Lord Wraith

One Universe: Unlimited - A Marvel/DC Comics Roleplay

Take a shot for every time I used a semi-colon (DO not do this).

@Roman

Seems like a risky way to play Russian Roulette.

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WIP

The return of

S H U R I K E N

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^{_{Chie Janet Jordan ♦ Full-time university student♦ W.I.P. ♦W.I.P.}}

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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^{"I promise you: they'll never see it coming"}

Frankly, I intend to do a lot to change this character. As much as I do genuinely enjoy the stories Byer's. Those after him make this character a poorly written anti-hero at best and an male gaze oriented shonen protagonist at her worst and I don't think there are many Shuriken fans to disagree with me. It's a cliche I don't enjoy often but I really wanted to play the 'young hero' style character. I imagine Chie will likely be low on the totem pole for most of, if not all of this roleplay. Between superman's raw power or Thor's powers. I'm mostly hoping to make her a sort of fill in for the role Blackwidow or catwoman, where she is a distant anti-hero at her best and a shifty double agent at her worst. I want to lean more into the street level crime that, between batman, Vigilante and Black Panther, all seem perfect for this! I hope to make her a more light-hearted member of whatever team she ends up joining. Mostly, Shuriken to me is a sidekick, someone who is great to have in a fight, but struggles on her own against a genuine inhumane threat.

Chie Jordan is the daughter and second child of Kyoko, the first Shuriken. This version picks up on Kyoko's story as she joins the agents of shield, one of many highly trained mercenaries used to assist the Avengers or to handle superhuman situations. This job required Chie's family to move often and she rarely saw her mother. They cherished their time together from a young age and Kyoko would teach Chie and her brother martial arts. While Chie's brother wasn't particularly keen on the idea, Chie clung to it. She never let go of it either, practicing martial arts from the ripe old age of six with the diligence of a shaolin monk. She clung to every chance to spar with her mother and try to get the upper hand.

Eventually, after her brother had moved out, Chie and her family would move to gotham. Gotham proved to be a haven of crime.

C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:

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Just Recently Byers began a remake of the Shuriken series and it reminded me of one of the first comics I managed to collect a lot of. I always felt that Byers had a great idea that was just ruined by low quality art and most likely a low budget. Seeing the series rebooted made me want to do a 'remake' of my own, of sorts.

I really like the story of underdogs and people who are in some way struggling. Growing up is hard and for once I think I am just going to play someone my age going through the same stuff we all do. Struggling to keep motivated, doing things you regret, being stupid. Sort of like the spectacular spiderman animated series

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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Any additional notes you want to put either for yourself, the GM's or other players to help clarify your vision or continuity.

S A M P L E P O S T:

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A sample post that can be used in the IC if you so desire upon acceptance. This post should provide an example of your vision for the desired character. This sample post should meet all standards outline in the rules and additionally include dialogue, mannerisms and other actions representative of your intended portrayal.

P O S T C A T A L O G:

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The mother of this character, the original Shuriken, will be mostly taking the history from the blade of Shuriken and Cold Steel.

@Birdboy

Hey I was reading your WIP and doing some research into Shuriken, and I just wanted to double check if I'm understanding something. It seems like you've created your own character to take up their mother's mantle and identify. I can't find any canon mention of Chie or a second child.

If that's the case, your sheet will need to be adjusted as we're only doing Canon characters in this game.

One Universe: Unlimited - A Marvel/DC Comics Roleplay

So we're starting to get quite the cast together and while I know most of us have some arcs planned out. But I'm curious if looking at the cast you have anyone you're looking forward to either reading or interacting with.

Personally I'd love to play Deathstroke off of Superman or Captain America because I think the moral disparity between Slade and either of the boys in blue would lead to an interesting dynamic.

How about the rest of you?

One Universe: Unlimited - A Marvel/DC Comics Roleplay

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet." - John F. Kennedy
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A MARVEL AND DC COMICS ROLEPLAY ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

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^{◼ G M (s): Master Bruce ♦ Lord Wraith ♦ ◼ G E N R E S: Superhero, Fandom ◼ T Y P E: Sandbox with linear and collaborative Arcs}

R O S T E R:

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AQUAMAN
@Natty

BATGIRL
@Zoey Boey

THE BATMAN
@Roman

BLACK PANTHER
@Byrd Man

THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS
@Ezekiel

CAPTAIN AMERICA
@Mao Mao

DAREDEVIL
@Byrd Man

DEATHSTROKE
@Lord Wraith

DOCTOR STRANGE
@Sep

GREEN ARROW
@Retired

GREEN LANTERN
@Alternax

GREEN LANTERN
@Hound55

THE HULK
@Martian

KLARION THE WITCH BOY
@Silverstein

LEGION OF DOOM
@AndyC

THE QUESTION
@Simple Unicycle

RAVEN & STARFIRE
@AndyC

ROBIN
@Bounce

SUPERBOY
@Supermaxx

SUPERMAN
@Hillan

TAWKY TAWNY
@Hound55

THOR
@Sep

VIGILANTE
@webboysurf

WARLOCK'S DAUGHTER
@Abstract Proxy

WONDER WOMAN
@TGM

WONDER WOMAN
@Lord Wraith

X-23
@Kyoka

THE X-MEN
@Ruby

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Atleast one more to get your rewards card, sorry.

@Sep

Still a ways off before the club Hoodie.

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@Master Bruce@Lord Wraith

I had a couple of questions about playing villains.

1) Can I assume villains should be treated as legacy characters?
Example - If I was interested in playing as the Green Goblin I would have to converse if the Spider-Man player (Master Bruce) before typing up a CS?

2) Are there restrictions placed on villain PCs?
Are certain villains off-limits (Thanos, Adam Warlock, Darkseid)?
Can a player turn a villain into a hero?
Can a player turn a hero into a villain?

@Ultimate Spidey

1) In the above example the villain would be considered legacy. However I do believe if a villain is applied for before the hero character, the hero becomes the legacy.

2) Game/World altering events would definitely need GM collaboration, likewise probably not best to be wiping out whole cities. I think approaching a villain in terms of plotting is more or less the same as a hero just different goals and struggles.

As for the last two points, those are both an easy yes. I'm currently writing a Deathstroke before his descent into supervillainy. But if you just want to take a villain character and make then into a hero, I think the most recent treatment of Harley, Ivy or Caitlin Snow shows it can be done well.

Likewise going the other way, plenty of heroic characters have been done as villains.

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@Lord Wraith, yeah I don't know what he's doing over there but I just keep hearing the most horrible bleating and then when I walk past in the morning I just see an eerie thousand mile stare in the local livestock's eyes...

Anyway, green eye-bleeding test for Hal Jordan is fine, right?

@Hound55

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@Lord Wraith is now Co-GM. If you have any problems with me, be sure to direct them at him so that he can... uh, forward them. Yeah, that's it.

@Master Bruce

Happy to be here.

Now time to kill the Justice League

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D E A T H S T R O K E
D E A T H S T R O K E

^{“Consider it, terminated.”}

C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y _________________________________________________________ Lieutenant Colonel Slade Joseph Wilson _________________________________________________________ Caucasian | A.R.G.U.S. Spec-Ops | Team 7 _________________________________________________________ Classified | Classified | United States of America _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R N O T E S C H A R A C T E R N O T E S _________________________________________________________ [+] - M I S C E L L A N E O U S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ AL-SADR, HASSAN: Formerly a military dictator that ruled over Qurac under the alias of Sulieman. Al-Sadr was overthrown by General Marlo in 2009, ending his reign and bringing about the start of democracy in Qurac. A.R.G.U.S.: The Advanced Research Group United Support, A.R.G.U.S. is the governing body that overseas Team 7 and its operations. BEATRIZ, ZAZZALA: Queen Zazzala Beatriz II is the reigning monarch of Bialya with suspected ties to the group known only as H.I.V.E. BIALYA: Bialya is a country located in the Middle East, with the nation of Saudi Arabia lining its eastern and southern borders. To the west is the Gulf nation of Quarc. To the North, sits Iraq and Kuwait. It is a monarchy ruled by the Queen of Bialya. CRAWFORD, EVELYN: Codenamed Starling, Evelyn is a master marksman and member of Team 7. DANIELS, ANGELICA: A former on and off again flame of Slade's and member of Team 7. Angelica is an expert in melee combat. DEFARGE, NATHANIEL: The second husband to Paris Wilson, Nathaniel was an abusive alcoholic with a gambling addiction. Falling into a life of crime to pay his debt, Nathaniel soon accumulated more debt from one botched job after enough, soon having a price on his head from nearly every mob boss along the Eastern coast. In desperation, Nathaniel eventually tried to sell both Wade and Slade before attempting to use his wife as leverage in order to settle his debts. DEFARGE, PARIS neé WOLFMAN: Formerly Paris Wilson, the late mother of both Slade and Wade, died from a terminal illness around the time that Slade turned sixteen. A kind woman, Paris had a string of bad luck that ended up pairing her with her high school ex-boyfriend in the wake of her divorce from Charles. A miserable man, their relationship would end after Paris discovered Nathaniel sold their son, Wade, to settle his ever-growing debts and intended to do the same to her. He would have succeeded if not for the intervention of her illness taking what little life she had left. DEFARGE, WADE: Slade's half brother, a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. Previously had a relationship with Adeline Kane. Wade's own father, Nathaniel, was the first husband to Slade's mother, Paris. When Nathaniel found himself drowning in debt to the wrong people, he managed to sell Wade to the right people. FAIRCHILD, ALEX: A former member of a previous iteration of Team 7, Alex has a strained relationship with A.R.G.U.S. but due to his abilities is kept under a close watch. He acts in a consulting role due to his expertise in metahumans and other superhumans. FAIRCHILD, CAITLIN: The daughter of Alex Fairchild, Caitlin is the youngest member of Team 7. Possessing abilities that grant her superhuman strength and durability, she's by far one of the toughest members of the Team. ISHERWOOD, DAVID AKA IKON: Former mercenary and black-market weapons specialist, Dr. David Isherwood, now works alongside Team 7 using his own Gravity Sheath to fight on a near superhuman level. H.I.V.E.: A mysterious organization that is proving to be a growing thorn in A.R.G.U.S.'s side. Team 7 has been tasked with intervening in H.I.V.E.'s operations and shutting them down where possible. KANE-WILSON, ADELINE [49]: Team 7's commanding officer and Slade's ex-wife with whom he holds a strained relationship. Mother to Grant and Joseph. LANCE, KURT: A metahuman with the ability to amplify the abilities of others. MARLO, HURRAMBI: President Marlo is the second elected president of Qurac and its current official. MIRAKURU: The name given to the Super Soldier Serum derivative that was injected into Slade. Allegedly destroyed following the experiment's perceived 'failure'. PEABODY, ALEXANDER: The estranged son of Wintergreen. Alex supplies weapons and gear for Team 7. QURAC: Situated along the Persian Gulf, the nation of Qurac runs along the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula from Oman and the Rub' al Khali on the south, Bialya and Saudi Arabia on the west, and Iraq and Kuwait to the north. The Qurac borders with Bialya are a persistent source of conflict. The country is considered to be an outlaw nation by most countries in the United Nations due to its strong anti-U.S. policy. However, in recent years, the country has progressed towards a most western attitude, starting with its adoption of democracy in 2009. ROSCOE: Retired K-9 Unit that served alongside Slade overseas. Has a particular fondness for Rose. TEAM 7: Team 7 or Task Force 7 is the seventh iteration of an A.R.G.U.S. International Operations' military spec-ops unit. A special intervention and response team dedicated to metahuman and superhuman incidents, the team is handpicked for their missions and includes among its ranks the asset known as Slade Wilson. ► Amanda Waller - Director of A.R.G.U.S. ► Adeline Kane - Team 7's Commanding Officer ► Alex Peabody - Weapon Supplier ► Alex Fairchild - Metahuman Consultant ► Slade Wilson - Master Combatant ► William Wintergreen - Strategist Specialist ► Evelyn Crawford - Marksman ► Angelica Daniels - Melee Specialist ► David Isherwood - Metahuman ► Caitlin Fairchild - Metahuman ► Kurt Lance - Metahuman WALLER, AMANDA: Nothing happens at A.R.G.U.S. without Amanda 'The Wall' Waller knowing about it. WINTERGREEN, WILLIAM RANDOLPH: Slade's closest and longest friend. The Alfred to his Batman so to speak. WILSON, CHARLES HENRY: Charles Wilson is Slade's biological father. A career-driven man, his son and wife never ranked high in his priorities which resulted in a distant relationship between both. This only seemed to further increase when Paris began to show signs of the illness that eventually took her life. Their divorce was short, uncontested and happened when Slade was far too young to reconcile the events. A senior agent in the CIA, Charles is well aware of his son's career. WILSON, GRANT [21]: Slade's eldest son. Currently enrolled in the U.S. Military seeking to follow after his father but unaware of his father's missions with Team 7 or A.R.G.U.S. WILSON, JOSEPH 'JOEY' [17]: Slade's youngest son and middle child. Joseph is a budding metahuman, displaying signs of abilities that with training could make him an asset in the right hands. WILSON, SLADE [46]: WILSON-WORTH, ROSE [14]: Slade's illegitimate daughter and youngest. WORTH, LILLIAN 'SWEET-LILI': A courtesan from Cambodia and its self-proclaimed 'Queenpin', Slade and Lillian engaged in a tryst which lead to the conception and subsequent birth of Rose Wilson. T I M E L I N E ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ | 1973 - Adeline is born | 1976 - Slade is born | 1980 - Charles and Paris divorce | 1982 - Paris marries Nathaniel DeFarge | 1992 - Nathaniel sells Wade and attempts the same 1992 to Paris who passes away from illness 1992 - Slade enlists in the army | 1995 - Slade and Wintergreen meet | 1999 - Slade and Adeline marry | 2001 - Grant is born | 2003 - Slade achieves the rank of Lt. Col. 2005 - Joseph is born | 2005 - Slade is injected with Mirakuru 2005 - Slade is put in an induced coma | 2006 - Slade is recruited to A.R.G.U.S. | 2007 - Slade's first A.R.G.U.S. mission takes 2007 - him to Cambodia | 2008 - Rose is born | 2013 - Slade and Adeline divorce | 2022 - Team 7 is sent to Bialya to search for 2022 - leads about H.I.V.E. | - P O S T C A T A L O G P O S T C A T A L O G _________________________________________________________ [+] - P O S T C A T A L O G ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Issue #01: A H.I.V.E. Mind #1.01 - What's the Buzz? #1.02 - That Stings A Little #1.03 - A Sticky Situation #1.04 - Beaten Black and Yellow #1.05 - Eye of the Swarm ◼ Issue #02: Honey-Despot #2.01 - TBD ◼ Issue #03: Queen Takes Pawn #3.01 - TBD ◼ Issue #04: Buzzkill #4.01 - TBD ◼ Issue #05: Burn the Nest #5.01 - TBD -

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T ________________________________________________________________________________________ A career soldier, Slade Wilson forged an identity for himself at the age of sixteen and left behind his alcoholic step-father and idiot half-brother to join the U.S. Army. Find success in everything thrown at him, Slade rose through the ranks quickly and gathered the attention of the right people. Slade was asked to volunteer for a secret experiment. Signing up under the false pretense that the experiment would make him immune to the effects of the enemy's truth serum. It was only later that Slade discovered the operation was instead seeking not only to replicate, but also improve upon the Super Soldier Serum as performed by Dr. Abraham Erskine during the Second World War. As superhumans have become more and more common, the world is finding itself in a superhuman arms race. In an effort to tip that race in the favour of the United States of America, Slade Wilson, the perfect soldier, volunteered for a cutting-edge, experimental procedure that would genetically engineer him to surpass all human limits. The experiment was not without side effects though and Slade's body reacted violently to the procedure. Ultimately it left him in a coma for several months leading to the experiment being deemed a failure. However, upon waking up, Slade discovered the procedure had in fact worked. His strength, speed, senses, stamina, intellect and reflexes were enhanced beyond that of any ordinary man, putting him on far more even footing with the superhumans emerging across the globe. Perhaps calling this sheet 'Deathstroke' is a bit misleading, we're not there yet. This is a slightly younger Slade Wilson than we're used to seeing. He's not yet the master assassin or jaded mercenary of the comics. In a world filled with reactive heroes that only appear once the city is already under siege, Slade Wilson works with A.R.G.U.S. as a leading member of a special operations unit known only as Team 7. In an effort to get the jump on superhumans abusing their abilities, this covert spec-ops team seeks to eliminate threats before they happen. This is the story of what happens when you give that kind of power not to a good man, but to a good soldier. C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L ( S ) C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L ( S ) ________________________________________________________________________________________ I think Slade Wilson has the potential to be written as a both tragic and compelling figure. Too often the comics either use him as another hammy villain or worse, write him double dipped in angst and wrapped in edge. I see Slade as being almost a foil between Captain America and Batman, there are a lot of similarities to both in his origin and his family dynamics. But where Batman ultimately unites allies, Slade tends to drive them away and where Cap stands tall in the face of adversity, Deathstroke sells his skills to the highest bidder. I want to write the story of how someone who starts off as this ideal soldier becomes the supervillain capable of going toe to toe with the Justice League. To that end, I've placed Slade on Team 7, an A.R.G.U.S special operations team dedicated to hunting down and stopping superhuman threats before they happen. I've put the pieces in place so that Slade will ultimately specialize in taking down superhumans. All that's left is to write how he gets to the point where not only does he sell his skills, but actively enjoys being the villain. I S S U E # 0 1 A H.I.V.E. MIND Team 7 is dispatched to the Middle Eastern nation of Qurac in order to infiltrate Bialya. Hostilities are at an all-time high between the two nations, with their cold war bordering on open warfare. A.R.G.U.S. believes that H.I.V.E. has infiltrated the Bialyian Monarchy and is pulling the strings from within, biding their time before releasing a superhuman weapon against Qurac. The clock is ticking, is the team up to the task? Characters Involved: Team 7 Desired # of Players: N/A I S S U E # 0 2 HONEY-DESPOT Caught in the clutches of the Queen Beatriz of Bialya, the Team must find a way to prevent a war between Qurac and Bialya while uncovering the truth about Beatriz' connections to H.I.V.E. Characters Involved: TBD Desired # of Players: N/A I S S U E # 0 3 QUEEN TAKES PAWN Characters Involved: Rose Wilson Desired # of Players: N/A I S S U E # 0 4 BUZZKILL Characters Involved: TBD Desired # of Players: N/A I S S U E # 0 5 BURN THE NEST Characters Involved: TBD Desired # of Players: N/A

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No Character Sheet prepared but I am curious about RPing as a bad guy. Specifically something involving the likes of the Weapon program. It came up awhile ago in that 1968 RP and it's been stuck in my head for a bit.

How would that work? You mentioned playing as a villain as a possibility but I'd like to pick your brain about that a bit.

@BangoSkank

Again not a GM, but playing as a villain is basically the same as writing as a hero in these sorts of games. You basically are responsible for pushing your own stories forward and driving it but you also have the opportunity to play off a hero character. That just requires communication and coordination.