[M] The New Champions (OOC)

[Yggdrasil_Hugger]

Last year, a monstrous supervillain who called himself Ares brutally slaughtered the Champions. Next he butchered the most powerful of supervillains, demolished the non-super retaliation, and bent Gatlin City to his will. By the time anyone realized what was happening, it was too late. However, in secret, a band of heroes, villains, and civilians came together to destroy this threat to their way of life. Together, they defeated Ares. But not without a heavy cost. The resistance were killed in the process. Thousands of civilians were dead. Gatlin City was a crater.

But over time, the remaining supers banded together to fix their beloved city. Earth and stone were moved to fill the crater, construction was completed at a record pace. People moved back into the city. To commemorate this period of turmoil, the city was officially renamed New Gatlin City. It was the most modern city in the world, with cutting edge technology at every corner. With the Champions gone, however, the remaining supervillains began to plot their own schemes, while older heroes sought to rise to the level of the Champions. New supers are being created all the time, but it’s a coin toss to see which side they’re on: hero, or villain?

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Spoiler: New Gatlin City 

New Gatlin City is a massive, sprawling metropolis of gleaming steel, shining glass, and smooth concrete. The recent rebuilding has allowed the city to be laid out in a more orderly manor, with straighter roads and faster subways. The city is also located near a variety of biomes, from the ocean in the west to the mountains in the east. Lakes and forests surround the city, and massive caverns wind underneath. The populace of New Gatlin City are fairly used to supers, hero and villain alike. Superheroes may receive discounts from businesses they have saved.

Spoiler: The Protectors 

New Gatlin City keeps a branch of peacekeepers known as the Protectors on their payroll. The Protectors are human civilians outfitted with cutting-edge armor and weapons to defend against rogue supers. Alone, a single Protector might stand a chance against a lone super. In teams, they can prove dangerous. A Protector can easily be identified by their identical blue and grey armor and helmets, silver badges, and patrol cars. They are often given upgraded gear when advancements are made. A team of high-ranking Protectors known as the Falcon Squad possess modified boots that allow them to fly.

Spoiler: The Vault 

The Vault is the most secure facility in the world. Built to withstand anything, it’s got the highest-tech security armed with the most cutting edge gear. And it’s made to house supervillains. Each inmate is fitted with a metal collar that contains a tracker, a ring of shocking tasers, and a power negater. It’s unknown by the general population, and the exact location of The Vault is a jealously-guarded secret.

Spoiler: Supers 

Supers are any being that falls outside the normal realm of human ability. Aliens, demons, folkloric creatures, wizards, super-geniuses, highly intelligent animals, irradiated monsters, or mutants all count as supers. Supers make up approximately 10% of the population of New Gatlin City. Some become heroes, others become villains. Some remain neutral, or their abilities are useless for fighting crime or preying on the powerless. Some operate solo, others form permanent teams, and some only join up under extenuating circumstances. Powers require time and experience to master, and a new super with powerful abilities can still be beaten by a weaker, but more experienced super.

Spoiler: Character Skeleton 

Civilian Name:
Superhero Name:
Personality: (A few sentences should suffice)
Age:
Appearance:
Superhero Costume:
Primary Power: (This is your hero’s most powerful ability and should be the one they rely on most)
Secondary Power:
Tertiary Power: (This is your hero’s weakest power, but still firmly in the realm of superhuman)
Weakness(es): (You are only required one weakness for your first three powers, but you can take another weakness in exchange for another power. This second weakness should reflect the power level of your additional superpower, ie kryptonite for Superman’s invulnerability)
Origin Story:
Theme Song (Optional):
Other:

Spoiler: The New Champions 

Spoiler: Siobhán Ó Mordha - Bodhmall - Yggdrasil_Hugger 

Civilian Name: Siobhán Ó Mordha
Superhero Name: Bodhmall
Personality: A cheerfully macabre girl, Siobhán finds joy in the grim, the gross, and the grotesque. She is especially fond of the small, ingenious creatures and all the ways that nature is a brutal, chaotic competition. In tune with nature, she is actively against the destruction of it for profit and is one of the more anarchical heroes. Excitable, competitive, and almost predatory, she sees herself as a guardian of the natural world, and its highest representative.
Age: 17
Appearance: Siobhán is a tall, lean girl just under 6 feet tall. Her skin is milk-white, with pale freckles covering her arms, back, and face. Her long, red hair is usually kept pinned back with a Celtic knot pin. Her eyes are bright green.
Superhero Costume: Bodhmall appears as an almost inhuman figure, tall and thin. She wears brown leather armor, with a hooded cloak of dark green moss. Wolf fur wraps around her shoulders, while a silver oak leaf clasp joins the cloak at her collarbone. Her hood remains up at all times, with supernatural darkness obscuring her features. From inside the hood, two wolf-like yellow eyes glow. Leaves and twigs stretch from the edge of the hood.
Primary Power:
Nature Manipulation: Siobhán can exert her will over plants, animals, and the natural elements: earth, fire, water, air, ice, and lightning. She can cause plants to grow supernaturally fast and large, while also allowing them to move or grow in ways they could not before. Animals, except those under the control of another super or at a human or higher level of intellect, heed her commands. She can also communicate clearly with and understand animals and plants.
Secondary Power:
Healing: Siobhán can magnify a body’s natural healing ability, sealing up wounds in moments. She can also purge a body of toxins or disease. However, she cannot negate the effects of a genetic disorder, and she must be in contact with the injured party.
Tertiary Power:
Animal Traits: Siobhán has increased strength, speed, stamina, flexibility, reflexes, and durability. She can also activate certain animalistic traits from animals she has seen before, such as a crocodile’s ability to swim or a squirrel’s ability to climb.
Weakness: Siobhán must have available plant or elemental matter to work with. She cannot create something from nothing.
Origin Story: Siobhán comes from a long line of similarly-powered witches. Her mother is the superhero Druidess, while her aunt is the villain Thornewilde. Raised by her large extended family, Siobhán has been taught to master the powers of nature for as long as she can remember. Her grandmother, the current matriarch of the coven, had said that Siobhán is one of the most promising witches of her generation. Some believe this to be favoritism, but her skills speak for themselves.
Other: N/A

Spoiler: Joan Salone - Agent Blind - Moonlit_Fae 

Civilian Name:
Joan Salone
Superhero Name:
Agent Blind
Personality:
Joan is the type of person to hang back and take in every detail. She is slower to action than some. Making the right move is important to Joan, whether or not her moral compass aligns with others. For the greater good guides her actions in life.
Age:
35
Appearance:
Joan stands 5' 3" lean and muscular brown skin. This woman has an unremarkable feel about her.
She has expressive dark brown eyes and her medium-length, curly, black hair is un-styled and tends to hang loosely about her shoulders.
Superhero Costume:
The standard issued Protector uniform: blue and grey armor with helmet and her silver badges.
Primary Power: Invisibility- able to disappear without a trace for a cerain amount of time.
Secondary Power: Forcefields- creating shields to protect herself and others. Can also use forcefields to slam into others with blunt force. Also can be used to encapsulate others.
Tertiary Power: Echo-location. In dire needs Joan can emit high pierced screams to locate objects & people, which can also deafen others temporarily.
Weakness(es): Easily Overwhelmed Supersenses- It takes Joan extreme concentration to focus on being invisible, which heightens her senses. When overloaded with too many sounds, smells, or touches can weaken her stages of invisibility.
Origin Story:
Gatlin City is the home Joan has ever known. This was where she was raised and grew up. At a young age she knew she was different. Whenever she was scared she would just do what she called the "disappearing act". Her mother, father, school teachers, and friends would always look for her when she was standing right in plain sight. She wasn't sure how she came to learn this power, she was just able to do it if she thought hard enough. This came to her advantage as she aged because she would stealth and turn invisible to gain information and share it at a price. However, one day a Protector caught her and set her straight. Her mentor taught her she could use her powers for the greater good, to help protect people rather than harm them. Part of her probation was to study and train to join the rank of the Protectors. During her training was when she learned she could also manifest forcefields to help protect herself and others.
Joan enjoyed many years on the force with her Mentor, who gave her her superhero name. He called her Agent Blind because others could never find her.
Theme Song (Optional): The End of the Line- Metallica
Other:
She is looking for a new patrol partner to help keep the city safe as her mentor recently passed away.

[Lady Celeste]

Can I call dibs on the leader of the Protectors for now? I may claim a Super as well, but haven’t quite decided yet on the details.

[Yggdrasil_Hugger]

Sure, although the Protectors usually don’t work too closely with superheroes, more like alongside. The Protectors have their way of doing things, supers have theirs. If you aren’t dead-set on the leader, however, maybe your character can be assigned to work with a group of supers as a way of bridging the gap between Protectors and vigilantes. If that’s not your style, then the leader will also work just as well.

[Lady Celeste]

Hmm, both of those sound really interesting! I’m not too dead set on the leader per se, but acting as a bridge between the two sides fits my character concept perfectly, so Methinks I’ll go with something like that.

[Yggdrasil_Hugger]

Great, looking forward to seeing your character.

[Corrik55]

Just a quick post to show I am still alive and interested in this subject! I have also sent a message to begin working on a few submissions!

[Corrik55]

Civilian Name: Orion
Superhero Name: Orion/Vega
Personality: The twins have two minds about everything.
Age: twenties
Appearance: Orion/Vega
Superhero Costume: Arcane Relics
Primary Power: Arcane Magic (innate power to harness and manipulate mystical energy enhanced by draconic pact beyond typical human limits.)
Secondary Power: Draconic Body (Invulnerable to small scale physical harm, Super Strength measured to unknown limits due to magic interference, Wing dependent flying mobility.)
Tertiary Power: Dual-minded (Resistant to mental intrusion or manipulation and powers that target the mind.)
Weakness(es): Divine and Magic vulnerability (unable to resist mystical or outer planes energies such as those channeled by angels/demons/mages.), Emotional/Instinctive manipulation (Easily loses control of higher mental faculties and self control when provoked on a primal level.)

Origin Story:
Like a living fairy tale, a young Irish boy named Orion living on an island off the English coast found a dormant dragon egg buried in ruins. The last dragon egg on Earth bound to him and the immortal dragon spirit within made a pact with the child. He would gain its mastery over magic, and in return it would possess his body when he died. Orion found that while wielding the egg on his person, it could grant him the mythical power of dragons. His family soon grew concerned that he might need protecting, and they might need protecting from him. A little boy who could spout fire accidentally was a major risk to the house after all. They sent him to the United States of America where the government was paying to transfer gifted youths. There Orion moved into the Horizon city transfer student school.

They ultimately uncovered a cult of demon worshipers devoted to Deaborah, Archdemon of deception. The demon sought to possess the limitless power of the dragon, and the cult manipulated Orion and Asca into turning on each other in a ritual of heartbreak. When she scarred his face, the dragon and human merged into one. Orion is forever merged with Vega, the name of the dragon spirit. The twin identities share one monstrous and powerful form now that cannot be reverted. In the years that followed, the team was reunited and came to work in the floating city of Sanctum far above rebuilt Horizon city. The twins now live with Asca and work as Peacekeepers in the department of magic. While the twins try to find a place in the world, they work together now to make the best of this strange life for their loved ones and all those that they protect. Discovering that similar events have unfolded in New Gatlin city, the twins have taken flight from their rebuilding territory to investigate possible threats emerging in the world.



Superhero Name: Ascashi
Personality: Liberated, Optimistic, Passionate.
Age: twenties
Appearance: Ascashi
Superhero Costume: Customized Kunoichi armor
Primary Power: Chi Manifestation (life vitality energy, takes the form of shapes to fulfill tangible purposes such as blades for combat and wings for travel.)
Secondary Power: Ninjitsu mastery (Life long training in ninjitsu martial arts and techniques.)
Tertiary Power: Shadow magic (conjuring and control of darkness and negative energy.)
Weakness(es): Blind devotion (Knowingly makes choices to protect and support loved ones regardless of consequences.), Emotional manipulation (Judgement and powers dramatically change as mood changes.)

Origin Story:
The Kuroicho clan is a mystical faction of kunoichi that protects its island home from the shadows. One of their newest generations birthed Ascashi, who could harness the Chi in her soul like no other. Something about her personally and bright colorful nature always undermined any attempts to behave with the level of ruthlessness and secrecy that her siblings had. This also spurred many rivalries with her older sister who was an ideal kunoichi. Thus Asca was sent to the United Stated of America to protect her from endangering or being endangered by the clan. The government was paying to recruit gifted youths to the transfer school in Horizon city.

They ultimately uncovered a cult of demon worshipers devoted to Deaborah, Archdemon of deception. The demon sought to possess the limitless power of the dragon, and the cult manipulated Orion and Asca into turning on each other in a ritual of heartbreak. When she scarred his face, the dragon and human merged into one. In the years that followed, Asca made amends with the twins and founded her own dojo in Sanctum city far above rebuilt Horizon city. Asca continues to seek out a way make peace with the past, not just her own with her friends, but with her family back home across the seas. Hearing news of similar tragedy befalling other places such as New Gatlin city, Asca travels to help prevent what happened in her home from happening elsewhere.

[Yggdrasil_Hugger]

I like the characters, but they need a couple small things to be fixed:

- Please change Horizon/Sanctum City to New Gatlin City
- Please add a bit more detail about the powers your characters possess

[Corrik55]

I like the characters, but they need a couple small things to be fixed:

- Please change Horizon/Sanctum City to New Gatlin City
- Please add a bit more detail about the powers your characters possess

Alrighty, done! I try to keep things concise and reveal nitty gritty through interaction, but if these changes help anything I am happy to add more embellishment. As a point of clarification, Horizon city is where they grew up from kids into adults, not where they are currently for the RP. Apologies if that was made unclear by condensing down the paragraphs of story.

[Yggdrasil_Hugger]

Alright, then if you don’t mind add a bit explaining how and when they came to New Gatlin City, as the way it reads now makes it seem like they’ve set up shop in an entirely different place. Once that’s done, they’ll be accepted.