NightmareInd

~Teen Titans~ LET'S GO!

Following his host, Gracer shook his head at the offer of sustenance. He had eaten beforehand, as he figured some assessments of his skills were possibly needed to be made, and he wouldn't want to do those on an empty stomach and underperform. Not that he ever failed his shots, but you never know.

As 'Pulse' described his probationary state of membership within the Titans being unknown to Starfire, he wondered how well the communication within their organization of heroes was. Perhaps it was intentional by Robin, and it was a hierarchy if some kind? To be investigated. What was more interesting, was the mention of a temporal anomaly. Although he wasn't an expert in that area, he knew it was something time based. He didn't know how to handle such situations, not enough data on that, but his memory went to the woman he saw earlier... and speaking of the devil, she just arrived with another person he didn't recognize, but Starfire clearly did.

Seattle... Sure. The genetical relation between Starfire and her were clear on the surface. Whether she was actually related or just of her species was unclear to him, as well as if she was directly involved in the temporal disturbance, but what was clear to him with such a well fabricated but clearly rehearsed story, was that she was lying. Takes one to know one. However, he wouldn't say a thing, as something his mother taught him: An intelligent person knows what to say. A wise person knows when to say it. And as of right now, Starfire trusted this Alrick, and Alrick seemed to trust her from what he could see. That was enough of an assurance for Gracer for the moment, even if trust was a fragile thing.

Finally, Robin arrived. Gracer was surprised at Robin's presence, or rather, his lack of. If it wasn't for the boy wonder announcing his arrival as he entered, Gracer wouldn't have noticed him entering, and that said much to the always alert and observant one. As for his question, although knowing the tower's layout in advance would have some advantages if some form of attack happened, he rather gets to know Robin better first. Knowing your allies has its own set of advantages. "Having the interview right away would be preferable." He said, still looking at Robin with his trademark emotionless gaze.

~Teen Titans~ LET'S GO!

Gracer looked back at the one approaching him. Although he didn't hear him coming, the massive reflective windows of the tower were enough to alert the vigilante-hero of the floater's approach. Barely had the hero who had something similar about him as a Green Lantern asked his question, or Gracer noticed movement from inside the building. "I do." He simply responded, before turning back to the door. It was clear that Gracer did not feel the need to explain himself to the superpowered one who he didn't recognize, even if he didn't seem to be an enemy at the moment.

The door opened, his emotionless gaze being met with that of the alien hero of the Teen Titans. "Greetings. I have been invited by your group." He showed Starfire the opened enveloped with the letter neatly folded back in. "As for this person, I don't know him." He said pre-emptively, not wanting to bring about confusion about the two coming here together. His hands were constantly near the holsters on his hips, hands seemingly relaxed but ready to pick at least one of his pistols if necessary. He wasn't the fastest with his reflexes, even if he saw danger coming from afar, so being close to his weapons was a good way for him to be ready at all times.

He had his hunting rifle as well, worn with a strap over his thick leather jacket as well, as black as his mask. The rifle was his preferred weapon of choice, but in short to medium range, the pistols would have a better advantage with maneuverability as well as fire rate. Cover your grounds, limit your weaknesses. As contrary to those superpowered ones, he was still human, and any regular weakness he had as well. One wrong hit and he was done for. Always made him be a bit on edge. Not out of fear, but out of caution. The latter he practiced, the former he never experienced.

~Teen Titans~ LET'S GO!

Approaching the Titan Tower, 'Gracer' wasn't used to wearing his outfit, mask included, in the daytime, leave alone in the open like this. Then again, it would make a bad impression on his inviters if he snuck his way in. Didn't wanna aggravate his hosts now, especially such well-known and powerful group of people as the Titans.

It had been a few days since he received the unknown suspicious letter on the doorstep of Flint's apartment after another outing as Gracer. It was immediately clear to him that it wasn't his mailman that posted this mail, but that it was delivered by hand. After deducing it wasn't harmful in any way aside from the possibility of a papercut, he opened it, and found it was an invitation from the Teen Titans. Although they didn't mention it directly, he could clearly make out they wanted some kind of alliance with him, either to draw him into their group of heroes, or to support each other some other way. And seeing as they clearly knew where he lived, it would've been hard for him to decline, even if they were 'the good guys'.

While approaching the tower, he spotted something unusual. A woman, having features of Starfire but not quite being her, entering through a window. As he didn't notice any alarms going off and her doing it with the ease of someone who knew her way around the place, as well as it seeming unlikely to be a test of sorts, he just memorized it and continued.

Finally arriving at the giant T-shaped tower, and not seeing anyone waiting for him, he decided to do the most expected thing someone invited would do, and knock, or as in the case of his technological generation: Ring the doorbell, and wait for the door to either open, or give him an answer.

~Teen Titans~ LET'S GO!

Flint Mercer / Grazer

Appearence:
Name: Flint Mercer
Nickname: Mercy
Alias: Grazer
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Species/Race: Human
Powers/Abilities:

• Intelligent: Flint is highly intelligent, having knowledge in many aspects of physics and biology.
• Fast processing: Flint's mind is great at processing problems faster than the average human being.
• Gun knowledge: Not long after picking up his first pistol, Flint became an expert in the use of firearms due to his combined intelligence and ability to process information fast.
• Ricochet mastery: Flint has a great control over his bullet's trajectory, calculating its flight path and any bounces it will take.
• Light martial arts: Although prefering to engage from afar, Flint is no stranger to CQC, mainly focusing on short disabling hits and redirecting attacks.

Backstory

Flint Mercer stood out at young age. With a father always working abroad, there was no shortage of money, but his mother was the only one able to care for him. Despite this, Flint had trouble with what was socially expected of him. Whispers of autism were made, but never diagnosed. In reality, he was just a psychopath.

Not able to feel any emotions, his anchor was his mother. A former IT specialist focused on the concept of AI, she started 'programming' her son with what she believed to be best: Social skills, being able to recognise and even fake emotions to not feel out of place, and most important: Morals.

When later his mother died in what the police identified as an accident at first, he took matters into his own hands and shot the one responsible for her death. However, he didn't kill the guy. Flint wounded him with what seemed like a mortal shot, caught in the act of his mother's murderer's next victim, from a distance where he wasn't able to be recognised. Due to the commotion, the criminal had no choice but to surrender himself to the police, only to find out the shot graced his vital organs.

From that moment, Flint worked as an IT specialist himself, hiding his true specialism as Gracer, the vigilante-hero of Jump City who rights the illogical fact of criminals getting away from their deserved justice.

Personality: Emotionless, cold, calculative, manipulative, a psychopath.
Other: None
Post color: a36209
Speech color: C4A484

Character Intro

Flint had clocked out an hour ago. His nameless alter ego was on duty. Having found a connection between multiple armed robberies that all ended in innocent people getting hurt, he had staked out on an abandoned rooftop with his hunting rifle this rainy evening.

Innocent. The word echo'd in his head. No one was truly innocent. Everyone had their fair share of mistakes on their plate. What matters was what they were and how many of them you made. Go past the treshold, and you couldn't go back.

His train of thought was halted by a man walking into range. His suspect. It was clear to the bulge beneath his jacket he was hiding a knife. A size between medium and big. Matching the reports made by the other victims. And if those reports were anything the go by, his suspect would strike first before actually going over to robbing. As one victim put it, the 'sick bastard' took pleasure in the attack, before using the stealing of valuables to hide his real reason to assault.

Another echo. Although the woman used it as a way to unstress, something he could understand but didn't relate to, he didn't like her wording. Bastard. As if who your parents were should matter. Illogical. And sick. What made one sick? Physically unhealthy for a temporary amount of time? Sure. But being mentally different? Being unable to keep up with socially accepted standards? That isn't sickness, that's being different. Illogical.

The suspect moved into an alleyway, around a corner, following a woman. His suspect found a new victim. There was no direct line of sight, but that didn't matter. In the distorted reflection of wet windows, he could see his suspect closing in on her. From the body language, he could see he was about to strike. Suspect just became criminal. With a sigh, he readied his gun, lowered his heartbeat.

It would be so easy to just dome the guy. Shoot him in the back of his head, prevent him from taking anymore jabs at people. But how would that make him better? Not like it was a competition, he did this because of his mother. His programmer. His maker. And she programmed him not to kill. She programmed him not to take himself passed that treshold. Didn't mean he couldn't wound to disable.

He pulled the trigger. In his eyes, the bullet flew in slow motion. The lightweight bullet hit a few raindrops, went all the way down the busy market street, before hitting the rainpipe he was aiming for at the perfect angle he calculated, before piercing the criminals shoulder. He dropped the knife he had just raised, and the woman turned around, screamed hard and ran just as the man collapsed from the pain.

Perfect. Target disabled, attention from his surroundings recieved, and no casualties. He just graced the man's shoulderblade to not give lasting damage, only hitting some muscles and flesh to hurt him. After all, the criminal was a slave to his impulses. Didn't condone his actions, but did make the treshold crossed less high. And it was not for Flint to judge an animal for its instincts.

The last echo for the moment. Graced. He saw on the news that his actions were getting noticed. Some fake attention seekers claimed to have seen him at places and times he wasn't. Illogical. However, they started naming him. It seemed the most popular coined name so far was 'Gracer', for he always graced his target's organs. Besides that, because of him catching criminals in the act, he was seen as a 'saving grace' of sorts. Not his intention, but he can understand the confusion.

Although he preferred to stay nameless which has its own benefits, it wouldn't be bad to get a handle for certain purposes. Besides, it was only a matter of time before he got notoriety, as even Batman couldn't stay in the dark forever. Only time would know if he would also be forced into the light as well.

Teen Titans?

I would say wait like a day. See if more people notice this. It's only been up for like 2 hours or so.

EDIT: Maybe start making a CS for us to fill out and think of some ideas for plots meanwhile?

Teen Titans?

Sounds good to me so far. Consider me officially interested. I'll PM you with some ideas for my own OC.

Teen Titans?

Although this might be the kind of superhero RP I've been looking for, I do have some questions before I confirm my interest.

What kind of tone would this be in? Regular Teen Titans, AKA humoristic but with dark undertones? More darker/lighter than that?

What kind of direction would the story go into? If you already have a plot in mind, don't spoil it, but is there for example a general goal to work towards, not just by your character?

How experienced and strong would the characters be, especially OCs? Would they be equal to a Titan, just below it or even fresh rookies?

And lastly, for your OC's hero name, what do you think of Solwing? A namesake forged from both her mother's name refering to a star, her father's other alias nightwing, as well as a reference to her own home system, Sol?

EPIC: An undergound fighting ring with a twist

@Lucky

Let's go by these questions one by one:

1. Legendary Defenders sounds like it has PvE elements, such as the defending against an alien invasion thing. I imagine as an MMORPG it has raids, dungeons, open world questing, etc. Is there a scene for raiders or dungeon speed runners, even if significantly smaller, like their PvP counterpart?

Lucky

Because of a certain plot reason that I will not reveal yet for the sake of not spoiling it, there will not be PvE focused group. However, there could be training areas to hone the abilities and test them out which could involve PvE elements, like dummy enemies or depending on the difficulty level some more stronger AI. It's supposed to be just training though, yet I do kind of expect each character coming this far to have a good knowledge about both the PvE and PvP elements of Legendary Defenders.

2. How would mechanics of the MMORPG translate into the PvE? Most MMOs out there are notorious for having dozens of keybinds, but the PvP section reads much like most MOBAs in terms of skills (3 active abilities and 1 ultimate, along with one passive).

Lucky

Although EPIC borrows mechanics from Legendary Defenders, it's not just a complete IRL version of LD. This means LD itself has many more abilities rather than the MOBA-like 5. That being said, the reason I only gave 5 abilities is not only to keep track of them, but also to limit the special moves you can use besides the already enhanced normal moves like kicking and punching. Remember that because EPIC is less limited by coding than LD, the options for how abilities are used and chained are almost limitless.

3a. What year does this take place? Modern or near future?

3b. What year did Legendary Defenders release?

Lucky

It is a modern idea, so imagine it could happen today and minus a certain outbreak of a recent times it had similar events as our world. For the sake of clarity let's say the game is about 10 years old and gained world-wide recognisition. All characters would be from the same area though considering they need to be able to directly interact.

4. If the game has been out long enough for there to be such a big e-sports scene, is it possible to make past years' champions?

Lucky

Yes you can! I've been toying with this idea myself, and as long as they aren't big in e-sports anymore, it should be fine.

5a. Are all the PvP elements in Legendary Defenders solo or are there team elements such as 2v2, 3v3, etc.?

5b. Are all the events in the underground fighting ring solo or is there potential for team events?

Lucky

On both answers I can say there are team elements/events. Although solo is an option, there will be team elements and the tournament could be anything ranging from 1v1 to a 5v5 to a mass 10v10 to a FFA and anything in between, which will be anounced later in the story.

6. Are we, the writers, going to use any kind of stat/attribute/modifier system and/or dice rolling?

Lucky

This is something I'm actually still thinking about how to do exactly. I will make a stat system to make it able to have tanky, more mobile, hard hitting, etc fighting characters, but I still need to work out the details on that one. Besides that, I don't like to go dice rolling over forums, so the stats are mostly just going to be guidelines and the PvP fights will have to be agreed upon who wins.

EPIC: An undergound fighting ring with a twist

Some inspiration.

Every gamer these days has heard of a game called 'Legendary Defenders'. A massive MMORPG about humanoids in a magical world trying to defend their world against an alien invasion. It is mainly known for their very competitive PVP scene with its own E-Sports and millions of fans. What isn't known though is that there is a test hidden within the game. It isn't able to be spotted, as it isn't like an in-game puzzle or anything, but rather the whole game itself is constantly checking the skills of each player, as well as their behavior and even some aspects that can't be explained.

Once a player passes this test, they are secretly invited to something special. Ignore the invitation and nothing happens, but follow its instructions and they find themselves in a special, high-tech facility that houses an underground fighting ring. Everyone there goes by a nickname, usually the same as the game-character they have in the Legendary Defenders, and the fighting itself isn't normal either. Fantasy-like bow and arrows clash head on with swords and magical abilities, all realized with specialised hard-light projectors that boost the people's abilities past that of any human. Because of this, it isn't unusual that people with better reflexes and strategic thinking win over the real life bodybuilders or athletes.

Now there is a tournament coming up. The details of the tournament itself are still unclear, but they boost the projectors for extra output during the tournament's fights and there are valuable prices to be won. The question is now: Do you have what it takes to claim the throne?

Welcome to EPIC

And now for the OOC part: This idea is a story about an underground fighting ring with RPG-like abilities. Although there will be a lot of fighting, especially PvP, I'd like it only to be a partial focus of the idea, and instead have a lot of other focus on story. The special abilities can be weapon, unarmed melee or magical based and derived from Legendary Defenders game mechanics, and each character will get besides regular fighting moves like punching, kicking and using standard weapon attacks 5 abilities total: 1 passive, 3 active and 1 ultimate.

The characters themselves are allowed up to 1 year of background inside the underground fighting ring EPIC, and need to have at least 1 year of background with the game Legendary Defenders. There will be no 'undercover agents' and such allowed, as EPIC is not even on the radar of any authorities. All characters invited are also 18+. As for how far the fighting itself goes, there will be a 'health bar' displayed on a screen above the ring and once dropped at 0, which is still above what the person can handle, the match is finished and the remaining opponent wins.

If there are any other questions feel free to ask! If there is enough interest, I will set up a character sheet and with enough characters I will make the official thread.

Pokémon: Legendaries Reincarnated

My Hider

Name: Samuel Core
Age: 20
Appearance:

Legendary: Heatran
Legendary moves: Lava Plume, Earth Power, Flash Cannon, Ancient Power
Legendary powers: Samuel can resist any heat and in certain cases even absorb it, and when angry his body radiates heat of its own.

Biography: -
Original region: Kalos Region - Camphrier Town

Pokémon team:

Honedge

Pokémon species: Honedge
Pokémon moves: Tackle, Swords Dance, Pursuit, Shadow Sneak
Pokémon ability: No Guard
Pokémon held item: None
Pokémon other: Samuel's first Pokémon. Gifted to him by his teacher, he takes great care of it.

Aron

Pokémon species: Aron
Pokémon moves: Harden, Mud-Slap, Headbutt, Metal Claw
Pokémon ability: Rock Head
Pokémon held item: None
Pokémon other: A Pokémon Samuel hatched from an egg as part of one of its lessons. It still acts childish at times.

Ponyta

Pokémon species: Ponyta
Pokémon moves: Ember, Quick Attack, Double Kick, Flame Charge.
Pokémon ability: Flash Fire
Pokémon held item: None
Pokémon other: One of the Pokémon Samuel took care of when studying. She is pretty tall for an unevolved Pokémon, which makes it easier for Samuel to occasionally ride around on her.