History Roleplay / AtherCity

* TheMessiah: Nick. He's currently devoted his life to improving human-mutant relations, and has gone so far as to confront the BigBad by offering him tea before fighting. His pacifist outlook helps a bit.

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Jonathan, on the first sight, has 'only' telepathy and telekinesis. On the other side, he can get really creative with them. [[hottip:List by character's author: [[BarrierWarrior create force fields]]; control [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[AnIcePerson ice]], and [[ShockAndAwe electricity]]; [[HealingFactor control]] [[PoisonousPerson chemistry]] via the [[DisintegratorRay manipulation of molecular bonds]]; have PhotographicMemory; [[BulletTime speed up his perception of time]]; [[FeelNoPain block out pain]]; [[MindProbe read]] and [[MindControl control]] minds, as well as [[PsychicBlockDefense defending]] against these.]] Lucinda went there first, but Jonathan doesn't have her very painful range restriction.

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* BulletProofFashionPlate: Heavily averted with Nick. Almost every fight he's part of ends with one or both of his wings broken.

** TakeThat, [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth.]]

** BadassAbnormal: All mutants.
*** And, in the sequel, mages.

* DeadLittleSister: Dominic's mother and three sisters in the original, killed in the nuclear explosion. The loss changed his very personality, such that he no longers remembers how he was before The Bomb.

** BadassAutomaton: Matthew and Achilles.

** Marvin would also be type I, considering any form of damage simply causes his body to phase around it like water. [[NightmareFuel Of course, having been dropped into Hell via an expanding hellhole at the end of AC1...]]

** Not anymore in the third game. The old universe is gone, and the True King with it.

->''"If a person doesn’t post for three weeks, then it is okay for a player to kill them. Otherwise, we assume they were eaten by giant mutant bunnies."''
-->--'''[=SpiritfChaos=] (Keyes)''', on the topic of absent posters

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** What's more, granite and etinarg can be combined in equal proportions to form granarg, [[BeyondTheImpossible which has]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible exactly zero gravity]]'' [[BeyondTheImpossible if done correctly.]]

** Done right by the two mysterious beings that abducted Jonathan Newton and Jennifer Lorenz. Not that they had much choice, being non-canonical [[TheCameo cameo appearances]] from another Kongregate forum game and all.

* FlashStep: Chaos and Dominic.

** Of note is the fact that, in said game's canon, ''both beings would be more powerful than the True King itself in one-to-one combat.'' This quote says all:
--> "''Besides, why focus our attentions on a school bully when a serial killer is on the loose? The threat of this supposed True King of Hell is negligible compared to Nightmare.''"
** ''In said game's canon''. As in, not canonical in TWA. Nothing is stronger than the True King in the Atherverse.

The sequel of the story is still ongoing, known as [[http://www.kongregate.com/forums/36-forum-games/topics/158746-the-world-after-ather-city-2-main-game The World After or Ather City 2.]] This one is run by Gambi69, although [=SpiritfChaos=] is still a major figure in the production.

** Every single fight Dominic engages in in the sequel. [[PhysicalGod Every.]] [[{{Immortality}} Single.]] [[NighInvulnerable One.]]

** Both Nick and Alex have used VideoGame/MegaMan-esque [[ArmCannon Arm Cannons.]]

******** Andrus and John have both been kidnapped. And Jack's probably dead, too.

* StaffChick: A rare male example, Connor has been training to use WhiteMagic, complete with ThouShaltNotKill ultimatum.

** The ''Juuchiyosamu'', or Ten Thousand Cold Nights katana, forged using dark magic. It contains brimstone and bloodsteel, two of the "evil" [[Unobtainium supermetals]].