Mandicoria wrote:Just a quick question, would an outright nonhuman/alien character be allowed?
If it's a Superman situation, sure.
If it's an alien shipmaster coming to make peace with the humans, no.
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by Anowa » Wed May 06, 2020 9:31 pm
Mandicoria wrote:Just a quick question, would an outright nonhuman/alien character be allowed?
by Mandicoria » Wed May 06, 2020 9:34 pm
by Demencia » Wed May 06, 2020 9:37 pm
Revlona wrote:Updated
by Revlona » Wed May 06, 2020 9:40 pm
by Anowa » Wed May 06, 2020 9:44 pm
Revlona wrote:Powerful at close range, being 10-40 yards. When you start getting further away, 100-200 yards, it loses most of its explosive power but is still capable of setting things aflame depending on the material.
Revlona wrote:Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName: Henry Favros
Aliases: The Arsonist
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Appearance:
MotivationsGoals: Watch the world burn
Fears: Burning to death
Strengths and WeaknessesSource of Power: All he knows is that he started to feel control over the fire when he set his foster parents house on fire
Powers :
- He can withstand heat that would instantly turn others to ash and dust. This allows him to sheathe his body completely in flames, incinerating anything that gets to close or touches him.
- He can project flames at people at great range. The farther the person is the less effective the projectile is.
- He can pull the raw power of flames together into one small ball, he can place this ball somewhere or throw it. When he wills it the ball will explode in tremendous power, destroying and lighting anything nearby.
- He can control the heat and power of his flames, allowing him to be more precise if need be. The flames heat can range from as cold as a newly lit match to as hot as 10 thousand degrees Fahrenheit.
Abilities:
- He is a decent athlete, being forced to play on several sports teams throughout his schooling.
- Well learned.
- Multilingual, He can speak English, Spanish, Bulgarian, and French fluently. This is due to learning Spanish and French in school, he taught himself Bulgarian with the aid of a potential girlfriend from Bulgaria.
- Decent with computers.
Equipment: As his clothing is usually burned away when he lights himself aflame he does not take any care as to what he wears. He does how ever posses a finely crafted long sword which can withstand even his greatest heat, allowing him to wield it in combat should he choose.
Weaknesses: Extremely Uncomfortable in the cold and water. When he is aflame water won't douse him but will weaken him depending on how much water their is.
Background:Job: Gas Station Attendant
Legal Status: He is behind several famous arson jobs in the past few months but as of yet no one knows who did it.
Backstory: Henry was born 22 years ago to a doped up mother and a missing father. He can't really tell you what either were like because they both either died or ran away on him, leaving him in the care of his foster parents. Marcus and Lily Ariola were just in it for the tax returns and for the good reputation of raising a child, as long as he was fed and watered they couldn't give two shits about whether he was happy. This lead Henry to find his own forms of entertainment. One day he found the lighter of his foster father lying on his desk, Henry took it and went into the woods were his foster parents couldn't find him. He lit some of the underbrush aflame before realizing he could get in trouble and abandoning the lighter there.
The flames went out on their own, but it was Henrys first act of Arson. He continued to experiment with fire throughout growing up and was soon bold enough to try and experiment in his own room. It was then that his Foster father walked in on him, he was beaten severely for what he was doing and was told to be gone by morning. Something snapped in Henry that day and by nightfall he knew what he needed to do. He lit several small fires in the house, disabling the smoke alarms before he did so. He then waited outside his foster parents room as the fire spread in the house, he didn't know what woke them, maybe some sixth sense, maybe the smoke. But he held the door closed as they tried to escape, relishing the coming release of death Henry knew was about to come for him. But when the flames licked at his feet he felt nothing and when they were past him and he was standing in the flames he felt nothing. He did hear the screams and coughing on the other side of the door though, the pounding on the door soon weakened along with the screaming and soon both stopped all together.
Surprised and curious why he had not been burned Henry left the now destroyed house, watching from afar as the Firefighters put the flames out. His curiosity unsatisfied, Henry resolved that he would just have to do it again. He made his way north to New York City over several months, stopping in several cities on his way to be fed at homeless shelters and test out his powers. In every city he visited building would mysteriously burn down, fire marshals were mostly perplexed at what caused the sudden gust of flames that quickly would envelope the buildings and anyone inside. Law Enforcement suspected an arson but nothing ever came from the multiple investigations.
He now works at a gas station just outside of New York City, there he pays for the clothes on his back and food he eats. He uses his spare time to scout out possible locations that could be his next target. Several buildings had caught his eye, including a now destroyed school. Soon he will have to be leaving the area, otherwise he might get cops snooping around asking question about arson. Before he leaves, he has a couple more targets in mind, this time in the city itself.
by Anowa » Wed May 06, 2020 10:03 pm
Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName: Alexander Carmichael
Aliases: Osteo
Gender: Male
Age: 70
Appearance:
MotivationsGoals: Re-establish America in his view of a truly democratic and free nation. Depose the current state of his view of a corrupt governmental system.
Fears: His efforts being for naught, a greater problem arising from his actions, The Vietnamese Language.
Strengths and WeaknessesSource of Power: An odd machination embedded on the inside of his T6 Vertebrae
Powers:
Cellular ControlBeast of Bone:
- Osteo has a very fine tuned control over his body's chemical make up and cellular structure, as evidenced by the form he takes regularly. From protein structure to hormone production to cellular arrangement, Osteo can control what his body does and how it works. Within a brief time he can rearrange his structure to that of an Olympic athlete, to a normal person, to the walking tank he is now.
Hammerspace:
- As it stands, without direct focus on something else, Alexander's body will revert to his standard sized bone encrusted form. A jagged form also makes attacking him somewhat of a risk, trying to avoid being stabbed or ripped open by all manner of protrusions. With an average running speed of 32 km/h, a lifting strength of nearly 500 kg and a punching force capable of sheering through nearly a foot of reinforced concrete. The bone plating he wreathes himself in is capable of stopping rifle rounds, but a more difficult time stopping armor piercing rounds of any sort without a composition or thickness change.
Abilities:
- The odd machination that was found embedded into Alexander's spine acts as a transdimensional storage compartment in addition to it's role allowing him to reshape his cells to his will. By converting items down to raw atoms and energy via unknown means it simply adds mass to his body, allowing him to carry a multitude of objects with him, without risk of back damage or storage space. Allowing him to recall items basically at will.
Equipment:Weaknesses:
- 7.5 cm Pak 40
- 14x PzGr. 39 Shells
- 40 lbs of Gun Cotton
- Sony A6100 Camera
- 3 TB HDD
- 200 lbs Steel
- 400 lbs Calcium
- 4x 1L Bloodbags in O-
- 7th Commandment: Alexander will go to excruciating lengths to avoid killing or permanently crippling anyone if it needn't happen. To such a degree that he would rather destroy his own plans through inaction than to kill someone to speed up his timeline. Life to Alexander is sacrosanct, and he believes that he has no right to kill someone if there is no risk to him.
- Biological Makeup: Corrosive or mutagenic materials will most definitely start to damage his tough ceramic like exoskeleton. Due to their nature, he has a very small selection of defenses against such an attack.
- Not the Only One: His powers don't violate conservation of mass. His body cannot produce a kilogram of bone without having a kilogram of the materials needed to make bone. In a pinch he can force his body to produce the materials needed from other cell compositions, but this is generally more effort than it's worth.
Background:Job: N/A
Legal Status: US Citizen, Declared Deceased.
Backstory: Born April 17th, 1949, to an USMC Veteran and factory supervisor, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Alexander's life was dominated by red blooded patriotism, and a fervor for American democracy. His father used to regale him with tales from his time in the Pacific Theatre, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima and every island between. A familiarization of the military and a sweeping fervor of national duty eventually took a hold of Alexander, and in 1967, he enlisted in the USMC to follow in his father's footsteps. later in life, he would see this as the moment in his life where fate took the reins.
His experience in Vietnam was short, taken captive during his first combat patrol, he was kept in one of the scant few prison camps near the North/South border. Interrogated relentlessly by PLAF irregulars and PANV advisers. As an enlisted soldier, he didn't have much to say, and when the camp was forced to move due to US forces honing in, Alexander was simply left behind in a bamboo cage in a blackened cave to rot. He didn't know how long he sat in that cave, gnawing on the bamboo bars to try and break free. The first light he saw in God know how long looked to be eyes, staring at him from the darkness. In what he could only assume was a hallucinated event, the eyes crept forward, and set him free from his cage.
He would spend a further 3 days under the jungle canopy, drinking whatever water he could find, regardless of cleanliness. Eventually, he passed out from exhaustion, falling into a river. Instead of waking up at the pearly gates of heaven, Alexander instead awoke on the shores of the very same river he fell into. Somehow revitalized and notably less fatigued than prior. The only difference was a wound near his spine, still weeping blood yet sub-consciously, not a concern for the man.
He would continue to wander through the jungle, eventually stumbling upon the same soldiers that left him to die. He would have no recollection of the ensuing fight, simply coming to his senses, now covered in a thick layer of bone, and wielding an anti tank gun not unlike someone would use a rocket launcher. Around him was a swathe of destruction and death. Afraid and confused, Alexander ran. He would run until he could run no more, bone falling off of him, and the cannon simply fading into dust.
Eventually, he was picked up by US forces, and sent back to the United States, he would eventually be redeployed to Vietnam, until the war's end in 1975. After being discharged, he would leave a cryptic letter to his parents, before being declared missing on January 30th 1976. he was later declared as presumed dead in March of 1976.
However, during this time, he has slowly been formulating a plan to bring the United States back into a fold of true democracy, and to erase corruption in the public system.
by Mandicoria » Thu May 07, 2020 12:08 am
by Remnants of Exilvania » Thu May 07, 2020 7:57 am
Anowa wrote:I'll just dump a primary villain for the time being.Gods Among Us Character Application
Character Description
[list] Name: Alexander Carmichael
Aliases: Osteo
by Endem » Thu May 07, 2020 3:10 pm
Segral wrote:Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName: Miguel Castro
Aliases: Armadillo
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Appearance:
MotivationsGoals: Miguel possesses deep resentment of human society for turning into him an outcast, and his main goal is to strike back and take revenge by stealing from them. After all, they robbed him of the right to be accepted, to be loved, so it's only fair that he steal something in return. To him, he's just keeping their ego in check.
Fears: Above all, Miguel fears public humiliation. Whether that's losing a fight, being arrested, or simply making a fool of himself during conversation, he hates it, and does everything he can to avoid it. He's an insecure man obsessed with appearances, one who wins a lot of mental battles based purely on intimidation, and he is scared of losing that intimidation factor, especially at the hands of a human. He's also afraid of his feral form, and worries what will happen if he loses control of it at the wrong time and does something beyond his moral code, because according to him, he's a thief and not a murderer. Oh, and he's scared of dolls. His official excuse is that it's another sign of humankind's hubris and fixation with disgustingly unreasonable standards of human beauty, but the truth is, they just creep him out.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Source of Power: Genetic experimentation.
Powers :Armadillo Physiology: Due to his nature as a hybrid, Miguel has several features added to him that were borrowed from the armadillo. The main three are his claws, his tail, and his shell. The sharp claws on his hands and feet make him exceptional at climbing, burrowing, and fighting in a scrap, and his tail can also aid in combat against careless foes, usually by tripping or slapping them. However, his shell is probably the most useful part of his physiology, as it's incredibly tough and can withstand bullets, knives, and even super-strength powered fists with little to no damage, although larger attacks such as bombs can damage it considerably, even break or crack parts of it. He usually uses this shell in two ways, either tucking his body inside of it like a turtle to wait out a storm, or rolling around in it to move around quicker.
Enhanced Senses: As well, thanks to the aforementioned hybrid nature, Miguel has incredibly strong senses of smell and hearing, far beyond that of the average human. His hearing is so powerful that he can hear shouts and loud conversations beyond a standard soundproof wall, and hear one's heartbeat from two to three feet away. His sense of smell is also very powerful, allowing him to recognize someone he's spent at least five minutes with by smell alone, and follow/chase individuals by using their sense of smell. However, these amazing senses come at a price; the loss of his sight. Miguel is completely blind, and relies on his hearing and smell to get him through situations.
Enhanced Condition: In addition to his other traits, the genetic mutations and experiments stimulated testosterone and muscle mass growth in his body, as well as the growth of armored plates that provide a thin layer of protection on many parts of his body. This makes him much stronger and more durable than the average human being. The maximum weight he can carry with decent ease is around one ton, although he can lift heavier objects with more strain and exhaustion. In terms of endurance, he can take gunshots to armored portions of his body like the chest and the legs and keep moving, although they will definitely hurt and slow him down.
Feral Form: An unexplained genetic glitch of sorts is his feral form. When Miguel goes through an extreme bout of anger (usually when he's backed up in a corner with no other options), he can tap into a feral form, where he undergoes no physical changes, but completely shifts mentally, transforming him into a killing machine. His reflexes and agility become stronger, his senses become sharper, his detail-oriented battle instincts become more powerful, and above all, pain is largely suppressed to him, allowing him to keep moving even when death is knocking on his door. The feral form will slowly subside after some time, but to end it quickly, a strong hit or blow is required to "shake him out", usually either to the belly or to the head.
Abilities:Wrestling: In his spare time between heists, Miguel has taken up freestyle wrestling, and has excelled at it. As a result, has incorporated these techniques into a brutal fighting style that prioritizes locks, sweeps, throws, and suplexes over punches and kicks, as well as making frequent use of rolls and sidesteps to evade attacks.
Multilingual: Miguel has a penchant for languages, being able to speak fluent English and Spanish, as well as workable Italian and "enough French to order food".
Education: Miguel was, in a sense, homeschooled, and has received instruction in every subject required to be a "fine young gentleman", in his own words, including history, mathematics, languages, and the sciences. This, coupled with his natural intelligence, makes Miguel seem very well-spoken, graceful, and poetic, even if it's mostly just another one of his appearances.
Equipment: He owns several pieces of assorted equipment for digging that he stole from his construction job, including drills, jackhammers, shovels, and more.
Weaknesses:Fleshy Spots: While his chest and limbs are covered with thin plating, the same cannot be said for his abdomen, neck, and face, which are soft and are as susceptible to bullets, knives, and fists as the average piece of human flesh. A strike to the stomach is especially bad for Miguel, as it can easily cause him to tip over and lose his balance due to the way his legs and back are positioned.
Clunky: To build off what was stated in the previous weakness, Miguel is very clumsy and bulky. He is very large, meaning two things; that fighting in small or cramped spaces is a big no-no, and that it is very easy to hit him where it hurts due to the sheer amount of options available. This size, combined with the heavy weight of his shell and armor, makes him extremely slow in both a bipedal position and on all fours. Rolling in his shell is much faster, but can be easily stopped and requires push from his tail or hindlegs to get any real speed going. Finally, it is very easy to knock him off balance, as he has a poor equilibrium and uses a lot of deep lunges and lifts while attacking, creating lots of opportunity to dodge and knock him off balance.
Easily Identifiable: It's very rare that you see a human-armadillo hybrid walking down the street, and that makes any use of a mask or costume completely useless. It is less of a hassle, but makes him easily identifiable. He's had to stay very well hidden and constantly on the run in order to avoid being seen by the public...or the authorities.
Sensory Issues: Miguel...can't see. He is completely blind, and relies on using his excellent hearing and smell to navigate and fight, which, while powerful, isn't always perfect and can leave him fairly out of his depth in certain situations. And while that hearing and smell is powerful, it makes him susceptible to being overpowered, either by particularly strong sounds or odors, or by crowds, which have an uncanny ability to disorient him.
Feral Mind: Obviously, while having a feral mind can help in the battlefield, it's incredibly difficult to control, especially as he has only slipped into it a handful of times. He has almost no voluntary control over his actions, and will not stop until he completely obliterates the thing that's made him angry. No moral code, no values, no emotions, just straight fury, which is obviously a problem. A body count makes him easier to track and a higher threat, and above all, it violates his own ethics. Only time will tell if he is able to control this "rage-mode" feature and keep his mental autonomy.
Background:Job: Unemployed; he's a full-time criminal.
Legal Status: He is a wanted criminal in connection with dozens of robberies, but has managed to stay hidden from the American police thus far.
Backstory: Experiments with metahuman genes have been common throughout history, and there have been plenty of cases of lab rat babies born to, and abandoned by, these experiments and their overseers. Miguel is one of those babies. He was created as a result of a series of experiments that dealt with crossing human DNA with those of various mammals, including bears, foxes, beavers, and, for some reason, armadillos. Miguel was one of the few successful cases, a boy with a sophisticated human brain, opposable thumbs, and bipedal walking ability, mixed with the shell, claws, and senses of an armadillo. His name was a cross between the names of two scientists that were the primary supervisors of his case; Miguel Hernandez and Isabel Castro, and it was a name that fit surprisingly well, given the fact that many of the genes used in his birth were from Hispanic women. Unfortunately, there was one side effect of all of this happy experimentation; the experiments left him completely blind, a side effect caused by genes in armadillos that result in their poor vision.
Still, the experiment went on as planned. Miguel was educated and cared for by scientists and technicians working on the project for most of his childhood, a fairly monotonous few years spent under constant surveillance, with regimented schedules, treatments, procedures, pinches, and prods. He took well to his studies, and became infamous among the staff for his sophistication, intelligence, and multilingualism. However, this all changed when he turned sixteen. The government eventually decided that the experiments were "unethical", and shut down the lab. All of the surviving children were sent to foster care until they turned 18, an age where they were legal adults and free to do as they wished. Miguel was sent to foster care in Miami, Florida, and was released into the world in Miami, Florida. The shock was immense for Miguel, as he finally began to experience life outside of a laboratory for the first time, experience life among civilization. But while Miguel loved civilization, civilization did not love him back, scorning and fearing him for his brutish looks. He was denied service in countless stores, couldn't find a job any better than a lousy joint as a construction worker, and was basically stuck, with nothing to his name aside from a meager apartment and a GED, lost and blind in a busy world.
This all culminated in an incident when he was 21, where he was assaulted by a group of men while walking home one night. It wasn't even to mug him; they never took his wallet. It was because of his looks, because he was a "freak". A child-eater, a parasite. And that was when he slipped into the feral mind for the first time. Luckily, he didn't kill the men, as he simply flung them off of his body and ran as fast as he could to his building to escape, but once he had calmed down and had a chance to think through the night's events, he decided on one plan: revenge.
He quit his job and stole some supplies that would end up becoming useful to his new full-time career; robberies. Through the use of careful plans that often took months to think through, as well as tunnels built with his enhanced strength and claws, Miguel became a skilled thief, stealing from auction houses, jewelry stores, and houses alike. In between heists, he took up wrestling as a way to keep in shape and burn off steam, the steam that collected from every time someone crossed the street to avoid walking beside him, the steam that collected into the feral mind he fears so much. Now, 14 years after the incident, he has still yet to be caught by the authorities, although he came damn near close during the last robbery. As a result, he's been lying low for a while, keeping his cash flow steady with a new pastime; underground fighting rings and clubs.
by Anowa » Thu May 07, 2020 4:32 pm
Kylantha wrote:Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName: Yasue Hibana
Aliases: Nue (Night Bird)
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Appearance:
Hibana is a petite young woman (standing at 5'4" tall) with a slim frame that betrays her true strength. She wears her hair short and has soft features. To most people, she appears innocent and harmless. They would be very wrong to believe that she is either.
She seems to have a flair for clothing and often wears cute outfits. When in combat though, she sheds all that off for a full body suit and a beaked mask that covers only her mouth. With her exoskeleton attached, she becomes slightly taller (digitigrade legs) and gains wings, claws, and talons.
MotivationsGoals: Personally? None. She feels as though she has achieved all that she possibly can. For now, she just wants to further the wealth and influence of her family's company.
Fears: Hibana can't seem to pinpoint any fatal fears that she has. With her near conversion into a machine, they seem to have all dissolved away. There is no telling however, when such fears might manifest, if any. (I will say she had a fear of all kinds of animals. They will probably still put her off if she sees any.)
Strengths and WeaknessesSource of Power: Hibana is physically enhanced by both internal and external augmentations and sometimes, drugs.
Powers :
- Decelerated Aging - Thanks to technology, her age is sort of anchored at 22 at this point. She has been around for a while now, and her appearance has not changed at all whatsoever. This may be attributed to the extensive modifications to her body.
- Enhanced Strength and Flexibility - Hibana's original bone and muscle structure are all gone. It has been replaced with various metals and alloys that I cannot disclose to you. This makes her rather tough and dangerous in close quarters combat. She can lift objects several times her weight, the biggest of which would be a 120 ton tank. Because of this physical augmentation, Hibana is resistant to blunt and piercing attacks. She is also resistant to gunfire, but that resistance decreases as the calibre goes up. That basically means 9mm won't do much, but 7.62 up will probably take chunks out of her.
- Enhanced Reflexes - Hibana is very good at avoiding damage. This ability of hers is further enhanced by her accelerated perception (which can be activated and deactivated).
- Pain Immunity - Hibana cannot feel pain. She will however, be aware if she takes damage, where exactly, and to what extent.
- Data Manipulation - One of Hibana's usual tasks on missions is handling data. She doesn't always have to be in front of a screen and on a keyboard. Her brother just needs to hook her up and she can access everything within. She can generate viruses and program very well. This makes her an excellent hacker and a threat to lesser-minded robots (as she could theoretically alter their behaviour if she managed to hook up to them)
- Electronic Vision - Hibana sees everything through a HUD and can see in IR and Night Vision. This makes her great for recon.
- Voice Modulation - She can do this with or without her artificial vocal chords. That means she doesn't necessarily need to speak through a phone. She just needs to be connected to it in order to produce a voice.
- Oxygen Independence - If Hibana were ever to go to space or underwater, she wouldn't need to breathe to stay alive.
- Seamless Communication - With Nori, unless within range of any kind of jamming equipment.
- Exoskeleton - Hibana is known as the Nue or Night Bird for a reason. She has a pair of large sharp-edged wings that allow her the ability of flight. It has jets that come with it, and can be used as supplementary shields or weapons because of their metallic nature. When not attached to Hibana, it flies around and has the appearance of a raptorial bird. It has its own camera, and can perform aerial reconnaissance.
Abilities: Due to the enormous amount of data in her head, Hibana knows a lot of things. Playing musical instruments or dancing, for example, which were her interests in her life as a normal human. She can now do both flawlessly. She is also able to speak in a multitude of languages, fight in over 5 types of martial arts, and handle whatever kind of weapon (whether melee or ranged) effectively.
Equipment: Her exoskeleton's wings can serve as weapons. It increases her height (because bird legs) and gives her wicked claws and talons. She doesn't usually carry weapons on her, but will make Nori carry them if need be.
Weaknesses:
- Hibana needs to rest for a while after exerting herself. This is because her "heart" is of an older model. If she pushes herself too much, it will slow down and cause her to essentially stop functioning until its condition has normalised. Sometimes she will need an injection to keep her going. This happens when her heart randomly takes a pause and needs a pick-me-up.
- While she is strong, Hibana has a weight limit. She can't lift anything over 150 tons without collapsing almost immediately afterwards.
- Hibana is not impervious to all weapons. She can still be damaged and even destroyed by them.
- She is especially susceptible to electric attacks. If she were shocked whilst in water, it would cause her heart to stop.
- Hibana requires regular maintenance and can't go without it.
- Her connection to Norihiko can be hampered or even severed by the right equipment or conditions.
- She has no sense of humour whatsoever.
- Hibana's weakpoints are her brain and "heart", which are both still meaty (the former more so than the latter)
Background:Job: Operative, enforcer, robotics specialist, and experimental weapon.
Legal Status: (Villain) She is considered a danger and the law is probably after her. Ryо̄ga is protecting her though, and well enough so that they aren't implicated. The law knows they are associated, but can't do anything about either of them because of a variety of reasons.
Backstory:
Hibana is the youngest daughter of a crazed man who happens to be the founder of a very powerful Japanese conglomerate. She was born with a weak heart and always had trouble. There were times when she would die and need to be revived again by her father's technology. It was exhausting for her, but she wanted to keep going. She was her father's little spark, after all. She loved him and was devoted to him. Little did she know, that love and devotion would be taken complete advantage of.
Hibana's father wasn't always insane, but at some juncture in his life, he fell into that trap and embraced it. Sadly, Hibana didn't see that.. Or perhaps she did, but chose to look past it. She felt as though everything he was doing was for good, despite the outrageous costs. She followed his every command blindly, and even allowed her father to experiment on her under the guise of "fixing her heart". She wasn't always happy with the fact that she felt less and less after every drastic change to her body, but she braved it all. For Father.
Hibana's older brother Norihiko saw through his father's manipulation and tried to save his sister when he found out what he was doing to her in secret. He managed to convince Hibana, but one last alteration rendered her completely enthralled by the Conglomerate. Nori fled on his own and disappeared for several years. Hibana however, lured him back later on for her father's purposes. He returned, was captured, and was forced to make a deal. His indenture to the Conglomerate for his sister's freedom. But it was all a trick, and he too was turned into a machine.
Hibana shed tears that day. She no longer remembers exactly why. She was now a cold, sadistic, and dangerous mercenary for the Ryо̄ga Conglomerate. And soon enough, she and her newly enhanced brother would help pave the way to Ryо̄ga's expansion into the West.Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName: Yasue Norihiko, nicknamed 'Nori' by Hibana.
Aliases: Tetsuhiko (The Iron Prince)
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Appearance:
Norihiko appears as a lean and prominently muscled young man. He stands at 6'5" tall. He has long and straight black hair. Nori's eyes are purplish-red, but in combat mode, they change so that visible are only purple-red pupils surrounded by black sclera. This, along with the menacing expression he usually wears makes him either really irritating or scary to be caught in a confrontation with.
To better conceal his identity, Nori wears some armor on missions. It looks like this.
Nori likes to wear clothing that is light and accentuates or even totally exposes his impressive musculature. He likes boots and gloves and wears them often. His skin is not real. It's just thin layer of durable transparent stuff that can be turned on and off. When it's off, you can see all the artificial muscles underneath. Only his head is exempt from this. The hair and skin can be torn or seared off his head to reveal a heavily modified skull. Around his neck is an experimental implant that allows the artificial flesh and hair around the skull to regenerate rather rapidly. This doesn't count towards any power. It's purely cosmetic. If the implant breaks and the skin was all taken off, Nori will look like a terminator until he gets a new one.
MotivationsGoals: Though he's pretty much sworn to serve his father, Nori intends to kill him one day and take over the Conglomerate. He also wants to try and return her sister to how she was before she became her cold and stoic self.
Fears: He fears the loss of his sister most of all. He can still think for himself, but is kind of on a tight leash. He was made to believe that if he strayed from his path with Ryо̄ga, Hibana's "heart" would stop for good, and he would probably be thrown away somewhere and tormented for the rest of his existence. Other than that, there isn't much else. What childish fear scares someone who was once a Yakuza and is now a literal cyborg? Hah!
Strengths and WeaknessesSource of Power: Norihiko is physically enhanced by both internal and external augmentations, along with some armor.
Powers :Abilities: Norihiko is a great driver and has purchased quite a few cars during his time in the States. He's also good at playing musical instruments (particularly Japanese ones), having become interested in it because of Hibana when he was younger. Like Hibana, he can also speak a lot of languages, and is well-versed when it comes to weapons and martial arts. When he's not doing anything, Nori likes to dabble in extreme sports and stuff like parkour, climbing up buildings, jumping off of planes and so on. He's really good at all those things and is fearless because.. Well.. Augmentation.
- Decelerated Aging - Nori's body is now stuck at its current stage of development, thanks to all the augmentations. This is his favorite augmentation.
- Enhanced Strength - Nori's augmented body has earned him the nickname Tetsuhiko, which pretty much means "Iron Prince". He is significantly stronger than Hibana, having a newer and more polished version of the artificial muscle and bone she has. He has the ability to really charge his blows by tightening his muscle. When this happens, they appear to contract to an extreme and steam shoots out from them. He cannot perform this charge attack when using the below ability. While Nori's augmented physique is of the same type as Hibana's it's much more rigid, robbing him of a lot of flexibility.
- Enhanced Speed - Nori can supercharge his body to run very quickly, jump to great heights, or punch several times within minutes.
- Dragonskin - Nori is the tank of the pair. He is impervious to being bashed or sliced by anyone weaker than himself. He can also withstand 12.8 mm rounds, but nothing above that.
- Pain Immunity - Nori knows no pain, but he can also sense damage to his body.
- Electronic Vision - Nori sees the world through an augmented reality display. He does not have IR or night-vision however, and instead uses his sight to scan the surroundings and their state (i.e. instantly get information on them). This ability is used mostly to tell if Hibana is about to have a black-out.
- Oxygen Independence - Nori doesn't need lungs anymore.
- Seamless Communication - He maintains a direct line to Hibana and vice-versa.
Equipment: Nori is treated as a pack mule when out on missions with Hibana. He carries their field repair kit, ammunition, and Hibana's pick-me-up. His primary weapon is a highly durable black naginata whose blade can be heated. When it is fired up it glows red.
Weaknesses:
- Nori's carry weight limit is only slightly higher than Hibana's at 200 tons. Anything beyond that requires over-exertion and is clumsily lifted. May cause muscles to give.
- Nori can be severely damaged and destroyed by anything bigger than 12.7 mm rounds.
- Like Hibana, the Iron Prince needs regular maintenance which he gets from the safehouse.
- Running for too long, charging too many attacks, and generally overworking his body causes it to overheat and forcibly go limp to cool down.
- His connection to Hibana can be hampered or even severed by the right equipment or conditions.
- Nori has a unique weakness to water. He cannot swim due to his density and will sink like a rock. (He can walk along the bottom, though that will take some time)
- Nori's weak point is his head, which contains the brain.
Background:Job: Operative, enforcer, and assassin for the Conglomerate.
Legal Status: (Villain) The same as Hibana. Though because he's much more active and strikes out on his own, he's a bit more popular and sought out by the law and vigilantes.
Backstory:
Well... Nori was born to the Yasue family. He didn't feel loved by his father growing up, and didn't know his mother who presumably died a long time ago. It was only Hibana who treated him like family. The reason his father shunned him was because.. *drumroll* He was born out of wedlock.
As a result, Nori ended up causing a lot of trouble. He rarely stayed home and only came back when he was badly beat up. This made him want to grow stronger and stronger, into the beast that he is now. At some point, he got involved with the Yakuza (hence his tattoos) and became a hitman for them. It was around this time that he got the idea to want to kill his father, for whom his hatred only grew with each passing day. One day, one of his many girlfriends ended up being kidnapped, assaulted, and murdered by his older brother (the true heir to the Yasue fortune) as a personal attack.
The next day, Nori decided to confront this prick of an older brother, who ended up divulging a lot of family secrets when Nori stated that he'd decided to leave the city for good. Big bro then went on to taunt him for his inability to protect Hibana and his girlfriend, and in doing so, pulled the last straw. With a blank expression on his face, Nori killed his brother right then and there, arranging the remains in a very degrading manner as a message to his father. Consequently, he was disowned and a bounty put on his head. He then decided to go through with his plan to run away, but not before secretly going to Hibana and convincing her of their father's evil. She agreed and said she would be ready the next day, but when Nori came back for her.. She had changed. She insisted that she was staying, leaving Nori to reluctantly leave his beloved sister behind.
Nori disappeared for several years after that, training himself to be stronger and smarter so that he could save his sister from their father. He wasn't yet sure of himself when he was suddenly contacted by Hibana, who asked for him to come and get her. Without a second thought, Nori flew back to the city, unknowingly walking right into a trap. He got so close to getting his sister, but suddenly felt weightless as he reached for her. He woke up hours later, bound in a similar way to how he'd left his older brother. His father then gave him a choice. A painful death, or lifelong service to the Conglomerate in exchange for Hibana's freedom. Of course, he chose the latter, hoping to god that his father would stay true to his word. But if you read the above app, you know he didn't, and pretty much made Norihiko into another experiment and threatened to kill his sister if he didn't cooperate.
Since then Nori and his sister have been relocated to the Americas to do more dirty work and help the Conglomerate expand there. Nori continues to abhor his father, but is left with no choice. He takes solace in the fact that at least he can care for his sister once again. He remembers all that's happened to him though, and swears that if the chance ever presents himself, he would carve his father to pieces like he did his firstborn son.
by Union Princes » Thu May 07, 2020 8:20 pm
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by Jerno » Thu May 07, 2020 8:49 pm
Jerno wrote:Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName:John Farrow
Aliases:Beast Man, Zookeeper
Gender:Male
Age:22
Appearance:
MotivationsGoals:Go on adventures and help people, make life for other people like him easier.
Fears: Being alone. Being hunted for who he is.
Strengths and WeaknessesSource of Power: power from animals
Powers :
-Animal Transmutation: can turn matter/others into any animal they desire, effects can be permanent or temporary
-Animal Manipulation:can create, shape and manipulate animals, multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. He can command,merge with, possess, etc. with all forms of animal life
-Biomorph:can turn into any living things
-Zoolingualism: Communicate and talk to animals
-Animal Swarm:can disperse their body into a swarm of animals, of a single type of animal, scattering into large area while retaining control over their fragments instead of staying in relatively cohesive form and reforming from any part.
-Mythical Bestiary- ability to transform into any mythical beast (John can currently ONLY transform into: Phoenix, Hellhound, Basilisk, Chimera, Pegasus and a griffin)
Abilities: Due to being able to transform into animals John is an Excellent hunter, tracker, and Fishermen.
Equipment: a dagger and a Trident
Weaknesses: May not be able to combine several animal forms.Incapable to transform into inanimate objects, or anything else other than animals.
Background:Job: Unemployed, currently looking for a job.
Legal Status:He is an American Citizen. So far he’s had some problems with the police, usually when people report animals on the loose. Other than that he has no criminal history.
Backstory:came from an average American family. The youngest of three siblings.His life was pretty normal that is until several years ago, six to be exact. Nothing out of the ordinary that is that one day he was walking, and fell. He went into a mini coma. While in a coma he gained these amazing powers. He didn’t discover his powers until several weeks later, when he accidentally morphed into an animal. He later came to the realization that he was completely different from other people when he visited the local Bronx Zoo. It was at that moment he knew that he had unique powers and spent the rest of that day at the zoo. After that incident he would spend hours at a library or bookstore reading about the Animal Kingdom.From then on he was chased as people thought wild animals were on the loose. He usually goes around using his abilities to help people and track down criminals and bring them to justice, he usually tries not to be seen in the process. He is currently looking for a job as he wanders the city. On multiple occasions he had tried to get a job at the zoo, but they weren’t hiring.
by Endem » Fri May 08, 2020 1:10 am
Jerno wrote:Jerno wrote:Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName:John Farrow
Aliases:Beast Man, Zookeeper
Gender:Male
Age:22
Appearance:
MotivationsGoals:Go on adventures and help people, make life for other people like him easier.
Fears: Being alone. Being hunted for who he is.
Strengths and WeaknessesSource of Power: power from animals
Powers :
-Animal Transmutation: can turn matter/others into any animal they desire, effects can be permanent or temporary
-Animal Manipulation:can create, shape and manipulate animals, multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. He can command,merge with, possess, etc. with all forms of animal life
-Biomorph:can turn into any living things
-Zoolingualism: Communicate and talk to animals
-Animal Swarm:can disperse their body into a swarm of animals, of a single type of animal, scattering into large area while retaining control over their fragments instead of staying in relatively cohesive form and reforming from any part.
-Mythical Bestiary- ability to transform into any mythical beast (John can currently ONLY transform into: Phoenix, Hellhound, Basilisk, Chimera, Pegasus and a griffin)
Abilities: Due to being able to transform into animals John is an Excellent hunter, tracker, and Fishermen.
Equipment: a dagger and a Trident
Weaknesses: May not be able to combine several animal forms.Incapable to transform into inanimate objects, or anything else other than animals.
Background:Job: Unemployed, currently looking for a job.
Legal Status:He is an American Citizen. So far he’s had some problems with the police, usually when people report animals on the loose. Other than that he has no criminal history.
Backstory:came from an average American family. The youngest of three siblings.His life was pretty normal that is until several years ago, six to be exact. Nothing out of the ordinary that is that one day he was walking, and fell. He went into a mini coma. While in a coma he gained these amazing powers. He didn’t discover his powers until several weeks later, when he accidentally morphed into an animal. He later came to the realization that he was completely different from other people when he visited the local Bronx Zoo. It was at that moment he knew that he had unique powers and spent the rest of that day at the zoo. After that incident he would spend hours at a library or bookstore reading about the Animal Kingdom.From then on he was chased as people thought wild animals were on the loose. He usually goes around using his abilities to help people and track down criminals and bring them to justice, he usually tries not to be seen in the process. He is currently looking for a job as he wanders the city. On multiple occasions he had tried to get a job at the zoo, but they weren’t hiring.
Not sure if y’all forgot mine or just skipped over it. So I’ll bump it up.
by Union Princes » Fri May 08, 2020 5:27 pm
Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName: Maria Ludwig
Aliases: Holiday
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Appearance:
MotivationsGoals: Curiosity. Given her powers, she wants to explore more of the world around her and see what she can do.
Fears: Loneliness. She lost everything before and she fears the day she would lose everything again.
Strengths and WeaknessesSource of Power: Biological Mutation, possibly from metahuman ancestry
Powers : Healing Blood: Her blood could heal all wounds and cure all forms of diseases, sickness, and poisons. It could reattach broken or torn-off limbs of a wounded person, but it could not cause regrowth of an entire body part or organ without consuming numerous gallons of her blood and time. Like an axolotl, Maria can regenerate structures from limbs to nerve tissue without any presence of scarring. You can remove her brain and her body would regrow another one with all her memories intact. Her organs can be accepted by other patients without fear of rejection.
Poison Blood: Her healing blood does have an expiration date: two days without refrigeration or two weeks with refrigeration does her blood lose all healing properties. Instead, it becomes poisonous and causes respiratory paralysis and immunocompromisation once injected/consumed in a living body.
Weaknesses: The healing blood cannot heal or resurrect dead tissue. Once the body has reached the state of necrosis, the healing blood would have no effect on it.
Abilities: Knife throwing, medicine identification, first aid application, dissection, vivisection, and surgery
Equipment:
3 & 6-inch syringes
Syringe Crossbow: she can fire a volley of 16 1ml, 12 2ml, 10 5ml, 9 20ml, or 5 60ml syringes.
Scalpel knives
First Aid kit
Her father’s research journal
Her wallet and her ID
Weaknesses: Maria does not have experience in combat before. Most of her fighting style is derived from her makeshift weapons. She relies too much on other people to defend her and protect her from harm.
Background:Job: Backstreet doctor prior to joining.
Legal Status: US immigrant (Will receive citizenship)
Backstory: Maria's mother died of childbirth when she was born so her father had to take up the responsibility of raising her. As you can imagine, her father was in the field of medicine and also had a morbid curiosity about body function. This mentality was all that Maria knows and admires as she knew nothing of the outside world when her father kept her a prisoner in her own home except to go to school. When it was discovered that she had superhuman powers of healing, her father wasted no time experimenting and dissecting her to seek the key to human immortality. He infected her with a whole host of diseases, from Ebola to Smallpox to the Bubonic Plague itself, and forced her to eat contaminated food and drink filthy water. It wasn’t all bad though as Maria learn the trade of surgery and biology through her father and quickly reached college-level medical expertise when she was a teenager.
But as she grew older, she began to see the toll of being a widow breakdown on her father's sanity. It would lead to his arrest in a house raid when the Interpol finally got a warrant to search his house. However, her father had already fled the house to New York taking Maria with her. Unfortunately for them, he was caught after landing and sent back to Germany. Deemed too insane to be judged, Maria's father would spend the rest of his days in a German mental hospital for the criminally insane. Maria was truly alone until a British doctor, Dr. Marcus Oberstyier, in New York City offered to adopt her as one of his own.
It was then she realized the two-faced nature of her new father: the firm but respected doctor of New York and one of the most feared mafia boss known only as “The Surgeon.” Maria knew immediately that he only wanted her for her blood and her real father’s research to expand upon. For years, she was back to being a guinea pig being poked and prodded yet her adopted father was far more attentive to her education as he privately tutored her in English, Maths, History, and Government to bring her up to speed. Unfortunately for Dr. Oberstyier, he realized that Maria was becoming too reckless as his lab assistant/lab rat. It seems morbid cruelty runs in her blood as even his own subordinates grew afraid of her.
He used his criminal connections to get in contact with TIAMA to transfer Maria over to them despite her value as a source of healing blood to his work. But even The Surgeon knew it was necessary to protect himself. Maria, on the other hand, was ecstatic; she will be part of a group of other able-bodied individuals. Not because they will be fighting crimes, but the chance that one of them would get injured which means she could finally practice her surgery.
by Anowa » Fri May 08, 2020 10:40 pm
Jerno wrote:Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName:John Farrow
Aliases:Beast Man, Zookeeper
Gender:Male
Age:22
Appearance:
MotivationsGoals:Go on adventures and help people, make life for other people like him easier.
Fears: Being alone. Being hunted for who he is.
Strengths and WeaknessesSource of Power: power from animals
Powers :
-Animal Transmutation: can turn matter/others into any animal they desire, effects can be permanent or temporary
-Animal Manipulation:can create, shape and manipulate animals, multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. He can command,merge with, possess, etc. with all forms of animal life
-Biomorph:can turn into any living things
-Zoolingualism: Communicate and talk to animals
-Animal Swarm:can disperse their body into a swarm of animals, of a single type of animal, scattering into large area while retaining control over their fragments instead of staying in relatively cohesive form and reforming from any part.
-Mythical Bestiary- ability to transform into any mythical beast (John can currently ONLY transform into: Phoenix, Hellhound, Basilisk, Chimera, Pegasus and a griffin)
Abilities: Due to being able to transform into animals John is an Excellent hunter, tracker, and Fishermen.
Equipment: a dagger and a Trident
Weaknesses: May not be able to combine several animal forms.Incapable to transform into inanimate objects, or anything else other than animals.
Background:Job: Unemployed, currently looking for a job.
Legal Status:He is an American Citizen. So far he’s had some problems with the police, usually when people report animals on the loose. Other than that he has no criminal history.
Backstory:came from an average American family. The youngest of three siblings.His life was pretty normal that is until several years ago, six to be exact. Nothing out of the ordinary that is that one day he was walking, and fell. He went into a mini coma. While in a coma he gained these amazing powers. He didn’t discover his powers until several weeks later, when he accidentally morphed into an animal. He later came to the realization that he was completely different from other people when he visited the local Bronx Zoo. It was at that moment he knew that he had unique powers and spent the rest of that day at the zoo. After that incident he would spend hours at a library or bookstore reading about the Animal Kingdom.From then on he was chased as people thought wild animals were on the loose. He usually goes around using his abilities to help people and track down criminals and bring them to justice, he usually tries not to be seen in the process. He is currently looking for a job as he wanders the city. On multiple occasions he had tried to get a job at the zoo, but they weren’t hiring.
by Anowa » Fri May 08, 2020 10:44 pm
Union Princes wrote:Gods Among Us Character Application
Character DescriptionName: Maria Ludwig
Aliases: Holiday
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Appearance:
MotivationsGoals: Curiosity. Given her powers, she wants to explore more of the world around her and see what she can do.
Fears: Loneliness. She lost everything before and she fears the day she would lose everything again.
Strengths and WeaknessesSource of Power: Biological Mutation, possibly from metahuman ancestry
Powers : Healing Blood: Her blood could heal all wounds and cure all forms of diseases, sickness, and poisons. It could reattach broken or torn-off limbs of a wounded person, but it could not cause regrowth of an entire body part or organ without consuming numerous gallons of her blood and time. Like an axolotl, Maria can regenerate structures from limbs to nerve tissue without any presence of scarring. You can remove her brain and her body would regrow another one with all her memories intact. Her organs can be accepted by other patients without fear of rejection.
Poison Blood: Her healing blood does have an expiration date: two days without refrigeration or two weeks with refrigeration does her blood lose all healing properties. Instead, it becomes poisonous and causes respiratory paralysis and immunocompromisation once injected/consumed in a living body.
Weaknesses: The healing blood cannot heal or resurrect dead tissue. Once the body has reached the state of necrosis, the healing blood would have no effect on it.
Abilities: Knife throwing, medicine identification, first aid application, dissection, vivisection, and surgery
Equipment:
3 & 6-inch syringes
Syringe Crossbow: she can fire a volley of 16 1ml, 12 2ml, 10 5ml, 9 20ml, or 5 60ml syringes.
Scalpel knives
First Aid kit
Her father’s research journal
Her wallet and her ID
Weaknesses: Maria does not have experience in combat before. Most of her fighting style is derived from her makeshift weapons. She relies too much on other people to defend her and protect her from harm.
Background:Job: Backstreet doctor prior to joining.
Legal Status: US immigrant (Will receive citizenship)
Backstory: Maria's mother died of childbirth when she was born so her father had to take up the responsibility of raising her. As you can imagine, her father was in the field of medicine and also had a morbid curiosity about body function. This mentality was all that Maria knows and admires as she knew nothing of the outside world when her father kept her a prisoner in her own home except to go to school. When it was discovered that she had superhuman powers of healing, her father wasted no time experimenting and dissecting her to seek the key to human immortality. He infected her with a whole host of diseases, from Ebola to Smallpox to the Bubonic Plague itself, and forced her to eat contaminated food and drink filthy water. It wasn’t all bad though as Maria learn the trade of surgery and biology through her father and quickly reached college-level medical expertise when she was a teenager.
But as she grew older, she began to see the toll of being a widow breakdown on her father's sanity. It would lead to his arrest in a house raid when the Interpol finally got a warrant to search his house. However, her father had already fled the house to New York taking Maria with her. Unfortunately for them, he was caught after landing and sent back to Germany. Deemed too insane to be judged, Maria's father would spend the rest of his days in a German mental hospital for the criminally insane. Maria was truly alone until a British doctor, Dr. Marcus Oberstyier, in New York City offered to adopt her as one of his own.
It was then she realized the two-faced nature of her new father: the firm but respected doctor of New York and one of the most feared mafia boss known only as “The Surgeon.” Maria knew immediately that he only wanted her for her blood and her real father’s research to expand upon. For years, she was back to being a guinea pig being poked and prodded yet her adopted father was far more attentive to her education as he privately tutored her in English, Maths, History, and Government to bring her up to speed. Unfortunately for Dr. Oberstyier, he realized that Maria was becoming too reckless as his lab assistant/lab rat. It seems morbid cruelty runs in her blood as even his own subordinates grew afraid of her.
He used his criminal connections to get in contact with TIAMA to transfer Maria over to them despite her value as a source of healing blood to his work. But even The Surgeon knew it was necessary to protect himself. Maria, on the other hand, was ecstatic; she will be part of a group of other able-bodied individuals. Not because they will be fighting crimes, but the chance that one of them would get injured which means she could finally practice her surgery.
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