[INDENT][COLOR=SLATEGRAY][CENTER][sup][h1][center][img]Wtf is a banner??/ [/img][/center][b][center][color=black] M I S S M A R T I A N[/color] [color=lightgray]M I S S M A R T I A N[/color][/center] [/b][/h1][/sup] [color=silver][sup][i]"HELLO! HOW ARE YOU– oh - t- too loud? Sorry! Still getting used to volume control."[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T[/color] [color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T[/color] [/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][img]https://imgur.com/6wieUdS.png[/img] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y[/color] [color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [sub][COLOR=darkgray]M’gann M’orzz[/COLOR] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=darkgray]Approx 19 years old mentally and biologically (technically 48 rotations around the sun)[/COLOR] [b]|[/b] [COLOR=darkgray]Relationship Status[/COLOR] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=darkgray]Affiliation(s) [If Applicable][/COLOR] [b]|[/b] [COLOR=darkgray]Nationality[/COLOR][/sub][/center] [indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S[/color] [color=lightgray]N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [INDENT][hider=][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color] [indent][sub][b][color=lightgray] A B I L I T I E S[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ ABILITY[/b][/color] Dazzling psionic powers that include: The ability to read minds, project thoughts, alter memories, create illusions, turn invisible, and induce sleep. Shape shifting! She can change the proportions and color of her body at will. New outfits and a new face on the spot, shrink down small or grow up big. Extra limbs! Long limbs! Density manipulation, for intangibility (at the cost of no power) or super durability (at the cost of no speed.) Almost anything she can think of. Hint: telekinesis + shape shifting wing cape + lower density = flying! To top it all off, a hefty, healthy dose of super strength, durability, and super duper telekinesis. Martians can shapeshift, but they have three key internal organs that must remain consistent in shape and general location. Mind, Heart, and Key. The Heart is the sustaining organ that provides life and sustenance to M'gann's body via a blood-like liquid that absorbs throughout her entire form. It generates life energy via an efficient process similar to photosynthesis. This was easier on Mars, so she needs to supplement herself with more complex sugars...Choco cookies are pretty good, huh? The Mind is the center of her psychic powers and allows her to experience the world. This one needs to be near her senses, so its usually behind the eyes. It requires a connection of some kind to the Heart so it can be sustained by it. While her natural biology makes this a lot harder to occur, if the Mind is somehow physically rattled she can still suffer concussive like effects. The Key is how Martian's can regenerate some physical wounds and also responsible for how they reproduce. It creates new life. If necessary, it can be used to reproduce asexually, though the process is extremely demanding. Each Vital Organ is about the size of an apple. If M'gann loses one, she might be able to recuperate alright in some way or another. Two is big long coma territory if she's lucky. Three is obviously game over. They're called vital organs for a reason! [/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent] [indent][sub][b][color=lightgray] T O O L (S)[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ TOOL[/b][/color] Kinda…nothing? [/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S[/color] [color=lightgray]N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [INDENT][hider=][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color] [indent][sub][b][color=lightgray] S K I L L (S)[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ SKILL[/b][/color] Cooking! (She is not good at cooking) Punching things? Make-up? Hiding! She’s very good at hiding. [/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent] [indent][sub][b][color=lightgray] T A L E N T (S)[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ TALENT[/b][/color] Cooking. Let’s make sure to get cooking on there again. (No, she is not good at cooking.) Math! A regular math genius. Oh, as a Martian, she also has more senses. She has the usual; sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. On the whole, most of them are equal to or even worse than the average humans. The exceptions being her sense of touch, which is extremely refined; and her hearing, which is pretty bad. Her most said word is probably ‘What?’ But she does have three more: a sixth sense, that allows her to detect spirits and the rhythm of the other side. A seventh sense, connected to gravity and the stars that allows her to navigate even in the depths of blackest space without a map. An eighth sense, that allows her to detect and see the psionic ‘auras’ of other lifeforms. The one that defines her as a ‘Pale’ Martian as opposed to a ‘Green’ Martian. And a ninth sense, that allows her to ba tu’anthrmag’iag with ba ta onron’y’aban po helvek’maelans. Uhh, that one’s a bit hard to translate into English. Regardless, this is the one the Reach hijacked to make her feel sick, weak, and faint whenever she gets too close to fire. It’s also the same sense the philosophers of her people tapped into to begin to discover the Life Equation. It also allows her to sense where the exact ‘physical location’ of state borders are. Like, you know that place in America with the Four Corners? Look, it’s hard to explain, okay? It’s the ninth sense! [/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][/cell][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...[/color] [color=lightgray]T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent] M’gann M’orzz is a Pale Martian, growing up in a time of racial tension on her homeworld of Mars. She grew up ostracized from her peers, growing up in dominant Green communities. As a result she has low self-esteem, and even the smallest words of encouragement will get the lonely girl excited. Her life on Mars was unremarkable in many ways. She grew up in an alien culture. Lies were impossible. Connections between people happened fast. Art, music, and philosophy were thriving. In faraway places, Greens and Pales threw parties of reconciliation and peace with each other, but where M’gann grew up she had no such luck. The Life Equation philosophy began to spread, promising to prove that free will and spiritual freedom could be demonstrated as a mathematical proof. M’gann managed to find a pamphlet with some of the equation written down on it. Can you imagine seeing something like that? It was astonishing. But perhaps it was too late. Before Martian society could repair itself, an unforeseen threat emerged and decided its best option was to fan the flames. It was this time of tension that the Reach exploited, turning different sides against each other so they could do their research on the martians psionic and shape-shifting abilities in the chaos. During this time of secret abductions, one M’gann M’orzz numbered among the victims. They came for her in the night and snatched her from her home, often targeting Pale Martian communities due to the lack of security and attention. They enhanced her abilities, giving her telekinesis and enhancing her other powers, but the same psychic strength they increased made them unable to control her. The closest they could do was program into her with a psionic weakness to fire and heat so they wouldn’t phase-shift away from their experiments. Satisfied with their results and having no more use for her, they put M’gann into cryogenic storage. At least they weren’t wasteful. When the Reach came to Earth, they brought M’gann with them, deep in their vaults of experiments. During the battle, the ship was destroyed by Superman. He later recovered some of the wreckage and experiments within, and brought them to his fortress for safe keeping. M’gann’s damaged pod was among them. The kryptonian technology within sustained and slowly began to repair her pod to bring her out of cryogenesis without physical or mental damage. Years passed, and eventually, M’gann would wake up on a new world. But not just any new world. Tens of thousands of years had passed! Her homeworld, Mars, is now desolate and abandoned, the fate of the Martian people a mystery. Were they wiped out by the Reach? Made extinct later by an unlivable environment? Or did they pack up and move, for one reason or another? It’s impossible to know. Stranded on an Earth divided, she knows from her past that division and rejection only leads to a weaker society, one that could be exploited by the Reach should they ever return. Earth and its people must be united if they are to survive. And there’s no better way to do that than to become a superhero, just like Superman! An emissary of the Martian people, Miss Martian will take to the skies and do what she can to bring some light into the world. When she describes herself as a White, or Pale Martian, astute observers might point out that she is, in fact, very green. Martians actually have “nine” general senses as opposed to humans “six.” Yes, six. M’gann can tell with her “eighth” sense that some humans have latent psionic potential. And that same eighth sense is what gives her away as ‘Pale’ as opposed to ‘Green’. It’s as obvious to her and other Martians as skin color is to humans, but to humans, well, she just looks green. And it’s something innate about her she can’t just shape shift away from. [/indent][/COLOR] [INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )[/color] [color=lightgray]P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]This Miss Martian is going to be kind of a combination between Miss Martian and Martian Manhunter. Originally, the Manhunter himself was brought into this space and time by a science experiment of some random human guy that died of a heart attack right after. So such an origin is still technically possible, but basically, I’m playing an amalgam of both characters. I’ve also toyed around with Martian society and lore a little bit. I wanted a heroine that can exist in any space of a superhero world. Street level, cosmic level, magical level. Someone that can fly around and meet all the other player characters in an attempt to learn more about the world and herself. And obviously she already has a connection to Superman. In terms of overall plot, I’m kind of planning on free wheeling it and seeing how the world evolves. Though I do have some ideas based on an old comic run about VULTURE. I might combine that with AIM or something, to give M’gann an evil org to go up against on her worldly adventures. Evil science organizations are always fun. I’m nerfing her powers somewhat, to make her more interesting. The whole “Martians are as strong as Kryptonians” thing always struck me as untrue, in practice. Like is it [i]really[/i] true? I'm not so sure. Besides, the flying brick powerset is the least interesting thing about the Martian! I also wanted to play a silly billy. I like it when the Martians do things like learn the true meaning of Christmas. I'd like her to be an implacable bright spot in any room. She has her own problems to sort out but she's a good person and an optimist at her core, because she has to be! And wants to be. While obviously she does have a certain sadness about her, being isolated from her origins, she does hold onto hope that the Martian people live on, somewhere, in some capacity. Or at the very least, weren’t all wiped out by the Reach. So that brightens up her spirits. That, and remembering that snippet of the Life Equation she managed to find. Due to a sense of Martian pride and being perhaps the last Martian, and in the hope of helping human society unite, M'gann only disguises herself as a human if she really needs to go undercover. For example, to solve a crime or find missing people. Otherwise, she prefers to be herself. [/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][hr][/COLOR][/INDENT]