Mutagenesis: Dawn of a New Age (Sign up/OOC)

[Artemis]

Over 25,000 years ago, a star on the other side of the Milky Way Galaxy collapsed. The death of this massive star was followed by a supernova explosion. The entirety of the exploding star was blasted out in a radioactive cloud, full of cosmic ejecta, that was sent hurtling through space at unimaginable speeds. As it moved, it passed through the galactic core of two black holes, where gravity is so powerful that it could bend a section of the radiation flying around the core and focus it... These kinds of explosions happen constantly throughout the celestial void. Only within the last few decades has NASA been able to predict these occurrences with some accuracy, however, as they are so frequent and so far away...

The first asteroid struck on May 15th, 2021. Earth was utterly unprepared, due to an intense solar flare that was predetermined by NASA on May 14th. The strength of the flare had been underestimated, drastically, and electronics on that side of the planet were fried. The US government, NASA, and all other factions who had satellites in orbit were left with dark buildings and blue screens. A flare of this magnitude had never been experienced before, and all parties were clueless with how to proceed returning power to their systems. The Western hemisphere was left defenseless and unaware against the dangers of space.

At 3:17 a.m., the first space rock crash landed on the Mexican/American border at Texas. The city of Del Rio was practically wiped off the map on impact, and tremors could be felt as far as Dallas. Official measurements placed the asteroid at almost 500 feet in diameter. The next hour, another struck in Peru, and then reports were made of crash in Alberta, then New York, then Brazil. North and South America were riddled with pockmarks from the cosmic shower. The impacts were so powerful that huge amounts of dust were raised into the atmosphere, creating a state of 'nuclear winter'. By morning, power had been restored to the Western Hemisphere and the governments of North and South America were able to survey the incredible damage done. Peace keeping troops from the UN were dispatched for aid immediately. NASA was amidst a flurry of accusations, and they sent out field agents to examine the asteroids in cooperation with the United States Army and FBI.

Everyone was advised to stay inside. NASA determined that any exposure to the asteroids without any type of radioactive protection would result in health hazards. For many of the cities who were impacted directly, it was too late. Tens of thousands had already succumbed to severe radiation poisoning, given the name Mutagenesis, becoming nothing more than sickly shells of their former selves. Initially they would suffer a fever and vomiting, and become delusional. After several days they would fall comatose. If they ever awoke, they were little more than an animal.

However, there were instances, one in a million, that something incredible would result from exposure to the radiation. One man awoke from his coma with all his senses still intact, and even heightened. He hadn't lost any motor skills, as was typical of the afflicted. He was stronger, faster, and smarter than before. His body had reacted to the radioactive material now trapped in the atmosphere and mutated, leaving him with unimaginable power. He was the first super human.

His existence was quickly discovered by the government and deemed a threat to the continued survival of humanity. He was overpowered and detained, forced to be the lab rat of NASA as they probed and experimented to correlate the asteroids and the appearance of wondrous abilities. With astonishing findings, NASA approached the remainder of the government and proposed a collaboration between the two to ensure the safety of the population; preventing the creation of superpowered beings, and controlling and containing the ones that eluded destruction initially. Their union was labeled as CORE.

CORE began to oversee the production of a type of cure, something that could be mass produced and, in theory, administered to every citizen in the country. It would be able to reverse the effects of the genetic mutation in those already suffering, and prevent them in those not yet affected. Thousands of subjects were abducted by CORE to be tested, each one of them suffering a painful death within the confines of their laboratories. While the population resents CORE for their strict laws and inhumane treatment measurements, they are thankful for the protection they receive against dangerous mutants. However, CORE has only just begun.

This is not a simple story of good vs. evil. This is a story of survival. This is how the super human rose from the ashes of a world left in ruin. Gifted with unimaginable powers, they transcended the limits of ordinary humans, entering a realm of god like worship and fear. They are both dangerous and wonderful, working on a plane that seems so beyond ordinary people. And yet, they were once just as ordinary. They were subject to the same trials and tribulations of daily life, the same emotions and routines. They were not perfect, nor are they now. But, they are all the world has left, and it is up to them whether they protect or annihilate what remains.

Spoiler Show

Heroes- The good end of the spectrum, comprised mostly of Lawful Good types. They have been chosen by the cities they live in to be their protectors and guardians; responsibility falls to them to keep the streets and people safe. They use their powers for the well beings of others and not just themselves.

Villains- Any type of Evil or Chaotic behaviors lead to villainy. They are feared by cities, and use their powers to control and abuse those who will not bend to their wills. They may work with cohorts, but they are almost always out for themselves and only themselves.

CORE- The unholy union of NASA and the United States Government, this provisional government rules over America and is overseen by a cabinet comprised of generals and NASA biologists. This oligarchy utilizes the Army for peace keepers and aims to prevent the USA from falling into anarchy. Any who threaten this new regime, mainly the superpowered, are targeted by CORE.

Afflicted- Citizens whose gentetic code was unable to properly conform to the changes brought on by the radiation. They have succumbed to Mutagenesis, but unlike the supers, they become feral and almost animal like. Most of the Afflicted have been captured by CORE and are being used to test a cure, however there are still many left trapped in the cities.

Citizens- The population of the US, they have eluded the effects of Mutagenesis. They attempt to continue normal lives, though the incredible rise in crime and murder rates makes this difficult.

Spoiler Show

All this is taking place within the near future, 2021. I'm not going to set technological limits, but I doubt we will have flying cars by then. Perhaps some advanced weaponry, tracking technology, and everyone will use a smartphone. Just imagine it like now, but everything is sleeker and better, okay?

Because the whole world is covered in a radioactive cloud, your character may come from anywhere, but do not isolate yourself. CORE maintains power only in the United States, so if you are from another country, make sure you make your way to America eventually. The seat of CORE's power remains to be Washington DC, however they have several smaller capitals set up close to the two asteroid crash sites, one in Houston, Texas and another in Albany, New York. The asteroid in New York is between Niagara and Buffalo.

It's now the end of August, several months after the first crash, and the radioactive cloud has been dissipating at an even rate, leaving only a fraction behind. The two asteroids have been closed off the public and have been steadily being broken down by CORE.

So, where to begin? Are you already a seasoned super, or are you just beginning to suffer the effects of Mutagenesis? Do you spend your time solving petty crime while attempting to live a life disguised as normal, or do you dedicate every moment to saving (or destroying) the nation? Do you target the good or evil on the other side, or is your true fight with CORE? Do you work alone, or have you joined a group with similar interests? It's all entirely up to you. Alliances and relationships are encouraged, the more dynamic the better. I'd like this to begin with more of a focus on the heros vs villains, and I'll eventually bring in CORE to stir the pot.

Spoiler Show

This is how your powers are going to work; you get one primary and one secondary power. That's all. There will be no Superman types running around, and no omnipotency or omnikinesis and such things. Your primary power is your main offensive or defensive force, while your secondary is like an accessory to your primary. It can enhance your primary power or be something else entirely, your choice. YOU MUST DESCRIBE EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR POWERS TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY. I want your limits to be unquestionably defined, so everyone, and yourself included, knows exactly what you can and cannot do and how you do it. If anything seems foggy, I will ask you to clarify. If your character seems too OP, I will ask you to nerf them.

Some examples of primary powers would be pyrokinesis, super speed, super strength, shape shifting, lazer vision... You're only limited by your imagination, as long as all the mechanics are explained. If your powers are not a product of the mutation, and you rely more on gadgets and natural ability such as Iron Man or Batman, you may still have a secondary power if it fits your character. Explain your gadgets under the 'weapons' portion of the template (no more than five please) and the rest of your skills under 'primary power'.

Some examples of secondary powers would be flight (I'm throwing you all a bone with this one, but it's first come, first served. I'll only let a few people have it!), enhanced speed or strength (not super, just enhanced), mind reading, elemental resistance, regenerative properties, foresight... Once again, you're limited only by your imagination, just remember that it's an accessory ability.

Now that you have powers, you have to have weaknesses. They can be physical, like a fire power character being vulnerable to a water power character. Or, they could be emotional/ethical, like not being able to harm civilians. Your weakness could also be the cost of your powers, such as maintaining a force field requiring you to displace energy elsewhere within the environment or leaving you susceptible to other types of kinetic attacks. However your characters work, they are vulnerable to something, something that will most likely be exploited by an enemy at some point in time. Make sure your weaknesses are highlighted somewhere in your powers, personality, or biography section. Need help? Here is an example.

Our villain, Overkill, has the power of intangibility. By vibrating his molecules on a quantum level, he is able to phase through almost every material and is impervious to physical attacks. The less dense the material, the easier it is to phase. He is unable to phase through material altered by any type of magic/psychic ability, nor is he able to pass through force fields. While any physical attacks will merely pass through his body when his intangibility is activated, he is susceptible to electrically powered attacks that will bridge his charged molecules. His intangibility is not constant, and must be activated through conscious effort and maintained through conscious effort. He has enough stamina to remain intangible for up to one hour without break, but will then have to undergo a refractory period where he will not be able to phase at all. He is only able to move through material as long as he is able to hold his breath, and thus if he runs out of breath while phasing he will suffocate within it. He is also able to vibrate the molecules of items or people he is touching, making them intangible as well, though this takes double the energy to maintain.

He also has the secondary ability of enhanced strength. He can lift people and items up to 200 lbs with relative ease, though anything more than that becomes strenuous. He must be careful not to accidentally crush things he holds, and has broken several weapons this way. He is able to snap necks like twigs, as well as other smaller bones in the body. His strength manifests itself in his larger than average muscles.

Rules:

-All standard forum rules apply: no god moding, powerplaying, and the like.
-Literacy is key.
-Activity is key. I know we all have lives outside this forum (hah!) but I expect at least two or three posts a week at minimum. I wanna keep this ball rolling. And if you have commitment issues because of work, summer school, vacations, etc, please just let me know. I don't bite.
-Mature content... I personally give 0 diddlies about it, but that doesn't apply to everyone so please be conscientious. Be tasteful with your swearing, and if romantic tensions arise (which I hope they do) it's better to imply than describe any kind of sexual encounters.
-Respect is key. I shouldn't even have to elaborate here, but sometimes conflicts arise because this post said that and that character was too OP and that one guy completely disregarded what the other guy said. Be nice to each other and read all the posts carefully. Save the fighting for the RP.
-Character death is real and can affect any of us. You are heroes, you're not immortal. Should you get into a fight you know you can't win and death is inevitable, let me know. I'll see if I have a compromise to fit the story, though you can always make another character if you'd like.
-Am I forgetting anything?
-By choosing to join this RP, you are choosing to adhere to the payment of one soul. It doesn't have to be yours. Let me know you've read and accepted the terms and conditions by telling me the soul you offer at the start of your template.

Template:

Name: (Their regular name, and then AKA: whatever if they have a hero or villain alias)
Age: (Anywhere from 10 to 50 is probably good)
Gender:
Alignment: (If you have questions, refer to this, though you can simply put Hero or Villain or Unaligned if you wish)
Appearance: (Pics or descriptions are fine, don't forget to include what their costume is if they have one)
Personality:
Primary Power:
Secondary Power:
Weapons: (If you have any)
History:
Extras: (Theme songs, factoids, whatever)

​

 

[Artemis]

Cast of Characters​

Character |Alignment|Roleplayer|Complete?
Johannes Benedict, AKA Crown |Hero|Argenteus| Yes
Joseph Newton, AKA Jophiel |Hero|Orion| No
Niran Virote, AKA Asura |Hero|King Naruto| No
Kamai |Hero|Klom89| Yes
Ethan King |Hero|Endless Warrior Sora| No
Dexer Monroe |Hero|Xane_Moreau|Yes
Allison Cythe AKA B |Villain|stripes| No
Mode |Villain|Klom89| Yes
Tobias Frazier, AKA Pyre |Hero/Villain|Rii| Yes

 

[King Naruto]

What do you mean by Secondary power really? As in we can control fire and ice? Or more specific to your primary ability?

Also...reserving them superhuman senses. Dudes about to catch my Batman-esque fury.

So what I understand is that my super senses would go under primary and my skills under secondary or the other way around?

 

[Artemis]

What do you mean by Secondary power really? As in we can control fire and ice? Or more specific to your primary ability?

Also...reserving them superhuman senses. Dudes about to catch my Batman-esque fury.

So what I understand is that my super senses would go under primary and my skills under secondary or the other way around?

It can be specific to your primary ability. It's like a minor/accessory power, something that can be used to work with your primary or it can be just something else. Like, you could have flight as a secondary, even though it has nothing to do with your ability of terrakinesis. Or you could give yourself some kind of seismic sensing, allowing you to perceive vibrations within the earth, which would benefit the terrakinesis. It's just a smaller power you get, nothing crazy like full on elemental control. Just an extra to help you out.

And correct, your super senses would be your primary.

 

[Argenteus]

I offer you illusion, for that is all a soul can be.

Spoiler Show

Name: Johannes Benedict, AKA "Crown"


Age: 19


Gender: Male


Alignment: Chaotic Good by the DnD system. He's the freedom fighter against CORE, but he also fights to protect the people from those mutants who would abuse their power.


Appearance:
Picture (Without the sword)
Crown wears fantasy-style royal armor for his costume. It's forged much lighter than most armors of that day, partially because of the way it's built, but mostly because it exploits modern metalworking techniques that simply didn't exist back then. It's made of much lighter materials, and though the metal is thinner than that of traditional sets from medieval times it's more resilient. Parts of the armor that would be composed of heavy leather are instead made of much lighter synthetic fibers. Thus the armor offers great protection against blows while being very maneuverable (Indeed, it does sacrifice protection at a few points to ensure high maneuverability. He can rival the agility of an unarmored opponent while wearing it). With the armor he wears a red cape.

The armor uses ultra-compact systems to cool the interior of the armor to a comfortable temperature, and this system has a battery that could last years. Urine and feces are collected, the water purified and used by the cooling system and the feces dehydrated and easily ejected at convenience. Small amounts of the purified water are retained to clean the anus after defecation, and warm air is applied to dry the area. Certain oils within each of the substances are extracted and used to lubricate the armor. All these systems are highly compact and lightweight, you could fit all of them within the palm of your hand (Though certain bags are temporarily filled with waste matter, which would take up a greater area). In cases of severe dehydration, the purified water can be diverted to drinkable bags, akin to the Stillsuits in Frank Herbert's Dune. Unlike Herbert's Stillsuits, however, the armor does not have advanced facilities to preserve water from breath. All movement of water is applied by unobtrusive pumps affixed to the feet when earthbound, or air-catching orifices in the suit when in flight which use air to move the water.

Beyond the armor, Johannes' brown hair is usually messy. This is due to a trinity of messy hair: On one hand, he doesn't care enough for the appearance of the hair to fix it. On another, he likes it messy as a signal of defiance. On the third hand that only the N64 dev team can see, when you fly as much as he does it tends to get messy. His face looks younger than he actually is, and his brown eyes are quite large. His face is generally handsome, but people who see only the face tend to judge him as younger than he actually is. The body confuses the matter further, as below the armor he is lean, muscular and large boned but he's also below average height for his age.

When his armor isn't maneuverable enough for a task (Which is fairly rare), he has an alternative costume. This is composed of a white and gold suit resembling regalia. The clothes are made of synthetic fibers not designed for comfort but for the optimal flexibility and protection. This is offset a bit by a bit of fluff on the inner layer, but it still chafes somewhat. This costume is rarely used.


Personality:
Crown's defining feature is his charisma: He's the sort of man who could lead an army, start a rebellion. He has great leadership skills, and he's generally the sort of man people will follow even to their death. But when most people look at him, they do not see a man but a cause. His battlecry is freedom for the supers, and this drives him down to the core. He accepts the necessity of some form of government intellectually, though he has definite anarchist tendencies. He's completely dedicated to taking down CORE.

Below his commanding aura is a man, however. Johannes' compassion is great, but it's balanced by excessive pride. He's very ambitious, which is far from a bad thing, but his ambition is somewhat tainted by hubris. This doesn't make him evil, but it means he needs to watch himself carefully. He warms to people as easily as most, perhaps more easily, but if he perceives you as an enemy to him - or worse, his cause - then he takes a certain aggression toward you bordering on ferocity. It's not always violent, but however it represents it's self it has the fury of a storm. If his perception of your position on him or his cause changes, he's the first to apologize however.


Primary Power:
Crown can use his mind as a conduit to manipulate wells of energy present in his environment. The most common of these is that he can direct a given amount of physical force by harnessing the earth's gravity. This can be used for telekinesis, throwing around objects and people with ease, and even flight (Though he couldn't leave the earth's orbit with this power, there's really no reason he would want to) is possible. He can also apply this force on it's own, mimicking the strike of a fist, blade, club or really any other weapon.

This ability is - for the most part - incapable of being used stealthily as things he applies this to develop a blue glow. An object would seem to have a bright blue aura coating it, resembling fire when a lot of force is used or just a dim glow when only a little is. Fire would change color to blue in appearance, etc. When he uses the power on it's own not manipulating an object, it's seen as bursts of blue light.

The amount of force he can apply is first limited by his focus. Throwing a piano (Or applying the equivalent amount of force to a person) would take intense focus, so he certainly couldn't be manipulating anything else at the same time. When working with extreme amounts of force, a measure of the force he's manipulating is applied to his body in order to channel it. If he were lifting a ship the size of the titanic with his mind, he would not only need to be focusing so intensely he'd practically be meditating, but he'd also be undergoing such extreme pressure on his body that serious injury is not only possible but likely. Luckily, he's unlikely to accidentally kill himself through overexertion (At least not instantly, though injuries could kill him) because while he could maintain focus through intense pain, coming near death would break it for sure.

The ability is not limited to gravity. He can also channel other forms of energy, such as the heat from a fire or the electricity from a power outlet. This presents additional difficulties, however. For one, he isn't nearly as skilled at manipulating these forms of energy, and thus it requires more focus to manipulate the same relative amount. For another, these wells of energy are always far less prevalent than gravity, often extremely limited as in the case of a campfire. Sometimes outside factors limit how much he can draw as well: If he drew too much from a power outlet, he would overload the systems and at minimum probably blow a fuse. He might even cause a power outage within a small area. Also, the human body is much less adept at surviving other forces, such as heat, electricity or radiation, than pressure. This means that channeling too much of any of these forces has far worse negative effects than just gravity, and far sooner.

As he improves in skill with his abilities, he'll be able to manipulate more force with less focus as he learns to be more efficient. He may get to the point where throwing a piano is as easy as throwing a human once was. And it will take more force before he has to apply it to his body, and the effects on his body will be lesser.

An ability he may eventually be able to access, as the other side of this ability, is to intentionally drain a certain type of energy to illicit unwanted effects, such as freezing someone by removing the heat from their body or holding them in place by removing the kinetic energy when they attempt to move.

Finally, a side effect of this ability is that he can sense the energy present around him. Right now it's only vague, a blurry shimmer of sorts around a moving object. But as he grows in skill with his abilities, he'll be able to sense more and more until it provides him significant perceptional advantages and an ability to fight even while blinded.


Secondary Power:
By exploiting flaws in space, Crown can teleport himself and others a certain distance, depending on their weight and proximity to him. He could teleport himself a maximum of 30 feet at present. If the subject were standing right next to him, and were of average weight, he could teleport another person a maximum of 20. If there is any real distance between him and them, 10 feet is the max he could hope for. Teleporting multiple people at once is no more work than one, but he can teleport all of them only as far as he could teleport the one he could teleport the least far.

As Crown progresses with his primary ability, he'll be able to teleport further with his secondary. Upon passing a certain threshold, which I will announce in this thread in case anyone objects at the time, it will cease to matter how far away another person is or how much they weigh: He will be able to teleport them as far as him.


Weapons: Though a sword would fit his character, he recognizes the impracticality of such a weapon in a modern environment. He primarily uses his powers as a weapon, but in case of emergency he has a special pistol which fires bolts of energy. It can fire 6 shots without recharging, but it was specifically designed so that he could refuel it with his powers: A small turbine structure within the weapon recharges the gun by his rotating it with his powers. If available he can also directly charge it with electricity from a power outlet using his powers. It resembles a revolver, picture here.


History:
Johannes Benedict was born to an incredibly wealthy family in Minnesota, who raised him giving him everything he wanted. Despite this, he did not end up spoiled. This is almost certainly due to his early martial arts training, which gave him a strong sense of self-discipline. His family being Buddhist also helped with focus, as he learned meditation. He did well at school, had many friends, and was generally well. One would think he had a perfect life.

And indeed he may have, but he did have a rebellious streak as strong as any teenager ever had. He would go out of his way to defy them, and the damnedest thing was that he would seem the sensible one when he did it. His parents were very patient with him, more than they had to be. They loved him no matter what he did, and this made him resent them more as he perceived that they were coddling him. His grades in school never dropped, nor did his martial discipline. And his friends seemed to like him the more for his irrational struggle. Against all odds and rationality, he was winning the teenager's doomed war against his parents perceived fascism.

But it all changed when Mutagenesis came. His parents were early victims, and Johannes - at age 18, just old enough - inherited everything they had. He lived comfortably for a while, mourning his parents and feeling stupid for having hated them, but living a life of luxury. But when he discovered his powers, and what CORE was doing to them, his rebellious streak found righteous rage. The rebel ignited within him, and he changed overnight to something greater than a teenager. Whatever was left of the boy after his parents death was burned to a crisp and changed for manhood.

His first action was to have his assets kept accessible no matter what he did, distributing them across 200 false estates and businesses nationwide, with each just a ruse. Even if one went down, no money would be lost. The setup was ever changing, and perfectly hidden. It was costing a fortune, but he had billions to spare. He had his armor manufactured, along with his pistol and regalia. Right now he's testing the waters, helping people where he can and trying to incite rebellion against CORE.


Extras:
Primary theme song:

Spoiler Show

[video=youtube;ewFsbz2qC5w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFsbz2qC5w[/video]

Secondary:

Spoiler Show

[video=youtube;7g_t4Ixdyt0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g_t4Ixdyt0[/video]

Crown is skilled at Kung-Fu.

 

[Orion]

Name
Joseph Newton, AKA Jophiel
Age
24
Gender
Male
Alignment
Neutral Good
Appearance
(Pics or descriptions are fine, don't forget to include what their costume is if they have one)
Personality

Primary Power - Kinemancy
The power to transfer kinematic properties between uniform objects in Joseph's immediate vicinity. On the broadest level the properties dealt with are macroscopic velocity, thermal vibrations, sonic vibrations and solids resonance. Joseph is able to increase or decrease any of these properties in an object or area by transferring them from or to other objects nearby.
The most basic applications would be to transfer a property from one object to another - drain all the wind-blown air molecules in an area of their kinetic energy and 'inject' it into a projectile to be launched, leaving a stiller area in its wake. Similarly, heat up a cup of tea by drawing heat out of the surrounding environment, even when by normal standards there mightn't be much 'heat' in the area.
Joseph is also able to temporarily delay the effects of these properties manifesting past a certain volume, such as establishing a sphere of silence or stopping a blade from being shaken to pieces when blocking a withering blow. He can then let these cumulative effects manifest all at once by simply deactivating the particular technique, or let them slowly appear provided he can concentrate appropriately.

Spoiler Show

Joseph's sphere of silence is only a stop-gap measure: it involves capturing soundwaves at a threshold and not allowing them to escape beyond it, or allowing very few of them too, thus all the sound made inside of the sphere will accumulate at these edges. Ultimately, all the sound that gets captured at the threshold will have to escape into the outside world. If Joseph simply lets the sphere go, all the noise made inside will be released at the same time, producing what could be an incredibly loud and damaging noise, that might result in personal harm to Joseph if indoors.
His resonance-denial effect on simple solids works in a similar fashion. If Joseph switches off the denial affect on a blade that's suffered too many blows, the subsequent vibrations moving through the weapon might cause it to explode, with much shrapnel. This renders the technique dangerous to Joseph if used too long, but also has its additional uses.

While on a small scale Joseph can enact kinemancy with finesse, he can also apply a more brute force measure. An example: Joseph is being shot at, and wants to stop the bullets from shredding him to ribbons. His self-defense instinct - combined with his mutant powers - kicks in, and begins converting the kinetic energy of the bullets into heat and/or sound. With a couple of bullets, this just means a hot or loud(er) area around them before they drop the ground, having been brought to rest. Under a hail of lead, however, danger arises: Sustained fire and subsequent kinetic energy conversion could result in Joseph's survival instinct cooking him alive, or dealing irreparable damage to his ear drums and other sensitive membranes due to ultra-volume sound.

Secondary Power

Weapons

History

Extras: (Theme songs, factoids, whatever)

I'd just like to get a check on how that power seems before I continue :3

 

[King Naruto]

As I stated, he's totally based off of Batman/Cassandra Cain/Daredevil. A peak human fighter with intellect to build his own costume, and gadgets (Earning his vehicle during the RP) and possessing only superhuman senses. I can totally see if you feel he is too much but, his back story makes up completely for everything he has. I'm a huge comic buff so, I modeled him totally off of that knowledge and love.

Name:
Niran Virote (Eternal Power)

Alias:
Asura

Age:
24

Gender:
Male

Alignment:
Hero

Appearance:
Beautiful Vigilante

Costume

Asura’s suit is made of a version of the Nomex fire-resistant, triple-weave Kevlar-lined material. It is an excellent protection against damage, and it's also flame-retardant and electrically insulated. The gloves and the boots are reinforced to nullify the impact of punches and kicks.

Personality:

Niran is a veteran warrior with years of combat experience in the battlefield, as such he is an extremely focused man who misses no details, and is a master of quick improvisation with nerves of steel. He has a rather straight-forward and hard-edged personality, with little time for being social, and tends to often be blunt about sensitive topics, without realizing the effect it might have on others. When dealing with life threatening or dangerous situations, he usually maintains a calm and collected demeanor, and rarely shows any signs of fear or panic in extreme circumstances. This allows him to maintain his composure and stay focused on the situation at hand, and eventually notice important details around him, which makes it easier for him to think out proper strategies to fit the situation.

Niran possesses a very sharp intellect and has good observational skills, as seen from his ability to gauge his surroundings, noting both mundane and unusual things, people and actions. This allows him to quickly notice if something is not as it should be, as shown from how he can easily see through an opponent’s tricks. He uses his skills to stay one step ahead of his enemies and is one of the reasons why he is an accomplished combatant.

Throughout the years it has been noted by several people, both enemies and comrades alike, that he has an innate desire for conflict, and holds a degree of enjoyment towards battle, namely because that was the only thing he truly knew. Although he was not open about such behavior, and even denied it at first when accused of, but at some point in his life, he began to realize his own desires and the thrill he finds in fighting an opponent. Despite his love for battle, Niran has a tendency to hold back and usually conceals his true strength to enjoy a fight for as long as possible. He usually gauges an opponent’s fighting power and will fight according to his opponent’s strength, meaning he will hold back against a weaker opponent and will fight with his full strength against a tougher and stronger one.

He is willing to sacrifice people or kill in cold blood, in order to complete an objective, and will most definitely turn on old friends if they become corrupted. Niran will also use unwitting allies to further his goals, if it allows him to accomplish his tasks more easily. He can handle stress extremely well and it is impossible to use torture to extract information from him, due to his strong will.

Primary Power:

Superhuman Sense of Sight: Asura can observe objects at great distances or at speeds faster than can be perceived by the normal eye. He can also count the flapping of a hummingbird's wings. Lastly he can see in total darkness as if it was a clear sunny day.

Superhuman Sense of Touch: Asura's sense of touch is so acute that his finger can feel the faint impressions of ink on a printed page allowing him to read by touch, though laminated pages prevent him from touching and thus reading the ink impressions at a much faster pace than a normal person would be able to read.The rest of his skin is equally sensitive, enabling him by concentration to feel minute temperature and pressure changes in the atmosphere around him. Even with his senses of smell and hearing blocked, he can feel the presence of a person standing five feet away from him simply by his or her body heat and disturbance of air. The sense of touch is not just external, but internal too (central nervous system), thereby giving him the ability to have total body control, increasing his agility and reflexes to superhuman levels.

Superhuman Sense of Smell: Asura's sense of smell is so acute that he can distinguish between identical twins at twenty feet by minute differences in smell. He can detect odors of an atmospheric concentration of thirty parts per million. Further, his ability to remember smells enables him to identify any person he has spent at least five minutes with by smell alone, no matter how he or she might try to camouflage his or her natural odor. His powers of concentration are such that he can focus upon a single person's smell and follow it through a crowd of people at a distance of fifty feet.

Superhuman Sense of Hearing: Asura's sense of hearing enables him to detect an acoustic pressure change of one decibel at a pressure level of seven decibels (whereas the lowest threshold for average human hearing is twenty decibels.) He can hear a person's heartbeat at a distance of over twenty feet, or people whispering on the other side of a standard soundproofed wall. Through practice, Asura is able to control his hearing acuity, mentally blocking out specific sounds like his own breathing and heartbeat, or bring all ambient sounds to a normal human level of perception.

Lie Detection: Asura can tell whether a person is lying by listening to changes in his or her heartbeat (though he can be fooled by a pacemaker or those able to control their own heartbeat.

Superhuman Sense of Taste: Asura's sense of taste enables him to detect the number of grains of salt on a pretzel. His ability to remember tastes enables him to determine every ingredient of a food or drink he tastes, as long as there is enough of the substance present.

Superhuman Sense of Balance: Due to the fact that Asura's sensory organs have such a high level of development, his inner ear, which controls the equilibrium and motions of the body, is also highly developed, aiding him in acrobatic feats that surpass even Olympic-level athletes.

Secondary Power: Let it be noted that most if not all of Asura's Secondary skills are actually just skills he has learned or acquired.

Master Martial Arts: Asura has been trained extensively since his birth to be the greatest hand to hand fighter. But he was only taught six styles which meant he would be able to focus on more then just his martial arts training. These six styles are Muay Thai, Capoiera, Hapkido, Wing Chun, Ninjutsu, Karate, and Tae Kwon Do, each style on a level above any before him. Together, he has blended them to create a highly unique style but even when performing each style individually, Niran is a highly dangerous opponent. He is well educated in the functioning of the human body as well as martial arts techniques that target pressure points enabling him to paralyze limbs of an individual's body or the entire body altogether.

Weapons Proficiency: Thanks to his martial arts training, Niran is extremely proficient in wielding various different weapons. Since Ninjutsu is the only identified discipline that teaches weapons, it would indicate he is trained in the use of most Japanese-themed melee weaponry.

Expert Marksman: He is very dead on accurate in throwing most projectile-like weaponry

Expert Tracker: Niran's heightened senses make him particularly adept at tracking people. He uses his sense of smell to track their scent and his sense of hearing to discern vocal patterns, heartbeats and gait.

Master of Stealth: His Ninjutsu training has made him a master at stealth.

Master Detective: Niran is capable of observation, forensic investigation, and inductive and deductive reasoning of the highest caliber. Human intuition is an unlearnable trait and one of Batman's most effective tools. Given any mystery, he can arrive at the correct conclusions with a fraction of the data.

Master Inventor: He can invent various devices with special properties when needed. While not all of his inventions are as good as others made by CORE and so on, he possesses engineering abilities and intellect that makes him a peer and has proven to be able to invent and create weaponry that rivals their engineering capabilities.

Body Reading Ability: Niran has the advanced ability to read body language enabling him to read what a person is thinking and tell what they are going to do next before they do it. He has been shown able to read opponents far faster than himself, along with non humans once he is given a chance to learn their body language. This enables him to identify disguised and transformed people as well.

Spoiler Show

Peak Human Strength: Nirans' physical strength is at the very peak of human potential. As a result, he is as physically strong as a human being can be without being classified as superhuman. Asura has been seen bench pressing 501 kg (1,200 lbs) which is consistent with his strength level, as benching is easier than military press lifting. He can snap steel handcuffs and chains, and is capable of breaking through wooden walls and steel doors with a single kick

Superhuman Reflexes: Asura possesses superhuman reflexes. The speed at which he reacts allows him to dodge fast-moving projectiles such as arrows and bullets. He can usually out-react even the fastest humans, no matter how well-trained.

Superhuman Agility: Asura's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Asura is extraordinarily limber and his tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's. He has the combined agility and acrobatic prowess of the most accomplished circus aerialists and acrobats. He can also perform any complicated sequence of gymnastic stunts such as flips, rolls, and springs. He can easily match or top any Olympic record at gymnastics apparatus such as flying rings, climbing ropes, horizontal bars, trampolines.

Peak Human Speed: Asura is able to run and move at speeds superior to those of any Olympic athlete. He is capable of reaching speeds of 35 mph.

Peak Human Endurance: Asura's body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing chemicals in his muscles, granting him exceptional endurance and lung capacity. He can exert himself at peak capacity for a hour without any rest and before showing any signs of fatigue.

Peak Human Durability: Asura's ability to resist and recover from physical injury or disease is also at the pinnacle of human capability. While he is susceptible to illness and injury as any normal human is, his ability to resist and recover from them is well above that of most other humans.

Weapons:

Asura’s Weapons: Throwing knives, Shuriken, and pellets smoke capsules. His left gauntlet has a shielded small computer that is able to connect to his supercomputer's mainframe. His right gauntlet contains a 100,000 volt stun gun, although his preferred weapons are two shatterproof polymer nunchaku. These nunchaku are situated on his back and can connect together to create a bo staff or three section staff. Then can also eject to create a grappling ability similar to a grappling hook.

History:

Extras:

Mute: As a side effect of his training, Niran's brain developed learning functions different from most. Having been brought up deliberately without speech, the communication centers of his brain learned body language instead of spoken or written language. Thus, he has as much trouble learning spoken and written language as a normal individual would have in learning body language. Although he is able to learn some very basic things ("no," "yes," "me") the same way a normal person can learn to recognize smiles and frowns.

Character Theme - Rise of Asura

 

[Argenteus]

Name
Joseph Newton, AKA Jophiel
Age
24
Gender
Male
Alignment
Neutral Good
Appearance
(Pics or descriptions are fine, don't forget to include what their costume is if they have one)
Personality

Primary Power - Kinemancy
The power to transfer kinematic properties between uniform objects in Joseph's immediate vicinity. On the broadest level the properties dealt with are macroscopic velocity, thermal vibrations, sonic vibrations and solids resonance. Joseph is able to increase or decrease any of these properties in an object or area by transferring them from or to other objects nearby.
The most basic applications would be to transfer a property from one object to another - drain all the wind-blown air molecules in an area of their kinetic energy and 'inject' it into a projectile to be launched, leaving a stiller area in its wake. Similarly, heat up a cup of tea by drawing heat out of the surrounding environment, even when by normal standards there mightn't be much 'heat' in the area.
Joseph is also able to temporarily delay the effects of these properties manifesting past a certain volume, such as establishing a sphere of silence or stopping a blade from being shaken to pieces when blocking a withering blow. He can then let these cumulative effects manifest all at once by simply deactivating the particular technique, or let them slowly appear provided he can concentrate appropriately.

Spoiler Show

Joseph's sphere of silence is only a stop-gap measure: it involves capturing soundwaves at a threshold and not allowing them to escape beyond it, or allowing very few of them too, thus all the sound made inside of the sphere will accumulate at these edges. Ultimately, all the sound that gets captured at the threshold will have to escape into the outside world. If Joseph simply lets the sphere go, all the noise made inside will be released at the same time, producing what could be an incredibly loud and damaging noise, that might result in personal harm to Joseph if indoors.
His resonance-denial effect on simple solids works in a similar fashion. If Joseph switches off the denial affect on a blade that's suffered too many blows, the subsequent vibrations moving through the weapon might cause it to explode, with much shrapnel. This renders the technique dangerous to Joseph if used too long, but also has its additional uses.

While on a small scale Joseph can enact kinemancy with finesse, he can also apply a more brute force measure. An example: Joseph is being shot at, and wants to stop the bullets from shredding him to ribbons. His self-defense instinct - combined with his mutant powers - kicks in, and begins converting the kinetic energy of the bullets into heat and/or sound. With a couple of bullets, this just means a hot or loud(er) area around them before they drop the ground, having been brought to rest. Under a hail of lead, however, danger arises: Sustained fire and subsequent kinetic energy conversion could result in Joseph's survival instinct cooking him alive, or dealing irreparable damage to his ear drums and other sensitive membranes due to ultra-volume sound.

Secondary Power

Weapons

History

Extras: (Theme songs, factoids, whatever)

I'd just like to get a check on how that power seems before I continue :3

Your power is similar to mine, but it's also pretty different if I'm reading this right. My character's powers are a sword, yours a scalpel.

 

[Endless Warrior Sora]

Yes. Joining. Reserve me a spot plox.

 

[Klom89]

It's almost like Fallout with Superpowers. Hell yes, I'm in.

EDIT: I'm gonna start on the temp. today, but since I'm also doing an essay today, It might be a skeleton for a little while.

 

[Klom89]

I'll edit the rest of this later. Trying to find the sciency stuff for the powers is painful....>_>


I offer up the soul of the actor Mike Myers. Acknowledging that what your'e saying isn't funny stops being funny after the thousandth time!
​

Name: Kamai
A.K.A: Does not apply at this time. Will come later.
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Appearance: Kamai stands at 6'2, with red, striking eyes and a Caucasian complexion/face structure. Wearing a hard blackened sweater that matches the color of her black, semi-long hair. Underneath the sweater is a bulletproof vest. (After all, people could be just as cruel as any monster!) She wears black sweatpants, which scale down to a pair of casual white slip-on shoes.

Personality: Kamai is not exactly what one would call a boy scout. On one hand, she seeks the good of others and cares much for the endangered world she is now a part of. Approaching situations calculatingly and logically, she puts the needs of the many ahead of the needs of the few. She will analyze a situation greatly before entering it, making her better at strategizing than boosting morale. However, Kamai is not afraid to make morally grey decisions, which makes her come off as cold to more compassionate people. This is one of the reasons why she somewhat sympathizes with the organization CORE. While she isn't too fond of their methodology, she understands the risk that Supers and an anarchal, wild, world pose.

Kamai's flaws lie in her people skills. She makes it very hard for people to understand her true intentions, and goes out of her way to avoid extended conversation or crowds and the like. This stems from the isolation she has endured due to both her powers and the desolation of the world around her.

Primary Power: Blood Manipulation

Kamai has the ability to manipulate the use of her blood, whether it be for offense, defense, or simple convenience. However, as she is still adjusting to her powers, she tries to moderate the usage of this power into more of an offensive model. By shifting the speed at which her blood flows, she can accelerate the reproduction cycle and frequency of her body's red blood cells, which have tainted nuclei due to the blast. The speeding of the production of cells causes their inertial force to increase. Using this forceful blood, she can release it from cuts and scrapes on her body, launching the "force blood" as projectiles.

Weakness: Due to the nature of her powers, Kamai has an extremely weak heart. Since she can control the speed at which blood flows through her body, this can affect the speed of her heart's pumping mechanism. Prolonged use of these powers will shift her instantly into cardiac arrest, and can possibly kill her. Her free-flow blood also causes her to consume many of the red blood cells her body. This also makes it extremely hard for her to breathe after a certain period of moving about, making rest a priority. Blood transfusions are also effective.

Secondary Power: Blood Crystalization

This is a power Kamai is experimenting with. Due to the tainted Nuclei of her red blood cells, they have the power to link together. By linking together many blood cells in a short amount of time, and releasing them all at once, she can effectively form a five-second barrier with the expelled blood.

Weakness: Not only is this an experimental power, it's a risky one due to how much blood is actually needed to form a barrier around Kamai. This power is almost guaranteed to shift her into cardiac arrest if used at the wrong time. Plus, the low amount of time the barrier is active makes it situational at best.

Moderate Martial Arts Training: Due to her interest in holding up the law, Kamai had invested in Tai Chi and basic Kung-Fu before the blast hit. While she isn't exactly Batman per say, she can hold her own in a fist-fight to at least some degree.



Weapons:

Modified PSL Sniper Rifle

Like all sniper rifles, a gun like this has a low firing rate, but is excellent in picking off distant targets. This particular gun has been modified with an infrared scope that allows Kamai to see targets through fog and the like up to eighty yards. A container with two openings on both sides has also been attached to the gun's left side VIA welding, so that Kamai may use her blood when bullets are scarce. This makes the gun much heavier than the standard sniper rifle in exchange for eliminanting the low-ammo issue that plagues most rifles.

It isn't very powerful, (unless she scores a head-shot) and any superhuman with at least greater-than normal defense could easily shrug off a bullet or two. Of course, Kamai prefers this to her staff when fighting Afflicted. It also has a rather slow reloading rate, making tactics a necessity when using this.

Iron Staff

A simple staff made of iron. She uses this alongside her mediocre martial arts against less-feral Afflicted and human opponents. The staff is more in tune with defensive strategy, making it all but useless against advanced Afflicted/Metahumans or normal Humans with superior combat training.



History: Before the blast, Kamai was a college sophomore, hoping to major in Criminal Justice. She always had a passion for the law, as well as sustaining order. Her home life was nothing special. She found her own place at age 21, had a job at a convenience store to combat student debt. Your average college student.

Then the blast hit. A few weeks after she began to feel changes within her body. She bled much more often, and her heart had a habit of giving out when she moved too much. Another week passed. Citizens were becoming feral creatures that the army could just barely contain, due to the radiation.
As the weeks ran by, more and more cities were conquered by the Afflicted. The world became much more tranquil and quiet, with only screams and distant roars interrupting the "harmony." People with strange abilities (Ignoring her own) were beginning to pop up; with mixed results.

Almost all of her family had died in the blast, so she had nobody to turn to. She began to train her body in the use of her blood. She could control it, could use it against others. Eventually, what few people in her hometown there were had discovered her secret and had her exiled at gunpoint. Not out of hatred, but out of fear. They displayed remorse for their actions, but she accepted the banishment with kindness. She understood. This now unbalanced world was something humans had to adjust to. They had to accept themselves before they could accept Supers. All she could do now was wander the semi-wasteland, helping those she comes across. Despite her superpowers, she had never before felt so powerless.....

Extras: Due to the tainted nature of Kamai's blood, hers can easily match with any other blood type. This means that blood transfusions are possible regardless of matching.

 

[Argenteus]

Just a quick proposal regarding the RP:

So, regarding technology, I'm not sure your idea of how it will be is quite sufficient. I propose that for technology levels - if it doesn't negatively impact what you have in mind for the RP - we use Ray Kurzweil's predictions for what will have occurred by that point.

 

[Artemis]

I offer you illusion, for that is all a soul can be.

Spoiler Show

Name: Johannes Benedict, AKA "Crown"


Age: 19


Gender: Male


Alignment: Chaotic Good by the DnD system. He's the freedom fighter against CORE, but he also fights to protect the people from those mutants who would abuse their power.


Appearance:
Picture (Without the sword)
Crown wears fantasy-style royal armor for his costume. It's forged much lighter than most armors of that day, partially because of the way it's built, but mostly because it exploits modern metalworking techniques that simply didn't exist back then. It's made of much lighter materials, and though the metal is thinner than that of traditional sets from medieval times it's more resilient. Parts of the armor that would be composed of heavy leather are instead made of much lighter synthetic fibers. Thus the armor offers great protection against blows while being very maneuverable (Indeed, it does sacrifice protection at a few points to ensure high maneuverability. He can rival the agility of an unarmored opponent while wearing it). With the armor he wears a red cape.

The armor uses ultra-compact systems to cool the interior of the armor to a comfortable temperature, and this system has a battery that could last years. Urine and feces are collected, the water purified and used by the cooling system and the feces dehydrated and easily ejected at convenience. Small amounts of the purified water are retained to clean the anus after defecation, and warm air is applied to dry the area. Certain oils within each of the substances are extracted and used to lubricate the armor. All these systems are highly compact and lightweight, you could fit all of them within the palm of your hand (Though certain bags are temporarily filled with waste matter, which would take up a greater area). In cases of severe dehydration, the purified water can be diverted to drinkable bags, akin to the Stillsuits in Frank Herbert's Dune. Unlike Herbert's Stillsuits, however, the armor does not have advanced facilities to preserve water from breath. All movement of water is applied by unobtrusive pumps affixed to the feet when earthbound, or air-catching orifices in the suit when in flight which use air to move the water.

Beyond the armor, Johannes' brown hair is usually messy. This is due to a trinity of messy hair: On one hand, he doesn't care enough for the appearance of the hair to fix it. On another, he likes it messy as a signal of defiance. On the third hand that only the N64 dev team can see, when you fly as much as he does it tends to get messy. His face looks younger than he actually is, and his brown eyes are quite large. His face is generally handsome, but people who see only the face tend to judge him as younger than he actually is. The body confuses the matter further, as below the armor he is lean, muscular and large boned but he's also below average height for his age.

When his armor isn't maneuverable enough for a task (Which is fairly rare), he has an alternative costume. This is composed of a white and gold suit resembling regalia. The clothes are made of synthetic fibers not designed for comfort but for the optimal flexibility and protection. This is offset a bit by a bit of fluff on the inner layer, but it still chafes somewhat. This costume is rarely used.


Personality:
Crown's defining feature is his charisma: He's the sort of man who could lead an army, start a rebellion. He has great leadership skills, and he's generally the sort of man people will follow even to their death. But when most people look at him, they do not see a man but a cause. His battlecry is freedom for the supers, and this drives him down to the core. He accepts the necessity of some form of government intellectually, though he has definite anarchist tendencies. He's completely dedicated to taking down CORE.

Below his commanding aura is a man, however. Johannes' compassion is great, but it's balanced by excessive pride. He's very ambitious, which is far from a bad thing, but his ambition is somewhat tainted by hubris. This doesn't make him evil, but it means he needs to watch himself carefully. He warms to people as easily as most, perhaps more easily, but if he perceives you as an enemy to him - or worse, his cause - then he takes a certain aggression toward you bordering on ferocity. It's not always violent, but however it represents it's self it has the fury of a storm. If his perception of your position on him or his cause changes, he's the first to apologize however.


Primary Power:
Crown can use his mind as a conduit to manipulate wells of energy present in his environment. The most common of these is that he can direct a given amount of physical force by harnessing the earth's gravity. This can be used for telekinesis, throwing around objects and people with ease, and even flight (Though he couldn't leave the earth's orbit with this power, there's really no reason he would want to) is possible. He can also apply this force on it's own, mimicking the strike of a fist, blade, club or really any other weapon.

This ability is - for the most part - incapable of being used stealthily as things he applies this to develop a blue glow. An object would seem to have a bright blue aura coating it, resembling fire when a lot of force is used or just a dim glow when only a little is. Fire would change color to blue in appearance, etc. When he uses the power on it's own not manipulating an object, it's seen as bursts of blue light.

The amount of force he can apply is first limited by his focus. Throwing a piano (Or applying the equivalent amount of force to a person) would take intense focus, so he certainly couldn't be manipulating anything else at the same time. When working with extreme amounts of force, a measure of the force he's manipulating is applied to his body in order to channel it. If he were lifting a ship the size of the titanic with his mind, he would not only need to be focusing so intensely he'd practically be meditating, but he'd also be undergoing such extreme pressure on his body that serious injury is not only possible but likely. Luckily, he's unlikely to accidentally kill himself through overexertion (At least not instantly, though injuries could kill him) because while he could maintain focus through intense pain, coming near death would break it for sure.

The ability is not limited to gravity. He can also channel other forms of energy, such as the heat from a fire or the electricity from a power outlet. This presents additional difficulties, however. For one, he isn't nearly as skilled at manipulating these forms of energy, and thus it requires more focus to manipulate the same relative amount. For another, these wells of energy are always far less prevalent than gravity, often extremely limited as in the case of a campfire. Sometimes outside factors limit how much he can draw as well: If he drew too much from a power outlet, he would overload the systems and at minimum probably blow a fuse. He might even cause a power outage within a small area. Also, the human body is much less adept at surviving other forces, such as heat, electricity or radiation, than pressure. This means that channeling too much of any of these forces has far worse negative effects than just gravity, and far sooner.

As he improves in skill with his abilities, he'll be able to manipulate more force with less focus as he learns to be more efficient. He may get to the point where throwing a piano is as easy as throwing a human once was. And it will take more force before he has to apply it to his body, and the effects on his body will be lesser.

An ability he may eventually be able to access, as the other side of this ability, is to intentionally drain a certain type of energy to illicit unwanted effects, such as freezing someone by removing the heat from their body or holding them in place by removing the kinetic energy when they attempt to move.

Finally, a side effect of this ability is that he can sense the energy present around him. Right now it's only vague, a blurry shimmer of sorts around a moving object. But as he grows in skill with his abilities, he'll be able to sense more and more until it provides him significant perceptional advantages and an ability to fight even while blinded.


Secondary Power:
By exploiting flaws in space, Crown can teleport himself and others a certain distance, depending on their weight and proximity to him. He could teleport himself a maximum of 30 feet at present. If the subject were standing right next to him, and were of average weight, he could teleport another person a maximum of 20. If there is any real distance between him and them, 10 feet is the max he could hope for. Teleporting multiple people at once is no more work than one, but he can teleport all of them only as far as he could teleport the one he could teleport the least far.

As Crown progresses with his primary ability, he'll be able to teleport further with his secondary. Upon passing a certain threshold, which I will announce in this thread in case anyone objects at the time, it will cease to matter how far away another person is or how much they weigh: He will be able to teleport them as far as him.


Weapons: Though a sword would fit his character, he recognizes the impracticality of such a weapon in a modern environment. He primarily uses his powers as a weapon, but in case of emergency he has a special pistol which fires bolts of energy. It can fire 6 shots without recharging, but it was specifically designed so that he could refuel it with his powers: A small turbine structure within the weapon recharges the gun by his rotating it with his powers. If available he can also directly charge it with electricity from a power outlet using his powers. It resembles a revolver, picture here.


History:
Johannes Benedict was born to an incredibly wealthy family in Minnesota, who raised him giving him everything he wanted. Despite this, he did not end up spoiled. This is almost certainly due to his early martial arts training, which gave him a strong sense of self-discipline. His family being Buddhist also helped with focus, as he learned meditation. He did well at school, had many friends, and was generally well. One would think he had a perfect life.

And indeed he may have, but he did have a rebellious streak as strong as any teenager ever had. He would go out of his way to defy them, and the damnedest thing was that he would seem the sensible one when he did it. His parents were very patient with him, more than they had to be. They loved him no matter what he did, and this made him resent them more as he perceived that they were coddling him. His grades in school never dropped, nor did his martial discipline. And his friends seemed to like him the more for his irrational struggle. Against all odds and rationality, he was winning the teenager's doomed war against his parents perceived fascism.

But it all changed when Mutagenesis came. His parents were early victims, and Johannes - at age 18, just old enough - inherited everything they had. He lived comfortably for a while, mourning his parents and feeling stupid for having hated them, but living a life of luxury. But when he discovered his powers, and what CORE was doing to them, his rebellious streak found righteous rage. The rebel ignited within him, and he changed overnight to something greater than a teenager. Whatever was left of the boy after his parents death was burned to a crisp and changed for manhood.

His first action was to have his assets kept accessible no matter what he did, distributing them across 200 false estates and businesses nationwide, with each just a ruse. Even if one went down, no money would be lost. The setup was ever changing, and perfectly hidden. It was costing a fortune, but he had billions to spare. He had his armor manufactured, along with his pistol and regalia. Right now he's testing the waters, helping people where he can and trying to incite rebellion against CORE.


Extras:
Primary theme song:

Spoiler Show

[video=youtube;ewFsbz2qC5w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFsbz2qC5w[/video]

Secondary:

Spoiler Show

[video=youtube;7g_t4Ixdyt0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g_t4Ixdyt0[/video]

Crown is skilled at Kung-Fu.

Looks good! I like that you have teleportation, I think that will be fun to see play out. I also applaud you for all the limits you've built in for yourself, good job. As the RP goes on, I'll be sure to let everyone know when a good 'level up' time of sorts will be. What happened to his parents? Were they taken by CORE?

Name
Joseph Newton, AKA Jophiel
Age
24
Gender
Male
Alignment
Neutral Good
Appearance
(Pics or descriptions are fine, don't forget to include what their costume is if they have one)
Personality

Primary Power - Kinemancy
The power to transfer kinematic properties between uniform objects in Joseph's immediate vicinity. On the broadest level the properties dealt with are macroscopic velocity, thermal vibrations, sonic vibrations and solids resonance. Joseph is able to increase or decrease any of these properties in an object or area by transferring them from or to other objects nearby.
The most basic applications would be to transfer a property from one object to another - drain all the wind-blown air molecules in an area of their kinetic energy and 'inject' it into a projectile to be launched, leaving a stiller area in its wake. Similarly, heat up a cup of tea by drawing heat out of the surrounding environment, even when by normal standards there mightn't be much 'heat' in the area.
Joseph is also able to temporarily delay the effects of these properties manifesting past a certain volume, such as establishing a sphere of silence or stopping a blade from being shaken to pieces when blocking a withering blow. He can then let these cumulative effects manifest all at once by simply deactivating the particular technique, or let them slowly appear provided he can concentrate appropriately.

Spoiler Show

Joseph's sphere of silence is only a stop-gap measure: it involves capturing soundwaves at a threshold and not allowing them to escape beyond it, or allowing very few of them too, thus all the sound made inside of the sphere will accumulate at these edges. Ultimately, all the sound that gets captured at the threshold will have to escape into the outside world. If Joseph simply lets the sphere go, all the noise made inside will be released at the same time, producing what could be an incredibly loud and damaging noise, that might result in personal harm to Joseph if indoors.
His resonance-denial effect on simple solids works in a similar fashion. If Joseph switches off the denial affect on a blade that's suffered too many blows, the subsequent vibrations moving through the weapon might cause it to explode, with much shrapnel. This renders the technique dangerous to Joseph if used too long, but also has its additional uses.

While on a small scale Joseph can enact kinemancy with finesse, he can also apply a more brute force measure. An example: Joseph is being shot at, and wants to stop the bullets from shredding him to ribbons. His self-defense instinct - combined with his mutant powers - kicks in, and begins converting the kinetic energy of the bullets into heat and/or sound. With a couple of bullets, this just means a hot or loud(er) area around them before they drop the ground, having been brought to rest. Under a hail of lead, however, danger arises: Sustained fire and subsequent kinetic energy conversion could result in Joseph's survival instinct cooking him alive, or dealing irreparable damage to his ear drums and other sensitive membranes due to ultra-volume sound.

Secondary Power

Weapons

History

Extras: (Theme songs, factoids, whatever)

I'd just like to get a check on how that power seems before I continue :3

Looks great so far :3 Flesh out the rest, your powers are looking phenomenal.

Spoiler Show

As I stated, he's totally based off of Batman/Cassandra Cain/Daredevil. A peak human fighter with intellect to build his own costume, and gadgets (Earning his vehicle during the RP) and possessing only superhuman senses. I can totally see if you feel he is too much but, his back story makes up completely for everything he has. I'm a huge comic buff so, I modeled him totally off of that knowledge and love.

Name:
Niran Virote (Eternal Power)

Alias:
Asura

Age:
24

Gender:
Male

Alignment:
Hero

Appearance:
Beautiful Vigilante

Costume

Asura’s suit is made of a version of the Nomex fire-resistant, triple-weave Kevlar-lined material. It is an excellent protection against damage, and it's also flame-retardant and electrically insulated. The gloves and the boots are reinforced to nullify the impact of punches and kicks.

Personality:

Niran is a veteran warrior with years of combat experience in the battlefield, as such he is an extremely focused man who misses no details, and is a master of quick improvisation with nerves of steel. He has a rather straight-forward and hard-edged personality, with little time for being social, and tends to often be blunt about sensitive topics, without realizing the effect it might have on others. When dealing with life threatening or dangerous situations, he usually maintains a calm and collected demeanor, and rarely shows any signs of fear or panic in extreme circumstances. This allows him to maintain his composure and stay focused on the situation at hand, and eventually notice important details around him, which makes it easier for him to think out proper strategies to fit the situation.

Niran possesses a very sharp intellect and has good observational skills, as seen from his ability to gauge his surroundings, noting both mundane and unusual things, people and actions. This allows him to quickly notice if something is not as it should be, as shown from how he can easily see through an opponent’s tricks. He uses his skills to stay one step ahead of his enemies and is one of the reasons why he is an accomplished combatant.

Throughout the years it has been noted by several people, both enemies and comrades alike, that he has an innate desire for conflict, and holds a degree of enjoyment towards battle, namely because that was the only thing he truly knew. Although he was not open about such behavior, and even denied it at first when accused of, but at some point in his life, he began to realize his own desires and the thrill he finds in fighting an opponent. Despite his love for battle, Niran has a tendency to hold back and usually conceals his true strength to enjoy a fight for as long as possible. He usually gauges an opponent’s fighting power and will fight according to his opponent’s strength, meaning he will hold back against a weaker opponent and will fight with his full strength against a tougher and stronger one.

He is willing to sacrifice people or kill in cold blood, in order to complete an objective, and will most definitely turn on old friends if they become corrupted. Niran will also use unwitting allies to further his goals, if it allows him to accomplish his tasks more easily. He can handle stress extremely well and it is impossible to use torture to extract information from him, due to his strong will.

Primary Power:

Superhuman Sense of Sight: Asura can observe objects at great distances or at speeds faster than can be perceived by the normal eye. He can also count the flapping of a hummingbird's wings. Lastly he can see in total darkness as if it was a clear sunny day.

Superhuman Sense of Touch: Asura's sense of touch is so acute that his finger can feel the faint impressions of ink on a printed page allowing him to read by touch, though laminated pages prevent him from touching and thus reading the ink impressions at a much faster pace than a normal person would be able to read.The rest of his skin is equally sensitive, enabling him by concentration to feel minute temperature and pressure changes in the atmosphere around him. Even with his senses of smell and hearing blocked, he can feel the presence of a person standing five feet away from him simply by his or her body heat and disturbance of air. The sense of touch is not just external, but internal too (central nervous system), thereby giving him the ability to have total body control, increasing his agility and reflexes to superhuman levels.

Superhuman Sense of Smell: Asura's sense of smell is so acute that he can distinguish between identical twins at twenty feet by minute differences in smell. He can detect odors of an atmospheric concentration of thirty parts per million. Further, his ability to remember smells enables him to identify any person he has spent at least five minutes with by smell alone, no matter how he or she might try to camouflage his or her natural odor. His powers of concentration are such that he can focus upon a single person's smell and follow it through a crowd of people at a distance of fifty feet.

Superhuman Sense of Hearing: Asura's sense of hearing enables him to detect an acoustic pressure change of one decibel at a pressure level of seven decibels (whereas the lowest threshold for average human hearing is twenty decibels.) He can hear a person's heartbeat at a distance of over twenty feet, or people whispering on the other side of a standard soundproofed wall. Through practice, Asura is able to control his hearing acuity, mentally blocking out specific sounds like his own breathing and heartbeat, or bring all ambient sounds to a normal human level of perception.

Lie Detection: Asura can tell whether a person is lying by listening to changes in his or her heartbeat (though he can be fooled by a pacemaker or those able to control their own heartbeat.

Superhuman Sense of Taste: Asura's sense of taste enables him to detect the number of grains of salt on a pretzel. His ability to remember tastes enables him to determine every ingredient of a food or drink he tastes, as long as there is enough of the substance present.

Superhuman Sense of Balance: Due to the fact that Asura's sensory organs have such a high level of development, his inner ear, which controls the equilibrium and motions of the body, is also highly developed, aiding him in acrobatic feats that surpass even Olympic-level athletes.

Secondary Power: Let it be noted that most if not all of Asura's Secondary skills are actually just skills he has learned or acquired.

Master Martial Arts: Asura has been trained extensively since his birth to be the greatest hand to hand fighter. But he was only taught six styles which meant he would be able to focus on more then just his martial arts training. These six styles are Muay Thai, Capoiera, Hapkido, Wing Chun, Ninjutsu, Karate, and Tae Kwon Do, each style on a level above any before him. Together, he has blended them to create a highly unique style but even when performing each style individually, Niran is a highly dangerous opponent. He is well educated in the functioning of the human body as well as martial arts techniques that target pressure points enabling him to paralyze limbs of an individual's body or the entire body altogether.

Weapons Proficiency: Thanks to his martial arts training, Niran is extremely proficient in wielding various different weapons. Since Ninjutsu is the only identified discipline that teaches weapons, it would indicate he is trained in the use of most Japanese-themed melee weaponry.

Expert Marksman: He is very dead on accurate in throwing most projectile-like weaponry

Expert Tracker: Niran's heightened senses make him particularly adept at tracking people. He uses his sense of smell to track their scent and his sense of hearing to discern vocal patterns, heartbeats and gait.

Master of Stealth: His Ninjutsu training has made him a master at stealth.

Master Detective: Niran is capable of observation, forensic investigation, and inductive and deductive reasoning of the highest caliber. Human intuition is an unlearnable trait and one of Batman's most effective tools. Given any mystery, he can arrive at the correct conclusions with a fraction of the data.

Master Inventor: He can invent various devices with special properties when needed. While not all of his inventions are as good as others made by CORE and so on, he possesses engineering abilities and intellect that makes him a peer and has proven to be able to invent and create weaponry that rivals their engineering capabilities.

Body Reading Ability: Niran has the advanced ability to read body language enabling him to read what a person is thinking and tell what they are going to do next before they do it. He has been shown able to read opponents far faster than himself, along with non humans once he is given a chance to learn their body language. This enables him to identify disguised and transformed people as well.

Spoiler Show

Peak Human Strength: Nirans' physical strength is at the very peak of human potential. As a result, he is as physically strong as a human being can be without being classified as superhuman. Asura has been seen bench pressing 501 kg (1,200 lbs) which is consistent with his strength level, as benching is easier than military press lifting. He can snap steel handcuffs and chains, and is capable of breaking through wooden walls and steel doors with a single kick

Superhuman Reflexes: Asura possesses superhuman reflexes. The speed at which he reacts allows him to dodge fast-moving projectiles such as arrows and bullets. He can usually out-react even the fastest humans, no matter how well-trained.

Superhuman Agility: Asura's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Spider-Man is extraordinarily limber and his tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's. He has the combined agility and acrobatic prowess of the most accomplished circus aerialists and acrobats. He can also perform any complicated sequence of gymnastic stunts such as flips, rolls, and springs. He can easily match or top any Olympic record at gymnastics apparatus such as flying rings, climbing ropes, horizontal bars, trampolines.

Peak Human Speed: Asura is able to run and move at speeds superior to those of any Olympic athlete. He is capable of reaching speeds of 35 mph.

Peak Human Endurance: Asura's body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing chemicals in his muscles, granting him exceptional endurance and lung capacity. He can exert himself at peak capacity for a hour without any rest and before showing any signs of fatigue.

Peak Human Durability: Asura's ability to resist and recover from physical injury or disease is also at the pinnacle of human capability. While he is susceptible to illness and injury as any normal human is, his ability to resist and recover from them is well above that of most other humans.

Weapons:

Asura’s Weapons: Throwing knives, Shuriken, and pellets smoke capsules. His left gauntlet has a shielded small computer that is able to connect to his supercomputer's mainframe. His right gauntlet contains a 100,000 volt stun gun, although his preferred weapons are two shatterproof polymer nunchaku. These nunchaku are situated on his back and can connect together to create a bo staff or three section staff. Then can also eject to create a grappling ability similar to a grappling hook.

History:

Extras:

Mute: As a side effect of his training, Niran's brain developed learning functions different from most. Having been brought up deliberately without speech, the communication centers of his brain learned body language instead of spoken or written language. Thus, he has as much trouble learning spoken and written language as a normal individual would have in learning body language. Although he is able to learn some very basic things ("no," "yes," "me") the same way a normal person can learn to recognize smiles and frowns.

Character Theme - Rise of Asura

I am slightly tempted to wag my mighty finger of OP judgement, but I'll wait and see your history as you've suggested. I'm so impressed with him actually, what a stud. It's a damn sexy template.

Spoiler Show

I'll edit the rest of this later. Trying to find the sciency stuff for the powers is painful....>_>


I offer up the soul of the actor Mike Myers. Acknowledging that what your'e saying isn't funny stops being funny after the thousandth time!
​

Name: Kamai

A.K.A: Does not apply at this time. Will come later.
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Appearance:
Personality:
Kamai is not exactly what one would call a boy scout. On one hand, she seeks the good of others and cares much for the endangered world she is now a part of. Approaching situations calculatingly and logically, she puts the needs of the many ahead of the needs of the few. She will analyze a situation greatly before entering it, making her better at strategizing than boosting morale. However, Kamai is not afraid to make morally grey decisions, which makes her come off as cold to more compassionate people. This is one of the reasons why she somewhat sympathizes with the organization CORE. While she isn't too fond of their methodology, she understands the risk that Supers and an anarchal, wild, world pose.

Kamai's flaws lie in her people skills. She makes it very hard for people to understand her true intentions, and goes out of her way to avoid extended conversation or crowds and the like. This stems from the isolation she has endured due to both her powers and the desolation of the world around her.


Primary Power: Blood Manipulation

Kamai has the ability to manipulate the use of her blood, whether it be for offense, defense, or simple convenience. However, as she is still adjusting to her powers, she tries to moderate the usage of this power into more of an offensive model. By shifting the speed at which her blood flows, she can accelerate the reproduction cycle and frequency of her body's red blood cells, which have tainted nuclei due to the blast. The speeding of the production of cells causes their inertial force to increase. Using this forceful blood, she can release it from cuts and scrapes on her body, launching the "force blood" as projectiles.

Weakness: Due to the nature of her powers, Kamai has an extremely weak heart. Since she can control the speed at which blood flows through her body, this can affect the speed of her heart's pumping mechanism. Prolonged use of these powers will shift her instantly into cardiac arrest, and can possibly kill her. Her free-flow blood also causes her to consume many of the red blood cells her body. This also makes it extremely hard for her to breathe after a certain period of moving about, making rest a priority. Blood transfusions are also effective.

Secondary Power: Blood Crystalization

This is a power Kamai is experimenting with. Due to the tainted Nuclei of her red blood cells, they have the power to link together. By linking together many blood cells in a short amount of time, and releasing them all at once, she can effectively form a five-second barrier with the expelled blood.

Weakness: Not only is this an experimental power, it's a risky one due to how much blood is actually needed to form a barrier around Kamai. This power is almost guaranteed to shift her into cardiac arrest if used at the wrong time. Plus, the low amoutn of tinme the barrier is active makes it situational at best.
Weapons: PSL Sniper Rifle
History:
Extras: Due to the tainted nature of Kamai's blood, hers can easily match with any other blood type. This means that blood transfusions are possible regardless of matching.

Ah, a blood bender of sorts. Your power is thoroughly terrifying, I don't know who would ever want to commit crime after watching you fight! Keep working on her, she looks good so far!

I'm sorry these took so long to review, but everybody looks great. Your templates are so awesome, I love the creativity I'm seeing. Keep filling them out and I will add them to the roster. And Arg, I will look into Kurzweil's predictions and see about implementing them in, thank you for the suggestion

 

[Argenteus]

What happened to his parents? Were they taken by CORE?

His mother died of mutagenesis. There's more, but it's a big spoiler for Crown's future development so I'll PM it to you.

 

[Klom89]

Temp. is complete, finally.

 

[stripes]

Do you have room for a villan? I would like to get started on my template.

 

[Artemis]

Plenty of room! We've got a handful of heroes, so a villain would be very welcome

 

[Klom89]

Question: How exactly would an Afflicted character play? Would they be mutated to semi-animals, (I.E: An accountant into a fleshy wolf) or are they zombie-types?

 

[Artemis]

Well, I guess more like zombies though they take on feral characteristics. They don't look like animals, just kind of behave like them in a rabid way. Did you intend to play as one? Because they're more like plot devices, I didn't plan on anyone being anything other than a super. It's just there so people know they are a part of the setting.

 

[Klom89]

I'm thinking about it, but I already have Kamai. (Whose Temp. is complete, BTW)

Plus, coming up with powers for an Afflicted would be a pain I'm sure; especially since it hasn't been revealed how exactly the radiation mutates them, mentality aside. (I'm presuming that'll be told once the story starts, so....)