Equipment: Two sets or rosary beads Various Holy Texts (the Bible, Qur'an, Tao Te Ching, Taishō Tripiṭaka, etc.) Various Occult Texts (the Book of Abramelin, the Sworn Book of Honorius, the Baopuzi, the Liber Razielis Archangeli, the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, the Hygromancy of Solomon, etc.)
Alright, so I think we need to agree on the nature of the time travel we're talking about in this. If we don't have a standardized understanding of how it works, things could get very confused very quickly.
When we travel back in time, are we creating a branching timeline? Or are we messing with a single, continuous timeline? The only reason I bring this up is that there have been a few mentions of ensuring that the characters are born even after defeating Darkseid. Whether or not they're born seems like the least of the problems posed by a continuous timeline.
Under that paradigm, if they were successful in preventing Darkseid's purge and subsequent enslavement of Earth's populace, they would effectively also be preventing the future Batman and Luthor from constructing the time portal that was absolutely necessary to travel back and make that change to the time stream; it is a categorical paradox.
Not that comics don't have paradoxes when it comes to time travel, but it's not my favorite way of looking at it. The continuous timeline paradigm is fatalistic (i.e. any time travel that takes place logically ought to be observable in the first iteration. If no branching future occurs, whatever happens already takes time travel into account), the branching timeline paradigm is deterministic (i.e. going back effectively makes the future ambiguous, allowing actual changes to be made).
Singular Continuous Timeline:
Branching Timelines with Time Travel only going backwards in time:
I suppose that even with branching timelines a character might want to ensure that a version of them is born into the timeline they're currently inhabiting, but that version of them would be a separate individual. It's not like the character themselves would fade out of existence if they weren't born in the new timeline. They're already an out-of-place artifact of a separate world; they've been born already, somewhen else. If the events of the new timeline could change their pasts, not only shouldn't they be born, but they shouldn't have been able to come back to save anyone or change anything.
If I'm over analyzing this and making it un-fun, let me know and I'll stop thinking so much. I'll stop beating a dead horse now.
Mako watched the portal as it charged up: the physical culmination of all their cooperation, the monument to their determination to undo Darkseid and the destruction he'd wrought. It was a fine sight.
With a sure his grip on the haft of his trident, he stepped forwards toward some of the other assembled time-travelers. At the mention of fathers though, the exhilaration he'd felt until then quieted and his lips pressed into a thin, flat line. How Orin would see him, the son he'd never met? It mattered not, Mako thought as he stepped into the portal; he succeeded the throne of Atlantis, and his actions would speak for him. He believed he was a son his father could be proud of.
~~|Present Day|~~
As they arrived through the time portal into the midst of the brawl, Mako held his trident with both hands in a defensive posture, with the tip pointed downwards in front of him. He listened as the future GL spoke with the past one and Sinestro, and seemed to broker at least a pause in the fighting.
Mako still wasn't entirely convinced the villains would just drop everything and team up, so he kept a wary eye open, scanning between them. Some he recognized: Bane, Deathstroke, Captain Boomerang. Others were less familiar to him. None the less, they needed everyone. Clearing his throat, he called out in a booming voice.
"We need to begin making preparations, if we are to stand any chance."
So after reading John's Bio, I just now realized that the time portal is on Earth. I'm just going to edit the last little bit of Aquaman's bio to fit that, since there doesn't seem like much point in making a ship and meeting up with the fleets if he'd just need to come back anyways.
Mako can breathe underwater, endure the vast pressures of the deep, see in total darkness, and his hearing is acute enough to perform bio-sonar much like a dolphin can. On the other hand he can only spend a limited time out of water. He also possesses superhuman levels of strength, speed, endurance and durability, all by-products of his body being adapted to survive unprotected in the tremendous pressures of the ocean depths. Although other Atlanteans possess similar adaptations, Aquaman's royal lineage makes him a super-Atlantean as well as super-human, and as such he has greater physical capabilities than does a typical Atlantean.
Mako has the ability to telepathically commune with and empathically coerce all creatures of the sea, and to thusly enlist the aid of these denizens of the oceans. Unlike his father, Mako has not as of yet demonstrated any aptitude for general telepathy or mental control towards non-marine life.
Schooled in Atlanean sorcery, Mako has tattoos etched on his forearms which allow him to subtly manipulate the water in a person's body to repair damaged tissues. He has to be in contact with the injured area to do this, and it's a slow process. Obviously, this only works on lifeforms composed largely of water.
Weaknesses:
Mako must return to water after a period of time or he becomes dehydrated. This period can be extended by the humidity in the atmosphere but eventually prolonged dehydration will weaken him thus he must return to aquatic environment to recuperate.
Equipment: ~Trident of Neptune: The Trident is a magical weapon that grants its wielder great power and the divine right to rule the sea. The Trident of Neptune was forged by the cyclopes out of admantine and Neptune's own essence. It can manipulate and conjure water, as well as disperse energy in the form of bolts.
Personality: At the best of times Mako is heartfelt, earnest, compassionate, and outgoing. At less sterling moments he may come across as brash, overbearing, or even arrogant. He's been raised as royalty from an early age, with all of the gravity and responsibilities that entitles, but very few of the benefits that traditionally go along with them. He is quick to anger, though he's good at not showing it openly. He is something of a warrior poet, and loves art of all sorts.
Bio: The fall of Atlantis truly began with Mako's older brother Arthur Curry Jr. When Darkseid's invasion spread beneath the waves to threaten Poseidonis, the toddler prince was killed in the siege. Orin was consumed by the loss of his son, and in a rage lead his armies in an attack on Darkseid. Though he fought fiercely, he was slain by the new god.
With the loss of their king, Garth retrieved Aquaman's trident and rallied the remaining troops to lead them in a withdrawal. With an incredible majority of the population of Atlantis already dead, they had few options remaining. In a last ditch effort, Garth used his sorcery to augment Mera's innate connection to her home dimension: Dimension Aqua. Opening a rift, they evacuated the surviving Atlanteans into the other dimension, fleeing from Earth and leaving it to it's grim fate.
At the time of the invasion, Mera was already with Orin's child, though she knew it not at the time. Nine months later, she gave birth to her second son, Mako. The displaced Atlanteans lived as refugees for years, never truly integrating with the society of Dimension Aqua. Mako grew up knowing that he was the King of a wandering people, who'd lost their lands at the hands of a tyrant. From a young age, cold fury burned in his chest. He became aggressive, and his mother had Garth channel that aggression towards positive ends. He taught him to fight, to lead, and to know the sea like the back of his hand. In many ways, Garth was the father he never had. The two of them went on many adventures in the watery world of Dimension Aqua.
When he came of age, Mako made a decision to go back and see the desolation that Darkseid had wrought upon the Earth. His mother was terribly against it, but eventually he and Garth returned to Atlantis: it was a ruin and a tomb. Utterly lifeless, along with the rest of the world. Sorrow and anger and fear collided against one another inside of Mako like a tropical storm. Just before he felt he could no longer bear it, they detected a signal. A message left on an infinite loop, playing over and over again to deaf ears. Before departing the planet with the fleets, Batman had arranged a delayed information cache in the case that anyone or anything might have survived in hiding or otherwise. It was encoded using cryptography that had been standard within the Justice League, and they were able to make sense of it. It contained projected routes of the fleets, the identities of trusted contacts within his burgeoning rebellion, contact frequencies, and other vital information.
Spurred to action by the discovery, Mako returned to Dimension Aqua with Garth in tow. They got into contact with Batman, and learned about the unsuccessful efforts that had been thus far made. When he told them about the plan for the time portal, Mako offered to have the Atlantean scientists begin the initial construction of the installation while they awaited the arrival of Wayne and Luthor. When the chosen heroes arrived back on earth, Mako was there to greet them; and insisted on going along.
Mako can breathe underwater, endure the vast pressures of the deep, see in total darkness, and his hearing is acute enough to perform bio-sonar much like a dolphin can. On the other hand he can only spend a limited time out of water. He also possesses superhuman levels of strength, speed, endurance and durability, all by-products of his body being adapted to survive unprotected in the tremendous pressures of the ocean depths. Although other Atlanteans possess similar adaptations, Aquaman's royal lineage makes him a super-Atlantean as well as super-human, and as such he has greater physical capabilities than does a typical Atlantean.
Mako has the ability to telepathically commune with and empathically coerce all creatures of the sea, and to thusly enlist the aid of these denizens of the oceans. Unlike his father, Mako has not as of yet demonstrated any aptitude for general telepathy or mental control towards non-marine life.
Schooled in Atlanean sorcery, Mako has tattoos etched on his forearms which allow him to subtly manipulate the water in a person's body to repair damaged tissues. He has to be in contact with the injured area to do this, and it's a slow process. Obviously, this only works on lifeforms composed largely of water.
Weaknesses:
Mako must return to water after a period of time or he becomes dehydrated. This period can be extended by the humidity in the atmosphere but eventually prolonged dehydration will weaken him thus he must return to aquatic environment to recuperate.
Equipment: ~Trident of Neptune: The Trident is a magical weapon that grants its wielder great power and the divine right to rule the sea. The Trident of Neptune was forged by the cyclopes out of admantine and Neptune's own essence. It can manipulate and conjure water, as well as disperse energy in the form of bolts.
Personality: At the best of times Mako is heartfelt, earnest, compassionate, and outgoing. At less sterling moments he may come across as brash, overbearing, or even arrogant. He's been raised as royalty from an early age, with all of the gravity and responsibilities that entitles, but very few of the benefits that traditionally go along with them. He is quick to anger, though he's good at not showing it openly. He is something of a warrior poet, and loves art of all sorts.
Bio: The fall of Atlantis truly began with Mako's older brother Arthur Curry Jr. When Darkseid's invasion spread beneath the waves to threaten Poseidonis, the toddler prince was killed in the siege. Orin was consumed by the loss of his son, and in a rage lead his armies in an attack on Darkseid. Though he fought fiercely, he was slain by the new god.
With the loss of their king, Garth retrieved Aquaman's trident and rallied the remaining troops to lead them in a withdrawal. With an incredible majority of the population of Atlantis already dead, they had few options remaining. In a last ditch effort, Garth used his sorcery to augment Mera's innate connection to her home dimension: Dimension Aqua. Opening a rift, they evacuated the surviving Atlanteans into the other dimension, fleeing from Earth and leaving it to it's grim fate.
At the time of the invasion, Mera was already with Orin's child, though she knew it not at the time. Nine months later, she gave birth to her second son, Mako. The displaced Atlanteans lived as refugees for years, never truly integrating with the society of Dimension Aqua. Mako grew up knowing that he was the King of a wandering people, who'd lost their lands at the hands of a tyrant. From a young age, cold fury burned in his chest. He became aggressive, and his mother had Garth channel that aggression towards positive ends. He taught him to fight, to lead, and to know the sea like the back of his hand. In many ways, Garth was the father he never had. The two of them went on many adventures in the watery world of Dimension Aqua.
When he came of age, Mako made a decision to go back and see the desolation that Darkseid had wrought upon the Earth. His mother was terribly against it, but eventually he and Garth returned to Atlantis: it was a ruin and a tomb. Utterly lifeless, along with the rest of the world. Sorrow and anger and fear collided against one another inside of Mako like a tropical storm. Just before he felt he could no longer bear it, they detected a signal. A message left on an infinite loop, playing over and over again to deaf ears. Before departing the planet with the fleets, Batman had arranged a delayed information cache in the case that anyone or anything might have survived in hiding or otherwise. It was encoded using cryptography that had been standard within the Justice League, and they were able to make sense of it. It contained projected routes of the fleets, the identities of trusted contacts within his burgeoning rebellion, contact frequencies, and other vital information.
Spurred to action by the discovery, Mako returned to Dimension Aqua with Garth in tow. They got into contact with Batman, and learned about the unsuccessful efforts that had been thus far made. When he told them about the plan for the time portal, Mako offered to have the Atlantean scientists begin the initial construction of the installation while they awaited the arrival of Wayne and Luthor. When the chosen heroes arrived back on earth, Mako was there to greet them; and insisted on going along.
