By the by, in the vein of Thor and Hawkman, there's always Hercules.
Billy Batson could open up a pathway to mythological storytelling.
He-Man has had a publishing run with both Marvel (Masters of the Universe) and DC (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), so if you treated Eternia like MCU Asgard, you could probably swap the hammer for a sword if you wanted to. After all, Castle Greyskull had doorways to many worlds, with She-Ra's world merely being one of them. No reason Earth couldn't be another.
Or maybe I just want to see Wraith rock a loincloth, but w/e.
I've actually decided to go with Zauriel. Hits most of the story beats I wanted plus I get to play with Abrahamic Religions which is right at home with me.
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_________________________________________________________ Zauriel / Daniel Hall _________________________________________________________ Guardian Angel | Public Defender | Unaffiliated _________________________________________________________ Los Angeles | California | United States of America
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M Y W R I T I N G H A B I T S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Before I write, I sit down and plan out where my post is going and how it ties into the overarching story I'm working on. I make notes for foreshadowing and callbacks and figure out generally as many details as possible. ◼ I like to be in the driver's seat, or at the very least having input into the story and where it's going and especially how it'll affect my character. ◼ I try to post as regularly as possible and definitely find keeping momentum helps keep both myself and others invested, but sometimes lulls happen and I'll apologize if that does happen. M I S C E L L A N E O U S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ The PresenceThe One Above All, I AM, Yahweh, Jehovah, Adonai or simply God, the Presence is known by many names throughout history and across the world.
◼ The DeceiverThe Father of Lies, Lord of Gehenna, Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Devil.
◼ AsmodeusA fallen angel formerly known as Asmodel, Asmodeus is now a servant of the Deciever and commander among the ranks of Gehenna. -
In the beginning, the Presence, the One Above All created the Heavens and the Earth. The One Above All commanded Heaven's legions of angels beneath Him, but one angel shone more beautiful than any other; the Lightbringer. The Lightbringer was the righthand to the Presence, but envy seeped into his chest and the Lightbringer sought to usurp the One Above All. Deceiving other angels to aid his pride, the Heavens were dragged into a war that ended only when the Lightbringer and his allies were cast out and doomed to an eternity of torment in Gehenna.
An ally of the One Above All, Zauriel served the Presence for several millennia acting as one of His Elected. In this role, Zauriel acted as a guardian angel for the downtrodden and misfortunate. Observing humanity and intervening on behalf of the righteous and God-fearing, Zauriel invisibly protected and guided numerous figures throughout history. However, Zauriel eventually fell in love with a mortal woman and defied the Presence by intervening at the time of her destined death. Held in contempt for violating his station by the Archangel Asmodel, Zauriel's punishment was to be cast out of Heaven and banished to live a mortal life on Earth.
But Asmodel was actually an agent of the Deceiver and was working to weaken the One Above All's forces for another war.
Before being banished to a mortal existence on Earth, Zauriel was a Guadian Angel in the service of the omnipotent, omnipresent deity known as the Presence or the One Above All. As a Guardian Angel, Zauriel was immortal, living past lifetime after lifetime and protecting those they were assigned to until their destined time of death. However, this all came to an end when an angel by the name of Asmodeus indicated Zauriel of working with the Deceiver against the Presence. In reality, it was Asmodeus aiding the Deciever in an attempted coup on Heaven, but Zauriel was cast out and banished to live a mortal life on Earth.
Stripped of their immortality, Zauriel was exiled and re-born in the form of a mortal man named Daniel Hall. Leading a fairly regular childhood and growing into a role of a public defender, Daniel remained unaware of his previous existence, until a blinding light stopped him on his way home from work one night...
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Having struck out on applying as both Thor and Hawkman, I had to go back to the drawing board. There were shared elements between the two characters, similar powers, fondness for weapons and a long life. Hercules had been suggested to me quite a bit, but I never really jived with Greco-Roman mythology all that much. In my search, I stumbled across Zauriel who hit a lot of the same story beats as the previous two characters while also being obscure enough he doesn't really affect even those he's connected with.
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_________________________________________________________ Katar Hol / Dr. Carter Hall Ph. D. _________________________________________________________ Thanagarian / Caucasian | Archeologist/Linguist | Unaffiliated _________________________________________________________ Midway City | Michigan | United States of America
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Katar and Shayera Hol were a pair of alien law enforcement known on their homeworld of Thangar as 'Wingmen'. Thangar was the Capital of the Thanagarian Empire, the successor to the Polaran Empire which had previously ruled the Polaris System. In the spirit of their predecessors, the Thanagarians had become an expansionist race that plundered other worlds and stripped them of their resources and treasures to fund their ever-expanding fleet. Numerous members of their conquered worlds were taken as slaves and used to further the goals of the Thanagarians.
As Wingmen, Katar and Shayera were responsible for ensuring the general populace's obedience to the Empire and among their duties was prisoner transportation. It was this duty they were carrying out when the pair's patrol craft was pulled through a wormhole before crashlanding on Earth nearly five thousand years ago. Surviving the crash, Katar and Shayera found themselves on an unfamiliar world in a foreign system. Seeking out a settlement, the pair found their way to Memphis.
The Egyptians were astonished by the pair of Thanagarians and immediately became enamoured with their visitors due to the resemblance of their armour to the god, Horus. Welcomed with open arms, the pair were worshipped as gods by the people who believed that Horus had blessed them with his children. However, one of the high priests, Hath-Set, grew envious of the attention and worship the pair received. Craving it all for himself, Hath-Set began to covet Shayera as well, stalking the woman until he began to obsess over her.
However, when the high priest finally confessed his feelings to Shayera, she spurned his affections choosing to remain loyal to Katar. In vengeance, Hath-Set planned to murder the two aliens exposing them as flesh and blood instead of the gods the people believed them to be. Poisoning their drinks in order to weaken the pair of Thanagarians, Hath-Set had their unconscious bodies moved to his sacred chamber where he planned to carry out their murder as a sacrifice to his own god. Using a knife made from the heart of a meteor, the blade cursed Katar and Shayera to forever be reincarnated, only to fall in love all over again. Then, at the point when their love for each other was greatest, the hourglass would turn, and they would both die before their time.
Since that first death, Katar and Shayera have lived out hundreds of lives, each different from the last and plagued with the memories of those that came before. Each life followed the same template, the pair would grow up, start their lives and eventually find the other, fall in love and then watch the other die. Sometimes one would die years before the other, other times they would die together, but no matter the lifetime the pair were forced to endure one tragic end after another.
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This latest reincarnation of Katar Hol has been slowly piecing together his past lives, using his knowledge of history to run the Midway City Museum of Ancient History. Unlike previous iterations, he has yet to meet his Shayera and instead has been working as an archeologist to recover artifacts from around the world while leading a double life as a vigilante. Cursed with an insatiable need for justice, Katar has found himself unable to ignore the troubles of the world and has single-handedly taken it upon himself to clean up Midway City. Recovering his Nth Metal armour, he's been dubbed both a 'Guardian Angel' and the 'Hawkman' by the local media despite his heavy-handed methods.
Seeking a way to end the curse put on him by Hath-Set, Carter's passion for archeology comes searching for the same knife that had cursed himself and Shayera. Unfortunately, he has yet to discover the blade leading him to continue his search whenever he has time away from the museum.
On an author level, I believe Hawkman could be an interesting character for me to portray. Given his history and greater scope, he has a lot in common with Thor while having less popular mythos than the likes of Batman. His power levels and abilities allow him to travel the globe and interact with other players and characters for both collaborations or large-scale events.
Hawkman's rougher personality will likely be a challenge for me to portray but at the same time, I think it could be fun playing a character who is rougher around the edges and not afraid to speak his mind. For the time being, I'm going to be keeping Carter strictly Earthbound and doing small arcs to get my feet wet before looking into a grander scope and using Thanagar and the other mythology attached there. It is my intention to also have Hath-Set and Vandal Savage be one and the same ala DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
@Lord Wraith I was more commenting on the fact that we hadn't heard from any of the GMs for weeks. If you're reviving this I'd still like to pick up my old characters.
Oh, am I out? This is the first I'm hearing about it.
@Retired I've counted this as dead since all of the GMs jumped ship like a month ago.
This coupled with several other comments had led me to believe so. If this is incorrect I will rescind my application. Otherwise I'll be moving ahead with my plans.
Reluctantly retired roleplayer.
Except when I'm not.
Why are you here when you should be writing posts?
You can edit a bad draft, but you cannot edit a blank page.
<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Reluctantly retired roleplayer. <br><br>Except when I'm not.<br><br>Why are you here when you should be writing posts?<br><br>You can edit a bad draft, but you cannot edit a blank page.</div>
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