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Young Justice

The Incorrigible Iceburn

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I C E B U R N

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Pei Huo

| AGE |

17

| MENTOR |

Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)

| DESIGNATION |

The number assigned to you by the Zeta Tube computer system. It's given to you the first time you enter the HQ as a member of the Team.

| APPEARANCE |

Pei Huo is of east asian descent with pale, blue-tinted skin. She has short, somewhat combed, naturally white hair, and she temporarily dyes it often, her favored color being pink. Her eyes are naturally brown but she usually wears light blue colored lenses to match the aesthetic. She’s about 5’4 and has a slender but acrobatic frame.
Pei’s tops are perpetually cropped in some shape or form. She usually dresses light, even in the coldest of conditions. Casually she usually wears sleeveless belly shirts and leggings with sneakers.
Her Iceburn costume is a frost resistant form fitting material. It’s two piece, once again a sleeveless, cropped top. Around her elbows are some protective pads. She has a belt and leggings that tuck into boots. On several places on her costume is her symbol, a white diamond. The base color of her outfit is black, but it’s still a somewhat colorful piece with pink highlights along the edges of the outfit. Such as around her collar, arms, sleeves, boots, and pants. On her back is another version of her symbol. Her costume will also change color, usually depending on if stealth is required.

| BIO |

When Pei was just a blue little girl with no powers at all, a cataclysmic flood struck her home city in South Rhelasia. The streets ran with angry brown water, power lines snapped and sparked. The already unstable government struggled to respond.

At the time, Pei was something of a pickpocket and scam artist. A mischievous kid who enjoyed entertaining her friends at the orphanage. This often got her in trouble with the community. Her unnatural skin color made it pretty hard to blend in, and she was caught and beaten often by her attempted targets. But every failure made her smarter, she figured.

But Pei really did want more out of life. As the fateful storm was threatening to hit the city, Pei took her fellow thief Ming to the local power plant to try and harvest some valuable materials while it was locked down. But the storm hit sooner than expected, and was much worse. Strong winds rocked the planet. Climbing in through the roof, Pei fell in through the open skylight and into the icy cold waters of an experimental reactor. Her metagene responded to the trauma and kept her alive. Ming pulled her out and the two escaped, fleeing to their home.

As the water threatened to overwhelm her orphanage, Pei’s power awakened and she unleashed a wave of cold energy that sealed the windows and doors shut with ice, securing her and her friends home. Pei remembered really loving the sound of their cheers as she passed out from exhaustion, completely spent.

Over the next day things got worse, and her strength waned. When all hope seemed lost and her ice began to crack, Pei shouted for help. Down from the sky came Superman! Down from the sky he came, and used his icy breath to stem the flow of the flood. Pei will never forget his words and smile: “Great minds think alike, huh?”
From that day on, Pei wanted nothing more than to be a superhero.

As Pei grew into her early teens, that moment in the power plant caught up to her. People had heard tale of her exploits. Some elements coveted her power. Instead, her orphanage was bought out by the wealthy Huo family magnates, and she was adopted by the couple currently heading it up. That came as quite the shock to her. Her new mother and father got her right out of there and brought her to Coast City, in the United States of America.
They wanted a perfect daughter, and her life of freedom, chaos, and poverty quickly turned into one of rules, order, and luxury. Pei felt like she owed it to them. Her father in particular was very into superheroes, having been a short lived hero in the past, he had taken on mentoring instead. Her mother was all about her traditional education and trying to ‘catch her up’ on the things that she had missed. It was like Pei had died and started living someone else’s life. Pei was happier in many ways, sadder in some ways. She didn’t want to go back to how things were before, though, and she was happy her orphanage was safe and well funded now. Most importantly, she could follow her dreams in the nation most famous for its superheroes.

Pei’s first superhero identity was that of a volunteer firefighter. She was the youngest, of course, and the firefighters were quite protective of her. But she proved her usefulness time and time again, and so they couldn’t deny letting her tag along. As long as she was careful…which she often wasn’t.

Eventually, one of the fires was being caused by a supervillain, and Pei took it upon herself to do battle on behalf of Coast City. She found herself doing surprisingly well. She had grown a lot since that storm. In the end though it was Green Lantern who came in and saved the day. He decided he liked her spirit and took her under his tutelage. His quite absent, reluctant tutelage, since this annoying kid seemed like she wasn’t going to be put off of this idea of being a superhero. He taught her how to be more creative with her powers.

One small problem: Pei didn’t really have a secret identity. Now that she had started fighting supervillains she had a target on her back. For the third time in her life, she left her home behind to find a new one in the form of Young Justice. Pei feels like she has been all over and met so many people and made so many friends already… maybe she doesn’t belong anywhere. Maybe she can just fit in anywhere. Citizen to, and protect of, the Earth itself. She’ll become…Iceburn!

Pretty cool name, right? Pei thinks so.

| ABILITIES / SKILLS / EQUIPMENT |

Iceburn has something of a utility belt, or rather, pouch. Inside is a medkit for applying rapid response first aid, though she may change out or forgo it depending on what the mission demands. She relies almost entirely on her powers for all situations.
Creation Mist: Creation Mist, C-Mist, or just Mist, is what Iceburn calls the frothy, sparkling mist she can create around her body and expand along surfaces and through the air. She can concentrate this Mist into Ice shapes, at high impact if she so chooses. It mostly emanates from her feet and hands but can quickly become a thin but versatile layer on the floor, or a powerful but more concentrated cloud. The Mist is cold, able to slowly freeze water by itself without input. The Mist also provides a layer of protection against attacks, allowing her to make a few mistakes in combat without suffering incapacitating damage.
C-Mist spreads quickly along existing sources of water, and nearly instantaneously over already existing ice.

Burst: She can concentrate the Ice in her Ice shapes and force them to explode. This is where the ‘Burn’ part of her name comes from. Burst can spread C-Mist and do some serious damage if she is able to focus. Most importantly, Burst does no damage to herself, allowing her to use it in close quarters and aid in her mobility.

Cryo/Hydrokinesis: Any amount of water the C-Mist touches can be manipulated by Iceburn. This allows her much more power and versatility than pulling Ice out of the C-Mist, but she can fight perfectly well without an existing water source. Fortunately there’s almost always more water to be found to amp up her power. Her ice is much more durable and powerful than natural ice, letting her build or destroy quite effectively with it.

Temperature Control: She can control the temperature of water forms her Mist is in contact with. She mostly uses this to make her Ice room temperature so she can freeze enemies in blocks of ice without killing them.

| LIMITATIONS AND WEAKNESSES |

Heat: C-Mist cannot be generated in hot temperatures. C-Mist brings coolness with it, allowing her to generate Mist outside of hot places and bring it in with her, but she cannot create more or spread Mist in very hot places. If she is prepared she is more than capable of handling fire, basically hard-countering it if she is stronger than the fire. But, for example, artificial heat could be induced in a room to severely limit her powers. She’s also more sensitive to heat in general. As long as she has her wits about her she is actually more effective against fire or heat than other heroes might be. But catch her off guard and it can truly wear her down more quickly than anything else.

Power Reliant: Iceburn possesses a basic amount of martial arts knowledge able to perhaps beat up your average goon in a one-on-one fight, but mostly she just uses her powers. She feels weaker on this than she should be and is embarrassed about it.

Mist: She can’t create Ice, nor manipulate the elements outside of the Mist, making her ‘spheres of influence’ very obvious to enemies. She can launch ice outside of the Mist for offensive attacks, but that has a travel time, even if it's a quick one. It’s easy to tell what she can and cannot control. The Mist can also be affected by environmental factors, though it has more staying power than natural mist.

Squishy: Make no mistake, she isn’t weak by any means. Her defensive capabilities are generally stronger than her offensive ones. If anyone could fulfill the role of a damage absorbing tank, it’s her. But supercede these defenses and Pei doesn’t have any enhanced durability of any kind, nor any regeneration factor. Basically, high armor, but low health. This gives her a particular weakness to surprise attacks. None of this ‘only human’ crap, either! What’s that even mean, anyway ‘only human’. Psht!

| NOTES |

She’s been trying to be more responsible recently, and as a result of her second half of her upbringing is somewhat of a stickler for the rules. Being a superhero and performing at high efficiency is the most important thing to her. This clashes somewhat with her vibrant, chaotic, touchy-feely personality. Pei loves to have fun and make friends, though. Above all, she is very earnest, wearing her heart on her sleeve. Though many times she is unable to express her feelings on delicate matters effectively, being quite blunt.

She is steadfast in her convictions of heroism and her idealistic vision of what a superhero should be. She's actually something of a perfectionist in this regard, and is always striving for improvement. There's no doubt in her heart about what a superhero should be at all.

Old Sheets

ICEBURN

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I C E B U R N

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Pei Huo

| AGE |

17

| MENTOR |

Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)

| DESIGNATION |

Y16

| APPEARANCE |

A pretty girl of east asian descent with pale, blue-tinted skin. She has short, naturally white hair, though she has dyed it with a few rainbow colored highlights. Her eyes are naturally brown but she usually wears light blue colored lenses to match the aesthetic. She’s about 5’4 and has a slender frame.

Pei’s tops are perpetually cropped in some shape or form. She usually dresses light, even in the coldest of conditions. Casually she usually wears sleeveless belly shirts and leggings with sneakers. Occasionally she’ll dawn some kind of hat, be it for keeping the sun out of her eyes or for some kind of…gimmick.

Her outfit is a frost resistant form fitting material. It’s two piece, once again a sleeveless, cropped top. She has a belt and leggings that tuck into boots. She has a pair of arm sleeves that connect into fingerless gloves. The base color of her outfit is black, but it’s still a somewhat colorful piece with pink highlights along the edges of the outfit. Such as around her collar, arms, sleeves, boots, and pants. On her back is a pink symbol. It looks like a cluster of ice crystals that resemble a crackling fire.

| BIO |

A metahuman, Pei was born unusual. She doesn’t know much about her biological mother or father as she was quickly given up for adoption. Born in North Rhelasia, now known as United Rhelasia, she grew up in a poor orphanage in a large city. Pei’s childhood was both one of making very close friends, and one of being bullied. With a large amount of other children, she often competed for attention. Many of the other kids her age were unhappy, and this combined with her attention seeking created a habit of Pei acting silly to both be the center of attention and brighten up people’s days. It also helped her cope with some of the fellow kids and most of the outside world looking at her so oddly.

Pei’s powers grew with her, she had control over them for as long as she knew she had them. She would often use them to perform tricks, labor, or steal to earn money for herself and her fellow orphans.

Eventually, at around eight years old, she was adopted by the wealthy Huo family, mostly for the normal healthy reasons, and partly as a PR stunt. To prove that, you know, Metahumans are people too and all that. Needless to say, going from being poor to being rich was quite the whiplash. Now she was living in beautiful, wealthy Coast City. The orphanage she came from also benefited from a large amount of donations from the Huo family.

Her new mother was strict and expected great things from Pei. She was expected to quickly learn English and advance her studies. This new regimented lifestyle had Pei missing the orphanage, but the new food she was able to get, for FREE, made her put up with it. It didn’t stop her from being something of a trouble maker. Thankfully her father was a little more lax, so the two balanced each other out. Pei also had some new siblings, a sister and a brother, of which she somehow ended up being the middle child. Her habits of being a natural attention-seeking entertainer were thoroughly the majority of her personality at this point and wouldn’t go away any time soon. During this time she also learned how to expand the usage of her powers.

Her father was a big time superhero fan and Pei first thought of the idea. In her homemade outfit she worked as a volunteer firefighter while in middle school. No combat, no putting herself in too much danger. Just controlling water and ice to an impressive degree and using it to help save lives. The positive attention was ‘better than cocaine’ as she tastelessly put it at the time.

This led her too, against common sense, push for bigger and bigger stunts. She loved the thrill, she loved the praise, and gosh darn it she loved helping people. This was it. Forget her studies, forget education- being a superhero was the life for Pei. It took a lot of convincing to her crying mother but Pei managed to get through to her. She would still complete a normal education of course…much more slowly. Now she wanted to kick some ass.

And so she did! Pei became the Incorrigible Iceburn, a hideous little joke of a name that almost made her mother reconsider this entire thing.
But it worked out. Ice powers were formidable and her control over them let her fight crime without hurting any one, and of course her youthful career as a volunteer firefighter continues to this day.

It was when Green Lantern, the defender of Coast City, had an out-of-control encounter with Hector Hammond, the grossest supervillain ever, that they crossed paths. Iceburn had already based some of her fighting style on Green Lantern, using her powers to create useful shapes and constructs.

She helped him defeat the villain and that was when he started ‘mentoring’ her in a very loose, Hal Jordan-y kind of way. She was absolutely NOT his sidekick, that was made explicitly clear.
Regardless, they crossed paths a few more times and Iceburn graduated to stopping criminals on a regular basis. She even got her first nemesis! Green Lantern even sponsored the development of her first super suit.

Unfortunately, a ‘secret identity’ wasn’t really much of a thing for Pei Huo. She kind of stood out wherever she went. Her parents were threatened by a local crime organization. That was a real wake up call that sunk to the pit of her stomach. But she really, really didn’t want to stop.

That was when Green Lantern suggested the Young Justice initiative. She could travel abroad and help people around the world, without putting her family at risk. Pei jumped on the opportunity. Besides, meeting a bunch of freaks like her would finally let her feel like she fits in! Though Mr. Jordan said that calling them ‘freaks’ probably won’t go over well. Even if it’s true.

| ABILITIES / SKILLS / EQUIPMENT |

Iceburn doesn’t use any tools or weapons, instead relying entirely on her powers. This may change in future as her experience and need for utility grows.

Creation Mist: Creation Mist, C-Mist, or just Mist, is what Iceburn calls the frothy, sparkling mist she can create around her body and expand along surfaces and through the air. She can concentrate this Mist into Ice shapes, at high impact if she so chooses. It mostly emanates from her feet and hands but can quickly become a thin but versatile layer on the floor, or a powerful but more concentrated cloud. The Mist is cold, able to slowly freeze water by itself without input. The Mist also provides a layer of protection against attacks, allowing her to make a few mistakes in combat without suffering incapacitating damage.
C-Mist spreads quickly along existing sources of water, and nearly instantaneously over already existing ice.

Burst: She can concentrate the Ice in her Ice shapes and force them to explode. This is where the ‘Burn’ part of her name comes from. Burst can spread C-Mist and do some serious damage if she is able to focus. Most importantly, Burst does no damage to herself, allowing her to use it in close quarters and aid in her mobility.

Cryo/Hydrokinesis: Any amount of water the C-Mist touches can be manipulated by Iceburn. This allows her much more power and versatility than pulling Ice out of the C-Mist, but she can fight perfectly well without an existing water source. Fortunately there’s almost always more water to be found to amp up her power. Her ice is much more durable and powerful than natural ice, letting her build or destroy quite effectively with it.

Temperature Control: She can control the temperature of water forms her Mist is in contact with. She mostly uses this to make her Ice room temperature so she can freeze enemies in blocks of ice without killing them.

| LIMITATIONS AND WEAKNESSES |

Heat: C-Mist cannot be generated in hot temperatures. C-Mist brings coolness with it, allowing her to generate Mist outside of hot places and bring it in with her, but she cannot create more or spread Mist in very hot places. If she is prepared she is more than capable of handling fire, basically hard-countering it if she is stronger than the fire. But, for example, artificial heat could be induced in a room to severely limit her powers. She’s also more sensitive to heat in general. As long as she has her wits about her she is actually more effective against fire or heat than other heroes might be. But catch her off guard and it can truly wear her down more quickly than anything else.

Power Reliant: Iceburn possesses a basic amount of martial arts knowledge able to perhaps beat up your average goon in a one-on-one fight, but mostly she just uses her powers. She hates martial arts and will never agree to a spar without being able to use her powers lest she be embarassed.

Mist: She can’t create Ice, nor manipulate the elements outside of the Mist, making her ‘spheres of influence’ very obvious to enemies. She can launch ice outside of the Mist but it’s easy to tell what she can and cannot control. The Mist can also be affected by environmental factors, though it has more staying power than natural mist.

Squishy: Make no mistake, she isn’t weak by any means. Her defensive capabilities are generally stronger than her offensive ones. If anyone could fulfill the role of a damage absorbing tank, it’s her. But supercede these defenses and Pei doesn’t have any enhanced durability of any kind, nor any regeneration factor. Basically, high armor, but no health. This gives her a particular weakness to surprise attacks. None of this ‘only human’ crap, either! What’s that even mean, anyway ‘only human’. Psht!
Sweets and Hot People: Her true kryptonite.

| NOTES |

Generally copes with stress using humor, doesn’t really know when to shut up in general. Sometimes she can get mean spirited, having developed somewhat of an ego as of late.
Disaster bisexual.
Has high levels of self-esteem. The world might be a better place if she was hiding some kind of crippling insecurity, but alas.

Character Relation (Under development due to not meeting anyone yet)

C H A R A C T E R R E L A T I O N S H E E T

Zatara

"Enil- enilwaj evisserp- erpmi! Erpmi? Damn, how does he do that?"
Anyone who wears a top hat is a-okay in Pei’s book. Magic is awesome, the real kind, not the ‘speaking backwards’ kind. That stuff is just fine. But the up close stuff! Pei is into that herself, so Zatara strikes her as a kindred spirit. Though the whole ‘cousin’ thing strikes her as nepotism. Just a little.

Cybergirl

"She’s kinda creepy lookin’. Sorry- on an existential level! I’m not tryna’ be rude. She just raises a lot of questions…"
Should a robot even count? That seems weird. She wished whoever built her just owned up to the fact that she was a robot instead of trying to be so realistic about it. Pei would probably like her a lot more if she had some antennae coming out of her head or something. Like Red Tornado! There’s a genuine robot. It’s the pretending that’s weird. Seems kinda phony…

Mirage

"Wow…a real life merwizard! If I could breathe underwater I’d walk around all day with a fish bowl on my head. You couldn’t stop me."
On first blush…Pei wouldn’t mind losing in a spar to Mirage. What a power set! She seems a bit on the serious side considering she’s a merwizard. The teeth are a little off-putting but, again, Pei is just happy to finally be a part of a freakshow. She’s definitely not the weirdest person in the room anymore! Though, she can mostly turn off her weirdness, so that feels like cheating.

Metamorph

"...Just so you know, I had physically stop myself from like, barking like I was a cartoon character. I reeled it in. That one’s for you, ma."
Handsomeness aside…this guy seems like a real hero! Cool powers, cool suit, and maybe, I dunno, a little confident?! There are way too many mopey superheroes in the world for Pei’s taste. …Too bad about the weird teeth though. Lots of weird teeth in this group. Kind of worrying.

Nymph

"What- a plant? Personally, I’ve never been very afraid of plants. Sometimes, I even eat them. Is she edible? Well, I guess we’re all edible if you try hard enough."
Another person for Pei to generally be less weird than! Though it’s almost cheating to be able to turn it off and on whenever you want. Pei doesn’t understand why people who don’t like fighting become superheroes. That’s literally the entire job. If you wanna change the world, be a politician or start voting or start rioting. If you wanna protect the world, you suit up and start throwing hands! (Figuratively speaking. Punching people is stupid.)

Rain

"So, Rain doesn’t count as a superhero, right? I feel like you need superpowers to be a superhero. Maybe a…medianhero?"
To be perfectly honest, in the limited amount of time Pei has had running in superhero circuits, guys like Rain make the best targets of teasing. Either they get really mad and respond, or get really stoic and try to ignore her so she can do whatever she wants to annoy them. It helps that this one doesn’t have any powers, so she’s pretty confident she tease him without consequence…she might let him get a hit in though just to be fair.

World of Light

wordcount: 2,543
Midna: level 8 EXP: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(146/80)
Location: Suoh
Warp Charges: 1 (+1 from fight reward)

warp locations

Virgin Victory teleport room
Top of the Split mountain
Outside the Convent of Our Lady of the Charred Visage
Tostarena Town

Sakura Level 9: 19/90
Karin Level 5: 3/50
Location: Suoh
Word Count: 2,543
Points Gained: 3
New EXP Balance--- Sakura Level 9: 22/90 (pending)

Karin Level 5: 06/40

(pending)

Peace, and cleanliness, did not last long. Because almost as soon as Sakura, Karin and Minda stepped out of the spa, an alarm blared through the streets and spread a controlled practiced panic through the people out and about. Several people rushed past the trio as the proprietor of the spa ushered her clientele out of the baths and into a conveniently nearby shelter (when you had to race to get dressed, you also didn’t want to then have to race through the streets as well). Had they not been pointed towards it, the three of them might have missed the shelter, its small unassuming entrance hiding a spacious and well furnished bunker deep within, while gaurds armed with assault rifles and manportable cannons peeked out of murderholes covering the entrance, ready to keep the Others out for long enough that proper help could arrive.

The trio declined the directions towards sanctuary however.

”Me and the ladies” Midna began to explain, as she taped a wall to open a portal to her home realm ”where thinking that the only thing to do after getting nice and clean” she pulled out her singular pauldron, secured it to her arm over the suit, then tied her green climbers bandana around her neck and donned the twilight hued fragment of psycho mask in place to cover the rest of her face alongside the helm ”is to work up a nice sweat”

”and what better way” followed by strapping her spiky shield to one arm, hand holding both it and a rosary with a frozen olive and golden mask fragment ”than to save the day” she concluded as she extracted obsidian fire axe, and the massive spiked clubba club and charged both of them with electricity.

She hoisted the massive statically charged wrecking ball with a glowing shadowhand, while resting the volcano fragment over her shoulder, and finally called out her mecha-wolf-bear-dran for support. The hulking cyborg with a cute Shiba tail brushed said tail against all three briefly, bolstering their attacking and movement speed, just in time for the sky to explode above them as the missiles and pods met in a calvocate of destruction.

”Shall we?” the princess asked the other two, grinning to herself just a bit too smugly for how dangerous things were about to get.

As for Sakura and Karin, the only gearing up they had to do was make sure their fighting gloves were fastened. Anyone who had ever been on the receiving end of one would know that they were not there for the benefit of their enemies. They were only there so that a fighter wouldn’t cut their knuckles- they did nothing to reduce the impact.

Sakura and Karin were both serious, but returned Midna’s enthusiasm with a similar pair of half-smiles.

”We shall.” Karin nodded, watching the skies.

”Yeah! Let’s go!” Sakura pumped her fist. ”I’ll just be happy to be fighting on solid ground again.”

A moment later, once they had judged the trajectory of the closest pod, and they were off, sprinting through the streets till they heard the sound of screaming, and rushed into a dimly lit hallway.



The screaming came from inside of a coffee shop that would normally be a little haven of solidarity for various fantasy races tucked away in the heart of human psychic town, but was at the moment a haven mainly thanks to having some impressively sturdy glass window covering much of the front.

It would not last much longer however. ”Over there! Oh- what the heck are those things?!” Sakura said, charging into battle, perplexed.

A small horde of buddy rummies were wailing on the glass window, cracking it in several places. The only thing after it between them and a meal of minds was a hasty pile of furniture, and behind that a few folks, human and not, who had to be forced to make do with this lesser shelter, who were holding improvised weapons that were all they had to protect themselves should the glass give.

Fortunately, they would not need to use them

”Hey, over here you … things, over here!” Midna yelled at the headless manikin like Others, right before she had her mecha-bear send them a flaming hot dish of goop via back mounted cannon.

The slime like Stu splashed down in the middle of the dozen or so Buddies, covering many in roasting goop and coating the window and ground around the front of the shop with a burning hazard. Yet while this did get the buddies attention, they certainly didn't care much about the fire after they had staggered out of it. Regaining their poise after only a few moments, they began to step forwards with a few elegant steps forwards ... which quickly devolved in a kind of swaying drunken gait as they came running at the the trio wielding arms of their own kind as a mix between a flail and a club.

Sakura and Karin took point, looking to defend their mage so she could maximize damage without worrying about defense. Both were fighting confidently. Sakura leaped over one Buddy and then another, rolling through the air before she landed in front of the barricade of the civilians. Two Buddies reeled on her with ungainly strikes. Sakura raised both of her hands and absorbed with strike with on arm, before returning fire with a series of jabs and short kicks, light on her feet as she alternated between them.

Karin spin kicked one Buddy, sending it crumpling to the floor where it began to squirm and regain its balance. Another one came for her and she dodged one strike, then another, before catching one of its limbs and flipping it over her shoulder. It roiled and nearly caught her with a wild, anatomically dubious attack. ”My word! How uniquely grotesque.”

”Weirdly durable too” Midna noted, as she took a moment to process the minor issue of how to avoid blowing her friends up with her magic, let alone the surrounding infrastructure. While doing so she formed up her equally lanky chilfos strikers, the tall frozen undead trading arm smacks for spear jabs. They did not deal much damage but the four durable strikers did helpfully tie up an equal number of their foes.

Midna and her Mecha bear then charged some of the rest. The Cybernetic ursine bull rushed one, while Midna jabbed the massive clubba club her shadow hand was holding forwards like a fist, the pair of them knocking back two more Rummies mostly to prevent them from being swarmed by the 13 on 3-4 odds they were facing, before going on the defensive as more came after them.

Even with all that tarpitting, the street fighters were still individually facing 3 on 1 odds.

Brute strength was hardly the most important factor in a street fighter, but Sakura found if she applied herself she could put down some serious impact. ”Shunpukyaku!” She span around, sacrificing speed on her attack to put as much force into it as possible. There was a gust of wind and the Buddy was knocked hard onto the ground with a bouncing impact that destabilized another one. She charged up a fireball and blasted it into ash. ”Hadoken!”

Kicking the third Other away to give her some space, she jumped and brought her hammer fists down on the downed Buddy crushing it into the floor. It’s- psychic brain came out?! It was like some kind of organic lightbulb that popped out of the top of its head. ”What the-?!”

It looked breakable. She stepped on it and the monster flashed red and cleanly disintegrated.

”They have light bulb- brain heads!” She called out unhelpfully.

Karin glanced at Midna’s work and then at the three Others facing her. Hers was a much more engaged process. She used footwork to get them all lined up. It took her a few moments and she slapped away several strikes in the process. Once they were all lined up and trying to get around each other, she pushed forward.

”Guren ken!” She pummeled them with alternating palm strikes as her legs carried her forward. They were all knocked dizzily aside. On the last one she span and drove her elbow into its back, knocking it into the recovering Rummies. She dashed forward and slid into them, feet like lances, breaking all three of their legs in quick succession.

”Mujin kyaku!” She juggled all three with two quick kicks, the Others like popcorn in a frying pan, and then slashed them in twain with one last spin of her heel. With that, the Street Fighters dispatched the monsters assailing them at the moment.

”I’m sorry- what was that, Sakura-chan?” Karin asked Sakura.

Any attempt at an answer right away was drowned out by rumbling thunder from Midna;s shocking strikes

She had started out by smashing two rummies to the side with a wrecking ball of a swipe with her massive shadow hand held mace, bowling them over into a heap, down onto which the charged mace sent three rotating pillars of lightning that juggled them into a fourth central pillar that kept them stuck in place.

Mace still held out to deliver its payload into two of her foes, the princess pivoted, blocked a flailing arm with her shield, causing a spray of needles to burst out in response. The hail of spines struck the rummy right as the princess swiped her obsidian axe around to hit it in the leg … which caused it to first burst into flames. She followed up with a second strike as the flames reflected manically in the lens of her mask, found it rather pitiful, and then stabbed the top of the axe forwards and delivered a blast of lightning that knocked the burning foe back.

She pulled the weapon back to her chest, quickly charging it back up a stage, and then fell upon the lighting juggled pair as they dropped, the princess swiftly hacking at each as they rose, igniting them as well. Which was all ever so fun, to the extent that she found herself giggling at the flames, but it did present a slight problem, which was she was now faced with 3 flaming rummies coming at her.

She dodged back from a strike, not wanting to introduce her plant shield to their now flaming spare arms, before crushing one by dropping her wreckingball of a club on it, tripping another with a crate pulled up from the twilight realm, and finally summoning her an upsized Vibrava to finish with a mighty crunch of its insectile jaws.

”Sorry, what was that Sakura-chan?” Minda echoed Karin’s question, as she reached out her shadow hand to grab the torso of the final of the three she had been fighting, physically holding it off as it burned to death.

Sakura-chan tried to get her voice over the din of battle. ”I punched one and a light bulb came out of it, and then when I crushed the light bulb, it- died! It went away!” She cupped her gloved hands around her mouth.

”A light bulb?” Karin asked.

”Yes! Look for the light bulb! It’s a weakness!”

”We seem do be doing all right.”

”Light bulb! Light bulb brain head!” Sakura called out as she ran to support Midna’s summon. She yanked one of the distracted Rummy Buddies and threw it over her shoulder and onto the ground. Out popped the Brain Crush.

”See, watch!” Sakura stomped on it, causing it to disintegrate.

Karin had slammed her palm into the chest of one of the Rummies and out the other side. As such her vision was entirely obstructed. ”Oh, I…right! Of course, the light bulb brain head. ” She said unconvincingly.

”Karin! You missed it!” Sakura held the sides of her head.

”What’s a lightbulb anyway?” Midna asked as she hurled the burning rummy she had been holding (and who’s flames she had been too focused on to see the demonstration) at the final other one of its kind still in the picture, two two falling together in a heap onto which her beleaguered mecha bear fell with ferocity, raising up on it’s hind legs before smashing its metal claws down onto them.

This kept them down for long enough for Midna to rush over and slap the palm of her shadow hand down on top of them both, squashing them flat …. Again without requiring any lightbulb smashing to end them.

”annnnd that’s the last of them” Midna noted as she casually dusted some ash off her new suit.

Exasperated, Sakura’s shoulders sank and she looked around. She raised a victorious fist over to the civilians to give them the all clear for now. ”Man…you guys.” She laughed and ran a hand down her face.

”Terribly sorry. It’s not as if I like seeing you embarrassed- well that’s not entirely true. But in this instance…”

Sakura shook her head rapidly and looked at Midna. ”Midna-san, you’ll see it. It’s like a bulb. But it’s got light inside. A lightbulb- it’s exactly what it sounds like!”

”We have more important matters to attend too, Sakura-chan.” Karin said, jogging over to the coffee shop.

”I know!” Sakura followed. ”I just hope there’s more of them so you can see it.” That came out entirely wrong! ”No, that’s terrible, that’s not what I meant!” She said, looking at the civilians in the coffee shop. ”I don’t hope there’s more of them- I just want to show- no it’s just- oh, what am I even saying?”

Midna had to stop herself from laughing at this as she tapped her dropped box and mace and sent them home for storage. Then she scooped up a shadowhandfull of fallen spirits while she walked over and tried her best to help end her friend’s tripping over herself.

”I’m sure we can find some more after we’ve escorted people to the closest bunker” she suggested, ”at which point you can show us these … glowing plant bulb things the Others have in them”

”Right. Thanks, Midna-san.” Sakura said, rubbing the back of her head and smiling apologetically.

The civilians gathered their makeshift weapons. ”Direct us to the nearest bunker, and we, The Seekers of Light, shall escort you there safely!” Karin said, standing up straight with her hands on her hip. She made sure to put extra emphasis on the group name. A sporty orc and a trendy elf exchanged looks.

Midna, steeped up, and, having exchanged bear minion for her Vibrava which she told them that ”My pet here can get some eyes in the sky and should help us steer clear of any more danger, and, well, I’d rather not leave you all with just that protecting you” she gestured to the cracked window that looked like it might shatter if breathed on. That was certainly enough to convince them to abandon their former shelter to seek out an official one. A few quick mutters and the survivors were in agreement that they’d make the run to safety.

“The nearest bunker is there-ish.” The elf said, pointing down the street.

”Good enough for me. Let’s go!” Sakura pumped her fist and led the way.

Young Justice

How long do I have to make this sheet before the RP is closed? I might make two incase Cassandra isn't a good fit...she's kinda OP, lol.

edit: at least, when i'm writing out her strengths, i feel like she is. she might not be that bad, really. idk.

Young Justice

its meeee

its me again

im back. and this time im not gonna look like a dumbass because the interest check is offical

im gonna make a cassandra cain. if thats ok.

World of Light

Sakura Level 9: 06/90
Karin Level 4: 26/40
Location: Hideout SOU
Word Count: 601
Points Gained: 1
New EXP Balance--- Sakura Level 9: 07/90 (pending)

Karin Level 4: 27/40

Karin listened intently to Goldlewis’ rundown. ”I see. So this Shinra has corrupted the democratic process. A corporation in charge of an entire nation-state. How nefarious.”

Sakura squinted at the back of Karin’s head. ”I’ve done a lot of growing since then, Sakura-chan!” The heiress reminded her friend defensively, sensing the look. As for the allies they could trust being limited, Karin nodded.

”I simply suspect we may have to dirty our hands a little if we are to locate this Guardian.” Karin said. ”Favors for favors. We’ll have to act with as much wisdom as can be afforded. We’ll have to meet these groups ourselves in order to learn as much of the truth as possible.”

Sakura shrunk a little, smiling apologetically as she was addressed by the sensible Jessica. Rubbing the back of her head, she bowed. ”R-right. Of course. Sorry, ma’am.” Overall, she was starting to feel a little clammy. Was it getting hot in here? All this morally ambiguous talk about favors and insurrectionists and dirty government was making her uncomfortable. Especially the parts about killing sick people, or people fighting on behalf of sick people. She had no idea what the truth of the situation was, so she kept mostly quiet and just cast her eyes downward. Hopefully when they went there, things would make more sense and a solution would present itself.

Peach apologized on behalf of the Seekers to Benedict, earning an eye roll from Karin. How to look weak, even in victory. Sakura did that all the time and it bugged her to no end.

Sakura gasped in frightened delight as an alien reached out of Goldlewis’s coffin and deposited an origami flower on the table. Amazing! ”Uwah! Thank you, UMA-san.” She reached out and took it, observing it closely. She’d never gotten a gift from a space alien before!

Sakura briefly looked concerned at the idea that there was a weird, invisible thing in the sky she couldn’t see. Holding the flower close, she leaned out the window and squinted extra hard. ”I don’t see anything…darn. Psychic powers are so cool.”

Karin was silent during most of the discussion about Desperado. She had no idea how relevant an institution, group, or even name was in relation to their past in their previous world. Even the idea of a place called ‘Japan’ getting blown up didn’t strike her as troubling other than the evident loss of life. Sakura sweated slightly at hearing all that, but mostly kept her cool under the same thought process. After all…she was from Japan, and didn’t get blown up! But the idea of someone being so strong they could affect the geography of a map was worrying.

As the SOU people listed off the sectors of the city, Karin wished she had someone to take notes for her. Sakura piped up. ”Oh, uh, Inkopolis doesn’t sound so bad. Maybe we could look for clues at the…sports…center?” She trailed off her subtle suggestion, realizing her bias must sound incredibly obvious. At the mention and explanation of sky rails, Sakura’s eyes lit up. ”That sounds awesome.”

Karin nodded at Goldlewis’s and Giovanna’s suggestion. ”Honestly, I’d just be happy to finally have a positive reputation upon entering a town. Hopefully that’ll prevent any more riots or panic forming against us due to misinformation spread by our enemies. Besides, fighting monsters is easy and fun, and this Ever Crisis is helping nobody. And if it is helping somebody then that somebody deserves to be crushed by us anyway.” With a flick of her royal heir hair, Karin made her vote known. Sakura nodded, standing by her friend’s side.

World of Light

Karin Level 4: 25/40
Location: Kunad Highway - Helicopter
Word Count: short
Points Gained: 1
New EXP Balance--

Karin Level 4: 26/40

”Oh ho ho ho~! Ohohoho!” Karin laughed her supremely smug and obnoxious laugh as the two demons comedy sketched in mid air thanks to her own efforts. As Pit passed her by, Karin began backing up to get a head start on her exit as well. Her laughing stopped as someone she didn’t recognize beheaded both of the demons in less than a second. ”Ohohoho-! Oh.” Decapitation wasn’t particularly amusing. Who was this stowaway that had hid until the end of the fight to emerge, anyway? It seemed like the furry one knew him. Regardless, it wasn’t a very good first impression for Karin. Such barbaric means of combat always left a bad taste in her mouth. Still, the two demons struck Karin as both dangerous and rotten, so they wouldn’t be missed.
Clearing her throat, she moved on, jumping from the rearmost truck to one in the middle of the pack.
Karin was going to follow Giovanna and Raiden’s lead, breaking through the pack by relying on skill and mobility. She wasn’t nearly as floaty as all of them, but she was strong, fast, with great reactions and quick thinking. If she did say so herself.
She leapt from truck to truck, dancing through the carnage like a leaf moving from stone to stone in the raging rapids. One truck rose above the others and aimed to crash into her- Karin calmly moved over it like she was stepping over a knee high wall, despite the container being twice her size. There she dashed to make up the ground she just lost. Finally, she used her grappling hook to pull her the rest of the way, latching onto the side of one of the leading trucks and letting it pull her as she hopped along behind it. Latching on victoriously, she climbed onto the roof and patted her very dusty pants. It was fortunate she had changed outfits- this type of adventurer’s clothing looked just as good with dust on it as it did without. There was a certain aesthetic to it that Karin enjoyed. She did, however, go about removing the dust from her perfectly maintained hair as fast as possible. Turning over her shoulder, she watched with an impassive exterior as she waited for Sakura to emerge from the carnage in that vehicle of hers. A few moments later, she did, and Karin quietly breathed out a sigh of relief.
Waiting for the trucks to carry her the rest of the way, she flipped off the truck as it passed by the helicopter and skidded to a stop.
”A private helicopter. This is the type of transport befitting a Kanzuki- and all of us Seekers.” Satisfied, she stepped aboard and waited, setting a hand on her hip. ”I offer my congratulations to all of you. I wish I could give you all a more detailed review of your performance for future improvement, but I was quite distracted by my own bout. So I will just have to improve on that aspect, myself.” She brought the back of her hand against her coils.
”Regardless, it was all more than satisfactory. Not a single casualty.” Karin was very pleased.
She turned her attention to other matters. ”Who is this sword wielding fellow that joined us so late into the fight?” She asked Tora, Poppi, and the man himself.

World of Light

Level 7: 26/70
Word Count: short
Location: The Under
Points Gained: 1
NEW EXP balance--- Level 7: 27/70

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Jesse sat back and watched as the two big bads engaged each other in fisticuffs. Bowser, and the bad guy from Zelda? Maybe.

I’ll have to get the research team to find the Bureau’s video game nerd. They should- man they are really going at it. Jesse raised her eyebrows as the two juggernauts slugged it out.

Is this a guy thing? I think this is a guy thing. Maybe it’s a villain thing? The ego of these guys is out of control. I suppose we better just hope Bowser can win the 1v1 otherwise things might get awkward.

Fortunately, he did, and Ganondorf yelled out the name of his new nemesis, much to Primrose and Jesse’s amusement.

Jesse passed Ganondorf and gave him a thumbs up. “Welcome to the party. Party as in adventuring party, not pizza party. Unfortunately.”

They were in pursuit of a mapmaker, and apparently one of the best ways to go was down a giant pit. Jesse thought of herself as a very talented spelunker- she could just kind of…float.

She did blink in surprise when Therion turned into a feline of unusual size. “Cool. Watch out for yarnballs.” She joked lightly. Both Therion and Nadia were intent on getting down there first, and Jesse figured she might as well join them due to her gravity proof technique.

“I might as well come too. I’ll meet you at the bottom, I guess.” Jesse said, stepping off the ledge and into open air, where she began to descend downwards. Motes of light trailed behind her, and a few pebbles and rocks as well, carried with her Levitation. Jesse cast her eyes downwards, gun out, watching out for any bigger bugs than the harmless looking, mostly cute flies bumbling around.

At some point during her descent, Miss Fortune encountered some misfortune. Jesse glanced up and saw her falling, loudly stating her definitely unbiased opinion about the Under. Clicking her tongue against her teeth, the Director rushed into action. Dropping Levitation, she picked it up at the last moment to prevent her fall. Landing, called out “Elastic Ooze!” and her ever faithful lunatic alchemist heeded her command, throwing a bottle of the green stuff into the air. Jesse caught it with Launch, and fired it with precision at where she thought Nadia might land.

It wasn’t terribly big, but it was a sizable enough target. If Nadia landed on it, she would bounce into the air, with enough time to readjust and land on her feet. Or, anywhere that wasn’t her neck.

Once Nadia and Therion were both down safe, Jesse gave the cat Therion an unimpressed look at his smugness. “Nice, Therion.” She said.

She glanced at Nadia. “You alright? Guess it’s true about cats always landing on their feet.” Jesse said. Whether or not this comment was entirely genuine was up to Nadia’s performance in the fall.

“You’ve probably heard that one before. Probably said it even more. Where the hell are we, anyways?” Jesse asked, glancing around for this mythical cartographer.

World of Light

Sakura Level 9: 06/90
Karin Level 4: 24/40
Location: Kunad Highway
Word Count: 640
Points Gained: 1
New EXP Balance--- Sakura Level 9: 06/90 (pending)

Karin Level 4: 25/40

Karin narrowed her eyes as Morax's health was restored before her. She readjusted back into her defensive kneel. ”Hmph. Very well. Perhaps you can prove yourself worthy of my-”

Morax began spamming fireballs.

Karin scowled. ”What is this, bronze league?”

He didn’t even change up his timing. Fire, fire, and more fire. A deluge of fire. Useful, if he was looking to scorch a crowd of fleeing peasants! Such an ignoble tyrant. That was what Karin learned. There was on better way to learn about someone than by fighting them.

For the first few blasts she took a single step forward and then blocked, the fire burning around her, thick, blue, dull impacts diverting the fire around her. It was hot, certainly uncomfortable. If he kept this up uninterrupted for forty five more seconds, she’d crumble. He didn’t have forty five seconds. And it’d only ever take her one.

Once she found the pattern, Karin made her move. Dash, sidestep, leap… ”Seppo!” She used her signature dash in the split second between bursts of fire. She dropped into another slide, her hand supporting her as she went feet first…in between Morax’s legs, and off the edge of the truck. She wasn’t going to risk triggering that Counter again- she was going to finish this now.

There she turned and gripped the side with one hand. With the other, she quickly fired a grapple around his torso, the clamp attaching. Crossing one arm over the other, she aimed at Belphegor. ”Be useful for once why don’t you?” She spat at Morax.

Morax turned around, but she had already pulled herself off the edge and jumped over him, causing his purple blast to miss. All he saw was Karin’s boots leaving his peripheral vision.

She landed elegantly behind him. So predictable was his attack pattern that she had time to briefly observe the battlefield- the Belphegor demon on his porcelain throne had returned, causing trouble for her allies. After Trumpeter unleashed its Despair, Karin was unaffected, only getting a passing understanding of the kind of mental anguish it wanted to afflict on her and her allies. Poppi was not so fortunate, and Belphegor was going to take advantage.

As it unleashed its deluge of ice, Karin aimed a grapple right at his center of mass, linking the two demons together. The line between them retracted, yanking them together. Both would clash bodily in mid air and be linked together- and breaking the link would leave Morax to be cast to the desert road rushing by underneath. If that didn’t come to pass, it’d make them both a wide target for ranged allies to target. Either way she would be assisting her teammates and ridding them of Morax.

Karin left herself vulnerable to do this, and received a blast of physical magic from Morax for her trouble. Grunting, she was knocked backward to the far end of the truck but rolled back onto her feet. She then blocked the ice attack, skidding to the back of the truck and scraping against her arms. More chip damage. She cast her eyes to the oncoming herd of…wild trucks?

”Oh, my.” Karin said. Their new ally, who from what Karin had seen, had been fighting rather valiantly, had organized their extraction. ”We must make haste, Seekers!” She called out.

Karin was nothing if not stubborn, however, and would be among the last to retreat. Lacking much ranged capability, she had little means to support her allies once the retreat began. And with her grapple gun giving her high mobility, such a decision only made sense. It was also a matter of pride- a Kanzuki never flees from a battle. This would be her covering a withdrawal. Getting into a defensive stance, she staked her claim on the rearmost truck and prepared for her next move, whatever that may be.

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i was hoping anslem would be the one throwing or smashing the barrel

otherwise we're just gonna be standing around with flaming torches like idiots

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Aya flinched as the frog ribbited loudly. She had assumed he had a frog brain as well, and well, there was nothing to prove her otherwise yet anyway. Being right there as he hopped out of the bowl, the ambitious rogue spotted the commander's medal at the bottom of the bowl. "Why, for me? Thank you, Commander!" She said cheerily, snatching the shiny object up in a heartbeat. She slipped it into her pouch.

When she heard the zombies, Aya popped up into a standing position. "Son of a- quick, run!" Before she booked for the door, she span on her heel. "No, our money! Fight! Fight for the money!"

Her eyes flittered around the room in an instant. As they shambled up the stairs, she went into action. "I've drunk enough- get the wine on them!" She ordered one of the strapping men in the room. Then she scrambled to the campfire and lifted a burning branch from it, holding it by the non-flaming end. As soon as the wine was on the zombies she'd drop the flame on the alcohol and set them all on fire.