Ive seen a lot of super hero rps on these forums. Super heroes are meant to represent the best of humanity. I think it would be more interesting to tell a more human story. A story with more moral ambiguity than the comics( the name of the rp is meant to be ironic).

[hider=The story so far]The year is 2055. To someone who existed 40 years earlier it's a somewhat disappointing future. Yes technology is a lot better. The internet is faster. Limbs can be replaced with robotic parts(although the technology is in the early stages). Still it was nothing like the utopia many people had imagined. There was no alien contact( as far as the common people know). Affordable space travel is still a long ways out of reach. Humanity still hasn't colonized mars despite decades of people saying they would. There is no flying cars. 3rd world countries are still shitty. People still die as much as they always did. Politics is still the same joke of a show put on to appease people to make them feel like their government isn't corrupt. Though one major development happened in recent years. Lately more and more people have been appearing with strange abilities. Some would call them super powers. No one knows where these powers come from. Not even the people who have them. Many people use these powers to commit crimes both major and minor. Others who had perhaps read one too many comics decided they were super heroes and villains. Some just mind their own business. Still as far most people were concerned they were freaks. People feared and hated them. Governments all of the world outlaw their very existence in public. If discovered these people would be either killed or hauled away in a van never to be seen again. You happen to be one of these unfortunate individuals. You live in the city of New York. It's a super powered war zone. Police control the city under martial law. In this world full of disorder would you dare to be a hero? [/hider]

[hider=Character Sheet]Name: self explanatory 

Appearance: picture or description or both.

Age: I'd prefer most characters be adults but the lowest ill accept is 16.

Gender: Self explanatory.

Power: Don't make it overpowered. You can have more than one power if the powers somehow tie together but keep it reasonable. 

Bio: Your character's back story. It should explain their motivations, the moment they got their powers, how they got in New York, how they live their life, etc.

Personality:

Other:Anything I might have missed. This one is optional.
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Groups:
[hider=NYFC]The New York Freak Control is a police branch dedicated to dealing with non humans. Nobody knows for sure what they do but it's rumored they do inhumane experiments on those they catch. Some say that among them are some non humans who were willing to hunt their own kind. They are far better equipped than normal police and have a variety of weapons at their disposal for dealing with super humans. [/hider]
[hider=The Shelter]The Shelter is an underground network that hides non humans from the authorities. In exchange the non humans living under their protection pay rent or do labor to keep the operation going if they are unable to pay.[/hider]
[hider=SHSM]The Super Human Superiority Movement is a group that firmly believes that super humans should be in charge frequently commit acts of terrorism and crime to further their cause. They are a large part of the reason the government began hunting non humans. [/hider]

For the record try not to make your characters too over powered. I don't want any super mans/incredible hulks. Most of the conflicts will be with humans and I can't have you ripping through them like paper.

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