Forsythe

Marvel AU - The New Avengers

What he said xD

The somethingorother!

I wonder if you would be up for transformers, possibly continuing this?

Marvel AU - The New Avengers

*keeps on snoring*

Marvel AU - The New Avengers

Let the dialogue begin! :D

Marvel AU - The New Avengers

Alex - Avengers' Quarters

As more and more people arrived on the landing pad, Alex started looking from face to face, scouring all databases she had access to to ge the story, as no one seemed to be making any introductions - she had a suspicion that was at the request of her dad, so she was forced to socialize. Oh well, it wouldn't hurt to have a lead, at least she could judge how much of the story was each of them sharing. Personally, Alex and Thomas had no intention of telling the rest of Alex's true nature as a machine, much less what kind of machines she was derived from. Not while Logan was still present, as his claws were true adamantium unlike her skeleton and he could most likely make short work of her if he didn't like what he heard, and had the temper to do it without asking questions.

Nope, they would stick to her cover story of a lost daughter Thomas didn't even remember the mother of - That one was believable all too easily given how the media liked to pair him up with every woman he ever appeared with, even if it was just a business meeting - that came to live under his roof when her mother's will told her who her father actually was after she passed away. It also nicely done away with explaining the various powers she had, as for all they 'knew', her mother could have well been Mystique - that mutant seemed to replicate like a rabbit, with all too familiar results. If push came to shove, the plan was to keep the origins of her powers shrouded in mystery under the mask of a bit of a jackass personality.

Focusing her thoughts back to the present group, she looked over her results. It was hard not to place the Wakandan, he stuck out like a sore thumb. The new black panther would be joining them for now, albeit reluctantly it seemed form his body language. She made a note to mind the anti-metal claws on his suit, although both her nano skin and her own suit's composite armor panels should be immune, if he sank the claws deep enough, she would be in trouble.

Then there was the she-spider. In another time, another life, it may have well been her that would be ASTRA's creator, having the brains and the money to back such a project up, albeit perhaps not the connections to acquire some of the materials needed. Alex was curious to see just how did her nature in person differ from the one she put up in public, that would be interesting to observe, and perhaps experiment with.

Then there was one of the shield's trainees, someone she made a note to watch out for, as he was one of the few that could rat out her identity if her was to keep his hands on her for too long, should she allow such a thing or need to get into his head for whatever reason with her telepathic link.

Finally, there was a rather normal looking lady - no suit, no tech, not an alien either, a mutant perhaps? Alex caught her making eye contact and flashed her right optic to imitate a wink. It was at this point SHIELD's current on duty technician caught up with ehr database hack and denied her further access... Well, more like Alex didn't want to crash all of their firewalls and leave them vulnerable to someone else's intrusion.

Looks like the sightseeing is about to begin. she thought as she followed behind the others, the thuds of her armored footsteps echoing in the hall. She was starting to be bored - after all, she lived here, and knew this place as well as FRIDAY. She just hoped she could keep living in her room and wouldn't have to move in here - it would be awkward explaining why she never needed any sleep. She would have to require access to the hall of armor anyhow, unless they thought to move heavy lifting equipment into her room so she could dress up.

When the veteran avengers seemed done with their guided tour, she raised her hand. "Can I skip the scans since mine are already done?" she asked, unselaing her helmet with a hiss and taking it off, cutting off the doubts about who she was to anybody who watched news. Someone as scrutinized by the Paparazzi as Thomas Starke didn't suddenly gain a daughter without public awareness. To the frustration of the newspeople though, other than what shots they could make of her, they offered no explanation or interviews to the press. "After all, I already live here." she turned to face the new team, scanning their faces to see how they would have reacted to her.

Marvel AU - The New Avengers

yey!

Marvel AU - The New Avengers

That morning...

"Rise and shine, Alex! Today's the day!" Thomas called out form the stairwell as he was coming down for breakfast. He knew there had to be breakfast, because the smell that spread from the kitchen was heavenly. The staff really outdid themselves today! Except... we don't have a personal chef... Why don't I have a chef? he thought, wandering lazily into the kitchen to see the most peculiar thing.

A fully operational and armed ASTRA, covered head to toe in flour.

"You're up early! You weren't supposed to see that." Alex said flatly, with what seemed like an attempt at a look of guilt on her face. She brushed the bit of flour form her face, pointing to the table by the sofa in the living room. "I've made pancakes for you. To celebrate. I guess." she felt like she needed to say more, but no way how she could explain the abysmal mess in the kitchen came to be for just one plate of pancakes came to mind. "Sorry I made a mess..."

Thomas looked back to the table, then back at Alex and smiled. "My girl's growing up so fast!"

"I am the same height I was-"

"As a person, honey, as a person." he patted her over to get the white powder off of her. "Thank you. I can smell they will be delicious. FRI-"

"No." Alex stopped him form calling up the virtual butler, undoubtedly to arrange for a cleanup. "I caused this, so I will fix it. With great cooking comes great responsibility." Alex smiled weakly.

"Well, actually, I thought you might want to see your 'getting in' gift too." Thomas teased.

Alex raised an eyebrow. Thomas knew that to elicit such a reaction, he must have really surprised her. While in a normal conversation Alex's personality matrix did fairly well already, under pressure the machine still came to the surface. "You didn't think I would just send you off into the big bad World empty handed, did you? what kind of a father does that? Come along." he said and grabbed Alex by the wrists, leading her to the elevator and down they went into the workshop.

"I was thinking about just giving you one of mine to tinker with, but excuse your dad's profane Ego, there can only be one Titanius. You're going to need to be your own woman." he said as she dragged a cloth cover off of what Alex assumed correctly was an armor suit. Now, her face was positively surprised, all with the wire eyes and gaping jaw, making Thomas warm up a little on the inside. I knew I made you right.

"It's... different!" was the first thing aLex managed to squeeze out of herself, laready having ran the suit through the variety of her sensors.

"Yeah. Noone but you can fly it for once, it's just armor modules, there is no power and no operating software. It's the perfect anti-theft solution, but the catch is that like that, it can't exactly fly to you. Hopefully, you'll take less than forty two tries to figure that one out." Thomas grumbled silently, still a little bitter about his inability to build the ultimate suit. Then, THEN he would show Rodgers that heroes aren't born, they are built. Either that, or let Alex prove herself, whichever came first. His thoughts were scrambled, when a set of arms wrapped around him from behind, accompanied with a girly giggle.

"Best dad ever!" Alex laughed.

Yeah, you will do just fine. "Come on, what are you waiting for, try it on." he encouraged.

Nodding, Alex let him go and turned to the suit, approaching it with reverence. She wasn't kidding. The sheer bulk put every Titanius suit save for Veronica and Igor to shame. That was where the similarities ended though. ASTRA modeled her exterior appearance as quite a petite girl, and she could see the humor in the irony of her wearing this jagged, rough, brutish looking thing to battle. Time to get on with it. She raised her hands to look at them as the surface of her 'skin' shimmered, flattening out the texture of skin it assumed and the folds of the clothing, changing back to it'S natural silver color, save for a pattern of what looked like golden printed circuit running all over her surface. "Ready."

Nodding, Thomas set the robotic arms to motion. It may not have looked like it, but the suit was heavy, and even the arms struggled with it until the inner layer interfaced with Alex's skin and received power for the first time.

The whole operation took about five minutes, longer than it normally would because of the first time engage. Alex would later struggle to describe the feeling. Her powerplant was more taxed than usual, but that only meant that it was finally needed to operate at more than borderline on levels. The armor's mobility suit was clanky. But the imporoved sensors and all the new equipment? "I can't wait to see what this can do!" she squealed excitedly.

"Then don't." Thomas said, clapping his hands and the launch bay opened, leading straight up through the helipad. "Take her for a spin, just be home for the meeting!" he called out to her encouragingly.

Alex smiled and nodded before putting on the helmet and engaging the multifield generators, creating a point of gravity above herself and launching into the air with nothing more than the gust of wind.

Present time...

I'M LATE! Alex thought for the umpteenth time, having to dodge passenger air traffic and face the wind on her way back from halfway across the globe. She had to slow down even further over the land, lest she sonic boom everyone deaf. Finally she saw Avengers' tower in fornt of her, and sure enough, the gathering was already on the helipad. She focused the microphones in the helmet, just in time to catch Logan asking for a kid. Damit damit damit! she panicked, immediately aligning the kid reference to herself.

She switched from repulsors back to gravity, gently gliding to a landing on the pad with just a soft thud. It turned out her panic was for naught, as Logan was apparently referring to Black Panther Junior. Good. Perhaps Alex wasn't in too much trouble then. Turning around, she took a first look at some of the people she would be spending the next days with.

Marvel AU - The New Avengers

NTBITIH

Name: Autonomous Superhuman Termination and Regulation Automaton
Original/Canon: Reimagined canon (Ultron/Sentinel amalgamation)
Alias: ASTRA, Alexandra Blair Stark
Age: Appears to be 18
Gender: Appears to be female

Appearance:

Hider

Source

Alex doesn’t appear to be anything out of the ordinary, in fact her build is rather lanky and ‘underwhelming’ as far as the average in the Avengers goes. For her whooping 187 centimeters of height she claims to only weigh 73 kilograms. She seems fit within her options and seems to have great stamina. Her skin is as white as it gets.

Alex's face seems as ordinary as the rest of her - not too angular, not too rounded. She has dark green eyes and a short mane of blond hair that she keeps cut to a mikado and flowing over one side of her face.

She sticks to her uniform most of the time as she hardly ever goes outside. Alex doesn’t use clothing, instead morphing her skin to look like it, most often going with a softshell jumpsuit and an above-waist jacket. Most often, she puts the Stark Industries logo somewhere on her 'clothing', usually a shoulder insignia. She doesn’t really ‘change’ for combat other than donning her armor if the situation calls for it.

Despite her best attempts, more observant people can still tell there is something inhuman about her - the way her skin is just a bit too cold to touch, or the precise and controlled way she carries herself, but her body language is slowly improving to blend in better.

History:

Created by Thomas Starke, ASTRA is meant to be the deterrent to all future superhuman threats to Earth. Combining the thoughts behind Ultron and the Sentinels, this unit is the first prototype of intended many. Designed to be able to counteract most known and possible future threats, ASTRA units are capable of emulating many powers present in other superhumans, aliens and technological contraptions, and while it matches none in its specific field, an ASTRA is capable of keeping up and fluidly change strategy to best counteract the threat. The whole system is intended to work by employing larger number of units though, rather than one superpowered robot, and as such, ASTRA would have as hard of a fight as any other hero if left to her own devices.

To prevent the disasters that were the Sentinels and Ultron, ASTRA code is based heavily on that of Ultron-15, capable of feeling emotions. Furthermore, Alex did not achieve consciousness by accident and was brought online and educated by Mr. Starke to create a desirable personality.

A cover story was needed for her, and thus ASTRA assumed the identity of Alexandra Blair Stark, a misbegotten daughter of her creator, one he only recently become aware of with the death of her mother who kept her existence hidden from him.

When the New Avengers were created, Thomas signed Alex up to see how she would perform outside of simulation.

Personality:

Alex is on the border between an extrovert and introvert. She doesn’t actively search for company, about if one finds her she doesn’t shy away. Being relatively ‘young’ with her activation date no further than 5 years ago, she can sometimes be a bit naive and gullible.

She seems a little cold and doesn’t like to talk about herself. Alex constantly seems zoned out due to being able to multitask and pick up what humans can’t like radio waves or wi-fi internet, although she is always paying attention to what she should.

Her only fear is that of going offline for whatever the reason, as even though her memories would remain intact, her personality would reset and she might never be the same person.

Construction and powers:

ASTRA’s body is shaped around a strong endoskeleton fashioned out of secondary adamantium. Mobility is achieved through series of electric servos for precise motorics and hydraulics for heavy duty. Most of its core hardware is stored in the chest and abdomen, with only its sensor suite located in the head. The skin is made out of nanites.

Despite being a walking supercomputer and thus having a shorter learning curve, it still takes time for ASTRA to master certain things that require experience rather than theory, such as martial arts. Furthermore Alex didn’t bother learning much of what she doesn’t need, as her drive space may be impressive but it is far from encompassing all of knowledge.

Minor shapeshifting - ASTRA’s nanoskin can change its shape, color and to some degree mechanical properties. The shape is limited by the endoskeleton, always restricting it to humanoid shape although in special cases not all of it needs to be covered by the skin.

Energy absorption - ASTRA is powered through its skin which can transfer various energy sources into its powerplant - the unit is mostly powered by solar energy. The capability is limited though - for example it can still be damaged by fire given enough exposure or high enough temperature.

Superhuman physique - Unarmored, ASTRA can lift up to 20 tons with each arm or 60 tons with both providing it can distribute the weight properly. It can also move about 3 times faster than a human and it has wider range on its joints, capable of for instance reverse bending elbows.

Superhuman mind - The robot has large memory and the computational power of the best technology. It also possesses significantly shortened reaction time and short range telepathy (Max range of 1 m, requires physical contact for detailed readings) and technopathy facilitated through the nanites in its skin.

Sensors and transmitters - The robot is aware of more than a human, capable of seeing and hearing a wider spectrum, and can also transmit such signals.

Equipment:

As the base robot is made to be able to mimic a human, something more is needed for those tough fight when the nanoskin just wouldn’t last long enough. As such a new suit of powered exo-armor was developed along with it. It is somewhat modular in a way that additional equipment can be mounted on the outside, but unlike the Titanius suit, it is not capable of functioning without being fully assembled, or without a pilot who can serve as the operating system and grow proper connections.

Composite armor - With bulkiness not being the issue, the armor was made out of a composite improving upon the nickel-gold alloy. It is worth noting that it was designed to take the brunt of damage from the front and there the armor is heaviest. With the need to accept a pilot, the armor also has weak spots.

Forcefield emitters - ASTRA armor is equipped with the next step from Ironman’s repulsor - the multifield generators. It can create electric, magnetic, repulsor and graviton fields around itself. The more complex the field the more it subtracts from its processing power - for example, a tractor beam is pretty easy, but creating a gravity field to safely deflect a hail of bullets over large area might take enough processing power that ASTRA wouldn't have enough left to calculate it's own motion.

Increased strength - Once the armor is on, ASTRA can lift up to 300 tons. However, the armor’s mobility suite is far clankier, and limits ASTRA to human speed.

Relationships:

Thomas Starke - Alex considers Tony as a father despite it initially being only a cover story. In fact, she’s full fledged daddy’s girl, albeit now they don’t get to see each other often - it only makes her treasure those moments more. Vice versa, Thomas initially created ASTRA with a purpose, but the prototype’s personality started growing on him, making him think over his plans for her.

Trivia:
Voice actor - Antje Traue

Theme

Well, here we go. Hypothetically, ASTRA could be Paris' creation as well when I read her skillset, if you'd be interested @ADayOfHeroism

Marvel AU - The New Avengers

I'd bite, been waiting to actually use an idea for a character :)

Fairy Tail RP

<Snipped quote by Forsythe>

Ooooooh, that is genius! I can't believe I've never thought of something like that :O

@Ebil Bunny

It has the added benefit of sicing EdoErza on you as a random hazard :D