M.J. Saulnier
Semi-Retired User
Crusader is part of the rebooted Mythic Universe. Mythic is a universe building project strictly for well developed OC super heroes and villains. Unlike most power-based RPs, Mythic is not a plug and play model that supports principle characters freely. We are building our own universe from the ground up. This means fully fleshed out origin stories for each hero. Establishing their genesis, their family and friends, villains, etc. This will be a massive undertaking, spanning many different RPS.
This RP will likely consist of a small group. It's hard to stack up principle meta characters in someone's origin story without cluttering the topic at hand. Instead you can choose to play a character within Crusader's respective corner of the verse. This would not prevent you from creating your own characters in the future, and I will support everyone's origin and development processes to the best of my abilities. When it comes to OC super-powered characters, I am a devout believer in the power of the origin story. When paths cross, and alliances are formed, I want to have real backing behind it rather than fabricated significance.
This is the longer, harder way to come at it, but I believe it will be the most rewarding. I'm sure more than a few of you are tired of precooked super powered RPs as well.
Presents
ORIGINS
PLOT
Mystery/Action/Drama
The year is 2000 in the fictional city of Citadel City, NY. Citadel is the largest, most advanced city on the planet. It has no shortage of crime and meta-humans to fight, or commit it. Owen Thorne is just one of those many meta-humans. Gifted with the ability to generate photon energy from his body, he will answer the call to defend the city he loves when a mysterious meta calling himself The Phantom begins to terrorize the citizens of Citadel.
After the puzzling suicide of his father, James Thorne, Owen will inherit the title of CEO of Thorne Enterprises. He will struggle to fill his father's shoes whilst trying to solve the mystery of his death. He will attempt to find his purpose and place in the world as a young meta-human. This RP will set the stage for at least two more Crusader stories that will provide a platform to introduce other characters such as Icarus.
Age ⇀ 41 (1978)
Height ⇀ 6'2"
Weight ⇀ 212 lbs
Hair ⇀ Brown
Eyes ⇀ Brown
Suit:
⇀ Red
⇀ Gold
Powers:
⇀ Light Manipulation
⇀ Enhanced Speed
⇀ Flight
Teams: TBD
Allies: TBD
Enemies: TBD
Name: Owen James Thorne
Alias: Crusader
Nicknames: Illuminator, The Crusader of Light (Papers)
Alignment: Hero
Species: Metahuman
Age: 41
Born: Citadel City, NY, 1978
Resides: Citadel City, NY
Appearance:
Costume Appearance:
Distinguishing Marks: None
Powers:
Skills: Leadership, conflict resolution, problem solving skills, martial arts training, kenjutsu training (never used to fight crime)
Available Equipment: SARA
Personal Items: Gold Watch
Personality/Mentality: Owen is a withdrawn introvert. Bottling up his emotions allows him to avoid them, and focus his energy on the needs of others. He is a true pacifist and peacekeeper. He struggles with the moral complexities of fighting crime, and goes into every situation with a problem solving mentality. Rather than fight the problem, Owen tries to solve it. Like his father, he is a selfless man who thinks only of others in his daily life, and at his job.
As a rookie hero, Owen is humble, peaceful, and lenient with criminals and villains. He receives better press than some other heroes due to his extremely passive style and consideration for the city and public in terms of safety and damage. Owen strives to do the right thing, and is often conflicted when put in dicey, loaded situations where tough choices have to be made.
Owen is a natural leader and humanitarian. His response to distress and suffering is take care of both sides.
Occupation: CEO, Thorne Enterprises
Affiliations: TBD
Reputation: TBD
Teams: TBD
Allies: TBD
Enemies: TBD
Roleplays: Coming Soon...
Description: A powerful super villain shrouded in mystery, and the arch nemesis of Crusader. Phantom will be a permanent and vital fixture of the Mythic Universe.
Powers:
Costume Appearance:
Some variant of the Shadow Temple armor, including a black cloak and hood. Phantom wouldn't wear the standard temple attire as he is a senior member and decorated agent of shadows. A veritable star child of the temple.
Description: Systems Analysis and Repair Algorithms. Developed by James Thorne in the 90's, S.A.R.A. is the world's most advanced artificial intelligence. Located in Thorne Tower, she has full access to and control over all of Thorne Tower's security and IT systems. She also works with Crusader whilst he is in the field, assisting and keeping him informed. Anything a computer can do, S.A.R.A. can do better. 'She' has a very bright, present future in the Mythic Universe.
Powers:
Description: William Porter is the owner and master of Shengli Combat Arts, a run-down, dying martial arts dojo in Citadel City. A meta-human born without the ability to see, he developed extrasensory vision. Will became Blindside after his wife and daughter were slain in a mundane corner store robbery. He becomes a mentor to Crusader, teaching him how to defend himself and the city from evil forces. He helps him discover and learn to control his super powers, and teaches him a certain set of morals that will define who Crusader becomes as a hero and a man. Will's long-term involvement depends on who plays him. By my hand, he won't be around much, but there's nothing I'd love more than for him to make a comeback.
Despite being a supporting role for Crusader and Zypher, he has a very special place in their stories that reverberates through the verse after the defeat of Kronos.
Powers:
Costume Appearance:
Ignore the ears on the cowl.
The staff is more or less mandatory. Will was trained by the original owner of Shengli Combat Arts, who was a Light Temple monk. Hence the staff discipline.
JACOB FRENCH
Description: Jacob is Crusader's best and only childhood friend. Jacob provided the role of companion and protector for a young Owen. They met when Jacob's father began working for James Thorne as his head of security. Jacob became a Citadel PD cop, and may possibly be a dormant meta-human himself.
Powers:
In addition to these characters, you may of course create your own, keeping in mind that it's hard to stack up principle metas is an origin story.
Can't really stress enough that this is merely the beginning of something of epic proportions.
This RP will likely consist of a small group. It's hard to stack up principle meta characters in someone's origin story without cluttering the topic at hand. Instead you can choose to play a character within Crusader's respective corner of the verse. This would not prevent you from creating your own characters in the future, and I will support everyone's origin and development processes to the best of my abilities. When it comes to OC super-powered characters, I am a devout believer in the power of the origin story. When paths cross, and alliances are formed, I want to have real backing behind it rather than fabricated significance.
This is the longer, harder way to come at it, but I believe it will be the most rewarding. I'm sure more than a few of you are tired of precooked super powered RPs as well.
Presents
ORIGINS
PLOT
Mystery/Action/Drama
The year is 2000 in the fictional city of Citadel City, NY. Citadel is the largest, most advanced city on the planet. It has no shortage of crime and meta-humans to fight, or commit it. Owen Thorne is just one of those many meta-humans. Gifted with the ability to generate photon energy from his body, he will answer the call to defend the city he loves when a mysterious meta calling himself The Phantom begins to terrorize the citizens of Citadel.
After the puzzling suicide of his father, James Thorne, Owen will inherit the title of CEO of Thorne Enterprises. He will struggle to fill his father's shoes whilst trying to solve the mystery of his death. He will attempt to find his purpose and place in the world as a young meta-human. This RP will set the stage for at least two more Crusader stories that will provide a platform to introduce other characters such as Icarus.
CHARACTERS
Age ⇀ 41 (1978)
Height ⇀ 6'2"
Weight ⇀ 212 lbs
Hair ⇀ Brown
Eyes ⇀ Brown
Suit:
⇀ Red
⇀ Gold
Powers:
⇀ Light Manipulation
⇀ Enhanced Speed
⇀ Flight
Teams: TBD
Allies: TBD
Enemies: TBD
Summary
Name: Owen James Thorne
Alias: Crusader
Nicknames: Illuminator, The Crusader of Light (Papers)
Alignment: Hero
Species: Metahuman
Age: 41
Born: Citadel City, NY, 1978
Resides: Citadel City, NY
Appearance
Appearance:
Distinguishing Marks: None
Powers/Skills/Equipment
Powers:
- Light Manipulation (Photon blasts, generation of light from body)
- Flight
- Enhanced Speed
- The use of his power for too long or pushing them too hard causes Owen's body to heat up, resulting in radiation burns, even death.
Skills: Leadership, conflict resolution, problem solving skills, martial arts training, kenjutsu training (never used to fight crime)
Available Equipment: SARA
- SARA: Systems Analysis and Repair Algorithms, or ‘SARA’ for short. Designed by James Thorne, SARA is the world's most advanced artificial intelligence. SARA assists Owen in various ways. She is able to hack into security and satellite systems, as well as perform research tasks, and keep Owen informed and alert. Located at Thorne Tower, she is a side-kick, security system, and IT team, all neatly rolled into one sentient machine.
Personal Items: Gold Watch
Biography
Hyperion
My body is broken. My spirit scattered across the stars.
The cold black void approaches our last vestige of hope.
Children of Earth. I offer you the only gift I have to give.
James and Angela
James Thorne and Angela Monroe met while attending Citadel middle school together in the mid-1960s. They became high school sweet hearts and dated throughout college. James earned degrees in programming, mechanical engineering, and business, whilst Angela earned a medical degree. Out of college they married at twenty-six and were ready to settle down and start a life together. Angela began work as a Doctor at Citadel general, and James went to work for Global Tech working in the robotics laboratories. One year later, little Owen was born.
Early Life
James and Angela Thorne gave birth to Owen on April 16th, 1978, at 4:42am; The stroke of dawn. A tiny fragment of something ancient and pure resides within Owen and gives him his meta-human powers.
He grew up an only child of upper-middle class parents in a nice neighborhood of northern Citadel City. He was skinny, weak, and socially awkward for the first twelve years of his life. He didn't have many friends as a result of his withdrawn personality, but at home he had all the love, acceptance and companionship he needed.
When he was nine, James quit his job at Global Tech. The years of conflicting interests and beliefs had pushed James out of the company. The next year he founded a new company with a college friend by the name of Vincent Grimm.
It was through James' business associate, Eddie French, that Owen met his best friend, Jacob French. Jacob was a funny, outgoing, tough kid from the east end of Citadel. He provided Owen with a loyal companion and protector when the situation called for it.
Thorne Enterprises
Founded in 1988 by James Thorne and Vincent Grimm. It started with the dilapidated, derelict husk of a building just outside of downtown Citadel. James and Vincent transform what was once an eye-sore along the harbor-front, into a pillar of human advancement. Thorne Enterprises is a multi-faceted company with floors in the fields of research, technology, products, and building contracts. The company also does a lot of work within the city and country, giving back to the people, and trying to assist in solving problems we share as a community and nation.
James and Vincent spend a decade developing state of the art technology such as the ever-lasting battery, and the highly advanced AI, S.A.R.A. They diligently protect this tech from competitors who would seek to a raise market prices.
Owen
The year is 2000. Owen is now twenty-two-years old attending college on the west coast. He is earning degrees in business and programming. For the first time in his life, Owen's light manipulation abilities begin to manifest. Several weeks later, Owen receives a call to return home. James has thrown himself from the balcony of his office in Thorne Tower.
Owen returns to Citadel City to bury his father. He inherits the title of majority share holder of Thorne Enterprises, and reunites with Jacob French, who is now a rookie cop in the Citadel PD. Owen entrusts Jacob with the knowledge of his newly discovered abilities, and together they try to understand and develop them further.
[More to be developed via RP]
Hyperion
My body is broken. My spirit scattered across the stars.
The cold black void approaches our last vestige of hope.
Children of Earth. I offer you the only gift I have to give.
James and Angela
James Thorne and Angela Monroe met while attending Citadel middle school together in the mid-1960s. They became high school sweet hearts and dated throughout college. James earned degrees in programming, mechanical engineering, and business, whilst Angela earned a medical degree. Out of college they married at twenty-six and were ready to settle down and start a life together. Angela began work as a Doctor at Citadel general, and James went to work for Global Tech working in the robotics laboratories. One year later, little Owen was born.
Early Life
James and Angela Thorne gave birth to Owen on April 16th, 1978, at 4:42am; The stroke of dawn. A tiny fragment of something ancient and pure resides within Owen and gives him his meta-human powers.
He grew up an only child of upper-middle class parents in a nice neighborhood of northern Citadel City. He was skinny, weak, and socially awkward for the first twelve years of his life. He didn't have many friends as a result of his withdrawn personality, but at home he had all the love, acceptance and companionship he needed.
When he was nine, James quit his job at Global Tech. The years of conflicting interests and beliefs had pushed James out of the company. The next year he founded a new company with a college friend by the name of Vincent Grimm.
It was through James' business associate, Eddie French, that Owen met his best friend, Jacob French. Jacob was a funny, outgoing, tough kid from the east end of Citadel. He provided Owen with a loyal companion and protector when the situation called for it.
Thorne Enterprises
Founded in 1988 by James Thorne and Vincent Grimm. It started with the dilapidated, derelict husk of a building just outside of downtown Citadel. James and Vincent transform what was once an eye-sore along the harbor-front, into a pillar of human advancement. Thorne Enterprises is a multi-faceted company with floors in the fields of research, technology, products, and building contracts. The company also does a lot of work within the city and country, giving back to the people, and trying to assist in solving problems we share as a community and nation.
James and Vincent spend a decade developing state of the art technology such as the ever-lasting battery, and the highly advanced AI, S.A.R.A. They diligently protect this tech from competitors who would seek to a raise market prices.
Owen
The year is 2000. Owen is now twenty-two-years old attending college on the west coast. He is earning degrees in business and programming. For the first time in his life, Owen's light manipulation abilities begin to manifest. Several weeks later, Owen receives a call to return home. James has thrown himself from the balcony of his office in Thorne Tower.
Owen returns to Citadel City to bury his father. He inherits the title of majority share holder of Thorne Enterprises, and reunites with Jacob French, who is now a rookie cop in the Citadel PD. Owen entrusts Jacob with the knowledge of his newly discovered abilities, and together they try to understand and develop them further.
[More to be developed via RP]
Personality/Mentality: Owen is a withdrawn introvert. Bottling up his emotions allows him to avoid them, and focus his energy on the needs of others. He is a true pacifist and peacekeeper. He struggles with the moral complexities of fighting crime, and goes into every situation with a problem solving mentality. Rather than fight the problem, Owen tries to solve it. Like his father, he is a selfless man who thinks only of others in his daily life, and at his job.
As a rookie hero, Owen is humble, peaceful, and lenient with criminals and villains. He receives better press than some other heroes due to his extremely passive style and consideration for the city and public in terms of safety and damage. Owen strives to do the right thing, and is often conflicted when put in dicey, loaded situations where tough choices have to be made.
Owen is a natural leader and humanitarian. His response to distress and suffering is take care of both sides.
Portfolio
Occupation: CEO, Thorne Enterprises
Affiliations: TBD
Reputation: TBD
Teams: TBD
Allies: TBD
Enemies: TBD
Roleplays: Coming Soon...
Journal Logs
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AVAILABLE CHARACTERS
Description: A powerful super villain shrouded in mystery, and the arch nemesis of Crusader. Phantom will be a permanent and vital fixture of the Mythic Universe.
Powers:
- Psychic Manipulation (specializes in invoking fear, paranoia, and terror)
- Telekinesis (able to use his telekinesis to levitate his body, simulating flight)
- Maintaining a psychic link to influence an individual takes constant focus and control of his mind and the mind of his target(s).
- Vincent's psychic influence only takes hold for as long as that person is unaware they are being influenced. For example, one influenced person in a group can be calmed down by nearby allies. Whereas left alone and under his influence, one can easily snowball themselves into a state of total panic.
Costume Appearance:
Some variant of the Shadow Temple armor, including a black cloak and hood. Phantom wouldn't wear the standard temple attire as he is a senior member and decorated agent of shadows. A veritable star child of the temple.
Description: Systems Analysis and Repair Algorithms. Developed by James Thorne in the 90's, S.A.R.A. is the world's most advanced artificial intelligence. Located in Thorne Tower, she has full access to and control over all of Thorne Tower's security and IT systems. She also works with Crusader whilst he is in the field, assisting and keeping him informed. Anything a computer can do, S.A.R.A. can do better. 'She' has a very bright, present future in the Mythic Universe.
Powers:
- Hacking
- Data computing
- No physical form
- Limited to the constraints of electronic systems.
Description: William Porter is the owner and master of Shengli Combat Arts, a run-down, dying martial arts dojo in Citadel City. A meta-human born without the ability to see, he developed extrasensory vision. Will became Blindside after his wife and daughter were slain in a mundane corner store robbery. He becomes a mentor to Crusader, teaching him how to defend himself and the city from evil forces. He helps him discover and learn to control his super powers, and teaches him a certain set of morals that will define who Crusader becomes as a hero and a man. Will's long-term involvement depends on who plays him. By my hand, he won't be around much, but there's nothing I'd love more than for him to make a comeback.
Despite being a supporting role for Crusader and Zypher, he has a very special place in their stories that reverberates through the verse after the defeat of Kronos.
Powers:
- Superhuman Senses
- Extrasensory Vision
- He has no sense of actual sight.
- His sense of hearing is so powerful that it can be used against him.
Ignore the ears on the cowl.
The staff is more or less mandatory. Will was trained by the original owner of Shengli Combat Arts, who was a Light Temple monk. Hence the staff discipline.
JACOB FRENCH
Description: Jacob is Crusader's best and only childhood friend. Jacob provided the role of companion and protector for a young Owen. They met when Jacob's father began working for James Thorne as his head of security. Jacob became a Citadel PD cop, and may possibly be a dormant meta-human himself.
Powers:
- Undecided
- Undecided
In addition to these characters, you may of course create your own, keeping in mind that it's hard to stack up principle metas is an origin story.
Can't really stress enough that this is merely the beginning of something of epic proportions.
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