Eyeruption

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

LL was suitably impressed by the newcomer's obvious moxy and confidence but did not express it with words yet, instead just smiling and nodding to her slightly when he met her gaze - she seemed like a painfully sensible person, and as such he deemed the current time unfitting for closely socializing with her. Maybe a bit later, after the heist, when they are all safe and high on the success... oh, and just when he thought about it, Presence contacted them again - the boy listened to the orders by leaning uncomfortably close to Nergal to hear the voices in his comms before letting him go to fulfill his mission and proceeding to morally prepare for doing his own job.

"Jeeee-zus!" Loud Love cackled somewhat nervously, jumping in place for a bit, looking sheepishly at the rushing Blood Fang. "I-I-I'm not even sure, I mean i can't even take anything with me, why would i even wa-ha-ha-ha-ha-nt toahfuckitletsfuckindothi~"
And then, Loud Love mysteriously disappeared in a deafening thunderclap. His red track pants blew up like an agitated pufferfish when air flooded the emptied space and then slowly, miserably crumbled to the ground - shit looked like a sequence ripped straight out of a children cartoon. At the same time, Talbot and Metallia felt a mighty gust of wind blow all over their backs as Loud Love manifested at the side entrance right behind them. Then, with another windy explosion and a thunderstrike, Loud Love suddenly was in front of them, then - at the end of the corridor, blasting two guards and a very unlucky clerk away with horrible concussive blasts, and then completely left his partners' field of view - but at the same time another vry scared person flew out form behind the corner and collided with the wall with a loud crack of breaking plaster, obviously blown away by the glory and beauty of the robber's explosive, dynamic entry:
"O-o-oh, i love violence! And sodomy! Oh gee, they've a map on the wall here!" The boy called out to Metallia and the werewolf form the adjacent corridor. "Vault's downstairs, on the left side! Race ya!"
The thunderclaps - and screams - considerably increased in frequency. Clearly LL wasn't a big fan of just walking like a normal person. On the good side, there were no screams that ended really suddenly and in a very loud and wet *SPLAT* - that meant he at very least tried to do that "non-lethal" thing that Maverick asked for. Or maybe he really liked that fancy ornament on the walls and didn't want to muck it up.

The Young Devils [Teenage Super Villains roleplay]

"H-ha!" LL scoffed, catching up with the speakers after a short stop to pose for a photographer. "Don't even sweat it, you guy." He gave Nergal a strong pat on the back. "All this "watch-out-never-lose-your-cool" talk is just pish-posh. Only the guys without actual superpowers like all those tinkers and thinkers need to PREPARE." - It was completely impossible to discern whether the half-naked guy was taunting them or war actually serious - his face seemed completely unreadable behind the mask of joy and excitement. - "For us cool people capes aren't more dangerous than normal police. Just..." He paused for a bit and made an awkward gesture, "Don't get shot and you're pretty much set? Or punched. Or actually do. If someone gets all close to you, he's fucking toast, right? You just need to touch them - i bet no kind of superdurability will do jack against what you pack."
Loud Love suddenly looked Nergal right in the eye, intently and even unnveringly, as if he wanted to drill a hole in his skull:
"But can you actually handle that, m-m-m? Have you ever been the one to, uh, attack first? Kill for something other than self-defense? That's a really bad thing to do, you know?

Dirty Dozen/Suicide Squad in Space

@TJByrum
Interested as fuck.
My idea is an extensively modified and incredibly deranged cyborg with superhuman psychosis who was nearly decapitated during his youth in the royal guard on a hi-tech feudal world and whose brain was reconstructed artificially through forbidden mechanical tech around a small piece that was left. His name is literally Cere-Bellum, his alias is Metalhead, his crimes are seventy seven thousands thirteen cases of mass homicide with assistance from highly illegal military grade cybernetic enhancements and atomic weapons, fifteen cases of political assassination and three cases of sodomy with highly lethal outcome.
I know this is all cliché as fuck but I just really love cyborgs. And crazy warrior-with-a-deranged-honor-code types.
Also a question - are there psychics and psionics in your setting?

Primetime Wartime

@The Scotsman
No, no, I completely approve of the thread, why else would I be writing in here?
It's just that I've got two ideas for characters I wanna play and I dunno if you'd like me to play a bashful and crazed cyborg warrior suffering from superhuman psychosis and the fact that with each upgrade he distances more and more from humanity or a more like, down-to-earth-ish character with more immediate moral problems.

Primetime Wartime

@The Scotsman
Have I said something wrong
I'm sorry if I did
I know I sometimes say wrong things without even thinking but I honestly didn't try to convey anything negative.
Is it because the second guy is extremely cliché n typical?

Primetime Wartime

O-o-o-oh, I wanna try, I wanna try!
I've got one really cheesy idea about a full-conversion cyborg mercenary called Cere-Bellum but if that doesn't really fit into the game you envision i'd like to make a member of some elite unit who acts really tough around others and is a fearless and determined warrior on the battlefield but is deeply traumatized and troubled by things he had to do during service deep inside his soul and is troubled even more by the fact that he is yet to find a true friend or another person he would trust hard enough to vent about everything and ease his soul.

Tenebris

@Estylwen
Welp, sorry for upsetting you with my attitude. Just got rustled by the incorrect jew-related comment. Might've been too energetic and furious about it. I've got a little problem with things of that subject due to my own heritage. Have a good game, sorry for op power.

Tenebris

@Mr Allen J
Sociology is one thing. Biology, another. Torah and Talmud, the third.

Here's the deal. JUDAISM as a religion and philosophy can be practiced by anyone. This doesn't make a person that is not JEWISH by descent a jew. Who are JEWISH ethnically, by Torah and by blood? Twelve Tribes who made an agreement with Maker when he lifted a mountain over their heads and asked those twelve tribes to be His People. Those are JEWISH people. Membership in these exclusive Chosen People Club is passed on only hereditary, through maternal(AND maybe paternal too, don't remember clearly) side if the jew in question is Cohen, through paternal if any other.

Next. ONLY a person that is JEWISH ETHNICALLY can ever be JEWISH in religious sense of the word. Only THESE CHOSEN TRIBES have ability and right to serve the Maker as written in Torah and further explained in all Talmud and only they are rewarded and punished properly for good and ill conduct.

ALL OTHER people of different ethnicities, no matter how much effort they make, how many prayers they spoke or how good they know Torah are NEVER JEWISH - they are "Gers" or "virtuous foreigners/outsiders" who merely('merely' is not a most fitting word due to it's particular subtext but I don't have a better one) practice Judaism.

As such a "jewish" ethnicity is a completely viable term seeing as only people of jewish descent genetically can ever be called that.

To put it all in other terms:
"There is only one Jewish ethnicity, despite the fact that people of many ethnicities may practice Judaism. Practicing Judaism and being Jewish are different things and a person of non-Jewish descent that practices Judaism can't ever be called Jewish. As such the word "Jewish" only ever relates to proper genetical jews. Religion of JUDAISM might be practiced by many ethnicities, but there is only one JEWISH ethnicity that"

Tenebris

@Mr Allen J
Your argument makes some sense but so does mine. Guy was jewish by ethnicity, jewish by belief, I put down jewish in ethnicity. Sorry for so horribly insulting your sensibilities by not being as well-versed in semantics as you are, hope that doesn't prevent you from playing or really upsets you.

And if we were REALLY to fucking argue over a minor thing like that, a person that is not jewish by blood can't even "pick up" the jewish religion. Those people who do jewish things despite their non-Jewish nationality are called "Gers" and are never considered actually "Jewish" by religion or it's commandments, their ethnicity or otherwise even if they uphold the religion, since only actual genetic jews are the chosen people by their holy book. If a fucking indian gets a circumcision and studies Talmud he's still a Ger and not a jew or jewish, unless of course he had a Cohen in his mother's bloodline or any other genetical jew in father's. "Jewish" ethnicity, belief and in a big part even nationality are strongly and even inseparably intervined.

And to your other point - "Hebrew" is not specific enough seeing as it is a collective term for SEVERAL ethnic/cultural groups living in the same region and "Israeli" denotes nationality specifically.

Tenebris

@Mr Allen J
oh well sooooorrrryyyyyy, i'll edit it to Semiiiiiitiiiiic mister political correctness
one way or another get yo damn facts right and check yo privilege
"Jewish" is a word that can denote both ethnicity and belief and nationality and i'll be fucking damned if my guy and his family weren't Jewish by ethnicity and belief.

@Estylwen
> What if I tossed in anti-matter? Nuclear bombs? There is no end for your adaptive regeneration, and that makes you a god.
Yes, I love having powers that have a big development potential. But me being a god wholly depends on your good sensibilities.
His regeneration has limits on which I will elaborate a bit later and, of course, he can't regenerate if he is killed outright by the attack - and it'd be sensible to judge that an atom bomb or antimatter explosion would just outright annihilate Better and leave him a very much unalive smear on the ground - in one superhero fiction I've read, a regenerator kinda like Better was defeated by flash-freezing him and keeping him frozen in a block of ice. In order to adapt, he first needs to survive - and if he survives an atomic explosion or some extremely massive damage, it will still leave him in a sorry, horrible and slowly healing state in which he is easy to contain and finish off or imprison. Next, a singular exposition to a threat, even if it was so brutal, won't make him completely or even nearly immune to it - to become truly "adapted" to such a rare and unusual thing as a nuclear explosion and all that it entails, Better would probably have to...
Somehow carefully expose himself to bigger and bigger amounts of radiation or regular basis, casually subject himself to EXTREME levels of heat and suffer through drastic and sudden pressure changes to simulate the blast's effect on his system, I guess. So basically him developing new adaptations and the time those take to grow is mostly up to you - and also I personally have no idea about how he can adapt to, say, aforementioned antimatter attacks, except for maybe just GROWING in volume so that antimatter won't destroy him entirely. Similarly, he is never *immune* to bullets, fire or electricity. Small arms won't do jack at this point, yes, but they also don't just ricochet off like you're shooting Incredible Hulk - sustained fire can chew through his limbs or dense flesh and damage some vitals, and a precision shot in his eye will blind it for some time. Explosives, napalm, bigger guns - they all are still pretty effective at stopping Better's advances or even incapacitating him, even if such measures probably won't kill him unless the guy is shot apart until nothing remains or stuffed into a container full of white phosphorus and lit up. Similarly with electricity - he is impervious to small jolts that can make a weak heart skip a beat or even stop, yes, and he won't be KILLED by a powerful current in a thick cable - but it will seriously char him and overload his nervous system and leave him p much disabled for some time.
Plus, considering the toughness of this fuckin animal, you can hinder him in much more serious or intricate ways than what others can handle.

Another variant, btw - I can make him a bit younger on his timeline and not as "evolved" and instead see his progress and adaptations take place in-game. Though that takes out a lot of his hexapodal, bestial, sentient monster charm.

Also sorry for the wall of text. I understand the concerns. It's just that for me, the ability that makes me only resistant to one thing at a time and completely nonresistant to all others kinda defeats the purpose of this power. I'd like to argue to at least get a set of slowly improving resistances against all that I encounter and adapt to rather than ability to no-sell any single thing and be vulnerable against everything else.