Hound55

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I've got a lot to look forward in this game.

I am thoroughly excited to see Hound shoulder the responsibility of a character with a more grandiose mythos and proximity to the universal spotlight, breaking a way from his tradition of playing "Captain Bumfuck P. Nobody and his incredible chrono-bomb defusing feline". MB's lack of batman-ears is very exciting for similar reason, too. Gonna see how long it takes for him to channel this kind of energy.

Pacifista's rendition of the Summers has me hyped. I greatly look forward to seeing Jean navigate her desire to get out there and change the world. Especially coupled with the only rendition of Scott Summers in all of fiction where he's a good guy and the best husband in the world has piqued my interest. His Titans concept is also exciting extremely exciting. It's very similar in idea to something I've thought would be super interesting as an entry-point for a teenage superhero team in the current era of E-Celebs, Social Media and Viral Marketing.

Speaking of marketing. Lord Wraith Creating an Iron Man who's unburdened by cave-related trauma. Seeing him try to build an armor around the world not out of fear, but for profit's gonna be a lot of fun. I think you've nailed the voice of an even cockier Tony Stark in the snippets I've read so far.

Hexrider tickles me a certain way as a Ghost Rider fan. Big Iron and all. Andy really took monopoly on the 'gruff cowboy'-vibe between Jonah and Logan, I'm gonna be in stiff competition if I wanna keep up my intention of metal-accented Cowboy-core for a younger Magneto's aesthetic, huh.

Jack Hawksmoor's also a real highlight as I've never even heard of the concept. Reading Byrd's sheet as well as trying to read the wiki might have made my nose bleed from a micro-stroke, which leaves me excited to see it in proper action. I've got extremely little exposure to both Iron Fist and Luke, but I've just gotten off of watching the Bruce-Lee inspired show 'Warrior's first season, leaving me hungry for some good scrapping to be delivered.

All in all, I believe I'm excited to read all of the concepts proposed, I think there's a decent mix of each corner of the universes. Perhaps lacking on the magic-side a smidge, but I'm counting on Roman for that.

Oh, and I sure hope Sep does something decent with Flash. That'd be refreshing. :P

@Hillan

Rest assured I'll still be writing much in the same fashion as I did with Captain Bumfuck P. Nobody... you'll just be more familiar with the surrounding characters to judge me more fairly on my merits. Which is probably not a good sign.

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I'm also really excited to see @Master Bruce and @Byrd Man take on their respective peeps, just because they're different from what we usually see them doing.

@Sep

I think this is the second or third time Byrd's done the God of the Cities. And he might have popped up a couple more times as well outside of that.

No complaints thought... it's the kind of thing he'd take a huge bite with and do great in.

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You make a valid point, and I'm sure Xavier and Eisenhardt are going to be extremely scared and worried about all of this. But, just as like, an hypothetical. Wouldn't it be crazy if like, Mr. Stark's empire and weaponry was built with metal and dependent on electricity, and his brain was full of thoughts?

Man. That'd be a real shame if something were to hypothetically happen to that.

@Hillan

*Laughs in Spider Menace*

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So, y'know how I said I wasn't going to post a second character application until inspiration struck me?

Well....

Inspiration struck me...

But first, a little mood music.....

Now let's ride

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

G H O S T R I D E R

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^{"Time fer you to bite the ground."}

^{_{Jonah Hex ♦ Bounty Hunter from Hell ♦ Chihuahuan Desert, USA / Mexico}}

O R I G I N S:

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There's a popular ghost story that makes the rounds in the stretches of desert between Fort Worth and Phoenix, as far north as Santa Fe and as far south as Durango. The story's about an old gunfighter by the name of Jonah, a man so ugly that the half of his face that was burned off by the Apaches was considered his 'pretty' side. A man so ornery that even cultists and child-killers called him a monster. A man that some folks say sold his soul to the Devil himself so his guns would never miss. The truth is, Jonah Hex's soul belonged to the Devil from the day he came into this world.

Born to a mother who died giving birth, raised by a drunken bastard with a black heart, sold to the Apaches for whiskey and used as a slave, then riding as a butchering marauder for the Confederates, Jonah's life was one that only knew suffering and sin, taking his share of hurt and learning how to deal some in return. It wasn't until his officers ordered him to burn a church filled with unarmed townsfolk that he'd felt any kind of shame or remorse for what he'd done, and Hex deserted in the wake of the massacre. He prayed for any kind of redemption, anything to clean the stains from his soul, and while Jonah never got his answer from on high, he got one from down below....

The stories say Jonah Hex made a deal with the Devil (or someone on the Devil's dime), to find souls in the world more wretched than his own and drag them down to Hell in order to pay off his debts and earn his salvation. They say he became the Ghost Rider, a spirit of vengeance, a bounty hunter of the damned, doomed forever to ride the length and breadth of the desert to burn away the wicked. And some folks say that for near on 160 years, a string of killings along the Rio Grande have all had a few interesting features in common: a smell of sulfur in the air, bullet holes without bullets, and tracks that look like horseshoes burned into the ground. Some say the wayward soul of Jonah Hex still rides across the West, carrying out his fool's errand, trying to kill his way to Heaven....

S A M P L E P O S T:

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Stiletta's Bar
Outskirts of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

"Get the fuck outta here, ugly," the bartender scowled at the stranger in a long black coat and wide hat who stepped through the front door, drawing the eyes of some twenty or so men. "This here establishment's private property."

The air stank of cigarette smoke and cheap liquor, and buzzy, blown-out speakers blared noise that some people called rock music. On a stage toward the back wall, a young lady wearing next to nothing listlessly gyrated, going through the opening acts of a degrading routine she had done a hundred times before.

Stiletta's was a dive bar of the worst kind, once a so-called gentleman's club where lonely and frustrated men could spend a few dollars to have some pretty young thing show some skin and make them forget about their problems for a while. When business began drying up, a crowd of even more unsavory souls had moved into town and claimed Stiletta's as their own.

They called themselves the Road Reapers, a gang of bikers who controlled the stretch of interstate between Albuquerque and El Paso. They were a small outfit compared to most clubs, but the Reapers were known for being especially vicious, using their connections with the southern cartels to run drugs, guns, and people across the border. They had a number of hangouts along their route, and Stiletta's had become a favorite.

"Just here fer a drink," the man said, looking up from under the brim of his wide-brimmed hat, giving the bartender a view of how truly hideous his face was, "An' fer a fella by the name a' Falcon Fleischer."

The two dozen bikers inside stared cold death at the stranger. A few even drew their guns on him. He looked back and forth, one good eye in a half-squint, the other lidless one staring wildly.

"Best not do anythin' stupid, boys," he warned them as he approached the bar, several of the bikers moving in behind him like predators circling their prey. "Ah ain't here fer any a' you...not yet, leastaways. Ah'm only here to see this Falcon fella."

"Right here, ugly," called out a man from the pool table in the far corner. The old man was powerfully built, his skin nut-brown and weathered from exposure to the sun and the open road, and covered in tattoos depicting salacious acts and blasphemous symbols. His long white beard was the only hair on his otherwise clean-shaven head, his eyes covered by a paid of mirrored sunglasses. Over his bare chest and back he wore a leather vest, on the shoulders of which he'd sewn in patches that looked like the talons of a bird of prey-- a falcon, the stranger reckoned. "Whatever it is you've got to say, you've got about ten seconds to say it 'fore my boys blow your fuckin' head off."

"Jess had one question fer ya 'fore you do that," he said, glancing to the dancer on the stage. As he turned, his long black duster shifted, showing the pistol on his hip. "That little thing up there...she even old enough to be dancin' like that?"

*BLAM!*

One of the Reapers had approached the stranger from behind, gun drawn, and fired point-blank. The bikers expected a spray of blood, bone, and brain matter, then they'd cut the man up and feed his remains to the dogs. Wouldn't have been the first person to walk into Stiletta's and not come out.

Instead, when the man's head cracked open, flames spewed out. The bar began to smell heavy with the stench of brimstone, as from the center of the blaze, the stranger's skull spoke.

"That's what I thought," the stranger said as his pistols came up.

The music swelled, and Stiletta's bar filled with screams.

P O S T C A T A L O G:

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Coming soon.

@AndyC

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They probably should have tried, but I'm not complaining.

@Master Bruce

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I'm surprised there's not a villain called The Encyclopedia.

@Sep

Was that one of the possible names Wolfman had for the Monitors?

I think they also had something like "Librarians" or "Archivists" or something as well.

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In Soviet Manhattan, Kitchen of Hell HEATS YOU!!!

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So what you're saying is, in order to prove you don't have special treatment, you want special treatment?

@Sep

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I'm gonna be down your neck for every single lore inaccuracy, you swine.

@Master Bruce

"THERE'S NO 'E' IN 'OSBORN'!!! GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY GAME! GET THE FUCK OUT!!!"

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Oh God, I'm Spider-Man now... the unbearable pressure...

I'm not used to being a character people know well enough to see the cracks in...