@SimpleWriter Okay, I finished my Quirk so I decided to post a WIP sheet to work it out with you. I decided to combine the scream element with the physical enhancement idea, but made the scream a consequence of abusing his body by storing up too much sound for too long. This makes the collateral damage a suitably rare event, making its dangerous aspects justified, as it's basically a superpower meltdown. Is his Quirk acceptable as written?
Appearance:Must include regular appearance and costumed appearance (Both Hero and Villains). Name: Alex Wade Age: 14 Gender: Male
Hero Name: Sequencer Quirk Name: Sound of Silence Quirk Type: Accumulation Quirk Description: Alex's ears can project (currently) a variable-length invisible "sphere" around him, up to a radius of 20 meters. Any sound that enters is instantly absorbed into his ears and stored in his body. To anyone within this zone, it is completely, utterly, oppressively silent. Alex himself can't even talk when this bubble is active because his voice is instantly absorbed back into his ears. This makes him rather effective as a stealth asset.
But what does he do with all of those stored-up decibels? He uses them as fuel. The more sound Alex has absorbed--up to his body's "cap" of around 100 decibels (or about the volume of a jackhammer), the more his strength and speed improve, at a rate of about a 400 pounds bench-press and a 40 miles per hour sprint per 10 decibels absorbed, though as he trains his Quirk, his cap may increase. This leaves his present strength and speed capped at 4000 pounds and 400 miles per hour. However, his sound absorption isn't cumulative. If he stands on a busy city sidewalk for an hour and absorbs an hour of 90-decibel sound, his strength and speed are only at the level of 90 decibels.
Storing pent-up sound waves in your body is not without consequence, however. Prolonged storage of levels at or near his cap can cause Alex significant problems. At thirty minutes, he gets a sense of malaise, like a person who is coming down with an illness but whose symptoms haven't manifested yet. At forty-five minutes, he starts to feel significant stomach discomfort. At an hour , he starts to get a headache. At an hour and a half, the headache intensifies to migraine levels and he becomes seriously nauseous. At an hour and forty-five minutes, he becomes short of breath. And at two hours, his body begins explosively venting the sound through an involuntary scream that, depending on the amount of sound stored up, can cause massive collateral damage, especially if his cap has grown beyond 100 decibels.
The only way to avoid this is for him to vent out the sound on his own. The sound, when being vented, is basically a combination of every individual sound he's absorbed. Because of this, it generally sounds like unlistenable auditory sludge. Thankfully, he can do this slowly over a longer period of time to avoid collateral damage, like slowly letting the air out of a balloon instead of deflating it all at once. Of course, the quieter it is, the slower the drain, so there's always a trade-off between effectiveness and ambient noise level (especially in a stealth situation).
Side-effects of his Quirk include a complete immunity to loud sounds (to the point where he's never experienced "too loud" in his entire life), and the ability to speak at and hear sounds of any frequency.
Inventory & Possessions:
Sample Post: Background can be included into the Sample Post, but it's not obligatory. Something about how you became a villain / chose to be a hero / personal bit of information relevant to the character.
You need to end it with [/hider] in order to actually hide it. Should look like this:
[hider=Alex Wade]
Your CS Here
[/hider]
You also have an errant color code that's going to mess up your hiders, since RPGuild is going to mistake your "hider" as a "color" and end up breaking the hider wholesale.
@Genon I'll check that tomorrow. It's getting late here, I'm heading to bed. :P
@Tenma Tendo The second one seems easier to make a Quirk out of. It actually sounds like a good MHA Quirk alright ! I'd like to see a CS of such a concept !
1. I was thinking that their body would be more accustom is living in the water, so they'd constantly have to keep themselves hydrated and the like. Using the second part of their quirk would result in losing water a lot fast than they would normally. The body parts they change into water are still their bones and flesh so losing water (via fire or extreme heat or something) would be the same as losing said body part until enough water is ingested to reform the limb.
2. Kinda mentioned a little about before. So no overlapping of tattoos. The weight of each object they put inside of them is the same, so the more stuff they have in them, the heavier they get. The properties of said items are still there, so things like metal detectors will go off on her tattoos. And if a tattoo were to get cut or anything of the sort, said item will morph into their skin, causing excruciating pain and maybe even deadly consequences depending on the item. (The more I type about this, the more I wanna go with it lol)
It would be legs with fins instead of toes, if that makes sense? So they can walk and still be able to swim ^^
Okay, he's my first attempt, let me know if there's anything i should fix! Also apologies in advance if there are any typos ^^"
Appearance: Physical and Costumed Appearance
Regular Appearance (clothing-wise) Standing at a small 5 feet, Breeze is normally mistaken for a child, weight fluctuating depending on her Quirk. Messy green hair is barely held back back a ribbon and some pins, while similar colored eyes are almost always downcast. Body tends to be mostly covered.
Name: Breeze Porfirio Age: 15 Gender: Female
Hero/Villain Name: Arsenal Quirk Name: Living Armory Quirk Type: Transformation Quirk Description: Breeze's Quirk, Living Armory, gives Breeze the ability to store objects of any shape or kind inside of her body, so long as they aren't bigger than her body. For example, if she were to store a knife, she'd push the weapon into her forearm and allow it to sink into her body. Once she's done so, a tattoo of said item will appear where she placed it, in this case her forearm. She can store as many things as she wants inside of her so long as there's space on her skin; no overlapping of tattoos. The weight of each object Breeze puts inside of her is the same, so the more stuff she has in her, the heavier she gets. The properties of said items are still there, so things like metal detectors will go off on her tattoos. And if a tattoo were to get cut or anything of the sort, said item will morph into her skin, causing excruciating pain and maybe even deadly consequences depending on the item and where it's located.
Inventory & Possessions: Breeze tries not to use her Quirk unless she really needs to use it, so she often carries around a little messenger bag which carries her phone, a roll of gauze, a few pieces of peppermint candy, and a blanket she can cover herself with in case she needs to hide her tattoos. She also has spare pins for her hair on her person at all times.
Sample Post:
"No, you were a beat off. Do it again." The much larger man frowned as he watched his daughter slump to the ground, wooden knife clattered on the dull mat underneath her. Sweat rolled down the black lines etched into Breeze's skin, the girl simply trying to catch her breath. She wasn't sure how long she'd been at it, but judging by how red and slightly bruised her hand was, it'd been hours. He'd probably force her to do a few more drills with all this stuff inside of her before giving up on her for the night, going to bed, and leaving her own mind to torment her actions; it was always like that. But today felt like it'd be different, in the worst way possible.
"Hey, are you even listening to me? I let you have a little break and you can't even listen?" Breeze looked up from where she sat on her knees, staring up at her father with a distant fear. The type of fear she could never escape. "You'll be attending U.J. tomorrow. I expect you to be nothing but on your best behavior. I expect being no less than the top three in your class."
"B-But Father, I only ju--" Before she had the chance to finish, a wooden sword came down on her, Breeze having no choice but to react like she was taught. Breeze flattened to the ground, hair flopping around in the process, as she reach for her fallen knife and countered, using the momentum of her parry to pull herself into a standing position. "Wh-What if they're s-scary?"
"You worry about such pointless things. I've said my expectations, and you know what'll happen if you don't do as I say." Lowering the sword after successfully being stopped, the green haired man sighed, shaking his head. "The things I'd do to have a Quirk like yours. And you can't even do this one thing for me?" Aiming directly at Breeze, the man chuckled the wooden blade at her, said girl deflect with ease despite her eyes staring directly at the floor. She waited in bated breathe for he father to leave, and once he did, the girl slumped back down to the matted floor, tears already down her face.
Why couldn't she do anything right? It wasn't like she wanted to go this school anyways. If anything, she'd rather stay home and avoid people who were clearly better than her. She already had enough people she was often compared to as is... "Wh-Why can't I d-do anything right..." She hissed as she hid her tattoo infested face into her hands.
@Tenma Tendo This Quirk is fine as it is, I think. She can't put too many big objects in herself (This is going to become awkward fast) and just storing things isn't useful enough that I'd think it's OP without a limit. Beside the amount of things she stores is limited by the size of her own body and available place for tattoo, as well as being vulnerable to lose them if she'S wounded. I think this Quirk already feels like a Quirk enough as it is.
I'm ready to accept this character as it is, just wait for BlackCat's Approval. :)
@Ryonara From what I see, I think you can post the CS, but make sure BlackCat said it's fine, too, first.
@Heartfillia Thanks! And she does have the ability to turn off her Quirk, so I don't think it would be Mutant? Her Quirk does change parts of her body, so maybe it is Transformation? Also same about the jacket, it's so pretty ^^
@SimpleWriter Yeah...a lot of things about her Quirk can be taken out of context lol Glad to know the Quirk is sufficient and thanks for partially accepting me :)
@Genon Nice, another Accumulation quirk! One thing I'll suggest, though, is either lowering the current strength/speed cap or shortening the time limit. Fights and similar situations aren't likely to last long enough for even the minor side effects to set in. Also, a fight is likely to get pretty noisy, so he'd be able to benefit easily from high-level sound absorption. If the backlash started earlier, that'd balance things out.
@Ryonara Yep, looks good to me, feel free to move him to the Characters section.
@Tenma Tendo Again, looks good, and I agree Transformation fits best. Post away (and ohh, SimpleWriter, why am I not surprised at your wording xD)
Thanks for the feedback. What do you think would the most appropriate timeframe? I'm personally leaning towards an hour as his maximum time limit, since he was also intended to be kind of a stealthy hero. The boost in speed makes him kind of a ninja when he's not directly fighting, but I had the idea of making him vacillate between a stealth role and having a sonic weapon for stopping villains non-lethally (or riot control). He's going to have a music shtick too. The main reason it was so long was because with his super-speed, I envisioned him as spending long periods in the field with his silence field up, staying out of sight, tailing criminals and eavesdropping on secret meetings and stuff.
However, I didn't want to reduce the time limit without an exact figure from you.
Also, I'm sorry if I haven't been on much. Here in the Philippines had been a suckish week lately. It's not only damn hot that my wires for the net fried but I'll be back by next week cuz effin finally I get to have my paycheck to fix my stuff.
@Genon I don't like how you wrote this Quirk. It's too versatile, not focused enough and not well balanced in my opinion. Gaining speed and pwoer from storing sound sounds just like an excuse to have another hero with super strength and speed, which are two things that are supposed to be a lot more rare in MHA than other super heroes stories. I just feels like literally everyone wants that, and it's a bit annoying to be honest.
A quirk that blocks sound around himself and store it to use it back in sounds shockwaves sounded do-able, but I'm not ready to accept the accumulation part that makes him stronger for no good reason.
@Genon Yeah, looking over it again I've got to agree with SimpleWriter. The speed and strength don't seem to fit with what you're going for, and a stealthy character wouldn't need those anyway. Releasing the stored-up sound waves would be a good enough combat application.