Super OOC

You know the drill people.

The rules:

1. Follow Proper RP Ediqute. You know what I mean.

2. Don't be a Dick.

3. Have fun.

What? You were expecting something witty?

The Character Sheet:

Name:

Alter-Ego:

Age:

Gender:

Super Weight (see TV Tropes article):

Powers/Skills:

Description:

Personality:

Biography:

Now, there you are. Get to it.

Well, what are you waiting for?

Name: Joe Darke

Alter-Ego: Paradox

Age: 42

Gender: Male

Super Weight (see TV Tropes article): 2

Powers/Skills: Living Shadow Examples here.

Description: Normal Identity Alter Ego (those are links)


Personality: Despite his rather calm and collected appearance, Joe Darke is all but serious. A cunning trickster at heart, this eccentric individual has been known to have a rather interesting sense of humour that can easily take on a more dark and morbid streak. Additionally he has a strong affinity for collecting things, often taking souvenirs from the crimes he has prevented and collecting other interesting objects as well. Having a playful and mischievous personality Joe enjoys (more or less) harmlessly tricking others in various ways. If fighting should become neccessary, then he will usually try to think of an indirect way to solve the problem, not being opposed to the liberal application of physical force, but not shying away from conversations either.

Biography: Born as the son of an accountant and a lawyer Joe's childhood certainly could hvae been more harmonic. While his parents were quite serious individuals who wanted for their child to pursue a stable, honorable career, Joe believed for that idea to be far too boring. In school he had always been playing the class clown, few people taking him seriously. But - as much as he hated to admit it - his parents were right in at least one regard. He would need a job and he had no idea what to do.
The problem was, that he was young, had no idea what to do and far too much time on his hands. And as any parent of a teenager knows, this combination leads to less sensible experiments.
And so it happened, that Joe and a group of friends ended up somewhere in Africa in the hut of a voodoo shaman to have their fortunes told. But obviously something had to go horribly wrong.
When he came to his senses again, his shadow had somehow gained sentience, sapience and the ability to move freely in semi-close proximity to Joe's body.
Deciding to put his newly-won abilities to good use, he/they now work(s) as a stage magician, dazzling crowds with moderate success.

STUFF APPROVED AS SAV HAS THOUGHT OF STUFF.

Name: Aria

Alter-Ego: Marie Roane (shut-in who lives in an old, victorian-style home that she inherited from a dead uncle. She fixes computers for a living from inside her home. Her clients call her on the phone if they need questions answered, and they drop off their computers that need fixing on her front porch. She orders everything she needs online so that no one will see her wings except when she is Aria.)

Age: 19

Gender: female

Super Weight (see TV Tropes article): 2

Powers/Skills: flight (wings) and a weak force-field

Description:

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She is about four feet tall, and also bought iron claws for her hands, which look like this:

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Her wings look like this:

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Her wingspan is about eight feet across, give or take.

She also wears a blue jay mask over the top half of her face when she is out doing superhero work:

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Personality: Though she has delicate looks, she is a spitfire. She has a nasty temper, and you do not want to get in her way when she is mad, because she will claw you with these nasty iron claws she's got. She wants to help people, but often ends up hindering more than helping, and the people don't like her very much, which has made her bitter. She is sarcastic and curses more often than a lady should, but she doesn't care.

Biography: she doesn't really know how she got her wings. One day when she was thirteen, she woke up with a blinding pain on her back, and when she looked in the mirror, she saw little stubs pushing out of her shoulders. She hid them, thinking that she was going to get a hump back or something hideous, and then a few months later, they grew into little wings that have grown larger over the past couple of years. When her parents found out, they were horrified and tried to bring her to a doctor to have them removed. She ran away so that she could keep them. Now she lives all alone in a big house her uncle left her, working on computers during the day, and attempting to fight crime at night.
But Aria is bitter, because all she ever wanted was to have a normal life. Then she got these wings and powers, and she feels compelled to help people, but oftentimes they run screaming away from her, and then she gets beat up by the bad guys and nobody even appreciates it, so she's gotten to the point where she is ready to just give up being a super hero and ready to do some kicking back. She is sick of not being appreciated and wants to give those superheros with big egos and lots of adoring fans a piece of her mind.

Name: Nicholas "Nick" Sniders

Alter-Ego: To be determined..

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Super Weight (see TV Tropes article): Super Weight: 3

Powers/Skills:

-Natural Ability-

I Call Hax - Nick can enter the electronic device through touch, his body becoming data, and get into the database with ease if unprotected. Heavy protection would require him to "fight" the coding. Damage to his body's code can become damage to his real body when he returns to the real world, for example fighting a firewall can lead to burns, and corrupted data in his leg might transfer to it breaking depending on the severity. If he becomes too injured from the code of the protected device, he can eject himself immediately from the device and come back to the real world. If the device is ruined while he is inside he will die due to the computer no longer being able to hold his code. He also cannot be aware of what is going on in the outside world unless there is a user at the computer communicating with him and telling him what is happening through commands or just typing something out on a program or anywhere on the computer in general.

NoClip -  As stated before, he can enter the electronic device and hack into it. If the device is connected to another computer, like a security camera to a monitor room, he can enter through the camera and re-materialize himself in the monitor room. He still has to deal with protection and same rules as the ability stated above apply. He cannot go to a unconnected device unless that device downloads his body data, speed depends on how fast the computer is.

-Created Ability-

Grapple - His mechanical arm can shoot his hand out and grapple onto various objects. He can use this to both in battle and to transport himself around without technology.

Claw - He can use the claws used for grappling to slash at people and things.

Beeam - The artificial arm has the ability to fire a powerful ray at will, problem is, the arm is not powerful enough to maintain its form when the ray is fired. It will grow extremely hot and the arm will fall apart and not only burn his shoulder with the heat, but leave him with his old reopened wound and will bleed to death if left alone. That is, if he isn't killed by the recoil.

*These are not actually named in the rp |D

Description:
-Natural-
Nick is a short haired individual who's hair is naturally brown. the ends of his hair are a slight red due to him dying his hair at one point, but its not obvious. His height is slightly less than average, him ending up shorter than most people he meets. As for his build, he doesn't pack many muscles and has average human strength.

-Robotic-
His right arm is entirely grey mechanical steel, and is obvious in appearance about this, and is connected to his body, he cannot feel with it due to it being electronic and lacking the ability to tell his nerves what to feel. His robotic limb can get a little wet without short circuiting and becoming useless, but being coated in water could damage the arm and render it in need of repairs. The shock given off of the electricity being conducted will definitely do harm to Nick and he could possibly die if not treated.
His mechanical limb is stronger than the other limb, being robotic and having to keep him connected to the other end of the claw when doing things like Grappling.

-Casual Clothes-
In a day out and about in the city, Nick will wear long sleeved shirts or jackets and leather gloves to hide his robotic arm. He tends to hole himself up in his apartment in the summer due to the heat, and his robotic arm is a good way of foes and cops recognizing him from is "alter ego". He prefers to look decent, but not stand out or give people any reason to look at him, so he wears plain clothes with no logos or designs. Logos and designs attract attention to him as curious eyes attract to the bright colors of a shirt, jacket, or pants to read what they state all the time, so he prefers not doing such a thing.

-On Duty Clothes-
When he's out and about being Mr. Bad*ss and anonymously tipping police off to small crimes such as kidnapping and other various crimes that used to be considered big, he favors being completely hidden. The less skin and body he shows, the better. The less evidence he leaves, the better. He has taken to using a long black coat, which he plans to replace hopefully in the future since he thinks it just makes him look like a creepy flasher. He usually wears a ski mask or something to cover his entire face. He allows his Mechanical claw to be shown, in case he needs it for close combat though he is more likely to run, and favors retreating to electronic to devices in order to avoid being seen.

Personality:

In favor of not being tracked down and brutally murdered in his sleep, Nick favors being unseen. He wears clothes with no logos and tries to blend rather than try to repel or attract the eyes of the public. He doesn't keep up with fashion or other hobbies like this and usually spends his time surfing the web from his computer, as a normal user despite how much easier it would be to just go in his own computer and have everything right away, or just watching T.V.

He tends to be on the lazy side when it comes to everyday activities, but doesn't abuse his power in being able to enter electronics, and finds it outright stupid to use them in public. He usually stalks about in the night when he is performing his little acts of justice, but he doesn't outright burst in through a brick wall like some supers might. He likes to sneak his way towards electronics and follow a plan before making his presence known, since by then it would be too late and he would be in the system. He doesn't stick around to fight, and usually just pushes the enemies far enough into the open for them to be noticed before fleeing the scene, as he lacks the confidence and courage to fight hand to hand against the armed seeing as all he has is a claw not built for combat.

Nick is quite the tech-geek, after all he has spent his entire life around, and even IN at some parts, computers. His whole life has pretty much revolved around computers, but even so, with this knowledge he can't use it to help him in computer hacking except for naming the foe he is going up against.

Fittingly, computer-boy is terrified of water. He can drink a glass, sit in the rain(provided he has an umbrella, waterproof jacket, or some kind of cover), and take a shower, although difficult with his mechanical arm, with ease, raging rivers, deep dark lakes, and vast oceans, are a definite "Not going".

Biography:

Nick was the first and only born to a couple that lived rather luxurious lives. His father was a researcher that assisted in studies for the world's first teleportation device and his mother worked as a teacher for an elementary school. The two parents managed to balance their work and family time well, even going on vacations to a beach house.

Their trips to the ocean ceased, their final trip having resulted in Nick losing an arm to a shark during a rather bloody trip into the sea. The life changing moment for Nick didn't quite seem to have a more disastrous effect on the family than just a harder time for Nick's daily life. His father became more stressed, feeling that the trip was his fault, and he desired to drain his worries in the form of work.

He began to spend less and less time with the family, until the mother forced the father to take their still young child with him for once. The father agreed half halfheartedly, not having thought about the decision much and only wanted to silence his wife's nagging.

The field trip seemed fun for Nick, he could see all kinds of cool machines and watch the screens at the workplace create pretty digital colors. The co-workers were kind to him, but most hardly paid any attention to him after getting used to his presence while the others were a bit concerned with bringing him here.

He was asked to stay in an employee lounge for an hour or so, while his dad performed some testing for the device in another room with Restricted access that only allowed certain employees through. Nick, being the impatient and adventurous boy he was, decided to disobey, and walked around the facility on his own. He made his way to a strange door, and entered as soon as curiosity struck.

The room was dark and scary to the small boy, but he tried to put on a brave front by walking deeper into the room. The bravery drained once he heard a whirling noise, causing him to dash to the nearest door he could feel, open it, and close it behind him. His fear only grew as a light turned on to reveal he was enclosed in some kind of cylinder and the door was locked.

There was a bright flash and Nick didn't know what had happened, but the door had opened to reveal his father with a pale deathly afraid face before Nick had blacked out. He had been run through the transportation device, and it wasn't meant for organic objects to be put through it. The device had failed, and left Nick in the hospital for days. He managed to survive, but his father had become overcome with guilt of nearly killing his own son twice so close together.

His father destroyed the device, along with the plans. His destruction of the millions of dollars worth of damage caused him to be fired, and the project ceased to be funded. A few days after, his mother and father got a divorce, and Nick had to live with his mother the rest of his life.

He had become 15 when it first happened, he had been playing a mass multi-player online role-playing game out of complete boredom. He had been bored and rather lazy since high school started, and his grades were plummeting. He had been staring at the screen, wondering what it would be like to be actually in a fantasy world that was more exciting than his life, when he found himself erupting into code and finding himself in a strange space, his computer.

As natural, he freaked out. He had no idea what he was doing, and immediately wished to be out. When he willed it, he was spit back out of the computer and back in his room. When he realized that he was perfectly fine, he began to experiment.

He discovered his abilities, and began to have a little fun with them. He invaded facilities and read their research, becoming a bit dare-devilish and mischievous. When he hit 17 he began to form the idea that it didn't feel quite right in doing this. This was when he began his work as a vigilante, he used the research he had snagged in his earlier ages to create his newer arm, and moved away from his old hometown to a new one. He wanted to lose all connections with his old life if he figured he was going to be doing this.

He developed his style as he went, desiring to be unseen and even dying his hair a different color due to a small incident on a camera where the top of his mask had been torn and his hair color was seen. His sloth had gotten the better of him though, as he neglects to re-dye his hair and he ended up with the red tips. Nick now resides in a low rent and low rate apartment, his pay sourcing from a low paying job.

Name: Mara Black

Alter-Ego: Vixen

Age: 22

Gender: Female

Super Weight (see TV Tropes article): 2 (?)

Powers/Skills: Enhanced eye-sight (better night vision), enhanced speed/smell/hearing, thicker/longer nails.

Description: Mara is a young woman around the height of 5' 3". Her skin is a light shade of tan, as she appears to be out in the sun sometimes but not too much. Her hair is a platinum blonde, reaching down to the base of her shoulder blades as she keeps her hair done in a braid at most times. Her nails, thicker than most human nails, are kept a bit long so she can fight with them if she needed to.

Her eyes are her most distinctive trait though, as they are a bright golden color at the outer rim and a darker muddy yellow near the pupil, the eyes of a fox. She wears chocolate brown contacts when in public during the day most times, but the contacts irritate her eyes so she tends to avoid going out in daylight.

Personality: She is a little to trusting of others, causing her to be open to being used a lot for the personal gain of others. She is also a bit timid and nervous when she is around a large group of people, tending to slip off to be by herself for a little bit before returning to the group, as she doesn't want to hurt their feelings by leaving if they didn't want her to. She isn't the type to start a conversation, but enjoys talking with others from time to time.

She has a split personality though that tends to show itself when she is highly stressed out, afraid, or angry. This personality is very aggressive, itching for a fight wherever it can be found. This split personality is also more animalistic than her true personality, becoming more distant from others and lashing out when somebody gets to close that she doesn't want near.

Biography: Mara was originally born blind, her eyes not having developed properly when she was in the womb. She would be picked on at school, lead to places by other children and left there or lead to a place she shouldn't have been. She was taken out of school in first grade and home schooled from then on, rarely let outside due to her parents not wanting her to get into harms way. She was quickly forgotten though for her younger brother, who wasn't blind and was normal.

After this she did mostly for herself, getting snapped at by her parents when she would break something on accident due to her moving around blind. Her brother, though spoiled, took sympathy on her when he was ten, and started helping her himself. When she finally reached the age of 19 her brother moved out of the house and brought her with him so she wouldn't have to live with their parents anymore. He was working on becoming a micro biologist in college for DNA studies, inspired by his sister.

While he went to college and worked, he eventually came across a test program that was looking for people who were either born blind or became it. He confronted his sister with this and, with a little persuasion, she agreed to do this program. It took a few months before she was brought into the facility for the beginning of the testing along with three others. For the first few months it was just testing of the individual for their personality as well as their health, mental, and emotional statuses.

When the time for the procedure finally came, she was 20 years of age. She stills remembers the sounds of everything that was going on before she was put under, how cold it was in the room, how the men spoke with serious yet excited tones. She remembers how the excited tone somehow frightened her. When she awoke she felt cloth over her eyes, unable to see due to this. She remembers hearing a man's voice telling her he would take the cloth off in a few hours, and that she was lucky. When she asked why, he only said that the other's couldn't handle it, and that they had to be sent home before they could start the procedure. It wasn't until much later that she would learn that they had horrible reactions towards what happened during the procedure, and that they died.

When her bandages were removed, she had to retreat away from the doctor a bit as everything was very bright and hazy to her. Once the lights were turned down and a few minutes passed, she was exposed to a new and what appeared to be a beautiful world. She walked around the room she was in, looking at everything and observing it with a childlike curiosity and with joy.

Over the year though she was still being taken into the testing room, getting injections and having blood drawn and other sorts of tests. She noticed her nails were thicker and much harder to cut with normal nail clippers, her hearing also becoming much better as well, and her reaction speed as well as her overall running speed being faster than what was normal. This is what she overheard from the doctors anyways. One day though she heard the doctors talking, and heard how they were planning to end the tests, and to end her so the project couldn't be redone. When they came to get her she had retreated to a corner of her room, panicking as she was afraid to die.

This was when her split personality came out for the first time, and with the doctors coming in with no guns, she had taken them out quickly. While she herself doesn't remember exactly what happened, she escaped the facility and ran back to her brother's home. When she got there he listened to her story and hid her in his home for the night. The next day though he sent her to a new city, telling her he would let her know of any news he had about the facility as he was sure that they would be searching for her, but to keep out of any trouble so she doesn't draw attention to herself.

Now she lives in an apartment, having a job as a florist at a nearby store so she doesn't have to travel far. She stays in her apartment otherwise, until nightfall that is. At night she goes around the city, keeping herself in shape and with no annoying contacts in, since it's harder to see her eyes at night for a normal person. Lately she has been intervening with minor crimes, such as stopping a man from running off with a woman, stopping minor robberies, etc. Even the very cliche help as in getting a cat out of a tree.

Since her lifestyle doesn't really allow it, as well as what she is, she doesn't have many friends. She makes up for her communicational time as she plays games a lot online when she is home during the day, her 'friends' being those who are online when she actually refers to them.

WIP AS ALL HELL.

Name: Cameron

Alter-Ego: N/A

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Super Weight (see TV Tropes article): 2 (Thinker 5)

Powers/Skills: Precognition through Percentages

Description:

Personality:

Biography: Cameron's powers awoke at the age of thirteen, during a math test; the first thing they told them was that he had a zero point eight percent of passing.
He never really liked his powers, exploitable though they were.

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Before I start on this guy's bio, I need to know: how are supers treated in this world? How many supers are there, proportional to non-supers? Is there an organized, government funded group of superheroes? How does the public treat powered individuals outside of their jobs as superheroes/supervillains? How are superheroes funded, if not by the government or by a corporate force?

Name: Lucian

Alter-Ego: none, as he is a walking, talking time-bomb of electricity and technology-dead zone.

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Super Weight (see TV Tropes article): 3

Powers/Skills: electrokinesis: powers of electricity
-Electrical Field: he's a technology dead-zone. Since he has little to no control over his powers, he constantly emits an electrical field around him in a four foot radius, in which all things technology power down because of the electrical interference. Once he leaves the area, they usually come back on, but with weird glitches and messed-up hardware. Sometimes they don't come back on at all.
-Electrical Blast: electricity constantly builds up inside him as he absorbs ambient electricity from the air and technology around him. He has no control and no way to safely disperse the electrical power, so when he gets filled up (which can happen at any time), energy explodes out of him destructively and dangerously, causing a blast of ten-mile radius.
-Electromagnetism: when he can focus enough to control the electric field around him, he can create a magnetic field which allows him to float and fly through the air. This power takes a lot out of him though, and he has to rest for long periods after using it. He also has a very hard time concentrating long enough to control his powers to that extent, and thus using this ability is rare.

Description:

he looks like this:

Personality: He is not your typical superhero, as he thinks that he is worthless and he is scared of his own shadow. when he does superhero-like things (such as saving someone) it's usually a happy side effect to an accident of his. He has little to no control over his powers, and he when he TRIES to do something, he will mess it up, usually ending up doing the opposite thing.

Biography: WIP

antonm1107 wrote:

How are supers treated in this world? How many supers are there, proportional to non-supers? Is there an organized, government funded group of superheroes? How does the public treat powered individuals outside of their jobs as superheroes/supervillains? How are superheroes funded, if not by the government or by a corporate force?

Treatment really depends on how well the Super manages his/her image and who you are talking to. Some will defend Supers, others will attack them.

The rate of Supers to regular humans is probably somewhere between one in a million to one in five million.

Some Supers do take on jobs with their country's government. Others will work as vigilantes. This depends on the individual.

How the public treats them depends on two things. 1)Are they outed? Or do they keep a secret identity? 2) How well do they manage their image?

Number 2 can be the difference between Tony Stark and Bruce Banner

Vigilante Supers usually fund their operations on their own accord, obviously.

Sav, Blue, Crim, and Sil have been accepted.

Registrations for this thread are now closed.

However, if further interest is shown, I may open a secondary thread.