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I'd like to go ahead and start playing as Amethyst, but also I'd like to add forcefields to his energy projection, cause I forgot.

Also, more NP Cs. I dunno how government and extra-government good guy organizations work. I'm tempted to call 'em Not!SHIELD until you green light something else, or if some of the following characters are working for their local government or Interpol or what.

I'm imagining some kinda vaguely international organization like SHIELD that would do espionage, disaster relief and criminal investigation and fields supers whenever they can recruit them.

Victus

• Antoinette "Vicky" Green, part-time hero, Agent Of [I DUNNO]. Mostly she works in disaster relief, but will step in wherever she may be useful or if something happens in front of her
• Adaptive Shapeshifting, Defensive: Right beneath her skin, appropriate super powered organs and glands will develop to counter any hostility she faces. Normally, these will work to somehow ward the danger away. If that's overpowered, her skin may be broken or destroyed, revealing the perfectly adapted sub-dermal armor beneath until she rapidly regenerates her skin over it. Note: This hurts like Hell.
  • Mental Defenses: This shapeshifting also functions against mental intrusion, creating new defenses as need be. Truly powerful psychic attacks will actually cause physically changes within her skull, and the very worst outwardly visible shapeshifting.
  • Omniglot: Her only permanent adaptation. If exposed to an unknown language long enough, she will eventually adapt to it, learning it. This can take weeks of constant exposure, however. The first time was one accident, when she was stuck on assignment with Umber, learning French. Since then, she's binged watch undubbed, unsubbed anime. This power is binary, so she hasn't learned a smidgen of Japanese yet. She will, one day, just suddenly know it.
• White, black hair, yellows eyes. "Pointy" is a good word to describe her. She has pointed ears, pointy fingers, her nose, her eyes, chin and even elongated fang-like canines. Her hair naturally grows in a bowl cut, if someone tipped the bowl forward so the sides of her hair ended in points. Her body is slim and she can often be mistaken for a young boy.
• Remember Darwin? Yeah, acts a lot like him.
• She grew up in Louisiana. Her power manifested in high school when she tried to intervene in a hate crime against a gay student and was murdered for it. She dug her way out of the shallow grave they left her in, completely changed. Her family didn't recognize her and she ran away from home. She tried being a homeless vigilante for a while but got recruited by [I DUNNO] at 19 to pour her talents towards more useful ends, like being a rescue worker.

Will-O-Wisp

• Jimothy "Will" Brooks, Agent of [I DUNNO]. He's bounced between their espionage and emergency rescue department
• Ghost: He creates a "dimensional bubble" around himself which has a few effects that he can pick and choose from. These are flight, intangibility and invisibility. Hence this power being called "Ghost".
  • Oddly enough, unlike many of my characters, his powers don't come complete with natural psychic defenses. There's some basic mental shielding training, but it would only trip up an inexperienced telepath.
• Congenial, people pleaser, awkward. He's a high-functioning autistic who takes to just smiling and not saying anything to avoid making faux pases.
• Tall, husky, swarthy for a white person, brown eyes and thickly curly brown hair.
• An English native born some 23 years ago. His powers manifested early in life and anti-metahuman sentiment isolated his family. His family never openly showed him any resentment, but talked about their distaste for the situation when they thought he wasn't around. He often was, invisible, intangible, by the ceiling. In his quiet attitude, he gave no sign that he knew. At 15, he ran away from home to spare them the trouble of having to deal with him. At 16, he was recruited by [I DUNNO].

Mongrel

• Mohan "Multicolored" McKenzie, consultant for [I DUNNO], non-action philanthropist
• Mohan has a number of interconnected traits, most of them tied up with magic in some fashion or another.
  • First among them is his Mage-trait. He has a naturally occuring reservoir of magical energy that can be tapped into for spells and rituals. His ranking is equivalent to the "Enhanced Strength" trait as compared to the "Super Strength" trait, meaning he hasn't even gone above what normal humans can achieve but he's the magical equivalent of "very fit".
  • He has the Esper-trait, Sight (physically tied), Magic (fine). Through his literal third eye, Mohan can see magic down to its fine nanothaums and arcane strands. He will lose this ability should something happen to his third eye.
  • He has the Intuition-trait, Magician-subtrait, Abjuration-specialty. This ability allows him to comprehend what his Esper sight sees. He can take a look at a working and reverse engineer it in his head. In fact, the two powers are so closely tied together, they may as well be one. He can intuit rituals, spells and enchantments, calculating and theorizing these workings before they are even done. It lets him take a scientific approach to magic, something the organic art normally defies.
    • The Abjuration-specialty description to his trait means he is most adept at the manipulation of magic outside of his own. Countering a spell, reworking an existing working, tweaking magic to do something slightly different as he likes. To Note: This specialty is very narrow. Mohan is an anti-mage mage. Given time and material, he might enchant an item to do something he normally can't, but when faced with something non-magical he is left without many of his tools.
  • That said, Mohan is always working on some enchanted artifact or another. However, very little of it is combat related, because Mohan is not a fighter, he is a loverscientist. He wants to make things that will change the world, not the tide of a battle.
  • Since his transformation, Mohan has gained the pseudo-Medium Reincarnation-trait. He has the voice of his previous incarnation floating in his head, Noname The Faceless One, an ancient pre-Classical mage who may have been this world's equivalent of Sorcerer Supreme at the time. Not that the entity is entirely useful. Sometimes he is even detrimental, as Noname may take control of Mohan's third eye to sate his own magical curiosity. However, he does tend to react negatively to psychic intrusion.
  • Also, he's eight foot tall monster, nine if you include the horns. He's rated at the lower bottom tier of Super Strength. Not normally inclined to physical exertion, he's still above peak-human. However, he knows very little about what to do with this power in terms of fighting. Hand-to-hand training has largely failed to stick.
• As stated, he's (now) an eight-foot (to nine) foot monster, an chimeric blending of several different animals placed over a stretched human frame. Horns, porcupine quills for hair, feline face, three eyes, each different, (right, normal and blue, left, solid black with tiny red pupil, third, green-yellow feline, moves independently), giraffe neck, a feathered chest, downy abdomen, long hairy arms with scaly hands, huge, if vestigial, butterfly wings, a leathery tail, triple jointed legs ending in pawed feet with keratin pseudo-hooves growing out the heels. Hence his codename. His nickname comes from the fact that, from tip to toe, he shifts through every color of the rainbow, starting with his red horns down to his purple colored feet.
  • He's normally in a business suit because he is a goddamn professional. A labcoat is also acceptable, when he's doing lab work.
• If he has a sin, it's pride. Like, out the wazzoo. Messianic Complex might also be a good descriptor. He wants to be helpful, kind and good, but biting off more than he can chew is just how he eats through situations, not to mention chews through scenery. He's also highly passionate about magic, and believes that it, alongside science, will solve the majority of the world's problems.
• An Irishman born 17 years ago, if you can believe, to a native son and an Indian woman. He was born beautiful, with dark skin and blue eyes. When his gift of magic came to him, particularly in its unique form, he really thought he was God's gift to the world. He openly flaunted his powers while flouting overtures by magical schools to get an educations or warning from magical governments to respect the masquerade. Mohan was attacked at 14 by a pack of witch hunters. In desperation, he attempted to tap a wild node for power, something way beyond his strength. He somehow managed to survive, killing his attackers in a variety of ways, but was grossly mutated into what he was now in the process.
  • The magical community approached him again, thinking he surely learned his lesson in humility. He angrily rejected them this time, and espoused that it wasn't his pride that did this to him, but lack of direction. He, if anything, became even more arrogant, and holier-than-thou. He had a mission, he was going change, no, save the world, peeling magic and the masquerade apart and disseminate it widely. He attached himself to, in his opinion, a far more modern organization in [I DUNNO], working as a consultant in mystical matters. In his own time, he continues his research.

edited 8th Nov '16 9:26:55 PM by God_of_Awesome

Finally! Welcome to the game, GOA! I'll prepare some way for Amethyst to enter the story soon. Maybe finally bring in the other Gem-bearers?

And thanks again for all the great characters, I'll add them in ASAP! Don't worry about the organization's name, I'm sure we'll come up with a good name soon!

And there was much rejoicing

edited 30th Jul '16 3:42:38 PM by Lt.BGob

I figure they're the same people who have First Night on lockdown.

GOA, can I borrow your IDUNNO agency for my character's backstory? I was gonna make her a former fed, but this is much more useful, especially since she's gonna be eeeevil.

Hey Booky! You back in the game?

Sure? I dunno what the agency is gonna be exactly. That's up to Sijo.

Yeah, just let me finish polishing and I will submit my character.

I'm thinking of making it a SHIELD type agency. Just need a good name.

Some kinda UN organization? The United Knights?

Costumed Law United Enforcement = CLUE

T Actical Law Organization regarding Superhumans or TALOS

Costumed Armored International Enforcement = CAINE

Superhuman International DE Fense AR Mored = SIDEARM

Costumed AR Mored I Nternational Enforcement = CARMINE

Superhuman United Protection and Enfo Rcement = SUPER

Ok if I don't stop there I won't

Hmm. I like TALOS best. Opinions?

(And once again, my thanks to Booky, man of a thousand namings! )

I like TALOS and SUPER.

I'll take this as an excuse to practice my own acronym skills.

• American Elite Guard for International Safety (AEGIS)
• Tactical Reconnaissance Operatives for Justice Across Nations (TROJAN)

I like TALOS the most so far, though. Has a nice ring to it.

edited 31st Jul '16 7:12:16 PM by NesClassic

Those are really good! Thought TROJAN will naturally lead to condom jokes... We should totally go with that one!

One vote each please.

• Identity: Charlotte Silverberg
  • Alter Ego: The One-Eyed King (Supervillain, Secret)
• Powers & Abilities: Charlotte has the ability to see, speak, and act through any representation or depiction of herself, be it a picture, a video, a drawing, a doll, or a costume of one of her many famous roles. She utilizes this in a myriad of ways - from simply gathering reconnaissance, to communicating with The One-Eyed King's cultists, to manipulating any mentally unstable fans of hers with due plausible deniability.
• Description: Charlotte aspires to capture the classic image of Hollywood glamor, wearing dyed blonde hair in a curled, short bob cut, emulating the beautiful Marilyn Monroe. However standing at 5'10" her height breaks the illusion of being one and the same as the famous actress, though with a fair face and gorgeous clothing, it little matters that her looks aren't one-to-one.
  • As the One-Eyed King, Charlotte wears a white tuxedo with a simple one-eyed mask,◊ along with white gloves with the symbol of the eye on their palms. She binds her breasts and uses a voice modulator if she feels she needs to make a public appearance as her persona, though she often speaks through one of her cultists, all of whom dress in exactly the same manner as her when they perform their duties to the cult.
• Personality: Glamorous and affectionate, adoring and gracious, these are the traits of Charlotte Silverberg the world knows her for, an Easton hometown darling who became a shining star of Hollywood. But underneath that glitz and glamour Charlotte hides an ambitious, manipulative identity that seeks to spread her influence not just through popularity and the spotlight, but beneath the shadows, subtle and unseen, and ultimately, someday with direct and absolute force. She uses her acting skills in conjuncture with all her psychological expertise to hide this, while still reaching for her goals in secret.
• Background: Charlotte was initially born and raised in Easton, but a job opportunity opened up for her mother in Hollywood, causing her to move to the west coast. Then at around age 15 (25 years ago), the mysterious event known as The Rupture happened, spreading madness, technological interference, and general chaos throughout California before it closed a few hours later, all cause to its sudden appearance unexplained. Deciding to follow in her mother's footsteps, Charlotte went to college at UCLA to study film and the arts, but around that time her powers awoke - ironically, while she slept, and dreamed about a red room where a stalker of hers was hanging up photos of her taken from afar. She tried to speak to him - and succeeded, to her and the stalker's surprise. She gradually drove him mad with her talking photos, and her studies shifted away from film to psychology, sociology, anthropology, anything which studied how people responded and acted in various circumstances, majoring in psychology with a film minor. Nonetheless she still joined the movie scene, her connections with her actress mom letting her rise up among the ranks of stardom. Then around age 25, on the 10th anniversary of the Rupture, the One-Eyed King appeared. The disguised Charlotte spread a gospel of the signs of dangers to come - the rise in superpowers, of mysterious events, of the coming end of the common man. Creating Cascade, a transhumanist cult, she spoke of the need to ascend, to match the growing terrors in the world with their own, unified overwhelming force, to transform and change and gear up for this cataclysm. At some point, Charlotte moved back to Easton, a darling famous figure returning to her hometown to throw her hat in politics, running for mayor to help address her city's issues. Even if she loses, she'll have her eyes and ears everywhere...

work in progress

edited 2nd Aug '16 8:23:23 PM by Starbound2

I like TALOS and AEGIS personally.

A.T.L.A.S.

Abnormal Tactics, Logistics & Armaments Services

edited 31st Jul '16 11:59:13 PM by God_of_Awesome

I really like that one!

I honestly used an online acronym creator, so I can't really claim credit for mine.

Since this game is a communal effort, TALOS wins (unless some else wants to vote on it, I'm not using it yet.)

Oh and Devi Diva is approved.

If TALOS, might I suggest then Tactical Abnormalities Logistics Organization & Services?

Hmm... it does sound better; I don't want it to be just about superhumans.

OK by everybody else?

I still prefer ATLAS though, Agent Of ATLAS has alliterative appeal for one, befits its position as a global peacekeeping unit and I even got a symbol for it, the Titan Atlas carrying the UN symbol.