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Young Justice Renegades: A Team Worth Dying For

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Is injecting your blood that mystically heals/cures all ailments really science?

@Sep

Sounds pretty sciency to me. In that I don't understand how such a thing would be possible and if that ain't science...

Young Justice Renegades: A Team Worth Dying For

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We're not trying to kill people. Geez lol.

@Lord Wraith

It's okay if it's accidental...

Young Justice Renegades: A Team Worth Dying For

With this many characters, the penthouse might need an expansion (also medical wing) to accommodate everyone

@Ever Faithful

Like when Johnny's scarab chokes out Conor and not in a fun way.

Young Justice Renegades: A Team Worth Dying For

Gonna sneak this in her before I go back to studying. Picture and colour to come!

I should be studying

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PSI-RIDER

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^{_{Johnny Renault♦ Male ♦ 20 ♦ Ontario, Canada}}

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Johnny spent most of his life in the great white north, enjoying the winter as any sane Canadian has to do to survive. However, Johnny’s first love was the track. CASCAR was Johnny’s favourite thing to watch even before he could walk, whether it was the rumbling of the engines or the action of the colourful cars whizzing by it didn’t matter; Johnny loved racing. That being said, Johnny wasn’t all that smart or skilled. He’d managed to run in some pee-wee go-karting leagues as he grew older but he was normally running at the back of the pack if he hand’t crashed yet. He wasn’t deterred though, continuing to race all throughout his life and even dropping out of grade ten to pursue it more. The racer wannabe got better as time went on but he was never good enough to get into the big local leagues. In a last ditch effort Johnny moved to America, getting his citizenship and traveling the country and racing in some more popular smaller leagues in the hopes of getting ‘discovered’.

He got discovered alright and nobody big wanted to work with him. People found Johnny had an uncanny knack for knowing what move other drivers were going to pull but aside from his seemingly supernatural intuition Johnny wasn’t anything special. Going back North to live with his parents during the off season, Johnny was finally coming to terms with his inability to compete in his dream occupation. In a saddened stupor, Johnny took a walk one night to the old local track he used to watch the now cancelled CASCAR races. The track had seen better days, mostly only being rented out for rich people’s fun rather than running any actual races. Johnny sat down in the stands like he had so many times before and began considering what route to take his life in now.

That’s when the sky lit up.

It was like the sun had risen in an instant as something big and hot landed on the infield of the track with a relatively light landing. Johnny felt drawn to the ship, a mutual sadness he felt with it made him feel pity for the unidentified flying object. The ship seemed to be melting but with a weak effort, a hatch was opened and Johnny went inside, uncharacteristically keen on helping whoever it was that seemed to be messing with his head. Inside there was nothing but a set of alien looking controls and a seat. Johnny turned to leave, thinking the owner had left through another exit, but he stopped as the track was once more lit up with spot light from encroaching helicopters, armed to the teeth. The door out shut before Johnny could make his way out but Johnny didn’t miss a beat as he made his way to the controls and took a seat, feeling the forgiven sadness he once felt turn to fear. This ship was the thing messing with his head and at the moment their goals of getting out of there lined up. Johnny immediately knew he had no idea how the controls of this machine worked but sensing this, the ship began to contort. It wasn’t a quick process but by the time the helicopter got over head, Johnny began to recognize the shapes of a steering wheel and pedals in the ship.

Johnny drove the alien ship out of the track that night, the ship staying at a street level as the duo ripped through the area and eventually evading the helicopters. By the time their ride together was over, Johnny’s UFO was much more identifiable. It seemed to be a hodgepodge of cars; handles of a Javelin, nose of a 77’ firebird, and an assortment of other odds and ends. To most the care would be an ugly mess but at the moment it was the most beautiful machine Johnny had ever seen. Over the coming months Johnny grew to love the machine, keeping it well maintained, hidden in his parents’ garage and street racing it at night. Johnny began to get a bit of a legend around him and his dream machine, deciding to go for his own moniker like Racer-X when operating the vehicle. During his golden months of driving, Johnny began to feel some unrest from The Car. Wanting to get to the bottom of why his new pride and joy was bummed, Johnny swallowed his pride and began ‘meditating’ in the car, figuring that would help him get a better feel for the machines feelings. This didn’t work too well but after witnessing a mugging during a race, Johnny knew exactly what was up. The Car had a pretty strong sense of right and wrong evidently and wanted to do good evidently. That night was the first night of Psi-Rider’s career in super heroics, getting his ass beat in as the other victim fled. Despite his bruises and probable internal bleeding, Johnny couldn’t help but feel good doing good, whether that was a side effect from The Car’s own feelings or because he had found his second calling in life. Psi-Rider’s acts eventually put him on the Renegade’s map who invited the hero from the great white north to join their squad. Psi-Rider was going international.

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Schmuck: Johnny’s a better than average driver. In a normal car he’ll given anyone short of a professional driver a run for their money in a race (drag, road, or otherwise) but with The Car Johnny is a bona fide prodigy. Aside from Johnny’s surprisingly good intuition, he has no supernatural powers of his own and relies heavily on The Car for super heroics.

The Car: Secretly nicknamed Carly, The Car is an alien quasi-biological-ship-turned-street-machine that Johnny has bonded with. The Car is capable of changing its shape and configurations on the fly, shrinking down to a motorcycle of growing to the size of a minivan at times. It has limited weapon capabilities, mostly including a small arrangement of lasers and creating spiked surfaces or reinforced sections. Its biggest boon to Johnny is it’s ability to bestow some low level telepathy, allowing Johnny to predict the actions of most living creatures which really helps the inapt superhero. (

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

Johnny has a some insecurity about his skill behind the wheel and seeks to prove his mettle to the world by rip and roaring till he can accumulate enough fans to justify himself in his own eyes. Another point of concern in Johnny’s life is his motivations for super heroics. He won’t admit it but Johnny has doubts about his willingness to help others is genuine or only a psychic result of his dream machine. Later on I’d like to have Johnny figure out more about the origins of The Car and face an evil version down the line ala CARR vs KITT.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

Johnny knows next to nothing about mainstream superheroes, only really knowing of Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern (he’s pretty sure there’s only one).

R E L A T I O N S H I P S:

TBD

@rocketrobie2

Forget the epic Josh fight of 2021. It's clear that 2021 belongs to the fight of the Johnnys.

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Oh no the Australian is going to teach Dandy swears...

@Dead Cruiser

Oh yes

Young Justice Renegades: A Team Worth Dying For

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Prank war?
Why would you ever involve a teleporter in pranks?

@Snownado

It's for that reason why you should involve a teleporter in on pranks. Nothing makes it more hilarious than the teleporter popping everywhere and annoying the fuck out of the team.

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I just can't wait for the prank war to ensue, but when the Scarab feels magic being used on it it goes into full kill mode.

@Sep

It's all fun and games until one of them tries to beat the other senseless.

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"Oh hey Johnny. I made you this protective charm you can wear to help keep you saf-"

scarab senses magic

scarab begins choking Conor

"No okay then."

In honesty with us both being the street kids, and from what I've read of the sheets I was wondering if we had both been on the team for a little bit if we could be the 'good friends but they're too cool to really acknowledge it'.

@Sep

Scarab would probably replace choking with an energy cannon to the face.

You know, because it doesn't half ass anything.

"Feel my Scarab Gun, filthy mage!"

Johnny inside thinking "Wow. Scarab really sucks at insults."

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Vincent Gideon Jacobs

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A L I A S

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^{_{V I N C E N T G I D E O N J A C O B S ♦ M A L E ♦ 2 0 ♦ C E N T R A L C I T Y}}

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^{"All roads could lead to Rome...but I'd rather they lead to the bedroom."}

A snarky, pain-in-the-ass, happy-go-lucky, turbulent mess of a young man, Vincent is extraordinarily gifted and extraordinarily un-practiced. Aware of his abilities, he's been using them to make his life easy for the past few years, since leaving his drunk of a father, but he's only really scraped the surface of what he's capable of; his biggest enemy is his reluctance to try, in case of failure - and besides, what he can do currently is fine enough to maintain his lifestyle, and with his city being The Flash's home haunt, any fancy showing-off might bring the wrong kind of attention from beings he is woefully under-equipped to deal with.

Vincent liked - or convinced himself he liked - his footloose-and-fancy-free life, and Julian's recent intrusion has been poorly received; Julian's clever architecture design to keep Vincent confused enough to be unable to turn his bedroom door into the main security gate is another particularly irking bugbear. Vincent finds himself at-odds with Julian's objectives, but there is enough of a moral streak in him - or enough spite for his father, who made a point of ensuring Vincent knew he would never amount - to keep him around, regardless of the countermeasures against him. Julian sees potential in Vincent, potential Vincent himself refuses to acknowledge; but silently, he is deeply appreciative of having someone believe in him.

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Vincent is a reality warper. By which I mean, if you take 'The Space-Time Continuum' as a concept, Vincent takes the 'Space' half of said continuum, and turns it into putty in his hands.

Euclidean geometry means very little to Vincent. Pick a point in space; pick another point in space. Do what you want with the space in-between. Shorten it, and fast-step your way 2 miles down the road; lengthen it, and get your daily steps in while you walk from the kettle to the fridge to fetch the milk for your coffee. Darts championship at the local bar? Bend that space in front of the dart, and it'll never not have been on its way to bullseye. Balloon out your pocket space when you really need to shoplift that third case of beer for the kegger house party you're crashing tonight.

Naturally, this is incredibly powerful, and Vincent is practically a physical god walking the Earth...or at least he would be, if he took the time to practice with his powers and experiment with what's possible. Unfortunately, this would require effort, and leave him open to failing an attempt at something, so he has avoided this at all costs. Right now, his powers are limited to spaces he can see, or is extremely familiar with; he can bend, stretch, and shorten space, and alter the space within his pockets and some bags, but isn't capable of much else right now; and he is unable - and unwilling - to mess around with biological matter.

It's Julian's hope that the Renegades might force Vincent to push his limits; it's Vincent's hope that he'll be able to get away with as little as possible.

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I've been gasping for OC for a while, and this is close enough. Honestly, enough of my friends are here for me to want to get involved purely on the basis of writing with you guys again, but also I wanted to try and get a little sillier and a little looser and try not to take myself or my writing so seriously, in hopes that it may open the door to just writing more and chopping it up, rather than agonizing over the perfect, most believable, most interesting story-arc, and then never writing it because my plotting is always so much better than my prose.

I figure the answer to that is to throw plotting out the window, and just have some fun with it.

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Effectively homeless without the Renegades; his powers did give him access to hotel rooms and empty holiday homes after he ran, but though he'd rather stay on the streets than return to his father, he's still not sure the Renegades life is for him, even if Julian is comping room and board.

Julian has set Vincent some pretty rigorous schedules to explore the nature and capacity of his powers. Vincent isn't very good at sticking to them; Julian isn't very good at pinning Vincent down for 'encouragement'. The two have a mutual respect, but find each other equally frustrating at times.

Vincent is one of the only reluctant members of the Renegades, and has no real experience 'in-the-field', so to speak. His abilities give him a natural edge, but half of his prescribed regime is basic combat drills.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S:

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Short summary of your characters thoughts, feelings and regards for the rest of the cast. Optional and can be added to whenever.

I could use an alias if anyone has any good ideas.

@Roman

Homeless squad rise up!

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Yeah I'm cool with that. I like how we've inadvertently created someone who can help get rid of the scarab if necessary.

@Sep

annoyed scarab noises

If it gets bad enough, Johnny will volunteer. Just don't touch the face. He needs to look good for when he photobomb's Cece's shots :p