Futuristic — 𝑯𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑳𝑬𝑺𝑺. ( 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 )

[Togy]

Spoiler

| HEARTBEAT CITY

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Jaxen O'connel
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— DOSSIER.​

Name: Jaxen O'connel

Nicknames: Jax

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Date of Birth: October 31st, 2063

Zodiac: Scorpio

Place of Birth: Heartbeat City, USA

Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian with a little German ancestry sprinkled in

— VISAGE.​

Hair: Curly hazel brown hair

Eyes: Green

Skin: Fair skin, rough texture, and know wrinkles

Height: 5'7

Weight: 142 LB

Distinguishing Features: N/A. Jax has found that having both distinguishing features and a secret identity is not a good combination to have.

Wardrobe: Jax usually just wears a jacket and jeans. You can very often see him wearing leather jackets, wool jackets, hoodies, and flannel jackets. It's really only the jackets that change because Jax seemingly only has three pairs of jeans and T-shirts. Also, underneath his casual wear he usually just has his super-suit, if it can even be called that, being worn underneath. The suit is really just spare clothes cobbled together with concealment and maneuverability as the main purpose.

Face Claim: Chris Pratt

— PERSONA​

Personality: Sarcastic, laid back, and talkative, Jax is the kind of guy to spout off a one liner in the face of danger. He never, and i mean never, takes his job seriously. He'll taunt and insult his opponents constantly, but he at least knows what he's doing. When his mind's on a goal, it won't stray off. He's hard to distract and really is a professional at what he does despite all the sarcasm. Jax may come off as an asshole to some, but at his heart he's a good guy. He just really doesn't like showing it. For example, he will very reluctantly help an old woman find their way home or give directions to a passing driver.

Alignment: Jax, formerly Heartbeat City's single best burglar, is now Heartbeat City's least favorite vigilante.

Positive traits (4+): Jax, for all his flaws, at least has some redeeming qualities. He's selfless, knows exactly what he's doing, laid back, and is amazing at improvising.

Negative traits (4+): Jax is also cynical, insultingly sarcastic, spiteful, and a general douche when he wants to be.

Likes (4+): Movies from the early 2000s that are nearly a century old, coffee, stand up comedy, instrumental music, oneliners, and funny T-shirts, for some reason.

Dislikes (4+): People not getting his movie references, cats, people who take their job seriously, and anyone who gets in his way.

Fears: Death in general. But, like other courageous figures, he doesn't let that stop him.

Ailments: Had asthma until he was 13 due to dust inhalation during the change, but managed to overcome his breathing issues with intense physical therapy.

— HISTORY.​

Relationships (family, friends, dating, etc): Jax's bar buddies are the closest things he has that can be considered his friends anymore.

Background: Born to a well off family in Heartbeat City on Halloween night, Jax had a pretty alright life for the first eight years of his miserable life. His parents both had decent jobs and a stable marriage, so there was never any arguing or hand me downs. Jax even had three siblings, 2 sisters and a little brother, so things never really got boring around the house. All in all, life was good. Then, well, the change happened. Jax's life was quickly turned on its head when the apartment building that held his home collapsed with him and his family in it. His parents, little brother, and bot his sisters were killed instantly in the collapse, while he was trapped under rubble. It took the rescue crew over 7 hours to dig him out and he spent a good few weeks in the hospital afterwards.

And since Jax had been treated at an American hospital, for life threatening injuries no less, Jax owed several hundred thousand dollars in medical bills before he was even 10 years old. Of course, they couldn't just slap that fee onto a minor, so Jax's next guardian would have to pay his bills. Unfortunately for Jax's Aunt Pepper, they were his last remaining family member. Aunt Pepper wasn't very well off financially either since they lived in the Southern end of Heartbeat city, where Detroit looked like a lovely neighborhood in comparison. Of course the woman couldn't pay the bills, but they took Jax in regardless because it was the right thing to do. The woman took on a second and third job in an attempt to pay off the medical bills, but it was clear those bills weren't getting payed off in her lifetime. Pepper was finding it harder and harder to pay off rent and put food on the table every passing day.

When Jax reached the age of 15 though, he found a way to support him and his aunt. One day, after feeling too lazy to get up and grab the toast from the toaster, he made a portal underneath the toaster and sent both the toaster and toast onto his lap. After mulling over it, he realized that with an ability like that he could steal just about anything. He didn't particularly like the idea, but it was his only option. After lying to his Aunt saying he'd found a job, he began to go out at night to rob both stores and houses with his ability. The payout was small at the beginning, but it let him hone his abilities greatly.

Cut to after Jax graduating high school and you'll see that he's upped his game. Local gangs have hired his secret identity for a few higher end jobs like stealing legal documents or busting banks. Since he still needed to pay off his medical bills, Jax agreed to each job that came his way. When he went to College his deals with the gangs became bigger in scale, giving him more and more of a profit. By the time he graduated College, the media had taken notice of him. No one could actually pin any of the robberies on anyone, but people began connecting robberies with no signs of breaking and entering.

For the next few years, Jax dove deeper and deeper into his life of crime. He was 23 by the time his medical bills were payed off, but he just kept going. Some robberies started getting messy, and Jax found himself put into fights for the first time in his life. He adapted, of course. Fast forward a few years and Jax has reached the ripe old age of 26. By this point he's doing high end heists, borderline treasonous document theft, and prison breakouts. His secret identity is well known now as well, nearly being labeled as public enemy number 2. He wasn't bad enough for public enemy number 1 to be honest. Jax honestly didn't want to stop anymore.

And then Aunt Pepper died. She was picking up groceries when the store she was at was robbed. The situation grew violent and before anyone knew it, Pepper had been shot through the head. The killers were never found. Jax, both grieving and royally pissed, sought out the killers. He could never find them, but he sent a lot of people to jail instead on his little crusade. He couldn't help but notice just how screwed up his neighborhood was either. He stopped 5 robberies in a single night while looking for Pepper's killers, 5 robberies! The next night, there were 2. The night after that, 3 robberies. 1 of those robberies ended in another murder no less. Jax, not having realized his neighborhood had always been like this, kept going out at night to look for Pepper's killers. He stopped taking the jobs from the gangs and began to simply stop any crime he witnessed. After a while, it stopped being about finding his Aunt's killers.

And that's about it. Jax has since turned his life around and gotten work as a bartender. He's held the position as Heartbeat City's least favorite superhero for about 3 years now.

— ABILITIES.​

Power: Portals - Somehow, Jax is able to quite literally tear apart the fabric of reality itself and make portals that not only defies the space time continuum, but insults it. Jax has successfully pissed off thousands of scientists world wide just because it's possible for him to do this. In a rough summary of what he can do, without getting into the non-existent science of it, Jax can create portals just about anywhere he can picture. The portals themselves look like actual tears in reality, cutting through space and warping the air around it. After years of practice, he's managed to perfect the art of specifying the size and location of where he places his portals. For every portal he makes their must be an outlet portal for it, so Jax can either hook up multiple portals to the sme utlet portal, or he can connect each portal to it's own outlet portal.

Note: Jax isn't entirely sure what would happen if someone were halfway through a portal before Jax closed it. Either the time space continuum would collapse or the person gets cut in half. Either way, he's not keen on finding out.

Strengths: He's perfected the usage of his ability, allowing him to do such things as place a portal in front a fist that's about to punch him in the face. The cool thing about that is that momentum is maintained when going through a portal, so he could very well make that punch aimed towards him go right back at his opponent. Unrelated to his powers, Jax has a very brutal and unpredictable fighting style. Jax's definition of a fight is to cause as much pain as possible to his opponent, and he tries his best to do so. There's no flashy moves or anything particularly impressive about his fghting style, it's just a mix between the martial art skills he's managed to pick up and the brutality techniques he's learned. Combine that with a hidden tazer or stun baton and you've pretty much got Jax's fighting style pictured. It's messy and brutal, but it's also very effective.

Weaknesses: The first limitation to Jax's portals is that he can only form them in an area he at least has a vague picture of. For example, he can't just break into the Pentagon and put the US into Defcon 5 because he has no clue what the Pentagon even looks like inside. Another limitation is that breaking the fabric of reality is pretty physically taxing. The larger or farther away a portal is, the harder it is to maintain and the more energy it drains from him. He may have pretty good stamina, but even he can't keep it up for long. Also, keep in mind that Jax was trained as a street thug. While life or death situations are great at making you improve fast, it still doesn't add up to 4 years of rigorous academy training. Lastly, for a weakness that just hinders Jax's career as a vigilante, the media and public hate him. No one's been to keen to forget his criminal past, making it so that the Police and other superheroes still try to arrest him now and again.

 

[BreeDav]

-- DOSSIER.

name: Briar-Grace Auden
nicknames: Briar
age: 27
gender: Female
sexuality: Straight
date of birth: January 2nd
zodiac: Capricorn
place of birth: Mason, USA (A smaller town, a few hours drive north of Heartbeat City)
race/ethnicity: European

-- visage

hair: Deep brown, nearly black. Cut sharply just below her jaw
eyes: Grey
skin: Peachy, pale, clear
height: 5ft 5in
weight:130lbf
distinguishing features: No piercings, tattoos, birthmarks, or scars
wardrobe: She dresses in dark colors. Her pants are nearly always tucked into steel toed boots, laced tight enough to take off running down the darkest alley ways of Heartbeat City. Bright colors and feminine prints are a luxury that a woman of shadow couldn’t afford to wear. Even in leather jackets and dark washed jeans, she finds ways of making herself feel like a woman. Without the money to spend on new clothes every time her taste changed, she’d become a stickler for fit. Everything was tailored carefully to her body, hugging her just tight enough that she had full range of motion but would never get in her way.
face claim: Isa Briones

empathetic
passionate
independent

non-violent
hesitant
non-commital

judgemental
quick to run
distrusting

-- persona

personality: Briar-Grace has very few friends. But the few that she’s managed to keep will always have her loyalty. To those lucky enough to have gained her trust, she is kind and compassionate. She is generous and caring. But when it comes to anyone outside of her carefully cultivated inner circle, she is cold. She’d taught herself to view the inhabitants of Heartbeat City means to an end. She lives every day knowing the people around her can’t be trusted. How could they when she knew how stupid they would be to trust her? Shes at her most calm somewhere far above the busy streets of Heartbeat, listening to the faint sounds of the people below. Her own thoughts have been the only thing she always had, so they would always be the things that made her feel safe.
alignment: Villian. She would never call herself one, but most of her work ends up on the wrong side Heartbeat City’s laws.
positive traits (4+): Avoids violence, highly empathetic, independent, passionate
negative traits (4+): quick to judge, even quicker to run away, manipulator, distrusting
likes (4+): darkness, being alone with her thoughts, finding a good deal, a quiet corner of a coffee shop, freshly tailored clothing, the satisfied feeling of finishing a project.
dislikes (4+): Crowded areas, jackets without inside pockets, the smell that seems to linger in her small apartment, the feeling of her hair when its long enough to touch her shoulders, being overlooked, cooking
fears: being somewhere without a dark corner to escape to, painful death, being caught doing something wrong,
ailments: none

there is darkness
in all things. I simply see
it most clearly.

-- abilities

power: Born of Shadow : At will, Briar can let part or all of her body disappear into a shadowy mist.
strengths: When Briar becomes shadow, she can hide incredibly well. She can tuck herself into the shadow of a tree or an enemy. Any place enveloped by darkness becomes the perfect place for her to escape to. She’s quick, though not inhumanly so. But nimble fingers and dexterous feet shouldn’t be underestimated. They are most prized tools of a non violent criminal.
weaknesses: Light. Though it may sometimes seem that Briar disappears into nothingness, without a preexisting shadow to hide in, her shadow is as clear as if she’d stood in solid form. When Briar is a shadow, she can’t touch anything. She can’t open doors or pick anything up. She can’t interact with the world around her. She can only move through it.

-- history

relationships (family, friends, dating, etc): Morgan Auden [32]: Briar’s brother. He works as an administrative assistant in an office building on the northern side of Heart Beat city. He possesses the ability to sense another’s feelings. It was a weak ability, barely stronger than a human’s natural instinct.
Mira Auden [68]: Briar and Morgan’s mother. Mira still lives in Mason, a few hours away from Heartbeat. When her husband, Richard Auden died, she took over his flowershop. No matter how her children insist that she retire, she happiness in keeping the shop her father had loved running.
background: When Briar’s powers came to light, she had quite a few hard years. When feelings of anxiety, frustration, fear, and anger she’d often begin to disappear. She struggled through her father’s death alone, in the dark. As a shadow she couldn’t tell her brother how she felt. She couldn’t hug her mom. It took her hears to be able to harness her own powers. She didn’t have a school to help her through it. She didn’t have anyone who understood what she was going through. Her brother Morgan tried his hardest to be there for her. His power, how ever week, helped him understand how she felt in the moments that she began to dissolve into darkness. It helped him find her when she disappeared into the darkness of their empty house. He would talk to her, even when he couldn’t see or hear her. He would stand alone in the kitchen and start cooking dinner, telling her about his day in school. Briar had dropped out of her first year in college when her inability to control her powers meant that she was failing every class she’d enrolled in. Morgan took a few extra years to finish his schooling between working part time and looking after Briar and their mother, but when he graduated he moved to Heartbeat City to work in business. Briar accompanied him only after some real convincing. Neither sibling had wanted to leave their mother alone, but leaving their childhood home was the only way for them to grow.
The six years that Briar has spent in Heartbeat City completely changed her. She got her powers completely under control, enough that she was able to hide them. She picked up odd jobs before finding her natural talent as a pickpocket and cat burguler. All the time she’d spent as a shadow had made nighttime as natural as day, dark alleys a place of comfort, and lightless city streets were her playground. She found herself a small and cheap apartment on the outskirts of the trenchtown projects. When her work as a pickpocket ran slow, she picked up a few waiting shifts at the local bars and clubs. She lives a comfortable life now, making just enough to support herself.
extra info: none

coded by natasha.

 

[jones573]

— DOSSIER.
Name: Sybil Williams
Nicknames: Her primary alias these days is ‘Oracle’
Age: 23 (presumed, actual age unknown to her)
Gender: cis female
Sexuality: Pansexual
Date of birth: Unknown to her.
Zodiac: Unknown to her.
Place of birth: Unknown to her. She moved to Heartbeat City two and a half years ago from Los Angeles.
Race/ethnicity: Unknown to her, as Sybil has never met her birth parents. She is of Japanese and mixed South American/Mesoamerican descent.

— VISAGE.
Hair: Her hair is straight and dark, and she usually cuts it in some form of an asymmetrical bob, with some hanging into her face to help cover the right eye but never long enough on the neck to cover the tattoo at the top of her spine.
Eyes: Sybil’s eyes were mutilated heavily as a child and her scars seem to be a mix of laceration and chemical burns. The skin around her left eye has been cosmetically altered to reshape the eye socket, in which she usually wears a glass eye with a dark-brown iris if she is going to be out and about.
Skin: She has medium brown skin with cooler undertones.
Height/weight: Sybil is a shorter woman (5’2”) with a compact but muscular build.
Distinguishing features: Sybil has heavy scarring across her eyes.

When in public, she wears chunky dark sunglasses and lots of concealer to blend in better. When alone or with people who are familiar with her, she prefers blindfolds, usually with an image of an eye drawn on the center. She is always sure to wear them in a way that won’t hide her long, thick eyebrows, as raising or moving her brows has become her preferred shorthand to express her annoyance.

Sybil also has several tattoos, all in the image of an eye. The most visible ones are on the back of her neck and on her hands, though she usually wears gloves in public.

Wardrobe: Sybil would prefer to wear basic clothes- Baggy, simple shirts and pants. But her distinct and unusual appearance paired with a preference for anonymity means she also has a variety of dark glasses and low brimmed hats to ‘disguise’ herself. She tends to wear a lot of outfits in greys or in monotones, and rarely wears patterns. She is rarely seen without a journal, and does have a white mobility cane that she sometimes carries. Technically she has better ways to ‘see’ what is in front of her, but the cane also has the added benefit of collapsing down into a steel baton that she can use on kneecaps.

Face claim: Sonoya Mizuno. Not entirely accurate- Imagine her younger, and wearing something to hide her eyes, but you get the general idea.

Spoiler: Sonoya Mizuno - Flaunt Photoshoot

View attachment 682083 from Flaunt Magazine. SONOYA MIZUNO — Flaunt Magazine

— PERSONA.
Personality: Sybil is a jaded, unpleasant young woman. She has very little in the way of morals, and can always be relied upon to be self-serving. She is still young, though, and has not exactly had a stable, happy environment to grow up in. So perhaps she could still change- Just maybe don’t take any bets on it.

Alignment: Sybil is a... Freelancer of sorts.

Anyone can contact her for information, and for the right price she will provide. If she knows something that she thinks could be valuable to someone, she might even reach out and offer that information for free. Not because she respects the person or their goals, but because she wants them to be aware of her as a source of accurate information, and to encourage them to do business with her in the future. Her first year in Heartbeat City she made most of her money finding out if some wealthy man’s second wife was having an affair or similar petty concerns, but she’s been around long enough that vigilantes and others are at least familiar with a source that goes by ‘Oracle’.

Sybil has various ‘employees’ throughout the city that she pays to meet with potential clients and do the ‘customer service’ aspects of her job, especially with new clients. People skills are not her forte.

Sybil’s clientele tends to be more of the ne’er-do-well sort. Her powerset is not exactly wholesome, and her past connections to criminal organizations in LA made it easier to get her foot in the door with those sorts of people in Heartbeat City. But if you want to know something to help you in your good deeds, Sybil doesn’t care what you use it for. So long as the money is good.

positive traits: Self sufficient | Confident (maybe a little too much, and usually more than she actually feels) | Quick thinking and adaptable | Reflective and willing to improve herself (so long as she does not have to admit to it)

negative traits: Self centered | Immature | Cynical | Arrogant | Habitual liar | Nosy and interfering, with no understanding of privacy.

likes: being right | music, of a wide variety- she is particularly partial to big band sounds and opera, and genres with strong instrumentation | making others uncomfortable, especially with bad jokes/puns about her eyes and scars | mythology, especially greek or related to eyes

dislikes: children, pretty much anything about them | having to apologize or admit being wrong | people gawking or making any comment about her eyes or scarring, commenting on her blindness or lack thereof | waiting, especially for food | having only one ‘view’ on any given scene | religion and/or religious people

Fears: Not being useful | Her past catching up to her | Trusting others | Being abandoned.

Ailments: Sybil is blind, though her power allows her to ‘see’. She also almost certainly has some pretty severe PTSD, but she's gonna keep ignoring that.

— ABILITIES.
power: Optical Transference.

Sybil can ‘see’ through eyes that aren’t hers, and even through the images of eyes. This may sound like an incredibly useful and powerful ability, which it certainly is... Or at least has the potential to one day be. The reality, however, is that even though Sybil’s sight is unlimited, her focus isn’t and she’s not nearly as omniscient as she pretends to be.

Spoiler: More on Sybil's Powers

Practical Limits:

Sybil must be able to conceptualize the eyes she wishes to look through before she can do so. She needs to know what it and its surroundings look like, and she needs to know where it is in relation to her. She can ‘hop’ to an extent to get to where she wants to see, by using one borrowed eye to determine the location and image of the next one, but cannot see through eyes she herself has never ‘seen’ before in some capacity.

• Accuracy. Sybil sees what the eye she is watching through sees, and no more. She is merely an observer, and cannot change the direction or focus of the eye. Her view is subject to colorblindness, far or near sightedness, or poor depth perception. When using a non-biological eye, she only sees in hues in the color the eye is depicted in. She prefers flat images of an eye, as the rounded plastic eye of a stuffed animal or something similarly dimensioned would give her a distorted, fish-eye view. (She once looked through the eyes of a fly, just for fun, and threw up within five minutes.)

• Attention. Sybil likes to be thought omniscient, but that’s hardly the truth. Like a desktop screen, there’s only so much space in Sybil’s mind that she can devote to her sight. Opening ‘new windows’ as it were, means she has to reduce the size of the existing windows to keep them all within view. In reality she usually has maybe six ‘scenes’ that she’s actually paying attention to at any given time, and she’s giving the others just enough attention to be aware of them. Eventually she will lose views if she hasn’t actively given them attention, especially ones based in biological eyes because they can move and if she isn’t aware that their location is changing, she will no longer know the eye’s location. Sybil has been working to expand the size of her metaphorical desktop and number of open windows for years, but the progress is much slower than she would like and she seems to have plateaued for the time being.

• Sleep. Sybil tends not to sleep more than four hours at a time, as she tends to start to lose her windows if she’s unconscious for longer than that. She cannot observe while she is sleeping, so she tends to arrange her naps around her opportunities for spying. She is also more likely to lose windows if she hasn’t actively paid attention to them in some time, and if she has too many open.

• Spying Through Other Metahumans. Sybil can usually spy through someone without them being aware, this is often not the case for those with powers of their own, or even a regular human who is particularly in tune with their body. Sybil’s presence is generally felt as a slight twinge where the optic nerve connects to the eyeball, and a heaviness in the occipital lobe. These are not painful sensations and are usually very faint, but someone expecting them could notice when they appear. Sybil has been forced out of someone’s vision on occasion, usually only by someone with mental-based powers of their own. Much to her annoyance and frustration.

• Alterations to an image of an eye. If Sybil is spying through a photo and someone uses a pair of scissors to cut through the eye she is using on that photo, she would seize up and cry out in pain, and lose that window. Same if someone took a knife to a human or animal eye she was using. The eye must actually be damaged, and not just covered, in order to cause pain- Using black paint to conceal the eyes on a photo does render them useless to Sybil, but doesn’t hurt her. Sybil experiences the same level of pain regardless if she is actively using that view or not.

Related Abilities:

• Sybil is ambidextrous, as she never wants to be unable to record what she sees because she is unable to use a hand. She would love to be able to write different things with either hand concurrently, but right now is only able to simultaneously write simple things, like the alphabet.
• Sybil is a pretty decent artist. She is better at layouts and schematics than people, but her portraits are... Recognizable. If not always flattering.
• Sybil can lip read in English… To an extent. Less than 50% of a conversation can be understood through lipreading alone, and that drops off further if Sybil doesn’t have a context with which to make educated guess. To say nothing of accents, or people who rush their words. And it isn’t like people who meet up to share clandestine information tend to sit in a circle with their mouths clearly in view.
• Sybil has excellent spatial awareness, as she prefers to use multiple viewpoints to construct each ‘scene’ she is observing and has been doing so most of her life.
• Sybil is a decent fighter- If fighting an average person. Her spatial awareness gives her good insight on the reach of someone’s fist, and she uses her ability to ‘cheat’ when fighting by observing herself through her opponent’s eyes and using the half second between when they look where they are going to punch and when they would land the punch to avoid it. Usually she uses her ‘advantage’ to give her time to escape- She likes to think ‘getting away with minimal injury’ is its own sort of win.

Strengths: Information gathering, surveillance, and figuring out who might be most interested in what she's learned
Weakness: Finding out information immediately, forming positive working relationships, as well as the things mentioned above about her practical limits and related skills.

Meta Limits:
As noted above, there are many limitations to what Sybil can see, and it’s actually quite easy to prevent her from learning something, intentionally or not. What I’ve written above is mostly just the highlights of Sybil’s ability and I’m certainly down to explain further if there are any questions! Please let me know if you have any ideas about how Sybil’s abilities can be utilized- or deceived!- to instigate plot.

My basic guidelines for using Sybil’s ability in an RP are 1) she isn’t going to reveal anything specific about other characters or subplots unless I’ve already discussed it with the affected writers in OOC and 2) if we need to create some conflict, Sybil will provide. She is useful that way!

If we (me, an individual writer, the collective group of writers, whoever) decide that Sybil is totally unaware of something (a secret a character has been protecting, that the baddies are preparing to attack, whatever), then she is unaware of it. Sybil is not a respectful character, but I am a respectful writer (or try to be, at least!).

— HISTORY.
relationships (family, friends, dating, etc): Sybil tends not to be much of a team player, but it’s certainly possible that she has met and/or worked with other characters in Heartbeat City, so hit me up!

Background:

Asking Sybil about her childhood, what she was doing before she came to Heartbeat City, why her eyes are scarred, and other topics are pretty much all non-starters. If you are lucky, she is focused on something else and will ignore you. If you are unlucky, she will be very annoyed and rude to you, and put you on her shit list.

Someone with the right resources however, could probably connect some research and make various assumptions about her past.

For instance, a couple of months before Sybil arrived in Heartbeat City, a criminal organization headed by a man who went by ‘Mr X.’ was brought down in Los Angeles. Surveillance photos of Mr. X often showed him meeting with his various lieutenants, occasionally in the company of a young girl with short black hair and dark sunglasses. The various lieutenants were arrested and brought in. The girl could not be found.

Mr. X had been active since even before the Change had happened, with a small drug operation. The loyalty of his people had allowed him to weather the upheaval caused by the Change, and expand it in the resulting power vacuums of the city. By most analysis, though, he had not truly become a big player in Los Angeles until maybe six or seven years before his arrest, when he’d gotten into the information business. He’d known things no one had any business knowing, and he’d used it to great effect.

The loyalty Mr. X inspired in his ‘employees’ meant that very few gave up any information about him or the organization. But a fellow by the name of Jacobs was a bit more loose-lipped. Someone with the resources to gain the classified transcripts from his interrogation might find he said some interesting things about the ‘creepy little brat’.

No, he didn’t know her origins for sure. Mr. X referred to her as his daughter, but they certainly didn’t look related. Jacobs said she’d started living with Mr. X about ten years ago, after the mess with the 32nd Sect of the Church of the Retribution. Bunch of extremist cultists living out in the desert who’d taken the whole 'Church of the Retribution' thing too far and gotten obsessed with ‘curing’ humanity of the plague of the Change. Nutso-cuckoo, the lot of them, according to Jacobs. They moved some good product, though. But they’d tried to go against Mister X, see, and he’d burned the compound to the ground and took over the operation.

Jacobs was sure that was where the girl had come from, from those cultists out in the desert- She was a right weirdo, and she had some sort of powers, he was certain. With technology or cameras, he figured, which was how Mister X always seemed to know so much. Jacobs was willing to talk, he told them. In exchange for certain favors.

Jacobs never learned if those favors might have been secured for him, and the investigators never learned what else he might have to say. He was found dead in his cell the next day. X and his associates have been sentenced to life in prison. Portions of his financial assets- not enormous amounts, but certainly enough to be of note- were never able to be recovered.

 

[jones573]

— DOSSIER.
Name: Daniel Araya Flores
Nicknames: Danny
Age: 46
Gender: male
Sexuality: bisexual
date of birth: October 1
Zodiac: libra
place of birth: Heartbeat City
race/ethnicity: Chilean heritage, of mixed/ambiguous Latinx and European ancestry

— VISAGE.
Hair: Dark brown, usually not past his ears. Usually has a moustache and some stubble, though he occasionally changes up the facial hair.
Eyes: Brown
Skin: warm toned light skin, tans instead of burns in the summer. Various pockmarks and scars from teenage acne or childhood accidents but nothing super noticable.
Height/weight: 5’11”, 180 lbs. I imagine he’s a bit stockier than Pedro Pascal.
Distinguishing features: Nothing particular
Wardrobe: He has some nicer outfits, but he is generally not a very stylish man. He spends his time as a caretaker of an old building, and has a seven year old, so. T-shirts, stained pants. He’ll often throw on a button down to class things up a bit, but the effect may be ruined by a missing button or peanut butter smear.
face claim: Pedro Pascal

Spoiler: Picture

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— PERSONA.
Personality: Daniel is a very kind and caring man, to the point that he has sometimes put others needs above his own. Not that he’s a complete pushover- The rules and boundaries he does have, he abides by and enforces firmly. He is devoted to his son, but could probably stand to spend more time with people his own age. He enjoys puzzles and mechanical challenges and finds great satisfaction in knowing how something works. He craves safety and stability for himself and his son, and knows that staying in Heartbeat City may not be the best way to facilitate that. Daniel is usually just a few crises away from closing up the Daffodil and moving, but so far he has always pressed on.

alignment: Citizen of Heartbeat City. Owner and caretaker of ‘The Daffodil’, an old hotel on the east side of the city that has been converted into housing units that mostly caters to powered people. Since his wife’s death, Daniel has enforced a strict neutrality around the Daffodil. You work for a gang? You a superhero? You can be a resident, sure. But you can’t bring that stuff in with you. If the authorities come around looking for you, he’ll let them in- If they can produce a warrant. It’s a fragile ecosystem, but so far it’s held.

positive traits: compassionate - intuitive - handy/good at fixing things - inspires trust and loyalty - reliable - dedicated
negative traits: has a hard time saying no - dwells on the past - low confidence in himself and his choices - unable to advocate for himself the way he does for others - constantly emotionally exhausted
likes: his son, andy - spending time with andy - things being stable and predictable - cooking - being liked by others - having a drink or two before he goes to bed
dislikes: the gangs/powers of the city, especially when they try to operate in and around the Daffodil - golf - his in-laws - people trying to tell him how to raise andy or commenting on how hard it must be to be a single dad - dogs
fears: his son developing powers he can’t control - the truce around the Daffodil being violated - that he might be a bit of an alcoholic
Ailments: Depression and suicidal thinking after his wife’s death, though that has improved quite a bit. Alcoholic tendencies.

— ABILITIES.
None.

Well. He can fix things? If he has time. And the tools. But there's not much special about that.


— HISTORY.
Wife: Lucy Ashton, deceased. Shot in a fight between gangs, died when her powers overtaxed her trying to heal the wound.
Son: Andy, 7 (and a half!) years old. Loves dinosaurs!
In-Laws: Mr and Mrs Ashton. Their relationship with Daniel and Andy has been... rocky since Lucy’s death.
Dating: He’s slept around a bit since Lucy died, but it never lasts long. He feels guilty that he’s betraying Lucy and guilty to his current partner because he doesn’t think he can be a good partner. Plus, he has a kid- There’s only so much effort he’s willing to put into finding a babysitter.

Background:

Spoiler: Background

Daniel is an average, ordinary man and has been for all of his life. Good with his hands, he graduated high school and went right into work, jumping between mechanic shops, handyman services and construction jobs. About 15 years ago, he’d worked his way up to assistant manager for a reputable contractor in the city. He was paying his bills on time, looking for an apartment in a nicer area of town, and ignoring his mother’s prodding that maybe he ought to find a nice girl to settle down with. He’d always been a bit introverted, and his occasional hook-ups suited him just fine. What did he need a romantic partner for? Then he would be sending flowers to his girlfriend instead of his mother, Daniel teased her.

And then, of course, he met Lucille Ashton. As in ‘Ashton Banks’, the company her family had founded. As in ‘Ashton Park’, the green space dedicated to her great-great-great grandfather. As in the ‘The Ashton Hotel’, the decrepit old building that took up a quarter of a block Heartbeat's east side.

She wanted to hire the company Daniel worked for to help remodel the old hotel. She wanted to turn it into housing units, for the city’s growing population of displaced people with powers. She wanted each unit to have its own bathroom and kitchenette. She wanted to start the construction in the worst areas of the hotel and work their way towards the better parts. Lucille Ashton was very straightforward about she wanted.

After a month of working together, she wanted Daniel’s number. And for him to pick her up at 7 o’clock sharp on Friday.
He was there at 6:59, with his best shirt and an armful of daffodils.

Her parents were not entirely approving of their relationship. They would have much preferred she take an interest in the son of one of their society friends. But Lucy had never been in the habit of bowing to their preferences, and she and Daniel were clearly very happy together, so they put their misgivings aside after the first few years. They had daffodils at their wedding, and instead of going on a honeymoon, they painted rooms at the hotel together.

The first years of their marriage were devoted to getting The Ashton running- One hundred and twenty units were now operational and ready for residents. (One hundred and nineteen, since Lucy and Daniel took the one right off the lobby for themselves.) There was a lot of red tape to wade through with the city, about who could stay there and for how long. Shelters have different rules and regulations than temporary housing, which have different rules and regulations than apartments, which have- Well. Lucy had the law degree and connections to social work programs, so Daniel let her sort that all out. He helped the residents move things in and changed lightbulbs and helped them wrap up the windows with winter-proofing when the cold came.

It was hardly luxury condos- Pretty much anything that was relatively serviceable was left as is, as the money for that first remodel had been prioritized elsewhere. (Like on the radiators and plumbing and a working fire system.) But Lucy had plans for further development, and things like job training that corresponded to powers, and childcare and starter bank accounts. Lucy always had plans, which was good. A lot of people needed the services she wanted to offer. More and more people were manifesting powers, and finding their lives turned upside down.

The Change, obviously, had been the biggest influx of people suddenly finding themselves with extraordinary abilities. But a sudden appearance of superhuman powers could occur anytime- Doctors speculated that a body in stress was more likely to do so. Puberty. Menopause. Pregnancy.

Lucy’s pregnancy went fine, up until the last month or so. She glowed. She projected beams of light out of her eyes and out of her hands. Sometimes it was solid and sharp, and on occasion it cut her and others around her. It exhausted her, draining her own energy dangerously.

When Andy was born, it got a bit better. Easier to control.

But not by much.

When the gangs brought their fight into the lobby of the Ashton, Daniel begged her not to interfere. Lucy didn’t listen.

She got involved and broke up the fight, and it might have been fine. But she’d used too much of the power she didn’t understand, and she couldn’t turn it off when she no longer needed it. It consumed her, trying to heal the injuries she’d gotten in the fray when a doctor would have been more helpful. By the time the ambulance arrived, Lucy was dead. And Andy was crying.

That was seven years ago. Daniel keeps a close eye on his son, scared that he’ll develop powers he can’t control. He keeps a close eye on the hotel, too. It’s ‘The Daffodil’ now, for Lucy’s favorite flower- After the media frenzy and the possibly shut-down and all the bad press on what having a bunch of mutants around would do to the neighborhood, his in-laws didn’t want their name associated with the place. He tried ‘Lucy’s Place’ but they didn’t like that either, and he tries to keep on friendly terms. Not because he wants to, mind you. They certainly don’t approve of him keeping the hotel open, or raising Andy there. Or pretty much anything he does. But while Lucy’s inheritance covers the maintenance and taxes on the place, he knows the furnace will go sometime, or the roof over the abandoned rooms will finally give in, or who knows what else.

He’s got some permanent residents, some who stay for a couple months, some who just need a place to crash. Officially he doesn’t collect rent or advertise himself as a shelter, so he gets away with running things the way he likes. He’s got a few employees, who keep the peace as muscle or sit at the desk, and he repairs the dryers himself. The folks who can afford to pay for living there do so, and the ones who can’t, find other ways to chip in. The vegetable garden on the roof, put in by a plant manipulator, always thrives. An electrokinetic fellow once saved him two months of power bills by charging up the building’s generator each morning.

Winter can get pretty hectic- The fear of powered people becomes secondary to the fear of cold, and they get more mundane folks seeking shelter from the weather. He tries to prioritize teens and those with children, and folks who might not be able to get housing elsewhere. Not all of his residents are the friendly sort, but he thinks they respect them.

He tries to get involved with their life, if it seems appropriate. After Lucy died… Well, there was more than a few times when Daniel figured Andy would get on just fine without him. He had rich grandparents who would be happy to take him away, right? He’s better now, he thinks. He hasn’t thought about killing himself in a good while. But still, it helps to know other people rely on him.

There’s a pair of older teenagers up in 228 that have dinner with him and Andy on Wednesday nights, and he makes them tell him how their online class are going and they roll their eyes when he uses slang incorrectly. It’s nice. Except the girl, Sadie, didn’t show up for her shift at the desk on Tuesday. She didn’t text either, but she might have run out of minutes. And even if she didn’t- Well, that’s teenagers for you.

But when he checked on them on Wednesday, no one answered. Marge down the hall, an old woman was invincible to bullets and knives and teeth but not diabetes and arthritis, peered out from behind her locked door and said she hadn’t seen them in days. Which Daniel was going to have to take as truth- Marge was agoraphobic and spent hours going between her windows and her peephole to watch the other residents as her only form of amusement. And Jason from downstairs hadn’t come to take her trash all month and it was starting to smell, Marge complained.

After Daniel had taken out her trash- which had indeed smelled foul, though the overall scent of the place was strong regardless- he’d gone to check on Jason. When Jason didn’t answer, Daniel got his set of master keys and checked. No one was there, though most of Jason’s stuff was. Same for the twins’ unit.

People leave, often without notice. But they don’t usually leave so much stuff.

Daniel tries to respect his residents’ privacy. He tries not to worry.

But maybe he’s gonna keep a closer eye on things. Just in case.

 

[stonecoldlife]

(current)(Younger)
— DOSSIER.
name: Rudolph Fischer
nicknames: Rudy
age: 75
gender: Male
sexuality: Straight
date of birth: January 17 2017
zodiac: Capricorn
place of birth: Evanston Illinois
race/ethnicity: White/Mainly German descent

— VISAGE.
hair: Grey
eyes: Dark Green
skin: white, slightly tanned, and somewhat wrinkly
height: 5'9
weight: 158 pounds
distinguishing features:
wardrobe: He is usually out in public in his full Navy Uniform, he is proud to wear it as he was proud to serve his country for so long, but when inside he usually wears a white tang top and khaki shorts/pants
face claim: Rudy Boesch

— PERSONA..
personality: Rudy is somewhat of a Curmudgeon, he is very set in his opinions and it would take a lot to change it. Rudy doesn't mind talking about his military experience, he enjoys educating people about it
alignment: Regular Citizen(Navy Veteran)
positive traits (4+): High Intelligence, Leadership Ability, very Disciplined, Speaks his Mind often regardless of what people think
negative traits (4+): Somewhat set in his ways, Can be very judgmental, Somewhat Grumpy, Picky Eater
likes (4+): Exercise, The Military, Hard Work, His Country
dislikes (4+): Superheros/ people who abuse their powers, Ungratefulness, Entitled people, The thought of death
fears: Being Forgotten, Having his time in the Navy mean nothing
ailments: He is somewhat weaker physically than he was when he was younger, but for a 75 year old he is in pretty reasonable shape

— ABILITIES.
power: None
strengths: Intelligent, Strong willed
weaknesses: Isn't very fast or strong physically

— HISTORY.
relationships (family, friends, dating, etc): No living Family(Wife is Deceased), Sometimes Talks to old Navy buds
background: Rudolph Fischer was born on January 17 2017 to a low income family, his father a Vietnam vet following in the footsteps of his own father a WW2 veteran. Rudy was brought up in a largely military focused household, his father wanted him to join the military to keep the legacy going, Rudy also wanted to do this so in his elementary school years he would try to boss around the other kids, which they didn't like causing them not to really talk to him at all, along with the fact that Rudy was an only child lead to him feeling more isolated. This feeling of Isolation kept going on through middle school as well, even though he was getting straight A's he didn't feel right. This feeling of loneliness went all the way through high school he needed someone to talk to besides his Parents, that's when he met Elise. Rudy and Elise hit it off during high school and started dating. After High school, Rudy went to join the Navy and Elise went to College. Rudy and Elise resorted to having a long distance relationship, After Rudy Completed his training he joined the Seals and decided he wanted to do this for as long as he could, As he aged along side Elise, he ascended the Military Ranks, He got Married, was deployed overseas for a while, and then retired at the rank of Master Chief Petty Officer. Rudy went home with his bride and started to live the quiet life with her that he had always envisioned. Eventually Rudy and Elise Moved to Heartbeat city, around the time when people started developing powers, Rudy and Elise were not included in the power development, but they didn't care if they did or not. As more and more "Superheros" came around demanding praise and attention for their heroic deeds, Rudy began to have a distaste for them, he believed that if you demand recognition for doing the right thing, then you really aren't doing a good deed at all. As more and More started to arrive Rudy decided to make his opinions known putting a signs in his window saying "We don't need Superheros" and "Superheros take jobs away from hard working men and women". If a Superhero was on the news giving an interview about how great they are or something like that, he would turn it off, he didn't really like these people. A few years later He and Elise were out at dinner when a fight broke out between two powered people that destroyed the building killing Elise in the process, this just fueled his hatred for those with powers, they were arrogant and pompous and didn't care about anyone but themselves. He didn't want any of it in the city or in the world, he wanted to have a reason for his wife's death, he wanted to know that his 42 years of military service wouldn't mean nothing because these superheroes would make people like him obsolete.
extra info: Rudy served in the U.S Navy for 42 years

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[calypso]

• — 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚜.
• — 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊.
• — 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢.
• — abilities
• — 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎.

• 
  
  name. Circe Odagar.
  nickname. 'Ethereal.'
  age. 26.
  sexuality. Bisexual.
  gender. Female.
  race/ethnicity. Caucasian.
  birthdate. July 4th, 2066.
  hometown. Heartbeat City.
  zodiac Cancer.
  
• 
  
  personality. A true sweetheart, Circe can be hard to swallow for the more cynical. Her ever-present happiness and optimism about life can be a real drag on those who know true hardships. That's not to say she doesn't understand true struggle, she just feels like it's her job as a public figure to make sure everyone knows it's going to be alright. Even if it isn't.
  alignment. Superhero, and lawful good at that.
  virtues. Kind, caring, intelligent and merciful are all good descriptions for Circe. After all, she's often hailed as the sweetheart of the city.
  vices. However, her own virtues can be her vices too. Determined to do the right thing, Circe can become oblivious to those around her when fighting crime. Headstrong and too determined for her own good, she never wants to stop, even it means hurting herself.
  fatal flaw. Circe will do anything to protect those around her. She believe it's her moral duty to protect those who can't protect themselves.
  likes. Circe is television's best friend. She adores interviews, talkshows, or any sort of dramatic speech to encourage the people. She also enjoys baking a nice cake.
  dislikes. Being too weak to protect others is one of her biggest dislikes. Although she has failed to lose anyone yet, the mere idea of failure to that degree scares her. She also dislikes being alone and silence, along with water.
  fears. Circe is terrified of losing.
  ailments. None.
  
• 
  
  
  background. Raised by loving parents who always firmly believed in the freedom to 'be yourself,' it's no wonder Circe grew up to be such a happy little girl. There was nothing in the world that could knock a smile off her face, even though the world around her seemed to be falling apart. Only around six years old when the Change occurred, much of what she remembers is hazy. Burning buildings, long nights around a candle at home, and food that barely tasted like anything. Yet her parents kept the young girl optimistic, and they often tried to hide out for weeks with a single game of monopoly to keep them entertained. (Circe always wanted to be the dog.)
  
  But every night Circe would complain about being hotter and hotter, with symptoms of a fever that just wouldn't break. She'd hold in tears and sniffles as her parents tried to fan and cool her down, but nothing seemed to work. It wasn't like they could go out and get her medical attention, and even if they did, what could they do? Their child was burning up at the core, and all they could do was watch until she ignited.
  
  And ignite she did. After a particularly painful night of crying, Circe's wails became too loud. Attracting a local and petty robber hoping to snatch anything and everything, he was surprised to find a young girl sweating on the floor and her parents slowly backing away. When he threatened to hit Circe if they didn't give up anything valuable, one last wail escaped the girl before a bright light engulfed the room. A scream was heard, and by the time Circe's parents could see again, they were looking down three stories into the apartment complex below them, a hole burned right through the floor. At the bottom of it all was a shaking Circe, and the burned corpse of the robber. Terrified of herself, it took everything her parents had to convince their daughter that this was a good thing, and that she saved them. Perhaps it was from the shock of it all, but somehow that night, Circe made up her mind.
  
  She saved her parents, and she was going to save others too. Although lacking the traditional tragic backstory, Circe has pushed her way into the spotlight as one of the younger heroes around. She's also one of the most effective ones.
  
  relationships.
  Charles Odagar - Circe's father, who is still alive to this day and enjoying the finer things in life.
  Mary Odagar - Circe's mother, who currently resides with her husband. Although once burned by Circe on the hands badly, she still manages to enjoy life daily.
  Ellis Kian - Her partner and 'favorite person in the world.' Citing him as her best friend, the two work together for hopefully a better future.
  
  extra info. Theme Song - breezeblocks x take a slice
• 
  
  
  Power - Ethereal. Despite her happy appearance, Circe hides a deadly power under her skin. On command, Circe becomes engulfed in a burning white fire, deadly to the touch. With the ability to fly in this form due to the loss of her physical body, some say Circe often looks like a shooting star streaking through the sky. Although the fire is mainly connected to her body, she is able to take concentrated balls of fire to lob at opponents, with similar sticking properties to napalm. However, she can only do this a few times before she burns out, so she often opts to using her entire body as a weapon. Once the job is finished, she's able to 'turn' off her power, the flames still on her vanishing into ash.
  Weaknesses. With such an intense power, it's no surprise there are many drawbacks to her burning abilities. One of her major weaknesses is she cannot function in rain. Although small doses of water will evaporate if it grows close to Circe, the constant onslaught of rain will send her fizzling out. Anyone with a water based ability can also easily take out the burning hero, leaving her coughing and useless. Circe also needs a steady flow of oxygen to maintain her burning persona. Depriving her of oxygen will instantly douse her flames, and leave the hero gasping for air desperately. However, the most important drawback to Circe's power is her destructive nature. She can't control the flames once they leave her body, and she often leaves a wake of destroyed and burning buildings in her path. Thankfully, her partner Do-Over often trails behind her.
  Strengths. Although her power is potent in strength with bright flames and the ability to fly, sometimes they mean nothing to her weaknesses. Still, she's a dangerous hero to come face to face with.
  
• 
  
  faceclaim. Laura Gwyneth.
  skin Freckled and almost warm to the touch.
  dist. features. info.
  eyes. Blueish grey.
  hair. Fiery red.
  height. 5'8.
  weight 142 lbs. wardrobe. Circe tends to dress like the classic 'girl-next-door'. When out of her official uniform, she tends to enjoy sun dresses and shorts, or anything that implies it's the middle of summer. Thankfully, her hotter than average internal temperature helps her maintain her specific outfit choices.

 

[calypso]

• — 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚜.
• — 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊.
• — 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢.
• — abilities
• — 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎.

• 
  
  name. Ellis Kian.
  nickname. 'Do-Over.'
  age. 30.
  sexuality. There are too many rumors surrounding the love life of Ellis to actually pinpoint who he likes.
  gender. Male.
  race/ethnicity Causasian.
  birthdate. November 25th, 2062.
  hometown. Heartbeat City.
  zodiac. Sagittarius.
  
• 
  
  personality. Although his personality isn't well-known to the public, Ellis is a bit of a joker when it comes to close friends. Sly and quick to a joke, he often serves as support to his partner when she needs it most. He also acts as a grounding force, reminding her o f what's important when she starts to lose focus. However, he often seems limited by Circe's presence too. Her overwhelming joy often overtakes his quiet tips, which he's mostly fine with. As long as she deals with the public, he'll clean up the messes.
  alignment. Superhero, neutral good.
  virtues. Clever and calculated, Ellis is quick on his feet to find a solution. Although not always the best or most perfect plans, he's great at making sure people get out alive. He's also great at stand-up.
  vices. Ellis often lets himself get overshadowed, even when he needs to speak up. Like Circe, he often finds himself too focused on the job at hand, rather than the bigger picture. Although he's able to reflect on his mistakes, he tends to overthink and overcorrect.
  fatal flaw. Ellis values the life of others over his own. Threaten who he loves, and he'll crumble.
  likes. While his partner loves the spotlight, Ellis prefers quiet time at home. Reading, cooking, and brewing tea are some of his favorite things. He also loves a good game of football.
  dislikes. Ellis absolutely hates when cameras are shoved in front of his face. He's terrible at improv speeches, and even worse at rehearsed ones. Interviews are bearable, but he'd rather avoid them if he could. He also struggles to come to terms with his current situation in life.
  fears. Being buried alive. He's been in this situation more than he's comfortable with.
  ailments. None.
  
• 
  
  history. What's known about Ellis little to none. Seemingly coming out of nowhere at a young age, it's assumed he lived in an orphanage for most of his life until his powers emerged. Questions about his past fall on deaf ears, but one can assume the basic story. He lost his parents during the Change, like many kids. He kept his powers on the down-low until he just couldn't anymore, and decided that working to help the public was better than just doing nothing. He kept head down the entire time while training, despite the fact he could of easily been the top of his class. Once he was out, he jumped from hero to hero until finding Ethereal. Maybe it was her sickeningly sweet personality that won him over, or the fact that she worked the cameras like she owned them, but once the two were put together, there were nearly inseparable. Her destructive powers were easily countered by his ability to undo the damage, and she was able to handle all the public interviews.
  
  Still, there are things about that even Circe doesn't know. He often wanders off on his own when off duty, and rumors are always circulating on who he's seeing and what he's doing.
  
  Relationships
  Circe Odagar - The only person that Ellis seems to constantly stick around. His 'partner in crime,' Circe and Ellis work together to try and improve the city they call home. Although he's not optimistic as her, he seems to admire her ability to keep on going.
  
  
  
• 
  
  Power - Do-over. With intense focus, Ellis is able to 'reverse' time on certain objects, restoring them to a previous state. If a book had a ripped out page, Ellis is able to pull the page and book back in time to reattach it. Although much easier on smaller objects, Ellis has trained his body to handle buildings and rarely, body parts. However, he has severe limitations to his powers.
  Weaknesses. To even perform a do-over, Ellis needs all objects that were previously part of the item he's trying to repair. Although normally easy to locate in the ruins of an abandoned building, large enough pieces that have flown away will prevent him from fixing what he desires. The state of the object doesn't matter, as long as it still mostly exists. (Burned, broken, and waterlogged are the most common states of damage.) Still, every repair is taxing on him. The more he repairs, the more tired he gets until he passes out. If he pushes himself to the point of exhaustion, Ellis will sleep for several days to recover what he lost. Even though he has trained his body to handle multiple building repairs, human tissue is much more taxing. Broken bones are the least difficult to repair, as they often simply need to snap back into place. However, cuts and missing limbs are much, much more difficult. Those injured have to be in the same spot that they hurt themselves to make sure all the blood is still there, and Ellis can only heal so much before passing out. Missing limbs are also able to be reattached, but he can barely do it before he starts to bleed from the nose and ears. Most of the time, he's able to prevent injuries in the first place.
  Strengths. Despite his heavy limitations, Ellis is invaluable in combat when it comes to not destroying the city. Although he's mainly partner with Circe to make sure she doesn't burn down the entire city during a battle, he's often called upon after other heroes do their job.
  
• 
  
  faceclaim. Sam Clafin.
  skin. Somewhat pale and rough, Ellis has many scars from various work-related injuries.
  dist. features. Ellis possesses a large scar that runs from his brow to the corner of his mouth.
  eyes. Sea-foam green.
  hair. Light brown.
  height. 6'3.
  weight. 186 lbs.
  build. Muscular.
  wardrobe Casual clothes suit Ellis the best. Jeans, form fitting tees, and anything in that category.
  

 

[Abendrot]

남광민
❝Adrian Nam. ❞​

What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love?
Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger?
Do you long for having your heart interlinked?
Do you dream about being interlinked... ?
What's it like to hold your child in your arms?
Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing?​

❝ cursory information. ❞

【full name】— Adrian Kwang-Min Nam
【nickname(s)】— n/a
【gender】— Male
【age】— 42.
【sexuality】— Heterosexual
【d.o.b.】— August 8, 2049.
【place of birth】— Shanghai, China
【ethnicity】— Korean
【zodiac】— Leo

❝ appearance. ❞

【hair】— Black
【eyes】— Brown
【skin】— Tan
【height】— 199 cm
【weight】— 120 kg
【face claim】— Ma Dong-Seok

Adrian is a big guy. The kind of guy where you turn around to look at who just spoke and you go “holy shit what did they feed you as a kid”. He stands tall, and solidly muscled, with broad strong shoulders and biceps to rival some thighs. His penchant to constantly scowl at literally everything certainly doesn't help matters, especially when he's got the most piercing stare in the city. When off-duty, he prefers to wear clothes that he can move and workout comfortably in. Adrian does not wear any jewelry and prefers to keep his attire simple. The less bling you have to show off the less people are interested in giving you a hard time or you risk hurting yourself when throwing a punch.

❝ personality. ❞

Adrian is a rough around the edges kind of guy, but with his heart in the right place. He loves to laugh as much as he loves to scuffle. He's not one to start a fight but he sure as hell will finish it for you. His fuse is quite long but when enough is finally enough, look out because those sparks fly might far and fast.

Adrian operates on a sense of intuition. He believes he has a nose for sniffing out the best course of action. However, this usually blows back in his face. He’s experienced some supposedly easy jobs go sideways. He’s had his share of throwing in with some shoddy contacts, only to see trouble coming from it. Despite it all all, he’s proactive in finding a way to come out okay. Even if just by the skin of his teeth.

A double-edged sword, his mouth gets him in and out of trouble. He doesn't consider himself a savant with smooth talking people. His expression, his tone, and his phrases can be very polarizing. He's crass and blunt and that either endears himself with some, or alienates. Regardless he speaks off the cuff, and he's never careful to pick his words.

❝ abilities. ❞
【Power】— Weight Transferral

Adrian has the ability to manipulate the weight of his own body by transferring it to and from objects in his surroundings. This is accomplished by changing Adrian's mass, not by changing the effect of gravity on him. He can make himself grow proportionally heavier than normal, which has significant martial applications. Specifically, by tapping into his powers during key moments, Adrian can add force to his blows by focusing his weight into his fist, and can use added weight to withstand attacks. He can absorb weight from objects to make them very light and easy to move, or project his weight onto them to make them very heavy and impossible to move. Adrian makes a habit of consciously distributing his weight to his surroundings to make him about three-quarters of his normal weight, making him lighter on his feet. If he absorbs enough weight, he can quite easily fall straight through a floor with no effort. Transferring weight requires a good amount of focus; if he stops concentrating on a transfer or loses control of it, the transfer dissipates, and the borrowed weight returns to its source.
【Strengths】— Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His power allows him to be both light on his feet and an incredibly hard hitter.
【Weaknesses】— Transferring weight can have a serious toll on one's body. Projecting weight can make Adrian light on his feet, but it diminishes his stamina and makes him vulnerable to attack. Conversely, storing weight makes him slow and inelegant. Transferring weight too fast and too much can also have other effects on his body, including muscle loss, weakened bones, and extreme fatigue.

❝ psyche. ❞

【alignment】— chaotic neutral: Hellhound, capodecime, part-time bouncer at The Answer.
【positives】— Fun-loving, Daredevil, Family-minded, Intuitive, Improviser
【negatives】— Disillusioned, Blunt, Impulsive, Stubborn, Flippant.
【likes】— cars, Thai food, boxing, liquor, family, synth music, warm bedsheets, rain
【dislikes】— vagueness, heat, lonesli
【ailments】— n/a
【fears】— harm coming to his family, especially his daughter
【fun facts】

— Gave up smoking years ago when he had Naomi. But certain habits are there, and so he tends to keep a toothpick in his mouth, or chew pieces of grass if he’s out in a green area.
— His brother taught him how to cook, and he is very proud of the food he makes. Get out of here with your subpar bs.
— Will totally do the peace sign in photos and selfies. He's shockingly good at taking selfies.

❝ visage. ❞

Nam Kwang-Min was born in a foreign international settlement in Shanghai, China. As the second child of a respected family, he came from good stock. His father had been a decorated naval officer in Korea, and his mother was a partner at a successful legal firm, representing corporate interest on developing third-party mining colonies off-world. Kwang-Min grew up without a true need for anything in the universe.

He strode into adolescence. With his parents bouncing around frequently on business trips on Earth and off world, Adrian was left to his own devices and essentially raised by his older brother, Kwang-hee, and a domicile robotic unit. The lack of present genuine affection didn't weigh on him to heavily. After all he had the nicest and newest net games. However, his bad luck was around the corner.

In a rare instance, the Nam family was assembled together as a collective unit. They were aboard a transport vessel destined for a Gala event at an automotive factory in Busan. The event was marred in infamy as being the site that the family's competitors got their notoriety. Explosives planted within the building spelled the destruction of the entire Nam family, save Gwang-Min who was unlucky enough to live with the memory of smolder, ash, and screams burned into his mind. He was brought to a nearby private medical facility for intensive emergency care.

The cost that came with the surgeries was seemingly insurmountable, and it resulted in the liquidation of his mother's assets as payment.Neither the Chinese nor Korean governments had any intention on financially supporting the orphaned boy either, so he was soon introduced to the reality of hard living.

A runaway from his decrepit orphanage, Kwang-Min made his way across the sea to Japan. He resided in Tokyo's worst slums, stealing, street fighting, and whatever else he needed to do to get by. His work garnered him the attention of one of the local Yakuza sects, who took him in to work for them. From running small errands, to manning the doors at clubs - he grew up with the gang through his formative years. One of the outfit's few gaijin, he felt special in the eyes of the gang. He thought he'd die one of them too, and he'd do it with a smile on his face.

He eventually learned his final lesson of the outlaw lifestyle; Trust Nobody. With the massive societal upheaval in Japan due to the Change, the gang sold the now-empowered Kwang-Min out to the government, who were within their legal rights to detain powered individuals, even at the cost of ending them. Kwang-Min was able to flee Japan on a ship headed for Heartbeat City.

Kwang-min adjusts to under city life, permanently adopting the English moniker Adrian, learning who and what places to avoid if she wanted to see tomorrow. He makes it to makes it to a full decade in Heatbeat City, by now losing memory of what his parents looked like and forgetting his brother entirely. He met a city girl named Lana, with whom he started a relationship, and only a year of marriage had passed before their first daughter, Naomi, was born. He came to the attention of many in the criminal element over the years that followed, some positively and others negatively, and it was through this that Adrian found his way into the Hell Hounds.

Though their first interactions were anything but friendly, Adrian was faced with an offer to join the HH by the end of the misunderstanding, an offer he accepted. Gang life proved marginally different from the one he'd been leading back in Tokyo, as the HH were still quite small-time in the hierarchy of Heartbeat City gangs at the time. But what they lacked in numbers they made up for in tenacity, viciously defending the small patch of turf they claimed.

But as their victories amassed and they removed some of the competition from the board entirely and bloodied the noses of a few of the bigger names that thought them an easy target while they were at it, the notoriety of their own spread widely through the streets of Heartbeat. For Adrian, it's been a long and bloody road that's proved to be nothing more than a literal dead end for those nearest to him. A vicious cycle he now can't seem to break free of and is feeling more and more alone among a group he helped build into the beast it's become. It's this growing disconnect and disillusionment that's had him striking out on his own in secret in an effort to break free of the gang life. Though still somewhat tentative in his search, he's been finding work, unbeknownst to his fellow Hellhounds, among the other denizens of the underworld of Heartbeat City.

For all the vitriol he feels for it and the wedge it has put between him and his family, gang life is the only life he's ever known and the Hellhounds have been his only support system in the city, which has made separating from them more challenging than he'd thought. The fact that leaving would also mean being marked for death by them has made the issue all the more complicated.


❝ relationships. ❞

【wife】— Lana Kawakami: Their relationship is very, very open, however, and sometimes one might suspect them being more like best friends with benefits than an actual married couple. But when it comes down to it, they're utterly inseparable.
【daughter】— Naomi Nam: Only four years old. He has photos of her all over the place, so he doesn’t miss everything while he’s away at work.

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[mangomilk]

• — 𝐝𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫
• — 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞.
• — 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚.
• — 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬.
• — 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲.

• 
  
  name. quentin song
  nickname. q
  age. twentysix
  gender. cis male
  sexuality. queer
  dateofbirth. february, 14th
  zodiac. aquarius
  placeofbirth. busan, south korea
  race/ethnicity. korean
  theme song. freudian slips – fujiya & miyagi
• 
  
  hair. short dark brown hair, messily parted
  eyes. dark chestnut
  skin. slightly honey tanned, unblemished
  height & weight. 180 cm & 76 kg
  distinguishing features. straight nose, plump lips
  
  wardrobe. quentin enjoys fashion. his style is casual and almost effortless looking though he cares for details as he wears earrings and wristbands from time to time. loose shirts with exciting patterns fit him quite well but one of his favorite items is a washed out jean jacket from a thrift shop.
  despite his casual style he wishes to be able to buy himself a nice suit. to him, they express power and elegance.
  faceclaim. gikwang lee
  
  
  
• 
  
  personality.
  A charming rebel. Quentin surely turns heads and before you know, he casts his spell on you in one way or another. He has a way with words and wit that others often find intriguing in the sense that his humor combined with confidence and sarcasm create a style of communication that is very charming as well as entertaining.
  His appeal comes from a place of reckless improvisation up to the point where you feel like he must have a deep wish to die. His hasty decisions that can change any minute display this kind of behavior. Although these characteristics make Quentin a spontaneous and exciting person to be around with, his company has its price with the result of neglecting the people he’s around with and only focusing on his own needs and desires. The same flexibility that allows Quentin to come up with unique plans makes him drop them entirely as the initial excitement wanes and newer thoughts come along. As a result he has great difficulties to focus on tasks since boredom reaches him fast.
  
  He is the life of every party because his body and soul urges for entertainment of all kinds which only shows that Quentin is unable to be left alone with himself. Constantly looking for ways to distract himself from the problems to face each day, contributes to his lack of realistic view on the world as if life is just a game and each day is another level. When will the big boss come along?
  Quentin often pushes his own amusement past the tolerance levels of others which indicates his insensitivity.
  
  alignment.
  chaotic evil
  
  positives.
  adventurous, hardworking, competitive, humorous, active, laid-back
  
  negatives.
  impulsive, messy, cunning, bold, egoistical, sore loser
  
  likes.
  cooking and everything concerning food, exploring abandoned buildings, playing billiards, parties
  
  dislikes.
  train rides – they make him feel nauseous, cold temperatures, slow walkers, bland meals
  
  fears.
  not leaving a mark in the world, deep waters
  
  ailments.
  consistent back pains lately
  
• 
  
  power. Q doesn't possess any supernatural powers, his qualities lay elsewhere though.
  
  strengths.
  • Quentin is street-smart and easily adjusts to new surroundings and with time he developed a knack for pickpocketing since his natural skill to casually get in touch with people is a great help for that. He is your guy if you need someone to pick a lock and break into places without leaving traces.
  • Due to always waking up late for school and missing the bus, he became fairly well at running and doesn’t have difficulties to endure longer distances.
  • Although it doesn't seem so on first sight, he is able to figure out connections without showing any signs which is an indicator that a) he has a poker face and b) he is a good secret keeper.
  
  
  weaknesses.
  • Quentin is extremely unorganized which makes it hard for him to memorize where he put important objects.
  • He isn’t a born fighter, he has never learned how to defend himself well in a dangerous situation since he expects to gets away just in time; his lack of self defense is his biggest weakness as it displays the most danger due to his lifestyle.
  
  extra.
  – great cook, let him make your life more exquisite
  – stoner
  – good wingman
  – bad driver
  
  
• 
  
  background.
  

  낡고 병든 내게 당신이 준 꿈은.
  부서질 것 같이 완전한 빛깔.
  그때 아끼는 모든 것을 깨트린 나를.
  왜 살려두었나요? 왜 용서해줬나요?​

  
  In Busan, a city in South Korea, known for its beautiful beaches, cherry trees in spring time and colourful neighbourhoods, a boy named Kitae Song was born. His childhood wasn’t as colourful as the beautiful buildings though.
  
  He grew up in a half basement with his mother, his father and his two older siblings. His mother made money by sleeping with men because it seemed like the only way to receive enough income to take care of three small kids. His father didn’t know that for a long time, he was a gambler and didn’t care much for his surroundings either way.
  
  When the Change occurred, the chaos increased in the city as well as within the 30 square meters they called home. He was still quite young when the news marked the days people were gifted with powers.
  Large parts of his hometown were destroyed and the family was met with harsh living conditions. When he was fifteen, the crisis hit its peak as his father found out where the money came from all along and left them for a younger woman he was meeting for a while already.
  
  In school Kitae couldn’t keep up with his classmates anymore, he couldn’t live up to his mother’s expectations and his older siblings’ example. With the korean school system focusing on feeding children with excessive knowledge, there was little to no time for actually being a child either.
  
  The disappearance of his father didn't only have a negative impact on the children but also the mother. She quit working entirely and stopped feeling responsible for her children. They were able to keep their heads above the water barely by collecting meals from the food bank as well as small thefts.
  
  His destiny was about to change when his uncle, who lived in the United States of America, called the family to offer one of the kids a job in their business. Helping out on the market and in exchange they would provide what was necessary to send the kid to the local college.
  Kitae didn’t hesitate and made the decision to leave immediately, since he was the one to take the call, he felt like it was a chance meant for him.
  
  He didn’t say any goodbyes. His mother saw him leave and she probably knew he wasn’t going to come back.
  
  Since then life has been a crazy son of a b*tch in the States. It was soon obvious, that he wouldn’t use the name he was given by his parents here. It was common for asians to choose a name of the country they were living in to make social activities easier as well as to fit in. That's when Quentin was born and with the new name, new hopes and fresh confidence was gained.
  
  Ever since, Quentin worked at the small market (secretly embezzling the money of customers) and although he completed his education in high school, the promise of going to a college was never fulfilled. When it was certain that his uncle wouldn’t support him to put the earned money into Quentin's education, he decided to yet again leave and try his luck elsewhere.
  
  That’s when he ended up in Heartbeat City.
  He continued to pursue occasional jobs but ended up working in a stock hall in China Town, the district where he also lives now. Along the way he picked up a few illegal jobs and the risk that came with it made Q feel more alive than ever in his life, so he sticked with it.
  
  Now his main profession is taking care of the stocks and providing a safe space for criminals to sell drugs and weapons. After offering his working rooms to the gang known as the Hell Hounds, he was able to gain their trust over the past year. A few months ago he joined the gang officially and now takes part in their activities.
  
  
  
  relationships
  Jun Song – His father. He didn't talk to him since he left them which is the reason why he doesn't have any relationship with him anymore. He despises him.
  
  Jiwon Choi – His mother. He liked her more than his father but he and his siblings were rarely shown love since she was so busy and exhausted from her profession. He doesn't blame her, but he honestly doesn't really care either.
  
  
  
  
  

 

[Inb4Cloaker]

Spoiler

Karim Al-Bashir

• Basics
• Persona
• History
• Visage

• 
  
  
  “Those who bear powers are an affront to god, and humanity itself. Heroes, villains, and everyone in between who dares to exist on this planet with a power have already sinned, regardless of their deeds. It is my obligation to rid this city of them, no matter the cost. The world will not suffer any of the power wielding scum.“​
  
  Name: Karim Al-Bashir
  
  Age: 27
  
  Nickname: The Fanatic Purist
  
  Gender: Male
  
  Sexuality: Heterosexual
  
  DOB: 11/15/2065
  
  Place of Birth: Gaza Strip, Gaza
  
  Ethnicity: Palestinian Arab
  
  
• 
  
  ”I saw terror, and it manifested in the form of an unquenchable flame. What produced the hellish fire was far from natural, and they... it... was anything but human the moment it discovered its newfound strength.“​
  
  When unmeasurable confusion, a foreboding sense of hopelessness, zealous faith, and misguided anger combined within an instant, Karim opened his eyes to a mentality that reshaped his entire life.
  
  Without a doubt, he stands to accomplish one singular objective. Like a machine who only ever knew one task, he acts with vindictive determination. As such, he does not tolerate failure, and will quickly seek a way through or around any obstacle he encounters. For reasons pertaining to his lifestyle, he often has a suspicious attitude towards those who enter his life without warning, and has no problems ensuring that his feelings are known. For the most part, however, he will maintain a professional and friendly environment with those he has no ill will towards, and will do his best to provide assistance to those who are in distress. He prefers to take risks rather than play it safe, especially in circumstances that involve him working to accomplish his tasking. Citizens who bear no powers have nothing potentially hazardous to anticipate, with the exception of Karim deliberately providing misguided information to cover his tracks or using aggressive sarcasm.
  
  Those that bear powers often have a difficult time pinpointing his personality, mostly due to his unceasing desire to seek a way to eliminate what he perceives as his enemy.
  
  Alignment: Lawful Evil
  
  Strengths: Confident, Iron Willed, Observant, Tactical
  
  Weaknesses: Aggressive, Spiteful, Impulsive, Discreet
  
  Dislikes: Uncertainty, law enforcement, power affiliated personnel, dark environments, being questioned, alcohol, large fires.
  
  Likes: Situational control, clear communication, meditation, inciting fear, learning about others, pastries.
  
  Afflictions: None.
  
  
• 
  
  
  “The hatred and mistrust that surrounds the power affiliated is rightfully deserved, yet pitiful. It is easy to simply dislike someone, curse them under your breath, and silently wish for their downfall. It is another beast altogether to rise up against your enemy and use every tool you have to ensure they are destroyed with extreme prejudice. The time for silently praying for their destruction has passed. God has given me an instruction, and I intend to fulfill the order gifted to me.”​
  
  
  
  At seven years old, his home was close to seeing an end to the conflict that plagued the lands around him. Bombs had been collecting dust within insurgent hideouts, rifles were being disassembled or surrendered in an effort to seek peace, and Karim could walk down the streets alongside his family without fearing the stray rooftop sniper with a hidden agenda. For a moment, he and his family could face the reality of a life without war.
  
  Of course, that moment passed, as sure as the sun rises in the morning.
  
  The first reports of undisclosed anomalies were discarded as rumors, distant and unconcerning. As people discovered their newfound powers, the rumors were revealed to be true, and within hours, chaos ensued.
  
  The insurgent cells used their abilities to wage a new type of war against their enemies, the government began to implement policies that resulted in the death of thousands who never understood what was occurring, and the religious divide widened as the depiction of the powers changed from a heavenly boon to a demonic curse. People scrambled for weapons, made their threats, reached out for the higher powers that be, and prepared for war once again. For all it was worth, the bombs and bullets lost the intimidation factor they once held when compared to the unearthly abilities held by some.
  
  What occurred in the years following was nothing short of total armageddon. Cities and towns burned alike, and as powers grew to be more understood, the dance of war further evolved to adapt and accept them. Karim and his family were not granted any of the powers, and as such, they denounced the abilities. Instead, they continued to follow their faith, while peacefully opposing the utilization of the new abilities. They refrained from engaging in any type of warfare, and Karim foolishly believed that the choose would surely end, and the world would begin to brighten once more.
  
  The events that followed after Karim reached the age of seventeen are difficult for him to convey. While he doesn’t explicitly explain what happened, he does confirm that his family was incinerated by power users who were indiscriminately attacking anyone they came across. The loss of his loved ones deeply disturbed him, and broke the peaceful spirit he once proudly sported. It was time for him to join the fray. Karim joined like minded individuals who sought righteous retribution against those who used powers. Their tactics were underhanded, methods extreme, and code dogmatic. They would suffer no power afflicted personnel. As the years progressed, power users were more aggressively sought out and eliminated, regardless if they were avid users or simply unfortunate victims. It came with no surprise that the civil war ended with joint efforts from the local government and the fanatic purists against all who used unnatural abilities.
  
  His work was completed back home, however he heard tale of a place out west where some power users were idolized, and even encouraged to use their abilities to fight what they perceived as crime. With unwavering conviction and a new objective, he used the spoils of his previous conflict to set out for Hearbreak City. His arrival isn’t to pursue any dreams, nor to start a new life. Monetary gain and material wealth holds no sway over his actions, as such, he answers to nobody with the exception of his God. His presence within the city is purely based off of his desire to annihilate any and all power users he can get his hands on, and any organizations that endorse them.
  
  He will suffer no power wielding scum.​
• 
  
  “I stand as a messenger of god, obligated to deliver those who were marked to his graces, so they may be made whole yet again. If the helpless are not protected from the monsters that now walk this earth, they will be misguided with time.”​
  
  Appearance:
  
  Hair Color: Black
  
  Eye Color: Light Brown
  
  Skin Color/Texture: Dark Tan, Rough and Scarred
  
  Height: 6’3”
  
  Weight: 176 Pounds
  
  Distinguishing Features:
  
  • Full sleeve tattoos with various Arabic scripture along his arms, depictions of curved swords, and the flags of both Palestine and Iran, one on each wrist.
  • Multiple faded scars along his back, along with more scripture.
  • Several small tattoos that trace down his collar bone and to the middle of his chest, each in different languages. At the top is English, and it reads: God will forgive me.
  
  Wardrobe:
  
  • Karim wears the attire he brought with him from Gaza, which consists of earthy colors that favor brown and tan pigments. He typically has cargo pants bloused into tan combat boots, as well as button up shirts and a brown analog watch. Unusual apparel items he can sometimes be seen with are teashade sunglasses, a red and white checkered shemagh, and a dark brown military beret with a depiction of crossed swords on the flash.
  Face Claim: Cristian Condrin
  
  Theme:
  
  

 

[BreeDav]

-- DOSSIER.

name: Ford Hayes
nicknames: Known to the public as “Champion”
age: 33
gender: male
sexuality: while women usually draw his eye, Ford’s charms aren’t limited by gender.
date of birth: September 22nd
zodiac: Virgo
place of birth: Heartbeat City, USA
race/ethnicity: Caucasian

-- visage

hair dark blonde hair with sun-bleached ends. Carefully trimmed and styled.
eyes: Bright blue
skin: Lightly tanned. The beginnings of wrinkles show around the corners of his eyes, nose, and the center of his forehead.
height: 6’1’’
weight: 180 lbf
distinguishing features: He has a tattoo sleeve on his left arm that continues across his shoulder blade. It is mostly geometric designs but incorporates symbols for his family and of his first battles. The design ends sharply at his wrist and at his collarbone, following the military guidelines for tattoo placement (tattoos must not be seen while wearing uniform).
wardrobe: Ford enjoys the finer things in life. It isn’t rare to see him in one of his curated outfits while walking the streets of Heartbeat City. With time on his hands and money to spend, Ford has committed himself to keeping up with the fashion trends. He has an affinity for well-made peacoats, suede shoes, and crisply ironed folds along the front of his trouser legs. He usually dresses in cool tones and earthy colors, as he’s been told they complement his natural coloring.
face claim: Dan Stevens

proud
confident
charming

stubborn
selfless
show-offish

egotistical
greedy
arrogant

-- persona

personality: Ford is incredibly confident. Since his time at the Audax Corde Academy, Ford has relished his time in the public eye. He doesn’t bother being humble. He’s decided that after 4-years of intense training, he deserves any prize or praise the public is willing to give him. In his personal life, Ford doesn’t say no to many opportunities to have fun. In his professional life, Ford follows the guidelines set forward by Heartbeat’s government and the Audax Corde Academy. He does his best to be a role model, someone who can be trusted by the public.
positive traits (4+): charming, confident, proud, selfless (when it comes to protecting Heartbeat City)
negative traits (4+): egotistical, greedy, show-offish, stuck up, stubborn
likes (4+): nice views, the colors on the scale between sky blue and slate gray, having someone return his smile, when he has an excuse to brag about his achievements
dislikes (4+): feeling useless, being bested, having his days off interrupted, Heartbeat city’s south side.
fears: being forgotten, small spaces
ailments: An old injury to his right shoulder acts up when he overuses it. After the injury, he trained himself to be left-dominant to avoid the pains that flare-up.

Champions quit
only once
they have won

-- abilities

power: weapon mastery: When Ford holds a weapon, improvised or otherwise, he naturally understands how best to use it. With a supernatural understanding of combat, Ford can wield any weapon like a master.
strengths: Ford is comfortable in his own skin. He has always known how to move his body. When he fights, the movements are smooth and natural. Like a dancer, but with more weight and purpose behind the choreography. Through Ford was recruited into the Audax Corde Academy because of his natural talent in combat, he came out of the school with a good handle on how to sell himself. He deals with press well, often helping local police debrief waiting news crews when villains find themselves in trouble.
weaknesses: Ford is a strong personality and has been known to rub others with matching confidence the wrong way. Because of this, he isn’t a big fan of working in a partnership or a team unless he is clearly named leader. During training, he was constantly told that his undoing would be his inability to follow orders while in the field. When he moved into working as a superhero professionally, he never stopped getting those notes. Complaint after complaint was placed in his file; other superheroes he’d worked alongside, police officers who’d been unfortunate enough to run point on his missions, etc.

-- history

relationships (family, friends, dating, etc):
Aida Hayes-Montgomery [58]: Ford’s mother. The woman who taught him to do good, to consider others, and to know what is right. She was Ford’s biggest cheerleader when he was going through school. Every assignment that almost had his dropping out, every beratement he withstood, every time he felt like he wouldn’t make it through those four grueling years at the academy, it was Aida that talked him through it. He still goes over to his family home for her cooking and to help her with anything she needs.Myer Hayes [70]: Ford’s father. Myer and Ford were never as close as Ford and his mother, but they still had a loving relationship. Myer made it a point to be at every one of Ford’s football games, from flag to tackle. He was always the first on the field congratulating Ford once the team huddle was finished, win or lose. But he was a busy man. He worked in a tech company as one of the head Engineers. As the breadwinner of a upper-middle class family with three children, he took his responsibility to support very seriously. It meant late nights at the office and weekends spent looking over proposals. Even in retirement, he continues to provide for his family as an independent contractor and advisor to the company he dedicated his career to.
Reina Hayes [28]: Ford’s sister. Reina and Ford may not have been close when they were younger, but as they moved out of their childhood home they developed a closer bond. Reina followed in Myer’s footsteps and got a job working in tech as a software engineer. Ford and Reina have at least a phone call weekly, but will usually go out to lunch together. Their standing tradition is to take turns finding new places to eat.
Mark Hayes [13]: Ford’s brother and youngest sibling. Mark was Myer and Aida’s “happy surprise”. Mark has developed the type of over confidence that can only come from being a youngest sibling who’s been raised like an only child. When Reina moved out, Mark became Aida’s darling little boy. The two became absolutely inseparable. Neither Ford or Reina can stand Mark for any length of time, but at the request of their mother, they make time to hang out with him at least once a month.
background: Ford’s powers started developing early in his life. He was 15. He remembers going to a shooting range with his father for his birthday. It was something Ford had been asking to do since he’d seen his first action film. With the rumors of inhuman powers coming to light, the boy’s let his imagination run wild with thoughts of following in the crime fighting footsteps of James Bond. The second he touched the gun his father gave him, he knew how to use it. The 15 year-old had zeroed in on the target and let a round loose with the precision of an expert gunman. He continued to hone his skills and his powers. His parents made sure that he was registered with the government the moment that they were sure he had a power. They were so proud of him. He was accepted to the Academy straight out of high school. Reina had held a grudge throughout her teenage years. Whenever he visited home from the academy, she would complain that he got powers and all she got was their mother’s green eyes. He had a hard time at the academy. He’d expected everything to come easily, but they pushed him hard. His professors saw that he was good with weapons, so they trained him without them. It was four years of having every weakness picked apart put on display. It made him a better man. Those four years made him a superhero. After graduating, Ford was listed as a trained asset for the US government. At his request, he was assigned to Heartbeat city. Since his academy days, he’s been working with the city’s police force. He makes most of his money by doing appearances and interviews as “Champion”. He lives on the 52nd floor of The Heights in North Heartbeat. Through the years, he’s tweaked it so that the luxury apartment was is now his dream bachelor pad.
extra info: none

coded by natasha.

 

[jones573]

— DOSSIER.
Name: Felicity Ward
Nicknames: Superhero name 'Shield'
Age: 52
Gender: female
Sexuality: bisexual, dating history leans towards women
date of birth: July 7
Zodiac: cance
place of birth: Heartbeat City
race/ethnicity: white

— VISAGE.
Hair: Blonde curls, beginning to streak with grey
Eyes: grey
Skin: Pale, with wrinkles starting to form at the creases of her smile and eyes. Lots of scars from her years as a hero, but nothing massive.
Height/weight: 5’7”, 160 lbs.
Distinguishing features: Nothing particular.
Wardrobe: Professional attire for the most part. She hung up her fighting suit a few years ago.
face claim: Alex Kingston

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— PERSONA.
Personality: Felicity worked in emergency services as a paramedic before the change- She likes to help people, and she doesn't like to be bored. She is quick to action, and loathes stagnation. Though originally idealistic, her years as Shield have shown her that those ideals may not be feasible or even worth the effort. She hides her cynicism well, though, and continues to play her part. Behind the scenes, though- Well, corruption is everywhere. She might as well benefit from it, right?

alignment: Retired hero. Mentor to current heroes, teacher at Audax Corde Academy. But just because her credentials read 'good guy', doesn't mean her morals are the same....

positive traits: hard working | quick thinking | known to be loyal and committed to her team | confident | innovative
negative traits: disingenuous | materialistic | hypocritical | vain
likes: luxurious and high quality things | that thai food place around the corner from her apartment | reminiscing on the past | her dog
dislikes: not being able to use her powers anymore | her ex-wife | when new heroes don't show her the respect she believes she's earned | politicians | her doctors
fears: her disease, always about to attack again | being without her powers | something happening to cause post-Change levels of chaos again

Ailments: Relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. It seems to worsen if she uses her powers frequently, so she's done the 'right' thing and retired. She pretends it doesn't bother her. Every so often, she creates a small shield, the size of her coffee cup. Just to make sure she still can.

— ABILITIES.
power: forcefield generation and manipulation.

Before she retired, she could control a force field surface area of about 1500 square feet at any given time, though that decreased the more spread out that area was. (Basically, it would be easier to do one shield of 1500 sq ft than three shields of 500 sq ft.) She could create and control a forcefield up to approx 500 ft away from her. She could also 'fly' by zooming around on a small force field.

strengths: Felicity largely dealt with preventing damage, using her forcefields to protect civilians and infrastructure.

weaknesses: A forcefield is essentially just a wall- An incredibly durable wall that Felicity could control with her mind, but still. If the forcefield was under constant attack, it might weaken. Being incased in a forcefield bubble also did not prevent someone from using their own powers, or having powers used on them, as it was only a physical barrier.

— HISTORY.

connections of note:
-Beatrice Young, ex wife.
-Adelaide Young, ex wife's daughter.
-Members of her original team 'The Defenders', including Flood (moved to the west coast), RedEye (retired, no longer on speaking terms with) & Steel (died ~10 years ago).
-Current heroes! Let's talk to figure out what kind of relationship your character and Felicity might have!


background:

Prior to the Change, Felicity worked as a paramedic with Heartbeat City's emergency services. That love of adrenaline and drive to help others meant that when Felicity realized she could do something to make her city safer- She acted without hesitation. She was one of the original 'heroes' to emerge after the Change, and formed a group called The Defenders with the new allies she had made.

Eventually, the government got back on its feet, and being a hero meant being part of a bureaucracy. But Felicity was used to coordinating between departments, and leveraging systems to get the best results for the most people involved. She helped create the Audax Corde Academy, and consulted with other cities and regions on how to create a hero force of their own. A movie was made, based on her rise as Shield- Pretty loosely based, with a lot of liberties taken, but it was still flattering.

But years of fighting corruption have yielded very few results. Despite her best efforts, Heartbeat City remains much the same. And Felicity is... Tired.

There was no one particular point at which Felicity lost her way. But little by little, she realized the moral compass she'd been striving so hard to maintain wasn't worth it. She hadn't saved her marriage. She hadn't saved Steel. Who was she to think she could save a city?

And when she got the MS diagnosis, and the doctors told her that using her powers seemed to trigger worse and worse symptoms- Well. If she has to retire, might as well do so in comfort, right?

 

[Abendrot]

川上美咲
❝ Misaki Kawakami. ❞​

君が今の君自身であろうとする執着は君を制約し続ける
Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.​

❝ cursory information. ❞

【full name】— Misaki Kawakami.
【nickname(s)】— N/A.
【gender】— Female.
【age】— 37
【sexuality】— Bisexual.
【d.o.b.】— February 9, 205.
【race】— info.

❝ background. ❞

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❝ relationships. ❞

【mother】— info.
【father】— info.
【sister】— info.
【brother】— info.
【daughter】— info.

❝ abilities. ❞

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❝ psyche. ❞

【vices】— info.
【virtues】— info.
【fatal flaw】— info.
【happiest memory】— info.
【a secret】— info.

❝ visage. ❞

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&&— ❝ the role. ❞​

 

[low fidelity]

SALLY YOUNGBLOOD.

owner of sal's auto parts; a damn skilled mechanic,
and your plug for any not-so-legal prosthetics, if you pay the right price.
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[Abendrot]

Thalia-Margaux Andzouana

Freelance Netrunner
fc: Lousita Cash