Icon watched as the “team” that Christopher Arthur was on the verge of falling apart before they even set out to end the crisis which was facing the entire world. One of the speedster twins, Boom, looked to be about ready to throw down right there in the middle of the headquarters with War-Pulse, who had just admitted to having played a part in attempting to poison the Lost Haven water supply. And though Icon agreed with Boom in principle, now was not the time for this.
On top of that, Arthur and the three young metas from Albany were cracking jokes about the name of the terrorist leader. As Icon looked around the room, he didn’t need his enhanced vision to see that the majority of the group was getting anxious. Then the tension in the room was momentarily lifted when yet another young woman entered the fray. She looked to be about sixteen or seventeen, and as she entered she announced that she Boom had sent her.
Naturally, Arthur made a joke about the girl being a 12 year old, which set her off on a bit of a tirade of her own.
“You think your day is bad!” Eva shouted out, due to his rudeness although she probably wasn’t someone they’d expected to show up. “I was told this was a meeting of Heroes, like Icon over there. Not a Fetish Club meetup. I’m half expecting someone to break out the ball gag and latex. Uh. You’re not doing that, are you?”
Somewhat still embarrassed by her outburst she continued. “Look, I may not be Icon, and I may be younger than most of you. But I have a magic sword that can cut through practically anything.”
While Icon found the outburst amusing, he did everything he could to not let it show. This group was facing something that none of them had ever seen the likes of before, and they proved with each moment that passed, that they were just not ready for this… at least not in their present state.
“Alright, that’s enough.” Icon said, hoping to reign the situation in a bit. “I’m not sure if you understand the stakes we’re facing, but we need to get serious and get our act together, otherwise none of this will matter. So, maybe we should stop cracking jokes and fighting amongst ourselves, and figure out a plan to stop Pax Metahuman and bring down those domes. Or have you all forgotten what we’re supposed to be fighting for? There are people out there who’s lives are in danger, and we owe it to them to get out there and put this threat down, once and for all.”
FINALLY! Ben is officially, I think, done! Though I'm pretty sure I need to do another review for grammar and such.
Character you have created: Benjamin Ethan Reeves Alias: These are usually given by others. School: Spoiled Rich Brat, Ben While in werewolf form: Mutt, Huge Ass Dog, Stray, and a few other choices and lame namesakes thanks to the ignorant people of New York’s lesser educated. Speech Color (Actually say what you're using): Chocolate Character Alignment: Hero Identity: Secret Character Personality:
Benjamin’s personality is what someone would call a true Aries as he displays both the bad and good qualities that make up the zodiac sign. If anyone was a literal definition of the sign, it would be him.
To those he’s attached to and chosen to become friends with, they will see his generous and enthusiastic nature. His optimism in a negative situation or setback is often shining bright even if it's not in the expected or chipper tone most people use. In addition to this, he’s got an independent streak when it comes to getting things done and when he wants to, finding excitement in seeing the completing of goals rather than meeting the end results. This often leaves him jumping from one project to another due to his impulsive nature, especially if the task shows little to no progress when it comes to feeding his satisfaction. It’s during that sensation that he’s most likely to drop it complete unless someone can redirect his attention and spark interest again.
When he is forced into a situation where he feels trapped or stuck, Ben becomes moody and short-tempered. His attitude often venting out on whoever, and sometimes whatever, is nearby. If it is built up longer enough, he has a habit of becoming violent on instinctive causing him to lash out should someone attempt to comfort him with touch. Often his words in these moments aren’t clearly thought out or the consequences considered, creating guilt and regret when Ben recalls these moments and especially when he’s reminded of them. Only his few true friends can understand and look pass these eruptive moments to stick him by.
Underneath the hard earned image he has chiseled out for himself, lays a heart that holds great courage. This bravery also feeds his impulsive nature and passion in what he does. That one trait can hurt him because he easily can become derailed from his goal or aid him in spur of the moment decisions, usually helping him to get over unexpected road bumps coming his way. His passion carries him through challenges to get things done, usually with the aim of completing them quickly as possible.
As mentioned before, he does have a generous nature. However, it can and most the time does include himself when it comes to the thought. It’s an ingrain habit that he usually thinks about his friend’s influences on him, his happiness and in what ways. When a problem arises connected to them in any form, he’ll usually push to confront them or make his attempt to solve the issue behind their back. Either way, he doesn’t come off well and it often ends up in an aggressive and moody fight, one that will test or break his friendships.
Uniform/costume:
The bad thing about being a werewolf is when he shifts. It tends to shred everything. That makes it pretty much impossible to wear any attire when Benjamin goes completely wolf as the thing ends up becoming nothing more than rags at the end of the day. Nothing he has tried has shown to be able to conform and meld with his physical shape, not even the fashion retardness of spandex.
So, he has decided it was just better to go all wolf and use that to hide his identity. Most people would assume he was stray canine if they ever saw him, despite his much larger size when hunched down on all fours.
When fully wolfed out, Benjamin's height grows to about 6’2” giving him a looming appearance against the average man. His natural fur is a tarnish blonde with a white underbelly, under jaw, chest, and lower limbs. For most people, when he’s hunched down on all four, he looks like a rather large dog. He reaches about the waist of the average man in this position.
Like many newly turned werewolves, his eyes are an almost electrical blue and in the following months will edge to a golden yellow. Black outlines his wolfen eyes and give off an almost human sensation to them. His hand are a cross between human and wolf, there being four finger digits and one thumb with thick pads on the inside hand. There’s two sets along the finger digits, one on the thumb tip and about three on the main hand.
Origin Info/Details:
Profile/Bio
Race: Caucasian Sex: Male Age: 16 HT: 5’6” WT: 159 lbs. EY: Gunsmoke Hazel HR: Dirty Blonde, short and wavy. SK: White Ethnicity: None Vision: 20/20 DoB: Mar 31 (Aries)
Birth Order: Single child
Bio
Benjamin, or Ben as he’s often called by his peers, is the iconic rich boy. The boy with money, good looks and almost everything any teenager could ever want. When the public, from the media to his school mates, look at him they see a kid that never had to work a hard day in his life to earn what he wanted or felt the sense of failure gripping his soul. For the most part, they would be right. He is spoiled and has high tastes in quality and expectations, through he has known loss unlike those whose lives were completely and utterly perfect.
Being the single child of the New York District Attorney and an art director for the NYC museum for fine arts, Ben grew up in Bayside, Queens all his privileged life and goes to the private academy called McArthur Academy for Higher Education. There he was the popular kid that everyone seemed to want to be. The boy without a care or worry, ready to take risks to get what he wanted as he saw the thrill of the chase being the best part. Through this was the outside mask he often displayed to the outside world. If they would peel back the layers of his family dynamic and see the truth: the grass was rarely greener on the other side.
It was cold, December day when the wreck happened changing his life from its near perfection to a tragic roller coaster of emotion. His grandparents on his mother’s side had come to New York to spend the holidays and to see his first piano recital, his mother driving them all -save for his father- to the school. It was terrible weather where icy winds whipped through the towering buildings and hurt visibility for most drivers. A drunk man at the wheel of a semi-truck collided head on and crushed their little car, the truck’s front literally parked on the hood where most the occupants were killed instantly. Rosalie, his mother, was the only survivor.
She was his foundation. Being the primary parent in his life, Ben was at lost for words upon seeing his mother in a death like coma shortly after the accident. So lost in his own pain, he barely recalled the press trying to push in for snapshots of him sitting, depressed and holding her lifeless hand. Or the fact his father’s hand rested on his shoulder during it. Their image was placed on the newscast for weeks that followed, the tragic story about her grief stricken DA husband running for the office and loving son Benjamin Reeves. It was a nightmare for the boy while he tolerated the interviews, lurking media and worse.
It was a month later when they finally ceased. On the second month, Daniel Reeves decided it was time to let his wife move on to greener pastures. He ordered the treatment on his wife stopped and the tubes taken out. The doctors recorded her death three hours later when they rolled her to the morgue, storing her for the funeral a week later. It was mournful moment for Ben as he was never be allowed to say good bye, denied by his own father, still a stranger claiming to be a father on legal paper, since he was away at school trying to learn how to move on. Any respect he held for his father was gone that day.
Barely a year passed before he watched his mother become replaced by some whorish slut named Lorrie Hart, a woman about a decade younger than his father.
At first, things were fine since his father allowed him his independent streak and enabled them to avoid each other most the time. In the spotlight, they had the ideal father-son relationship. What the media wouldn’t pay to discover it was all an act he often mused.
It was about two years and a month when his father finally become engaged to the Ms. Hart, though Bene suspected it was to gain a bigger political vote for his future position into the Mayor’s office. Not that it would surprise him. The moment the woman came into his father’s household, things rapidly changed. At first, her methods were subtle. She wanted to be his friend and get to know him better, his father rarely mentioned the boy to her, as she sought to be get cozy. It rubbed him wrong causing his moodiness and aggression to butt heads with her.
A week passed and she was already working on manipulating his father. His mother’s presence, her things and little trinkets that gave him comfort, were starting to be removed from the house. When she caught him trying to move his mother’s old jewelry box down into his room, Lorrie confronted him. Since then she’s stalked his movements, began to take away his freedom and gradually had him moved down into the basement where he often found she locked him in there at night.
He hasn’t any idea what she’s planning but he’s got a bad feeling about it.
Hero Type (Select one): Supernatural- American Werewolf subspecies.
Power Level (Select one below): Street/City Level
Powers (Be Specific): Being a werewolf, Ben has two modes he can flip from at will when he learns how to. When he is completely normal, he looks like a normal teenage with limited healing rate and enhanced senses. The anthro mode is described in the costume section while his human form is in the Original Details/Origins section.
In human mode, Benjamin’s senses are the only thing that is above normal. These are the primary sense used most but not the only ones enhanced.
~Sight: Ben’s eyesight is unique mixture of human and wolf qualities, giving him the perks of both and covering each other’s weakness. From the wolf side of sight his optic cones and rods number enable him to have excellent day and night vision, far sharper than a human’s, enhanced by the hyper sensitive to motion within the range. The distance range limit is about 1000 feet, slightly shorter than a human but his other senses quickly make up for that weakness.
~Hearing: Because Ben is a werewolf, he can hear between 25 khz to up at least 80 khz and within 6 to 10 miles depending on the geography lay out, the more crowded by objects like a city than the less miles he gains. However, due to his sensitive ears, the higher pitches like a dog whistle will distract and hurt his ears usually crippling him until the source is stop.
~Scent: Ben’s sense of scent is extremely strong compared to a human and even most canines, detailing information about an individual’s condition, their past whereabouts, gender and other needed to know information. About at least a hundred times stronger, in favorable conditions he can sniff out his prey about 1.75 miles from his location and stalk it a fair distance.
Human His healing rate is about double of his original healing, enabling him to heal in half the time it would take normal humans. However, he is unable to regenerate limbs, survive impact into the brain or any usually fatal hits.
Wolf When in wolf form, his healing factor is about 3-4 times higher than a normal, healthy human. This enables him to take a beating that would cripple most living or kill normal beings, his body still able to move and keep fighting until his last breath. Greater the wound, the more time it takes to heal it.
When in wolf form, Ben has the ability to communicate to others with his mind and merely by looking at them. As long as he retains eye contact and focus on the individual he can project emotions, images (usually chaotic), and sensation of another’s presence inside the mind of the target with ease. Unless one is a wolf or is comfortable with him, they will often find this uncomfortable since the projected throughs aren’t exactly words or their own emotions. When eye contact is broken so is the link, the sensation of the telepathy fading almost instantly.
All big, bad wolves have teeth and Ben is no exception. Unlike the traditional werewolves who have long, feline like claws made for cutting and slicing, his hand and feet paws are made more to act like track shoes giving him excellent ability to turn nearly on a dime without falling on his furry ass. When his teeth break, they can regrow much like a shark can replace his and within a short period in a fight.
Ben also has extreme pressure behind his jaws making it difficult rip him off should you let him get a grip. It’s almost supernatural in some ways when coupled with his regeneration ability it would be a challenge in getting him off.
Skills Learned Computer Software/Hacking (adept) Hot wiring vehicles (novice) Parkour (novice in human form) Lying (highly skilled) Dirt bike/stunt ability (highly skilled) Piano (highly skilled but rusty)
Attributes (Select one at each category): All these are while Ben is in wolf form.
Strength Level:Without stress he can lift up to 5 tons, but pushed to the limit he can lift up to 10 though he risks snapping something. Speed/Reaction Timing Level:
With training speed Ben’s is about 5x faster than humans, making time slow slightly and enables quicker acknowledgement to the threats. However being able to dodge or count them is another matter. Presently, since he's untrained, his reaction is only 2x faster.
When it comes to his speed, in a trot he can reach up to 5 mph and causally cover wide areas of ground in a single day without rest. When in a flat out run he can reach up to 25 mph, with a few bursts of 45 mph for 1-2 minutes, before he nears exhaustion and risk collapsing.
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort:
In a steady, easily going trot Ben can cover miles in a day’s time before he needs to rest. This stands to reason with lax and less
During non-stop and stressful activity, his endurance lasts about 3-4 hours. However afterwards he will collapse from complete exhaustion and feel ravenous, reverting back to human.
Agility: 2x that of a normal human, usually when in a flat out run such as rushing over objects like trash cans, buildings, etc or people. Intelligence: Smart for his age, but not a genius level individual. Underestimate him at your own peril. Fighting Skill: Untrained
Resources: Small
Being a kid, he’s got his own things from high tech computer to his own car (BMW 5 Series). However he doesn’t have a source of income other than what his father allows within a bank account on a weekly basis. Meaning while he has a lot of cash to burn, there’s still a limit and if he’s not careful his funds could dry up quickly forcing him to ask his father for more. A matter he rather avoid.
Weaknesses:
Being a breed of werewolf, there are ways to counter this ability. It also works in his both forms but in different ways, his human form being the most vulnerable to the substances. Strangely enough, Ben is unable to detect them with his sense of smell and it could be related to it being his breed’s weakness toward it.
Silver: Most werewolves are allergic to silver, through fortunately for Ben’s breed isn’t not fatal on instant contact and would take large amounts to become it. In his human form it causes severe allergic reactions such as swelling on the location where the metal comes into contact. If injected/ingested, it could cause his throat to swell shut and breathing to be impossible unless an adrenaline is injected into his system boosting his immunity which will open his airways.
In his wolf form, this can easily paralyze and slow Ben’s healing rate, but the purity of the metal determines the healing power and time it lasts. The more pure the silver is, the longer the effects last and sooner it takes effect. Pure silver can take effect within at least a minute depending on Ben’s condition.
For any reason, should pure, liquified silver get into his blood system (digestion or something) when a wolf then it will paralyze Ben up to a day. Large amounts will kill him, such as a quarter of a pint or more, unless it’s purged from his system quickly and in about 3-4 hours.
Wolfsbane- herb: A weak smelling herb that is a strong and slow poison. It’s believed to be so lethal to a werewolf that a tablespoon worth sprinkled inside a bullet and shot into the target will kill even an alpha in half a day’s time. Any smaller amount will only cripple the wolf for several days, making them helpless and feeling like they wish they were dead. It can be cured through magical/unnatural means or even when a werewolf is laid out under a full moon, allowed to undergo extreme transformation thanks to the moon’s radiation.
Full Moon- Every American werewolf must answer the call of the moon as its radiation fills them with an immerse and sudden surge of energy, their bodies unable to contain their wolf forms while underneath its pale light. New wolves have the hardest time since their animalistic side is most frenzied and frighten during this time so many newly made wolves depend on their pack mates to keep them from injuring themselves during this period. After a few moons (6 moons), the eyes turn a yellow declaring them an adult.
It’s unknown why, but when someone is bitten beneath a full moon they have a percent of becoming werewolf depending on the species of werewolf.
New Werewolf Syndrome (NWS): When a human is turned into a werewolf, they develop something called new werewolf syndrome which happens with all newly turned. Changes are unpredictable as they aren't just affected by the moon and decision, but emotion as well. This factor is worsened by the fact all newly turned wolves became moody for about six months and will taper off when they reach adulthood.
Supporting Characters (Does your character have a significant other? A mother? Friend? Who are they, what do they have to do with your character?):
Family (intermediate):
Alive
Daniel Reeves-35……...Father
Job: DA of New York, recently elected. Relationship Strength: Weak father and son bond, Ben obeys him to the barest degree only because his mother wanted him to respect the man.
Lorrie Hart (Scorpio)-26……...Stepmother to be
Job: Trophy Wife Relationship Strength: Weak, Ben actually hates her due to her manipulative and controlling behavior.
Deceased
Anthony Reeves-56……...Grandfather Sophia Reeves(surname: Morris)-59……...Grandmother Rosalie Reeves (surname Snyder)-32……...Mother
Additional details: Mother was in a coma for about a week, then taken off where she died about five hours later. It was a slim chance she would’ve made out without any permanent brain damage or would’ve been the same before the accident so Benjamin's father believe this was a mercy for his wife’s spirit. However, Benjamin secretly blames himself for her death and bitterness toward his father for allowing her to be taken off the machines without his knowledge, denying him his last goodbye.
Friends
Benjamin doesn’t have any close friends, their only reasons to associate to him are self gain and manipulation reasons. Usually because their parents are hoping to have an excuse to get close to his father. Little do the ‘click’ he usually hangs around with know, he’s actually using them so he’s not lonely.
(Will likely update this later with images)
Desmond Hargraves - Closest to a best friend, his father is an assistant attorney working with Ben’s dad. Alyssa Kinser- Roland’s girlfriend and rather prissy sob, her mother owns numbers of shares in companies like Midas Industries and other organizations. Ben hates her guts and the feeling is mutual. Nathan Giavonna & Bradley Giavonna- The swim team twins and part of his click, through they are more numbskulls than any interesting company.
Denied. He's just kind of "meh."
Did I mention that I like to do my April Fools pranks not on April Fools.
There's tons of interaction. A lot of players will collaborate together during interactions or fights in a document, through PM, or even over skype so there aren't a lot of short little posts. We're also going to be moving into Season 2 in the near future, which will give everyone more or less a clean slate to move forward.
@nitemare shape: The list in the OP now looks fine. There is also an extra space between the w-t-l and villains lists. Also, none of Hounds characters are there (although there won't be links because Hound needs to rework their character sheets for S2).
Also, you may have noticed that Radiance has been added to the NPC section and will be handled by me instead of Kali. Sadly, her new job won't be allowing her to continue playing, so she gave me the option of NPCing Alexa because of the plans that we had been coming up with so I decided to take her up on it.
It would probably help NMS if someone compiled a quick list (with links) of the new people who have stuck around to be added to the OP list. I can do it if necessary, but it might be better if someone like Ded did it so he can Pm it to NMS or w/e.
Yeah, that would be a big help especially where I've been more or less out of commission for the last few weeks (GD pneumonia).
LeeRoy
Izurich
Member
