For your consideration...Name: Jack "Pickles" Perkins
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Abilities: Jack harnesses within him a personality (heretofor referred to as "Pickles") that summons a supernatural state of being. Once Pickles takes over, all of his natural abilities are greatly enhanced during the duration. Agility, strength, healing, senses and durability are all amplified to superhuman levels, the peaks of which are unknown but initially three times amplified from a normal human while undampened. Two times while dampened. When the Pickles personality is not in control, Jack might as well be your average human.
Pickles can be summoned, but often rapaciously takes over of his own accord, despite Jack's willingness to surrender control. Pickles is, by all accounts, insane and is driven by his own selfish desires whereas Jack is a reasonable person just wanting to do good. The two personalities can communicate with one another, but only one personality can "drive" at a time.
Inspired by The Beast from 'Split' // Hulk, Legion from Marvel // Crazy Jane, Joker from DC.
Skills: Makeup application, balloon shaping, juggling, various novelty acts, cooking, public speaking and performing.
Equipment: In addition to his civilian clothes (t-shirts and jeans, usually), he has his clown attire consisting of patchwork oversized pants, an occasional bowtie, and a bicycle horn that he likes to honk, a black curly wig. He also keep with him a shiv for self defense within the compound.
Biography:
Jack Perkins is a good man. Jack Perkins has demons.
He was the son of a housewife and a cop, the latter of whom had a bit of an anger issue, exacerbated by an excessive drinking problem. Life at home was tense. Though his mother was the epitome of loving affection, his father was quite the opposite. Never happy, never sated and always taking his stress home with him. On the worst nights, Jack and his mother felt his wrath physically.
Living in a groundhog's day of repetitive hell actually did a lot for Jack, helping him develop an emotional callus. It also birthed other forms of coping mechanisms within himself. Since he had no friends, he made one. Since he couldn't go outside to have fun, he went on imaginary adventures with his new custom companion, whom he learned was called Pickles.
As the years went on, Jack and Pickles became extraordinarily close. They would converse with eachother, console one another and generally just became totally intertwined and bonded. Both of them had a growing resentment for Jack's father, but Pickles most of all. He would make crazy suggestions, advising Jack to bring harm upon his dad or worse...
The dark days grew pitch black in January of 2013. The Black Sabbath had happened and it's effect rippled across the world. When Jack was 12, he and his parents were at a grocery store. One of the patrons was arguing with a cashier. The altercation became heated and, before anyone could really understand what was going on, the Patron seemingly ignited the cashier without any use of tools. His father, an off-duty cop, decided to interject and attempted to tackle the assailant, but the Deviant was not going down easily.
Later that night when the ambulance came, they tried to console the young man who had just seen his parents immolated in flame and reduced to gore and ash before his very eyes, along with several other customers who got caught in the line of fire. Jack was alone. Well, except for Pickles. Something changed within him that night. Something triggered. Suddenly Pickles figured out how to grab the keys to the proverbial car.
Foster home after foster home, Jack was passed around several times. Devious behavior was a constant problem but any time Jack was confronted with it, he would claim innocence. It wasn't him. It wasn't his idea to do surgery on the family cat. It was Pickles. Each time he was caught in a particularly disturbing incident, the adults were mortified to see that the boy had covered his mouth and nose in lipstick. Or was that red substance something else...?
It wasn't long before the government decided he was a lost cause. Shipped off to a juvenile institution, Jack became a product of the system. On his 18th birthday, he was up for release. Mustering all the willpower he could, Jack kept Pickles at bay and put of a show of absolute sanity to the release board. His performance was rewarded with some spending cash a door that slammed shut on his way out.
Depression was constant and his interaction with Pickles was all the more prevalent.
At 25 years old, Jack has let Pickles "out" on numerous occasions. Sometimes voluntary, many times not. His psychological counterpart was becoming more radical, harder to tame. Jack hated what the Peacekeepers were doing to the Deviants, despite his own history with them. It was cruel and unjust. Pickles felt the same, except Pickles was not afraid to act on it.
On night, Jack woke up to the sight of blood on his cuffed hands and a pain in his neck. Armed peacekeepers surrounded him in the back of a large military vehicle as they drove through the entrance of one of the Devo compounds.
"What's happening?! Where are you taking me?" he cried out, frantic.
"Going to lock-up, devo."
"I'm not a deviant! What are you-" he tried to explain but was cut off by one of the keepers slamming the butt of their gun into Jack's mouth.
"Shut up, you sick fuck! The things you did back there... the bodies... You bit Carl's throat out, for God's sake, you sadistic fucking loon! He had a family! ...they all did..." One of the other keepers put a hand on this man's shoulder, trying to console him. Jack just looked on bewilderment, confusion filling his mind as he found himself admitted to the slums. Jack didn't like the Peacekeepers. Pickles was trying to help.
Jack Perkins is a good man. Jack Perkins has demons.
I'm back from vacation so I'm gonna start working on my CS.
Dion Sturgenson
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Appearance: Dion has several runic tattoos on his body. He stands around 6' in height, coming in at 85kg(185 lbs). He speaks with a bit of an accent, often mixing in Japanese into his sentences, usually when cursing.
Abilities:Wyrd
To learn a rune he has to study it, learn what the word means, learn what the symbol is, and learn about what it means to him
Tyr:Tyr(God of warriors) Summons a single weapon, currently a small throwing knife in a pocket of subspace. The blade has the rune etched in the hilt and materializes around the drawn rune. Can be summoned back to the hand when thrown. It can be used with his katana to create an elemental blade. -Low Drain
Kenaz: Fire By exciting atoms around him, Dion is able to produce fire, or an small 10 yard explosion of a small object if written on it as a trap. -Low Drain
Isa: Ice- Dropping the temperature of things he is able to freeze things. Focusing and using more energy he is able to freeze parts of people he touches. -Mid Drain
Stan: Stone- Dion draws the power of earth to reshape the earth around him. Often this is a shell of near impenetrable earth or a prison trap. -Mid drain to High Drain
Perth: Unknown- Dion hides his presence, becoming unperceivable to nearly any being and all cameras as he bends light around him and dampens sound. -Mid to High Drain
Laguz:Water- Using this rune, Dion can freely manipulate water, and in a pinch use this rune to heal minor wounds. -High Drain
Hunter's Instincts: Dion has heightened reflexes and is notably faster than most people, devo's included. Being infused with the Wyrd, he has developed a mildly stronger boy that is resistant to cutting and blunt trauma.Skills:
Linguistics: Dion is fluent in English, Norwegian, and Japanese. He has a bit of knowledge of Old Norse.
Combat Training: Dion was trained in Iaidō(Journeyman 6th Dan), Kendo(Apprentice 4th Dan), and Shorinji Kempo(Apprentice 4th Dan); since he turned 5. It is something his Grandfather was insistent on as it would surely benefit him in the future. He took to Iaidō like a fish to water. He just attained his new Rank in this martial art.
Diplomat's charm: Dion's taken a few lessons from his grandmother on how to sway the opinions of others.Equipment:
A platinum pendant given to him by his father on his last birthday before he was taken away. It has the Nordic rune Pertho with the inscription of To lose everything is to gain Everything.
A traditional Katan forged by a family friend. It is carbon steel and has a black sheath. The hilt has the family seal engraved in it on the butt.Biography:
Dion was born Late December in 2004 to Leif and Zara Sturgenson. He has an older brother, Bjorn who is five years older than he is. He was unaware of his family's secret as he grew up, believing they were all normal. He himself thought Devo's where pretty cool as what kid doesn't like the idea of super powers? As his father was transferred from the marines to the Peacekeepers, they relocated to Ney York City. He was 9 when the Black Sabbath occurred. Several years after he lost both of his grandparents on his father's side due to riots.
Dion's favorite part of classes was history. Especially his parent's mixed culture. As a biracial Japanese Norwegian American, he often travelled to Japan to see is mother's grandparents in Okinawa. There, the Devo's are in better living conditions than back home. His aunt is one and she is allowed to live with her family as her power is rather benign with being able to regenerate. His mother's family is rather tolerant and sees the Devo's as how humans will progress forward. His Grandfather, Ippo, is the head of the Devo-Humans Relations Committee. The DHRC is against the brutality of the Peacekeepers and only hosts a single Outpost for them in Tokyo. Ippo regularly has Dion's family over at Christmastime, especially when Dion showed signs of being a Devo.
It happened when Dion was 16. He was in Japan at the time and for Christmas he was given a set of wooden runes by his Aunt. He was playing with them and used his first rune, Kenaz which set the runes ablaze. Immediately Peacekeepers had been called but Ippo had such high clout he raised a hellstorm over it all, and arranged for Dion to get papers to allow him to be able to travel out of the States to visit his family, approved by the Japanese government. To this end, relations between Japan and the UN were getting strained as none of the citizens approved of the brutal methods of the Peacekeepers. They were calling it a Hostile Invasion to our nation and it's people. While it meant that he was able to move between nations, he was heavily monitored and hassled in the States. Especially since Leif was a Commander and it eventually cost him his promotion. They said he had a Conflict of Interest and it really tore at the family.
His mother stays with him in the compound, his grandfather very upset over the conditions there. Not once has he ever lacked for things though with their home being ransackedchecked every month, they are under a fair bit of stress, his mother lost her job at the Hospital and they restrict the time his father and brother are able to see them.
Motivations for being sympathetic to the DRM
Having such a hard time living in the state, as the Peacekeepers are making it insanely difficult for his father to get accepted as a citizen in Japan, he wants to see everyone get past this and see that the way it's being handled is completely wrong. He relates to the Peacekeepers as the New Nazis. He despises most of them. He understands that some people want to feel safe but this is not the way to go about it and he fears the growing tension in Japan as the UN is increasing it's sanctions on the country.
After reading all the new character's abilities and such, I made some changes to Oxley's skillset to make her a better asset basically :--D
