Sapphire

Scarlet Resonance

We could try a remake but maybe a low casual, people of that area of tend to want to tackle even the most rigorous CS. Not to say that the CS drove people away, it just looked pretty daunting. Edit: By we I meant that I'd love to do it myself but I won't without permission.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

So this is mostly finished and I'm only putting it up because of the fact that the unfinished areas are optional. If there's any thing wrong with it don't hesitate to yell at me. Name: Cer Kytel Alias(s): Evanescence Age: 25 Affiliations: Heroes, if any Factions: (formerly)

Meta Human Literacy Agency

This group stood for helping Metas control their powers, jokingly called Meta Human literacy Agency by most members until it became the official name. While only the members and a handful of other people knew about the organization it had a wide reach helping Metas all over the globe in any way they could. They believed that through helping Metas control their powers for the betterment of themselves and others they could prevent power related catastrophes from happening. They were largely successful with both mentors and students in countries all over the world. Former students would likely become mentors or heroes that made the organization proud. Due to recent tragic events Cer is no longer a part because it no longer exists. (they're all dead)

Description:

Cer

Her hair was once blond but has turned grey very early from the amount of times she has used too much of her own energy. She fights in unrestrictive clothing mostly, which varies but usually comes in lighter colors.

Powers:

Partial Replication

Cer is a replicator but because of the fact that she does not immediately gain the knowledge to use that power it is only partial. This is likely because she alters her genetic makeup very slightly each time she meets a meta, changing genetic makeup does not equal he experience of the source or how they learned to use it.

Limitations/Weaknesses

Besides the fact that Cer does not get a sources knowledge she can not absorb certain types of powers. Powers too similar to her own, powers that would result in a large genetic change, duplicates of any already replicated powers (though in the case of passive powers they accumulate and become more potent), and any Power Negating abilities when they are in use. For whatever reason she can not absorb most sound related powers and they are particularly useful against her, she has very sensitive ears. Another area of weakness is the amount of time she has to spend trying to copy a power, the first power she ever tried to learn, with out the source, took her two years she has shortened the process to a couple of months but that still pretty inefficient, supposedly with practice she should come to appoint where she can figure it out in just a few days. She also suffers from a disease she calls Avarice but that's going into its own hider.

Strengths

Cer has spent over half her life time training and working her butt off just to deal with Avarice and in the process she has learned more about how to use her powers than most Metas learn in their whole lifetime. Though her arsenal of powers isn't particularly large she has refined each one to the best of her abilities and controls them with the utmost skill. She can also sense Metas and their power output depending on distance and intensity,

Avarice

Avarice is much more dangerous than Cer even though they are essentially the same person they both identify each other as separate out of a mutual hatred. Avarice feeds off Cer's replication powers, the more abilities she uses the more energy Avarice has. Through meditation and peaceful exercises Cer can keep control over Avarice. Nothing physical would change if Avarice were to take control but expression is that of someone overcome by greed, if you had ever met Cer before you would know she had changed. What makes Avarice more powerful is the fact that she does not place any restrictions on herself by morals or law or any other convention and this lets her powers bloom to a point that Cer will never be able to reach. Avarice would probably also start a genocide of her own race as she would not want anyone else to have abilities except her of course she would be nice enough to let Metas teach her about their power first but the end result would be the same. The depressing truth about Avarice is that Cer is going to loose eventually, it may be days, it may be a couple years, it may be much longer but Cer was never meant to beat Avarice and when Avarice wins there really won't be a Cer left because they are the same.

Current powers

Passive Powers- These powers usually need to be learned to turn off rather than on and become more powerful depending on the number ability holders she has met. -Self Sustenance: Gives her the ability to go very long periods of time without basic necessities (food/water/sleep) -Meta Sensing capabilities -Regeneration: Due to the fact that she has met several metas with the power over the years her healing factor has gone way up, she can heal quite quickly from most wounds and while she hasn't lost a limb yet she supposes it might grow back or reattach itself, probably which ever comes first. -Aura Perception: This one is interesting because a persons aura shows up to her as how likely they are to want to hurt her, light colors are friends, Middle colors are neutral, and dark colors are enemies or violent people. Active Powers- Powers she has learned over her life time -Energy manipulation: Arguably this deserves its own section because of how extensively she uses it, she has a wide range of attacks from beams to blasts to waves to bolts each with their own varying effect she even can produce the same effect as an EMP as well as charging her own body with energy to augment strength. These attacks are limited to the amount of energy Cer has. -Flight -Limited Aerokinesis and Terrakinesis

Important: Due to the fact that she does not want to seem too threatening she is registered as an Energy manipulator with regenerative capabilities she often eats and drinks in public to seem normal. Skills: Familiar (if not skilled with) most fighting types Good aim Multi-lingual Bit of an artist and musician Expert on Meta Abilities Negotiator Equipment: A notebook with accounts of every meta she has encountered, it also includes some copied entries from other MHLA agents A duffel bag with all of her belongings Several credit cards Ranking: High B, Low A Brief History: (coming soon to a CS near you)

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

So my intro took entirely too long but its good to be comunatative (is that even a word?) again, with you all. I made a lot of references to a bio that I haven't finished yet so I apologize, I'm also sorry for the sheer length (I actually cut a paragraph out >.<) Its okay if you just skim, a lot of it is just setting foundations for the future (i.e. living situation, motivation, basic personality, history nuggets)

@Sapphire, can you post your character sheet on the Characters Tab?

@Letter Bee

Yeah I was going to put in the bio first but I have no idea how long that will take considering that my intro took almost week.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Somewhere in LA an airplane touched down, it seemed a bit old fashioned but a trip half way around the world took half the time it did ten years ago. In that airplane was Cer, who seemed more than a little depressed and scared, when she left the MHLA they had been up at full speed, well protected, and helping people. It had been only two, maybe three years and she went back to find piles of charred remains and old bodies. She had no idea how to tell who was who, and had left one base to find another in the same condition. Some were older than others, some had been found by locals, and some were destroyed completely. It was horrifying and Cer still felt her skin crawling from the last one, animals had gotten in and eaten the remains, it was less than a year old. The last few were in America, she already knew that the old farm had been burned down and the city based ones had been found due to smell. However she hadn't anything found anything about the one in LA so here she was, the last 'stronghold' of an organization that had saved her from a dismal existence. A tap on her shoulder pulled her out of her darkening thoughts, the poor flight attendants were trying to get her to leave. She felt bad for them, Cer could not travel without some kind of meta identification and some people were natural afraid of Metas, it was a natural response, instincts made people feel hatred or fear towards imposters who were, in this case, Metas . But however badly she was treated by normal people, bureaucrats were the worst with all their documentation just to travel, if she weren't so worried about people knowing that she replicated abilities it would be so much easier because then she would just fly places, maybe in another world where ranks did not exist it would be possible but not here. After getting off the plane she was guided towards a special desk for Metas arriving. LA was a lot better than other places, she wasn't stared at for being there, a tired man stamped her US passport and pointed her to a screening room where they asked her a few questions, simply routine stuff, checked her bag and sent her out into the exit path. She hadn't realized how long the whole process had taken until she was out side, she had arrived early in the morning and it was already midday, fortunately she planned ahead and should have a rental car ready for her. She entered the rental place and approached the desk "It's under Kytel." Cer probably didn't realize that she was staring directly into the sales person's eyes with out break. "E-excuse me?" The man stammered taken back by her intense stare, Cer was pretty confusing to look at with her color less hair, dark blue eyes, barely tanned skin. It made her stand out a bit and people often took a moment trying to figure out whether she was young or old. "My rental, I called a day in advance you said it would be ready. Perhaps the spelling is the issue, would you like me to write it down?" Cer's calm manner and ceasless stare made it pretty obvious that she was unaware of social norms. This thought didn't occur to the man at the desk who was just getting more uncomfortable. Cer however, felt she had little time to waste, "Fine I will do it, so much for customer service." She went behind the desk to the shock of the sales rep and entered her name, swiped her card and found the keys. "That wasn't so hard, was it?" Leaving the man dazed she found her car, some fancy fast car of course, as her mentor had been a rich man and she had expensive tastes as a result. She could afford it and if worst came to worst she could call in her debts but that didn't stop it from being bad for her, nice things only sparked more greed. Cer tried to chastise herself but the sound of the engine revving was so awesome she had to forgive herself. Most contries were more about efficiency and being cost effective, not America, everything was as big and as loud as it possibly could be. At least that's what it felt like to her, she hadn't been in America for a long time. Cer pulled up to an abandoned warehouse, even in the changed scene of LA somethings from the past still remained in the form of abandoned ware houses usually. There was a fishy smell everywhere but also something more sinister beneath it, in a way she knew what she was going to find before she even entered On the inside it looked fairly unsuspicious, empty crates and tarps everywhere, stereotypical warehouse stuff. But if you looked carefully it was clear it was a set up and the key pad on the office was way to nice for the run down area. It wasn't meant to trick everyone, just the local vagrants mostly. Gingerly, Cer entered a code into the keypad, it didn't work. Looking carefully at the door she noticed a crack left, it was almost official at this point that something had gone wrong here but she needed to be sure. Wrenching the door open she dry heaved at the sight, it was a good thing she didn't need to eat any more because she would have thrown up whatever was in her stomach. The scene was somewhere around a week old and the decay was literally sickening. A lot of puncture wounds, not as many burns, total death count was at around 29, everyone who belonged to this sector of the organization was dead. As far as she knew everyone in it was dead, which meant that everyone she had met for the majority of her life was a pile of charred bones, barely more than a skeleton, or a corpse in some stage of decay. The reality of the situation left her a little winded and very empty inside, it was like that children's book about the dinosaur, all her friends were dead. She could have cried or promised to avenge them or even felt anger, but she just robotically carried out the data termination sequence. It was pointless, the culprit could have taken all the info already with out her knowing but she moved it all on to her personal drive anyway. It was more of a safety blanket than a necessary task. She went on to properly gasoline the place and toss the match in, per procedure. Retreating a safe distance away she watched the flames for a moment before returning to the car. She tossed the drive into a pocket of her duffle bag where it came to rest with many others just like it. Cer knew that the chances of the LA base surviving was comically low but she still felt woefully unprepared to face the truth. All that was left now was the safe house, bases in large cities often had places for members to stay and LA's was a magnificent loft with a stunning view of the city. Cer needed to make sure no trace was left and sign it back over to the building owner, who was probably very eager to have it back. Then she would... visit her parents? No, they adopted her when they were in their mid 50s, for reasons she still did not understand, they were probably almost 80 now and dead or dying. She hadn't seen them since she was nine. If she wasn't going to visit her parents she could find her real ones. Which of course wouldn't work either, the trail always went cold, someone had taken a lot of time to cover them up. Cer knew the obvious choice was to at least get to the bottom of her friend's deaths but she didn't really want to know who did it. Closure wasn't what she needed but she could just walk away and not feel guilty about it. Pulling into the building's garage she exited the car and took the elevator up to the top floor. Using the elevator jey, that had been so nicely left, she punched in the top floor. Soon enough the elevator opened with a ding to reveal an untrashed, bodyless apartment. It was a nice change in scenery. It felt rather odd having a 'home' she hadn't really ever stayed in one place for more than a couple of months even when she was part of the MHLA. Realizing she was going to have to figure out what had happened, she froze, how was she even going to start? She was facing a challenge worse than any opponent she had ever fought, human interaction. This was going to require research and finding other people to interact with. Which posed yet another challenge, she had to figure out where people spent their time and what people did the things they spent in their free time. This was too difficult, where could she even start. When she was in the Eurasia zone she usually just went from slum to slum making sure all was right. Unfortunately picking fights with organized crime, gangs, and ne're do wells was probably not what normal people did or even most metas did. Though she couldn't be sure, she hadn't met any other metas outside of the organization. After much deliberation Cer took to the streets, after all when in doubt wander aimlessly.... she was going to have to come up with a better saying than that. While aimless wandering didn't help her understand people much it did give her a bit of understanding, in LA meta was pretty much every where. Prostituting themselves for money, power, or maybe acceptance. It was depressing and entirely unhelpful to figuring out what people did, her task was still as daunting as ever. At least she could pretend like she knew what she was doing, fake it until you make it... That was definitely a better motto.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Also, you're accepted, Sapphire! Nice work on the CS, by the way, I like the bit about Avarice! I'm not liking all these EMP powers >.> it means that Ruby will have to stay out of combat or risk eventual death. Anyhow, Sapphire, I have a question! Ruby's powers are really rather strong and because she really shouldn't have them, her body required biotechnology to keep it mostly functional. If Cer replicates her, will she also feel this strain due to a lack of physical requirements?

@NarcissisticPotato

Thanks! Avarice is fun because it's not hunger, its pure greed. Instead of consuming everything she wants to preserve it so no one else can have it The EMP is a one and done move she would not be able to use any of her active powers afterwards and would be very tired, she hasn't really perfected the technique yet, not to mention only the building she is in is affected. Though I get what you're saying, but don't worry, she couldn't go around shutting things down even if she wanted to. If Cer knew that an EMP would lead to anyone's death, good or bad she wouldn't do it unless it was really her only option, she's not a killer. If Cer tried to learn Ruby's power maybe but otherwise she would not feel the effect because she does not use the power. That's supposing she doesn't feel the effects if shes not using the power, if no then I think her regen and Self sustenance (maybe?) would play a role in keeping her running.

@Sapphire With Cer's meta sensing abilities, would she be able to sense Beau if he were broadcasting his meta-dampening power or would his power negate her ability to detect him?

@Marx

Hmmm... She would have to be in the area to sense a power and she would notice that her Aura sensing abilities were weak so she would be suspicious so she would know but she would have a very hard time with it because of the dampening.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

So this is mostly finished and I'm only putting it up because of the fact that the unfinished areas are optional. If there's any thing wrong with it don't hesitate to yell at me. Name: Cer Kytel Alias(s): Evanescence Age: 25 Affiliations: Heroes, if any Factions: (formerly)

Meta Human Literacy Agency

This group stood for helping Metas control their powers, jokingly called Meta Human literacy Agency by most members until it became the official name. While only the members and a handful of other people knew about the organization it had a wide reach helping Metas all over the globe in any way they could. They believed that through helping Metas control their powers for the betterment of themselves and others they could prevent power related catastrophes from happening. They were largely successful with both mentors and students in countries all over the world. Former students would likely become mentors or heroes that made the organization proud. Due to recent tragic events Cer is no longer a part because it no longer exists.

Description:

Cer

Her hair was once blond but has turned grey very early from the amount of times she has used too much of her own energy. She fights in unrestrictive clothing mostly, which varies but usually comes in lighter colors.

Powers:

Partial Replication

Cer is a replicator but because of the fact that she does not immediately gain the knowledge to use that power it is only partial. This is likely because she alters her genetic makeup very slightly each time she meets a meta, changing genetic makeup does not equal he experience of the source or how they learned to use it.

Limitations/Weaknesses

Besides the fact that Cer does not get a sources knowledge she can not absorb certain types of powers. Powers too similar to her own, powers that would result in a large genetic change, duplicates of any already replicated powers (though in the case of passive powers they accumulate and become more potent), and any Power Negating abilities when they are in use. For whatever reason she can not absorb most sound related powers and they are particularly useful against her, she has very sensitive ears. Another area of weakness is the amount of time she has to spend trying to copy a power, the first power she ever tried to learn, with out the source, took her two years she has shortened the process to a couple of months but that still pretty inefficient, supposedly with practice she should come to appoint where she can figure it out in just a few days. She also suffers from a disease she calls Avarice but that's going into its own hider.

Strengths

Cer has spent over half her life time training and working her butt off just to deal with Avarice and in the process she has learned more about how to use her powers than most Metas learn in their whole lifetime. Though her arsenal of powers isn't particularly large she has refined each one to the best of her abilities and controls them with the utmost skill. She can also sense Metas and their power output depending on distance and intensity,

Avarice

Avarice is much more dangerous than Cer even though they are essentially the same person they both identify each other as separate out of a mutual hatred. Avarice feeds off Cer's replication powers, the more abilities she uses the more energy Avarice has. Through meditation and peaceful exercises Cer can keep control over Avarice. Nothing physical would change if Avarice were to take control but expression is that of someone overcome by greed, if you had ever met Cer before you would know she had changed. What makes Avarice more powerful is the fact that she does not place any restrictions on herself by morals or law or any other convention and this lets her powers bloom to a point that Cer will never be able to reach. Avarice would probably also start a genocide of her own race as she would not want anyone else to have abilities except her of course she would be nice enough to let Metas teach her about their power first but the end result would be the same. The depressing truth about Avarice is that Cer is going to loose eventually, it may be days, it may be a couple years, it may be much longer but Cer was never meant to beat Avarice and when Avarice wins there really won't be a Cer left because they are the same.

Current powers

Passive Powers- These powers usually need to be learned to turn off rather than on and become more powerful depending on the number ability holders she has met. -Self Sustenance: Gives her the ability to go very long periods of time without basic necessities (food/water/sleep) -Meta Sensing capabilities -Regeneration: Due to the fact that she has met several metas with the power over the years her healing factor has gone way up, she can heal quite quickly from most wounds and while she hasn't lost a limb yet she supposes it might grow back or reattach itself, probably which ever comes first. -Aura Perception: This one is interesting because a persons aura shows up to her as how likely they are to want to hurt her, light colors are friends, Middle colors are neutral, and dark colors are enemies or violent people. Active Powers- Powers she has learned over her life time -Energy manipulation: Arguably this deserves its own section because of how extensively she uses it, she has a wide range of attacks from beams to blasts to waves to bolts each with their own varying effect she even can produce the same effect as an EMP as well as charging her own body with energy to augment strength. These attacks are limited to the amount of energy Cer has. -Flight -Limited Aerokinesis and Terrakinesis

Important: Due to the fact that she does not want to seem too threatening she is registered as an Energy manipulator with regenerative capabilities she often eats and drinks in public to seem normal. Skills: Familiar (if not skilled with) most fighting types Good aim Multi-lingual Bit of an artist and musician Expert on Meta Abilities Negotiator Equipment: A notebook with accounts of every meta she has encountered, it also includes some copied entries from other MHLA agents A duffel bag with all of her belongings Several credit cards Ranking: High B, Low A Brief History: (coming soon to a CS near you)

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Also guys, this will either start tonight or tomorrow as Arc 2 is reaching completion!

@NarcissisticPotato

AHHH! I still have to finish my CS! Typing it all out takes forever!

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

<Snipped quote by Sapphire> Beau would take offense to that ew. He'll be sure to eat your character first.

@Marx

Good luck with that... In theory our characters are very similar, where yours gave in and became stronger, mine didn't and has a rough time usuing others powers because she does not use force. I think a fight between them would be very interesting.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Yeah, I know I said I don't like that power but you seem to have a good handle on it. Btw, just because I'm interested in how these things work, what would happen if she encountered one of my characters duplicates? Would she be able to make her own duplicates if only the original Legion can clone himself?

@Subject Zero

She would need the source unless a duplicate can make more duplicates but she would know that the person she is seeing is a duplicate.

If she meets me does she grow an owl head?

@Gentlemanvaultboy

That's a really good question, I think powers that change you permenently are beyond her capabilities since her genes basically copies the little variations in Meta Genes and allows her to use it. The changes to owl mans Genetic makeup are so huge that she would not beable to copy that without a concentrated effort and likely endup killing herself in the process. Unless your genes were specially made to handle that kind of transformation I wouldn't do try it yourself.

@Sapphire I'm wondering about what you said about your character having to 'think' like the person they're mimicing. What do you mean by that, of you don't mind me asking, and for how long does she have to do that? I ask because you have a character like mine that has a very sociopathic mindset and his powers are driven by an intense hunger, so if she were to copy his power, would that hunger transfer over to her as well.

@Raijinslayer

Oooh I like this question, ultimately if my character fully unlocked your characters powers it would be pretty much over for them. They have a problem which is similar to hunger but more of a greed which is why when influenced by Avarice they would seek out something they prize, a rare power that only a few have or a new technique that is hard to master. These things can be driving but when Avarice kickes in theyll want to make sure that only they can have that power or that no one else can learn the technique. Basically a dragons horde, instead of consuming they want to posses and be the only one to poses that thing, to be envied and feared for having things that no one else has, that is Avarice. My character would not try to learn your power if she knows of the hunger and they might, but I still haven't answered the your first question. My character does not know how others think, only a mind reader could really know that, they make assumptions based on behavior and characteristics of people who she has met with the same power. (The latter way is dangerous because I am in no way saying all people with the same power think the same way.) With these assumptions they put themselves in the position of the person they are trying to copy and access their power. They basically have to think that they are you using your power and then they have to transfer that into their own memory. The process of replicating a power is long and grueling for my character with out the help of the original owner, the whole process takes a month at the least (it used to take much longer) but with the sources help it can be reduced to half the time. Let me know if that made any sense, I felt like I might have been rambling a bit.

Sapphire, there's another character that steals powers by cannibalism which doesn't exactly apply to yours but just wanted to let you know!

@NarcissisticPotato

Ew. Thank goodness my character can't get a power too similar to their own If it sounds like I took a really long time on planning out my power don't be fooled, I'm only this organized because I had to write the CS like four times because it kept getting deleted, even when I tried to use a word document.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Sounds a lot like Synch from Generation X to me. How long does she keep a power after acquiring it? Does she have it forever or does she lose it after a certain time or when the person leaves the area?

@Subject Zero

Neither, I handicapped them so much in other ways that it just kind of made more sense to have them be kept, plus her situation with 'Avarice' makes every encounter dangerous but I'll explain that more later.