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We can still go for Pym giving the suit to Lang as a means of preventing it from being abused and because he wants to instead put his time into scientific study rather than crime fighting.

"Well before, I did it with reckless abandon. Now I can't control myself!" ~ Jesse Cox, 2014

Yeah, but what about Janet?

Yeah, so if I could just find happiness, that'd be great.

Pym handing Lang the suit might have happened before, after, or even the cause of his break up with Janet.

"Well before, I did it with reckless abandon. Now I can't control myself!" ~ Jesse Cox, 2014

Edited the origin story. Think it will work?

edited 12th Sep '15 11:32:44 PM by tommy1138

Yeah, so if I could just find happiness, that'd be great.

Sounds doable to me. Accepted©.

Wasp's player here - that sounds like it could work.

A few things I've established so far are that Hank and Jan were together, but not married, and that the cause of the break-up was Hank's refusal to use the Pym Particle tech to its full potential.

While that last bit doesn't quite mesh with him handing the suit to Scott, it can probably be tweaked a bit. It hasn't come up much yet, plus there are aspects of my version of Jan that could also help explain the situation. She's dealing with the death of her dad by leaping into hero work a bit too recklessly, so maybe Hank worried that she'd get herself killed and tried to nix the whole thing. Janet, for extra drama points, wouldn't know this was his reasoning

EDIT: Which reminds me, Liz, I've had a slightly re-worked/improved version of my Wasp signup sitting on my computer for like a month. I've edited it into my original post for reference sake. I don't think it requires any sort of re-approval, the changes are tiny, but there it is just in case.

edited 13th Sep '15 5:41:00 AM by Gaunt88

All seems good to me.

2 questions: is this still open to join, and has anyone done Kate Bishop yet?

Yes and no, respectively. That I know of.

Okay then. Here goes nothing.

• Name: Hawkeye
• Real Name: Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Bishop
• Gender: Female
• Age: 17
• Appearance: Here
• Alignment: Hero
• Personality: Kate is a chatty smartass who exudes confidence and competence. Independent, stubborn, and blunt yet elegant, Kate has mostly moved on from her assault, though she tends to bottle up her positive emotions while being open about her negative ones. She’s a bit more insecure than she lets on, even as she jumps into situations that she might not be entirely prepared for. She hates nicknames (it’s Kate, Kate Bishop, or Hawkeye. Nothing else) and is a sucker for anything vintage. She will eagerly do whatever she can to help others, and she adores being a superhero.
• Powers and Abilities: No powers, but Kate is a highly skilled athlete, swordswoman, and martial artist, and her archery skills may rival those of Clint Barton himself. She can also play the cello.
• Weapons and Equipment: Kate's default weapon is her longbow. She tends to avoid trick arrows, preferring the long and pointy kind. She's also been known to use a longsword and, on occasion, a pair of staves.
• Origin: Kate came from a wealthy family, but she felt unfulfilled and wanted to do something more meaningful with her life. She studied martial arts and archery on and off while growing up. When she was sixteen, she was assaulted while walking in the park, causing her to spiral into depression. She spent several months in therapy, during which she concluded that only she could bring herself out of her depression, prompting her to start intensive combat training with the goal of becoming strong enough so no one would have to go through what she did. Inspired by the MIA Hawkeye, she started using her archery skills as a vigilante, mostly stopping muggings and other street-level crimes.

edited 25th May '16 7:24:19 PM by emilyorthoclase

Interestingly, there was a Hawkeye over in Jump City, but he was gone when his player suddenly vanished.

"Well before, I did it with reckless abandon. Now I can't control myself!" ~ Jesse Cox, 2014

That sets Kate up beautifully, then. (Though personally, I think she works best with Clint. They're an awesome team.)

Preach it.

I just finished Fraction's run so I thoroughly approve of Kate appearing.

Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.

All looks like it could be fun to me. Accepted.

Now, for jumping into the game... Right now, we're wrapping up one plot thread, another plot thread is more of a private affair, and a third is happening in another city entirely. With all that in mind, I'd rather not draw out the current game-day longer than I have to. All in all, it makes it a bit difficult to give newcomers their moment.

In the meantime, though, why not make yourself at home in the Discussion thread?

Thanks! Will I be contacted when I can jump in?

Yeah, I'll let you know, if you don't hear about it through the discussion first.

...I really should get to finishing Power Girl and Tony's little powwow, huh? Stupid real life taking away from my hobby time...

Peace. Pace. Sanity. Check out my DeviantArt! ^_^

Copied and pasted from Jump City as requested.

• Name:X-23
• Real Name:Laura Kinney
• Gender:Female
• Age:Late Teens
• Appearance:Here◊
• Alignment:Anti-Hero
• Personality:Raised since birth as a deadly assassin, X-23's personality has been all but erased by The Facility, the secret group responsible for her creation. As a direct result of this, she is incapable of expressing or understanding human emotions, although she is able to fake them for short periods should the situation require it. In normal conversation, she also has no understanding of tact, and has a noted tendency to default to blunt honesty when addressed. Beyond this, she has the mind of a trained killer, which manifests in ways such as her mind instantly calculating at least a dozen different methods of killing anyone in any given room she steps into, and she can quickly and accurately evaluate any given target for strengths and weaknesses.
  • X-23 also has virtually no understanding of morality, and as such is perfectly willing to do anything necessary to complete a mission, up to and including torture and murder. She is also noted to have a non-existent sense of self-worth, stemming from viewing herself as nothing more then a weapon and a disposable clone. In the rare event that she allows her suppressed emotions to surface, this tends to manifest as severe depression and a major death seeker attitude, where she will throw herself into certain death situations should she determine it necessary.
• Powers and Abilities:
  • Superhuman Senses:X-23 possesses superhuman senses due to her mutant powers. She is capable of seeing at much greater distances, and with better clarity, than an ordinary human. She retains this same level of clarity in near-total darkness. Her sense of hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing her to both hear sounds that ordinary humans can't and to hear sounds that ordinary humans can, but at much greater distances. X-23 is able to use her highly developed sense of smell to track targets by scent with an impressive degree of success, even if the scent has been eroded by natural factors, such as the weather.
  • Bone Claws:X-23 has several bone claws in her body that have been coated in Adamantium. She has two claws in each hand, and an additional claw in each of her feet.
  • Regenerative Healing Factor:Like Wolverine, X-23's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing factor that enables her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. This power functions at a faster rate then Wolverine due to the lack of a complete Adamantium skeleton. She is capable of fully healing injuries resulting in massive tissue damage and blood loss such as multiple bullet wounds, slash wounds, and puncture wounds within a matter of minutes. Her healing factor is developed to such a degree, she is capable of reattaching severed limbs, such as a hand. She has also been shown to be capable of regrowing an entire arm on her own. Her healing factor may fluctuate with her psychological state as battle wounds tend to heal very quickly, but her self inflicted cuts appear to remain visible for some time.
  • Poison Immunity:Due to her healing factor, X-23 is effectively immune to all natural earth diseases, as well as most forms of poisons and drugs. Some drugs, such as tranquilizers, can still effect her if used in sufficiently high doses.
  • Superhuman Stamina, Agility, Reflexes, and Durability:Most of this is self explanatory. Of note, while her bones are more durable then the norm, they are not coated in Adamantium, and are thus still able to be broken or otherwise crippled. While this will heal due to the healing factor, such an event is quite able to take her out of a fight depending on severity of the wound. She is also able to lift up to about 800 pounds on her own.
  • Longevity:More implied then anything else, but it is assumed that due to her healing factor functioning the same as Wolverine, she will at some point stop ageing. Not something that's likely to come up, but throwing that out there.
  • Covert Ops Training: Raised in captivity, due to her extensive training as a top-secret operative, X-23 has been trained to become a living weapon. She is highly trained in the use of long range weapons and explosives, and is an expert in assassination techniques.
  • Master Martial Artist:X-23 is a master in hand to hand combatant, with intensive training in numerous armed and unarmed martial arts techniques do to her being raised by The Facility
  • Master Acrobat:X-23 is an Olympic class athlete, gymnast, acrobat and aerialist capable of numerous complex maneuvers and feats which she uses in combat.
  • Multilingual: X-23 can speak fluent English, French, and Japanese, and possibly other languages as well.
  • Trigger Scent:Due to mental conditioning, X-23 is susceptible to what is known as a "Trigger Scent", a particular chemical combination that will, when sprayed on a target, cause her to relentlessly attack and attempt to rip the target into quite literal shreds, as well as anyone who might attempt to interfere with this act. Her eyes turn red when under the effects of the trigger scent.
• Weapons and Equipment:None beyond what is stated above
• Backstory:X-23 was the 23rd in a line of clones made with the intent to clone the mutant known as Wolverine for the purposes of replicating the Weapon X program on a conditioned subject. However, the sample obtained was damaged, mostly in the Y chromosome. In an attempt to get around this problem, the Facility made their 23rd clone a female clone as opposed to a male clone, with the main creator head scientist, Sarah Kinney, using her own material to fill in the remaining gaps.
• From birth, X-23 was raised with the sole intent to be a remorseless and efficient killer. Any signs of humanity, mercy, pity, or emotion were forcibly stamped out of her via various methods of torture. At one point she was forcibly tossed into a radiation chamber to prematurely activate her mutant powers. After that, her new bone claws were cut out of her body and coated with Adamantium, anesthetics being considered optional and not used. By the age of 7, she had killed her first person. At 10, she began to be deployed into combat situations around the globe, used as a hired killer by The Facility for the highest bidder. The head scientist, Sarah Kinney, attempted without much success to preserve whatever humanity might have remained in the girl as she grew up.

Now, as for her entrance into the game, I had two main ideas. Cool with rolling with whatever one you like better Liz.

1-Still under the control of The Facility, she is sent to the upcoming ball thing to assassinate....someone. Could be some NPC, could be targeting a player, whatever. I picture her impersonating someone who would be unnoticed at this sort of party, a caterer or something of the sort. In an effort not to derail the party, she'll wait till the end of/after the party to strike.

2-Here we assume she has just gotten away from the facility. With most player characters occupied at the party, the only idea I had here was she turn up at the X-mansion and we see what happens from there.

edited 27th Dec '15 2:14:49 AM by Meanken

I think I'd be more inclined towards Option 1. The second option would run into the age old issue of a new RP-er getting separated from the group, and having no one to interact with but NPC's right from the starting gate.

Might want to tweak the last sentence or two at the end of the backstory, but other than that, Accepted!

Yes I was planing on editing that last bit out if option 1 was the pick. Will do now.

Once again: Awww...

My various fanfics.

• Name: Hawkeye
• Real Name: Clint Barton
• Gender: Male
• Age: 29
• Appearance: Right here◊
• Alignment: Hero
• Personality: Hawkeye almost prides himself on being an "everyman" among heroes. He appears to prefer the prospect of chilling on his couch with a cold beer watching cartoons to actual heroism. Despite this, Clint is more dedicated to training than perhaps anyone, bitter at his lack of powers and almost resentful of heroes who possess superhuman abilities.
• Powers and Abilities:
  • Marksmanship: Constant years of training have turned Clint into the world's greatest marksman with a bow and arrow.
  • Peak physical condition: While he may not possess superpowers, Clint is far from an ordinary man. He is more than capable of going hand-to-hand with expert fighters, and is extremely agile.
  • Trick Arrows: Clint possesses quite a few trick arrows for specialised purposes, including but not limited to a net arrow, smoke bomb arrow, and boomerang arrow.
• Weapons and Equipment: Bow and Arrow, with the following trick arrows◊.
• Origin:
  • At a young age, both of Clint Barton's parents died in a tragic car accident. Fed up with the orphanage they were forced to live in, Clint and his older brother Barney ran off to join the circus. It was there at the Carson Carnival of Travelling Wonders that Clint was taken on as assistant the The Swordsman. It was the Swordsman, alongside fellow supervillain Trickshot, who trained Clint to become an expert with the bow and arrow.
  • Upon discovering that The Swordsman had been embezzling money from the carnival, Clint chose to turn his former mentor over to the authorities. However, before he could do so, Clint was beaten and left for dead. Waking up in a hospital several days later, he found that the carnival had skipped town. Clint hadn't seen The Swordsman, Trickshot or his brother Barney since.
  • Clint continued to work as a star attraction at circuses all over the country. It was upon seeing the increasing number of superheroes appearing on the news that Clint was inspired to quit the circus business and use his abilities to fight crime.
  • After a short time patrolling the streets of Jump City, an embarrassingly disastrous screw-up while attempting to foil a bank robbery left Clint hospitalised with injuries for an extended period of time. Not to be deterred, Clint has fully recovered and returned to action, travelling to New York in need of some new scenery. People may not remember who he is, and now associate the Hawkeye name with a newer teenage hero, but Clint is far too stubborn to let that stop him.

All seems spick and span to me. Accepted.

Are you accepting new characters here? Or are you all full for the time being?

edited 5th Feb '16 1:38:09 PM by Booky