Force and Fury

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

@The Angry Goat Loving the concept so far! He could definitely be a really interesting fish out of water!

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

@A Lowly Wretch Photos or drawn pictures as long as they're reasonably lifelike. A headshot or bust is alright if finding something with the hands is a PITA. We can imagine that bit, I'm sure.

THΞ UNIVΞRSΞ [Ready Player One inspired RP]

Partially finished CS. Will finish it tomorrow. If there are any issues with running something unusual like this, let me know. Also... should they share an avatar or have separate avatars?

The Brightman Twins

Names: Jocelyn & Madison Brightman

Age: 27
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Hetero
Height: 5'6"
Combined Weight: 180 lbs

Appearance:

What Goofs

On their own, Jocelyn and Madison would be two completely average, reasonably attractive Caucasian women in their mid-late twenties who, status as identical twins aside, wouldn't stand out in a crowd one iota. Brown-haired bobs and grey eyes tend to just sort of fade in. Of course, that's not exactly possible when you're conjoined. From shoulders to toes, the two of them share a single body with a slightly widened torso. Madison controls the right side while Jocelyn controls the left. The extra weight that has to be carried on a normal pair of legs, along with the twins' fairly busy lives means that they really don't have much choice but to be physically fit. In terms of clothing, they prefer to dress light, bright, and active or artsy, but they'll wear basically whatever they have to for photoshoots. Hey, when you're that unusual, you're an attraction whether you like it or not.

Ring Location: Middle City

Occupation: Professional hosts, celebrity reporters, and media personalities

Real Life Skills

Combined: The twins are fully ambidextrous and can play the guitar and violin right or left-handed, though Jocelyn is better with the former and Madison with the latter. They enjoy sewing and modifying clothes and tend to be good with cars. They're surprisingly handy at fixing things in general. Yes, they joke that "two heads are better than one". This extends to multitasking, perceptiveness, and general problem solving. Individually, each is above average. As a unit, they're unstoppable. While they're capable of all of the normal things that you'd expect of competent adults, being conjoined definitely makes these a bit harder. They're not winning any foot speed, balance, or physical endurance contests.

Jocelyn: While the twins are biologically identical and should respond the same way to things, Jocelyn is totally unaffected by even the spiciest foods. In general, she just has an abnormally high pain threshold. She's also surprisingly good at sleight-of-hand tricks thanks to countless hours practicing to be a magician with her sister as a child.

Madison: Though she shares most of the aforementioned skills with her sister, Madison tends to be the weaker of the two. Where she excels is in her focus, ability to be incredibly precise, and steady hand. Playing darts, tossing a ball, or firing a gun, her accuracy is impressive for someone who hasn't been specially trained.

Likes (J) = Jocelyn // (M) = Madison // (B) = Both

• magic tricks (B)
• fast cars (B)
• celebrity gossip (J)
• tech and gadgets (M)
• making funny faces and snuggling (B)
• DIY 'life hacks' (B)
• classical music (M)
• rock music (J)
• coffee (J)
• just the nastiest health drinks and smoothies (M)
• really cute flats and heels (B)

Dislikes (J) = Jocelyn // (M) = Madison // (B) = Both

• coffee (M)
• health drinks and smoothies (J)
• walking long distances without a destination (B)
• people who take themselves too seriously (B)
• being stared at beyond the obvious second glances that they're used to receiving (B)
• lazy people (M)
• pretentiousness (J)
• when the one falls asleep before the other (B)
• spiders (B)

Personalities: The Brightman twins have been a curiosity from the moment that they were born, and have always had to deal with some degree of public attention. As a result, they've developed 'personas' that play up their few differences without consciously intending to. The truth is that the sisters are similar in overall personality and habits and pretty flexible in terms of what they like and dislike. Both are used to living with compromise and they rarely fight. It's not exactly like they can give each other the cold shoulder. Out of the two, Madison is definitely the more concerned about eating and living healthily. Jocelyn's mostly just down to freeload, much to her sister's annoyance. For the most part, Madison is the more driven of the two as well and the more likely to take charge while Jocelyn is a bit more of a laid back joker. The former is more likely to read something and the latter more likely to try something. Both can talk a mile a minute, though. Both hate to sit idle. They're friendly, gregarious, and welcoming towards others and genuinely want to make people smile but, when you spend literally every waking moment in each other's company, you can't help but become a social unit unto yourselves, so the twins can definitely be a bit judgemental and tend to prioritize themselves and their own relationship at the cost of others. That's not to say that they're aloof or selfish. Both have friends. Both are funny, good-natured people who use their occasionally over-the-top sense of humour to put others at ease. It's just that, when your performance on the stage of life is a harmonized duet while everyone else only has to play a solo, you'd better prioritize being in sync with each other.

Background: coming soon

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

@DocRock Nah, I like the redecorating thing or some variation on it, personally. It treads that perfect line between being seemingly useless and sneaky pretty good if used right.

That's unless you wanna do something different. In any case, I'm sure it'll be good!

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

@DocRock In that case, then I like it. You hear 'technopathy' and you think 'waaaay OP', but if that's all of the lingering power that she has, then it's absolutely perfect for this setting and RP. Looking forward to seeing what she can do. Stay tuned for the CS coming soon.

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

@DocRock Hey, so I like the basic concept. I imagine that she'll look reasonably humanoid or can pass off at least. Either immunity to illness/chemically altered states or the ability to slightly modify constructed spaces is cool. Personally, I think the second has some interesting potential, as long as we keep it reasonable by imposing a limit on it. These are supposed to be what people see as 'sucky' supers after all.

As for the "if that's not alright", I wouldn't worry about it and, lowkey, I don't know what half of those acronyms stand for, NGL :P

THΞ UNIVΞRSΞ [Ready Player One inspired RP]

Finally found a suitable pic to use as a reference for the twins, thanks to deviantart, so expect something soon!

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

@Fabricant451 Glad to be intriguing. If you have any questions, ideas, or whatever else, just mention me!

@Classy Thanks! See above. Now I've gotta get working on a CS for your RPG.

@Sputnik Whaddya know? I'm all for it too.

@The Angry Goat meep

@Super Meteor Glad to see another ARC member on here! Excited about your character if you're still bringing her over.

@DocRock Yeah, you do you and get as creative as you want. My primary guideline, I guess, is just that I'd like to stay away from characters who can just suddenly become very powerful at a convenient time. Powers should be either highly situational, underwhelming but sneakily useful, or technically quite strong if not for something that prevents them from being used properly.

As for aliens, I'd say that they aren't unknown in this world, but they'll still cause quite a stir. Aliens that can disguise themselves convincingly or pass as either humans or everyday objects would do better here.

@Duthguy You, my friend...you get it.

Is this a universe where Captain Hindsight lives?

@The Bork Lazer

It could very well be!

@Chiro Both of those ideas sound like really good starting points.

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

Added a skeleton version of the Liberty Corps Database. Will be updated and filled in as the story progresses.

Blooperheroes: What Happens When the Superheores Disappear?

@Rin Yeah, vaguely similar to that. I just kind of wanted to go by a mantra suggested by a friend: "There's no such thing as a useless power!"

The goal's for a decent mix of character-driven and plot-driven action.