[@Blackstripe][@Blazion][@Alfhedil] Alright! I think i have managed to get a first app of sorts together, ready for looking at, review, and of course any and all potential needed fixes to make it work best. :D Likewise, if anything needs to be added powers-wise to make sense or fit the scaling here or such i am also open to suggestions for this! :) [hider= The Unknown Soldier] [center]Basic Information[/center] [center]--------[/center] [b]Superhero/Villain Name[/b]: The Unknown Soldier [b]Civilian Name[/b]: Samuel Mason Colefield [b]Origin City/Planet[/b]: Atlanta, GA, United States of America (Earth) [b]Hometown[/b]: None, at least for now [b]Sex[/b]: Male [b]Race[/b]: Human [b]Height[/b]: 6’1 [b]Weight[/b]: 195 lbs [b]Physical Age[/b]: 23 [b]Actual Age[/b]: 180 [b]Birth Date[/b]: March 15th, 1841 [center]--------[/center] [b]Costumed Appearance[/b]: Most of a confederate soldier uniform (minus the hat) projected onto him from the “echoes” of his former comrades, albeit stylized and highly reshaped into a more tight-fitting, shorter-sleeved, and properly “heroic” attire based on hero costumes he saw whilst being a spirit. Think something like what Batman or Superman would wear, but with actual pants included. It includes added generic black hero head mask with eye holes and a short cape derived from other “echoes” to add an even more “heroic” touch. Honestly, no one can actually recognize it as being derived from an old generic Confederate soldier uniform due to how much it has been changed. Unless they happen to be very knowledgeable about old Civil War uniforms, at least. [b]Civilian Appearance[/b]: (the below in the hider, but with modern clothing) [center][hider=Appearance] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lPHM6lb.jpg[/img] [/hider][/center] [b]Icon[/b]: An emblazoned “US”, which can also be seen on the back of his uniform, which ironically he feels stands for “United States” as well as his hero name. [b]Costumed Personality[/b]: A bold, brave, and generally polite hero who takes pride in helping others and seeking to save the weak. Even small things like helping get someone out from rubble, or treating the wounded from a disaster, are not above him by any stretch of the imagination when he jumps in to help. This of course doesn’t mean he won’t put a cap into a very evil person if it means saving someone in a severe enough situation, nor that he is unwilling to fight others among heroes or the like if he feels he must to do the right thing, but in the end he is just an imperfect person who is trying to do what is right and best. Even he isn’t immune to mistakes, though his years as a spirit did help him in many ways as he witnessed and saw many things in his time. [b]Civilian Personality[/b]: A generally well-mannered and relaxed person, raised the old Southern way to open doors for women, be generally polite to others, respect his elders, and enjoy good home cooking like nothing else. Despite the sudden and slightly jarring "newness" of his new body and being able to actually move about among the living again, however, he has enough familiarity with the modern world from his time spent as just a spirit to function (and try not to spend all his money on shiny things). He does admittedly get a bit excited about some modern things and superheroes, at times like an excited child, but at the same time does have a certain level of discipline as both a former soldier and well-raised southern boy that keeps this properly in check...at least normally. Samuel to has a level of pride in his vastly improved medical skills over the decades as well, though has taken a side hobby interest in cooking as well that he seems to enjoy as a calming activity. Yet under all of his positivity and more upbeat aspects, Samuel is someone who inevitably has been scarred by war and death around him. Even as a spirit he became accustomed to being around and seeing conflict and war and death and such atrocities, yet on the other hand in his mind and heart does not feel nothing about these things when he hears of them or witnesses them. The events in what is now the Scar especially shook him during his travels, leaving him with a lingering sense of highly dreaded deja vu at seeing the United States split into two nations and a battleground all over again. [b]Super Abilities[/b]: -[i]Skills[/i]: 1 – He can utilize and care for a Whitworth Rifle properly due to the skills he had in life, but more than that he’s acquired the knowledge to become highly proficient with general firearms and weapons handling and use. 2 – He can communicate with the lingering spirits of the dead still attached to the mortal plane, due to being a super strong spirit, which is itself generally useful. 3 – Though information he can access from the “echoes” etched into his soul, Samuel’s medical and even surgical skills have seen an extreme improvement from their far less...”sanitary” and “effective” Civil War era roots. 4 – He is highly fluent in many languages of the world, including most European languages, both written and spoken. At least after having had well over 100 years to learn these things and converse about them with other dead. -[i]Powers[/i]: 1 – He can naturally summon the “echoes” others souls have left upon him, basically projecting the information etched into him by these echoes as spiritual servants who follow his orders. Albeit, they can be imbued with a copy of their old clothes/equipment they had on them at their deaths (or project them onto himself alternately) to be even more useful. Due to his power these “echoes” can become or be made corporeal (visible) to interact with the corporeal and even remain incorporeal (invisible to the normal person) in order to interact with other incorporeal things like other spirits and/or ‘intangible’ targets respectively. 2 – As a very powerful spirit now encased in flesh again due to becoming so powerful, he can perceive the differences between the living and dead, spirit and non-spirit, and the like to a very fine level. He can tell at a glance a possessed person from a normal one, as one example. He can also see spirits lingering in the mortal plane that normal people cannot perceive, which along with his ability to physically interact with them and the intangible due to his strength as a spirit this can be very useful potentially. 3 – His physical body is more of a...convenience, as it were, and he can naturally repair it if it takes damage (or even make a new one if the old one got destroyed). Of course this means he can seemingly “survive” ridiculous damage, like regenerating back from a head whilst still controlling his blasted-off parts or re-absorbing them, but he still finds this to be a very useful thing for his “new life” among the living again. -[i]Vulnerabilities[/i]: (Necessary for more powerful characters) 1 – Destroying his physically body is strangely one good way to deal with him, since it is just as squishy as other human beings' bodies. He has to repair it himself, after all, and so this distracts him. Likewise, utterly destroying his body is one way to stall him outright or get him off your back for a time as he has to work to reform it. Since he made himself a new body, he can only free roam as a spirit when it is destroyed entirely as well. This traps him in his flesh to an extent, though he still remains a very powerful spirit at his core. 2 – Servants made from “Echoes” can be destroyed by corporeal means when they are in corporeal form, and by incorporeal means when in incorporeal form. Samuel can feel where they are and when they have been destroyed as well, but otherwise can’t detect damage dealt to them. If they are destroyed all he can do is re-create these minions from the echoes again at that point. Further, these minions made from echoes are vulnerable to magic and powers able to harm, capture, and/or slaying spirits...albeit they do outright dissipate in the case someone tries to enslave/control them using magic or other means. 3 – Only energy attacks (this does not mean electricity or nuclear energy or such, just energy), anti-ghost tech, magic, psychic energy attacks (not including telekinesis since he’s incorporeal as a spirit) and enchanted objects can affect him as a spirit. Whether these hurt him or not as a spirit, as he is at his strongest as just that, depends on the strength of the things trying to hurt or affect him in the first place. Basic ghost-capturing equipment, for example, isn’t going to be able to seal him away or lock him up at all like it is able to do with generic ghosts/spirits. -[i]Gadgets/Weapons[/i]: Old weapons from the Civil War and both World Wars, as well as Korea and Vietnam, and even the modern era. These are themselves items projected from the information of the “echoes” he acquired from the dead in his world travels, which in more recent years before his “sudden re-acquisition of a body” were themselves encountered as he passed by many modern battlefields and cities. Especially when he passed anywhere near the Scar, for that matter... But outside of those, really he has nothing else outside of being able to project and somewhat tweak the clothes/equipment of the former dead spirits whose echoes he has acquired. This does not amount to much variety of items, but at least covers a wide range of clothing types. [b]Civilian Occupation[/b]: Unemployed (currently, at least) [center]----Biography----[/center] [b]Character History/Origin[/b]: [hider=Life Before and during the Civil War] Samuel Mason Colefield was born to a wealthy family in Atlanta, Georgia before the advent of the Civil War. Son of a doctor (whose family had immigrated down from the North) and a nurse (a classic southern belle who fell in love with Samuel’s future father), from a young age the boy was exposed to the most state-of-the-art techniques and skills of the day with the hopes he’d one day take up his father’s profession. It was naturally expected of him, after all, and his father was among the most skilled doctors who worked in Atlanta’s hospitals. However, Samuel from a young age was able to discern the differences between his father’s silently held abolitionist beliefs and those of the pro-slavery society around him. He never knew much of what he should think due to this, looking to one side or the other for some answer or another as the overall issue became more and more heated. Eventually the advent of the Civil War came, however, and with it the propaganda and zeal that consumed both sides like wildfire and confused him even more. All he knew was...he wanted it all to stop, frankly, and for things to go back to more peaceful times. His father also came under suspicions of being a “union sympathizer” eventually when his paternal grandparents fled to the North, though merely stood his ground by stating “I am a doctor, no more and no less. I love the people of the state of Georgia, and would not seek to harm them. By the grace of God I will continue to care for those who are sick and in need as best as I can, and that is all I care about in this debacle”. A man of upstanding character by most peoples’ regards as well, Samuel’s father did manage to retain his position as the war dragged on and a need for medical care and medicines skyrocketed within the Confederacy. Samuel himself for a time assisted in this work, though was soon conscripted and sent off to fight for the Confederacy due to a pressing need for troops. An old flintlock musket that barely worked was placed in his hands, he was handed the trademark Confederate grey uniform, and after some time spent being briefly drilled and trained with his brothers in arms as a sharpshooter he was sent off to the battlefield. Under the command of Lieutenant General Howard D. Clarke, Samuel and his fellow brethren of the First Corps, Army of Georgia, marched up North and fought against the union forces in many battles and skirmishes. They participated in many disparate conflicts ranging from the Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as the “Second Battle of Manassas”) all the way down to the battles in Dandridge and Athens in 1864. Samuel was noted his skill with one of the Confederacy’s rare Whitworth Rifles, expensive yet highly accurate for the time, all despite his ever-growing feelings of despair with the war. The younger man even assisted in part when his comrades were injured in the field, but as he and the others starved, suffered, and were exposed to the horrors of the terrible conflict they had been pulled into...doubts and internal conflict began to arise in Samuel’s mind. Was this worth the fighting at all? Was there anything worth himself and others having had to kill relatives on the field of battle, and watching men die from disease and starvation in droves? In the end Samuel wasn’t able to make this less-than-rare-opinion of his known, as he and his fellows were soon taken to the side by his commanding officer one day for a “special project” when they were stationed in New Orleans. They were, due to the tide of the war, ordered to go to Columbus, Georgia. Here they finally discovered they were to recover a hidden stash of gold the Confederacy had concealed from the Union so mercenaries could be purchased to help win the war. In reality, their commander had gone a tad traitor after hearing about the gold and merely desired to seize it for himself before the war ended. The corps were then led off in the dead of night, secretly floated over the Union-secured Mississippi River, and ran into a Union detachment who chased them away into the deep swamps of Louisiana. Here they attempted to secure food to survive as they contemplated another move, but with no clue to where the treasure was located and their commander going more visibly mad things deteriorated fast. Eventually, however, the remnants of the group came across a great hole that had been dug in a patch of solid ground amidst the dense swampy land. Within it, encased in walls of stone on the sides, were crates filled to the brim with gold and valuables. The actual Confederate gold they had been led through hell to find, which had been meant to be hidden from all. At this time, the former Lieutenant General seemed to finally turn on the group in an insane frenzy, and discharged his pistol at them in a frantic haste. Those few among them still sane and capable retaliated, among which were Samuel himself, and put the crazed man down....but this came at the cost of what little strength they themselves had left. [/hider] [hider=End of a Life] The soldiers had been wandering deeper into the swamp for weeks after being driven in by their enemies, and brought into danger to find a treasure for a greedy man and his underlings. They had been too frightened of their enemies lurking just beyond the borders to dare try to find a way out of the swamp, and had long run out of supplies whilst being cut off from any support or help. No one knew they were there at all, even, save for perhaps the Union men who had driven them into the swamps. As the men had tried to go on, things had only gotten worse as well as morale died out and desperation truly set in. Men died daily from disease and starvation, parasites got into their infected wounds, and gators or others creatures of the swamp seemed to lurk about like vultures around them. Some even drowned after attempting to swim away from starvation-induced hallucinations of Union soldiers. One by one they fell like dominoes, to one malady or another, and nothing Samuel tried seemed to be able to save them all. Some had begun to curse God, some the war, some the Yankees, and some both the North and the South for all of it. Others had cried out for their mothers, others for beloved siblings or lovers, and even more died without another word. In all of this Samuel had done his best to keep them all alive, as the only one with any applicable rudiments of medical capability among them. Even as he was worn down to the breaking point, and his corps’ crazed former commander had injured what few were left, Samuel still attempted to patch up the other survivors as he himself was bleeding out and wracked with various maladies and infection. More than anything, the man sought to save the lives of others even as he himself was dying and suffering alongside them. He had been raised this way...to see the value of a human life. Yet eventually the last comrade of his died in his arms, a gunshot wound to the temple from the insane Lieutenant General finally doing him in. After he gently laid the body down, Samuel said a silent prayer in his mind for another dead man for the last time. After all, he was...he was now the only one left. Samuel then crawled over to the pile of gold and stared upon it upon his knees.... ...and he cursed it with all of his last dying breaths. He too cursed the damned politicians who had started the war over one thing or another, he cursed the slavery that had become such an issue to cause this war, he cursed the men who had led him and others here to die, he cursed the greed of his superiors, and finally he cursed that he would never see his beloved home in Atlanta ever again. Then in his final moment he looked up into the blue sky, the sound of birds chirping coming to his ears. Then with his final moment he spoke one last time. “My brothers....the Lord be willing, please allow me to take upon myself the burdens of you my fellow man. This....that you may find peace....in his hands and warm embrace. And dear Lord, please show pity upon us sinful sons of man once more...yea we who have suffered and shed blood so freely....” With those final words Samuel finally collapsed dead, his fresh corpse falling down upon the bloodied mud beneath him. [/hider] [hider=After the War: A Second Chance] ...Yet there would not be a true end for Samuel, a man who had inadvertently offered himself the scapegoat for the souls of the restless dead on the mortal plane. He had channeled the anger and grudges and curses of his now-dead brethren in his last moments, even offering them salvation if he could help, and thus rather than him fully passing on something else occurred after his “death”. The souls of his comrades were drawn to him, and with his spirit willing to help them pass on they rushed into him like moths to a flame and began literally 'dumping off' their baggage upon him. All of their "unfinished business" or other strong ties to the world, along with all their curses and grudges and regrets and the like that would keep them from passing on were instead transferred to Samuel. Anything that would keep them from passing into limbo. Through this the other spirits were able to go on into limbo outright, but this too kept Samuel’s soul rooted to the mortal plane and unable to pass on. Yet this was not all. What the spirits of his comrades were doing to Samuel also scarred the soldier's soul in the process, a kind of painful and permanent scarring that leaves an "echo" of each soul who is dumping their burdens off upon him. These 'echoes' are fragments of the souls of others, a fragment of themselves which is permanently etched into the soldier's own soul. This process both scars the soul terribly...and yet also strengthens the affected soul as well. Samuel’s ghost found itself wandering America, and even the world, after his death. In his travels he eventually came to terms with his situation of being trapped on the mortal plane, though not without a new purpose to help him move forward. He allowed other spirits trapped in the mortal plane to dump off their burdens and the like upon him as well, which inevitably made him stronger and stronger over time. He during that time period merely saw his actions as a thing he could do for others, a precept his father had driven into him from a young age, because he could not move on then he could give as many others that chance as he could. Yet eventually Samuel found himself so powerful he was able to do something that utterly surprised him. One day he focused on his old body, recalling it fondly as he spoke with another spirit in Japan, only to find himself in a new body! It looked just like his old one, a thing he felt very thankful for, but he could still see the spirits as well! In all honesty, he had never assumed to have such power as to be able to make a new body for himself! He hadn’t even tried, admittedly. Though...very quickly after he realized his naked American self was standing in the middle of foreign graveyard. That, and a lot of local people were there and now staring at the buck ass nude white man who had just appeared in front of them out of nowhere. Most were shocked. Some horrified. Others amused enough to bring out a camera. After this event, Samuel found himself able to wander the world of the living as one of them again. Albeit with no heartbeat or pulse. However, his trip back home at the time was more than a little bit ”awkward” to say the very least. Of course the year was 2021, so stranger things have happened than a naked American man appearing in Japan due to being a super powerful spirit...right? Right?! [/hider] [b]Optional information[/b]: -He has experimented with his powers a bit before leaving Japan, getting some amount of a better grasp of them. During that time he stayed at a local shrine run by some friendly yokai he had talked to before as a spirit. Admittedly, they did get a kick out of him embarrassing himself like an idiot in front of other humans though. He will probably never be able to live it down. -His former corps has been a matter of debate by Civil War historians, who wonder where they disappeared to or died. Since where they died and the lost gold in all now in the Scar, it’s not likely the mystery will be solved anytime soon. -He...may have worked on a hero persona and costume and such before getting on the plane back to America. For a long time he’d imagined the design workings of his own hero costume and such in his head, as he witnessed heroes and super criminals emerging in the world. The real question is if he will actually put this all to proper use on his part. -He is on the plane back to the good old US (aka the eastern side of the former USA), which will be landing in Gotham. [center]--------[/center] Nemesis: (none, yet) Allies: (none, yet) Team: (none, yet) Other: (none) [/hider]