Fandom DC UNIVERSE: LAST CITY [CHARACTERS]

[Bone2pick]

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LOOPING BROADCAST

Attention all heroes, this is a call for help from the Justice League. The new world occupying our solar system is now known to us - it's name is Perduron. It hails from another time and universe. I, Martian Manhunter—along with League member Hal Jordan—have met with Perduron's authorities. From that meeting we've learned that while most of the alien world's inhabitants are compassionate and well-disposed, there are also bad actors at work. It's megacity, dubbed Last City, is infested with a sinister and militant cult who aim to overthrow their government. The League has reached the conclusion that we cannot allow the usurpation to happen. If the authorities of Perduron fall Earth will likely be the cult's next target.

I know of many heroes back home; hopefully this message reaches you all. Hal and I need your help. The danger has been great and it will likely only get worse. Three Green Lanterns have already paid the ultimate price. We need you on Perduron so we can stop the threat before it comes to our beautiful world. Martian Manhunter out.

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This roleplay's intended launch date is 8-1-17. All of the following character types are acceptable: traditional cannon, reimagined cannon, and original DC Universe. After the RP is underway characters can still be submitted for consideration.

Comic book characters with decades of legacy behind them typically accumulate absurd power creep. And if you couldn't piece it together from most of my setting changes, I'm aiming to roll the creep back. In terms of power level for this RP even top tier characters will have their physical and magical limits. For instance, a direct tank blast will stun Superboy, Shazam, or Wonder Woman, as well as crack lantern constructs. Super durable characters will still be amazingly tough, just not invulnerable. Cannon characters power levels can be set at their standard showings or lower, depending on the player's choice. As a rule of thumb for standard showing, think of the powers they would generally display on their own Saturday morning cartoon. And finally, the most important rule to honor is that my judgement is final. If I inform you that your character is overpowered I expect you to adjust your character's abilities to my liking or excuse yourself from the roleplay.

CHARACTER SHEET
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Full Name:

Alias(es):

Species:

Age:

Gender:

Appearance: (brief written description required, comic book style art pic encouraged)

Equipment:

Skills & Abilities:

Powers:

Vulnerabilities:

Extra:

Origin Story:

Friends and family they care most about: (include at least two)

Thoughts and feelings about serving on Perduron?

Spoiler: Writing Sample

Write a scene (500+ words) that features your character sometime after they learned of Perduron's arrival into Earth's solar system. In an effort to keep the thread tidy please enclose your writing sample inside spoilers.

 

[The DoomyFish]

Full Name: Jonathan Castillo

Alias(es): The Radiant

Species: human/Cosmic entity

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Appearance:
(Non powered)
Standing 6ft even and weighing in at 180lbs, Jonathan boasts an athletic build. His dark hair and bright blue eyes draw attention away from the many scars that adorn his face.
(Powered)

Once he activates his power Jonathan becomes wrapped in a second skin with a light neon blue hue to it. His proportions don't seem to change much and any clothes he was wearing at the time seem to disappear from his person. His new skin glows at various degrees of brightness, while he can control the brightness it seems to hinge on his mood at the time.

Equipment: While in his non powered form he carries a cell phone,switchblade, a pack of cigarettes, and a silver Zippo lighter.

Skills & Abilities:
Street fighter- Jonathan is by no means we'll trained but he knows his way around a fight, one doesn't grow up in the streets of Gotham without picking up a thing or two. He is especially good at fighting dirty.

B&E- sneaking into places is a talent that Jonathan is particularly adept in. While he might not be on par with the resident flying rodent of Gotham, he can pick a lock, disable most menial security systems, and is pretty good at hotwiring cars.

Electrical engineer- before being a criminal turned hero, Jonathan went to school for electrical engineering and spent several years working on Gotham's energy grid. This grants him quite a wealth of knowledge about electrical systems both large and small.

Powers:
Flight- Up to hyper sonic while on planet, Up to light speed when in space.

Enhanced strength- Able to bear weights up to 2 tons while flying or up to ten tons while on the ground and straining himself.

Enhanced reflexes- his reflexes are just enough to keep up with his on world speed, though he does seem to occasionally go faster than his reflexes can react.

Energy absorbtion- the primary means of defense Jonathan has is to absorb the energy of incoming attacks, kinetic, thermal, electrical, solar, and even nuclear energy are able to be absorbed and are used as fuel for both his body, and his powers.

Energy Projection- while not able to craft constucts like a green lanturn, Jonathan has a wide range of uses with his ability to unleash stored energy. From charging his melee attacks with kinetic energy, to unleashing surges of lightning or fire, even blasting foes with Lasers of pure energy.

Energy sense- almost all beings have some form of energy be it Bioenergy, the raw energy of mechanical beings, or even the mystical energies of magic being

Regeneration- as a last line of defense Jonathan can expend energy to recover from wounds though it is not a flawless healing. He will still gain scars and soreness from wounds and it cannot heal wounds that would be fatal to him.

Energy sustainability: As long as he is in the radiant form Jonathan can survive off of the energy stored in his body. Thus removing his need for food, water, and even oxygen. The energy within himcan adjust his internal pressure allowing him to survive in the oceans depths and the vacuum of space.

Vulnerabilities:
Cold- Cold is the absence of energy and one of the few things he cannot absorb. Enough cold will cause him to expend energy and can nullify his absorbtion if it reaches -120°f. At absolute zero all of his powers will fail.

Telepathy- Jonathan is incapable of defending against mind assaults,he is even incapable of detecting that his mind is being manipulated.

Inexperienced- Jonathan hasn't had his powers for very long, he is still learning what his capabilities are and needs training if he hopes to be a big league hero.

Extra: (finding a theme song for this.)

Origin Storyhim
Jonathan Castillo was born and raised in Gotham, his parents were both criminals who specialized in theft and other non-violent crimes. Though they did their best to keep him out of the criminal lifestyle, every so often Jonathan would dabble in the family business. Yet he managed to get decent enough grades in high school to make it into college. Though his years in the gotham high baseball team probably played a bigger role than his academics. After a few years of changing his mind on what he wanted to do he settled with electrical engineering. It was in this course that he met his future wife Melinda Perez. Once he graduated he and Melinda settled down and had a daughter named Mira. They spent the next few years working together in the Gotham city powerplant, that was until the Joker blew up the plant. Jonathan was with his daughter at the doctor's office at the time and found that his wife Melinda was severely injured and in critical condition. Having lost his job and facing the very real possibility of losing the woman he loved, Jonathan could think of nothing but revenge against the mad clown.
While investigating the powerplant for clues he found just what he needed. An alien entity calling itself Ohm-nhi Kou-Ras was in the ruins of the plant feeding on the excess energy from the plant. Upon meeting the energy being he turned to run. However Jonathan was a bit more panicked than he thought and wound up falling through a hole in the floor and landing on some live wires. The electrical shock stopped his heart, Ohm-nhi felt compassion for the man and so he merged himself with Jonathan restarting his heart with the power he had absorbed.
Jonathan came back to life as the Radiant, and using his new found power he sought vengeance against the Joker. However it wasn't meant to be, as he closed in on the clown Prince and smashed his way through the joker gang he met Batman, who was also seeking the joker. During a brief scuffle between Batman who sought to bring joker to arkham, and Jonathan who sought to kill him, the joker made his escape. After having some sense knocked into him by the caped crusader, Jonathan went to be with his wife in her last moments. Only to find that Wayne enterprise had offered to pay her medical bills and transfered her to Star labs for the best medical care money could buy. This was the tipping point for Jonathan. He figured if a man like Bruce Wayne could do so much good with only money, he could do just as much using his new powers. His wife survived though she lost her left arm from the shoulder down, and she fully supported his decision. After thanking Bruce Wayne and getting a new job at Wayne enterprise Jonathan began to focus on learning his powers. Thus a new hero was born...The Radiant began to shine bright for all to see.

Friends and family they care most about:
Milenda Castillo/Perez (Wife) Age:28 Occupation: electrical engineer & Wayne enterprise.
Mira Castillo (daughter) Age:6 Occupation: full time student.
Bruce Wayne (Friend/keeping an eye on him.)

Thoughts and feelings about serving on Perduron
Jonathan doesn't care if it is another planet or not, all beings have a right to live.

Spoiler: Writing sample

It was just past noon when Jonathan was let out of work at Wayne enterprises. He had got his keys and was on his way to his car only to find that with traffic the way it was he wouldn't make it home in his car for at least two hours, which he knew was far to long with all the craziness that was going around. Granted people had a pretty good reason for acting so crazy, after all it wasn't every day a planet just appeared in orbit. Deciding against driving he went back inside and began to climb the stairwell. By the time he reached the roof he was drenched in sweat and was really regretting the decision to take the stairs and not the elevator. Nonetheless the day was gorgeous a perfect day for flying. Taking a deep breath Jonathan focused on the strange crackling feeling between his shoulder blades. It was always there like an itch waiting to be scratched but a bit less annoying. As he focused on it he willed it to burst out, and a surge of blue electricity arced out of his back before doubling back and slamming on to him. In a flash of bright blue light Jonathan was replaced with radiant. "Alright gotta move fast, Milenda is bound to be worried." He said to no one in particular, his voice crackling with both exuberance and energy.
He took off in an instant. Streaking across the sky like a bolt of lightning, before coming to a stop in his backyard twenty two miles south of downtown Gotham. The flight had only lasted a second, but enjoyed every moment. Of all the powers the entity named Ohm-nhi gave him, flight had to be his favorite, though hurling lightning bolt's was pretty high on the list as well. Focusing yet again on the tingly feeling he willed the second skin away and it receded like a tide condensing into the quarter sized spot in between his shoulder blades. Surprisingly his wife hadn't come out to meet him like she usually did. Upon going inside he soon found out why.
Once he opened the back door he noticed Mira, who sat at the table with stack of eggo waffles. "Daddy!!!" She happily exclaimed While spewing bits of waffle. "Hey there munchkin aren't you supposed to be at school?" He asked ruffling her hair and taking one of the strawberries off of her plate. "They let us out early Daddy, mommy came and got me." She said after swallowing the waffle bits. As if on que Milenda could be heard in the living room "Honey...Come in here for a second." She said in a voice that would put a musician to shame. Rounding the corner into the living room Jonathan caught the end of the message and was about to say something when it started again. Milenda sat on the couch watching her husband's face as he listened to the broadcast coming from their television. When it was over Jonathan sighed and his wife's hand came to his shoulder. "Your going aren't you..." She said softly. "I feel like I have to,but what about you and Mira? I cant keep you guys safe from another planet." He said sitting down on the couch beside her. Milenda just scoffed, "I'm sure if I call Bruce he will let us stay at Wayne manor until this blows over." Lifting the cybernetic arm from Star labs she posed like a hero. "Besides I'm not all that helpless, this baby is made by star labs remember."
Smiling Jonathan rose to his feet, "Alright, get in contact with Bruce then, though it'll probably be Alfred who picks up, imma go say by to Mira and I'll be on my way." He turned to leave but Milenda's metal arm grabbed his shoulder and spun him around like he was a ballerina. "Your forgetting something." She said as she pressed her lips to his in a loving embrace. "You better come back to me, otherwise I'll go to that planet and kick your ass."
Jonathan almost didn't want to let go but a reassuring shove from his wife got him going. Coming to the table he knelt down to meet Mira's eyes. "Sorry baby but daddy's gotta go." He said looking her in the eyes. "Your gonna go save the aliens aren't you...can I go too?" She asked. "Sorry kiddo, maybe next time. But tell you what I'll bring you back something really cool." He said as he rose to his feet. He wanted to say more but he knew the longer he stayed the harder it would be to go. He opened the kitchen door and walked out into the back yard, looking back once more he saw his two ladies watching from the porch. Again he focused on the feeling in his back and the blue energy coated him once more converting his body into energy. "Keep your eyes on the sky, I'll be back soon." He said to his family, then he blasted into the sky and vanished into the clouds on his way to the watchtower.

 

[AI10100]

Full Name: Alexander Harvey Regas

Alias: Blind Warrior

Species: Human

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Appearance: Alexander stands at a height of 5'8 and hides a rather muscular body. His hair is already naturally blue for reasons unknown to him. It is usually hidden under his hoodie but when it is down, it can be described as neat - his hair swept to the right. His eyes is naturally dark, however it is known to change colors based on the type of aura that he uses. Since he can access two aura types at a time, it results to a somewhat heterochromatic eyes. Typically, it lands on a violet and blue combination. In battle, it typically falls into the red and yellow combination. He is often mistaken as someone younger because of his appearance. He is unsure as to why his appearance is not keeping up with his age.

Normally, he is dressed in two piles of clothing - an undershirt, hooded flannel of jacket, cargo pants and boots. When he is out to do his hero business, he adapts a skin-tight white long sleeved shirt, a sleeveless hooded sweatshirt with his signature logo on the middle of his back - seven translucent colored rings tied together. The colors are red, orange, green, blue, indigo and violet - the colors of the rainbow and the complete colors of different auras. He has a piece of cloth that covers his eyes. He goes into battle barefooted.

Equipment: He typically only carries a bottle of energy drink. The bottle he uses is very durable.

Skills & Abilities:

• Heightened Senses: Because he is blind, his other senses are better than normal people. After undergoing intense training, he has been able to hone his senses to near superhuman level. His sense of touch is the most acute out of all resulting in him being able to feel even the smallest vibrations on solid ground. He has shown that he is able to deduce a lie from these vibrations and possibly be able to tell what kind of move will be thrown at him.
• Martial Arts: He has trained in different fighting styles but is known for mashing it all up and creating a rather unorthodox type of fighting. People mostly think of it as simple 'street fighting'.

Powers:
Aura Manipulation (Reference)
He is able to tap into all seven types of aura but is only able to activate two at the same time. This was achieved through natural affinity and rigorous training. Each aura type comes with its own colors. One can tell what Alexander is using by looking at the color of his eyes.

• Red: Increases his physical abilities. He is able to cover a part of his body with his aura to increase the damage made.
• Orange: It deals more on emotions. He is able to easily empathize with any living being around him. However, there are times where it is particularly overbearing to have this ability active which can cause him to be extremely tired.
• Yellow: This is his most trained area in all of the aura types. He is able to manifest aura into solid constructs which he can use to attack. He usually uses them as "aura blasts" but can make them into a weapon or armor. It takes all of his concentration to create both weapon and armor which means that he cannot activate another aura when he wants to have both a weapon and armor. He can also use this to make barriers. This power can be likened to the energy constructs Green Lanterns make.
• Green: Through using this, he is able to heal wounds on himself or others. He cannot activate another aura when using this for healing. It is a lot more taxing to use than the other types.
• Blue: This allows him to be more perceptive and a certain type of calmness so that he is able to make good decisions.
• Indigo: He has not been able to dabble in this type of aura as much as he should be. He only uses this for tracking an aura of someone or something and even then, he needs to be able to concentrate at the task. He is trying to train himself in this aura but it would take a long while before he is even able to access telepathy using this.
• Violet: In his mind, this is the most dangerous type of aura that one can wield for it will show the person the ultimate truth and be able to manipulate it. There is a natural barrier in Alexander's mind that blocks the full potential of the Violet type resulting in it merely giving him a sense of awareness of reality meaning that he can call out on an illusion. He is also able to tell (when wielding this type) when someone is entering his mind. However, he cannot use this to stop the intrusion and only merely hold out with his force of will.
• Aura Reading: Despite this falling under a type, he constantly has this active even without activating the Violet aura type because this skill is independent in itself and awakened first. Surprisingly, he can still see magically made creatures as if they have an aura that they emit.

Vulnerabilities:

• His weakest point is his mind. While he can be able to resist when he accesses a certain aura, when caught by surprise, one can easily sneak past his mental barriers. Once there, they can mess with his emotional balance which would result to him not being able to control aura fluidly.
• Inanimate objects don't project an aura which, in turn, he cannot see unless they touch the ground. While he can wildly guess using his sense of hearing, his guess would not be very accurate.
• Even without having to mess with his mind telepathically, if someone can disrupt the balance he has on his emotions that allows him to access all aura types, then he will be rendered rather useless.
• His aura reading is limited to where he is looking. While he can focus and read aura behind a wall (but not too thick of a wall), he cannot read an aura that is behind him.
• His armor definitely does not make him invincible. It simply allows him to notch down a fatal shot and let him live and fight.
• He feels antsy not being on the ground as vibrations tends to make him feel at ease. Flying, floating or whatever is happening that isn't keeping his feet on the ground would probably make him freak out a little.

Extra:

Origin Story: He was born in Star City to Angelica and Bartholomew Regas. Alexander wasn't a normal kid, obviously. Aside from being blind, he was born with a certain connection to the concept of 'auras'. Ever since he was a child, he has always been able to see these despite his sister not displaying any signs of a power awakening. His parents also did not have any sort of power which resulted to them being very confused as to how this manifested but chalked it up to just winning a lottery ticket when he was born. Because he was a special case, he was almost always at home and he was homeschooled with a special tutor. He always did yearn to play.

One day, however, someone had visited them. He went by the name of "Pluto" and talked with his parents. They seemed hesitant but agreed to something and Pluto took Alexander away for most of the day and then came back. This repeated for years. He trained in the day with Pluto and talked with his family at night. There were days where he wouldn't train, just the basic things like meditation and physical warm ups, and these days he would spend with two of his neighbors who became his best friends - Elaine and Thomas. They would often talk about school and Alexander would usually be mesmerized by it.

Pluto had stopped training him when he was aged twenty one, believing that he has obtained balance of his emotions and that he should continue to train by himself to master the art of using the aura. Growing up to stories of Green Arrow and the rest of the Justice League, he was convinced that he should become a hero. This was fueled when his father was killed by a rampaging supervillain which he, with the help of other superheroes, defeated. That was the rise of the Blind Warrior. He never did join a group, preferring to be by himself for most of the time. That isn't to say that he is opposed with actually working with others. He has, in fact, interacted with Green Arrow or as he had soon been able to deduce, Oliver Queen. He had confronted the man about his secret identity - his costume not being able to hide the unique aura that was hidden within everyone - and Oliver was impressed. From then on, he has been seen partnering with Green Arrow at times.

Friends and family they care most about:

• Alexandria Regas [Twin Sister - Normal]
• Angelica Regas [Mother - Normal]
• Elaine Warton [Best Friend - Normal]
• Thomas Humney [Best Friend - Normal]

Thoughts and feelings about serving on Perduron? Alexander does not mind being sent to another world to help out. He feels that it is part of his responsibility as a "hero" to help out as it would also affect the world if they don't win the war.

Spoiler: Writing Sample

It was another normal day in Star City. Well, if now can actually be considered as “normal” considering that there’s an entirely new planet beside their own that was just floating their menacingly. He remembered the initial panic everyone felt when they saw it. Alexandria, his sister, was the first to tell him about it. Not believing her, he took a look outside and saw the planet.

Actually, he was more taken aback than the people around him. The planet itself had an aura. It was pulsating with life.

It was alive.

However, it became increasingly obvious that the planet itself did not seem to be doing any harm but people still wondered – what was it? Where did it come from? Honestly, Alexander was just as confused. It became the talk of the city. Everyone around him started to spin theories around the planet and what its arrival could mean. Emilia and Thomas began recounting how the internet was blowing up with threads asking about this peculiarity.

At that moment, Alexander was The Blind Warrior, sitting upon a rooftop while looking at the people below. He then turned his head upwards, now gazing at the pulsating aura of the sentient world Perduron. He remembered about wondering how it got here and what it contained within it. He was tempted to ask Green Arrow about it, if the Justice League had any information of it and its (possible) inhabitants. However, he decided against it because he felt that he would tell him when he was needed.

Even with the death of Superman, the Justice League proved to still be as functional as ever. If anyone could solve the mystery, it had to be them.

And they indeed did. The Justice League sent out a broadcast about what it was and was seeking help. It was quite a revelation.

“Oh, Blind Warrior! Fancy seeing you here!” A rather flamboyant voice cooed from behind him. Only from his voice, Blind Warrior could tell that it was his fellow vigilante hero, Impact.

“I didn’t know you hunted in the day.” Blind Warrior replied without even looking at him. It was a well-known trait of his as he felt no need to look at the person to “see through their eyes and to their soul” considering his condition.

He felt Impact move towards him before settling down beside him. “Oh you know, just taking the costume for a walk.” He claimed. “And your reason is?”

Blind Warrior was tempted to say that he was on patrol but he obviously wasn’t. It would be too blatant of a lie. “One last time, spectating the city on top of a building while in costume." He replied honestly with a shrug.

Impact moved to place his hand on his own face. "My, you're quite a dramatic one aren't you?" He joked and the two shared a laugh. "So you're really going to Perduron? Quite an honor to be called upon by the Justice League to help don't you think?"

"Yeah. But I gotta admit, I'm a bit worried." He didn't even need to say why as Impact already knew.

"Oh don't worry about us here! They have me after all!" He then giggled before standing up. "There's a lot of vigilantes here anyway. You worry about those in Perduron and we'll worry about those here. Deal?" Impact held out a hand.

Blind Warrior chuckled before standing up and dusting himself off. He looked at Impact and then also held out his hand. Impact shook his head before linking it. "Deal." With that, Impact smiled before turning around and then breaking into a run, jumping to the other building with ease.

Was this the great trial Pluto talked about? Or at least part of it? Nevertheless, he felt that he needed to do this. To protect the whole world sounded too noble for him. It was more like to protect those important to him. His eyes glowed red as he focused his aura to amplify his legs as to replicate super speed. Although it was nowhere near ones who were linked to the speed force, it at least lessened his travel time. With that, he sped off to the Hall of Justice.