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The Wards: A Grimdark Teenage Superhero Story (Rebooted!)

Damn, you know all my weaknesses. I totally need to read everything, but gotta ask - are supervillain teens allowed or nah?

The Star-Breakers

@Mintz As I said, can't decide, so I'm submitting both. Feel free to pick one? I'll try to work on some drawings tomorrow.

"Red"

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"I can be smart, or I can survive an axe to the head. And I still have that axe."

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Name: Unknown

Nicknames/Titles: Red, Johnny, Pumpkinhead, Scarface

Age: Likely 30-something; he's settled on 34.

Gender: Male

Ship Role: Navigator

Race: Just human, as far as he's aware. He has a far higher tolerance for drugs and alcohol compared to the average human, and a great deal of stamina and energy.

Personality: Spacey, clumsy, and not the brightest laser pointer on the shelf, Red has to often apologize to others for his mistakes and litter his workspace with dozens of notes reminding him who's who, what they like, and so forth. When his brain trauma isn't giving him issues, he's quite a light-hearted man prone to making jokes and simple pranks. His impulse control is limited; luckily, his initiative is also limited.

Biography: Red's story, as he knows it, started four years ago when he woke up with a splitting headache on a desert planet, next to the corpse of someone he didn't recognize. It took a while for him to get back to civilization, horribly sunburned, dehydrated, and half-starved. It took a few weeks more to meet a doctor who was able to assess the damage, half-healed as it was. The skull, of course, was wounded, and there was damage in the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes. It was nothing short of a miracle he'd survived at all, much less long enough for the doctor to reach him. The doctor prescribed some exercises and kept checking back while Red managed to become functional again.

Parts of the amnesia were likely permanent, but Red decided he wouldn't let himself worry about such things. He was going to go out and seize life!

Well, that was the plan. Turns out, you need money to seize life. And to get money, you typically need a job. And to hold a job, you need to perform hard work with good behavior. And Red was not the kind of person who was good at such things. Few of his jobs lasted long, either by their transient nature or due to firing.

When Captain Kuro came by seeking crew members, Red was quick to sign up. The fact that he was essentially signing up to be a criminal didn't bother him as much as he expected.

Powers/Skills: Despite his issue in handling things like coffee mugs, Red is quite dextrous and capable of tasks such as lockpicking, setting up delicate machinery/traps, and dodging blows. He's also got quite the sense of spatial intelligence, able to rapidly determine where a ship can and cannot fit in less than a second, and determine viable shortcuts.

Equipment: He still has the tactical axe that was put through his skull, and it still has dried blood in the groove between the axe head and handle, where it's difficult to clean.

Other: (Where to put anything these broader sections might've missed)

(Note: I can PM Red's full backstory to the GM, just to prove I'm not using amnesia as a 'get out of writing free' card.

Skylar Wheeler

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"Whatever it is, I can fix it. Except your personal problems. I'm not touching those."

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Name: Skylar Wheeler

Nicknames/Titles: Snowy

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Ship Role: Engineer

Race: Human/Cyborg in the loosest sense of the word; years ago, he tried to make his own teleporter, and it almost worked. The machine was scrambled and mixed with its owner. Emergency surgery removed most of the large parts, but Skylar keeps finding pieces of wire coming out from under his skin and gums, and pieces of metal are still embedded in muscle and connective tissue. So, cyborg.

Personality: Skylar can come across as cold and distant at times, especially on the ship. Ask him how something works, and he opens up instantly. In reality, Skylar doesn't mind people, as long as they don't interrupt his work and is more than happy to explain how something works (except his equipment - trade secret!). The problem is just that everything's so loud that he doesn't want to start talking too and make it louder, not without reason. When he's not working, he's often drafting blueprints for some new device while wearing noise-canceling headphones. He has a distinct bent towards weaponry, though he doesn't usually care to talk weapons. It's just another oddity about him.

Biography: Skylar was born the younger of two brothers on a fairly technologically-driven planet. He was obsessed with the tech from a young age, already building simple clockwork devices by 10. Things changed when he was 12 and he attempted to make a teleporter. It proved functional enough to teleport Skylar and the machine itself into the same space. He ended up hospitalized for two days to let the various tissues grow back from whence they'd been displaced, after the surgery was completed to remove most of the device's casing, the coolant tubes, the control panel, and the screen. While in the hospital, he had a dream of a mysterious visitor who asked him what he wanted most. To be an expert at making things, of course. Then let it be, the stranger responded.

Well, Skylar assumes it was a dream anyways. All he knows is that when he got home, he could hear every machine part in the house talking to him. He nearly had a breakdown at the sheer volume of their combined voices. It took weeks but once he was able to somewhat tune out the noise, he managed to build a snake-shaped automaton that acted an awful lot like a real snake.

His parents, who had been lukewarm on his hobbies, suddenly began supporting his machine-building, selling his work and keeping the cash. His older brother was outraged - how dare they exploit their younger son like this? Especially when it was clear their younger son needed help, not to be encouraged. This made its way back to Skylar, and he and his brother eventually had a falling out. That said, he acknowledged his parents were exploiting him and so, as soon as he was able, he ran away from home.

Skylar's been supporting himself with repair jobs nd selling small machines that are quite efective at their job if you don't mind a few quirks. When Captain Kuro came looking for crew, Skylar was more than happy to leave his homeworld behind.

Powers/Skills: It's unverified, but Skylar insists machine parts can talk to him. He can supposedly use this ability to create functional, animal-acting robots and to fix larger machines with some ease. It's easy to chalk this up to being metaphorical or mental illness, but he genuinely believes it's literal and real. In addition, Skylar makes for an excellent hacker.

Equipment: A pair of goggles that let him examine things on a macroscopic to microscopic level and monitors his vitals; a pet robot snake called Beam who can be converted to an plasma arm cannon; and a pet robot bird called Rook that expels small explosives. Beyond these oddities, he keeps a repair kit and a portable hacker unit to help him with his work.

Other: His older brother has joined effectively the space cops and has a deep interest in bringing Skylar back home. In addition, Skylar wears his goggles most of the time due to his albinism "gifting" him sensitive eyes.

As for favorite sci-fi series, that's a tough one. Despite my love for the genre, I know I've barely scratched the surface on some of the more popular and beloved works. Futurama and The Twilight Zone are shows I tend to come back to pretty frequently though, even when I know I ought to be checking out stuff like Babylon 5 and Firefly.

The Star-Breakers

-slamming my hand down for navigator or engineer-

It's like midnight but DAMN this will be addressed tomorrow. Just, maybe not with pics, need more time with that.

New Frontiers: A High Fantasy RTD

'Jay'

Name: 'Jay' (based on the lone initial on his book)
Race/Gender: Human male
Appearance: Red-orange hair that has grown a bit long from its time unattended, dark green eyes, tanned skin, scrawny, wearing a dress shirt/green vest/black pants
Background: Jay's story, as much as he can recall it, begins out in the frontier with no recalled memories and only a book written in cipher. Luckily for him, he was not far from civilization and so was only moderately dehydrated and starving when he finally stumbled into the nearest town. While he was recovering, he had a lot of time to think - why was he out in a place apparently so full of beasts? How had he gotten there? What was he doing out there? Also - hadn't he had a friend? The details were vague but he was certain he hadn't been alone. What happened to him? Thus, once Jay recovered and confirmed no one seemed to know who he was or anything about another person perhaps wandering in from the Frontier, he did some work, gathered coin, purchased supplies, and prepared for the trip back out to the Frontier.
Personality: While J remembers how to do things, he could not tell you where or how he learned these things. As an example, while somewhat squeamish about blood, he's surprisingly good at field dressing and at cooking meat. How he came to acquire these talents, he has no idea. He also enjoys discussing philosophy and will happily engage someone for hours on end. He often has a hard time reading the room, though little such issue reading books. He views his ciphered tome as more of a puzzle than an obstacle and considers it a form of entertainment to work on deciphering it.
Inventory: Rations, waterskin, backpack, matches, 2 candles, hemp rope, bottle of ink, an ink pen, parchment, spare set of clothes, razor, leather armor, and a book with the initial 'J' on it and filled with ciphered text.

The old Roleplayer Guild RPs

Yeah, I don't think so. There was the Wayback machine, when Guildfall first happened, but that's about it, and not everything got saved even then.

Digimon: The Parallel Visage

@Fish of Oblivion @metanoia @Martian Checking in, guys? Was my post too short?

New Frontiers: A High Fantasy RTD

Name: 'Jay' (based on the lone initial on his book)
Race/Gender: Human male
Appearance: Red-orange hair that has grown a bit long from its time unattended, dark green eyes, tanned skin, scrawny, wearing a dress shirt/green vest/black pants (am working on a sketch)
Background: Jay's story, as much as he can recall it, begins out in the frontier with no recalled memories and only a book written in cipher. Luckily for him, he was not far from civilization and so was only moderately dehydrated and starving when he finally stumbled into the nearest town. While he was recovering, he had a lot of time to think - why was he out in a place apparently so full of beasts? How had he gotten there? What was he doing out there? Also - hadn't he had a friend? The details were vague but he was certain he hadn't been alone. What happened to him? Thus, once Jay recovered and confirmed no one seemed to know who he was or anything about another person perhaps wandering in from the Frontier, he did some work, gathered coin, purchased supplies, and prepared for the trip back out to the Frontier.
Personality: While J remembers how to do things, he could not tell you where or how he learned these things. As an example, while somewhat squeamish about blood, he's surprisingly good at field dressing and at cooking meat. How he came to acquire these talents, he has no idea. He also enjoys discussing philosophy and will happily engage someone for hours on end. He often has a hard time reading the room, though little such issue reading books. He views his ciphered tome as more of a puzzle than an obstacle and considers it a form of entertainment to work on deciphering it.
Inventory: Rations, waterskin, backpack, matches, 2 candles, hemp rope, bottle of ink, an ink pen, parchment, spare set of clothes, razor, leather armor, and a book with the initial 'J' on it and filled with ciphered text.

(Full backstory has already been PMed to GM)

New Frontiers: A High Fantasy RTD

I'm just trying to decide between the following:

• Driskoll, changeling with an affinity for magic and less affinity for fine motor movement. Obsessed with revenge on the man he thinks is his father but knows he has to be stronger or have loyal followers/'friends'/acquaintances to exact such revenge.
• Morgan, human who treats everything as a performance including day-to-day life. Is trying to get a better understanding of things like 'empathy' and 'morality' by traveling with others, but has at least internalized that you don't let companions get enslaved or killed.
• Nora, elf who was raised with the belief that she was to fulfill a great prophecy. Then some other adventurer who probably wasn't even aware of the prophecy fulfilled it, leaving her village with the awkward question of what to do with her. She eventually got fed up with them and left.
• Jay, human or birdfolk who staggered back from the Frontier a while ago with only the clothes on his back, a book written in cipher, and no memory of what happened to him. Now that he's recovered, he wants to know what happened to him and what makes this book so important to him.

All of these are just shorthand (and Jay's backstory, I'm willing to PM just to prove I DO have an actual backstory there), and probably contingent on who else joins, but if any of these are hard no's, then obviously I won't use them. (And if all of them are hard no's, I'll just need to go through my archives and keep trying.)

New Frontiers: A High Fantasy RTD

You have my attention. I just need to actually pick a character. When you say 'race', does that mean any D&D race or are we looking at something more specific? Also, is magic a thing in this setting or nah? (Or nah, not for PCs anyways?)

The Star-Breakers! A Sci-Fi Outlaw Story!

Hmmm, got an idea for a navigator. Or a ship engineer, if such roles aren't taken. I do like me a good sci-fi across-the-stars rp.