Silver Carrot

Legion of Heroes

The teen was still sore but had gotten his breath back. This girl definitely wasn't human either, She looked semi-reptilian in nature, but wasn't dressed like a Hero. The six identical blue men weren't exactly acting heroically either, sneaking around carrying a large box that was apparently stolen. So this girl was trying to get it back. Was it stolen from her? No, there was a more pressing issue here.

"I am definitely not leaving if you're going to kill them," he replied in accented English. By now, the blue men realised they wouldn't be able to outrun them *and* lift the crate, so were stepping away from it, towards the two of them. Tobias didn't want to fight. He'd never been in an actual serious fight in his life, but if he was going to help people out in this city, he should probably get some experience fighting bad guys.

"Sure, I'll help. I'll take the three on the right," he stated, before running at the right flank of the group, veering off path, and using his momentum to do a wall run to gain some height before pushing off from it and delivering a kick to the nearest blue-barged thief that sent him sprawling. It hadn't taken him out of the fight, but for the immediate present, he only had to fight two of them. Well, it was time to see how everything he'd worked for so far helped in in a real fight.

The two foes had an advantage in both skill and experience, but Tobias's reflexes helped him dodge and weave most of their attacks, and the speed and force of his punches helped him get in some good, powerful shots before they were able to take protective measures. By the time the third re-joined the fight, Tobias was stinging in a few bruised areas but both of his foes were looking worse for wear and wobbly on their feet. One of them was even bleeding from a forehead wound. They were cautiously circling him. Tobias used this very brief respite to glance at how Fiadh was doing. Hopefully, nobody had died yet.

@Lurking Shadow

Legion of Heroes

There were fights and explosions happening today. There always were, every single day in this city. And despite that, plenty of people loved here who were neither Heroes or Villains, relying on the business of one, the other, both or each other to make a live. Better-off people had long since moved away, scared of being caught in a crossfire. The working class people who stayed, or worse, moved her and put their lives on the line the low cost of housing and the abundance of vacant jobs and gaps in the market, were people that in Tobias' eyes were worth fighting for. He hoped that it was also the case for others, but a lot of Heroes he'd seen on the news and TV were in it for the fame and adoration, or saw it like a game. Tobias wondered if, behind the outward presentation, how many of them still kept in touch with the reason Heroes were needed here.

Ever since Tobias moved here, everyone had been incredibly nice to him. He had taken up a daytime job at a bakery in exchange for room and board in the vacant one-bedroom studio apartment above it. Having a whole living space to himself was a surreal, peaceful yet oddly lonely experience compared to the German orphanage he was used to, or the open-air camping he had been doing in the few months it had taken to hitchhike from Bremen to Grailham City. So, when he wasn't working, he tended to keep himself occupied with long walks, to familiarise himself with the city.

Tobias stopped, and pulled down the baseball cap. He could smell something odd. Six people. Or rather, six of the exact same person. They were nearby. He looked around him to check that nobody was looking, then ducked into an alley, before scurrying up a three storey high wall. Once on the roof, he crouched low to keep his balance and started to follow the scent, which was close by but getting further away. He then caught sight of them on a quiet street below. Six men, all dressed in blue, carrying a box between them. This was definitely some kind of Hero or Villain business, but Tobias was curious and didn't have any more pressing plans, so he tailed them from the rooftops, easily managing to keep up because despite their speed and fitness, they were still carrying a large box.

He'd never tailed somebody before, and had no experience, teaching or training. If he did, he'd have probably have kept a further distance, as he lost his footing on some loose tiles from a slanted roof and fell crashing to earth by way of several bags of garbage to break his fall. He was too close for them to not to notice, to not have seen this kid fall from the roof. Tobias slowly and gingerly got to his feet, Man, that hurt! The wind had been knocked out of him from that fall. He flashed the six blue strangers an awkward smile and a wave, before leaning against the brick wall, trying to get his breath back so that he could even talk to them.

@Lurking Shadow

Legion of Heroes

Ratboy

Name: Tobias Reber

Superhero name: Ratboy

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Age: 17

Appearance:

Tobias

Personality: Tobias is a tenacious hard worker, unwise yet very intelligent, and compassionate almost to a fault. He likes to joke around and make people smile despite not being that funny. Still, he hopes his effort will itself be enough to raise the spirits of his friends. He is very passionate on issues of class and economics, and strongly believes in the idea of community.

Power: Ratboy's main powers are enhanced reflexes and movement, allowing a wide array of acrobatics, and the ability to scurry up surfaces like a squirrel as long as there's *some* purchase, as well as the ability to communicate with rodents. He also possesses enhanced potential for strength, and a mild healing factor (it won't be visible or have a tangible effect during a fight but there's not much he won't have recovered from after a good night's sleep or two), as well as super smell.

Limitations: Ratboy's powers only grant him the potential for things. He couldn't suddenly do a somersault after getting his powers. He had to learn to do one. He wasn't immediately granted the ability to break brick with his bare fists but trained himself to that level much easier and faster than a regular human could. He could understand rats but had to learn their language in order to talk back, etc. As such, he is inexperienced, far below his true potential and his healing factor won't give him any edge during a fight. He is just as easy to kill as anyone else provided you can finish him off.

Flaws/weaknesses: Ratboy tends to get in over his head and despite his wily nature and quickness on his feet, he can be outclassed by most supervillains or henchmen that actually have powers. His sense of smell could also easily be overpowered by strong smells normal people could choose to ignore, greatly distracting him.

Skills/Talants: Parkour, some gymnastics. Knows how to cook, clean and sew. Is fluent in German, English and Dutch with a little bit of French. Can also speak semi-fluent Rodent.

Background/Bio: Born in Bremen, Germany, Tobias grew up in an underfunded orphanage. He was constantly surrounded by cold, suffering children, and he liked to do kind things to make them smile. He enjoyed school (partly because there was heating) and stayed there to study for as long as he could, turning him into a very bright child. When he turned 12, he started working in a kitchen as a potwasher, and saved as much money as he possibly could. He wanted to give it back to the orphanage. They refused, as that was his money he'd earned.

One day, on a school trip to a laboratory, he got lost looking for the toilet. Panicking, he tried to get back to his group, only getting lost further and further into prohibited rooms. One room was very dark, and as he fumbled for a light switch, his foot hit nothing but air and he tumbled into a plastic 'coffin', full of test subject rats. He screamed as they bit and scratched him until some of the security there heard him and rescued him. He was too young to persecute for trespassing and they couldn't do so anyway without revealing the nature of their experiments, so they cleaned him up, bribed him with goodies and cash, and took him back to his group.

Since that day, he noticed things. Hard feats that only gymnasts and bodybuilders on TV could do, he could kind of do!" He could climb a tree like a squirrel and just as fast. He started showing off with parkour. Doing these things were incredibly fun, so he did them more and more. The feats themselves were incentive to constantly train his body. By the time he was 16, he had developed quite the muscular frame.

Tobias would see on the news, the increasing intensity the superpowered battles between Heroes and Villains were tearing apart the lives of the regular residents of Grailham City, including it's poorest and most vulnerable. So he made the decision to hitchhike from Germany to the USA, to Grailham City, and start life as a Hero, because it clearly needed more Heroes who focused on protecting the little guy.

Legion of Heroes

Ratboy

Name: Tobias Reber

Superhero name: Ratboy

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Age: 17

Appearance:

Tobias

Personality: Tobias is a tenacious hard worker, unwise yet very intelligent, and compassionate almost to a fault. He likes to joke around and make people smile despite not being that funny. Still, he hopes his effort will itself be enough to raise the spirits of his friends. He is very passionate on issues of class and economics, and strongly believes in the idea of community.

Power: Ratboy's main powers are enhanced reflexes and movement, allowing a wide array of acrobatics, and the ability to scurry up surfaces like a squirrel as long as there's *some* purchase, as well as the ability to communicate with rodents. He also possesses enhanced potential for strength, and a mild healing factor (it won't be visible or have a tangible effect during a fight but there's not much he won't have recovered from after a good night's sleep or two), as well as super smell.

Limitations: Ratboy's powers only grant him the potential for things. He couldn't suddenly do a somersault after getting his powers. He had to learn to do one. He wasn't immediately granted the ability to break brick with his bare fists but trained himself to that level much easier and faster than a regular human could. He could understand rats but had to learn their language in order to talk back, etc. As such, he is inexperienced, far below his true potential and his healing factor won't give him any edge during a fight. He is just as easy to kill as anyone else provided you can finish him off.

Flaws/weaknesses: Ratboy tends to get in over his head and despite his wily nature and quickness on his feet, he can be outclassed by most supervillains or henchmen that actually have powers. His sense of smell could also easily be overpowered by strong smells normal people could choose to ignore, greatly distracting him.

Skills/Talants: Parkour, some gymnastics. Knows how to cook, clean and sew. Is fluent in German, English and Dutch with a little bit of French. Can also speak semi-fluent Rodent.

Background/Bio: Born in Bremen, Germany, Tobias grew up in an underfunded orphanage. He was constantly surrounded by cold, suffering children, and he liked to do kind things to make them smile. He enjoyed school (partly because there was heating) and stayed there to study for as long as he could, turning him into a very bright child. When he turned 12, he started working in a kitchen as a potwasher, and saved as much money as he possibly could. He wanted to give it back to the orphanage. They refused, as that was his money he'd earned.

One day, on a school trip to a laboratory, he got lost looking for the toilet. Panicking, he tried to get back to his group, only getting lost further and further into prohibited rooms. One room was very dark, and as he fumbled for a light switch, his foot hit nothing but air and he tumbled into a plastic 'coffin', full of test subject rats. He screamed as they bit and scratched him until some of the security there heard him and rescued him. He was too young to persecute for trespassing and they couldn't do so anyway without revealing the nature of their experiments, so they cleaned him up, bribed him with goodies and cash, and took him back to his group.

Since that day, he noticed things. Hard feats that only gymnasts and bodybuilders on TV could do, he could kind of do!" He could climb a tree like a squirrel and just as fast. He started showing off with parkour. Doing these things were incredibly fun, so he did them more and more. The feats themselves were incentive to constantly train his body. By the time he was 16, he had developed quite the muscular frame.

Tobias would see on the news, the increasing intensity the superpowered battles between Heroes and Villains were tearing apart the lives of the regular residents of Grailham City, including it's poorest and most vulnerable. So he made the decision to hitchhike from Germany to the USA, to Grailham City, and start life as a Hero, because it clearly needed more Heroes who focused on protecting the little guy.

Legion of Heroes

I am so down for this! CS coming soon

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@Blazion@Eviledd1984@Perse

Julia had not been one of the protesting voices when Kai had tried to get into the elevator. She hadn't been paying any attention to that. Even in the chaos of the situation, she felt safe being in a metal box full of people in the same situation as her, with the same goal as her. For all the differences, for how she wasn't a part of this world, there was still a kinship. She felt safe to reflect on her actions. Taking a life had been far too easy. She acted on impulse, without thinking. Just like last time. Just like the police. There was still shock, and guilt, and dread. But she wasn't upset. She didn't want to cry this time. She didn't feel numb either. Her adrenaline was still in high gear, her body still on alert.

Kai's familiar voice brought her back. She'd eaten a lot. No kidding. If it had been anybody else but Kai who turned out to be the monster that was ripping guards to pieces back there, she'd still be scared of them. She looked back out to the hallway as the doors started to close and saw that the guard she had touched was missing. It immediately clicked, and her head snapped back to Kai, alarm and panic in Julia's eyes.

"Kai! You ate the guard I killed?! Are you okay? Is there anything wrong?!"

After Kai's assertions that she was fine, Julia let herself relax a little, and as the elevator started to move, she heard sobbing. She followed it, making her way to Abby. She was slumped on the floor, a mirror of Julia herself the first time she'd ever broken down. Also, Abby appeared to be talking to someone. Whether it was a symptom of mental illness, communication with a ghost, or both, it ultimately made no actual difference to Julia. She looked down at Abby with, not quite pity, but an expression that merely communicated 'First time, huh?'

The elevator finally stopped, and the doors opened to reveal more blood and more dead guards. So, the power outage had done more than free everyone in the cafeteria. Good. Julia caught herself. Countless guards were dead in front of her eyes, part of it her fault for being a part of the plan and taking Kai's muzzle off, and the first thought in her head had been 'good'. That was messed up.

Abby was freeing somebody else. Julia turned her attention to the two seemingly children. One she recognized as the Sweet Poison Killer. It was so strange seeing what had always felt more like a myth, or a campfire horror story than truth. Here he was, in the flesh, looking not a day older than the old photos. But the other boy was covered in blood, and had such an unhinged look in his eye, that a shiver went down Julia's spine. Here she was, looking at two children, and the real Sweet Poison Killer wasn't the scarier of the two. This was a Supervillain prison, all right.

That's when she saw him. A heavily scared man, with a blade for an arm, ordering them back to their cells. This wasn't an escaped villain. Or a Hero. They had powers, and were also staff here. Julia had seen her other prisoners fight, and thought that they'd all be more than a match for this guy. But she wasn't. Even when the redhead offered out handguns, Julia turned to her.

"If all of us can't kill this person, I don't think giving me a gun is going to help. But..." Julia looked down, and finally removed her other glove, tossing it to the floor. She turned her attention back to Novis. Even if he had some sort of healing factor, surely she'd be able to put a strain on it, if she could just safely get close enough to grab him, hold on, and live.

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@Perse@The Man Emperor@Restalaan@Eviledd1984@TheRedWatcher@Klumsykrow357@KaelRavenheart@SrslyAnArtist@Blazion@ZephyrHope

Most of the fighting in the corridor had subsided as Julia raced to the elevator, smoking gun in gloved hand. Her eyes were still streaming from the tear gas that she had cowardly chosen to stew in while the others were either unaffected or had moved on to the corridor. The floor was slick with blood, though, and Julia slipped, lost her balance and fell hard, knocking the wind out of her. The gun clattered from her grasp and slid away out of reach. Forget the gun. Julia shakily got back to her feet and ran, slower and more careful this time, though that was making her take longer to reach the elevator most of the other had already reached.

She was finally almost there, when she was tackled by a guard in full riot gear, who was already grasping at her arms to try to restrain her. Powered by nothing but adrenaline and fear, she thrashed at first, and let out a shrill, gut-wrenchingly desperate "NO!!" Again, before her rational mind could comprehend the weight of her actions, she acted instincually on self-preservation. Just like the police, and just like the guards. She shook off the glove on her right hand, and then grabbed the exposed skin of the guard's face, and squeezed. That was no accident. That was intent to kill.

She desperately crawled to the elevator, too panicked to get up, and made her way inside. Only then did she get back to her feet, and look round at the guard. The veins in his face had all turned black, as had his eyes. He was choking in panic and agony as the poison spread rapidly throughout his body. He was still alive and convulsing when he fell to the ground, the excruciating pain and terror still showing in his facial expression.

Julia looked away. She had turned pale, and her breathing was deep and labored. Her eyes were defocused and in shock. Her now bare right hand was being subconsciously covered and shielded by her still-gloved left hand. She didn't look at anyone. She didn't say anything.

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@Blazion

The tear gas that had filled the cafeteria had a severe effect on Julia, who was essentially a civilian. She had retreated to underneath one of the tables, and was a hacking, coughing mess, rubbing at and trying to shield her streaming, stinging eyes. She couldn't 'tough this out'. This was an awful experience. This whole thing had been a mistake. She couldn't perform a breakout! She wasn't cut from the same cloth as all these hardened criminals around her, who could go toe-to-toe with superpowered vigilantes. Tear gas was nothing to them. She had been a fool for thinking there was anything she could have done to help them, as opposed to them needing to baby her if she hid behind them all the way up.

The gas was suddenly starting to clear, and Julia suddenly found it easier to breathe, and to see. She tentatively barely opened one eye, to see that Kai, in her true monstrous form, was eating the smoking canisters. The creature then approached her and licked her face. Julia have her weak, still-pained yet warm smile, and patted her on the shoulder in gratitude, not yet recovered enough for a verbal thanks but hoping her sentiment was carried across.

As she stayed seated underneath the table, waiting for the air to clear and her face to recover, she could hear the sounds of combat moving from the cafeteria to the corridor and the prison cells. There was much more gunfire and screaming than before, and Julia was absolutely not going to go and become a liability, or collateral, but getting involved in that chaos, especially not without her full faculties.

"Hey! Is anyone in here?" shouted a male voice, as a pair of guards were searching through the mist of the tear gas. Julia got to her feet, and raised her hand to peer through the haze to see them, and they saw her. They approached, with guns aimed at her.

"Don't move! Identify yourself!"

"Julia Kray! Don't shoot me, I was just eating my lunch."

"Kray? Put your hands up! Let me see your gloves!"

The guards would then see her comply, raising both her hands to show that she was still wearing her gloves. They seemed to relax a little as they now comfortably approached her. The closest one took both her hands and reached for his manual metal cuffs.

"Alright. We'll get you back to your cell nice and easy now."

Back to her cell. They were going to take her back to her cell. While the rest escaped, she alone would remain a captive. Alone. Not even a hope of any human company, let alone friends. Nobody but the guards. She couldn't do that! She won't! But the moment that guard cuffs her, it's all over!

Even Julia was startled by the gunshot.

Before she'd truly managed to register what she was doing, she had taken the handgun from where she had tucked it in her waistline, and she had shot the guard in the stomach. He was backing up, still stunned. The other guard reached for his own gun. Julia whipped round and fired three bullets into his upper chest, killing him. The first guard was reaching for his own weapon. She shot him in the head.

She couldn't believe she'd just killed them. She felt sick. But she forced herself not to dwell on it. She had truly crossed the line now. If she stopped, or let her adrenaline wear off and succumb to the mental collapse, she would get shot. She had to keep moving forward. Smoking gun still in hand, she ran towards the cells, and beyond them, the elevators.

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@Perse@Klumsykrow357@Blazion@The Man Emperor@Restalaan

Julia stepped forward when she saw the first punch thrown, and was about to interject, but the situation rapidly escalated beyond her control. Ameliya had now raised a table that was glowing hot. Looking behind her, she saw several of the now unrestrained Supervillains start to attack the guards, and seal off the exits to the cafeteria. One of them was a giant hulking creature that was devouring most of the guards on the catwalk. Everything around Julia was absolute carnage and she was frozen to the spot watching it all. It was a stark reminder that the people she was in this room with were powerful, trained, dangerous and thought nothing of taking multiple human lives. They were Supervillains. She had to try and fit in with them without being a burden. A handgun from a dead guard clattered to the floor in front of her, and she picked it up. She had never fired a gun before, didn't know how to aim, and....this was a lot heavier than they made these look in the movies!

The chaos subsided almost as fast as it had started, and they had won. They had secured the cafeteria. Julia was surprised that her first thought was "The ice man shouldn't have let that guard escape alive. They might have less time before an alarm is raised now." What was even more concerning was that thought didn't make her feel guilty. Julia looked around for Kai, and for Min-Ji. She saw Min-Ji. But where was the little girl? She looked around the room, and spotted everybody that she knew, but couldn't account for who the large alien-looking creature was. That's when she out two and two together and realized that she was Kai. So that was why she wore a muzzle. In fact, Julia was possible the single least dangerous inmate in this room right now. It only hammered home to her that she didn't belong here and needed to get out.

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@Blazion@KaiserElectric@Perse@Klumsykrow357

"Someone's cut the power, everything's shut down."

Julia had been waiting, and listening to everybody's conversations. Taking note of their actions. They were doing it! And it might actually work! If they could get out, she'd have a chance to start over! Another chance at living an ordinary life with friends and a job and freedom! She was getting too excited to even eat as she sat, and listened, and kept her head pointed forward. It was only after the white-haired lady two seats along from her told Kailani that one sentence that Julia felt her stomach drop. Her heart was pounding so hard, her muzzled friend could probably feel it, let alone hear it.

To test the above claim, she put her hands under the desk and looked at her gloves. There was neither a red or green light. She tried to take one off, and managed to slide it up all the way to her palm! That woman had been telling the truth! Their restraints were off!

Julia put her glove back on, and then slowly, as to not attract any guard's attention away from the distraction, reached around to the back of Kai's muzzle and unfastened it. She kept hold of it as she took it off and discreetly placed it on the seat besides her. She slid her unfinished bowl of food to Kai and gave her a pat on the shoulder and a smile, before getting up and walking over to where Ameliya and Iris were starting the distraction. When they came to blows, she was going to try and break them up, and in the process, escalate this from an argument, to a scene. Any way she could help this plan to succeed, short of deliberately taking a life.