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Baybridge: Halcyon Days [Superpowers/Semi-Sandbox]

@Zahir Look, I don't want to sugarcoat, but off that bat I'm picking up a few issues with Tajik. I suspect english isn't your first language, right? And I won't hold that against you, but first I'm going to address the description - 'Tajik is very light skinned beautiful cream coloured skin with light, light greyish brown doe eyes. He has facial hair going all the way up to the sideburns of his hair connecting his beautiful black facial hair and head hair together' - it doesn't read very well and comes across as a bit generic, especially with 'Along with the broad shoulders and v-line body shape he carries he was born with fantastic genetics for staying skinny. As he can put on weight though it's unlike others. He doesn't have to worry about his size very much. Not a top priority.'

And for the personality section - it doesn't really tell us much about the character and again reads more like a generic sheet. As said before. Next, in regards to the 'Will be explained/shown in IC' you've added for motives/backstory: If there's motivations or elements to your character's backstory that you don't want to have out in the open, that's understandable but in that case we'd appreciate if you sent us that info via PM.

Furthermore, 'Light/Shadow Manipulation' falls under the list of restricted abilities (Darkness Manipulation, if you're looking for specifics). That's not to say that it isn't allowed, but as said before it's not something that we want in the hands of people without reassurance that there'll be some restraint behind them. 'Has hardly any drawbacks with light' isn't really what we're looking for here when we're looking for weaknesses and his limitations aren't really that well explained.

Overall it looks pretty barebones to me and far too much of a cliché.

Mass Effect: Borealis

Is Andromeda any good? I've heard enough people complain about the facial animations but, ignoring that, is it enjoyable in terms of story and gameplay?

Baybridge: Halcyon Days [Superpowers/Semi-Sandbox]

@Utrax Works for me.

Baybridge: Halcyon Days [Superpowers/Semi-Sandbox]

Reed Taylor

Basic Information

Name:

Reed Taylor

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

Lazarus (Callsign)

Gender:

Male

Age:

36

Height:

5'10ft

Weight:

180lbs

Home District:

Greencrest Heights

Appearance

Hair Color:

Black

Eye Color:

Brown

Ethnicity:

African-American

Physical Appearance:

Standing at 5’10 and still in good health and fitness as a result of his career choice, Reed is still a man in his prime and arguably not too hard on the eyes - age hasn't particularly marked him, though one could attribute this to his regenerative abilities. His eyes are a lighter shade of brown whilst his face is relatively smooth and clean-shaven, kept free from stubble whilst his head is cropped fairly short. Along his left forearm is a twisted scar from where it was bitten by one of the Devil's creatures and never fully healed.

Attire:

Whilst Reed is known to wear the standard DOVE uniform when the occasion necessitates it (which is almost round the clock given his role as Director) when the option is available he'll go for the less conspicuous plain-clothes approach, wearing a shirt with jeans or cargo pants along with a jacket on occasion and keeping his sidearm in a concealed holster.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

Strong-willed and brimming with determination, Reed was the kind of man with a motivated drive for seeing things through, almost to a fault given how stubborn he could be. However, several years on the force, his experiences and losses in Verthaven and his time with DOVE have only served to dispel the naiveté and replace it with a realistic sense of how the world actually works, along with giving him some good instincts. That doesn't mean he lacks the same drive, rather he just understands there's a way about doing it and whilst he still maintains a relatively calm, professional exterior there's a sense of passion and drive just beneath the surface.

One of the main reasons he first joined up with the force was to follow in the footsteps of his uncle and losing him has only cemented his idea of doing the right thing, hence why he carried on with DOVE to honour his name. Unlike his brother, Reed's probably more the pacifist of the two and is generally inclined towards talking his way through a situation and using those good instincts of his to avoid causing trouble. It helps being a DOVE, but it's also something that comes naturally to him.

An unexpected rise through the ranks to the position of Director has led to him taking on a more hardened approach to things - he's still the same man deep down inside as he was before, but leadership and the responsibilities that accompany it have brought a weight down upon him, even though he might willingly bear it.

Having spent his early childhood and lost a mother to alcohol abuse, he's also sympathetic to the plight of the poorer lower classes and metahumans subjected to abuse and is disgusted at the prospect of the local gangs taking advantage of either, to the point he's willing to go out of his way to put an end to it. Likewise he doesn't take kindly to signs of corruption or misconduct in either DOVE, RAVEN or the BPD, having worked his own ass off to get where he is and still wanting to help dispel the public mistrust of law enforcement and metahuman regulation agencies - and part of his time as Director has been focused towards stamping this out.

The other thing that's liable to piss him off is bringing up his family or friends and badmouthing any of them - particularly his brother or late uncle. Or worse - bringing harm to any of these friends and family, or the agents under his watch.

Hobbies/Interests:

Like his brother and uncle before him, Reed doesn't mind heading out onto the range every once in a while, but his duties tend to keep him from that area these days. When he's not busy, good TV and classic films such as The Terminator or Predator are something he can quite gladly appreciate. On another note, he's also kept a lot of his uncle's film memorabilia and, in some ways, has gained a fondness for collecting it, as anyone who has visited his office can account.

Skills/Talents:

Time on the VPD and with DOVE have done more than their fair share of good for Reed. He's picked up a fair amount of skills in his time both through training and personal experience. For one, he’s quite analytical and decisive when push comes to shove and has been given a degree of wisdom from his time on the beat and with DOVE and he's not a half-bad shot either, and knows his way around most firearms. Practice on the range outside of work has only served to cultivate this. He’s also pretty damned athletic (even after taking on the mantle of Director) and knows how to take care of himself in a fight- a necessary skill for a man who’s job in the past had required him to be able to apprehend fleeing and potentially dangerous suspects whilst staying by the book, so to speak. He still speaks a little Spanish though, again, his pronunciation is a little off and he's probably rustier than ever by now.

Goals/Motivation

Reed has a vested interest in doing some good for both the Metahuman and Non-Meta communities, it's one of the reasons why he first joined DOVE to begin with (that, and his being out of a job). Becoming Director has allowed him to begin the steps towards this goal.

History/Bio:

Verthaven

Born towards the end of the ‘80s on Eagle-Rock Row, Reed was the youngest child of two kids born into crime and poverty to a single parent, surrounded by drugs, violence and the social tensions of the time. From early childhood, their mother quickly relied on a string of deadbeat boyfriends, minimum wage jobs and alcohol to pull the three of them through life and it took its toll on her from an early stage, often forcing her elder brother to step in to assist.

Whilst his older brother, Quentin got caught up with the local street gangs working the corners, Reed was left at home with an alcoholic mother who only seemed to be aware of his existence half of the time. Quentin did as best as a kid his age could yet all the same Reed’s early childhood was one devoid of any real parental figures. It was only after his mother’s death from alcohol poisoning that the closest thing to a parental figure he’d ever had showed up: his Uncle Cassius, his mother’s elder brother.

Having been aware of their situation for some time and having already made preparations to step in, Cassius took both of the Taylor brothers in as his own children and ensured that they’d never have to face the lifestyle he’d pulled them out of ever again. Years passed by and Reed grew closer to his uncle, having never had a stable parental figure to follow whilst Quentin, being older, continued to do his own thing in order to, in his own words, “be his own man”. It would, for some time, drive a wedge between the two.

Reed wanted to follow in the footsteps of the only father-figure he’d ever had and eventually wound up in the police academy, wanting to be a cop. Persistent as anyone and hoping he might make a difference in addition to doing right by his uncle, he pushed on through his training and joined up with the VPD.

Wedging his foot in the door for the beginning of a successful career, Reed flourished on the beat and worked his way through things until finally, hoping to follow in his uncle’s footsteps, he earned a promotion to a position in the VPD's detective bureau as an Investigator, which was going well up until a surge in Metahuman activity sweeped across the city.

Things escalated as NEST began its war against the Hands of Science, yet through this there was something good that transpired - a reconciliation between Reed and his elder brother, now a NEST agent. But things would still get worse, culminating in the emergence of the Devil of Verthaven. Reed himself was injured during this occurrence, his arm suffering a nasty bite wound from one of her creatures that would only be mitigated by the efforts of the late Trevor Obott.

A threat greater than anything Reed could have expected as a cop, both he and his uncle were among the remaining VPD cops who joined up with NEST when the city was isolated and fought boldly in the effort to destroy her. It paid off, but that was not the end of the Verthaven Disaster. Not quite yet.

In a surprise attack, the Changelings (whom had previously formed a temporary truce with NEST to fight the Devil) quickly turned on NEST, killing an agent - and then Cass. Reed was not present at the time, but soon learned over the comms - and promptly responded by ramming an armoured VPD truck into one of the Changelings and finishing them off with a shot to the head.

The battle between NEST and the Changelings came to its climax - and the remaining forces of NEST emerged, bloodied and bruised, the city a ruin to be abandoned, but still victorious, for whatever it was worth. Having lost his uncle, who had been more like a father to him than anything else and now out of a job, Reed contemplated his future until Quentin revealed that he'd pulled a few strings and found him a place in the agency that would go on to succeed NEST.

Skeptical, Reed cited his lack of powers - to which Quentin pointed out that he'd already held his own before, then offered him the chance to become a Metahuman if he felt he couldn't keep up. Hesitant, Reed made his decision - taking on and safeguarding the abilities that once belonged to Luis, leader of the Changelings.

Finally they buried their uncle together - before Reed looked towards the future with optimism.

Post-Verthaven

In the immediate aftermath of NEST's dissolution, Reed was one of the first agents to join up with DOVE - one of its two successor agencies that would deal with the social and legal aspects of the metahuman community. Transferred to Baybridge, Reed pushed on through his training and within a few years was an agent out on the streets, carrying out field work.

In many ways, it had been a lot like his days on the beat and as an investigator - except now he was dealing with metahumans and situations which could often be just as complex, if not moreso than those that he'd seen back in Verthaven. But he stuck with it, gained a knack for it and before long came to love and take pride in his work just as much, if not even more than he had during his days as a cop and over time, he became a known figure, not least because he developed a rapport with officers of the Baybridge Police Department.

Things would always stir up, however, and the emergence of another destructive metahuman in Prague would serve only to kick the hornet's nest that was the malcontents of the Pure, the Allegiance and countless others who'd served only to cause trouble in Baybridge, which now held the highest concentration of metahumans on the West Coast in the wake of the Verthaven Disaster. Most alarming, Reed found, was the presence of what seemed to be a serial killer in their midst - but other events overshadowed this, preventing him and his colleagues from getting to the bottom of the case.

Turmoil in Baybridge

Yet there wasn't all bad in this. Word travelled quick that his brother was being reassigned to Baybridge and Reed was more than happy to accomodate a reunion, only things would put them working back to back as riots and extremist sentiment tore the city apart at the seams. During what became known as the Overload Incidents, Reed found himself caught up numerous times - first during a blizzard incurred by a metahuman with ice-based abilities and later when caught up in a storm brought about by an overloaded Haruka Takashiro - during which he saved Lijuan Zhao (the sister of an old friend and colleague) from drowning by pulling the girl back to shore.

Shortly after this came the capture of the Mannequin, the last member of the Changeling Unit that had caused Reed and his brother so much pain, then far worse - the exposure of the world-spanning cabal known to those aware of its existence as the Founding Family, obsessed with genetics and responsible for the mass manipulation of politics and society on a global scale, a group responsible for the events that transpired in Verthaven, NEST, the shield of light and all. Much like his brother, Reed felt disgust at the knowledge which they had gained, but the ex-cop turned this same disgust and anger into a determination to bring those involved to justice, as predictable as it may have sounded.

It was during this time that Reed, much like Quentin, crossed paths with the Intimidation Unit (taking a few bullets in the process) and, later on, its commander, the Black Hound. During a hostage situation at the mall, Reed volunteered to speak with the Hound to try and ascertain the assassin's motives and demands, using the brief parley as an opportunity to stall for time and identify any weaknesses in the paramilitary unit's defences. Later during that same situation, when an attempt was made to rescue the hostages through force (the Hound's demands of releasing prisoners in DOVE and RAVEN's custody having been deemed unacceptable) Reed assisted yet again in helping usher the liberated prisoners to safety, but found himself caught up in the middle of the fire yet again as the assassin returned to unleash havok among the gathered agents, unloading on them with overwhelming firepower - Reed's body was mangled in the crossfire, yet it was Quentin who turned out worst for wear after recklessly drawing the Hound into a one-on-one fight which only barely came to a stalemate, leaving the veteran RAVEN with life-threatening injuries.

Whilst his brother was left in a hospital bed to recover, Reed soon forced himself back onto the streets gain, his own injuries healed as a consequence of his regenerative abilities. This proved beneficial when the DOVE agent was given a plain-clothes assignment at a debate between the Savior Foundation and the Metahuman International Party (MIP), as yet another group of assassins were deployed with the intention of disrupting the event (which had been given the go-ahead despite existing security concerns). Acting fast, Reed was able to narrowly rescue the Savior Foundation's representative at the debate, yet there were others at the debate who weren't so lucky, including one of the MIP representatives due to speak at the debate.

Worse still, they'd taken an old friend - Cindy Keagan.

Only shortly after, Reed found what he thought was an explanation for this when the Founding Family presented Cindy on live television in a live broadcast to various local stations and provided RAVEN with an ultimatum - hand over three prisoners that were in the organisation's custody (Dr. Cross, Ignatius and the Mannequin, all with ties to the Changelings and the Hands of Science) or a terrible wrath would be unleashed upon the city within five days.

It was a bold move by any standard by that act alone, but the Founders immediately followed this up with another show of force: with the resources at their disposal, they wrought havoc upon the city's power infrastructure through the use of digital sabotage, leaving large swathes of the city without power, save for areas and buildings relying on their own independent power sources. Widespread panic ensued in the city and the combined forces of RAVEN, DOVE and the Baybridge Police Department were stretched thin as they acted to try and quell the chaos, Reed contributing as much as he could through the use of a few of the contacts he'd established with the BPD.

In what seemed to be lighter news, Cindy soon reappeared in the custody of DOVE and RAVEN, having apparently escaped from captivity, yet almost immediately after came the trojan horse leashed upon the two organisations. Descending upon the HQ building were a small fleet of helicopters and armoured trucks, both bearing the uniform and insignia of the local police department, only... they weren't. Approaching under the guise of offering reinforcements, the so-called SWAT units sprang the trojan horse once their 'counterparts' were within range, opening fire and enacting a massacre of DOVE, RAVEN and civilian personnel alike - few were spared in the onslaught.

It didn't take long for Reed or his colleagues to realise what was going on and, needing to act fast, they sprang for the armoury, took what equipment they could and desperately moved across the building, hoping to defend it from the paramilitaries of the Intimidation Unit and the assassins in their midst, who intended to free the prisoners held in RAVEN's custody. Yet, after Meifeng Zhao was injured during the attack, Reed found himself forced to flee the fighting, if only to carry her to safety - leaving him one of the few DOVE agents left unscathed by the attack and among the few capable of co-ordinating the shattered remains of the organisation's local resources in the wake of the attack.

Co-ordinating with an equally battered but nontheless undettered RAVEN force, which found itself under the command of his colleagues (as well as his brother, who had pulled himself from a hospital bed), Reed soon learned of the machine that the Founding Family intended to use to 'evolve' the entire species, along with the so-called 'Beast' intended to draw RAVEN's focus and distract them from the former. Having lost so many colleagues (including Cindy, who had disappeared yet again under suspicious circumstances) Reed found himself determined to contribute in the fight against the Founders however he could - including pulling in assistance from the BPD and ensuring as minimal effect on the city as possible, demonstrating leadership where others sought it.

While RAVEN focused on destroying the Beast, then the Founders' machine, Reed (now offered support from Maximilian Cornell) led a small team to liberate the remaining captives still held in their faciliities - discovering Cindy in the process and learning that she had, in fact, been held under the control of the Founding Family due to the horrific results of their forays into mind control.

Eventually, this form of mind control was undone, yet the same could not be said of the psychological damage that had been done to her - Reed didn't even get the opportunity to say his farewells before Cindy left town, dropping off the grid in what seemed to be a guilt-induced act of self-isolation, a punishment for the colleagues and friends she had attacked or even killed, as had been the case with Reed. This weighed upon him, yet as the dust cleared he found his attentions forced to turn elsewhere.

In a move that was considered unorthodox, the Chairwoman of DOVE, Deborah Javaunt made an offer to Reed, one that would have involved him taking on the mantle of Director for DOVE within the Baybridge area. Intially wrought with self-doubt, Reed was eventually convinced to take up the woman's offer after encouragement from those close to him.

Leadership

Though Reed had many ideas and opinions which he hoped to (and in some cases did) enact, as Director he found that with leadership came the weight and responsibility that forced him to exhibit some degree of restraint. Growing tensions in the wake of the Founding Family's exposure (along with the political and social repercussions that came with them) gave way to opportunists and hardliners on both sides of the political spectrum, forcing Reed to carefuly manoeuvre Baybridge's branch of DOVE to avoid setting off any metaphoric landmines, yet despite this he continued in persistence with the hopes of laying the groundwork for a future that many of his friends and colleagues would never see.

Relationships

Family:

Hider

Helena Taylor (Deceased) - Mother

Still a teenager when she gave birth to her firstborn, Helena Taylor was a sad tale to speak of. Years of poverty and deadbeat boyfriends led to the alcoholism which would go on to kill her, leaving behind two sons. Whilst his brother regards her fondly, Reed barely remembers her.

Quentin Taylor - Half-brother

One of RAVEN's founding agents, and Reed's elder brother. The history between them is a long and storied one, not entirely pleasant either, but since the loss of their uncle they've been on closer terms than ever before.

Cassius Taylor (Deceased) - Maternal Uncle

A father figure to his nephews, Cass was a detective with the VPD who wound up taking in both of his sister's sons when she died and raising them like his own. Of the two, Reed followed in his uncle's footsteps whilst Quentin went on his own troubled path in life and it was through Cass' example that Reed went on to become a detective himself. Sadly, Cass was murdered in the final hours of the Verthaven disaster by Heartbreaker, one of the Changeling Unit. However, unlike his brother, Reed has found himself able to mourn his death and move on in life.

Dynamics:

Hider

| Quentin Taylor |

| Good | Half-brother | "Always the fighter, Quent. Don't give up." |

Reed's older brother and one who helped raise him with their mother was incapable of doing so, the two grew somewhat distant as they became older - particularly when Reed joined up with the VPD whilst Quentin went down his own troubled path and got hooked up with the wrong kind of crowd. It was only as a consequence of the events leading up to and during the Verthaven Disaster that the two reconciled, a close relationship reformed and cemented by the death of their uncle. They still keep in touch as often as one might expect, but the differences in their work has sometimes proven a barrier to this.

| Meifeng Zhao |

| Good | RAVEN/Friend | "Glad to know she's been taking care of Quent for me, she's a tough one." |

Again, Meifeng is one of the few people that Reed personally knew during the Verthaven Disaster - and one who saved both his, his brother and his uncle's lives on quite a few occasions. This, combined with their shared sense of loss and survival, has left him with a degree of respect fof the woman.

| Shizuka Takashiro |

| Good | RAVEN/Friend | "He's come a long way. Good thing he's with us." |

Both of them having saved one another at one point during the Verthaven Disaster, Reed regards Shizuka as someone who's come a long way from the abrasive kid he was back in Verthaven. They're on good terms, and Reed's glad to have him at his back.

| Haruka Takashiro |

| Good | Friend | "Good guy, come a long way, just like his brother." |

Having known one another since Verthaven, Reed's gained a respect for Haru, though they don't speak often

| Jennifer Caspin |

| Good | Friend | "She's alive... feels like I'm talking to a ghost. Glad to know it wasn't for nothing." |

Having nearly died to protect Jen and witnessed the girl pulled to her 'death' in Verthaven, seeing her again has invoked some strange feelings in Reed, especially with Cass gone. Nonetheless, he's glad to see her back - and to know that someone made it out of Verthaven alive.

Abilities

Power Class:

Super System

Powers:

Hemokinesis.

A power which once belonged to Luis of the Changeling Unit, Reed was given the ability by his brother as a means of safeguarding him, in addition to ensuring that it would remain in trusted hands. Like Luis, Reed is capable of manipulating blood when he comes into physical contact with it, able to move it around, clot it or otherwise absorb it into his body through his skin. In fact, Reed can be empowered by absorbing blood, which bolsters his stamina and strength when he does so as well as speeding up his regenerative process.

Super-Regenerative System.

Much alike the man who once held them, Reed's regenerative abilities allow him to survive wounds that would kill any other man and even recover from them entirely. Broken bones knit back together at an accelerated rate, gunshot wounds and lacerations quickly stop bleeding and seal up before any major damage can be done and toxins which would cause havok within a normal person's body are filtered out. Not just that, but it seems that this ability has effectively put the brakes on Reed's aging process as it did for Luis, leaving him with the physical appearance and fitness of a man in his late twenties.

Limits:

Luis possessed the single, strongest regenerative factor among all Metahumans, Reed, unfortunately, only has a fraction of that strength as a consequence of it being transferred to him by his brother. Where the Spaniard could have survived and even functioned when most of his body was subjected to severe trauma, Reed does not have this liberty. Destructive injuries can and will render him unconscious and unlike Luis, who had over two centuries' worth of experience and pain tolerance built up, Reed has had at most under a decade of holding this ability. Expecting him to perform the same feats as the man would be a fool's errand.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

Ashing out is one big weakness of this ability, as demonstrated by its original holder. Being subjected to incredible physiological strain and numerous mortal injuries at the same time will put Reed at serious risk of ashing out, especially if he doesn't give himself an opportunity to rest or otherwise replenish himself. Reed is also extra susceptible to poisons, diseases, and chemicals that are transmitted by blood. Taking in a little bit of this toxic blood can definitely stun Reed.

Other:

• Since taking on the mantle of Director, Reed has (for his own safety) been required to move from his old apartment into more secure accomodation, though his commute from home to work remains a relatively short one thanks to him remaining in Greencrest Heights.
• As Director, Reed is entitled to requisition a driver to chauffeur him around the city but had a tendency towards driving his own car when possible.
• Reed owns a six year old ginger tabby, affectionately named 'Cassie'.

Quentin Taylor

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Basic Information

Name:

Quentin Taylor

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

Counterpoint (His callsign)

Gender:

Male

Age:

40

Height:

5'11ft

Weight:

192lbs

Home District:

Greencrest Heights

Appearance

Hair Color:

Black

Eye Color:

Brown

Ethnicity:

African-American

Physical Appearance:

Now at fourty years of age, Quentin's face has aged since his time in Verthaven, yet he's still retained those sharp eyes of his and has still for the most part kept the short, neatly trimmed beard to match his equally short-cropped hair. From a glance, it's clear he's still in relatively good health and fitness, standing at 5'11 and carrying an imposing figure, (though it could be argued that the regenerative factor he's picked up has also done him some good) but at the same time, his age is now starting to show. Just above his left eye is a scar cutting straight through his eyebrow whilst along his abdominal region runs another nasty scar from the same attack.

Attire:

Whilst on-duty, Quentin generally tends towards wearing RAVEN's standard issue combat armor, a black mesh material fitted kevlar along with the appropriate load carrying vest. As expected, it's a design intended to provide a (limited) defense against attack from rogue metahumans alongside being able to withstand a couple of rounds. Accompanying this is a helmet, with the opportunity to mount a set of goggles or a gas mask against it. Off-duty, he'll generally stick to casual clothing - a jacket, shirt and cargo pants or something similar - to catch him wearing a suit is a rare sight indeed.

He also wears gloves to prevent his power from inadvertently kicking in.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

The events in Verthaven and the years that have passed since then have left Quentin, in many ways, a different man. Nobler in some ways, others less so.

To strangers, he might come across as outwardly calm or collected - keeping a level head in tight situations where others might snap or otherwise lose their cool. It's not entirely an image - Quentin has learned from the years with RAVEN to keep it steady under pressure, yet those who know him well enough or even spend some time around him get to realise there's more than that to him.

Service with RAVEN has given him a certain commanding tone in his voice, or at least a sense of authority when the situation calls for it. Sarcasm and snappy remarks are still a coping mechanism for him, a means of defusing or otherwise mitigating shitty situations and likewise he'll crack a joke with people if it's appropriate, but he also knows when to buckle down, shut up and go about getting things done - which others might mistake for him being cool when in fact he just knows from experience that people who crack jokes at the wrong time don't tend to last.

Knowing that he was partially responsible for the horrific experiments perpetrated by the Hands of Science in Verthaven have left him with a permanent degree of guilt that he's never been able to shake off, and at the same time has left him with an overall disgust towards those who experiment on or otherwise abuse Metahumans or their powers and in turn, given him a lot of motivation when conducting ops against them for RAVEN. Age still hasn't quite mellowed him, but his senior role in RAVEN has somewhat forced him to keep his head together for the sake of his colleagues.

And likewise he's loyal to those he considers friends or family, especially those who've done the same for him and is more than willing to throw himself into the breach if it means backing them up. Earning this trust can be a little difficult at first, but once it's earned it's generally there to stay. In fact, it's a point of regret and frustration that he wasn't able to prevent the deaths of Sonya Mayfield and his uncle and it shows in his overall disdain for the matter when the topic is brought up - likewise is a manifestation of his survivor's guilt for the later deaths of his colleagues during the attacks on RAVEN and DOVE by the Intimidation Unit and the loss of Lihua Zhao, the latter of whom was elsewhere whilst killed in action.

This in turn means that his overall hatred for the Hands of Science and anything associated with them has remained a solid facet of his personality over the years. It's given him something to vent his frustrations on - and not in the healthiest way, either - where others have toned things down. Whilst it's helped keep him going, it's also something which has threatened to consume him at times - and it's not as if this point hasn't been brought up with him before. Being stubborn doesn't help.

His temper is usually cool and likewise, it can take a lot to cause him to blow up in anger - Quentin's fury is typically a patient, collected form and when it's anything but that, it's a point that something has really pissed him off.

He also still holds a disdain for narcotics and alcohol abuse, courtesy of his childhood years, but has a degree of sympathy for those affected by it and has himself found the lure of the bottle to be a tempting one in darker hours.

Hobbies/Interests:

In the years since Verthaven, Quentin's picked up more of a fondness for firearms and spends a significant amount of time down at the range killing time. Otherwise, he's found himself more tempted by the lure of the bottle, though childhood memories of his mother's rampant alcholism stop him from going off the deep end.

Skills/Talents:

Quentin’s experiences on the streets have left him with a degree of wisdom, wit and pragmatism that once well to assist him in his self-made ‘business’. On the same streets and during his time working with the unsavoury elements of Verthaven, he picked up a degree of experience in the use of small arms that he continued to develop after joining NEST and, later on, RAVEN. Furthermore, a decade's worth of training and experience have bestowed upon him the tactical knowlege and experience that one would expect of a senior agent within the organisation.

Goals/Motivation

Ensuring that anyone with the same kind of mindset as the Hands of Science, the Changelings or the Founding Family put down, Quentin's personal vendetta has never entirely settled down. Unlike others, he's found himself unable to let go and finds motivation in preventing what happened in Verthaven and to a lesser extent, Baybridge, from reoccurring.

History/Bio:

Verthaven

Born in the early ‘80s on Eagle-Rock Row, Quentin and his little brother Reed were yet another story of kids born into crime and poverty to a single parent, surrounded by drugs, violence and the social tensions of the time. From early childhood, their mother quickly relied on a string of deadbeat boyfriends, minimum wage jobs and alcohol to pull the three of them through life and it took its toll on her from an early stage, often forcing her elder brother to step in to assist.
By the time he was ten years old, Quentin found himself involved with the local gangs and wound up working on street corners as another peddler for some smalltime dealer in hopes of earning a little cash for his family. It was through this, incidentally, that he wound up discovering his powers - what would’ve normally be an exchange of packages with a metahuman enforcer for the gang led to him unintentionally removing the man’s ability to generate and manipulate fire and setting alight the money moments later. As it happens, it was through this that he found himself another source of income for the family; exchanging and selling powers and getting a cut from the gang for his involvement.

For a while, things seemed to go well, all things considered. The cut he earned from the gang, whilst nowhere near the amount kicked up to his bosses, allowed him to pay off the family bills yet there was no mistake that he may as well have been their property and not the other way around. A few times he found himself at risk as a result of the people he worked for and by his teenage years he’d learned how to use a gun. In fact, if tragedy hadn’t struck Quentin’s life sooner then circumstances might not have turned out as well.

One day returning home, Quentin found his mother passed out on the couch with yet another empty bottle of liquor nearby. Attempts to rouse her with words failed, so instead he left her alone, only to find her in the same state when he woke up in the same morning, albeit this time she’d turned pale and felt cold to the touch. The coroner’s report indicated that she’d died of alcohol poisoning, something of little surprise given the fact she’d been unable to kick the habit for a long time.

Lacking any other family, Quentin and his little brother wound up living in the care of their Uncle Cassius, a detective in the Verthaven Police Department and a good man who’d often done as best as he could to keep his sister on track. Under his uncle’s care, Quentin was able to cut off ties to his old gang (who, by this point had become increasingly demanding) with the aid of this uncle’s connections to the VPD and opted to push on through school so he didn’t end up like his mother. That said, the experience had taught him a couple things.

While his brother opted to one day become a cop like their uncle, Quentin had something else in mind. Perhaps it was the idea of avoiding the same poverty that had cost him his childhood, or perhaps it was the concept of having control over his life for once. Whatever the case, he wound up going on his own path in life - becoming involved with quite a few rather unsavoury characters. Whilst by no means a hustler or a gangbanger, he spent a couple of years working 'security' for a few characters in Verthaven's criminal underworld, running the front door at nightclubs and other businesses. Eventually, it grew into something else - actually working in the security sector, and then Quentin soon realised that there was a demand for someone willing to trade and sell powers, creating metahumans for big money.

With time, Quentin built up his little side-business via the aid of a contact from his early security days and before long, had a nice sum of cash saved away. Soon, he was able to afford life in relative comfort, moving into a decent condo over in the upper-class Knightdale Rows district, with enough income to keep himself afloat. Relations with his family, however, were another story - particularly between him and his younger brother, Reed.

Topping it off, he eventually wound up falling afoul of the Hands of Science, who kidnapped him and forced him to participate in their experiments using his family as leverage. The experience deeply affected him, leaving him traumatised and scarred by his inability to forget what he'd been forced to do for the Hands - and it was only with the assistance of one Meifeng Zhao and NEST that he finally escaped during a raid on the lab.

Of course, this exposed him as a metahuman - though Quentin was able to keep his criminal past concealed. Given the choice by Lihua Zhao of either joining up with NEST or facing a far less desirable alternative, Quentin took the former option - joining their ranks as an agent. Initially the prospect of becoming one of 'those' types was daunting, yet as time passed Quentin slowly warmed to the role and grew to regret his past, gaining a genuine interest in doing some good with NEST beyond enacting vengeance against the Hands of Science. Before long, he wound up reconciling with his brother and warming back up to his uncle, yet events transpired against them.

For one, the Changeling Unit came to town, led by the likes of Luis and Heartbreaker, the latter of which Quentin already despised as a result of her involvement in kidnapping him. Like the Hands of Science, Quentin fought them with a certain fury that was only rivalled by Lihua - who had her own personal reasons for hating them. And then, came an even greater foe.

The Devil of Verthaven was a metahuman greater than anything that NEST had ever faced, matched only by the resources of the Hands of Science and the ferocity of the Changeling Unit. She was a godlike metahuman, one that devastated the city in her wake and it was only through the combined might of NEST (along with several other unsavoury alliances) that she was finally brought down, at great cost. Quentin's family was not left unscathed, as his brother was injured (though later volunteering in the fight against her) and, in the confusion following her defeat, his Uncle Cass (along with a good friend) were killed by one of the Changelings in the confusion.

In the battle that followed, Quentin finally avenged their deaths, attacking Luis head-on (stealing his ability in the process) and killing the one responsible, Heartbreaker - yet it marked the start of a new chapter in his life as the experience permanently hardened him. With Verthaven considered a ruin and NEST facing its end, Quentin set aside the thousands he'd accumulated through his past selfishness and passed the money onto the comrades who'd fought alongside him, ensured that his brother would find a place in the successor to NEST by offering him Luis' abilities (safeguarding them at the same time) and buried their uncle. The future was uncertain, but he stepped into it nontheless.

Post-Verthaven

It was in the aftermath of the Verthaven Disaster that Quentin assisted in founding one of the successor organisations to NEST, known as RAVEN - named aptly after the Task Force that he'd once fought alongside. With the Hands of Science still out there, scattered in pockets, Quentin volunteered himself for participating against them, holding them responsible for the actions of the Changelings and the Devil of Verthaven. Unlike his brother, who had since joined DOVE (having been recommended), Quentin sought some form of retribution against them as he found himself unable to forget the experiments he'd been forced to assist in as well as the deaths of those he cared about.

Within the space of two years, a friend and the daughter of a former colleague, Meifeng Zhao had finished her training and was now a member of RAVEN, capable of standing by herself as a force to be reckoned with. Their shared experience in Verthaven allowed the two to maintain a close bond and unlike the others in RAVEN, Quentin said nothing to discourage Meifeng's relentless attitude towards the Hands, if anything sharing the same sentiments towards them as she did. It took time, but eventually this relentless attitude seemed to pay off - the Hands were all but broken and dissappeared from the face of the Earth. Yet this was not the end of things for them - other threats were out there, like the Pure, the Allegiance or other rogue metahumans.

In short, wherever RAVEN needed him, Quentin went. And eventually he was sent to Prague. Another rogue metahuman had emerged from the woodwork in the capital of the Czech Republic, one known as the Beast who, like the Devil, was set on mass destruction and had burned down whole districts whenever they'd shown up. Lacking in the resources and manpower to handle such a foe, the Czechs called in support from RAVEN, MISW and KMD to assist - Quentin was among the agents deployed against them.

It was a bloodbath, to say the least - despite careful planning and the best resources that the combined might of the three agencies had brought in, the Beast was a foe that refused to go down easily. Quentin himself went toe to toe and was nearly engulfed by flame half a dozen times, suffering severe burns in the process, but in the end the Beast was put down at the cost of injuring both himself and several of his colleagues.

Fortunately, Quentin survived, bloodied and bruised. He spent a little time on leave whilst he made a recovery, but soon returned to RAVEN - where he found himself being transferred to Baybridge on official business. With tensions rising, he soon found himself straight to work again.

Baybridge

With extremist groups on either side of the political and social spectrum, he had his work cut out for him - yet things would only culminate with the riots, the overload incidents, the capture of the last of the Changelings and far worse - the exposure of the world-spanning cabal known to those aware of its existence as the Founding Family, obsessed with genetics and responsible for the mass manipulation of politics and society on a global scale, a group responsible for the events that transpired in Verthaven, NEST, the shield of light and all.

To say that Quentin was livid would have been an understatement - much of what he'd been led to believe had turned out to be a lie, that the organisation responsible for his redemption had been puppeteered by those bastards and that the Hands of Science and the Changelings largely existed due to their influence. Many of the factors which had caused so much death and destruction in Verthaven had been at their feet - and it was only just now that he'd learned of it, that he'd been chasing ghosts for years when the Founders were there all along.

It was during this time that Quentin came to blows with the Intimidation Unit and, by extension, its commander, the Black Hound. An assassin under the Founders' control, the Hound eventually came close to killing Quentin during one of the attacks - yet the veteran RAVEN was stubborn enough to pull through and instead wound up in the hospital wing of the HQ building for RAVEN and DOVE.

This stubborn nature of his came in handy again when yet another terrorist attack was launched during the Founders' declared offensive against RAVEN and DOVE, this time directed at the heart of both organisations - HQ. Dragging himself from a hospital bed, Quentin joined up with another colleague, Alice, and assisted in fighting back the paramilitaries of the Intimidation Unit - though not without the cost of dozens upon dozens of casulaties on the part of both DOVE, RAVEN and the Baybridge Police Department.

Whatever way you looked at things, Quentin and his surviving colleagues were out for blood - and after some preparation on both his and colleagues' parts (Reed's co-ordination of DOVE's remaining resources included) and those of the BPD, both he and the others eventually launched a raid against the Founding Family's central base of operations in Baybridge, aiming to cut the head off the snake before their plans could be enacted. Intelligence gathered earlier on warned them of a plan to unleash another rogue metahuman like the Beast of Prague upon Baybridge in order to decimate the remaining DOVE and RAVEN forces based their, so their first act was to destroy this artificially designed being before they could be unleashed upon the city.

Next came the matter of destroying the Founding Family's abominable machine, intended to grant metahuman abilities to the entire human race regardless of whether such an 'evolution' was willing or not - in the process of doing so, however, Quentin and his teammates encountered one of the two surviving members of the Blessed Three, Blake Schmidt - who was subsequently killed by the veteran RAVEN and his colleagues during a failed attempt at escape. For all intents and purposes, the Founding Family as an organisaton was crippled - its politicial and espionage activities exposed to the public view on a global scale and to the subsequent backlash that followed, but at the same time this meant things back home were unstable as ever for Quentin and his colleagues, not least because of the casualties that they had taken both before and during the assault, including Lihua Zhao - a much respected figure whom had first brought him into NEST.

Public opinion towards RAVEN and DOVE, already divided prior to the events that transpired in Baybridge, became ever more divisive with individuals at both ends of the political spectrum vying for influence and attempting to exhert their will upon the American people. Quentin and his colleagues were simply caught up in the middle of it. With much of RAVEN's forces lost, Quentin found himself forced to take a more senior role, directing more junior agents where necessary whilst his own brother found an unexpected job offer - that of becoming the Director of Baybridge's DOVE branch.

Despite all this, both sides found themselves enforcing the law and doing what they could to keep the peace, by force if necessary. Over the next few years, tensions remained ever high - and with other forces emerging from the carcass of the Founding Family's influence, his work was still cut out for him.

Relationships

Family:

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Helena Taylor (Deceased) - Mother

Still teenager when she gave birth to her firstborn, Helena Taylor was a sad tale to speak of. Years of poverty and deadbeat boyfriends (one of which fathered another child with her) led to the alcoholism which would go on to kill her, leaving behind two sons. Despite this, Quentin at least regards her fondly and seldom talks about her because of this.

Reed Taylor - Half-brother

An ex-cop turned DOVE, Quentin had a hand in helping to raise Reed during their mother's later years. As the two grew up, however, they grew somewhat distant and it wasn't until the events leading up to the disaster in Verthaven that they finally reconciled.

Cassius Taylor (Deceased) - Maternal Uncle

A father figure to his nephews, Cass was a detective with the VPD who wound up taking in both of his sister's sons when she died and raising them like his own. Of the two, Reed followed in his uncle's footsteps whilst Quentin went on his own troubled path in life. Nonetheless, he still cared deeply for his uncle and during the events of the disaster in Verthaven the two grew close once more. Sadly, Cass was murdered in the final hours of the disaster by Heartbreaker. Whilst Quentin avenged his death, it left him permanently hardened in his personal vendetta against the likes of the Hands of Science.

Dynamics:

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| Reed Taylor |

| Good | Half-brother | "He's gone further than I ever could." |

Quentin's younger brother and an ex-cop turned Director of the Baybridge Branch of DOVE, the two were once distant whilst living in Verthaven but the events and tragedy that unfolded led to them growing closer once more, culminating in him entrusting his brother with the ability of a powerful metahuman to ensure it was in safe hands, as well as safeguarding him. Reunited in Baybridge, the two were close as ever - working back to back against forces conspiring against them. Even now that his kid brother's attained such a high place in the organisation, he still feels the need to watch his back.

| Meifeng Zhao |

| Respected | Close Friend | "Without her Mom, I guess I'm one of the only people she's got left." |

Meifeng and Quentin met in the Hands of Science lab way back in Verthaven, where he'd been held captive and forced to assist in their experiments. The two helped each other as Meifeng broke Quentin out of the lab and Quentin helped Meifeng fight her way out of it, which built up a mutually deep level of respect and admiration for one another. After she joined RAVEN, Quentin did what he could to act as a mentor for her and came to see her as a protégé, trusting her enough to know of his past. The last three years has seen this bond remain strong and since her mother's death he's wound up sharing a living space with her in Greencrest Heights.

| Shizuka Takashiro |

| Respected | Old Friend/Colleague | "One of the best we've got, I'm glad he's still around." |

Despite never having spoken much with him back in Verthaven, Quentin developed a certain respect for Shizuka during the Verthaven disaster when he drove a knife into the back of Luis' head and pulled him to safety. Reunited in Baybridge, he came to respect the kid he once knew for having come so far and regards him as a reliable friend.

| Haruka Takashiro |

| Good | Old Friend | "Like his brother, he's good as far as I'm concerned." |

There was hardly any interaction between Haruka and Quentin back in Verthaven but, again, the shared experience left him on good terms with the quieter half of the Takashiro Twins.

| Alice Barrett |

| Respected | Colleague | "She pulled her weight during that shitshow a couple of years back, I'll have her on side any day of the week." |

Quentin came to regard Alice as a colleague who was more than reliable during the events that transpired three years ago, particularly after she helped him push back the Intimidation Unit during the attack on Headquarters.

| Francis Jean-Pierre |

| Neutral | Colleague | "He's got the right intentions, he'll do fine." |

Having becoming a regular face over the last few years, Quentin has developed a good working relationship with Francis and, despite having kept him at arm's length so far, has gained a respect for the Haitian's tough stance on crime in the Metahuman community.

| Daniel Forsythe |

| Neutral | Protégé | "He's a good kid, no matter what some folks will say - and he deserves a chance at enjoying his life after what those bastards would've made him." |

Introduced to him by Maximilian shortly after the events that transpired three years ago, Quentin found himself taking on a mentoring role of sorts towards Blake's former apprentice, due in no small part to the fact that he himself had been offered a chance at redemption during Max's leadership in the days before NEST's dissolution. Unlike the RAVEN chairman, however, Quentin has opted to play more of a grounded role towards the kid with the intent of at least giving him a chance to enjoy his youth whilst he still has it, contraband liquor and all.

| Jennifer Caspin |

| Respected | Familiar face | "We all thought her dead, but... here she is, nearly a decade later." |

Jennifer was a face thought long gone, since Verthaven. Seeing her again has provoked a muted response from Quent, who perhaps sees a ghost. Nontheless, she's still owed the same respect and loyalty that Quentin offers the other Verthaven survivors and in kind, he feels the same sympathy for her losses due to the Changelings as he did.

| The Black Hound |

| Despised | Murderer | "We haven't found a trace of the bastard in years, but until a body turns up I'm not making that mistake again." |

Having come to blows with Quentin on numerous occasions during the events that transpired three years ago, there remains a great degree of animosity towards the former assassin on his part, not least because the Hound was responsible for the killing of numerous colleagues and came close to doing the same to him.

Abilities

Power Class:

Power: Charger & Replicator

Power: Essence

Power Transfer

Quentin is capable of transferring powers between other metahumans and himself, and vice versa, allowing use of said powers for his own intentions or keeping them in ‘storage’, so to speak. In effect, he’s a literal walking bank of powers. Quentin's power transfer ability stems from a subconscious ability to manipulate the Metahuman energy. He can absorb a bit of the Metahuman energy within himself (In other words, their power), then transfer the energy to a different person. Potentially empowering humans who would otherwise never would have manisfested a power.

Abilities currently held by Quentin

• Regenerative System - Held by Quentin for the last decade, it was drawn from the Nemesis during his escape from the Hands of Science's lab in Verthaven. Whilst it doesn't render him immortal, it does allow him to recover from injuries that would kill or otherwise permanently incapacitate other men. As a plus, it's also slowed down his aging a little - though not to the extent of others, with the recent years seeing his age beginto show, scars included.
• Superhuman Strength - Again, a power that Quentin's held onto for the last decade , it too was also stolen from the Nemesis. Whilst it's given Quentin a heightened level of durability and strength, that doesn't mean he can lift cars or punch through plate steel like butter.

Limits:

First and foremost, Quentin can only transfer powers through direct physical contact with others. It's possible for him to permanently strip someone of their powers, though the process is somewhat more taxing and requires either a severely weakened or otherwise willing subject.

Secondly, Quentin’s skill in utilising powers obtained from other metahumans can vary. Relatively simple actions such as channeling an electrical current come rather easily, whereas more complex actions such as healing a fatally wounded patient are rather difficult to perform and can often require a great deal of practice. In addition to this, extensive use of such powers can be quite taxing on a physical and mental level - particularly if he lacks skill in the use of a particular power. And, unlike one who directly holds the ability, he'll never be fully skilled in its use without years of experience.

Third and finally, he can only store and utilise a limited amount of abilities at any time - no more than say, five or six at once and that'd be pushing it.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

Incidentally, Quentin's ability to utilise stored abilities can be affected by just how fatigued he is. Like anyone, if he overburdens himself he'll be at risk of passing out or, at worst, losing consciousness.

Other:

• Quentin shares a condo in Greencrest Heights with Meifeng Zhao.
• Owing to a 'favour' from Maximillian Cornell and his seniority within RAVEN, Quentin has been given permission on previous occasions to appropriate a vehicle from the existing fleet in Baybridge for use both on and off-duty. In this case and for the last two years, he has driven a 2018 Chevrolet Suburban which has been outfitted with all the necessary features for RAVEN use including a dashboard radio, tinted (bullet-resistant) windows and compartments for additional equipment.

Frank Marshall

Basic Information

Name:

Francis Terrence Marshall

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

Frank

Gender:

Male

Age:

28

Height:

5'11:

Weight:

172lbs

Home District:

Oakdell Harbour (In accommodation provided by DOVE)

Appearance

Hair Color:

Brown

Eye Color:

Hazel

Ethnicity:

Caucasian

Physical Appearance:

It's obvious that at 5'11, Francis is of a stockier build and if it weren't for the training and physical exhertion that he undergoes as part of his role in the MISW he'd probably have a little more fat on him. Given he's from a country not necessarily known for its warm and sunny weather, his skin is of a lighter complexion. When the opportunity arises, Frank keeps his hair trimmed down to a number two haircut and is equally clean-shaven, tolerating little further than stubble along his jawline (though this is more due to the fact it itches if he lets it get any further).

Attire:

On account of the exchange program between DOVE and the MISW, Frank whilst on-duty wears the standard DOVE garb and carries, more or less, the same equipment as the others - albeit with a (non-metallic) telescopic baton fixated to his hip.

Whilst off-duty, Frank sticks to casual clothes while out on the town - he's brought from home several pairs of jeans, cargo trousers, shorts and tracksuit bottoms along with enough shirts and t-shirts to last him during the week. He also has a dark-blue zip-up hoodie which he sometimes wears on the colder days, too.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

Outwardly, Frank conveys himself as a man who can be stubborn to a fault, rendering himself implacable in the face of adversity - as one might expect, for a Brit. When things turn rough, he cracks the occasional joke and will even render a morbid commentary on the matter (a habit picked up from the 'old' MISW days) but still persist in what he perceives as his duty. As far as others are concerned, his actions are done with the best intentions, aiming towards the right thing.

Inwardly, however, Frank is still coming to terms with the knowledge and awareness that the organisation that trained and shaped him for have served as a puppet for the Founding Family and is wrought with guilt at the knowledge that he was an unknowing participant in their schemes and had sought to atone. Self-doubt often plagues him and there are times where he'll question his own actions, even if he might outwardly stand by his convictions.

Despite this, he still feels a debt of sorts to the MISW (which helped him gain control over his ability and gave him place) and has taken it upon his own shoulders to try and assist in its reform - hoping perhaps that the visit to the US might assist in gaining an alternative perspective for this purpose.

Owing to the above, he despises the likes of the Founding Family and given the opportunity would gladly assist in bringing an end to anyone with similar goals or an affiliation to the world spanning cabal. Alternatively, he can be a loyal friend to those who earn his trust (and respect) and will go to great lengths to look out for them. It's just a matter of gaining the former.

On an additional note, a part of Frank's training with the MISW focused on the use of his ability to somewhat manipulative degrees and even after the reform of the organisation, he still finds himself reverting back to old habits, if only momentarily. Likewise, there are times where he'll find himself tempted to use a heavier-handed approach in accordance with the 'old' MISW's ever-suspicious modus operandi, even though he'll realise shortly after and feel guilt over it.

Hobbies/Interests:

Frank is a self-proclaimed conniseur of what he regards as good food. Part of his plans for his long-term stay in Baybridge is to take advantage of the relatively lower prices and varied tastes of American food.

Skills/Talents:

Several years of training and experience with the MISW have left Frank with a number of skills in terms of aptitude in the fiels. He's capable of using physical force to subdue and restrain unwilling opponents and he knows how to handle firearms, though his experience with the use of the latter in the field is another matter given the UK's strict attitude concerning firearms.

This aside, Frank has undergone the usual intelligence side of the MISW's training, including a study of metahumans and (legal) methods of interrogation, using his own ability to assist in the case of the latter.

Goals/Motivation

Trained and shaped by the MISW, Frank is still coming to terms with the knowledge that the organisation largely served as a puppet for the Founding Famly and is wrought with guilt at the knowledge that he was an unknowing participant in their schemes. More than anything, he wants to restore the good name of the organisation (and his country) and bring closure to himself by working alongside DOVE and RAVEN.

History/Bio:

Born at the edge of the last millenium, Frank spent the early years of his life as the son of two divorcee parents growing up in North Derbyshire, one with an appreciation for the simpler things in life - video games, TV series and browsing the recesses of the internet. Only, around the time of his fourteenth birthday, something changed in him.

He found himself suffering from intense mood swings, where one moment he could be ecstatic and then the next he would feel intense rage and want to lash out at the nearest person, only to burst into laughter a few seconds later. This went about as well for him as one would expect - most thought he was suffering from a psychological disorder and indeed he found himself being sent on a number of visits to different professionals, all claiming that they would be able to help him and all failing, for the most part.

Medication proved ineffective and only seemed to worsen his mental outlook, to the point that he became reclusive - avoiding human contact seemed to be the only remedy for his troubles. This continued until after his sixteenth birthday, when during a visit to the shops after suffering yet another violent mood swing, he found his unexplainable rage quelled by the sight of other shoppers around him bursting into tears and lashing out at one another until the scene evolved into a riot. It was only after a later analysis of CCTV footage covering the riot that an agent of the MISW picked up on Frank's behaviour minutes before the riot and made the call to follow up their investigation with a visit to Frank's address.

Things cascaded from there - a brief interrogation and a swab test proved that Frank was, indeed, a Metahuman. A potentially disastrous ine at that - his ability allowed him to influence the emotions and mental states of others around him. As per the modus operandi of the organisation in those times, Frank was taken under the MISW's wing (the alternative was a collar and being kept under close surveillance) and, following several years of study at a school operated by the government with similar intentions as the academy program, he began training to become an agent, a process which again took several years to complete.

All in all, it was the MISW who helped Frank pull himself back together, leaving him feeling indebted towards the organisation and for years he worked under the impression that he was doing the right thing - that no matter how rough things could be, he was doing he right thing for the betterment of society.

This perception, however, was shattered following the revelation of the existence of the Founding Family and the scale of their involvement in the world's affairs, Britain and the MISW included. Frank was forced to question the values and code that he'd abided by during his time in the organisation, including circumstances in which he'd taken a heavier-handed response.

This, combined with the emergence of the so-called 'BASILISK' domestic terrorist organisation, shook the MISW to its core as British politics were reshaped around them. Facing new threats, and as a figure in favour of reform within the agency, Frank volunteered and was approved for a placement on a foreign exchange program with the United States with the intention of studying the methods and procedures of DOVE and RAVEN.

Relationships

Family:
Terrence Marshall (Father)

Frank's father, the two don't meet often owing to his work in the MISW but maintain a loose correspondence over the phone. Owing to certain similarities in their personalities, they often tend to clash when disagreeing on matters so this distance is for the best.

Sue Knight (Mother)

Frank's mother, working for the MISW has meant the two don't meet often but he does keep in touch on a more regular basis than with his father and, before being taken in by the organisation, the two were quite close.

Dynamics:

TBD.

Abilities

Power Class:

Cerebral - Domination

Power:

In short, Frank can perceive and influence the emotions and state of mind of others around him. This can range from something as simple as picking up on someone who may give off an outward appearance of being calm and collected, but may secretly be terrified, to something as complex as shifting an agitated, violent individual's emotional state to something calmer to prevent them from lashing out. There's a very specific nuance to it, hoever: Frank isn't a jedi - he can't directly implant specific ideas into someone's head, but through his abilities he could instill thoughts of self-doubt into a person if he needed to, for example.

Limits:

Frank's ability can only effect those within close proximity to him, around twenty metres at most. Futhermore, those with the sufficient willpower (or abilities, in the case of other metahumans) to resist his emotional influence can do so. Being aware that Frank is trying to influence them can help as well. Furthermore, using his ability requires a degree of concrentration in order for it to function correctly.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

Frank's ability is a two-way street - whilst he can influence and shift the mood and emotional outlook of those around him, he in turn can suffer from what has been deemed in the cerebral field of study the 'bleeding effect', where he himself is vulnerable to becoming swayed by the emotions and thoughts of others around him by making use of his abilities. At best, it can be distracting but at worse, it can be an emotionally crippling experience - one would be dangerous in his line of work. It's taken a great deal of training and focus to bring the worst of it under wraps, but even now it's something which lingers overhead.

Other:

• TBD

Baybridge: Halcyon Days [Superpowers/Semi-Sandbox]

@Utrax I like Marcus, don't see any issues with him, though as for Courtney I'm inclined to agree with Allen to a point - I think the power's an interesting idea that could fit in quite neatly with her artistic tendencies (and not because one of my own can interact with magnetic fields *COUGHCOUGH*) but the backstory is a little light, maybe you could elaborate a little more on how she gained her Youtube fame? Maybe how she developed her power, too?

@Oliver I don't tend to see younger characters in RPs so, to be honest? It's kinda refreshing to see - I like what you've done, particularly after the improvements you've made so I agree with Allen on this one. Though, I gotta ask you a question - can he potentially make parrots, ravens songbirds etc to talk if he wanted to?

Baybridge: Halcyon Days [Superpowers/Semi-Sandbox]

@tsukune also we need a character so bad that it makes everyone else look better by comparison.

@Mr Allen J

I'll cook something up.

Baybridge: Halcyon Days [Superpowers/Semi-Sandbox]

Rowan Campbell

Basic Information

Name:

Rowan Campbell

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

Gender:

Male

Age:

20

Height:

5'9

Weight:

142lbs

Home District:

Prior to returning to Baybridge, Rowan has been living with his friends out of their RV.

Appearance

Hair Color:

Dirty blonde

Eye Color:

Brown

Ethnicity:

Caucasian

Physical Appearance:

At 5'9, with scruffy hair, Rowan looks like the typical white-trash stereotype of someone who would easily fall into the wrong crowd. From a glance it's clear he's not a heavyweight, but three years on the road has meant he's developed a certain wiriness to him, indicating that he's not the same scrawny kid that he was back then and his skin has been browned a little by the sun during his travels, though being a Washington state native it's obvious he doesn't especially tan. Unkempt, his hair is a dirty blonde whilst along his jawline is a short, barely trimmed beard (a consequence of life on the road) and he possesses a set of sharp, blue eyes.

At each side of his lower left abdominal region are scars from a piercing injury received several years ago. The scar at the front has been somewhat covered up, however, by a tattoo of a scorpion, with the point of the stinger reaching into where the faded line of scarring begins.

On his right ankle is a tattoo of a traditional compass and, most noticably are the illustrations of cybernetics along his lower left leg and upper left arm and shoulder, clearly inspired from the Terminator films.

Attire:

Anything from sports clothes to hoodies, to jackets - Rowan isn't too picky about what he wears. Given Baybridge's propensity for wet weather, however, Rowan often has a preference for wearing a hoodie - particularly since it helps him keep a low profile and look less conspicuous. On top of this, he also tends to wear a knapsack on his back.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

A rough upbringing has left Rowan a textbook example of the kind of social issues that a lot of young people in Modern America face. Stubborn to a fault, he's the kind of person who, if he doesn't particularly like something, will tend to drag his feet or otherwise subvert it if he can't outright stop it. He's the kind of person who's liable to break before bending and it's contributed to his overall mental state of being able to take as much of a beating as possible and still get up - if his mind is set to something, nothing will put him down - again, due to his upbringing, cemented by the experiences he went through with the Founding Family three years ago.

Arguably what one could call a 'free spirit', Rowans not the type who's outright inclined towards rebellion, but a few raw memories of his old man and the likes of Ezekiel and Blake have left him with a firm dislike for figures who convey themselves as authoritarian. A few years of keeping a low profile, even out there on the road, haven't helped him with this disposition and at this point, 'rules' tend to be regarded more as guidelines as far as he's concerned, which happens to be really convenient when you're the kind of person with a fascination for urban artwork and tresspassing on private property.

It can still take him a while to come to trust people he doesn't quite know and often his first instinct can be to put up a hardened front, but deep down Rowan is the kind of person who'll stay loyal to those who treat him in kind, as can be found with Wendy, Jess and Kai - people who he's known to fiercely protect to the point he's tried knocking down people twice his side at the first sniff of trouble. The only problem there, however, is that it can be hard for him to admit when he needs help and even now, with the friends he's known for the last three years, there's a hint of that stubborn refusal to admit when he's down.

Life on the road gave him a few more skills along the way, along with reminding him that the friends he's come to rely on are the ones he wants to stick by. Yet at the same time, it's made him realise some hard truths about himself and the kind of person that he is. He knows he's killed on more than one occasion and, despite suggesting otherwise, it's something which has sat with him at the pit of his mind in a way which doesn't so much eat away at him or weigh him down as it just sits there, as though the fact he acknowledges it without any disdain bothers him more than the act of killing itself. And yet, regardless of it all - he knows that it would be something he'd do again if he had to.

Overall, the events that transpired in Baybridge three years ago and since have helped to wisen Rowan up even further for the rough world that they live in.

Hobbies/Interests:

Rowan still has quite the fondness for artwork - specifically, graffiti. A self-proclaimed 'writer', he takes pride in the many contributions he's made on the road in terms of murals and signatures that have been painted upon walls in varying states. It's one of the things that always allowed him to distract himself from the shittier parts of his life, and one thing that he always falls back on as a coping mechanism when everything else fails. Furthermore, he's gained an interest in extending his artwork to that of a tattooist and is responsible for one or two of the dare-induced tattoos that have been picked up by his friends.

Skills/Talents:

Growing up in Brookacres under a broken home has taught Rowan to develop a certain degree of self-sufficiency. He's still a teen, but there's been times where he's had to raise himself when his parents weren't around. It's left him with a bit of street smarts and pragmatism. He's also quite talented at street art and is a natural when a can of paint's in his hand. Also, as elaborated earlier, whilst it's not something he'd boast of, he's the kind of person who can take a hit and keep getting up. One could argue that if he wanted to, he could've become a professional boxer just because of this. Furthermore, life on the road has forced him to learn how to drive (despite having no license) and understand how to keep a vehicle such as the RV up and running if something goes wrong.

Goals/Motivation

Figuring out where to go next after three years out on the road, Rowan still hasn't got an idea of where he wants to be in life. All he knows is that he's got his friends and that they matter the most.

History/Bio:

Growing up

Hailing from the impoverished district of Brookacres, Rowan was another textbook case of a kid coming from a broken home, the only difference being that this kid had powers and their family happened to closely tied in with the Pure. To be specific, Rowan’s father had developed very close ties to the group from his time in prison and throughout the upbringing of his son he'd attempted to embed a similar set of bigoted views through years of domineering and abuse. His mother also suffered the same treatment if not worse, leading the two of them to endure years of abuse under the old man’s roof.

It wasn't until after he hit his early teens that it came to a head - Rowan's abilities manifested and soon, it went from keeping his head down to making sure the old man never found out the truth, out of fear for his mom more than anything. But keeping it a secret worked only for so long, and soon it escalated when, one night the old man had come home drunk yet again after another night out with his fellow bigots and had taken a disliking to his demeanour and started hurling abuse at them. When Rowan shot back, this made him angry and he looked ready to throw the bottle at him until his wife intervened, instead becoming the new target of his ire as she took a heavy beating for it.

Then something snapped. Years of abuse and resentment came bubbling to the surface - Rowan practically threw himself against the old man and laid into him blow after blow, until he finally realised that he wasn't actually punching him anymore - he'd practically flung every metallic object in the house against the old man in his anger and accidentally broken his neck.

It didn't take long for the authorities to realise what had happened, especially when he tested positive for the metahuman gene. DOVE quickly took custody of him after the truth of his circumstances was revealed and given the duress he'd been under, it was determined that he'd not intentionally killed the old man and was clearly in need of a stable environment. It took a while, but Rowan was soon enrolled with Academy 61 just in time for the summer and placed as a long-term resident of its dormitories.

Something different

Still struggling to fit in, time passed by and events occurred in the city around them. During this, Rowan met Wendy Lucker, a fellow student who shared his appreciation for art and in some ways was an outcast, traits which quickly forged a close friendship between them. This same friendship cemented when Rowan, having been introduced to a few of Wendy's other friends, shielded the group from harm during a terrorist attack by Eco-Natura.

Time went on and while the city around them felt the shockwaves of what was actively ongoing, all Rowan could think about were his newfound friendship, but events soon pulled him back into the thick of it. Whilst visiting the Harvest Festival with Wendy (and after some creative use of abilities at the available carnival games), he found himself caught up in the attack on the festival by the Black Hound and his paramilitary force, the Intimidation Unit. The two teens narrowly escaped with their lives, though not before Rowan was forced to use his powers in self-defense for the first time since his old man's death.

Another stumble came again as he and Wendy found themselves travelling to the Eastgriffin Ruins (where they had formed the basis of their own friendship) with her sister and friends in what was intended to be a showcase of some artwork that had sprouted from their previous instances of urban exploration, only to be ambushed by the Black Hound. Rowan put up as best of a fight as he could, but facing with the equipment, training, experience and abilities of the masked assassin proved to be his match and he was eventually subdued into unconsciousness, spared from capture only by Wendy's timely intervention.

Wendy's sister, Diana, and her two friends, Kai Anaru and Jessica Rosefey, were not so lucky, on the other hand. By the time that RAVEN had shown up, the Hound had departed with the three captives, leaving behind the two teens to lick their wounds. But Wendy, as it happened, proved to be the more resourceful of the two, catching onto an information leak from an anonymous mole within the organisation responsible for the capture of their friends and her sister.

Whilst Wendy was initially ready to depart alone with the intent of liberating them from captivity, Rowan managed to weasel his way into this impromptu rescue mission with a little bit of convincing - and found himself proving useful when it came to breaking into the actual facility where their friends were supposedly being held. As it happened, the anonymous tip had proven true, for the most part - Jess and Kai were present, but not Diana, yet Wendy found more than just her friends, she found a personal library containing a number of interesting books not typically found in the public eye - some of which she retained for herself.

Ready to leave, the two broke their friends out of captivity (along with the other prisoners whom had been trapped within the facility) but found themselves incurring the wrath of a powerful metahuman, one Ezekiel Anagnos - the owner of the books which Wendy had stolen and an egocentric individual who would later be revealed as one of the Blessed Three, the leader of the cabal that was the Founding Family. In pursuit of the escaping teens, Ezekiel managed to overwhelm both teens with his electromagnetic abilities - impaling the Rowan through the side with a piece of metallic debris and forcing Wendy to return the stolen books in exchange for sparing his life.

Luckily, Rowan was attended to by one the best metahuman surgeons available in Baybridge and DOVE soon brought the two teens back under their custody with strict orders to remain on the grounds of the academy campus - order which the two teens only loosely followed. Whilst Wendy trained with her powers, having gained a new one from one of the academy's teachers, Lihua Zhao, Rowan spent time honing his own abilities for the coming battles ahead.

This very same practice proved vital after another lead from Wendy's anonymous contact led them to a warehouse that was used by the Intimidation Unit as a safehouse, one that contained information regarding the Founding Family. Recovering the information they needed, however, led them to yet another face-to-face confrontation with the Black Hound, who proved as poweful an opponent as he had before, yet this time, whilst Wendy proved to be an excellent distraction, Rowan pulled a shipping container on top of the assassin, granting them enough time to escape.

With the information they had obtained, the two teens found themselves emboldened to embark on yet another incursion into the mysteries of the Founding Family, bringing Jess and Kai along as they broke into what turned out to be one of their facilities operating in Baybridge, based in a disused sewage and utility system beneath Silver Hills. It was here that Rowan and Wendy made a number of horrifying discoveries - a morgue, a laboratory evidently used for experimentation and the remains of the infamous metahuman known best as the Devil of Verthaven.

Such intrusion did not go undetected, however - as the two approached what seemed to be a cell block, they were ambushed by waiting members of the Intimidation Unit, forcing them to flee further into the bowels of the facility until coming face-to-face with Blake Schmidt, another member of the Blessed Three. Further unexpected however was the presence of Diana at his side - clearly under the effects of some form of mind control, later revealed to be the so-called 'Mechanised Memories'. Blake made them a relatively simple offer, that Rowan and Wendy could join him, the former as an assassin of the same calibre as the Black Hound and the latter as an apprentice who would eventually replace him.

Neither of the two gave it much consideration and responded as well as one might've expected - yet all it took was Blake to remind them of the half-dozen weapon sights trained on them before revealing that Jess and Kai had already been captured and were now at his mercy. Wendy seemed to relent, albeit just for a moment, before seizing the opportunity to attack as Blake let down his guard, whilst Rowan turned his attention towards the paramilitary soldiers facing them, ready to defend himself and his friends at a moment's notice.

Only Blake wasn't as vulnerable as they'd hoped - after a brief moment of what seemed to be success for the teens, the man revealed the true extent of his abilities, recovering from a seemingly deadly attack on his person to reveal his volcanic form. A short battle ensued between the three until Rowan was the only one left, yet even with the practice he'd undergone with his abilities he found himself overwhelmed by Blake's sheer strength and was beaten into unconsciousness for the second time around.

This time when he awoke, he found himself imprisoned along with Wendy - a collar fastened around both their necks to prevent them from lashing out with their abilities. During this incaraceration, they were visited three times - first by the Black Hound, then Ezekiel - neither of these two visits yielded much beyond the unpleasant chill of being in the presence of such individuals. Yet the third visit turned out to be well-timed, occuring during an attack on the facility by the forces of RAVEN and DOVE overhead. Their visitor, a woman by the name of Makoto, quickly liberated them from their cells and implored the two to leave, her motivations unknown to them, yet this advice went unheeded.

Instead, the two teens went back into the facility to find their friends - encountering Ezekiel for what would be the third and final time. Here, they learned the truth - that the Founders had designed and built a machine intended to grant metahuman abilities to the entire human race, regardless of whether it was a willing subject or not, but the more horrific truth to it was that in order to fuel this machine, countless metahumans were being fed to it for the purpose of harvesting their energy. Jess and Kai were among those trapped in the pods, forcing Rowan to break them free whilst Wendy kept Ezekiel occupied.

Much to the two's surprise, Makoto returned to help them fight Ezekiel and soon, in an ironic sort of justice, Rowan managed to gain the upper hand and brought Ezekiel down, embedding a shard of metallic debris deep into the man's gut until he drew last breath, an experience which would remain burned into the boy's memory.

Before either of the two could ask why Makoto had returned for them, the woman revealed her true identity - Kumiko Fujimoto - and that Wendy was her daughter. It was a profound moment, to say the least, but the collective shock of killing Ezekiel combined with the urgent need to escape the facility cut the reunion short and the five of them promptly escaped, still missing Diane.

Topside, the forces of RAVEN and DOVE were waiting, forcing the group to leave Jess and Kai behind whilst Rowan, Wendy and Kumiko made their way towards the Founding Family's centralised base of operations in Baybridge, gaining entrance to the complex via Kumiko's intimate knowledge of the Family whilst RAVEN and DOVE prepared their final assault, using the operation as cover for their infiltration.

It was here that Rowan and Wendy encountered Blake, along with her sister, only to find that they'd arrived too late - perhaps out of spite, Diana was fed to the machine and disintegrated in a green glow before the eyes of the two teens, Rowan unable to pry the capsule open in time.

Whilst Blake had managed to hit them where it had hurt, he'd also made a mistake - provoking them. Infuriated, the two teens gave it their all, launching a flurry of attacks upon Blake and his guards with reckless abandon, managing to inflict injury upon the former whilst wreaking death and destruction upon the latter, until finally he was able to take advantage of their rage and turn the fight in his favour, forcing Kumiko to intervene and teleport the two teens to a safer location before they could be finished off.

Hiding in the Grand Archives of the Founding Family, they found themselves confronted again by the masked visage of the Black Hound, only... this time, the assassin man came in peace, and revealed that he and the Foundation Woman were in truth responsible for the anonymous leads from Wendy's mysterious contact. He only wanted to talk, but there was little to say between them after hinting that the two teens had merely been used as part of a greater plan. After a moment of contemplation over whether to spare the Hound after all the pain and suffering that they'd endured at his hand, Rowan decided that there were more important things to worry about and instead escaped with Wendy and her newly discovered mother.

After this, stood outside the compromised facility, the two were contacted by the Foundation Woman who admitted that the teens had just been used as 'bait' as part of a scheme to bring the Founding Family to its knees, Diana just a casualty in it all. Furious, the two teens vowed to enact justice upon both the Foundation Woman and the Hound and little more was said, save for a final note that a 'gift' had been left close by for them, little compensation as it was for their troubles.

That gift turned out to be a package containing thousands of dollars - more than enough for each of them, as Rowan learned when Wendy insisted on sharing a sum with him.

Returning to Jess and Kai, the two learned from Wendy that Diana had been killed, but they vowed honor her memory the best they could, offering to take both Wendy and Rowan on their cross-country roadtrip. Despite both being under the watch of DOVE, the two gladly accepted the offer, not least because Baybridge held only bitter memories for them at this point. Preparing for the trip, Rowan learned from Wendy through a sincere, heartfelt speech that she felt he'd changed her and how she felt indebted to him - to which the scrawny teen reaffirmed her and admitted she was one of the only friends he'd had. After a sentimental plane ride, followed by a hasty farewell to his mother, Rowan departed with his friends for different trails.

Life on the road

After a short visit to Stadium City to attend Diana's funeral, the group embarked on a lengthy journey across the United States. From Miami to Philadelphia, to New York and beyond - there were few stops left unturned as the months on the road passed. Rowan quickly adapted to life in the RV and came to appreciate the freedom that had been denied to him in Baybridge, first by the old man and then by the likes of DOVE.

The fact remained, however, that both he and Wendy were still, technically speaking, wards of the state - at least under DOVE's jurisdiction, at any rate - forcing them to keep a low profile whenever they crossed paths with the organisation. After all, it would've cut their journey short if they'd been sent back home to face the music, but the chaos that had transpired in Baybridge meant that for the most part they'd been regarded as missing persons lost due to the (now exposed) influence of the Founding Family.

And yet as Rowan changed and adapted to the road he travelled, so had the world around him - extremists on both sides of the political spectrum were flaring up, drawing in more followers as their influence grew. More than a couple of times, Rowan had to narrowly dodge getting caught up in a pissing match between the likes of the Pure and the Allegiance and even had to protect himself or his friends from attack at the hands of such hate groups, yet they remained for the most part unharmed.

Three years had soon passed, with Wendy turning her sights back towards Baybridge, the city that had served as their home - and Rowan couldn't help but follow. After all, what else would he do without her?

Relationships

Family:

Family

Jim Campbell (Deceased) - Father

For lack of better words, Jim Campbell was a piece of shit. Jim did a ouple of stints in prison before and after his son's birth and developed close ties with a local cell of the Pure operating in Brookacres. A man with a history of violence, he routinely lashed out against both of his family members, particularly his wife whenever she said or did anything that he didn't like. His son, he was hard on in order to 'toughen him up', yet it would ultimately bring about his demise.

Patricia Campbell - Mother

Trapped in a marriage marred by years of physical and mental abuse, Patricia found herself easily under her husband's thumb and suffered greatly due to his domineering nature. She's one of the few people that Rowan cared about dearly, despite standing by her husband through all the years of abuse. However, Rowan hasn't seen her in years since making his farewells in Baybridge three years ago and the last time that they got in touch was over a payphone nearly four months ago.

Dynamics:

| Wendy Lucker |

| Good | Close Friend | "She's one a billion, y'know? One of the only people that ever gave a shit about me." |

Sparked off by a mutual interest in art, Rowan's friendship with Wendy was soon cemented after he chose to help her and her friends. A dozen times over the two ended up saving one another's lives at some point or another and despite failing to save her sister, Wendy was more than grateful for Rowan's help after the events which transpired three years ago. Life on the road together only proved to strengthen this bond even further, particularly after facing off all manner of hate groups and extremists on their tour across the country. Rowan is somewhat oblivious to Wendy's true feelings towards him, though not for a lack of reciprocation - he simply thinks of himself as being out of her league to the point that she wouldn't seriously consider it.

Abilities

Power Class:

Elemental - Energy

Powers:

Electromagnetic Manipulation

First and foremost, Rowan is able to generate and manipulate a powerful electromagnetic field that is capable of exherting his will upon and controlling ferromagnetic materials, in addition to holding an effect over other materials or energies that are influenced by magnetism (such as electricity or lead). Rowan's ability manifests through body movements, which can range from something as subtle as clenching his palm into fists to swiping his arm in a particular direction. Generally, the stronger the force he wants to exhert, the more sudden and direct his movements should be.

Theoreticaly, the scale of his ability could range from the scale of grain-sized materials (allowing him reshape or easily move such objects) to those the size of a building (allowing him to twist or alter larger structures, possibly even pull them down one day), though how refined his control is still has yet to reach its full potential as he is still somewhat lacking the training and experience of one with a complete understanding of their abilities, though the past three years have seen this improve by a wide margin.

And, as a side effect, his ability allows him to detect other magnetic influences which consequentially gives him a permanent sense of direction (like a compass) due to being able to subconsciously sense and interact with the earth's magnetosphere.

With further training and experience, Rowan's ability could eventually turn out to be very powerful, on par with those of NEST and RAVEN's greatest agents.

Limits:

Rowan's ability can at most be extended past sixty metres and generally has a weaker pull the further from it his target materials are. Objects that move too fast are incredibly difficult for him to focus on, often forcing him to rely on indirectly influencing them instead (Like this). Likewise, reshaping large or dense materials can be rather difficult and taxing to perform and, again, size is a big deal - the bigger the object, the larger the field he must generate and the harder it is to manipulate as such.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

Despite gaining a greater grasp of his abilities in the last three years, Rowan still has more to learn. Additionally, a side effect of being able to pick up on electromagnetic fields is that he's sensitive to strong electrical currents, which can be disorienting if he doesn't tune them out. Also, being placed in a faraday cage will definitely hinder the effectiveness of his abilities.

Overexhertion of his powers can cause him anything from migraines to losing consciousness, particularly when pushed to the limits of his ability - and staying nourished is an important note here.

And on a slightly funnier note, CCTV cameras do not particularly like being around him due to his propensity for unintentionally (well, maybe just a little on occasion) causing interference with the footage, a point which was among one of the many reasons why the academy utilises specialised equipment on its campus. That, and he also seems to give quite a few people static shock when making contact with them.

Other:

• In his travels, Rowan has obtained a tattoo kit which he's tested on his friends a couple of times - no refunds included.

Baybridge: Halcyon Days [Superpowers/Semi-Sandbox]

Fuck, I can't come up with a power. I've toyed with a couple of different ideas, but either they don't fit or they just push everything into a really cliché territory.
Also I hate writing biographies, but I think I have a few ideas for that part.
Anyway, expect my CS sometime in the middle of the week. I'm trying not to rush it.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, @Mr Allen J, but is it okay to post WIPs? I know a few GMS who don't allow it, so I wanted to ask before needlessly annoying you.

@Oliver

To be honest your bio doesn't need to be lengthy, just short but nonthelesa concise if it gets the point across. The only reason my bios have been in-depth in the past is because I'm a stickler for flavour text.

As for ideas for the power, come up with the character then devise a power for them - I've done it with one or two of mine in the past.

Mass Effect: Borealis

So my dear precious butt lumps, I'm gonna write a solo post kicking us off from Elysium. If you guys have any collabs on the go that still need to be a thing on the planet, lemme know and I'll hold off on posting until then.

@DearTrickster

Nah, Iosif has been crashing on the ship and enjoying his time in solitude.

Mass Effect: Borealis

Keyword: Shevchenko, Iosif
Location specific: Sol - Mars - Lowell City

Immediate Relatives: Father (File #M8178-C) - Vasily Shevchenko, current Director for Systems Alliance R&D Operations within the Lowell City Facility.
Mother - Nastasha Shevchenko (Maiden name Pavlychko), R&D Project Manager within the Lowell City Facility.
Brother - Artyom Shevchenko, currently Assistant Technician Supervisor for R&D within the Lowell City Facility.

Date of Birth: 20th February (Solar Calendar), 2145 CE
Place of Birth: Lowell City Medical Facility, Mars

Notes: Former Systems Alliance pilot, enlisted in 2163 CE - served in 21st Airborne Divsion. Medically discharged in 2170 CE following injury in service which necessitated amputation of Shevchenko's left arm at the shoulder, veteran's compensation covered cost of a replacement prosthetic.

Later served as freelance mercenary until altercation with colleague Jedrah Vargus (Refer to File #92348-KBE9), entered custody of Batarian slavery ring with ties to Hegemony. Sentenced to penal servitude under the Batarian Hegemonic Judiciary System as per standard procedure with Systems Alliance veterans.

Reported missing following rioting in Aratoht mining sector, suspected responsible for theft of cargo shuttle (NOTE: Reports confirm this following Sevchenko's re-emergence on Illium shortly after a vessel of the same description was reported abandoned in local salvage yard).

Possible point of leverage for assets currently operating within Lowell City and surrounding region?

Shadow Broker File 18ML-98124
Location: Mars, Lowell City, Residential Apartment A012
Timestamp: 2163CE - 03/03 (Earth standard) - 1421
Source: Personal Omni-Tool
Type: Audio Transcript
Subjects: V. Shevchenko, I. Shevchenko

Below is an audio transcript of a conversation between Vasily Shevchenko and his son, Iosif Shevchenko.

VS: "Iosif, it won't be long before the deadline for you to accept your invitation is here, I'd suggest you make the arrangements soon. Time is of the essence, here."

IS: "Dad, we spoke of this before... I'm not interested in the Academy, so why do you keep trying to push it on me?"

VS: "Iosif, this, again? Why do you torment yourself with such low aspirations, especially to become what's a glorified chauffeur - someone with your gifts, your intelligence shouldn't be squandering them so. Why do you think we've gone to all the effort to get you a place there?"

IS: "I didn't ask you to pull any strings for me, and besides, it won't be necessary any more."

VS: "Why do you say that, Iosif?"

IS: "Because, dad, I've decided that my future will be with the Alliance - and I've booked a shuttle for Armstrong Outpost in a few weeks' time to seal that. I was going to tell you and mom later, but I guess I should come clean now."

VS: "What?! Why, why, why-"

IS: "I've explained this before, yet you don't seem to ever listen."

VS: "Is that so?! Fine, explain away."

IS: "All my life, I've been staring at the spaceports, watching the shuttles arrive and depart, day after day - I remember, if only barely, when we first discovered the Charon Relay and the great expanse beyond it and I wondered. I remember all the talk of exploration and more, and I wondered. Even after the war with the aliens, I wondered. Perhaps only once in my life I've ever seen an alien face-to-face, and yet I wonder what else I'll find out there. More than what's here, there's nothing but sand and dust and old, dead ruins here and I feel like this place will suffocate me if I have to stay any longer. I am... I'm grateful for everything that you and mama have done, but I want to choose my own path in life, for a change."

There is a brief pause, along with a faint breathing sound as footsteps are heard with someone pacing around around the room.

VS: "I'm... I am-.... it's unfortunate that you feel that way, Iosif, but nontheless... you are just a boy, with a boy's understanding of the world and its harsh nature - you are blinded by these notions of yours. Myself and your mother have worked hard, all our lives, with the intent of raising you to take a greater place than us in society. If we had half of the opportunities that you have had, we would've shown our gratitude by using them to achieve our potential, not walking away from them. What of all the efforts we've made to gain you a place at the Academy, the people we've spoken to..."

An argument breaks out between the two. Some of the audio from this footage has been rendered indescernible but this commotion between Shevchenko and his elder son continues for several minutes. Eventually, they move back within range of the recording device.

VS: "I simply don't understand!"

IS: "Then let me spell it for you, dad - I've tried to be calm, tried to be easy on this, because believe it or not, you're still family and there was a part of me that cared because of that, but I'm going to say it now. You're not in this for me, you're doing it for yourselves. You and mama are as bad as each other, you just want to raise up someone who's the mirror image of yourselves. Well, I won't have it! You had your chance to live your lives, I won't do it again for you - give your gifts to Art if you must, assuming he doesn't figure he's being played too."

VS: "Fine, then. Go. Squander your potential if you must, but know this - if this is your choice, I won't support this ridiculous endeavour of yours. Don't expect me to be there to dry your eyes and wipe your ass for you if things don't turn out how you expect. I wouldn't presume to try and go behind my back with this either, your mother would agree when I say that I speak for the both of us on this matter. I'm sure your brother would gladly take a spot in the Academy in just a few years' time."

IS: "Spasibo, dad. Proshchay."

The sound of a door opening, then closing rather firmly is heard. The elder Shevchenko male mutters a few indiscernible words beneath their breath.