Omega Man

the Alliance of Liberty City

Son of Liberty

Archetype: Super Soldier/Patriotic
Name: Son of Liberty aka Liberty Son
Alias: Judah Marlowe
Age: 23
Powers/Skills: Two years US Army; basic training; proficient in hand to hand
Weaknesses: standard human weaknesses

Equipment:

The upgraded Torch uses electromagnetic fields to grant a protective shield and enhanced strength to whoever holds the weapon. While it's not enough to fly, SoL can also leap a great distance. Its mostly used as a mace type of weapon for close quarters, but it also acts as a solar powered light source.

Personality: Honest, Calm, Calculating, Blunt, Optimist

Appearance: [see current avatar]

BRIEF Bio:

His mom was a hero in the 90's leading up to his birth just after the new millennium hit. After he was born she was Lady Liberty for quite a few years longer. He knew his mother was a superhero around his 14th or 15th birthday, but it was kinda just something they didn't talk about. She was a successful entrepreneur and owned an apartment complex in Bayside on the far side of Broker (inspired by Brooklyn). Judah was mostly raised by his uncle Sam when his mother wasn't around. His dad was nobody his mother deemed important enough to find. A retired vet, Judah's uncle Sam (who also lived in the complex) inspired him to join the US Army for a couple of years after high school.

Judah had been going to community college on the other side of the 'Bay when his mother was found dead. After finding her latest invention (she was a bit of a tinkerer, as she had an engineering degree), Judah decided to be a hero himself and solve the crime that nobody else in the superhero world seemed to care about. With his military training, his uncle for guidance, and the weapon of his mother Judah was ready to accept his role as the Son of Liberty.

Storylines:

Sinister Foes - SoL will run through a gauntlet of street level baddies while teaming up with Liberty City heroes in the process.

A New Alliance - SoL is gonna be trying to make this a reality one hero at a time.

Who Killed Lady Liberty - Who benefited from her death? Why are the active members of the old Alliance remaining silent?

Notes: He's basically a more street level Capt. America type of character with a touch of DC's Stargirl. It always killed me Cap had street level powers but was a global hero because of his status in the military and the Avengers.

the Alliance of Liberty City

In the 90's the premiere superheroes were the Alliance. Sanctioned and funded by the United Nations the team was comprised of a humanoid cat-man from England named Leopold, a giant of a man called Megaplex, the armored Lady Liberty, as well as others. The times though... they're always changing. The Alliance had fallen apart in recent years. Constantly rotating new heroes in and out of the group, scandal with foreign organizations, and corruption when it came to the oversight from the UN eventually lead to the dissolution of the group. And then Lady Liberty was found dead due to mysterious circumstances while in her civilian identity.

After grieving for several days over his mother's passing, the Son of Liberty vowed to solve her murder. After finding a new prototype Torch weapon his mother had been developing, he reached out to several heroes affiliated with the Alliance but never got any kind of word back. He'd have to make a new Alliance. And it would have to be locally since he didn't have the same resources as his mother. Her death occurred in Liberty City, so the investigation would start there regardless of what the team turned into. Becoming a hometown hero was definitely not on Liberty Son's bingo card this summer.

Liberty City is a city of adventure and intrigue on the Atlantic Coast of North Carolina. It's design is reminiscent of a compacted NYC, however instead of five boroughs it only has four. It is home to several superhuman individuals and is formerly the home of the super-team the Amazings, as well as the recently deceased Lady Liberty.

* Liberty City is taken from the GTA series and has been slightly altered here and there for this RP.

* Rather than a Liberty statue with a coffee in her hand, the statue will resemble the male Colossus of Rhodes.

* Like Marvel's NYC, Liberty City will have several superheroes and villains operating there regularly that often interact with each other.

* The Amazings were an off-shoot of the Fantastic Four. They operated in the city from 2009 - 2022. Mister Amazing, Amazing Jane, Judy Juggernaut, Firecracker, and Kid Cosmo made up the team.

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Accepted Archetypes, Characters, and Players:

Advanced Techno - 'Interference' - @Stern Algorithm ACCEPTED

Demi-God/Goddess - 'Queen of Gold' - @Finetales ACCEPTED

Vigilante - 'Tag' - @Kensai ACCEPTED

Teen Hero - 'Spellbound' - @Crimson Flame ACCEPTED

Wildcard 1 - 'Quadra' - @Scarifar ACCEPTED
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Teen Villain - 'Crowley' @Eviledd1984 ACCEPTED

Alien 2 - 'Stalker' - @DracoLunaris ACCEPTED

Wildcard 2 - 'Eris' - @BunniesOfDoom ACCEPTED

Still available archetypes include:

Size Manipulator -
Brute -
Cosmic Hero -
Alien 1 -
Evil Genius -
Brute Villain -

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The general idea is to build a universe similar to how Invincible is mostly inspired by DC, we're just gonna loosely base this universe on Marvel. The RP will include heroic crossovers, fights between heroes, and team-ups leading into the eventual founding of a super team (the New Alliance) within the game. Now, that isn't saying you HAVE to join the super team. This is very much a sandbox styled RP just with a good bit of connective tissue since we're all in the same city.

GM Notes 6/1/25 - Changed the name of the RP based on a vote in our Discord server!!! Still looking for a hero or two!

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Had to help my son with an art project and got sidetracked for awhile this evening. Gonna try and get everything for the OOC finished between in the morning before work and tomorrow evening. Sorry for the delay!

EDIT: I also JUST checked my PM's, didn't realize I had a few people waiting for responses! Pretty sure I replied to everyone, if I missed somebody just lemme know. Thanks again to anybody showing interest in this! I'm super thankful for the turn out so far!

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@KensaiI'll give it a look once I get back in. I've gotta take my dad to an appointment and pick up some stuff for this truck I just bought.

I've been working on the OOC, more images, links for the GTA maps of Liberty City I'm basing everything on, etc. Should have the OOC posted by tonight. Might find another player before then!

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@Kensai I dig the character but it's not what I'm looking for in terms of the cosmic hero. Idk where it started but at some point characters like Dr. Strange and Thor were considered cosmic because they travel to other dimensions, but I still just see that as being a mystic hero. Cosmic for me (at least in terms of Marvel and archetypes derived from them) would be more like Nova, Starlord, the Shi'ar Empire, Capt. Mar-vell, etc. If you wanted to relabel him for the Vigilante role he could work, I think the other person who submitted a CS for that archetype is doing their own RP now....

I'm gonna get started on the OOC tonight and have it posted either in a few short hours or sometime tomorrow.

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Just finished the Family of Tomorrow...

The Amazings

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Here's what I got so far for the OG Alliance: Lady Liberty (USA), Leopold (UK), Megaplex (Japan).

Alliance 1.0

I'll add a few more members once I get the Amazings finished.

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@ScarifarI can dig it, he's in the ACCEPTED crew now! I just ask cause I'm a visual kinda thinker and usually make a bunch of micros for the RP. I'm working on group shots of the original Alliance now and I'm gonna try to do the Amazings as well before the day is over. I'll throw some Iron Fist inspired looks at ya at some point I'm sure in the next week or two LOL

If we can get a few more players to fill out the group we could get the OOC and hopefully the IC going by Monday. I'll be around all day checking the thread!

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Wow, I can’t believe Son of Liberty and Spellbound were the only male heroes until Quadra came along.

I guess Lady Liberty inspired all the women.

@Crimson Flame

She would have, the nineties were awesome. Big guns, big pouches, big shoulder pads, and in this world this badass chick dressed like the Statue of Liberty LOL

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@Scarifar The only things I'd ask about the CS: does he have a costume, or will he soon get one? I only ask cause he's already got the superhero codename....