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@Omega Man
I believe I've settled on a character. Will have a sheet up as soon as possible. I work on weekends and live on the East Coast of the U.S., coincidentally in an Appalachian town.

Was originally gonna attempt to adapt/clone a Spider-Person. But now, I've decided to go with a Spidey villain.

@Ultimate Spidey

Where at in the region? I'm legit in northeast TN. A few if my RP's have fictional towns in this area LOL

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Essentially I have been reading through the Jewel of Gravesend Zatanna and thought she might make a fun wild card slot, before the obvious recollection this wouldn't work haha. I imagine Clea or Wanda would be the closest option to her but doesn't quite match the vibe in my opinion.

Not super set on a magic user, just generally pondering now.

@Ezekiel

If you wanted you could use one of the alternate looks or universe's versions of Strange for a new successor or a guy who flunked out of Strange Academy. Mangaverse Strange, the teenage looking Avengers Academy game Strange had some good looks, Fear Itself Doc Strange, MC2 had a Batman Beyond looking Doc Magus taking over.... or if you want mystic adjacent characters there's people like Morbius, Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing, Brother Voodoo, maybe a new Dr. Druid...

Or if you're still pondering what about somebody like the OG Thunderbolts' Atlas? Sasquatch? Vision? Black Knight? Blazing Skull? X-51 the Machine Man? Plant Man? A-Bomb? Cloak or Dagger? Techno? Ricochet? Prowler? (just throwing out randoms at this point LOL)

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I'm lurking to see which archetypes get left because I don't have concrete ideas yet

@Silver Carrot

Nobody has shown any interest yet in the strong hero/brute, supernatural, or tech hero spots.

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Angel

Archetype: Mutant #1/Founder
Name: Warren Worthington III
Alias: Angel
Age: 33
Powers/Skills:

- Wings grant him the ability to fly up to 180 mph
- Healing factor can heal him from even death
- His blood can be used to heal others
- Enhanced physical attributes, enhanced vision
- Heat and cold resistance, weather doesn't usually bother him

As a founding member of the X-Men, Warren trained for years to be one of the most efficient aerial combatants in the superhero circles. He gained further training in close quarters combat from Wolverine after the two put their differences aside.

Weaknesses:

- He's essentially a regular squishy human in light body armor. Despite his healing factor, he can be taken out of action for weeks depending on the severity of the damage he takes.

Equipment:

- Light body armor made of military grade fabric (bulletproof, fire proof, stab proof)
- Eventually he's gonna have the tech person build him a flaming sword or he's gonna get one enchanted.

Personality: proud, loyal, honorable, optimistic, blunt
Appearance:


BRIEF Bio:

He was a member of the X-Men for years. Warren was a Horseman of Apocalypse. He did other things but those always stick out. More recently after it was revealed Xavier was a giant POS, Angel decided to step away from the X-Men. After shady millionaires tried and failed to buy an old hangar and airstrip from Warren in Tennessee, production plants and warehouses tied to Worthington Industries were targeted by mercenaries. This prompted Warren to recreate a team of New Champions to defend the people of Darkwater.

Storylines:

No Time for Losers - The New Champions rise to defend the city of Darkwater.

Dark Angel - The evil purged from the body of Warren returns in the form of a new Archangel.

Notes: Angel and Archangel were separated by Dr. Strange just before the RP happens. The essence of Archangel was put into a skull in Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum. It eventually returns with a new body of it's own.

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Oh completely aware I was just more sharing for comedy purposes I got quite far into a concept then had an oh no moment.

@Ezekiel

There's also the option of just making a new character based on something else. IDK how many RP's I've done where I just made an analog for a character in another universe...

I was just wondering what you had in mind. Just talking about superheroes is my jam, so I'm always interested in hearing about what 2nd and 3rd string characters people know about.

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@Ezekiel Chances are there's a Marvel analog if it's DC, lemme know what you had in mind and I'll toss some Marvel characters/concepts at ya!

EDIT: Thought I posted this before leaving and I forgot to hit the 'Post Reply' button.

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I should have the rest of my CS for Angel finished sometime after lunch today. There anybody else watching this? We really only need a team of five to get this one going!!

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Here's what I've got so far...

* The town of Darkwater will have a population of roughly 70k. Worthington Industries has multiple production plants, warehouses, and call centers, as well as a pharmaceutical R&D lab employing a few thousand residents of the area.

* The New Champions HQ will be in the former spot of Worthington Aerospace at the top of Hayes Mountain on the east side of town. This was one of the dormant locations Fisk and Hammer were attempting to buy before hiring mercenaries to attack other Worthington owned properties. This lead to Warren creating the New Champions.

* The city is home to landmarks such as the Appalachian Mountains on the eastern side of town, Warpath River, Kirby Dam, Industrial Park in Mid-Town, the Mountain Mall in Downtown, as well as Shooter Heights housing projects on the west side of town, and Highland Drive (a twenty-two mile curvy road driving up and around several of the mountains and nicer suburbs).

* Dozens of fast food chains and finer restaurant establishments, and a dozen or so schools including a community college are sprinkled through the area. A local spot to mention is Isabella's Pizzeria with one location across from the Mountain Mall in Downtown as well as another one near Warpath Park on the west side of town.

* Fisk Construction will begin building cheap housing on the edges of town and some time into the RP the city limits will be extended to cover more ground.

* Roxxon will secure office space downtown to begin moving an operation into the area and Justin Hammer will successfully buy out an up and coming tech lab as well as an old production plant to renovate.

* Stane International has a single production plant in Darkwater.

Spoiler if it's not obvious

The idea is the supervillains with money are cultivating a town to build blue collar minion armies for hire. Other supervillains will be brought in to serve specific purposes like Arcade owning and operating the two arcades and Hydroman working at the water treatment facility once it's bought by Fisk Utilities. Of the population, nearly five thousand are rumored to already be on the payroll of one of the big investors and moonlighting as minions for hire around the world with other investors looking to do the same. Several notable supervillains for hire are also rumored to be living in the area. The biggest rumor is that Taskmaster took a gym coach job at one of the schools after taking a liking to one of the teachers.

Here's a CS template if anybody's already got something in mind....

Archetype:
Name:
Alias:
Age:
Powers/Skills:
Weaknesses:
Equipment:
Personality: [5 words best describing your character]
Appearance: [pic or description]
BRIEF Bio: [couple paragraphs MAX]
Storylines: [What do you have in mind for your character?]
Notes: [anything else you need to tell us?]

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@Azure Bubbles@Ultimate Spidey

I'm currently working on some bullet points for the city of Darkwater as well as a CS template. Should have something up after lunch for anybody who may be watching this!

And for the record, if anybody was a fan of the later versions of the Champions team, I wouldn't be against some of those characters being slightly reworked for this. They'd just have to be over the age of 18 and able to travel for a job cause you're basically becoming a paid superhero. I really dug Amadeus Cho shrinking somewhat after his Totally Awesome Hulk days and becoming Brawn. Viv Vision was one of my wife's favorites. I always wanted it to be Viv's brother that came back as a teen hero but she's grown on me too.

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@Omega Man
Any other restrictions when it comes to reworking canon characters?
Any canon characters off limits? (besides Johnny Blaze)
Can we gender swap, identity swap (like, make Ben Grimm the Pumisher), change the origin (like, from a person given powers to a person born with powers/mutant) or reform a villain?
Could we take a canon character (for example, Spider-Man) and put an Original Character in the costume?

@Ultimate Spidey

Original Champions are off limits, so that's: Hercules, Ghost Rider/Blaze, Black Widow, and Iceman.

This is meant to take place in something close to the mainstream universe. Making Ben Grimm the Punisher wouldn't work, but you could make a legacy Punisher of your own, or another Spider-clone with their own alias. You could reform a villain, change up powers, etc. for a canon inspired character. In-game Angel will put out a call to any heroes looking for employment willing to move to the Darkwater area. Somebody shows up in a suit with spider powers or with a skull on their chest it could fill the wildcard spot. Wanna reform Rhino and make him our brute? You could do that. Wanna gender bend Scarlet Witch and create a Scarlet Warlock? That'd be pretty dope and it'd fill the supernatural spot. The tech spot could be somebody like Prowler, a new take on Tinkerer, etc.

B and C list characters are the bread and butter of the Marvel universe, you can rework just about anything and it'd be alright for this RP. Though Taskmaster and other mercenary types will be among our enemies if the game moves forward.