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She's in, I just wanna call her something other than Thorn or Symbiosis. Would you be okay with purple and being called Parasite?

~KL~

@The Kid Lantern

Parasite is fine and a dark purple was what I had in mind.

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What if we colored the thing purple and called you Parasite? Superman's enemy can be called Leech or something LOL

~KL~

@The Kid Lantern

Tough to tell if you're being serious or not. Is she in?

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It doesn't look to be altered? What'd you go with for a new alias?

~KL~

@The Kid Lantern

Thorn, but I'm open to suggestions. I'll edit my proposed changes in the CS for you now.

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@The Kid Lantern Are you happy with my CS? I'm I ok to posted it in Characters with the changes?

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Come up with a better codename and trim a few of the powers down and I can accept this. Reminds me of something of a mix between Blue Beetle and Skitter. My thoughts on the powers...

Enhanced Strength
Envenomed Claws, cumulative paralytic
A projectile gunk shot, hazardous to health long term
Hook Shot Capabilities <<< Can you just explain this one?
Shell Armour Plating
Smokescreen <<< Batman's providing utility belts. Gotta give him this one LOL
Additional Chemical Sensors
Hazmat-lite, Bug Detoxes and filters Caitlyn's blood, making her resistant to chemical and biological warfare.
Defib-lite, Bug's Heart continues to pump blood around Caitlyn's body, even if Caitlyn's heart isn't.
Bug is semi-sentient and communicates Caitlyn neurally, feeding her powerful messages of hunger and self preservation.

@The Kid Lantern

@The Kid Lantern, I can agree to all of that, never was particularly happy with the code name. I was kind of fond of the smokescreen, thought it fit with Caitlyn's stealth/thievery and to reinforce how alien Bug is, but if you think it should go, it can go. The hook shot is a barbed chameleon tongue used for pulling light objects to Caitlyn, it can't support her weight.

I'm dreadful with names, how about Thorn? I'll keep thinking about it.

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Just finished up Caitlyn's Bio/ Sample post, its longer than I usually write, largely because I was having a dialog between myself. Same quality though obviously.

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Mind if i join?

Caitlyn Gump

Secret ID: Caitlyn Gump
Alias: Thorn
Age: 19
Home Location: Gotham, a wonderful place of opportunity, if you have the money and status.

Powers:
None of her own to speak of, but has a symbiotic relationship with a parasitical creature Caitlyn affectionately named "Bug", which is attached to her left arm, it gives her:

Envenomed Claws, cumulative paralytic
A projectile gunk shot, hazardous to health long term
Hook Shot Capabilities
Shell Armour Plating
Hazmat-lite, Bug Detoxes and filters Caitlyn's blood, making her resistant to chemical and biological warfare.
Defib-lite, Bug's Heart continues to pump blood around Caitlyn's body, even if Caitlyn's heart isn't.
Bug is semi-sentient and communicates Caitlyn neurally, feeding her powerful messages of hunger and self preservation.

Bug continues to grow, giving more powers to its beloved host but enveloping more of Caitlyn.

Weaknesses:
Besides her left arm she is entirely human, no powers attached.
Bug must be fed regularly to be any use
Bug can act against Caitlyn's will if it believes Caitlyn is endangering both of them.
Ingestion of unknown Paraciticides slows Bug down
Caitlyn is used to operating alone and finds it hard to trust others.
Technophobe, not literally, but sucks with computers.

Appearance:
A dirty street urchin with an alien creature for a left arm.
Curly mousy brown hair, cut shoulder length with a rusty scissor blade
Her eyes are dark and full of mistrust
She stands at a skinny 5'6" and weighs 170lbs, Bug included
Used to wear almost exclusively dark baggy clothing, but in light of becoming a TITAN has revamped her look, somewhat. Her hoodie has been swapped out for the more respectable, sleeveless turtleneck jumper and her cargo trousers for, well, better cargo trousers, you can take a girl out of the slums. Her sick hi-tops have also be traded in for more respectable combat ready footwear. This was going up in the world for her, she wasn't going to lose such an opportunity by looking scruffy.

Personality:
Caitlyn has dedicated her life from escaping the hell hole that her former life. All opportunities taken, nothing squandered. However her foresight is not twenty twenty, tends to give up long term rewards for short term boons. Caitlyn's trust must be earnt and is more easily lost than gotten. This however, doesn't stop her from being civil with you, something you learn on the streets, so you won't know whether you have it or you don't. Her desire to be a TITAN is not so much one of love for saving people, but of not having to be a criminal anymore, and sees it way to bigger things. She is manipulative and she is a deceiver but she isn't cruel and certainly not a bad person. As someone who often acted alone, she has little teamwork or leadership skills but will endeavor to acquire them when they've shown their value.

Bio/ Sample Post:

Her and Bug had come along way since they day they were first introduced, that day was pivotal in ways she barely understood at the time. She was 13, out of school and trying to help pay off a debt of a father she never met. Pick pocketing worked for a while, till mother's "gentlemen friends" went too many weeks without a visit to her bedroom. Payments went up, the bruises came back. The items stolen and fenced got more expensive; phones, laptops, computers, but it was never quite enough, according to the collectors.

"13 years old, wow, how time flies", the big one would say on the way out as they grabbed the hats and coats they'd slung over the sofa earlier,"I remember when you were only a wee nipper, look how much you've grown."

The other, cigarette in mouth, swinging his coat over his thin shoulders,"She's a smart little monkey too, Gov"

"Really now? Maybe she can come work with us, we could always do with a helping hand in the office", they'd both laugh in such away you knew they didn't mean it so much as a dirty joke as they did just dirty. "Maybe when she's a bit bigger."

"Yeah, and maybe she can finish what her daddy started too, you know he was this close to crackin-"
"Thats enough Freddy, were done here."

As Freddy unlocked the door, the big guy, who's name she knew would slip a silver coin out of his coat pocket and deposit into Caitlyn's palm.

"For my favourite God-daughter, buy yourself something sweet."

The same charade every month, little did they know it was the last. Tonight she wasn't staying for the awkward silent late supper before bed. She was meeting him, the Man of Promises. Shortly after the men left, Caitlyn changed back out of pajamas and left into the darkness. Their meeting place was a dark alleyway approximately half way between Caitlyn's home and the office Fred and the Boss man returned too every month after visiting, the heavy cloud cover obscured the moon but the streets were no darker thanks to the powerful neon lampposts. Drunkards already littered the street and their harmless, but watchful gaze made Caitlyn's heart pound harder. The video rental, the second hand store, the charity store, the coffee shop. The alley opened before her, its gaping chasm threatening to swallow her whole. A man in sunglasses was waiting in a door way deeper down. Him. Caitlyn walked down and followed him into the room he was propping open. Caitlyn took a seat at the table that had been dragged into the closet from cafe side.

An ornate wooden box lay on the table, unlocked. The lid seemed still, but periodically Caitlyn could have sworn it lifted up, if only by millimeters. The box demanded her attention, in it was a promise, so she was told. An opportunity to escape the life she had, to be slave to no one and take control of her own destiny.

"Are you sure this is what you want Miss Gump?"
"I want it to stop"
"And you're willing to do what is necessary?"
"Yes"
"And you're willing to pay the price?"
"Yes"
"So be it, lift the lid of the box"

Caitlyn placed her hands on either side of the lid. What on earth could be in this box? She wasted no time, but immediately regretted it. The contents wriggled and Caitlyn slammed the lid back down.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE?"
"Freedom, Miss Gump"

Caitlyn lifted the lid a little slower this time, fingers as far from any of the alien creatures as she could. Thorny, writhing unearthly creatures litter the box, there might have been seven or eight of them all unique in their horrid design.

"What am I supposed to do with these?"
"Please pick one, today is the day you escape the chains of society"
"I came here for a gun, you said you were going to give me a weapon to fight my oppressors with"
He scoffed, "I am giving you something better than a gun," he paused, "Liberation. Pick one."

None of them were particularly inviting, but maybe that was the point. He was wasting her time. She got up to leave but a firm hand pushed her back into her seat.

"Do not make the mistake others have made, Miss Gump, you leave this room and you walk back into your old life, back into the sadness and the misery and the hopelessness, this is your chance to escape. I can assure you that you will not regret this, pick one."

Caitlyn looked back into the box of horrors.

"That one."
"A fine choice, the first of many."

He lifted the 7 inch monstrosity out of the box, with no more care than if it were a hamster. Holding it by the giant thorn he rolled it in air and stroked it along the belly side. It relaxed and opened up exposing its lemon yellow, fleshy insides.

"Your hand, Miss Gump."

She didn't respond but her expression said everything. Nope. Nope. Nope. The Man of Promises took her hand from the table. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. He pulled her hand slowly into position, Caitlyn transfixed on the creature, which seem to wriggle more excitedly as her middle finger got closer. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. She looked up to the man, her face filled with horror, her eyes begged for it to end. She could feel the warmth radiating from the creatures insides on her finger. Every moment waiting for it to clamp around it was agony, the torture never ending. NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! She squeezed her eyes tight and braced for the pain of her skin being devoured by the hungry evil creature, but it never came.

The man relaxed his grip on her wrist, and smiled.

"Welcome to the first day of your new life."

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DUNGEON CRAWL!!! Super Fun Fantasy Dungeon Crawling I Guess

"Bumble?" He requested. "How do you fare in the dark?"

"Better than I fare in the light, do you think I should lead or do you just want a warning before something big bonks you?"

Bumble retrieved her throwing axes from their resting places. Unfortunately, in all the fire and excitement one of the handles had be rendered to ashes. She slipped the remaining axes into their place on her belt and tucked the axe head into her bag as she retrieved her sandals, foot wraps and poop weren't a good combination.

The party began to mobilize and as exited their first trial, Bumble gathered up three of the biggest charred rats by the tail and dragged them along behind her. The stench of fecal matter intensified as they descended into the dungeon, but it could we worse, it could be Goblin Smell, or Dwarf Smell. She stood out the front with Ozend, whose shadow stretched out long in front of him, obscuring his view but not Bumbles. Bumble had perfect view of the chests which she had to refrain from throwing herself at. The could be trapped, they could get ambushed and their was a good chance they couldn't carry the contents to the end and back out again. They could be inspected on the return journey, plus bigger treasure lay ahead, she just knew it.

They reached the end of the corridor again, and this time were met with a door with a barred window. A noise emanated from within, an inhuman howl, as well as several more large sleeping rodents and a big wonderful chest. This was the one, the contents of the chest had to be marvelous, magnificent! Jewels? Ingots? What ever it was Bumble wasn't leaving till she knew, or her life was in serious danger, maybe then.

"You know what? I've had enough creepy crawlies for tonight. I'm gonna let Femurro handle this."

"No Alice, Plea-"

"GO FORTH, LOYAL SOLDIER! SMITE MY ENEMIES!"

A bone rolled under the threshold of the door, propelled only by its desire to complete Alice's bidding. Bumble sighed, we really weren't the Whispered Venture,and braced herself against the door facing her team mates. No doubt she'd woken and excited the rats, rats they could kill quickly and efficiently if they all attempted stealth. They would wait for them to calm down, go back to sleep and then they could be disposed of. She looked disapprovingly at Alice, but not for long, several small projectiles were pounding at the door and applying far more pressure than disorganized rats should be able to produce. She stepped away, and a wave of little rats poured out into the corridor in front of them. She dropped dinner, swapping it out for a throwing axe and her trusty battle axe.

In front of her stood a real rat golem, god knows how high, squirming and wriggling, hundreds of tiny hearts pounding away. It didn't look like it could get much closer to them but they certainly weren't getting to the chest without going through it. Bumble started thinking as she backed off, what would be effective against such a monstrosity? She pondered for a moment before realizing Alice could go off again any moment and only Og'Og knew what chaos might ensue after that. She stuck up a finger to Alice's lips and one to her own, axes still in hand, and stared deep into her eyes. In a calm voice she whispered,

"Shhhh, no magic yet."

She alternated between watching Alice and watching the Beast, right now both were equally dangerous.

DUNGEON CRAWL!!! Super Fun Fantasy Dungeon Crawling I Guess

Yeah I'm still here, but you need to learn to be more patient man, Rome wasn't built in a day.

DUNGEON CRAWL!!! Super Fun Fantasy Dungeon Crawling I Guess

post was missing something yesterday, think I fixed it.