[hider=Crane][center][hr][hr] [color=orange][h1][b]CRANE[/b][/h1][/color] [b][color=white]"Oh, my."[/color][/b][/center][hr][hr] [color=white][B][ NAME ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]Ting Feng[/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ HERO IDENTITY ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]CRANE[/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ NICKNAME/ALIAS ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT] Tiff, Dumpling [/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ AGE ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]Nineteen[/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ GENDER ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]Female[/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ AFFILIATION ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]HERO [/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ APPEARANCE ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]Ting Feng is tall. Very tall. Approximately ten meters, or thirty three feet tall. She is also wide, as in muscular, with broad shoulders. Her light brown skin is darkened somewhat by exposure to the sun, and her black hair is cut short above her ears, with her short bangs usually swept to the side. Her skin is freckled, and the freckles are the size of most people's fists. She has a wide nose and big eyes, proportional to her face. For Ting Feng, her super hero clothing and her civilian clothing are pretty much one in the same. Back in the day she used to wear massive cloth cloaks. Now, with the power of technology, she usually wears athletic, skin-tight clothing. She wears a sleeveless cropped sports top. It's white, with orange outlines around the arms and torso, and a black, circular symbol that resembles a crane spinning a vortex. For a bottom, she wears black leggings that go all the way down to her ankles, where her feet are bare. Her outfit is made of a durable, waterproof material.[/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ PERSONALITY TRAITS ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT] Ting Feng is quite bubbly, earnest, and excitable, but she's always almost sneaking around like she's trying not to upset a particularly touchy librarian. Whenever she senses her emotions are getting too roused, she apologetically reels them back in. Even her voice, if she speaks too loudly, can do serious damage. There's a genuine sense of gentleness about her. Crane carries herself deliberately, and with poise. As far as heroes go, Ting Feng is what some in the business call: "The Real Deal". She's one of those true believer hero types, whose primary motivation is just the goodness of their heart. Of course, the money doesn't hurt, though Tiff sends most of it back home to her family, and saves the rest. To her view she doesn't have much to spend money on. Praise and applause has always made her self-conscious, but Tiff has spent her entire life being self-conscious. There's kind of an eternal embarrassment involved with being a giant. It feels like constantly being under a dozen different microscopes. She'd much prefer to be one of those anonymous hero types, but...that's not really possible, is it? Tiff tries to considerate of other people's feelings, though she isn't confident of her skills as a conversationalist. The last thing she wants to do is upset people. Being so far away, it is relatively easy for her to miss some emotional queues. And due to her overall kind-heartedness and trusting nature, Tiff is easily beguiled. Some might call her naive, others might just say she looks for the best in other people. When she isn't heroing around, Tiff's favorite place to be is the ocean. It's a new novelty to her, having not grown up around any. There's no place she feels like she can be herself than in a big body of water with no one and nothing around to step on. It's so big, it can even make her feel small, which is liberating. Back in the day her old hobbies were yoga, tai chi, and messing around in the woods. Now swimming has been added to the list. [/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ BIO ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]Ting Feng is the child of an immigrant who moved from China to the United States, and ended up in the country side. Ting Feng was a normal sized baby who just got bigger and bigger as she grew up. Her growth spurt, as her mother put it, never stopped. Ting Feng had to learn early on how to be careful around other people, and was quite grateful when she stopped growing the year she turned 16. One odd benefit of Ting Feng's unusual biology was the lack of needing to eat, but Ting Feng still ate her mothers dumplings, which was the source of her nickname. She did her first act of heroism as a fifteen feet tall 10 year old, smacking around a supervillain and his troops. This made the local news and it turned out Ting Feng, more than just carrying heavy things around for the rest of her life, wanted to be a superhero! Tiff, as she was called by some of her classmates, was mostly well-liked despite her differences. There would always be some loneliness to her condition, though, in a world not meant for her. Every year she just got bigger and bigger, and the people she loved got smaller and smaller. Moving to the big city seemed like a natural fit. Her mother was reluctant to let her go, but when she turned nineteen, she was finally allowed to 'pack her bags' and leave her midwestern hometown. Though, when she did, she would find herself missing the big open space. But being in a place bustling with people just as radically different and unusual like her, where her strength and gifts would be appreciated, and where she could make enough money to give her family a comfortable life? Tiff would put up with it. She is a rookie superhero with little experience beyond defeating a low tier supervillain.[/INDENT][/color] [color=white][b]| MISCELLANEOUS |[/b][/color] [color=orange][indent]Probably has a large online presence by default. Not entirely wholesome, either. She has nothing to do with it, and there's not much to be done. In fact, please don't tell her. [/indent][/color][/hider] [hider=Abilities] [color=white][B][ RANKING ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT] Kappa Class[/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ POWERS ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]Truly large, with super strength and durability to match. She has a slight regeneration factor, only relevant in scale of days, rather than minutes. Lighter than she ought to be, and she can sustain herself from the sun in lieu of eating or drinking. [/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ PHYSICAL STRENGTH ][/B][/color] ■■■■■■■■■■ [color=orange]Very big. Very strong. She can lift many tons of weight, able to pick up a car in one hand like a dumbbell in the gym. You'll probably not find any Hero in the world capable of physically moving as much matter as her.[/color] [color=white][B][ AGILITY ][/B][/color] ■■■□□□□□□□ [color=orange]Crane has trained her agility to be greater than most people, but has no supernatural advantage in it. She might seem slow, but this is just an illusion of scale. Still, if someone is genuinely fast, they'll be able to outpace her. [/color] [color=white][B][ INTELLIGENCE ][/B][/color] ■■□□□□□□□□ [color=orange]Crane had a decent, standard education.[/color] [color=white][B][ DESTRUCTIVENESS ][/B][/color] ■■■■■□□□□□ [color=orange]Crane can be incredibly destructive, fully capable of levelling buildings. But she has to be within arms reach to do so, or within the reach of something very heavy. If something is very big, she'll have to stomp and smash around a bit, targeting the supports.[/color] [color=white][B][ LETHALITY ][/B][/color] ■■■□□□□□□□ [color=orange]Not that she ever would, but she is very capable of squishing people. Beyond that, she has nothing unusual about her ability to bring harm beyond who she can touch or what she can throw. So her lethality relies on her longer reach and throwing capacity. If you challenged her and a normal person to destroy a dummy that was twenty feet away, she could 'kill' the dummy about as fast as anyone who knows how to stick thumbs into eyeballs real good.[/color] [color=white][B][ ENDURANCE ][/B][/color] ■■■■■■■■■□ [color=orange]Very big. Very tough. Down to the cellular level, viruses are literally unable to penetrate the outer walls of her cells. All conventional and most unconventional weaponry bounces off. Clever enemies may deduce that blunt, energy, gas, or electrical attacks, for example, might be more effective against her. She also has no resistance against anything that might directly bypass her incredible physical durability. But still: Guns? Nothing. Not even the big ones. Even a shot to the eyeball wouldn't do much beyond annoy her a little more, and she can always just blink.[/color] [color=white][B][ STAMINA ][/B][/color] ■□□□□□□□□□ [color=orange]Tiff can become tired out quicker than the average person if she does too much strenuous activity too quickly. Eating or drinking is more trouble than it's worth, and it takes a while for the sun to recoup her energy. Exhaustion is a more hypothetically prevalent issue for her than most other Heroes. One downside of her size and durability is that if she ever is injured, conventional medical treatment is useless.[/color] [color=white][B][ EFFICACY ][/B][/color] ■■■■■□□□□□ [color=orange]Tiff has a lack of experience, but she acts with caution as opposed to recklessness. If anything will hold her back it will be her unwillingness to take action, instead choosing restraint. Still, she is a good team player and will follow orders. Her large size and strength can be hindrance, but also makes her ideal in reducing the casualties of structural damage. Threats that require sheer unfiltered force will also be in her wheelhouse. [/color] [color=white][B][ SURVEILLANCE LEVEL ][/B][/color] ■□□□□□□□□□ [color=orange]Ting Feng is extremely easy to 'surveil.' In some places of the city, you can keep tabs on her by just looking out the window. It is highly unlikely she will be able to get away with any illicit activities. She's reluctant to cause harm, follows orders, and is inherently resistant to corruption. Hypothetically someone could get leverage over her by threatening her family, but they are not living in Castleburg so the chances of that are lower. It'll be important to impress upon her the necessity of not causing undue damage to the city. Other than that, she will most likely not be causing HERO any PR problems.[/color] [color=white][B][ SKILLS ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]Tai Chi- A defensive martial art/ form of exercise. Mostly used to improve her balance and spatial awareness. [/INDENT][/color] [color=white][B][ EQUIPMENT ][/B][/color] [color=orange][INDENT]Most equipment she has access too, she is just carrying around for other people. Most technology is beyond her ability to use.[/INDENT][/color] [/hider] [hr] [hider=Backup][center][hr][hr] [color=gray][h1][b]BACKUP[/b][/h1][/color] [b][color=gray]"Can't keep a bad bitch down."[/color][/b][/center][hr][hr] [color=gray][B][ NAME ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT]Tristan Jennings [/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ HERO IDENTITY ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT]Backup[/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ NICKNAME/ALIAS ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT] TJ [/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ AGE ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT]Twenty-four.[/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ GENDER ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT]Female[/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ AFFILIATION ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT] Hero/ Stunt Double/ Underground fighter/ Racer (No, she is not good at making up her mind)[/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ APPEARANCE ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT] Tristan has stark pale skin and black-as-night irises. She's toned with the strong, athletic frame of an MMA fighter. She has short black hair with white streaks, and black lipstick usually set in a thin, grim line. Casually, she usually bright colored clothing of blues and pinks. Cutesy denim jackets and skirts, and bright colored wigs over her hair. This is basically a disguise so she can go out in public without being disturbed. This very rarely happens, and only when she is in a good mood and not on hero duty, which is rare. Her costume is black with white as a secondary color. She is mostly without armor, relying on her speed and agility. Of course her costume is made of more durable material that protects from glancing blows but little else. It's form fitting athletic wear that covers her entire body except her face and fingers. Around her face she wears a simple mask around her eyes, and her eyeliner is especially dark. [/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ PERSONALITY TRAITS ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT] Tristan is sardonic and often foul-tempered. She doesn't raise her voice in conversation often, but there's an edge to her tone that prevents her from qualifying as 'quiet'. She likes fighting, and tends to get snippy and poke at people to bait them into fighting with her. Despite this, she doesn't hold grudges, though she will return to frequently harass any 'easy targets.' Tristan's main enemy in her life is boredom, and she's always searching for her next dose of action. Not just any action, though: Tristan is surprisingly disciplined, and only engages in activities she feels she can be better at. She's tidy, and a perfectionist at heart, with little patience for incompetence. After she's gotten said action, Tristan tends to brighten up considerably, almost like she was on withdrawal before. Unfortunately most people aren't much in the fun-having mood after a life or death situation. Her powers have given her a disposition that make it difficult for her to connect with people. Either she's grumpy or inappropriately peppy. Kids, animals, and elderly people tend to bring out Tristan's softer, more begrudgingly caring side, even when she is in a bad mood. She used to play the violin before she became basically addicted to adrenaline. This sweetness is one of her motivations for heroing, alongside it being the most exciting action she can get her hands on. The same might go for villainy, but being arrested would be the most boring thing ever. She's a hero who maybe swears too much and has a bad attitude, but a hero nonetheless. [/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ BIO ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT] Tristan Jennings was born in Castleburg, and her parents expected great things of her. It was a lot of pressure to put on a girl, and Tristan found herself without any friends or hobbies beyond the violin, which was one of the only things forced upon her she actually enjoyed. Even martial arts tournaments were becoming stressful, because if she lost she would be disapproved of. In high school the stress got to her and she broke, stealing her parents car and going on a joyride. She crashed into a lake and died. The end. Well, it ought to have been. This might be the exact kind of situation one discovers their powers in before their death, but Tristan discovered them become of her death. After drowning in the front seat, she woke up, sober and her lungs full of air instead of water. She managed to break the window and escape. She was in big trouble with her mother and father but she didn't care- this life they wanted for her wasn't for them. Now she had to prove her suspected immortality. It didn't take long for her to 'die' again in a street racing accident, and eventually the rules of her undying ability became clear to her. It'd be no good if she was holed up in jail, though, so she had to dial it back on the illicit activities and try to get a rush in more productive ways. If she could become a hero, she could hone her craft and prove herself useful, finally. On her own terms, on her own time...with nothing to lose. After liberating herself from her family she signed up for hero school. Still, when there's no hero work to be done, she spends her nights fighting (illegally) and racing (legally), and has even started performing as a stunt double. She has been a HERO for a few years now, and is overall enjoying her life, but she's finding it harder and harder to enjoy the thrill of the game. It might be time for some self-reflection, but Tristan doesn't really want to do that. On the field, Backup has literally no sense of self-preservation. This isn't out of a misplaced sense of martyrdom, it's just what she believes to be the best strategy given her abilities. Backup is disposable, and can do 'suicide plays' that would kill anyone else without any risk. If someone who isn't bulletproof is about to get shot, it just makes sense that she leap in the way to take the bullets instead. [/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][b]| MISCELLANEOUS |[/b][/color] [color=white][indent]TJ is a nickname she came up with herself, to distance herself from her previous life. Her power is tied to the number 24, but it being her age at the moment is just a coincidence. [/indent][/color][/hider] [hider=Abilities] [color=gray][B][ RANKING ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT] Lambda Rank [/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ POWERS ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT] The ability to return from death, no matter the cause. Essentially an insanely strong healing factor with specific, unusual limitations. Rather than being a constant healing rate, she returns to full health at regular, increasingly separated time intervals. [/INDENT][/color] [color=white][INDENT]For the below-listed rankings, please rank yourself using the colored and uncolored boxes on a scale of 0-10, with a 2 corresponding to what an average, non-powered human can put out, and provide a brief explanation for the reasoning of said ranking. See "Power Rankings" hider below for more guidance. [/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ PHYSICAL STRENGTH ][/B][/color] ■■■■□□□□□□ Tristan trains hard, and an ancillary nature of her power seems to have given her a slight edge in strength over most people. More importantly her regeneration factor keeps her in tip-top physical condition at all times. This also means she can build muscle much faster, and she's never having an 'off-day'. Over all, Tristan isn't someone your even a skilled bad guy wants to take on in a fist fight. [color=gray][B][ AGILITY ][/B][/color] ■■■■□□□□□□ For the same reasons as above, her agility is higher than average. She's proficient with running and balance. 'Stealth' isn't exactly a skill you just pick up for no reason, so she is trying to practice sneaking around now. She's still relatively new at it, but it's important for her to improve at stealth in particular. [color=gray][B][ INTELLIGENCE ][/B][/color] ■■■□□□□□□□ As a child she was overworked in her education and has burnt out. But she still has what she learned, and is pretty good with technology. She has a wide array of varying interests, and tries to keep them all sharp. [color=gray][B][ DESTRUCTIVENESS ][/B][/color] ■■□□□□□□□□ She's stronger and faster than most people, and excels in close quarters combat. But it's not like she's going to be punching through walls. [color=gray][B][ LETHALITY ][/B][/color] ■□□□□□□□□□ Her power is the opposite of lethality. [color=gray][B][ ENDURANCE ][/B][/color] ■■■■□□□□□□ This one is hard to qualify- of course, she is immortal. She has a regen factor. But her actual body is not resistance to any type of damage. It's only slightly higher because of her training. A side effect of her power is a muted pain response. Backup bleeds, but her blood is black, and oddly misty. [color=gray][B][ STAMINA ][/B][/color] ■■■■■■■■■□ Here is perhaps an apt place to put her true strength, and go into more detail about the nature of her powers. "Have you seen Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio?" Is how TJ starts the explanation of her ability to heal, and return from death. Imagine a timer. A series of increasingly large hourglasses. Every time something bad happens to TJ, a 24 second count down starts. In 24 seconds, she will be returned to tip top condition. For a more modern metaphor, imagine a computer backing up it's save state every 24 seconds incase of a crash. If she dies, in 24 seconds, she'll be back to life. But if she dies within the NEXT 24 seconds...the timer is extended to 24 minutes. If she dies within 24 minutes, the timer is set to 24 hours. Thankfully, 24 hours seems to be the upper limit, and once a day is up without any deaths, her ability resets to 24 seconds. The advantage of it being more than just a healing factor is that when she 'loads' a Backup, everything that is unwanted is purged. Poison, mind control, impaled objects, really any negative effect, goes away. The downside is that during those intervals she has no healing factor at all, so damage can stack up fast, and she can be killed as easily as any other human being. The 'mist' and black blood Backup bleeds is key to her resurrection. Even if her body is completely obliterated it will gather on the ground and reform her. If she is ever needed to be deployed to the field for a long amount of time, the regen also effects hunger, thirst, sleep, etc. Within the first two intervals, even running out of breathe or being exhausted isn't a problem as her stamina is continually refreshed. The only reason it's not a ten is because it isn't true, unlimited stamina with no qualifiers. [color=gray][B][ EFFICACY ][/B][/color] ■■■■■■■□□□ As you can imagine, Backup is most efficient while on her first life. 24 seconds is long when it comes to individual fights, but not that long in the grand scheme of mission. So to be able to return to maximum efficiency every 24 seconds, even beyond death, is her main strength. Over if she dies within 24 seconds of her last death, that number becomes a much less useful 24 minutes. That can be the entire course of a mission, basically making it her 'last life'. This also significantly slows down her healing factor. After that, it's the relatively abysmal 24 hours, which is taking her out of commission entirely. [color=gray][B][ SURVEILLANCE LEVEL ][/B][/color] ■■■■■□□□□□ Technically she performs crimes on the regular by fighting in underground arenas using an alias. But as long as she is 'allowed' to do that, she'll be able to quench her thirst for action between missions, and not do anything else too dangerous. It's unlikely she'll end up in a criminal organization's pocket as she doesn't gamble or fix fights, she only fights for the sake of it and for the experience. [color=gray][B][ SKILLS ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT] MMA fighting, both formal and underground tactics Weapon fighting, using clubs, knives, shields, etc. Throwing weapon proficiency Decent stealth Basic understanding of firearms Excellent freerunning Skilled driver and mechanic Mathematics and computation Playing the violin Pretty okay cook[/INDENT][/color] [color=gray][B][ EQUIPMENT ][/B][/color] [color=white][INDENT] Backup tends to go pretty light on the equipment, only usually bringing a few items on the list at any time. Considering the likelihood of her exploding, she doesn't want to waste time with finnicky material. Too much heavy armor can mess with her ability, not preventing her from coming back to life but rather making getting up off the floor an awkward process. For example, if her arm breaks, the armors arm will still be broken when she comes back to life, and thus her arm will be stuck. Really, she prefers to be equipped with weapons the techy heroes on her team are willing to give her, which can be difficult considering her attitude sometimes. Still, the more experimental the better, and she is smart enough to use them proficiency if given instruction. Given her reckless style, though, they should only give her weapons they don't mind losing or sacrificing. If they have anything they want to field test that might be too risky for them to use themselves, or doesn't fit their fighting style, she will happily take the risk on herself. Giving her toys to play with is a fast track to Tristan's good side. Of course like every HERO she fights with non-lethal weapon, but she has secondary weapons for killing Leftovers should the need arise. Electric Stun Baton Machete Reinforced Arm and Leg guards Buckler shield Running shoes Stealth boots Bolas Throwing Knives Stun grenades Frag grenades Grapplehook Her knowledge about armor not vibing with her comes from experience, as R&D did whip up a suit of armor for her. It looks like a modern day knight, made of black, Kevlar-like material with a sallet helmet. It's actually pretty badass, and should the specific need to reduce her agility and versatility but increase her durability ever arise, she may don it again. Arguably her most iconic and consistent piece of equipment is The Stop Watch. On her left wrist is a watch that doubles as a heartrate monitor. When it detects no heartbeat, it begins counting down for 24 seconds, which will be when she resurrects. Then it will count down the Cooldown period, another 24 seconds. It's basically an easy way for her, and anyone nearby, to keep track of her Backup ability. The face of the stop watch has an image of a skull wearing her eye mask on it. She only wears it on missions where she will be around the civilian populace. Otherwise she takes it off so at least any bad guys aware of her powers have to do the counting themselves. [/INDENT][/color] [/hider]