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[Ice1]

Capes
Rated M | GM'd by Ice & gimmepie | Character Information | IC

Introduction
It's been over thirty years since the first parahumans, colloquially known as capes, appeared and since then the world has changed greatly. With superpowered people thrown into the mix, both crime and law enforcement reached new extremes. This is the world you will step into.

This isn't your typical superhero roleplay however. Capes, being based on John McCrae/wildbow's Worm, is a darker, grittier take on the genre injecting a dose of realism. There's no quirky villains with zany plans or ridiculously pure, loony heroes here. Villains take part in more traditional criminal activity; they're dealers, thieves and killers and heroes are either law enforcement or vigilantes skirting the edges of what is legally acceptable.

This is a sandbox RP. You're free to explore the setting, interact and create characters at your leisure for the most part and can create your own stories during the RP. However, there may occasionally be times where one of us introduce plot elements that may affect the RP at large.

Capes
Parahumans can possess a wide range of different powers, although most will have a power or power set with a specific sort of focus. In addition to that, most powers are bound by a strange effect that causes them to affect only organic material or only inorganic material. Few possess a power than works on both. Parahuman abilities can be classed into several categories with all abilities fitting into one or more of the following classes.

• Mover - A mover is a cape with a power enhancing their mobility. Think Speedsters or Teleporters.
• Shaker - Shakers are capes with powers that have an area of effect. Think manipulation of the terrain or barriers.
• Brute - Brutes are capes with enhanced strength or durability. This one's pretty self-explanatory.
• Breaker - A breaker is a cape that can shift into another state. For example, the ability to become water or smoke.
• Master - A master can control or create minions. Mind control or controlling bugs, for example.
• Tinker - Tinkers can create various devices and gadgets with futuristic technology.
• Blaster - Blasters are those with ranged, offensive abilities. Lasers or pyrokinesis, for example.
• Thinker - Thinkers have powers based on gathering information such precognitive powers or a superpowered intuition.
• Striker - Strikers have powers that are based on touched or have a melee range.
• Changer - Changers have powers altering their form or appearance such as shapeshifters.
• Trump -Trump capes can manipulate powers to some capacity.
• Stranger - Strangers have powers based on stealth or infiltration such as invisibility or perception filters.

All capes develop their powers in what is known as a trigger event. A trigger event is a time of extreme suffering or distress. Powers will often have a connection to the event that causes them to manifest with those who suffer physically usually developing physical powers and those that suffer mentally usually developing mental powers. A power's main priority when appearing is adapting in a way to sustain it's host. A power can be detrimental, but will never be fatal to the person who wields it. Capes can have second trigger events, but these are extremely rare. More about these will be in the optional reading post, for if you wanna dive into that sinkhole.

Fallcliff
This RP is set in the city of Fallcliff, a large and extremely multicultural city with one of the highest cape populations in the country. Fallcliff gets its name due to the large cliff that divides the city in two with the majority of the city sitting on the lower half whilst the upper section is primarily home to wealthy families, parks and large properties. Those who live on the lower half are generally much poorer and live in either apartments or small homes.

Fallcliff has a continental climate with hot, dry summers and wet, rainy/snowy winters. From most parts of Fallcliff, mountains including dormant volcanoes can be seen in the distance a large volcanic event responsible for the city's interesting geography. Due to the volcanic nature of the area, there are many farms around the outskirts of the city whilst the interior is primarily industrial in nature. Amongst the farmland the sturdy structure of the Fallcliff Detention Centre can be seen.

Spoiler: Map of Fallcliff

Heroes
Heroes in the Wormverse are typically members of the Protectorate or the Wards. The Protectorate is a government parahuman organisation tasked primarily with dealing with parahuman crime although they will respond to mundane criminal activity also. The Wards are their junior division for heroes under the age of eighteen and have similar responsibilities, although they are heavily supervised. Both groups are overseen by the Parahuman Response Team (PRT), a non-cape police organisation tasked with responding to parahuman threats and their fallout.

Most cities have a Protectorate and Wards and/or PRT division with a Protectorate Leader, Wards Leader and PRT Director. However, the Protectorate as an organisation is lead by a group of three heroes known as the Triumvirate. The final step up in the chain of command for both the Protectorate and PRT is the Chief Director.

Not all heroes are a part of this organisation. Some are members of small privately funded teams whilst others prefer to act as lone vigilantes. These individuals are not very common however.

Villains
In the Wormverse, villain just means "criminal who happens to be a cape" and as such there tends to be a lot less organisation amongst them. Villains will typically work solo or in smaller teams although many larger gangs or criminal organisations also have a core group of capes that call the shots. In this RP there are three large criminal organisations to consider;

• La Fenice - An organised crime group with connections to the mafia. They're active in all sorts of illicit activity such as the drug trade, extortion and murder. They hold territory from New Rome down through the Historical Heart.
• Fundation - Fundation are a street gang consisting primarily of the young and underprivileged. They belief Fallcliff only functions because of its crime economy and that crime is really the only way for most people to get by. They're active primarily around the University and Abandoned Industry districts.
• Darwin's Chosen - A small but extremely violent and dangerous group that believe in Cape superiority. They make it their mission to hurt, kill and/or enslave ordinary people. They don't hold territory and exist more through loose connections than anything.

Villains in Fallcliff are typically locked up in the large Fallcliff detention centre which has thorough precautions against parahuman prisoners and jailbreakers and is staffed by PRT members. The worst offenders however are locked away in the far-off and mysterious Birdcage never to be seen again.

Rogues
Rogues are the the third alignment capes fall under. They are neither heroes nor villains, but use their powers commercially in order to provide a service or to otherwise further their career. Rogues are an extremely rare breed of parahuman and rarely manage to avoid getting mixed up with either the Protectorate or a criminal organisation for long.

Endbringers
The fourth and final group that have a large effect on the world are Endbringers. The Endbringers are not human beings and do not align with any human organisation. They are large, monstrous beings - forces of destruction that routinely lay waste to areas where lots of people congregate. There are three known Endbringers and once every three months, one will appear and lay siege to a city or similar somewhere in the world. The endbringers are as follows:

• War - War is the largest, bulkiest of the Endbringers. He is capable of walking on all fours, or standing on his hind legs reaching about 45 feet tall. His thick red-brown skin is covered in numerous bony growths and his face is masked with a helmet of bone that ends in a mane of spiny protrusions. He produces several fleshy pods from beneath the bony armour that covers his exterior, launching them like missiles. Within each pod is one or two smaller creatures catered to the fight. Preferring to let his minions do most of the work, War mostly stays back releasing several volleys of the pods throughout a battle although each one takes time to make.
  
• Famine - Famine stands about 35 feet tall and is bipedal. He resembles a yellow-green straw man, seeming to be made of numerous, thick intertwining cords in a vaguely humanoid shape. He has no mouth but a single, glowing red eye can be seen from beneath the chords of his head. From within his arm three sharp, unmoving obsidian claws protrude. Within a range of about 150 feet, powers gradually get weaker around Famine with the effect becoming stronger the closer to the Endbringer you get. Famine has been known to strike out with the powers it has been sapping.
  
• Pestilence - Pestilence is the smallest of the Endbringers standing at only 15 or so feet tall and is far less bulky, she's also considered the scariest. She has a feminine, metallic body but no discernible features and moves extremely quietly and quickly. She can cause anything she touches to begin dissolving. Pestilence is considered the scariest of the Endbringers because during each battle she dissolves and absorbs some of the defending capes, using them to create plagues based on their powers that are then released during her next appearance.

Sign-Up Sheet

Name:
Cape Alias:
Age:
Sex:
Alignment (Hero/Villain/Rogue):
Appearance: Both in and out of costume.
Personality:
Power(s):
History and Trigger Event:​

Rules

1. All standard PC and RPT rules apply.
2. GM word is law.
3. Everyone is human. No aliens, gods, spirits, mages or ferrets.
4. Telepathy isn't really a thing in the Wormverse and we're not allowing mind/body control.
5. Rather than everyone having like fifty NPCs that nobody else uses, you're encouraged to share NPCs around and to interact a fair bit.
6. If you're capable/comfortable, we're happy for you to play as more than one character.
7. Rather than aiming to just make characters with really strong powers. Try to be creative with parahuman abilities.​

Players
gimmepie as Sebastian Medina (Hostage) & Anita Blaine (Jailer)
Ice as Calvin Nanyemba (Animator)
Winter as Lyra Menura (Songbird)
(Drakath) as Kiro Irazuka (Drakath/The Speed Demon)
Foxrally as Jeanne Coutelas (Medic Extraordinaire)
Cutiefly!!! as Lilith Griffn (Cactus)
Esper as Agnes Holiday (Ditto)
Strange as Damian Edgeworth (Mephisto)
Oddball_ as Edan Edgeworth (Brimstone)
PastelPhoenix as Reza Shirazi (Freefall) and Maryum Shirazi (Bombshell)
Dusty as Shaylee Thompson (Shade)
AlphaLuxray as Derek Gutierrez (Splinter) and Alex Jones (Chrono)
Songbird as James Jamie J.J. Jameson (Jinx)
engineer as Karl Janssen (The Mechanic)
Fen-Kun as Safiya Nejem (Florissant) and Harvey Farrel (Vizier)
Sephear as Tiergan Cassidy (Godhand)​

 

[Junier]

Atm, I'm limiting my activity on this site in-particular, but this is definitely a fantastic set-up for a roleplay and one I'm especially appreciative of. The concept of a "superhero", in-reality, is impossible; a man or woman simply cannot be considered virtuous while still indulging in frequent bouts of violence, using his or her unnatural proficiencies to put his or herself on a higher plane of authority than actual law enforcement. It's really cool to see a roleplay acknowledge this somewhat. (Does that make Capes a foil to Titans then, lol?)

I haven't heard of "Worm" but I definitely plan to look into it now and I might check in on this from time to time. Good luck with it!

 

[Ice1]

The Parahumans Database

This post is the Parahumans database, presenting all the data you need on all the characters you wanna know about. Bullet-points of any notable NPC character will be posted here. Anything attached to these bullet points is canon for those characters.

This database will be kept up-to-date throughout the RP, and will try to include everything there is to know about any NPC character mentioned.

We encourage the players to make information on characters they've name-dropped, used, or mentioned in their posts/SUs available here. Characters in this list are public NPCs, meaning anyone can use them in their posts, unless specified otherwise. Feel free to incorporate any character into a backstory, though. Characters can get new information or backstory added by other players. Feel free to fill in blanks in a characters history if you're using them.

Heroes

Protectorate (Triumvirate) (Use should be discussed with GMs):

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Monitor - Gregory Marron

• African-American man in mid-thirties.
• In good physical condition but not unusually well-built.
• Neatly cut hair and clean shaven.
• Wears dark blue power-suit armour with visor-like mask and a flight pack.
• Leader of the Fallcliff Protectorate and Triumvirate Field Commander.
• Frequently called 'Busiest man alive'.
• Resident Tinker for the Fallcliff Detention Center
• Tinker/Thinker with a knack for data collection and surveillance technology with the ability to analyse a situation near instantaneously with a high degree of precision.

Surge - Sergei Echard

• White male, aged 47.
• Extremely well-built, rather intimdating in appearance.
• Bald but has a shaggy brown beard
• Wears a read bodysuit and a black cape with an insignia resembling a trio of lighning bolts on his chest.
• Close range specialist of the Triumvirate.
• Can teleport anywhere within a 50m radius with continuous teleportation resulting in a rapid growth in his physical strength and durability. Can fly.
• Brute/Mover

Iota - Dorothy Sights

• White woman in her early to mid-thirties.
• Short but fairly muscular and extremely fit.
• Short blonde hair.
• Wears a gray bodysuit and darker jacket with a hood. Conceals her identity with a featureless white mask with built in blue goggle lenses.
• Can compress inorganic materials into bullet-sized projectiles whilst retaining their original mass and then launch them at high speeds. She can also fly.
• Blaster/Mover

High ranking PRT employees

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Vincent Irons

• Chief Director of the PRT, making him the most powerful person in the cape business. The triumvirates answers to him, and he only answers to the president.
• 55 years old
• White male, slightly chubby, with thinning, graying hair.
• In a wheelchair
• Public persona of Triumvirate founder Pilot
• Had to quit the hero business when the attack of a now-diseased Stranger-class cape paralyzed him from the waist down. His power makes it so healing the damage has proven to be incredibly difficult, if not impossible.
• Pilot died during the accident, as far as the public knows. The relation between Pilot and Irons is something only the highest ranking PRT officials are aware of.
• Used to be a fighter pilot before his trigger event, which was during a plane crash.
• Vincent Irons official background is of him as the leader of multiple charitable missions overseas in disaster areas. None of this is true.

Protectorate (Fallcliff):

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PRT leader Arief Khadiji

• Indonesian man in his early fifties.
• Strong lines drawing a permanent frown on his face. He has big ears and a buzzcut.
• Child of immigrants. Served in the American armed forces.
• Has a no-nonsense attitude to people, but cares about his employees.
• Is very politically minded. Knows what has to be done to get shit figured out. Knows every loophole he can exploit to cut down on the crime in the city. Has a lot of faith in the protectorate's heroes, is usually overly protective of the Wards.
• Is extremely quiet unless he's discussing his work. Will keep small-talk limited to a short and concise 5-minute conversation.
• Doesn't get angry visibly. As soon as things go against his plan, he's prone to making worse calls. The more angry/defeated he gets, the quieter and more introspective he gets.
• Great tactician.
• Publically known as the widower of a cape called Walker that died in an Endbringer attack in 2000.
• Do not reference the mustache he has on older pictures. The conversation will be cut short.

Papillon (Sarah Jonas) - Fallcliff Protectorate

• Caucasian woman in her late twenties. Long brown hair, and delicate facial features. A natural beauty.
• One of the most popular capes in PR
• Nation-wide celebrity
• Triggered during a home-invasion when she was 14
• Comes from a wealthy family
• Joined the Fallcliff Wards at age 14, has been serving in the Protectorate for 10.
• Loves to do the PR part of her job, but feels pressured to always appear like a role-model.
• Has the ability to summon a plethora of neon butterflies that she can control. These butterflies can be remotely detonated. The properties of the explosion depend on the butterfly construct. The colour of the butterfly changes the colour of the explosion, while the size of the butterfly changes the size of the explosion.
• Immune to her own explosions.
• Costume is a skin-tight, skin-coloured bodysuit that's covered with butterfly constructs that stick closely to her skin. The butterflies cover her entire body, leaving only her hands, feet, neck and face free. Generally, a butterfly construct takes seat in her hair.
• Blaster/Master

Seraph (Farah Merci)

• 19-year-old French-Arabic female with sharp features and dark hair.
• Prefers colour-coded, decent clothing
• No-nonsense hero and a stickler for detail
• Dislikes working with sloppy or messy heroes
• Not afraid to speak out at her colleagues
• Poor with social ques
• Sleeps with a light night due to fear of the dark
• Triggered when kidnapped at a science fair
• Has no secret Identity
• Has the power to have in innate understanding of hard light constructs, which she uses in a mech suit. The suit, called Aeria Gloris, has two modes, one called Aeria, in which she flies using hard light wings capable of shooting damaging shards, and the other called Gloris. Gloris allows her to create defensive barriers as sturdy as steel.
• Tinker/Mover

Sharpshooter (Athena Brooks) (Courtesy of Fen)

• 23 year old female, half Caucasian, half Native American of Choctaw descent.
• A protectorate hero since she was 15; a new transfer to Fallcliff PRT from Oklahoma City
• Triggered by brother, acting under peer pressure from his friends, bullied and harassed his sister; bullying reached a critical point where she fought back and injured one of the other guys and subsequently the bullies tried to teach her a lesson by drowning her in a swimming pool, triggering and subduing the guys.
• Childhood was split between her divorced parents: Choctaw mother eking by Tulsa and white father in Oklahoma City.
• Transferred to Fallcliff on recommendation from superiors
• Power is "Superaiming"-has power over projectiles from any given weapon and can control the trajectory of them once in midair
• Costume is a maroon fullbody suit with black and gold accents on the calves and forearms
• Shaker
• Quiet, warm, patient, empathetic, affable with a serious and no nonsense demeanor; can be very overprotective of friends and fears being alone most of all; prefers to hide hardships and pain. Prefers doing the work to stop crime rather than be a prominent public figure

Fallcliff Wards:

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Shift - Stephanie Peterson

• Leader of the Fallcliff Wards
• 17-year-old female
• Bi-racial (black/white) girl standing at about 5'6"
• Lean and relatively muscular with dreadlocks.
• Costume consists of a white bodysuit below an equally white hoodless robe. She wears pale blue body armour between the layers and a full-face mask in the same colour with a feminine design.
• Hates PR work but has a talent for it.
• Has the ability to convert one form of energy into another and manipulate it. For example, changing kinetic to potential stopping an object from moving.
• Triggered at a gay conversion camp in another state. Now lives under foster care.
• Shaker/Blaster/Striker

Squire (Fern Mables) - Fallcliff Wards

• Thirteen years of age caucasian kid. Got blond hair that he millimeters and has a very round face with puffy red cheeks.
• Has been a Ward for only half a year
• One of the less popular capes.
• Really awkward personality, frequently embarrassing himself.
• Triggered during his first experience with playing high school football, when he suddenly realized a bunch of taller, stronger people running at him was kind of scary.
• Glorifies and looks up to the Protectorate members and is maybe a bit too eager to help
• Power allows him to project force fields attached to his forearms that reflect any projectile hitting them. The force fields are singular and about a meter wide. They're see-through, but heavily distort the light passing through them.
• Costume is a helmet resembling a knight's helmet, including visor. It's made of a strong plastic compound that makes it light but resilient. Furthermore, he wears a thick leather suit with body-plating on it, and a red cape.
• Uses a blunted sword to attack.

Reflex (Julia Rodriguez) - Fallcliff Wards

• Sixteen years old Hispanic girl with shoulder-length black hair
• Athletic girl that performs in dancing competitions outside of cape-life
• Personable and excitable character
• Costume is a white and red bodysuit that covers her entire body, with a domino mask. She wears coloured lenses in costume.
• Her power is that of dodging. In a regular state she has no extraordinary abilities. Her power takes over, however, whenever she's attacked. She gets super strength and speed based on the manoeuvre she needs to perform to escape being damaged. She's able to dodge a bullet, or jump out of the blast radius of a grenade. She doesn't consciously perform these actions, however.

Non-Fallcliff Protectorate members:

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Amazon (Natalia Stephens) - New York Protectorate

• Ethnically greek woman in her early thirties
• A physique only able to be described as 'supermodel'
• Very famous for her common TV appearances and magazine covers.
• Costume shows quite some skin, and there's no mask
• Secret identity is thick-rimmed glasses and a hunch
• Powers of flight, super strength, and durability.

Mistress - Protectorate nearby to Fallcliff, shared Airport duty

• Powers of flight and mist-creation. Can cover herself in a big cloud of smoke that burdens the movement of everyone in there, besides herself.

Other:

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NO DATA AVAILABLE

Villains

La Fenice:

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The Fenician - Adalhard Scazi

• Leader of La Fenice.
• 62 years old.
• Physically fit, balding and gray.
• Historian specialized in middle ages Italy before his trigger event
• German, British and Italian heritage
• Rapidly recovers from even the most grievous injuries, i.e. disintegration
• Above average strength and endurance
• Wounds flame.
• Power rerouted his brain, making him crueler. He's prone to overdoing violence and has no good mental indicator as to how people interpret pain.
• Brute/Striker

Tommy Gun - Tommy Figazi

• Main Enforcer of La Fenice
• 41 years old
• Great physicality, long dark hair that curls. Stubble.
• Ex-military
• Immigrant from Italy, born and raised in Southern Italy.
• Can launch extremely potent kinetic blasts from his hands. They don't affect humans, passing right through them. Explode on impact with solid inorganic matter.
• Matter from his explosions will always blast away from him.
• Costume is a pin-striped suit, fedora and a black mask covering his face.
• Blaster

Banker - Iain McStrave

• La Fenice's planner
• 37 years old
• Overweight, but muscled. Bald.
• Economics degree, past as a banker. Has spent time in prison for fraudulent investment. Triggered on his first day in jail. Got out using his power. No permanent record remains, as he took steps to destroy it.
• Power allows him to envision an end-goal, such as "being free from prison," "being a millionaire." His powers will then point out the act of violence that will get him closer to his goal. The act of violence doesn't have to be committed by him.
• Thinker

Vacuum - Luka Adams

• Tall with long black hair which is worn in a ponytail.
• White with an olive tinge to his skin.
• Mid-twenties
• Costume is a simple black or grey suit with a full-face, green mask and a fedora (fairly typical La Fenice attire).
• His power allows him to teleport, compressing the air in the vicinity and taking it with him. When he reappears the air rushes out rapidly like a pressure explosion. By "charging" his power and taking time before disappearing, he can take more air with him when he does creating a bigger explosion on reappearance.
• Mover/Blaster

Vortex - Alberto Adams

• Tall with broad shoulders and dark hair that he wears slicked back.
• White with an olive tinge to his skin
• Early fifties
• Costume is a simple grey or black suit and a dark blue mask (typical La Fenice stuff)
• Right hand man of The Fenecian and father of Vacuum
• Has the power to create Tornado like vortexes in the area around him.
• Shaker

Wipeout - Samuel Garcia

• Early thirties
• Average height but quite well built wears a buzz-cut.
• A mix of American-Italian and Hispanic heritage
• Triggered by Banker
• Has the power to partially liquefy solid structures/the ground and cause them to surge forward like a wave.

Frost - Camille West

• Early thirties
• White with brown hair, of average height and a slim build.
• Costume is a white or grey suit with a white and ice-blue mask.
• Has the power to freeze anything she touches. The warmer the object, the longer it takes to freeze.
• Striker

Fundation

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Flashback - Maria Ruiz

• Young Hispanic woman with short, curly dark brown hair
• High-ranking gang member but not the leader
• "Costume" consists of denim shorts, black shirt and a violet mask covering the top half of her face. May carry a knife and/or gun
• Has the ability to make people she touches relive their most horrific memories.
• Striker

Sincere - Veronica Ruiz

• Flashback's sibling/probably a twin. Has longer hair.
• Also ranks highly
• "Costume" consists of brown cargos and a pink top. She wears a black version of her sister's mask.
• It's impossible to lie when in close proximity to her. When she talks to people, they feel compelled to answer.
• Stranger

Armory - Bernard Williams

• Overweight white guy in his early 20s
• One of the lowest ranking capes in the gang
• "Costume" is generally just gray sweatpants and a grungy white shirt the size of a boat
• Has the power to make anything small and non-biological he touches multiply.
• Carries a bag full of cheap homemade explosives, ammo etc.
• Striker

Nightmare - Rosa Ruiz

• Youngest sister of Flashback and Sincere, aged 12-13.
• Not officially a member of the gang but sometimes appears with them.
• Costume is a black dress and legging with a full-face emerald green mask.
• Can create constructs based on people's worst fears/nightmares. These constructs can physically interact with the world. A side-effect of her power is that she constantly relives people's most horrifying nightmares/memories which has lead to her being somewhat unstable.
• Triggered as a result of night terrors.
• Probably the most powerful cape associated with Fundation.
• Shaker, Master & Thinker.

Martin Rodrigo - Null

• Early-mid 20's
• Mostly Hispanic descent, toned but not hugely well-built and reasonably tall.
• Has longer shaggy hair and stubble but generally described as handsome
• Current leader of Fundation having taken over from his father and brother who are in prison
• Costume is simple dark coloured pants and shirt, old leather jacket and a half-face red mask.
• Has the power of being unable to be directly affected by other powers. This means you cannot directly target him with a power but you can still affect him with the results of one. For example, you can't set him on fire but you can burn him to death in a flaming building.
• Always carries a gun and a knife.
• Trump

Darwin's Chosen

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Tempestuous - Dana Black (Discuss with GM before use)

• Leader of Darwin's Chosen
• 34 years old
• Trained Biologist
• Half-Caucasian, half-Asian. Stands about 5'8".
• Thin with straight, long black hair.
• Costume is a black skin-tight bodysuit with a lab coat over the top. She no longer wears a mask and acts as a public figure in her organisation.
• Authorities struggle to actually connect her to any crimes even though she leads Darwin's Chosen.
• Has the power of storm embodiment able to quite literally turn herself into a storm and back again. Even when not transformed she's able to create weather effects like wind and lightning.
• Easily an A-class threat if she goes all out in combat. She rarely ever fights though.
• Shaker/Blaster/Breaker

Delay - Fadlhan Ahmadputra

• Member of Darwin's Chosen
• 31 years old
• Construction worker before he became a villain.
• Indonesian descent
• Very curly hair that he wears short. His left eye has become milky-white.
• His costume is a thick black kevlar suit with a helmet/mask combination that covers his whole face. He carries a bunch of tools and weapons on him with various belts and holsters. The middle of his mask is decorated with the picture of a big clock, with the two hands frantically turning.
• Has the power to freeze kinetic energy in place in a relative fashion. At a later time of his choosing he can release this energy, delivering the full impact. The impact of a bullet might be placed relative to someone's head, while the impact of a hammerstrike will most likely be relative to a wall.
• His power is a great defense mechanism as he can freeze the impact of anything likely to harm him. This makes him immune to any kinetic damage, such as punches, bullets or falling from great height.
• Fadlhan is a strategic genius, picking his battles wisely. He usually prepares the battlefield before he engages in combat.

The Curators - Courtesy of PastelPhoenix (More Info)

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Fiendfire - Everett Hands

• 26 year old Caucasian male: blonde hair, tall, handsome features. Very handsome.
• The leader of the group, usually calling the shots and corralling hostages/dealing with other capes.
• Triggered in a house fire he was trapped in.
• Power is "Living Fire": able to turn the entirety of his body into fire, that he controls the spread of. He's able to reform himself from an equal amount of fire he initially fed into the inferno, no worse for wear.
• Able to reform from any fire he started. He appears to be missing a finger since he keeps part of himself in a lantern inside the store, for worst case scenarios. He can come back from "death", but is drained for a long time.
• Big on villain nobility, never intentionally harming civilians or causing too much collateral damage.
• Polite and well spoken out of costume, a hunched over raging beast in costume.
• Costume is a crimson suit with a full head demon mask. This clothing is a manifestation of his fire, and carries between bodies.
• Mover/Changer/Blaster

Blink - Jie Yaling

• 24 year old Asian woman: short, soft features, very thin, long hair.
• Infiltrator and escape artist of the group.
• Triggered by tripping in front of a subway train.
• Power is "Anchored Dimension": Able to pull her and anything she touches into a stable pocket dimension of her creation. This dimension acts as the group's hideout and get away.
• Able to pop in and out of the pocket dimension within 100 yards of the central point she created. She can "anchor" to one of five points of her creation, that the pocket dimension "hovers" over. Living beings inside of the dimension when it moves anchor points are nauseated by the shift.
• Daughter of a famous artist, looking to reclaim her father's art. She acts a bit like a ditsy waitress outside of the costume. A smart mouthed teleport-spamming harasser inside the costume.
• Costume is a technicolor mess of colors and clothing articles. She carries a small pistol for protection.
• Mover

Draw-Distance - Marcus Octavio

• 25 year old Hispanic Male: rough features, thick beard, tall, buzzed hair
• Mission control, helps Fiendfire keep a handle on the situation
• Triggered by the death of his father in a gang shooting
• Power is "Ghost Precognition": Able to see a "ghost" of events a minute before they happen in real time. Helps keep control of the group during the fight. Also warns the group when it's time to bail on a mission, alerting Blink to pick the members up.
• Carries a revolver and shotgun to help round up civilians and minor self defense.
• A chatterbox outside of the costume, and the friendly barista. Mostly silent and serious in costume.
• Costume is a classic "bandito" look, with a bandanna covering most of his facial features.
• Thinker

Sketchbook - Susanna Adela

• 25 year old Caucasian woman: tall, boyish features, slender, brunette
• The "brains" of the group, creates the tools of the group
• Triggered by bullying in high school
• Tinker specializing in drones with various purposes. They're used for sabotaging security systems, setting up security for the group, and cracking safes.
• Most are stored in Blink's pocket dimension until they're needed, and she appears to pull them from thin air due to the speed of Blink's teleports.
• Set up the group's communication system
• Costume is a reinforced jacket and pants, with a welding helmet.
• Tinker

The Gladiators:

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Arena (Marcel Lequin)

• Nineteen year old caucasian male
• Semi-long blonde hair and a slight darker stubble
• Costume is two big gauntlets with blunted ends over a leather jackets and army pants. A whole face covering helmet is worn.
• Power is to create a pocket universe inside a bubble that allows no-one to leave or enter until he Arena himself is beaten, or decides it has been enough. The arena itself is still visible from the regular world as a bubble that distorts the light leaving it. Inside the arena, the outside world is dampened, but the arena itself isn't darkened because of the lack of light sources.
• Shaker
  
  Diamond Daisy (Nancy Trebault)
  • Young caucasian girl with French parents.
  • Shoulder length brown hair with sky-blue eyes
  • Has no costume, relying on her power to hide her identity
  • Can shift into a crystalline form that makes her super strong, incredibly durable and allows her to slowly create growths, such as spikes on her fists, or clubs as her hands. The growths appear slow enough to not be instant, but quick enough to be useful in combat. No upper limit exists as to how big she can get. She's still fully mobile while in this form. None of the growths remain when she returns to her regular form. If she loses too much crystalline matter though, she can't change back without losing anything.
  • Breaker

Fallcliff Solo Villains:

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Thunderrush (Alfredo Mazeripal)

• Thirty-year old hispanic male
• Thick bushy beard and a full head of hair
• Runner's physique
• Costume is a black skintight suit with a lightning bolt across it, and goggles.
• Has the ability to run at extreme speeds for short burst, relaying an electric barrier behind him that stays for multiple seconds. Needs to recharge the electric energy by waiting, and generally can't do more than four or five bursts in quick succession. Each burst covers about fifty meters and happens in the blink of an eye.
• Mover

Other:

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Messenger - Aldon Schwart (Discuss with GMs before using)

• Solo villain
• 23 years old
• Anorexic, almost no hair.
• Extremely scarred body
• Inherent understanding of technology that allows him to create smaller and smaller versions of existing technology
• Interbiological teleportation, teleporting matter from one organism to another, such as organs, pacemakers or small bombs. City-wide range
• Forces innocents to commit crimes by sending orders through a multitude of different channels. Teleports small explosives into people's bodies to force cooperation.
• Travels from city to city, but tries to hide his presence.
• Classified as a stranger too because of M.O.
• Treated as an A-class city-wide threat. Potential S-class threat.
• Tinker - Mover

The Cosmonaut - Yuri Delov (Only to be used in a character's backstory)

• Solo villain. S-class threat
• 52 years old
• Wears a white spacesuit with a helmet that's filled with thick black smoke.
• Triggered during the failed launch of a Russian spacecraft.
• Doesn't respond to any input. Just continues on with whatever he's doing.
• His presence is announced by all electronic devices capable of playing sound starting to play a heavy distorted breathing.
• Flickers in and out of existence. He'll flicker into existence for the blink of an eye a couple of times a day, before it becomes more frequent and his stay becomes longer.
• Has a planet-spanning teleportation ability. Needs multiple days between usage.
• Once he's able to exist at a location for a lengthy period, his power kicks in. An aura around him will start to fill with black smoke that causes organic matter to flicker in and out of existence. The flickering will become less and less frequent until victims don't reappear.
• Fades out of existence for a while on defeat, only to reappear later. Even if it seems like The Cosmonaut has died, he'll return at a later date.
• Doesn't move far from where he appeared, just inspecting his surroundings. No pattern discerned on why he does this.

Snatch Master - Ryan Dube

• Birdcage resident in his early thirties.
• He was a feared S-Class threat in the nineties, despite being only ten years old at the time.
• A psychopath with a god complex, he's lost his grip on reality without the ability to put his power to any good use.
• Has the power to mimic the abilities of any masters in his proximity, allowing him to take over their minions and use them himself so long as those minions are physical entities. He can't control War's minions - he's tried though.
• He triggered during an attack by the Endbringer War.
• Master/Trump and regarded as being among the most powerful of both.

Rogues​

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Note: We've given you a lot of civilian identities but these generally are not common knowledge outside one's own team/organisation

 

[Ice1]

Optional information

Second Trigger Events

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Every powered cape has a trigger event, it's how powers are gained. The source of this power is singular. Even if a cape has multiple powers, like flight and the ability to shoot laserbeams from their eyes, it comes from the same source. Sometimes, however, a power will not fully manifest with the first trigger. Some powers create blockades to keep their owner from using them to their full potential. If this is the case, a second trigger event may occur, removing the blockades. A power may change, or gain extra aspects, or even a whole new ability may develop. These second trigger events are rare, though. People with a second trigger event are as rare to capes as a regular cape is to normal humans. The registered amount of second trigger events is extremely classified, but I can tell you it's below a hundred.

Unwritten Rules A.K.A. The Cape Status Quo

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The arrival of parahumans escalated the way crime was commited and dealt with. More and more force and violence was used, as the confrontations kept escalating. Over the years, a set of unwritten rules have spread around the cape communities that try to prevent violent escalations. These rules aren't common knowledge, only really uttered by people in the cape community, but both sides tend to accept them. Both heroes and villains can expect consequences for overstepping their boundaries, although not in any official capacity. These rules are:

- Respect the secret identities of other capes
- Refrain from using lethal force
- No widespread attacks against civilians
- Meetings can be called in during which no violence will be used
- During S-class threats, leave any personal matters out of the fight. No acting on grudges, furthering personal agendas, or refusing to help another cape.

Official manners of retaliation don't exist, but courts are generally more lenient on villains working within these rules. An arrest will put a cape into a regular facility, instead of immediately sending them to the birdcage. The reason these rules hold up is mainly because of mutually assured destruction. If no-one tries to kill each other, people won't retaliate with murder, and so there won't be a vicious circle of killing. If you keep the secret identity of your enemies out of it, you won't have to worry as much about your own getting revealed.

The Protectorate's internal workings​

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The Protectorate is the official government-sponsored cape organization. Operational throughout the entirety of the United States of America, the organization has a branch in each major public area.

A subset of the Parahuman Response Team, or PRT. In contrast to its parent organization, the Protectorate only allows parahuman members. Founded in parallel with the PRT, the Triumvirate was started in 1988, a couple of years after the appearance of the first parahumans, by a team of three of the strongest parahumans present at that time. Superheroes were completely unregulated at the time, and situations got increasingly out of hand. The three original members were Pilot, Lady Light and Surge. A small organization, at first only operating as a three person team with state funding. As the need for more heroes arose, the Protectorate expanded from a singular team into an organization, with the original members creating the group called the Triumvirate.

Each major urban center has their own protectorate. Big cities, such as Fallcliff, Los Angelos or New York will have their own teams, while less densely populated areas will have a bunch of towns and cities combined under a branch. Each branch is lead by a non-powered member of the PRT, and has a multitude of non-powered workers, doing everything from field work to the customing and PR of the heroes. A cities protectorate itself has a field leader that's part one of the working parahumans. Jobs of power are divided, basically. The PRT director as the highest ranked official in a local branch, making sure the heroes perform their job well and take responsibility. The Protectorate leader works in conjunction with them, working more internally with the Protectorate team itself. They maintain internal order, and are in direct command during field work. Other important people would be the PR manager, who takes care of merchandising the heroes, dressing the heroes, sometimes even naming them. Everything related to PR, basically.

The Protectorate itself is heavily regulated, binding its heroes to a strict code of conduct. There's a ladder of escalation that the heroes have to follow. Important rules are to never use lethal force unless dealing with A-class or S-class threats, and to always prioritize the safety of civilians over catching the enemy. Weaponry and tools provided are all catered towards safety of the public and reduction of property damage.

The Protectorate rarely fights as a coherent team. It mainly functions in small solo-skirmishes against non-powered perpetrators, or on an availability base for larger threats. Members have a patrol schedule that they have to abide to, patrolling a set route, and dealing with any issues that come up. Besides schedules patrol, members have certain times they have to be ready for duty en base. During this time they can have scheduled training sessions, briefings, meetings, to sometimes even masterclasses. Some Protectorate members can sign themselves up for teaching duties to teach the Wards, the Protectorates department for underage heroes.

In bigger cities, such as Fallcliff, the Protectorate is divided up into a multitude of teams. These teams all have their own leader, who report to the Protectorate leader. Not every hero gets assigned a field team. Thinkers and Tinkers are known to regularly work as background capes, heroes that fill support roles, and don't engage in combat itself. Other heroes can be assigned a group of PRT members, people without abilities. This is a common occurrence for heroes with abilities that are useful for field work, but not combat oriented. Healers commonly work with a squad of medics and field doctors instead of other heroes, for example.

A big element of the Protectorate is the PR. The heroes are very public figures while in costume, and the public follows their actions closely. A lot of Protectorate capes have action figures, T-shirts and mugs for sale. School visits and talk show appearances are regular occurrences. Some heroes dread these activities, while others seem to enjoy them.

Being a Protectorate hero pays good money, with applying for extra work adding sums of money. Those in a teach position make more money, same as those who train other heroes, give masterclasses, or do regular talk show appearances. The biggest hike in pay comes with signing up for the high-alert program, which puts a hero on speed-dial in case any A or S level threat appears. Usually these threats are on an opt-in base, but those in the high-alert program are expected to be present with each encounter.

The Ward's internal workings​

Spoiler:

The Wards are the branch of the Protectorate orientated towards minors, too young to join the Protectorate. The Wards let in anyone under the age of 18, subjecting them to a variety of training and schooling, until they graduate into the protectorate. The Wards deal with the same people the Protectorate deal with, concerning regulation and PR. They themselves also have a team-leader, typically someone adept at both the tactical side of superheroism, as well as being popular with the public.

Wards generally have a very busy schedule, going to school besides the Ward-work. The three schools in contract with the PRT enable Wards to slip into and out of classes relatively unnoticed to maintain their secret identities. At the PRT headquarters, the Wards are mandated to follow even more classes, relating to combat training, field-work and parahuman physiology.

Wards, just as the Protectorate, also have patrol duty, generally reserved to the safer parts of town. The wards always have to patrol in duos, be it with each other, or with one of the Protectorate members, on what's called Sidekick duty.

The Wards have living quarters at the PRT base, with their own rooms and beds. These are attached to a general area, which is used by both Protectorate and Wards. Wards generally spend a couple of nights a week at the headquarters, and a couple at home.

In case of disasters or S-class threats, Wards are still allowed to operate, but are never forced to under any circumstance. The opt-in service is still at work, and the dangers are present. It isn't uncommon for a ward to die in the line of duty. Life insurance is a hefty sum when it comes to the underage heroes the PRT employs.

Wards get paid a sizeable amount of spending money, with the real paycheck being put in a fund that becomes accessible when they turn 18.

To maintain the Wards secret identities, graduation doesn't happen the day of turning 18. It can happen anywhere in the following year. The date is generated at random, and then discussed with the Ward at hand. Generally they can choose to graduate to their relative protectorate, or to transfer to another city. Name-updates and costume changes aren't uncommon upon graduation.

Fallcliff: The City Elaborated​

Spoiler:

Even though Fallcliff was settled by English immigrants, the city has a heavy Italian influence. Once the heavy expansion started, Italian immigrants exerted their influences over the city, explaining why many of the districts and boroughs have names stemming from Italian. It was only at the start of the 20th century that other groups started to leave their cultural marks on the city. The city expanded heavily during the 20th century, growing out to the size it is now, housing over four million people.

Fallcliff's originally a city based on agriculture, but took on some industrial undertones during the 20th century. Now, the city has started to develop a blooming cultural sector, housing a lot of independent filmmakers, musicians and artists. The blend of different economic sectors, and the different cultures throughout the city are commonly used as an example of why the American example worked. As a retort, it's generally mentioned that the different cultures are quite divided by the different districts, people with similar cultural backgrounds grouping into the same area. While some parts of the city are extremely diverse, both culturally as in the work they're employed in, other parts of the city are more homogenous.

Fallcliff also suffers from a class divide. Expansive housings has almost all taken up its presence up on the cliff, while lower and middle class housing is generally down the cliff. Even the jobs are spread divided up by the cliff, as if it's an actual embodiment of the divide. Office buildings, law firms and media companies settled on the highgrounds, while factories, post-sorting facilities and other more physical jobs settled lower.

Closeby Fallcliff are mountains, making the area quite hilly, especially up-cliff. For this reason, the farms have settled further south. It is for the same reason that the airport has been placed a good distance away from the city itself, working as a hub that connects a multitude of urban centres. A big district almost entirely focused on tourism and transport arose, called Fallcliff Main Station, to accomade for this. A high-speed bullet train leads immediately into the airport, and people can check-in at the station before even coming near the airport. Members of multiple surrounding protectorates are scheduled for employment at the airport.

The military operation sight is mainly focused on containing the parahuman threat contained in the detention centre. The area is on permanent high-alert, and constantly surrounded by military personnel. The Fallcliff Detention Center is the biggest mixed detention centre, holding both parahumans and regular inmates, and is one of the best secured facilities in America, besides the Birdcage. It's located in Fallcliff, as the city's protectorate is lead by Monitor, who is also the resident tinker for the prison.

 

[gimmepie]

I'm pretty hyped for this so here's my SUs lol. I might have raided GreyBidoof's Titans folders for faceclaims.

Hostage
AKA. Sebastian Medina

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Alignment: Villain

Appearance: Sebastian is a 6'2" tall Hispanic man. He has a thin build but has become solid over years of physical activity, first as an athlete and later through criminal activity. He's been described as handsome or as something of a pretty boy having defined, angular features and dazzling green eyes. When out of costume his straight, mid-length dark hair is usually slicked back. He's always clean shaven.

When out of costume, Sebastian likes to be well dressed. Even in warm weather he'll don a pair of brown or black trousers and a white dress shirt that he will always wear with the top button or two undone. In colder weather he'll don a thick matching coat. Sebastian can usually be seen with a simple gold chain around his neck. Both of his ears a pierced with simple gold studs.

In costume, as Hostage, Sebastian's appearance is much more daunting. He wears a black bodysuit covered in heavy-duty black and grey body armour and a vaguely skull-shaped helmet with dark yellow lenses. As Hostage he carries a pair katana-esque swords that he went to a great deal of pain to learn to use.

Personality: Upon first meeting Sebastian, you'd never guess he was a supervillain. He generally displays a jovial, carefree and sarcastic attitude. He'll make a lot of jokes and snide remarks and tends to be rather flirtatious. He can even be rather arrogant on occasion, aware that he's both witty and quite attractive and willing to use those things to his advantage.

If you got to know him more however, you might learn that there's darker elements to his personality. Sebastian is something of an adrenaline junky and has self-destructive tendencies, not placing much value on his safety or the safety of others. He's something of a nihilist who sees very little good in the world and he has little desire to play by the rules of a society where authority figures can break those rules without repercussions. He does have a caring side, but he tries to keep it buried because attachment is terrifying to him.

Power(s): Hostage was "blessed" with the rather unfortunate power of attracting projectile towards himself. That's why he wears such heavy duty body armour and was forced to learn to fight with melee weapons. He is classified as a Shaker.

History and Trigger Event: Sebastian grew up in a fairly wealthy family in San Antonio, Texas. His father was a prosecutor and earned a fair bit of money whilst his mother worked part time as a Spanish tutor. He and his younger brother lived a life of relative luxury, able to invest time and effort into just about any hobby deemed acceptable by both parents with the only real concession being that they still had to attend church.

In Sebastian's case, he took up athletics. Over the years he became quite skilled in various events, although he was never number one, but more importantly to him he made several friends and grew to be fairly popular. His active social life was encouraged so long as he was able to maintain acceptable levels of success academically and athletically, which he could. Nothing was a worry until he started getting a bit too close to one of his athletics buddies.

As it turned out, his friend was gay. Surprisingly enough, Sebastian worked out he was too. Since the two were already close they ended up getting into a relationship, which the closeted pair kept tight-lipped about. They managed to keep it up for close to a year before Sebastian's strict, conservative father walked in on them and proceeded to beat Sebastian's boyfriend to the point that he would later fall into a coma whilst Sebastian was frozen with terror. Sebastian triggered as the beating went on, attempting to hurl something at his father's head only to have it come hurtling back at him. Nobody even noticed.

Sebastian's father was taken to court but got off with no charge thanks to his many connections and his victim being too comatose to testify. Sebastian fled home and hitchhiked from city to city, surviving through crime and trying desperately to avoid anything flying through the air. He would later come into contact with Jailer who befriended him and helped provide him with the much needed body armour and melee training he required.

The pair later struck out on their own some time later, moving to Fallcliff.​

Jailer
AKA. Anita Blaine

Age: 20
Sex: Female
Alignment: Villain

Appearance: Anita is fairly tall for a woman, standing at about 5'9" or 5'10" and has dark, tanned skin as a result of a mix of Arabian, Mediterranean, African and Caucasian heritage. She's got at least a little of almost everything. Her build is slender and toned and her facial features are square-ish in shape. Her hair is shoulder length, black and straight and her eyes are a vivid blue which stands in stark contrast to her skintone.

Out of costume, Anita prefers to wears simple casual clothes. In warmer weather she'll usually be seen in dark-colored ¾ length pants or longer shorts and a simple earthy-colored t-shirt. In winter she's liable to go for cargos and a thick jacket or parker in a similar colour scheme. She almost never dresses to accentuate her figure and is almost never seen wearing jewelry.

Unlike her streetwear, Anita's cape costume is quite feminine. As Jailer she wears a primarily black armoured bodysuit with pink accents on her legs and along the sides of her chest. A short green triangle section points down from her neck, matching the green utility belt around her waist. Attached to her costume is a cape that splits into four distinct, rounded sections. She conceal her identity with a matching pink helmet dominated by a strong, red visor.

Personality: Anita is a calm and relaxed person who is hard to phase and finds the antics of those less composed than herself highly amusing. She acts friendly towards most people and is extremely loyal, looking out for those close to her. Despite these warm traits however she can be cold and fierce when angry and his happy to admonish the folly of others. This dichotomy has even lead to her being called motherly on occasion.

To most, she wouldn't seem like the type to be active in villainy. She certainly has little desire to hurt people. Over the years however she's come to believe that there's no hope for her to live a non-criminal life as villainy is all she knows and she doesn't trust the system to work for her. She feels the only difference between a hero and a villain is that heroes have government permission to ruin lives and receive a paycheck.


Power(s): Anita has the ability to create near invisible force fields around other people and objects. They aren't unbreakable, but are extremely durable. She can manipulate the size and shape of her force fields and move them around but she cannot place one around herself. Her force fields must be a complete 3D shape. Anita is considered primarily a Shaker but her power also has Mover and Blaster applications.

History and Trigger Event: Anita didn't turn to crime like Sebastian, she was born into it. The child of a prostitute that "belonged" to her crime lord father, a low-level thinker. She grew up surrounded by the illicit and originally she longed to escape it. For the most part she was safe despite her father's occupation, but safety isn't permanent.

As she got older, her father's criminal enterprises expanded more and more, eventually attracting greater heat from police and, as more capes fell under her father's employ, the protectorate. At the age of ten, her father decided to take her and her mother with him to be a part of a mysterious "deal". She was thrilled because she rarely got to see her mother. Unfortunately for her however, the deal turned out to be a local but high-ranking hero buying both her and her mother from her father in exchange for him looking the other way to her father's criminal activity. Another hero arrived on the scene and in the ensuing chaos the new arrival, several of her father's men and her mother ended up dead. She triggered, instinctively shielding her father from harm for reasons she still cannot really fathom. The corrupt hero fled the scene as he felt he'd attracted too much attention.

Anita spent the next several years of her life under her father's employ, her power being used to his advantage in exchange for her having access to greater comforts. It was during this time that she met Hostage, recruiting him to her father's employ to get him off the street. The pair worked together for the crime lord who provided them with training and equipment and an uneasy peace settled over their daily lived… as peaceful as being a supervillain gets anyway.

This too didn't last however as Hostage's ability inadvertently caused the pair to botch a job. As a result Anita's father decided Sebastian was a liability and ordered her to kill him. Unwilling to off her closest friend, she elected to flee with him, the pair eventually setting themselves up in Fallcliff.​

 

[Foxrally]

you guys are my wet dream of GMing but my wet nightmare of css

I'll be reading the OP tomorrow morning. Be prepared for questions!

 

[Ice1]

Calvin Nanyemba A.K.A. Animator​

26 / Male/ Hero ​

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Appearance: If you're looking for a superhero physique, you've found it with Calvin. Tall, muscular and a jawline that would not cut steel but probably would cut butter. Calvin is of Namibian descent, his ethnicity being the only visible remnant of it. His extremely curly hair is kept short, being longer on top as it fades down the sides.

Calvin usually dresses in a plaid shirt and a nice pair of pants, if he's going through his regular life. For more formal events, he might wear a suit beige suit. Clothing isn't something Calving pays much attention to. The variety in dress is low, to the point where he doesn't even own enough clothing to wear something different for each day of the week.

Calvin's uniform is utilitarian, being a thick layer of kevlar that's sprayed white with light blue accents on the edges. His face is covered by a white mask that covers his eyes and most of his nose. Over his eyes two small glowing crescents are placed, to make it seem as if he's always smiling.

Personality: Calvin's defining characteristic is doubt. He's conflicted about a lot of stuff, and even after endless nights of deliberation, he has yet to make up his mind about most of it.

The only thing he knows for sure is that he wants to help people. As much as people have let him down, he continues to see people acting outside of their best interest to help others. He looks up to these people, and aspires to be like them. It's in him to everything he can to help, and be as selfless as possible. Most of that was instilled in him by his parents, but the belief is only strengthened by his own experiences.

What Calvin isn't yet sure about his how he fits in the hierarchy at the Protectorate. He enjoys the tools they provide him, and the legitimacy the organization offers, but he feels like their rules and regulations limit his ability to help. He doesn't have a single blemish on his record, and knows the rules by heart. Questioning them is something he does regularly, though. At the moment, Calving is convinced that operating within the Protectorate is the best thing he can do, as he doubts people would still see him as a hero once he starts acting outside the law.

While he was born and raised in America, his parents were immigrants from a ruined state. Calvin struggles with his cultural identity, as he feels he isn't American enough to fit in with society, but he's very unfamiliar with his Namibian roots. His parents raised him with in English, but he remembers them arguing in Oshiwambo when they think he wasn't around. The words, even without any meaning to attach to them, linger in his mind as a reminder of him being out of place. Even at school, Calvin felt out of place, never allowed to really fit in. He had grown up in a very white neighborhood in a small town in Kansas, and while people were accepting, he couldn't help but feel like he was standing out. The way Calvin sees it, he's nothing, culturally. He's not American, just an immigrant, but he's neither Namibian, as the country is completely estranged from him.

Even sexuality is something Calvin struggles with, having found a preference for either gender of partner, being equally attracted and disgusted by either option.

In the field, Calvin's doubt can still take the better of him, making him struggle to do the right thing. If multiple options present themselves, he has a hard time to figure out which one is the right one.

Calvin doesn't try to show his doubt, though, generally coming over as a steady and collected character. He tries to keep his personal opinions out of his work as Animator, and is sure to not let it interfere in his work relationships.

It isn't rare that people come for advice about their personal life to Calvin. As his conviction is to help people, it transfers to their personal matters. He tries to always help someone out of their personal peril, even though he might struggle with similar problems. He's very much better at giving advice than taking it.

Power(s): Calvin is a cape who's abilities make allow him to have a multitude of different classifications. The official PRT files call him a Master primarily, with a big Breaker component, and smaller aspects of the Mover and Trump classifications.

His abilities make him reshape inorganic matter, and animate it, allowing it to move independently. There's a limited amount of matter that can be put into one beast, as he calls them. These beasts will reshape themselves to vaguely resembles animals, and if left to their own devices, will even take on behavioral aspects of them.

Calvin has a strong control over his beasts, although they have some quirks that he instills into them unconsciously that he's unable to control. These quirks tend to be based on his mindset and personal feelings at the moment of animation.

The beasts are mainly used for attacking, but allow for some variety in use. Calvin generally rides his beasts for transport, and can use them to clean up disaster areas.

The material of the construct dictates its properties. A steel construct will be stronger than a cloth one, for example, but a cloth one will be much softer. They don't gain any new properties despite the ability to move. For any extra-ordinary abilities, they must be instilled into the material already.

There's a limit as to how many beasts Calvin can control. To be able to keep them all energized and active, he can't have more than three. If he goes beyond that, both his ability to keep them active and to control them will diminish.

History and Trigger Event: Calvin was born in America, in a small town in Kansas, only moving to Fallcliff when he was twenty years old. His parents hail from Namibia (Although it was still part of South Africa at that time), and are refugees from an area destroyed in an attack by the Endbringer Pestilence. Both doing relatively well, especially for black workers growing up during the apartheid. They were extremely grateful for their treatment and wealth in their home country, and took that humility with them to the states. They still live in Kansas, and are active parts of local politics, and lead a charity which aims to help black families in Namibia.

Calvin triggered when he was 19, as a car accident seemed inevitable. A drunk driver overtook Calvin in the middle of the night, and graced the nose of his car, making him lose control of his vehicle. The speed at which he was driving, the darkness and his inexperience with motor vehicles made it an adrenaline-filled event he was not going to forget. He triggered moments before he recovered his car and avoided any actual damage to either himself or the other driver. To this day, he sees it as a wonder, and maybe even divine intervention, that nobody even got hurt in the event. The car is still with his parents, the dents and scratches in the paint never repaired. His father bitterly jokes about donating it to a museum once Calvin inevitably dies on duty.

Only a week after figuring out his abilities, Calvin went to the local protectorate to sign up. Accepted quickly, and integrated in the system, he almost gave up on the cape-life as a group of white supremacist supervillains started to base themselves in his town. Often the target of their attacks and slander, Calvin broke under the pressure, and requested relocation to Fallcliff.

For almost two years now, Calvin has been living in Fallcliff, serving in their protectorate, which houses three times the amount of capes his Kansas branch did. Calvin's cover is his day job in the financial district for a company called Orange & Klaassen Law, a company who's main goal is to supply capes with a jobs to support their civilian identity, besides offering judicial help to Protectorate capes, and potential new allies.

Calvin works long hours, as he's one of the more popular heroes to send out for school visits, recruitment, and tv-interviews. He's part of a smaller group within the protectorate called the PR capes, which are suited well for keeping the masses invested. These capes are mainly heroes with abilities that aren't just useful in combat, but also have some entertainment value.

Calvin currently lives in an old house that probably doesn't abide to the safety regulations anymore in the historical heart of the city. Recently he's been spending most of his time over at his current girlfriend's house, a camera-operator at a local morning show.

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[Winter]

did you fucking think I would not join I've been reading Worm before you were born!

EDIT: "4. Telepathy isn't really a thing in the Wormverse and we're not allowing mind/body control." Regent is sadface

EDIT2: I saw no mention of the Manton effect which I think is pretty important when people are drafting up SUs o:

 

[moon]

i need dis
i will soon make something for this
but i cant for a few days i think, i hope that's ok
/semi Leave of Absence

 

[gimmepie]

did you fucking think I would not join I've been reading Worm before you were born!

EDIT: "4. Telepathy isn't really a thing in the Wormverse and we're not allowing mind/body control." Regent is sadface

EDIT2: I saw no mention of the Manton effect which I think is pretty important when people are drafting up SUs o:

We generally covered that abilities will usually either affect only the biological or only the inorganic but will almost never effect both. The Manton-effect is definitely in play and we'll vet abilities accordingly if we need to but we didn't want to get into the real specifics of it.

I specified mind control and body control are different things, no complaining. :P

 

[Winter]

Name: Lyra Menura
Cape Alias: Songbird
Age: 19
Sex: Assigned Male At Birth. Post-operative female.

Alignment (Hero/Villain/Rogue): Rogue

Appearance:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Out of her costume, Lyra has a diverse wardrobe of looks. Since she shaved bald, she can wear any wig she wants to bring out the inner woman in her. Her dressing is very convincing and real, for her main priority is seamlessly blending into society without having to out her gender identity and invite possibility for persecution and discrimination. Her dresses are more modest, with modern minimalism and whatever is perfect for Fallcliff's current clime.

Her costume is designed after a bird, huge surprise there, I know. And she dons a feathered mask with a beak to complete the full illusion. The wings are there for fashion and they don't actually confer her the ability of flight. Sorry, she ain't a Tinker.

Personality:
Lyra has always felt displaced and dissociated. In society, within her physical body, she finds identity in her lack of one. She wears masks to confront reality, taking on different personas in different situations. Fluid, her personality is. A wildcard when it comes to issues such as morality. Sometimes she thinks for only herself, sometimes she acts selflessly and is empathetic. Many a times has she behaved and acted entirely contradictory to how she truly feels and thinks. As Songbird, her chaotic neutrality makes her a threat to both heroes and villains. But even Songbird is just an idea and a facet of her real personality–if she even has one.

Lyra suffers from social anxiety and is extremely self-conscious which leads her to seem vain to others. She isn't fond of disclosing her private life, neither does she have many friends that are close enough for her to feel secure and comfortable in opening up. Over the years of growing and learning from the school of hard knocks, Lyra has learned to channel her inner struggles into creative energies. Music found her and became the outlet for her mind and self; it was the piano who told her she had a soul. One could say that no one knows her like the piano does.

Outside cape activities, Lyra is a singer (though not very well known given that she only mixes around in the underground indie scene) and a voice actress and a regular performer in the LGBTQ+ club circuit.

Power(s):
Any sound Songbird has heard, she can reproduce vocally with the same accuracy and realism. An old man's voice, the telephone ringing, a machine gun firing, coins dropping against a metal surface, nails driving across a chalkboard. Anything. If she can hear it, she can "sing" it. She's classified as a Stranger.

History and Trigger Event:
Due to being an extremely effeminate boy, Lyra has always been the target of bullying in school. When she was thirteen, her first voice cracks came at the most unfortunate timing when she was called upon to recite a Twelfth Night passage in English class. Everyone in class broke out in laughter from hearing the sissy lady-boy voice morph into a deep manly one for a second. Utterly humiliated and on the verge of having an anxiety attack, Lyra triggered and her voice suddenly took on a very mature ladylike voice. She kept on going, determined to get through the passage from her favourite Shakespearean play, weaving such a storyteller's voice that left everyone in the room stunned and speechless.

As Songbird, Lyra is one of the lesser known capers, due to her rendering her services to the seedy criminal underworld. Some of the "jobs" she has involved herself with villains were to distract heroes by sounding like a damsel in distress, pretending to be the kidnapped child of a wealthy CEO, as well as giving a really salacious and raunchy performance with her larynx to get a gang of really pent-up villains off. However, she has also offered her services to local heroes, although they're mostly her sounding like a Mother Goose to assist in peaceful evacuation of civilians (it gets really boring after the tenth job). Songbird prefers to stay out of the larger caper organizations, keeping a low profile and fly (pun intended) under the radar. Unfortunately, things don't always go the way we all want, don't they?​

 

[Judge Mandolore Shepard]

This looks like a very interesting RP to join. Since I have an have an interest in superheroes, I might come up with a hero or villain. Course I am not very familiar with Worm at all.

 

[Ice1]

-Songbird-

Winter's Songbird has been accepted

This looks like a very interesting RP to join. Since I have an have an interest in superheroes, I might come up with a hero or villain. Course I am not very familiar with Worm at all.

No knowledge about Worm required! We don't wanna scare people off with requiring them to read a 1.7 million word story :p

 

[Judge Mandolore Shepard]

Here is my sign up:

Name: Isaac Icicle

Cape Alias: Professor Avalanche

Age: 30

Sex: Male

Alignment (Hero/Villian/Rogue): Rogue

Appearance: Isaac's skin tone is a mix of Italian and English heritage. The most notable feature where his Italian side shows is in his hair. He stands at a height of 6'4" and weighs around 160 pounds.

When Isaac is in his civilian form, he wears plain blue shirts and dark blue pants. For formal occasions, he wears navy blue suits. When it comes to the summer months, he never wears shorts.

When Isaac is in his Professor Avalanche identity, he wears a light blue and white outfit with the symbol of an avalanche on the chest. Course the white part is a little bit darkened.

Personality: One thing that people tend to notice about his personality is that he is very serious when it comes to his work. Outside of his work, he has been known to be cold and calculating. Course when it comes to women, he can be quite witty and flirty at the same time. Even though he has done ice sculptures for the wedding receptions of people that are into same sex marriages, Isaac has never had any romantic interest in men.

Even before the event that had caused Isaac to get his powers, he was quite fond of skiing. When it comes to humor, he really does not have much of a sense of humor. After he had gained his powers, Isaac had become extremely pyrophobic. Seeing as he was born in Italy, Isaac is quite a fan of work done during the Renaissance.

When it comes to when people order ice sculptures from him, he gives them a guarantee that he will give a fine quality of work for a fair price. When he has completed a piece of work, he hopes that he does not have to redo it again since it might cause him to get stressed out. Course he does not like it when people insult or destroy his sculptures. As a sculptor, Isaac considers his works to being the closest to ever having children of his own. When it comes to his religious views, he happens to be a devout Roman Catholic.

Power(s): Isaac has the power to shape and control ice without using tools at times.

History and Trigger Event: Isaac was born in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy Region, Italy, to an English father and an Italian mother. During his years at school, it was noticed that he was quite skilled at making sculptures out of ice. When he graduated from college, he decided to become a professional ice sculptor. He has a degree in sculpture

One day when he was taking a skiing trip in the Valchiavennian Region of the Alps, he was caught in a fierce avalanche. When he later woke up in a hospital, the doctors told him that he was lucky to be alive after what had happened to him. After he left the hospital, someone threw a block of ice at him. As he threw up his hands to protect himself, the block of ice started to change its shape. He then realized that he was causing it to change shape without actually touching it.

After that incident, that he decided that it was time to use his powers for continuing making ice sculptures. He later decided to start calling himself Professor Avalanche, seeing as it was an avalanche that had caused him to get his powers in the first place. Course he knew he had to leave Italy so that he would not be noticed by the Mafia.

When he arrived in Fallcliff two years ago, he set up an ice sculptor's business to provide ice sculptures for formal occasions. Both the heroes and villains have called on his services before.

 

[Oddball_]

Oh god... Alright alright, PMD was essentially dead anyway... Guess I can make another superhero... and this setting lets me be weird as shit so hell, thats a bonus.

EDIT: Complete (I think)

Edan Edgeworth AKA Brimstone
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Name: Edan Edgeworth
Cape Alias: Brimstone
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Alignment: Villain
Appearance:
Ordinarily, Edan is a cute looking young man somehow managing to acquire both the perfect bone structure and body shape of his father, and the soft features of his mother.
His fiery red hair was also a gift from his mother, a genetic tendency in her side of the family.
His yellow-brown eyes were a gift from his father, a trait that is rumored to be given to those who will do something great with their lives.
His attire leaves much to be desired, Even before the incident he was never far from his navy blue trench coat which he had received from his father, and now he has an odd fondness very the soot stained clothes he had worn that night. Other articles of interest are his riding gear that he wears when on his motorcycle.

Super-Outfit:
Taking inspiration from many tribal outfits, the outfit of "Brimstone" consists of many layers of cloth on-top of each other with blackened wooden plates guarding certain aspects of his form. Beneath a hood is a clay mask that has been expertly painted to look like a cracked and ashen volcanic landscape.

Personality:
Edan is a criminal and he knows it. He mainly does it to support his habits, and unlike many of his fellow members of the Tungsten Brotherhood however, his habits aren't whores and drugs as much as they are… computer games and comic books. So why then, you ask would he devote his life to crime? Simply because that was what he was good at. He could never find it in himself to care beyond that.
Edan is intelligent. Not super intelligent, but he was always able to maintain a B grade without much issue in class, and even in the single year of college he took before he triggered. He was simply never the kind of guy who had goals beyond the here and now, and in the here and now you want what works the best the fastest. And for him, that was working for the Brotherhood.
He does have certain things he cares about however. He has a strong sense of family. Nobody messes with his family. If they did, they would find themselves at the bottom of a river with cinderblocks tied to their feet if they weren't extremely careful. This is especially true for his younger brother Damian. Even before his parents psuedo-death, Edan and Damian were close. But afterwards they became nigh inseparable for many months. Edan still checks in on Damian at least once everyday to ensure that his "Little Bro" is still okay.


Power(s): Ability to produce an almost infinite amount of thick black smoke from his lungs. He can breathe through this smoke with no problem, however he still can't see through the dark cloud which he produces. In addition, he has the ability to almost instantly turn any wood related product he touches to ash, the effect spreading rapidly like a wild fire. An entire tree could be reduced to dust in less than a minute.

History and Trigger Event:
Edan lived a decent life with his multicultural parents and his "baby" brother Edan. They moved to Fallcliff from Nottingham when Edan was four, shortly after his brothers first birthday. Now their family wasn't perfect. The Edgewood boys' father was a man who spent more time working than with his children, leaving their emotionally unstable mother to deal with the less than well-mannered children alone, without even her family to aide her as she had left her old life behind when she left Kyoto with a dashing younger version of the boy's father Samwell Edgeworth. However this unstable foundation naturally led to Edan (and later Damian as well) falling into the hands of one of Fallcliffs less than reputable groups of individuals… The Tungsten Brotherhood. This "family" served to patch the hole in Edan's life. They helped him and in return, he did odd jobs for them. He didn't care if those jobs weren't exactly morally correct, he was a morally grey person. This was all well and good until about a year ago. Edan was on break from college and it just so happened that one of the brotherhoods rival gangs, Los Diablos, happened to set their house ablaze. Trapped inside the fiery inferno Edan rushed to find his younger brother, and when he did he carried the younger boy out of the house. Shortly thereafter the fire was quelled thanks to the aide of Fallcliffs fire fighters, however not before leaving both Samwell and Eiko both comatose and hospitalized, and triggering both of the boys as they would soon find out. The boys took a few months to recover, their contacts in the Brotherhood putting them up in a place until they were back on their feet and semi functional again. Even once they recovered, both boys remained together without question both in an attempt to hold onto what they once had and to understand the new powers that that had been thrust into their lives.

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[gimmepie]

Snip

I like the character concept, I'd prefer to have some more detail in appearance and personality before accepting you though.

 

[PastelPhoenix]

FINISHED!

Maryam Shirazi || Bombshell

Female // 16 // Ward

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Appearance

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Maryam is a teenage Persian girl with soft facial features. She's on the short side, and is quite a beauty (as her cape name implies). She dyes her hair blonde, and tends to wear it up over loose. She dresses tomboyish outside of her costume, preferring baseball caps, baggy shirts, and jeans.

Her costume consists of a large winter coat, reinforced a little to withstand impact, and baggy pants. She carries several bandoliers of her grenade inventions, organized in a way only she knows which one she is using. Her mask is an old full head gas mask, muffling her voice significantly but still obviously feminine. Her grenade launcher is of her own design, and emphasizes simplicity over the elaborate designs of other tinker tools.
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Personality

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Maryam is the more practical of the siblings, but not a full blown pessimist. She's often the one to point out flaws in plans, although she detests leadership positions. She has a little bit of a hot blooded side to her, favoring action over inaction. She rarely builds stuff for other people (her brother the only running exception), feeling it bringer her closer to being a design tinker who never does any field work.

Like her brother, she tends to crack some jokes during battle. However, hers tend to be more sarcastic and less awful puns.

Outside of work, she has a passing interest in capes, but not nearly at the level of her brother. Her main interests tend to be scoping out new resturants, cute animals, and playing games. Some would call her a little stuck up from time to time, probably the result of being slightly pampered by Reza. She does have good intentions under the complaints, however, and is a reliable friend.
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Power

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Limit Tinker

Bombshell specializes in condensing technology into grenade sized projectiles, which can be thrown or launched. She built her grenade launcher herself, as well as did the reinforcement of her and Reza's armor herself. Her primary use for the grenades are to restrain suspects. Her most direct methods of restraint involve Containment Foam, electrified wires, reinforced nets, and occasionally bolos. She also packs one or two normal explosive and smoke/gas rounds, but finds them uncreative.

Some of her more unique technology involves grenades that release loud screeches, unfold to dummy targets. or unfold into portable cover.

It seems she also gained some form of enhanced aim. While not infallible, she is more accurate than the average person with lobbed projectiles. She appears able to account for factors such as gravity almost instantly, without the need for calculation.
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History and Trigger Event

Maryam is a true blooded american girl, both in culture and birth. She's lived in Fallcliff since her birth, and feel no connection to her parents country. Growing up, she was inseparable from her brother, a small girl completely different from everyone else. Although her early years in school were rough, she eventually found her place in middle school (puberty most likely helping with that), and was one of the more popular girls.

Although she slowly began drifting to her new friends, she never fully abandoned her brother. The days of pouring over capes every night faded away, but they still spent a fair amount of time together. Her growing comfort with American culture and abandonment of her parent's Iranian lifestyle began to cause conflict, finding discomfort with her manner of dress and dying her hair. Reza sticking up for her during these arguments is one of the big reasons the two remain close.

She triggered the same day Reza did, the accumulation of her failing relationship with her parents and her brother's incredibly stupid, but still selfless actions. After she found herself safe, she began to realize how much explosive devices just made sense. She created her initial prototypes in an abandoned house while her brother practiced his gravity control. Once they had a firm grasp on their powers, they revealed their secret to their parents and fought to join the Wards.

Now she lives completely away from her parents with the Wards. She eagerly awaits the day she can graduate and become a full fledged hero.
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FINISHED!

Reza Shirazi || Freefall

Male // 18 // Hero

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Appearance

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Reza is a Persian man with strong features and a slim, but athletic, build and a little on the shorter side. He has thick, black hair that is often unruly from his habits of wearing hats, as well as his costume's helmet. He has a short, well manicured beard that causes him to look older than he actually is. Outside of PRT duty he mostly sticks to wearing casual streetwear: hoodies, knit caps, jeans, sweat pants.

His Freefall costume, however, is the focus of his design efforts. The bulk of it is lightweight material, so as to not slow down his own gravity with excess mass. Metal plating covers a few sensitive areas and his limbs in case of impact. His combat vest was a find at a surplus military store, that he later upgraded with the help of a tinker ally to make bullet and projectile resistant. The pouch contains several capture grenades of his sister's design to assist with apprehension. His last piece of gear is a large cricket bat, just in case.
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Personality

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Personality: Reza is a lighthearted optimist of a man. He's been a fan of capes ever since he was young, and has always dreamed of becoming one. He takes his duties as a cape seriously, and is a big proponent of the unsaid bond between heroes and villains. He detests villains who target civilians as well as heroes who push the PRT limits. He likes to crack awful jokes in combat and while on patrol, as well as ham it up for the crowds. He's one of the few heroes who actually loves PR work, seeing as a chance to reach out the the public. He also works with the Wards extensively, being a graduate from the program himself. He likes to bring along sidekicks when possible, especially his sister, whom he has a bit of an overbearing relationship with.

Outside of hero duties, most would see Reza as a chronically tired college student (part-time, at his parent's insistence). He enjoys music, although he himself cannot play an instrument or sing a tune to save his life. His interest in capes has also not died down, and he sometimes joins fan meetings outside of costume.

His relationship with his parents is a little strained, disapproving and a little fearful of capes after having to flee Iran, but they turn a blind eye to their children's work so long as they stay on the hero side.

Although he wants the squeaky clean hero life, he secretly desires a worthy, and beautiful rival with a strained on-again-off-again relationship. Just like many of his old comic heroes.
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Power

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Shaker 7, Mover 2

Freefall can manipulate the way gravity works on an object or area. He can change the direction and magnitude of gravity's effects, but cannot outright cancel it. The most basic use of this power is affecting the gravity of a specific object to cause it to fly in some other direction. By adjusting the magnitude of gravity on the object, he can cause the object to "fall" faster or slower. Lowering the magnitude to almost nothing allows an object to very slowly fall, almost to where it is floating.

This effect can be spread to an area, creating a "Gravity Bubble" where all the object that enter the bubble are equally effected by the same manipulation. Larger bubbles are much harder to create than smaller ones, and tend to not have as strong of an effect. Small, intense bubbles are his preferred method of area manipulation, sometimes as small as a human foot for throwing his foes off balance.

Freefall is also able to affect his own personal gravity, making himself both lighter and more mobile, all the way to pseudo-flight by adjusting his own gravitational pull's direction.

The main limit of his powers is how much mass it can affect. Trying to manipulate too much mass leads to "Blowback" effects, where he is prone to headaches, loss of senses, and other negative affects. The largest he has been able to move are in the range of an empty semi truck, suffering some medium blowback in the form of a migraine and blurred vision during the act. Serious blowbacks can lead to periods (usually several minutes) of blindness and deafness as his "brain resets" (in his own words). If too much mass enters a Gravity Bubble, the blowback isn't immediate; he has a few moments to pop the bubble before it fully impacts him.
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History and Trigger Event

Reza's parents are immigrants to Fallcliff from Iran following the takeover of Tehran by the Villain group Babylon. Reza himself was two during the events, and his mother was already pregnant with his sister, Maryam, at the time. The Shirazi home was lost during the takeover, and at least one of Reza's uncles fell victim to Wretch and ended up a thrall.

Being young, Reza quickly adapted to American culture, where his parents struggled to adapt. As he grew up, both him and Maryam formed a close bond with one another, being the only Persian children in school, a bond the two keep to this day. Childhood hobbies came and went, but the only one that stuck for an extended amount of time was his interest in capes, much to his father's disappointment. He followed cape news closely, and most of his pocket money went to cape magazines, action figures, and other cape media.

As he grew up, he began to abandon the idea of being a parahuman, knowing his life was just too boring for a trigger event. That is, until him and Maryam were hanging out on the roof of their apartment complex and a rogue bomb from a cape fight exploded near them. The bomb was strong enough to crumble part of the roof, and Maryam lost her balance; plunging to the street below. Without even thinking he jumped after her, and as he wrapped his arms around her and came to his senses, he realized he was "floating" in mid air.

After many secret experiments and arguments with his parents, Reza and Maryam eventually got the grasp of their new powers and convince their parents enough to join the wards at the ages of 16 and 14. Freefall and Bombshell achieved minor popularity as a side kick duo, keeping their relatedness a secret for security reasons, but still wishing to work together. After two years, his high school graduation, and having been 18 for two months, Freefall finally graduated the Wards into the full Protectorate, where he has worked for two months. He currently lives alone and attends college part time as per the deal he made with his parents two years ago.

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[Ice1]

Here is my sign up:

Name: Isaac Icicle

Cape Alias: Professor Avalanche

Age: 30

Sex: Male

Alignment (Hero/Villian/Rogue): Rogue

Appearance: First off, whenever Isaac is in his costume or not, he always has a special refrigeration device plugged into his chest to keep his body temperature at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. He stands at a height of 6'4" and weighs around 160 pounds.

When Isaac is in his civilian form, he wears plain long shirts and dark blue pants.

When Isaac is in his Professor Avalanche identity, he wears a light blue and white outfit with the symbol of an avalanche on the chest. Course the white part is a little bit darkened.

Personality: Even though he is a parahuman, Isaac prefers to be called a "metahuman." One thing that people tend to notice about his personality is that he is very serious when it comes to his work. Outside of his work, he has been known to be cold and calculating. Course when it comes to women, he can be quite witty and flirty at the same time.

Power(s): Isaac has the power to shape and control ice without using tools at times.

History and Trigger Event: Isaac was born in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy Region, Italy. During his years at school, it was noticed that he was quite skilled at making sculptures out of ice. When he graduated from college, he decided to become a professional ice sculptor.

One day when he was taking a skiing trip in the Valchiavennian Region of the Alps, he was caught in a fierce avalanche. When he later woke up in a hospital, it was discovered that his body could no longer comfortably stand temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit. After he left the hospital, someone threw a block of ice at him. As he threw up his hands to protect himself, the block of ice started to change its shape. He then realized that he was causing it to change shape without actually touching it.

After that incident, that he decided that it was time to use his powers for continuing making ice sculptures. He later decided to start calling himself Professor Avalanche, seeing as it was an avalanche that had caused him to get his powers in the first place. Course he knew he had to leave Italy so that he would not be noticed by the Mafia.

When he arrived in Fallcliff two years ago, he set up an ice sculpture's business to provide ice sculptures for formal occasions. Both the heroes and villains have called on his services before.

First off, I like the character concept! It's fun and has that campy charm that a lot of batman villains are famous for. I'm not sure how certain elements would translate to the current setting. Campiness is really fun, and I personally love it, but with how the this setting functions, a campy personality is fine, a campy character creates some small tonal differences.

The character's name being Icicle while he has ice powers is very on the nose, especially because Icicle isn't a common last name. It also makes me curious to his heritage, as Icicle is an English word, but the character is Italian.

The second thing that catches my eye might be on us the GMs for not really elaborating very well, but while powers can change some stuff about their host as it were, they generally aren't abilities that would kill them. So the chestfridge doesn't really blend incredibly well with the setting.

The last thing, and the one I personally would really prefer if you took out, is his preference for being called metahuman. Unless he has some good justification for prefering the term, 'parahuman', or 'cape' is what's the norm in this setting.

Also, if you have any questions about something we were unclear on in the OP, feel free to ask! gimmepie and I are happy to answer any questions!

 

[Desert Stream~]

Name: Lilith Griffin

Cape Alias: Cactus (because she doesn't like to get too close to people)

Age: 22

Sex: Female

Alignment (Hero/Villain/Rogue): Hero, Vigilante

Appearance: Both in and out of costume.
Outside of her costume, she is about 5' 2'', and weighs around 110 pounds. She has naturally light brown hair, but likes to dye it a wide range of colors. She doesn't really bother to style it more then that, letting it flow freely. Her face is mostly free of marks or blemishes, except for a subtle scar on her cheek. She is from the United Kingdom, and has light skin. Her eyes are blue, although she sometimes changes the colors using contacts.

As for clothing, she prefers to remain casual, wearing basic attire, and sometimes a skirt. When she needs to be fancier however, she will be, as she has fancy dresses.

Her suit is more complex, with many attachments that perform various operations, most notably, the wing attachments, which let her fly for a very short period of time. The suit itself is built for mobility and defense, but mostly mobility, as her power allows her to avoid fights most of the time. Attached to her armguards (and also other parts of the suit, which is why she chose the name cactus) are retractable blades, that not only function as weapons, but block a lot of damage from the side. The suit is mostly black, so in case her power fails, she can still blend in a bit. The suit also muffles almost all sounds that she makes.

Personality: She doesn't affiliate with any of the major groups, however she often runs into members trying to recruit her. She wants the world to be a better place, but feels that the Protectorate sets too many regulations, and she prefers to have more freedom. She is very secretive, and will hardly show her true self to anyone, preferring to remain unpredictable. This also means she really isn't interested in a relationship, or even making friends, although there are a select few people she would be friends with.

Power(s): Invisibility (So a stranger), and flying because of her suit. Her invisibility can be turned on and off, and can last as long as she is in full control of her body. If she falls asleep (or even just gets tired), gets under the influence of some substance, or even just flinches, it will turn off.

History and Trigger Event: When she was a bit younger, around 17, her parents wanted her to join the PRT, but she really had no interest, and eventually, their constant demands just got to be annoying. One day, her father told her that if she didn't join, they would take everything in her room away, and force her to sleep in the basement, with no luxuries. She got so annoyed, she decided to pack up her belongings, and run away. She was very worried that the police would catch her, and send her home, but she noticed that nobody around her noticed her at all. She was completely invisible. Soon, she became of legal age, and bought a small room with the money she earned from her job as an electronics repairer. At her job, she met another parahuman who happened to be a tinker. They became friends after a while, and he built her the suit she wears to this day, however, he was killed when a car crashed through the window of his shop. After the terrifying event, she went into seclusion, never revealing her true self to anyone else, and using the suit, as well as her own powers to help her. She began to notice members of other groups, both the Protectorate and villanous groups, trying to get her to join their sides, the although she never really wanted to interact with anyone in the groups.

Her flight gear, made by the tinker, is slowly breaking down, and requires constant repairs. She is searching for a way to keep it intact, although it isn't easy since she doesn't like interacting with people.

She doesn't interact with her parents at all anymore, and hasn't seen them since she ran away.

Spoiler:

 

[gimmepie]

Name: Lilith Griffin

Cape Alias: Cactus (because she doesn't like to get too close to people)

Age: 22

Sex: Female

Alignment (Hero/Villain/Rogue): Rogue

Appearance: Both in and out of costume.
Outside of her costume, she is about 5' 2'', and weighs around 110 pounds. She has naturally light brown hair, but likes to dye it a wide range of colors. She doesn't really bother to style it more then that, letting it flow freely. Her face is mostly free of marks or blemishes, except for a subtle scar on her cheek. She is from the United Kingdom, and has light skin. Her eyes are blue, although she sometimes changes the colors using contacts.

As for clothing, she prefers to remain casual, wearing basic attire, and sometimes a skirt. When she needs to be fancier however, she will be, as she has fancy dresses.

Her suit is more complex, with many attachments that perform various operations, most notably, the wing attachments, which let her fly for a very short period of time. The suit itself is built for mobility and defense, but mostly mobility, as her power allows her to avoid fights most of the time. Attached to her armguards (and also other parts of the suit, which is why she chose the name cactus) are retractable blades, that not only function as weapons, but block a lot of damage from the side. The suit is mostly black, so in case her power fails, she can still blend in a bit. The suit also muffles almost all sounds that she makes.

Personality: She tries to avoid getting mixed up in any conflict at all costs, and doesn't affiliate with any of the major groups, however she often runs into members trying to recruit her. She will do whatever is necessary to make life better for her, even killing if she has to (although she prefers not to.) She is very secretive, and will hardly show her true self to anyone, preferring to remain unpredictable. This also means she really isn't interested in a relationship, or even making friends, although there are a select few people she would be friends with.

Power(s): Invisibility (So a stranger), and flying because of her suit. Her invisibility can be turned on and off, and can last as long as she is in full control of her body. If she falls asleep (or even just gets tired), gets under the influence of some substance, or even just flinches, it will turn off.

History and Trigger Event: When she was a bit younger, around 17, her parents wanted her to join the PRT, but she really had no interest, and eventually, their constant demands just got to be annoying. One day, her father told her that if she didn't join, they would take everything in her room away, and force her to sleep in the basement, with no luxuries. She got so annoyed, she decided to pack up her belongings, and run away. She was very worried that the police would catch her, and send her home, but she noticed that nobody around her noticed her at all. She was completely invisible. Soon, she became of legal age, and bought a small room with the money she earned from her job as an electronics repairer. At her job, she met another parahuman who happened to be a tinker. They became friends after a while, and he built her the suit she wears to this day, however, he was killed when a car crashed through the window of his shop. After the terrifying event, she went into seclusion, never revealing her true self to anyone else, and using the suit, as well as her own powers to help her. She began to notice members of other groups, both the Protectorate and villanous groups, trying to get her to join their sides, although she never wanted to interact with anyone in the groups.

Her flight gear, made by the tinker, is slowly breaking down, and requires constant repairs. She is searching for a way to keep it intact, although it isn't easy since she doesn't like interacting with people.

She doesn't interact with her parents at all anymore, and hasn't seen them since she ran away.

I really like the idea of being pressured to join the PRT causing her to trigger. Very cool character. Were her parents Heroes/PRT members?

Anyway, my issue here is mostly with her as a rogue. She can be a rogue, that's not the issue. However, what does she do for a living? Does she use her power to make (legal) money (the general thing Rogues do) or is she just a Rogue because she refuses to be either hero or villain? If she's not actively using her power publicly/commercially... why would she even need costume? How would anyone even know she was a cape? If she's prepared to kill if need be, has she before?