Man, I'm reading through all the CS's and wow, we really are overstocked on strong ass dudes.
Of course, Overlord's abilities don't entirely revolve around his strength and toughness. I was thinking his 'blood manipulation' could resemble stuff from bloodborne to an extent (I play that game a lot and its blood magic is fucking crazy). One idea I had is that he has the ability to fire 'blood bullets' if he wants to, basically shooting out his own blood after crystallizing it in his own body?
So, y'know, more or less I'm thinking I'll focus more on how he's a 'Muscle WIZARD Evil Overlord' instead of 'MUSCLE wizard evil overlord'
Well, it's not necessarily a terrible or unworkable thing. I'm pretty sure that all of the characters involved or at least most of them also have secondary abilities and/or characteristics besides just strength to differentiate them, like Overlord and his magical abilities. One's an archer with a lot of experience, one's a government super soldier with electricity powers etc.
I mean, both the Avengers and the Justice League have multiple members with 'is super-strong' as part of their powersets-Thor, Iron Man, obviously Hulk and even technically Captain America for Marvel and Superman, Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman for the League or Cyborg and DC's Captain Marvel in newer iterations as well) but they function fine.
Our characters just don't take any shit from the scum of the earth LOL. We'll put an arrow, fang, sword, eye blast, or bullet right through the bastards.
~KL~
See, I kind of find casual murder and overly cynical/gritty attitudes in my heroes a little bit boring if it's a widespread thing, personally. Like for example The Judge character in this RP kind of seems to lose his luster and point if all the other characters are also super-violent or anti-heroic
Feral Man - Dark Wolf - Accepted [mostly cause it's mine LOL] Size Manipulator - Doctor Neutrino - Accepted Archer - Ullyses - Accepted Super Soldier - Capt. Genome - Accepted Big Guy - Overlord - Accepted [was hoping he'd be more of a brute but I can dig a big knight] Vigilante - the Judge - Accepted Wildcard 1 [Magic user] - Mayhew - Accepted [Bio pending] Wildcard 2 - Brand - Accepted Wildcard 3 [bug powers] - Goldjak - Accepted
Still a couple archetypes we could use... a Techno character, a Demi-God, etc. Based on the characters the tone of this will seemingly be in the middle between Batman v Superman and the Watchmen.... just with more powers. I'll leave recruiting open to a few more slots if the CS is of top quality.
~KL~
Um, pretty sure Batman V Superman is the exact opposite tone to the sort of thing at least some of us are going for and Watchmen while better handled is...also not something I think I'm going for at least.
Though if everyone else wants that, I guess I'm just obligatory notcynicalguy?
Clearly instead of an alien invasion it's an invasion of mole men from the subterranean empire beneath mankind's feet. Or a race of horrible eldritch beings from the depths of the sea.
Powers: Doctor Neutrino is a brilliant scientist who discovered a methods to shift mass in and out of an alternate dimension. Primarily this allows him to shrink himself down to incredibly small sizes by shifting his mass out in a particular way or grow to tremendous size by adding additional mass, though it also has other applications including instead manipulating density in order to become incredibly dense or virtually intangible.
When shrunken down, he retains his full human strength and capabilities and at giant size sheer mass and the ability to move it enables him to be super-strong. The Neutrino Suit also affords him a limited degree of protection in various extreme environments, though it is not necessarily armored or possessed of any weaponry of note.
In addition John Lowell is possessed of a genius if somewhat eccentric mind and has since used his powers to become an expert in all things small from the tiniest aspects of human biology to cutting edge nanotechnology he's assembled by hand to even the very secrets of the subatomic universe.
Weaknesses:
Doctor Neutrino can only maintain his giant form for about five minutes currently, full-body intangibility requires him to hold his breath for the duration of the process or risk suffocation. While he can shrink, grow and adjust the density of other objects, he must currently make physical contact with them in order for the process to work. Currently without his suit he is merely a brilliant if ordinary scientist. His maximum height is a towering 40 stories tall, but any larger and he risks irreppairable damage to his body. His giant form also risks considerable collateral damage if he's not extremely careful.
Appearance: John Lowell is a bit of an absent minded professor, brown hair often mussed and unkempt, labcoats and jackets often smudged, singed and wrinkled from numerous experiments or just from some force that conspires to keep them that way. He's perhaps humorously not a tall man, about 5'3" when not employing size-altering technology. He has the sort of face that smiles and laughs easily when it's not puzzling over some new task or the general mysteries of the universe, though nowadays his experiments tend to be very hands on and action-packed indeed. His brown eyes can be either reflective or merry but are generally warm regardless. The Neutrino Suit is bright blue with white highlights on the chest, shoulders and sides and it's generally form fitting, though Lowell is hardly an Olympian, the helmet is silver and the visor a has a slightly orange tint.
BRIEF Bio: For most of his younger life, John Lowell was a party boy from an extremely wealthy old New England family without a care in the world except distracting himself from his own boredom. This was particularly difficult because in addition to wealth he happened to have a rather prodigious intellect he felt he was wasting on his admittedly amusing life of leisure. Eventually simple hedonism and partying wasn't enough of a challenge for him and he set his mind to revolutionizing scientific fields, or so he told himself. It took ages of work but he did eventually have a breakthrough, discovering a method to shift physical mass between dimensions. He started building a suit that would let him use his discovery in order to explore the world at all sizes, but before he could do more than finish a prototype a notorious Boston gang leader kidnapped his now aging parents for ransom. Donning his new suit in order to infiltrate the building where his parents were being held hostage he defeated the gang and rescued his parents.
This helped John realize something, namely that doing good out in the world was more rewarding than both hedonism and the pursuit of pure scientific knowledge. Thus he took the identity of Doctor Neutrino, protecting both Boston and the world at large and having big adventures at sizes both great and small.
Storylines: If it's alright I'd really like to come up with my own storylines instead.
Notes: I'm taking some inspiration from Ant-Man, but also the Atom and for attitude, Ted Kord the second Blue Beetle but played slightly more seriously than Ted occasionally was used.
