Marvel: Rebirth (OOC/OPEN)

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

I have no idea who that is, seems fine though

But get out an app or tell us your plan and we'll see whether it's acceptable or not

It's the crazy old Spanish knight who mistook windmills for giants and charged them with his lance.

Ah

[Talchyon]

I am in enough RPs, but I love the Marvel universe. If I get some free time, I'd join. Maybe play a canon character though, such as Sleepwalker.

[Atkemri]

Villain APP:
Name/Alias: John Borunda/ Damocles
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Appearance: short curly dirty blonde hair five o'clock shadow red eyes wears thick framed glasses and three piece pinstriped suites
Personality: Sarcastic ,deceitful, manipulative, conniving, calculating, ruthless are all words that could be used to describe him ,but above all else he is an idealists. He will will stop at nothing and allow no one to get in ways of ideals.
Faction:(If applicable)
Affiliation: X-men( former Xavier Academy student) Hell Lords(current member)
Backstory:

The son of two mutants John lived a normal life until one day at school he sensed something strange flowing out of him and throughout the wider world. John spent most of the school day ignoring his newfound sensation. On his way from lunch a surge of power invisible to everyone else ,but John erupted form his body. The alien sensation overwhelmed all of John senses including his balance causing him fall down a flight of stair and fracture his skull.Fortunately for him he felt no pain as he was to overwhelmed by strange sensations to notice.
The doctors at the hospital were baffled they had a patient that was catatonic babbling about an unseen force. Initially the doctors thought that John had an extreme form synesthesia but MRI scans show brain activity that was inconsistent with synesthesia or any else that the had ever see for that matter. John parent suspecting that his condition was the result of the manifestation of his mutant powers contacted the Xavier Academy for help.Through the joint efforts Professor X and Magik they were able to deduce that John had the power to both generate and sense magic the combination of which was blinding him. With the help of Magik John was able to gain control over his powers. He was offered a spot on the X-men but he refused instead opting to spend his time honing his powers and studying to becoming civil right attorney. His plan was defend mutant kind in the court room rather than the battlefield.
The death of Professor X motivated him even more to purse his study so that one day he could fulfill Charles dream of peaceful coexistence. John skipped high school entirely and went from middle school straight to law school. During his summer internship at a law firm he got the news that his parent were murdered.Using his legal skills and connection as law student John began invisatgeting his parent murderer. What he found disturbed him. In his investigation he discovered that his parent had been murdered the Friend of Humanity but that not what bothered him. It was the fact the detective on the assigning to the case had anitmutant sentiments and made no attempt to solve it. Initially John filed a complaint to the OIM ( Office Independent of the Monitor) and demanded that the another detective be assigned to the case. When there OIM found quote" There is not a preponderance of evidence of misconduct for detective Brandson to be removed from this case" John turn to X-men.In their investigation the X-men were able to track down John's parents killers. When they handed them over local authorities they respond but letting them free and charging the X-men with criminal trespassing, assault , vandalism,and false arrest.With the help of John the X-men were found not guilty on all accounts, but his parent killers were still free. The DA refused to press any charges she argued since the X-men did not have a warrant any evidence they gathered was inadmissible in a court of law. It was when writing up his complainant the against the DA to court that John came to a realization. His entire world view was wrong using mans laws to defended mutants was futile effort.Bigoted men with power over the law would either change it suite themselves or ignore when it was against them. A higher immutable law what was he needed to defend mutants.
Years ago when he honing his power he discovered a form of magic he called Sorcerous Workings.It was with this magic that John planned to create a Paradise for mutantkind. His Paradise would be be a separate reality permanently sealed off form the rest existence where the law physics and magics would ensure nothing but everlasting joy for mutants. Accomplishing such task would be no small feat it would require decades of work. John spent years working toward his end goal. During which he accomplish many dangerous tasks such as infiltrating the Shi'ar Empire to gather light reflected off the M'kraan Crystal, retrieving a shared of Spear of Destiny embedded in Shuma-Gorth's eye, combining the shattered Black Mirror with the depowered Sword in The Stars by smelting them within the fires of a dying planet in the processes of being consumed by Galactus. After five years of accomplishing such feats the pieces were finally in place to set the foundations of Paradises. His sorcerous workings had not gone unnoticed by others.
Billion of years ago in age of deep magic when cannibal demon gods ruled the earth a new magic was conceived of by the wizard gods of Zen-Mu. This magic was like nothing that had been seen before given enough time and resources there was nothing that it could not accomplish. They called it Ultra Vires. With Ultra Vires the ancient Wizard Gods created wonder beyond mortal comprehension. Such wonders came at such great cost to the cosmos that Lord Order and Master Chaos were forced to intervene.They destroyed the Wizard Gods and their works however they were unable to destroy Ultra Vires itself. In lieu of that they forbid any mystical entity form wielding such power. They did not bother to forbid mortals form using that power assuming that in was beyond their reach. Two billion years later John would prove them wrong when he rediscovered Ultra Vires calling it Sorcerous Workings.
The Vishanti sensing the forbidden magic working its way into the world dispatched Doctor Strange to prevent John from laying Paradise's foundations. What happened next was a spectacular clash of arcane power. Although John far outstripped the Sorcerer Supreme in raw magic power Strange was able gain the upper hand due to his superior mystical finesse. On the verge of defeat a desperate John did the only the could think of save the progress on his working.Paradise was cast into the infernal depths becoming the hell dimension Paradise Lost in the process John donned the mantle of a hell lord. The table now tuned as John used his new found infernal power to slay the Sorcerer Supreme and claim his soul.With their champion defeated the Vishanti summoned the Living Tribunal. Before it they accused John of attempting remake the mulitverse in his image. The logical course of action would be the erasure of John , Paradise Lost and Ultra Vires itself form existence the trio argued. John for his part denied the trinity accusations and argued that they were the threat to cosmic balance that should be erased.The Living Tribunal ruled neither party was a threat , John could continue his working, and Steven Strange soul was beyond John's preview and to be returned to life forthwith. In the years since John now calling himself Damocles has been slowly working toward his goal.

Powers/Weapons/Tech:
Magical energy Generation One his two innate mutant powers.There appears to be no known limit to the extant of amount magical energy he can generate.
Magic Sensing His other innate ability allow Damocles to sense magic in his vicinity. By sensing the way magical energies are behaving Juan can deduce powers of enchanted object and the purpose spells even while it is still being cast
Magic Construct One of the first application of Damocles powers was solidifying the magic he generated into tools, item, ect. It ability not all unlike that of DC various lantern corps with exception of being that isn't effect by his emotional state nor does grant flight and interstellar travel.
Spell Casting Damocles was taught the basics of spellcasting by Magik when he still a student at Xavier Academy. However in the thirteen years since he has a become master spellcaster by sharpening his skills against the likes of Dr Strange, Dormammu, and Mephisto.
Multicasting Originally he learned how cast two spells simultaneously by observing Magik do it once. Over the years Damocles has learn to cast five spells at once time.
Spell Usurpation Damocles can rest control of a spell from it caster. He hadn't even considered this was possible until he attempted it in his first desperate fight against the Sorcerer Supreme.
Spell Alteration He can change the properties of spell to create an different effect than one intended.
Spell Destabilization Similar to spell alternation expect there is no attempt made to control what the altered spell effect will be.
Spell Destruction By tearing away at the magical energy in the spell Damocles destroys it
Sorcerous Workings A lost form ritual magic Juan rediscovered by experimentation it better known as Ultra Vires by various mystical entities.
Dimensional Lordship As the creator of the hell dimension of Paradise Lost he has dominion over it.
Respawning If John is killed he will respawn in Paradise Lost.



Weaknesses:

Magical Energy Generation The power is on some level always on and it can't be turned off. Because of that it easy to track his movement with tech designed to track mutant powers and by sensing his magic.
Magic sensing It has range of two hundred meters and it not absolute there are amounts magic of small enough to escape his detection. Like his vision and hearing the further away magical energy is from Damocles the less he'd be able to perceive it. Despite training a large enough concentration of magic can still cause sensory overload.
Magic Construct Complex constructs take more time and concentration to create than simpler ones. His constructs can not mimic chemical electrical or thermal reactions.They need to able actively maintained.
Spell Casting May require some combination verbal, material, and gestural components. Spells always requires concentration to cast may require concentration to maintain. Evey spell requires magical energy to cast some require a consent stream of magical energy.
Muiltcasting Some spells are too complex be cast in conjunction with other spells.
Spell Usurpation How long and how difficult it is it take usurp a spell depends on how complex the spell and if the caster resists.In addition the caster may be able prevent usurpation. The usurper need to know they kind of spell they are usurping.
Spell Alteration All the weakness of spell usurpation. It is harder to alter a spell the further you move it away from its original purpose. For example it is easier to turn a magically conjured fireball into a spell that summons a fire elemental than into one that conjures a fig tree.
Spell Destabilization Same weakness as spell usurpation.The effects of spell destabilized spell are unpredictable.
Spell Destruction Same weakness as spell usurpation.
Sorcerous Workings Workings require three things to work. First they need material components.Secondly long complicated rituals. Finally research is required into what into what material components are needed and what ritual/ rituals are need. Even the most basic workings require a day of research and an hour long ritual. The more complex workings can take decades of research, ritual component themselves require sorcerous working themselves to attain and multiple years long rituals. One has to consider every conceivable factor when undertaking a working failure to do to at best results in unintended side effects and at worst a completely different outcome. Complex working have cosmic consequences needless to say botching complex workings can be disastrous.That is why various mystical entities have negative opinions of performers of Sorcerous Workings that range from stupid child playing with fire to cancer that needs to be expunged form reality.
Dimensional Lordship They most obvious weakness is that Damocles is only nigh omnipotent in Paradise Lost. He does not have complete control over space in his realm. Specifically he has difficulty preventing uninvited guest from traveling into his realm.The boundaries of Paradise lost are porous and impossible to effectively ward against entry and exit. Damocles can not prevent the souls of those who hold racists feelings towards mutants from entering his realm. Paradise Lost was created as hell specifically for them in order for him persevere his progress on his working. Due to these factors Paradise Lost is under constant demonic incursion.Damocles has classified these incursion in three threat level. Level one a minor demon raiding the realm for souls, level two another hell lord attempting to annex paradise lost ,level three a demon of multiversal scope attempting to use Paradise Lost as back door to enter this reality.
Damocles control of time is also limited he can not see into the future. Rather he sees into every possible future, every impossible future and the actual future simultaneously but is unable to tell them part . Any changes to time he makes don't apply to recent visitors. For example if Damocles freezes the the flow of time in Paradise Lost anyone who visit this hell after he froze time will be able to move freely .He has to actively integrate a new visitor to freeze them in time. The flow time is also intrinsically linked to flow of time on earth. Although Damocles can make time flow faster than on earth, slower than on earth, or stand still it draining diverge from earths temporal flow.
The constant disturbance of space by outsiders and alterations to time cause glitches to appears in Paradise Lost.These glitches can range from regions of space losing dimensions,to localized time loops,to the color purple becoming acidic,to clouds of cotton candy that rain catfish. Damocles is able to debug theses glitches but he can't stop them from occurring. Finally taking the mantle of a hell lord he has corrupted his soul. White magic is unusable to Damocles because of this. His sense of right and wrong his entire personality has been warped to be more line with that of his hell lords peers. His experience negative emotions are so strong that can overwhelm his rational thought.
Respawning Only work outside of Paradise Lost. Is physically, mental, and spiritually painful.

Skills: Patience ,Organization, Planning , Knowledge in arcane and cosmic matters, certificated to practice law New York, Virginia, Maryland ,Colorado and New Mexico, can sing quite well, the kid's good enough at hand to hand combat (wolverine's words)

Extra Information

Mephisto was the who gave him the nickname Damocles as a put down of sorts but John ended up liking it. Damocles father had the power to generate a single string not super strong or sharp string just ordinary string. He put his powers to good use as a tailor. His mother had the power to change the color of anything she touched she worked as an animator. Ultra Vires mean beyond scope/power in Latin. He forged a bell from the Sword in the Stars and the Black mirror know as the Hyperbolic Carillon.It is currently in the possession of Doctor Strange. He became near sighted after he fractured his skull. When he mastered his powers he used magic restore his sight, but he kept wear glass because they are useful in scrying spells.

Day Job:Hell Lord
Living place: Paradise Lost
Did you read the rules? yes

Alright, so I agree with most of the things that Warglorian had to say, but also you may want to tone his power level down a bit. Dormammu and Doctor Strange are massively high tier and this character managed to kill strange. Just tone it down a bit, for now declined

Reserve Thor plss

After the recommendation of the Co-OP, I will allow you to reserve Thor. Make sure you are familiar with the timeline and remember that Thor is very plot-important.

[Frachen]

Since I did Gwenpool last time, I think I'll do Deadpool this time around....reserve plz, I'll get an app up by tomorrow night.

[Union Princes]

Well, you guys are actually doing this. I don't think I can put Maria back in. Feels like there's too many villains

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Well, you guys are actually doing this. I don't think I can put Maria back in. Feels like there's too many villains

She could be neutral?

I don't see how or why Maria was a villain in the first place; she didn't do anything particularly evil and her powers seem pretty good

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Well, you guys are actually doing this. I don't think I can put Maria back in. Feels like there's too many villains

In terms of villains (I didn't click the link someone left at the beginning yet) we actually mainly have two terrorist orgs and their multiple charas.

A few unaffiliated villains are always helpful.

Besides...Maybe I'm getting it wrong, it has been a week or two or three since I read the prior IC but Maria was that infiltration specialist in Fisk's employ, right? The one who then later got all cozy with Peter?

[Zamon Cor]

My idea is that he used to be a novelist who wrote a series of novels centered around a Swashbuckling Hero ala The Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro in colonial France. His arch-enemy was The Marquis, a megalomaniacal, Machiavellian French nobleman. My villain somehow gets into an accident and somehow ends up becoming his creation, turning into The Marquis and becomes a new crime lord in NYC. To make matters worse, he sees everything as if it were the 17th or 18th centuries, kinda like Don Q and his hallucinations of knighthood.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Well, you guys are actually doing this. I don't think I can put Maria back in. Feels like there's too many villains

In terms of villains (I didn't click the link someone left at the beginning yet) we actually mainly have two terrorist orgs and their multiple charas.

A few unaffiliated villains are always helpful.

Besides...Maybe I'm getting it wrong, it has been a week or two or three since I read the prior IC but Maria was that infiltration specialist in Fisk's employ, right? The one who then later got all cozy with Peter?

Not sure that was her

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

My idea is that he used to be a novelist who wrote a series of novels centered around a Swashbuckling Hero ala The Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro in colonial France. His arch-enemy was The Marquis, a megalomaniacal, Machiavellian French nobleman. My villain somehow gets into an accident and somehow ends up becoming his creation, turning into The Marquis and becomes a new crime lord in NYC. To make matters worse, he sees everything as if it were the 17th or 18th centuries, kinda like Don Q and his hallucinations of knighthood.

Sounds like a really cool idea

Give us an app and we’ll see what we can do

[Christian Confederation]

We getting the gang back together again?

[Atkemri]

We getting the gang back together again?

You are banned, Christian. I believe we went over this in the last thread.

[Christian Confederation]

We getting the gang back together again?

You are banned, Christian. I believe we went over this in the last thread.

Um, last I remembered it died and y'all blamed it on me

[The Democratic Marxists]

We getting the gang back together again?

You are banned, Christian. I believe we went over this in the last thread.

Yes, pls don’t let him sabotage this one as well

[Christian Confederation]

You are banned, Christian. I believe we went over this in the last thread.

Yes, pls don’t let him sabotage this one as well

Sabotage my rear

[Farnhamia]

We getting the gang back together again?

You are banned, Christian. I believe we went over this in the last thread.

Linking that video snippet was totally unnecessary and, considering it uses a derogatory epithet, "thot," you get *** warned for flaming. ***

Don't want someone in your RP? Fine but at least be civil about it.

[Beautiful Ladakh]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name/Alias: Rogue/Anna Marie
Age: 38
Gender: F
Appearance:

Personality: Shy, secretive, introverted, paranoid
Faction: X-Men
Affiliation: Hero
Backstory: Anna Marie was a rebellious child and her equally poor relationship with her father prompted her to run away from home as a young teenager. This also prompted the nickname "Rogue.” At 14 years old, Rogue grew close to a boy named Cody Robbins. During their flirtation, Rogue impulsively kissed Cody, at which point her latent mutant power to absorb the life energy and psyche of others with skin-to-skin contact emerged. Cody was left in a coma from which he would not awaken. Rogue was traumatized by the experience and she wore body-concealing clothing that eliminated the possibility of accidental skin contact. Rogue was not able to control her absorption power; any skin-to-skin contact activated it, and she sometimes retained residual memories of the people she touched. Rogue wished she did not have to cover up so much around folks, to protect them from her.

Not long after, Rogue was approached by Mystique, who sought her out on the advice of her precognitive partner, Destiny. Mystique ultimately took Rogue in as a daughter. In time Mystique turned Rogue's loneliness, envy, bitterness, and despair into anger, thus recruiting her into the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. But after constantly doing battle against the Avengers and the X-Men, in which she absorbed the powers and memories of enemies, Rogue began to suffer more acutely from having the heroes’ memories in her head. Desperate, Rogue turned to Professor Charles Xavier and the X-Men, where Binary attacked her on sight. Professor Xavier's charity towards all mutants led him to welcome her into his School for Gifted Youngsters, regardless of his team having previously fought Rogue, and in spite of the X-Men's own strong disagreements. Professor X psychically examined Rogue and invited her to join the X-Men and live at the mansion, with the team even threatening to leave if she was allowed to stay. Professor Xavier reminded them of their ideals as X-Men and they gave her a chance.

She has been a committed member of the team ever since, aiding other mutants in controlling their powers even though she is unable to control her own. Although she has feelings for her teammate Gambit, Rogue has maintained a distance from others because she fears her powers could harm the people she has relationships with.

Powers/Weapons/Tech:
Power absorption:Rogue can absorb the powers, energies, memories, knowledge, talents, personality, and physical abilities (whether superhuman or not) of another human being (or members of some sentient alien races) through physical contact of her skin with the skin of the other person. She is not limited to absorbing superhuman abilities: for example, she has absorbed the strength, agility, and sharp reflexes of an enhanced human. She cannot control this ability, and sometimes it can harm her. It vastly reduces her energy when she fully absorbs another’s powers.

Weaknesses: Rogue sees her powers as a curse. The memories of those she has absorbed haunt her, and she is a scarred individual. This is why she prefers not to use her power often.
Skills: Speaks fluent French
RP Examples: viewtopic.php?p=36104953#p36104953
Extra Information
Day Job: None
Living place: Xavier Institute[/b]

[Christian Confederation]

Y'all have fun, just wanted to check in

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Hate-Monger app is finished. These two on the other hand are heavily WIP still.

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name/Alias: Ophelia Sarkissian/Madame Hydra/Viper
Age: 30 years
Gender: Female
Appearance:
A.R.E.S. Management Board Member Ophelia Sarkissian
Supervillain Viper/Madame Hydra gets also a green cape with hood as well as a cool mask.
Personality: A ruthless, sadistic and arrogant villainess, cynical and prone to tease others. Seductive too. Occasionally has bursts of violence coming forth from her. Thrillseeker. Yet deep down below the hard shell of Madame Hydra, she cares about someone and doesn't want to see them go through bad things.
Faction: Hydra/A.R.E.S.
Affiliation: Villain
Backstory: Born in 1992 in post communist Hungary, Ophelia and her brother were soon abandoned by their parents at Age 2 and 1 respectively and left at an orphanage in Székesfehérvár where they would grow up in poor conditions over the next years. The end of the Warsaw Pact and the opening to the west didn't just have bright sides for the countries of eastern europe, their previously state run industries incapable of competing with western corporations and getting bought up and shut down by the west to eliminate competition. And as such there was much misery and despair in Hungary, the two siblings having a hard life and rarely enough to eat, going to bed hungry every night. It did not improve Ophelia's opinion of the west in her highly impressionable mind and the rethoric of the orphanage staff and the Hungarians on the streets didn't do much to improve that opinion.

In 2000, as things were sarting to look better, Ophelia and her brother were taken from the orphanage. Adopted they told them...but the truth was far worse. Hydra, scouring the world for children that wouldn't be missed, had taken them. They brought them over to the New World where, in a secret location, they started training the siblings along with a whole slew of other children. The Hydra instructors called it "Project Viper" and Ophelia, quick thinker that she was, quickly put two and two together and realised that the entire Project, all the training, the torment, the machines, it was all there to mold them into new, perfect leadership personnel within Hydra, to replace a greatly aged prior generation from a prior era of Hydra. Knowing that, she knew what was expected of her, grasping it quicker than all the others in her group. She would rise to become the model trainee/Student there, thus avoiding some of the discpline methods of their instructors. But not all and over the years, as she grew from a child into a teenager, her personality was warped from the relatively innocent and righteously angry girl into one that hated the enemies of Hydra passionately and enjoyed bringing pain and dominating others. In 2004 she, and all the others in her group received a big Hydra tattoo on their backs, marking them forever as property of Hydra.

In 2005, she was called out during training and led to a man she had never seen before but all the Hydra personnel seemed to treat with reverence. She quickly did the same before him, knowing it to be good to appear loyal and exemplary before superiors. The man in question then proceeded to introduce himself as Baron Wolfgang von Strucker...a name that literally said nothing to her, having been cut off from Access to News or history lessons. Now, this man, knowing she was the best among her group and had clear leadership qualities as well as banking on her appeal as a female motherly figure, assigned her to watch over another pet project of Hydra a certain young boy named Adler who, following extensive modifications of his body as well as brainwashing, had been difficult to access for Hydra personnel as well as to properly sociailize him. She of course accepted, figuring that this would grant her leave from her draconic instructors as well as bonus points with a head honcho of Hydra. When she first met Adler, she was filled with fear inside of her...but also morbid curiosity and it was that that helped her overcome her fear and put up the facade she needed to comfort the boy and make him do as the doctors said. She faked almost motherly care, cuddled and let him rest on her bosom, sang Hungarian lullabies to him and so on, seemingly like a loving and caring person. Inside though she held him in contempt for what she perceived as weakness.

After nearly a decade of training and indoctrination, Ophelia had become a weapon in body and mind. The instructors had set another 2 years for the Project and when these would be finished, she would belong to Hydra, body and soul. For despite the influneces Hydra had had on her thinking and personality, she was not yet at the stage that she was a fully loyal servant of theirs. Many of the cadets who had been trained with her were not so fortunate, many having either died, been reduced to mentally damaged, blabbering messes or little more than Hydra drones. So it was to her great luck that the facility got attacked in 2008, during the uncovering of Hydra and the general secret war raging between Hydra and Shield/the Avengers. The cadets too far gone into Hydra's grasp died defending it...but Ophelia, knowing that the facility wasn't made to withstand attacks, took her brother as well as the other broken cadets and acted like victims, banking on the intruders' empathy and hoping they'd get rescued and cared for. It worked out perfectly and for a while, as Hydra bases got wiped around the world, she was in the news as one of the few rescued who could still speak coherently, talking about the brutality done to them and Hydra's vile plans with them. For a year they received therapeutic treatment, housing, pocket money for free so they could fit back into society.

Shortly after the government aid stopped, her brother, who, due to his high resistance to Hydra and his lacking conviction to conform to their orders and Standards, had been treated highly cruelly and mentally damaged extremely hard, attempted to skin his back, attempting to remove the Hydra tattoo etched into it. He was successful in removing it but just successful in nearly bleeding out on the floor and damaging the muscle tissue in his back. Only due to Ophelia did he get to a Hospital in time to receive treatment, where he would stay for months. Now...Ophelia didn't receive funds from the US Government anymore. Nor did she have any money of her own or gained a proper job yet. Her time under Hydra had given her a specific skillset which usually wasn't the most sought after on the job market. She tried using her body as well as the seduction and persuasion training she had received and started a short career in modeling but quit soon after, not liking the way she and other models were treated there, the relatively low pay a new model like her received as well as the sheer boredom stemming from it. Instead she turned to other of her skills, offering herself as a mercenary.

She was off to a rocky start in this line of work but quickly got settled in and was starting to make money with which she could pay off her brother's medical bills. However, the moment he was out of hospital and she had paid everything off, he started tinkering around as well as visiting the gym regularly...instead of working to make a living. Some of his tinkering was quite expensive and proved to be a drain on the money she brought in, forcing her to continue with the mercenary work, eventually becoming acquainted with the Ultra Hotels and the jobs they offered. Though she was also mildly thankful for what her brother did. It offered her a great excuse to continue in a line of work she enjoyed. An excuse that worked perfectly every time he complained about the jobs she took, shutting him up almost instantly. Now I mentioned that she took jobs from Ultra, yes? Well, eventually, in 2013, she met an old acquaintance at one of the Ultra Hotels. One she hadn't seen since 2008. Adler was there. The Young lad had finally become a full fledged member of Hydra and one of the youngest and most accomplished assassins in the world. The two immediately recognised each other, despite the year that had passed and the changes they had undergone. The reunion wasn't a particularly happy one though. Professional, at parts perhaps teasing on Ophelia's side and embarassed on Adler's side.

He revealed to her that Hydra was indeed not destroyed but still very much alife...and that a job offer for someone with her qualities could be arranged. Having spent her youth under Hydra, Ophelia knew only the organisations great influence and funds from what she had seen in the training facility. She knew that when Hydra offered, Hydra could back those offers up. And it did seem like a relatively secure post, not dependent on the availability of contracts or how much the employers were willing to pay. Still though, while she was drawn to it, she asked for some time to reconsider and agreed on a date with Adler a few days later. The days came and went and the next time they met, Adler was much more persuasive. He not only knew everything about her relatively poor financial situation but also had more concrete offers. Clearly he had reported to his Superiors, which in turn had checked what they could or would actually offer. It was fairly simple. A job offer for her lifetime, rejoining Hydra and receiving a position of authority and a, for Hydra standards, apparently paltry entry sum of 1 million USD. The Position in question, as Adler specified, was that of the Madame Hydra, a position of some prestige, currently held by an old woman who was starting to outlive her usefulness to Hydra. If she wanted the job all she had to do was to kill the previous Madame Hydra, show how far she was willing to go to get it, and take her place. With a sly smile, Ophelia said to Adler that she was a mercenary still and that if he wanted her to kill someone, he'd have to put up a contract. He complied...though placing the reward for the contract at only 1 USD.

Ophelia set out to kill Madame Hydra on the spot. It was not the easiest of missions. While Hydra was still rebuilding from the heavy strike it had received in 2008, Madame Hydra still was a high ranking Hydra official and thus had more than adequate protection. But that was not enough. Now, in 2022, the 21 year old Ophelia of 2013 would think twice about attacking a Madame Hydra as well protected as herself but back then it was still a very much possible job. The Hydra guards were dispatched with relative ease and there were only very few of them. She killed them all, so none would disturb her during her later fun time with the old Madame Hydra. When she finally found the woman, she wasn't surprised that she was supposed to take care of her. Already after just a short exchange of words and glances between them, Ophelia could see that she was starting to suffer from dementia. She proceeded to take her pleasure in telling the woman how Hydra didn't have any use for her anymore and proceeded to torture her for another hour before finally killing her. Then she burned down the house to destroy all evidence.

Adler expected her on the street, congratulating her to her successful assassination...and addressing her as Madame Hydra.

Ophelia would continue to join Hydra, receive all she had been promised as well as a position at the A.R.E.S. board, publicly explained as a charitable attempt to reintegrate victims of Hydra into society. And since then she's been there, with Hydra, familiarized herself with the situation and occasionally went out onto missions, though under the nickname Viper.
Powers/Weapons/Tech:
-Steel cable whip, electrified at the push of a button
-2xÜberpistolen MkII
Weaknesses:
-Hubris/Thrillseeking/Sadism: Madame Hydra often doesn't do her Jobs as quickly and efficiently as possible, leaving her opponents gaps and openings to exploit to make fights more interesting or crush the even harder physically or psychologically, knowing they can't do anything despite the opening. Does end up biting her in the ass though when someone does exploit it, successfully so.
Skills:
-Skilled in the concoction in chemical mixtures, especcially poisons.
-Skilled martial arts fighter
-Skilled in the handling of firearms and explosives
-Skilled tactician
-Skilled entrepreneur
RP Examples: viewtopic.php?p=32519629#p32519629
Extra Information
Day Job: A.R.E.S. Management Board Member
Living place: Queens, Ridgewood
Did you read the rules? Yeah.

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name/Alias: Miklós Sarkissian/Ivanhoe
Age: 31 years
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Ivanhoe
Personality: Determined, friendly, helpful, righteous, slightly manic, selfless.
Faction: None (yet)
Affiliation: Vigilante
Backstory: Born in 1991 in post communist Hungary, Miklós barely ever saw his parents. Both of them had lost their Jobs and were usually out in the streets, trying to find new work. The only real memory he had of his parents was the sight of a nude breast and the feeling of sucking milk. And it should remain his only memory for shortly after his sister was born, both of them were dropped off at an orphanage in Székesfehérvár, where they lived a meagre existence. Atleast both of them were given names, names they would remember and take as their own. He was called Miklós, his baby sister on the other hand Ophelia. Already in his young years, Miklós cared deeply for his sister, giving her of his food, protecting her from the bullies in the orphanage, singing lullabies to her when the orphanage staff was too busy to care too much for the children, which they often were.

In 2000, at the age of 9, a man and a woman came, stating that they wanted to adopt children around the age of 8. Miklós, knowing full well that adoption meant a better life outside of the orphanage as well as that his sister was 8 years old, immediately sped to their room, informing her that she should head down, be one of the first children to "accidentally" cross their way. A plan that was completely successful as the pair chose Ophelia. However, they also asked if she had any siblings...and so he was found and adopted as well. It was the happiest moment of his life, thinking both he and his sister would be adopted into a better life.

How wrong he was became clear very, very quickly. Gagged and restrained shortly after being out of public sight, the children were treated like cargo as they were flown into the US. There, they would be brought to a secret Hydra facility and undergo cruel torture, training and brainwashing. And they would do so for years on end. Miklós, for whatever reason, was strong, both in body and mind. He refused to obey the instructors' orders and refused to learn or train. He was proving to be a difficult child and was thus trained separately from the others soon, as his resistance could be a dangerous spark of hope for those that would delay their own indoctrination. He was thoroughly beaten, harshly tortured and abused and when all of that did not bear fruit, Hydra resorted to brainwashing methods, dangerous as they were, to finally break him. For they could see in his stubborn resistance that once turned, he would make a highly valuable asset.

Alas, the time ran out for Hydra before it ran out for Miklós. In 2008 the facility was attacked, the Hydra staff eliminated. Due to a plan hatched by his sister, he was liberated by her and a bunch of other cadets before being rescued by the non-Hydra Forces. Now while she went onto the screens of the world's TVs, exposing Hydra for what it had done to them, Miklós was badly damaged in body and mind and was brought into a hospital for 9 months and once hospital staff allowed him to go free, he had to go to a therapist for 3 months...and then he was tossed out into the world with no one but his sister by his side, no socialisation and no idea how the world worked.

It didn't take long for him to see the ghosts of his past again and again, everywhere around him. His sister tried comforting him, tried helping him, looked for therapists and the like but she did not have the money to pay for them. He knew she started modelling for their sake and it made him sick to the core to know that his sister was forced to sell her body for his sake. And when he looked into the mirror one morning and turned to the side a Little, revealin the Hydra symbol on his back, his PTSD kicked in. He was sick of Hydra, he blamed Hydra for everything that had happened...and he was right. Still, his reaction was probably extreme as he hurried into the small kitchen to get the biggest kitchen knife they had as well as kitchen towel to gag himself with. And then he carved the Hydra Tattoo out of his own back, skinning himself, hurting himself. The pain was terrible...but he had endured worse under Hydra. Problem was that Hydra had usually also always administered drugs or whatnot to keep him conscious or alife. He had no such things so he passed out after finally having cut the tentacled skull out of his back and would've bled out if his sister hadn't come home early.

He was brought back to the hospital. Then later he went to a therapist on demand of his sister who just handed him handfuls of cash to pay for it. He wondered where she got the money from or how she had paid for his medical bills. He found out just a year later. And it disgusted him even more. His sister was using the skills Hydra had given them and working as killer, snuffing out innocent lives for money. They had a long argument about it and the end of which they both screamed at each other. They wouldn't talk with each other for another month and Miklós refused to visit the therapist. He didn't want to use any more of this blood money than possible.

As time went on, his thoughts started circulating around one thing. The one thing he blamed for all of this. For his torment, that continued to this day. For his sister's activity as a mercenary. For their poor Status. For why they were arguing with each other. For so many other reasons. Hydra became his sworn enemy. Hydra and all others who would dare to try and ruin the lives of people. He would not stand for even just one more life being ruined like theirs had. Not one single life. And so he thought about how to get back at them.

Superheroes were common at the time. The "Future Foundation" was created at the time, bringing superheroes, especcially young ones, a bit more into public view again. And it made pling in Miklós' brain. He would become a hero. A hero battling crime and helping people. He just needed a secret identity and a costume. The skills necessary were already at his disposal. And so he started tinkering, tinkering around on a costume and equipment. He took his sister's money, reasoning that it would be good to use this blood money to fund good like he would do in the future. He, having slacked off ever since they were freed from Hydra's grasp, started training his body even more in gyms, trying to get it back up to standards. Sometime inbetween his sister found a more secure and even better paid job at A.R.E.S., something he had much less qualms with. It was good that she was doing honest work now. Despite that though, their relationship remained cool.

In 2018 he started his career as a superhero, calling himself Ivanhoe, after the name of the protagonist in the novel of the same name. He had been greatly inspired by the comraderie and knightly behaviour within the book when he had read and had decided to follow into the righteous footsteps of the Knight. Though he decided to don a White armour instead of black, since black brought up pretty bad memories. He's been a semi-successful superhero ever since, battling it out with petty criminals for the most part. He avoided the bigger heists, mostly because the police was there quicker than he could take care of the situation and one of his first acts, stopping a bank robbery, had nearly ended with him getting murdered by overeager policemen.

His sister obviously noticed and, probably as some form of sweet revenge, was chewing off his ear, asking him to quit it due to the danger to himself and perhaps even her if his identity was found out. She reasoned that his crusade of revenge against Hydra was meaningless because he was too late, Hydra having been long destroyed. But despite all of that, he still loves her very much. But regardless of his love, he has to continue his mission, his crusade againt the Forces of evil.
Powers/Weapons/Tech:
-Extremely High Pain Treshold (doesn't make wounds have no effect, just not noticing the effect till it activelly inhibits bodily functions)
-Homemade Knight Armour No. 8: A self-made armour set made from kevlar plates, plastics, steel etc. with a few built in goodies, like Isolation from strong electricity, some cold protection, various scanning viewmodes in the helmet, built in radio.
-Several C4 explosives
-VHS-2 rifle
-Desert Eagle
-Sawblade Knife
Weaknesses:
-PTSD: Due to his extensive time under Hydra's heel and the extensive physical and psychological torment he underwent, Ivanhoe in White suffers from PTSD. He will occasionaly be found in states of extreme depression. The sight of some things he can connect to his time in captivity may also cause immediate seizures or violent reactions.
-Hydra Commands: As an especcially difficult to handle cadet, brainwashing has been used on Ivanhoe in various cases, imprinting several Hydra commands within his mind which he doesn't know about. These can range to a wide variety of things, such like making him space out, lose memories, or whatever. Much of the Information to his file had been lost when the Training facility fell in 2008 but some may have survived.
Skills:
-Skilled martial Artist
-Skilled with firearms and explosives
RP Examples: viewtopic.php?p=32546237#p32546237
Extra Information
Day Job: Parasite living off his sister's money
Living place: Queens, Ridgewood
Did you read the rules? Yes

[Zamon Cor]

Is it alright if I give my guy weaponry that is basically like futuristic versions of 18th-century weaponry? You know, things like laser guns that look like flintlock pistols and a plasma sword? He would've gotten these from a former Stark Labs or Hammer employee.

[Atkemri]

Is it alright if I give my guy weaponry that is basically like futuristic versions of 18th-century weaponry? You know, things like laser guns that look like flintlock pistols and a plasma sword? He would've gotten these from a former Stark Labs or Hammer employee.

Yes, it is

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

You are banned, Christian. I believe we went over this in the last thread.

Yes, pls don’t let him sabotage this one as well

I feel that it was more the mass inactivity spike from the players that caused the death of the RP, if anything Christian was trying to keep it alive

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Is it alright if I give my guy weaponry that is basically like futuristic versions of 18th-century weaponry? You know, things like laser guns that look like flintlock pistols and a plasma sword? He would've gotten these from a former Stark Labs or Hammer employee.

Sounds like Treasure Planet

[Union Princes]

In terms of villains (I didn't click the link someone left at the beginning yet) we actually mainly have two terrorist orgs and their multiple charas.

A few unaffiliated villains are always helpful.

Besides...Maybe I'm getting it wrong, it has been a week or two or three since I read the prior IC but Maria was that infiltration specialist in Fisk's employ, right? The one who then later got all cozy with Peter?

It was neither. Maria is affiliated my own Faction ULTRA

[Remnants of Exilvania]

In terms of villains (I didn't click the link someone left at the beginning yet) we actually mainly have two terrorist orgs and their multiple charas.

A few unaffiliated villains are always helpful.

Besides...Maybe I'm getting it wrong, it has been a week or two or three since I read the prior IC but Maria was that infiltration specialist in Fisk's employ, right? The one who then later got all cozy with Peter?

It was neither. Maria is affiliated my own Faction ULTRA

Oof. Embarrassing for me. That's what happens if I binge a long IC.