A New Reckoners' RP - Signups and Interest thread

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

Same for mine 

1 minute ago, Aeoryi said:

The problem with this is that several epics will be very Territorial about the water (and also you can't evaporate large lakes hopefully). There's a planned water epic and a plant epic who also wouldn't like him, so you'll have to keep this in mind.

Heat and fire are great starting points, but you also have to consider how your epic's powers will interact with their weakness. Does contact with frozen water instantly surpress their powers? Just some things to consider!

 

Being cold or wet would suppress or block his powers as he heats up when using his power. Like he could melt you if you touch him after he evaporates a bucket of water. This could also become a weakness 

[Aeoryi she/her]

@TwinSouls can you specify about phalanx shields activating under danger? How much danger would he have to be in? (I.e drowning?)

 

[Aeternum]

Approved Characters List!

This is so Aeternum doesn't get a headache trying to remember everyone's characters.

@Lord Spirit 

Shakespeare (see here)

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Epic Name (if epic): Shakespeare

Real/Pre-calamity name: Clide Darren

Age: 36

Gender: Male

Primary Power (if epic):  He can change his appearance to look like anyone he's seen

Other powers (if epic): He has a perfect memory and remembers every face he's seen

Weakness (if epic): eating biscuits makes him return to his original form and he’s unable to use his powers for a few hours after.

Personality (highly encouraged): He's always acting even when he isn't in a different form. Nobody fully understands him

Backstory (highly encouraged): He was a young actor whose parents died in an accident. He was working for the government as a spy when Calamity rose and gave him powers. He works for whoever pays him the most.

Ranger (see here)

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Epic Name (if epic):Ranger

Real/Pre-calamity name:John Scarlet

Age:24

Gender:male

Primary Power (if epic):he has perfect aim with anything he throws or shoots

Other powers (if epic):he can camouflage himself so that it's very hard to see him unless he moves, and he can negate sounds that he would make (ie. stepping on a twig that's conveniently there).  

Weakness (if epic): seeing coins or hearing them jingle negates his powers

Personality (highly encouraged): He's very militaristic and isn't very social

Backstory (highly encouraged): He was a special ops sniper.  His squad got killed by an epic, except for him. he hunted the epic down and killed him and joined the reckoners soon after.

 

@TheFrugalWizard

Lavoisier (see here)

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Epic Name: Lavoisier

Real/Pre-calamity name: Andrew Vinyl

Age: 28

Gender: male

Primary Power:  For those farmiliar with SA, Lavoisier can basically soulcast. He takes the molecules of something and reforms them into a different type of material. He is not bound to elements; he can form compounds. In addition, he is able to, as long as he understands the blueprints, able to create more complex items like a gun. However, the mose impressive feat of his is that he can do this subconsiously. For example, if you were to shoot him, the bullet would turn into air before it hit him.

Other powers: Naturally, as a side effect of his powers, some trace particles, such as extra electrons, are expelled from the substance. Lavoisier can collect these particles, which manifest as a ball of energy hovering at his side. He can control the ball, making it fly around, and explode on impact. The ball grows larger and more powerful the more he uses his powers.

Weakness: Lavoisier it mortally terrified of roller coasters. His weakness is triggered whenever he is in a moving car of some sort on tracks, like a train. It's most potent, however, when he is on a roller coaster. In addition, he can't change the materials of something that are part of such an object.

Personality: Andrew Vinyl is a quiet guy that doesn't much like using his powers. He does his best to help the Reckoners, and is indeed the leader of a cell out in Buffalo, NY. He doesn't use his powers unless he has to, because of what using them does to him. 

Backstory: When I first got my powers, I thirsted for blood. I killed my family, slaughtering my wife and kids without a second thought. Then I drank myself silly. When I woke up, it had passed and I saw what I had done. I swore to never use the powers again. I dedicated my life to fighting the epics, and now I lead a cell in Buffalo. The members don't know of my abilities, though I have had to use them a few times to get out of sticky situations.

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I will make a mass limit, probably around 400-500 g. In addition, things like nuclear energy, which are made of radioactive ions (I'll use Uranium as and example) have a significantly higher molar mass, i.e. atomic number. This means that soulcasting 20 g of say iron, which has a molar mass of 55.85 g/mol, would create about 4.69 g of Uranium. So, even if he soulcasted a full 500 g of iron into uranium, it would only create about 117.37 g of Uranium. 

Now, Uranium is not an extremley volitile substance when it comes down to it. However, upon reflection,  Lavoisier could create highly dangerous amounts of Plutionium or smililarly dangerous substances. I'll have Lavoisier just collect most of the extra radiation into his little trace particle power. Don't ask me how that works, this is an epic power and I'm using the defy physics card. 

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I think I am going to change my character a little. I just think that having him have instant access to everything that could potentially be a weakness is op. So for now, anything he soulcasts counts as its original makeup for weakness purposes.

Also, he can't soulcast anything that is physically part of a living creature (including plants).

 

Kira (see here)

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Name: Kira Chang

Personality: Kira always tries to be optimistic. She's constantly looking for a bright side. After Calamity however, this translated into the skill to find her way out of sticky situations. she's seen the devastation the epics brought, and knew deep inside that she had to survive. Kira can wiggle her way out of conversations, handcuffs, and once even a high-security vault. She knows that there will be an answer. As time goes on, she is beginning to believe that she will have to be that answer. 

Backstory: Kira was born in America, but her parents were originally from China. She grew up Catholic. As a kid, she demonstrated abnormal amounts of dexterity and charisma. When she grew older, she was known for her positive attitude and unwillingness to accept that anything was truly negative. When she was 18, Calamity hit. Kira had been in college at the time for psychology when the place was blown up by an eager epic. She quickly fled, attempting to send word to her family. She got no reply. From there, she made her way back to their house and found it in ruins. No bodies in sight. Determined to find them, she turned to the Reckoners. The Reckoners, seeing her unusual potential, welcomed her in. They asked if she wanted to join, but she refused. After she found her parent's dead bodies six miles from their house, she agreed out of hate for the epics. Even so, her positive attitude showed through and she made the best of it. 

As the Catholic church degraded into chaos, Kira found herself joining the ranks of the Faithful. she wears her pendant with hope and determination. Kira has grown much since Calamity. She's became far more practical and uses her unique skills to help her become an observant theif (although she refuses to accept this, claiming that she is instead "a sneaky observer". This causes the other members of the cell to laugh for minutes on end upon the mention of it). Although not an epic, Kira can certainly hold her own.

Skills (according to Kira): borrowing things, presenting a different truth, walking quietly, evading risks

Skills (according to everyone else): stealing, lying, sneaking, spying, dodging

Favored tools: lockpicks, daggers, dart guns, and a unique epic motivator made form an epic called Cat Theif. It takes the shape of a glove that will stick to anything she touches. The glove clings to the surface or object surprisingly strongly, but she can release the object or surface by pressing on a surface with all five of the fingers on the gloved hand. Kira owns two of these.

 

@TwinSouls

Phalanx (see here)

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Epic Name: Phalanx

Real/Pre-calamity name: John Staunton

Age: 43

Gender: male

Primary Power: Creates shields in the air to prevent harm. The shields have an overlapping hexagonal pattern. (His powers reflexively activate if he could get hurt.

Other powers: increased dexterity and strength, Gifter.

Weakness: Dead human bones. (You can chuck a corpse at him, and that will work.) The older the bones, the more effectively disabled his abilities are.

Personality: Respectful, but firm. Reclusive and hates interaction with others. Rarely does jobs for anybody, but if convincing enough (and with enough money) he has done a few jobs. 

Backstory: was an explorer/historian in the US, but traveled all over the world as well. While exploring a cave in arches, he found a room full of human skulls, and they fell on him, nearly killing him. He studied wars among early human cultures, and knew a great deal about the Greek and Roman wars. He was a professor at a community high school, and generally told the students what to do, and ignored them, only occasionally actively helping teach. When he became Phalanx, John stayed in his house for months practicing, and ignoring anyone who came near.

 

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The shield blocks anything end everything, but I guess that some temperature (i.e. heat and cold) would get through. Just not enough to incapacitate him.

The shields are almost entirely limited to Phalanx himself. It can cover about a 2-10 feet dome around him. He can allow people through if he wants. More can get through depending on how large the shield is.

If he ‘Gifts’ the shield, it’s going to be a lot weaker, and it will only be one-sided.

the shields themselves have no mass whatsoever, and things will stick to them.

 

Shaper (see here)

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Epic Name: Shaper

Real/Pre-calamity name: Eric Staunton

Age: 38

Gender: male

Primary Power: shapes the fog around him into objects. (No limitations other than the fact that he can only shape within his dome of fog)

Other powers: creates thick fog around himself. (Roughly 15 meters across, and gets thicker the closer to him. Greatly enhanced senses

Weakness: wood smoke

Personality: outgoing, generally chipper, talkative.

Backstory: Is Phalanx’s brother. Was a woodworker of some renown, and his shop burned to the ground. He had been mute since the fire after the smoke nearly choked him to death. He and his brother never had a great relationship. John had always been the smart one, while Eric was always the artistic one, and both had been jealous of each other’s skill. Neither know that the other is an Epic. When Eric graduated from high school, Eric moved to the farthest part of the country from his family he could think of: California. He made a reasonable profit, and lived a decent life in California. When he became an epic, he was at a party with some friends, and all the people close to him died in the fog. Eric had no idea what was happening, and fled out of the party. He went to Buffalo.

 

@Lunamor

Plastique (see here)

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Epic Name: Plastique

Real/Pre-calamity name: Ava Wilson

Age: 22

Gender: Female

Primary Power: Plasticity. She can decrease the solidity of her body until she is a rather unflattering pile of goo. While in that form, she can recover from damage so long as she can maintain a large enough central mass or rejoin the smaller bits together quickly enough. This also allows her to fit through tight spaces (ex. under doors). 

Other powers: She has enhanced reflexes, able to react to attacks quickly.

Weakness: Plastic explosives. They don’t need to be exploded, they just need to come into contact with her.

Personality: Contrary to her fluid physicality, she is incredibly stubborn. She is insecure about her looks (particularly her melted form), but confrontational to anyone who voices that same opinion. Her face is often caked with excessive makeup and her outfits are flashy. She adores attention. She isn’t particularly loyal and will follow whoever pays her the most. She has a soft spot for rodents.

Backstory: Ava was just about to graduate high school when she was given her powers. She had led a rather unremarkable life up until that point and was a rather unremarkable person. She wasn’t particularly pretty or popular, but she wasn’t ugly or an outcast either. Ava had never left her home state or had something she was especially passionate about. Now that she has become Plastique, she is determined to become someone of note who is worth remembering.

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She can choose for her attire to be absorbed into her blob form, and it reforms properly when she solidifies. Anything not considered “attire” can’t be absorbed but can be carried around. She can melt individual parts of her body if wanted (ex. melts everything but an arm to hold a gun while in blob form). When fully melted, she could have a general sense of where things are but not clear sight unless she doesn’t melt her eyes (this is where her enhanced reflexes would be handy). Unmelted body parts are more vulnerable and healing them requires absorbing roughly equivalent materials needed to reconstruct them while in blob form (ex. a human hand or chicken carcass to replace a lost hand). When fully blobbed, she can survive underwater indefinitely but can’t swim. Her speed when melted is the same as her unmelted form’s.

 

 

@Aeternum

Fish (see here)

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Fish
Duke Fishron?!

Real name: Averson Nomlas

Gender: Male. Yellow / gold eyes

Age: 30 ish

Personality: Arrogant. Your typical powerful Epic in charge of a large faction. Not so arrogant to consider himself invincible, and takes great care to keep himself safe.

Primary: Incorporeality ish (Prime Invincibility)

Fish gets more powerful the more amount of water he's near, which lets him become more incorporeal. The minimum is 750L of water within 20m of him is needed to become partially incorporeal and hard to see. In this state, objects thrown at him will sort of bounce off instead of piercing through him. Objects moving very fast (like bullets) would be able to damage him at this point, but not likely to kill (it'll be like getting hit by a hockey puck really hard. Could definitely break bones). Fish can interact with objects such as tables when partially incorporeal, but nothing that is small like a pen, notebook, or gun. At about 48 000 L of water within 20m of him (that's around the amount of water for an average swimming pool), Fish is able to become incorporeal enough that nothing can physically harm him.

Secondary: Explosive Bubbles & Water Chakrams

Can summon 10-20 short-ranged explosive bubbles. They're generally a lot bigger than "normal" bubbles, around the size of an inflatable beach ball (12 inches / 30 cm diameter). He summons them from his fingers and wherever he points, the bubbles will appear and go in that direction. They explode on impact with something (anything bigger than a penny will trigger it), or once they're 2.5-3 meters away from him, and don't harm him (at all). Explosion is accompanied by a little pop sound, and it's the equivalent to a small grenade.

He can summon 1-2 water chakrams that he can control (by pointing / moving his hand). Disks need 20L water within 20m of him per 1 chakram to summon. Desummoning them causes them to become a pizza-sized puddle of water. About 1L of water is consumed per chakram. Roughly 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter. The chakrams move at the speed of his hand moving to guide them.

Tertiary: Hydrokinesis

Fish can control/manipulate around 3 gallons (~11.4 L) of water at a time. Water needs to be within a meter of him for it to be under his control, and needs to be drawn from an existing water source. He can then carry the water an unlimited distance with conscious effort (he will lose control when unconscious or asleep) More detail at some point, but expect that he can control the shape of the water among other things. Unlikely that he will use it offensively when he has two incredibly strong offensive powers already.

A few notes:

- Water within living organisms is not accounted for and he cannot use it for his powers

- Fish can also breathe in water when incorporeal, but can't eat or drink while incorporeal or partially incorporeal. He can sleep while incorporeal / immersed fully in water.

- He gets harder to see the more incorporeal they are, but (in Duke Fishron style) when using his power, his eyes glow

Weakness: Eating mushrooms (also is allergic to mushrooms)

Backstory: Averson loved swimming as a kid, and grew up close to the ocean in  California. He was a very athletic child, and participated in many swimming competitions that he almost always won. He never did well in school, even though he was fairly good at all the subjects - he just didn't care enough. He moved to Buffalo a few years before Calamity rose.

Parry (see here)

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Parry
Sekiro-style (ish) Disclaimer: I don't play Sekiro, but a game with a similar parry mechanic 

Real name: Perrin Kocr

Physical: Male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Average height. In his mid-to-late 20s.

Personality & more: Very reserved, doesn't like using his power because it tends to draw attention to him. A quiet bookworm-ish sort of guy. He's also a bit paranoid and very non-confrontational. Is proficient with various guns and hand-to-hand combat.

Primary:
While holding any object, he can parry any physical objects around the size of a coin or larger. This includes high-speed projectiles (bullets), objects thrown at him like chairs, and liquids (but not gases). If he times his parry correctly, he will suffer no physical harm. Whatever he parried will kind of bounce harmlessly to the ground. If he swings at it as opposed to a block animation, he can deflect it back to wherever it was spent from. In this case, it will reverse directions and have the same speed and angle as when he deflected it.

It is possible that he mis-times the parry, which means that his power has no effect on whatever he tried to parry.

Secondary: Enhanced reflexes to help him time parries.

Weakness: Match boxes. Possibly also matches but he doesn't want to find out. He actually hates matches so much. If you throw a match box at him, you can then shoot him and he'll die...

Backstory: Parry grew up in Canada and was in the military until Calamity rose. Parry is here in Buffalo to hopefully join the AHE anyone who will accept him.

 

@RoyalBeeMage

Ignis (see here)

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Epic Name (if epic) ignis 

Real/Pre-calamity name: roy

Age: 25

Gender: male

Primary Power (if epic):  fire manipulation(firebending with heat manipulation which allows one to basicly boil something without creating any fire) 

range:range? for heat it would be what he is touching for fire he could only be able to manipulate a preexsisting source of fire within a 5-10 ft radies from around him. he can also create fire in his hands and not be burned imidietly.

Other powers: .when wet he could use his power only to keep his internal heat at room temperature. this prevents him from getting a feaver or freezing to death. this works even when cold or wet.

Weakness (if epic): copper. if he comes in contact with any amount of copper his powers will be blocked
Personality (highly encouraged): impulsive, impatient, he also believes one becomes strong by struggling and fighting for what they want.

Backstory (highly encouraged): he was a thermal dynamic expert and was majering it in university when the calamaty striked. when he first got powers it was uncontorlable casuing him to burn down his entire naboorhood killing everyone in the fire(this was over several weeks).

 

@Aeoryi

Sundew (see here, note: this links to the old RP)

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Age: 30

Real name: Katelyn Ezori

Appearance: 5'11 woman with deep brown eyes. her skin tone is dark peach. her hair is black, and typically tied in a bun. as for what she's wearing, I don't really care or know, but she really likes the colour green.

Gender: female

Personality: tactical and always tries to make controllable situations. diplomatic.

Primary: Supplied Growth. can grow plants extra fast. takes 30 seconds for a shrub plant to grow full size. For trees it takes a minute Sundew does need seeds, and she can overgrow them to 7x their original size, 2x for trees, although it takes 7x/2x the time to grow them that big. It is faster when she is closer and when she touches it, it takes 10 seconds to grow full size for shrubs, 20 seconds for trees. Min requirement 5m-0.5m, depending on plant. Using this ability she can evolve plants faster, and has made some ‘hybrid’ plants that she supplies.

Secondary: Leafspeak; Can try to control Plants within 17m and speak with them. Can do this in masses. It is like convincing a plant to do something basically.

Tertiary: Herbs; will heal near instantly when there are live plants around 1.5m, and the injury will damage the plants. Automatic. If the plant is dead, it will no longer function as an absorber. Typically, the area would be inflicted with said injury ‘struck by lightning would make the plants around her look like they got struck by lightning’ whereas ‘cut by a blade would make the plants look cut by a blade.’ This is nearly instant, taking 10 milliseconds to do. immune to all poisons that come from plants, or any harm that comes from plants. This does not mean a tree that falls on them will not kill them, since that is gravity, but they are neutral to all plants, so they will not attempt to harm her. She is immune to all plant made poisons.

Quaternary: Can suppress one condition for a plant to grow (soil, water, sunlight, O2) permanently for the duration it stays alive. Also in addition, her plants can survive in to warm/too cold environments. (all her plants can survive 17Co-27Co). typically, if she needs to supress a requirement, it will be oxygen, so her plants don’t instantly die to an air epic.

Weakness: Deforestation. seeing this IN PERSON makes her powers go away for however long it lasts.

History: as being a gardener that was in huge debt, she became an epic fairly quickly and started turning the land around her to a jungle. Her greenhouse can be found.

The first challenge was Aquatis, who was this water manipulating nightmare. only problem was that he could only control salt water. at this time, her jungle only covered a fraction of the territory she holds now, and she had not figured out how to evolve plants. she mainly didn't have any followers. Aquatis caused many tragities to her territory, but she managed to strangle him with a vine.

The Second was an epic named Poorsight, and as the name suggested, he had the ability to make people blind. Although he could blind the plant Epic, he still died, because it turned out that sundew didn't really need sight to strangle him.

The third and the second most challenging was Harmonic. she could create blasts of music out of the palm of her hand. she actually ended up joining sundews faction, despite ripping up a sixth of the jungle, which was half the current size. Sundew also had more carnivourous plants then, and one accidentally ate the sound Epic.

The next epic to join was named Skystorm, and she had the ability to manipulate fire that was midair. Fire Epics were nearly complete carnage to the jungle, but eventually, the fire Epic joined Sundew, farther protecting the jungle that was nearly full size. 

Fifth, was a group of multiple epics by the name of Team N2, which was just a horrible name altogether and consisted of five minor epics. one of them was killed before they could retreat out of her territory after the their failed assassination attempt.

The last and most recent challenge was Catastrophe, an Epic that had been causing cataclysm to many places, and had some fear related incremental powers. after huge battles and conversations about what matters most in the world, he finally joined the jungle faction, and is in charge while Sundew is gone at the time in this RP.

Her Faction: ...

Fighting style: she fights offensively, often trapping her opponent before strangling/killing them. Often, she does not get into situations like this, but she will fight, as she is an epic.

Corruption: Sundew often doesn’t think of other people’s opinions, especially when it comes to taking territory. when people refuse her request for territory, she may still function the food exchange despite attacking the faction.

 

@Scars of Hathsin

Aries (see here)

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Epic Name (if epic): Aries

Real/Pre-calamity name: Aaron

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Primary Power (if epic):  Gravity Switching

Other powers (if epic): Better Balance and Athletic Prowess

Weakness (if epic): Any Darkness.  

Personality (highly encouraged): He is a restless person, who is always looking for something new to learn, and control. He is a bit intolerant of most people. 

Backstory (highly encouraged): He was aspiring to be an author, and was writing one of his drafts for his books, when Calamity rose in the sky, and as he wrote in his book, ... stuff happened, and thing around him that he touched, began to fall . He began playing around with his power, coming under more and more control under Calamity. THough he is a naturally empathetic and gentle person, that has been curbed ... somewhat.

 

Follow-up note:

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He affects things in a small circle around him, but he has to have the intent to do it. it is a 5x5 meter bubble, and when they are out of the bubble they turn normal. His weakness is darkness in which he can not see anything. Not pitch black, but mostly just night time super dark...

 

 

@xariori

Swordfish (see here)

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Swordfish

Real/Pre-calamity name: Alston James

Age: early 20s

Gender: Male

Primary Power:  Turning his hands into blades, which he can swing around as lethal weapons.

Other powers: Minor increased strength and constitution, allowing him to bash at others with his hands turned blades and weather hits more effectively. Bullets will still hurt him, leaving serious bruises but a single one won't kill him, though multiple definitely could.

Weakness: Rubber stamps. Getting marked with a rubber stamp using any sort of ink or dye would nullify his powers until the ink or dye is scrubbed off.

Personality: Swordfish is the young protege of Fish, and he takes full advantage of this fact. Cocky, gallivanting around like he owns the city, he takes advantage of his in with Fish to cajole other Epic sycophants into doing his bidding. The only one he fears and respects is Fish himself, seeing the man almost as a sort of elder brother and mentor to him. But mixed with these feelings of respect are those that Fish may becoming soft and his methods archaic as time passes, as more he sees more and more vipers emerge from the grass to bite at the high Epic's heels.

Backstory: A Buffalo local, Alston was always ambitious. As a student, he participated in athletics, and burnt the midnight oil for his academics. Yet he always seemed to fall behind those who were more naturally athletic, naturally gifted, or naturally charismatic than him. When Calamity hit, and he gained his Epic powers, the initial high faded once it seemed yet again he'd been given the short end of the stick. It was around this time the Epic known as Fish started to establish himself in Buffalo. Swordfish decided do whatever he needed to so he could get into Fish's good graces. Starting a minor epic in Fish's shock forces, he rose in the ranks with his numerous kill count, volunteering for dangerous missions no one else wanted to take, and dirtying his hands with the blood of numerous non-epics and epics alike. As a result, the eye of the big Fish fell onto the ambitious Epic - and with it came the associated perks and drawbacks of being in Fish's inner circle, his protege.

(this is just so far, I'll edit it to add new ones as we go)

Edited March 19, 2024 by Aeternum
I miss the old approved characters section...

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

1 hour ago, Aeoryi said:

@TwinSouls can you specify about phalanx shields activating under danger? How much danger would he have to be in? (I.e drowning?)

 

So, say if he trips. Right as he’s about to hit the ground, a shield will appear beneath him. I’d say with drowning, that the shield would have to appear around him as he’s going in. 

 

In other words, the shield appears ‘just in the nick of time’

Edited February 28, 2024 by TwinSouls

[Scars of Hathsin he/him]

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Epic Name (if epic): Aries

Real/Pre-calamity name: Aaron

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Primary Power (if epic):  Gravity Switching

Other powers (if epic): Better Balance and Athletic Prowess

Weakness (if epic): Any Darkness.  

Personality (highly encouraged): He is a restless person, who is always looking for something new to learn, and control. He is a bit intolerant of most people. 

Backstory (highly encouraged): He was aspiring to be an author, and was writing one of his drafts for his books, when Calamity rose in the sky, and as he wrote in his book, ... stuff happened, and thing around him that he touched, began to fall . He began playing around with his power, coming under more and more control under Calamity. THough he is a naturally empathetic and gentle person, that has been curbed ... somewhat.

 

[Aeoryi she/her]

36 minutes ago, Scars of Hathsin said:

 

A few questions! 

Darkness: does this include shadows? Maybe is it if he can't see?

What are his ranges for his gravity ability? Is he able to change gravity for objects, or just himself? Other people? How many things at once? How much control does he have over his abilities? (Does he basically have telekinesis?)

Edited February 28, 2024 by Aeoryi

[Aeternum]

Fish

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Fish
Duke Fishron?!

Real name: Averson Nomlas

Gender: Male. Yellow / gold eyes

Age: 30 ish

Personality: Arrogant. Your typical powerful Epic in charge of a large faction. Not so arrogant to consider himself invincible, and takes great care to keep himself safe.

Primary: Incorporeality ish (Prime Invincibility)

Fish gets more powerful the more amount of water he's near, which lets him become more incorporeal. The minimum is 750L of water within 20m of him is needed to become partially incorporeal and hard to see. In this state, objects thrown at him will sort of bounce off instead of piercing through him. Objects moving very fast (like bullets) would be able to damage him at this point, but not likely to kill (it'll be like getting hit by a hockey puck really hard. Could definitely break bones). Fish can interact with objects such as tables when partially incorporeal, but nothing that is small like a pen, notebook, or gun. At about 48 000 L of water within 20m of him (that's around the amount of water for an average swimming pool), Fish is able to become incorporeal enough that nothing can physically harm him.

Secondary: Explosive Bubbles & Water Chakrams

Can summon 10-20 short-ranged explosive bubbles. They're generally a lot bigger than "normal" bubbles, around the size of an inflatable beach ball (12 inches / 30 cm diameter). He summons them from his fingers and wherever he points, the bubbles will appear and go in that direction. They explode on impact with something (anything bigger than a penny will trigger it), or once they're 2.5-3 meters away from him, and don't harm him (at all). Explosion is accompanied by a little pop sound, and it's the equivalent to a small grenade.

He can summon 1-2 water chakrams that he can control (by pointing / moving his hand). Disks need 20L water within 20m of him per 1 chakram to summon. Desummoning them causes them to become a pizza-sized puddle of water. About 1L of water is consumed per chakram. Roughly 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter. The chakrams move at the speed of his hand moving to guide them.

Tertiary: Hydrokinesis

Fish can control/manipulate around 3 gallons (~11.4 L) of water at a time. Water needs to be within a meter of him for it to be under his control, and needs to be drawn from an existing water source. He can then carry the water an unlimited distance with conscious effort (he will lose control when unconscious or asleep) More detail at some point, but expect that he can control the shape of the water among other things. Unlikely that he will use it offensively when he has two incredibly strong offensive powers already.

A few notes:

- Water within living organisms is not accounted for and he cannot use it for his powers

- Fish can also breathe in water when incorporeal, but can't eat or drink while incorporeal or partially incorporeal. He can sleep while incorporeal / immersed fully in water.

- He gets harder to see the more incorporeal they are, but (in Duke Fishron style) when using his power, his eyes glow

Weakness: Eating mushrooms (also is allergic to mushrooms)

Backstory: Averson loved swimming as a kid, and grew up close to the ocean in  California. He was a very athletic child, and participated in many swimming competitions that he almost always won. He never did well in school, even though he was fairly good at all the subjects - he just didn't care enough. He moved to Buffalo a few years before Calamity rose.

Just so everyone can see where my Epic is at and tell me they're too powerful  I haven't decided on some minor details yet, it'll likely get resolved when the RP starts or when I get a solid idea of how to write Fish!

Edited March 9, 2024 by Aeternum
changed some minor details

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

what do you think of my current idea?

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Epic Name (if epic) ignis 

Real/Pre-calamity name: roy

Age: 25

Gender: male

Primary Power (if epic):  fire manipulation(firebending with heat manipulation which allows one to basicly boil something without creating any fire) 

range:range? for heat it would be what he is touching for fire he could only be able to manipulate a preexsisting source of fire within a 5-10 ft radies from around him. he can also create fire in his hands and not be burned imidietly.

Other powers: .when wet he could use his power only to keep his internal heat at room temperature. this prevents him from getting a feaver or freezing to death. this works even when cold or wet.

Weakness (if epic): copper. if he comes in contact with any amount of copper his powers will be blocked
Personality (highly encouraged): impulsive, impatient, he also believes one becomes strong by struggling and fighting for what they want.

Backstory (highly encouraged): he was a thermal dynamic expert and was majering it in university when the calamaty striked. when he first got powers it was uncontorlable casuing him to burn down his entire naboorhood killing everyone in the fire(this was over several weeks).

@Aeternum

Edited February 28, 2024 by RoyalBeeMage
updated weakness and range

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

Just to let you know, @Aeoryi, and @Aeternum, I updated the personality.

also, this didn’t fit the personality, so:

other Epics know Phalanx exists, but don’t know anything about his appearance. 

[TheFrugalWizard he/him]

1 hour ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

ice or water that is below 0 degrees Celsius.

You do realize that 0 degrees Celsius is freezing point? So water below 0 degrees is literally ice.

[Lunamor she/her]

2 minutes ago, TheFrugalWizard said:

You do realize that 0 degrees Celsius is freezing point? So water below 0 degrees is literally ice.

Salt water has a lower freezing point than 0 degrees Celsius, so it’s likely possible for water to be liquid and still negate his powers (assuming salt water counts). 

[Aeternum]

2 hours ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

what do you think of my current idea?

 

Looking good! I'd love to know limits, range, etc. as well.

 

1 hour ago, TwinSouls said:

Just to let you know, @Aeoryi, and @Aeternum, I updated the personality.

also, this didn’t fit the personality, so:

other Epics know Phalanx exists, but don’t know anything about his appearance. 

Sounds good! Someone remind me I need to change the approved characters post to links at some point.

 

Also, any comments on Fish? You all are free to judge my character haha.

[Lunamor she/her]

1 hour ago, Aeternum said:

Also, any comments on Fish? You all are free to judge my character haha.

I think Fish is great, particularly his name  The limit of being unable to eat/drink while fully invincible feels reasonable. I think there’s a 50/50 chance Plastique would either worship or despise him.

Edited February 28, 2024 by Lunamor

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

17 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

Looking good! I'd love to know limits, range, etc. as well.

 

Sounds good! Someone remind me I need to change the approved characters post to links at some point.

 

Also, any comments on Fish? You all are free to judge my character haha.

Fish seems like a really cool character!!

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

3 hours ago, TheFrugalWizard said:

You do realize that 0 degrees Celsius is freezing point? So water below 0 degrees is literally ice.

3 hours ago, Lunamor said:

Salt water has a lower freezing point than 0 degrees Celsius, so it’s likely possible for water to be liquid and still negate his powers (assuming salt water counts). 

for both of you. i am fairly sure that if water is a large enough size not all of it will fully melt. also sea water and other liquids were in mind. any liquid should stop him

2 hours ago, Aeternum said:

Looking good! I'd love to know limits, range, etc. as well.

 

Sounds good! Someone remind me I need to change the approved characters post to links at some point.

 

Also, any comments on Fish? You all are free to judge my character haha.

range? for heat it would be what he is touching for fire he could only be able to manipulate a preexsisting source of fire within a 5-10 ft radies from around him. he can also create fire in his hands and not be burned imidietly.

 

[Aeternum]

3 hours ago, Lunamor said:

I think Fish is great, particularly his name  The limit of being unable to eat/drink while fully invincible feels reasonable. I think there’s a 50/50 chance Plastique would either worship or despise him.

Hey, maybe Plastique can join Fish's faction! Or y'know, make one that's against his faction...

 

3 hours ago, TwinSouls said:

Fish seems like a really cool character!!

Whoohoo! I had a lot of fun working out the specifics of his powers.

 

45 minutes ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

for both of you. i am fairly sure that if water is a large enough size not all of it will fully melt. also sea water and other liquids were in mind. any liquid should stop him

range? for heat it would be what he is touching for fire he could only be able to manipulate a preexsisting source of fire within a 5-10 ft radies from around him. he can also create fire in his hands and not be burned imidietly.

 

Sounds like he and Fish won't get along

Limits and range looks good! I'll add him to the list of characters tomorrow when I'm on my laptop. Just one note, you might want to change the weakness a bit because the area we're going to be in probably will have a lot of snow (does that count for him?) at times of the year. Weaknesses don't always have to be a perfect contrast to their abilities, and it would probably be more fun if your Epic isn't always inconvenienced by having an easily occuring weakness.

 

6 hours ago, Scars of Hathsin said:

Epic Name (if epic): Aries

 

Real/Pre-calamity name: Aaron

 

Age: 20

 

Gender: Male

 

Primary Power (if epic): Gravity Switching

 

Other powers (if epic): Better Balance and Athletic Prowess

 

Weakness (if epic): Any Darkness.  

 

Personality (highly encouraged): He is a restless person, who is always looking for something new to learn, and control. He is a bit intolerant of most people. 

 

Backstory (highly encouraged): He was aspiring to be an author, and was writing one of his drafts for his books, when Calamity rose in the sky, and as he wrote in his book, ... stuff happened, and thing around him that he touched, began to fall . He began playing around with his power, coming under more and more control under Calamity. THough he is a naturally empathetic and gentle person, that has been curbed ... somewhat.

I know Aeo already asked, but I'd love to know specifics on range and limits for the gravity switching (funny story, I originally was going to have an Epic who controls gravity and then I realized how OP that is...), like can he switch any object's gravity? Other people's? Can he switch a small area's gravity? When it says gravity switching, I'm assuming that's the direction that gravity is facing?

Weakness-wise, a bit more specific would help. How close to darkness, what counts as darkness, etc. Same thing as with Ignis, you don't have to make an extremely inconvenient weakness. Otherwise, it's looking good!

I know that I went into a LOT of detail with my character's powers, and I encourage y'all to do the same! Helps you think about ways your Epic can do cool stuff and what their limits are. I do apologize for being annoying with all my questioning haha. And of course you are free to have more than one character if you want! I'm probably going to have a non-Epic character as well, and I'll possibly draft up mini-characted sheets for Epic ideas I have for those in Fish's faction, since he's gotta lead someone!

I don't remember what the original schedule is looking like, but we're probably looking at starting things off in a week, week and a half? New people are always welcome at any time too.

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

3 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

Hey, maybe Plastique can join Fish's faction! Or y'know, make one that's against his faction...

 

Whoohoo! I had a lot of fun working out the specifics of his powers.

 

Sounds like he and Fish won't get along

Limits and range looks good! I'll add him to the list of characters tomorrow when I'm on my laptop. Just one note, you might want to change the weakness a bit because the area we're going to be in probably will have a lot of snow (does that count for him?) at times of the year. Weaknesses don't always have to be a perfect contrast to their abilities, and it would probably be more fun if your Epic isn't always inconvenienced by having an easily occuring weakness.

 

I know Aeo already asked, but I'd love to know specifics on range and limits for the gravity switching (funny story, I originally was going to have an Epic who controls gravity and then I realized how OP that is...), like can he switch any object's gravity? Other people's? Can he switch a small area's gravity? When it says gravity switching, I'm assuming that's the direction that gravity is facing?

Weakness-wise, a bit more specific would help. How close to darkness, what counts as darkness, etc. Same thing as with Ignis, you don't have to make an extremely inconvenient weakness. Otherwise, it's looking good!

I know that I went into a LOT of detail with my character's powers, and I encourage y'all to do the same! Helps you think about ways your Epic can do cool stuff and what their limits are. I do apologize for being annoying with all my questioning haha. And of course you are free to have more than one character if you want! I'm probably going to have a non-Epic character as well, and I'll possibly draft up mini-characted sheets for Epic ideas I have for those in Fish's faction, since he's gotta lead someone!

I don't remember what the original schedule is looking like, but we're probably looking at starting things off in a week, week and a half? New people are always welcome at any time too.

 

could i draft up an anti faction to fish's? also for weakness could a good weakness be copper dampens his power? common metal but not everyone might have it on them or nearby. need to fix up my character sheet 

[Lunamor she/her]

2 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

Hey, maybe Plastique can join Fish's faction! Or y'know, make one that's against his faction...

I think Plastique joining Fish’s faction would be great! Contrary to what she might claim, she is not at all qualified to helm a faction 

[Lord Spirit he/him]

3 hours ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

could i draft up an anti faction to fish's? also for weakness could a good weakness be copper dampens his power? common metal but not everyone might have it on them or nearby. need to fix up my character sheet 

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[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

Just now, Lord Spirit said:

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ok so maby i had watched megamind recently when brainstorming my epic

[Lord Spirit he/him]

1 minute ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

ok so maby i had watched megamind recently when brainstorming my epic

Cliches are great though.

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

Just now, Lord Spirit said:

Cliches are great though.

i mean water was a bad idea and copper was all i could think of

[TheFrugalWizard he/him]

I think I am going to change my character a little. I just think that having him have instant access to everything that could potentially be a weakness is op. So for now, anything he soulcasts counts as its original makeup for weakness purposes.

Also, he can't soulcast anything that is physically part of a living creature (including plants).

Edited February 28, 2024 by TheFrugalWizard

[Aeternum]

9 hours ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

could i draft up an anti faction to fish's? also for weakness could a good weakness be copper dampens his power? common metal but not everyone might have it on them or nearby. need to fix up my character sheet 

Yes and yes! I think currently we have a faction for Phalanx, one for Sundew ( @Aeoryi WHERE IS SUNDEW), and one for Fish. The more the better! As long as y'know, there's not 80 big ones...   If you add the changes to the character sheet I'll link it back to our list of characters (for ease of access)

5 hours ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

ok so maby i had watched megamind recently when brainstorming my epic

Don't worry, mine's based off of Duke Fishron  

4 hours ago, TheFrugalWizard said:

I think I am going to change my character a little. I just think that having him have instant access to everything that could potentially be a weakness is op. So for now, anything he soulcasts counts as its original makeup for weakness purposes.

Also, he can't soulcast anything that is physically part of a living creature (including plants).

Alright sounds good!

Edited February 28, 2024 by Aeternum

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

fixed my character sheet. welcoming anyone into my fire based faction