Twilight of the Gods: A Metahuman RP (OOC)

[Britanania]

IC is live

[Naval Monte]

IC is live

[Pragia]

Brit, if you need any content of my post changed, I can do that, I'm just filling in blanks and fluff. Once we have a disc i can spitfire questions before posting.

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

So I drafted a plan inspired by Nazi atrocities in Poland, and by gods that is a sentence I never thought I'd ever have the occasion to say.

[Britanania]

So I drafted a plan inspired by Nazi atrocities in Poland, and by gods that is a sentence I never thought I'd ever have the occasion to say.

lol, yeah, he started giving a speech before everyone got there and before the meeting technically started xD

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

lol, yeah, he started giving a speech before everyone got there and before the meeting technically started xD

eh just consider the speech postdated to after the meeting starting. :p It's not necessarily desirable to hold up the IC while we wait for everyone to make their introduction posts.

[Britanania]

lol, yeah, he started giving a speech before everyone got there and before the meeting technically started xD

eh just consider the speech postdated to after the meeting starting. It's not necessarily desirable to hold up the IC while we wait for everyone to make their introduction posts.

No but I did want a few people to post before we jumped into it.

[Britanania]

lol, yeah, he started giving a speech before everyone got there and before the meeting technically started xD

eh just consider the speech postdated to after the meeting starting. It's not necessarily desirable to hold up the IC while we wait for everyone to make their introduction posts.

We'll consider his proposal after selecting the commander.

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

We'll consider his proposal after selecting the commander.

Alright; in the interests of not breaking the flow of the Conference, I've taken down the speech portion of my IC post for now; I'll repost it when we get to it.

[Britanania]

We'll consider his proposal after selecting the commander.

Alright; in the interests of not breaking the flow of the Conference, I've taken down the speech portion of my IC post for now; I'll repost it when we get to it.

Okay, sorry for that, although my boy can still speak on whom he believes ought to lead. I'm sure he has an opinion

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

Okay, sorry for that, although my boy can still speak on whom he believes ought to lead. I'm sure he has an opinion

As long as whoever it is isn't completely incompetent, Raynor's willing to back whoever's willing to promise him favours. :p

[Britanania]

Okay, sorry for that, although my boy can still speak on whom he believes ought to lead. I'm sure he has an opinion

As long as whoever it is isn't completely incompetent, Raynor's willing to back whoever's willing to promise him favours.

lol fair.

[Tarnen]

Gonna put an app later today.

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

want to reserve space for a south great house in east/south africa

[CoraSpia]

Alright; in the interests of not breaking the flow of the Conference, I've taken down the speech portion of my IC post for now; I'll repost it when we get to it.

Okay, sorry for that, although my boy can still speak on whom he believes ought to lead. I'm sure he has an opinion

Clearly Josiah doing a hivemind act.

[CoraSpia]

Name: Amelia Kelvin
Alias:Snow Queen (favourable)/The Ice bitch (unfavourable)/Imposter (to purists)
Alignment: resistance
Age: 34
Appearance: Amelia is tall for a woman at 5 ft 9, however she would not be considered a giant by any stretch. She is classically beautiful with proud features, a slender but muscular form, long auburn hair and somewhat dreamy-looking brown eyes.
Additional physical features:
Personality: A woman who loves to be the centre of attention, Amelia is unafraid to speak her mind even in the presence of more powerful and highly-placed metas. She is clearly dedicated to the cause of maximising personal freedom as she often shows, however she has the sense not to advocate for her real motives in places where they would be unwelcome. She is often disliked for being extremely loud and enthusiastic about almost everything she speaks on, however at least in North America she is widely respected for her military and planning skills. She loves to cook as well as to invite people to sample her expansive hospitality, as well as to listen to her passable poetry readings. She is absolutely unconcerned with the contempt many hold her in for only gaining her powers because of proven techniques as well as for the fact that without her technological enhancements she would be just another human.
Abilities:
- Enhanced strength and speed: Due to her cybernetic enhancements, Amelia is able to access levels of strength and speed at around 10 times peak human.
- Cryokinesis: Despite this, Amelia's main power is her ability to manipulate both ice and cold. Through the fusing of her body with a magical object, she is linked inseparably with an ancient, long-forgotten magical spirit of ice and cold. Even her presence in a room is known to lower the temperature by a few degrees, and she has the power to create instant flash freezes, freeze objects to an ice-like state, use any moisture in her environment to create ice-based projectiles and in some cases even to completely freeze people.
Biography: Growing up in the slums of downtown Kingston was hard for an ordinary young girl with no political connections and no older sibling to protect her, but that's exactly how Amelia spent her formative years. She grew up as one of the many street children trying to make a living in Kingston, begging for her food or running drugs for far older youths on the outside of the city's many gangs.
At the age of 7 however, she was picked up by one of the few charitable organisations that served the city's underserved slums and taken from her often alcohol-dependant parents as one of the lucky few who gained a scholarship to one of the many boarding schools for the children of her country's elite.

Amelia spent the night of December 31, 1999 at a friends house drinking soda and laughing like many young teens around her. The only remarkable thing that happened to her on that night was the fact that the friend's mother, after a few drinks herself, allowed her to have a few cans of beer. When she awoke the next day, very little changed until Jamaica's new metahuman rulers arrived. The Brathwaite family's strategy to bring a new golden age to Jamaica was to institute harsh military crackdowns against the drug lords and the citizens that sheltered and assisted them.

To say that things did not go well for the Brathwaite family was an incredible understatement. Being relatively weak metahumans with little interest in military planning they quickly got bogged down, faced by the famous wall of silence in the slums. The new Jamaican drug war very quickly devolved into house to house combat, which led to the military being unprepared when a few former US navy ships deposited large numbers of Juliana Kelvin's troops on the shore. The battle for Jamaica was a short one, mainly because its leaders fled rather than defend their countrymen against a more powerful force. It was through fire then, rather than negotiation that Jamaica became a Kelvin holding.

As Juliana's government began to systematically weed out corruption and to deal with the drug problem through legalisation and small amounts of regulation, the crime rate began to drop steadily. Her social policies massively helped the poorest in society, and overall this foreign leader became relatively popular even as many in society remained sceptical.

Life really began looking up the day Amelia landed in America for the first time in order to study political science at the University of Texas at Austin, a place she was able to make real connections thanks to Juliana's transformation of that city into America's secondary capital. She was also noted for her analytical and reasoning skills by her professors, and went quite far in what was her quest at the time: to become a member in the human government that served under Juliana.
Her quest was somewhat changed however when in a music bar she was stopped by a cute freshman with an overbearing mother who had refused to provide him with fake ID even though she really could as she was 'in government.' Would Amelia buy him a drink? Of course she would: the drink turned to dancing, the dancing to talking all night. The talking led to more nights, those nights led to something altogether more passionate. Those passionate acts led to the start of a real love affair between Gabriel Kelvin and Amelia Brown.
Gabriel was warned by his mother that him dating a regular human would not go down well with the dynastic congress, however the younger metahuman, a man with some of the most advanced technological powers ever seen, had very little concern. If it was really so much of an issue to the other great lords...there were ways of fixing it.

And so began Gabriel's only period of dishonesty with Amelia. Not that she would become a metahuman, but that Gabriel was entirely confident that what he was about to do was safe. He wasn't and he couldn't pretend to be very well: not only would Amelia gain enhanced speed and strength from the usual augmentations that the Americans were very good at creating however she would also be fused with one of the magical artifacts that had been held by the former government's paranormal research department for well over 50 years. When it was done, Amelia was linked to one of the ancient magical spirits that existed within the Earth, able to channel pure cold and ice at will.
Additional information: Amelia is not officially a member of the resistance, however holds views that are directly aligned with them. She is married to Gabriel Kelvin and is the supreme commander of North American Union forces.

[Britanania]

Name: Ilona Líszt
Alias: The tall Woman
Alignment: Resistance
Age: 42
Appearance: Big tall
Additional physical features: 2,30 m tall.
Personality: Utterly aloof, uncaring, cynical and ruthless, the only thing sometimes cracking her aloof shell is a streak of sadism, of glee at the pain and destruction of others.
Abilities: Líszt is the commander of the Neuschwabenland Division of the Resistance and has shown a surprising amount of skill in keeping all of her rather...colourful underlings under control and focused on their tasks. She has also long trained and steeled her body, practicing several martial arts and general combat moves and weapons handling from war veterans housed in her base.
Biography: Ilona Líszt was born as an ethnic Hungarian in the Austrian Burgenland to a family with a long history of working for the Austrians. Wether it was as mercenaries against the Protestants or Turks, as soldiers against the Prussians, as intelligence officers of the k.u.k. Evidenzbüro against the Entente, as members of the RSHA against the Allies and finally as members of the Stapo.

Ilona's future was looking different. Having been in a rebellious phase, she had joined with nationalist hungarians and espoused revanchist rhetoric and the threat of moving to Hungary and becoming a journalist uncovering dirty secret service affairs instead. Much to the chagrin of her parents, who, at the time, couldn't devote much time or effort to setting her daughter straight, following leads that could very well blow Columbia's and Hammer's entire operation.

It was on the eve of the new year's coming that Ilona broke up with her ultranationalist hungarian boyfriend after he attempted to rape her and returned back home in tears, ready to seek the loving embrace of her parents again. Suffice to say, they weren't there, leaving Ilona to stew in her own tears and misery.

Yet when the morning and the new year came, a broadcast informed her of the terrible news. The metahumans had taken over the world. Aside from recoiling at the news like any sane person without superpowers, Ilona immediately set out to the Stapo offices she knew her parents worked in...just to find a bloodbath. In the metahumans' takeover it too had been liquidated. Still, it took her several additional days to find out that her parents were well and truly dead, having refused to bow down to the terrorists who now ruled the world.

She spent another week vegetating in her parents' house as the metahumans tightened their grip on the world. Yet to her it didn't matter, the whirlpool of emotions she was going through kept her uncaring. The week, multiple unsuccessful suicide attempts and a homicide of someone coming to check up on her later, Ilona took supplies and everything of value, set fire to her home and then set out into the countryside.

Eventually, through many backchannels and the like, the Hungarian would find herself in Australia where she entered into military service with the Resistance, proving herself to be a loyal but...questionable moral soldier and later commander.

Eventually she'd be commanded to take charge of a newly joined Resistance cell. Said resistance cell turned out to be a rather...eclectic bunch of individuals with an equally eclectic bunch of means and expertise at their disposal. And while a headache to manage at first, Ilona quickly found perks in her new position and formed a sort of militarized research cell away from the target that was Australia, safe and sound in case of a new metahuman offensive.

As of late the research of said cell has concentrated on something one of the most influential scientists on the base, one Dr. Abraham Tannenbaum, propagates as a humane way of saving the world and returning it to its previous state. That being a cure for metahumanity that is supposed to return everyone to being baseline humans. So far there have been serious issues with distribution methods and uhm, well, all subjects died gruesomely within a timespan of 48 hours but Dr. Tannenbaum is wholly convinced of his project's future success.

Others, in a less saviour-esque mindset such as Ilona herself however are focusing their thoughts on different ideas, ideas on how to wipe out the metahuman scourge...and likely humanity along with it.
Additional information: Leader of an extremist subdivision of the Resistance headquartered in...*cough* most certainly not Australia.

Ilona is accepted

[Britanania]

After some deliberation and consolation, and going on my own intentions, when the Metahuman Dynasties launched their Coup, Hammer and Columbia dictated that the global nuclear arsenal would be destroyed and enforced by the Congress--Sergei for instance can absorb radiation. So as of the final takeover circa 2005, there are no nukes on Earth. Of course, Hammer and Columbia have their reasons for hating nukes, being symbols of the Old Order, and the practical reason is to prevent nuclear war or them falling into Resistance hands. That said, nuclear energy is still allowed and while it is certainly illegal, it's possible more weapons were manufactured illegally and secretly--but if this were found out, the punishments would be severe

[Tarnen]

[b]Name: Alfonso Cortes
Alias: The Shadow
Alignment: Neutral
Age:28
Appearance:

Additional physical features:

Allows him to become invisible due to his tech advance suit, but only when still

Personality: Although in field work his personality can change to fit what he needs to do, he has been described as a loner. Tends to keep to himself, and can come off as cold and heartless
Abilities: Alfonso is possibly one of the most powerful telekinetic on the planet, he can easily lift 3 regular size cars with little effort. His reach extends to anything with in a 20ft diameter, as long as he can see it with his eyes he can manipulate it. He can create a telekinetic shield in front of him allow him defense again smaller projectiles like bullets but larger objects require more concentration. He can fine control people able to move their limbs and actions although some with stronger wills can resist and possible even break it.
Biography:Alfonso was born to Liliana Cortes and the then Prince Carlos of Spain. His father was a bit of a playboy and tended to peruse the Spanish clubs to find another notch under his belt. One of these club he found Liliana Cortes a simple university student with big dreams. What was meant to be a one night stand became a nightmare for the Prince. A child was produced of that one night, Carlos knew that this would be a disaster for the Crown and decided to pay off Liliana to keep quiet but she refused. Over the course of several years she would be in the news and papers telling of her royal son, and the man that refused to acknowledge him. Carlos decided enough was enough and decided to make Liliana and her son disappear, thing did not go according to plan as Alfonse managed to survived the attack while his mother did not.

For years he was on the run, managing to stay one step ahead of his father, eventually getting recruited by the Shadow Organization only known as Eclipse, in exchange for doing their work Carlos would not be able to harm him. He proved to be a valuable asset to Eclipse, and making a name for himself simply known as the Shadow as most of his targets that would be the last thing they saw. Eventually Alfonso was allow to work freelancing, though ultimately his allegiance belongs to Eclipse, as long as his work did not interfere with the 'Status Quo' as Eclipse refers to the state of the current world.

Additional information:

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[b]Family name: The House of Reyes
Dynastic head: King (Carlos) Charles VI of Spain and Portugal
Other members: Infante Juan (Son), Infanta Isabella (Daughter), Alfonso Cortes (Illegitimate Son)
Territorial claim: Spain and Portugal
Political philosophy: Constitutional Monarchy
Brief history: Towards the end of the Franco Regime he nominated a monarch to be name as his successor. It was Carlos's father Luis was named as his successor, though rumors say that a metahuman planted the idea in his head as Juan was not direct descendent of Alfonso XIII, the last reigning King of Spain, but rather of Charles IV's son Carlos' family line.

Luis's reign as monarch was a benevolent one, working to reverse much of the damage that Franco had done to the Spanish. He was known as the Good King, increasing citizen's rights and and liberties and several reforms through Spain's parliament at the behest of the King.

On the last day of the year 1999, Luis abdicated the Spanish throne leaving Carlos to assume it the very next day at the start of the new millennium. Many questioned the sudden abdication, and Carlos' rule was the opposite of his father. He tighten his grip on power, lessen citizen's rights and freedoms, but this was done after he craft a cult of personality for himself for several years. Citizens have grown restless at least the ones that brave enough to voice their opinion to the Tyrant as they taking to call their king.


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[b]Name: Carlos Luis Francisco Ferdinand
Alias:The Wolf (El Lobo), His Majesty
Alignment: Dynastic
Age:52
Appearance:

Additional physical features: Walks with a limp
Personality: Known for his explosive outbursts, he is a man that demands respect from those who are under him. He seeing himself as a natural born leader, but he has a sadistic streak in him.
Abilities: Vocal Persuasion - By just the use of his voice he can command people to do whatever he want. Though his power has limits, at most it can control up to 20 people, any more and the commands won't stick as well. Also those that have strong wills and telepaths can resist his voice. He can't compel people to do things they cannot fulfill, such as walking through a wall.
Biography: Carlos was born to the future King Luis II a few years before his father ascended to the Spanish throne. He was the first born out of three siblings, and from a young age he was taught to be the next in line after his father. Though he found himself escaping the rigors of royalty into various parties and clubs, sleeping with any woman that looked his way. And of course one night sleep with one who ends up with a son, of course this would look bad for him family he tried to silence her though word that it ended up a failure as some how the son managed to escape those that Carlos had sent after him.

But he persisted through any means to close that wild chapter of his life. He began to take more and more responsibility, as his father was slowly taught to give his heir more and more responsibility. Though many do not know it was him who persuaded his father to eventually abdicate on the last day of 1999. From the he ran Spain with a iron fist, silence those that would pose a threat to his power. He hopes to become a permanent member of the High Council if by any means.
Additional information:

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

Name: Anastasia Khilkov
Alias: The Project, Medveditsa, Anya, Odile
Alignment: The NUSSR
Age: Biologically 78, Mentally 25
Appearance:

Additional physical features: Anya stands at about 6'4". A thin scar runs over the right side of her lips.

Personality: Anya is a passionate person. She is never one to keep her mouth shut about what she believes is right and wrong and is always willing to come to blows for it. Her case files describe her as "Indomitable" and "Stubborn as a Mule". She is almost undyingly loyal to the causes and people she believes in, but whatever god may exist in this cruel world help them if they double cross her.

Abilities:
Superhuman Physiology- Anya's body has above human durability and peak human strength and speed. She can tank shots from most infantry level fire arms, though higher powered sniper rifles will bruise her quite badly and she will be quite damaged from artillery and tank shells. In addition, she has above human stamina, meaning she can continue to move and lift at peak human levels for a great deal longer than a person who just possesses said strength and speed.

Energy Manipulation- Anya's primary power is her ability of Energy Manipulation. Anya can harness and manipulate different forms of energy. She has just begun to tap into this power, using it mostly to store and release kinetic energy to be able tank blasts far stronger than her body normally would be able to and to augment her strength with it. However, she has begun pushing the power to include the manipulation of plasma's like fire. In theory she may even be able to control things such as gamma rays and light given enough practice, or even possibly create energy.

Biography: Anastasia Khilkova was born in 1942, in a tent in an army command camp near Moscow. Her father was a somewhat high ranking officer under Field Marshall Zhukov, with whom had a close personal friendship. Anya's first few years of life were spent shuttling around command camps as the army pushed further into Germany, before the war eventually ended. Her father initially occupied a position within Occupied Germany, but was quickly reassigned back to Moscow, where he worked first under Zhukov, and then directly under Stalin following Zhukov's dimissal for popularity reasons. It was in this role that General Khilkov made a powerful enemy in Lavrentiy Beria.

Beria, cunning as always, did not strike right away. Instead, the Georgian bided his time, waiting for the opportune moment to take his vengeance. Following the death of Stalin, as well as the following rise and then ousting of Nikita Kruschev, Beria waited, staying on the good sides of both the now in command Premier Zhukov and First Secretary Malenkov. Anya meanwhile grew up among the children of influential Soviets within Moscow. She practiced ballet and piano, she was educated among the best in the communist system, and she enjoyed a comfortable life, despite the paranoia present in the post-Stalin years.

Then, in 1957, shortly after Anya's 15th birthday, Beria took his vengeance upon her family. In the dark of the night, NKVD officers stole Anya away from her family's Dacha while her parents attended an orchestra concert with the Premier. From Moscow, Anya was smuggled to the far edges of European Russia, to a NKVD base near the city of Magnitogorsk. There she was introduced Vladmir Efroimson, a geneticist and the head of the NKVD's secret metahuman program, seperate from the Red Army's now quite costly program being led and misguided by Trofim Lysenko. Efroimson was tasked with recreating Hammer on subjects that were subjected to NKVD propoganda and training, which Anya was now indoctrinated into. The young woman struggled at first, but soon learned that to survive, she could not actively resist her captors at every turn. Soon though, she had trouble distinguishing what exactly she disagreed with her NKVD instructors on and by her sixth year in the program, she was as loyal a pawn as any of her other captives.

Despite Efroimson's experiments finding success with Anya, she did not recieve the same powers as Hammer. Rather, she merely reached peak human levels. Still, her powers seemed to develop more slowly than the other Metas developed by the program, and therefore she was not moved to another NKVD training program. By 1964, things had changed significantly. Beria had by this time been purged by Zhukov, and the NKVD, while not dissovled, was beginning to compartmentalize several of it's more secretive dealings. This was also around the time that Anya's energy manipulation began to manifest. Anya was therefore deployed on several black ops missions to slash and burn any operations her handelers no longer had use for. Americans, the Red Army, ODESSA, she fought them all. Then, in 1967, the NKVD itself was forced to dissolve. In order to preserve it's metahuman assets past when they could be actively used again, the remaining commanders ordered Anya and her compatriots to be stored in an experimental cryogenics facility. Anya watched the world go black as she was put under...

And return to light as she was revived, staring at a man she had seen before only in propoganda leaflets. Sergei, the Red Star, who was tracing a rogue radiation leak and found the long since abandoned facility. Anya's pod was the only one that survived the test of time. The rest of the frozen metas were long since dead. Anya left the facility for a much changed world, one where man was subjected to tyranny from the same metahumans who once defended it. One that Sergei told Anya he intended to at least reform. This was a cause she could work towards while she reacclimatized to the world. Anya agreed, and for the past year has been serving as Sergei's protege.
Additional information: None yet.

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Family name: The New Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Dynastic head: Sergei Zhakarov, First Citizen of the Union
Other members:Anya Khilkova, Sergei’s new protege
Mikhail Popov, Second in Command
Yuri Semenov, Leader of the Hardline Metas
Territorial claim: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Political philosophy: Hardline communist, but with much individual liberty in matters not involved in government
Brief history: (See Sergei's history for post Millenium history, will be covering general alt history stuff here until then)

Following the introduction of Metahumans, the power dynamics in the post-war Soviet government shift. Following the death of Stalin, Kruschev still seizes power, but finds himself in a much more precarious position than in OTL and is quickly couped by Zhukov and Malenkov in 1954. Zhukov and Malenkov solidify their hold on power, which includes Beria and Molotov at first. Beria is purged at the behest of Malenkov in 1964, which is played by Zhukov to allow him to force out Malenkov entirely and consolidate his control over both the military and the Premiership, becoming the sole dictator of the Union. As a result, De-Stalinification never occurs and mainstream Soviet politics remain much more authoritarian than in OTL. The Soviet Space program continues despite Apollo's success, and in 1971 Yuri Gagarin became the 9th man to walk on the moon, and the first non-american. Following Zhukov's death, a military duopoly between Leonid Brezhnev and Viktor Kulikov forms. This government remains in power, with Dmitry Yazov succeeding Brezhnev's post following the latter's death, until the Millenium Coup, where Sergei, who had held the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union but had never utilized it until that point, quietly couped the duopoly, and made minor legal changes to establish his new position as First Citizen.

[Europa Undivided]

Name: Agustin Salazar Gamarra
Alias: The Black Sheep (formerly), the Silent Fury
Alignment: Resistance; former dynasty
Age: 28
Appearance:

With mask and costume

His true face
Additional physical features: Rather compact at 5'7" and has heterochromia, with his eyes being brown and grey.
Personality:

Calm and methodical, Agustin seems to lack emotion on the outside, as shown by his usual neutral expressions. Inside, however, he is haunted by past memories and recurring nightmares. He does his best to shut out the terror, but it is always there, watching for the slightest mistake to remind him of what he was slated to be by his own dynastic family: a failure.

In Agustin's mind, the proper state of metahumans is to defend those who cannot lift mountains and boil oceans; in essence, what metahumans once did before the entire dynastic plot roused its ugly head on that fateful day. For him, for a new world to dawn, the old system must be cleansed, the oppressors thrown down and destroyed with extreme abhorrence. It is indeed difficult to imagine that this metahuman has such an ingrained dislike of his own kind, but it must be remembered that he was seen as a disgrace, and was pushed to the breaking point.

For all of this, Agustin deeply values human life. Should another meta gloat about the apparent weakness of mundane humans in his presence, there will surely be dire consequences. The first person that ever gave him a sense of belonging and worth was a mundane, and he has sent firsthand what kind of barbaric cruelty the lords of this world now impose.

Abilities:

Energy Projection: Agustin is a living energy conduit, drawing eldritch energies from a parallel dimension. This energy has a wide variety of uses. It can be used as what is essentially a blast of lightning, causing destruction that scales with energy consumption. It ranges from a slight sting to someone's skin to a destructive firestorm that levels up to three building stories in an instant. He is able to vaguely manipulate the shape this energy takes, allowing him to curve his blasts to prevent friendly fire.

Another usage of this ability is the empowerment of weaponry; as such, he uses it to turn a specially crafted sword into a devastating weapon that can slice through armor plating with ease.

Space Warping: He can rip open wormholes in spacetime, allowing almost instantaneous travel through long distances. This ability is limited by the fact that he needs to either visualize or see where he is going; the former can be achieved through up to date photographs or memory of target locations, and the latter could either be achieved by line of sight or live footage. Distance scales with energy consumption, with a maximum limit of 400 miles before the incurred fatigue becomes life threatening.

Agustin is also able to teleport within a distance of four meters, up to four times a minute.

Precognition: Agustin is able to see incoming dangers and attacks between four seconds and 1 second before they land, usually giving him ample time to react. However, this can be easily overwhelmed with sheer numbers, or with excessive amounts of stimuli, the latter of which disrupts his focus.

Cloaking: By warping space around him, Agustin disrupts light waves, rendering himself invisible and anything on his person for up to ten seconds at a time.

Durability: While he cannot deflect space beams and nuclear detonations, Agustin is still more durable than a normal human. He deflects small arms fire and sharp, mundane weapons such as knives and axes.

Biography: Agustin Gamarra hails from one of the metahuman vassal families that ruled over what used to be the Philippines. The Gamarras in particular lorded over a portion of the Cagayan Valley, where they looked down literally and metaphysically on the laborers that toiled in the lands. While many of the lords in the South East Asian region were known to be benevolent to their constituents, the Gamarras were bloodthirsty mongrels and dictators. Leo Gamarra, their patriarch, took the bloodthirst to a literal light, as he often had the temptation to drink blood. Thick was the pile of skeletons deep within the catacombs, where every single person whose lifeblood was mostly sucked away by the deranged Gamarra patriarch had been simply thrown away to be devoured by lions and whatever other exotic pets these crazed dictators had. For this reason he was called the Vampire of Cagayan.

Agustin was the oldest of three, but he never picked up the madness of his father, or the cold, calculating cruelty of his mother. The reason for this was that he had been all but cast out of the household, his pesky inability to control his own energy projection rendering him a disgrace in their oh-so-perfect eyes. He was always told that his younger brother and sister weren't just going to be better than him; they were better.

To complicate matters even further, Agustin, in his desire to have someone in his life that wasn't a psychopath, had grown close with a servant boy, whom he bonded over in the library. None of his power obsessed siblings bothered going there, so that was where he spent most of his days as a child and teenager, speaking only to the serf whose sole purpose for existence was to clean.

Agustin wasn't completely ignored, though. He was brought to North America at an age of 23, and would then be forcibly cybernetically 'enhanced'. His right hand was replaced by an unfeeling machine prosthetic designed to forcibly draw upon his eldritch energies through a network of nanomachines and spinal implants. The problem here was that each time it channeled energy, it was mind numbingly painful. Again and again he would be forced to use this damned piece of machinery to, as they said, 'be useful'.

He couldn't even fly like them.

Soon after that, Agustin was given the starkest choice: kill this library serf with a blast of energy, or be forever cut off from all the riches of their clan and from all the other metahuman families. He will be, as a still blood drunken Leo said, 'persona non grata'.

He had been numbed to the pain of the cybernetic hand. But this? This was far too much. He flatly refused, and his pyrokinetic sister then incinerated the serf anyway. All that was left of his only friend were ashes.

After what seemed to be an eternity, Agustin lashed out in a fit of white hot rage, a break from his usual quiet persona. In that moment, the pain of wielding his powers faded, replaced by this insatiable fury. In an instant, the mansion was completely demolished, and the Gamarra family assumed to all be dead. Unknown to all, though, Agustin Gamarra had escaped, teleporting away from the ash covered terrace to the plantations below. Before he made his way to Australia and the Resistance, though, he stole away the Terminus Est, the blade that his magical mother once wielded. He would, as he would always, cleanse the darkness from this world through the only way it can end: death.

Ever since being inducted into the Resistance with the alias of the Silent Fury, Agustin has been seen as an agent of bloody revenge. Those deranged lords he could kill, he kills with absolute abhorrence. He has never gone to missions without a mask, and to this day, his identity remains unknown outside the Resistance, as most believe that he too had died when the Vampire of Cagayan had died along with the Pyrophant, the Ebon Witch, and the Bloodletter.

Some know better.

Additional information:

He wields the Terminus Est, an ancestral dynastic blade infused with eldritch energies.

Some know him as 'Iron Fist', though he hates that name.

He is actually skilled in cooking.

Occasionally, Resistance members would hear pitiful sobbing from within his quarters.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Name: Albert Maximovich Kronsteyn
Alias: -
Alignment: Resistance
Age: 26
Appearance: This charming guy
Additional physical features: 1,90 m tall and weighing 90 kg.
Personality: A calm and collected professional on the exterior, hiding a deeply scarred and hurt interior. A man who fears and hates metahumans with a passion rivaled only by his ability to hide it.
Abilities: A highly trained resistance operative, skilled in martial arts, general melee combat and the handling of a variety of firearms and explosives. He's a skilled lone operative and small team commander with a penchant for surviving missions in the most inhospitable places all on his own.
Biography: Albert was born a few years before the Millennium War in Orenburg to a family of Russo-Germans. So far so good aside from Orenburg being a pretty bad place. Things...changed with the metahuman takeover. While his parents were Russo-Germans, they remembered the tales of their own grandparents and great grandparents well. Of a time when their family had still been living at the Black Sea. Of a time when the swastika reigned supreme across the continent of Europe. Their family back then had been taken over, eventually evacuated to Poland and then repatriated to the Soviet Union. Their brief brush with the Nazis gave the family a very lasting impression that they passed on to their children even though the communist government deported them to the edge of Siberia.

The "Overman" was bach. The superhuman destined to rule the lesser races. The idea behind the metahuman takeover rang alarm bells within Albert's parents' heads and they decided to leave the Soviet Union as quickly as possible. Their target? The Resistance, wherever it would be. They would go through the steppes, through Khazakstan and Persia before eventually managing to get aboard a ship in Kuwait and from there head straight towards Australia together with even more refugees trying to escape the metahumans.

But safety was not for them. A patrolling metahuman would attack and sink the ship in the Indian Ocean, eliminating all those traitors in one fell swoop. Well, not all of them as plenty survivors still drifted across the ocean, Albert among them. He was also one of the very few lucky ones, another refugee ship with a similar destination coming across him and taking the small boy aboard. He made it. He survived. But he was alone.

Albert would initially be taken into a refugee camp, plenty of which had to be set up quickly by the Australian Government to contend with the stream of refugees from all over the world. He was making friends there. A friendly old Georgian lady was taking care of him...and then the metahumans started with their constant bombing campaigns. His life was obliterated before his eyes, the new people he cared about died in a sea of flames. For the metahumans it was a simple act to keep the rest of the old world down, weak, beaten. For him and many others on the ground, their world went up in flames.

Refugee camps became untenable. As did much of normal civilization. Bunkers, spread out settlements and heavy anti air screen became the norm. Already at a very young age Albert got air raid drills drilled into him. Eventually he would join the military wing of the Resistance, undergoind training in which he exceeded his compatriots and being taken into a special forces program. There he eventually caught the eye of one Commander Ilona Líszt, a soulless woman who saw the seething hatred within him, the tool he was for her. Following that, he would be transferred under the command of the Neuschwabenland Division, engaging in clandestine operations and special missions for the hardliners, most often with the aim of brining in new metahuman test subjects.
Additional information:

[Britanania]

Name: Albert Maximovich Kronsteyn
Alias: -
Alignment: Resistance
Age: 26
Appearance: This charming guy
Additional physical features: 1,90 m tall and weighing 90 kg.
Personality: A calm and collected professional on the exterior, hiding a deeply scarred and hurt interior. A man who fears and hates metahumans with a passion rivaled only by his ability to hide it.
Abilities: A highly trained resistance operative, skilled in martial arts, general melee combat and the handling of a variety of firearms and explosives. He's a skilled lone operative and small team commander with a penchant for surviving missions in the most inhospitable places all on his own.
Biography: Albert was born a few years before the Millennium War in Orenburg to a family of Russo-Germans. So far so good aside from Orenburg being a pretty bad place. Things...changed with the metahuman takeover. While his parents were Russo-Germans, they remembered the tales of their own grandparents and great grandparents well. Of a time when their family had still been living at the Black Sea. Of a time when the swastika reigned supreme across the continent of Europe. Their family back then had been taken over, eventually evacuated to Poland and then repatriated to the Soviet Union. Their brief brush with the Nazis gave the family a very lasting impression that they passed on to their children even though the communist government deported them to the edge of Siberia.

The "Overman" was bach. The superhuman destined to rule the lesser races. The idea behind the metahuman takeover rang alarm bells within Albert's parents' heads and they decided to leave the Soviet Union as quickly as possible. Their target? The Resistance, wherever it would be. They would go through the steppes, through Khazakstan and Persia before eventually managing to get aboard a ship in Kuwait and from there head straight towards Australia together with even more refugees trying to escape the metahumans.

But safety was not for them. A patrolling metahuman would attack and sink the ship in the Indian Ocean, eliminating all those traitors in one fell swoop. Well, not all of them as plenty survivors still drifted across the ocean, Albert among them. He was also one of the very few lucky ones, another refugee ship with a similar destination coming across him and taking the small boy aboard. He made it. He survived. But he was alone.

Albert would initially be taken into a refugee camp, plenty of which had to be set up quickly by the Australian Government to contend with the stream of refugees from all over the world. He was making friends there. A friendly old Georgian lady was taking care of him...and then the metahumans started with their constant bombing campaigns. His life was obliterated before his eyes, the new people he cared about died in a sea of flames. For the metahumans it was a simple act to keep the rest of the old world down, weak, beaten. For him and many others on the ground, their world went up in flames.

Refugee camps became untenable. As did much of normal civilization. Bunkers, spread out settlements and heavy anti air screen became the norm. Already at a very young age Albert got air raid drills drilled into him. Eventually he would join the military wing of the Resistance, undergoind training in which he exceeded his compatriots and being taken into a special forces program. There he eventually caught the eye of one Commander Ilona Líszt, a soulless woman who saw the seething hatred within him, the tool he was for her. Following that, he would be transferred under the command of the Neuschwabenland Division, engaging in clandestine operations and special missions for the hardliners, most often with the aim of brining in new metahuman test subjects.
Additional information:

All right

[Britanania]

Name: Agustin Salazar Gamarra
Alias: The Black Sheep (formerly), the Silent Fury
Alignment: Resistance; former dynasty
Age: 28
Appearance:

With mask and costume

His true face
Additional physical features: Rather compact at 5'7" and has heterochromia, with his eyes being brown and grey.
Personality:

Calm and methodical, Agustin seems to lack emotion on the outside, as shown by his usual neutral expressions. Inside, however, he is haunted by past memories and recurring nightmares. He does his best to shut out the terror, but it is always there, watching for the slightest mistake to remind him of what he was slated to be by his own dynastic family: a failure.

In Agustin's mind, the proper state of metahumans is to defend those who cannot lift mountains and boil oceans; in essence, what metahumans once did before the entire dynastic plot roused its ugly head on that fateful day. For him, for a new world to dawn, the old system must be cleansed, the oppressors thrown down and destroyed with extreme abhorrence. It is indeed difficult to imagine that this metahuman has such an ingrained dislike of his own kind, but it must be remembered that he was seen as a disgrace, and was pushed to the breaking point.

For all of this, Agustin deeply values human life. Should another meta gloat about the apparent weakness of mundane humans in his presence, there will surely be dire consequences. The first person that ever gave him a sense of belonging and worth was a mundane, and he has sent firsthand what kind of barbaric cruelty the lords of this world now impose.

Abilities:

Energy Projection: Agustin is a living energy conduit, drawing eldritch energies from a parallel dimension. This energy has a wide variety of uses. It can be used as what is essentially a blast of lightning, causing destruction that scales with energy consumption. It ranges from a slight sting to someone's skin to a destructive firestorm that levels up to three building stories in an instant. He is able to vaguely manipulate the shape this energy takes, allowing him to curve his blasts to prevent friendly fire.

Another usage of this ability is the empowerment of weaponry; as such, he uses it to turn a specially crafted sword into a devastating weapon that can slice through armor plating with ease.

Space Warping: He can rip open wormholes in spacetime, allowing almost instantaneous travel through long distances. This ability is limited by the fact that he needs to either visualize or see where he is going; the former can be achieved through up to date photographs or memory of target locations, and the latter could either be achieved by line of sight or live footage. Distance scales with energy consumption, with a maximum limit of 400 miles before the incurred fatigue becomes life threatening.

Agustin is also able to teleport within a distance of four meters, up to four times a minute.

Precognition: Agustin is able to see incoming dangers and attacks between four seconds and 1 second before they land, usually giving him ample time to react. However, this can be easily overwhelmed with sheer numbers, or with excessive amounts of stimuli, the latter of which disrupts his focus.

Cloaking: By warping space around him, Agustin disrupts light waves, rendering himself invisible and anything on his person for up to ten seconds at a time.

Durability: While he cannot deflect space beams and nuclear detonations, Agustin is still more durable than a normal human. He deflects small arms fire and sharp, mundane weapons such as knives and axes.

Biography: Agustin Gamarra hails from one of the metahuman vassal families that ruled over what used to be the Philippines. The Gamarras in particular lorded over a portion of the Cagayan Valley, where they looked down literally and metaphysically on the laborers that toiled in the lands. While many of the lords in the South East Asian region were known to be benevolent to their constituents, the Gamarras were bloodthirsty mongrels and dictators. Leo Gamarra, their patriarch, took the bloodthirst to a literal light, as he often had the temptation to drink blood. Thick was the pile of skeletons deep within the catacombs, where every single person whose lifeblood was mostly sucked away by the deranged Gamarra patriarch had been simply thrown away to be devoured by lions and whatever other exotic pets these crazed dictators had. For this reason he was called the Vampire of Cagayan.

Agustin was the oldest of three, but he never picked up the madness of his father, or the cold, calculating cruelty of his mother. The reason for this was that he had been all but cast out of the household, his pesky inability to control his own energy projection rendering him a disgrace in their oh-so-perfect eyes. He was always told that his younger brother and sister weren't just going to be better than him; they were better.

To complicate matters even further, Agustin, in his desire to have someone in his life that wasn't a psychopath, had grown close with a servant boy, whom he bonded over in the library. None of his power obsessed siblings bothered going there, so that was where he spent most of his days as a child and teenager, speaking only to the serf whose sole purpose for existence was to clean.

Agustin wasn't completely ignored, though. He was brought to North America at an age of 23, and would then be forcibly cybernetically 'enhanced'. His right hand was replaced by an unfeeling machine prosthetic designed to forcibly draw upon his eldritch energies through a network of nanomachines and spinal implants. The problem here was that each time it channeled energy, it was mind numbingly painful. Again and again he would be forced to use this damned piece of machinery to, as they said, 'be useful'.

He couldn't even fly like them.

Soon after that, Agustin was given the starkest choice: kill this library serf with a blast of energy, or be forever cut off from all the riches of their clan and from all the other metahuman families. He will be, as a still blood drunken Leo said, 'persona non grata'.

He had been numbed to the pain of the cybernetic hand. But this? This was far too much. He flatly refused, and his pyrokinetic sister then incinerated the serf anyway. All that was left of his only friend were ashes.

After what seemed to be an eternity, Agustin lashed out in a fit of white hot rage, a break from his usual quiet persona. In that moment, the pain of wielding his powers faded, replaced by this insatiable fury. In an instant, the mansion was completely demolished, and the Gamarra family assumed to all be dead. Unknown to all, though, Agustin Gamarra had escaped, teleporting away from the ash covered terrace to the plantations below. Before he made his way to Australia and the Resistance, though, he stole away the Terminus Est, the blade that his magical mother once wielded. He would, as he would always, cleanse the darkness from this world through the only way it can end: death.

Ever since being inducted into the Resistance with the alias of the Silent Fury, Agustin has been seen as an agent of bloody revenge. Those deranged lords he could kill, he kills with absolute abhorrence. He has never gone to missions without a mask, and to this day, his identity remains unknown outside the Resistance, as most believe that he too had died when the Vampire of Cagayan had died along with the Pyrophant, the Ebon Witch, and the Bloodletter.

Some know better.

Additional information:

He wields the Terminus Est, an ancestral dynastic blade infused with eldritch energies.

Some know him as 'Iron Fist', though he hates that name.

He is actually skilled in cooking.

Occasionally, Resistance members would hear pitiful sobbing from within his quarters.

All right, he's good, and can start in the Resistance

[Strala]

Is Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Central China open? Would I be able to do something similar to the East Asian Metahuman? If not is the resistance only made of normal humans?