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Anomalous

It me, dat bish, I have arrived o/

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Righty-o. Hard stop on the hacking of Important Government Servers^TM.

The Anomalous Chronicles (working title)

Well essentially he becomes a program, I mean it’s easier for him because he can actually see the weaknesses and such, but he still has to break through them. I am wondering how to handle that AI though, the one that runs the city, because I’m not sure he could actually stand up to it - but I mean maybe it won’t care about him? Or at least won’t give him up or recognize him as a human criminal at first.

I was considereding having Joshua, the nephew, have powers to as a kind of minor secondary character, maybe give him just the dataform power and not the manipulation. For now anyway. I don’t see why I’d need to change that but I mean maybe eventually it’ll be relevant.

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Oof that reminds me, when my dude Roman goes all dataform and digitizes himself, would it be a stretch to say he does that with his clothing as well, and thus have the potential to convert other matter (like maybe people) into dataforms, or would it be better to leave empty piles of clothes and awkward carefully vague nude scenes every time he jumps into a computer?

I mean I’d rather go with the former, that has so many juicy possibilities! And the other option might be unnecessarily annoying if a bit funny. But I worry I’m already pushing the boundaries on what’s okay and what’s not, and everybody else’s chars are so nice and blue while I’m getting yellower by the second lmao

Also I kinda want your opinion on if I should join the Chimera faction or not. If so I’ll change the occupation to hacktivist or something, and maybe renovate my app to be all “government file” and move him to the wanted list

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Roman Dynamo

[N.O.V.A. Profile]

Name | Roman Diaz
Alias | Dynamo
Age | 25
Gender | Male
Appearance |

187 cm / 74 kg
copper skin / caramel hair / amber eyes
groomed / thin

Notoriety | Unknown
Class/Level | Yellow Class 6
Abilities | Data Form / Video Manipulation

Roman has the ability to not only turn himself into a manifestation of digital energy, but also control that energy as a technomancer would. By converting himself into a digital form, he can travel across networks, download information directly to his mind, and access controls and commands of digital devices. By either utilizing nearby sources or drawing upon his own reserves, Roman can create short lived hard-light constructs in whatever shape he chooses, most often as projectiles or simple holograms. His ability to generate more powerful and enduring constructs is directly reliant on the amount of energy and processing power he has access to.

[Gear]

Attire | loose casual style / varying quality
Armament/Equipment | portable chargers / miscellaneous smart phones

[Temperament & Lifestyle]

Affiliation | Independent
Alignment | Dynamo
Personality/Habits |

Roman is energetic and restless, with a confident decisiveness that holds a certain charisma. Being inquisitive and compassionate, he also holds a certain charm that makes him likeable. However he has a stubborn deviant streak, refusing to conform and reluctant to deal with authority. Apart from his young nephew, he finds it hard to open up and maintain close relationships.

Occupation/Trade | Self-Employed Artist
Skills/Talents | trilingual - english, spanish, italian / programming / art - digital, traditional
Family | Damian Diaz / Camilla Monte / Julio Diaz / Joshua Diaz

Roman’s parents, Damian and Camilla, were just rethinking their divorce when they died mysteriously. Neither he nor his elder brother, Julio, were sad to see them go. They were judgemental and shallow people who couldn’t handle their own emotions, and should never have been allowed to let their baggage loose on children. Julio was little better, sleeping around and getting involved in things he shouldn’t, spewing offensive rhetoric that drove the brothers apart. Julio now sits in jail, and in the ensuing debate over the fate of his son, Roman fought for and won custody.

Background |

Neither of his parents had been ultra-rich, but they had been well off. Key word being ‘had.’ Roman and his brother grew up in Uptown with their mother, visiting their father on alternating holidays in Midtown. Camilla Monte did love to spend her money however, and not always in legal ways. Between her expensive tastes and long bouts of emotional and impulsive luxury cruises, by the time she reignited her relationship with their father and they both tumbled over the railing in a drunken stupor, they only had a fraction of what they should have inherited. Julio sold their home and moved to Los Angeles, leaving Roman to take his share and rent an apartment in Midtown.

Now Roman had always had powers, it was an unacknowledged fact that their family liked to forget. When he was a child the lights would flicker on and off at his will, but he spent so long hiding it, imitating his mother and pretending not to notice it, that it never occurred to him to use them until his later high school years. He discovered an ability to manipulate certain kinds of technology, interfacing with and commanding computers and phones as well as lamps and various other LED tech. It became a quality of life thing, not a special skill used for anything but the mundane.

Then, a month into his new home in Midtown, he possessed a computer in the library. He was stuck there for nearly two months, flickering in and out of the physical world the staff became convinced they were haunted. Except he hadn’t possessed the computer, not really, he’d simply turned himself into a digital form; he’d finally used his powers so much that he tipped over the threshold, becoming energy himself. When he resurfaced a good six months after his disappearance, it took some time to adjust after having learned how to navigate the various networks of the city, building and creating things that weren’t possible in the material world. He’d only stayed so long because time had flowed differently for him; his body did not need sleep or nutrients, nor did he see the sun rise or night fall or any other thing that marked the passage of time for organic people - in fact he’d only left after nearly dying when a power outage plunged him into darkness and he had to cut off huge chunks of accumulated data and programs he no longer had the power run. It had felt a bit like chopping his brain in half.

Then came Julio’s sentence, and the custody court, and Roman latched onto that new purpose like a lifeline, trying to regain a sense of normalcy after almost forgetting the real world even existed. Josh became more than a distraction however, and while he might’ve been his nephew, it felt more like having a little brother. The two of them became a team, their relationship the foundation of his newly stable bold confidence.

So! Consider this the rough draft, tell me whatchu tink

Was going to go for Radical alignment but then I saw Dynamo and was like hey thats the alias I went with so yep thats where I am now.

About affiliation tho, considered doing Chimera, but unless it’s like a network of freelancers I’m not sure.

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Class 2 Alteration "Some examples would be a physical transformation, a manifestation of an elemental force,"

So, if the power was like Johnny Storm and turn yourself into fire and then throw fireballs at people, is that Class 2 or Class 4? I'm not planning a pyro, just something a little more interesting :P I just don't want to spoil it before I'm done! It'd work a lot like that tho.

Absolute Comics - Season Two: The Monster Within

@Hound55

Woof! The personality! The characterization! That was a really good post, very pleasant to read ;P The characters felt very distinct and alive, and the jumps in time were very smooth and easy to follow, very nice!

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@Artifex That makes sense yeah! I was just considering whether I wanted to go full anarchist and found a variant commune a la Magneto and Geonosha, maybe something underground? or if I wanted to keep the planning to a minimum and wait to find my flow in game.

Think I’ll take the more relaxed approach, and if the opportunity arises... ;P

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Looks good to me! Are the plot points you have in mind designed for working together as a team or is it more; this happened, what do you do about it?

It definitely feels more open worldy to me, given how drastically different the character alignments can be. Looks like it could even go a little PvP as well as PvE if the players have have directly opposing goals.

I’m game either way ofc, but I’m already giving my character some thought and how I’d play with a team’s goals versus how I’d play with only my own goals is v different.

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[hacker voice] im in