Would of said this before but that cursed thing called sleep got in the way...
For reasons passing understanding, I actually have all the original issues of Amethyst somewhere in in my collection of comics. And it is awesome. The reboot version is an abomination.
"You are my future selves? Am I having a Mid-Life Crisis?" The War Doctor - Day of The Doctor
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...Curious, would it be possible to play a version of Circuit Breaker
here? She belongs to Marvel, though her original origin ties in to The Transformers, her rebooted version would not, instead being an overall robot hater, building a bit off her reasonings from Secret Wars II, with a very Broad Strokes version of her accident, possibly with an original robot character filling in.
edited 1st Dec '12 9:01:28 PM by Ronnie
While she belongs to Marvel, she hasn't appeared in a non-Transformers Marvel comic after Secret Wars II. It's not like Shuma-Gorath, who despite being named by Robert E. Howard for his Kull stories, is definitively a character associated with Marvel.
edited 1st Dec '12 9:15:40 PM by GameGuruGG
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Alright, I say we let it as long as there is no Transformers stuff. Circuit Breaker might be owned by Marvel, but Transformers are not.
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I was intending to write a revised version of her backstory, incorporating one of Marvel or DC's big companies- either Oscorp or Lexcorp- in place of Blackrock Enterprises, and one of those two heads in place of GB Blackrock- in this version, obviously acting as The Chessmaster / The Corruptor. In terms of the inciting thing, I did pretty much imagine it as an Ultron thing if I could use him, though I could easily write around that- my other thought incorporated a direct rival. I would to some degree emphasize as a point her heroic streak- even in her original TF canon, the accident happened because she was being a hero. Her hatred of machines is a motivation and one that clouds her judgement a lot, but more than hatred of machines, her empathy for humanity is what keeps her acting on the side of good- where machines aren't involved, at least.
...Hah, I got post 666.
edited 2nd Dec '12 1:23:41 PM by Ronnie
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Tony: Waitaminute, wait a minute, you teamed up with a group of my former employees turned psycho revenge seeking killers, broke into my apartment, and pointing a rather large gun to my head right now because you want to kill my butler?!
@Ronnie: Tails Doll once had a minor character whose father created the Metal
Men
. Maybe her origin could incorporate them, it Magnus originally working for Lexcorp?
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EDIT: Alright, this is semi-finalized.
Name: Circuit Breaker
Real Name: Josie Jackson Beller- often called 'Jay Jay' by those she's close to.
Gender: Female
Age: Early Twenties.
Appearance: Take a gander.
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She never takes off her costume, on the whole- as it's not entirely a costume, though some parts are removable. Though when off duty, she'll usually wear clothes over it, whatever fits the occasion.
Alignment: Somewhere on the border of Anti-Hero and Anti-Villain.
Personality: Josie Jackson Beller is a very interesting person to be around, nowadays. She is calloused and bitter on the outside, but now and then, you'll see a chink in her armor- and no, not her suit. Despite what one might think, with her technological genius, she hates robots- not all of them, just the ones uppity enough to think they actually think. Those that can act “independently.” They seem to be alive, but as far as being really alive goes, they're nothing but an empty mockery- what happens when a man decides he wants to play god and create life. If you're lucky enough to be close to her, though, you know there's no woman better to have on your side than Josie- her loyalty to her friends and empathy for her fellow man is admirably large, and she's always humble about herself.
Powers and Abilities: None natural, save a genius level proficiency in engineering and electronics. Her superpowers come entirely from her “suit”, described below.
Weapons and Equipment: Distributed Automated Neural Circuit-Integrated Relay. This is the silver, bonded “suit” she wears. It's not removable- not easily, at least. The suit directly contacts her nervous system and muscles at key points, allowing her to move as a normal human despite her paralysis from the neck down. It also allows her to:
- shoot controlled blasts of excess electricity, up to 20 feet range.
- disrupt and manipulate circuitry of machines (These powers are limited by her own concentration and the complexity of the machines involved. Most non-sentient machines are rather simple for her to command with a moment's focus, but sentient machines require active concentration and fight to take without concent- and a particularly strong one could theoretically put her out of commission a long while. Granted, in canon that only happened with Unicron himself, but since this is an RP, it's pretty much going to work on the Heroic Willpower / Mental Battle principle.)
- and fly.
Origin: Josie Beller used to be more than a decent person. She was on the path to greatness. Taken under the wing of Norman Osborn just years out of high-school, given large amounts of money and Oscorp support for development on her theoretical project of a source of much cleaner energy- a Mega-Rig, capable of converting oil into cleaner, high-energy hydrogen fuel cells. Non-polluting digitized micro-scrubbers for the refinery and a semi-automated defense system finished the design. This was a perfect answer... but, on the day the Mega-Rig began operation, there was an uninvited guest- an evil robot, interested in the idea of a better energy source for himself. The robot was actually Metallo. Lex Luthor was pulling his strings, in a move to get rid of a potentially massive spike in Oscorp's stocks should the Rig take off. However, few actually know this, and next to no one can actually find a tangible link. The cheery optimism gave way to chaos as the rampant robot attempted to take over the Mega-Rig- with its ability to harvest energy, the machine could run at full efficiency for years. While most evacuated, Josie took command of the defense systems of the Mega-Rig- a robot uncontrolled with that much power could not be allowed to happen. She took him down by turning the entire rig on him- at the cost of taking the rig down as well. However, as Metallo made his last swings at her before retreat, he severed one of the electrical mains- which made the jump from him to the quickly-submerging, rather close Josie. She was paralyzed by the shock- unable to move from her neck down, save her right arm. Thankfully, she was rescued by the coast guard before she could be injured any more seriously. While recovering in the hospital, she began drawing up the plans for DANCIR- the Distributed Automated Neural Circuit-Integrated Relay. No suits for her- her time had given her time to think. She had had a 'revelation'- humanlike thinking was nothing that a machine should be doing. She hated them- she hated robots. DANCIR would be a fully integrated part of her. Most of it, at least. And, seeing how her one-track mind would make her easily led, Osborn agreed to fund it- in return for some favors (nothing she would realize as illegal) later, and her continued work as a scientist. But on her own time, she's been doing what she figures any decent person would do- using her powers to help people, and to wipe machines from the map.
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Rather good stuff, except for a couple of minor snags. Ultron has not yet been established as existing in this game's universe. Now, that's not to necessarily say that he doesn't exist, it's just that nobody's thought to bring him up in conversation. You could always have her just refer to him as "...that robot..."', and we can fill in the blanks later.
The other, lesser detail is that I'm not sure about Oscorp funding a clean energy source. I mostly think of it as the company specialising in genetic research and under-the-table weapons design. Then again, it's possible Osborn wanted to provide competition to Tony Stark's sudden interest in renewable energy.
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Well, as I figure, the idea was that she had the plans, just needed the funding- and Oscorp saw a chance for something big and grabbed her up when she brought it out. After all- in the current economy, oil is business. Replace oil, and you have a large source of profit. As to Ultron... Yeaah, it was the best I could approximate her usual origin. Though vague could work. It being an unknown quantity would help her generalized hatred... Hmm.
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The only other huge evil robot I can think of would be Ultimo, a giant space robot at the Mandarin's beck and call. There's probably a robot in the DC universe that I'm missing.
Yeah, I was half-thinking Lexcorp too, but I want to save the intro of Lex Luthor until later. Now, if she were to go with Oscorp, it might give me an excuse to have her interact with Parasite.

Um, right... I'll try to get her in either later tonight or at some point tomorrow, then.
As for the Access thing... I guess we'll cross that hurdle when we get to it. And the Rogue thing sounds fine to me, yeah.