[OOC] Marvel Comics: Dawn of X

[Fiber]

World's okayest telepath

Name. Tessa
Alias. Sage
Age. 34
Place of Birth. Former Yugoslavia

Powers.

Machine Brain: Sage’s mind is not a literal computer, but is closer may be closer to one than any other organic brain on earth. It has granted her extremely fast processing speed, excellent multitasking and photographic memory. She has used this to develop a great deal of physical and mental skills, especially those related to espionage.

Telepathy: Sage is a skilled telepath. Her greatest ability is her extremely strong psychic defense, manifesting as a powerful firewall that can reflect psychic attacks back at less adept opponents.

Genetic Sight: Sage can get some insight into people’s genetics and potential by close contact. In the past, she has even been able to “jumpstart” dormant mutations in other mutants, though in most cases nothing happens.

History.
Tessa’s history with X-men started when she was just eighteen and met Professor Xavier in the mountains of Afghanistan. She was the first to find him after his legs had been crushed by a boulder, and he noticed her mental talents. He began to train her when the X-men were only a vague idea in his mind; and he found a place she could use her talents: espionage. Tessa became Xavier’s mole inside the Hellfire Club, rising to be a trusted advisor to their leader, Sebastian Shaw. She worked with Shaw and Emma Frost to outwit the telepathic billionaire Elias Bogan in a high stakes game of chance, forming a lasting grudge. Years later, Bogan would exact his revenge by kidnapping and torturing her, until she was rescued by Storm.

From then on, Tessa joined up with Storm and adopted the name Sage, becoming part of the team Storm assembled to search for a set of prophetic diaries left behind by the precognitive mutant Destiny. Her time with Storm’s steam saw encounters with foes such as the international terrorist Viper, the mutant hunting cyborg known as The Fury, and another showdown with Elias Bogan.

After M-Day, Sage moved to England and joined Excalibur. This diversion turned into a dimension hopping excursion with the Exiles, leading to a lot of experiences Sage is still processing. At various points she peered into the blackbox of a Celestial, visited a world where humans were wiped out by robots, had an interdimensional guardian dump a heap of cosmic knowledge into her head, and helped the team battle no less than ten evil alternate reality version of Xavier.

After all of the multiversal travel, Sage returned to Earth and laid low for a while, working in the background until recent events. With the establishment of Krakoa, Sage has become a key part of the island’s operations. She helps to manage the island’s gateway network, and is one of the members of X-Force, Krakoa’s department in charge of clandestine operations.

Story Arcs.

Cobwebs in the Attic
Tessa's mind has taken a lot of unresolved damage. She's done her best to patch over it, but incidents like the time The Fury hijacked her mind and turned her against her teammates or the massive information dump from Roma have created corners that even her machine brain doesn't dare examine. What is buried can never stay that way, and if it resurfaces at the wrong time it could potentially turn a key piece of Krakoa's security into an internal threat

[Abillioncats]

Looks fun, I'll give this a go. Gonna go with an original character, at least for now.

Many Tails

Name: Aya Tanaka
Alias: Kitsune
Age: 19
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Appearance: Aya is a green eyed, blonde haired girl of Japanese descent, though arguably her most prominent features are her fox ears on the top of her head and the seven tails protruding from her rear. People tend to notice those first.
Powers: Aya has a range of powers that appear magical and supernatural in nature, her powers seem to be mainly tied to her physical, mutant characteristics, her tails. Every time she's grown a new tail she's either gained a new power or her current powers have become stronger.

Fox-fire: Aya can summon blue orbs of fire that float around her, she can launch them at will in any direction, the orbs burn with an supernatural heat and explode on impact.

Animalistic Physiology: Aya's five senses are superior to a normal humans. In addition, her speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, and strength are greater as well, though most others with enhanced strength/agility probably have her beat.

Two forms: Aya can shapeshift into the form of a fox with seven tails, she can use this to slip into smaller spaces and that's about it. She also cannot speak as a fox, though someone with telepathy could still communicate with her.

Illusions: Aya can conjure illusions that can fool the fives senses, typically using them to disguise herself or otherwise slip away unnoticed, or to pull an epic prank. Simple illusions are as easy as breathing, but the more complex ones require much more focus and concentration on her part.

Conjuring: Aya can create and/or manipulate inanimate objects. Such as creating a stick out of thin air or transforming a normal piece of paper into money. Any object she transforms will eventually revert however, and objects she creates will eventually 'poof' out of existence. The largest object she has been able to create/manipulate is roughly the size of a small car.

History: Aya was born to a rich, Japanese couple in Kyoto, Japan. Her mutant traits were immediately apparent, but due to her fox-like features making her look similar to the mythical kitsune her human parents saw this as a blessing of Inari rather than something to be scorned.

Her father was a business man that worked in America, and so Aya ended up being raised in New York for a good portion of her childhood, and became fluent in both Japanese and English as a result. Despite being a mutant her parents protected her from any discrimination and hate from humans, sheltering her heavily and schooling her mainly through private tutors. Seemed money could solve just about anything.

Being sheltered has it's downsides of course, a lack of friends to hang out with for one. Due to this Aya ended up spending a significant amount of her time online and using social media, prides herself on knowing the latest memes and being 'based'. She even ended up becoming a streamer and vlogger, and now at nineteen she's been set loose into the world oh no.

Personality: Aya is somewhat of a hedonistic, tending to go for whatever she thinks is enjoyable at the time. She enjoys teasing and messing with people and likes to confuse people in order to get her way. She does this all in good fun of course, while she was most certainly spoiled she isn't particularly bratty. She is fairly social and surprisingly easy to make friends with, if they can put up with her antics.

Weaknesses: While quite internet savvy, Aya is fairly naïve about the real world due to how sheltered and protected she was, and does not fully grasp that some people will hate her due to her being a mutant. Her antics and pranks can get her into serious trouble if she takes them too far. She has zero combat experience, better at running away than actually getting into a fight.

Story Arcs: Vlogging in Krakao - Aya plans to travel to Krakao to do a vlog, no way that could go wrong.

[Ruby]

Molly Hayes

Name: Molly Hayes
Alias: Bruiser
Age: 17
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA

Powers: Molly can activate a state where her eyes glow bright pink and she thus gains incredible super strength. Though not on the level of being such as The Hulk, she hasn't yet had the misfortune of ever being in a situation where she wasn't strong enough to lift/break what she needed to. This state also grants her some level of invulnerability to the degree where bullets bounce off her.

The drawback of this state is that it is a finite well to draw from. If she overexerts herself through prolonged or strenuous usage of her power, she will physically exhaust herself, possibly to the point of being unable to move, or even to loss of consciousness.

History: Molly's parents were founding members of the LA-based Supervillain group The Pride. Along with other children of Pride members, Molly was part of The Runaways, and after stopping their parents, had many adventures over the years, breaking up and reforming multiple times as members grew up and were busy with other events. One year ago, they seemingly split up for good, and Molly decided to focus on high school, wishing to enter college.

She hid her powers, and her past. The worse and worse public opinion on Mutants became, the more and more isolated Molly felt, that the bigger part of her identity being a Mutant became. She still kept in touch with The Runaways, and sometimes even met up with a few of them, but they were content with the paths they had taken, and encouraged her to focus on school. After a particularly nasty yelling match with Chase, she distanced herself from them. None of them were mutants. They didn't understand what she was going through right now.

She of course had known about Krakoa previously, but it was only now that she seriously entertained thoughts of going. She made her mind up and slipped away from her foster family without a word, taking only the possessions that fit in a rucksack, and fled with the goal of finding a place to belong with her own kind.

Story Arcs: Molly is looking for a place to belong, where she can start a new chapter of her life and possibly make some new friends.

@Silver Carrot

Approved!

Feel free to also play Lydia if you want the option of both.

[Silver Carrot]

I might introduce Lydia later. I always like starting with one character so they can get developed and form connections

[Ruby]

Looks fun, I'll give this a go. Gonna go with an original character, at least for now.

Many Tails

Name: Aya Tanaka
Alias: Kitsune
Age: 19
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Appearance: Aya is a green eyed, blonde haired girl of Japanese descent, though arguably her most prominent features are her fox ears on the top of her head and the seven tails protruding from her rear. People tend to notice those first.
Powers: Aya has a range of powers that appear magical and supernatural in nature, her powers seem to be mainly tied to her physical, mutant characteristics, her tails. Every time she's grown a new tail she's either gained a new power or her current powers have become stronger.

Fox-fire: Aya can summon blue orbs of fire that float around her, she can launch them at will in any direction, the orbs burn with an supernatural heat and explode on impact.

Animalistic Physiology: Aya's five senses are superior to a normal humans. In addition, her speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, and strength are greater as well, though most others with enhanced strength/agility probably have her beat.

Two forms: Aya can shapeshift into the form of a fox with seven tails, she can use this to slip into smaller spaces and that's about it. She also cannot speak as a fox, though someone with telepathy could still communicate with her.

Illusions: Aya can conjure illusions that can fool the fives senses, typically using them to disguise herself or otherwise slip away unnoticed, or to pull an epic prank. Simple illusions are as easy as breathing, but the more complex ones require much more focus and concentration on her part.

Conjuring: Aya can create and/or manipulate inanimate objects. Such as creating a stick out of thin air or transforming a normal piece of paper into money. Any object she transforms will eventually revert however, and objects she creates will eventually 'poof' out of existence. The largest object she has been able to create/manipulate is roughly the size of a small car.

History: Aya was born to a rich, Japanese couple in Kyoto, Japan. Her mutant traits were immediately apparent, but due to her fox-like features making her look similar to the mythical kitsune her human parents saw this as a blessing of Inari rather than something to be scorned.

Her father was a business man that worked in America, and so Aya ended up being raised in New York for a good portion of her childhood, and became fluent in both Japanese and English as a result. Despite being a mutant her parents protected her from any discrimination and hate from humans, sheltering her heavily and schooling her mainly through private tutors. Seemed money could solve just about anything.

Being sheltered has it's downsides of course, a lack of friends to hang out with for one. Due to this Aya ended up spending a significant amount of her time online and using social media, prides herself on knowing the latest memes and being 'based'. She even ended up becoming a streamer and vlogger, and now at nineteen she's been set loose into the world oh no.

Personality: Aya is somewhat of a hedonistic, tending to go for whatever she thinks is enjoyable at the time. She enjoys teasing and messing with people and likes to confuse people in order to get her way. She does this all in good fun of course, while she was most certainly spoiled she isn't particularly bratty. She is fairly social and surprisingly easy to make friends with, if they can put up with her antics.

Weaknesses: While quite internet savvy, Aya is fairly naïve about the real world due to how sheltered and protected she was, and does not fully grasp that some people will hate her due to her being a mutant. Her antics and pranks can get her into serious trouble if she takes them too far. She has zero combat experience, better at running away than actually getting into a fight.

Story Arcs: Vlogging in Krakao - Aya plans to travel to Krakao to do a vlog, no way that could go wrong.

@Abillioncats

Approved.

[Ruby]

World's okayest telepath

Name. Tessa
Alias. Sage
Age. 34
Place of Birth. Former Yugoslavia

Powers.

Machine Brain: Sage’s mind is not a literal computer, but is closer may be closer to one than any other organic brain on earth. It has granted her extremely fast processing speed, excellent multitasking and photographic memory. She has used this to develop a great deal of physical and mental skills, especially those related to espionage.

Telepathy: Sage is a skilled telepath. Her greatest ability is her extremely strong psychic defense, manifesting as a powerful firewall that can reflect psychic attacks back at less adept opponents.

Genetic Sight: Sage can get some insight into people’s genetics and potential by close contact. In the past, she has even been able to “jumpstart” dormant mutations in other mutants, though in most cases nothing happens.

History.
Tessa’s history with X-men started when she was just eighteen and met Professor Xavier in the mountains of Afghanistan. She was the first to find him after his legs had been crushed by a boulder, and he noticed her mental talents. He began to train her when the X-men were only a vague idea in his mind; and he found a place she could use her talents: espionage. Tessa became Xavier’s mole inside the Hellfire Club, rising to be a trusted advisor to their leader, Sebastian Shaw. She worked with Shaw and Emma Frost to outwit the telepathic billionaire Elias Bogan in a high stakes game of chance, forming a lasting grudge. Years later, Bogan would exact his revenge by kidnapping and torturing her, until she was rescued by Storm.

From then on, Tessa joined up with Storm and adopted the name Sage, becoming part of the team Storm assembled to search for a set of prophetic diaries left behind by the precognitive mutant Destiny. Her time with Storm’s steam saw encounters with foes such as the international terrorist Viper, the mutant hunting cyborg known as The Fury, and another showdown with Elias Bogan.

After M-Day, Sage moved to England and joined Excalibur. This diversion turned into a dimension hopping excursion with the Exiles, leading to a lot of experiences Sage is still processing. At various points she peered into the blackbox of a Celestial, visited a world where humans were wiped out by robots, had an interdimensional guardian dump a heap of cosmic knowledge into her head, and helped the team battle no less than ten evil alternate reality version of Xavier.

After all of the multiversal travel, Sage returned to Earth and laid low for a while, working in the background until recent events. With the establishment of Krakoa, Sage has become a key part of the island’s operations. She helps to manage the island’s gateway network, and is one of the members of X-Force, Krakoa’s department in charge of clandestine operations.

Story Arcs.

Cobwebs in the Attic
Tessa's mind has taken a lot of unresolved damage. She's done her best to patch over it, but incidents like the time The Fury hijacked her mind and turned her against her teammates or the massive information dump from Roma have created corners that even her machine brain doesn't dare examine. What is buried can never stay that way, and if it resurfaces at the wrong time it could potentially turn a key piece of Krakoa's security into an internal threat

@Fiber

Approved.

[Ruby]

Name: Thomas “Tommy” Shepherd
Alias: Speed
Age: 18
Place of Birth: Springfield New Jersey

Powers: Tommy is a speedster. This means that he can run at speeds that a normal human would never achieve. His top speed is unknown, but he is fast enough to break the soundbarrier and run over water. His body is made in a way that allows him to endure frictions that would flail anyone else alive and bones that are made not to shatter in a collision at high speed. That doesn't mean he is invulnerable; a bullet at any speed could kill him.

Besides running fast, Tommy also functions incredibly fast. He can do things at speed nobody else can and has a brain to match them. His brain is made to function at incredible speeds that allow him to catch all the details during a run. This also means he can read a book in mere seconds and remember everything he has read.

A major setback to his powers is that all this has left Tommy with a skewed perception of time. What might be minutes for somebody is hours for him and it is both incredibly frustrating and lonely for him.

History: The Avengers Vision and Scarlet Witch once had twin children. Billy and Tommy Maximoff. This was an extraordinary occurrence, considering Vision is a synthetic being and Scarlet Witch is a chaos magician. The family lived happily during a time known as the House of M. Unfortunately for the couple, the children were undone when Scarlet Witch muttered No More Mutants. However, the souls of the children would be reborn as new people.

Tommy was born to Frank and Mary Shepherd in New Jersey. His parents divorced when he was barely four years old. Tommy lived mostly with his father after his mother rejected him, believing him not to be her son due to the fact that he barely resembled his parents with his striking white hair and green eyes. Tommy spent most of his childhood getting into trouble; he could barely sit still for longer than five minutes and was often bullied for this and his unnatural hair color. Frank got a girlfriend who was anti-mutant and felt Tommy was one and they often fought. Frank often took her side and disapproved of all Tommy's accomplishments or lack thereof.

He often got into trouble, and was in and out of juvenile hall for various things. His powers manifested when he was thirteen year old. He was in school when it happened and lost control over his powers instantly, blowing up the math class. Tommy was sent to a superjuvenile hall because of his record as troublemaker and the fact that he was a mutant.

Superjuvie was not a good time for Tommy. There was a lack of adherence to basic human rights. Tommy's parents never came for him, even though they were informed, leaving Tommy bitter and angry with parental figures. Scientists took an interest in a speedster with an ability to blow things up and Tommy was poked and prodded like an animal as they tried to turn him into a weapon.

Eventually, he was able to escape Superjuvie, and found refuge on Krakoa.

Story Arcs: TBD

@Crimson Flame

Approved.

[Leophael]

If this is still active, I've been working on a character concept that I'd be happy to submit for review in the near future.

[Ruby]

If this is still active, I've been working on a character concept that I'd be happy to submit for review in the near future.

@Leophael

Still active, opening post inbound tonight or tomorrow. Submit away.

[Queen Arya]

@Ruby I apologize if I keep missing the response to it, but I had posted a question on the first page about potentially joining! Sorry for the bother :C

[Ruby]

Hihi! I have a simple question!

I know its a marvel rp, but if I wanted to make an OC using heavy influence from a DC character, would that be allowed? The full disclosure is I wanna make a character based off Raven from DC. Just, probably gonna tie her into a bit more dark magic/demonic heritage stuffs. So likely related to stuff such as Darkhold and such as Scarlet Witch is, just that heritage might Actually have a demon-dad.

Could also be fun to play with there already being a Dr. Strange ^^

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I do also have two backup ideas, in the way of an AI in a nanomachine-built body that is designed specifically to kill mutants (Her whole arc would be learning to be a person and maybe even switching to the Mutant side! But rn she'd be an Orchis unit. Probably specifically controlled by Hydra-elememts).

OR I do have a Spider-Girl oc. Which basically is just my twist on Spider-Man but I like writing girls so sue me.

I'd prefer the Raven idea but I could do any of these!

@Queen Arya

No bother! Sorry for the miss. The Raven inspired OC seems to be the best fit to me.

[Queen Arya]

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No bother! Sorry for the miss. The Raven inspired OC seems to be the best fit to me.

@Ruby

All good! I figured I got a washed awayin the CS'! I'll get to work on one!

[Leophael]

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Still active, opening post inbound tonight or tomorrow. Submit away.

@Ruby

Thanks! I'm very nearly done. I'm going for a fire-based Mutant Neyaphem. All that's left to fill out on my sheet is the history and side story plots. I think I should be on track to present the concept tomorrow.

[Leophael]

For consideration:

Aiden, "Ifrit"

Name. Aiden
Alias. Ifrit
Age. 36
Place of Birth. Ballyshannon, Ireland

Powers.

Fire Manipulation

While he lacks precision, Ifrit can both create and manipulate flame in a variety of ways with potential limited only to his imagination.

Fire Absorption

Flame is a part of Ifrit's being. As such, he is able to amplify his state of being by absorbing flames that are independently created. For instance, if his stamina were to fail him and he is near a raging fire, he can take in the power of the flame to reinvigorate himself. He is at his most powerful peak at the center of an inferno.

Fire Immunity

Fire, in any form, does not harm or damage Ifrit in any way. He is 100% fireproof and incapable of burning.

Fire Aura

Under the right circumstances, Ifrit can engulf himself in an aura of flame as a defensive manuever. This defensive technique is usually fueled by the heat of passion as opposed to being intelligently executed. In addition, he also has a passive aura that protects articles in Ifrit's direct contact from being destroyed by flame such as his clothes, accessories or even people who are making a direct tactile connection.

Teleportation

Ifrit has the potential to teleport. His control of this ability is severely lacking. Logistically working identical to others of his kin, his teleportation is a process in which he enters a foreign dimension and, almost simultaneously, re-emerges in an entirely new location on Earth, leaving the smell of brimstone in his wake. The distance in which he can teleport is severely limited and his grasp of the ability is currently very loose. This ability is mostly used as an instictual defense, devoid of strategy and logistics. Many people have fight or flight tendencies. For Ifrit, it's fight or bamf.

Decelerated Aging

Ifrit is not immortal, but the climax of his maturity is centuries away. He will remain a being who looks in his prime for many decades to come.

Enhanced Durability

Ifrit can take a hit. While he can be broken with enough applied force, he can survive quite the beating. If a car were to run into him at cruising speed, he would be bruised and slightly dazed, but wholly intact. Forces beyond that velocity will certainly take their toll on his physical health.

Enhanced Strength

Ifrit cannot lift a city bus overhead with a single hand, but he could certainly flip a car on its side if properly motivated.

Enhanced Agility

Fast, agile, aloof. Ifrit is exceptionally quick on his feet and often moves as a parkour artist does. Where humans have limits to the scapes they can traverse, Ifrit has very few, able to ascend walls, leap great distances, and perform feats of quickness to an exceptional degree surpassing that of an average human.

Prehensile Tail

Ifrit has a very useful tail that often works as an extra limb, able to hold objects and weapons with expert handling, as well as being strong enough to withstand Ifrit's weight if he were to be suspended from it.

Horn Protrusion

Ifrit has a pair of very conspicuous horns. The material that makeup the horns are very tough, but not unbreakable. However, were his horns to ever be damaged or severed, they would eventually grow back and fully recover over a matter of weeks.

History.
The Neyaphem. Mutants that resemble demons of lore who typically reside in the Brimstone Dimension. Aiden, or Ifrit as he grew to be known, came into this world sharing at least a portion of their blood. The product of a human and a mutant, Aiden often found that he had received the short end of the stick regarding both worlds. His mutation was apparent and undeniable, earning him ire and suspision from the homeosapens. And yet his diluted genes meant that he often found himself the underdog against those of the empowered homosuperior.

Aiden's true parentage remains a mystery as he was abandoned by his mother and sire both. The latter was surely due to apathy, but Aiden always wondererd if the former abandoned him out of fear. Taken in by a disfigured old mutant hermit that referred to himself only as Big Pops, Aiden began to learn the ways of survival in a thick socio-political climate when one's face would not pass for human.

Mastering a bit of stealth, harnessing his street wits, and meeting other street level mutant degenerates along the way, Aiden began to hone his ability to move around unnoticed, take what he needed to survive, and network amongst the supernaturally unique.

When Big Pops finally decided he was out of lessons to teach, he offered Aiden a choice. Continue to live in the shadows with him, moving from place to place living only to survive, or seize a golden opportunity in the form of Xavier's Institute. After a long ponderance and a hard farewell, Aiden agreed to join the school to help harness his gifts and to live amongst the rest of his peers without fear of provocation or descrimination.

That was 18 years ago.

Today, Aiden still find himself heavily associated with the institute, but he is unable to ignore his almost gypsy-like upbringing. Staying in one place for too long makes him uncomfortable so, while he always returns to the hub of his young adulthood, he seldom ever lays his head on the same pillow.

As an adult, Aiden has made a living for himself on Krakoa as a private investigator. While he has no formal authority, he has an inquisitive, calculative mind and several means to find the truth hiding in the shadow. His clientele is almost exclusively the fellow mutants on the isle, but his sense of truth and justice expands beyond that. He would be willing to help anyone in need.

A regular smoker, elusive and independent by design, caring, helpful, sometimes a sinful individual; Aiden tries to be the best version of himself while ignorant of his true roots.

Story Arcs.

The Ripper
The mutant street rats have passed stories of a boogie man. This fiend lives in the shadows, unheard and unseen, and strikes with brutal swiftness. 13 of their urban, gifted brethren have found their insides on the outside. No leads, no witnesses. The homosapien law enforcement units have proven to be lackluster in their efforts and Aiden is finding it harder and harder to stand idly by. Something wicked this way comes, but how might a boogie man fare against a devil? As Aiden meets new faces, he add to his roster of suspects and, potentially, allies in his quest to solve a case that has led to countless misfortune.

[Leophael]

Hi @Ruby and @Ezekiel, I know I'm not accepted, currently, but was curious when you anticipate starting the RP.

[trenenp]

Is this still open because I have a few ideas for ocs?

[Leophael]

I retract my application.

[udonoodles]

i am also going to be pulling out of this. it doesn't seem to be starting any time soon, and with all due respect, i'm not keen to wait around when i could be devoting my time and energy to other more active rps.

[Ruby]

I got sick, apologies for delay.

Will get this started ASAP!

[Leophael]

I hope you've recovered well. Sickness is never fun.