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"Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio
Gender:
Dude
Member Name: Put the name everyone calls you here. So if this were my application, I'd put 'Fakey'.
Character Name/Secret Identity: Put your character's name here. Also put their secret identity here. Like say Superman/Klark Kent if your character's secret identity is a normal person. However, if you're like John Smith/The Doctor, where your secret identity is the one that saves the world/steals candy as. If your character is a member of some team, then you'd give their Codename/Friends Call Me [Name]. Like say Solid Snake/David.
Character Bio: Give a short summary of their lives. Make it quick, and really only elaborate on their childhood or motivations/goals in life. Tell us how you will get/have gotten your powers. Notice the slash? It that when you get accepted, you will be divided into groups of people that will have their powers from the start, and people that get their powers during the RP, around chapter 2 at the earliest, chapter 4 at the latest. Here are three scenarios:
Scenario 1: Get them now
Across the vast expanse of space, a pair of saddened parents put their boy in a spaceship, and send him rocketing off the planet, which soon explodes. Sometime later, the boy crashes in Smallville, Kansas. A married couple, the Kents, were unable to have children of their own, find the boy and adopt him, naming him Klark. They never tell him of his past, but eventually tell him the truth some time in the future, long after it had been known he has super powers. The boy eventually moves away to Metropolis City, and goes to work for the Daily Planet, which he uses as a way to get close to crime and snuff it out. He eventually becomes recognized as a symbol for truth, justice, and the American way. He is Superman.
Scenario 2: Get them later
Peter Parker was orphaned at a very young age, and was taken in by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. He soon fell for the girl next door, Mary Jane Watson. One his first day of school he was to be picked on by bullies. Eventually the years pass and Peter gets used to this. But one fateful day, on a school trip to an arachnid lab, Peter gets bitten by a mutant spider. He begins to manifest powers, which he uses to enter into a prize fighting competition. During the competition, Uncle Ben is shot and killed. Peter swears vengeance on the murderer, and lives up to the last words he heard Uncle Ben say.
Scenario 3 is a predetermined plot point that would result in a few characters getting powers. This happens in chapter two. PM one of the mods if you're interested in that.
Powers: Powers fall into one of many categories. These can be broken up into what is essentially a cladogram. A character may have several different powers (ie Mario: Superhuman strength, pyrokinesis, near invincibility) or they may have one power with several different uses (ie Superman: Kinetic powers, manifesting in the ability to alter his own kinetic energy to deliver powerful punches, blow hurricane force winds, survive bullets, fly)
Here are the different categories for powers, as well as how they manifest.
Augmentation
Super Suits
Suits worn over the body that give the wearer their abilities. Abilities are best exemplified by Iron Man and most of his villains. This being that they usually have flight, super strength, super speed(through being slow isn't rare either), and usually some sort of weapon system. For Iron Man, this is radiation. For someone like Mr. Freeze, this would be cooling chemicals. Other powers are fine, so long as you explain how they work, and make weaknesses accordingly. Like say your suit has flamethrowers. The weakness of the suit would be the muzzles of the weapons, which would be susceptible to cold or water.
Cyborgs
Like Doc Ock and stuff. You know, metal limbs.
Mechs
Much bigger than suits, these are considered vehicles, Examples include Metal Gear REX, Gunmen, and the robot thingy from Robocop. These vehicles do not necessarily need to be piloted. They have similar limitations as Super Suits, save for that mechs, being vehicles, are less portable, and usually need big areas to fight in order to avoid property damage.
Artifacts
Ancient artifacts like say an ancient cannon that can launch you anywhere, would be considered technology and not magic. Thus, they fall here. So say you run across an abandoned suit of armor sitting in the Antarctic ice, then it would be considered both a Super Suit and an Artifact. If it uses magic, then it falls under the same category in Religion.
Gadgets
Gadgets. You know, all the cool shit that characters have. Batmobile, Bat Plane, Bat Boat, Bat Sub, Batarang, Bat Signal, bat Grappling Hook Gun, Bat Toaster, Bat Screwdriver, Bat Bat and Bat Dildo. You know, basicaly all the spy-fi stuff that a character can have, like James Bond and his pen gun.
Religion
In the original SSU, gods and religion functioned like in the Discworld. They were real because people believed in them. This is also how magic works. It is essentially the power of suggestion actually bending the universe. some gods depend on people believing in them to get power, but some others do not, being permanent thoughts tied to a certain place.
Chosen
Basically this means a god has chosen some one to go do shit or something. Usually they get like some sort of power relating to that god. Like Ghost Rider, basically.
Artifact
Basically like the Augmentation artifacts, except it runs on magic instead of science. Examples include amulets, magic gauntlets, and mystical swords.
Worship
People who get their powers from worshiping their gods, or by being worshiped themselves. It basically means people that start cults and sell their souls and what not.
Emotion
Basically means their powers are based around the emotions. Another typical thing about this category of power is that even if the person is killed, their combined emotions and beliefs make their spirit stay on the physical plane. This was indeed inspired by Yellow's character from the original, who killed herself in order to obtain awesome voodoo. I think the character was a total babe, as I recall. A babe with the power, the power of voodoo.
Natural Ability
Mutants
You know what constitutes a mutant at this point. Powers had from birth. Like teleporting(Nightcrawler) or super stretching(Mr. Fantastic). This also applies to genetic experiments, like Reptile and The Maw were.
Primal Power
Control of life. Can vary from transforming into animals(Beast Boy), to speaking with animals(Aquaman), to controlling animals and plants(Midori). So basically any power of the Mother Nature sort.
Alien
Powers derived from alien influence. They can be natural(Superman is a Kryptonian), forced(The Venom Symbiote), or gadgets(Silver Surfer's board).
DNA Change
Spider that bit Spiderman, serum that was injected into Captain America. Blah blah blah.
Super Smart
You know, super geniuses. Like MacGyver and Ikabod
Weaknesses: You know how it works. Drawbacks to using their powers(Needing to eat a ton after super healing), limitations to their powers(Superman needs a yellow sun), or various substances that rob them of their powers or make them less effective(Green Lanterns can't affect yellow too well). Make sure they balance and stay fair.
Character Music: Unlike previous RPs, I'd like to compile a soundtrack for this RP. So include two themes. One them for that sums up your character, who they are. Like Viral from Gurren Lagann. He tends to be merciless in battle, and craves his prey's fear, being a Beastman. So his song reflects his animal instinct and pride.
Specific Music: Second is the music that describes a specific aspect of your character. So if your character is angry a lot, then you'd give us music like that. If your character is particularly happy or goofy, than happy sounding music would fit that. If your character has something they like to do, then give us music about what they do. Just remember to tell which piece is which, and what the second one represents.
Character Picture: Find a picture on the net that looks the closest to what you imagine them as, but if you can draw well and have a scanner or a tablet, then draw it. There's also the Hero Machine website, which you can Google.
So here's the template without instructions.
Template
Member Name:
Character Name/Secret Identity:
Character Bio:
Powers:
Weaknesses:
Character Music: [flash=600,200][/flash]
Specific Music: [flash=600,200][/flash]
Character Picture:
There. Now I'm off to bed. It's 2:00 in the fucking morning.
Oh and one more thing. Dial, Holben, and I are the ones who will accept or deny applications.
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer
Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer.
The Writing on the Wall
You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive.
Parasky | 2015
You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists.
Dan Avidan
See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate.
Character Name: Ikabod Griffit. (He has no alias, why would he?)
Character Bio: Ikabod has always been gifted, ever since childhood. He grew up in London and struggled through life until he managed to claw his way into Oxford University studying Biotechnology. After some lets just say morally dubious experiments he was kicked out. He seems to have gone off record for a while working for the Ministry of Defence in Fort Halstead until after a mysterious explosion he vanished. It is unknown why he came over to Asphodale, but heres there. He has a hideout located deep in the woods. The local ranchers report cattle missing then resurging strung up in trees with most of their internal organs ripped out. Ikabod is dangerous and deluded, he is firm in the belief that he can improve the human race by hunting it. He believes that he is the force of Natural Selection which will prevent mankind from as he says 'stagnating'.
Powers: Ikabod has no powers himself, but he is a genius. His knowledge of the Natural World allows him to tamper with genetic codes like nothing else. His menagerie of strange beasts are always ready to protect him.
Weaknesses: Ikabod himself is only human. He is also a prolific alcoholic.
Character Music:
Specific Music: Ikabod once hes commited some act of seeming absolute evil as he contemplates the good he sees he has done.
"Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio
Gender:
Dude
I should have mentioned. No Requiem for a Dream or Let the Bodies Hit the Floor or other over-used songs like that.
It has to be something unique to your character's being. Requiem for a Dream sounds like something only a god-like character would have. I'd have thought you'd go with something more evilish.
Also, where's his picture?
And does Asphodale mean he's not in the main city, but near the steel works?
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Quotes
Steve Irwin
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer
Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer.
The Writing on the Wall
You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive.
Parasky | 2015
You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists.
Dan Avidan
See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate.
"Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio
Gender:
Dude
YES!
I love a good BVVVVVVVVOOOOOMM.
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Quotes
Steve Irwin
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer
Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer.
The Writing on the Wall
You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive.
Parasky | 2015
You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists.
Dan Avidan
See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate.
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer
Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer.
The Writing on the Wall
You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive.
Parasky | 2015
You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists.
Dan Avidan
See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate.
character bio: man-x has always loved cartoons, even into his teen years. his parents, however, did not. they drilled him through out his life to get perfect grades in school, much to his building stress. that, plus the bullying he got for still liking cartoons in high school, lead him to a high distrust of the world around him, and eventual madness. using the knowleage that was forced apon him, he attempted time and time again to escape the real world for the comfort of the world of cartoons . one day, he did it...almost. he entered the the cartoon world, but only for a moment before the experiment failed and he was launched back out. but that was enough. he wasn't the same man when he came out. the experement changed him. he became a cartoon. from that day forward, he vowed that if he couldn't go into the cartoon, he would bring the cartoon to him.
powers: man-x runs on the cartoon laws of physics, which you can find here.and here.
weaknesses: some of the weaknesses are mentioned in the physics page, but there is one other big one. Turpentine, acetone, benzene. aka, the dip. the one thing in the known universe that can kill a toon.
character music:
specific music: (warning, this song is f&#%ed up!
also, had i bit of a problem with the music, but i think it's good.)
character description: um...a mad scientest...type...character... ... ...only...rubbery...i don't know, picture the tf2 medic.
so i think that covers it, if there are any problems with the charater, just let me know.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.
At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.
Protectorates of the Proan Empire
The Sundered Realms - A fantasy realm where the world is divided into different sections. (Following names subject to change)
The Gavell Kingdom
The Everdark Forest
The Lunar Tundra
The Sand Sea
The Asteroid Cloud
The Rotting Shard
The Orbital River
The Outer Shadow
Bottle Beasts - This Universes version of Pokemon.
Worlds Impacted by the Enlightened/Visceral War
The 'Verse Whale - The Homeworld of the two forces, a planet sized organism, and the unique life that has flourished on it.
замороженный конец - An Ice Age world populated by tripodal organisms.
[To Be Named] - A world of creatures with an arm for a head
[To Be Named] - The Homeworld of a species where only the males are sapient.
[To Be Named] - The home of a race of carnivorous, trap building beings.
[To Be Named] - A planet of organisms that can link their minds, where two forms of intelligence have arisen.
Unaffiliated Universes
[To Be Named] - A parallel earth where the Synapsids took over after the Permian Extinction, among other resulting changes.
نيو نيو امستردام - An abandoned Dyson Cylinder containing an Ecumenopolis now catering to our former pets and pests. (A concept developed entirely separate from DroidSyber's Arcology, I swear.)
The Bleed - A vast universe where physics are more a suggestion than a rule.
Parakosmos Minor - Known Earth Pocket Universes, Natural or Artificial.
Island of Marsupials and Armadillos off the coast of South America
A world inhabited by Woodpecker descendants (Again, not meant to be a clone of Serina, I in no way have that much detail ready for this.)
Katiwala - Your typical Lost World...if i decide to go that route...
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer
Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer.
The Writing on the Wall
You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive.
Parasky | 2015
You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists.
Dan Avidan
See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate.
i'm thinking that he will be more mischievous. he likes messing with people, but not harming them. he wants to spread the laughs, but is a bit wild at times. so mostly good, but not incapible of bad.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.
At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.
Protectorates of the Proan Empire
The Sundered Realms - A fantasy realm where the world is divided into different sections. (Following names subject to change)
The Gavell Kingdom
The Everdark Forest
The Lunar Tundra
The Sand Sea
The Asteroid Cloud
The Rotting Shard
The Orbital River
The Outer Shadow
Bottle Beasts - This Universes version of Pokemon.
Worlds Impacted by the Enlightened/Visceral War
The 'Verse Whale - The Homeworld of the two forces, a planet sized organism, and the unique life that has flourished on it.
замороженный конец - An Ice Age world populated by tripodal organisms.
[To Be Named] - A world of creatures with an arm for a head
[To Be Named] - The Homeworld of a species where only the males are sapient.
[To Be Named] - The home of a race of carnivorous, trap building beings.
[To Be Named] - A planet of organisms that can link their minds, where two forms of intelligence have arisen.
Unaffiliated Universes
[To Be Named] - A parallel earth where the Synapsids took over after the Permian Extinction, among other resulting changes.
نيو نيو امستردام - An abandoned Dyson Cylinder containing an Ecumenopolis now catering to our former pets and pests. (A concept developed entirely separate from DroidSyber's Arcology, I swear.)
The Bleed - A vast universe where physics are more a suggestion than a rule.
Parakosmos Minor - Known Earth Pocket Universes, Natural or Artificial.
Island of Marsupials and Armadillos off the coast of South America
A world inhabited by Woodpecker descendants (Again, not meant to be a clone of Serina, I in no way have that much detail ready for this.)
Katiwala - Your typical Lost World...if i decide to go that route...
"Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio
Gender:
Dude
So would the above image of Ren Hoek work to describe him?
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Quotes
Steve Irwin
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer
Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer.
The Writing on the Wall
You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive.
Parasky | 2015
You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists.
Dan Avidan
See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate.
maybe some thing more along the lines of dead pool, the joker, Q, discord, pinkie pie...
...i think i may have passed of my character as to manic...oh well, there's a balance to it.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.
At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.
Protectorates of the Proan Empire
The Sundered Realms - A fantasy realm where the world is divided into different sections. (Following names subject to change)
The Gavell Kingdom
The Everdark Forest
The Lunar Tundra
The Sand Sea
The Asteroid Cloud
The Rotting Shard
The Orbital River
The Outer Shadow
Bottle Beasts - This Universes version of Pokemon.
Worlds Impacted by the Enlightened/Visceral War
The 'Verse Whale - The Homeworld of the two forces, a planet sized organism, and the unique life that has flourished on it.
замороженный конец - An Ice Age world populated by tripodal organisms.
[To Be Named] - A world of creatures with an arm for a head
[To Be Named] - The Homeworld of a species where only the males are sapient.
[To Be Named] - The home of a race of carnivorous, trap building beings.
[To Be Named] - A planet of organisms that can link their minds, where two forms of intelligence have arisen.
Unaffiliated Universes
[To Be Named] - A parallel earth where the Synapsids took over after the Permian Extinction, among other resulting changes.
نيو نيو امستردام - An abandoned Dyson Cylinder containing an Ecumenopolis now catering to our former pets and pests. (A concept developed entirely separate from DroidSyber's Arcology, I swear.)
The Bleed - A vast universe where physics are more a suggestion than a rule.
Parakosmos Minor - Known Earth Pocket Universes, Natural or Artificial.
Island of Marsupials and Armadillos off the coast of South America
A world inhabited by Woodpecker descendants (Again, not meant to be a clone of Serina, I in no way have that much detail ready for this.)
Katiwala - Your typical Lost World...if i decide to go that route...
"Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio
Gender:
Dude
I meant for how he looks.
SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Quotes
Steve Irwin
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer
Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer.
The Writing on the Wall
You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive.
Parasky | 2015
You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists.
Dan Avidan
See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.
At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.
Protectorates of the Proan Empire
The Sundered Realms - A fantasy realm where the world is divided into different sections. (Following names subject to change)
The Gavell Kingdom
The Everdark Forest
The Lunar Tundra
The Sand Sea
The Asteroid Cloud
The Rotting Shard
The Orbital River
The Outer Shadow
Bottle Beasts - This Universes version of Pokemon.
Worlds Impacted by the Enlightened/Visceral War
The 'Verse Whale - The Homeworld of the two forces, a planet sized organism, and the unique life that has flourished on it.
замороженный конец - An Ice Age world populated by tripodal organisms.
[To Be Named] - A world of creatures with an arm for a head
[To Be Named] - The Homeworld of a species where only the males are sapient.
[To Be Named] - The home of a race of carnivorous, trap building beings.
[To Be Named] - A planet of organisms that can link their minds, where two forms of intelligence have arisen.
Unaffiliated Universes
[To Be Named] - A parallel earth where the Synapsids took over after the Permian Extinction, among other resulting changes.
نيو نيو امستردام - An abandoned Dyson Cylinder containing an Ecumenopolis now catering to our former pets and pests. (A concept developed entirely separate from DroidSyber's Arcology, I swear.)
The Bleed - A vast universe where physics are more a suggestion than a rule.
Parakosmos Minor - Known Earth Pocket Universes, Natural or Artificial.
Island of Marsupials and Armadillos off the coast of South America
A world inhabited by Woodpecker descendants (Again, not meant to be a clone of Serina, I in no way have that much detail ready for this.)
Katiwala - Your typical Lost World...if i decide to go that route...
(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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