ParagonX

Empowered! "Realistic" Superhuman RP

Ok perfect! :)

Empowered! "Realistic" Superhuman RP

I'm a huge fan of the superhuman/superhero genre, as well as numerous others including sci-fi, drama, mystery, ect, and I've had an interesting idea to spin all of that together.

Bare with me this is a pretty interesting idea, but here's the basic premise. I want to set the RP in a semi-modern setting, and set it in the "real" world. I'd set the RP time-line somewhere around 2015-2016 in real time, and go from there. The basic premise would be about several individuals of different walks of life gaining superhuman abilities inspired by their personality traits and innermost desires. An example could be a travel agent struggling to make ends meets who wants to see the world gaining the power to teleport, or a psychology professor who gains the ability to read the minds of others and delve into their minds to truly find out what makes people tick.

Anyway, the concept would be various people gaining superhuman abilities, and what their willing to do with them. My idea is people gain these abilities after a secret Government project goes awry, and as a result is the cause of the abilities. The twist would be that the technology used for their experiment is re-engineered technology taken from a super advanced alien race that planned to invade earth, and subjugate humanity to their rule.

So in short the plot would revolve around our characters those who gain powers, and the non powered individuals who deal with the rapidly changing world around them, and the secrets of the government project coming to light as they struggle to deal with the repercussions of both their experiment, and inadverantely getting the attention of said alien advanced race that still has a bone to pick with earth since their first attempt to rule failed.

Anyone interested in this mix of power in the modern world, with a sprinkle of sci fi?

Note: I made an interest check for this RP a while back, but due to being in a severe car accident and hospitalized never was able to get along to starting it, so if anyone from the original wishes to join feel free as I won't be absent this time around haha.

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Awesome, I'll have a CS up later tonight :D

@Sam12435

Perfect, also if you want to reserve any powers just let me know, and I'll hold them for about 24, maaaayube 48 hours until you post a CS, and I'll keep the reserved powers updated.

So far Reserved(for now)

Electrokinesis/Electricity Manipulation
Psionic Manipulation
Probability/Luck Manipulation

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Name: Eli Forrest
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Religion: Christian
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Occupation: Unemployed
Abilities:
-Heavy Drinker: He can drink lots of alcohol and rarely ever suffers from a hangover, and is pretty good at handling his liqour.

Faults:
Borderline Alcoholic - Eli is an avid drinker, and what many would label as a problem drinker. His drinking has landed him in trouble many times whether it's with law enforcement, his employment, or relationships.

Substance Dependency - Eli is an avid pothead, and smokes marijuana on a daily basis. Although he's not on the streets offering sexual favors for drugs, he's extremly mentally dependent on weed, and will goto extreme lengths to get weed money. He's wary of trying other drugs due to his problems with both marijuana and alcohol. He's tried both adderall, and xanax in college both of which he had a brief addiction too, the latter of which required him to get rehab for with his sister's help.

Porn/Sex Addiction - Eli's a fiend for intercourse. Although he's not always had the best luck with women due to his low ambition, and generally being a failure in life he loves sex, and has had sex with women he dosen't deem attractive at all among other things to satisfy his cravings. As a result of not being a ladies man and being a sex addict, he's developed quite a bad porn habit.

Power: Astral Manipulation & Possession

Personality: Eli is someone who harbors a lot of hatred for his life, and is a strong believer in the fact that life isn't fair. He's extremely jealous of those who are successful, and wealthy. He will do whatever it takes to bring others down, and believes since he's had it bad he should make others have it bad. He's still pissed about his upbringing, and has a strong distaste of his family including his sister despite her having similar circumstances as him and just not laying around complaining. He's got pretty bad ADHD, and lots of energy bouncing around from idea to idea but never seeming to get anything accomplished. He's got a very pessimistic view about life, and has had major episodes of depression sporadically throughout his life. He seeks to use his abilities to ruin the lives of others, and bring people down a notch. He enjoys being inebriated at all times, and considers himself the life of the party even if others don't think so. He has a love for the finer things in life even if he can't always afford them, and often thinks he pales in comparison to others in various areas.

History: Eli's never had life easy, and has suffered his whole life. His father was a drug dealer and his mother was a struggling single mom and mother of two. To make things worst his mother was addicted to cocaine, and his father often sold it to her so most of her money went towards funding her addiction. Eli and his sister Sharon were raised in total poverty, and Eli upon learning his father was not only supporting his mother's addiction but befitting financially turned him into the police. As a result he gained a reputation as a snitch, and was ostracized from his crime ridden community. He was often beaten, bullied, and robbed with people never letting him live down turning on his father despite his dad never doing anything but contribute to making his life worst.

He struggled and failed in every endevor he tried to achieve whether it was sports, academics, and even music. By the time he was a junior in high school he was an extreme pothead, and was working a minimum wage job to support his habit. Upon barely managing to graduate high school, he went onto the community college, and had little ambition to do anything but pursue a degree in psychology. He ended up dropping out while his sister went on to become a lawyer, his mother got over her addiction and restarted her career, and his father even got out of prison and made something of himself. Seeing everyone around him rise from the ashes and succeed made him even more depressed, and he began drinking heavilly. By the time he turned 21 he'd pushed away his friends, family, and any romantic interests he had with his constant blunt smoking, and hennesey drinking. He had a brief stint with a drug addiction to both adderall, and xanax to which his sister helped him get into rehab, but upon leaving rehab and getting a good job, he ended up messing it up by getting into an accident while drunk at work and failing the drug test for weed. Fired and once again ostracized by his family he pondered on suicide, and simply wanted to try LSD one more time before he bit the dust. However thanks to a certain government experiment gone wrong, he's been given another chance a life and plans on using it to ruin everyone else's chances he feels they don't deserve.

Empowered! A "Realistic" Superhuman Roleplay

@ParagonX im in. :)

@Nallore

Yaaay! I'm happy to hear that.

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Name: Harry Foltross "Creed"
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Religion: Agnostic
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Occupation: High Ranking Coalition Agent

Abilities:

-Expert in hand to hand combat: Harry's had years of formal training in martial arts of various kinds, and is someone who is extremely proficient when it comes to fighting. He's good on both the offensive and defensive, and is capable of taking more then a few hits.

-Weapon Proficiency: Having served in the military as well as working in the Coalition he's very adept at using numerous weapons ranging from standard guns to RPG's.

-Strategist: Never one to just walk into a scenario without proper briefing. He's extremely intelligent, and is referred. to by his co-workers as the man with a plan. He's never one to rush into situations without proper planning and consideration of what's going on, and all the factors at play.

-Bi-lingual: He's proficient in English, and Spanish. He also somewhat decent with speaking mandarin as well, but he's nowhere near fluent in that language.

Faults:

-Obsessive: Harry can be extremely obsessive when it comes to achieving one of his goals or in the pursuit of anything he thinks he needs. He will loose sleep, be unable to turn his attention to other projects, and be extremely dismissive of others around him when he's in he height of his obsessive behaviors. He's also somewhat obsessive compulsive and can be seen constantly checking doors again, repeatedly checking on updates on his phone or status updates from Coalition projects to pass time.

Power: None, regular human.

Personality: Harry is a man who's all about business, and has little room in his hand for things of a playful nature. He has an extremely serious demenour, and likes to surround himself with like minded people. He's very mission oriented, and can't stand being stagnant. He's an extreme workaholic, and considers his occupation his life. He's very pessimistic about many things in life including romantic relationships due to negative experiences in the past, and despite this he's extremely dedicated to the preservation of life. He's loyal to a fault, and considers betrayal to be a trait of the weak-minded. But most importantly he's a believer in the ends justify the means no matter what, and is not a very empathic person willing to do whatever it takes to achieve what he deems is necessary. Due to his unwavering stances and sticking to his code he's been nicknamed "Creed" during his tenure int he military, and has retained that nick-name even after his service was completed.

History: Harry Foltross was born in Germany into a military family, and spend most of his child-hood moving from place to place so he never formed and maintained long lasting relationships with anybody. His mother died when he was young from illness, and his father buried himself in his work leaving him to fend for himself. Still despite his father being distant he was his role model, and he wanted to be just like him. He had a strong sense of justice and duty growing up. Upon getting to high school he joined ROTC, and after high school opted to join the military to be just like his father. He was noted for his brutality, and ended up doing work in Black Ops which lead to him developing a pessimistic view about humanity, and the evil they were capable of.

Still he was dedicated to the United States just like his father was, and after the military took advantage of his free education by going to get a bachelor's degree in exercise science. Upon completing that he did work as a personal trainer before opening up his own personal training business, and devoting his free time to studying martial arts and reading about military and government operations. He was approached several times to work in the FBI and CIA but turned that down in favor of running his business. It wasn't until he faced extreme economic hardship that resulted in his business failing that he opted to change his career. Around this time his father was also killed by former enemies seeking vengeance on him from his time in the military. He ended up going itno the security business, and from there was recruited into the Coalition where he was made aware of the impending alien threat. He worked with them to help stop the threat and rose up in the ranks of the organization to become one of their more high ranking agents.

He's extremely paranoid of the impending alien threat, and believes humanity should do everything in their power to unite if they have any chance of survival. He was one of the main people pushing to work on re-engieering the confiscated alien technology from the aliens, and as such feels a great responsibility in the incident that's lead to people gaining powers. He's made it his personal agenda to stay on top of things, and handle the new superhuman populace as well as work on figuring out a solution to save & unite humanity before the coming war.

Empowered! A "Realistic" Superhuman Roleplay

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The show is really great, it kinda falls off in the later seasons but its still good :D There are some really great characters, and the powers work very similarly to the whole part of your personality thing, which I really like as an idea :D

I'm excited to come up with a character yhough, I'm thinking about a luck based power. Something like manipulating random chance or being really lucky in the right situations :P

@Sam12435

So like probability manipulation, I can't lie, I wish I'd thought of that cause I could probably think of a cool character with that, seems like a power that leaves room for lots of fun to happen. So I look forward to that character being around, and that's unfortunate to hear about the show falling off but I'm definently gonna check it out And it's cool to see the power and personality thing, I haven't even watched misifts so it's kinda cool that idea's in a show already.

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Hmm sounds like a certain race in a certain franchise. I like it.

Have we got a skelly yet? I can just put in my CS that I have from another RP.

@PKRaptor

which race from which franchise if you don't mind me asking?

I'm thinking of the inhumans and Kree could be wrong though, probably am, and yeah the CS is in the OOC.

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Premise
From the dawn of time humanity has had a tendency to think that they are alone in the universe, that they are special, and this belief has been supported by various sets of beliefs including religions which often feature humanity as God/the god's special people. However recent events have unfolded that have proven this theory wrong. A highly advanced race of imperialistic extra-terrestial beings sought to conquer the earth and add it to the list of civilizations/planets they reign over. To that end they sent a a fleet of soldiers to investigate earth, and set the stage for their people to rule over humanity. This secret invasion was detected by the world's intelligent communities, and lead to the world's governments at large working together in a covet operation to stop the invasion in it's tracks. In short they were succesful in defeating the threat, slaying the invaders, and for the most part keeping the general public unaware of what happened. As far as the general public was concerned in the year of 2014 a massive terrorist organization that had access to ground breaking advanced technology planned to wreak havoc on the world's nations and was stopped.

However that was not the end, humanity thought they had won the war, but they'd simply by sheer luck won the first battle. Two years later in the year of 2016, a group was formed by the leaders of the various world governments known as the "Coalition" whose goal was to re-engineer the alien technology, and study the invaders to be prepared for subsequent invasions which may be more dangerous. The result was an experiment that went horribly wrong, and has granted humans across the globe superhuman abilities that are a manifestation of their innermost desires. Even worst the beacon of energy that surged across the planet granting many humans the next step in evolution has alerted the aliens that sought to dominant earth all those years ago that their covet operation failed, and now they seek to avenge their fallen soldiers, and truly dominate the earth. Time is ticking before this species inevitably finds it's way to earth again, and thus begins the story of those empowered by this accident.

Rules
1. The RP involves powers, so feel free to have powers of all sorts, and have fun just don't be too crazy.
2. There's a storyline involved but I want the RP to be sandbox style, so you can have as many characters as you can handle.
3. If you want the same power as someone else, ask, but I'd prefer if you picked a different power or made it different then the other character's power in some way.
4. Try to remain active, and give a heads up if you can't.
5. This is set in the "Real" world so try to keep things realistic.
6. No stickler for the lengths of the posts, just remember this is causal not free.
7. HAVE FUN!!!!

Character Sheet
Image:
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Religion:(If Any)
Sexuality:
Occupation:
Abilities(Are you bi-lingual, a martial artist, expert businessman ect, tell me here)
Faults(Tell me what really makes you human. Any fears, mental illness, or just what makes them not perfect ie problem with procrastination, substance abuse, inferiority complex ect)
Power:(If Any)
Personality:
History:

Empowered! A "Realistic" Superhuman Roleplay

This has a very misfits vibe to it, I like it :D Count me in!!

@Sam12435

Haha thanks, I actually feel like I got some inspiration from the show, even though I've yet to watch a single episode, I still plan on watching the show though I've heard so much good things about it, and I figure if I liked Heroes I'm damn sure I'd love something like Misifts which from what I hear is even better.

For the one who would ask of me my desire to form such a thing, I shall make thine labor an easy one. Yes I will, for your own sake keep it alive.

@El Noche

Hmmm, wonderful, glad to see your interested man.

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