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Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

Arc trespassers will be made embarrassingly and inconveniently soggy.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

Yeah, I was about to say "except for the last bit".

Please don't go throwing everyone's characters into global events without consulting anybody.

And just out of courtesy you might want to put forward crossover stuff (unless you're in the same location at the time and crossover is logical and/or inevitable) with others before thrusting your character directly into someone else's stuff.

I have been known to turn the sprinklers on someone for that before...

Literally IC...

Shape knows I'm not joking...

http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=21922587&postcount=828

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

I get the day after tomorrow off, so if something isn't up tomorrow there should very likely be something up the next day.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

Just try and read that app down to the start of the origin bit without the Bond theme in your head.

Just try it...

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

John F. Kennedy - the only thing capable of being more invasive to the female form than tentacles.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

Hmm. I'll roll with a different shade of blue. That one will make it more difficult to read by the looks of things.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

"He was in my view the most dangerous cold warrior that we have had since the end of World War II." - Historian Richard Walton, Newsweek, November 28, 1983.

Character you have created: Kennedy. Jack F. Kennedy.

Alias: None

Speech Color: Normal speech. Gift of the Gab, Red, White and Blue.

Character Alignment: Shades of Grey Hero

Identity: His identity is known, the fact that he's still alive is secret.

Character Personality: Hard drinking with a remarkably powerful sex drive, Kennedy carries himself with a swagger virtually unparalleled.

Uniform/costume: Well cut suit, perfectly coiffed hair. Trademark Jack Kennedy smile.

Origin Info/Details:

Executive Branch Backstory - Courtesy of Byrd Man

In 1776, the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence and went to war with Great Britain. In early 1777 General George Washington met with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, representatives of the Continental Congress, in Philadelphia. With Jefferson was a man from France. The young Gilbert du Motier, known as the Marquis de Lafayette, was a prominent French military office even at his very young age. With Washington was Prussian Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Both men spoke to the three revolutionaries about an old and powerful society known as the Timekeepers. Made up of the elite thinkers, noblemen, and politicians, the Timekeepers acted as metronome for the entire world, responsible for maintaining the rhythm and natural order of things. It was the Timekeepers that declared that the time of British hegemony in the Americas would begin to end. The colonies would win the war, Lafayette and von Steuben would help them.

In a ceremony in Philadelphia Washington, Adams, and Jefferson were inducted into the Timekeepers order and shown their secrets. The ancient society possessed powerful artifacts of supernatural nature and had access to magic. Using the Timekeepers' tools, the Colonies defeated England and declared their independence. In 1787 Washington was elected president of the United States, Adams his vice-president, and Jefferson appointed secretary of state. As part of the Timekeepers, all three men had been made immortal and given a serum that gave them special abilities. All three faked their deaths at appropriate times and went into hiding in Europe in the early 1800's.

In 1830 the three men discovered the Timekeepers' long and winding plot that would see the United States expand all the way to the Pacific ocean, and then shatter into two separate nations after a long and bloody civil war. The three founding fathers could not bear to see the country they founded destroyed. Defying their society, the men fled Europe and returned to US. They used whatever means they could to stop and delay civil war, influencing politics from the shadows. In 1860 they used their hidden influence to elect a man who would keep the Union together: Abraham Lincoln. They revealed themselves to him and covertly worked with Lincoln throughout the war. The Timekeepers discovered the founding father's treachery and turned on them. Unable to stop the Union from winning the war, they had Lincoln assassinated in revenge. This did not stop the Founders, who used their magic to bring Lincoln back from the grave days after he was killed.

Europe and the powers that controlled it could no longer be trusted. The old world could never govern nor control the new. The four presidents founded the Executive Branch. It served as a clandestine organization that would protect and fight for the United States, her interest, and freedom any place and anywhere. Their ranks are made up of former American presidents and other historical figures, each of them turned immortal in the same way the three founders were. Their long war with the Timekeepers ended after the First World War, when the last remnants of the old and rotten society were swept away in the fiery cataclysm of the war.

Now in 2015, they wage clandestine wars against a variety of threats that include the Secret Soviet Union, the Fourth Reich, and the Roman Republic of Zombies. But something dark and unknown lurks on the outer reaches of the world. A darkness is setting in, and an old power is returning to take control.

Kennedy Backstory

Undisclosed. Will be revealed through posts.

Hero Type: Infiltration/spy specialist. Chemically granted his powers.

Power Level: Spy. Likely translates to street level,

Powers: JFK has powers of persuasion. Can talk any one into anything.

Attributes: Regular resurrected human with verbal powers of mind control. Naval history. Possibly the strongest kidneys/liver/libido in human history.

Strength Level: Normal Human.

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Normal Human

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human

Agility: Normal Human

Intelligence: Genius

Fighting Skill: Trained. Former naval officer. Spy.

Resources: Extreme

Weaknesses: Kennedy is immortal and cannot die of old age or disease, but he can be killed. Women, drink and substances. Also susceptible to over-confidence.

Supporting Characters:

Franklin D. Roosevelt - Director of operations for the Executive Branch
Abraham Lincoln - Fellow Executive Branch field agent
Theodore "Bull Moose" Roosevelt - Fellow Executive Branch field agent
Andrew Jackson - Fellow Executive Branch field agent
Lyndon B. "Jumbo" Johnson - Fellow Executive Branch field agent and conscientious objector to his nickname
Richard Nixon - Executive Branch's resident mage and mystic expert - Internal antagonistic rival (mostly because of Kennedy's treatment)

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: Yes.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

Many a Bruce Willis was shot on that day...

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

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No (well...I have been looking at the old CaH RPG threads on Hype, just not the casting one). I just remember that there was an image of Bruce Willis in his character sheet. While apparently the image is not there anymore, it still says "Bruce Willis" when you hover over where the image use to be.

Edit: At least we image our two different "Samanthas" differently or things could get really confusing really fast.

@Dedonus

Just going back over old OOC stuff and I thought I'd bring up this interesting little tidbit...

Not only was Anderson suggestively cast as Bruce Willis, but pretty early on in my stuff I'd been working off the basis that Vigilante was an ersatz-Australian/Pacific region version of Bruce Willis... Some of the dialogue hinted towards it, and I was working off him being the guy in the wrong place at the wrong time (my first post was just after stepping off the plane in Lost Haven whilst an alien invasion was taking place...).

To add to that, one season effectively closed with our two Bruce Willises meeting. Vigilante infiltrating S.T.R.I.K.E Headquarters dropping from the air-ducts, much akin to Die Hard and the pair standing off in a Mexican Standoff type situation with a third character (yet to be introduced).

Yippee-kay-ay!

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

We also might see an app for a certain ex-naval officer from Massachusetts who Byrd might know...