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The Blessed Century - A 1st Generation Superhero RP

Is 'Can mimic the abilities/biology of sea life and communicate with/command them' too broad? Would I be better choosing specific traits like my previous 'mostly cephalopod-like traits?'

The Blessed Century - A 1st Generation Superhero RP

Hi, I'm a big fan of this so far and it looks really cool!

My idea is for sort of a mostly cephalopod themed superheroine in terms of powers (super strong and flexible tentacles and body, limited shapeshifting/camouflage, able to swim at high speeds through water jet propulsion, limited regeneration, can shoot high pressure ink or water from hands or mouth etc) but taking some cues from Aquaman or Namor as well.

In terms of secret identity stuff I was thinking of tying her to the Filipino diaspora somehow since 1920's California is kind of a big time for that and something I can speak to a little culturally, but not sure could just go with the underwater civilization angle.

Dawn Beyond Tomorrow: A Magitech distant postapocalyptic action-adventure RP

Work in Progress!

Tachibana Ginko

Name: Tachibana Ginko
Age: 19
Gender: Female
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Faction: Alhein

Legacy of Heroes: The New Age

Smoldevil

Rosa Ravelo/Daredevil?

| {Full Name} |

Rosa Maria Portacio Ravelo

| {Age} |

16

| {Species} |

Human

| {Gender} |

Female

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| {Appearance} |

A small, slightly dark skinned Asian American girl around 5'3"/160 cm~, with a slight but surprisingly muscular build and medium length silky black hair normally kept bound up in a tight ponytail. She ordinarily dresses like a tomboy, jackets and pants and a t-shirt or tank top, though over time she might branch out and get interested in different styles. Along with her clothes she almost always has sunglasses and a White Cane to visually indicate her blindness for other people. When doing vigilante work or missions for The Chaste she wears a set of grey and black clothes and a dark cloth mask with no eyeholes.

| {Equipment and Personal Belongings} |

A set of grey and black clothes, a black eyeless cloth mask and twin kali bastons.

| {Physical Abilities} |

Physical Fitness- Thanks to a childhood spent training with her prizefighter dad and five months of intensive daily training with Stick, Rosa has the general overall physique of someone at near peak human levels of physical fitness for someone of her age and size.

Reflexes- Rosa's reflexes are becoming increasingly quick thanks to her training with Stick and her superhuman senses giving her inputs faster and more detailed than any ordinary human's. For now she's developing close to peak human reflexes, but may go beyond that into mildly superhuman territory.

Martial Arts Skills- Rosa grew up with a professional boxer and later mixed martial artist for a dad and idolized him enough to train with him and at his gyms from a young age. She's also spent the past four months training with Stick in Kali and other martial arts she can't fully identify. Her main background is in Mixed Martial Arts with a heavier than normal emphasis on punching and standing footwork from her dad's boxing background, but she's got some no gi Judo, Muay Thai and Brazillian Jujitsu crosstraining from his MMA gym too. Stick's training supplemented that with Kali and what he claims is ninjutsu, but to her it just feels like formalized really dirty fighting mixed with old school jujitsu and some flashy but tricky stuff that wouldn't be out of place in capoeira or wushu. She's got some armed training mainly with Kali bastons and staff fighting, but also knives and improvised weapons, partly to learn how to defend against them. Overall she's still a talented amateur who's only got six months of serious training.

Acrobatics- Rosa is a former gymnast, traceuse and free runner in addition to being into martial arts, mostly for conditioning, mental discipline and fun. Since the accident she can't train or compete in these things in her civilian life. However Stick's training has heavily emphasized them along with fighting, so acrobatic maneuvers and parkour skills are often part of her fighting style as well as her main method of getting around.

Stealth- Since Rosa was adopted by Stick, he's started training her in stealth, infiltration and ambush tactics. Her powers also give her unique advantages there, since if she focuses she can detect even the slightest signs that could give her away and get superhumanly accurate information on security systems for anywhere she breaks into.

| {Superpowers} |

Superhuman Senses- Even though she can't see, the particle accelerator accident gave Rosa superhuman senses of hearing, smell, touch and taste. Though she's still learning to open herself up to her senses and understand the new world she experiences, she's slowly learning to do a lot with them. Her powers also give her a lot more conscious and unconscious information about her surroundings and combined with her training and body awareness can seem to give her supernaturally fast reflexes.

Bodily Control-More a side effect of heightened awareness of her own body combined with training from Stick, but Rosa is slowly learning to control some of her body's autonomic functions. She can raise or lower her body temperature slightly, dull her sense of pain, slow her heartbeat and breathing down significantly and has a much better sense of balance and more precise movements than the average person.

Superhuman accuracy- The combination of her increased sensory awareness and precision and her superhuman body coordination means she can aim and throw things with an inhuman degree of accuracy if she focuses.

| {Limitations} |

Overstimulation- Rosa's been training extensively to learn to block out the vast majority of her sensory input to keep herself from going insane or worse. Still, intense and sudden stimuli can cause her serious pain and disorientation.

Normal human weaknesses- Even though she's got metahuman senses, a ton of stubbornness and willpower and really unusual training, Rosa is still just a small 16-year-old human girl. Taking a blade or a bullet or a super strong punch will kill her just as dead as any average person on the street. She still needs to sleep and eat, still eventually feels pain and heals about as fast as a normal, healthy girl would when injured. She's got all the mental and psychological issues and weaknesses of a normal girl who's been through some pretty traumatic experiences too.

Blindness- Even though all her other senses are supercharged and she has synesthesia helping her process some of the information visually, Rosa's still blind. That means among other things she can't visually see most screens and would need to be able to identify inks, dyes or food coloring to distinguish colors in other objects. She can't usually read unless she feels for slight indentations along a page, which doesn't always work and she can't know what someone looks like in a visual sense.

Inexperience- Rosa's got a very loose handle on her newfound senses at best and spent her first month with Stick just learning how to subconsciously filter out enough input to leave a sensory deprivation room without collapsing in pain. Lifting those filters without overloading herself takes focus and discipline and she's still not always skilled enough to understand what she finds. Similarly, while she is a very skilled martial artist and athlete for her age, she's only just started her more serious training with Stick.

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| {Personality} |

Rosa is cheerful, energetic and forces herself to be optimistic if kind of snarky in ordinary circumstances. Her job growing up was to help her dad take care of himself and keep his spirits up, after all. But losing her dad and her sight in the same week and getting adopted by an alleged ninja cult leader has kinda put her in a darker mood lately. The ability to hear most of the crime and cries for help going on in Kansas City and the surrounding area hasn't really helped her sense of optimism either, though it is a big motivator in her crime fighting efforts. Part of her longs to go back to being just an ordinary girl with a family trying to get by and cling to a sense of normality. At the same time she can't ignore the pain and desperation around her or the debt she owes Stick and the Chaste. Her Catholicism isn't a massive part of her identity and she'd probably consider herself a lapsed Catholic if she gave it thought, but she does sometimes lean on faith and the morals she was raised with when the rest of the world feels like it's going crazy or her burdens feel too heavy to bear.

| {Place of Origin} |

A first generation American and citizen of Kansas City, raised alone by her father, a struggling professional fighter. She never knew what happened to her mother. She was raised nominally Catholic but strayed from the faith for multiple reasons.

| {Background} |

Rosa was born in Kansas City to a working class immigrant Filipino couple. Her mom was a registered nurse and her dad Juan 'Jack' Ravelo was a pro boxer who turned MMA fighter on the advice of a sleazy manager. He had some talent, but never enough to really make it big as a fighter in either sport, and his career mostly stalled once Rosa's mom left, allegedly because of some kind of mental breakdown. Her dad ended up raising her mostly on his own and to make ends meet he started taking rougher and rougher jobs in between legitimate fights. First as a bouncer, then a pit fighter.

Rosa's childhood still felt normal enough to her, even as she got older and started figuring things out. If she had to stitch her dad up on nights when he wasn't ever on an official fight card, well that was just the way things were. He used the money saved up from his fights to send her to a good private school and made enough to start putting some away on the side. She worked hard and did okay and overall, even made some good friends. They had a rough but happy family life.

Over the past year, things changed though. New faces started managing both the underground fights and the legitimate ones, bringing in their own people. Stakes got higher and her dad's agent started pressuring him to take the dive in big matches, in and out of the pit. Things got rougher and her dad took more beatings, but the money was good so he always brushed past her complaints, even when he came home looking like raw hamburger thanks to a loss or a dive turned ugly.

All that changed around six months ago. Rosa was with a group touring STAR Labs when the particle accelerator incident happened and happened to be looking right at the particle accelerator's area at the time. The last thing she ever saw before being rendered permanently blind was a burning light. Her world was dark but it wasn't empty. By the time she reached the hospital, she was overwhelmed by all the input from all her other senses and in agony.

She wouldn't find this out until later, but Jack took drastic action to try and secure a better future for his newly blind daughter. He took all of the money he'd saved up until now and instructed a friend to bet it all on him in his next fight. A fight he'd been ordered to lose. He defied both his agents and the criminals that ran the pit fights, then had all his winnings put into a secure account for Rosa.

The more criminal elements of management didn't exactly like losing a bunch of money over what should've been a sure thing and Jack paid the price with his life. The next thing Rosa remembered was coming to in the hospital as an unfamiliar old man slowly walked her through the process of tuning her senses down. He called himself Stick and introduced himself to her and the hospital staff as a specialist in rapidly teaching life skills to people who end up blind later in life. Once she found out her dad was dead, she went with Stick willingly enough, in part just to deal with the disorientation and physical pain better.

Since then she's been living and training with Stick, who was actually an agent of an order of martial artists and spies called the Chaste, dedicated to a purpose she doesn't fully understand. Still, she owes him for what functionality and stability her life has left and has dedicated herself to the training and occasional missions. As a result of her senses though, it's become increasingly hard for her to ignore people in trouble both morally and physically. So when she's not training with or doing missions for Stick, she spends her nights now acting as a vigilante for her neighborhood and everywhere she can hear.

Legacy of Heroes: The New Age

Daredevil

Kansas City, Missouri
Jan 1st, 2020 - Finnegan’s Junction

The second Rosa wrapped her hand around the door handle for her apartment she knew something was wrong. Not because of anything she could see, because Rosa Ravelo couldn’t see anything. She’d been blind for six months now and was staying here with a teacher with unusual talents, learning to live without her sight. Instead it was everything else that alerted her to the wrongness.

For starters, there were no sounds coming from inside the apartment, not even the slightest whispers in her ears or vibrations against her fingertips. She leaned in close to the door and pressed her ear to the wood, listening closer. The air inside the apartment was dead and still. No heartbeats in the normal areas, no radio on anywhere she could hear, even the usual hum of the A/C was missing.

Rosa could normally hear and feel all of those things, usually before she even got to her door. That was the thing about being blinded by a particle accelerator accident, really. Weird metahuman powers as a side effect. Her teacher, Stick, insisted they were a gift. Maybe he was right. Now if she concentrated, she could hear a whispered conversation from across the hallway, track scents like a bloodhound, taste every chemical in a soda in order of proportion and track a fly through a room by the disturbances in the air against her skin.

At just sixteen years old, she was Rosa Maria Portacio Ravelo: Blind Super Ninja!

She felt for the locking mechanism and that was different too. As she rattled the handle back and forth, the feel and sound of it put the tumblers in totally different positions. Someone changed it while she was out. She sighed. Probably another one of Stick’s tests. The old bat always thought she was too soft. Like growing up with a pitfighter for a dad in this city was easy. She pulled a hairpin out of her hair and started tapping two fingers against the top of the handle to map the inside of the lock. The mechanism was new but cheap, probably not too hard to open.

After a couple seconds spent getting a clear picture in her mind and fiddling with the lock she clicked it open. She took a second to check the door for any sounds on the other side again and repin her hair. Then she slowly pushed the door open as silently as she could even to her own senses.

As soon she stepped inside it only confirmed her fears. The air was colder than it should’ve been with another living person inside and there were no heartbeats in the rooms nearby either no matter how much she strained her ears. Besides, Stick normally stank up the place with cheap alcohol and even cheaper aftershave, like a molotov cocktail went off in an abandoned men’s cologne factory. But now it was faint, barely hanging in the air like he’d been gone for most of a day.

She tapped her white cane against the floor over and over as the sound bounced around from walls to ceiling and painted everything in a silvery rippling glow in the black canvas of her mind’s eye. Nope, no blind ninja hiding in the corners here. In fact…

There was nothing in the entryway to their apartment at all, or anywhere else the echoes could reach. No furniture, no radio or music player, even the A/C units were gone as far as she could tell. Just smooth, bare floors and walls like nobody had ever lived here at all.

She breathed in deep to double check and even the chemical scent of coolant from the fridge and the A/C unit were faded and weak along with the scent of Stick and the old musty couch he usually slept on.

Leave it to the old bat to have a team of ninja furniture movers, just to mess with her.

It was some trick or test or something, it had to be right? Get her thrown off by changes to familiar surroundings and get rid of obstacles before a fight. As a last resort she checked the soundproofed bedroom she used for herself, shivering a little as the sound of her cane and her footsteps died away against the flooring and left her breathing, heartbeat and organs as her only company. She tuned those out too. Her Eskrima sticks- training tools given to her by Stick -were on the floor in their carrying case, smelling of clean leather and smooth hardwood, but the room was still empty.

“Hey Stick?! You better stop screwing around or I’ll kick your ass!”

No response. Not even a trace of his usual smugness.

Which meant she.

Was.

Alone.

With rent due today, no job and her inheritance in a trust fund. She started struggling to fight down panic, her heart pounding in her ears like a drum solo and her body reeking of fear.

“Goddammit.”

She snatched up the sticks in their case, slung them across her back and ran out of the room faster than most people would believe a blind girl could move, letting the sound of her own footsteps and breathing echo off the hallway and down the stairs to guide her. She pushed her senses hard trying to check over the whole apartment complex. The building was pretty much empty this time of day and with her adrenaline flowing and her senses extended out to max she could already tell the only other person was...

three floors up...lone male, mid-20’s, high on weed and uh…occupied.

Nope nope nope. nope blocking that out for sure. By the time she finished tuning her senses back down and taking a hefty dose of brain bleach she’d already pushed through the doorway outside. Her brain was spinning and her feet were moving on their own. Can I find Stick? Yeah right Rosa, find a ninja master who taught you everything you know about tracking in the middle of Kansas City. Great plan. she stopped mid-step. Okay so I’m officially in ‘homeless blind orphan’ territory. At least until I can contact that lawyer in charge of my trust account. Where do I go? Paul’s pub, the Arsenal. If he’s not there maybe I can crash in the back but he’ll know what to do.” she started taking her usual shortcut through the park nearby, making sure to keep her senses dulled down and only really paying attention to the things in her immediate vicinity, feeling things out with her cane both through touch and the tap tap tapping echoes of it against the street so she didn’t get into any accidents. She had way too much internal screaming in her mind to really do anything else but go on autopilot. Where would she go from here? What would she say to Paul when she talked to him after six months out of contact with the old man? She’d followed Stick because he promised her control over her metahuman senses, but she’d also been using what he taught her for more than just day-to-day life so-

She was wrapped up in her own anxious thoughts when suddenly a tidal wave of sound and motion rolled over her from the park entrance and sent her reeling. The metahuman protest was spilling out of the park as some of the protesters jostled for space. The unexpected sound of a horde of shouting, agitated people was disorienting enough, but then someone bumped into her and knocked her over onto the sidewalk on top of that. Combined with her earlier anxieties it was enough to throw Rosa into a panic and her senses all overloaded at once.

The sounds of shouting and chanting exploded in her head. She could feel each bump and crack and loose pebble on the sidewalk like a bed of nails even through her clothes and a burning hot pain in her mouth along with a nauseating warm copper taste proved she’d bit her left cheek during the fall or maybe hit it against her teeth. The different scents of each person in the massive crowd, the acrid smell of blood from her mouth and even the chemical odor of marker ink on handmade signs nearby mixed into a nasal torture worse than pepper spray.

She wanted to scream, vomit and cry all at once but she fought it all back and did her best to dull the inputs and struggle into a sitting position. She grabbed her white cane off the ground, spat the blood out of her mouth and pushed herself up, swaying unsteadily and shaking. She was exhausted even though in reality the whole thing only took a handful of seconds at most. The protestor she’d bumped into whirled around, his heart pounding like an artillery bombardment, his muscles tensed, scents she’d learned to associate with anger rolling off of him like stench off the river at high noon. She didn’t need any of that or his facial expression to see he was caught up in the angrier part of the rally and pissed off. The shouting did that just fine.

“What’s wrong with you bitch? You blind or something?!”

So much for a Happy New Year.

@Athol

X-Men: The New Era - Avalon Rising

Actually I'm just going to drop I think, thanks but in the gap between initial character posting and this and my life getting busier again I kinda don't have the time or interest anymore.

X-Men: The New Era - Avalon Rising

Added the requested explanation of his relationship dynamics and history with the Malcolm family.

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Information

Name: Akela Talbot
Nicknames/Aliases: Ak, Kel, Fuzzball
X-Men Code Name: (The "Hero Name" that you would like you character to eventually have.)
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Physical Description:
WT: 105 lbs/47.6~ kg (170 lbs/77~ kg when using gift)
HT: 5'3"/ 6'3"
Ey: Usually brown, gold and canine-like when using gift.
Sk: brown, sometimes grey mottled fur when using gift to extremes.
BLT: Small and thin but gains significant height, muscle mass and animal-like features from mutation.

Powers

Mutations: Lycanthropy

Enhanced Senses -Ordinarily, Akela's mutation just manifests itself as heightened, animal-like senses and this is what he'll usually imply his ability is if asked. His sense of smell is equal to or maybe even better than a bloodhound's and he can identify and track individual scents in crowded difficult areas and across long distances and times. It also affects his sense of taste to a lesser degree. His hearing is similarly sensitive and he is able to hear very even very faint, far away or high pitched sounds. His eyesight and sense of touch are relatively normal, except for his night vision which is superior to an ordinary human's and lets him see clearly in the dark.

Transformed State- The truth about his powers is that his senses are only a secondary effect. His real mutation transforms him into a savage, physically powerful form with wolf-like features similar to a werewolf whenever he becomes extremely frightened, angry or otherwise overwhelmed.

Akela's body gains around a foot of height and a full 70 pounds of mass when his full mutation is active, along with an appearance more like a humanoid wolf. As a result in addition to his super senses he has a limited degree of superhuman strength, agility. reflexes and speed along with powerful jaws and sharp claws and teeth.

Regeneration - When he transforms from human to werewolf form or back again, any injury to either form disappears provided he's still conscious enough to make the shift. He will often instinctively transform in response to injuries. Burns are harder for this process to heal however and he has yet to be pushed to his limits even with his biological family's abuse.

Limitations:

Overstimulation - Because of his enhanced senses, sudden or prolonged exposure to things like bright lights, intense or high frequency sounds and overpowering scents or tastes can cause Akela pain or even incapacitate him. With time and exposure he might be able to overcome some of these, but stronger stimuli will likely always hurt him.

Uncontrolled Transformation - As previously mentioned Akela has almost no control over his mutation's wolf hybrid transformation ability. So far he's only ever accessed it instinctively in response to pain, anger, fear and other very primal flight-or-fight type emotions. It may also trigger in response to a severe injury. He can fight it back now that he knows what it is but the stronger the trigger, the harder it is to stop. When transformed, Akela also has very little control over himself. Usually, he'll attack the source of the transformation if angered or threatened and run away to heal if hurt or in pain, but overall he doesn't act too much differently from a very intelligent wild animal. He can stop himself from hurting those he really cares about with effort, but that's about as far as his control goes.

Weakness to Fire - His regeneration is slowed by burns and his animal-like form is naturally afraid of fire and burning due to subconscious memories of abuse by his mutant hating biological father. His human form shares his pyrophobia but is better at hiding and working past it.

Personality

Personality:
Living with his mutation, his mostly unfortunate childhood and the things he's done and seen because of both has left him withdrawn and afraid of interacting with other people. He's intensely loyal and caring to those few people he currently trusts and is much gentler and sweeter than his irritable, perpetually melancholy loner act lets on. He has some anger issues if someone he doesn't know really well provokes him but he mostly tries to back off and withdraw than confront anyone in any situation given how dangerous he feels he is. He's also a committed vegetarian in human form because of his traumas, in spite of the fact that his mutation means that his body would function much better and stronger if he ate meat.

Background

Background: Son of Raksha and Larry Talbot, childhood friends with Veronica 'Ronnie' Malcolm and godson of her father, Christopher Malcolm.

At the age of 13, was involved in a car accident that killed his mother. He only has vague, suppressed memories of the event, but survived by using his mutation to heal his injuries. His father started resenting him for surviving when his mother didn't, especially when demonstrations of heightened senses made his mutant powers obvious. His dad became abusive, verbally and emotionally at first, but eventually physically abusive too. One of these incidents caused the full extent of his mutant powers to awaken for the first time.

After that incident, he got fostered by and lived with the Malcolms for around three months. Chris Malcolm was much closer to a father figure for Ak than his own dad was, at least or at least better than his dad had been for the past year. He was kind to Ak and tolerant of some of his more eccentric behavior, trying to ease him out of the hurt, defensive shell he'd put up around himself along with doing normal nice dad stuff like taking him and Ronnie out to eat or to movies and similar things. Even so, he always held back some closeness from Ak and never bothered standing up for him against Paige when she'd neglect their alleged 'foster child' or shove him away from the family as an 'embarrassment'.

Paige Malcolm basically ignored Ak's existence from the second he came to live with them. Her focus was always on her own reputation and Ronnie, and making sure Ronnie was painfully perfect. The only time she really bothered to notice Akela was on the rare occasion he did something to affect her public image. Around others she acted sweet and kind to him, almost motherly in an empty way. After all, he was such a close friend of the family and isn't it tragic how much the poor thing's been through? But if he ever stepped out of line or embarrassed Paige or Ronnie, she'd do her best to make him feel worthless and unwanted before going right back to ignoring him. At best, she saw him as a way to show off and a side project to keep Christopher and Ronnie busy. At worst he was an embarrassment and a distraction for her daughter from her life's goals.

Ronnie and Ak's relationship was surprisingly good both in spite of and because of all these difficulties. Pretty quickly, the two recognized a mutual past of different kinds of abuse in each other and Ronnie decided to protect Ak from the worst of her family's dynamics. Ak similarly decided to trust Ronnie with the truth about his mutation, and the two worked to protect each other from the hardest part of their lives even though in public Paige encouraged Ronnie to be cold to Ak. They'd been friends as young children and in spite of some difficulties at first have developed a close relationship, with Ak considering her the main or maybe only person he trusts. When she was taken away after her own mutation awakening, he was heartbroken, especially because he knew exactly how it felt to lose control and attack someone who might deserve it. When Mrs. Malcolm finally turned him in and brought him to the school, he was almost relieved to be reunited with her again, though he misses Chris Malcolm too. Even with all the emotional hardships, his time there was still his happiest since losing his mother and he's unsure about what the school will really be like.

Recap of your mutations awakening: The very last time Akela's abusive father went too far around three months ago, it awakened the boy's full mutation for the first time he could remember. To make a long and gruesome story short, Larry Talbot had figured out some time ago that burns were what his son healed the slowest. Midway through being tormented Ak snapped and went full werewolf, badly mauling his father before escaping the house. He ran into the forest nearby at first, then returned to town the next morning and stole his cellphone back from the house to call the Malcolms, who took him in.

X-Men: The New Era - Avalon Rising

Added the requested explanation of his relationship dynamics and history with the Malcolm family.

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Information

Name: Akela Talbot
Nicknames/Aliases: Ak, Kel, Fuzzball
X-Men Code Name: (The "Hero Name" that you would like you character to eventually have.)
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Physical Description:
WT: 105 lbs/47.6~ kg (170 lbs/77~ kg when using gift)
HT: 5'3"/ 6'3"
Ey: Usually brown, gold and canine-like when using gift.
Sk: brown, sometimes grey mottled fur when using gift to extremes.
BLT: Small and thin but gains significant height, muscle mass and animal-like features from mutation.

Powers

Mutations: Lycanthropy

Enhanced Senses -Ordinarily, Akela's mutation just manifests itself as heightened, animal-like senses and this is what he'll usually imply his ability is if asked. His sense of smell is equal to or maybe even better than a bloodhound's and he can identify and track individual scents in crowded difficult areas and across long distances and times. It also affects his sense of taste to a lesser degree. His hearing is similarly sensitive and he is able to hear very even very faint, far away or high pitched sounds. His eyesight and sense of touch are relatively normal, except for his night vision which is superior to an ordinary human's and lets him see clearly in the dark.

Transformed State- The truth about his powers is that his senses are only a secondary effect. His real mutation transforms him into a savage, physically powerful form with wolf-like features similar to a werewolf whenever he becomes extremely frightened, angry or otherwise overwhelmed.

Akela's body gains around a foot of height and a full 70 pounds of mass when his full mutation is active, along with an appearance more like a humanoid wolf. As a result in addition to his super senses he has a limited degree of superhuman strength, agility. reflexes and speed along with powerful jaws and sharp claws and teeth.

Regeneration - When he transforms from human to werewolf form or back again, any injury to either form disappears provided he's still conscious enough to make the shift. He will often instinctively transform in response to injuries. Burns are harder for this process to heal however and he has yet to be pushed to his limits even with his biological family's abuse.

Limitations:

Overstimulation - Because of his enhanced senses, sudden or prolonged exposure to things like bright lights, intense or high frequency sounds and overpowering scents or tastes can cause Akela pain or even incapacitate him. With time and exposure he might be able to overcome some of these, but stronger stimuli will likely always hurt him.

Uncontrolled Transformation - As previously mentioned Akela has almost no control over his mutation's wolf hybrid transformation ability. So far he's only ever accessed it instinctively in response to pain, anger, fear and other very primal flight-or-fight type emotions. It may also trigger in response to a severe injury. He can fight it back now that he knows what it is but the stronger the trigger, the harder it is to stop. When transformed, Akela also has very little control over himself. Usually, he'll attack the source of the transformation if angered or threatened and run away to heal if hurt or in pain, but overall he doesn't act too much differently from a very intelligent wild animal. He can stop himself from hurting those he really cares about with effort, but that's about as far as his control goes.

Weakness to Fire - His regeneration is slowed by burns and his animal-like form is naturally afraid of fire and burning due to subconscious memories of abuse by his mutant hating biological father. His human form shares his pyrophobia but is better at hiding and working past it.

Personality

Personality:
Living with his mutation, his mostly unfortunate childhood and the things he's done and seen because of both has left him withdrawn and afraid of interacting with other people. He's intensely loyal and caring to those few people he currently trusts and is much gentler and sweeter than his irritable, perpetually melancholy loner act lets on. He has some anger issues if someone he doesn't know really well provokes him but he mostly tries to back off and withdraw than confront anyone in any situation given how dangerous he feels he is. He's also a committed vegetarian in human form because of his traumas, in spite of the fact that his mutation means that his body would function much better and stronger if he ate meat.

Background

Background: Son of Raksha and Larry Talbot, childhood friends with Veronica 'Ronnie' Malcolm and godson of her father, Christopher Malcolm.

At the age of 13, was involved in a car accident that killed his mother. He only has vague, suppressed memories of the event, but survived by using his mutation to heal his injuries. His father started resenting him for surviving when his mother didn't, especially when demonstrations of heightened senses made his mutant powers obvious. His dad became abusive, verbally and emotionally at first, but eventually physically abusive too. One of these incidents caused the full extent of his mutant powers to awaken for the first time.

After that incident, he got fostered by and lived with the Malcolms for around three months. Chris Malcolm was much closer to a father figure for Ak than his own dad was, at least or at least better than his dad had been for the past year. He was kind to Ak and tolerant of some of his more eccentric behavior, trying to ease him out of the hurt, defensive shell he'd put up around himself along with doing normal nice dad stuff like taking him and Ronnie out to eat or to movies and similar things. Even so, he always held back some closeness from Ak and never bothered standing up for him against Paige when she'd neglect their alleged 'foster child' or shove him away from the family as an 'embarrassment'.

Paige Malcolm basically ignored Ak's existence from the second he came to live with them. Her focus was always on her own reputation and Ronnie, and making sure Ronnie was painfully perfect. The only time she really bothered to notice Akela was on the rare occasion he did something to affect her public image. Around others she acted sweet and kind to him, almost motherly in an empty way. After all, he was such a close friend of the family and isn't it tragic how much the poor thing's been through? But if he ever stepped out of line or embarrassed Paige or Ronnie, she'd do her best to make him feel worthless and unwanted before going right back to ignoring him. At best, she saw him as a way to show off and a side project to keep Christopher and Ronnie busy. At worst he was an embarrassment and a distraction for her daughter from her life's goals.

Ronnie and Ak's relationship was surprisingly good both in spite of and because of all these difficulties. Pretty quickly, the two recognized a mutual past of different kinds of abuse in each other and Ronnie decided to protect Ak from the worst of her family's dynamics. Ak similarly decided to trust Ronnie with the truth about his mutation, and the two worked to protect each other from the hardest part of their lives even though in public Paige encouraged Ronnie to be cold to Ak. They'd been friends as young children and in spite of some difficulties at first have developed a close relationship, with Ak considering her the main or maybe only person he trusts. When she was taken away after her own mutation awakening, he was heartbroken, especially because he knew exactly how it felt to lose control and attack someone who might deserve it. When Mrs. Malcolm finally turned him in and brought him to the school, he was almost relieved to be reunited with her again, though he misses Chris Malcolm too. Even with all the emotional hardships, his time there was still his happiest since losing his mother and he's unsure about what the school will really be like.

Recap of your mutations awakening: The very last time Akela's abusive father went too far around three months ago, it awakened the boy's full mutation for the first time he could remember. To make a long and gruesome story short, Larry Talbot had figured out some time ago that burns were what his son healed the slowest. Midway through being tormented Ak snapped and went full werewolf, badly mauling his father before escaping the house. He ran into the forest nearby at first, then returned to town the next morning and stole his cellphone back from the house to call the Malcolms, who took him in.

X-Men: The New Era - Avalon Rising

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Legacy of Heroes: The New Age

Edit: first draft finished!

Smoldevil

Rosa Ravelo/Daredevil?

| {Full Name} |

Rosa Maria Portacio Ravelo

| {Age} |

16

| {Species} |

Human

| {Gender} |

Female

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| {Appearance} |

A small, slightly dark skinned Asian American girl around 5'3"/160 cm~, with a slight but surprisingly muscular build and medium length silky black hair normally kept bound up in a tight ponytail. She ordinarily dresses like a tomboy, jackets and pants and a t-shirt or tank top, though over time she might branch out and get interested in different styles. Along with her clothes she almost always has sunglasses and a White Cane to visually indicate her blindness for other people. When doing vigilante work or missions for The Chaste she wears a set of grey and black clothes and a dark cloth mask with no eyeholes.

| {Equipment and Personal Belongings} |

A set of grey and black clothes, a black eyeless cloth mask and twin kali bastons.

| {Physical Abilities} |

Physical Fitness- Thanks to a childhood spent training with her prizefighter dad and four months of intensive training with Stick, Rosa has the general overall physique of someone at near peak human levels of physical fitness for someone of her age and size.

Reflexes- Rosa's reflexes are becoming increasingly quick thanks to her training with Stick and her superhuman senses giving her inputs faster and more detailed than any ordinary human's. For now she's developing close to peak human reflexes, but may go beyond that into mildly superhuman territory.

Martial Arts Skills- Rosa grew up with a professional boxer and later mixed martial artist for a dad and idolized him enough to train with him and at his gyms from a young age. She's also spent the past four months training with Stick in Kali and other martial arts she can't fully identify. Her main background is in Mixed Martial Arts with a heavier than normal emphasis on punching and standing footwork from her dad's boxing background, but she's got some no gi Judo, Muay Thai and Brazillian Jujitsu crosstraining from his MMA gym too. Stick's training supplemented that with Kali and what he claims is ninjutsu, though to her it just feels like formalized really dirty fighting mixed with old school jujitsu and some flashy but tricky stuff that wouldn't be out of place in capoeira. She's got some armed training mainly with Kali bastons and staff fighting, but also knives mainly to learn how to defend against them. Overall she's still a talented amateur who's only got six months of serious training.

Acrobatics- Rosa is a former gymnast and free runner in addition to being into martial arts, mostly for conditioning and fun. Since the accident she can't train or compete in these things in her civilian life, but Stick's training has heavily emphasized them along with fighting and acrobatic maneuvers are sometimes part of her fighting style.

Stealth- Since Rosa was adopted by Stick, he's started training her in stealth and ambush tactics. Her powers also give her a unique advantage there, since if she focuses she can detect even the slightest signs that could give her away.

| {Superpowers} |

Superhuman Senses- Even though she can't see, the particle accelerator accident gave Rosa superhuman senses of hearing, smell, touch and taste. Though she's still learning to open herself up to her senses and understand the new world she experiences, she's slowly learning to do a lot with them. Her powers also give her a lot more conscious and unconscious information about her surroundings and combined with her training and body awareness can seem to give her supernaturally fast reflexes.

Bodily Control-More a side effect of heightened awareness of her own body combined with training from Stick, but Rosa is slowly learning to control some of her body's autonomic functions. She can raise or lower her body temperature slightly, dull her sense of pain, slow her heartbeat and breathing down significantly and has a much better sense of balance and more precise movements than the average person.

Superhuman accuracy- The combination of her increased sensory awareness and precision and her superhuman body coordination means she can aim and throw things with an inhuman degree of accuracy if she focuses.

| {Limitations} |

Overstimulation- Rosa's been training extensively to learn to block out the vast majority of her sensory input to keep herself from going insane or worse. Still, intense and sudden stimuli can cause her serious pain and disorientation.

Normal human weaknesses- Even though she's got metahuman senses, a ton of stubbornness and willpower and really unusual training, Rosa is still just a small 16-year-old human girl. Taking a blade or a bullet or a super strong punch will kill her just as dead as any average person on the street. She still needs to sleep and eat, still eventually feels pain and heals about as fast as a normal, healthy girl would when injured. She's got all the mental and psychological issues and weaknesses of a normal girl who's been through some pretty traumatic experiences too.

Blindness- Even though all her other senses are supercharged and she has synesthesia helping her process some of the information visually, Rosa's still blind. That means among other things she can't visually see most screens and would need to be able to identify inks, dyes or food coloring to distinguish colors in other objects. She can't usually read unless she feels for slight indentations along a page, which doesn't always work and she can't know what someone looks like in a visual sense.

Inexperience- Rosa's got a very loose handle on her newfound senses at best and spent her first month with Stick just learning how to subconsciously filter out enough input to leave a sensory deprivation room without collapsing in pain. Lifting those filters without overloading herself takes focus and discipline and she's still not always skilled enough to understand what she finds. Similarly, while she is a very skilled martial artist and athlete for her age, she's only just started her more serious training with Stick.

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| {Personality} |

Rosa is cheerful, energetic and forces herself to be optimistic if kind of snarky in ordinary circumstances. Her job growing up was to help her dad take care of himself and keep his spirits up, after all. But losing her dad and her sight in the same week and getting adopted by an alleged ninja cult leader has kinda put her in a darker mood lately. The ability to hear most of the crime and cries for help going on in Kansas City and the surrounding area hasn't really helped her sense of optimism either, though it is a big motivator in her crime fighting efforts. Part of her longs to go back to being just an ordinary girl with a family trying to get by and cling to a sense of normality. At the same time she can't ignore the pain and desperation around her or the debt she owes Stick and the Chaste. Her Catholicism isn't a massive part of her identity and she'd probably consider herself a lapsed Catholic if she gave it thought, but she does sometimes lean on faith and the morals she was raised with when the rest of the world feels like it's going crazy or her burdens feel too heavy to bear.

| {Place of Origin} |

A first generation American and citizen of Kansas City, raised alone by her father, a struggling professional fighter. She never knew what happened to her mother. She was raised nominally Catholic but strayed from the faith for multiple reasons.

| {Background} |

Rosa was born in Kansas City to a working class immigrant Filipino couple. Her mom was a registered nurse and her dad Juan 'Jack' Ravelo was a pro boxer who turned MMA fighter on the advice of a sleazy manager. He had some talent, but never enough to really make it big as a fighter in either sport, and his career mostly stalled once Rosa's mom left, allegedly because of some kind of mental breakdown. Her dad ended up raising her mostly on his own and to make ends meet he started taking rougher and rougher jobs in between legitimate fights. First as a bouncer, then a pit fighter.

Rosa's childhood still felt normal enough to her, even as she got older and started figuring things out. If she had to stitch her dad up on nights when he wasn't ever on an official fight card, well that was just the way things were. He used the money saved up from his fights to send her to a good private school and made enough to start putting some away on the side. She worked hard and did okay and overall, even made some good friends. They had a rough but happy family life.

Over the past year, things changed though. New faces started managing both the underground fights and the legitimate ones, bringing in their own people. Stakes got higher and her dad's agent started pressuring him to take the dive in big matches, in and out of the pit. Things got rougher and her dad took more beatings, but the money was good so he always brushed past her complaints, even when he came home looking like raw hamburger thanks to a loss or a dive turned ugly.

All that changed around six months ago. Rosa was with a group touring STAR Labs when the particle accelerator incident happened and happened to be looking right at the particle accelerator's area at the time. The last thing she ever saw before being rendered permanently blind was a burning light. Her world was dark but it wasn't empty. By the time she reached the hospital, she was overwhelmed by all the input from all her other senses and in agony.

She wouldn't find this out until later, but Jack took drastic action to try and secure a better future for his newly blind daughter. He took all of the money he'd saved up until now and instructed a friend to bet it all on him in his next fight. A fight he'd been ordered to lose. He defied both his agents and the criminals that ran the pit fights, then had all his winnings put into a secure account for Rosa.

The more criminal elements of management didn't exactly like losing a bunch of money over what should've been a sure thing and Jack paid the price with his life. The next thing Rosa remembered was coming to in the hospital as an unfamiliar old man slowly walked her through the process of tuning her senses down. He called himself Stick and introduced himself to her and the hospital staff as a specialist in rapidly teaching life skills to people who end up blind later in life. Once she found out her dad was dead, she went with Stick willingly enough, in part just to deal with the disorientation and physical pain better.

Since then she's been living and training with Stick, who was actually an agent of an order of martial artists and spies called the Chaste, dedicated to a purpose she doesn't fully understand. Still, she owes him for what functionality and stability her life has left and has dedicated herself to the training and occasional missions. As a result of her senses though, it's become increasingly hard for her to ignore people in trouble both morally and physically. So when she's not training with or doing missions for Stick, she spends her nights now acting as a vigilante for her neighborhood and everywhere she can hear.