OOC Discussion

[Swoob]

Posting this to get some feedback on what everyone thinks. Constructive criticism helps, or sarcastic as well. But, I hope to be joining you all as soon as I'm done.

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Reed J.

• Heroism
• Statistics

• Aspect	Scale
  COUR	?????????	03
  ALTR	?????????	01
  ORDR	?????????	02
  KIND	?????????	01
  PRCT	?????????	02
  DIPL	?????????	02

• Aspect	Scale
  HLTH	?????????	04
  STRN	?????????	03
  DEFN	?????????	02
  AGLT	?????????	04
  INTL	?????????	04
  WILL	?????????	04

• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Gallery

• Full Name
  
  Jack Andrew Reed
  
  Nicknames
  
  None
  
  Codename
  
  W.I.P.
  
  Gender
  
  Male
  
  Age
  
  Twenty-seven
  
  Rank
  
  S
  
  Limiter
  
  Not sure.
  
  Role
  
  Captive Student?
  
  
  
  
• Race
  
  Caucasian
  
  Hair
  
  Brown
  
  Eyes
  
  Green Hazel
  
  Height
  
  5'11
  
  Figure
  
  Slim, but fit
  
  Notes
  
  Nothing of note about his appearance other than an unseen birth mark on his ankle.
  
  
• Personality Trait 1/4 (Positive)
  
  
  Confident.
  
  
  Personality Trait 2/4 (Neutral)
  
  
  Mellow
  
  
  Personality Trait 3/4 (Neutral)
  
  
  Sarcastic
  
  
  Personality Trait 4/4 (Negative)
  
  
  Aggressive
  
  
  History
  
  
  ---
• Other Character's Name
  
  
  ---
• Main Power
  
  
  Matter Detonation- Jack can detonate matter with just a touch of his hand. The detonation is equal to the matters weight in TNT. Never done anything larger than a vehicle.
  
  
  • Supporting Power A: Self-Detonation- Can detonate himself with a blast equal to his weight in TNT.
    
  • Supporting Power B: Resurrection- His body puts itself back together and he comes back to life, clothing and all.
    
  
  
  Limitations
  
  
  • Weakness 1: Can't detonate organic matter besides himself. Or liquids.
    
  • Weakness 2: All human weaknesses.
    
  • Weakness 3: Resurrection only works with self-detonation. He thinks. Not willing to try.
    
  
  
  
• ---

Same as what @Gus said pretty much. Also, since he has to touch the matter, he'll always be at point-blank for the explosion. Since resurrection only works with self-detonation, does he get damaged from these explosions? Because in that case, he can get killed by any vehicle (even things smaller I think?)

 

[Swoob]

Also, he should be A rank, not S rank, based on his stat points

 

[Unlimited]

These are great questions. Thank you guys. I have some serious thinking to do before I'm ready. >_>; //hugs for everyone.// You shall receive me soon, with revisions!

 

[welian]

It makes you wonder how many people die in accidents caused by powers they didn't know they had. Is spontaneous head combustion a thing?

 

[STATIC]

>Magma Manipulation


>Secondary powers do not include resistance to heat or fireproof skin


>R.I.P

 

[welian]

Evolution is a bitch.

 

[Swoob]

tbh that could've actually applied to eden, like if his mother was the one caught in the explosion and she hobbled towards him to protect him or something like that he would've gotten her wounds and died


thats honestly gotta be the most terrifying thing for family/loved ones and the police and stuff like people die in horrifying and gruesome ways and you can't tell whether it was a power that just manifested or something else


there could even be serial killers/murderers who kill their targets and arrange their corpses a certain way so they all seem like different powers that suddenly manifested

 

[STATIC]

*Then there's that one guy with spoon manipulation*

 

[Swoob]

*Then there's that one guy with spoon manipulation*

"Sir, we've received several reports of people found dead in their kitchens with multiple spoons impaled in their bodies"

 

[welian]

Spoon manipulation? I think you mean @Zahzi's character at age three.

 

[Gus]

Embrace the deeper truth: there is no spoon.

 

[Gus]

OK, Aaron Mallory, the human singularity, AKA Solo, draft 2 coming up. Many thanks to Swoob for very helpful and substantive feedback.

 

[Gus]

MALLORY, A

• Heroism
• Statistics

• Aspect	Scale
  COUR	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	09
  ALTR	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	06
  ORDR	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	08
  KIND	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	07
  PRCT	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	01
  DIPL	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	05

• Aspect	Scale
  HLTH	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	02
  STRN	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	09
  DEFN	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	09
  AGLT	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	01
  INTL	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	03
  WILL	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮	02

• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Gallery

• Full Name
  
  Aaron Iapetus Mallory
  
  Nicknames
  
  Blacklight, Deadstar, Singularity Man(all codenames that didn't stick. He refused to answer to blackhole)
  
  Codename
  
  Solo
  
  Gender
  
  Male
  
  Age
  
  43 years
  
  Rank
  
  S Rank
  
  Limiter
  
  Active, Level 4
  
  Role
  
  Faculty, Collateral Damage and You +Introductory Physics
  
  
• Race
  
  Caucasian
  
  Hair
  
  Brown
  
  Eyes
  
  Brown
  
  Height
  
  6'1"
  
  Figure
  
  Heavyset (~441 sextillion tons)
  
  Notes
  
  Slight shimmering effect near the surface of his skin, like a heat mirage; darkens to inky black void during high stress incidents. He has been described by AEGIS staff physicists as "A living singularity" There are any number of reasons why this is impossible, and when pressed for theories, those same physicists will typically point behind you, scream "LOOK OVER THERE!" and run away.
  
  
• Personality Trait 1/4 (Positive)
  
  
  Kind: His heart is as soft as his skin is impervious. Aaron came of age as a hero just as the violence of Rapture was erupting, and bore witness to the worst corruption the commonwealth had to offer. In spite his experiences—or perhaps because of them—he maintains an unwavering commitment to treating all human beings as precious. Even the worst of the worst.
  
  
  Personality Trait 2/4 (Neutral)
  
  
  Introverted: Aaron is not given to sharing information unless it is pried out of him, or part of his curriculum. Even his therapist, Lisa, only knows the broad outlines of his worldview. Most of their sessions consist of each of them sitting quietly until the hour is up. He finds this very comforting and rejuvenating, but worries that she may feel guilty about not taking a more active role. Perhaps, one day, he will tell her how he feels about that.
  
  
  Personality Trait 3/4 (Neutral)
  
  
  Worrywart: He knows the world doesn't revolve around him, but as an S class, he can't help feeling responsible for things. Lisa often tells him not to be concerned with things beyond his power, which feels like a sick joke, every time. For Aaron, and people like him, nothing goes in that part of the Al-Anon serenity prayer venn diagram. It is not the wisdom to know the difference that holds him back, but the constant awareness that S class intervention canalways make things worse, however bad they are.
  
  
  Personality Trait 4/4 (Negative)
  
  
  World Weary: In 2017, Aaron was 20 years old, and a junior in college working on a double major in physics and law enforcement. The world was far from perfect, but there was clear sense of work that needed doing and a community willing and able to do it. He knew who he was and where he belonged. But when push came to shove, the world got ugly. Year by year he lost everything that mattered to him: his faith, his sense of purpose, friends, family, and ultimately his sense of his own humanity. He has spent more than a decade trying to get that part of himself back, and had finally given up on being himself again. He will just have to settle for who he is now, and so will the world.
  
  
  History
  
  
  Aaron was born at the dawn of the modern age of super-humans. Now, somehow, he has reached an age where he no longer understands the new generation; their ways are an utter mystery to him. As a millennial's millennial growing up, he could never have imagined becoming an out of touch grumpy old man pining for the good ole bad old days. Apparently, unplugging for almost 15 years will do that to you. That and untreated PTSD, or whatever they're calling it nowadays.
  
  
  Aaron was 21 when the rapture happened. Fresh out of college, with a newly minted blue card and full of political idealism and ideas, fighting terrorists seemed like the right thing to do. The only thing to do. But then, things got complicated. Experiments came to light. Nasty secrets surfaced. Good and evil became less and less clear, until he became increasingly frightened by the idea he might not be on the right side of history. By his mid-twenties he had had enough, teleported to mars, dropped his limiter there, and jumped back to South America where he spent the next fourteen and a half years living on a primitive farming collective, basically working as a tractor. He wasn't exactly happy, but at least he was useful.
  
  
  Three years ago, he spotted an AEGIS helicopter crisscrossing the sky in some kind of search pattern and decided it was probably time to leave the farm and get back to his old life. Two years ago he was hired by director Swan to teach at facility 108, but only just arrived three weeks ago; it was a long, long walk. His first class starts on Monday morning.
• Lisa Ramsey Lisa is Aaron's AEGIS assigned therapist. She is on call 24/7, though she has a caseload of 5 other S class individuals deemed psychological security risks. He has been meeting with her virtually through video chat programs for about a year. She seems competent, and nice enough, but trust in anything connected to the old days is slow coming. Still, he looks forward to their regular sessions on Thursday nights, especially when she doesn't make him talk.
  
  
  Joey Bellandi
  
  
  Does a personal shopper count as a relationship? For a virtual hermit like Aaron, it is better than nothing, and will have to do until he develops some friendships. At any rate it is nice to have somebody with a car fetch the groceries. Short of opening a wormhole to the moon and back, or Mars, he'd take a whole weekend to make that one trip, and grocery shopping seems like an awfully petty use of a wormhole. He swore off their use ages ago, and he'll be damned if he'll fall off the wagon now. Anyway, he likes Joey. He likes to hear his stories of life in Baltimore. Normal stories of normal life. He probably tips too much. To be honest, he's not even sure if tipping is still a thing anymore. So far though, Joey hasn't complained.
  
  
  
• Unearthly Strength and Toughness
  
  
  The simplest way to describe his powers is that while his strength is virtually limitless in magnitude, it appears to be restricted to lifting, squeezing, and walking. If he is trapped between two walls, he can push over whichever one is weaker. When lifting things, the weight is limited only by the structural integrity of the surface he is standing on. As for squeezing things, that is a great way to make things not exist anymore, unless you count conversion to quark plasma in the category of 'still existing'. His skin appears to be so dense as to be impenetrable, or at least, if any force in the world is capable of breaking his skin he has yet to encounter it.
  
  
  • Gravitational 'radar': Aaron can sense the presence of any mass within about 40 astronomical units. It is difficult for him to sense anything smaller than about a ton, but if he concentrates he can sometimes distinguish nearby objects down to about 100 kg, if they are moving. This sense is not blocked by solid objects, and can detect hollow spaces inside larger objects, if they are bigger than about 10 feet across.
    
  • Interplanetary wormholes: Aaron can open wormholes from the gravity well he is currently in to other sufficiently deep gravity wells. He can pass through the wormhole almost instantaneously, but the time required to open such a wormhole is just a bit longer than the time required for the light cone of the current gravity well to intersect the neighboring one. (Protecting causality, among other things.) He cannot bring anything with him other than his clothes. NASA tried. Wherever their probes ended up, they are no longer communicating.
    
  
  
  Limitations
  
  
  Aaron is immune to Newton's third law, but onlyregarding changes in his velocity initiated by him. This means that he can walk around without throwing the earth off its axis, but also means that if he runs full tilt at a wall, he won't crash through it but will just stop, with no sign that he hit it at all, other than that he is no longer moving. Another way to put this is that any velocity he acquires by pushing against one thing (like the ground) can be got rid of by pushing against any other thing (like a person). The flip side of this is that no moving object can ever impart velocity to him, so if a speeding car runs into him, it will stop with all the attendant violence associated with hitting a crash test block. This is also why he can only lift, push and squeeze. His super dense muscles have virtually unlimited strength, but his environment is still made of ordinary objects which must respect the third law. He can only ever exert as much force on anything as the thing he is bracing himself against can support, or until he exceeds the stress limit of the object. (Picture trying to lift a main battle tank with one hand: either you punch a hole in the tank, or the ground you are standing on. Lift failed, either way.) Lastly this is why squeezing something is so much more deadly. Anything caught between his hands can experience his full strength, since he is pushing it back against himself.
  
  
  • Vertigo: Being able to sense the spin of earth, as well as the motion of every other major body in the solar system, can have unpredictable effects on Aaron's equilibrium. He is always a little dizzy, but at odd intervals this effect becomes briefly intolerable and will drop him to his knees, vomiting uncontrollably. Sometimes he can puzzle out when an episode will hit in advance from horoscopes. This bothers him to no end.
    
  • Still needs to breathe: This may sound like a lame weakness, but if he falls in a lake he is all done. If he is buried in soft earth, he is toast; he won't sink into soft ground, but he also can't push it off without driving himself deeper into it. This also makes him vulnerable to chemical attacks. Also this puts severe limits on his teleportation, due to the minimum range, as noted below.
    
  • Unable to use vehicles of any kind.: This is a pain in the ass because walking is slow and teleporting is imprecise and dangerous.
    
  • Wormholes suck: The minimum range for his teleport is about a light second, and that takes him to the moon. There's no air there. Mars is not much better, and is anywhere from three to twenty two minutes away, depending on planetary alignment. Venus is the very worst place he has ever been and he just moved to Baltimore. (Joke!) In a pinch, he can get anywhere on earth in under 6 seconds, if his lungs don't explode during the few seconds it takes to re-anchor the earth end of the wormhole. Also, due to the time pressure (and air pressure) on the moon, he tends to miss his earth target zone by a pretty wide margin. From Mars, he can take a little more time to reset the wormhole and get a little closer to where he wants to be, but it can take up to 30 minutes to get the hole thing set up. He is never going back to Venus if he can help it. Finally, he is sort of afraid to teleport at all anymore, ever since it was suggested that jumping on and off the planet all the time, given what he weighs could throw the earth into the sun. (It can't, but he is a serious worrier; he hasn't opened a wormhole in nearly two decades.)
    
  
  
  Repeat as needed.
  
  
  
• Although there is now a spot for a character image (since most of you have one), the Gallery tab remains as an area for you to post additional images, theme songs, and so on.

 

[Unlimited]

Alright, a few revisions. How does it look? >_>;

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Gray L.

• Heroism
• Statistics

• Aspect	Scale
  COUR	?????????	03
  ALTR	?????????	01
  ORDR	?????????	02
  KIND	?????????	01
  PRCT	?????????	02
  DIPL	?????????	02

• Aspect	Scale
  HLTH	?????????	04
  STRN	?????????	03
  DEFN	?????????	02
  AGLT	?????????	04
  INTL	?????????	04
  WILL	?????????	04

• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Gallery

• Full Name
  
  Leon R. Gray
  
  Nicknames
  
  None
  
  Codename
  
  Kiloton
  
  Gender
  
  Male
  
  Age
  
  Twenty-seven
  
  Rank
  
  A
  
  Limiter
  
  Level 3 - Active
  
  Role
  
  Captive Student
  
  
• Race
  
  Caucasian
  
  Hair
  
  Brown
  
  Eyes
  
  Green Hazel
  
  Height
  
  5'11
  
  Figure
  
  Slim, but fit
  
  Notes
  
  Nothing of note about his appearance other than an unseen birth mark on his ankle.
  
  
• Personality Trait 1/4 (Positive)
  
  
  Confident.
  
  
  Personality Trait 2/4 (Neutral)
  
  
  Lazy
  
  
  Personality Trait 3/4 (Neutral)
  
  
  Sarcastic
  
  
  Personality Trait 4/4 (Negative)
  
  
  Aggressive
  
  
  History
  
  
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• Other Character's Name
  
  
  ---
• Main Power
  
  
  Matter Detonation- Leon can detonate matter with just a touch of his hand. The detonation is equal to the matters weight in TNT. Never done anything larger than a vehicle.
  
  
  • Supporting Power A:Energy Absorption- When caught in his own explosion he absorbs the heat and kinetic energy through his skin, allowing him to survive.
    
  • Supporting Power B: Time Delay- By thinking of a number he can delay the explosion up to ten minutes, any more and it just doesn't happen.
    
  
  
  Limitations
  
  
  • Weakness 1: Can't detonate organic matter or liquids.
    
  • Weakness 2: All human weaknesses.
    
  • Weakness 3: There is a limit to how much energy he can absorb, limit is unknown though.
    
  
  
  
• ---

 

[Swoob]

Energy Absorption- When caught in his own explosion he absorbs the heat and kinetic energy through his skin, allowing him to survive.

Though I'm not sure, I think that's technically what happens anyway—u absorb the heat and kinetic energy and thats what makes ur body move and burn


I'd suggest simply sticking to a "he's just immune to it" explanation

 

[Unlimited]

Well I was just taking away the self detonation aspect and giving him a reason to be immune. Science!

 

[Suzuki Mine]

Well I was just taking away the self detonation aspect and giving him a reason to be immune. Science!

There's science involved in this roleplay?!


Fuuuuuu-! DX

 

[Teh Frixz]

I'm cooking up a new character...

 

[Unlimited]

[QUOTE="Suzuki Mine]
There's science involved in this roleplay?!
Fuuuuuu-! DX

[/QUOTE]
Well saying he can survive 'just because' is a cop out. I like to have reasons!

 

[Gus]

Well saying he can survive 'just because' is a cop out. I like to have reasons!

What if he can absorb any explosion other than his own and than uses the stored energy of that to trigger explosions later? Needn't be 1:1 trading of joules either, could be that the stored energy is used to catalyze an exotic reaction in normal matter. This would add an interesting dimension in that he would have to seek out explosions (or cause them conventionally) to 'charge up' and there would be an intrinsic limit to how big a boom he could make; if he uses up his stores, his power could stop working or be greatly weakened. This also makes a nice heroic power in that he could protect normal humans by taking the brunt of an explosion into himself, thereby saving bystanders. This plays nicely with conservation of energy (Science!) and also plays into the common trope of creatively using an offensive power to protect instead of destroy. Just a thought from your friendly neighborhood science teacher!

 

[Unlimited]

I had considered that idea but didn't put a whole lot of thought into. I was having trouble wording how he could cause explosion by using stored energy. But, you put it into terms that make sense. So, that would actually work quite well and make him a little more limited and vulnerable. It would just be a matter of finding out how to trigger explosions conventionality and charge up while inside AEGIS, lol.


But, he's not really into the whole heroic thing. >_>; Maybe he's too much of an a-hole.

 

[Gus]

In other news, Luc is not dead, only sleeping! Yay! That was lots of fun. Looks like I will be spending class sleeping it off in the infirmary, apologies to Jordan and Prof T.


As Luc may be out for some while, I find my thoughts turning... Professorial, in the interim. Might Mr. Mallory become professor Mallory in time for classes Monday morning? Or might he need further edits? @welian

 

[Gus]

I had considered that idea but didn't put a whole lot of thought into. I was having trouble wording how he could cause explosion by using stored energy. But, you put it into terms that make sense. So, that would actually work quite well and make him a little more limited and vulnerable. It would just be a matter of finding out how to trigger explosions conventionality and charge up while inside AEGIS, lol.
But, he's not really into the whole heroic thing. >_>; Maybe he's too much of an a-hole.

Well at least he might save some folks by accident.

 

[Unlimited]

Accidental heroism!

 

[Unlimited]

Added some history, and made the energy storage a thing.

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Gray L.

• Heroism
• Statistics

• Aspect	Scale
  COUR	?????????	03
  ALTR	?????????	01
  ORDR	?????????	02
  KIND	?????????	01
  PRCT	?????????	02
  DIPL	?????????	02

• Aspect	Scale
  HLTH	?????????	04
  STRN	?????????	03
  DEFN	?????????	02
  AGLT	?????????	04
  INTL	?????????	04
  WILL	?????????	04

• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Gallery

• Full Name
  
  Leon R. Gray
  
  Nicknames
  
  None
  
  Codename
  
  Kiloton
  
  Gender
  
  Male
  
  Age
  
  Twenty-seven
  
  Rank
  
  A
  
  Limiter
  
  Level 3 - Active
  
  Role
  
  Captive Student
  
  
• Race
  
  Caucasian
  
  Hair
  
  Brown
  
  Eyes
  
  Green Hazel
  
  Height
  
  5'11
  
  Figure
  
  Slim, but fit
  
  Notes
  
  Nothing of note about his appearance other than an unseen birth mark on his ankle.
  
  
• Personality Trait 1/4 (Positive)
  
  
  Confident.
  
  
  Personality Trait 2/4 (Neutral)
  
  
  Lazy
  
  
  Personality Trait 3/4 (Neutral)
  
  
  Sarcastic
  
  
  Personality Trait 4/4 (Negative)
  
  
  Aggressive
  
  
  History
  
  
  Leon was born to an American family living abroad in Paris, his father a military man and a stay at home mother. For most of his life he enjoyed simple comforts and attended a school for military kids who didn't speak the language. A new program introducing a elementary level school onto a military base, for military parents. It wasn't until he hit puberty that things got weird, his parents moving back to the States so he could attend an American High School and so his father could retire.
  
  
  For his Freshman and Sophomore years things were normal, until he got into his first fight with the local bully. During the fight his powers awakened in a most violent way and he leveled half the school. Luckily no one was seriously injured or killed, but this made his parents view of him change. Now he was just some dangerous monster in their eyes, or that's what he thought at least, but really they still loved him and wanted what was best. They were ill equipped to handle him so they were going to enroll him in AEGIS so he could receive formal training with his powers, but not only was he able to make things explode his personality changed to that of a aggressive young man.
  
  
  When he found out about what his parents were planning his tried to run, but it was too late. AEGIS showed up to escort him to their school and a fight ensued where he caused the destruction of multiple vehicles and fled the scene. He moved place to place and wound up in Boston where he accidentally blew up a gas station during a scuffle with some local thugs and AEGIS caught wind of him. They pursued him until finally cornering him and neutralizing him, taking Leon to the AEGIS facility by force and informing his parents of his capture. Now he tries to escape on a regular basis but the Limiter keeps him from using his powers so it's nearly impossible.
• Other Character's Name
  
  
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• Main Power
  
  
  Matter Detonation- Leon can detonate matter with just a touch of his hand. The detonation is equal to the matters weight in TNT. Never done anything larger than a vehicle. But, in order to cause explosions he must have energy stored up in his body to put into object. The more energy the more he can explode.
  
  
  • Supporting Power A:Energy Absorption- When caught in his own explosion he absorbs the heat and kinetic energy through his skin, allowing him to survive.
    
  • Supporting Power B: Time Delay- By thinking of a number he can delay the explosion up to ten minutes, any more and it just doesn't happen.
    
  
  
  Limitations
  
  
  • Weakness 1: Can't detonate organic matter or liquids.
    
  • Weakness 2: He must have stored energy to cause explosions. No energy=no powers. He cannot recycle the energy absorb from point blank explosions caused by himself.
    
  • Weakness 3: There is a limit to how much energy he can absorb, limit is unknown though.
    
  
  
  
• ---