Ezekiel

Titans: West Coast. (Teen Titans Roleplay)

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Titans: West Coast. (Teen Titans Roleplay)

Barry had answers prepared for Kara, answers for what he could imagine her responses could be. He'd never expect her to put any of them, the team, him, even the very planet they were on, ahead of her quest for answers and direction. But Barry knew who she was going after, even without Oracle whispering in his ear, and that was someone even Supergirl could use back up for.

He never had the opportunity to give those answers, even if she were to listen, she was gone by the time he had fully recovered from the assault on himself and the tower. Barry was sluggish as he stood, not yet entirely sure that the Tower had been defended, keeping most of his mind on the business of keeping the Titan's own tower from turning into a Titan-hungry murder machine. He resolved to use as little energy as possible actually running his body, the rest, he used to compile what news and reports were trickling in across the city, then directing those to the many screens across the tower. Soon all the Titans would have a streamline view of Reports, police radio signals and the like, all those that had not been knocked out by the attack.

Once this was done, and he was triple sure that the virus had been purged from the tower, he punched in the elevator button. He hesitated for a few moments, his jaw set as he resisted the urge to run after Kara. She didn't need his help, most likely, but they'd long approached matters as a team, and he did not like leaving matters in the tone they had. He dismissed the thought, he could hardly beseech her with the values of the team then ignore it himself.

"On my way back up to you. Check the nearest TVs, I've switched them to giving us as strategic view of the city as possible" Barry's mind pulsed through the Tower's communication system, as he rode the elevator back up, stepping out onto a rooftop that was radically more serious than the one he had left.

Titans: West Coast. (Teen Titans Roleplay)

There was a long pause before it became evident that Barry had moved. While the Flash was characterised by a 'woosh' of noise and energy when bursting into motion, it was a phenomena he could control and implement, and over such short distances in a social setting, much easier to simply suppress. Perhaps it was rude to extract himself from the budding introductions he had dived into, but there were more pressing matters.

When Kara approached the elevator doors, he was already leaning against the doors, smiling in much the same way as his initial greeting, the strain building behind it all but invisible to even the trained eye.

"Come on in, I'll show you how it works." His tone was teasing if jovial, yet another on the long list of 'alien' jokes he had sent Kara's way over the course of their interactions, and a lot less serious than the words he had planned for her. Implicit behind it was the lack of asking if she wished the company. When the doors of the elevator closed, sealing them off in their brief downward journey, his smile almost faded. Replaced with his good humour, was a smile that was all friendly concern.

"You are aware you're part of a team now? Grayson was just beginning introductions, this isn't exactly a fair time to dash off." He deliberately avoided the use of 'Nightwing.' Kara was not a child, but the trauma of losing her world and family could cause her to snap like one over her frustrations with 'hew-manity.' It was fair enough given the circumstances, and he could hardly blame her, but he didn't have time for it now.

"Whatever you're running off to do, can wait, we can both move across continents in moments, we're hardly confined by schedule. Not like all of those above us, who we're supposed to be working with." He added as the elevator doors 'dinged' open, signalling Barry to lean back off the walls of the elevator, pausing for her reaction.

Then it hit him.

A wave of nausea and pain, enough that he could not suppress the groan that was shaken from him. Warning signals flared across his connection with the Flashsuit.

Invasive Attack Underway. Isolating

The suit communicated to him through electrical impulses, translated by his own connection with the force of Electricity. Regular sound was too slow, and the on-board suit-AIs that other heroes had been known to possess were unnecessary for Barry. Who needs a super computer when your brain had already been souped up into one?

It was a simple thing to recover from the attack, and purge the suit system, once he had recovered from the strain of the initial surge. By the time he had done so, he was already securing the tower, his mind reaching out to interact with the vast array of computers within the Titan Tower. He systematically destroyed the Virus attack, blow by blow. On his way, he discovered that the invasion was not limited to the computers alone, but was branching across all electrical fields, much like his own abilities.

Unlike himself, however, the attack was not focused, it was a blanket endeavor that lacked finesse. It strained him, but with little challenge he reached out to drive the attack away. Facilities around the tower sparked to life, who shut down, as Barry's electrical self dealt with the attack as quickly as possible. A few systems failures along the way were the inevitable cost. He hoped Dick or WayneTech didn't get too upset.

Once he had done so, he 'awoke' panting as if he'd just run a marathon.

Perhaps a couple of seconds had passed.

"Kara. We're under attack." He spoke directly to her, before pulsing the same warning across the Tower's audio systems.

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The electro-virus ripped through San Francisco, a wave of energy imperceptible to the human mind except in its immediate effects. What had caused the 'outbreak' was as of yet unknown, but the dangers were soon evident. First, electrical devices across the city began to flare and die. Not in their totality, but a spattering across the city, with a focus on infrastructure and those designed to respond to threats.

Then they began to wake.

Large scale machines, of all kinds, began to twist and buckle, their circuits driving their metallic forms into new shapes, designed for one thing. Havoc. Before long, the city was overrun with them, machines twisted into evil intent, newly programmed to simply cause the greatest damage possible.

At the centre of it all, the tiny chip that had started the outbreak, hidden within the city, began to build its own form. A cloud of electrical energy, building until a humanoid form of static and metal stood of its own accord, only to mutter its first words.

"Overload Online."

World of Darkness: City of Angels

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Faster

Barry ran.

Something one would not normally deem extraordinary, the act of running. Something done the world over by countless individuals since mankind had first hobbled onto two feet. When Barry ran, however, extraordinary didn’t quite cover it.

He felt the cold whip at him, seeping through even the protective layers of his armour. It would be enough to kill a normal human given enough time, but Barry had left normal behind long ago. While the supernatural force that surged through him protected him from forces such as the wind and air resistance, forces that would pull him apart at this speed without it, the chill still made itself known. Good, it was nice to feel his limitations.

Snow, rock and ice impacted beneath his feet as he powered on, the great variety of the Artic circle spreading out before him, from the frozen forests of North Canada, the Tundral peaks of Scandinavia and the ice sheets of the pole itself, all opened up before him. No matter how fast he ran, he could always see, what should of been a blur of emotion remained clear to him, the rest of the world moving as if he viewed it through tar or treacle.

Eventually he passed beyond the limitations of habitation, to the frozen roof of the world where life could not claim. Barry had not come here before, in his search for the ideal location to test his powers he had previously roamed south to the deserts of the US, but he had recently discovered the effects the cold had on his powers. It drained him faster, limited him gradually, forced him to expand more energy to achieve the same results. To him, this was a positive, here the natural elements, he felt, might limit his capacity for destruction. The far end of his powers were unknown, if indeed, they had any. As thrilling as it was to run, to escape anything that might hold him down, it was also terrifying. What could he ‘not’ do.

With a thought, he unleashed a surge of built up heat, the consequence of friction and static playing across his form. The protective energy of what he had named ‘The Speed Force’ nulified this destructive energy, but if he so chose, he could unleash it around him. A series of detonations followed his path as he ran, the speed at which he was running preventing him from being caught in the fireballs caused by him releasing the force.

A mountain of ice reared before him, jutting from the shelf into the sky. Beneath the red helmet of his armoured suit, his eyes narrowed. Time for another test. He maintained his speed as he approached it, refusing to allow himself the extra time to prepare. As he ran, he began to harness another aspect of his power. Arcs of lightning began to gather around him, sparking from the dashing figure like the peak of a tesla coil. To the human eye, a ball of lightning would have been seen streaking across the flat ice, just another impossibility born from the realm of the unknown.

Pushing himself to new heights in both aspects of the power he tested, Barry lunged into the air, several miles from his new, adopted target. Narrowing his body into a straight lance, he exploded from the ground in a crescendo of noise and energy, unable to ground, the lightning built around him, sparking brighter and more intense with everything passing moment. In less than a blink of an eye, he passed the distance through the air.

Thunder roared across the polar landscape, before an ancient mountain of ice detonated with electrical fury. For meters around his impact point, the ice burned straight to water vapour, a vast nascent cloud forming before ascending into the polar air, shortly to fall back to Earth. Much of the rest of the structure melted, but several large chunks of ice, at the extremities, were simply blown into the air.

Pausing in the remains of his act, Barry watched as the great chunks began to fall from the sky, appearing to drift almost as if made of feathers to his modified senses. While there was nothing for him to disturb for a great distance around him, it would prove another interesting challenge. A slight smirk spread across his features as he set himself the goal. Then he was off once more.

He intercepted the first block of ice hundreds of meters before it hit the ground, once again taking to the air. The process to whittle it down was simple, his feet clinging to its icy surface as he ran across it, the ice melting away beneath the force as speed of his running, until it crashed down to the ice sheet as little more than a large puddle. The second ice block was met with a series of dashes, launching from the ground to air and back again, dividing the ice enough times that it crashed down in sections smaller than Barry. The third and final, he allowed to crash down, simply standing in its path.

Once again his form sparked lightning, and the red of his suit began to shimmer. Remaining still, but moving even faster than before, focusing the force within himself, until even to his own eyes he blurred in static motion. When the ice struck him, rather than flaten his form beneath multiple tons of ice, instead it simply sizzled into vapour, the vast heat and energy of his form casting it aside, focused upwards, rather than down, to prevent him melting into the sheet.

Finally he exhaled, the chain of events taking place within the space of time it took him to breathe. His heat pounded in his chest, the strain of his actions catching up with him faster due to the cold, but it was good to unleash something of his power. Eventually he could not help but release the laugh building within him, the sound of his amusement tumbling over the frozen landscape.

“Alright. That was pretty cool.” He spoke aloud, forcing it through his panting breaths.

“You do have neighbors up here, you know.”

She had watched with interest. He was human, Sanctuary confirmed it, but the A.I. didn’t have to. With Kara’s superpowered abilities of observation it wasn’t impossible to tell Kryptonian from human. Given everything she knew about physiology all she had to do was look and listen. Helpful that he was standing still now, of course. He hadn’t noticed her match his speed in the air, high above him, but that was the point. But now he was getting dangerously close to the Fortress of Solitude, and there was no giant key pointing the way to alert someone like this super-powered hew-man about just what they neared, and why it was dangerous on so many, many levels.

She wore it only for recognition. If Kara had been dressed in the jeans and tank top and denim jacket she wore just minutes before, it wouldn’t have been the same. There wouldn’t have been the same instant recognition she saw in his eyes now, when he looked up to the floating young woman that had spoken to him, and seen that suit with that red cape and that red and yellow shield on her chest. House of El, it said to her.

Superman, it no doubt said to him.

Barry’s eyes settled on her for several moments before he spoke, simply allowing the rise and fall of his breathing to fill the time before he reacted any further. It wasn’t that her arrival didn’t come as a surprise, indeed it almost defeated the very point of him deciding upon the Artic, but he had a suspicion she’d hardly been in much danger from his collateral.

The symbol across her chest was something recognisable to all but the most isolated of humanity, especially in recent times. America, even the human race as a whole, were still trying to work out how they moved on without it, without what it had come to mean. Yet here it was hovering before him, in the Arctic Circle. She was quite pretty too.

All this and Barry barely blinked, his mind working through it at far beyond a human capacity. It was simply that the Fastest Man Alive rarely panicked when confronted with new situations anymore, nothing he was too slow to respond it. In the next moment, he smiled at her, genuinely, before he finally spoke.

“Don’t suppose I could talk you out of the noise complaint? Can’t really afford to have that added to my record.”

"Superman's secret home is nearby. It's built with Kryptonian technology. I'm his cousin, when I arrived a Bat-human pointed me in the direction of this secret home. Needless to say because of the Kryptonian technology you would be wise to go ten miles east or ten miles west before continuing. Kryptonian A.I. and I aren't entirely sure what would happen, especially with everything that Superman collected over time. It was decided I should come warn you." After a long beat, as if something or someone had reminded her of Earth customs, she simply added: "Please."

“Get off my lawn, basically.” Barry’s eyes momentarily left the young woman to watch the sky, already the dispersed water vapour had formed more tightly, preparing to snow, likely the first time it had actually done so above this frozen patch of ice-desert in some time. “It doesn’t matter how you dress it up, from Kansas to Krypton, that’s what they mean.” Mused aloud, to both himself and her, the two choices of location were obvious. He considered, in that moment, whether something in whatever alien craft the original had landed in could have picked it for that reason. Name alone.

The golden haired girl’s head tilted to the side...just so. “What is a lawn?”

That made him pause, truly pause, if just for a moment, before he responded, racing through all the potential things to say before landing on one. Less than a true moment, but for Barry Allen that was almost meditation.

“You might need a new AI if it couldn’t tell you that. Think of it like...a little piece of nature, each of us likes to claim and make our own.” He mused over the response, attempting to place it in terms that were both poetic, and not reliant on other Earth terms. “Some people take a great deal of time over them, or, just like their privacy, hence ‘Get off my lawn.” He added a helpful smile to the end, all the way from a corny stock photo.

“I asked you, not the A.I.”

Her feet hit the ice gently; first her toes, then the balls of her feet, then her heels. The long red cape whipped a little as a gust of artic wind came up, but like him, she didn't seem all that bothered it. The cold didn't bother her. She barely felt it, truth be told. A truth she thought dangerous to tell this strange superhuman. Her eyes were the color of deep ice, a fact that was only highlighted in the arctic of white on white. Eyes that drifted to the sky for a moment as the A.I. filled in the gaps.

"Oh! A section of land, typically grass and typically proportional to the size of the home, that sits between a street, or side walk, and a home.....so many variations..." Her eyes danced, micro-movements at incredible speeds, as pictures flooded in her mind. A sudden blink, and her blue eyes opened once more--focused on him again. Except now she smiled, broadly, like a scientist alive with the rush of new understanding. "Yes, exactly: get off my lawn because I can't promise it won't hurt you."

His smile eased as he watched her, exaggerated cookie-cutter expression replaced with a softer, more real, emotion as discovery alighted her senses, but it was buried behind a grin by the time she had finished speaking.

“I’m out here because I don’t know the limits of what I can do. It’s exciting but it terrifies me, and it should. I watch videos of your cousin and I don’t marvel at him, I think of all the ways I could have done everything I’ve seen him do, sometimes they’re better, sometimes they’re worse, but they’re never impossible. As Barry spoke, his tone gradually became more severe, never quite leaving behind the joviality of his nature, but growing, in the moment, a certain maturity.
“I’m sure that sounds arrogant, maybe it is, but I was never inclined to that until I ran so fast I could feel the Earth turning back on me, so if you’re telling me there’s something out here that could test me, really test me, it might take more than please to get me to forget that, because I’m not a fan of being terrified.” His voice trailed off as he finished speaking, breaking the hold on her eyes he had maintained until the point, almost reluctantly, watching the horizon trail away to white canvas.

The light left her face, and her tone. Blue eyes narrowed. “My dead cousin’s secret home is not here simply to test your super…hew-man abilities.”

And then she snorted, anger getting the better of her. Kal was something of a sore subject for her, she knew, and she resented the idea that the Fortress was there as some great ‘ring of fire’ for this being. “We’re not sure what the Kryptonian technology would do. It’s...reactive,” she said, as if she were already afraid of having said too much. “Nevermind the Sun-Eater.”

She added that last bit after a small pause, and a smaller smirk. Her eyes went to the northern horizon, to the sky. To Crystal Mountain. To anyone else it looked like a lonely, misty, mountain covered in ice atop the world in the northern arctic; it was a ruse. Get close enough, or have the Kryptonian computers authenticate your access, and all a person would see would be a mountain of crystal alive with a slow burning energy that was blue, white, purple, even streaked and dotted red from time to time--every color shifting and moving within the crystal like blood through a body.

“Would you like to see my...lawn?”

Barry maintained his cool through her anger, although the suit hid a slight relaxation of his muscles, a suggestion her reaction was not something he misunderstood. His own exhilaration and fear over the limit, or lack of one, of his own powers, could make him single minded. Understanding was not, however, the same as surrender.

Even still, it seemed that was unnecessary, as her invitation came, as if plucked from air, doing more to put him off guard than any hostility or show of power from the alien being.

“Something tells me it’s not going to be like any lawn I know.” Barry chuckled slightly, before nodding; “Thank you, lead the way.” His smile turning from humour to a genuine one.

World of Darkness RP. Intrigue and Conflict on the West Coast

Certainly!

Here's a link to the RP thread, which includes a link to our chat room. Posting is a little slow, but it's still chugging along.

https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/170137-world-of-darkness-city-of-angels/ooc

Titans: West Coast. (Teen Titans Roleplay)

The Flash

The Flash - The Lightning Thief - Nomad

Status
Solo

Age:
19

City:
Born in Central City, but never remains static for long

Day Job:
Masters Student at Central City University

Powers:
Barry Allen is the source of mysterious phenomena he has named 'The Speed Force.' Self study has revealed a range of abilities connected to the Speed Force and his ability to generate it, the most obvious being super-speed and the protective capabilities to survive the consequences of such. As well as possessing superhuman agility and reflexes, the Speed Force has also granted Barry superhuman durability, accelerated healing and electrokenesis. In reality the Speed Force grants him a far wider range of power, stretching to interstellar and dimensional travel, but the Speedster himself has only made tentative leaps with the range of his power, careful that his experimentation does not, in some way, harm the world around him.

Beyond his physical self, the Speed Force has also drastically accelerated his way of thinking, an already exceptional intellect pushed to be able to operate at a speed that would make super computers envious. This is what enables him to act and react while using the power of the speed force, but is equally useful in the day to day.

Weaknesses
The most obvious cap on Barry's potential and ability is simply that he is unaware of the extent of them. His very being may be the sole generator of the speed force, but that does not grant him innate understanding and he is the only individual to have ever studied its effects. The Speed Force seems inherently weak to low temperatures, pushing this low enough can even put a stop to his powers, including his accelerated healing. The most common 'negative' side effect of the Speed Force is the extent to which it pushes his metabolism, consistently using his abilities will drain him until he intakes an great deal of calories.

His own personality is largely a positive, a desire to push himself and a general belief in justice, he can also be overconfident in regards to his capabilities, both in terms of his intellect and new, meta-natural abilities. His powerful sense of right and wrong, reliant only upon his personal beliefs and judgement can be abrasive, although this is often masked behind the carefree facade. Years of abandonment and challenge have resulted in failure and rejection striking him particularly hard, to the point he will avoid pushing matters entirely if he does not feel he has secured the outcome.

Skills
-Computer Science: An interest developed hopping between foster homes, later pursued in Education, his ability within the digital world was only magnified following his encounter with the Speed-Force, benefited by his new accelerated thinking and manipulation of electricity, Barry's understanding of Computer Science exceeds the greatest 'mortal' minds of humanity. This has enabled him to 'enroll' himself in several nationwide universities to study courses which only further increase his ability. For all his daring in the real world, the majority of his 'Prince of Thieves' style actions, of reallocating wealth from undeserving individuals, happens within the scope of 'cyber space.'

-Engineering: One of Barry's alternate aliases has studied engineering at the higher education level, something that, combined with his accelerated mind and powers, enabled him to design the Flash Suit, and comes in handy fairly often.

-Eidetic Memory: A side effect of the Speed Force no doubt, but now stretching beyond the time he was struck, well into his past.

-Creative Arts: Despite his scientific leaning, Barry has a fair few (reluctant) creative abilities. He enjoys drawing, in a great variety of styles and is an impressive singer when pushed. He is a more than competent dancer, having lived with several foster homes which impressed the 'hobby' upon him, although he takes little joy in these memories.

Appearance

Bio

Barry Allen was born to Henry and Nora Allen, hailing from rural Iowa they lived a simple, often hard existence in an increasingly under-performing industry, left behind by the new American Dream. While Barry was still young, his mother became a qualified chemist, enabling her to find a job in the relatively booming economy of Central City, a situation they hoped would provide their son a more vibrant upbringing than their own. This, in a cruel twist, would eventually cause quite the opposite. When Barry was eight years old his mother was killed in a violent assault. The whereabouts of his father were never determined, for he disappeared on the same night. The investigation never fully confirmed or denied any foul play from Henry Allen, although to those who had known the man, even those who might have suggested he could have murdered his wife, the idea he would abandon his son to escape justice seemed very much at odds. Regardless, the murder, and disappearance, became one of many cold cases in the violent life of a city.

With no remaining relatives 'back home' in Iowa, Barry instead spent his childhood bouncing between foster homes and parents. He was not a particularly 'trouble child' having developed, even young, a keen mind and sense of right and wrong that prevented him from becoming a nightmare to deal with. Despite his, Barry never applied himself well, or made particular effort to root himself with any particular foster family, his coping mechanism apparently to withdraw from life entirely. Outwardly, while he may have avoided trouble, as he grew older he took to increasing private risk and trouble. He became fixated with the actions of those he deemed to control the 'system' breaking into private and government property, partly for the risk, partly to discover what might be found hidden behind closed doors. It was this habit which eventually lead to him, at the age of 17, being involved in the incident that would bind him to the Speed Force. Star Labs had long been attempting to develop alternate forms of energy to power Central City, for eventual use elsewhere, and it was one of these facilities in which Barry had managed to find his way inside, not into the private corridors of the true labs, simply into the outer building itself well after the facility had been closed. This evidently did not prevent Security from rushing to intercept him once his presence, easy enough to detect, had been realised. Rather than simply attempt to escape, something pushed Barry to run 'up' instead, dashing up stairways in a frenzy of adrenaline to avoid those chasing him, pushing ever higher to the roof.

It was there that Barry found himself atop the Star Labs facility, among a building storm. Athletically capable, he had avoided his pursuers, but with nowhere to go, he could only hide among the equipment and ventilation systems atop the scientific research centre. Moments before he would inevitable caught, the lightning would strike. Honing in one the figure atop the roof, the electric power of the storm would strike the conductive elements of the equipment around him, the charge colliding with whatever systems Star Labs were presently testing, releasing a vast amount of unknown energy, entirely encompassing the young Barry Allen. When warning alarms finally ceased and the damage of such a freak accident contained and security staff finally made it to the roof after their original 'stowaway' issue, the young man was not to be found, already harnessing what he would eventually name 'The Speed Force.'

Since then, Barry Allen has remained on the move, his care-free, standoffish attitude modified by the accelerating power of the Speed Force to always push himself onwards, but remain hidden from the wider world. His already budding talent for computer science exploding into the realms of the unique, he has been able to access a vast array of education and facilities previously shut away from him. In his travels he rights what he perceives to be wrongs, largely the generic superhero faire, but taking on the element of a 'Robin Hood' style character at times, both in the real world and in computing. It took another Star Labs 'break in' for him to design and create the 'Flash Suit' in its current, advance form, his latest project. But even Barry knows that he cannot run forever, and soon the world may force him to step beyond the limitations of his urban myth persona, and act the true hero.

It is this desire and worry that lead him, although quite by accident, to encounter the Kryptonian, Kara Zor-El. The actual details of their meeting and why they joined the Titans together are events known only to them, but Barry offered little protest to joining the new team, especially after Nightwing had managed to convince Kara of the benefits of membership. Naturally easy-going despite his self-imposed isolation, Barry has thrown himself into life at Titan Tower.

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The Flash

The Flash - The Lightning Thief - Nomad

Status
Solo

Age:
19

City:
Born in Central City, but never remains static for long

Day Job:
Masters Student at Central City University

Powers:
Barry Allen is the source of mysterious phenomena he has named 'The Speed Force.' Self study has revealed a range of abilities connected to the Speed Force and his ability to generate it, the most obvious being super-speed and the protective capabilities to survive the consequences of such. As well as possessing superhuman agility and reflexes, the Speed Force has also granted Barry superhuman durability, accelerated healing and electrokenesis. In reality the Speed Force grants him a far wider range of power, stretching to interstellar and dimensional travel, but the Speedster himself has only made tentative leaps with the range of his power, careful that his experimentation does not, in some way, harm the world around him.

Beyond his physical self, the Speed Force has also drastically accelerated his way of thinking, an already exceptional intellect pushed to be able to operate at a speed that would make super computers envious. This is what enables him to act and react while using the power of the speed force, but is equally useful in the day to day.

Weaknesses
The most obvious cap on Barry's potential and ability is simply that he is unaware of the extent of them. His very being may be the sole generator of the speed force, but that does not grant him innate understanding and he is the only individual to have ever studied its effects. The Speed Force seems inherently weak to low temperatures, pushing this low enough can even put a stop to his powers, including his accelerated healing. The most common 'negative' side effect of the Speed Force is the extent to which it pushes his metabolism, consistently using his abilities will drain him until he intakes an great deal of calories.

His own personality is largely a positive, a desire to push himself and a general belief in justice, he can also be overconfident in regards to his capabilities, both in terms of his intellect and new, meta-natural abilities. His powerful sense of right and wrong, reliant only upon his personal beliefs and judgement can be abrasive, although this is often masked behind the carefree facade. Years of abandonment and challenge have resulted in failure and rejection striking him particularly hard, to the point he will avoid pushing matters entirely if he does not feel he has secured the outcome.

Skills
-Computer Science: An interest developed hopping between foster homes, later pursued in Education, his ability within the digital world was only magnified following his encounter with the Speed-Force, benefited by his new accelerated thinking and manipulation of electricity, Barry's understanding of Computer Science exceeds the greatest 'mortal' minds of humanity. This has enabled him to 'enroll' himself in several nationwide universities to study courses which only further increase his ability. For all his daring in the real world, the majority of his 'Prince of Thieves' style actions, of reallocating wealth from undeserving individuals, happens within the scope of 'cyber space.'

-Engineering: One of Barry's alternate aliases has studied engineering at the higher education level, something that, combined with his accelerated mind and powers, enabled him to design the Flash Suit, and comes in handy fairly often.

-Eidetic Memory: A side effect of the Speed Force no doubt, but now stretching beyond the time he was struck, well into his past.

-Creative Arts: Despite his scientific leaning, Barry has a fair few (reluctant) creative abilities. He enjoys drawing, in a great variety of styles and is an impressive singer when pushed. He is a more than competent dancer, having lived with several foster homes which impressed the 'hobby' upon him, although he takes little joy in these memories.

Appearance

Bio

Barry Allen was born to Henry and Nora Allen, hailing from rural Iowa they lived a simple, often hard existence in an increasingly under-performing industry, left behind by the new American Dream. While Barry was still young, his mother became a qualified chemist, enabling her to find a job in the relatively booming economy of Central City, a situation they hoped would provide their son a more vibrant upbringing than their own. This, in a cruel twist, would eventually cause quite the opposite. When Barry was eight years old his mother was killed in a violent assault. The whereabouts of his father were never determined, for he disappeared on the same night. The investigation never fully confirmed or denied any foul play from Henry Allen, although to those who had known the man, even those who might have suggested he could have murdered his wife, the idea he would abandon his son to escape justice seemed very much at odds. Regardless, the murder, and disappearance, became one of many cold cases in the violent life of a city.

With no remaining relatives 'back home' in Iowa, Barry instead spent his childhood bouncing between foster homes and parents. He was not a particularly 'trouble child' having developed, even young, a keen mind and sense of right and wrong that prevented him from becoming a nightmare to deal with. Despite his, Barry never applied himself well, or made particular effort to root himself with any particular foster family, his coping mechanism apparently to withdraw from life entirely. Outwardly, while he may have avoided trouble, as he grew older he took to increasing private risk and trouble. He became fixated with the actions of those he deemed to control the 'system' breaking into private and government property, partly for the risk, partly to discover what might be found hidden behind closed doors. It was this habit which eventually lead to him, at the age of 17, being involved in the incident that would bind him to the Speed Force. Star Labs had long been attempting to develop alternate forms of energy to power Central City, for eventual use elsewhere, and it was one of these facilities in which Barry had managed to find his way inside, not into the private corridors of the true labs, simply into the outer building itself well after the facility had been closed. This evidently did not prevent Security from rushing to intercept him once his presence, easy enough to detect, had been realised. Rather than simply attempt to escape, something pushed Barry to run 'up' instead, dashing up stairways in a frenzy of adrenaline to avoid those chasing him, pushing ever higher to the roof.

It was there that Barry found himself atop the Star Labs facility, among a building storm. Athletically capable, he had avoided his pursuers, but with nowhere to go, he could only hide among the equipment and ventilation systems atop the scientific research centre. Moments before he would inevitable caught, the lightning would strike. Honing in one the figure atop the roof, the electric power of the storm would strike the conductive elements of the equipment around him, the charge colliding with whatever systems Star Labs were presently testing, releasing a vast amount of unknown energy, entirely encompassing the young Barry Allen. When warning alarms finally ceased and the damage of such a freak accident contained and security staff finally made it to the roof after their original 'stowaway' issue, the young man was not to be found, already harnessing what he would eventually name 'The Speed Force.'

Since then, Barry Allen has remained on the move, his care-free, standoffish attitude modified by the accelerating power of the Speed Force to always push himself onwards, but remain hidden from the wider world. His already budding talent for computer science exploding into the realms of the unique, he has been able to access a vast array of education and facilities previously shut away from him. In his travels he rights what he perceives to be wrongs, largely the generic superhero faire, but taking on the element of a 'Robin Hood' style character at times, both in the real world and in computing. It took another Star Labs 'break in' for him to design and create the 'Flash Suit' in its current, advance form, his latest project. But even Barry knows that he cannot run forever, and soon the world may force him to step beyond the limitations of his urban myth persona, and act the true hero.

Story Arcs:

Nomad:

For three years Barry has remained on the move. While Barry Allen may still officially reside in Central City and be enrolled as a Masters student of the University, several other personas across the nature are in actuality, Barry in 'cyber disguise' attending different colleges with a variety of false backgrounds. While this has entertained and enraptured him for a while, Barry must soon decide what his superpowered life will have in store for him, or remain trapped in a prison of perpetual motion.

The Robber and the Sheriff

Barry has not necessarily always been subtle in the manner in which he enacts his chosen form of justice. Even the superpowered might need to take caution with exactly who's money they have been messing with.

Son of Iowa, Daughter of Krypton

To be determined plotline with Supergirl

Supporting Characters
-Fellow Students at Central City U

Titans: West Coast. (Teen Titans Roleplay)

Vietnam

"Oracle transmitting. Is it secure?"

The voice pulsed through Barry's mind as he straightened up, leaning away from the metallic container he had been examining to respond. No sound emitted through the built in communication system residing within the Flash Suit, instead, the communication was made via pulses of information, translated by his body and mind's metahuman ability to become one with the computer systems used the world over, and beyond.

"Yes, Lex-Corp as you said. Conducted by intermediaries but it seems Luthor couldn't resist stamping his big ol' L right on the case itself." Barry responded in kind. For the last few weeks he had been contacted by the mysterious Oracle, a voice in his ear leading him down new routes of investigation in his own private war against the corrupt powers that be. It had been Kara that had convinced him to join the Titans, but Oracle had supported the endeavor as well. From the start Barry had known he could discover the identity of Oracle if he pressed, not even the Fortress of Solitude was completely immune from his ability to manipulate the electronic world around him, but he did not press. If Oracle's anonymity was important, he was not yet in a position to require that stripped away.

"Typical Luthor. Destroy it, then you'd best hurry, you'll be late."

"I didn't think you'd be the type to care if I was late to a social gathering, Oracle." There was no further buzz of communication, it would seem Oracle had better matters to attend to than further conversation. Barry shrugged, before looking down at the container. It would have been useful to have one of his more 'super strength' focused companions at hand, but he wasn't 'too' far from one of the world's most active chains of Volcanoes, the Flash could improvise.

San Francisco

The sea sped by underfoot, Barry's pace enough to not only keep him moving across its surface, but leave a surge of steam behind him, water boiling away as he refrained from containing much of the kenetic energy he was outputting, to do so would drain his powers further, and besides, the surge of steam and heat provided even more of a boost to the speedster. The Pacific was a relatively gentle sea, compared to the Artic-Atlantic where he had trained this ability, and so the trip from South East Asia back to the American West Coast had taken little time. Still, a detour to watch a pod of Dolphins frolic had proven Oracle correct, Barry was running slightly late. Ironic.

Just a few more moments

He made the calculation in a fraction of a second, the Speedforce pushing his mind to even greater limits than his physical form, as hard as that may be to believe when watching the feats he could before. Indeed, in but a few more moments, Barry pushed off with his feet, his forward momentum and the energy of the electrical field surrounding him thrusting him into the air. Continuous flight was something still beyond him, unless he was really pushing the extent of his ever-increasing powers. Falling with style though? He had that down to an art form.

The remainder of the ocean streamed away beneath him as he remained airborne, while his suit could be used to adjust his flight, he was attempting to do this 'blind.' The Golden Gate Bridge was next, the red line crossing the bay passing in a blur, then over the city itself, the blue of the Ocean transitioning to greys and browns, patches of green.

As predicted his momentum began to fade away, while he could maintain the accuracy of his vision at high speeds when he wished to, he had chosen not to in an effort to judge his own calculations, now, as he slowed enough to perceive the world, the already familiar sight of the Titan Tower came into view.

The pool? No, bit of a dick move. Fine. Deploy countermeasures.

At his mental command, fins and thrusters built into his suit extended and fired, catching him in mid air like a high tech, sudden, parachute, just in time to push him into a somersault just above the Tower. Spinning over, once, twice, then landing in a crouch. Successfully managing to not turn himself, or any of those milling around the rooftop pool, into collateral paste. As he extended back up to full height, the mask element of his suit folded away, revealing the grinning features of Barry Allen.

"How's it going?"

Titans: West Coast. (Teen Titans Roleplay)

Sorry for the delay folks, had something of a very hectic week IRL

@Lightning and @GreenGrenade your sheets are accepted.

Unfortunately at this stage if you haven't been contacted elsewhere with prompts as to your sheet, we've declined your character. Sorry to do so in a blanket manner but time ran away from me.

If you'd like to apply with a different sheet, please feel free to do so.