Young Bloods(REBOOT OOC, Superhero RP, Open)

[Tomia]

Accepted Slo

[Absolon-7]

Name: Viviana Couture / Chicle
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Appearance:

Young Blood?: Yes
Bio: Born in a quaint coastal town in northern California, Viviana was your quintessential tomboy as a child. Roughhousing, chugging mud, beating up boys, running around outside till dusk, you name it and she'd be doing it with a smile. Like almost everyone in the town her life was good, simple, and happy except for the fact her parents where very busy with work and she rarely got to see them. It was in elementary school where she'd meet a peculiar orphan by the name of Casimir who she became fast friends with. Middle school was rough compared to elementary school since a powerful gang, the KP Soneras, had decided to set up shop in her town, but she minded her own business as she had found a newfound love of sports to dedicate herself to.

The move to middle school was a great opportunity for her as she straight away joined the basketball team where she would find herself excelling in the sport. However, things were sour as well as her friend Casimir began turning to a life of violent delinquency and becoming much more aggressive to the world around him except for when he was around her. She tried her best to help him out but he seemed to be going down a dark path. For her, however, she found herself quickly becoming more and more attached to basketball with her teammates soon turning into almost a second family especially when she got to high school. During high school she would be involved in many tournaments and she everything was going well and the town being rid of the KP Soneras by a mysterious new hero was a cherry on top.

The highlight of it all would come in the start of junior year when her friend Casimir confessed to her his feelings which she reciprocated. The rest of junior year was relatively quiet until June where tragedy struck. A monster attacked the graduation ceremony of the school leaving many injured, but it later turned up dead. Over the rest of the summer more monsters would attack the town and the the new hero Kabuto would show up to kill them. Naturally she was horrified, but Viviana decided to talk to Casimir once they started going after her and anyone connected to him. Once she confronted him about it, he admitted he was the hero they were after. Hurt by his lack of trust in her, a strain was put on their relationship in which Viviana questioned if she should be with him at all.

Weeks later the two decided to mend their relationship once summer was at an end, unfortunately Casimir had to move to San Diego shortly afterwards. It sucked not having her boyfriend for the last year of school but she could handle it as there were things to occupy her mind and he visited in breaks. The great break in her basketball career would come when the team's star player broke her leg and it was up to Viviana to get promoted to the team's Point Guard for the next tournament. Not wanting to disappoint her teammates she threw herself fully to fill the shoes left behind by the previous girl and the team would make it all the way to the state finals before being defeated in the quarterfinals. It was disappointing not to have made it in her senior year but it was still a long way from her middle school days.

After graduation Viviana decided to go through a gap year to sort things out in her life but it was during the middle of summer when her life would change forever. A small time villain had infiltrated the town and staged a bank robbery right in the moment she and her mom were inside the building. Viviana was taken hostage and the smoke controlling villain made the inside of the bank chaos. It was then when her arms suddenly elongated to wild lengths and wrapped around the villain to constrict him unconscious. Stunned at what happened she realized she was now a superhuman and after the villain was apprehended she went straight home to stitch up a costume. It happened to be on the same day the Young Bloods were founded and seeing a particular bug themed hero among them inspired her to take a road trip down south to meet up with him.

Powers:

• [Rubber Elasticity]: She has the ability to stretch, deform, and reform herself into virtually any simple shape as well as stretch out any part of her body at incredible speeds before snapping back to her center of gravity. She is able to use the malleable elasticity of her limbs to store great amounts of potential energy like a stretched spring, increasing the velocity by stretching her limbs back resulting in increased power.
• [Rubber Density]: Her rubber-like body is also extremely durable and virtually immune to blunt attacks including punches as well as most bullets, more often than not, bouncing off her body harmlessly or canceling out the attack. If she is struck by a blunt projectile, it will bounce back toward the place it came from, potentially threatening the one who launched it. She can land from great heights and crash into structures without being harmed.
• [Rubber Organs]: Her "rubberness" is also reflected in her internal organs as she can move them around to anywhere else in her body and manipulate their very shape. Naturally, doing this feels extremely disgusting.
• [Electricity Immunity]: She is functionally immune to electricity as her whole body is insulated to its effects

Limitations :

• The minimum thickness that can be achieved is 1 mm, which limits her maximum stretch distance to 30 meters; naturally this amount of stretching drastically weakens whatever is stretched. Going beyond this elasticity can cause the user to bleed and be at risk of ripping. If prolonged time is spent at the maximum stretching distance it takes time to fully heal to regain elasticity.
• Her body can only conform to basic shapes and objects and those objects can not perform their original function at all or very poorly. Minute details can also not be replicated unless vigorously studied.
• High speed movements can be done easily a few at a time but too many successive movements in a short span of time cause disorientation and she can be sent uncontrollably spinning due to recoil.

Weaknesses:

• [High Heat Vulnerability]: Incredibly high temperatures cause her body to lose consistency and soften up too much to stretch effectively.
• [High Cold Vulnerability]: Incredibly low cold temperatures cause her body to harden and brittle up thus nullifying any sort of elasticity for her own safety.
• [Easy to Cut]: Her rubber like properties offer little to no protection to cutting or stabbing attacks.

Likes: Manga, anime, flowers, dancing, makeup, sewing, playing basketball & soccer, science fiction
Dislikes: Being lazy, staying inside all day, cheaters, sore losers, movie remakes, high fantasy

Additional Information-
Birthday: April 30, 1999
Theme song: Ready To
Favorite food: A bowl full of tapioca
Greatest fear: Being alone

[Zarkenis Ultima]

The archive post has been updated. I've added Naligura, Garret, Jean-Paul, Sam and Rafi to the list.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

I'm going to wait for Scot's reply before posting Kiris reacting to Roy's call.

[Castriarta]

Name: Marcos Juderias
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Race: Hispanic mixed indigenous.
Appearance:

Young Blood?: Yes
Bio: Marcos was the youngest of four boys born in San Diego to two Mexican immigrants. Marcos' early years were a time of turmoil and confusion. His father, the former Latin American superhero "Jaguar" who fled his country to escape powers greater than his own that were hunting him, went back into action in the community he now lived to protect its people. This greatly upset Marcos' mother, who wished to live a peaceful and quiet life now that they had a family, carving out a pleasant existence for their children. As Jaguar attracted more and more attention from local villains and government agencies who found his tactics questionable, Marcos' life lost all semblance of stability. They moved constantly for seemingly no reason. His father kept showing up looking as if he had been in a horrible fight, and there were days at a time where he wouldn't even show up at all, just disappear. His parents' relationship became increasingly strained, with his mother stressed about his father's safety and worried for her children, and his father obsessed with his work, feeling that he was on the verge of making real change for the poor Hispanic community they lived in and that he could not give up, not now.

When his father was around, Marcos adored him, constantly striving to impress him. Marcos' father coached unendingly, passing down all of his wisdom to the son whom he loved so dearly. Truth be told, Marcos' father saw himself in the young boy, more than the three older boys who were all troublemakers, unfocused and typically wrapped up in the unimportant distractions of modern life. Marcos was different. The boy was naturally inquisitive, dedicated and intensely loyal to his family from a young age.

Growing up, Marcos' mother read to him constantly, everything from fiction to folk tales to history textbooks. Marcos absorbed everything she read to him like a sponge, in awe at the stories of the rise and fall of empires and the quests of underdog heroes. It shaped his worldview in a very unique way for a young child, with an eye to the big picture, and imbued the young boy with a sense of destiny, an understanding of the complexity of humans and civilization, and of the necessity for responsible usage of the time that is given to one during life.

When Marcos was in fifth grade, tragedy struck. His father was killed. The man was found naked, beaten and bloodied with a slit throat, left in a dark alleyway. It was horrible for the entire family. His mother changed completely, never to return to the intelligent reserve of calm and moderation that Marcos knew in his early years. Her worst nightmare had been lived, she had lost the love of her life, and she was broken. The sweet family dynamic that Marcos had once known was also broken. His brothers, without a father and left with a shattered, grieving, and bitter mother, all descended to lives of violence and crime. Marcos himself was wounded deeply by the loss of his beloved father, but he reacted differently than his family members. He swore to give his life to making the world a better place, to discovering truth and fighting for good in a world he saw as filled with injustice at every front.

Marcos' life changed once again when the family went on a trip to Mexico to visit his father's parents, who he hadn't seen in years. While he was there, staying at his grandparent's home in a rural province, Marcos was approached by a man who claimed to be a colleague of his father's. The man spoke to Marcos urgently, telling him that he did not have much time. He warned Marcos that there was more to his father's death than just another killing in a city filled with crime. He explained that his father had been someone special, and that in due time Marcos would be too. "I can sense it. There is something different about you, boy. You will be the one to continue the legacy." Marcos wanted more details, and had a million questions, but the man stopped him, saying that he must leave and that it would all become known with time. Before he left, he gave Marcos a couple of clues to reveal the true nature of his father's identity and where to look to find more. Then, to the boy's astonishment, the strange man sprouted gleaming golden wings, and soared out of sight.

Following the clues, Marcos snuck away from his family and began to investigate. This led him to information about a local legend of a superhuman, a man with the ability to turn himself into a mighty jaguar warrior, impervious to all harm and supernaturally gifted in combat. These myths dated back to well before the arrival of European colonizers, but it appeared that the mysterious warrior was most active during the years of the most brutal colonial repression, serving as a heroic defender of the people against the invading westerners.

Marcos continued his search further, overcoming many obstacles along the way. The boy seemed to have great reflexes and agility, surprising even himself as he overcame ancient booby traps and corrupt modern henchman guarding the knowledge he sought. He discovered that the Jaguar returned merely decades ago, and became a symbol of resistance to indigenous and working class activists fighting for their communities.

As his research went deeper into places where he was not allowed, the determined boy began to attract the attention of corrupt local authorities who wished for the legend of the Jaguar to stay buried. On one night, a group of armed men broke into the home where his whole family was staying, dragging them out of their beds and threatening to kill them if Marcos did not come with them quietly. In the heat of the moment, with his grandparents, mother, and brothers held at gunpoint, Marcos felt a burst of heat within him. His vision changed, time seemed to slow around him, and he acted out of instinct, lashing out with superhuman speed and strength, dropping the men holding his family hostage before the others could react. As his family dived for cover and the rest of the men began to open fire, Marcos acted on instinct, flipping and tumbling through the room, evading the oncoming gunfire. His muscles seemed to swell as he felt some latent power hidden within him being released, his senses sharpened, and he locked his eyes of the men in his home. Summoning his newly revealed powers, Marcos felt long razor sharp bone blades extend from his fingertips, which then fired off like darts from blowgun, impaling the man in front of him. Turning on the remaining men, Marcos regrew his sharp bone claws and leaped into battle, dispatching them quickly.

Marcos was in a state of shock after the fight, and turned to his mother to demand answers. She told him everything, about the true identity of his father, about what he had been doing before he was killed, and that Marcos must have inherited his abilities. But she begged Marcos to forget all of this, to give up trying to find out the reasons behind his father's death, and to do the safe thing and let the Jaguar die. She could not lose her husband and her youngest son both to this madness. Marcos knew in his heart that he could never do that.

The family left immediately the next day, returning to their home in San Diego. In the final moments there, while his family all loaded into the car to go the airport, Marcos snuck away, looking for a spot to think and be alone. As he walked, he sensed another presence. Turning around, Marcos came face to face with the man that had started it all, the man with golden wings who claimed to be his father's "colleague." The man reassured Marcos, telling him that his father would want him to continue his work as the Jaguar. As they spoke, Marcos' mother began calling for him from the distance. It was time to go. Before Marcos left, the man handed him a brown package, and told him to hide it from his mother.

When he finally got home and was alone, Marcos cut into the package, eager to see what was inside. As he opened the box, he caught a glimpse of jaguar print fur. Excitedly, Marcos reached into the box and pulled out a thick jaguar coat suit, complete with a hood and hands and feet. It was his supersuit, his costume, the garb of the Jaguar. (Imagine something like

)

And so the Jaguar was born again.
Powers:

• [Superhumanly Acute Senses]: Marcos can see farther and with greater clarity than normal humans. His vision extends into the ultraviolet and infrared areas of the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing him to see in near-total darkness and retain a similar level of clarity. Marcos' hearing is similarly enhanced, allowing him to detect sounds humans can't and hear at greater distances. Marcos can memorize tens of thousands of scents. His sense of smell enables him to recognize people/objects by scent, even if they are well hidden. He can track a target by scent and track them to the exact location, can smell fear, and detect if someone is lying by change in body odor.
• [Enhanced Strength, Speed, Stamina, Reflexes, and Agility]: Marcos' strength is elevated to peak human levels. His strength is about equivalent to any Olympic class weight lifter and far superior to most humans, especially those of his size. Marcos is able to run and move at speeds superior to those of any Olympic-class runner, and is capable of reaching speeds at a sustained 35 mph. He has the ability to attack faster than the eye can follow. His combat speed seems more enhanced than anything else, and he is able to keep up with multiple other enemies in combat, and blitz people before they pull their trigger fingers. Marcos' powers grant him superhuman levels of stamina, exceptional endurance, and lung capacity; in all physical activities. He can physically exert himself at peak capacity for several hours before fatigue toxins begin to impair him. He also has peak human lung capacity allowing him to hold his breath for 6 minutes. His skin, muscle, and bone tissues are augmented to levels that are much denser and harder than normal humans, making him far more durable and resistant to damage to various degrees. Marcos' enhanced healing speed and capabilities allows him to have a conditioned metabolism and immune system that enables extraordinarily efficient healing. Marcos' equilibrium, balance, flexibility, dexterity, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels superior to any Olympic-level athlete that has ever competed. This gives him cat-like agility. Marcos' reaction time are beyond the natural limits of an Olympic-level athlete, and has the reflexes of an actual jaguar.
• [Bone Claws]: Marcos has razor sharp bone claws extending from the tips of his fingers, which he is capable of firing off at high speeds and regrowing.

Limitations:

• Though he is stronger and has greater senses than a normal human, his powers are not limitless and he is nowhere near as powerful as some higher level super humans. His healing abilities are not limitless, and though he recovers quicker and is harder to seriously hurt, he is by no mean invulnerable or capable of healing on the level of Marvel's Wolverine, for instance.

Weaknesses:

• [Inexperience]: Marcos is very new to being a hero, and it took him by surprise. He doesn't know how things work, or how he is supposed to act. He doesn't really know what to do, and that is a major weakness.
• [Overconfidence]: Marcos doesn't really know what power is out there, how serious the enemies are, basically what he is up against. His has an idealistic belief in his necessity to sacrifice and fight for what is right, and this youthful boldness could very well get him killed if he acts without thinking.
• [Bad Planning]: Marcos is not one to sit around mulling over the options. If he thinks something needs to get done, he jumps into action with little forethought. He disregards plans when they are made, and he doesn't realize that his enemies will be thinking things through even if he isn't.

Likes: Reading, adventures, good stories, cooking, helping people, nationalism of oppressed peoples, radical democracy and institutions of popular power, community, nature & ecology, international solidarity, direct action.
Dislikes: Politicians, math, hierarchies, police, the government, war, modern commercial culture.

Additional Information-
Birthday: May 19th.
Theme song: Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count To F**k): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGwI7nGehA&list=RDpg0byaqVaXo&index=11
Favorite food: Meat (like a jaguar haha get it??)
Greatest fear: Not actually making a change in the world, doing nothing to change the flawed nature of the world and wasting his life without making significant change and progress.

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Name: Cecilia Varela
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Race: Afro-Hispanic
Appearance:
Young Blood?: Yes
Bio: Cecilia was born in Cuba to two veteran members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, soldiers who had volunteered and fought in many internationalist missions against Western-backed regimes and armies across the third world during the late 20th century. The Cuban revolution was and remains the flagship for liberation movements of oppressed peoples worldwide, people often struggling against Western superhuman invasion forces in the form of "humanitarian intervention," whose real purpose was the securing of resources for the developed world and the installation or protection of governments friendly to Western policies. While the USSR and the rest of the "socialist bloc" remained staunchly anti-superhero, and tried to bring Cuba and other third world countries experiencing popular left-wing revolutions to this front, they resisted, determining their own stance. Superhumans were integrated into society after a long popular fight for this reason, given the same rights and respect as non-superhumans in Cuba at the same time as in Western countries.

Due to this, Cecilia's parents were overjoyed to discover their daughter had such special abilities, and immediately sent her to one of the free schools for superhumans located across the country. There she received training in how to manage her abilities and use them for good without letting herself be manipulated by those who would like to use her as a pawn or a tool for their own goals. Before she could finish school, however, there was an emergency involving some relatives who were staying in America, and the family had to move immediately. Cecilia was extremely distraught, and felt devastated to be moving to the heartland of capitalism, the far-reaching empire she saw as responsible for so much of the pain and injustice in her own home country and across the globe. She was moving into the belly of the beast.

Everything changed for Cecilia when she moved to America. She became politically active there, distraught at the alienation, poverty, and inequality she found there that fueled such unending violence. From her point of view, the whole country seemed to be in a perpetual state of bloodshed. It was this discovery of the true differences between the way things are done in her home country and the effects of a less cooperative system ignited a political consciousness in the young girl as in intense as the fires that she summoned with the powers of the sun.

It was here in her time in America that Cecilia discovered the idea of superhero vigilantism, a concept that did not exist in Cuba. The community solved its problems together as a whole, not relying on each individual to fight for their own life and to rely on individual vigilantes to protect and give justice to the rest of society, who lacked power.

Though she disagreed with this formula for confronting social ills, Cecilia decided that she had no choice but to use her powers as one tactic in her pursuit of a better world. Thus Shine was born.
Powers:

• [Solar Manipulation]: She can draw power from the sun like a battery, and create, manipulate, and shape solar energy. This includes plasma manipulation, energy attacks and constructs, energy absorption, energy generation, solar-powered flight, and immunity to certain types of energy manipulation.

Limitations:

• Weak and Powerless without Access to the Sun and Solar Energy
• Distance and Precision Limited Severely by her Strength and Skill

Weaknesses (Reasons why someone could kick their ass):

• [Immaturity]: Cecilia has a naive understanding of the human capacity to evil. She is guided by a general trust that most people try to do the right thing, and it will come as a shock to her to confront people without that motive.
  (Note, you do not have a maximum or minimum of 2 weaknesses. If you don’t need all those, delete them. If you need more, copy and paste.)

Likes: Dancing, singing, running, painting, poetry, feminism, teamwork/groupwork.
Dislikes: Working for a boss, deskwork, busywork, awkward silences.

Additional Information (Optional; remove if unused)-
Birthday: January 1st
Theme song: Rage Against The Machine: People Of The Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_YtCpC12Kg
Favorite food: Berries
Greatest fear: Being trapped and unable to do what she wants with her life. Basically, to lose her autonomy.

[Finland SSR]

Name: Marcos Juderias

My Hispanic is better than yours

Just kidding, welcome, and a cool app.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

Will be fun to have a sexist in a team that's half girls

Accepted, Castriarta.

[Castriarta]

Will be fun to have a sexist in a team that's half girls

Accepted, Castriarta.

Lmao putting sexism in the “likes” category was a mistake, thanks for pointing it out. I’m planning on editing that post later to flesh out Marcos’ character as well as to add another application for a female character with solar energy manipulation powers that is a close friend of Marcos.

EDIT: is it okay if in this world I portray Cuba as being less aligned with the USSR, following a more fiercely independent socialist development?

[Zarkenis Ultima]

Will be fun to have a sexist in a team that's half girls

Accepted, Castriarta.

Lmao putting sexism in the “likes” category was a mistake, thanks for pointing it out. I’m planning on editing that post later to flesh out Marcos’ character as well as to add another application for a female character with solar energy manipulation powers that is a close friend of Marcos.

Ah, alright then. We were pretty amused about that in the Discord

Let me know when you edit the post, if you do.

EDIT: Just noticed your question. I'm not sure whether that would be okay, better check with Tomia.

[Northwest Slobovia]

Will be fun to have a sexist in a team that's half girls

Accepted, Castriarta.

Lmao putting sexism in the “likes” category was a mistake, thanks for pointing it out.

Leave it! IC drama is always good!

[Castriarta]

Lmao putting sexism in the “likes” category was a mistake, thanks for pointing it out. I’m planning on editing that post later to flesh out Marcos’ character as well as to add another application for a female character with solar energy manipulation powers that is a close friend of Marcos.

Ah, alright then. We were pretty amused about that in the Discord

Let me know when you edit the post, if you do.

EDIT: Just noticed your question. I'm not sure whether that would be okay, better check with Tomia.

The post has been edited, and I added a character app. Though it's still a WIP, so I plan to make changes.

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Lmao putting sexism in the “likes” category was a mistake, thanks for pointing it out.

Leave it! IC drama is always good!

Must be not good for him when half of the team's members are females.

[Tomia]

The thing about Cuba sounds fine wouldnt mind if you gave it a superhuman justification though

[Zarkenis Ultima]

Ah, alright then. We were pretty amused about that in the Discord

Let me know when you edit the post, if you do.

EDIT: Just noticed your question. I'm not sure whether that would be okay, better check with Tomia.

The post has been edited, and I added a character app. Though it's still a WIP, so I plan to make changes.

I looked at the WIP app, and while it looks good overall, there's some things I want to bring up, the first being that the description of Cecilia's homeland seems somewhat idealized; that's fine if it's just her own view of the world, but if it's supposed to be factual in the roleplay's universe, that might cause problems. Second is that Cecilia seems to be somewhat similar to another character thematically and in terms of powers (they even have very similar aliases: Stella/Estella). I don't know if the player in question would mind, but it's definitely something that needs to be pointed out.

[Castriarta]

The post has been edited, and I added a character app. Though it's still a WIP, so I plan to make changes.

I looked at the WIP app, and while it looks good overall, there's some things I want to bring up, the first being that the description of Cecilia's homeland seems somewhat idealized; that's fine if it's just her own view of the world, but if it's supposed to be factual in the roleplay's universe, that might cause problems. Second is that Cecilia seems to be somewhat similar to another character thematically and in terms of powers (they even have very similar aliases: Stella/Estella). I don't know if the player in question would mind, but it's definitely something that needs to be pointed out.

Oh darn, I should’ve looked over the character list better. I didn’t even see Stella, but I had a feeling there would probably be another similar character. I should at least change her superhero name, but I can’t think of something now and I’ll do it tomorrow after or during school. Maybe I’ll change her powers and stuff too to make her more unique.

As for the stuff about Cuba, that’s a good point, I’ll work on her bio in general and the presentation of her homeland will certainly change as I really flesh out her character and make a few important decisions. Thank you for the input though, I need to keep those things in mind as I add stuff. I also want to add to/edit her and Marcos’ bios to make them more significant to each other, so they have a friendship and work as sort of a team both in costume and out of it. I can’t wait to get started actually roleplaying!

[Zarkenis Ultima]

I looked at the WIP app, and while it looks good overall, there's some things I want to bring up, the first being that the description of Cecilia's homeland seems somewhat idealized; that's fine if it's just her own view of the world, but if it's supposed to be factual in the roleplay's universe, that might cause problems. Second is that Cecilia seems to be somewhat similar to another character thematically and in terms of powers (they even have very similar aliases: Stella/Estella). I don't know if the player in question would mind, but it's definitely something that needs to be pointed out.

Oh darn, I should’ve looked over the character list better. I didn’t even see Stella, but I had a feeling there would probably be another similar character. I should at least change her superhero name, but I can’t think of something now and I’ll do it tomorrow after or during school. Maybe I’ll change her powers and stuff too to make her more unique.

As for the stuff about Cuba, that’s a good point, I’ll work on her bio in general and the presentation of her homeland will certainly change as I really flesh out her character and make a few important decisions. Thank you for the input though, I need to keep those things in mind as I add stuff. I also want to add to/edit her and Marcos’ bios to make them more significant to each other, so they have a friendship and work as sort of a team both in costume and out of it. I can’t wait to get started actually roleplaying!

Sounds good, glad to hear you're pumped The character I mentioned is listed as Renata Martinez, if you want to look at her app. Once you've finished making changes to your apps, let us know so we can look at them.

[Finland SSR]

Yeah, Estella is very similar to Stella both in powers and in backstory, but honestly, I don't really mind it all that much. Especially since Cecilia has a fairly different backstory from Renata (one is the daughter of a Latin American dictator and the other is a frustrated communist), I think it can be made to work.

Not that I wouldn't mind Estella being made more different from Renata.

Also, application

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Mission Title: The Ides of August
What heroes would be involved, if any?: Renata Martinez and the Young Bloods; the Andean Condors
What Villains are involved, if any?: Ecuador National Salvation Committee and supporting units
Location(s): Quito, Ecuador
What is the heroes’ objective, if any?: To fight off against the attack on Quito and defeat the conspirators. Or, alternatively, to flee the country.
What is the villains’ objective, if any?: To enact a coup d'etat in Ecuador and overthrow the Condor regime.
Quick Summary(paragraph please):

As a way for the team to unwind after missions upon missions, Renata invites the Young Bloods to a team vacation to her home country Ecuador, paid completely out of her father's pocket - after landing in the equatorial country's airport, they are greeted by the Andean Condors, the main superhero team and ruling government of Ecuador, who give the YB a warm welcome. The first day of the vacation goes uneventful, but once everyone goes to rest in their rooms in a Quito hotel, they are suddenly waken up by alarms, sirens and the sound of tanks rolling across the streets.

A shadow clique of frustrated generals, overthrown members of the old junta and operatives inserted by neighbouring countries, all funded by the human supremacists in Lycan and organized into the so-called "Ecuador National Salvation Committee", begins a coup attempt in Quito, seeking to overthrow and eliminate the Andean Condors and restore human rule over the country - and the Young Bloods are thrusted into this boiling pot against their will.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

Accepted, I like the idea, we'll find a good place to squeeze it in once the current batch is done

[Segral]

I did some thinking and I decided I don't want the Ring of Fire to be a YB arc, I want to focus it more as a solo arc surrounding my own characters. Feel free to take it off the submission list.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

I did some thinking and I decided I don't want the Ring of Fire to be a YB arc, I want to focus it more as a solo arc surrounding my own characters. Feel free to take it off the submission list.

Alrighty.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

Small update to the archive post. Removed Sofia and Eliza, as per the player's (and my own, as the latter's player ) request. Removed The Ring of Fire from the arc submission list and added The Ides of August to it.

[Castriarta]

I'm having trouble thinking of better names for Cecilia, so I'll just call her "Shine." If everyone is okay with her character for the most part, may I join in on the IC action?

[The Republic of Atria]

I'm having trouble thinking of better names for Cecilia, so I'll just call her "Shine." If everyone is okay with her character for the most part, may I join in on the IC action?

My thing is that we're using the IRL history with some very minor tweaks. And it seems that your backstory conflicts with established lore. It says in your app that Cuba "integrated superhumans into society after the revolution, given the same rights and respect as non-superhumans in Cuba far before most or any capitalist countries did the same."

Lorewise this is untrue. Those rights were given out in the early 70s, and the Soviets weren't done with Cuba until the mid-late 80s.

On top of that, Cuba seems... Perfect. Like there's nothing wrong with the country. Unless of course this is like what Zark said and Cuba is just like it is now, and she hasn't yet realized that the US is much better off than Cuba is.

[Castriarta]

I'm having trouble thinking of better names for Cecilia, so I'll just call her "Shine." If everyone is okay with her character for the most part, may I join in on the IC action?

My thing is that we're using the IRL history with some very minor tweaks. And it seems that your backstory conflicts with established lore. It says in your app that Cuba "integrated superhumans into society after the revolution, given the same rights and respect as non-superhumans in Cuba far before most or any capitalist countries did the same."

Lorewise this is untrue. Those rights were given out in the early 70s, and the Soviets weren't done with Cuba until the mid-late 80s.

On top of that, Cuba seems... Perfect. Like there's nothing wrong with the country. Unless of course this is like what Zark said and Cuba is just like it is now, and she hasn't yet realized that the US is much better off than Cuba is.

The first part is true, my app does say that the Cuban revolution followed a course different from that of the Soviet Union. I was thinking this wouldn't be a problem as it doesn't actually change the universe much seeing as Cuba's specific history with superheroes hadn't been elaborated up to this point. I was even thinking about playing with an idea of Che Guevara as a superhuman and a personal hero of Cecilia, which I thought would be very cool and interesting.

As for the second part, I didn't mean to imply that Cuba is some kind of utopia or even overall better than the United States. My characters, both of them, have a strong political component with Cecilia being a frustrated communist, like how Finland SSR put it, and Marcos taking up a hereditary position of anti-imperialist resistance. In the RP I was hoping to expand on Marcos and Cecilia's relationship with their home countries/roots and politics generally, giving a little bit of extra scope to a superhero rp.

[The Republic of Atria]

My thing is that we're using the IRL history with some very minor tweaks. And it seems that your backstory conflicts with established lore. It says in your app that Cuba "integrated superhumans into society after the revolution, given the same rights and respect as non-superhumans in Cuba far before most or any capitalist countries did the same."

Lorewise this is untrue. Those rights were given out in the early 70s, and the Soviets weren't done with Cuba until the mid-late 80s.

On top of that, Cuba seems... Perfect. Like there's nothing wrong with the country. Unless of course this is like what Zark said and Cuba is just like it is now, and she hasn't yet realized that the US is much better off than Cuba is.

The first part is true, my app does say that the Cuban revolution followed a course different from that of the Soviet Union. I was thinking this wouldn't be a problem as it doesn't actually change the universe much seeing as Cuba's specific history with superheroes hadn't been elaborated up to this point. I was even thinking about playing with an idea of Che Guevara as a superhuman and a personal hero of Cecilia, which I thought would be very cool and interesting.

As for the second part, I didn't mean to imply that Cuba is some kind of utopia or even overall better than the United States. My characters, both of them, have a strong political component with Cecilia being a frustrated communist, like how Finland SSR put it, and Marcos taking up a hereditary position of anti-imperialist resistance. In the RP I was hoping to expand on Marcos and Cecilia's relationship with their home countries/roots and politics generally, giving a little bit of extra scope to a superhero rp.

I... Would not have her idolize Che Guevara unless he's a villain and we are going with the real version of him that he's non-powered and dead. Most people don't tend to like racist mass murderers. And after talking with Tom and Zark, we did agree that there is no way Cuba would accept Supers quicker than any other modern nation.

It's pretty heavily implied that it's some sort of utopia. As far as politics go, we're not looking to inject that into the RP. Unless it's just for Marcos and Cecilia, then by all means.