ANNOUNCEMENT: Preparations for Episode 5

[ManicMuse]

Heroism Statistics

I do not feel these stats fit with the characters traits as you have listed them. These do not go hand in hand with Kindness, and do they really fit someone who is diplomatic or composed.

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".

The history really bugs me but I don't see anything directly wrong with it. It just feels like, the points where hit, that needed to be hit to make it work. There is not a lot of information given on the true personality of Knox, to me.

Personally, I am curious if it was a struggle to get her powers working again. I mean her arms were ripped off, just after discovering her power. It seems her arms are a major way her power is relayed. That would be a huge set back in my mind. Granted it just comes from her person but figure out how to make the power work better with the arms seems it would have taken at least a couple attempts.

What range does the sound operate on? Can just anyone hear it? What does it sound like? Can no one hear it? We do have some characters that can hear ranges others cannot. That sort of info could be very handy for IC.

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[ManicMuse]

Natealie I am attempting to hit everyone's even if you have been approved.

They are very beautiful, but also androgynous, to the point where they could easily pass for either sex.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Give us details. Explain why you feel your character is beautiful. This is very blanketed statement. Why are they so pretty to you?

Nix cares a lot about those close to them and will try their best to make them happy.

This sounds like a people pleaser to me. People pleasing is not something I would title as Love, personally. I would put some more thought into this trait.

Nix is always thinking about how things could be improved. If they think something could be done better, they will try to think of a way for it to be done better.

This does not seem like a Dreamer. I suggest Problem solver? Dreamer makes me think unpractical or someone with their head in the clouds all day.

Because of this they can also easily read through ciphers and secret codes as if they were just plain English.

Anti-Cipher: Nix is unable to communicate in secret codes. They can lie still, but they cannot write in any form of cipher as what they express will be understood by any other. If Nix attempts to cipher something by use of code words however, anyone reading the message would understand both the normal message and the one that Nix had hidden.

This concerns me. Mostly because it feels like a strong, major power in its self. Are we talking Wind talkers War starting and ending levels of ciphers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windtalkers Or like a kid passing a note in class?

Animal Communication: As an extension of their ability to communicate, they can also speak with animals. Most notably, they do this with their companion Hunter. However this can be done with any animal. Different animals will respond differently, and this is reflective of the individual animal's intelligence, their life experiences, and their emotional state. However, if Nix attempts to communicate with an animal, regardless of any of these they will understand and if they attempt to communicate with Nix then they will understand.

Again seems a power all in its self. Does not seem to directly relate to main power.

Body Language Reading: By reading into the body language of others, Nix can discern information about them as if they had said it. For example, they can easily tell the emotional state of others based on their body language, or if they are stressed or lying. They cannot however read minds so they are unable to ascertain exact thoughts.

Really again worries me. I think we had a person that had this as a subpower and it was a like a major deal. They had to be careful how they used it for fear of god modding. Again feel it reaches beyond the realm of the main power.

Not Always Knowing When to Quit: Nix tries to get things to work if they believe that they can can. While this can be an admirable trait, it also can lead to them not abandoning something when they clearly should.

Spite: As previously mentioned, Nix can hold a grudge. If they holds a grudge against someone Nix may in fact act out of spite towards them until they consider the debt repaid.

There is a certain name for these but I can't think of them. Like when you are at an interview and your telling them your "weakness" but you make it a strength. I would prefer a real character flaw over Not always knowing when to quit.

Spite is a repeat from traits. I would like to see something different here. Give us more insight into the character so we have more to work off of.

 

[ManicMuse]

The Oldest Blueberry


Larry looks good as usual. I remember how hard you worked on that guy to get him in here. Looking forward to more of his adventures.

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AllHailDago

HEY long time no see! I know some of these have been approved already. I am just going over all of them. Feedback is always been helpful for me.

I really don't have anything directly at the moment on your profile. Everything looks solid. As for the debate:

1.) How should damage transfer work on an inanimate object. Say she turns into a pot of boiling water and someone dumps out the water. Does she lose blood when she changes back? Are the handles her arms? I'm not a 100% sure how to work this and suggestions would be nice. Otherwise I can take my 100 form list (which isn't linked on purpose so that the general public gets fun surprises with random transformations too), and I can remove inanimate objects to be replaced with more living things.

2.) How should stats work for her? The power stats shown are purely human form. Clearly if she turned into a dragon fly her agility would jump, and a phoenix would have an energy stat of some kind. Each form would have varying stats. How should this work?

1) I feel it should be dependent on the object and transference allowable. I think it will be a case by case basis over all. I don't recall if you are proficient with dice or not. I think a dice factor for impact of damage dealt would be awesome for discovering outcome. Then just being creative with it based on item.

2) I have a big fear about the Hulk paradox in this RP. In the interest of wanting to keep an even playing field, I would, if it were me, would like a bit of smoke and mirrors on the bigger items. Yeah, she maybe big but not all mighty, type of deal. This however, did just trigger my brain. How is that going to work on things like being the snake. Does she really have venom now? Could she turn into something poisonous? Would the effects last after she turns back? Hmmm, maybe there is room for refining with her more after all.

 

[ManicMuse]

Galvanize Red's body can manipulate the metals within to create a defensive barrier that has been hard-pressed to be cracked. While doing this slows down his personal mobility to a crawl, the capability of withstanding the harshest of attacks can be invaluable. By default, his body does this on his own, requiring him to actively suppress it himself to mitigate the effects, both negative and positive. The process can be rather painful. Imagine having metal shoot out of your body in either one massive direction, or all over. Either way isn't pretty. The only plus to this process besides the obvious weight loss terror, is the fact that metallic shrapnel tends to hurt people around him if shot out randomly. Or, if in a single direction, that might be lethal.

I know you touched on this tonight. My thoughts. Since his limiter is normally active, what effect would it have on this skill if it was kept as a constant state of being? Movement. Considering Galvanized being active slows his movements to a crawl, I would assume it would be better for his sake, sanity, to have it off most the time. Plus, his weight would not only effect the amount of effort he puts into movement but also the amount of weight he puts on the other objects around him. I would think use of cars or other major transport would be out, short of him using his powers to move them if he were Galvanized all the time. Or sitting in a chair. Generally, interacting with his surrounds could be a struggle. Just some ideas.

 

[AllHailDago]

The Oldest Blueberry


Larry looks good as usual. I remember how hard you worked on that guy to get him in here. Looking forward to more of his adventures.

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AllHailDago

HEY long time no see! I know some of these have been approved already. I am just going over all of them. Feedback is always been helpful for me.

I really don't have anything directly at the moment on your profile. Everything looks solid. As for the debate:



1) I feel it should be dependent on the object and transference allowable. I think it will be a case by case basis over all. I don't recall if you are proficient with dice or not. I think a dice factor for impact of damage dealt would be awesome for discovering outcome. Then just being creative with it based on item.

2) I have a big fear about the Hulk paradox in this RP. In the interest of wanting to keep an even playing field, I would, if it were me, would like a bit of smoke and mirrors on the bigger items. Yeah, she maybe big but not all mighty, type of deal. This however, did just trigger my brain. How is that going to work on things like being the snake. Does she really have venom now? Could she turn into something poisonous? Would the effects last after she turns back? Hmmm, maybe there is room for refining with her more after all.

1.) I'm proficient with dice but as I'm already possibly doing up to 3 charts worth of rolling I don't want to add more. Besides, officially inanimate objects do not come with bonus things, ex bathtubs with water etc. To avoid the issue of what if water is spilled, does she lose blood, can any water replace it conundrum.

2.) All forms come with their natural capabilities, ex. Poison, venom, flight

All things done in animal form remain an effect post animal form. Venomous bite, poisoned still when she's human. Burnt by phoenix flames? Still burnt. Effects persist. If she bit you, you still got bit even if she doesn't have fangs anymore.

As for balance, yes I'm attempting to avoid hulk syndrome. Aside from 4 of her forms, everything else should be pretty easily unhulklike. And those 4 should still be pretty solidly maintained if I have anything to say about it!

 

[Aldur]

What range does the sound operate on?

The soft cap is 30 meters in diameter, the hard cap is 50. It's in her profile. As for your other feedback, I have updated the CS and the stats. I would also like to know what you mean by the stats. I've upped some of them but I'm not sure what you originally proposed.

 

[Gus]

Yikes! Activity!

Ok, so the first thing I noticed is that Greg Masterson's stats add up to 31 which is beyond S rank. Limit for A is 24 points Dano


ManicMuse @St Sin
Manami can be knocked out with one solid hit, even in rage mode. Her agility DOES increase in the water, but only to 2. On land I play her as clumsy as if she was a 1. She does not have super speed. She swims fast because she is super strong and he muscles are optimized for swimming. Also because: c'mon, she's a fish-folk trope! Underwater super hero characters have to be faster than boats or they're useless all the time, not just on land... SORRY GUYS THE BAD GUYS GOT AWAY AGAIN!


As has been discussed elsewhere, Aaron is actually pretty easy to counter, just not by brute force. Part of the intent in creating him was as an exercise in creativity. On paper he is more powerful than superman and hulk put together. In practice, almost any character we have can bring him down if they think outside the "Let's punch him really hard in the face box"

Kingsley mind controlled him (sorta--I put a twist on it to avoid massive bloodshed by chipmunks)

Dr D poisoned him. Klaus and Kingsley saved him.

Dr. D also put him in a hamster ball. That was the funniest thing I have ever written.

He almost died falling off of his own deathtrap contraption; Mary had to save him with a portal

Eve could literally bury him.

Red could fill his lungs with liquid metal

Chris could toss a poison capsule down his throat from 30 paces

Kate could restrain him with her psychic shadow ropes (they only affect the mind, not directly opposing muscle)

Nobody has exploited his vertigo yet, but that offers interesting possibilities as well (Izzy chase may remember?)

Then there's allergies. Played for laughs in episode two, but anaphylactic shock is no joke.

He can get sick also. The closest we have to germ manipulation is nanites, but disease causing make a great villain power.

Nanites could also kill him from the inside potentially

Eden could stab himself in the heart and high five Aaron to death.

Which brings up another point: He has an agility of 1. His top speed (other than teleporting which has limited accuracy) is 2.5 mph. He can't swing his fist fast enough to punch, only a slow but inexeroble push. And even the push is limited by traction. He doesn't have friction enough to exert enormous force EXCEPT for moving himself. So if he pushes a wall, his feet will skid backwards unless he has something solid to brace against. He is all but useless in a real fight, except as cover for less bulletproof heroes. He can't hit anyone who is actively avoiding getting hit, and anyone who wants to can hit him. They just need to think of something other than punching and then do that at will more or less.

Aaron is a gentle giant, not a combat monster. He is a clumsy, lonely, awkward introverted intellectual stuck in a body with the power to rip a hole in space. He didn't ask for that, he's not good at living that, and what he wants more than anything else is just to try to see that nobody gets hurt. He took out two of Dr. D's droids ENTIRELY by accident, and almost took down Red and himself also in doing so. Aaron is not the OP you're looking for and you don't need to see his identification.

About Lars's history: Points taken. Not changing it though. Because any or all of that could be a cover story. Might add Narcissim as a flaw though. That fits nicely. No higher form of narcissism exists than solipsism.

As for the realism of one guy being able to do all that, I agree wholeheartedly. He's ridiculous wish fulfillment fantasy. But then again, we're writing a comic book. In counterpoint, I submit to you: Batman. Lars is basically Bruce Wayne, but evil, tricksy, wicked and false. Especially false. You never know what is real with Lars. I have the germ of an idea about how to demonstrate this in the near future in game. I get wanting to throttle him. He is meant to be a guy you love to hate. Super fun to write too.

What else....

Was that all? Is Kate approved?

I feel like I am forgetting something I read on a previous page...I can't remember.
It is only 6:12 and I have been awake almost two hours already.

I want to also give feedback, and if I missed responding to anything I apologize.

I will circle back to this, but right now I need coffee. And then I want to write a prompt. It has been a very very long time.

EDIT: HOLY SHIT I LAST DID A PROMPT FOR THE EQUINOX! THE SOLSTICE IS IN JUST OVER TWO WEEKS! BLESS ME GM FOR I HAVE SINNED IT HAS BEEN AN ENTIRE SEASON SINCE MY LAST PROMPT!

 

[AllHailDago]

Yikes! Activity!

Ok, so the first thing I noticed is that Greg Masterson's stats add up to 31 which is beyond S rank. Limit for A is 24 points Dano


ManicMuse @St Sin
Manami can be knocked out with one solid hit, even in rage mode. Her agility DOES increase in the water, but only to 2. On land I play her as clumsy as if she was a 1. She does not have super speed. She swims fast because she is super strong and he muscles are optimized for swimming. Also because: c'mon, she's a fish-folk trope! Underwater super hero characters have to be faster than boats or they're useless all the time, not just on land... SORRY GUYS THE BAD GUYS GOT AWAY AGAIN!


As has been discussed elsewhere, Aaron is actually pretty easy to counter, just not by brute force. Part of the intent in creating him was as an exercise in creativity. On paper he is more powerful than superman and hulk put together. In practice, almost any character we have can bring him down if they think outside the "Let's punch him really hard in the face box"

Kingsley mind controlled him (sorta--I put a twist on it to avoid massive bloodshed by chipmunks)

Dr D poisoned him. Klaus and Kingsley saved him.

Dr. D also put him in a hamster ball. That was the funniest thing I have ever written.

He almost died falling off of his own deathtrap contraption; Mary had to save him with a portal

Eve could literally bury him.

Red could fill his lungs with liquid metal

Chris could toss a poison capsule down his throat from 30 paces

Kate could restrain him with her psychic shadow ropes (they only affect the mind, not directly opposing muscle)

Nobody has exploited his vertigo yet, but that offers interesting possibilities as well (Izzy chase may remember?)

Then there's allergies. Played for laughs in episode two, but anaphylactic shock is no joke.

He can get sick also. The closest we have to germ manipulation is nanites, but disease causing make a great villain power.

Nanites could also kill him from the inside potentially

Eden could stab himself in the heart and high five Aaron to death.

Which brings up another point: He has an agility of 1. His top speed (other than teleporting which has limited accuracy) is 2.5 mph. He can't swing his fist fast enough to punch, only a slow but inexeroble push. And even the push is limited by traction. He doesn't have friction enough to exert enormous force EXCEPT for moving himself. So if he pushes a wall, his feet will skid backwards unless he has something solid to brace against. He is all but useless in a real fight, except as cover for less bulletproof heroes. He can't hit anyone who is actively avoiding getting hit, and anyone who wants to can hit him. They just need to think of something other than punching and then do that at will more or less.

Aaron is a gentle giant, not a combat monster. He is a clumsy, lonely, awkward introverted intellectual stuck in a body with the power to rip a hole in space. He didn't ask for that, he's not good at living that, and what he wants more than anything else is just to try to see that nobody gets hurt. He took out two of Dr. D's droids ENTIRELY by accident, and almost took down Red and himself also in doing so. Aaron is not the OP you're looking for and you don't need to see his identification.

About Lars's history: Points taken. Not changing it though. Because any or all of that could be a cover story. Might add Narcissim as a flaw though. That fits nicely. No higher form of narcissism exists than solipsism.

As for the realism of one guy being able to do all that, I agree wholeheartedly. He's ridiculous wish fulfillment fantasy. But then again, we're writing a comic book. In counterpoint, I submit to you: Batman. Lars is basically Bruce Wayne, but evil, tricksy, wicked and false. Especially false. You never know what is real with Lars. I have the germ of an idea about how to demonstrate this in the near future in game. I get wanting to throttle him. He is meant to be a guy you love to hate. Super fun to write too.

What else....

Was that all? Is Kate approved?

I feel like I am forgetting something I read on a previous page...I can't remember.
It is only 6:12 and I have been awake almost two hours already.

I want to also give feedback, and if I missed responding to anything I apologize.

I will circle back to this, but right now I need coffee. And then I want to write a prompt. It has been a very very long time.

EDIT: HOLY SHIT I LAST DID A PROMPT FOR THE EQUINOX! THE SOLSTICE IS IN JUST OVER TWO WEEKS! BLESS ME GM FOR I HAVE SINNED IT HAS BEEN AN ENTIRE SEASON SINCE MY LAST PROMPT!

With all that explanation I now move from wary to thoroughly enjoying in regards to Aaron's power. Also I need Aaron and Melody interactions. She might very well be intimidated at first, but the awkward, loneky intellectual bit makes me adore the idea of their friendship.

 

[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.

What are you confused about?

No problem, I really like her~
I just realized that you accidentally put an '?' Instead of 5 by her Composure tho, thought I would let you know >w<

Whoops fixing it right away

 

[Necessity4Fun]

Really again worries me. I think we had a person that had this as a subpower and it was a like a major deal. They had to be careful how they used it for fear of god modding. Again feel it reaches beyond the realm of the main power.

We still have, it's Annaliese Van Can, the guidance counselor. The way Bag o Fruit does this, is by PM'ing the characters in the scene and asking the players 'What is you character thinking about when they did this?'
I got to experience that first hand when I started the parking lot scene in Episode 4 and Bag came to me, making me explain all of Kendrick's logic points and not so clear thoughts that culminated in why he had come to AEGIS for help instead of all the other possible options. That was very interesting.

 

[Necessity4Fun]

What are you confused about?

Maybe move some points from intelligence to energy?
Welian described the energy stats in the doc last night as what would be mana in a RPG. So going with the science of the RP so far, the enigma particles, I guess they would have a unique configuration for each super? (Probably, similar base power have similar base configurations) And Mitch's ability probably does something like change it's configuration to match someone else's (yeah this is weird, but bear with me), I would guess, That Mitch needs at least a energy stats of 3?
IDK, it makes sense to me.

Also an intelligence stats of 6 seems quite high for someone whose ability isn't directly tied to intelligence (counter example: Jordan). Maybe if she had a innate capability of understanding someone else's power in the spot, which is not the case since she has to see it being used before.

Do others think this makes sense? This is just food for thought that came from Sin's interjection and last night's stats discussion. I just hadn't thought of this before.

OHHH
How about keeping the same stats layout (intelligence > Willpower), but take a point from each and toss them into energy?

 

[yoikes]

Spoiler: Sato Tomoko

SATO, T

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

• Aspect	Scale	Total
  Courage	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	03
  Altruism	▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱	06
  Order	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Kindness	▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱	06
  Proaction	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Diplomacy	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Composure	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01

  Ability Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Health	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Strength	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Defense	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Agility	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Intelligence	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰	09
  Willpower	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	03
  Energy	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01

• Full Name
  Tomoko Sato
  
  Nicknames
  Sato, Tomoko, Tomo, 'Kid'
  
  Codename
  The Mechanic
  
  Gender
  Female
  
  Age
  10
  
  Rank
  C Rank
  
  Limiter
  Active, Level 1
  
  Role
  Exchange student at Johns Hopkins University, also required to attend class in Training Facility 108

  
• Race
  Japanese
  
  Hair
  Dark brown
  
  Eyes
  Light brown
  
  Height
  133.9 cm / 4' 5"
  
  Figure
  Skinny and fit
  
  Notes
  Wear her oversized lab coat everywhere, a custom made safety goggles hung around her neck
  
• Cheerful
  She have the habit of talking and laughing with a loud voice, and even louder when screaming or crying. Tomoko likes to smile and love seeing someone else smile too. People joked that she's high on sugar 24/7, because she likes eating candy and chocolate. She's also playful and loves to pull a prank on both the student and staff of the Training Facility and giving them funny nicknames.

  
  High-spirited
  Like most children her age, she is very energetic and bouncy. She doesn't get tired or exhausted easily, happily running and playing around especially since back home she never gets the chance to do so.

  
  Stubborn
  Ever since she could remember, she is always right. About calculation, about a theory, in a scientific debate. She is never wrong, and people always tell her that she is too smart to make any mistake. That's why she is as stubborn as a mule and as hard as a rock could be. Tomoko will be angry if you tell her that whatever she just said/she's about to do is wrong, but as soon as it is proofed that she is indeed wrong she'll come crying and apologize for her mistake. Her life in Aegis's Training Facility will her that she is imperfect, unlike what people say to her.

  
  Naive
  All her life she studied and was taught according to the book, to the written theory, and people like her parents always tell her what she's going to do next. Now that the book could no longer teach her and she is free from the bound of people who tried to control her, her lack of experience is showing. She still thinking like a child, making bad judgments that she take on her own, and innocent about how different and disturbing the world is different from the one written in her books.

  
  History
  Tomoko showed how intelligent she is from when she was still in kindergarten. She is able to fully understand news on TV and read the newspaper, understanding hard kanji and complex words that most adults even have a hard time to understand.
  She skipped elementary school and attended middle school at the mere age of 5, but then she proves yet again that she is too smart for it too. She graduated from high school at 7 and aced the entrance test for Tokyo University's School of Engineering and started attending college until she graduated summa cum laude at 9 years old.
  
  The Japanese Government, amazed by her capability, offered her a chance to study aboard in America- fully funded by the government. Tomoko accepted the offer. As a part of applying for student visa, Tomoko was tested by the Commonwealth that then reveals that her intelligence is superpowered. While studying at Johns Hopkins University as an exchange student, Tomoko is also required to attend Training Facility 108 to learn about using her power.
  
  But behind all that attention and achievement, Tomoko is very lonely. She practically doesn't have a friend or someone to match with, and occasionally see herself as nothing more but a lab rat trapped in a glass box. Her parents are too proud of her, weighing her down with expectation and showering her with praises she doesn't need, her brother and sister glared at her with envy and hatred and talked to her like she is not even human.
  
  They only smiled at her once, which is the day she left home for America.
  
  Tomoko accepted the Government's invitation because she wanted to make her parents proud, but she wonders if she herself is happy with it? She cried herself to sleep the first day she arrived in America and still do whenever she feeling down and missed home.
  
• Erika Hawk (26)
  Rank E Commonwealth Staff : Her guardian (and bodyguard), as her parents stayed in Japan to take care of Tomoko's older brother and sister and it could be disastrous if Tomoko is kidnapped by a wrong group of people.

  
  Aegis Staff and Students
  She sees them as her second family. Cool bro and sis who played with her and adults who care and teach her many things. She loved them so much that she gave them nicknames, either based on her favorite Disney movie or a certain trait of the character (Ex: Ward is Grumpy)

  
  Sato Yashiro & Momoka
  Tomoko parents, both on their 40s. Yashiro works as a salaryman while Momoka works as a teacher in a high school. They are both very proud of Tomoko, pouring her with attention and love and supporting her to do whatever she want to do. Both of them really enjoy the attention and fame as the parents of the 'miracle child'.

  
  Sato Toshiro & Yuuka
  Toshiro is a 17 years old boy, Yuuka is 14 years old girl. They are Tomoko's older brother and sister. Both of them are really excited about having a new sibling and amazed by how intelligent Tomoko is really is. But all that love and care soon turned into hatred and envy, they are jealous and angry about how all their parents care about now is Tomoko. Upon finding out that she's a super, they distanced themselves from 'the freak' in the family. They are happy to hear that Tomoko is leaving for America, praying that she won't return anytime soon.

  
• Enhanced Intelligence
  Tomoko's is more than genius. She possessed exceptional intellectual ability and creativity, gifted with powerful memory and superior learning capacity.
  
  
  • Intuitive Aptitude: She is gifted with the ability to learn and understand something new almost spontaneously without the need of someone to guide and explain it to her.
    
  • Enhanced Inventing: She is able to create super gadgets and techs and developing a stronger limiter for powered people, almost flawlessly.
  
  Limitations
  
  • Still a child: Someone needs to guide her, teach her about what to do and what she should not do, what kind of machine she should build and what that she should not? Is her creation is dangerous of other people? Will it disturb the power balance between supers? She is also weaker and more fragile. She easily gets hurt and sick, and cannot exactly fight the villain's the same way the other characters will do.
    
  • Childish: Despite her knowledge, she is still an immature 10 years old children who have yet to fully mature mentally. She still believe what is told something by someone older than her (Ex: "There is a monster hiding under your bed!", "If you lie, a big red dot will appear on your forehead!") and scared of 'scary/dangerous/weird looking things' such as a fierce-looking dog and cockroaches.
    
  • Trivial: She is not a know-it-all, or a walking Wikipedia. Her brain worked more like a memory card, where to store something new something else needed to be 'deleted' (she will forgot known information). For example, to learn about a certain calculation she has to 'forget' the details of World War I. She remembered the basic outline of the World War, but she can no longer recall important name and date and have to learn it again.

    
  • Brain cramp: If Tomoko uses her power too many times a day, she will suffer from a painful headache from the stress and overload. It is believed that as she grew older, she will last longer. To avoid using her brain/power too much, Tomoko take a nap whenever she can and went to sleep early at night (Her bedtime is 9PM).
• A list of non-superpower (mundane) skills and flaws that your character has. Mundane skills include knowledge such as first-aid training, cooking, paleontology, etc. Mundane flaws include physical disabilities, or expanded information on negative personality traits such as gullibility, clumsiness, vanity, etc.
  
  Keep in mind that your character's superpowers might affect some of their normal skills, for example, we all expect hyper-intelligent supers to have more knowledge-related skills in this list than the average character. However, these skills and flaws should all be things that your character could lose their powers, and still retain.
  
  All characters should have at least two skills and two flaws.
  
  #1 Disney & Pixar Fan: She is a big fan of them, with Monster Inc. being the first movie she ever watched. She memorized all characters name and appearance. Occasionally can be found singing a song from Disney movie. By the way, her favourite princess is Belle and her favourite movie is Tangled.
  
  Quick Mind: Even without her power, Tomoko is still a bright child. She can quickly grasp new concepts and ideas, processing new information and quickly understand the situation. Though, as she's still a child, she still make bad choices there and there.
  
  Sheltered: Tomoko... Doesn't really have a normal life like any other kids her age. She is constantly surrounded by people older than her, who sing nothing but praise to her (Erika was unlike any of them, she is stern and discipline though still a little bit soft on her). This makes Tomoko a bit pushy and selfish at times.
  
  Blind Obedience: Tomoko was taught to respect those who are older than her, to listen to what the adult are saying because 'the know more' and follow the authority because 'they are the law'. She is scared of disobeying an order given to her by the government, her parents, and people who are older than her in general because she feel like she's not supposed to do that.
  
• Formerly known as the Augmentations tab, it has now been renamed to Tools and Weapons, 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.
  
  Small Pink Laptop: [Tool] Tomoko owned her own laptop, gifted to her by the government with high level encryption. She uses it to store her research data, many e-books, sending e-mails to other scientists she's currently working with, and occasionally use it to stream movies or cartoons.
  
  
  Spoiler: pic

  
  
  Her own smartphone: [Tool] Aside from her laptop, the government also gave her her own smartphone. Aside from the default applications like browser and music player, Tomoko also allowed to install several apps like LINE and e-book reader. She's also allowed to install her own, self-made app. She only has 5 phone number in her phone: Erika, her parents, and two emergency number.
  
  N/A: [Augmentation/Tool/Weapon] Description
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[yoikes]

Spoiler: Naran Ihbarhasvad

IHBARHASVAD, N

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

  Ability Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Health	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Strength	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	05
  Defense	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	03
  Agility	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	02
  Intelligence	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	01
  Willpower	▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱	04
  Energy	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰	09

• Full Name
  Naran Ihbarhasvad
  
  Nicknames
  Muscle Head, Naran, 'Puppy'

  
  Codename
  Narangerel ('Sunlight' in Mongolian), Rook

  
  Gender
  F
  
  Age
  23
  
  Rank
  S Rank
  
  Limiter
  Active, Level 4
  
  Role
  A guest teacher for Community Service - an ambassador for Mongolian government who wanted to learn from Commonwealth and AEGIS
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• Race
  Mongolian
  
  Hair
  Dark brown
  
  Eyes
  Light brown
  
  Height
  5' 6"
  
  Figure
  Fit and slightly muscular
  
  Notes
  Ambidextrous, has her own superhero suit.

  
• Gallant
  It was like she was born and destined to be a hero, Naran was always courageous and bold. She does not afraid of challenges or trying something new, she may not have something she feared at all.

  
  Boyish
  As the youngest out of eight and a girl surrounded by seven brothers, there is no helping that their manly attitude rubs off a little bit on her. Naran is loud and cheerful, walking with powerful confident steps and a bright smile that greets everyone she met.

  
  Stupid
  It is not a secret that Naran was not the sharpest tool in the shed. She is gullible and naive, doesn't do well with anything number related and having trouble memorizing a set of rules. 'muscle head' might be the perfect description for her. As a result, she never really over-think (or maybe she doesn't think about it at all) about various things (since she doesn't understand!) and always focus in the present/what's in front of her.

  
  Quick Tempered
  Naran gets angry very quickly, which is one of the few reasons why people like to tease her. Maybe this is a side effect of being spoiled as being the youngest? Whatever the reason, she easily blinded by rage after angered. Ever since her father pointed this out to her before her debut, Naran has always been trying to change to no luck.

  
  History
  Naran was born in Choibalsan, Mongolia, to a family of athletes. Her father, Batsaikhan Ihbarhasvad, was an Olympic medalist who won a bronze and a silver in wrestling for the nation before retiring as a top coach. Four of her brothers are an athlete (Two worked in a bank, one curiously decided to be a desert herder). Wrestling under their father training, judo or boxing, Naran was always taken to watch their training and the competitions. Before she knew it, she was fascinated by the sport and wanted to be an athlete too. Her sport of choice was kickboxing. And so she trained, occasionally studying a bit of other martial arts from her brothers.
  
  She worked hard, and when she was 17 years old she moved to Ulaanbaatar for her debut. She was amazing, resilient and generally loved by the audience for her cheerful personality. She gained many fans and rivals, her careers are looking bright and promising. Then come her promotional fight. Naran complained to her mother that about her uneasiness, sensing that something with her body doesn't feel right. She was right.
  
  Her power was awoken during the fight kick that destroys the opponent's ribs. It was a miracle the opponent could survive from such injury, but the damage is done. She cannot fight as well as before and it was the end for Naran's, the public was surprised and now becomes wary and scared of her. How strong she really is? How many people are like her out there? Untested, unsupervised?
  
  Naran was sent to her oldest brother, Mönkh the herder, and live with the nomads in Tsagaanuur. The nomads accepted her in without feeling fear or disgust of her power, they joked that 'maybe her power can keep away the cold for them'. Living with them calmed her down, and made her realize that she must control her power. She would borrow a horse and left to find an empty field to train her power. Two years and three or four 'accidental craters' later, Naran was ready to go home. When she did, she found chaos.
  
  The few supers in Mongolia feel ousted when Naran's accident happened, believing that 'no matter what they do they will see us as monsters anyway' they use their power to do criminal activities like robbing and killing. Believing that this is her mistake, Naran decided to stop these villains. Just last year, the public's stigma in Mongolia that "super = destruction" has finally disappeared. They adore their new hero, a superhero seemingly comes out of the comic book and movies, and gives Naran the name 'Narangerel'.
  
  The Mongolian Government is now interested in making an organization similar to Commonwealth and building training facility like the ones AEGIS had, and decided that is best that the ambassador is accompanied by their first superhero. After the past few accidents involving supers, Commonwealth invited Naran to teach in Facility 108 as a guest lecturer for Community Service. She accepts.
  
• Batsaikhan Ihbarhasvad
  Former Olympian and one of the country's top coach. He always goes out to work and went home late at night after drinking with his colleagues. 

  
  Tsetsegmaa Ihbarhasvad
  Naran considered her to be her "best of best friends". The nicest person in the world, she's the first to accepted Naran for her super ability and the one who suggested her to go rest with her big brother for a while.

  
  Mönkh Ihbarhasvad
  The oldest of the eight siblings, he married a nomad and become a herder. He was the one who helped Naran to accept her new power, and learn how to use it for good.

  
  6 brothers
  Four worked as an athlete and the other two decided to work for something more stable. 

  
• Kinetic Energy Manipulation
  Naran was gifted with the ability to manipulate kinetic energy generated by motion and to store it inside her body that acts as some kind of 'power capacitor'. She can use the stored energy to enhance her strength, speed, toughness and resilience.
  
  
  • Limited Energy Generation: She can generate the energy into something non-physical like a Force Field that will help protect herself from outside force. However, it is very flimsy and cannot stand against non-kinetic based attack (like electricity or laser beams) or something that moves faster or produced a force stronger that the force field. Naran can also use it as some sort of energy strike by setting a target for her energy attack for mid-range/long-range attack. For example; She can swing a punch into the air and the energy of the attack can hit the target she has in mind (which will require great concentration to ensure that it will not "explode" mid-way). However, the trajectory of the attack will always be straight whether it is horizontal or vertical. 

    
  • Enhanced Durability: It was as if her power, her own body, realize that without a proper durability of her body or Naran will not survive the backlash received whenever she unleashed her energy. As a result, she could punch a concrete hole so hard it crumbles and bend a streetlamp and survives a drop from 20th floor with minor injuries.

  
  Limitations
  
  • Limiter ON: When she arrived in USA, she was given a pair of glove limiter and a pair of socks limiter to wear 24/7 during her visit. Without it, it will take a great amount of concentration to control her power so she will not accidentally kill someone. Wearing these limiter, when she punch or kick someone she won't kill them instantly (Will still break a few bones but they'll survive!). She likes it so much she planned to bring it home with her, if allowed.

    
  • Glass Cannon: Her strength and durability may be enhanced, but her body has it's own limit. If she keeps attacking using high power output, she might end up breaking her own limbs. So is with falling from 37.000 feet above the sea, or burning or drowning to death. According to reports, she should have start teaching in 108 two months ago if it's not because breaking her arm during rank placement test.

    
  • Self-Generated: If Naran is restrained, or trapped in something that makes her unable to move her body to generate enough kinetic energy to manipulate, she will not be able to use her power.

    
  • One at a time: Only one part of her body can be charged with energy, that will strengthen it and make it capable of destroying concrete walls or defending herself from a certain attack. However, after she used the charged energy, she will have to generate it again before she can use her power again.

    
  • Running Out of Gas: Since the energy that powered her comes from herself, she needed to always move during a fight. Running, jumping, or even flailing as long as it generates the kinetic energy she needed. Despite her stamina, she'll eventually get tired and prone to attack especially if she fought multiple enemies at once.
• A list of non-superpower (mundane) skills and flaws that your character has. Mundane skills include knowledge such as first-aid training, cooking, paleontology, etc. Mundane flaws include physical disabilities, or expanded information on negative personality traits such as gullibility, clumsiness, vanity, etc.
  
  Keep in mind that your character's superpowers might affect some of their normal skills, for example, we all expect hyper-intelligent supers to have more knowledge-related skills in this list than the average character. However, these skills and flaws should all be things that your character could lose their powers, and still retain.
  
  All characters should have at least two skills and two flaws.
  
  Born Fighter: With nearly 7 years of training, about 3 years of combat experience, and 6 pesky older brothers, it's obvious she is not someone you should underestimate. Naran is especially good in close combat, as that is when she can truly use her power at it's maximum potential and that she is trained in hand to hand combat. At times, with the combination of sheer will and stupidity she could charge through and attack and stubbornly continues fighting.
  
  (She Can Be) A Good Teacher: Maybe she takes it from her father, but Naran has what i takes to be a good teacher (or coach). She is kind and friendly, and genuinely care and wanted to help people. She knows how to motivate, even without she realizing it sometimes her action in the field inspire people to be good and brave.
  
  Ingenuous: She is very open and trusting, quick to forgive too. She continues to believe in the good of humanity and second chance, no matter how much horror she has seen and how much she has been hurt.
  
  Messiah Complex: Believes that every wrong must be righted, every bad person must be defeated and corrected, and every person must be saved and helped.
  
• Formerly known as the Augmentations tab, it has now been renamed to Tools and Weapons, 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.
  
  Super hero costume!: [Augmentation?] As a bonafide superhero, Naran wore her own homemade costume until the Mongolian government collects enough money - with the help of donations from all over the world - to tailor one for her. Her black/golden yellow suit was made of ballistic nylon with in built kevlar-like body armors covering her torso, she has a spare in case the one she's wearing is damaged in combat and has to be sent for repair. She doesn't want to cover her face because she feel like she might scare some of the people she's trying to help, but she wore goggles to protect her eye.
  
  Special gloves and socks limiter: [Tool] Given to her by the American government, she must wore the limiter as long as she's still in America soil. The glove was built with 'a certain material' strong enough to endure the feedback of Naran's attacks.
  
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[Gus]

I was scrolling back through the chat I missed last night, and I went on a bit of a rant this morning before coffee. As is the way with chat, it will likely be swallowed up by the flow of chat and lost to the dim mists of history. I wanted to make sure that Dano ManicMuse and Syrenrei saw it though because it seemed like that was where the core of the confusion surrounding Aaron lay. So, cleaned up a bit for grammar, here is my chat-rant about Aaron with thoughts about S ranks in an E rank world generally.

So it seems a number of people are confused about how Aaron's powers are related. I went over this with Swoob over a year ago, but I guess it bears repeating since there is mass confusion. Aaron has one power. He has the mass of a planet in the volume of a largish human male.



That is a ridiculous power to have, so it has ramifications:



gravitational 'radar' is just gravity

gravity is weak

the only reason you notice gravity at all is because earth is very massive and nearby

Aaron notices everything in the solar system, even though it is far, because HE is massive

The wormhole part is speculative to be sure, but spacetime does funny things around a black hole

Everything else is down to necessary elements so his own power doesn't kill him and everyone else on earth
(which is what would realistically happen)

He is off the charts strong because he has to be able to move his arms and legs, each of which masses more than the earth

He is off the charts on defense because otherwise just being that massive would kill him, and the defense works two ways:

His extreme defense protects nearby things from being ripped apart by tidal forces, which again, is what would realistically happen.



If people are concerned that he is stealing spotlight time, I appoloize for writing in a selfish way. That was not my intent, and I will work to remedy that.

But if that is the concern behind these proposed edits, I would appreciate it if we could address that directly rather than attacking Aaron as a badly conceived character. I worked really hard on him, and I think conceptually he is pretty tight:

He is a living singularity, and that is all. Five words covers it. The rest is direct consequences of that idea.

I thought a LOT about what that would mean. Like a LOT. More than is healthy.

I have also thought a lot about how to make him a reasonable participant in activities on a (super) human scale

I have made a conscious effort to make sure to give 'screen time' to others in every scene I put him into, whether it was class discussion, a death trap, or a fight scene.

The park, I can see looking back, I barged into, and I apologize for that.

I tried to respond to Luci's text as I felt Aaron naturally would, and also out of concern as a writer that there was an absolute bloodbath brewing...

I still think that scene ended well, but I will cop to dominating it inappropriately, and I am sorry for doing that.

I don't think though, that any honest reading of any of Aaron's other scenes have him as the dominant force. He responds and gives openings for response. I have been very careful about that.

The main concern other than raw power I kept seeing was that he broke the Main: support, support mold
I respectfully disagree, and have tried to detail my reasons above.

As to the concern that no E rank can matter in a world that has such people in't
I also respectfully disagree.

If Aaron is dominant (and I don't think he is) that is not down to his CS, it is a flaw in my writing that I will endeavor to correct.

I will add, to anyone who feels their character doesn't matter: Find a way to make them matter!

And I will just throw out there: If anybody ever feels I am scene stealing, PLEASE dm me about it
I don't want to do that, and I am more than happy to work with people to find ways to give their character some spotlight,
even (especially!) if it means having one of my characters take a dive

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about other people's characters, so if you are stuck and want a suggestion about how to make a bigger splash, I am happy to be a sounding board for scene I am not even in. I read it all, and I think about it obsessively when I am driving or mowing the lawn or what have you.

I just want a good story.


Thanks for listening. Sorry for bringing a rant to an only tangentially related thread. Just wanted to make sure it was heard as well as said.

I hope this helps to allay some concerns. Please reach out to me if there are other issues that I missed.

 

[welian]

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BRAHN, G.

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

• Heroism Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Courage	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	5
  Altruism	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱	7
  Order	▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱	6
  Kindness	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱	8
  Proaction	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	3
  Diplomacy	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰	9
  Composure	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱	7

  Ability Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Health	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	2
  Strength	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	2
  Defense	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	1
  Agility	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	2
  Intelligence	▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱	4
  Willpower	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱	8
  Energy	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	1

• Full Name
  Gillian Morgan Brahn, Jr.
  
  Nicknames
  Junior (family only), Morgan, Pretty Boy
  
  Codename
  n/a
  
  Gender
  Male
  
  Age
  Seventeen
  
  Rank
  B Rank
  
  Limiter
  Active, level 2
  
  Role
  Student
• Race
  American (1/4 Russian, 1/8 Korean if we're gonna play that game)
  
  Hair
  Brown
  
  Eyes
  Blue
  
  Height
  5'8" (~173cm)
  
  Figure
  Slender, not much to speak of. The classic teen boy physique that makes scientists question just exactly where all that food goes.
  
  Notes
  Has a secret (and moderately illegal) tattoo of a mer-kitten on his left hip.
• Compassionate
  Morgan is a bleeding heart. He cares very much about the well-being of others, is very sentimental, and always has something kind to say. Many people appreciate how kind he is, however, it's incredible easy to lead him by the heartstrings.
  
  Effeminate
  He's got a pretty face, an androgynous name, he loves cute things, and he's absolutely not ashamed of any of this. Morgan has accepted that there's a lot of boys and girls in this world who are way manlier than he'll ever be. He is absolutely content to stay in the corner and let them do the heavy lifting.
  
  Introverted
  Morgan is an introvert, period. It's not that he doesn't like people - he does - it's that he finds it exhausting to be around lots of people for a long time. It takes effort to ignore them, and sometimes he just wants to be left alone with his own thoughts. Not that he'll ever say that to someone's face, though.
  
  Oblivious
  Despite his powers - or maybe because of them - Morgan can be oblivious bordering on stupid. Take freshman year of high school, for example. Several of his classmates had crushes on him, and despite some very, VERY clear hints... he still managed to friend-zone each and every suitor.
  
  History
  Morgan - who goes by his middle name to avoid confusion with his father - came into his powers before the typical teenage years. His telepathic abilities first manifested elementary school as an eerie tendency to finish other people's sentences. When it progressed to dream-sharing and unconsciously browsing through people's thoughts around seventh grade, his (non-super) parents determined that he was going to be "A Handful" and made sure to get him into an Aegis program as early as possible.
  
  He has been attending Facility 108 for about four years, and hasn't had any high strain incidents in at least six months has had a normal of close calls the past several months, such as accidentally telepathically screaming across the campus about an adorable dog.
  
  He's looking forward to getting the limiter deactivated when he turns eighteen... Although he might leave it on anyways, just for the peace and quiet. Even without using his powers, Morgan is painfully aware that something about him and his abilities troubles his parents - well, at least his mother. But his younger brother is her favorite and he's also a super, so maybe it's a bit more complicated than that.
• Family
  
  • Mr. Brahn: Morgan's father, an Army veteran who worked for Commonwealth as a field agent. Sometimes the man has dreams from the Rapture attack decades ago. Morgan wishes he didn't know second-hand the sound of bones shattering on impact.
    
  • Mrs. Brahn: Morgan's mother, a former Commonwealth scientist who now owns and operates the Brahn's Best Bakery. She dreams about tentacles a lot, but also about leather straps and syringes and blue goop? It's weird.
    
  • Jordan Brahn: His younger brother, a physically handicapped genius and official insufferable pain in the ass. He tends to dream a LOT, Morgan swears up and down that the idiot genius has enough brain activity for a half dozen people who all have ADHD. Morgan also swears up and down that he totally has never read Jordan's mind during a proctored exam.
    
  • June Brahn: His younger sister, a totally normal tomboy. She's also insufferable, but only because she's an attention-seeking fourteen year old girl with power envy. She dreams about being the biggest badass on whatever sports team she's joined that season.
    
  • Hunter Ward: Mr. Ward is the Brahn Spawn's great-uncle, however, due to bad blood between him and Mrs. Brahn, he's not allowed inside the bakery or their home. Thankfully, Morgan does not take Mr. Ward's class. Morgan has vowed to never read this man's mind, if he can help it.
  
  Facility 108
  
  • Asher Torchinovic: Morgan is on okay terms with the mental discipline teacher. He's a good coach, but sometimes Morgan struggles to keep his composure in Mr. Torchinovich's class. It's an introvert's nightmare sometimes.
  • Cecilia Pellegrini: Morgan destroyed her with a snowball during the midterm/winter entrance exams, and he feels absolutely terrible about it. Then she cried, and he felt even worse. The next time he saw her in school, he gave her a giant cinnamon bun. Now they're friends, but he still feels really guilty and feels it's his duty to protect her.
    
  • Ioana Călătoru: Beaned Morgan twice with snowballs. He's terrified of her, possibly more than of Mr. Ward.
  • Eden Trammel: One of his friends. Sometimes Morgan uses his telepathy to try and help Eden unload his feelings on bad days, it doesn't take long for him to regret this choice. It's not Eden's fault though.
    
  • Mary Ross: Morgan tries to stay away from her, or at least stay quiet. She manages to make a lot of things he says into "evidence" that he is a closet pervert. Whether or not she's correct is beside the point, it's the principle of the matter.
• Telepathy
  Morgan’s main power is simple telepathy, which is the ability to see and hear other people’s thoughts inside his head. He can also project his own thoughts into their head, or broadcast his thoughts to many people in his immediate vicinity. It is limited by distance, but is significantly more effective when direct eye contact is made.
  
  
  • Telepathic Dream-sharing: If Morgan is close enough to someone who is having a particularly vivid dream, he will be able to see and hear flashes of their dream within his mind. It works in reverse, to an extent – if Morgan is the one dreaming, then others sleeping near him may also experience his dreams. This has led to several awkward family breakfasts, and an unspoken rule of wearing limiters to bed.
  
  Limitations
  Because of the potential unsavory applications of telepathy, Morgan strives to limit his powers however he can. This usually involves distancing himself from people, as well as avoiding eye contact. He doesn't consider himself lonely, though - it helps that he's naturally an introvert.
  
  
  • Mental Noise: Morgan cannot turn off his telepathy (something he's trying to train himself to do). Without his limiter, he's easily distracted by the errant thoughts of other people. In crowds, he might even begin to disassociate and not be able to tell which thoughts are his own.
    
  • Line of Sight: There's a saying that eyes are the window to the soul. Morgan hates this saying, because it's sort of true. His powers work best on people he can see - especially if he can see their eyes. Tying into his psychic vulnerability, any other psychic super could look into his eyes and read him like an open book.
    
  • Signal Drop-off: His telepathy requires that he is somewhat close to his target. The further away he is from someone, the more concentration and effort is required to find and hear their thoughts. The distance of his powers' effectiveness is longest directly in front of him, due to line of sight.
  • Psychic Vulnerability: Morgan's mind has been compared to a firewall before - he can see a lot of mental traffic from other people, but unfortunately this exposes his mind to other psychics around him. He is notably susceptible to other telepaths, and wears his limiter dutifully partly to avoid potential psychic manipulation
  • All Bark, No Bite: His telepathy is strictly that - telepathy, the sharing of thoughts by mind. He cannot control what people say or do, he can only make himself heard - and he can only hear immediate thoughts, he cannot go digging in your brain for your deepest, darkest secrets.
  • Humans Only: His powers do not work on animals. He cannot hear what an animal is thinking, nor can animals hear his thoughts. However, his telepathy does work on supers who can turn into animals.
• Culinary Arts: Morgan grew up learning to bake from his mother, and grilling from his father. He enjoys helping to make dinner at home, especially since his sister has set the kitchen on fire three times already. There's something about watching people enjoy a pastry he baked for them, that makes him unspeakably happy.
  
  Wannabe Greasemonkey: Basic - like, really basic - vehicle maintenance knowledge. Anyone who's actually worked on cars can tell that Morgan is the kind of kid who read the instruction manual once or twice and now acts like he "totally knows what he's doing, guys". Maybe he'd know more if he didn't always read his brother's mind.
• Formerly known as the Augmentations tab, it has now been renamed to Tools and Weapons, 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
• 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.

Someone help me figure out appropriate stats for telepathy while I work on the rest of the profile. Technically Morgan has higher willpower than Chernov atm, also I don't like his intelligence being at 4 because his powers don't really modify his intelligence. He's good at recognizing emotions in people, but it's only because it's a skill that he's picked up over the course of using his powers.

 

[Necessity4Fun]

He's good at recognizing emotions in people, but it's only because it's a skill that he's picked up over the course of using his powers.

That sounds more like a skill than anything else then >w<

 

[Necessity4Fun]

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BRAHN, G.

• Stats
• General
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• Heroism Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Courage	▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱	5
  Altruism	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱	7
  Order	▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱	6
  Kindness	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱	8
  Proaction	▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱	3
  Diplomacy	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰	9
  Composure	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱	7

  Ability Statistics
  Aspect	Scale	Total
  Health	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	2
  Strength	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	2
  Defense	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	1
  Agility	▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	2
  Intelligence	▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱	4
  Willpower	▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱	8
  Energy	▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱	1

• Full Name
  Gillian Morgan Brahn, Jr.
  
  Nicknames
  Junior (family only), Morgan, Pretty Boy
  
  Codename
  n/a
  
  Gender
  Male
  
  Age
  Seventeen
  
  Rank
  B Rank
  
  Limiter
  Active, level 2
  
  Role
  Student
• Race
  American (1/4 Russian, 1/8 Korean if we're gonna play that game)
  
  Hair
  Brown
  
  Eyes
  Blue
  
  Height
  5'8" (~173cm)
  
  Figure
  Slender, not much to speak of. The classic teen boy physique that makes scientists question just exactly where all that food goes.
  
  Notes
  Has a secret (and moderately illegal) tattoo of a mer-kitten on his left hip.
• Compassionate
  Morgan is a bleeding heart. He cares very much about the well-being of others, is very sentimental, and always has something kind to say. Many people appreciate how kind he is, however, it's incredible easy to lead him by the heartstrings.
  
  Effeminate
  He's got a pretty face, an androgynous name, he loves cute things, and he's absolutely not ashamed of any of this. Morgan has accepted that there's a lot of boys and girls in this world who are way manlier than he'll ever be. He is absolutely content to stay in the corner and let them do the heavy lifting.
  
  Introverted
  Morgan is an introvert, period. It's not that he doesn't like people - he does - it's that he finds it exhausting to be around lots of people for a long time. It takes effort to ignore them, and sometimes he just wants to be left alone with his own thoughts. Not that he'll ever say that to someone's face, though.
  
  Oblivious
  Despite his powers - or maybe because of them - Morgan can be oblivious bordering on stupid. Take freshman year of high school, for example. Several of his classmates had crushes on him, and despite some very, VERY clear hints... he still managed to friend-zone each and every suitor.
  
  History
  Morgan - who goes by his middle name to avoid confusion with his father - came into his powers before the typical teenage years. His telepathic abilities first manifested elementary school as an eerie tendency to finish other people's sentences. When it progressed to dream-sharing and unconsciously browsing through people's thoughts around seventh grade, his (non-super) parents determined that he was going to be "A Handful" and made sure to get him into an Aegis program as early as possible.
  
  He has been attending Facility 108 for about four years, and hasn't had any high strain incidents in at least six months has had a normal of close calls the past several months, such as accidentally telepathically screaming across the campus about an adorable dog.
  
  He's looking forward to getting the limiter deactivated when he turns eighteen... Although he might leave it on anyways, just for the peace and quiet. Even without using his powers, Morgan is painfully aware that something about him and his abilities troubles his parents - well, at least his mother. But his younger brother is her favorite and he's also a super, so maybe it's a bit more complicated than that.
• Family
  
  • Mr. Brahn: Morgan's father, an Army veteran who worked for Commonwealth as a field agent. Sometimes the man has dreams from the Rapture attack decades ago. Morgan wishes he didn't know second-hand the sound of bones shattering on impact.
    
  • Mrs. Brahn: Morgan's mother, a former Commonwealth scientist who now owns and operates the Brahn's Best Bakery. She dreams about tentacles a lot, but also about leather straps and syringes and blue goop? It's weird.
    
  • Jordan Brahn: His younger brother, a physically handicapped genius and official insufferable pain in the ass. He tends to dream a LOT, Morgan swears up and down that the idiot genius has enough brain activity for a half dozen people who all have ADHD. Morgan also swears up and down that he totally has never read Jordan's mind during a proctored exam.
    
  • June Brahn: His younger sister, a totally normal tomboy. She's also insufferable, but only because she's an attention-seeking fourteen year old girl with power envy. She dreams about being the biggest badass on whatever sports team she's joined that season.
    
  • Hunter Ward: Mr. Ward is the Brahn Spawn's great-uncle, however, due to bad blood between him and Mrs. Brahn, he's not allowed inside the bakery or their home. Thankfully, Morgan does not take Mr. Ward's class. Morgan has vowed to never read this man's mind, if he can help it.
  
  Facility 108
  
  • Asher Torchinovic: Morgan is on okay terms with the mental discipline teacher. He's a good coach, but sometimes Morgan struggles to keep his composure in Mr. Torchinovich's class. It's an introvert's nightmare sometimes.
  • Cecilia Pellegrini: Morgan destroyed her with a snowball during the midterm/winter entrance exams, and he feels absolutely terrible about it. Then she cried, and he felt even worse. The next time he saw her in school, he gave her a giant cinnamon bun. Now they're friends, but he still feels really guilty and feels it's his duty to protect her.
    
  • Ioana Călătoru: Beaned Morgan twice with snowballs. He's terrified of her, possibly more than of Mr. Ward.
  • Eden Trammel: One of his friends. Sometimes Morgan uses his telepathy to try and help Eden unload his feelings on bad days, it doesn't take long for him to regret this choice. It's not Eden's fault though.
    
  • Mary Ross: Morgan tries to stay away from her, or at least stay quiet. She manages to make a lot of things he says into "evidence" that he is a closet pervert. Whether or not she's correct is beside the point, it's the principle of the matter.
• Telepathy
  Morgan’s main power is simple telepathy, which is the ability to see and hear other people’s thoughts inside his head. He can also project his own thoughts into their head, or broadcast his thoughts to many people in his immediate vicinity. It is limited by distance, but is significantly more effective when direct eye contact is made.
  
  
  • Telepathic Dream-sharing: If Morgan is close enough to someone who is having a particularly vivid dream, he will be able to see and hear flashes of their dream within his mind. It works in reverse, to an extent – if Morgan is the one dreaming, then others sleeping near him may also experience his dreams. This has led to several awkward family breakfasts, and an unspoken rule of wearing limiters to bed.
  
  Limitations
  Because of the potential unsavory applications of telepathy, Morgan strives to limit his powers however he can. This usually involves distancing himself from people, as well as avoiding eye contact. He doesn't consider himself lonely, though - it helps that he's naturally an introvert.
  
  
  • Mental Noise: Morgan cannot turn off his telepathy (something he's trying to train himself to do). Without his limiter, he's easily distracted by the errant thoughts of other people. In crowds, he might even begin to disassociate and not be able to tell which thoughts are his own.
    
  • Line of Sight: There's a saying that eyes are the window to the soul. Morgan hates this saying, because it's sort of true. His powers work best on people he can see - especially if he can see their eyes. Tying into his psychic vulnerability, any other psychic super could look into his eyes and read him like an open book.
    
  • Signal Drop-off: His telepathy requires that he is somewhat close to his target. The further away he is from someone, the more concentration and effort is required to find and hear their thoughts. The distance of his powers' effectiveness is longest directly in front of him, due to line of sight.
  • Psychic Vulnerability: Morgan's mind has been compared to a firewall before - he can see a lot of mental traffic from other people, but unfortunately this exposes his mind to other psychics around him. He is notably susceptible to other telepaths, and wears his limiter dutifully partly to avoid potential psychic manipulation
  • All Bark, No Bite: His telepathy is strictly that - telepathy, the sharing of thoughts by mind. He cannot control what people say or do, he can only make himself heard - and he can only hear immediate thoughts, he cannot go digging in your brain for your deepest, darkest secrets.
  • Humans Only: His powers do not work on animals. He cannot hear what an animal is thinking, nor can animals hear his thoughts. However, his telepathy does work on supers who can turn into animals.
• Culinary Arts: Morgan grew up learning to bake from his mother, and grilling from his father. He enjoys helping to make dinner at home, especially since his sister has set the kitchen on fire three times already. There's something about watching people enjoy a pastry he baked for them, that makes him unspeakably happy.
  
  Wannabe Greasemonkey: Basic - like, really basic - vehicle maintenance knowledge. Anyone who's actually worked on cars can tell that Morgan is the kind of kid who read the instruction manual once or twice and now acts like he "totally knows what he's doing, guys". Maybe he'd know more if he didn't always read his brother's mind.
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Someone help me figure out appropriate stats for telepathy while I work on the rest of the profile. Technically Morgan has higher willpower than Chernov atm, also I don't like his intelligence being at 4 because his powers don't really modify his intelligence. He's good at recognizing emotions in people, but it's only because it's a skill that he's picked up over the course of using his powers.

I like where Willpower is at, but would probably put intelligence back to 2 and throw points at energy. Heck he can do the whole dream sharing thing and the whole broadcasting thing, that sounds more than normal telepathy (which is usually more about reading minds than anything, usually?) and totes yell 'energy!' at me.

Not sure how to give you numbers to work with tho. Probably energy on 3 or 4...? Maybe 4 or 5 since I suggested 3 for Mitch? I'm bad at this XD
Just a couple, unmatured ideas. More like, intuition.

 

[welian]

It's all good, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing either.

 

[Syrenrei]

welian : Here's what I think. You can have two people at 8 willpower that use it for completely different powers.

In my mind energy is reserved for abilities that are not psychic (mind to mind) in nature. From what I understand of Morgan, all of his abilities affect the minds of others and do not culminate in tangible, physical alterations of the world that 'mana' might require. Just like in tabletop RPs, psionics and psychics rely on a different subsystem than a mage might. That's not to say they are completely dissimilar but how they do something is very different.

Where does this leave Morgan? I'd give him intelligence of 3; that makes sense. He's a very bright person even if he doesn't apply himself all the time. You don't need to be ambitious to be a genius. Actually, some of the smartest people I know are lazy assholes because they never had to develop a strict work ethic. I'd leave energy at 1 because I don't see why everyone needs energy. If everyone uses energy to 'fuel' their superpowers in addition to another stat, I think it will skew the system in ways we don't really want to see. Characters with high energy would dominate every scene, every time, regardless of the other stats involved.

 

[ManicMuse]

Portal Creation
The ability to generate a gateway between two separate places. For Mary, this power manifests as a pair of circular holes, although other simple geometry shapes is possible. Beside that, it doesn't posses any special mark expected from a portal, like a glowing edge.

I want a glowing purple hue when she makes a portal, just a flash of it.

That was about the only thing I could come up with.

 

[ManicMuse]

I am interested in the difference in her stats in full human vs full beast on the stats bar. Is there going to be a huge difference? I love the concept because its so different from a lot of what has come in. The mere fact that her power is such a set back is intriguing. Just as the personality traits clearly fit based off of the history. The drive of maternal instinct, cause of past and just a nice play on her monster-nous power. I can't wait to see her in action. Can she really not talk all that well in full human form or is that just a joke? I want her to have a seriously thick accent.

Aubin-Mignault, A

• Stats
• General
• Appearance
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
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• 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.
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[Necessity4Fun]

Can she really not talk all that well in full human form or is that just a joke? I want her to have a seriously thick accent.

Check her in the Monster mash mission. The players in there often needed Frixz (or Nicole) to translate whatever was typed down XD

 

[Teh Frixz]

"Nawl jes'n acsent y'all ken pick owt en the bayou. 'Ent hard teh be naowin what he say o' wah she be say. Jes takea couple oh ours teh learn"

I do hope a running gag is psychic individuals being fully capable of reading her mind but having no clue what she is saying.

As for powers developing with her body, it depends on what she's grown and what it does. So I'd say she's got incremental growth to her 'max' stats

 

[welian]

"Nawl jes'n acsent y'all ken pick owt en the bayou. 'Ent hard teh be naowin what he say o' wah she be say. Jes takea couple oh ours teh learn"

"New Orleans is just an accent you can pick out on the bayou. It's not hard to know what he says or what she is saying. It just takes a couple hours to learn."

Help me.

 

[Necessity4Fun]

"New Orleans is just an accent you can pick out on the bayou. It's not hard to know what he says or what she is saying. It just takes a couple hours to learn."

Help me.

Oh so that's what the first sentence was!
I could read the rest, just not that one XD

Time to google 'bayou'