Lady Seraphina

Running from the World

So... When do you think we are going to start? I think ten people is a sizable amount to start.

@Invisible Man

Do we have any CSs pending or any interested parties in the middle of creating a CS? Sorry it's difficult to keep track of everyone.

Running from the World

@Weird Tales Yep.

Running from the World

Anarchy

Name: John Carmichael

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Power: Release your burden: A form of telepathy, he can help you deal with your past traumas, letting you not be burdened by them anymore. This can also allow a Super to use abilities that they blocked because of such trauma. TO fully work, requires physical contact, though he can "read" the trauma of others if he is within a few meters of them.
Take this burden: Requires physical contact. Can give others memories he previously treated in others or his own traumas. The target will remember it as though they lived it. Used to cripple or distract opponents. More serious traumas will require more time and concentration.
Relive Trauma: Makes someone vividly remember their trauma. Requires physical contact.

Nationality: American

Bio: When he was a teenager he learned about all of the problems around the world that were caused by people forcing their rules on other people. He got involved in protests against the police and government policies, hoping that peaceful protest would get their attention. At one of demonstrations, however, things turned violent and the police sent out the riot squad to disperse them. When a group of protesters drew weapons and started shooting at the police a firefight broke out. He was hit in the head by a bullet and spent the next week in the hospital undergoing stem cell treatments to repair the damage.
While in rehab he met a man from a country in South America that was run by a dictator. They talked about all of the problems with the country which such a dictatorship caused, helping the man deal with the trauma of living under the regime and, when he was finished with the rehab, he decided to go down there to join the resistance. He traveled there as an American tourist and soon found himself captured by the rebels who hoped to ransom him back to his government for money to fund their rebellion. He explained to them that he had come here to help them and, when they dismissed it as the ramblings of a frightened hostage, he slipped out of the ropes they tied him up with and disarmed anyone who attacked him. He told them that he was a Superhero, there to help free their people from tyranny, and many of them decided to follow him. He made a few rules for his group, including not taking hostages unless they were in the regime and only attacking government targets, and soon he lead his group to the top of the rebellion, hitting military bases and government offices to help the people. They even freed members of other cells from police custody and most of them joined their ranks as well. He also helped treat psychological problems within his cell-mates, earning even more respect.
One of the rebels they freed was a woman with the somewhat comical name of Maria Garcia. She was also a Super but, when the government found out, they killed her family in the effort to capture her. She only had her photosynthesis left, no longer possessing her light-manipulation, as she blamed the others for the death of her family and was unable to get over the pain of their loss. John talked with her and, after he cured her of her trauma, they became "friends". She became one of his lieutenants and lead troops in several raids. With her powers restored, Maria spent the next few years leading many more attacks, and John eventually promoted her to being his second in command.
After a raid against a government records office they found records which showed that a US Senator was helping the Dictator monetarily. As the one with the most knowledge of the US, John decided to go back and find this Senator, to bring him and anyone else who was helping oppress these people to justice.
He failed. He made his move against the Senator, but the Senator had his own super-soldier which beat John to pulp. While recovering in custody the Senator pulled a few strings and got John transferred to a "private facility", namely the Center, where he finished his recovery. Afterwords he became a lab rat, as they wanted to learn how to duplicate his memory-transfer abilities.

Personality: Absolutely hates bullies and anyone who would force others to do things "their way" without a moral reason. That said, he is always willing to help people in trouble, and to help people free themselves from oppression and the chains put on them by others, both mental and physical. While he rarely interacts with others aside from leading them, when he does interact with others as friends or equals he is understanding and kind. With his lieutenants he is a bit serious, but will laugh at a good joke, especially a practical joke.
He craves support. If he thinks the people have turned against him, he will lose the will to fight for them.

Appearance:
His armor and weapon were taken from a military base in South America while he was working with the freedom fighters there. He lost them when he attacked the Senator. Now he wears a t-shirt and blue jeans, sometimes with an unbuttoned button-up shirt. He is 5'10" tall and weighs 200 lbs, with a well-muscled build. Blue eyes. He has a scar on his left cheek from a fight against the Dictator in which he learned that the Dictator was a Super too. He usually has at least a bit of stubble on his chin, as he rarely has time to shave.

Other: Non-power skills: Speaks and reads Spanish, Escape artist, contortionist, lock picking, hacking (though not decrypting what he finds), MMA focused around dodging, redirecting and looking for weaknesses instead of direct assault.

@TheUnknowable

The character looks pretty good, one thing for the non-power skills I think you should remove hacking, and if you could, exactly what do you mean by contortionist? Just that he's very flexible or could he like contort into a ball?

Okay, so I gave my character Pyrokinesis (the power to control fire), but for the character sheet I put that she can also create her own flames. There's another character that has Hydrokinesis, but can only use existing water to use her ability. I was just wondering if Orihime's ability to be able to create and control existing flames is too OP or not. If it is, then I wouldn't mind changing up her ability at all.

@Jay Kalton

I don't really think it's a big issue cause if Orihime didn't have the ability to create flames the logical thing to do would be to carry a lighter around with her, she sparks it then grows the flames for her own use. I don't think it makes a big difference one way or the other so I'll let you decide which one you prefer.

If I was the hydrokinetic I'd carry a water bottle with me where ever I went. Maybe not as powerful as a swimming pool of water but it might save your life at some point.

Running from the World

Elizaveta

Name:

Elizaveta Kedzierski

Age:

Twenty

Gender:

Female

Power:

Odynokinesis – the ability to manipulate pain
Elizaveta is able to mimic neurotransmitters and pulse them from her skin, to another’s skin, and then to their nerves. However, the only neurotransmitter she is able to mimic is aggravation or suppression. Therefore, Elizaveta is only able to generate pain within a chosen area of the victim or numb the pain of a chosen area. Elizaveta often utilizes this power by creating powerful jabs in which she hits her opponent, rapidly striking at the nerves. Unfortunately, Elizaveta’s power is useless in the face of a long-range or fast enemy. The pain she can generate is of varying degrees, but is unpredictable as she has not gotten a hang of it and so every hit can be a light twinge or an excruciating throb depending on her emotions, usually. Every person has a different pain tolerance, and sometimes things do not work out well for her because of it.

Nationality:

Ukraine

Bio:

Trailer trash. Elizaveta hated the label with every fiber of her being. Being born into a poor family wasn’t all that bad in the Ukraine, where most people lived in poverty. But at the age of ten, when her mom moved them to Florida, Elizaveta understood for the first time what it meant to be inferior. Her family didn’t have much money, and the nicest place they could afford was a cockroach ridden trailer surrounded by other cockroach ridden trailers. There was barely enough room for the four person family – comprised of mother and young brothers, Nikita and Ivan – and Elizaveta was forced to share the couch with her younger brothers. She didn’t mind, she had always been fiercely protective of the two after her father died. Yet, when others found out at her new American school, Elizaveta had never felt more ashamed in her life. Trailer trash. It followed her wherever she went, as everyone always knew – was it her matted, usually oily hair that gave her away? Or her clothes that were always filled with holes and rips (it was always embarrassing when she got dress-coded and had to cover the holes in her clothing with duct tape)?

It was around the age of twelve that she discovered the release of self-harm. She didn’t do it much, only when the bullying got really bad. She tried to hide it as best as she can, but living in such a small space, her mother was doomed to find out. Her mother never told her that she knew, never said a word, until one day her mother unceremoniously pulled her out of class and brought her to a therapist. The matriarch had been saving up her money ever since she saw the scratches on her precious daughter’s arm. Under the care of Dr. Gagnon, Elizaveta was diagnosed with Clinical Depression. He believed strongly that Elizaveta’s recent bullying had helped bring the disorder out. He prescribed her medicine, but it was expensive and her mother didn’t know how she would pay for it. She managed somehow, but Elizaveta knew she was struggling even more than before.

She was thirteen when she decided to do it. It was a tucked away area that nobody would ever see, and Elizaveta was convinced that nobody would catch her. Growing cannabis was the easiest thing she had done since she moved to America. Going to a public school filled with a bunch of medium-waged white kids made for easy pickings – she started with the smarter kids and the athletes, due to the “stress” they often had to deal with. Soon, she was the school’s pot dealer. She rolled in the dough off of pot like Rick Ross did off of cocaine. However, Elizaveta was forced to adopt a faux tough-girl act, so her buyers wouldn’t take advantage of her. She fueled rumors about her being involved in gangs, or having murdered someone, and even more ridiculous ones like being a trained assassin. Her mother was skeptical of the money and tried to refuse it multiple times, but Elizaveta was able to sneak it into envelopes and paying bills when her mother was off at work.

At the age of sixteen, cops came snooping around the school after one of the richer kids got caught with a doobie. Of course, they didn’t give Elizaveta’s name directly, but they gave enough hints that Elizaveta had to halt her business for a few months. When the kid came back to school, Elizaveta made sure to corner him, putting on her tough girl act and threatening him as much as she could. He didn’t buy it, unfortunately, and mouthed off to her, threatening her back. Next, well, Elizaveta doesn’t really know how it happened. She was just so frustrated and angry that next thing she knew, her hand was wrapped around the boy’s throat and tears were welling up in his eyes with pain. After that, no one dared to even talk about turning her in.

Throughout the years, Elizaveta experimented with her power, but it only brought about extreme results when she was experiencing tremendous emotions. Knowing that she causes pain triggered something in her; she saw herself as a monster, cursed by God. The self-harming started again, this time though, she wouldn’t feel it and it made her angry. She stopped taking her medicine and became a walking hurricane of emotions. She became careless. When the police parked outside of her trailer, she knew she was in trouble. Her brothers were asleep and her mother was at work – she couldn’t put her family through another hardship. She escaped by the window – crimes weren’t that severe over pot in America, so she planned to just wait it out.

For a month, she lived with the homeless in Orlando, huddled in boxes and dining at the soup kitchen. At the age of nineteen, there was a slight hope for others to take pity on her, but most didn’t. A lot of the homeless suffered from diseases and infections and Elizaveta took it upon herself to numb the pain of them, though she couldn’t heal them. Somehow, her miracle healing got around, and before the second month was up, she was captured by the corporation.

Personality:

Despite the tough front she puts on, Elizaveta is a sweetheart in reality. She is controlled easily by her emotions and acts impulsively on these emotions. Elizaveta is protective of her family and will do whatever she needs to in order to take care of them, even if it is against her moral code. It is easy to manipulate Elizaveta and she often gets distraught when she is taken advantage of. She is withdrawn; but isn’t stoic, rather just uncomfortably awkward around others when stripped of her bad girl persona. Elizaveta is a pessimist and is severely depressed; she believes the world was meant to burn, but deep down she has hope for the future. When she is open and talking, she is sarcastic and sassy.

Other:

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@Apokalipse

Looks good, nice and well rounded with a good amount of thought put into it.

June Quennings

"Don't dwell on the past, and don't depend on the future."

Name
June Quennings

Age
17

Gender
Genderfluid Female

Power
Illusions-She can create powerful illusions. How she can do this is she "sees strings" that she can "pull on" and create illusions of all sorts. The only setback to this is after she does it, it becomes very, very tiring.

Nationality
Ireland

Bio
June was always an energetic person. She was so happy when they moved to America, so excited that she'd get to make new friends and have a new start. You see, she was popular in his town. But not for a good reason. Bullied everyday like a cliche movie, June's family had decided they were going to America when she was sixteen.

They arrived in California, and June started a new life at a new school. But she was bullied once again. Bullied because "you're a girl, not a boy". She wanted to make them see. One day, she became so angry that she "reached out and pulled strings". She made an illusion that the people bullying him were their opposite gender with looks. They freaked out, and never bullied June again. But they still called her a freak with what she had done.

Intrigued by her newfound powers, she began to experiment with them in her room. One day when her parents were out for a "date night", she was kidnapped.
Personality
Energetic but calm, loyal, ambitious, sarcastic, outgoing, and daring.

Appearance

Hider

Other
She had a younger brother, named Mark, that died at the age of ten (when June was fifteen) from a group that had been bullying him.

@Teddiplier

Forgive me this isn't exactly my area, which one was Genderfluid female? physically male who things of themselves as female or other way around?

Also the ability could use some more detailing. If these are merely illusions exactly how far can she take it, will it effect touch, sound, smell, can she only augment reality slightly or can she make massive changes?

Running from the World

That was me with Flux Coat, but it wasn't geokinesis. Geokinesis is a more powerful version of Flux Coat for a couple of reasons. One, geokinesis is manipulating the earth, where as Flux Coat is manipulating the viscosity of stone and other types of material. Two, flux coat works only through touch, where as geokinesis is anywhere. Three, geokinesis is the ability to also create earth (I think) whereas flux coat is useless in areas without pre-existing material within touching distance.

If you wanted geokinesis, your best bet might be to go for terrakinesis

@Vocab

Flux Coat and Geokinesis operate on different principles but effectively achieve the same result.

For the record the word Kinesis was originally Latin meaning control. The prefix on most kinesis powers is also Latin for an element, Pyro is fire, hydro is water, tele means thought or mind that sort of thing, so we have Fir-Control, Water-Control etc. Generally speaking Pyrokinesis is the only one that is actually capable of generating there element and in it's inception a pyrokinetic couldn't even do that, they needed an already existing source of flame. In later incarnations of Pyrokinetics they were able to generate a very small chemical reaction within themselves to produce sparks which they then amplified. So Geokinetics couldn't create earth, that would contradict one of the laws of physics. Oh and Geo and Terra are both words for earth which also both have a Latin root.

I'll admit Geokinesis is a bit more versatile but they are such similar powers that I think it best we keep it to a limit of one.

Running from the World

Yeah, I had the werewolf character, or that was his power at one point - so atm im stuck between the idea of him having a pocket dimension, him being a earth construct with Geokenisis or as @Prince of Seraphs just suggested, the ability to transform at will into a wolf man, with having a duller level of wolf man senses in his human form :P

@Vetis

I believe someone else already has something similar to Geokenisis in a power called Flux Coat, and if I understand the first one right that would be the ability to store items in a personal pocket dimension and be able to retrieve them at will right?

Running from the World

finished my cs

Sam

Name: Sam King
Age: 16
Power:
Gravity Manipulation: Sam has the power to manipulate forces of gravity and that grants several abilities. The first thing he can do with his power is increase or decrease the weight of an object. The second thing he can do is change the direction and flow of gravity, for example he can alter the direction of an object's gravity and either pull it or push it towards him. This ability can allow him to create a barrier of repelling gravity for defense against physical and projectile attacks, he can also use this power to fly although it is harder to control his flight. Sam's third capability is that he can create gravitational attacks, such as shooting out a ball of concentrated gravity to hit his enemies with a great amount of concussive force or fire off blasts of gravitational force to knock away or even crush opponents.

Despite the power and versatility of the ability, Sam does have several weaknesses. His powers are mentally controlled and if something moves faster than he can react then his powers won't stop it. Energy based attacks and objects can't be effected by his gravity. His powers if used too much will cause a massive strain on his body and using his gravity powers to create blasts and projectile attacks will tax his body more than other abilities. Thanks to his age his experience with his abilities are not very refined and he can't use them to their full capability. It is difficult for Sam to manipulate the gravity of multiple objects especially if his trying to apply different effects to them.

Nationality: Southern American
Bio: He was born in New Orleans Louisiana and from a very young age Sam had an interest in playing football. When he was nine his parents signed him up for a little league team and his coaches were impressed by his talent at the sport. As he got older his skills improved and he could play good multiple positions such Running Back, TE, Offensive Lineman and was a good QB. Many said he had a bright future in the sport ahead of him and it became his dream to one day become a professional NFL player.

His life however would take a different turn when his powers manifested while playing a game in his Sophomore year of high school. He was playing running back and as he charged the other team's oncoming defense he felt a strange power surge within him. His gravity powers activated and he felt himself become heavier. With his extra weight his inertia allowed him to play through the defense and score a game winning touchdown. Sam's team was overjoyed with him winning the game and he was too, but the sudden awakening of his powers made him wonder what it all meant.

After a short while he discovered more of his capabilities and realized that he could control gravity. Sam tried to keep his powers a secret, but he was eventually caught by the corporation and sent to The Center. Once there he made sure to lay down the laws of the jungle and made sure that people knew that he wasn't to be messed with.

Personality: Sam is very traditional and has a love for football since he is player for his high school team. Sam considers himself an authoritarian and is a firm believe in the rule of law and divine authority. He has a saying that he sometimes likes to quote to others "The only law above the laws of the land is God's law." He is a devout catholic and always believes that his abilities are a sign from God that he had a higher purpose.

His time in the metahuman prison made him hate the fiends who sold other off into something like slavery and he always had a desire to take down the organization for his imprisonment. He has a don't screw with me kind of attitude and will try to kick the ass of anyone who crosses him.

Appearance: Sam is five feet and ten inches tall. He wears a black trench coat and white short-sleeved shirt and cargo pants. He finally wears black shoes that are good for running. His hair is bright red and his face while young looks tough and his eyes are a fierce blue.
Other: (anything that doesn't fit into the other groups)

@Weird Tales

Just a couple of notes, for the being able to alter the weight of an object I think it would be better if that were a touch relative ability. The further someone is away from him the less he's able to do it. With regards to flight, I think that might be a bad idea however as a compromise we could say that he can lessen his personal gravity to allow him to jump really high.

Samantha Quennings

"I haven't changed, I just woke up."

Name
Sam(antha) Quennings

Age
17

Gender
Transgender boy (Girl who feels she's a boy, if that's confusing)

Power
Physic; whenever Sam eats the brain of a dead person he receives their most recent memories and a quick flash of their life. He also gains some of their traits for the next day or two. For example, if he eats the brain of an artist, he will feel creative and inspired for the next one or two days. But, if he chooses, he can keep those traits for longer. The only downside to this is he can only keep one person's traits at a time.

Nationality
Ireland

Bio
Sam was always an energetic person. He was so happy when they moved to America, so excited that he'd get to make new friends and have a new start. You see, he was popular in his town. But not for a good reason. Bullied everyday like a cliche movie, Sam's family had decided they were going to America. After landing in between flights to rest, there was a breakout in the airport. No one knows how it started, but there were zombies.

Sam had been using the restroom and was washing his hands when he was attacked. He was bit on the left shoulder, and managed to escape the grasp of the zombie somehow. He can't remember, because it was all a blurr.
After stumbling around the streets, grasping his bitten arm, Sam died in an ally.

He woke up, scared and surprised he was still alive. Hadn't he died?! He found himself pale and his long hair white-blonde, and he had a craving for brains. But he was fully aware of himself.
Sam hid himself in society, going to school and being outcast. He looked goth, and everyone thought him shady. Sam had to go grave hunting to gain brains so he could stay alive. He found that he received memories of the people's brains he ate and some of their personality. One night as he was grave hunting, he was kidnapped.

Personality
Energetic but calm, loyal, ambitious, sarcastic

Appearance

Hider

Other
Samantha is a zombie. He's aware of himself though. It's almost like he's human, except he has a craving for brains he needs to fill. He doesn't taste other foods, even though he can eat them. Same with liquids.
He actually has ice blue eyes.
This character was inspired by the show iZombie.

@Teddiplier

I don't want to be rude but I think you've found the wrong RP. While that looks like the start to a very interesting TV show it's not something that fits in the world of meta humans. If you want to write up another CS I'd be happy to read it and we'd all bee happy to have you here but this RP is not supernaturally inclined.

With regards to that I do believe that whoever it was that had the werewolf character, I liked the character but as mentioned above this is not a supernatural RP. Of course if you wanted to give him the ability to shapeshift into some sort of wolf like creature I'd been more than willing to take a look at that.

Running from the World

Shorter CSs like this I usually only use one picture.

@Undine

Were there any categories that I neglected?

Running from the World

@Undine Where do you find these things?

@Scarifar

Ze Interweb.

Running from the World

@Prince of Seraphs Gotcha. I erroneously thought that some meta characters choose to be employed there.

@RadioactiveRat

Some can if they prove themselves, but not ours cause that would sort of make them the bad guys.