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"Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio
Gender:
Dude
I am the Clocksmith. I have traversed the entirety of time and space. I have seen the beginning of things, and I have seen the end. I have seen all of the universe and its splendor. I have seen other universes as well. All of them. I know every detail about them, in and out. I am the Clocksmith. Guardian of Time. Protector of Space. I am history repeating.
I am here to offer you an opportunity. An opportunity unlike any other. I have the desire to see a new universe. But I wish to be surprised. I will not interfere, but I will give you a basic structure from which you can build the ultimate universe.
You shall begin life on Earth. It's history is relatively the same, with minor differences. This Earth is incredibly similar to yours, to the point where you could spend an entire lifetime without finding one. This is where you come in. I want you to fill the planet with changes and alterations. Nothing too drastic. I want differences that, with time, will give rise to a drastically different future.
I want you to make superheroes. Supervillains. Anti-heroes. Anti-villains. Everything in between.
There is a section labelled 'character allignment'. Basically, there is a grid on which you allign your character. There is Good and Evil scale, and there is the Lawful and Chaotic scale.
Here's a sample, with several recognizable people from other universes, along with flavor text.
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I shall provide a template with which you can build a life.
Quote:
Character Name/Secret Identity:
Character Description:
Character Allignment:
Character Bio:
Powers:
Weaknesses:
Character Music: [flash=800,200][/flash]
I shall provide a filled out template with a character to help you get started.
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Character Name/Secret Identity: Snakebite / Sean Penn
Character Description: A tall, thin man. His cheekbones are high, his eyes sharp. His skin is pale, and his mouth is wide. Thin lips, a long, split tongue, and long canines. Piercings and tatoos all over his body. The mere sight of this man brings to mind the primal fear of serpents. This man is a snake.
Character Allignment: Neutral Good; Snakes don't care about Chaos or Order. They just bite anything that's big enough for them to eat and has a pulse.
Character Bio: Born into a family known for their conformist demeanor, Sean is the black sheep of the family. Rather than get tanned skin, bleached hair, and do what's popular, Sean bleached his skin, darkened his hair, and did things he found good. He listened to what he wanted, modified his body as he wished, and worked out not to look good, but for strength.
He also took an interest in the sciences of herpetology and genetics. While on a lab tour in a famous college, Sean broke away from the group to use the restroom. Unbeknownst to him, an genetically modified snake had escaped earlier that day. As Sean emptied his bladder, the snake bit him from it's hiding place in the corner.
Venom coursed through his veins. Rather than kill him, the bite hospitallized him. While in intense care, his body changed. His jaw gained another hinge. Another row of teeth grew into his mouth, hidden between his cheeks and his normal teeth. He became part snake. Now with the ability to fully defy his family, Sean escaped the hospital and vanished into the night.
Powers:
Mouth of a snake: He can eat things much larger than his head, due to hinges, and the second set of teeth in his mouth. Among these teeth are a set of gigantic fangs capable of delivering a venomous bite. He's capable of digesting everything but solid metal and plastic, so he is perfectly capable of smuggling things and erasing evidence.
Enhanced senses: His senses of smell and taste are enhanced to the point that a single flick of the tongue can let him track a target for miles. He can sense heat, like a viper. He also has a 'tremor' sense. He can sense vibrations in the ground, which makes it hard to sneak past him without flying.
Enhanced strength: He is much stronger than the average human, capable of tossing a VW Beetle across a two-lane street with ease.
Tech: Due to his own connection with the scientists of the lab, he's managed to procure a mechanical tail complete with a rattlesnake rattle. He's also got a special set of boots and gloves that allow him to scale vertical surfaces without footholds, called 'Gecko Gloves'.
Weaknesses:
Antivenom: Due to the fact that his venom is the same as that of the Eastern Diamondback Rattler, his venom can be counteracted by shooting him in the salivary glands with the antivenom.
EMP: His tail is purely mechanical in nature and can be shut down foricbly with an EMP. It is also possible to shut it down via hacking, cutting off the power source, or by knocking Snakebite unconsious.
Fear: He has a crippling fear of animals that feed on snakes, such as arachnids, eagles, coati, and mongooses. Things that resemble those four are enough to scare him.
Heat: He is naturally drawn to sources of heat, so he can be drawn in to traps involving fire and lava.
Character Music:
Remember, I want to see a brand new universe. Create something original and break the mold!
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.
*Sigh* You got me. I wanted to make a character with that archetype to show that walleyes characters aren’t offensive. Granted the original version ran of Anime physics, but I have to trim away any connections to Man-X.
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
Since when are walleyes a bad thing? Also, who's gonna see this but the players and a few guests? Go buck wild! Make something with trying to conform to archetypes.
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.
Fakey: This character is the direct result of me wanting the people who said the Derpy was offencive wrong. Granted that wave came and went, but I never really changed the character.
I sorry but what is that last part saying? I think I'm noding off on my end.
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
Don't conform.
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.
Isn't that what I was doing? Sorry, still kinda sleepy.
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
Conformed to an archetype.
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 like Morton a lot as he's got the potential to be a great hero with gruesomely awesome powers. Also his leather jacket rebellion theme makes a great clash with Nicholas Leaze and all his corporate persona. However hisregenaration powers overlap wayyy too much I think, perhapps to add to the squick he can regenarate in some sort of fleshy cocoon or some bodily secretion.
To Mort, things like stab wounds that don't remove biomass can be healed instantaneously. Through and through gun shots are more harmful because they remove biomass from the overall, he would have to protect himself more. He could heal the wound, but that biomass he loss will take more time (Maybe a week) to reform.
I don't want his regenerative powers to happen very quickly because that could lead to him having the power to grow more biomass in a fight or whenever he wants , and them I fear Mort will be too powerful as a character.
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...
You dont want him too powerful? Then why not have him flee to some sort of cocoon to heal, the game is more fun when theres more risk to it. Your character instantly becomes more likeable the more vulnerable he is...
Hm...perhapes the cocoon could take the biomass of other organisms to heal him, converting it to suit him.
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 T-rex the Cocoon might have to be harvested from additional biomass, it leads your character to a dilemma does he kill to ensure Immortality (he might brutally murder criminals to ensure his longevity as a comprimise?) or he could accept that inevitably he will die from age or wounds...
It adds a bit more dilemma to the character, plus it really subverts the idea of the hero always being the clean and good looking one. I think it really suits the Ultimate SSU to have its villain a handsome and smooth talking success, while its hero is a rather horrible and gory monstrosity which faces a real crisis which could easily make him lapse into villainy. Just from the simple addition of a Cocoon you suddenly have a character who is scarily absorbing and interesting.
"Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio
Gender:
Dude
Erbiv commented? Where!?
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.
Well Dial, I thought it over and I think I got something. To help replace biomass, he would have to absorb more. The problem is that he has to convert it into his own so his body will accept it. Like you said, human flesh would take the least time to convert, but meat works well enough for normal circumstances. Vegetable matter can be used to, but it takes more time to convert. Mort would have to absorb the biomass directly into his body, bypassing the digestive system, and deliver it to the wound area when it’s converted in a puss like mass that forms. Not very pleasant to see.
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
Time for me to post more world info now that this is shaping up.
Gatz Pharmaceuticals is one of several out there. Its major competitor is the same company that inadvertantly created Snakebite, FreiGen. The two companies are rivals in the greatest sense. The three-way rivalry of McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's isn't even comparable.
Whereas Gatz Pharma is run by a greedy money-grubber, FreiGen, or Friendly Genetics, works to help improve life for humanity over-all. Run by the insanely rich Jack Russell, FreiGen has hundreds of subsidiaries working on various genetic projects all over the country. The most well known is the Herpetolgy Lab in Stereocia City.
A third powerful company exists, but people don't really pay that much attention to it, because the rivalry between the first two overshadows it.
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.