Ruby

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Derp

Name: Samuel Bradley

Age: 44

Alias: Slam Bradley

Appearance:



Skills/Abilities: No powers. Slam is an adept fighter with boxing and police firearm training. He is also a skilled detective with over twenty years experience as cop.

Weaknesses: Bullets, booze, and broads.

History:

Samuel "Slam" Bradley grew up in Gotham's East End. A tough neighborhood, Slam was a scrapper and boxed Golden Gloves as a teen. After a knee injury ended his boxing career, Slam went into the only profession that would take a lug like himself: a cop.

Starting out as a beat cop, Slam eventually made detective and worked his way through assignments until he became a sergeant with the GCPD's Homicide Bureau. Partnered with Detective James Gordon, Slam and Jim were among the few non-corrupt officers in the GCPD. Fighting against the corrupt department and the everyday bleakness of the job had Slam on the verge of burnout until the case that killed his career came along.

It started out simple enough, a dead hooker found in a back alley. The case began to spin out of control, implicating a state senator, a high-end call girl service, and half of Gotham's politicians. The brass tried to bump Slam off of the case, but he refused to leave. In the end, he was dismissed from the GCPD on trumped up charges, accused of fraud because of a mislabeled time sheet. Out of a job, Slam took his connections and investigation skills and branched out on his own as a private investigator. When he's not tipping a bottle, he works as a PI for hire in and around the city.

@Byrd Man

Approved before I even read it.

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Name: Anton Bolton

@Psyga315

Approved!

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Bastion

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Age

Seventeen

Alias

Bastion

Appearance

Charlie has messy brown hair that he tries to style up, but is often left hanging down over his forehead. His eyes are a deep blue. His mouth is upturned into a perpetual smile, which gives him a rather mischievous look. When he's going around Gotham as Charlie Williamson, he dresses casually, some might even call it grungy. Flannels and band tees, beat up converse, and skinny jeans. In other words, he dresses like most other teenagers. However, when he becomes Bastion, he puts on a suit of his own design. A black cape with a hood over an all black suit made of a material that absorbs punches but in no way makes him invulnerable. The suit is a jacket that zips up to the neck, and black, form fitting pants. A utility belt clips on at his waist and holds a number of useful items, such as smoke bombs and tear gas. He wears a domino mask over his eyes, and combat boots on his feet. His hands are protected by metal wrist guards and a pair of gloves with hardened knuckles, perfect for packing an unsuspecting punch.

Skills/Abilities

Charlie is incredibly intelligent and resourceful, with an IQ that is near genius level. He's great at solving puzzles and riddles, and he's an gifted inventor. In fact, he designed all of his equipment himself. He's also a skilled fighter, agile and strong, a trait that he gained from years of training at a boxing gym. While he isn't a master fist fighter by any means, he can hold his own, and with a bow staff or even just his fists, he's a force to be reckoned with.

Weaknesses

Charlie's greatest weaknesses are his hubris and impulsiveness. He's far too confident in his abilities and his intelligence, despite only being on the streets for two months. He tends to rush into situations without a clear plan, which has worked out for him so far, but he won't get that lucky forever. He's also loyal to a fault, and willing to do anything for his friends and family, even if that something is detrimental to himself.

History

Born to a gifted engineer and the founder of Williamson Tech, Charlie lived a rather charmed life with his mother in the nicer part of Gotham. While growing up, he heard magnificent tales about Batman, the protector of Gotham, and his sidekick, Robin. These tales led him to force his mother to let him learn how to fight, and she eventually allowed him to learn how to kick box, albeit reluctantly.

As he grew older he was enrolled at Gotham Academy, where he is still enrolled at. There, he took an interest in inventing, much like his mother, and he began creating makeshift gadgets that made his and his friends' lives easier. When he was fifteen, these inventions saved him and his then girlfriend. When a group of thugs attacked them, a ring that he'd turned into a sort of taser, left them all on the ground, gasping for breath.

This event gave him a slight hero complex, and he strived to regain that feeling he had felt when he saved him and his girlfriend's lives. He embarked on the journey to become Bastion. Over the next two years, he designed the suit, the gadgets, and the persona, finally deciding on what exactly he needed. Stealing the supplies from his mom's workshop, as well as the workshop at Williamson Tech, he made his weapons and his suit, along with some useful field tools. Most of his other funding that he needed came from dipping into his mother's bank account. It's been two months since Bastion first appeared on the streets, and while he's still only a rumor to most, he's been taking on bigger and bigger jobs, especially since Batman's disappearance.

@smarty0114

Accepted. Apologies for the wait. <3

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So with that said, what would Damian's history up to this point be in this particular universe of ours? Do I consult with you and the Talia player to come up with it?

@Dblade26

Hammer out the pre-Bruce stuff with Talia's player, @Jinny, then you and I can decide the post-Bruce history.

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I probably don't like Damian because I've always been partial to Timmy. >_> So, I totally understand the bias thing. Tim will always be my favorite of the Robins.

@HalfOfLancelot

I love him. He's a little jerk trying to hide his heart, completely unprepared for the shitshow that is puberty that's about to wreck his world view. And he's so funny. It's so easy to crack on him, because he's such a little walking trope. It's his front, including the way he speaks. Like he's not even from the same century, at times. And his seething anger...so cute. Because you know, now, he won't actually do anything.

And, again, it's a front put on by his whacked upbringing anyway.

Of course, I didn't love when he nearly killed Tim. I love Tim.

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So I guess I'm going Damian then? You...seem to be hinting you want me to go Damian.

@Dblade26

Does it?

Huh.

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I like him, which is why I tend to play him. But I don't play him well XD

@Dblade26

Oh, please, child.

Unless it was someone else's Damian that I wrote with as Steph...

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@Ruby

Hey Ruby! It's been a long time! I enjoyed playing with you in that one Gotham RP from way back even if it all devolved into a mess so I was thinking of joining up for this!

I was considering playing Richard Dragon as having retired from spy work to run a small martial arts school in Gotham teaching self-defense and martial arts for underpriviledged kids while trying to keep his little corner of the city safe with Batman's disappearance, maybe getting involved in the wider storylines as well?

@Dblade26

I really should read older posts first before newer posts. lol As I already said, I certainly enjoyed your writing in the past. Please, come in, come in...

Well. See...Richard Dragon's a bad mother fucker. One of the baddest. Like Shiva, I could see accepting a somehow watered down version of the character? I certainly trust you with a BMF, but I might make you wait until we get far enough to open up secondary character requests for someone as bad as a full on Richard Dragon. Just because I don't know what our finished cast will look like, and I am trying to keep a certain balance going.

But maybe a watered down if you had your heart set on it. Even a version that was initially watered down, but maybe grew closer to full strength as the game goes along, I could see.

I also have some OC ideas, but they mostly involve a reluctant but talented child or teen assassin being used by whatever faction would be appropriate and interacting with the other cast members along the way and being potentially changed by them or...well I have a couple different plot ideas for that.

@Dblade26

I like it. Does sound a little like some young demon, interestingly enough...

That or maybe a hard-boiled detective type or journalist investigating Nykawa and other stuff going on in the wake of Batman's disappearance?

I have some other stuff if none of that appeals or slots are already taken for characters similar to that

@Dblade26

The Nykawa Center is like that part of an RPG video game map that's meant for end game level characters. We have a Talia player, she's really impressive, so I wouldn't want to call it "off limits" without her input...but man it's not a place you want to go unless you're Batman.

Or Damian.

Nevermind someone (not sure who yet) is going into the Nykawa Center uninvited as part of the game's plot at some point.

So why not a reporter? lol

I am in huge favor of all cop characters. I love them, and will probably treat them with favor...because lawd they'll need the help from above.

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and take the easy way out? Nah.

@Dblade26

Take the difficult path: go through Talia.

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Poor Robins, killed before their time.

...I do tend to try 'find some way to make Damian a sympathetic/not-entirely-hateable character as a consistent personal challenge in Gotham/Batman RPs usually, but I don't feel like working to my own cliches.

@Dblade26

A sadness. I've rather enjoyed your Damian in the past, and we do need a Damian.