It sure is alarming how much in common Sunbeam has with Daybreaker. Should be fun.
Yours is a magic-tech armor based around Light-Magic right? *Introduce Onmi-Man meme about what they need to do to mimick a fraction of our power* hahaha.
@Anciek I think, given Albert's familial abilities, we might need to talk shop.
_________________________________________________________ Richard Rallis-Reynolds _________________________________________________________ 7 of July | 21 _________________________________________________________ Single | Male | Bisexual
S T A T S S T A T S
_________________________________________________________ Height | 5'10 _________________________________________________________ Hair Color | Brunette _________________________________________________________ Eye Color | Golden-Brown _________________________________________________________ Hometown | Calder City
Richard Rallis-Reynolds was born into one of Calder City’s most polished public families for he is the son of the Rallis-Reynolds Foundation, a powerful disaster relief, reconstruction, and hero-support organization with deep ties to city politics, corporate sponsorships, and superhuman response teams.
His mother, Helena Rallis-Reynolds, is not simply a hero in costume. She is a public institution. A crisis manager, philanthropist, strategist, and former field operative of Greek descent, Helena built her reputation on appearing wherever Calder City broke and promising that her family would rebuild it better than before. She is elegant, disciplined, media-perfect, and almost impossible to embarrass.
Richard’s older sister, Cassandra Rallis-Reynolds, became everything the family wanted from the next generation. Beautiful, charismatic, powerful, and adored, Cassandra inherited a far more glamorous version of the family’s anomalous gift. Her abilities allow her to create shining gold-like structures, monuments, barriers, and architectural forms on a dramatic scale. The media calls her a living symbol of restoration. Sponsors love her. The Foundation loves her. Helena presents her as proof that the family legacy is still bright.
But Richard’s power manifested differently.Where Cassandra creates beautiful structures, Richard finds cracks and his ability (sometimes called Aureate Mending) allows him to perceive fractures, stress points, and structural weaknesses in objects, buildings, machinery, and even bodies. Through touch, he can produce a strange gold-like substance that flows into cracks and hardens into luminous seams, repairing, binding, or reinforcing what has been damaged. The effect resembles kintsugi "broken things held together by golden lines."
It is useful. Sometimes incredibly useful. But it is also deeply unglamorous.
Richard does not create shining monuments. He crawls through collapsed buildings and seals broken support beams. He holds cracked concrete together long enough for civilians to escape. He splints shattered bones with golden seams that hurt like hell but keep people alive. He welds doors shut, patches damaged vehicles, stabilizes failing machinery, and reinforces broken armor, walls, bridges, or bodies.
His power does not hide damage. It reveals it. And that made him the embarrassment of a family obsessed with looking flawless, specially if some of their constructions needed repair.
Helena never knew what to do with him. Cassandra could stand in front of cameras surrounded by gleaming golden architecture and look like the future of Calder City. Richard emerged from disaster zones dirty, exhausted, shaking, and covered in glowing fracture-lines. His work saved lives, but it photographed badly. Online critics called him “the repair boy,” “gold glue,” “crackfinder,” and “the family maintenance staff.”
The worst part is that some of the jokes were not entirely wrong and that make Richard grow up feeling like the useful disappointment. Not useless enough to be ignored, not impressive enough to be celebrated. His family brought him out when they needed sincerity, humility, or disaster-zone credibility, then pushed Cassandra forward when it was time for speeches, magazine covers, and public admiration.
At twenty-one, Richard has started pulling away from the Foundation’s control. He still works rescue scenes, but increasingly on his own terms. He is beginning to realize that his power may be stranger than the family admits. Sometimes, when he touches very old stone, ancient metal, or places damaged by impossible events, the cracks speak back. Not in words, exactly, but in impressions: pressure, history, pain, memory.
His family builds monuments and Richard listens to ruins.
But one day, Calder City may need someone who understands broken things better than anyone else.
He first realized his powers when he was 6 years old and have grown as he grew up
Aureate Mending: Richard can produce a strange gold-like substance from his hands that flows into cracks, breaks, and damaged surfaces before hardening into luminous seams. This allows him to repair or reinforce objects, structures, machinery, and certain injuries. The effect does not erase damage but it stabilizes it, leaving visible golden lines behind.
Fracture Sense: Richard can perceive stress points, cracks, weak joints, and structural damage in his surroundings. This makes him highly useful in disaster zones, collapsed buildings, damaged vehicles, and unstable environments. He can often tell where something is about to break, where pressure is building, or what needs to be reinforced first. This sense is not true precognition and does not tell him the future; it only reveals existing weakness and strain.
Golden Binding: By applying his aureate substance offensively or defensively, Richard can bind objects together, seal doors, lock damaged mechanisms, reinforce barriers, splint broken limbs, or temporarily restrain enemies by fixing them to cracked surfaces or damaged equipment. This ability works best when something is already broken, stressed, or imperfect. Smooth, flawless, undamaged surfaces are harder for him to affect.
Self-Reinforcement: Richard can channel his power through the microfractures and stress points in his own body, temporarily reinforcing his bones, joints, and muscles with thin golden seams. This gives him increased durability and physical strength for short periods, but it is painful and somewhat dangerous. Overuse can make him stiff, heavy, numb, or leave him with lingering golden marks beneath the skin.
Richard Rallis-Reynolds is guarded, observant, and quietly resentful. He grew up in a family obsessed with polish, public image, legacy, and restoration, but his own power does not create beautiful monuments or inspiring symbols. It finds damage. It exposes stress fractures. It leaves visible golden seams where something has broken.
Because of that, Richard has developed a sharp eye for imperfection, both in structures and in people. He notices tension in a room, cracks in a story, discomfort behind a smile, and weakness hidden beneath confidence. This makes him perceptive, but not always kind. He can be blunt, suspicious, and difficult to impress, especially around people who seem too polished or too comfortable being admired.
He is more introverted than extroverted. Richard does not enjoy cameras, speeches, galas, interviews, or public hero events. He has spent too much of his life being presented as part of the Rallis-Reynolds family image, usually as the disappointing younger heir or the humble “repair boy” beside his much more celebrated sister. Attention makes him tense, and praise often makes him suspicious. He has trouble believing compliments are sincere rather than strategic.
Richard is not naturally cruel, but he can be bitter. He dislikes pity almost as much as mockery, and he reacts badly to being treated like a useful assistant rather than a hero in his own right. He is especially sensitive to jokes about being maintenance, support, or cleanup. The truth is that he is very good at rescue and stabilization work, but he hates that people often only value him after everything has already gone wrong.
Despite his resentment, Richard is deeply protective. His first instinct in a crisis is to look for what is about to fail and hold it together. A collapsing wall, a damaged bridge, a wounded civilian, a panicking teammate...Richard is drawn to broken things even when he pretends not to care. He will complain, glare, and act like the situation is someone else’s mess, but he will still be the one kneeling in the rubble with bloody hands, forcing golden seams through cracked concrete until everyone else gets out alive.
At his worst, Richard is defensive, jealous, and prone to pushing people away before they can decide he is not enough. He can confuse being needed with being used, and he sometimes assumes the worst of people who genuinely want to help him. At his best, he is loyal, practical, brave, and quietly compassionate. He understands damage better than most, and though he would never say it out loud, part of him believes broken things deserve to survive.
M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S
Richard wants to become more than the family’s useful disappointment.
For most of his life, the Rallis-Reynolds name has defined him before he could define himself. His mother built a public legacy around restoration, perfection, and control. His older sister became the shining successor that everyone wanted to be... powerful, charismatic, beautiful, and easy to celebrate. Richard, by contrast, became the one sent into damaged places to patch cracks, stabilize failures, and make sure the family’s promises did not collapse in public.
His immediate goal is independence. Richard wants to operate outside the direct control of his family’s foundation and prove that his work matters even when it is not glamorous. He is drawn to rescue operations, disaster response, damaged infrastructure, and street-level emergencies...places where his abilities are not just useful, but necessary. He does not want to be a mascot, a charity case, or a background figure in someone else’s heroic image.
He also wants to understand the deeper nature of his powers. His golden seams do more than repair. Sometimes they respond strangely to old stone, damaged artifacts, impossible materials, or places touched by unexplained phenomena. Richard has started to suspect that his ability may not simply be a hereditary repair gift. It may be connected to something older, something hidden beneath the family’s clean public mythology.
What Richard truly wants is not fame, though part of him still craves recognition more than he likes to admit. He wants respect. He wants to be seen as someone who holds the line when beautiful things fail. He wants to prove that repair is not weakness, that support is not inferiority, and that a broken thing held together with gold can become stronger than something that only pretends to be flawless.
Well there goes my first post ever here, hope it's good enough even if it is rejected since i'm new. But wanted to try anyway :)
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