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Heroes Reborn: Prime Earth (Superhero/Urban Fantasy: OPEN)

@praxitilies Sure, shoot me a PM if you like.

Heroes Reborn: Prime Earth (Superhero/Urban Fantasy: OPEN)

@praxitilies I'm kind of interested in Tobias' soul-scrying ability, since I think it would give him unprecedented insight into Zeka's true nature-- more than even Zeka himself.

Heroes Reborn: Prime Earth (Superhero/Urban Fantasy: OPEN)

I'm willing to discuss rivalries or alliances for my Communist Carcinogen.

Heroes Reborn: Prime Earth (Superhero/Urban Fantasy: OPEN)

A lot of magic characters. Here is my nuclear abomination. Forgive the lazy formatting.

ЗЭКА

Superhero Name: Zeka

Civilian Name: None, official scientific designation is NII-0302007.

Hometown: None, generally escapes into low orbit between sightings. Originally housed on Severny Island, Siberia, in the former Soviet Union.

Sex: None, though his humanoid form is male in appearance.

Race: Unknown, some form of energy being.

Height: 185 cm (humanoid form)

Weight: 634 kg (mass of corium body)

Age: Unknown

Birth Date: Unknown, first discovered 19 July, 1960.

Costumed Appearance: Zeka’s humanoid form is that of a robust and muscular human male, with the heroic and statuesque proportions typical of the Socialist Realism style of the post-World War Soviet Union. His facial features are strikingly aesthetic, subtly stylized, and his body gives a fit and powerful appearance, though he is not disproportionately nor ripplingly muscular. His hair is a completely static sculpture of a short and combed style.

The most obvious indicator of Zeka’s inhuman nature is that his entire body, including his hair and teeth, is composed of a glossy, black mineral substance (corium, a crystalline techno-alloy comprised of such substances as silicon, boron, graphite, lead, and uranium) that resembles volcanic glass. His eyes and the inside of his mouth both glow intensely with the white-yellow light of his reactor core. While Zeka can alter the material of his humanoid form to resemble whatever he wishes, he maintains this form at essentially all times due to psychological conditioning.

Civilian Appearance: Zeka has no secret identity, and as a result is essentially always “in costume.” His taste in clothing generally revolves around two or three piece suits, usually worn without ties. He may sometimes remove his shirt or strip down entirely if engaged in battle.

Icon: Zeka does not have an overt costume and as such does not have a sigil emblazoned on his chest, though he still identifies with the hammer and sickle of the CPSU.

Costumed Personality: Zeka’s inhuman mind has been shaped considerably by the psychological conditioning he went through while he was the captive of the Soviet Union. The resulting synthesis has created his “heroic” persona. Zeka can be described as empathetic, as he cares deeply about common people and their suffering, but at the same time he is a ruthless pragmatist; he cuts to the quick and does whatever is necessary to benefit the greater good. He prefers direct action whenever possible, and can be ruthless and devastating in its application. Zeka is not completely without mercy, kindness, and other humane qualities, but his confinement and the world he has emerged into have made him bitter and cynical. He still has some remaining hope for cooperation and a utopian future with a united mankind, but he knows that it cannot

Civilian Personality: As has been said, Zeka does not have a civilian persona, and so he treats with common people and metahumans in an identical manner. He is a creature without deception and artifice, and has nothing to hide from anyone.

Super Abilities

Skills: Zeka does not have much in the way of civilian skills. During his decades of captivity, he has achieved a mastery of such topics as nuclear physics, Marxist socio-economic theory, and the construction of antiquated late-Soviet era nuclear reactors. He speaks several languages, including most of those spoken by Warsaw Pact states.

Powers: Zeka’s obsidian body is a construction around his true form: he is essentially a sapient nuclear fusion reactor, in other words a living star. The vast majority of his abilities are derived from the controlled release of energy from his nuclear heart. His physical humanoid form is a byproduct of his ability to reshape and manipulate radiologically hyperactive material, and was constructed from the liquified materials that formed his Siberian prison. While it typically seals the heat and radiation his core produces, Zeka can choose to allow this energy to permeate his body and revert to the toxic nuclear lava his body originally resembled. Given that his body is merely the container of his true form, it is very difficult to physically harm him in any meaningful sense, and his strength is only limited by the energy output of his reactor.

By carefully allowing the energy of his core to be released, Zeka can attack with controlled bursts of heat, light and radiation. Just as he can release this energy, he can also absorb energy (typically radiation), which adds fuel to his internal reactor. As a result, his attacks that would normally contaminate an area can have their fallout reabsorbed by him if he so chooses, helping him avoid collateral damage from his abilities.

While Zeka’s nuclear energy generally acts according to how mankind understands it, it also has otherworldly properties that cannot be readily explained by modern science. His ability to transmute radioactive material can result in him taking surprising forms, and his radiation can interact strangely with living things, particularly insects and other arthropods.

Gadgets: Zeka does not carry any equipment with him; his natural radiation tends to interfere with electronics.

Weapons: See above.

Civilian Occupation: None.

Character History: Zeka’s origins are a mystery; whatever factual information may have existed about what he is or where he came from has been obscured by misinformation, intentional redaction of information, the disappearances of individuals involved, and the records lost following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This much is known: the being known as Zeka came into the possession of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the early 1960s, and was stored in a secret laboratory on a remote island off the northern coast of Siberia. Designated NII-0302007 by the Soviet Scientific Research Institute, once it became apparent that the being was in fact sapient and intelligent, it came to be informally referred to as “Zeka,” a Russian slang term meaning “prisoner.”

Zeka was initially hostile and combative to the researchers contaning and studying him, and briefly escaped in October 1961. However, the advanced interrogation and psychological conditioning procedures practiced by the KGB proved effective even on a truly inhuman being, and he became compliant and receptive. Zeka had little to express about his (he had adopted a male persona at this point despite his incorporeal form) past or his species, only remembering that he was “lured by natural urges.” He spent most of the 20th century in containment, being indoctrinated by his captors socialist theory, as well as helping them expand their understanding of nuclear energy, which they educated him in as well.

Following the Two-Months War, the Russian Federation, which had already neglected the funding for Zeka’s containment facility, allowed his prison to deteriorate to the point where he escaped. Unable to recapture both Zeka and deal with the fallout of the war, Zeka was able to escape into the wildlands and pursue his own mysterious agenda.

Heroes Reborn: Prime Earth (Superhero/Urban Fantasy: OPEN)

Revising my original idea. What would you think about a Red Son esque Soviet superhero with nuclear-themed abilities? Yes I'm watching Chernobyl I've tried a character like this a few different times, I promise I'm not a bandwagoner lol

Heroes Reborn: Prime Earth (Superhero/Urban Fantasy)

For anyone that chooses not to join the discord (ie me) the game will just seem dead the majority of the time. No idea who is coming or going or posting or anything.

Heroes Reborn: Prime Earth (Superhero/Urban Fantasy)

@Blackstripe To put my two cents in, I absolutely think so. The Discord dissolves into off-topic nonsense basically immediately and then the OOC dies, and the RP dies in the crib. Happened every single time without fail.

Heroes Reborn: Prime Earth (Superhero/Urban Fantasy)

Sure, infodump me. If need be I can do perhaps something like LV-99; an alien infiltrator-assassin cut off from its ruling hivemind and left without a mission.

Heroes Reborn: Prime Earth (Superhero/Urban Fantasy)

I'm willing to offer up a more-or-less Martian character if that's workable.

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Might as well give this another try. How would you feel about a Shugendo monk, perhaps a heretic/apostate cast out for his study of foreign religions? I know that magic wasn't really a thing prior to the demon uprising but I think a more spiritually-inclined character would help balance the party in several senses.