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| Player Name |
Gowi
| Character You Wish To Play |
Felicia Hardy / Black Cat
| Moral Alignment |
WTL
| Affiliation |
Midtown High School
The Kingpin Syndicate
| Character Origin & Backstory |
Early Life
Felicia Hardy for the most part was a normal girl for a good amount of her life. She was born to two loving parents and had friends in a young Mary Jane Watson. This however was not to be as it was then discovered by her mother that something terrible had happened and her husband, Walter Hardy had to leave the household and his daughter for the safety of his family. This of course was due to Walter Hardy’s compulsive habit and career—he was a professional thief named The Black Cat. Wanted internationally, it came to a point when Walter was hired on a job by the Kingpin Syndicate though he had not found out that until the job was nearly finished—upon finding out about what he had stolen (an experimental super soldier process developed by Dr. Calypso Ezili at OsCorp R&D) was to be shelled off to the most dangerous and evil organization in the United States. Walter refused to be a servant to the Syndicate and while he was a thief he had deep sense of morals; he could not let that experimental serum fall into the wrong hands. However, he knew his handler would turn him over once the job remained unfinished and to fix this he had to disappear. Extremely heartbroken, Walter said his goodbyes to his wife and daughter as he disappeared.
This had a horrible effect on Felicia causing her into bad habits led by curiosity and rebellion in her later childhood. Her mother, Lydia, would not have Felicia discovering what Walter was and why he left which started a rocky relationship between the two. Lydia wanted to move on and forget, Felicia refused to let it go. Felicia’s curiosity never died and by the age of fifteen attempted to put together clues her mother and father indirectly left for her to pick up on—how they didn’t talk about what her father did, and how her mother burnt journals the night after her father’s leaving. Things didn’t add up and to top it all off her father left her with one comment on that night: “Be wary of your curiosity.”
Origin
By 2012, Felicia’s thoughts were still festering despite being able to relax through her schoolwork and through her friendship with Mary Jane Watson. However, things at home weren’t right – her mother and her kept clashing, this of course led to Felicia wanting to escape and she began sneaking out of her house at night to clear her head. This became difficult when her mother began dating a widowed police detective by the name of Harrison Thompson— though she did find some friendship with the officer’s daughter, Jesse.
That was when everything crumbled. Somehow, the secret her father was hiding exploded and Felicia found herself kidnapped by a man named “Rose” who worked for the Kingpin Syndicate. This kidnapping was done to kite Felicia’s father out of hiding and everything she knew about her father was thrown out of the window. Failing a rescue attempt, Walter eventually and begrudgingly handed over the product he had stolen all those years ago but the Kingpin ordered something as Walter began to notice that the place they were holding Felicia was a lab. Under the guise of assuming Walter to emotionally hand over a fake serum they decided to test it on Walter’s own daughter. The next moments for Felicia surged with pain and suffering as her body went through a process that tried to dominate her but with just being reunited with her father she refused to lose herself and die. This indomitable will (or perhaps probability manipulation) saved her life.
The Kingpin impressed would continue to hold Walter against his will to use to threaten and order Felicia to do as he asked and work for the Syndicate. Felicia began field tests and then training with Tony Masters not too long after. They groomed her as their own personal “acquisition specialist” – Felicia Hardy became the second Black Cat. This training did however make her more distant with her friend Mary Jane in the summer of the next year.
Felicia now has to contend with the new school year, her friendship with Mary Jane Watson & Jesse Thompson, and stealing for the Kingpin Syndicate or be responsible for the death of her father.
| Powers and Abilities |
Artificially Enhanced Physiology: Felicia has been modified due to a “super soldier serum” that has given her strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, and senses to a high level that is either peak human or near-superhuman. These come with a cost of altering Felicia’s brain although it seems her morality is still in-tact.
Eidetic Memory: Felicia was born with eidetic memory, making her likely a mutant. She remembers things quicker and absorbs information visually. This could be said why her training under Tony Masters took little time.
Expert Thief: Felicia is a skilled thief skilled in stealth, picking locks, escapology, evading alarms, and cracking safes.
Skilled Martial Artist: Felicia has been trained in martial forms by Tony Masters (Taskmaster) during her time working in the Kingpin Syndicate. Such training has led her to combat reflexes, superior technique, and so forth.
Marksmanship: Felicia was interned basic-to-intermediate firearms training by Tony Masters.
Probability Manipulation: Felicia has the ability to manipulate her own personal “probability field” to modify chance to play in her favor; it is inherently unknown to her as it resides in her father’s necklace that was given to her on the night he disappeared. It is likely it is the reason she survived the genetic modification process.
| Sample Post |
“So, do you steal from giant corporations often or is this a new thing?”
My eyes narrow from the shadows of my mask as I look into New York’s currently favorite rookie superhero and I’m caught in his web—literally. I’m not sure what it is about this gross junk, but it’s confining me like some sort of super-glue and I’m totally not a fan. Factoring in my father’s life hangs in the balance with everything I do, I can’t exactly fail The Kingpin as that would just be bad news. All I know is I want to get out of this spider-web.
“You know you’re the first one to—”
“Oh shut up, web-head.” I retort, half-annoyed… okay fully annoyed, but it’s not like there is much of a difference. It’s here that I feel something shift—a piece of the web-thing is giving way. Well either I’m extremely lucky or this stuff isn’t that good and I can’t exactly say luck has been my strong suit between being one of my best friends being outed as a mutant, kidnapped, forced into an experiment, and made into a crime syndicates personal she-thief. Yeah, life has been swell… and that’s only the last year of my life at that. Oh, lucky me. Either way, I take advantage of the loose web-stuff and dive straight down into the dark streets below as I hold my hands out as I activate a grappling hook device that was designed personally for me. At least with being a lackey you get all of the toys of the trade, right?
Right.
Though I do doubt that will keep Spiderman off my ass, so I have to work quick. Maybe he’s just as dumbfounded as I am that I got loose from his web.
“Hey Cat! Wait up!”
Yep, he’s too persistent and not that dumbfounded… I can’t exactly lead him back to my safehouse so I need to lose him—maybe I’m faster or he doesn’t have a whole lot of that webbing. Either way, tonight is not going to be fun. Not to mention the AP History test I have tomorrow! Augh! Go away spider-freak!
| Player Name |
Gowi
| Character You Wish To Play |
Sergei Kravinoff / The Manhunter
| Moral Alignment |
Villain
| Affiliation |
Kravin Industries
| Character Origin & Backstory |
Nikolai Kravinoff was a KGB agent who posed a story that he “fled” to America due to Soviet oppression in the 1960s. It was there in New York City that he fell in with one Howard Stark and joined Stark Industries due to an outreach employment program. Nikolai’s previous education as an engineer led him to get some station within the company at the time – however, in secret Nikolai intended to use this influence as a way of clever counter-attack to the capitalist country or at least he planned to. By the time Nikolai Kravinoff had bridged off Stark Industries and created Kravin Industries as a friendly competitor in the field the Soviet Union was falling and falling fast. Nikolai Kravinoff had gotten far and created weapons—but the USSR went out like a light. Nikolai in retaliation fled into habits of hunting and alcoholism between raising his children (Sergei, Dmitri) to the best of his ability after his wife perished. Nikolai would end up dying himself and handing over his company to Sergei.
Sergei shared his father’s love of hunting and spent much of his spare time in Africa relishing in hunts that he made more difficult after each time—Dmitri would comment “he would lose himself, turn into someone else; something else.” upon these safaris. On one occasion he went into the jungle armed with only a knife and a pistol with one bullet. However, when his father died a new occurrence occurred in Sergei – fear of death and fear of age. Obsessed with changing that and taking lead of the company he sought out several engineers, one of which from OsCorp named Dr. Calypso Ezili. Scalping her from OsCorp struck bad relations between the two competing companies though Sergei didn’t care about such things—he wanted results and practically threw money at Ezili’s work. Ezili managed to make a new prototype based on her previous work (though incomplete) and Sergei volunteered when their budget hit the red for the project to test the process. Ezili attempted to tell him the risks and Sergei didn’t listen and as such he went through unbearable pain… with seemingly positive results. That summer he visited Africa again and found himself killing a Lion with his bare hands to be unfavorable and confused he went to his thoughts of “what will he hunt now”.
The answers he has come up with…. don’t seem… human.
As 2013 keeps going Kravin is pushing is R&D to make the most out of their budgets which has led to a near nervous breakdown by Spencer Smythe and continues to speak to Ezili formally and informally.
| Powers and Abilities |
Artificially Enhanced Physiology: Sergei has been modified due to a “super soldier serum” that has given him strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, and senses to a high level that is either peak human or near-superhuman. These come with a cost of altering Sergei’s brain—the damage remains to be seen.
Expert Hunter: Sergei is a skilled marksman, tracker, and survivalist due to his favored pastime of hunting.
Skilled Martial Artist: Sergei was trained in martial arts by his father, a KGB agent.
| Sample Post |
The time had passed since Sergei’s unnatural change and despite Ezili’s insistence on study, the russian-american businessman and savant seemed generally fine and it was here in Africa, off the east coast; somewhere that he had always called wild and rampant yet in good distance for business with Seychelles and Genosha. It was almost like a 20th century safari and Sergei always felt comfortable hunting though through his father’s own words he had always been detailed as the ‘obsessive and savage son’ which was an interesting buffer to his brother’s intellect and cunning. But this “safari” would not be like one Sergei would have experienced years before and it would be abundantly clear through his genetics that the hunt still thrilled him, but to what level? To Sergei there was nothing better than a good hunt, a manifestation of force and domination over the inferiority of the animal kingdom and to combine that with supposed metahuman conditioning was something else entirely. It was here on this day that Sergei would find himself no longer desiring to hunt the inferior animals of the jungle when he realized there was no sport in it no longer, when he crushed a lion’s skull with his own hands—this would have him return to New York changed and put him on the descent to madness.
This spurred a conversation when he returned with his brother.
"I have never thought in my life... of so much thrill, so much exhilaration." Sergei Kravinoff laughed heartily as he sat at the table his family always sat for his entire life in New York's "Ruby of the East", a restaurant on the upper east side that many of his caste frequented. His brother, Yakov was there and seemingly uninterested as Sergei was excited. The two had come to the restaurant for the last ten years as a way to remember their father and to work out business in a familiar stress free environment. But Sergei wasn't on about business, not today. To Kraven he had experienced everything upon his last hunt and he still could not get the feeling of excitement and raw power out of his system and ever since his manipulation of himself... it was different. It was raw and he had a taste- a hunger for more. He had to let it out and so he did.
"The animal... it is merciless to a superior form, this much I know now!"
Yakov shook his head, "Brother, must you get so excited? This hobby... it is becoming you."
"Hobby? No... this is something more, Yakov. I felt the Lion as I crushed it's skull. I am more fit than I was when father was training us in sambo."
"Which is another thing.."
"Stop. Doctor Ezili is fantastic and the genome... it worked."
"It worked in part, but you have never been so... obsessed. You need to have her keep an eye on your mental readings."
"Bah!" Sergei waved his hand in disapproval, regarding what his collected brother was saying as nonsense. "My head is fine, you just don't understand."
"Perhaps."
"You don't see it the way I do... the adrenaline in my bones, the wind beneath my feet, and the power.... it is what man should be. Not what these ants are in this steel jungle! This is the next step of evolution, brother!"
"Heh."
"You mock me again?! Feh! You will not ignore the truth when it becomes apparent.... you will see." the words left Sergei Kravinoff's mouth like a threat to his brother. Whether it was just good old russian bravado or something more malicious was rather ignored. But one thing was for sure, Kravinoff had a taste and he wanted more. Perhaps he needed to go back to the lab and look more into genetic treatments and at that sure, Dr. Ezili would take a look at his brain in the process and while he didn't show it there was something about Yakov's words that rang true in Sergei's brain and he did want to make sure he wasn't losing himself to the heat of the moment. But for now he was hungry and the food at the Ruby of the East would have to do.
| Player Name |
Gowi
| Character You Wish To Play |
Susan Storm / Invisible Woman
| Moral Alignment |
Hero
| Affiliation |
Empire State University
Future Foundation
| Character Origin & Backstory |
Early Life
Susan is the daughter of Dr. Franklin Storm, a quantum physicist who was featured on TIME Magazine in 1971. Susan’s father’s belief was limitless energy could be theoretically obtained using a method he named “Quantum Energy”. Through this he believed society would reach new heights; however his time into research and resources was put to a halt when Susan and Johnathan Storm were born to Franklin’s wife and reality forced Franklin to re-evaluate his priorities. He took time from his project to teach Physics at Empire State University in New York City as the two children became his whole world.
Growing up, Susan found her father’s ramblings and theories on quantum energy the equivalent of fairytales; the young girl was not groomed into quantum physics or at least not deliberately. By the age of nine, Susan’s inherent genius came out as her father noticed an open notebook of Sue’s that detailed modifications to his quantum energy equation which proved to be correct amendments at that. Susan’s life from thereon shifted uphill and before she or her father knew it she had cut through high school by thirteen and two universities by twenty. A “mirror” of her father, Sue became known for her grasp on quantum physics and soon received a recommendation for employment at a new scientific organization devoted to progress called The Future Foundation headed by one Reed Richards. Taking the recommendation from there she began working with the likes of Dr. James Power.
Susan began work almost immediately on a theoretical aerospace engine drive that ran through quantum energy, aerospace engineer and ex-NASA member Benjamin Grimm was assigned to help her with the physical tasks of the project and after some time it was completed though Susan herself believed it still needed much time. Through some force of pressure to maintain funding from one of their investors they however prepared for installment into a spacecraft—but they needed a pilot: Susan recommended her brother Johnny Storm and he was brought in for the test flight… a flight the four would never forget.
Origins
Susan Storm, Benjamin Grimm, Johnny Storm, and Reed Richards were struck by a malfunction in the drive that neither Susan, Reed, or Benjamin could detect as they hit a “storm-like anomaly” in space. The spacecraft took massive damage but due to Johnny Storm the four did not simply perish in space—they would crash in the Atlantic Ocean before falling unconscious themselves. The recovery of the four members of the Foundation was a loss for the company, but it oddly served as a big event for the national media as the scientists lay in a coma for a few days at a private hospital in Upstate New York. Throughout the next few months they found themselves changing in radical ways as the apparent radiation (or the negative quantum energy itself) had affected them—Sue vanished in thin air, Reed found his entire body becoming the consistency of rubber, Johnny found himself ablaze, and Ben discovered his muscles rapidly growing and hardening.
Thus the Fantastic members of the Future Foundation were born – Susan Storm’s “year one” involved not much further outside of initial tests and studies that Reed attempted to work against the clock to halt or minimize their radiation-brought mutation. Radiation experts like Dr. Elizabeth Ross were brought in but it was generally to no-avail. However, as they fought to come to grips with their new powers a devastating chemical spill occurs and a scientist in the center of the event mutates into a giant monster and begins to attack local neighborhoods nearby to the Future Foundations base of operations (which the four including Susan had returned to after awakening from their coma). Reed deduces they are likely the only response team capable for immediate resolve and begrudgingly the Four approach and surprisingly contain the threat before it does massive damage. Reed brings a sample of the creature back to his lab for study.
With funding for their science experiments and public word of the four as “superheroes” they are starting to get some attention…
| Powers and Abilities |
Genius Intelligence: Susan Storm wields a 11th level intelligence, and while outclassed by individuals such as Tony Stark and Reed Richards she wields a genius intellect which is evident with her completion of university level education by the age of twenty. This applies to her field(s) generally, of course.
Invisibility: The Invisible Woman has the mental ability to manipulate ambient cosmic energy for a variety of effects, including the rendering of herself and other objects invisible, and the construction of solid, invisible force fields. In an as yet unknown manner, cosmic energy interacts with the cells of her entire body in such a way as to produce a new form of energy with unusual properties. By a simple act of concentration, she can cause all wavelengths of visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light to bend around her without distortion; she also somehow directs enough undistorted light to her eyes to retain her full range of vision while invisible.
Psionic Force Fields: While the cells of the Invisible Woman's body produce a certain energy manifestation, the cells of her brain produce a different, more potent manifestation. Through concentration, she is able to project a field of psionic force which she can manipulate into a number of relatively simple forms: rectangular planes, cylinders, globes, domes, cones, etc. The complexity of the shape is limited by her ability to imagine (mentally visualize) a particular form and keep it in sharp mental focus: not even she is able to see the forms she creates. The size of a given psionic force projection is also limited by her ability to imagine.
| Sample Post |
“Are you kidding?” Sue’s eyes met her brother’s as she moved like a bat out of hell as the sight of a giant green monster set the Fantastic Four initiative members into well.. a panic, outside of Reed of course who decided this was the most fascinating things ever because not only did this monster look familiar it also looked like—
“No! I’m pretty sure we’re fighting a dragon!!”
Johnny Storm’s voice was right. The Fantastic Four were fighting a dragon and not just any old dragon but one who was as ancient as the earth himself and was fairly angry of what he had awoken to—that or he was sent here as a distraction by the Mandarin, but it was anybody’s guess at that point. Susan Storm was still relatively new at this whole “hero thing” and Reed had been so adamant that it would be the catalyst of them getting their funding back on the ground, she didn’t exactly understand it but it was way out of left field for her.
“Fool! I will devour you until your remains exist as ashes!” The dragon roared which honestly made Sue fumble again since well dragons shouldn’t talk right?
“That will be awful hard buddy considering I’m the human torch!” Her brother yelled, mocking the dragon as Sue began to focus her body to create several variations of psionic energy to blast at the dragon. But she wasn’t sure if they could do this all by themselves—perhaps they needed the Avengers or something? Really, it was a giant dragon—not that they hadn’t taken on giant monsters before… but this thing was a little bit more sentient than a giant acidic monster and had a lot more power at that.
At this point she just hoped Reed had a plan…
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