Name: Christopher Vincent Cushing

Alias: Magnus

Age: 38 but looks 27

Gender: Male

Height: 5’10

Weight: 176

Personality: Serious and methodical.

Powers Description: Christopher has the ability to harness the power of ancient energies to manipulate the world around him. This manipulation appears to others as “Magic”. Being able to morph objects, create portals, flight or communicate with the dead, would be some examples of what he could do with his powers.

Abilities: Christopher is knowledgeable in hand-to-hand combat, studying boxing, wing chun, fencing and bartitsu. From his previous experience in the war, he had expert knowledge of firearms and medical knowledge like the human anatomy. During his lifetime he had remembered various occult knowledge and ancient languages.

Weaknesses: Christopher has to recharge himself after using his powers for an extended period of time. During this period he cannot use magic and is extremely tired making him vulnerable to being attacked.

Backstory: Moving to LA from England to try and get away from the growing occult figures in his homeland. Working as a private investigator using his powers to help people or solve various crimes. All through his main goal is to stop occult groups trying to use the ancient energy for their own greedy purposes.

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Name: Silvia Guilbault
Alias: Phantasm
Age: 19*
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: 124lbs
Personality: Studious, Bold, and relentless
Powers/Abilities/Weaknesses Description: Silvia exhibits many hallmarks of a specter possessing a physical form. When body and spirit are joined Silvia is much stronger, faster, more durable, and recovers faster than your average human. This of course changes when the two are separated. Her spirit can project itself free of her body and move independently, interacting with the world much like a poltergeist. During times of separation her physical vessel returns to it's normal capabilities and left vulnerable to weapons and attacks such as anyone else. Her spirit likewise, while it does not take physical damage can only be disrupted so much before it begins to fade and must return.

Knowing some of her vulnerabilities she has armed herself with some more conventional weapons, a handgun and blade. Though ideally she need not use them as she becomes more accustomed to their use.

*Being a semi-incorporeal spirit, Silvia does not age and is theoretically immortal. This extends to her physical form as her spirit maintains its health and vitality. Silvia can only be bonded to a single host until such time that it is killed or destroyed, at which point she will attempt to find and take hold of a new host. So complete is supplanting of the host that the body itself unnaturally alters and changes over time to match that of her spirit. In the event that she is unable to find a vessel after losing physical form then her spirit will eventually dissipate and will be no more.
Backstory: Daughter of well off French immigrants, Silvia fled to the US with her family during the German invasion. Even though she could be considered upper class, she put in time to the war effort in manufacturing for both her old and new home. By all accounts her life should have been fairly uneventful as the close of the war looked to be in sight. That was cut short though as she was mugged one night returning home from work. Intending to leave her for dead, both Silvia and her attacker were shocked to discover that the young woman turned out to be powered as her spirit left her body. Shortly after Silvia's funeral took place and the family mourned.

Her attacker was never found, but a month later Silvia seemingly returned from the dead without so much as a scratch. Death had left its mark though as the resurrected woman's personality had shifted dramatically. Whether from the experience, influences of her host, or some other factor, Silvia became focused on eliminating crime like a vengeful spirit. It's been nearly two years since the incident. While Phantasm is not yet a well known name, her elegant and professional flare has ginned up some talk among the growing vigilante circle.
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Name: Hardy Jay

Alias: Buck Thorn

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 190 lbs.

Personality: Hardy is energetic, outgoing, and optimistic.

Powers/Abilities/Weaknesses Description:

Powers: Hardy can alter the surfaces of objects close to him (including his own skin) to produce multiple hard, thorn-like projections of varying length (about 25 cm max.). On his own body, he can cause rows of tiny projections to improve his grip or footing, or make his skin abrasive and painful to the touch. It has not occurred to him to turn his fists into cestus-like weapons, or use elbow spikes and the like. At short range only (maybe 10 meters or so), he can use this ability to cause objects to cling together (like cockleburs), trip or tangle up another person, or ward or block off a small area.

Abilities: Hardy has a broad general knowledge of machines, plumbing, and carpentry. His physical abilities are in no way "Super," but he's a strapping farm boy who excelled at high school sports. While not a formally-trained fighter, he knows how to scrap.

Weaknesses: Hardy is a very picture of the naïve farm boy trying to make it in the big city. His naivete and gullibility means he gets fooled or misled more than many.

Backstory: Hardy won a trip to LA after winning a talent contest in Kansas. He decided to stay and try to become a movie star. He hasn't had much luck, though, and makes a meager living as a handy-man. He is happy to use his powers to help those that need helping, but his dream is that somehow his powers can lead to a career in the movies.

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Name: Maxim (Maks) Andreevich Rodin
Alias: The Arclight
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 56 kilograms
Personality: Maxim is an amicable, farsighted individual. He seems to be quite affectionate to folks he's close with, and also has a marked liking for fluffy animals. Maxim is rather focused, and it's hard for anyone to really distract him from what he's currently doing. He can, however, be kindled to a lethal fury should he see someone he really liked get injured.

Powers/Abilities/Weaknesses Description:

Energy Infusion: Maxim demonstrates the ability to infuse energy into weaponry that he is touching. This infusion will manifest as a golden glow on the object, which then acts to enhance destructive capabilities. Usually, bullets will have enhanced penetration and blades will become sharper. However, by scaling energy consumption, the effects can be furthered. At a higher level, bullets will be able to cause small grenade scaled explosions upon impact, and blades will be able to carve through steel with ease.

The drawback of this ability is that it applies only to one or two things at a time. The moment Maxim loses physical contact with the weapon that he had enhanced, he has to pick it up again and charge it in order to apply the same effects. Using it constantly, especially at a heightened level, consumes stamina, so it requires careful spending.

Backstory: Maxim Rodin hails from Vladivostok, the easternmost major city of the former Russian Empire. His parents were part of the prosperous middle class that had arisen in the cities as industrialization gradually arose throughout the country. Naturally, they were opposed to the growing movement of Communists in the Empire, which they perceived as a threat to their livelihood.

Alas, that is just what happened. In October 1917, the Russian Empire fell into a revolution. The Reds and the Whites fought a brutal civil war for the next few years… but the Rodins were having none of it. As soon as the hostilities broke out, they left the Empire, refusing to allow Maxim the slightest chance to be conscripted by the filthy Communists… or the capitalist Whites. He will not fight there.

And so, they moved to the United States, first moving to Anchorage, Alaska before going down south to a more pleasant climate in Los Angeles. It was here Maxim discovered his own abilities, manifesting when he was being taught to fire a rifle to hunt wild game. The rifle began to glow with an iridescent golden glow, and the bullet that it fired cleanly blasted a hole through the rock that the target was behind, which also had a bullet hole in it.

And so, the Arclight was born; over the coming years, he would hone his marksmanship, combining it with his power to become one of the most daunting superpowered vigilantes on the West Coast. Woe be to those who commit evil in the dark; they will be lit up by weapons of golden light soon enough.

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Name: Marina Clara Portacio De La Cruz

Alias: The Kraken to the tabloids, Sirena in her home community/ as a preferred name.

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Height: 5'3"

Weight: 125 lbs

Personality: Shy and wary of others, Deep sense of justice, Compassionate even to some criminals.





Backstory:
To sum up, Marina's parents are a back alley nurse and a dockworker/fisherman. She gained her powers at sixteen after falling off her dad's boat and started fighting crime last year after one of her mother's patients tipped them off about the dockyard being robbed. More detailed version below if needed.



Visual Description or Pic: Marina's preferred form that she can hold onto on reflex is a dark skinned teenage girl with Asian features, brown eyes and long black hair. Her 'true' form is a pinkish-purple rubbery skinned humanoid with large bright yellow eyes with w-shaped pupils, webbed fingers and toes, four large webbed tentacles sprouting from her back, and a mass of smaller tentacles for hair.