore they liked her power, she was free to go wild as much as she wanted and they would never oppose.

Years went by, then one day Isabel left to explore the jungle and meet animals, and when she came back her sister and mother were at the lab and all scientists were on the ground, bleeding. For her mom the ripped clothes, the scars, the sun burnt skin and the messy hair were results of cruelty and she begged for forgiveness for her failure as she lovingly hugged her daughter, promising that this would never happen again, that she would be safe.

And there she was, now a late teenager and back to her old life, to the annoying dresses, to the disgusting industrial food, to the walls confining her path. Needless to say it didn’t took long before she left the place again. But it became clear that was not her world, that she would never be part of her Mother and Sister’s “spandex” team. It took a while but her family accepted it too.

Eventually she went to live by herself and found a small job, almost nobody could recognize her as Tabatha’s daughter so all she did was to change her surname to avoid trouble. She started to go to college and studied paleontology, eventually becoming a trainee in a research team. She also became familiar with the darker side of the cities, and quickly decided to use her powers to “fix” it a bit whenever she had free time, a relaxing hobby to ease the tensions of the daily routine.

Relationships: None (For now?)

Extra: Nobody is normal, but we are the coolest kind of not normal.

@Double Capybara

Let's start with SUPER COOL POWER CHOICE MAN WOAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
There are a couple forests in Millennium City (also I guess we're going with that name now xD) but not nearby, so I don't think she can get to the wild so easily to prance around. xD But other then that, you're good.

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

I've been reading everyone's character sheets and I felt the need to add a little bit to my personality section.

Interesting cast so far. Ditch has their hands full.

And, also, as far as the city goes, I'm going to just assume a few things since it's a mesh of Gotham and NYC:
● it's built on islands
● there's at least one monorail and/or subway system
● there's at least one major park
● there are older, brick-and-mortar parts of town and newer, steel-and-glass parts
● ...Chinatown

Sorry, if any of this is pointless or wrong.

@Artifex

Yep, all that you've listed is correct.

Ditch does indeed have their hands full, lolz.

@lydyn
Goodnight!

Are you still taking characters? I've got an idea for a character that I'd like to try and make work here.

@Lasrever

We're starting to reach the limit of characters (I'm going for a maximum of ten), so you've still got time to put in your CS.

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

@CloudyBlueDay - So keep danger sense as is, but change the muscle memory part to Intuitive Aptitude? I just want to be clear. Also no need to apologize. I'm actually really happy to have such an understanding and responsive GM! Most would have probably got all upset at me by now or been way too stern about what I should be doing. ^.^

@lydyn

Yes, that sounds good. c: Aww, thank you! I do my best. Besides, how stern can you be with superpowers, LOL, amiright? xD

I'm almost ending mine, sorry for the time its taking :3

@Double Capybara

We are in no rush. c:

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

@CloudyBlueDay - Well, it's like 3:30 AM here and I feel like I'm at a loss of what is considered overpowered and was isn't considered overpowered. I'm sorry for being such a pain... so I'm really not sure where you want to go from here. I mean, that is what Spider-Man does, though a tad less powerful (not sensing ambushes, I think) - he can sense danger from any direction, hence 360... so yeah. Just tell me what you'd like to do with all of this. I'd like to figure it out before I go to bed... ^.^

@lydyn

No, I'm sorry, I'm confusing the heck out of you and myself. X_X Keep the Danger Sense like you've got it now, we'll be good. Go to sleep, and once again I apologize for muddying things up.

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

@CloudyBlueDay- The definition I'd use; To see into the immediate future, user has no direct control over the power and is only triggered when there is immediate danger. It's a sub-set of precognition. It's an upgrade you might say. She can see not only in a 360 degrees but also sense ambushes, collapsing buildings, accidents, etc. I'd also argue being captured by obviously hostile individuals to be a form of danger... so it'd be a bit tricky to get around catching her off guard.

@lydyn

MMMMMMNNNNNNNNN.. She can see 360 degrees? I'm not sure, that might be a little too much.

@CloudyBlueDay 23, been playing games like this since I was about 14 or so. Jason started out as a slightly different character that I had planned to use in an RP that ended up dying, and so he's just been bouncing around in my head ever since.

@Korkoa

Well you weren't lying owo I have quite a few superpowered chars that need some love, you will most likely see them as NPC's. If I wasn't playing Ditch, I'd be playing one of my most favorite chars. *3*

Never Normal - a Superhero Vigilante RP

@KorkoaYears? @_@ How old are you?! XD