Marik

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The Kane Corp. Skyscraper, Downtown

“Ah, Miss Legrand! Welc…” She butts in, guttural, low. “It’s Marionette.” Even so, that million dollar smile that Kane sported never faltered. “Yes, aliases are rather popular these days, aren’t they?” No response, just that same look of agitation that the girl was known to show. Marionette seemed to think that intimidation would win the day; but in this case, in Mr. Kane’s office with at least a half dozen armed guards equipped with military equipment… Darius wasn’t worried in the least.

“I hope your trip here wasn’t uncomfor…” Again, an interjection; this one louder and fiery. “Uncomfortable? Like that prison cell your goons stuffed me in? Or did you mean uncomfortable like the invasive tests that your scientists subjected me to?!” She takes a step forward. “Don’t you talk to me about comfort you…” Maria yelps helplessly, falling limp after Kane signals to the woman that waited patiently by the door. Her head clashes with the hard marble tiling, something Kane couldn’t help but chuckle at.

“Unfortunate that we must be so uppity, hm?” Darius walks around his desk and kneels beside the mechanical form of his newest asset. “But now you know what will happen if you ever get another bout of bravado that goes against my associates and I.” He gives another signal, and this time two guards haul Marionette’s body onto her knees so that the two can meet face to face. “You can’t keep me…” Giving her a taste of her own medicine, Kane forcibly stops the girl from speaking by grabbing ahold of her jaw, squeezing ever so tightly.

“I’m afraid you will be staying under the employment of this company Ms. Legrand. See, the only reason that your worthless body is even able to function properly is because you’re using technology that belongs to me; therefore, you belong to me.” She can’t help but whimper now, and tears form at the corners of the girls eyes. Kane had won, for now. He removes his grip and returns to a stand. “Take her away. And have a pleasant day, Miss Legrand.”

U N I V E R S A L ™ (Accepting New Players!)

do we post our characters if they were already approved?

@Cuccoruler

Yes.

U N I V E R S A L ™ (Accepting New Players!)

So here’s something fucked up, AKA employee gets Mr. potato head’ed by her psychopathic boyfriend and comes out messed up from the experience.

Only without the eye implant and the tech on her head.

Archetype: Advanced techno

Name: Maria Annette “Mary-Ann” Legrand

Alias: Marionette

Age: 29

Powers: Marionette is a double arm and leg amputee with state of the art cybernetic prosthetics. These limbs are superior to their flesh and blood counterparts in every way; they’re made from a durable alloy that hits as hard as a sledgehammer while also providing great endurance and flexibility. The arms and legs are filled with various metal wires and she mostly uses the former limbs for grappling; Maria can essentially shoot these spike tipped wires from holes located at the top of her wrists, letting her swing around on whatever she can connect with.

Weaknesses: Weak where her metal isn’t, Maria equates to a normal human on most of her body, and can bleed like the rest of us. A strong enough force could crush and disable her metallic limbs, and something like a sawblade or another super sharp object could cut the wires she uses. She hates when people bring up how she was before her “upgrades”, because she very much believes that as Marionette, she is vastly superior to simple old Maria.

Alignment: Villain

Personality: Intelligent, obsessive, traumatized, megalomaniac, sadistic

BRIEF Bio: Maria Legrand worked in research and development for Kane Corp, owned by the enigmatic billionaire Darius Kane. She was assigned to a team that was tasked with creating improved prosthetics for injured military veterans, a project she was hoping to nab in order to build a new set of legs for her brother after he lost them in the war. The project was led by one Nathanial Bell; who was a very strange but intelligent man. The team would work long hours and in that time Maria and Bell grew very close. Mary-Ann gave out plentiful information about her life; background, interests, and even spoke of grievances, such as that one ex who just wouldn’t leave her alone. Maria didn’t seem to mind that she’d been presenting her life to Nathanial and he never seemed to offer any information in return, it seemed that his intellect was enough of a draw.

Months would pass and the team eventually crafted what was to be the future in artificial limbs. Only one thing was left, a test subject, and as project lead it was Bell’s choice on who to pick. He was given countless dossiers of military heroes that could use this technology to become productive members of society again, but Bell wasn’t interested in them. No, he wanted to “improve” his partner, and drugged Maria when she visited his home for a dinner date.

When Maria woke, she was hanging by wrist cords that extended from two metal arms she didn’t have before, and she was terrified to look down at her legs, as they felt off. From their locale, which seemed to be a theatre of some sorts, to her lab partner sitting in the front row with a grin on his face and a device in his hands, as well as what looked like her ex bound on the other side of the stage… that whole situation was a lot to take in. She still has dreams about it, about Bell telling her that he was going to make her do what she previously thought she couldn’t and get that pesky ex out of her hair. She still remembers the gleam of a knife in a palm that she couldn’t seem to open, and if she concentrates, she can hear the sound of a motor starting up above her and being forced forward by the device she hung from to face her former lover. Was it Bell that puppeteered Maria to stab her ex repeatedly, or did she do it of her own free will? She doesn’t remember that part so well, but she’ll always remember doing it, as Bell had filmed the act and projected it on the theatre screen for Maria to watch over, and over, and over. Bell left after that, saying that he would return, but he never did. Maria was found the next day by the horrified manager of the establishment, just gazing at the screen and muttering Bell’s last words over the recording before it started again, “My Marionette.”

She was found innocent for the murder but was to undergo study to observe her health and mind at an island research base owned by Kane Corp. She was studied for a year before it was decided that she could be used as a resource to further Kane Corp’s plans, and was thereby considered property of the company as she had so much of their technology keeping her standing. She was then planted with a chip that could disable her prosthetics if she crossed a line that the corporation didn’t approve of, and was shipped to New Athens to protect Darius Kane’s assets in the city.

Storylines: Escape the Clutches of Kane- Marionette hates her job and wants to ditch her captors for good.

Ringing Up Bell- Marionette wishes to reunite with her long lost lover find out why he left and what his plans are.

Pulling the Strings- Marionette wants to establish a team of some sort to pursue greater criminal ventures.

Notes: Maria is fucked up. Seriously, her mind got melted by a psychopath. She sincerely believes that Bell changed her life for the better and that she’s stronger than she ever was. That the whole situation was the little push she needed to get her to do everything she had been afraid to do before. She’s deluded. She only has the drive to fuck shit up now. She will never be able to be swayed into helping further society again. She should be imprisoned and the key should be thrown away.

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If @Marik is cool and is bringing back the person responsible for Marionette's cybernetics I'll need somebody to eventually fix Jake after getting a little too beaten up trying to stop a supervillain who's out of his league. Could lead to a crossover at some point.

@The Kid Lantern

This is fine

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I can't wait for this to start XD

And I know I'm being a bit of a downer about this, but in my experience not everyone who applies actually stays active in an rp long term. So try not to count on everyone who applies being a part of the actual rp.

AARGGGGGGGGGGG these errors are so frustrating!

@Cuccoruler

Which is why I'm really planning on going hard on this as I'm very tired of joining RP's and having them die within a week. I will add another RP to my completed list... And then it would be at 2.

CLOWNQUEST

>Swagger over to the east with your homie Mike like the pimp you are.

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<Snipped quote by Marik>

A really good thing that could solve all of this without KL making such a sweeping statement would be telling us the exact powerlevel he wants everyone to be at. Course with a demigod character not being a villain, it would at minimum have to be Spiderman later years or Avengers. Or if we're talking DC, Probably JL without Superman or Young Justice.

I get what your kinda saying, but I made her with Avengers power in mind or maybe a level below that. I mean, look at the vast majority of the Toon Physics stuff and you see most of them are inconsiqential, harmful, or compound on each other to basically equate to "Gravity has a delayed effect", and there are... 3 I'm going to say, that are actually impactful. The rest is mostly standard fare, and her weaknesses more than make up for all of that due to being critically weak to pretty much any control type power or character and being unlucky to boot!

I mean, it is a 'create a universe' sorta thing, so we shouldn't start out not being able to even handle say... I dunno... a C list villain. Because at that point why not just be a US army soldier with a SCAR? You'd be far more effective than any superhero at that level. Heck, Farmer Bob with a shotgun is more effective than a superhero at that point, or anyone with a gun.

@Archmage MC

I don't know dude, farmers are pretty shit tier. Even Raditz could take out a farmer.

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@Archmage MC

Pretty sure he was trying to say that your character can do too much and that it would be very easy for you to exploit the system and go OP; just that.

As for that Iron Man thing, look at it like this. Say you were playing Batman, and instead of being just simple Batman, on your sheet you had every different batsuit and gadget that Batman had ever used in his +70 year run. That would seem a little much, would it not? Batman has a whole RP to gain more abilities and gadgets, why would he start with everything? Your character seems fine at its core, and I don’t think it’d be impossible for her to learn or get some of that stuff later. Like, with everything you can do, does light REALLY need that ACME satchel or that hole? Maybe Light’s not too strong and has to train to increase her strength and speed? There’s so much you could do with your character in the course of this RP to make her better.

UNIVERSAL ™ iCheck [OC superhero Build-A-Universe]

So here’s something fucked up, AKA employee gets Mr. potato head’ed by her psychopathic boyfriend and comes out messed up from the experience.

Only without the eye implant and the tech on her head.

Archetype: Advanced techno

Name: Maria Annette “Mary-Ann” Legrand

Alias: Marionette

Age: 29

Powers: Marionette is a double arm and leg amputee with state of the art cybernetic prosthetics. These limbs are superior to their flesh and blood counterparts in every way; they’re made from a durable alloy that hits as hard as a sledgehammer while also providing great endurance and flexibility. The arms and legs are filled with various metal wires and she mostly uses the former limbs for grappling; Maria can essentially shoot these spike tipped wires from holes located at the top of her wrists, letting her swing around on whatever she can connect with.

Weaknesses: Weak where her metal isn’t, Maria equates to a normal human on most of her body, and can bleed like the rest of us. A strong enough force could crush and disable her metallic limbs, and something like a sawblade or another super sharp object could cut the wires she uses. She hates when people bring up how she was before her “upgrades”, because she very much believes that as Marionette, she is vastly superior to simple old Maria.

Alignment: Villain

Personality: Intelligent, obsessive, traumatized, megalomaniac, sadistic

BRIEF Bio: Maria Legrand worked in research and development for Kane Corp, owned by the enigmatic billionaire Darius Kane. She was assigned to a team that was tasked with creating improved prosthetics for injured military veterans, a project she was hoping to nab in order to build a new set of legs for her brother after he lost them in the war. The project was led by one Nathanial Bell; who was a very strange but intelligent man. The team would work long hours and in that time Maria and Bell grew very close. Mary-Ann gave out plentiful information about her life; background, interests, and even spoke of grievances, such as that one ex who just wouldn’t leave her alone. Maria didn’t seem to mind that she’d been presenting her life to Nathanial and he never seemed to offer any information in return, it seemed that his intellect was enough of a draw.

Months would pass and the team eventually crafted what was to be the future in artificial limbs. Only one thing was left, a test subject, and as project lead it was Bell’s choice on who to pick. He was given countless dossiers of military heroes that could use this technology to become productive members of society again, but Bell wasn’t interested in them. No, he wanted to “improve” his partner, and drugged Maria when she visited his home for a dinner date.

When Maria woke, she was hanging by wrist cords that extended from two metal arms she didn’t have before, and she was terrified to look down at her legs, as they felt off. From their locale, which seemed to be a theatre of some sorts, to her lab partner sitting in the front row with a grin on his face and a device in his hands, as well as what looked like her ex bound on the other side of the stage… that whole situation was a lot to take in. She still has dreams about it, about Bell telling her that he was going to make her do what she previously thought she couldn’t and get that pesky ex out of her hair. She still remembers the gleam of a knife in a palm that she couldn’t seem to open, and if she concentrates, she can hear the sound of a motor starting up above her and being forced forward by the device she hung from to face her former lover. Was it Bell that puppeteered Maria to stab her ex repeatedly, or did she do it of her own free will? She doesn’t remember that part so well, but she’ll always remember doing it, as Bell had filmed the act and projected it on the theatre screen for Maria to watch over, and over, and over. Bell left after that, saying that he would return, but he never did. Maria was found the next day by the horrified manager of the establishment, just gazing at the screen and muttering Bell’s last words over the recording before it started again, “My Marionette.”

She was found innocent for the murder but was to undergo study to observe her health and mind at an island research base owned by Kane Corp. She was studied for a year before it was decided that she could be used as a resource to further Kane Corp’s plans, and was thereby considered property of the company as she had so much of their technology keeping her standing. She was then planted with a chip that could disable her prosthetics if she crossed a line that the corporation didn’t approve of, and was shipped to New Athens to protect Darius Kane’s assets in the city.

Storylines: Escape the Clutches of Kane- Marionette hates her job and wants to ditch her captors for good.

Ringing Up Bell- Marionette wishes to reunite with her long lost lover find out why he left and what his plans are.

Pulling the Strings- Marionette wants to establish a team of some sort to pursue greater criminal ventures.

Notes: Maria is fucked up. Seriously, her mind got melted by a psychopath. She sincerely believes that Bell changed her life for the better and that she’s stronger than she ever was. That the whole situation was the little push she needed to get her to do everything she had been afraid to do before. She’s deluded. She only has the drive to fuck shit up now. She will never be able to be swayed into helping further society again. She should be imprisoned and the key should be thrown away.

Rogues Inc. (Accepting)

Granted, maybe I'm overreacting a bit, but I've been a part of far more failed RP's than I'd like to admit.