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[color=cornflowerblue]T H E   B L U E   B E E T L E[/color][/center]
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[color=cornflowerblue][sup][i]"God, look at this place!  What a mess!  A perfect microcosm of my life!"[/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://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/81/8b/44818b1c8c36f3319883a49284a9fd52.jpg[/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]Theodore Stephen Kord[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]26[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]It's complicated.  Shut up Namor, Yes it's complicated![/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Superbuddies / Kord Omniversal R & D[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]American[/COLOR][/sub][/center]
[indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] A L L I E S   &   A N T A G O N I S T S[/color]
[color=lightgray]A L L I E S   &   A N T A G O N I S T S   &   O T H E R S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
[INDENT][hider=][indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   T H E   S U P E R B U D D I E S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=goldenrod][b]◼ Booster Gold[/b][/color] - A schmuck from the 25th Century.  Also happens to be Ted’s best friend, if only because he knows him personally in both his chosen identities.  When he was younger he was sent back in time to ruin Ted’s life and send him on a trajectory that would teach him humility under the pseudonym “Carter Johns” by a person who’s identity has thus far not been revealed…  Neither he nor Ted knew this purpose at the time.  He merely thought he’d met a new best friend.
The two became reunited after he grew bored with his dead-end job as a security guard at the Metropolis Space Museum, stole a bunch of superhero artefacts and decided to try and make something of his life in a simpler time.  He’s barely held in check by the supervision of Skeets – the security/automated tour guide of the museum that took the trip with him.

He brings chaos to Ted’s life, but also friendship.  But also chaos.  Even for Ted’s already fairly chaotic lifestyle.  He brings chaos.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=yellow][b]◼ The Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)[/b][/color] - Owner of her own fashion label, when Janet Van Dyne discovered that Ted was engaging in activities as Boston’s latest hero - The Blue Beetle - she became enamoured with the swashbuckling romantic connotations of the hero life.  Outfitted by her husband Hank Pym, who is one of the foremost geniuses in the modern world, the Wasp packs a wallop that belies her diminutive size when in costume.

Janet has stepped up and more than capably filled the team's leadership void in Ted's ten month absence.
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=powderblue][b]◼ Ice (Tora Olafsdottir)[/b][/color] - Tora Olafsdotter was formerly a security officer for a branch of S.H.I.E.L.D known as the Global Guardians, who dealt with providing security for foreign dignitaries and private citizens of international importance.  Was also Ted’s girlfriend and a metahuman/mutant.

In Ted's ten month absence she has since moved on, and is now in a relationship with Namor the Sub-Mariner.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=limegreen][b]◼ Fire (Beatriz DaCosta)[/b][/color] - Beatriz Da Costa was Tora’s best friend and almost like a bigger sister for her when the two worked previously for the Global Guardians.  She barely tolerated Ted and trusted that this whole thing will soon end once Tora comes to her senses, sees him for the geeky dork he is and dumps him for someone better suited to her.  That was, until she began to realise she's fallen in love with the superhero lifestyle.  She remains extremely protective of Tora.

Bea is extremely supportive of Tora's relationship with Namor, in particular.  Who she believes to be far worthier of her affections tha Ted.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ [color=gray]"[/color][color=firebrick]Ant-Man[/color][color=gray]"[/color] (Scott Lang)[/b][/color] - If Tora and Bea's presence is there to prove that collaboration between humans and mutants/metahumans is possible, Scott's proves the idea of rehabilitation and the notion that its possible to walk back a life with mistakes.

After being released from prison, Scott Lang was only able to get a job as a cleaner.  The Cross brothers got to his parole officer, and attempted to turn Scott to rob those he was contracted to clean for.  Including Hank Pym's RedAnt and Ray Palmer's PalmerTech.

After finding a way to refuse to steal from Hank, the less stable Cross chose to kidnap Scott's daughter Cassie for further leverage before setting their sights on PalmerTech.  With little to no time or planning provided, Scott needed a miracle.  Or the next best thing, Pym Tech.

Scott stole a suit with the capability of shrinking and changing mass of Pym's own design.  He now had the means to potentially burgle Ray Palmer's secure building with the limited time available to him, and intended to return the suit upon completion.  Then he met the Blue Beetle and the stingers of the Wasp.

Fortunately, after explaining the predicament, the pair chose to help instead of punish and between the three of them were able to free Cassie and have the brothers Cross brought to justice.

Now Scott Lang has a new parole officer, stable employment and a new place of residence - the Superbuddies, and their Headquarters 'The Embassy'. [/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=tan][b]◼ Maxwell Lord[/b][/color] - A former CEO for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Maxwell Lord acts as a figurehead organizational leader planted by Ted Kord as a front for explaining where the money has come from in return for a share of the revenue streams.  Unscrupulous and money-grubbing by nature, he can be quite a stringent taskmaster in keeping the team on mission to preserve their brand as heroes which makes up his mealticket.

With Ted lost in time (leading to no more Kord investment), Max had tightened the belt on the team significantly, leading to the Embassy being far less luxurious than Ted's original vision.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=red][b]◼ Hank Pym[/b][/color] - Generally introverted and reclusive, Hank Pym also has numerous mental issues and social disorders which often cause troubles in his own life and for those who care about him.  He very much loves Janet though and has joined the team out of a feeling of necessity.  Even though this will actually mean occasionally dealing with people and spending less time at work in his lab.  Might just be the smartest person in the world.

Has no personal interest at all in the superhero lifestyle and his presence seems to hinge entirely on Janet's.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=greenyellow][b]◼ L-Ron[/b][/color] - A one of a kind Organisational tool of Hank's own design, inspired by Ted's own Butler Excel system - who clanks around making a nuisance of itself, but has no field capabilities whatsoever.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=seagreen][b]◼ Namor[/b][/color] - The newest team member.  Currently in a relationship with Tora Olafsdottir.  Somehow, despite being literal royalty, does not own a closed shirt.  Flies like an idiot with stupid flying fish ankle wings.  Who the Hell needs him?

...although he is the strongest and most versatile team member with the most experience and blah-blah-blah experience in diplomacy and acting like a shirtless walking hard-on.  Whatever.

...WHY DO YOU NOT OWN A SHIRT?!?[/color][/sup][/indent]
[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   A N T A G O N I S T[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ [color=green]"[/color][color=purple]The Beetle[/color][color=green]"[/color] (Abner Jenkins)[/b][/color] - K.O.R.D's previous Chief Financial Officer.  Became disillusioned with the way Ted was running the company, after he had created the brilliant all-terrain exo-suit 'The Beetle' which Ted kept on the shelf for a later reveal when their first mission to Mars would be announced.

When Tony Stark brought a similar item - the Iron Man armour - to the world's knowledge, and announced that it was not for sale, it left a hole in the market which the defence industry would be eager to see filled, and with K.O.R.D in a potentially advantageous position to exploit it.

Ted Kord did not have the moral flexibility to do so.  Abner Jenkins did.

Ted overruled him.  Abner Jenkins instead chose to apply pressure and show the world his creation at a public Expo.  Where he believed shareholders would apply the necessary pressure and make it impossible for Ted to put the genie back in the bottle.

Instead, Abner Jenkins efforts and pubic endangerment were foiled, he found himself imprisoned.  With only Ted's promise to ensure Abner's wife Mimi still have access to his 401k pension and stock options.

After his removal, Ted's longtime family friend Veronica Sinclair was given the role of Chief Financial Officer.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ [color=yellow]"[/color][color=red]The Mad Men[/color][color=yellow]"[/color] (Farley Fleeter and Associates)[/b][/color] - The head of the Farley Fleeter Advertising Agency and what remains of the skeleton staff as the company circles the drain.  Planned to steal the Beetle suit from the New York Science Expo, out of desperation, to re-inject capital and give them all a piece of what would be the new Advertising Agency.  The stylish Ad Men (and women) avoid recognition by wearing outlandishly colourful clothing and masks, and attempt to use superior numbers to succeed.

Their efforts failed when it came to the Beetle suit, although they did manage to take the Blue Beetle's first B.B. gun in the chaos.

Evaded capture and are still at large.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ The Squid Crew[/b][/color] - The first criminals Blue Beetle ever fought, when he was first testing his equipment.

Were caught rubbing a skyscraper with their suction cup equipped suits.  Apprehended and currently serving time.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ [color=yellow]"[/color][color=black]Major Disaster[/color][color=yellow]"[/color] (Paul Booker)[/b][/color] - The supervillain who cost Ted Kord ten months of his life.

Able to produce waves of Nega-Quantum affected energies, creating a field which expands and generates outcomes of increasinly negative probabilities.

The team was able to defeat and apprehend the supervillain, albeit after the loss of the Blue Beetle.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ [color=red]"[/color][color=white]Crossfire[/color][color=red]"[/color] (William) and [color=deeppink]Darren Cross[/color][/b][/color] - These brothers sought to capitalise on others work and efforts.  First their intermediary Scott Lang, and then those who created the technology that they hoped Lang would steal for them.

Darren Cross is a businessman, the head executive of of Crossroads Innovations, but his former CIA-operative brother is an unhinged, violent individual who doesn't seem to realise there are lines and things you don't do.

The pair of them are nasty pieces of works.  Both are serving time.  And both probably have issues with Scott Lang, and now the team at length.[/color][/sup][/indent]
[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   K . O . R . D   B O A R D   A N D
   N O T A B L E   E M P L O Y E E S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Ted Kord[/b][/color] - Chief Executive Officer[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Jeremiah Duncan[/b][/color] - Chief Operations Officer[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Veronica Sinclair[/b][/color] - Chief Financial Officer[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Randall Truman[/b][/color] - Chief Marketing Officer[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Melody Case[/b][/color] - President of K.O.R.D East Division (Boston)[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Curt Calhoun[/b][/color] - President of K.O.R.D Central Division (Chicago)[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Conrad Carapax[/b][/color] - President of K.O.R.D West Division (Pasadena)[/color]

[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Angela Revere[/b][/color] - Secretary to the CEO[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Murray Takamoto[/b][/color] - Head of Cybernetics/Electronics/Online Security[/color][/sup][/indent][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P O S T   C A T A L O G U E[/color]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]Ted Kord is the pre-eminent astronomical engineer on Earth.  He's also one of the most brilliant engineers in general.  Unfortunately, he has been forced to swap his labcoat with a suit in order to take over the Chief Executive Officer role at the Research and Development company his father built, due to his rapidly declining health.

Gifted with an eidetic visual memory, more money than sense and that engineering brilliance he was inspired by a growing number of superheroes to try his hand at going down the same path.

After being publicly put in the spotlight, saving numerous lives during a crisis of some kind, Ted Kord chose to ride his wave of popularity to form his own privately funded Superhero team, called "The  Superbuddies" which would combine human and metahuman/mutant heroes to show that collaboration across such lines was possible.  Headquartering in New York, at a facility he designed called "The Embassy", the Superbuddies reputation has wavered between being seen as something of a joke, and uniquely competent as a team in a capes and cowls world.

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After eventually finding their level and balance, the team took on a supervillain called Major Disaster, who's unique ability, coupled with Booster Gold's misplaced confidence in his own abilities saw team leader Ted Kord lost in time in the horrifying hellscape of 2002's New Jersey.  What had been several weeks to Ted, was ten lost months before he was returned to his own time by Booster.

Upon his return, he finds himself negotiating a world which has begun to move on without him.

His company had started to right itself after an initial stock downtick, and concerning financial dips coinciding with his disappearance.

The Superbuddies reputation has started to find its feet under the leadership of the Wasp, Janet Van Dyne.

And his girlfriend, Tora Olafsdottir - the superhero known as Ice - had moved on and begun seeing somebody else.  The new addition to the team, Namor the Sub-Mariner.

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The Blue Beetle, Ted Kord has found his way back to our time.  Now how does he find his feet in a world that seems to have come to terms with his not being in it?
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]Why do you want to play this character, what is the driving motivation behind both this desire and the character themselves. What do you hope to accomplish and where do you want the character's story/stories to go? 

We're bringing the LOLs.

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Beat the stuffing out of the bad guys. Other times you gotta use your brains. Or lack of them."[color=2e2c2c]___[/color][/i][/sup][/color][/right][/COLOR][/INDENT]