OOC Discussion

[welian]

[QUOTE="Teh Frixz]
I deleted it all and rewrote from scratch! I guess I can add more paragraphs into the weakness, I'm just not seeing where else to add. I think it may be a misunderstanding of the levels of power she puts out

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I appear to be in the wrong!

 

[Teh Frixz]

I'll still add more just in case!

 

[sorrow made you]

[QUOTE="Teh Frixz] ZDUNOWSKI, RILEY

• General
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Gallery

• Full Name	Riley Anne Zdunowski
  Codename	N/A
  Gender	Female
  Age	20
  Rank	S
  Role	Security Guard
  Subject	N/A

  Race	Polish(American)
  Eyes	Brown
  Hair	Brown (Varies)
  Height	5’ 7” (Varies)
  Build	Muscular (Varies)
  Limiter	Level 4, Active
  Notes	Extra finger on Right Hand

• Heroism Meter
  
  
  

  Less Heroic	Points	More Heroic	Total	Description
  Flighty	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Courageous	08	Do they have a pair of steel, or do they prefer to exit before chaos strikes?
  Selfish	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Altruistic	02	Are they motivated to help others, or do they help themselves first?
  Chaotic	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Orderly	03	Are laws and regulations "suggestions", or written in stone?
  Cruel	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Kind	04	Are they genuinely nice to people, or do they enjoy causing distress?
  Reactionary	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Proactive	08	Are they content to watch events unfold, or do they jump in and guide things?

  
  
  Personality
  
  
  Joyful: Like then frickin’ sun, Riley never seems to burn out. Rainy day? The smell of rain makes her happy. Break an arm? Time to get some signatures from people. Every terrible thing, every detail of the day just seems to get turned around into a way to make her life better. Riley just seems to never get too down. She’s not immune to the downside of life, it just never shows on the outside.
  
  
  Always on: Need someone to go out with last minute? How about someone to stand watch all night? Riley has been called the energizer bunny on more than one occasion. It’s been theorized that exposure to her gene caused this but even when fully inhibited she manages to be the early bird and the night owl. Amazingly, this gets on the nerves of some people as sometimes low key is the answer and she seemingly can’t pull that off. Lengthy lectures, rigid schedules and keeping silent in movies just aren’t her thing.
  
  
  Opportunist: Life will often put up little chances to succeed. Riley jumps at these, taking full advantage of any situation that falls in her lap to further herself in any category. It’s led to a life that doesn’t quite follow a normal path but hasn’t been any less beneficial! This trait isn’t limited to the self as Riley will also take any chance she gets to use her entire arsenal to one up anyone in her way.
  
  
  Narrow minded: Tunnel vision doesn’t begin to describe it. Riley is absolutely terrible at seeing outside the range of her own perspective. It’s as if other people’s thoughts and opinions don’t exist. When she sets her mind on something, anything else outside the range of importance doesn’t even factor in.
  
  
  History
  
  
  Born in the ‘burbs, Riley was the second child of three to an exceedingly average middle class family. Her dad a businessman working 9-5 and commuting, mom staying at home and scheduling babysitting with the other moms in the area with the occasional jewelry party for fun.
  
  
  And you know what? That was absolutely wonderful. The best years of Riley’s life up until the manifestation of her abilities. At thirteen years of age she began acting incredibly strange. Emotional mood swings would hit hard and send her into the extremes of emotional range, physical changes far outside the normal ones a teen goes through both back and forth, and the complete non reaction of any sort of drug. With repeated trips to the doctor finding no cause for it up until her bloodwork was done. Riley tested positive for quite nearly every drug under the sun and then some. Just the quantities in her blood alone should have accounted for her death not to mention the insane variety of chemical interactions but somehow she hadn’t died.
  
  
  It took a curious doctor checking beneath the drug levels and automatic assumption of a terrible home life to realize that Riley was suffering from her no longer latent super gene. This came about as a shock and relief for her parents but to the incredibly addled Riley, it was a death sentence. Just like all the 13 year old kids in the world, she knew what was best for her and ran away from home the day she was due to go into the commonwealth for her testing.
  
  
  Irrational, young, and suffering from a range of drug symptoms while her powers continued to develop, Riley managed to somehow survive off of a life of theft and charity while she made her way eastward. This only continued for a short while as it was found out that Riley soon began to live a considerably more comfortable life on the run when she began selling copious amounts of street drugs.
  
  
  At age 16, she was picked up by undercover officers when selling nearly thirty pounds of pure heroin at prices equivalent to pennies on the dollar. A value of nearly a million for only ten grand tipped officers off that something was amiss. Brought in, it was found her bloodwork was inconclusive. This data was shared and intercepted by Commonwealth operatives and finally Riley was brought in for proper testing.
  
  
  After the agonizing process and subsequent collaring with an inhibitor, Riley began leveling out enough to function. Embarrassed and unwilling to return home, Riley emancipated herself legally and became a legal adult. At this time she was given a low level super designation and the inhibitor just barely managed to get hold her internal chemical levels in check. There was little effect to when she concentrated in an attempt to produce street drugs.
  
  
  Now operating legally, Riley got a job, her GED, and managed a decent enough living selling drugs on the side in considerably smaller amounts but this didn’t last long as her collar began reporting the usage of her abilities to Commonwealth. Given one last chance when she was brought in, Riley was shipped to AEGIS and put through considerably more rigorous testing and training.
  
  
  Now at twenty, she is quite nearly finished with her weekly schooling in night class. Able to survive the Baltimore area with her day job working at the facility, she is thriving on her own. Combined with counseling having put her on a much better path, she’s decided to shoot for her Blue Card in an attempt to make up for her past. Unfortunately, prying eyes far up have fallen upon her and a different goal has been decided upon for her yet to discover…
  
  
  Spoiler

  Average child average family. Powers manifest throwing teenage hormones WAYYYYYY out of whack. Poor choices from deficient brain lead to running away from home. Running away leads to selling drugs, selling drugs leads to getting caught. Getting caught leads to an opportunity to make it with the help of Commonwealth. Get GED, works at the Facility to make some scratch, night classes to earn Blue card to maybe make up for what she's done.
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  David Nguyen
  
  
  Currently the closest thing she has to a friend, David is an old criminal contact Riley met years back. While Riley is currently on the legally mandated straight and narrow, she keeps in contact with David who has more than once profited from the living Meth lab that is Riley.
  
  
  Miss Winters
  
  
  Landlady and go to for advice in all things adult, Riley is good friends with her and will spend evenings down the hall enjoying her company.
  
  
  Case Handler Ralph
  
  
  Ralph handles her case files and works as a quasi-caseworker for her. The relationship is strained to say the least as Riley’s own narrow-minded views on what she wants in life do not mesh well with the best options provided by him.
  
  
  

• Ability	Points	Total	Description
  Health:	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	06	The ability to resist illness and recover quickly from injuries, overall health.
  Strength	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	06	Physical strength, the ability to strike hard, lift heavy objects, and so on.
  Toughness	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	06	Endurance and stamina, the ability to take a hit and still keep going.
  Agility	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	06	Speed, dexterity, nimbleness - agility is the ability to move quickly.
  Intelligence	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	01	Not book smarts, but the ability to perceive and retain lots of information.
  Willpower	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	01	Strength of mind, the ability to stay focused and determined.

  
  
  Primary Power
  
  
  
  
  
  Chemical Synthesis: Any chemical compound that Riley has ever come into systemic contact with can be rapidly and in great volume generated internally by Riley. Naturally occurring chemicals can be generated as well, not requiring an external source.
  
  
  While mundane sounding at first, her abilities were reclassed when put through full testing procedures. Imagine the natural human response to pain ramped up to inhuman levels. Serotonin spikes to handle pain, ATP to stave off the cold and provide near endless amounts of energy, cortisol to spike Adrenaline in order to reach levels of inhuman strength. These rely upon both emotional and physical triggers which Riley has limited control over.
  
  
  With synthetic chemicals, her body functions differently. Requiring an outside source she takes in various amounts of an outside chemical and can synthesize it in a similar fashion to natural chemicals except with limits based on how much her system took in. Complex substances can be broken down into purer states with difficulty. While synthesis occurs with these chemicals, Riley suffers the various effects but cannot overdose.
  
  
  To counteract this, additional chemicals can be congruantly created to balance out the symptoms. This process is dangerous and leads easily into BETA states.
  
  
  Weaknesses
  
  
  The most glaring weakness due to this mutation is of course the inherent instability mentally. Enough internal manifestation of Heroin and Riley will pass out. She must compensate or decompensate when generating multiple chemicals or be under threat of sliding too far into these imbalances. During these formally declared BETA states, Riley is a hazard to herself and others as emotional triggers formulate the base of her ability activation. During a nearly four day long LSD trip, she nearly mummified herself while her body tried to fight off dehydration. A string of orchestrated events caused her to fall into a ten hour fit of ‘roid rage’ that resulted in considerable damage to a small town. The mental stress this BETA state takes is also considerable as various aspects of her personality become pronounced by her emotional state. While these states are not enough to kill off Riley (Her body automatically compensating when incapacitated or she no longer is mentally capable of controlling her abilities), it is more than enough to send her spiraling down a path of self destruction leading to external factors that more than likely require another mobilization of Commonwealth reclamation forces to handle her.
  
  
  The secondary result of this constant chemical imbalance in her bodily systems is a slow in a sense, shifting of her physical body. Coming and going in a cyclical fashion, the direction it takes is based on stress. Her hair and eye color changes over years along with birthmarks, freckles, skin tone, muscle mass, limb length, and body measurements. This could quite possibly result in disturbing ‘mutations’ as of so far she has grown three sets of wisdom teeth (removed), a series of bad outbreaks of skin tumors (removed), and a functioning sixth finger on her right hand (still there). There is a theory floating around regarding this drawback as to what she may look like if allowed to age beyond normal human years and if this state will maintain adequate mental capacity to function.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Blue card status has already been determined as non-negotiable. The continual and casual usage of her abilities is a danger to the US and her people.
  
  
  What has been recommended is asset allocation upon reaching 'blue card' status and being re-purposed for the special projects branch of COMMONWEALTH and and/or military applications, research projects, wet work operations.
  
  
  ZDUNOWSKI, RILEY is a ticking time bomb and a danger to herself and others. With proper handling, guidance and control she can possibly live a beneficial life in service to her country.
  
  
  
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Spoiler

Oh god, my feels for Riley. ;;A;; I just want to hug her with saran wrap.


I think it would be a good idea (if accepted) to require Riley to have a kind of "handler" at the school. I know she has one already, but I feel like the facility might want to have their own to have a more personal record of her progress.


In regards to her powers, they are incredibly OP. But I find her physical and mental drawbacks to be sufficient enough to stunt her from going all out drug warfare on the school. But this is also why I suggest the idea of having a handler, JUST IN CASE something were to happen and she was too emotionally distraught.

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[Teh Frixz]

She's a good girl just caught up in a nasty side effect of her power. I LOVE the handler bit as that leads into some plotting I had in store. Would that be something for me to add or should that be an NPC?

 

[sorrow made you]

You could always ask around! As of right now, our faculty might be a little short, but I'm sure someone would like to discuss!


(I also play a teacher, btw xD )

 

[Bag o Fruit]

Ayyyy, I get to review some character applications! lessee...


@RemainingQuestions


Looooooooove the weaknesses. Hyperactive metabolism is the coolest terrible thing ever to happen to a superhero. Like the powers, everything's well thought out, you introduced some familial sociology into your personality, nice... I suppose the best way to put this is that your power is definitely not OP? It's really well thought out to the point that most of the difference between him and most other humans is the weaknesses. Obviously light manipulation has its uses, but if I were writing Luci I might boost his powers, if not much. Do some damage, fellow C-Class!


@Strawberry Preserves


I like the idea! Very much like the idea. I could spend all day coming up with cool codenames for Jielun. ... I don't really have anything more to say about this character! But! I would like to say that I think the power seems cooler when applied to inanimate objects. He's an INSANELY good support guy in a super-fight, but if he's doing his own thing, that secondary application is something I want to read about being used I'm excited!


@Cheshire Smile

@Ryuuko Shin[/URL]


Welp, I don't know what you have planned for the history section, but based on the Relationships tab it's gonna be something.* Just do make sure it does end up being something and not something in progress. Other than that, I see no glaring flaws (hehe, get it? Because of the Gallery tab...).


*This is meant to be 'excited about what might happen' something and not 'dickish passive aggressive' something.

 

[welian]

@Teh Frixz


So what happened was, as @CRiTiCAL ERR0R helped me realize, was that I just wasn't paying close enough attention - probably from it being midnight here, and having like six other apps looming over my head. That last review was all a misunderstanding on my part! Ignore me, listen to Crit instead.

 

[sorrow made you]

I'm going through a list and writing power reviews. I'm gonna be slow, so bare with me.

 

[sorrow made you]

Looky, here is he again, right back at the end.

I just looked over Lucius' profile.


I like the fact that he glows and that he could make rainbows. I was waiting for a character that could do that. xD


But, I feel like some things are a little lost in translation.


Luci being at 100.4F could probably burn someone after long duration of contact. I imagine certain clothes may not handle well either. In my head, its like dressing a lightbulb.


With this second ability of being able to create rainbows, it means that he has the ability to manipulate refracting light. So him being able to use light as armor doesn't make sense. I suggest that maybe instead of armor, he is able to go invisible because he is refracting light in such a way that he just "disappears out of sight."


How I would imagine Luci is like shining light through a piece of glass, if that makes any sense. Depending on the angle and intensity of light, it could make a rainbow on the wall it's shining on. Other times when the light moves and the angle changes, it may seem like there's no light at all. But there's also no shadows. Its invisible.

 

[sorrow made you]

@welian[/URL]
Vicario, Francis

• General
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Gallery

• Full Name	Francis Guadalupe Vicario
  Codename	THE UNDERLORD N/A
  Gender	Female
  Age	17
  Rank	B
  Role	Student
  Subject	N/A

  Race	DARK LORD Pasty-ass white Hispanic kid
  Eyes	Brown
  Hair	Black
  Height	5'2"
  Build	Appears fit when fully clothed, but has a bit of flab about her midsection.
  Limiter	Level 2, Active
  Notes	Student has dyed her hair in seemingly random patterns, with streaks of white and red. In addition, she wears ridiculous red vanity contacts, consistently keeps her right arm bandaged, and seems to insist on wearing a 'horned' hairband.

• Heroism Meter
  
  
  

  Less Heroic	Points	More Heroic	Total	Description
  Flighty	?????????​	Courageous	08	Do they have a pair of steel, or do they prefer to exit before chaos strikes?
  Selfish	?????????​	Altruistic	01	Are they motivated to help others, or do they help themselves first?
  Chaotic	?????????​	Orderly	01	Are laws and regulations "suggestions", or written in stone?
  Cruel	?????????​	Kind	03	Are they genuinely nice to people, or do they enjoy causing distress?
  Reactionary	?????????​	Proactive	07	Are they content to watch events unfold, or do they jump in and guide things?

  
  
  Personality
  
  
  Francis is selfish. Francis is so, so selfish. She doesn't want to be a vigilante to help others, she wants it in order to further emulate anime and feel cool, like the heroes she watches. It's hard to say whether or not this is a good thing, all considered, but for now it does make her look rather bad.
  
  
  Despite her selfishness, however, Francis has a brave heart and the willingness to get shit done when she needs to. You'd have a better time discouraging a wild tiger from tearing a gazelle to pieces than you would scaring her out of something she's set her mind on. This bravery, for what she wants to do, could be considered a positive trait.
  
  
  As mentioned in her biography, Francis is... well, a weeaboo, for lack of a better word. She sometimes speaks in unnatural syntax and pretends to be something more than what she is, even going so far as to constantly keep one arm under wraps to 'seal the dark demon within'. She's a nut.
  
  
  Francis has an unusual wealth of knowledge relating to cats. Not even she is sure why she took the time to learn all of this, but her obsessiveness over different things is certainly something to note.
  
  
  History
  
  
  Francis Guadalupe Vicario, age seventeen. She was born and raised by a considerably well-off family, and for most of her life, knew nothing but happiness. She got what she wanted, when she wanted it, she could always count on her parents to be there for her, and if she felt like it, she could even rely on others to bend over backwards just to get on her (and by association, her rich parents') good side. Yes, all of this - the money, the upbringing and her environment came together to produce a rather spoiled little brat. And yet... she was bored.
  
  
  For all of her possessions and opportunities, Francis was terribly bored. There was no kind of excitement to her life when she could just snap her fingers and have the things she liked dropped right into her lap. This boredom carried on until the week after her fourteenth birthday. She'd been very steadily losing herself to the world of anime - she consumed every series she could get her hands on, from more recent series, all the way down to classics, and occasionally a few series that would almost be considered ancient by that point. She could never have enough. Anime, manga, roleplaying... the latter was what led to a rather severe incident, in fact.
  
  
  Screwing around with a few friends outdoors, she decided to begin imitating various moves from the shows she watched - though no one expected a little, straight-handed thrust to send her shadow ripping across the ground to slam into a friend's stomach. The others with her panicked and rushed to the injured child's aid, but Francis...
  
  
  Francis was elated.
  
  
  Finally! Something to mix up this stupid monotony that was her life! She almost immediately ran home, forgetting all about her friend with the prospect of training this newfound ability some more. There's some boring training montagey stuff in between here, but eventually she screwed up and her power was brought to her parents' attention. They were worried. Their daughter, little Francis, a super?
  
  
  As law dictated, she was tested, brought to a Commonwealth office, and ranked in at a neat little B. She wasn't really sure what all this meant at the time, but she knew it all sounded pretty cool. Super... that made her like the characters in her favorite shows, right?
  
  
  It didn't take her long after that to hear of the Blue Card, and vigilantes using it to dispense justice as needed. Obviously, she was going to be all over that. Three years later, with her goal in mind and her... bizarre style finally settled upon, Francis took her first steps toward AEGIS.
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• Ability	Points	Total	Description
  Health:	?????????​	01	The ability to resist illness and recover quickly from injuries, overall health.
  Strength	?????????​	03	Physical strength, the ability to strike hard, lift heavy objects, and so on.
  Toughness	?????????​	03	Endurance and stamina, the ability to take a hit and still keep going.
  Agility	?????????​	01	Speed, dexterity, nimbleness - agility is the ability to move quickly.
  Intelligence	?????????​	04	Not book smarts, but the ability to perceive and retain lots of information.
  Willpower	?????????​	08	Strength of mind, the ability to stay focused and determined.

  
  
  Primary Power
  
  
  Personal manipulation of shadow. She's able to warp her own shadow into various corporeal shapes, up to and including: fists, open hands, mallets, and though it takes a hell of a lot out of her to even attempt, silhouettes of herself.
  
  
  Secondary powers
  
  
  Though she can not bother other people's shadows, she can duck into the shadow of objects casting one, more or less becoming invisible until she finds it necessary to move.
  
  
  Weaknesses
  
  
  The use of her power is, for one, extremely telegraphed. It's not hard to see that someone is trying to get themselves into a position where a decently sized shadow can be cast, and her abilities don't work period until she can manage even that. This of course makes her completely useless at night.
  
  
  It takes an intense amount of focus to actually use, and despite its overall versatility, if one is able to break her concentration her power will cease.
  
  
  Additionally, attempting to put together a shape with too much mass - typically twice the size of the shadow she made it from, makes her very ill. Symptoms brought on by this overexertion can include vomiting, extreme nausea and vertigo, and rarely, unconsciousness.
  
  
  
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You can never go wrong with shadow manipulation~


Though, I do feel like there's some things that you could do with this power that wouldn't be too out there.


First and foremost, I have to ask: If she can manipulate her own shadow, can it become a solid once she changes its shape?


Second, I like the idea that she can only hide in shadows of objects. BUT! I also think you could go a step further. Maybe she can travel through the shadows of objects. It would be, in a sense, like a portal that she can travel though. If you don't prefer that route, you could have it so that she can not only hide in the shadows of objects, but she can hear, see, smell things that are near an object's shadow. Sort of like an extension of herself. In that case, maybe only one sense works at a time or her physical person loses that sense and it is placed with whatever shadow she is using.


If that makes any sense at all. xD

 

[ViAdvena]

@Ryuuko Shin Is there some kind of limit of how many/big fire she can create at one time? Perhaps it can be added as a limitation, since the power section requires at least three weakness. Other than that, the power seems balanced enough though I'm not good at reviewing power so others might have more insight in it. As for the personality tab, from the description I think she sounds kinder than her point indicates, since she doesn't seem to like causing distress despite her harsh front. But this one is pretty relative.


@Cheshire Smile


Your inner weeaboo sang to me, Chesh. I'm gonna be a tiny bit disappointed if this chuunibyou-prone character didn't announce her every attack before she strike :v As for her secondary power, do you mean she can cover herself with shadow, or fuse/melt with the shadow completely? Also, @CRiTiCAL ERR0R's suggestion sound good too! It will give her some opportunity if she and Gaby has shadow showdown.


@RemainingQuestions


This is a minor thing, but

This exacerbates the issue of hypothermia

I guess you mean hyperthermia?

 

[ViAdvena]

But wait, if Luci is able to refract right, shouldn't that mean the constant glowing won't be an issue? @CRiTiCAL ERR0R @RemainingQuestions ?

 

[sorrow made you]

In a sense, they're two different powers. Generating light and refracting light.


HOWEVER -insert loopholes-


He could be the generator of his own refraction. Pretty much what this would mean was that the light he generates is refracting against preexisting light sources.

 

[MISTER UN. 0W3N]

@welian


Quick question: do you mean by 11 tomorrow or a solid midnight for apps to be due? I'm asking since Daylights Savings starts and everyone jumps ahead stateside... except for like two states. xD

 

[Teh Frixz]

Gotta get accepted foist tho.


Otherwise probably any teacher willing to take on the responsibility could play handler

 

[Gus]

@Zahzi


Tweaked the history to make it clearer; Gus' powers activated concurrently with the rapture, not because of it. As for the existence or non-existence of aliens in the RP world? Well maybe it is too fine a point to make philosophically, but there is no solid evidence of aliens in the world we actually live in. That doesn't mean they don't exist at all, just that nobody has any good evidence. Nor do I offer any good evidence for them in game. That's just what my brother would say happened if anyone asks him, and he'd probably also say he doesn't know what he saw. Gus doesn't remember the incident, having been about 2 and a half at the time. (mentally) As for the stats, I think I have fixed that now. I understood the scale was one to nine, but I was so focused on trying to get the bars the right colors that I missed the numbers and left in the default values. Speaking of colors, can anybody tell me why my powers description is red? I can't see any obvious code for that to happen. Lastly as for OP, I assume you mean the see through time thing? At least three other accepted characters have super speed of some kind. All I can say to the visions thing is Cassandra, Cassandra, Cassandra. Except in this case Cassandra is a little too slow to even know it is a curse and is just happy to push a broom or turn a wrench. The nature of fate and free will and causality are super interesting to think about, but not on your mind if you are six and kinda slow.

 

[Gus]

GUSTAFSON, GUS

• General
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers

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  Full Name	Augustus “Gus” Gudmund Gustafson
  Codename	Blaze
  Gender	Male
  Age	37 (physically) ~6 (mentally)
  Rank	C
  Role	Other
  Subject	Janitorial Services

  








  Race	Caucasian (Swedish heritage)
  Eyes	Blue
  Hair	Blond
  Height	6'7"
  Build	Sturdy
  Limiter	None

• Heroism Meter








  Less Heroic	Points	More Heroic	Total	Description
  Flighty	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Courageous	06	Gus really does not understand that he could be hurt; to him, this is a game.
  Selfish	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Altruistic	07	Gus lives by the code of golden age heroes.
  Chaotic	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Orderly	01	You mean tying up the bad guys and leaving them in front of police station ISN'T s.o.p.?
  Cruel	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Kind	09	Gus is hard not to like, full of childlike wonder.
  Reactionary	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Proactive	05	Gus sees all time at once, like Dr. Manhattan, but often doesn't understand what he is seeing.

  
  
  Personality
Childlike: Gus experiences time... differently. One side effect of this is that his body has matured normally, but his mental age is roughly one sixth of his calendar age.
  
  
  Four Color: Gus essentially believes that his vintage comic books are historical documents, and since he is obviously a super hero, he follows the golden age code as best as he can understand it. This has both good and bad aspects. He is, in many ways, a hero's hero, and yet because nobody in the middle part of the 21st century can believe somebody could behave as he does unironically, he is seen as a bit of a goofball by the press and the authorities.
  
  
  Gullible: It might be kinder to say 'guileless' but as Gus often says “Honesty is the best policy” It does not take a great liar to fool Gus. Virtually any story that doesn't directly contradict his world view will be taken at face value. Once a lie is exposed however, he will never trust the source of the lie again. Several of his 'arch-enemies' (as he thinks of them) gained that status by tricking him. It is likely that several of AEGIS's open files on non-violent crimes with evidence of speedster powers could be due to Gus's gullibility.
  
  
  Optimistic: Gus believes the world is fundamentally good (except for dastardly villains—and they will soon get their just comeuppance) and remains utterly determined to do the right thing at all times. Thus far, he has an impressive track record for dealing with complicated plots of some very bad actors with a very simple set of tactics (the kind you'd expect from a six year old.) Basically he runs around really fast and hits the bad guys until they fall down. Then he ties them up really fast and takes them to the police really fast and leaves them on the sidewalk with a note in crayon. You wouldn't think this would work, but then, you're not Gus. Maybe it's luck, maybe fate, but you can't argue with the results.
  
  
  
History

  
  
  Augustus Gudmund Gustafson was born in early2003in Baltimore to a couple in their late forties: Agnesand Jonas Gustafson, originally from Sweden, but emigrated to America shortly before his birth. They opened a small garage on the south side of the city, and promptly vanished, leaving Gus's much older brother Gunnar to run the garage and care for his new sibling. What neither brother--nor perhaps anyone now living--knows is that the Gustafsons fled to America after Jonas' research facility successfully contacted beings from an alternate reality. Their elation at such an unprecedented success in extra dimensional communication was understandably dampened by the fact that every other member of the research team was dead within 48 hours. Agnes and Jonas apparently escaped unscathed, but their unborn child was afflicted with a temporal disjunction. In less technical terms, Gus' body developed normally, but his mind experienced a time dilation effect equivalent to a recession rate of approximately 98% of light speed. Effectively, he was profoundly mentally disabled, and deemed uneducable until he was fifteen. While the rest of America was focused on the events of The Rapture, Gus very nearly had a personal rapture of a rather more biblical variety; a probe of unknown originattempted to abduct him from his room above the garage. His brother managed to foil the probe's attempt at abducting Gus, though at the cost of the use of his legs. Luckily for both of them, the proximity to the strange radiations of the probe's thrustersdestabilized the temporal disjunction and jumpstarted Gus' mind and latent abilities. In the 22 years since then, a bit of a legend has grown up around a secretive speedster only ever briefly glimpsed, rocketing by in yellow and blue, known as BLAZE!Most other supers, as well as most AEGIS operatives think he is a myth. Those few in AEGIS who think he's real keep it to themselves, as trying to track down such a silly myth has ruined more than one career. Suffice to say, Gus does not have a blue card. But then, myths don't need them... do they?
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  Gunnar Gustafson

  
  
  Gus loves his brother above all other things in his life. He has kept the garage in the black for the last 22 years, fixing all the cars while his brother keeps the books. One might wonder how a man with the mind of six year old fixes 21st century cars, but then, not all six year olds can see through time. Gus doesn't understand most of what he sees, but it gives him tremendous insight into mechanical systems, showing him not just where they are currently failing, but where they might fail in the future. In point of fact, no car he has fixed in the last 20 years has had any subsequent troubles other than normal wear and tear.Not so great for repeat business, but makes for amazing word of mouth.
  
  
  Mr. Borrowitz

  
  
  If there were ever anyone Gus thought of as a father figure, it would definitely be Mr. Borrowitz in the facility 108 physical plant. He hired Gus part time when Gunnar needed extra money to cover a prescription, and kept him on for the last six years, on account of Gus is so good at sweeping. It is even more fun than fixing cars! And he has so many friendly nicknames for Gus, such as “Idiot” “Slowpoke” and “Broom-brain” Gus loves it here. All these kids are just so... super! He told Mr. Borrowitz so, and Mr. Borrowitz laughed and laughed.
  
  
  
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  Ability	Points	Total	Description
  Health:	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	02	The ability to resist illness and recover quickly from injuries, overall health.
  Strength	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	02	Physical strength, the ability to strike hard, lift heavy objects, and so on.
  Toughness	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	02	Endurance and stamina, the ability to take a hit and still keep going.
  Agility	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	09	Speed, dexterity, nimbleness - agility is the ability to move quickly.
  Intelligence
  ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	01	Not book smarts, but the ability to perceive and retain lots of information.
  Willpower
  ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	01	Strength of mind, the ability to stay focused and determined.

  
  
  Primary Power
  
  
  Ever since his close encounter at the age of 15, Gus has been disconnected from the flow of time. Most of the time, this leaves him thinking at about one sixth of normal speed as he goes about his life, which would be crippling except for the fact that he has perfect foresight (and hindsight too, I suppose.) Gus sees all of time simultaneously, which is pretty helpful if you are trying to figure out when it is safe to cross the street, or know when and where to show up with a mop and when to bring a broom instead. It would also make him the perfect oracle except for two factors. Firstly, he doesn't understand most of what he sees, so asking him questions about the future would get the sort of cryptic, misleading, or self-fulfilling statements typical of most prophecy. Secondly, and vastly more importantly, nobody asks. Seriously that has never, ever happened. Everyone thinks of Gus as a sweet, affable idiot, and asking him about the future would be several steps below asking a magic eight ball on their list of things to try.
  
  
  Secondary powers

  
  
  When Gus' visions of the future show him grave danger approaching, he calls on the power of Blaze to save the day. (He thinks of Blaze as being kind of like Shazam—an alter ego rather than himself at a different time rate) What Gus actually does is to step almost completely outside of time which allows him brief periods of super speed along with a nearly impenetrable force field, due to the gravitational shearing stresses at the boundary between normal space time and his little bubble of pseudo space time. During these excursions, Gus can think normally (for a six year old brain) but experiences time almost a thousand time faster.
  
  
  Weaknesses

  
  
  As noted under primary power, he has the same essential weakness as Cassandra did in greek mythology. He knows the future, but nobody listens. As for the whole 'super speed' thing, that may sound ridiculously powerful, but there are some serious drawbacks: firstly, it is very difficult for Gus to see properly, especially at night, due to the dramatic redshift of light crossing from normal time into his bubble. (Incidentally this is also why his costume appears yellow with blue lightning bolts. He modeled his costume after his hero “The Flash”, and doesn't know it is being blue shifted for outside observers.) Secondly, there is no way for sound to travel from his bubble to the world (or vice versa) so he is effectively deaf and dumb while using super speed. (Gus gets around this by sticking post-it notes to nearby surfaces to make ersatz speech balloons, writing in them and then briefly posing next to them. He also sometimes writes punching sound effects on them before sticking them to bad guys before punching them. No really. He's six.) Thirdly, air can't cross from normal time to his bubble either, so at most, he can use super speed for maybe 10 minutes at a stretch. (Note that ten minutes in the bubble lasts for barely over half a second of real time.)
  
  
  

 

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This is a minor thing, but
I guess you mean hyperthermia?

Yes I did, I will edit that now, thanks for catching it.

[QUOTE="Bag o Fruit]Obviously light manipulation has its uses, but if I were writing Luci I might boost his powers, if not much. Do some damage, fellow C-Class!

[/QUOTE]
Hmm, this is a good point. I'm going to do a minor rewrite of his powers with this, and all the other mentions, in mind.

[QUOTE="CRiTiCAL ERR0R]Luci being at 100.4F could probably burn someone after long duration of contact. I imagine certain clothes may not handle well either. In my head, its like dressing a lightbulb.

[/QUOTE]
This was what I had in mind, only I forgot to think about how that might influence whatever he touches, too. I'll still keep the hotter standard temperature, but I'll knock it down a bit so he's not a walking fire hazard.

[QUOTE="CRiTiCAL ERR0R]With this second ability of being able to create rainbows, it means that he has the ability to manipulate refracting light. So him being able to use light as armor doesn't make sense. I suggest that maybe instead of armor, he is able to go invisible because he is refracting light in such a way that he just "disappears out of sight."

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But wait, if Luci is able to refract right, shouldn't that mean the constant glowing won't be an issue?

These two combined made me realise I need to remove the rainbow manipulation part of his powers, it just doesn't really fit with powerset I had in mind.


Thank you guys for the commentary, I'm going to do a rewrite of his powers, so it's more clear where the focus lays and stuff. After that, I'll look at all the new characters!

 

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@Gus There's a rogue color code that is only visible in BBCode editor mode. Here's the fixed version

[sh]GUSTAFSON, GUS[/sh]

[Tabs][Tab=General][row][column=span4][table=none]
[tr][td]Full Name[/td][td]Augustus “Gus” Gudmund Gustafson [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Codename[/td][td]Blaze[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Gender[/td][td]Male[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Age[/td][td] 37 (physically) ~6 (mentally)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Rank[/td][td]C[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Role[/td][td]Other[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Subject[/td][td]Janitorial Services[/td][/tr]
[/table][/column][column=span4][table=none]
[tr][td]Race[/td][td]Caucasian (Swedish heritage)[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Eyes [/td][td]Blue[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Hair [/td][td]Blond[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Height[/td][td]6'7"[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Build[/td][td]Sturdy[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Limiter[/td][td]None[/td][/tr]
[/table][/column][/row][/Tab]

[Tab=Biography][b]Heroism Meter[/b]
[table=none][tr][th]Less Heroic[/th][th]Points[/th][th]More Heroic[/th][th]Total[/th][th]Description[/th][/tr]
[tr][td]Flighty[/td][td]


[center][color=GREEN]▮▮▮▮▮▮[/color]▮▮▮[/center]


[/td][td]Courageous[/td][td]06[/td][td]Gus really does not understand that he could be hurt; to him, this is a game.[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Selfish[/td][td]



[center][color=GREEN]▮▮▮▮▮▮▮[/color]▮▮[/center]


[/td][td]Altruistic[/td][td]07[/td][td]Gus lives by the code of golden age heroes. [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Chaotic[/td][td]



[center][color=GREEN]▮[/color]▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮[/center]


[/td][td]Orderly[/td][td]01[/td][td]You mean tying up the bad guys and leaving them in front of police station ISN'T s.o.p.?[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Cruel[/td][td]



[center][color=GREEN]▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮[/color][/center]


[/td][td]Kind[/td][td]09[/td][td]Gus is hard not to like, full of childlike wonder.[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Reactionary[/td][td]



[center][color=GREEN]▮▮▮▮▮[/color]▮▮▮▮[/center]


[/td][td]Proactive[/td][td]05[/td][td]Gus sees all time at once, like Dr. Manhattan, but often doesn't understand what he is seeing.[/td][/tr]
[/table][divide=thick][/divide]

[b]Personality[/b]


[i]Childlike[/i]: Gus experiences time... differently. One side effect of this is that his body has matured normally, but his mental age is roughly one sixth of his calendar age.

[i]Four Color[/i]: Gus essentially believes that his vintage comic books are historical documents, and since he is obviously a super hero, he follows the golden age code as best as he can understand it. This has both good and bad aspects. He is, in many ways, a hero's hero, and yet because nobody in the middle part of the 21st century can believe somebody could behave as he does unironically, he is seen as a bit of a goofball by the press and the authorities.

[i]Gullible[/i]: It might be kinder to say 'guileless' but as Gus often says “Honesty is the best policy” It does not take a great liar to fool Gus. Virtually any story that doesn't directly contradict his world view will be taken at face value. Once a lie is exposed however, he will never trust the source of the lie again. Several of his 'arch-enemies' (as he thinks of them) gained that status by tricking him. It is likely that several of AEGIS's open files on non-violent crimes with evidence of speedster powers could be due to Gus's gullibility.

[i]Optimistic[/i]: Gus believes the world is fundamentally good (except for dastardly villains—and they will soon get their just comeuppance) and remains utterly determined to do the right thing at all times. Thus far, he has an impressive track record for dealing with complicated plots of some very bad actors with a very simple set of tactics (the kind you'd expect from a six year old.) Basically he runs around really fast and hits the bad guys until they fall down. Then he ties them up really fast and takes them to the police really fast and leaves them on the sidewalk with a note in crayon. You wouldn't think this would work, but then, you're not Gus. Maybe it's luck, maybe fate, but you can't argue with the results.

[b]History[/b]


Augustus Gudmund Gustafson was born in early2003in Baltimore to a couple in their late forties: Agnesand Jonas Gustafson, originally from Sweden, but emigrated to America shortly before his birth. They opened a small garage on the south side of the city, and promptly vanished, leaving Gus's much older brother Gunnar to run the garage and care for his new sibling. What neither brother--nor perhaps anyone now living--knows is that the Gustafsons fled to America after Jonas' research facility successfully contacted beings from an alternate reality. Their elation at such an unprecedented success in extra dimensional communication was understandably dampened by the fact that every other member of the research team was dead within 48 hours. Agnes and Jonas apparently escaped unscathed, but their unborn child was afflicted with a temporal disjunction. In less technical terms, Gus' body developed normally, but his mind experienced a time dilation effect equivalent to a recession rate of approximately 98% of light speed. Effectively, he was profoundly mentally disabled, and deemed uneducable until he was fifteen. While the rest of America was focused on the events of The Rapture, Gus very nearly had a personal rapture of a rather more biblical variety; a probe of unknown originattempted to abduct him from his room above the garage. His brother managed to foil the probe's attempt at abducting Gus, though at the cost of the use of his legs. Luckily for both of them, the proximity to the strange radiations of the probe's thrustersdestabilized the temporal disjunction and jumpstarted Gus' mind and latent abilities. In the 22 years since then, a bit of a legend has grown up around a secretive speedster only ever briefly glimpsed, rocketing by in yellow and blue, known as BLAZE!Most other supers, as well as most AEGIS operatives think he is a myth. Those few in AEGIS who think he's real keep it to themselves, as trying to track down such a silly myth has ruined more than one career. Suffice to say, Gus does not have a blue card. But then, myths don't need them... do they? [/Tab]

[Tab=Relationships]


[b]Gunnar Gustafson[/b]


Gus loves his brother above all other things in his life. He has kept the garage in the black for the last 22 years, fixing all the cars while his brother keeps the books. One might wonder how a man with the mind of six year old fixes 21st century cars, but then, not all six year olds can see through time. Gus doesn't understand most of what he sees, but it gives him tremendous insight into mechanical systems, showing him not just where they are currently failing, but where they might fail in the future. In point of fact, no car he has fixed in the last 20 years has had any subsequent troubles other than normal wear and tear.Not so great for repeat business, but makes for amazing word of mouth.

[b]Mr. Borrowitz[/b]


If there were ever anyone Gus thought of as a father figure, it would definitely be Mr. Borrowitz in the facility 108 physical plant. He hired Gus part time when Gunnar needed extra money to cover a prescription, and kept him on for the last six years, on account of Gus is so good at sweeping. It is even more fun than fixing cars! And he has so many friendly nicknames for Gus, such as “Idiot” “Slowpoke” and “Broom-brain” Gus loves it here. All these kids are just so... super! He told Mr. Borrowitz so, and Mr. Borrowitz laughed and laughed.

[/Tab]




[Tab=Superpowers][table=none][tr][th]Ability[/th][th]Points[/th][th]Total[/th][th]Description[/th][/tr]
[tr][td]Health:[/td][td]



[center][color=LIME]▮▮[/color]▮▮▮▮▮▮▮[/center]


[/td][td]02[/td][td]The ability to resist illness and recover quickly from injuries, overall health.[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Strength[/td][td]



[center][color=LIME]▮▮[/color]▮▮▮▮▮▮▮[/center]


[/td][td]02[/td][td]Physical strength, the ability to strike hard, lift heavy objects, and so on.[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Toughness[/td][td]



[center][color=LIME]▮▮[/color]▮▮▮▮▮▮▮[/center]


[/td][td]02[/td][td]Endurance and stamina, the ability to take a hit and still keep going.[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Agility[/td][td]



[center][color=LIME]▮▮▮[/color][color=YELLOW]▮▮▮[/color][color=RED]▮▮▮[/color][/center]


[/td][td]09[/td][td]Speed, dexterity, nimbleness - agility is the ability to move quickly.[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Intelligence[/td][td]



[center][color=LIME]▮[/color]▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮[/center]


[/td][td]01[/td][td]Not book smarts, but the ability to perceive and retain lots of information.[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Willpower[/td][td]



[center][color=LIME]▮[/color]▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮[/center]


[/td][td]01[/td][td]Strength of mind, the ability to stay focused and determined.[/td][/tr]
[/table][divide=thick][/divide]

[b]Primary Power[/b]

Ever since his close encounter at the age of 15, Gus has been disconnected from the flow of time. Most of the time, this leaves him thinking at about one sixth of normal speed as he goes about his life, which would be crippling except for the fact that he has perfect foresight (and hindsight too, I suppose.) Gus sees all of time simultaneously, which is pretty helpful if you are trying to figure out when it is safe to cross the street, or know when and where to show up with a mop and when to bring a broom instead. It would also make him the perfect oracle except for two factors. Firstly, he doesn't understand most of what he sees, so asking him questions about the future would get the sort of cryptic, misleading, or self-fulfilling statements typical of most prophecy. Secondly, and vastly more importantly, nobody asks. Seriously that has never, ever happened. Everyone thinks of Gus as a sweet, affable idiot, and asking him about the future would be several steps below asking a magic eight ball on their list of things to try.

[b]Secondary powers[/b]


When Gus' visions of the future show him grave danger approaching, he calls on the power of Blaze to save the day. (He thinks of Blaze as being kind of like Shazam—an alter ego rather than himself at a different time rate) What Gus actually does is to step almost completely outside of time which allows him brief periods of super speed along with a nearly impenetrable force field, due to the gravitational shearing stresses at the boundary between normal space time and his little bubble of pseudo space time. During these excursions, Gus can think normally (for a six year old brain) but experiences time almost a thousand time faster.

[b]Weaknesses[/b]


As noted under primary power, he has the same essential weakness as Cassandra did in greek mythology. He knows the future, but nobody listens. As for the whole 'super speed' thing, that may sound ridiculously powerful, but there are some serious drawbacks: firstly, it is very difficult for Gus to see properly, especially at night, due to the dramatic redshift of light crossing from normal time into his bubble. (Incidentally this is also why his costume appears yellow with blue lightning bolts. He modeled his costume after his hero “The Flash”, and doesn't know it is being blue shifted for outside observers.) Secondly, there is no way for sound to travel from his bubble to the world (or vice versa) so he is effectively deaf and dumb while using super speed. (Gus gets around this by sticking post-it notes to nearby surfaces to make ersatz speech balloons, writing in them and then briefly posing next to them. He also sometimes writes punching sound effects on them before sticking them to bad guys before punching them. No really. He's six.) Thirdly, air can't cross from normal time to his bubble either, so at most, he can use super speed for maybe 10 minutes at a stretch. (Note that ten minutes in the bubble lasts for barely over half a second of real time.)

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@welian[/URL]
Quick question: do you mean by 11 tomorrow or a solid midnight for apps to be due? I'm asking since Daylights Savings starts and everyone jumps ahead stateside... except for like two states. xD

I mean like, 3am Sunday morning kind of deadline. Just get something in during the next 24ish hours.

 

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Tolbert, Luci

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• Full Name	Lucius "Luci" Tolbert
  Codename	Glowstick
  Gender	Male
  Age	14
  Rank	C
  Role	Student
  Subject	N/A

  Race	American
  Eyes	Brown
  Hair	Brown
  Height	5'5"
  Build	Lanky and somewhat scrawny
  Limiter	Level 1, active
  Notes	He is always glowing

• Heroism Meter
  
  
  

  Less Heroic	Points	More Heroic	Total	Description
  Flighty	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Courageous	09	Do they have a pair of steel, or do they prefer to exit before chaos strikes?
  Selfish	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Altruistic	03	Are they motivated to help others, or do they help themselves first?
  Chaotic	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Orderly	07	Are laws and regulations "suggestions", or written in stone?
  Cruel	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Kind	04	Are they genuinely nice to people, or do they enjoy causing distress?
  Reactionary	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Proactive	06	Are they content to watch events unfold, or do they jump in and guide things?

  
  
  Personality
  
  
  Attentive - Luci often pays attention, even though it seems like he never does. He is quick to lose focus, but also quick to regain it.
  
  
  Rambunctious - Luci is very active, and some would even call him hyperactive, but he is also very cheerful and happy most of the time. He is quick to be interested in things, and while it sometimes seem like he has too many interests to keep track of, he hasn’t really gotten an in-depth knowledge of most of them
  
  
  Strict - Luci sticks to the rules, and expects others to do so too, but he is more forgiving of others if they break the rules than he is of himself. He will generally do what someone in authority tells him to, unless it’s ‘sit still’.
  
  
  Disruptive - even when Luci tries to keep quiet or still, he’ll still somehow manage to get the attention. This isn’t appreciated very much, and many teachers think Luci does this on purpose, and his powers didn’t weaken that assumption. He doesn’t do it on purpose though, he just cannot sit still, and his twitching legs, tapping fingers, and roaming eyes don’t mean he doesn’t pay attention.
  
  
  History
  
  
  First son, but middle child in a family of three, Luci grew up as a bit of an outsider. This was mostly because of the seeming complete ease with which he got high grades, despite never seeming to pay attention. In high school it was easier to find some people that could understand him, and while not popular, he is generally liked.
  
  
  He has a close relation with both his older sister and younger brother. His arguments with his younger brother are often more volatile, but that is likely because they share a room, so they can’t be send to their room, so the tension hardly dissipates with time. His relationship with his calm sister is different, and while the arguments between the two of them aren’t as explosive, they often land the entire household in a frigid calm. This is made worse when Luci catches her breaking the rules, something she does far too often for his liking.
  
  
  When Luci grew into his powers it came as a surprise to everyone, including Luci. He had woken up in the middle of the night and didn’t even notice that he could clearly in what should be a pitch black room until he woke up that morning and realized that he was glowing. As soon as he got to school he was the talk of the town, and quickly nicknamed ‘Glowstick’, it wasn’t his choice, but it stuck, so he has accepted the name. The teachers, already convinced he was purposely disrupting their classes, started openly disliking Luci, not because he was super, but because of the what his powers were. The other students didn’t follow their example but did quite the opposite.
  
  
  His sister grew quietly jealous, and his brother started looking up to him. When the tests came back at rank C Luci was enrolled in Facility 108 to learn some control. Now, several months later, Luci’s siblings have seen the reality and the home situation has balanced again, though the feelings still linger.
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  Mr and Mrs Tolbert
  
  
  He has a good relationship with his parents, even though they were very startled that he had powers, and even more by their nature.
  
  
  Older sister
  
  
  He looks up to his sister in ways, but in many ways they also clash. While she would never admit it, she is still jealous that he got powers and she didn’t.
  
  
  Younger brother
  
  
  He often gets into arguments with his brother, and now that he lights up the room they share, there is simply another thing for them to argue about. Nonetheless he looks up to Luci, especcially now that Luci has powers, not that he’ll be obvious about it.
  
  
  

• Ability	Points	Total	Description
  Health:	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	02	The ability to resist illness and recover quickly from injuries, overall health.
  Strength	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	03	Physical strength, the ability to strike hard, lift heavy objects, and so on.
  Toughness	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	04	Endurance and stamina, the ability to take a hit and still keep going.
  Agility	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	03	Speed, dexterity, nimbleness - agility is the ability to move quickly.
  Intelligence	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	04	Not book smarts, but the ability to perceive and retain lots of information.
  Willpower	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	01	Strength of mind, the ability to stay focused and determined.

  
  
  Primary Power
  
  
  Luminescence - he glows. His emotions influence how bright he shines, stronger ones causes brighter light. He has some control over what color he shines, but this is not that noticeable. The clothes he wears dim the light somewhat if they’re very thick, but since he gets too hot very easily, he doesn’t wear thick clothes often.
  
  
  Secondary powers
  
  
  Light skin - he can wrap his skin in light, making it a a shield, he can also use this to make his physical attacks stronger. It's much stronger in the dark, most likely because there is less interference. The brighter the light the stronger this is.
  
  
  Weaknesses
  
  
  He cannot stop glowing, he could make it very dim, but he is always glowing. This has some dastardly consequences, like when he tries to sleep, and is his own night light. Not only does this cause insomnia, he is also more susceptible to headaches, as he is constantly surrounded by bright lights. Also, this paints a very obvious bull's-eye on his back, especially during the night.
  
  
  He has body temperature regulation issues. Whenever he glows brighter, his body temperature goes up, and because he is always alight, his body temperature is also above the human average. When he uses a lot of energy, he needs to refuel quickly, because his body temperature will start dropping below the healthy range.
  
  
  He needs a lot of food because the light drains a lot of energy. This exacerbates the issue of hyperthermia, making it very hard for him in the summer days. Generally speaking, he needs to eat about twice as much as the average human, but he can’t eat larger meals because his stomach is still normally sized. This means he generally eats six or seven full meals a day.
  
  
  The two above combine so he could literally faint in the middle of something if he didn't eat enough and was using his powers too much. If this were to happen he would collapse, his body temperature would drop significantly and his light would dim until it is nearly invisible.
  
  
  
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I messed with his powers and weaknesses some.

 

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DE ST. CLAIR, MIRÈIO

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• Full Name	Mirèio de St.Clair
  Codename	Umbra
  Gender	Female
  Age	34
  Rank	S
  Role	Faculty
  Subject	Emotional Composure

  Race	French
  Eyes	Black
  Hair	White
  Height	6'1Ft
  Build	Lithe
  Limiter	Level 4; Active
  Notes	-

• Heroism Meter
  
  
  

  Less Heroic	Points	More Heroic	Total	Description
  Flighty	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Courageous	09	Do they have a pair of steel, or do they prefer to exit before chaos strikes?
  Selfish	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Altruistic	08	Are they motivated to help others, or do they help themselves first?
  Chaotic	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Orderly	01	Are laws and regulations "suggestions", or written in stone?
  Cruel	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Kind	04	Are they genuinely nice to people, or do they enjoy causing distress?
  Reactionary	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	Proactive	09	Are they content to watch events unfold, or do they jump in and guide things?

  
  
  Personality
  
  
  Composed ┃Intelligent ┃Focused┃Nihilist
  
  
  
  
  
  >>Among her siblings, Mirèio was always regarded as the little angel. Not in the sweet, innocent way but in the orderly and calm way. She rarely, if ever, loses her temper or cool with anything or one and is more than capable of taking a few jokes without blowing steam out of her ears in anger. She'll always be the one who can quickly silence a room of people not by screaming at them with explosives shouts of wrath and displays of powerful intimidation, but with the soothing sound of her voice and the reassurance that comes with it.
  
  
  >>If there's one thing she's constantly kept honed and ready by her side, it's her mind. You'll always find her reading a few books or doing some "mentally stimulating" quizzes that she claims keeps her from developing the mind of a child. If you really wanted too, you can give her a pile of the most boring scientific books and she'd end up remembering all the information from the top of her head if you asked her to recite everything she knew five months later. Her intellect and great memory have been compared to an archive where she pulls out just what needs when the time is right.
  
  
  >>When you're looking for someone who is capable of spending all their time and energy to get that one little annoying task done, Mirèio is the person to go to. She can spend countless of hours doing paperwork or writing up plans for the next day without a single tinge of annoyance of voicing how bored she is.
  
  
  >>Mirèio is what you would consider, the ultimate pessimist. She always see's the bad side of things before the good and will always question whether her actions are actually worth the effort or merely just a waste of time. Not only this, however, but she seems to have a rather disturbing lack of morals from what can be judged in psyche analysis's and her opinion on numerous other topics. She'd be more than willing to sacrifice a few people without question if it involved saving one more, or simply pulling the trigger on a criminal without even a hint of hesitance or sympathy. She herself believes that there is inherently no right or wrong in any situation, considering it to be an artificial construct made by us to help regulate people. Her view on life also ties in with her rather negative views, judging it as meaningless and with no value. Everything will be put in a negative light before it is flipped over into the positive. It should be noted, however,that she does have something edging on a moral compass. She won't just kill a random person with no given reason, nor steal another's belongings without purpose.
  
  
  History
  
  
  Mirèio was born in 2006, Lyon, France during the cold winter months as the child of an incredibly loving family who had everything they could wish for in the world. They weren't insanely rich or poor, but just up there enough to spend enough on luxuries without having to worry about losing all their money. Life was good, no, it was great. Not only were her parents filled with compassion but her siblings were beyond caring for her well-being; always protecting her from the potential bully and always defending her in the face of arguments. A picture perfect family and they remained that way for years to come. It was when she reached the age of twelve, that one single decision created a domino effect.
  
  
  They were moving to a different country. America.
  
  
  It was apparently for business on her father's side. She didn't like it though, she hated missing all of her friends. How she couldn't go and hang out with them, miss out on all the things they were doing and eventually be forgotten. It was as they were in a car when an argument erupted and it slowly escalated from there. As they were driving to their new home in a new country, that her latent gene decided to kick in. Her mood darkened and with it the entire car. A black mist had enveloped the entire interior, making it all but impossible to see the road ahead of them and her father drove directly into a street light. Both of her parents in the front died instantly upon impact, her siblings sustained varying injuries whilst she herself was left in critical condition. Being rushed to hospital the moment the ambulance came, as she was treated her features changed inexplicably. Her eyes blackened, her brown hair became bleach white within the night she slept recovering and It wasn't up to debate what she was, a super.
  
  
  The moment she recovered, she was given over to the Commonwealth to display her powers and was ultimately deemed an S ranking. However, they showed difficulty in merely slapping a limiter on an S ranked teen who would be especially emotionally volatile and giving her up to a foster home. So, they made a compromise and provided her a home with a pair of Commonwealth agents who desired a child yet were unable to make one. From there on it was smooth sailing as she got used to both the abilities and her new look, along with accustoming to a new family. She was even able to see a therapist about the crash and how it affected her, and though she came out of the situation jaded and with a new, negative perspective of the world, she was alright.
  
  
  Recently, she has attained a job at the Aegis training facility, 108 as the Emotional composure Teacher. Planning to help others with their abilities and to keep themselves in check lest any more incidents similar to hers occur.
  
  
  
• Family
  
  Mr & Mrs Olson:
  
  
  Her current family and the ones who adopted her, she loves them greatly and they love her. They are not supers though fairly high-ranking agents of the Commonwealth. When they first adopted her, they spoiled her beyond belief given the fact that they finally had a child and they still do. She does, however, still retain her original parent's surnames.
  
  
  
  
  
  Siblings:
  
  
  She loved them greatly as a child and they were always there for her in the worst of times. Nowadays, though, she's unsure of they'd want to see her and she has completely cut off contact with them after being adopted by her current parents. She is ultimately unsure of their whereabouts or professions as of this time.
  
  
  Facility 108 Staff
  
  Students
  
  

• Ability	Points	Total	Description
  Health:	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	02	The ability to resist illness and recover quickly from injuries, overall health.
  Strength	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	02	Physical strength, the ability to strike hard, lift heavy objects, and so on.
  Toughness	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	02	Endurance and stamina, the ability to take a hit and still keep going.
  Agility	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	04	Speed, dexterity, nimbleness - agility is the ability to move quickly.
  Intelligence	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	07	Not book smarts, but the ability to perceive and retain lots of information.
  Willpower	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮​	09	Strength of mind, the ability to stay focused and determined.

  
  
  Primary Power
  
  
  Darkness Manipulation┃
  
  
  >>Mirèio is capable of manipulating & generating the shadows and darkness to her very whim in a variety of ways. In simple applications, she can do things such as bathe an entire room in darkness; seemingly absorbing all light sources and rendering them inert. However, more concerning forms of her abilities have been observed by Commonwealth Scientists which is the reasoning for her ranking as an S. She seems capable of solidifying and creating constructs made of pure darkness. The most common form of this ability is to create Maws, Tendrils, and Spikes that can quite easily devour or rend the flesh of those who are in her way. More abstract forms of using her abilities include creating a vision impairing mist or even creating a mirror image of herself from her very own shadow that can perform actions that she herself can do.
  
  
  Point of interest: Her ability seems to have also biologically had an effect on her. This is portrayed in her dark, ash colored skin and almost entirely black eyes that lack the typical volume of white in normal people's eyes.
  
  
  Secondary powers
  
  
  Umbrageous Travel┃Night Vision
  
  
  
  
  
  >>She is capable of seemingly achieving a form of teleportation via the use of shadows as a conduit. This seems limited to shadows within her view but is useful nonetheless. She achieves this by seemingly melting into the ground as a black puddle that then dissipates, followed by her manifesting in the shadow she traveled to.
  
  
  >>Mirèio has shown no difficulty in seeing in almost pitch black environments; the exact opposite in truth. Her vision seems to become even better when in a dark area's.
  
  
  
  
  
  Weaknesses
  
  
  Light ┃Concentration ┃Durability ┃ Normal Vision
  
  
  >>It should not come as much as a surprise that she has a natural aversion to light. Intense flashes of light or sources of said light can all but render every technique she can utilize out of her power useless. Not only this, but her abilities seem to be passively affected as well. Her abilities seem to be noticeably lackluster or erratic and difficult to control in area's with sources of light, so Summer isn't really her favorite season.
  
  
  >>To make the most out of her ability, she needs to be particularly focused. Being interrupted abruptly, jumped or sudden pain can easily make her powers fade away like mist.
  
  
  >>Despite her dark constructs being quite powerful, they are also surprisingly brittle. Mild amounts of force are all that is needed to dissipate them physically. However, this is somewhat mitigated by her ability to endlessly create a supply of darkness as long as she is focused and lack of strong lights.
  
  
  >>Though her vision in darkness is far beyond natural, her vision in normal light settings are less than optimal. Her vision in lit environments is equivalent to someone who is short sighted.
  
  
  
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  LADY OF THE SUNSHINE
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

 

[welian]

I'm fairly certain that I've spent more time on the character database/spreadsheets than I have on actually posting.

 

[Scribbler]

Heroism


69%


Huehuehue

 

[welian]

@Scribbler, @ViAdvena, @Cheshire Smile


All three of you are submitting characters with some form of shadow manipulation. I have absolutely no problem with this, but I would like you three to have a discussion about your characters’ powers. I want you all to come to some ground rules on what will and won’t be possible with your powers.


@RemainingQuestions


Mmm, characters with simple and straightforward powers. You know the way to my heart. I appreciate you making a C Rank too, we definitely need more lower-ranked supers. You did good reworking those powers a bit. Approved.


@Gus


I’m going to have to reject your application for now. Your character utilizes plot devices that this roleplay is not current developed well enough to handle, and as a GM I have strict rules on spacetime manipulation and powers. You’re welcome to draw up a different character today if you still want to join the roleplay, or you can wait until the first week of April to reapply.