Gods Among Us
Character Application
Character DescriptionGiven Name: Unkown. (This part of his character the way I first made him. If this is not acceptable for this rp, let me know)
Alternate Identities: Cypher
Hero, Villian or Neutral: Neutral
Gender: male
Age: 33
Species: Meta-Human
Apperance: Not even his closest "friends" know what his face looks like, he always wears a polished black glass mask that covers his entire face. His usual attire comprises of combat boots, commandeered kevlar body armor, gloves and a heavy leather trench coat for protection from the elements.
Characters Biggest Strength: Intelligence and methodical nature. He has a heavy dose of paranoia and level-headedness that have gotten him out of many sticky situations.
Characters Biggest Weakness: Pushes people away, leaving him without available allies.
Motivations and DesiresPrimary Goal: To keep the world safe from any threat it may face.
Secondary Goal: Uncover and track criminal organizations, villains, and the like, discovering their plans and conspiracies and stopping them.
Fears: Fears situations that are out of his control; he will flee as soon as he realizes that he is outmatched. Fears people discovering his family and using them against him; this is the reason he has taken such drastic measures to hide his identity.
PowersPrimary Source of Powers: Meta-Gene
- Power 1: Hyper-Intelligence
Effects: When Cypher uses his powers, his eyes glow amber and he is able to "see" information, patterns, and connections that would be impossible for most others to detect. He can visualize and understand the world in terms of math and probability. This allows him to create chain reactions in his environment that can bring about unforeseen outcomes such as flipping a quarter on a street and causing a car crash (not that he ever would, just as an example). He can solve supercomputer levels of problems rapidly in his head, and he can store massive amounts of data, and calculate future outcomes and probabilities.
Weaknesses: Hypersonic frequencies can interrupt his power and make it deadly for him to use it, however, time is his greatest enemy. His brain is still human when he is not using his powers. If he uses them for longer than roughly 120 hours, he can blackout and enter a coma and, possibly, death. If he tries to activate his powers again before he waits an amount of time equal to the duration of their last activation, he experiences migraines and physical weakness until he blacks out or dies. When he isn't using his powers, he has to lock away all of the superhuman levels of knowledge in his mind palace; a technique for storing information in a mental construct. He cannot access information he didn't learn organically.- Power 2: Mastery of Body
Effects: As an extension of his hyper-intelligence, Cypher has superhuman levels of coordination. He has pseudo-hyperkineticism and heightened senses.
Weaknesses: Only work when his powers are active.
Equipment: Twin 9mm Pistols and kevlar body armor. He only carries 60 rounds of ammo to keep the weight low: two 15 round clips loaded, and an additional two. He carries 4 weighted throwing disks, 2 bladed and 2 blunt, and 4 disks with timed explosives. He also carries several flash drives with pre-loaded programs designed to seek out and destroy security footage in the rare circumstances where he shows his face. He also has one or two blank ones for when he extracts data.
BackgroundOccupation: Has completely left his past life; fully "becomming the mask". He commits minor electronic thievery to acquire money, something he sees as a necessary evil.
Training and Education: He grew up in NC, and attended high school and college there. (All of these records have been destroyed). All of his combat training came from him observing various users of martial arts, and others with combat training. Since he used his powers to learn, he can only use them when he has his powers activated.
Things any characters might know about them: He is relentless when he sets his mind on something and is willing to kill.
Group Affiliations: Solo act
History and Bibliography: Cypher grew up in a small town in North Carolina. He was completely average, not the best in school or sports, and only marginally made it to a state university. He struggled in his last year of school and fell in with some bad people. He was eventually pressured into trying drugs. The first time he tried meth, it stimulated his powers. He woke up from a coma a few days later with his powers activated. He used them for fun for the first few months,
learning about the hazards that came along with it. Realizing that he could help people, he started doing vigilante work. Cypher scrubbed is existence from the public record, deleting and destroying any records of himself. He cut ties with his family to keep them safe and struck it out on his own.
Summary: Hyper-Intellegent Vigilante Detective
I don't know how well this will work with the rules of smart characters, so I am open to adjusting it.
This is also my first time getting involved with any of the Gods among us, so a short recap of current events would be much appreciated.
