ANNOUNCEMENT: Preparations for Episode 5

[Necessity4Fun]

SO MANY APPROVALS WHAT ARE WE AT NOW

The vote count table is updated, back on page 3, a couple posts after Kendrick's profile, Miss! OWO7

 

[Necessity4Fun]

welian Ask and you shall receive... It's a table!
I'll keep this updated

Character	Votes	Re-Approved?
Nicholas Chrysanthemum	3	Yes
Larry	3	Yes
Melody Vance	3	Yes
Lucas Marsolet	3	Yes
Hunter 'Red' Ward	2	Pending stats review
Marianne Ross	3	Yes
Jeremiah Johnson	3	Yes
Hadrian Alburn	3	Yes
Juliana Alvarenga	3	Yes
Cecilia Pellegrini	3	Yes
Eden Trammel	3	Yes
Kendrick Haywood	3	Yes
Chris Kravitz	3	Yes
Isabella Chase	2	Pending review
Gavin Dabbs	1	Pending review
Aaron Mallory	1	Pending review
Lars Magnusson	1	Pending review
Manami Hamasaki	1	Pending review
Page Morgan	1	Pending review
Kate Barrett	1	Pending review
Mitch Castle	1	Pending review
Anthony Costanzo	1	Pending review
Maximilian Shulze	3	Yes
Luther Rousseau	3	Yes

Pending:

• Review - Needs more critiques and votes/hasn't received critique yet
• Stats review - Someone requested stats clarification/suggested a change and it hasn't been done/cleared/re-critiqued yet
• Edit - Something in the profile needs an edit and it hasn't been done yet

Actually, let me do this.

 

[Syrenrei]

I'm going to abstain from future voting. This is going too fast for me to write stuff about the stats and folks are getting passed regardless. Tag me if I'm needed in here otherwise!

 

[ManicMuse]

Gus I am rusty, so please bare with me here.

Why does Lars always push my buttons, Gus? I always want to love him but then I always want to strangle him.

Here is my issue. He is too good at everything. He can't be not an engineer and then use satellites and tech for his creations. Even existing tech takes and understanding of how to work it and bend it to one's will. Either you got the skill or you don't. In the same breath, he can't have it all. He can have a lot. But not all.

He's rich, good at everything and his only weakness is being crazy and looking way too young for his age in his profile pictures!
He is a Maverick. I get it. But maybe he could have stolen the fortune in some other fashion or is really a wiz at tech and cut out another skill set? I also would strike Inventive entirely from personality traits. Narcissism would fit far better there.

If you could redirect where the fortune came from and give clear cut limitations I would feel better about him.

Inventive
While not much of an engineer himself, Lars has a penchant for finding new uses for existing technology. He mostly uses this for creating ever more elaborate illusions as well as pranks. Often both at the same time.


Next, he made a small fortune selling virtual reality tech under the brand name NeoMatrix technologies. He sold the company to Fenrir robotics in 2033 for 2.7 billion dollars, and retired at 29.

 

[ManicMuse]

*Carefully inches back in*

Gus

Don't hate me. o.o

Here is my concern, I feel that Aaron is leaps and bounds stronger and more powerful than anything else in this RP to date. I mean lets face it he is his own singularity.

Here is where my concern stands, abilities.

*Bulletproof
*Super strong
*Unmovable
*Teleporting
*Time traveling capable

These powers on there own are things we limit people to as a Main power with two small related back up powers. Now granted your character is a S class so that does allow for a little wiggle room. I guess my concern is that we do not have anyone that counters that level of power this single character has. It feels a bit uneven. This is not a slight at you or the character in general.

Random point, I feel he should have more points in energy. Just him being what he is, I would feel that should be almost maxed out.

I don't know. Am I just over thinking this? Do we have any contenders for S class power houses coming in the next Episode?

Kind
His heart is as soft as his skin is impervious.

Unearthly Strength and Toughness
The simplest way to describe his powers is that while his strength is virtually limitless in magnitude, it appears to be restricted to lifting, squeezing, and walking around. If he is trapped between two walls, he can push over whichever one is weaker. When lifting things, the weight is limited only by the structural integrity of the surface he is standing on. As for squeezing things, that is a great way to make things not exist anymore, unless you count conversion to quark plasma in the category of 'still existing'. His skin appears to be so dense as to be impenetrable, or at least, if any force in the world is capable of breaking his skin he has yet to encounter it.

• Gravitational 'Radar': Aaron can sense the presence of any mass within about 40 astronomical units. It is difficult for him to sense anything smaller than about a ton, but if he concentrates he can sometimes distinguish nearby objects down to about 100 kg, if they are moving. It is much easier to detect objects silhouetted against the sky. This sense is not blocked by solid objects, and can detect hollow spaces inside larger objects, if they are bigger than about 10 feet across.
  
• Wormholes: Aaron can open wormholes from the gravity well he is currently in to other sufficiently deep gravity wells. He can pass through the wormhole almost instantaneously, but the time required to open such a wormhole is just a bit longer than the time required for the light cone of the current gravity well to intersect the neighboring one. (Protecting causality, among other things.) The traces of the tunnel remain open for a few minutes after he passes through, and can be reused and slightly re-aimed during that timeframe. He cannot bring anything with him that doesn't fit snugly; anything more than about an inch away from his skin gets sheared off by tidal forces during transit. Aaron has just recently re-learned the use of this power after more than a decade of forswearing its use. He still walks most places, saving teleports for true emergencies.

 

[Lemon Boy]

ManicMuse Gus
I'm in full agreement with T-Rex in regards to her critique over Aaron & Lars, Much praise to you ma'am,
Other than that, I'm in acceptance of Kate & Anthony.
A minor issue I have with Manami is that she can apparently go faster than all but the fastest of torpedo's when submerged in water. Which...isn't really reflected in her stats at all?
I feel like she should be more along the lines of a B-A rank if she can have Superstrength & Superspeed.

Syrenrei DamagedGlasses
I believe I'm in full approval of Max & Luther and I'm sincerely glad that they're making a return. I like their dynamic and how it could evolve, so the two of them are amongst the characters that I take a particular liking to in the RP.

yoikes
Whilst I sincerely love the concept of Mitch, I am a bit confused about how her stats would work and being honest, I'm not actually sure how to improve on them either.
Would most certainly appreciate if someone more experienced in this area of stats gave their thoughts into this because I'm drawing quite the blank.

ManicMuse
I approve of Morgan, seems just as wonderful as ever.
In terms of Gavin, whilst I also approve of him, I'm a bit concerned and aware how hard it seems to actually properly put him into scenes with a bunch of strong supers and whatnot. In terms of suggestions, May I advise developing a potential plot for Gavin to try and enlist as the Community Service TA or something similar to that? It would align a bit more I think with his want to provide costumes for people and I'd imagine that Community Service as a whole is one of the more tame classes to deal with, especially for a normie.
I also approve of Isabella, glad she's making an appearance once again. Will take joy in seeing how she develops in the future

 

[ManicMuse]

Syrenrei

*Be all you can be in the army national guard* Sorry had to. Look at those Hero Stats. They are fitting though. These are the traits they would to instill in their people, so I can roll with it.

Fearless trait - Is she really fearless or does she just face fear and overcome it? Or is she just dead inside now? Inquiring minds want to know. I always considered Courageous and fearless and two different things. Courageous is knowing the odds and being fearful and still doing it. Fearless is that dumb*** who is a young pup, wet behind the ears, and just does not caring for the ramifications of their actions.

Super power - Can someone if they wanted, surprise her and in some way jolt her to get into her pocket, so to speak? Clearly not with hands but like a grabber?

Dimension limits - Weight limit? Over all size limit? I don't think you should have to put hard limits if other's don't have to. BUT if everyone is going to need to, these are things I would want spelled out. Even if they are outlandishly big and crazy. I just want something we could hold to if we needed to. You touched on it in the a size 4, I just think a weight limit of what she can carry would be nice.

-I would like a rough ammo count please... I hate endless ammo scenes. Even in movies... Yes, I count the gun shots!

 

[Syrenrei]

Syrenrei

*Be all you can be in the army national guard* Sorry had to. Look at those Hero Stats. They are fitting though. These are the traits they would to instill in their people, so I can roll with it.

Fearless trait - Is she really fearless or does she just face fear and overcome it? Or is she just dead inside now? Inquiring minds want to know. I always considered Courageous and fearless and two different things. Courageous is knowing the odds and being fearful and still doing it. Fearless is that dumb*** who is a young pup, wet behind the ears, and just does not caring for the ramifications of their actions.

Super power - Can someone if they wanted, surprise her and in some way jolt her to get into her pocket, so to speak? Clearly not with hands but like a grabber?

Dimension limits - Weight limit? Over all size limit? I don't think you should have to put hard limits if other's don't have to. BUT if everyone is going to need to, these are things I would want spelled out. Even if they are outlandishly big and crazy. I just want something we could hold to if we needed to. You touched on it in the a size 4, I just think a weight limit of what she can carry would be nice.

-I would like a rough ammo count please... I hate endless ammo scenes. Even in movies... Yes, I count the gun shots!

Fearless: She is more numb to it if that makes sense. Now that she's been through so many life or death situations she has become a daredevil of sorts, seeking thrills, because she's become too cavalier in a way. For years she expected several times she might die and so it became normalized in its own terrifying way. I hope that makes sense! She cares about ramifications but emotionally she doesn't have the reaction of being terrified. (This can also work against her at times)

Super power: If she had the portal open and willed someone to reach in with a grabber, yes. If she knew what they were doing, no. In and of itself that's its own flaw. If she was being shot and didn't know a bullet was coming, she'd be dead yo.

Dimension Limits: No weight or size limit; it is endless, timeless, boundless... but she can't affect anything once it's inside, just pull it out. If she can get it in it "fits" and won't collide with anything else. Think of asking the limits of a dimension like asking the size of the universe. It's like a vacuum in a way. The trick is the gateway (her) is of a limited shape.

Ammo: I really dunno, but she DOES have to reload...

 

[ManicMuse]

Fearless: She is more numb to it if that makes sense. Now that she's been through so many life or death situations she has become a daredevil of sorts, seeking thrills, because she's become too cavalier in a way. For years she expected several times she might die and so it became normalized in its own terrifying way. I hope that makes sense! She cares about ramifications but emotionally she doesn't have the reaction of being terrified. (This can also work against her at times)

Super power: If she had the portal open and willed someone to reach in with a grabber, yes. If she knew what they were doing, no. In and of itself that's its own flaw. If she was being shot and didn't know a bullet was coming, she'd be dead yo.

Dimension Limits: No weight or size limit; it is endless, timeless, boundless... but she can't affect anything once it's inside, just pull it out. If she can get it in it "fits" and won't collide with anything else. Think of asking the limits of a dimension like asking the size of the universe. It's like a vacuum in a way. The trick is the gateway (her) is of a limited shape.

Ammo: I really dunno, but she DOES have to reload...

Luther has my vote.

 

[Aldur]

Spoiler: Eve Knox

KNOX, E

• Stats
• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpower
• Skills and Flaws
• Tools & Weapons
• Gallery

• Heroism Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Courage	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱	08
  Altruism	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱	08
  Order	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	05
  Kindness	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱	07
  Proaction	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱	08
  Diplomacy	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱	07
  Composure	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	05

  Ability Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Health	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	03
  Strength	▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱	04
  Defense	▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱	04
  Agility	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Intelligence	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Willpower	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Energy	▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱	06

• Full Name
  Eve Kassidy Knox
  
  Nicknames
  BFG, Overkill
  
  Codename
  Jericho
  
  Gender
  Female
  
  Age
  26
  
  Rank
  A Rank
  
  Limiter
  Inactive, Level 3
  
  Role
  Teacher Assistant for Collateral Damage And You
• Race
  Caucasian, American with East European roots
  
  Hair
  Cyan, Originally Jet Black
  
  Eyes
  Cyan on top of black, metallic eyeballs.
  
  Height
  6"1'. The Imperial system sux ass.
  
  Figure
  Hourglass, toned and slightly muscular.
  
  Notes
  Tattoos on her body. Two bulky bionic arms, lines going down her face from where her muscles were blown off.
• Focused
  Concentration is key. Eve thoroughly completes any objectives she sets for herself. It is what makes her great at teaching since it's what she wants to do. There aren't many things that can distract Eve from following a path she made out for herself.
  
  Intense
  She shows strong feelings depending on the situation. This trait also reinforces her "focused" state. Eve is an intense young woman, passionate about her beliefs and aspirations.
  
  Outspoken
  Eve is frank in voicing her concerns, especially if they reach shocking or controversial levels. She believes it's better to be direct and not sugar coat things. Time spent thinking of a way to sugar coat something is too precious to waste.
  
  Brusque
  The woman can become abrupt in her manners or speech, but only if provoked. She would normally not put someone's good mood at risk unless there was a good reason behind it. Her tongue is sharp and will likely strike anyone who acts like an "asshole".
  
  History
  Eve's life began in Boston and moved to New York when she was 5. She has an older brother named Cole who spent a good amount of time raising Eve himself. Her parents did not want a "princess", so then the little girl turned into more of a little boy rather quickly. A "little boy" who aspired to be like her brother: independent and a role model. Eve had an interest in "building" things out of junk be it little statues or half-assed structures. When she got older, aside from taking a few martial arts classes and acing them, the little tomboy managed to convince her dad to teach her how to work with a welder. Suddenly, her works became a lot more sturdy and managed to stick together better. Every little bit of time she got, she spent it trying to come up with different builds.
  
  Eve discovered her powers when a building collapsed downtown, trapping people inside. In a desperate attempt to be a hero like Cole, she tried to dig a tunnel through the rubble, which she managed to do until her "advantageous" abilities tipped off the wrong wall, tearing her arms apart in the process.
  
  She managed to save some people from their prison. While in the hospital, Eve felt unable to replicate her abilities. Whether it was due to shock, the loss of her arms or her lack of experience she couldn't tell.
  
  In return for her selflessness, the Commonwealth funded a project to replace Eve's arms and in return, she would work for them. She took the deal. It wasn't easy recovering her powers, but Eve found that the arms helped her through the process and felt as if they were a natural extension of her abilities. It didn't take more than 5 months for Eve to take ahold of her superpowers.
• Aaron Iapetus Mallory
  Head Teacher for the Collateral Damage And You class. Friend.
  
  Cole Jacob Knox
  Brother. Lives in Boston, currently, and works as a Fireman.
  
  Claudia Catherine Knox
  Mother. Lives in New York with her husband. Works at a bookstore in Manhattan.
  
  Jules Jonathan Knox
  Father. Lives in New York with his wife. Works as a coach for the local high school.
  
  Pritchard Tyler Knight
  Friend. Tinkerer. Security guard for Facility 108
  
  
• Artistic Touch
  Eve can use amplified sound waves to vibrate any solid material at its resonant frequency with enough power to completely restructure its molecular matrix. She can't change one kind of material into a different one, just reshape it. This can easily knock down bridges or buildings or, in at least one past instance, pull the steel out of a building to make a makeshift bridge (and a rubble pile). Positively enormous amounts of earth can be shifted without much effort. Rock can be restructured almost as easily, but into more durable structures. The sound itself can't be heard by humans unless they have super hearing abilities. If they do, they would hear a low hum. Animals can also hear this sound.
  
  
  Limitations
  
  • Time Attack!: Under time pressure, building anything more complicated than a simple cave is almost impossible, but given time, who knows what she might be able to cobble together?
    
  • Affinity: Eve cannot bend liquids, gasses or plasma. Living matter is also generally too squishy to directly reshape in this manner, but can be very violently shoved out of the way in the process of moving other matter around.
    
  • 0 to 60: The rate at which Eve bends materials is not instant. Depending on density and size, the creations differ in speed of movement. The most basic thing she can create in a couple of seconds is a medium hole in the ground or an average human sized pillar. 1 minute is enough to build something akin to a solid bridge over a river or a 5 meter-tall platform. Intricacy costs time. For more "customized" constructions she needs more time, which is proportional to the amount of details added in.
    
  • Size does matter: Eve cannot bend or control objects that are too small, for example, cloth threads or bones. The size of the object has to be practical. She has a difficult time trying to manipulate anything smaller than 30 centimeters in diameter.
    
  • Out of Range: The range at which she can fully work with is around 30 meters in diameter. Anything over that range and she has a harder time reshaping. The hard cap is 50 meters. She can't "touch" anything that's more than 50 meters away.
    
    
    
• 
  
  Singer: Eve picked up a nice singing voice in her way through high-school. What she left behind, though, were her ambitions of making neo-rock punk a thing. Even if she looks back in disgust, she admits she likes to sing sometimes.
  
  Sculpting: Not necessarily in the literal sense, as she's far less effective with clay and marble. She has statues built with scraps of metal. Perhaps more kitsch than anything else. She has also extended this skill to working a "forge".
  
  Role-model: She believes herself that through Aaron Mallory's guidance she has become a better teacher and someone she herself could look up to.
  
  Childish: Perhaps she still isn't completely an adult yet. This brings about a little bit of naivete and a little bit of hopefulness in certain situations, and a certain hot-headedness in conversation.
  
  Hesitant: Fresh wounds carry with them uncertainty. Her new face will always be a reminder of what happened and how running into things headfirst leaves you blind. When under pressure, she might hesitate.
  
• 
  
  ICybernetic Arm Replacements: [Augmentation] Eve's arms are stronger and a lot more durable than an average human's due to their cybernetic nature. They act as a kind of catalyst which is also able to focus the energy for precision sculpting. In simple words, they're a prism. The excess energy produced by her powers the arms, so there is no need to recharge. Disabling the arms would definitely decrease the effectiveness of her powers, but not by much, since the energy does not come from the arms themselves. They're also a wicked pair of bass cannons.
  
  Face: [Augmentation] Due to recent events, Eve's face suffered a complete cybernetic overhaul down to the bone. Reinforced cranium has been added as the original had to be scrapped due to damage. Synthetic muscles have replaced her old ones and she has a new old face.
  
  Bionic Eyes: [Augmentation] In lieu of blindness caused by shrapnel, Eve's former eyes were replaced as well. These new eyes come with 16K resolution, zoom-in capabilities and the ability to store short clips and/or high-resolution pictures.
  
• Voice claim:
  
  
  

Here's Eve. Ready to be read like a book and be judged by you, honest people.

 

[Lemon Boy]

Aldur
A specified range of her powers would be mighty useful in gauging how much she can/cannot do and how far away she can be to do things. I'd imagine she can't do things halfway across the city.
I feel like her stats are too spread out and don't represent her actual power properly. She has a lot of stats in intelligence despite not really having any power related to that, so she's either a super genius or have some power I don't recall reading. I'd advise taking away two points from that and putting it into energy.
I'd also like an explained, explicit reason why she has such incredibly advanced cybernetics. She doesn't have much need of them given she has powers, why wouldn't she has been just giving fancy cybernetics but instead, they're just normal human level, kind of like Holly Kane?
Aside from the fact that The Commonwealth did it, I don't see a real reason why she'd be given such incredibly strong and durable arms in the first place. Much more standard prosthetics would work just as fine I imagine.
Specific examples for her limitation "Time Attack" would be wonderful as well. Such as saying what she can do in a minute, in five minutes, in ten and twenty etc. Would help clarify a bit more.
Personally to me, "Oh, The Humanity" isn't much of a limitation in regards to her power at all. I'd imagine the same would apply to most Supers in general, I feel like it doesn't really fit in properly. Unless she plans on getting injured and hurt even more and turning into a robot, I doubt the weakness has much actual relevance in terms of the overall RP.

 

[ManicMuse]

DamagedGlasses

I weep for the tux's that will be damaged in the episodes to come.



Ehhhh, iffy about this Bad Judge of Character. I mean he is worldly, well versed in talking to lots of people, from different walks of life. Its just... something seems off about it. Like maybe its Redemption for All or something. Forgives to easily?

Bad Judge of Character
With the lows of Maximilian’s life came an understanding of the situations the worst kind of people can come from. Unfortunately, while this does give him some ability to give even the worst to repent, he usually misjudges the personality and intent of those who intend to deceive him. Willing to let some unfortunate habits or telling side comment in the hopes of giving someone “a 2nd chance”, Maximilian isn’t stupid or unobservant, but is unwise with what he picks up.

Skill Collector: Maximilian naturally takes in the preexisting skills of those around him in a 80 foot radius. This process happens over the course of an hour and require's Maximilian to be conscious and fully aware of the person he is collecting from. Maximilian is not made aware of where skills he collects originate from and gains no insight into how exactly said skill was obtained and through what method the person gained experience in said skill.

Sooo I think I get it but bit confused. He knows what skills he is taking,right? He knows who he is taking it from? He just does not know how they got the skill or how advanced it is? Does he just download every skill that person has or can he pick and choose. Like if someone is an expert murderer but also an artist... does he just get both skills?

This concerns me in part because he could go to impart some knowledge of cooking for someone and find out this person he took the cooking skills from was a fail ass chef and flunked out of school (because he could not see now they gained the skill). But also comparing that to the next sub - power.... he has full knowledge now...

Skill Library: Maximilian possesses an accurate and categorized mind that catalogs all skills collected throughout his years. It convienently labels and provides insight into the level and explanation of each skill, allowing Maximilian to know which skills he has left to give in a 24 hour period. This power also allows Maximilian to delete unused skills and accept new ones with ease.

So after he has collected it, he has all the knowledge on the skill level and everything?

Now also what is the library limit? When he gives a skill to someone does he compile all files giving this person the best of the best? Or only one file/impression of this gift of his choosing?



Edit: Can he forget about a skill he collected and still have it. Like a bad memory moment? Maybe it just appears as a blank file in his mind?

 

[ManicMuse]

I approve. A general suggestion or inquiry. Ramifications from being able to recall so much. Do traumatic events from his past ever pop up at bad times and invoke any sort of issues given his mental clarity? Personally, the more distance from details and clear images of a trauma make it easier to separate from it. Given his gift, I would think that would also be a curse. Maybe he has trouble sleeping sometimes. -shrugs- Just a thought.

COSTANZO, A.

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• Stats
• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpower
• Skills and Flaws
• Tools & Weapons
• Gallery

• Heroism Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Courage	▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱	04
  Altruism	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Order	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱	08
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  Diplomacy	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
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  Ability Statistics
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  Health	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Strength	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Defense	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
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  Full Name
  Anthony N. Costanzo
  
  Nicknames
  Tony
  
  Codename
  N/A
  
  Gender
  Male
  
  Age
  22
  
  Rank
  D Rank (unregistered)
  
  Limiter
  None
  
  Role
  Commonwealth Testing Technician
• 
  Heritage
  Italian American
  
  Hair
  Brown
  
  Eyes
  Brown
  
  Height
  5' 9”
  
  Figure
  165 pounds (fit)
  
• 
  
  Shrewd
  Anthony's powers probably affect his outlook on life. He sees all the angles to a situation almost instantly. While he is not above using this to his own advantage, he also has wisdom enough to not rub people's noses in it or stretch his advantage so far that anyone would notice. Under the radar is where he's lived his life, and where he'd like to stay.
  
  Streetwise
  Growing up poor in Baltimore taught him a lot about what is really important. Reputation matters, but favors matter more. He spends a lot of his free time helping people, saving up favors for a rainy day.
  
  Observant
  Some people just don't see what is right in front of them. Anthony used to think there was something wrong with people. As he has gotten older, his inability to shut this off has made him start to wonder if he wouldn't rather trade places with the dim. They seem happy enough.
  
  Acerbic
  While he has gotten better at keeping a lid on this, except among family, his accelerated mind gives him a quick wit and a sharp tongue. He always seems to know just what to say to really sting. Sometimes, he just can't help himself.
  
  History
  Born on Rapture Day, Anthony has heard all through his childhood about what a shitshow commonwealth made of that. His family lost their home in some of the collateral damage from the fighting, and his dad was injured badly enough to need workman's comp ever since. They had to live in section 8 housing for most of his life, and his father's constant grousing eventually led his mom to move out and start a new family in another city. After 2 years of high school and a quadruple major in college, he was ready to be done with school for a while. Commonwealth needed a mail clerk, so he started there and worked his way up to assistant tester 3rd class in just a year.
  
  
• 
  
  Anthony Costanzo Sr.
  His father. They have a strained relationship at best. Anthony supports him, even though he grouses about his 'mini-Tony' even more than he did or does about his ex-wife. Anthony knows at least part of the reason he went to work for commonwealth is to try to be at least ONE competent member of it, just to prove his dad's many long years of ranting against them wrong. Recent events have been… frustrating for Anthony personally.
  
  Lisa Ramsey
  Anthony's girlfriend. She's a super shrink. A therapist for supers. It's because of her that he knows about his sublimated reasons for joining up with commonwealth, as well as the QCIC. It is also partly why they are together. He's never been with a woman who could tell him things he hadn't already thought of himself before. Even as quick thinking as he is, everybody has blind spots. Especially about things you are close to. So SHE says anyway. It is nice to have a sounding board. And she's pretty hot too.
  
  Lucinda Rae
  QCIC contact. All his missions so far are basically fetch quests.
  
  Joey Beladni
  Cousin, fellow member of the QCIC. Joey is a meta charismatic assigned to keep tabs on Aaron Mallory. He has dropped the ball in a major way.
  
  Batel Shapiro
  Another Q agent assigned to keep eyes on Mallory, but from a distance, and to an extent Weiss (or rather Ward) as well. She has a covert partner who Anthony knows by face but not name. That he even knows Batel is probably a violation of Q protocol.
  
  Huckleberry Kingston
  Coworker at commonwealth testing facility. Real smart guy. Talkative. Useful.
  
  Dr. Petrovich
  His boss. Total hardass sadist. You'd think sometimes he was aiming to kill these kids through testing. Never quite crossed that line though. At least, not yet. Not that he knows of...
  
  Guy Garbo
  His other boss. He is not supposed to know about Guy, but what can you do? He isn't about to let on that he knows, and he is pretty sure Lucinda doesn't know he knows. And anyway, it's not like anybody is going to speed read it out of his brain now are they?
  
  Harry Holden
  Good old Agent Harry. Talk about talkative! Holy Crap. Watta dork!
  
  
  
• Lightning Speed Processing
  
  Anthony can read whole books in minutes, solve complicated mathematical problems in seconds—provided he knows the relevant mathematical tools. He is no idiot savant however; he can also read social cues very astutely and come up with the perfect line for any situation off the cuff, whether he's picking up a date, or putting down a co-worker, he is never at a loss for words.
  
  
  • Eidetic Memory: Every book he has ever read, every sight he has ever seen, every dream he has ever had can all be recalled with perfect clarity.
    
    
  • Psychic Static: His brain works too quickly for telepaths to get a read on him. They still sense his presence and can tell some of the broad brush strokes like emotional state or whether he is awake or dreaming, but the details are unreadable. Trying for more than a few minutes at a time will give him and the telepath both bad headaches.
  Limitations
  
  • Thinking is Hard: Anthony has to eat roughly three times the calories of a normal human being to keep his brain fed. He also has to sleep at least 12 hours straight to feel himself in the morning. He also needs a least a couple of quick power naps during the day or he gets cranky. You do not want to talk to him when he is cranky. If he is deprived of proper sleep or caloric intake for more than a day, he has seizures. He calculates from the last incident that as little as 48 hours with no sleep or 72 with no calories would be fatal.
    
    
  • Focus is Hard: When your mind is always going a mile a minute, it is exceedingly difficult to pick one task and stick to it. As Anthony's brain is not physically different from a normal human, he cannot parallel process any better than the rest of us. If he loses focus and tries to multitask, all his projects suffer. Without nap time, his focus is the first thing to go. Unfamiliar or busy environments can also easily overwhelm him. He gets teased as a freak for how neat he keeps his office, but it is purely an act of self preservation.
    
    
  • Self Reflection is Hard: While Anthony rarely misses a trick, his powers of observation point outward not inward. He has to set reminders on his phone to eat and to sleep because he doesn't seem to be able to self regulate. He knows people, but not himself. At least once, during a mugging, he was stabbed and didn't notice until somebody else pointed out that he was bleeding.
• 
  
  World Languages: Anthony is fluent in Mandarin, German, Russian, French, Italian, and Spanish. He has a decent grasp of Japanese, Afrikaans, Dutch, and Portuguese. His native tongue is English.
  
  Molecular Biology: One of his college majors, with a focus on the ramifications of the A6G23 gene, especially testing protocols. (Including how to beat them)
  
  Quantum Physics: Another Major acquired in college, with focus on enigma particles and their interactions with other, better understood fields.
  
  Aikido: 2nd Degree black-belt. Trains every weekday, before and after work. Will be testing for san-dan soon. It is the perfect art for somebody who thinks fast and lacks raw muscle to win by brute force. Subtlety and trickery can win the day against a much stronger opponent, if you can set your ego aside and not fight the fight his way...
  
  Art History: Third Major in college. Picked up on a lark because of a girlfriend. Stayed because it was fascinating.
  
  Philosophy: Fourth Major. In Anthony's opinion, the only thing he ever studied that really was worth learning. Sadly, the least likely skill to ever pay the bills.
  
  Crochet: What? It's something soothing to do with his hands while he thinks. And it saves on presents when you can make your own.
  
  Streetwise: To an extent, Anthony is comfortable in any urban environment, but Baltimore is his home. He knows every street, alleyway, and service tunnel. He knows who to go to when things need doing. And he knows a lot of people who either owe him favors, or view him favorably. Usually both.
  
  Hacking: Not exactly in his wheelhouse, but he knows a few shortcuts and back doors. He also knows a few people who are better at it then he is. Also, with his powers, he can study up for specific targets with surprising speed.
  
  Cryptography: More of a hobby than a professional skill.
  
  Climbing : On Sundays, when the dojo is closed, Anthony goes to a climbing gym.
  
  Lip Reading: He taught himself how to do this during parties at college. Not as much because of the loud music, as because of the earplugs he wore to protect his hearing.
  
  Impatient: He is clever enough to hide it from most normals, but he absolutely hates dealing with people who are unintelligent. He can deal with their processing speeds, but the truly stupid make his eye twitch.
  
  Slight substance abuse problem: Mostly just alcohol, and mostly under control. So far.
  
  Neat Freak: He and Huck have a gentleman's agreement not to share lab space. It's not that it bothers him so much as that it robs him of focus to be in a room where things are out of place.
  
  Pedantic: He tries to suppress this in social situations with limited success, but needs to spend a few hours a day online correcting grammar and factual inaccuracies to vent the bottled up wrongness. He does not do so kindly.
  
  Sexist: Lisa won't stand for this, and as clever and amazing as she is, he has no trouble suppressing it around her. She's notably exceptional though. His default assumptions about women are that they are all flighty, dim witted, baby factories that are out to make his life complicated.
  
• 
  
  Item: [Hand held Enigma Particle Detector] Useful for tracking and detecting supers
  
  Item: [2028 Toyota/Ford Taurus] It runs. That's the main thing.
  
  Item: [First aid kit] Keeps it in the car.
  
  Item: [Various scientific instruments] Microscopes and such like. Keeps them at work. Occasionally borrows things for side projects.
  
  
• Theme songs:
  
  

 

[DamagedGlasses]

OH GOD!! QUESTIONS!!

Ok, I'll take each question and concern by order.

Ehhhh, iffy about this Bad Judge of Character. I mean he is worldly, well versed in talking to lots of people, from different walks of life. Its just... something seems off about it. Like maybe its Redemption for All or something. Forgives to easily?

You got me redhanded. I never liked my reasoning for using Bad Judge of Character, and I could never think of a way to accurately roleplay it. I like your Redemption for All suggestion and will implement it.

Sooo I think I get it but bit confused. He knows what skills he is taking,right? He knows who he is taking it from? He just does not know how they got the skill or how advanced it is? Does he just download every skill that person has or can he pick and choose. Like if someone is an expert murderer but also an artist... does he just get both skills?

This concerns me in part because he could go to impart some knowledge of cooking for someone and find out this person he took the cooking skills from was a fail ass chef and flunked out of school (because he could not see now they gained the skill). But also comparing that to the next sub - power.... he has full knowledge now...

When I say Max has to be aware of a person, I'm referring to people around him he isn't aware of. Max is constantly receiving skills of all kinds from the people he is aware of, such as those who aren't hiding from him or have been noticed by Max. However, he doesn't instantly put them into his library and instead sorts through them before accepting or denying them. It's become a sort of pasttime for him to sit down and receive thousands of skills from the people around him and deny or accept. It's through the use of Skill Library sub-power that he gains an accurate sense of the level and explanation for what each skill refers to. Basically, his power translates the thought power and muscle memory of his target into an easily sorted through library.

If an artist with the killing skill got within Max's range, yes, he would get both skills, but he would have no idea that they both came from the same person, nor would he know which person they came from, unless, I guess, he was the only person he was aware of within 80 feet of him.

So after he has collected it, he has all the knowledge on the skill level and everything?

Now also what is the library limit? When he gives a skill to someone does he compile all files giving this person the best of the best? Or only one file/impression of this gift of his choosing?

I'm going to point you to his Limitations, because they answer most of your questions. Also, he can't give someone a bundle of skills put together from bunches of people and labeled as a new broader skill.

 

[ManicMuse]

Necessity4Fun

I approve:

Anthony N. Costanzo Gus
Maximilian Adrien Shulze DamagedGlasses
Luther Simone Rousseau Syrenrei

 

[Necessity4Fun]

Necessity4Fun

I approve:

Anthony N. Costanzo Gus
Maximilian Adrien Shulze DamagedGlasses
Luther Simone Rousseau Syrenrei

Ohhh practical, I was just about going through the newer posts >w<
Why can't everyone do it like this? XD

Kidding!

 

[ManicMuse]

I have concerns about the Hulk paradox with Mammers here. Yes, that is her nickname in my house.

She is a normal Super, until she is not. It's that switch over that worries me. Honesty, part of me wants to rank her as an A ranking. I am just torn. The amount of damage we are suggesting she can do in her other form makes her a higher ranking Super. I also worry about lack of realistic in game limitations for after she hulks out.

Plus, only her strength stat moves. When in reality at least from how it seems rewritten, everything improves. She gets a boost across the board. Stronger, faster, likely harder to knock out than her little normal self. I personally feel we should see a shot gun spray of boosted stats for her change over. Meaning that again would suggest a higher ranking Super.

I don't know. I have my reservations about lack of limitations or restrictions to Hulk Manami.

Hamasaki, M

• Stats
• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Skills and Flaws
• Gallery

• Heroism Meter
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Courage	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰	09
  Altruism	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰	09
  Order	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱	07
  Kindness	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	05
  Proaction	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	03
  Diplomacy	▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱	06
  Composure	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01

  Ability Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Health	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Strength	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱	3/7
  Defense	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	03
  Agility	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Intelligence	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Willpower	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Energy	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01

• Full Name
  Manami Hamasaki
  
  Nicknames
  Umi
  
  Codename
  Stingray
  
  Gender
  Female
  
  Age
  Approximately 23, exact birthdate unknown
  
  Rank
  C Rank
  
  Limiter
  Active chip, Level 2
  
  Role
  Student
• Race
  Japanese
  
  Hair
  None
  
  Eyes
  Black
  
  Height
  5'4” OR 6' 11”
  
  Figure
  Lithe and lean (125 pounds) OR Massive and Muscular (275 pounds)
  
  Notes
  Blue scaly skin, flattened nose, nictitating membrane over eyes, gill slits below ears, webbed digits, needle like teeth, brow ridge and other fins. When angered or desperate, especially in aquatic environments she increases about 30 percent in height and more than doubles in muscle mass.
  
• 
  Self Sacrificing
  Manami could hardly be more selfless. It is not that she will go out of her way to help a friend in need. She will drop everything to help anyone with anything.
  
  Disciplined
  Her tendency to subsume her aims for others would almost be crippling except for her single mindedness of purpose once she has set about to complete a task. If you could get her distracted, you could probably redirect her to a different task just by asking, but distracting her once she is engaged is no mean feat.
  
  Patient
  While in 'docile' mode, Manami has almost limitless patience. She will put up with almost anything, apart from a physical threat to herself or to Kyo or Makoto.
  
  Timid
  Manami is by nature quiet and shy of people. She is terribly afraid of the 'oni' inside of her, and does not like to let it out.
  
  History
  Manami was born about twenty years ago, presumably in or near Japan. She was discovered floating in the open sea off the southern coast of Kyushu by a husband and wife on their fishing vessel. They informally adopted her, and together the three of them have fished their way across two oceans. Her past is largely unknown, even to herself. Sometimes she has flashbacks, but refuses to talk about them. She is an atypical C rank super, in that her powers are virtually undetectable (apart from the obvious physiological differences) unless she is submersed in water, or very recently emerged from it. Only in the ocean can she reach her full potential. She is more graceful, strong, and clear minded when she is not expending so much effort fighting for each breath. Tragically, when she returns to her natural element, she feels more keenly than ever how alone she is, and wants nothing more than to get back to the surface world where she has a family, and can at least dream of having friends.
  
  After almost three years, her adoptive parents have reached an impasse; they have taught their daughter all they can, and they are very proud of her progress. Last month though, they docked in Baltimore, and the terrorist attacks made them realize that there are things a super needs to know in the world as it stands that they don't know how to teach her. On the morning of January 24th, they showed up on the doorstep of 108 looking to further their daughter's education.
  
• 
  Kyo and Makoto Hamasaki
  Manami's adoptive parents. They live with her on their 30 foot fishing boat, and have been moving from place to place for six years. Raising Manami has been, like raising any child, both terrifying and rewarding. The scale and character of the challenges however, were unique. She was a bit of a blank slate when they first encountered her. At first, she was prone to violent outbursts, but that was quickly moderated by her strong desire to please. She seemed to be so starved for kindness that they could hardly help but give her all they had. She soaked up their love and tried her very best to become the child they had waited too long to have. Makoto taught her to fish, and to make top notch sushi. Kyo taught her martial arts, specializing in the naginata, which gave her a much needed focus and outlet for her occasional violent urges. They are her world. Up until recently, she was halfway convinced they were the whole of the world, and she is a little alarmed to realize just how many people there are in this new place.
  
  Kendrick Haywood
  "Kendi-Kun" was Manami's first real friend, not just at 108, but in the world. She still cares deeply for him, but sees him a little differently since the day of the Jailbreak, where he showed that he can be mean sometimes, even with little to no cause.
  
  Sensei Mallory
  Mr. Mallory looks funny, but he is kind. On her first day, she misunderstood and thought Mr. McNabb was named Mr. Mallory, but her confusion was soon fixed by Kendrick.
  
  Sensei Ward
  Mr. Ward is even funnier than Mr. Mallory. He may seem gruff but Manami has taken combat training before, and she knows the difference between martial discipline and mean.
  
  Sempai Vicky
  Sempai has laser eyes, but she doesn't want to use them. Manami sometimes wishes she were normal too, so she thinks she understands, but she can't be sure. Sempai Vicky doesn't seem to want to talk about it.
  
  JJ
  Jay-Jay seems a little shy at first, but Manami has been on two adventures with him now, and maybe he is not shy at all.
  
  Green Hair Girl(Bianca Atillo)
  Green hair girl seemed mean, but then Kendrick was even MORE mean. Manami wishes everybody would be more nice.
  
  Sensei McNabb
  Of all the teachers, Mr. McNabb has the most fun classes. He smells like fish and he makes funny jokes to make Manami laugh. She is also very concerned with learning about emotional composure because she hopes it will keep the Oni securely locked inside her forever.
  
  Sensei Van Can
  At first she seemed very strict, but she is actually the most understanding teacher at the school. She has long talks after class with Manami which she enjoys so much she sometimes is late for supper.
  
  Sports Bra Girl (Julie)
  She fell out of the sky one day and squashed Kendrick, but Manami wasn't watching and only heard about it later, which is probably good for both of them.
  
• Codename: Stingray
  Manami can breathe underwater and swim faster than all but the fastest torpedo. She has eight inch retractable stingers hidden in the fleshy part of her forearms. They have barbed ends and razor sharp edges. She also has enormous strength potential, but can't tap it fully while on dry land.
  
  
  • Attack mode:
    When angered or threatened, Manami has flashbacks of some kind, which can sometimes cause a dramatic physical response. Her body increases in size, more than doubling in muscle mass. Her normal stingers extend outward on twelve foot long muscular whips. Her strength increases to well beyond normal human capabilities, though breathing air curtails her power severely. These episodes can last for as little as a few minutes, or up to several hours depending on stress levels during the incident.
    
  • Deep ocean life support: Manami is virtually immune to cold as well as changes in pressure, and has low light vision and EM sensitivity (but only in salt water)
  
  Limitations
  
  • Animal Savage fury:
    When she shifts into attack mode, Manami's intelligence and will are both reduced to subhuman levels, and she acts on pure instinct.
    
  • Limiter chip kicks in hard:
    When reverting to docile mode after an incident, the shock knocks her unconscious for anything from 2 minutes up to 24 hours depending on how long she was in her savage state, and how much effort she made. Regardless of those factors, she is always ravenously hungry when she wakes up.
    
  • Worst of both worlds:
    She gets sick if she does not spend at least an hour exercising in the water each day; eventually she would dry out and die. Contrariwise, the longer she spends in the water, the less connection she feels to her life above the waves. She is terrified that if she spends more than a whole day in the water that she will lose her humanity altogether and become the monster inside her forever.
    
  • Monstrous appearance:
    Even when her inner demons are under control, by normal human standards, she looks like a monster on the outside. For a young woman trying to find her place in human society, this is more than slightly problematic.
    
  • Gills work better than lungs:
    While she is unusually strong for a young woman of her height and weight, breathing air is not good for Manami. Eventually, if she doesn't get breaks from it, it would kill her. As it is, she gets clumsy and struggles to think clearly after barely a minute of struggling for breath. Her muscles are also severely limited in potential when she can't get enough oxygen.
• 
  Skills
  
  • Martial Arts: Traditional women's style, specializing in Naginata and Jiu Jitsu tricks.
    
  • Hunting: Deep sea fishing is a very different skill for Manami than what her foster parents practice. Nevertheless, she is extraordinarily skilled at it.
    
  • Cooking: Sushi is a speciality, but hardly the only thing in her repetoire.
    
  • Limited English: Getting better everyday
    
  • Stealthy swimming: She can also be pretty quiet on land, but is especially stealthy in the water.
  
  Flaws
  
  • Excitable: Manami gets excited about the least little thing. The only force on earth more powerful than her shyness is her enthusiasm for life. Does that not sound like a flaw to you? You obviously have not spent enough time around her yet. In addition to being overly cute, her naivete can result in her getting enthusiastic about some very bad ideas.
  • Slow witted: She does better in the water, but most of her friends are land dwellers. She tries to keep up, but gets easily confused. Partly the language barrier, but mostly the hypoxia.
• Theme song:

 

[ManicMuse]

Necessity4Fun

(Yes, I know he is already approved.)

I approve:
Kendrick Haywood

Can't even find a suggestion I would make. Great job on limitations.

 

[Necessity4Fun]

Necessity4Fun

(Yes, I know he is already approved.)

I approve:
Kendrick Haywood

Can't even find a suggestion I would make. Great job on limitations.

Hey, I don't mind if people want to re-evaluate them. I only have things to win from that >w<
Haha yeah, except for number 4 tho (which I had to do because King [iirc] asked if he could manipulate a blow-sex doll or whatever they are called), they have been like this since iteration one of the CS.
He was a really thought through concept, unlike Cecil. Comes to show a lot of my progress in this RP, CS planning wise.

Well, Cecilia gets a spoon of sugar, I WAS coming back from a 3 year RP hiatus >w<

Thank you for the compliment >///<

 

[Teh Frixz]

Aubin-Mignault, A

• Stats
• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Skills and Flaws
• Gallery

• Heroism Meter
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Courage	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱	07
  Altruism	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	03
  Order	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Kindness	▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱	04
  Proaction	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	05
  Diplomacy	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Composure	▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	04

  Ability Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Health	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	05
  Strength	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	05
  Defense	▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱	04
  Agility	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	03
  Intelligence	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Willpower	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Energy	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01

• Full Name
  Avoyelles Aubin-Mignault
  
  Nicknames
  Aveey, Elles
  
  Codename
  The Crawdad
  
  Gender
  Female
  
  Age
  26 Years
  
  Rank
  B
  
  Limiter
  N/A
  
  Role
  Active Villain - WANTED
  (Larceny, Grand Larceny, Burglary, Theft, Grand Theft, Aggravated Assault, Property Damage, Failure to comply with Superhuman registration)
  
• Race
  Acadian American (Cajun)
  
  Hair
  Dirty Blonde
  
  Eyes
  Blue
  
  Height
  5' 6"
  
  Figure
  While youthful and fit from sparse eating and high amounts of cardiovascular activity, Aveey has an active 'pear' figure, with hips wider than her shoulders.
  
  Notes
  At different times, she is known to possess and show several monstrous traits. Ranging from horns, carapce like skin, tentacle mouth, claws, reptilian eyes, multiple eyes, antennae, gills, multiple legs, webbed limbs, etc etc. At all times she has an extremely thick Cajun accent.
• Motherly
  Not even deep down, Aveey has a considerable nurturing side. Especially for young children. Her cares sometimes prioritize the safety and happiness of children she has access to over her own well being. This trait sometimes imprints itself on adults and teens she sees as weak or hurt. Aveey, if able, will play the role of a surrogate mother to nearly everyone if she had it her way.
  
  Prying
  It's hard for Aveey to not know things, her natural curiosity and brightness manifesting as an urge to peek and pry into events not meant for her to witness.
  
  Bullheaded
  My way or the highway. Aveey knows what has to be done to keep herself and others alive and isn't some bright eyed pollyanna. When her mind is made up, she is hard to distract from satisfying her choice.
  
  Larcenist
  Aveey has little to no respect to property other than her own. If it's out there, it's up for grabs. If she's strong enough to take it, then she will. Especially towards things that are serving no purpose other than to show off visible wealth. Aveey has no particular taste though and steals as she sees fit.
  
  History
  Born into a very large and very poor family, Avoyelles was a fairly bright little girl growing up in what amounted to abject poverty. Her family was easily considered extended. By the age of ten, Aveey was acting as a mother to the majority of her siblings and half siblings. As things went, Aveey was the oldest in a generational gap. Her older siblings well over 18 by the time she could talk, most of her growing up was at the hands of several different women in the sprawling Aubin-Mignault estate. A dilapidated manor that truly should have been demolished years back. The adults inhabiting it kept the downstairs running, meaning electricity, gas, and television but the upstairs was the realm of the children. Despite the conditions and abuse, the large group of kids did manage to take care of themselves for the most part. There was no talk of school and at 18, most were booted out for good unless they agreed to pay 'their fair share' Most never lasted that long and would leave before reaching 18 anyways.
  
  Aveey though, she stayed. Doing the best she could, she would feed clothe and protect her siblings from the sorts of challenges one would face living in a manor sinking into a swamp. Money earned selling bait and game she used to buy clothing for her siblings and even got a couple of them to a doctor now and then. Then at age 16, Aveey became pregnant for the first time. At first she didn't notice but before long it became clear. Unsure exactly of how and when it had happened, Aveey attempted to hide it. Didn't take long for her condition to be noticed though and she was subsequently beaten by her mother and father. Aveey miscarried but the stress on her body for those few weeks before was enough to activate her latent genes.
  
  Slowly, but surely, Aveey began to change. At first thinking it was still symptoms from her miscarriage but miscarriages didn't make people grow a shell. Or horns, or claws or anything like that at all. Panicking, she tore at her own skin in hiding, pulling off the chunks only to feel them grow back that night. In desperation, she ran away. Ran far away. By the time she reached the outskirts of the nearest town, she looked every bit a monster. Roughly twelve feet tall and resembling a cross between a demon, a lobster, an octopus and a shark-human hybrid, her arrival during witching hour at a gas n go wasn't well received. She tore into the shop, wanting to scream but having no mouth to do so. The owner's shotgun having no effect on the monster, he rapidly beat feet and fled. Left to her inadvertant rampage, Aveey took whatever she could and fled back into the swamp. Her night passed, spent mostly alternating between sobbing and roaring before waking up in the morning.
  
  She was back to normal. The monstrous husk had cracked in her sleep and she slipped out. And all the stuff she took in desperation was still there! A plastic bag full of enough money to pay her share and to support a few of the weaker kids. Aveey returned back home with little a do in her absence. All went well enough as one could expect until it began happening again but this time Aveey was prepared. Hiding and shedding became a regular occurrence and life once again became somewhat normal for her. Spending four more abuse filled years home, the Manor finally gave way and caught on fire. By no small miracle, none of her family was lost in the blaze but Aveey, now 20, knew they had to get the kids somewhere to survive. Taking as many as she could, Aveey marched the small platoon of children into town where police and eventually social workers got involved.
  
  For a while, Aveey thought everything would be okay until government workers began checking blood and genes. A few of her siblings got tagged and taken away by people she couldn't trust and she knew that they'd be coming after her. With the clothes on her back and the past behind her. Aveey gave a tearful goodbye to her brothers and sisters and set off on her own.
  
  Six years later and still making her way, Aveey continues to steal and evade the law to survive. A cross country spree of theft leading to her new future in the magical city of Baltimore.
  
• 
  Other Character's Name
  
  As the Crawdad, Aveey has actually made a little bit of a name for herself and has a couple working relationships with active 'superhero' types and various vigilantes. Luckily, Aveey hasn't actually killed or horribly injured anyone on purpose and is seen with some leniency by the Superhero community.
  
  Evangeline Aubin-Mignault
  
  Her younger sister by a few years but an actual sister and not a half sibling, Aveey scrimped and saved and actually provided this one with a phone and data plan. After leading her clan out of their swamp home, Evangeline vanished from her life. Now it seems that little Linnie is grown up and working at 108. How has time and life changed these two?
  
  
• The Monstrous Form
  Slowly but surely, she grows a monster 'shell' around her body. A slow process that takes about a month before she is no longer recognizable as a human being. The monster will continue to grow and shift until she makes a conscious decision to shed. Shedding takes about a day with her monstrous exterior slowly calcifying before eventually splitting open and a completely human form spilling out. The left over monster 'shell' will dry out and rot as a husk. The growth process is obvious, starting immediately over as she sheds. Daily shedding can be done quickly but this processes speeds up the overall growth rate, only normalizing when the growth is allowed to go to 'term'.
  
  
  • Underwater Proclivity: The monstrous form can breathe and is well suited to being underwater, Aveey cannot replicate these feats in human form.
    
  • Adaptive Body: Aveey has some minor influence on her form, allowing for a wide range of physical attributes that are decided while she is growing her shell.
  
  Limitations
  
  • Slow Growth: Even if Aveey prolongs the shift as much as possible, it would still take a couple hours to fully transform.
    
  • Inhuman tongue: In her 'monster' form, Aveey cannot speak. Her words come out as gurgling, roaring, and clicking. In human form there is not much improvement.
  • The madness of the deep: Her monster form isn't the best to look at and can cause a primal sort of terror in simple creatures that can't understand the alien form.
  • Unending Change: Aveey never stops the cycle of transformation, merely able to delay it. Which in turn causes a rapid increase in the cycle's rate of change.
• 
  Skills
  
  • Gourmand: Aveey is an exceedingly apt cook. Strongly rooted in her culture, Aveey is able to craft and plate a number of delectable French, Cajun, and classic American dishes.
    
  • Appraisal: Not all that glitters is gold and Aveey has a knack for knowing how much she can get for an item in both legal and black markets.
    
  • Child Rearing: Aveey has raised nearly fifteen children in a plethora of different states and nearly all of them have turned out to be upright young adults despite their horrible situation.
    
  • Wilderness Survival: Having grown up in a sinking manor in a desolate swamp, you learn a thing or two or end up dying in a hole.
  
  
  Flaws
  
  • Illiterate and incomprehensible : Aveey, while a bright girl, is nearly completely illiterate outside of her native tongue. Speaking only a mish mosh of both Acadian and English, her words are often so....different from their original meaning that she may as well be speaking jibberish. To top it off, she cannot write and can read very little. Only if she says things out loud to herself does Aveey manage to understand the meaning behind the difficult symbols.
    
  • Rough & Tumble: While obviously maternal and filled with love for people, Aveey is very rough around the edges. Her standards of what qualifies as safe or dirty don't mesh up with modern families. As long as no alligators were obviously there, swamps and ponds were pools. Her half rotted derelict of a house was a home of safety and refuge and children should be expected to pick up many bumps, lumps and bruises along the way.
• Although there is now a spot for a character image (since most of you have one), the Gallery tab remains as an area for you to post additional images, theme songs, and so on.

 

[Teh Frixz]

CRANE, T.

• Stats
• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Skills and Flaws
• Tools & Weapons
• Gallery

• Heroism Meter
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Courage	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Altruism	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	03
  Order	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Kindness	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	05
  Proaction	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Diplomacy	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Composure	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01

  Ability Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Health	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Strength	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰	09
  Defense	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Agility	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Intelligence	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Willpower	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Energy	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01

• Full Name
  Tabitha Crane
  
  Nicknames
  Tabby
  
  Codename
  ---
  
  Gender
  Female
  
  Age
  17
  
  Rank
  B
  
  Limiter
  3
  
  Role
  Student
  
• Race
  Caucasian
  
  Hair
  Black
  
  Eyes
  Amber
  
  Height
  6' 0"
  
  Figure
  Lanky, Tall, triangular
  
  Notes
  Height varies considerably
  
• Faithful
  True to her word, Tabitha goes out of her way to fulfill promises, speak the truth, and live a life free from the burden of lies. She also goes out of her way to make sure that anyone she dedicates herself to comes first.
  
  Docile
  She doesn't raise her voice. If someone has to step up, that's their concern. If that's the way things are, then Tabitha won't be making a fuss. She doesn't make waves and would never be the squeaky wheel. Just happy to be included, Tabitha enjoys letting others take the lead.
  
  Intuitive
  Tabitha naturally reads into people. She understands why people say or do the things they choose to do and uses that for her own purposes. Maybe sometimes she feels people are just a tad obvious but it's not a bad thing. It's just part of what people are.
  
  Weak Willed
  Tabitha isn't a coward or anything but she lacks considerable willpower. Crumpling in the face of adversity and rolling over for nearly everyone, she lets the world run roughshod over her life. Her parents plan her life, her friends rule her social world, and she is very easily bullied about everything.
  
  History
  An only child to a military family, Tabitha from an early age on was in a constant state of packing, unpacking and repacking her things. Crisscrossing the globe back and forth isn't conducive to a healthy social life, even in the modern age of communication, so Tabby never managed to find herself a real sort of friend.
  
  Reclusive up until around her twelfth birthday, the relationships she managed to form were heavily one sided. Tabby, just happy to have someone sort of close, would give her all in a servant role to whoever had enough gumption to tell her what to do. After receiving word about yet another, and more permanent, transfer to the Baltimore area, the Crane family packed up settled in. Immediately enrolling their specially talented daughter in a much more prestigious school and forcing her into a couple more social programs to get her out of the house.
  
• Nancy Crane
  Mother and primary caregiver for Tabby
  
  Gregory Crane
  Father and recent local politician
  
• Growth
  Tabitha can rapidly grow to enormous sizes, her strength and resilience scaling up with her size. Naturally tall, she can reach up to 100' tall with concentration. The upper limits of her height are as of yet unknown but she can function comfortably in the 50'-75' range. Her strength scales with her size, retaining the same level of strength and dexterity as a normal 17 year old girl but in monstrous proportion. Metal bends, concrete buckles, and the world is sundered. Her resistance to things is also increased with her size, skin becoming nigh bullet proof and bones unable to be broken by physical force.
  
  
  • Strength
    Scaling with her height, her strength increases as she grows. Still following her her normal musculature, she isn't gaining muscle just altering the scale of it. A steel I beam at normal size is nigh indestructible but being over 100' tall she can snap it like a toothpick.
    
  • Invulnerability
    As she grows, her skin and bones grow with her. Thickening and hardening to incredible densities that prevent her from being injured by normal things. Bullets fail to pierce her skin, much like particles of dust fail to pierce normal skin. Her bones capable of withstanding tons of force now projected on her massive frame.
  
  Limitations
  
  • Effort: Beyond her comfortable height, Tabitha has to exert constant
    effort to maintain her growth. The effort is a combination of mental and physical, the mental being
    the strain of her height and the physical directly proportional to her cardiovascular capability.
    
  • Audio: As she increases in size, it becomes harder and harder to communicate with
    those in the normal spectrum. She can't hear individuals talking and multiples yelling is just
    white noise. At the same end, her voice is thunderous and booming when grown, capable of hurting people
    just by raising her voice.
    
  • Mental: As she strains past comfortable levels, the mental stress on her mind takes
    a toll. At increased heights and prolonged strains, Tabitha grows extremely susceptible to suggestion and
    mental manipulation. Something akin to being functionally hypnotized. Anything beyond simple tasks
    causes strain. After returning to her normal size during a prolonged growth period, she functions as well as
    a person with alcohol poisoning and a bad cold.
• 
  
  
  
  What the hell is a comptroller?:
  With both parents involved in local politics and with that at times turn their home into a political bunker, it's hard for Tabitha to not pick up at least a little skill in understanding local and state politics. She's even acquire a little pull of her own using her parents largess.
  
  A few dollars more:
  Somehow Tabitha ends up with more cash in her pocket than she started with. Maybe it's people taking charge and paying for lunch or maybe it's blind luck but Tabitha is a natural money maker.
  
  Violence shy:
  Blood, guts, and gore are not Tabithas friend. Even cheesy effects in movies make her queasy, let alone seeing things in real life. It's all well and good to see things from a towering view but up close, Tabby can't keep it together.
  
  
  
  Latchkey:
  Tabitha usually walks to school or is dropped of but without fail she comes home to an empty house. It's a common enough thing that her personality has been tempered by it, staying quiet and keeping to herself.
  
  
• Formerly known as the Augmentations tab, it has now been renamed to Tools and Wea pons, and will contain exactly what it says - a running list of tools or weapons that your character carries on them and uses along with/instead of superpowers.
  
  Item: [Augmentation/Tool/Weapon] Description
  
  Item: [Augmentation/Tool/Weapon] Description
  
  Item: [Augmentation/Tool/Weapon] Description
• ---

 

[The J]

Teh Frixz I disapprove of Tabitha, she's a fucking wuss.

 

[Zahzi]

Syrenrei
I think the main reason I haven't gimped Red's stats so far is I haven't gotten word whether Red's powers fall under Energy or Willpower/
...
Been waiting since before chapter 4 and I'm pretty sure my requests to the boss are being shredded.

 

[welian]

I'm pretty sure my requests to the boss are being shredded.

Your boss doesn't handle work during dates.

 

[Zahzi]

Oi. Been waiting for conformation since BEFORE Red got nuked.