The League of Extraordinarily Useless Heroes
It is the age of superheroes!
Great men and women around the world fight evil and unjust with their amazing powers of awesomeness! And then there's you. You are a superhero with a power that is useless compared to other great heroes. You are the laughing stock of heroes. However, you joined forces with other heroes like you, and formed the League of Extraordinarily Useless Heroes. Other heroes still laugh, but when a great threat looms in New York, it looks like you and your friends are the only ones who can save the day...
Is the world forever doomed, or will you prove everyone wrong and save it?
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This is meant to be a short RP based on a group of supers taking down a single villain. But of course, if people enjoy it a bunch, we can see about continuing it in some way.
If you want to make the leader of the group, feel free to. Otherwise, I will make them once a few people express interest.
The supervillain will be revealed if this RP actually takes off and starts.
Spoiler: Character SheetName:
Superhero Name:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Superpowers: (Don't pick something too cool. :P)
Biography:
Other:
Spoiler: CharactersSpoiler: The North Face (Alura)Name: Daniella Norteņo
Superhero Name: The North Face
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Appearance: This newly graduated heroine with eyes as hazel as forest moss and hair as brown and plentiful as the coffee fueling the police offices of this great city (state?) of New York, stands a respectable 5' 9" tall and is ready to stamp out the moderately inconvenient waste bin fires of injustice wherever they may be found.
Superpowers: Can always find true north, no matter where she is, without the aid of a compass or any analog or digital navigation device.
Biography: Born into the Nuestra family known for its fractured existence between good and not that great came Daniella. Her two older brothers, Alfredo and Victor, were not spared the blood feud. Alfredo opened a chain of Italian restaurants where he and his friends confused and dismayed the population by serving what could be described as TexMex with only Italian ingredients. Still, Alfredo never really crossed the lines of evil until their cousin, Dezzy, began using the restaurants to launder the money made from running assassins through the Federal penal system. In juxtaposition to his brother, Victor worked with his cousin Dezzy to establish and expand their less savoury business before reforming himself and using his powers for the good of the family and the community. While Alfredo can heat anything to typical human body temperature, Victor can cause ink to vanish from anything. Victor now aids the people of New York with his newly turned leaf by disappearing the ink from parking tickets that are placed in questionable circumstances.
Daniella grew up amidst these harrowing conflicts and set her mind to follow after her parents: her father known as "Nosedive" aka "The South Face", the narcoleptic super hero with the ability to fall fast asleep in the presence of anyone intent on committing a crime; and her mother Sylvia Arnoud, a criminal prosecutor who probably accomplished more to cull crime in the city than the rest of the Norteņos combined. Having completed her training as both a pre-law student and a hero-in-training, Daniella now spends her time seeking employment with an established hero agency and agonizing over whether she chose the best name to illustrate her abilities. Also, was that the right font choice for her resume? How do job searches work and what does "overqualified" actually mean, anyway?
Other: True great-ish-ness needs no further explanation.Spoiler: The Archosaur (SaltyIrishman)
Name: Billy O'Brian
Superhero Name: The Archosaur
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Appearance: Tall and tanned, Billy wears Hawaiian shirts, a pair of knockoff Ray-Ban sunglasses (Ray Bandzz), colorful fried denim jeans and a pair of old sandals. His curly black hair is cut short to a fade on the sides and back, while on top it is allowed to do whatever. He has a goofy, lopsided grin and has a gap between his front teeth. His eyes are brown, but he swears they're green with a brown ring in the center. He stands tall and lanky at 6'2", with a frame so thin you'd swear he was invisible if he turned sideways.
Superpowers: Billy's power is odd. He carries the power of shapeshifting... but only into birds. He can control when he shifts, but not what into. And funnily enough, it never seems like the bird that would be useful. He's only ever turned into a bird that would be useful in a fight once, a cassowary, and that was when he needed to get out of a lake. Whether it be a hawk or an auk, an owl or a flamingo, a stork or a hummingbird, his forms are almost never helpful. If he needs to escape, he turns into a penguin. If he needs to fight, he becomes a bird of paradise. Really the only actual use he's gotten out of it is pooping on people's cars that park inconsiderately.
Biography: Billy grew up in Fernandina Beach, Florida, where he lived a quiet life of school, working shifts at his family's "authentic" Mexican restaurant, and messing around in the woods with his friends. Things were good, but not great. That is, until The Incident.
The Incident is the day his friends and him discovered their powers. It was a day like any other, him and his friends throwing rocks off of high places and hitting each other with sticks in the woods. Then Jacob fell off a cliff. Jamie jumped right off after him, streaking at speeds humans shouldn't be able to move at. But it didn't matter, because when Jake hit the ground, all he did was crack a rock in half.
Not to be outdone by his friends, Billy leapt off too. On his way down, his skin sprouted feathers, his body shrank, his lips and nose turned into a pointed beak, and Billy hit the ground as a turkey. That was just the beginning, however. As him and his friends grew, they became vigilante heroes, stopping crime with well-placed quips and punches that would turn buildings to rubble. Billy tried to keep pace, but you can't make snarky comments as a peacock.
So he and his friends grew apart, Jacob and Jamie becoming Strongarm and Zip, while Billy was called less savory names. Eventually he settled on The Archosaur, because technically birds are archosaurs, and the name made him sound more impressive. As he graduated high school and college, he moved up the coast to New York, finding work as a freelance 3D animator. He still tries his best at the whole "hero" thing, but a screech owl isn't much threat to supervillains who have mind-control rays.
Other: Billy is also disliked by both amateur and professional ornithologists because people keep claiming they saw a flamingo up the street.Spoiler: The Sleeper (DoctorInfinity)Name: James Morpheus
Superhero Name: The Sleeper
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Appearance: James is a 6-foot, 110 pound Caucasian man wearing a white t-shirt, jeans and glasses. His hair is brown and messy, so messy that he can’t even comb it, and white, polished teeth. His eyes are forest green, and he has a very short nose.
Superpowers: James’s superpowers are very peculiar. He can randomly fall unconscious for 6 to 8 hours. He can’t control his powers, and is incredibly useless in a fight.
Biography: James was born in Columbus, Ohio, and got his powers at age 10. He was a very shy kid, and made little friends. He also got in trouble for his superpowers. He was always falling behind when he was sleeping, and no one could ever wake him up. James got frequently bullied, and unfortunately never passed school to fulfill his dreams of becoming a computer scientist.
Although his powers were lacking, James is very good with computers. He knows a lot about coding and and stuff, so if anyone has a problem with logging into a specific website. He also loves to tingle the ivories, and is a very good musician. He played in a concert once, and people enjoyed his work. Because of his powers, he gets very lazy sometimes, and might not pay attention to the task at hand.
One day, James decided to get a job at the coast. So he moved to New York, where the hustling and bustling and the business of the place disoriented him a lot. He went into the nearest apartment, and started his new life at New York. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any degrees or a resume, so his only job right now is at McDonalds. But James is determined. He still has hope for his future. Even if his powers are dragging him down.
Other: James thinks that his powers aren’t a gift, but a curse.Spoiler: Captain Awesome (InfraredHero)Name: Carl Blake
Superhero Name: Calls himself "Captain Awesome", but everyone else calls him "Captain Loser"
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Appearance: Carl is below average height, above average weight, has messy unkempt hair, big oval glasses, and an almost adorkable chubby face. Almost.
Superpowers: Carl has the ability to turn invisible, but only when no one is looking at him. Most people don't even believe he actually has the power, which has turned him into the butt of many, many jokes in the superhero community.
Biography: Carl Blake is an amazing superhero with abilities that rival even the greatest heroes in the world. Everyone knows his name and loves him dearly, and they ask him for his autograph and they want to take selfies with him. At least, that's what happens in the fan fictions he's written about himself. In real life, he's upstaged by literally every other superhero. Especially his older brother.
That's right, Carl has an older brother, George, who is the real amazing superhero. George is tall, buff, handsome, attractive, good looking, smart, charismatic, and also hot. And Carl is... well, Carl is Carl. George can fly, lift buildings, and he beats up super villains for breakfast, and he's always home in time to enjoy dinner with his wife and two kids. Carl can turn invisible, and has ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and the only thing he beats is too inappropriate to mention in this bio.
This extreme difference between Carl and George has left Carl awfully jealous of his brother. When Carl tried to join a group of superheroes, George offered to train him to be his sidekick, but Carl wanted to prove his worth on his own. But since he was alone, the other heroes never took him seriously, especially with his power, or rather, lack thereof, as they didn't believe Carl could actually turn invisible. He tried to get them to forget about that by giving himself a cool nickname, but the others quickly turned that into a joke too. This led Carl to leave the superhero community and join an online forum where he could write stories of his greatness in private.
Other: Carl has two metal dice that he takes everywhere he goes. No one knows why.Spoiler: The Groovy Granny (sapheyerblu)Name: Starshine Morganstern
Superhero Name: The Groovy Granny
Gender: Female
Age: 52
Appearance: 5'2", 150 lbs. She's got salt-n-pepper colored hair to her shoulders, wears rose-colored glasses, and smokes a pack of cigarettes a day.
Superpowers: Starshine has hyper-sarcasm. She can crush a man's soul with mere words. However, most people don't pay any attention to her simply because she's old and talks to herself. When she cares for somebody, she'll put her life on the line for them. When she doesn't like somebody, she'll tell them where to go in such a way as to make them look forward to the trip.
She is a trivia master. She knows a lot of useless information, but because most people think she's crazy, nobody ever listens to her. She also carries a large purse with her everywhere she goes. It's packed full of odds and ends because you never know when you might need a pink eraser and a cotton swab. She talks to cats in such a way that makes one think she actually believes they understand her.
Biography: Starshine Morganstern was born in a commune in Northern California in the late 60s. Her parents were hippies who smoked too many "herbs" and thought psychedelics were the way to achieve Universal knowledge. Because of her mother's constant use of mind-altering mushrooms, Starshine was born with the ability to retain useless information.
In the late 70s, she was sent to live with her grandparents on a farm in Nebraska where she would spend her formative years. As an adult, she ran around with bikers and other social outcasts. She has the mouth of a drunken sailor, the temper of a poked bear, and still writes "Mrs. Scott Baio" on her notebooks.
Other: She drinks coffee--straight black--morning, noon, and night.
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