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Superhumans have existed throughout history, usually being seen as mythological beings. Gods, angels, demons, or other such things were, in the view of modern historians, just superhumans which the people of the past didn't understand. They believe that the reason pantheons of deities tended to be family trees is that superhumans would work together to rule over past societies, but their decedents wouldn't always get powers, leading to the pantheons losing their power within a few hundred years.

Modern gene mapping revealed three separate "Catalyst" genes, called that because they trigger alterations in the human body. The Energetic variation alters the metabolism of a person's body, allowing them to utilize, store, or control different forms of energy. The Mental Variation effects the brain and sometimes the nervous system, altering perceptions and granting psionic abilities. The Physical Variation can cause changes to most of the human body, altering appearance, giving people enhanced muscles, and the like. It can cause the most varied changes of the three. A person can have any combination of the three or all three, and multiple copies of the same gene will only make them stronger. A parent with an active gene has a 50% chance of passing it to their child, and often it becomes inactive when passed.

While best estimates of past human genetics show that the rate of Catalyst genes within the human population hasn't increased drastically in the last century, the appearance of large numbers of superhumans began in the 1930s. Scientists believe that the activation of the gene requires high amounts of stress or a near-death experience, and that the gene responds by adapting the person in a way that negates some of all of the stress. A person that is trapped in a burning building, for example, may adapt to be able to breath in reduced oxygen environments, be less effected by smoke, become resistant to heat, or even develop the ability to manipulate the flames depending on their version of the gene. These events activated the catalyst genes far less frequently before the 1930s, though, which baffles scientists studying the phenomenon.

Roughly one in one hundred people have a Catalyst gene, roughly one in ten thousand have two different catalyst genes, and roughly one in a million have all three. Only about one percent of people with a gene have an active form, however, meaning that there are roughly 80 million superhumans on Earth. They are common enough for everyone to have met at least one, even in small towns, though rare enough that their skills are in demand.

The existence of superhumans has accelerated the development of technology as well. Energy weapons, advanced materials, force fields, and advanced spacecraft exist, though humans haven't figured out how to travel faster than light yet.




The Harborvale City branch of Phoenix Security, a private security and investigation service which specializes in crimes involving superhumans, received a call from Cyrus Pharmaceuticals. Their CEO, Jean Cyrus, was attacked in his office just hours ago by a superhuman arsonist who used their pyrokinesis to burn his office, claiming that they were doing it in revenge for what he had done to them. Cyrus wishes to keep this out of the public eye, as it would negatively effect their stock prices. He has hired us, as employees of that branch, to track the person down and to make sure they don't attack him or disrupt his business again.




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Awesome! Will get started on my CS right away :)
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Can I be a supervillain?
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Would be interesting to have another RP with you, Unknown.
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@HeroicSociopathYou could be an anti-hero that's on their team, or even a crooked investigator, who's taking a bribe from our client to cover up certain things that he doesn't want them to learn about, but I don't want to have two different groups in this RP.
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updated the CS slightly to separate genes and powers.
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@TheUnknowable Image-wise, are anime pictures okay, or did you want something realistic?
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@2plus2isnot5either way is fine.
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@TheUnknowable Okay, thanks :) Mine's pretty much done then, just need to find a pic then submit for your approval :)
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@TheUnknowable Is this okay?

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@2plus2isnot5nice character. Approved.

I've been working on the Boss and his family's sheets. His wife is a doctor with healing abilities. Maybe she was treating your character's mom, if you want to. You don't have to, though.

Her name is Diana Jacobs (51, Accelerates healing/metabolism, E). Our boss's name is Dale Jacobs (57, Speedster, MMP). They have three kids, Greg (27, telekinetic, MMe, works for Phoenix), Sara (25, telepath, Mp), and Kyle (14, Lightning, PE).
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@TheUnknowable Thanks :) And I like that idea, it could lead to some interesting interactions.
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Ah, nice character. I like him.

I am going to have my character up, today! Sorry for the delay. I have been feeling like ugh.
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I need a tragic backstory for my character.

I know. One day he decided to play a children's card game against a kid with weird hair that wore a priceless Egyptian artifact as a price of jewellery. When I lost, the kid used the telepathic powers the artifact gave him to give me massive brain damage and steal my rare trading cards. Now I owe millions to the hospital for my rehab.

Something tells me that might get me sued, though.
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Yeah, that might get you in trouble...

How about your estranged father summonned you from your sci-fi school to his sci-fi base to pilot a giant robot alongside some girl with blue hair and another girl with pigtails, except you don't wanna because angst, so you use your powers to escape?

Although then again, that may also be a bit on the iffy side, legally speaking.
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I could be a high school girl with planet themed powers, or use pocket dimension balls to capture genetically engineered animals and make them fight for me. Or just be the last surviving member of an alien race and have many awesome powers like flight, super strength, laser eye beams, and frost breath.

Actually, I made a sun themed Japanese school girl character for a different rp. Might use her as an NPC.
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Can I be ambiguous with my character's backstory? I like to keep backstories rather bare.
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@Shardsure. Just include the stuff that us fellow employees would know, including your history with the company.
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@ShardThe only issue I have with it is that he doesn't need to eat. I'm going for a fairly realistic world, so he would need to get material to regenerate his body somehow. I don't care how you do that, though. He could be a vampire, or steal tissue from dead bodies, or just be a vegan that only drinks smoothies, or something else if you want him to be unusual in that way.
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