Yes to both
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Gonna have a backup in here in case Hazzy doesn't show.
- Name: Jim Ronald Reuel Martin
- Alias: O.R.C.: Omni-aware Riot Controller
- Hero/Villain: Villain, on Parole
- Sex: M
- Age: 19
- Appearance: Jim's body is robust and powerful, built more for utility than appearances. He's built like a barrel, with a prodigious gut and limbs like tree trunks. He has a few irregularities, but is overall pretty human—his eyes are bright red, and expand and contract with more in common with a cat than a person's, his heart beats way faster than a person's, his skin is warm all the time like he's running a fever, and his nose huffs like a horse's. He is 6'10" tall, weighing in at around 300 pounds. He has very pale skin and extremely curly yellow hair in a loose mop on top of his head.
- Assets:
- A set of bandannas, sockhats, and other heavy obscuring clothes; he never made a real Villain getup.
- An middle-class apartment, notable for having not just a living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom, but two bedrooms.
- A black luxury sedan (stolen)
- Power/abilities/skills:
- ORC's skin doesn't resist bullets and blades, but the fat and muscle underneath can stop most things before it hits anything vital; blood loss is still a pretty big issue, though.
- ORC's senses inform him whenever someone is in a heightened emotional state; they glow gently, they smell spicy, his ears pick out sounds they make more easily, and they feel warm to the touch.
- ORC can "fasten" his targets by touch, harmlessly fastening a person or object to the nearest other object it's touching. The object to anchor to is found by tracing a line through the object from his point of touch and anchoring it to an object on the other side. The fastenings draw from his strength to resist being broken just like any other muscle, and anything he couldn't keep held together with his hands will break.
- ORC cannot willingly end a life, and is mentally compelled to stop others from doing so.
- History:
- ORC was created by the United States military as a proposed solution to the increased militarization of the Police. Instead of entrusting fallible human beings to not kill people, or to try to educate them to not be horrible people, the US decided that the much easier thing would be to play God and create an entirely new form of life: the Omni-aware Riot Controller.
- Upon his creation, ORC was sent to watch over a Police department in California, which is where things went wrong: he quelled Police officers just as often as he did criminals. Seeing no difference in citizens under the eyes of the law, and also not giving a single fuck when it was explained to him, ORC was quickly fired and sent back to the manufacturers. ORC wouldn't have that—he busted out of the convoy escorting him, went into hiding as best he could, and went into a period of deep seclusion and introspection. Between sessions of philosophization, ORC got the false identity of Jim Ronald Reuel Martin and took what he needed, trying to only steal from people who could deal with the loss.
- He finally concluded that if the law wasn't really going to protect people equally, then the other option would be to enforce his own version of the law in Vigilanteism—he wasn't fond of the premise of being a superhero, not exactly at least, and Villain was too loaded a term for him. This didn't go well either, as his first act was to break into the Police station, smash the Chief's head into his desk, and tell him to shape up or he'd be back. He didn't shape up, and ORC came back, which ended in a lot more hurt cops. ORC got arrested on his way out, and his brief stint of villainy was ended. Luckily, parole rolled around, and he got paired up with that right away. Maybe it would be worth it.
edited 5th Dec '15 1:54:45 PM by Taco
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John Ronald Reuel — is that guy Tolkien in disguise?
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground
In the long tradition of shitty super-aliases, yes.
Alias: Adjutant. (With his General dead, though, it's likely he'll change the name.)
Hero/Villain: Hero.
Registered: Yes, but inactive ever since the death of his partner, General.
Sex: Male.
Age: Adam is in his late forties, though appears to be in his late twenties.
Appearance: Outside of costume, Adam is generally seen wearing an undercoat, tie and black slacks. Before the death of General, Adam generally wore a purple tie and a yellow jacket ontop; after the death of General, he has shifted to wearing a plain white tie and no jacket covering. There is not much visible difference between this and the costume he wears when he is going out as a superhero, but his primary costume is made of much more durable and flexible fabrics. In general, he is tall and somewhat intimidating, standing at a height of 6'8" and appearing very well built as a result of his powers. He is mixed race, though he has more features from the Hmong side of his family.
Assets: Nothing out of the ordinary; a small, modern house meant for a family of three. A relatively new car, but not new enough to attract any special attention..
Powers:
- Super strength and durability: Adam can punch through six feet of concrete, and given enough time he can snap a diamond in half. While his bones and muscles are not quite indestructible, it takes insane amounts of physical force to cause them real damage. This is not the case with fire, radiation, extreme cold or electricity; the same amount that can take out a normal man can take him out.
- Healing Touch: Adam heals at a quicker rate, and anyone touching him also heals at this increased rate. While it isn't enough to heal fatal wounds or major injuries, he's often able to prevent near fatal injuries from progressing as he brings victims of violent crimes to a hospital. Because of this power, he also seems to age slower than normal.
Ly's mother moved to America with her own parents, settling down in California. He was born soon after their arrival and was named Adam, after the dead American soldier who was his father. As he grew, he immediately began to show signs of his powers. The most obvious one, though, was when he pulled apart the steel bars of his playpen and crawled out to figure out where his Mom had went. (She was looking for a job.) His mother, calling him 'her soldier', tried to teach him how to control his powers as he grew and tried to show him how to hide them from others. For the most part, she succeeded.
Entering his teenage years, Adam met a girl named Lihn Yang. She was older than him by several years and he didn't ever remember meeting her, but there was something about her that he could have sworn he remembered. He talked to his Mom about this, and she said that she had fled to America at the same time as a Hanh Yang and her baby daughter. Adam listened, and one day he went to talk to Lihn. When he did, though, what he saw amazed him.
Hidden in a fenced in lot awaiting construction workers between two houses was Lihn Yang, who was surrounded by many glowing plates of silver and gold 'energy', as far as he could tell, revolving and changing shape to other things. He jumped the fence and approached her, startling her; she jerked towards him and the shapes shifted, immediately becoming an assortment of blades and hammers and axes. *WIP*
Work in progress, should be done soon if there's nothing that jumps out to y'all as a problem.
ORC accepted.
http://www.last.fm/user/sgtpendulum Yo, check out what I'm listening, it'll be heat, brah :^)
That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth
Okay, finished my application for now. If the backstory part seems sparse, that's because I'd kind of like to leave characterization and stuff for in rp.
Re: Countermeasures: Jaime's powers can be countered by mental fortitude, basically. Especially if the person knows what he's doing. If a person buries the information under enough other thoughts, they can hide what he's looking for, and usually he'll go back to avoid getting lost.
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What do you mean by "bury under other thoughts"? What do you mean by "avoid getting lost?" How do you imagine it playing out in the RP?
edited 8th Dec '15 4:03:58 PM by Starbound2
That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth
I feel like I'm probably stepping into a cliche here, but people's minds (the way he does this, at least) are like mazes, with (usually) the information or memories making up the walls.
When I say bury the thoughts, I mean switching the 'maze' around to make it harder for him to find what he's looking for. Getting lost means losing the goal he went in for and being unable to get back to his entrance point and wake up. If this happens, he'll need to search around for the place he entered. (Usually this is a memory or thought, so he only needs to find that to wake up again.)
The way this would play out irp is I would post that he used his powers, maybe describe a bit of what he sees along the way (in the case that he's entering an npc's mind), then say whether or not he found the memory he was looking for. Then he'd leave.
Sorry if this is hard to follow >_>... Should I just scrap this and give him simpler powers?
edited 8th Dec '15 5:24:49 PM by Daydre
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I'll be looking over your profile one more time Daydre.
http://www.last.fm/user/sgtpendulum Yo, check out what I'm listening, it'll be heat, brah :^)
Something something DBZ
Can I sgin up?
What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets, but enough talk have at you!
That One Gal
- Name: Alvin Guff
- Alias: Al Vanguff (technically; it's a clerical error), Vita-Man C (given, not one he likes)
- Hero/Villain: He's more a hero than a villain, but he doesn't actively look for crimes to stop or anything.
- Registered?: He's registered, yeah, but doesn't listen much to what the government tells him to do.
- Sex: He's not technically either, but calls himself a male.
- Age: 17
- Appearance: Let's get this out of the way fast; Alvin is an orange. A perfectly humanoid orange. Rough skin, juicy insides, that citrus smell, the whole shebang. He doesn't have a single hair on him, aside from a handful of odd leaves on his head that gives the appearance of short-cut hair. He's not too tall, around 5'2", though he tends to slouch and make himself seem smaller. He simply wears regular civilian clothes, since there's no point in a secret identity when even the blind can tell who/what you are.
- Assets: A small basement apartment and a pair of roller-blades.
- Power/abilities/skills: Well, he's an orange, so he can't do much. But there's always a silver-lining to every cloud, and this new state of living has taken away a few prohibitive things that humans normally have.
- Pain-resistance: As he has no nerves, Alvin can handle any and all kinds of pain, even some of the fatal ones. Electricity, broken bones, dismemberment: Nothing can phase him now! Of course, oranges aren't invincible, so he's much weaker compared to a normal human. Not to mention that any heavy damage done to the head will affect him, so he's not invincible.
- Rapid Cell Regeneration: An odd but handy side-effect to the experiment that made him this thing, his cells can reproduce and heal at a much faster rate than normal. So if he loses an arm, all he needs to do is tape it back on for a while, and it'll be as good as new!
- Robotic Endoskeleton: With no bones and no nerve-endings, Alvin wouldn't be able to move if it wasn't for a specially made skeleton planted right in his body. He can essentially do anything forever, since he can't tire out his body or get sore. It's still brittle, and liable to be snapped should something usually painful happen. Not a perfect solution, but it works.
- History: There's not a lot to say about old Alvin. He used to be a normal kid, living life in this weird-ass town full of heroes and villains. His parents, archaeologist partners, had left the year prior for a long expedition involving some magical, probably-cursed artifact, and left Alvin home alone for a good while. He wasn't worried, since they usually went on these international trips and nothing ever went wrong for him. Except that this time, a run-away villain happened to demolish their entire house while he was at school. He couldn't collect any insurance because it wasn't his name on the forms, and he was promptly kicked to the streets without any hope of getting his home back. He managed to find a cheap apartment to rent, and he decided to live there until he could scrape from money together to pay for the house. Between the odd-jobs he collected, Alvin found an ad for a test-dummy, which seemed to pay quite a lot. His better judgement was on a vacation that day, so he signed up for it. What was supposed to be a simple observation involving the changes in human DNA turned into a genetic transformation. Most of Alvin's original DNA was overwritten by that of an orange, but luckily enough he was able to retain a large chunk of his mental capacity. As pissed as he was about being turned into something else, he still got paid, and didn't end up suing the people who did it to him. So he was then stuck - in a house that wasn't his own, in a body that shouldn't have existed, and the shame of what would happen when his parents found out - but all he could do was wait it out. He registered himself with the government, just because he didn't want to be mistaken for someone who broke their parole, and didn't expect him to be doing anything heroic. Amazingly, though, he was able to stop a couple of robberies and even one of the lesser-known villains, and had accidentally started to make a reputation for himself. Not that he likes being looked up to like that.
Yeah, I'm not sure if this is too silly or something for the roleplay. A year ago I thought, "What would be a power to have that's both totally useless but utterly useful?" And somehow, I thought up 'being an orange'. And now I've got this guy loitering around my thoughts. Figured it wouldn't hurt to try him out here, right?
@daydre Alright, I tell ya what, I'll accept your character and see how it goes. It's not physically OP anyway, so it should be fine for now.
@truth I'm liking this guy already, accepted.
http://www.last.fm/user/sgtpendulum Yo, check out what I'm listening, it'll be heat, brah :^)
That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth
Thanks, sorry it was so much of a hassle to get that sorted. >_>
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Mike Jones
Name: Harry Balse
Alias: Douche
Hero/Villain: Villain
Registered?: No
Sex: M
Age: 26
Appearance: Harry Balse is an extremely normal guy. Like, not even forum RP normal where he's pretty handsome and physically in great shape. He's not quite overweight, but he's got a gut going. Not a lot of muscle, but he's started working out since he became a villain. He doesn't usually dress very fashionably. He always just throws on a t-shirt and some jeans that haven't been washed in a decade.
As a villain, he puts on a ski mask with the word "douche" written on the forehead and a pair of black gloves.
Assets:
-Ski mask with the word "douche" written on the forehead
-Is the front man for the band "Sex Gun City"
-Really likes that pudding that you make with a powder, so he has a lot of it.
-Also that presweetend Kool-aid. The kind where you lick your fingers then stick them in the bag and then lick it off your fingers.
-A red pick-up truck
-His pet dog Moses.
Power/abilities/skills: -Can say very hurtful things to people.
-Is a very bad singer. Hearing him seeing is extremely annoying and it's impossible to concentrate when he does so.
-Is not terrible at playing bass guitar, though. Not great, but he won't ruin a song if he's playing bass.
-Doesn't like Hispanic people very much.
-Owns a ski mask with the word "douche" written on the forehead
History: Harry Balse went through most of his life being nice. Then everyone started being a supervillain and he decided to use it to go around being a dick to people. Mostly this consists of just punching random strangers on the street, stealing candy bars from gas stations, and once he stole a small child's doll.
Misc:
edited 15th Dec '15 1:54:52 AM by HeroicSociopath
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
Would that dude up there serve as comic relief?
"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
I wanted to ask if sign ups are still open.
I don't think they ever closed.
Would war time experimentation by desperate US scientists during the Vietnam War be an okay origin? In addition, is it alright if I include another superpowered character that dies during my main character's backstory?