Once We Were Villains OOC (Closed for now-Meta)

[Hothnia]

Once We Were Villains Character App

Secret Identity:The hound of mons
Alias:The hound
Age:102
Personality:gruff, loyal if subdued, sneaky, hates all things good
Appearance:
Meta type:Inhuman
Affiliation: Whatever he is forced to be in.
Powers/Skills: Claws and teeth can shred through metal, bulletproof fur. Able to jump and run twice as far and fast as normal human. Makes no noise when he walks.

Weaknesses: He's a dog. No thumbs. Can't hold stuff. And so on.

Fire. Von Helter got what he wanted when he created his hound. But he made one critical error. That one error made his skin highly flammable as he used Gasoline to make the creature make without noise. If fire touched him, he burns readily unless covered with sand, milk, or ice.

He also is forced to serve a master and obey their every wish if subjugated by the person. The reason why Von Helter was able to be killed is because he never gave the Hound the command to not kill him. If given that command the dog will serve that master until he is killed by another, released, or dies of natural causes.

Backstory:[ The Hound was created in early 1915, by a German scientist by the name of Hans Von Helter, a meta. He was created to end the stalemate on the western front by slaughtering British soldiers at night in order to crush their morale. This plan ultimately failed as on his first assignment he ate Von Helter and the four Germans sent with him. He then proceeded to kill 120 soldiers of both sides for the next few months. This spree ended with the introduction of incidinary shells, as he is highly flammable. He then walked for forty days to the eastern front, where incidinary shells were less common. He then proceeded to eat more soldiers but quickly stopped eating the Russians due to their nasty taste. His new habit of only killing Germans led to stories of a massive Russian bear.

Since 1915, the hound has trekked across Europe eating 567 people, all cold cases, including 6 metas and 4 so called heroes. He then boarded a cruise liner and arrived in America in 1974. He was surprised by the amount of heroes in America and stuck to the shadows, not wanting to be caught. Since 74, the hound has trekked across less populated cities, still eating people. Lastly captured by --------------- and was forced under their command, still trying to find anyway to break free and eat them. He has recently begun to experiment with the notion that he has more abilities as a meta, but thus far he has been unsuccessful. /b]
[b]Optional: Speaks 14 languages, all interned in him by his creator. These are German, English, French, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Indian, Dog, Cat, and Horse
Theme Song:
Voice Actor:
Likes/Dislikes: Human flesh/ fire and love
Fears: Fire and love
D&D Alignment: Pure Evil( At least for the start)


Need some character to control him. Any takers?

[Dyelli Beybi]

Tagged. Adult version of Filia Umbrarum ftw.

Funny! I was just about to insert a char who is based on Adult JJ Triggs... but (marginally) less chaotic

[Dyelli Beybi]

Once We Were Villains Character App

Secret Identity: Hazel Lind
Alias: Nightjar
Age: 27
Personality: Charming and gregarious, Lind is easy to get along with, although she is also highly driven and is prone to become somewhat fanatical about causes she believes in. Lind is proud of her family and loyal to both the staff and her fellow Society members. She is also somewhat manipulative and much prefers surprising her opponents that fighting them head-on. That being said, she does have her own code of honour.
Appearance: 5'8'' tall and fairly slim.
Meta type: Mundane
Affiliation: The Society

Powers/Skills: Lind’s main power is her ability to regenerate from serious injuries. She will not be killed by anything short of total, rapid destruction of the brain… though there are probably quite a few ways that a creative opponent could think of to achieve that. If sufficiently injured she may appear to be dead, although she will ‘wake up’ a few minutes later.

On top of this, Lind has superhuman reflexes and agility. These are not enough to allow her to dodge an incoming projectile, but it does give her a noticeable edge over a normal human in many close combat situations.

Lind is skilled in a variety of martial arts as well as the use of firearms.

Weaknesses: For all her agility, Lind isn’t particularly strong and could be wrestled into submission by someone larger than her without too much trouble. Similarly, if taken prisoner there would be no need to use an inhibitor to restrain her – normal police handcuffs would work just fine.

While she has quite a high pain threshold, she can still be hurt and crippled as easily as a normal human (except with her it is rather temporary).

The police and League have the Nightjar’s DNA is on file… if Hazel Lind’s DNA ever gets on file they will be able to put two and two together, making her arrest very simple.

Backstory: The Lind family was once a prosperous New York family, although a serious of poor business decisions on the part of the late Mr Lind saw the erosion of all of the family fortune. At the age of 21, Hazel Lind, along with the rest of her family were involved in a horrific car crash in which Hazel's parents and older brother all lost their lives. Hazel survived without any injuries - in fact they had healed before ambulance staff could arrive. As the sole heir, Hazel was left with a family estate and medium sized fishing business on the brink of bankruptcy.

Dealing with the loss of her family, the realisation that she was a meta-human and a long line of creditors and lacking the business acumen to do anything about it, Hazel Lind decided to attempt to monetise her powers... through a series of robberies, the profits of which were funnelled into a bank account in her name in Liechtenstein which she could then use to reinvest into her father's business and keep everything afloat.
While able to save the business the money had to look like it was coming from her father’s estate and, much to her irritation, Hazel Lind acquired a reputation as a socialite who makes problems go away by flashing her father’s credit card at them. Even though she didn’t need to, she continued her criminal activities although now it was mostly for the thrill and the self-esteem boost it gave her.

The Nightjar was known to use non-lethal tactics against guards (which is not to say that she didn't cause serious injuries) and while she was a member of the Society, she was never especially high profile and, importantly for her future survival, her powers were never especially well understood by anyone but herself.

Following the Battle of New York and the disappearance of many of the senior Society members, the League were left in a better position to deal with smaller scale troublemakers such as the Nightjar and one evening she was cornered by a League member while trying to rob an art gallery. Realising that she was outclassed by her opponent, not afraid of the notoriety and confident in the ability of her lawyers to get her off, Lind/the Nightjar surrendered. That particular night though was one in which a lot of meta-human crime was occurring. The League was needed elsewhere and the member who had cornered her was unsure if there would be any way to restrain her. Instead he shot her, verified she was actually dead and left to attend to business elsewhere in the grim satisfaction that a criminal had been taken off the streets.

Of course, when the police came to retrieve the body of the meta-human criminal known as the Nightjar (killed resisting arrest), she had already revived and fled, leaving a huge quantity of blood on the gallery floor. While that would have been enough to identify the Nightjar as Hazel Lind, Lind’s DNA is not on file so her identity remained compromised though the experience had left her shaken.

Lind had never thought of herself as one of the ‘good guys’, but the violence inflicted on her, when she was offering none was far in excess of anything she did. In the months that followed she managed to track her adversary down, shadowed him, discovered his identity and where he lived. She then found a roof overlooking his living room and one evening, when he was watching television, paid him back for shooting her. She left in the grim satisfaction that a psychopath had been taken off the streets.

Lind is under no illusions that she is a good person. She steals stuff and now she kills people as well… but only the ones who are worse than her.

Optional:(The Below are optional and are added for enjoyment.)
Theme Song:
Voice Actor:
Likes/Dislikes: Likes: Loyalty, honesty, dangerous people & people who mock authority / Dislikes: authority, being looked down on by people, unnecessary violence, hypocrites, the League.
Fears:
D&D Alignment: Chaotic neutral

[The Olog-Hai]

I need to be able to actually know where this thread is when I need it...
Expect an app hopefully some time today.

[Shadowwell]

Dyelli, like the app, but The Society was who fought the league, not The Syndicate.

[Boejoe]

Tag

[Shadowwell]

-snip

Looks good, but there is the problem with factions. Only the Society was involved with the leauge, fighting them. The Syndicate, was not able to fully rise to power until the Society vanished. Though it had existed long before that. will be accepted once that is sorted out.

-snip-

Looks ok, I fixed the Premise so that the timeline would be more fluid. Your app is lore friendly and ok.
Accepted

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Denied for now. Though i am usually not a stickler for such things, could you clean up your app a bit? Capitalize what neeeds to eb fix the BBcode, etc. Or you could copy the App code from the OP and transfer the info over. I would also prefer their bio to be larger.


I will add the accepted apps later.

Also i added some more to the Premise to fix a few inconsistencies it had.

[Shadowwell]

IJ, Imperial Japan, Olog, and Bycrest will be My co-OP's.

IJ will be able to accept apps and the like if i am absent.

Bycrest will be allowed to do the same, though his forte is mainly villains.

Olog, well they can just keep an eye on things since they don't do well with responsibility.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Once We Were Villains Character App

Secret Identity: Dr. Antony Popov
Alias: Nightmare
Age: 48
Personality: Dr. Popov is a very recluse individual. He does not speak often, and when he does, he speaks in riddles and references. He will try to convey as little information as possible in a short span of time, using more non-verbal cues than verbal cues. He is also a talented listener, and can be very quiet in that regards. He is more of an observer than an actor. He is supremely arrogant, and believes intelligence to be the supreme measure of a man’s worth. If you are not an academic, you should not even be allowed to speak your mind.
Meta type: Mystical
Affiliation: The Society
Powers/Skills:
Mental Gate
When in physical contact, Dr. Popov can enter the mental world of another human being. Upon touching a person, that person enters a dream-like state, in which they mentally walk around in a world of their own creation. Unlike in dreams, however, they are not the only ones with control. Popov, being present in the dream, has just as much power, and he can make the dream as realistic or monstrous as he wants. As a psychiatrist, this has aided him well when working with patients. However, it can also be used in forms of mental torture. All of this seems to happen in an instant. What to the dreamer might feel like hours jut happens in the span of about two seconds in the real world. Of course, because it is a co-op dream of sorts, Popov has no actual physical powers. If you die in your dream, you just wake up unharmed. Those trained in dreaming might actually wake themselves up, lessening the power Popov has over them. This power is especially powerful when someone is fast asleep already.

Observer
Dr. Popov is great at discerning emotions from a person. This is more from his actual training than his powers, although those powers help him slightly. He can read more from expressions than normal people would be able to.
Weaknesses: He is no more resilient to damage than any other human, and he actually is a shit fighter. He likes to stay away from actual violence, and he would be useless in a fight. His body is more a vessel for his mind than an actual weapon for him to use. His powers are mainly physical, so that makes things a bit tricky for him, since a good beating can kill him just as well as any other man.

More a weakness to his power is the fact that a Mental Fusion is damaging. It doesn't damage a lot, but the mental barriers one has tend to suffer from using the power. In the short term, that means that Popov (and his subject) are more susceptible to emotions and certain triggers. On the long term, it means that memories can get mixed. Certain character traits or emotions might influence Popov permanently, like a virus. Already, he sometimes has memories which he knows are not his. That is only going to get worse.
Backstory: It was in the dark recesses of an ancient Nordic library that Dr. Popov, working for the University of Cambridge, found the secret texts that led him to discover his power. He had the gene responsible for powers, but the book told him how to get to the untapped potential of it all. For months, feeding off nothing but canned food and melting water, he studied the contents of the library, finding ever more knowledge on himself and the powers that had been locked away for all his life. Eventually, he got out, transporting the whole of this library to his mansion in England. From that point on, his secret library, hidden away in secret rooms, went wherever he went. Whenever he moved, like when he moved to Boston, the new house would have a better and more secure library for him to stow his secret knowledge in. The libraries would become more arcane as he went along, becoming increasingly dark and filled with runes and ancient symbols.

With great power, of course, comes great responsibility, and Dr. Popov found that he had enough power to be responsible for the whole world. He made a blood vow on an ancient Nord altar not to rest until the world was rid of all societal ills. Poverty, war, hunger, death… he would end it all, and more, if it was within his power. To this extent, he linked up with the Society. The League, in his eyes, were not using the full potential their powers had to offer. No, he would use it to the fullest extent. The Raid on Fort Knox was but a ruse, something to keep the others busy. In secret, he tried to use the resources of the Society for his own gains, and the gains of the globe.
Optional:
Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G4NKzmfC-Q
Voice Actor: Christopher Lee
Likes/Dislikes: Likes chess, living creatures, nature, the earth, gardens, people (from a distance), to help people, books and information. Dislikes social interactions, discussions, violence, a lack of intelligence.
Fears: Climate change, wars, hunger, disease, death overall
D&D Alignment: Chaotic Good

[Shadowwell]

Looks good James, consider it accepted, if its finished.

I would prefer a power related weakness, rather than jsut being a relatively normal human, aside from his powers.

[Imperial--japan]

Wicked. I'm off to do some shopping, but if I come up with any ideas to offer for when the IC comes up I'll shoot them your way.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Looks good James, consider it accepted, if its finished.

I would prefer a power related weakness, rather than jsut being a relatively normal human, aside from his powers.

Ahh, yes. I will add something about him being very much affected by the power, that the lines between his own psyche and those he visits slowly begin to fade away, to the point where he does not know which memories or feelings are his anymore.

[Barapam]

Once We Were Villains Character App

Secret Identity: Leila Stahl
Alias: "Iron Lady", or the "Iron Chancellor". She prefers the second, but the media often labels her as the first one, much to her disdain, since she'd rather be linked to Bismarck than Thatcher.
Age: 35
Personality: Cold, cynical and power hungry. However, she has a sense of humour and can even be cheerful at times. She also has strong morality, honour, or code, whatever you want to call it, and is at times ready to save even her enemies. Still, she has no problems with what she refers to as "necessary casualties".
Appearance: Despite being entirely out of metal, her skin tone, eye colour, etc. is perfectly normal. Her platinum blonde hair and cold metal gaze however, might be a hint.
Meta type: Mundane
Affiliation: The Society
Powers/Skills: She's literally made of "blood and iron", and both her will and fists are as "hard as Krupp steel". She's a woman of steel, with a matching strength (she can benchpress a small car, her limit is around 1.5 metric tonnes). She's pretty good with most weapons, both modern firearms and old swords and the like. Hidden talent: She's an excellent baker. In fact, if the whole supervillain business goes down the drain, her plan is to escape somewhere, change her name, and run her own café.
Weaknesses: She needs to keep her machinery well-oiled and prevent herself from rusting. She might get dents if she fights a worthy opponent, and because her nervous system still is intact, she would still feel the pain.
Backstory: Leila Stahl was born in Saarland, West Germany, to a working class family. From an early age, her future was more or less set: She would work in the iron and steel industry, like most others in the small town where she lived. She didn't actually have any problems with that. Sure, she wanted to see the world and live a glamorous life just like everyone else, but a steady job wasn't too bad either. At this point, her powers were still dormant, and Leila was hardly aware of the existance of Metas. That was about to change.

After a couple of years work, Leila was one day involved in an accident at the ironworks. She slipped and fell into a vat of hot, molten metal. A normal human being would have died, but thanks to her Meta genes, Leila survived, although she was badly injured. It took her a year to recover fully, at which point the ironworks had been forced to close due to financial troubles, and lay off all employees, including Leila. It was a hard blow for the whole town, but most workers were luckily able to find new jobs within the many industries of the region. Leila however, now being a creature of metal, as her accident had triggered a mutation which solidified her flesh during the healing process, and still dealing with the mental trauma, found it best to try to pursue a new career. She moved to Berlin, without much of a plan. Circumstances led her to become a bank robber, and a quite successfull one too. However, after some time, the police managed to arrest the entire gang which she was a member of. Leila managed to escape, but knew that she had to get away for good. Not only because of the fact that she was wanted all over Germany, but also because she had developed political ideas, that no longer could excuse bank robberies together with humans much weaker and more incompetent than her. Leila had read up on Otto von Bismarck, and his ideas influenced her a lot. She envisioned a new Germany, great again, with herself as Empress. In exension, she envisioned a world ruled by Metas. Naturally, she couldn't stick around and wait for the Verfassungsschutz to find about her new goal.

An article in Der Spiegel gave her an idea about where she could flee. Duke Wilbur VII, the aging monarch of a small independent duchy in the Alps, was looking for a wife. He was almost old enough to be her grandfather, but the "Iron Chancellor" as she called herself now, still jumped at the opportunity, and took her money with her to the not so internationally well-known microstate. She managed to charm the old duke, much thanks to her own fortune (bank loot), which helped convince him that she wasn't just a gold digger. They got married, and with the her new title as duchess, diplomatic immunity followed.

The marriage was actually quite happy. The lonely old duke had more been looking for a converation partner and someone who could be there for his young grandson, crown prince Wilbur, than a young bedmate. It had been almost a decade since he had lost his wife, and young Wilbur his parents, in an unfortunate plane crash. The duke also knew that he didn't have much time left, and thought that it would be good for his dear grandson to have an adult around when that day came, apart from the servants.

Leila and the duke developed a deep friendship. Their relationship was almost like that between a father and a daughter, or a mentor and a pupil, mixed with the relationship of two colleagues who often flirted with each other but let it stay with that. It was an arrangement that suited them both. Leila also became attached to the young crown prince, almost as if he had been her own son. The feeling turned out to be mutual.

However, it didn't took long before the duke found about her past. But much to her surprise, he wasn't angry at her at all. In fact, he symphatized with her! "Granted...", he said, "...I don't really approve of the bank robberies, but who am I to judge? My family, including myself, had had quite a lot to do with the Nazis before, during, and even after the war, so who am I to cast blame? And as a monarchist, I wholeheartedly support you in your struggle to restore the Kaiserreich." He even offered to contact his old friends in the Syndicate, something she very much appreciated, even though she preferred to try with the resurrected Society first.
Optional:
Theme Song: Battle Beast - "Steel"
Voice Actor:Renate Richter, played by Julia Dietze, from "Iron Sky".

[Shadowwell]

Once We Were Villains Character App
In His Youth

Secret Identity: Giovanni Nicoletti
Alias: The Boss
Age: 47 or so
Personality: Mellow unless angered then he is Ruthless when that happens, Is loyal to those who have proven their loyalty to him, is respectful for those in power, Cunning though not deceitful he is a very upfront and honest man, with some amount of moral integrity. He will not suffer foolishness and incompetence.
Appearance: He is a broad shouldered man, though his appearance shows his age, his body still hints at the power it contains. He looks kind, as he is to a point. He posseses short black hair, cut close to his head.
Meta type: Mystical
Affiliation: The Syndicate
Powers/Skills: Loyalty inducement, Power Bestowal through deals and contracts
Weaknesses: Unknown
Backstory: He was born in Italy in the late 60's or early 70's, no one quite knows. His father was a low level enforcer for the Italian mafia. He had moved his family to the US for a more lucrative job. Needless to say his fathers former employer was not happy, thus his father and most of his family was killed, he survived though, due to his powers awakening. Thus his road to power began, leading to where he is today.
Optional:(The Below are optional and are added for enjoyment.)
Theme Song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9vA7L8H4nc
Voice Actor: Marlon Brando (Might as well since i am going this whole theme.)
Likes/Dislikes: Loyalty,
Fears: Losing his family once more.
D&D Alignment: Lawful Evil

i will not be posting apps for every character i play, only the leaders of the Factios, unless played by another rper, and other important characters.

[The Irish County of the Beare-Mor]

I'll post my app and make the backstory once I get off of work today.

[Shadowwell]

Updated the accepted list. Pending being by the name means they will eb accepted, probably, once the apps are finished.

Would anyonw mind if i put some Flavor text next to the characters?

for example:

Giovanni Nicoletti/The Boss- Totally not the Godfather

or

Felix Mako/G.R.I.M.-Looks its a shark, oh wait

something alone those lines, would it be okay?

[Barapam]

Updated the accepted list. Pending being by the name means they will eb accepted, probably, once the apps are finished.

Would anyonw mind if i put some Flavor text next to the characters?

for example:

Giovanni Nicoletti/The Boss- Totally not the Godfather

or

Felix Mako/G.R.I.M.-Looks its a shark, oh wait

something alone those lines, would it be okay?

Sounds good to me. I like when the OP does that.

[Nea Videssos]

Updated the accepted list. Pending being by the name means they will eb accepted, probably, once the apps are finished.

Would anyonw mind if i put some Flavor text next to the characters?

for example:

Giovanni Nicoletti/The Boss- Totally not the Godfather

or

Felix Mako/G.R.I.M.-Looks its a shark, oh wait

something alone those lines, would it be okay?

Flavour text sounds good.

On a separate note, I probably need to decide what character I'm making.

[Barapam]

Btw, it's Leila with an i, and Iron Chancellor. (Unless you go by the name the media uses)

[Imperial--japan]

Updated the accepted list. Pending being by the name means they will eb accepted, probably, once the apps are finished.

Would anyonw mind if i put some Flavor text next to the characters?

for example:

Giovanni Nicoletti/The Boss- Totally not the Godfather

or

Felix Mako/G.R.I.M.-Looks its a shark, oh wait

something alone those lines, would it be okay?

Flavour text sounds good.

On a separate note, I probably need to decide what character I'm making.

A trap obviously.

[Imperial--japan]

Updated the accepted list. Pending being by the name means they will eb accepted, probably, once the apps are finished.

Would anyonw mind if i put some Flavor text next to the characters?

for example:

Giovanni Nicoletti/The Boss- Totally not the Godfather

or

Felix Mako/G.R.I.M.-Looks its a shark, oh wait

something alone those lines, would it be okay?

Sounds gucci.

[Nea Videssos]

Flavour text sounds good.

On a separate note, I probably need to decide what character I'm making.

A trap obviously.

That goes without saying. Beyond that, though.

Could just go with the appearance with the biggest image gallery I currently have and put it together from there.
Might be a bit of a pain trying to preview drafts of the app when the page keeps timing out on account of how many images have to be loaded. Probably worth it in the end, mind you.

[Imperial--japan]

A trap obviously.

That goes without saying. Beyond that, though.

Could just go with the appearance with the biggest image gallery I currently have and put it together from there.
Might be a bit of a pain trying to preview drafts of the app when the page keeps timing out on account of how many images have to be loaded. Probably worth it in the end, mind you.

Regardless, I'm sure your app will be traptastic for me to look at.

If nobody is on, feel free to message me on steam and I'll get to checking your app.

[Shadowwell]

Btw, it's Leila with an i, and Iron Chancellor. (Unless you go by the name the media uses)

I used the media name on purpose. Will rectify the misspelling shortly.

fixed, and added the Flavourtext to everyone.

[Mestovakia]

That moment when I realise I don't know what theme to use.