JadeGreen17
Chimeric Spirit
This is just where I'm going to dump various characters from different things. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. Some of them will have art, some of them won't. These first two don't have art yet, but they are a couple.
Also I liked the idea of the power level which I saw on someone else's sheet so I'm making my own system for it. I can think of at least two characters that are theoretically extremely powerful but restrict the use of their power for moral reasons, one of which I'm going to be covering here in just a moment. I also LOVE doing character death matches so this will help me to organize things.
Power Tiers:
S-Tier = god/cosmic being. Anything that's basically unkillable or at or near omnipotent.
A-Tier = very powerful. Any character with the ability to destroy mountains or cities or a large, advanced scifi army and is able to contend with world-destroying threats. (My animus pilots will probably fall in here.)
B-Tier = moderately powerful. Still powerful, but not able to take a large scifi army or planet buster, but could still fight their way out of most situations.
C-Tier = slightly supernatural. This applies to characters that could possibly fight a few humans armed with assault rifles, but they themselves are mostly subject to human or biological limitations with only a small amount of magical or technological assistance. The difference would be like B tier is the MCU depictions of Thor and Iron man in Infinity war, and C tier is heroes like Captain America or Drax. (TBH C-tier is my favorite level to set characters at)
D-Tier = normal humans fall into this category. If they're tough enough or armed well enough to beat up a Russian Spetznas or navy seal, they go in C-tier.
E-Tier = weak characters. Characters that you could beat up.
Also I liked the idea of the power level which I saw on someone else's sheet so I'm making my own system for it. I can think of at least two characters that are theoretically extremely powerful but restrict the use of their power for moral reasons, one of which I'm going to be covering here in just a moment. I also LOVE doing character death matches so this will help me to organize things.
Power Tiers:
S-Tier = god/cosmic being. Anything that's basically unkillable or at or near omnipotent.
A-Tier = very powerful. Any character with the ability to destroy mountains or cities or a large, advanced scifi army and is able to contend with world-destroying threats. (My animus pilots will probably fall in here.)
B-Tier = moderately powerful. Still powerful, but not able to take a large scifi army or planet buster, but could still fight their way out of most situations.
C-Tier = slightly supernatural. This applies to characters that could possibly fight a few humans armed with assault rifles, but they themselves are mostly subject to human or biological limitations with only a small amount of magical or technological assistance. The difference would be like B tier is the MCU depictions of Thor and Iron man in Infinity war, and C tier is heroes like Captain America or Drax. (TBH C-tier is my favorite level to set characters at)
D-Tier = normal humans fall into this category. If they're tough enough or armed well enough to beat up a Russian Spetznas or navy seal, they go in C-tier.
E-Tier = weak characters. Characters that you could beat up.
Name: Haydin Graphton
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Species: Human
Physical Desc: Tall, 185cm, lanky, wiry build. Chestnut skin and freckles across his face which is somewhat triangular shaped. He has dark gray eyes and curly, wavy shoulder length hair which may be tied into a bun.
Work/Property: Essence
Backstory (OOC): Essence was originally a collaborative story I was working on with a friend which fell through. The plot centered around a world not unlike earth except that everyone had an inborn essence or personal energy and could develop a superpower. The full list of rules regarding what sort of power one could develop was pretty open ended and putting the creativity in the hands of the characters. It was pretty difficult to develop to even a moderately powerful superpower, as you had to start young and practice hard to fully focus your ability, and if you were unfocused and tried to split your essence into multiple powers they would generally come up to less than the sum of one big power. Haydin was near the top of this curve.
All of the characters I'm including in this inaugural post are from this property, and due to my co-writer deciding to abandon this project they will probably be lost forever or doomed to never RP.
Backstory (IC): Haydin grew up the youngest of three siblings in a lower middle class family with only a single mother. His father died in a super powered war before he was born. Haydin had terrible eyes growing up and had to wear thick glasses as a child, he was very introverted and shy. He had a few close friends growing up, but he was fairly interested in science fiction and fantasy and became interested in developing his own essence. Though originally indecisive he gained inspiration for a fairly unique power he could commit himself to developing after learning about how prevalent the element Carbon was in everything from food, oil, and the human body to diamond. As such he developed an ability to control elemental carbon.
As he grew older he hit a growth spert causing him to grow very tall for his age. Though he was still very lanky this gave him a big boost in self-confidence and through junior high and later high school he made more friends though was still comparatively introverted. In high school he finally came out of his shell enough to join the track team. Though there were special divisions for teens who had developed an essence that could net them an advantage, he would participate in the more standard distance running.
In high school he also did deal with a bully. This character was never explored in depth but they were a manipulative type of bully who had developed a powerful mind reading essence, probing other's minds to derive juicy gossip, dark secrets, and to know exactly what to say to trigger a specific person, and this bully targeted people all over the school. Though Haydin himself wasn't the primary target of this bully, only intermittently picked on, it was enough for him to commit a very small amount of his essence training into developing a defensive ability against mind reading. It's still possible to read his mind, but you have to put a lot more effort into it, enough that he'll know someone is reading his mind. This took away from his maximum potential with carbokenisis by a small amount, but it was something of a 90-10 split of his full potential.
Once Haydin moved into college, he would meet Gina Triduas. His major is still undecided.
Personality Traits/Quirks:
-Haydin is a Vegan, and a bit of a secret health nut. Though he isn't on the college track team he tracks his diet and exercises religiously. He can be a bit taxing to be around as those he considers to be his friends are often subject to him holding them to lofty standards with regards to smoking, drinking, eating junk food, not sleeping enough.
-Haydin's glasses are made of graphite with diamond lenses. He can create or dispel them with his powers.
-Haydin is a huge nerd. Oftentimes properties or brand names acquire intentionally awkward or weird parody names in my writing, such as Star Wars being called "Space Fights", the Halo franchise of games being called "Ring", Stargate is called "Spacedoor" and Warhammer 40k is called "War Smasher 9 Billion". He's a bookworm, lore nerd, and tabletop gamer, though he himself is not particularly creative and is only analytical of and appreciates other properties.
-Despite his analytical nature, he is a terrible student, who was always known to be unfocused on his studies. He has a great deal of struggle in working on things that he himself is not passionate about.
-Haydin is very defensive. Even though his essence is actually very powerful when properly applied in combat, he very rarely fights, preferring diplomatic solutions to problems. Which is probably a good thing since even with morality on, his superpower is not to be trifled with.
Power Tier: High C-Tier (with morality off)
Powers/Abilities:
Carbokenisis: (Control over molecular carbon) Haydin can manipulate carbon on a molecular level within a roughly 10 meter radius of himself without any sort of body or mind motion, though he cannot manipulate or tear carbon from his own body. Most commonly this manifests as splicing the carbon atoms out of the carbon dioxide in the air to create objects out of diamond, graphite, or graphene, which can include armor and weapons. He can telekinetically manipulate the carbon inside this bubble and change or reform it. Though he can use it from other sources such as methane/natural gas, oil, ash, wood, food, paper, and even living creatures. Being able to tear the carbon from a person is what makes him extremely powerful with morality off, since he could in theory reduce a person to a puddle of calcium bones, water and a few trace elements with relative ease.
Anti-Mind-Reading: Haydin has a minor anti-mind-reading ability.
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Species: Human
Physical Desc: Tall, 185cm, lanky, wiry build. Chestnut skin and freckles across his face which is somewhat triangular shaped. He has dark gray eyes and curly, wavy shoulder length hair which may be tied into a bun.
Work/Property: Essence
Backstory (OOC): Essence was originally a collaborative story I was working on with a friend which fell through. The plot centered around a world not unlike earth except that everyone had an inborn essence or personal energy and could develop a superpower. The full list of rules regarding what sort of power one could develop was pretty open ended and putting the creativity in the hands of the characters. It was pretty difficult to develop to even a moderately powerful superpower, as you had to start young and practice hard to fully focus your ability, and if you were unfocused and tried to split your essence into multiple powers they would generally come up to less than the sum of one big power. Haydin was near the top of this curve.
All of the characters I'm including in this inaugural post are from this property, and due to my co-writer deciding to abandon this project they will probably be lost forever or doomed to never RP.
Backstory (IC): Haydin grew up the youngest of three siblings in a lower middle class family with only a single mother. His father died in a super powered war before he was born. Haydin had terrible eyes growing up and had to wear thick glasses as a child, he was very introverted and shy. He had a few close friends growing up, but he was fairly interested in science fiction and fantasy and became interested in developing his own essence. Though originally indecisive he gained inspiration for a fairly unique power he could commit himself to developing after learning about how prevalent the element Carbon was in everything from food, oil, and the human body to diamond. As such he developed an ability to control elemental carbon.
As he grew older he hit a growth spert causing him to grow very tall for his age. Though he was still very lanky this gave him a big boost in self-confidence and through junior high and later high school he made more friends though was still comparatively introverted. In high school he finally came out of his shell enough to join the track team. Though there were special divisions for teens who had developed an essence that could net them an advantage, he would participate in the more standard distance running.
In high school he also did deal with a bully. This character was never explored in depth but they were a manipulative type of bully who had developed a powerful mind reading essence, probing other's minds to derive juicy gossip, dark secrets, and to know exactly what to say to trigger a specific person, and this bully targeted people all over the school. Though Haydin himself wasn't the primary target of this bully, only intermittently picked on, it was enough for him to commit a very small amount of his essence training into developing a defensive ability against mind reading. It's still possible to read his mind, but you have to put a lot more effort into it, enough that he'll know someone is reading his mind. This took away from his maximum potential with carbokenisis by a small amount, but it was something of a 90-10 split of his full potential.
Once Haydin moved into college, he would meet Gina Triduas. His major is still undecided.
Personality Traits/Quirks:
-Haydin is a Vegan, and a bit of a secret health nut. Though he isn't on the college track team he tracks his diet and exercises religiously. He can be a bit taxing to be around as those he considers to be his friends are often subject to him holding them to lofty standards with regards to smoking, drinking, eating junk food, not sleeping enough.
-Haydin's glasses are made of graphite with diamond lenses. He can create or dispel them with his powers.
-Haydin is a huge nerd. Oftentimes properties or brand names acquire intentionally awkward or weird parody names in my writing, such as Star Wars being called "Space Fights", the Halo franchise of games being called "Ring", Stargate is called "Spacedoor" and Warhammer 40k is called "War Smasher 9 Billion". He's a bookworm, lore nerd, and tabletop gamer, though he himself is not particularly creative and is only analytical of and appreciates other properties.
-Despite his analytical nature, he is a terrible student, who was always known to be unfocused on his studies. He has a great deal of struggle in working on things that he himself is not passionate about.
-Haydin is very defensive. Even though his essence is actually very powerful when properly applied in combat, he very rarely fights, preferring diplomatic solutions to problems. Which is probably a good thing since even with morality on, his superpower is not to be trifled with.
Power Tier: High C-Tier (with morality off)
Powers/Abilities:
Carbokenisis: (Control over molecular carbon) Haydin can manipulate carbon on a molecular level within a roughly 10 meter radius of himself without any sort of body or mind motion, though he cannot manipulate or tear carbon from his own body. Most commonly this manifests as splicing the carbon atoms out of the carbon dioxide in the air to create objects out of diamond, graphite, or graphene, which can include armor and weapons. He can telekinetically manipulate the carbon inside this bubble and change or reform it. Though he can use it from other sources such as methane/natural gas, oil, ash, wood, food, paper, and even living creatures. Being able to tear the carbon from a person is what makes him extremely powerful with morality off, since he could in theory reduce a person to a puddle of calcium bones, water and a few trace elements with relative ease.
Anti-Mind-Reading: Haydin has a minor anti-mind-reading ability.
Name: Gina Triduas
Sex: Female
Age: 23
Species: Human
Physical Desc: Average, 155cm, pink hair and eyes, very pale skin.
Work/Property: Essence
Backstory (OOC): I think essence is one of the first times that I might have legitimately attempted a straight couple without playing it ironically or humorously. Gina's last name "Triduas" references her maximum number of divisons with her power.
Backstory (IC): I never went as much into Gina's past, although I've thought on more than one occasion it involved a household that was somewhere between poor and dysfunctional parents to outright abusive. She did very poorly in school growing up as a result, but still committed fairly heavily to developing her essence ability, at least more than your average person. I always had it that while Haydin was the youngest of his siblings, Gina was the oldest and she led something of a double life growing up. On one hand she had to be the responsible big sister and pillar of stability to her younger siblings, doing the work her parents wouldn't/couldn't, and on the other hand was something of a party girl, involved with a lot of parties, and mayhaps some underage drinking and drug usage as a teen.
However once she went away to college and was able to distance herself from her family she came to recognition that she needed to get her life in order and resolved to become an artist, and as such "Party Girl Gina" has been phased out in lieu of the more responsible "Big Sister Gina" side of her personality. I always derived a chuckle from imagining scenarios Gina's old party friends encountering her at college and in front of Haydin, bringing up embarrassing or awkward stories that she didn't really want Haydin to know about.
Gina had an essence ability to either split herself into multiple copies or combine herself with another person and then split their fusion into multiple copies. Since she was never fully committed into developing her power, but I liked the concept, I decided to make her power "glitchy" and unreliable to show that she had never developed and honed it to the razor edge her boyfriend had.
Personality Traits/Quirks:
Let me get back to you on that. The issue with incomplete characters.
Power Tier: Low-C Tier
Powers/Abilities:
Alchemical Division: Gina can be divided into up to 32 copies of herself. However each time she splits the copies are smaller than the original, though not half as small. At first (for a 1/2 or 1/4 division) the copies just look like slightly younger versions of herself, but when they become very small they take on an appearance more like anime styled chibis with extremely simplified features. I never really sorted out exactly the rules with the copies and how they affected her mental state (like when two copies fuse back together do they keep all the memories or what.) I do recall stating that at least for the 1/2 division you'd get two girls that looked to be in their early teens, shorter and more slender than the original and would have roughly comparable intelligence and maturity to the original, where each one weighed about 75% as much as the original, so it wasn't a perfect alchemical division, more biomass was coming from somewhere, and by the time you got down to 1/32nd of Gina you the resulting stampede duplicates outweighed her three or four times over.
Though it was mostly the 32 tiny copies that I played with the most. They were highly immature, like small children or toddlers, with minuscule attention spans and highly simplistic, overly emotional personalities who would always become involved in adorable antics, and I was envisioning a plotline in where gathering all 32 in one place and getting them to refuse into a fullsize Gina was a plotline.
Going off the idea that Gina's essence wasn't perfected due to her lack of training, she could "Pop" into the 32 chibi duplicates which would explode all over the room if she:
-Got suprised or scared
-Sneezed
-Got hit with something or struck with a physical attack.
Gina also had some fusion ability, which was meant to be the opposite direction of her division ability which allowed her to combine with one or more other people assuming they were in a similar mental/emotional state and combine their powers. This would allow her to combine with someone, then split herself 32 times and have 32 duplicates each with a small fraction of the original fusees power.
A lot of plot holes and the exact mechanics of this power still need to be worked out for consistency sake.
Sex: Female
Age: 23
Species: Human
Physical Desc: Average, 155cm, pink hair and eyes, very pale skin.
Work/Property: Essence
Backstory (OOC): I think essence is one of the first times that I might have legitimately attempted a straight couple without playing it ironically or humorously. Gina's last name "Triduas" references her maximum number of divisons with her power.
Backstory (IC): I never went as much into Gina's past, although I've thought on more than one occasion it involved a household that was somewhere between poor and dysfunctional parents to outright abusive. She did very poorly in school growing up as a result, but still committed fairly heavily to developing her essence ability, at least more than your average person. I always had it that while Haydin was the youngest of his siblings, Gina was the oldest and she led something of a double life growing up. On one hand she had to be the responsible big sister and pillar of stability to her younger siblings, doing the work her parents wouldn't/couldn't, and on the other hand was something of a party girl, involved with a lot of parties, and mayhaps some underage drinking and drug usage as a teen.
However once she went away to college and was able to distance herself from her family she came to recognition that she needed to get her life in order and resolved to become an artist, and as such "Party Girl Gina" has been phased out in lieu of the more responsible "Big Sister Gina" side of her personality. I always derived a chuckle from imagining scenarios Gina's old party friends encountering her at college and in front of Haydin, bringing up embarrassing or awkward stories that she didn't really want Haydin to know about.
Gina had an essence ability to either split herself into multiple copies or combine herself with another person and then split their fusion into multiple copies. Since she was never fully committed into developing her power, but I liked the concept, I decided to make her power "glitchy" and unreliable to show that she had never developed and honed it to the razor edge her boyfriend had.
Personality Traits/Quirks:
Let me get back to you on that. The issue with incomplete characters.
Power Tier: Low-C Tier
Powers/Abilities:
Alchemical Division: Gina can be divided into up to 32 copies of herself. However each time she splits the copies are smaller than the original, though not half as small. At first (for a 1/2 or 1/4 division) the copies just look like slightly younger versions of herself, but when they become very small they take on an appearance more like anime styled chibis with extremely simplified features. I never really sorted out exactly the rules with the copies and how they affected her mental state (like when two copies fuse back together do they keep all the memories or what.) I do recall stating that at least for the 1/2 division you'd get two girls that looked to be in their early teens, shorter and more slender than the original and would have roughly comparable intelligence and maturity to the original, where each one weighed about 75% as much as the original, so it wasn't a perfect alchemical division, more biomass was coming from somewhere, and by the time you got down to 1/32nd of Gina you the resulting stampede duplicates outweighed her three or four times over.
Though it was mostly the 32 tiny copies that I played with the most. They were highly immature, like small children or toddlers, with minuscule attention spans and highly simplistic, overly emotional personalities who would always become involved in adorable antics, and I was envisioning a plotline in where gathering all 32 in one place and getting them to refuse into a fullsize Gina was a plotline.
Going off the idea that Gina's essence wasn't perfected due to her lack of training, she could "Pop" into the 32 chibi duplicates which would explode all over the room if she:
-Got suprised or scared
-Sneezed
-Got hit with something or struck with a physical attack.
Gina also had some fusion ability, which was meant to be the opposite direction of her division ability which allowed her to combine with one or more other people assuming they were in a similar mental/emotional state and combine their powers. This would allow her to combine with someone, then split herself 32 times and have 32 duplicates each with a small fraction of the original fusees power.
A lot of plot holes and the exact mechanics of this power still need to be worked out for consistency sake.