Maxx

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@MaxxYeah, I saw that too but I'm not turning back on the character. Nothing's says we can't have two dragon guys(unless you are, in which case that sucks), besides, mine will probably be a bit different and a good deal more complicated.

@Raijinslayer

The complicated part shows that you do not quite understand the complexity of the man who is @Mr Allen J. I'm not saying you can't (after all, we do sort of have two ice manipulators) but generally we try not to run duplicates of the same powers. In the end, though, it's honestly all up to Allen's judgement.

Also, I should point out that by criminal, Allen essentially means a supervillain, not a shoplifter.

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@Mr Allen JMy dragon guy is a compulsive hoarder, a kleptomaniac, highly aggressive about said hoard, and extremely territorial. He's very much gas a criminal record, if involuntarily so cause of his powers. Him and my power nullifier are both teens as well.

@Raijinslayer

I may be incorrect, but I believe that one of the lieutenants of the Fiends has dragon powers.

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This is an NPC sheet for Plague's second-in-command, Daniel. It's going into his sheet under the other section.

Daniel Smith (minisheet)

Name:

Daniel Smith

Age:

24

Description:

Plague’s second-in-command, Daniel is a Fiend who’s in it for the money, not the drugs. Like Plague, he doesn’t take drugs before he fights, and usually stays out of the way to let the burnouts get mowed down before he steps into battle. A former chemist, Daniel specializes in making homemade explosives, and occasionally cooks meth for a profit. He is about average height and is a little pudgy. He’s a ginger, with curly red hair that sticks up and freckles. He usually wears all black when fighting, and wears a gas mask that is stark-white. He is known for wielding an RPG in battle.

Powers:

Supernatural aim and thermal vision. He can see enemies through walls, and his vision is so strong that he almost never misses with any sort of firearm. He also doesn’t have a blindspot.

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Yes, but the difference between a sword stab and a sticky bomb is that you can get hit with a sword in a way that just wounds you without killing you. If a sticky bomb like that gets stuck to your flesh, you're losing a limb at least, and you're probably dead. Just look at the Halo plasma grenade. There's a difference between "can kill you" and "will kill you." One of Taylor's icicles can kill you, and getting hit with one wouldn't feel good. A sticky bomb will kill you and there's not much you can do about it. That's all.

But if you're willing to make those changes, then the character is probably good. Edit the new weaknesses in and you should be good. In the end, though, it all comes down to Allen's judgement, not mine.

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Taylor Pierpoint

Basic Information

Name:

Taylor Pierpoint

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

Ice Dancer

Gender:

Female

Age:

Eighteen

Height:

5’6”

Weight:

135 lbs

Home District:

Downtown, but she's renting a place in Knightdale Rows until further notice.

Appearance

Hair Color:

Golden Blonde

Eye Color:

Ice Blue

Ethnicity:

½ French, ½ Icelandic

Physical Appearance:

Being the daughter of a former model, Taylor has been gifted with very good looks. She has a small frame and is decently physically fit. She has perfect skin tone, pale enough to show that she’s not very outdoorsy but tan enough that she doesn’t look like a ghost. She has a long, graceful body, with long legs and hands that always move in elegant, sweeping gestures. She is compact in physique, with some curvature.
Her face is round and heart-shaped, with plump cheeks and a beauty mark near the left corner of her mouth. She has small ears that are always adorned by diamond stud earrings. Her eyes are an icy blue, and seem rather wide above her soft nose. Her hair is kept a little below shoulder length, and is always tied up in a ponytail or twist. She loves her hair very much, and takes great care of it, making sure that she never gets split ends or anything of the sort. Taylor is rather prone to acne, and so she puts herself on a strictly-regimented set of acne control creams and soaps. This, combined with her makeup, makes Taylor’s face look nearly flawless. Her lips are unnaturally red, and her eyelashes are unnaturally full. Her nails are always freshly manicured, and are usually painted white or clear. She keeps them longer than average, and has a habit of drumming them on things when she's bored. She has no tattoos of any kind, but she wants one on her left shoulder. However, knowing her family, she’d get in huge trouble if she got one, so she doesn’t bother with it. Taylor speaks with a pretty obvious French accent, although it is beginning to sound slightly less French because she’s been in America for so long.

Attire:

Rich. Taylor only wears the finest clothing, usually Prada or Gucci. She wears a lot of blues, silvers, and whites. She wears a lot of designer jeans, and has a thing for fur (though it’s tough to wear fur in the winter). Taylor generally dresses a little heavily for the warm temperatures in Verthaven, as if she’s always cold. She wears a lot of silver jewelry, as well as sapphires. Despite being French, Taylor does not wear a beret. And do you know why? Because nobody from France would be caught dead in a beret. Berets are tourist trash, and anyone seen wearing a beret in France is immediately branded “tourist”.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

A life of riches can lead one to easily become pompous. Taylor is one of those people. Now she’s not the type to brag; she won’t walk around counting her money or telling you about how many yachts her father owns (the answer is four), but she is incredibly judgemental and generally turns her nose up at people who look dirty or non-rich. She subconsciously judges books by their covers, and disassociates herself with people who do not look or act like they have money. From a friend level, Taylor is alright. She’s a tad shy, and acts rather innocent when she’s in a group; you won’t find her making dick jokes anytime soon. She’s rather awkward, socially, often stumbling over words and lapsing into French when she makes a fool out of herself so that people can’t tell what she’s saying. She has a habit of talking to herself when she’s alone. Unlike other rich people, Taylor is somewhat shy and reserved, and prefers small groups to large crowds. She absolutely hates the paparazzi (which is a problem when she's with Carole). Taylor is also known for her temper. She is angered easily, and when she is, things tend to get violent. Despite her somewhat fragile appearance, Taylor gets into a lot of fights, and makes just as many enemies as she does friends.
Taylor acts almost smothering towards friends and lovers. She’s quick to use the L-word in a relationship simply to keep the boy from leaving her, and it’s not the most complicated thing for a boyfriend to get her into bed. Now allow me to clarify here so that the name of Taylor Rouleau is not too overly-besmirched; Taylor is not what modern society would call a slut. She is not promiscuous for the sake of being promiscuous, but she will go out of her way to get romantic partners so attached to her that they won’t leave. She is very easily bothered by the idea of people leaving her.

Hobbies/Interests:

Dancing, ice skating, acting, painting, poetry; she’s very left-brained. Taylor doesn’t read often. She listens to a lot of pop music, and her favorite band is Coldplay. Her favorite painter is Van Gogh. Despite her She has a thing for aquatic animals, especially bright-colored fish. She has a sizeable fish tank in her house. Her favorite thing to do by far is ice skate.

Skills/Talents:

Taylor is an excellent dancer, and is going to college for dance. She excels in ballet. She is also an excellent ice skater, and was going to try out for the French Olympic team until metas were banned from it. She speaks better French than she does English, though she speaks English well too.

Prized Possession:

Her ice skates

Quote(s):

"Si il ya une âme, il est composé d'eau. Eau dans sa forme la plus pure est pure et calme et efface toute imperfection.”

History/Bio:

Taylor was born in Marseille, a coastal city in southern France. She grew up rich and overprivileged, her father being the millionaire fashion designer Anthony Pierpoint. Taylor’s mother was a supermodel, but her dad wasn’t exactly the best at keeping women happy, and so by age four, they divorced. Taylor was mostly raised by her stepmother, who was American. Her stepmother was a former ballet dancer, and she enrolled Taylor in dance classes as soon as she could. Taylor showed herself to be very adept at ballet, and while on a family vacation in the Italian Alps discovered a love for ice skating.
She discovered her power at age eight while at the beach. For many years, she practiced her power on her own (her father was also a meta, and so was fine with her abilities). One day when she was thirteen, however, she accidentally hit a potential business partner in the face with an ice ball, breaking his jaw and knocking him unconscious. Taylor’s father decided then to send her to an American superpower training school; Academy 218. While at the Academy, Taylor learned how to use her powers well, and returned home four years later with an incredible amount of skill. Now she is in Verthaven to support her friend Carole, who she met at 218, in her modeling.

Relationships

Family:

Anthony Pierpoint: Father
Marie Pierpoint: Mother
Dominique Pierpoint: Stepmother
Renee Pierpoint: Sister (younger)

Dynamics:

Carole Elias | Good | Best Friend | "I just love Carole. She's my best friend in the world and I will always support her." |

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Abilities

Power Class:

Elemental

Power:

Ice Manipulation. Taylor has the power to freeze water into ice and use it in a variety of ways, both offensively and defensively. She has grown quite skilled with her ice, and is capable of making both incredibly strong and incredibly intricate. She is good at making ice sculptures, and can use her ice offensively as well, firing razor-sharp icicles at enemies. Her ice can travel along surfaces, allowing Taylor to cover an entire room in a layer of ice. This allows Taylor to transform any battlefield to her advantage, and due to her skill in ice skating, she is able to move with incredible speed and agility. Taylor can cause any ice that she physically touches to become immune to the environment around it, preventing it from melting. She can also melt her own ice, allowing her to store her water easier.

Temperature Manipulation. Because Taylor has been trained so well, Taylor has gained the ability to temporarily manipulate the temperature in a closed space around her, causing any room to turn cold. This gives her a power boost, making her ice attacks harder and stronger. It also allows her a slight advantage against fire metas when in an enclosed room, as it’s harder to create a fire when in a cold area. Taylor’s temperature manipulation only works indoors or in an already-cold environment, so it is useless outside.

Limits:

Taylor’s primary limit is the availability of water. She can only freeze water that is within fifteen feet of her, and can only freeze fresh water (so the ocean is a no-no). Taylor can telekinetically control ice that has been pre-frozen, but she cannot manipulate its shape nearly as efficiently as she can water that she froze herself. She can manipulate water in the air, but cannot make overly-thick ice with it. The thinner Taylor’s ice is, the weaker it is, and so a very thin sheet of ice created by her is weaker than a thicker sheet.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

Firstly, heat. Taylor’s worst enemy is fire. High temperatures (obviously) melt ice, and so fire or high heat can render her powerless. Fire manipulators can easily defeat Taylor by melting her ice faster than she can generate it. While Taylor can level the playing field with fire manipulators through her temperature abilities when inside, when outside she is completely vulnerable. Warm temperatures outside also weaken Taylor’s ice and makes it melt more quickly.

Another problem for Taylor is temperature. You see, while Taylor can lower the temperature of her environment, but she herself is not immune to temperature changes. Taylor’s body temperature also drops when she freezes water. As such, Taylor can drop her body into hypothermia if she stays in a cold room for too long or uses her powers too frequently.

Other:

Sample Post:

Optional

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@Savato Sure, just something that makes it so that other characters have a chance of beating him. It's not fun if one character has a power that nobody else can defend against. Maybe he's not immune to his own explosions, so if he uses his power to close to himself he can damage himself. I still think that the bombs shouldn't be able to fuse with flesh, however. Maybe it can't bind to organic matter well enough to explode, but still burns. A burn is easier to heal from than having your body literally explode.

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Erm shoot him? (with non-lethal bullets of course, it's batman) Though I think you mean counter. Well, anything? Anything in its way will cause it to detonate prematurely and hurt no one. I can slow it down and all you'd have to do is shoot them and the tiny little bullet explodes like a firecracker lol. The speed of uh, a running dog? Those are pretty easy to shoot. Batman throws a bat boomerang.

I can also just make them act like normal, non-fusing bombs if this is still too complicated.

@Savato

-_-

So I need a new analogy for weaknesses, I see.

Even if they were a normal, non-fusing bomb, it's still a strong attack and, as you seem to be skipping, it has no weakness. Every character here has some downside to their power, a weakness that can be used to defeat them. Your character does not have one. Your character has a lot of limits, but they don't have a weakness. Just saying that they are injured like a normal human is doesn't count.

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As for its destruction potential. Yes, like most powers, a direct attack is often a OHKO. Although I suppose the lack of substantial counter is bothering you. I can make it easier to dodge by lowering its speed. I can also add that anything in their way will cause them to fuse, even with things like flames or any strange element. Perhaps I could have them explode five seconds after fusing, having the target flash to indicate it's about to explode or something, leaving time to purge whatever you may be wearing. It should be enough to 1) Not get hurt and 2) Figure out the power to be never hit again by IC logic. But if it hits flesh, it should leave substantial damage, I mean you got hit by the guy's best attack.

I can also lower is limit to like 4 and hit desperate limit to 6. I'm really okay with this.

@Savato

The speed wouldn't be a problem at all if the supernova attack wasn't so strong.

A five second timer is useless if it hits bare skin. That's still a total OHKO. The problem is that this power can OHKO anyone in the roleplay and has no actual weaknesses. Everything that you have listed is a limit. A weakness is something that can be used against an opponent to defeat them, like how my character Sam (who has invisibility) becomes visible if he is exposed to vibrations (such as that generated by his gun or by bumping into something). Think of it like this; if Batman were fighting your character, how would he defeat them?

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I could see it happening, given how easy it is to set Meifeng off (Though, she wouldn't resort to her powers so easily). The fight itself will probably turn into the world's greatest battle of attrition, to see who gets tired first.

Like two old men fighting.

Mr Allen J

In the end, it would probably end up being a fight of who is better-trained and more skilled.

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@Savato What you have here is a character who can throw a bomb at the speed of a fastball that, according to your weakness section, is essentially an OHKO if it hits bare skin. Even if it hit clothing, if I understand this properly, it would fuse with the material and explode, which would undoubtedly severely damage whoever is wearing it. Your power doesn't really have weaknesses either. It has limits, sure, but six supernova attacks is like being able to throw six bombs that fuse with their targets, and ten if he's absolutely desperate. A power that strong needs some substantial weaknesses.

@Mr Allen J Taylor V Meifeng would be a very interesting fight. I would assume that Taylor would be able to deflect Meifeng's ice attacks, but Meifeng could also turn all of Taylor's attacks back into water.

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Cool beans. I posted as Rafael, Sam, and Plague. I'll tack Carole and Taylor onto my next post.